Bound Shark Wife

This rain was extraordinarily gentle and delicate, with the afterglow of the setting sun gently swaying, the drizzle in the sunset covered a large area of ​​gorgeous golden rice, so beautiful that people couldn't take their eyes off it, and it washed people who had worked all day The fatigue did not last long.

Shame learned from Zong Zhang that the rain he summoned would affect the farmers who depended on the sky for food, and now the next rain is quite restrained.

When the carriage drove to the Drum Tower, the rain stopped in time.

The Drum Tower Night Fair opens every day after the sun goes down. Unlike Anli City, Anli City receives mostly caravans passing by from all over the world, while the Gulou Night Fair gathers mostly people from the clan. It is much cheaper than Anli City, and the ethnic group prefers to visit the Drum Tower at night to exchange or buy and sell the items they need.

When Xiaoxia came, it rained a lot. Although the rain was small, it took a lot of energy.He was lying in the car without energy, and immediately cheered up when he heard the noise of the night market outside the car.

Before Pu Yuan lifted the curtain of the car, Xiao Jiao had slipped out of the car following the sound.

"Ah Yuan, come out quickly."

The coachman barely parked the carriage, Xiaosha looked back at the Zongzhang who had come out, and swept away the heaviness just now, every strand of hair seemed to be flying.

Xiaoyu couldn't wait to wander around the new place. After walking for a while, he always looked back to see if the Zong Zhang had followed him. He felt that the person was slow, so he returned to the other party reluctantly, muttering: "A Yuan, you are walking so slowly!" .”

Shark slowly pulled out a thin silk like cicada's wings from under the cuff, he held one end of the silk, and tied the other end directly to Zongzhang's little finger.

"Ah Yuan, why don't you go faster."

With the involvement of the shark, the shark jumped forward like the wind.

Although the sea is vast, there are also many things on the seabed that humans have never seen before, but there are so many prosperous places in the world, there are also many things that Xiaoxia has never seen.

When the merchants saw the handsome young master, they greeted him one after another.

Xiaosha stopped in front of them, with a pair of blue eyes.

He reached out his hand to take away a string of bamboo bells that jingled in the wind, looked back at the Zongzhang who hadn't walked up, hesitated for a moment, and took out a pearl from his cuff.

"Can I exchange this bead with you?"

The peddler took a look at the beads, and immediately agreed: "Yes, you can take a few strings, my lord."

Xiaosha shook his head: "I only need to take one bunch."

He picked up the newly bought bamboo bell and touched the bell hanging on it a few times.There are also several shells dotted among them. Although these shells are beautiful, there are more beautiful and delicate shells deeper in the seabed.

Xiaoyu thought that if he had free time in the future, he must go to the sea to pick up some beautiful shells and go ashore, and asked Dongyue to help him make a string of bamboo bells more delicate than this one.

He carried the bamboo bell and walked back to the patriarch, a little joyful: "Ah Yuan, I traded it myself."

Xiaoyu stuffed the bamboo bell into the Zongzhang's hand: "This is for you."

Pu Yuan holds a string of bamboo bells left by the Sharks. These ornaments look exquisite and beautiful, but in fact the cost of making them is cheap. Sharks just use a single bead to replace such a string, and they still don't understand the human world. rule.

Xiaoxia wandered around, stopped in front of the food stall, stared at the two black letters on the white cloth, and found that none of the words he knew.

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "Iced lotus root powder, do you want to try it, young master?"

Xiaosha touched her flat stomach and nodded.

He took out a bead from his cuff: "I can exchange this with you, is that okay?"

The shopkeeper took a closer look at the beads, and could see the faint light flowing on the beads with the naked eye, and said, "Young master gave too precious, ten or twenty bowls of lotus root powder for one bead is not worth it."

Pu Yuan stopped behind Xiao Yu, looked at the shopkeeper, "I'll pay the money."

The old lotus root noodle shop has been open for more than ten years and has been farming for generations. When the drought was the worst, the head of the family would go to the fields every day. Naturally, the farmers in the mountains have seen the new head of the house.

He opened his mouth, and was about to speak in surprise, when Pu Yuan had already paid the money.

The old shopkeeper said: "Master Zong, this, this cannot be done."

Pu Yuan said: "It's all ordinary business, there is no special distinction."

The old shopkeeper gritted his teeth and could only accept the money.

After a while, a large bowl of lotus root powder was placed in front of Xiaoyu, which was still frozen in ice cubes. He took a bite out of it with a spoon and put it in his mouth. It was cool and sweet, and the mouth was not greasy.

Seeing that the little doll liked it, the old shopkeeper brought another bowl to the Zongzhang: "Zongzhang, you should try it too."

Pu Yuan sat aside and watched Xiao Jiao eat, and after a while, he tried a few mouthfuls by himself.

Puyuan doesn't like sweets, so after tasting it a few times, he stopped, and after drinking a bowl of iced lotus root powder, Xiaoxie raised his head from the big bowl.

"Why isn't Ah Yuan eating?"

The old shopkeeper smiled: "Do you still want to eat the doll?"

Xiaosha pointed at the bowl in front of Zongzhang: "I'll just eat this."

The old store owner was stunned, and really saw the little baby take away the lotus root powder of the Zongzhang naturally, but the Zongzhang didn't make a sound.

Xiaoxie drank the lotus root powder from Zongzhang, and said reasoning: "This is what Li Guanshi taught, and food should not be wasted easily."

Xiao Yu learned some of the principles taught by Li Guanshi, some of them memorized, and some of them didn't.

Pu Yuan said softly: "Did he teach you not to reveal your money, and easily revealing money will easily cause unnecessary trouble for yourself."

After hearing this, Xiaoying was puzzled, thought carefully, and said to himself: "It seems to be taught."

A strong smell of alcohol approached the lotus root noodle shop, and there were many people sitting on the table next to it.The man's skinny arm protruding from his cuff kept knocking on the wooden table, and shouted impatiently, "Here's a bowl of lotus root noodles."

The person who came was lying crookedly upside down, even more awkward than the shark.This man exudes a disgusting smell, Xiao Yu moved towards Pu Yuan's position, and the old shopkeeper opened his mouth angrily when he saw the man, and scolded: "Wang Fuquan, you haven't paid the money on credit a few times ago. , still have the face to come here today?"

Wang Fuquan patted the table vigorously: "I will have money in a while, so I owe you a little bit, old man, and when my account is received, I can pay you five times more, right?!"

The old store didn't buy Wang Fuquan's verbal account at all: "How many times have you said this? For the sake of the same clan, old man, I won't tell everyone about your rascally deeds. If you insist on making progress, I will also Not to be trifled with!"

Wang Fuquan stuck his skinny neck: "You old man, it's like killing you if you want a bowl of lotus root noodles. I don't care about it. Do you think I have nowhere to go?"

Wang Fuquan got up cursing, shook his thin body that would collapse in the wind, and left.

The old shopkeeper sprayed: "Unlucky."

He explained to the Zongchang: "This Wang Fuquan has become an old rascal. He has borrowed money from several stalls and has not paid back. He still wants to run to the Zuixiang Pavilion without even looking at what he is doing now. Virtue."

Pu Yuan heard Wang Fuquan's name somewhat familiar: "Zixiang Pavilion?"

The old shopkeeper nodded, and said with emotion: "Wang Fuquan was never like this before. Ever since he came back from the Zuixiang Pavilion, he seemed to have lost his soul. He emptied his body like this and still owed a whole lot of debt. Nervous, speaking in a nonsensical manner, I heard that he even bullied his mother at home, he is not alone!"

A person flashed in Pu Yuan's mind: "What is the relationship between Wang Fuquan and Wang Chang?"

The old shopkeeper said: "He and Wang Chang are cousins. This Wang Fuquan saw that Wang Chang spent a lot of money to redeem Mrs. Xu from the Zuixiang Pavilion. He was thinking about Xu's beauty. He dreamed of buying a lady from the Zuixiang Pavilion."

The old store owner continued to shake his head: "Anyway, I don't know how evil the girls in Zuixiang Pavilion are. They can transform Wang Fuquan into such a virtue from the outside to the inside. It's hopeless."

After eating the lotus root powder, Xiaoxie got up and stood behind the Zongzhang, wrinkled his nose: "Ah Yuan, Shark doesn't like the smell in the drunken town pavilion."

Pu Yuan slightly tugged at the silk that was tied to the fingertips of the two of them: "Come with me, be good on the way."

Pu Yuan followed Wang Fu not far or near. As the old store owner said, he was begging for food on credit at several stalls. The stall owners of those stalls refused to give him credit. Fuquan cursed and cursed all the way, but in the end he only got a bottle of wine, and staggered on the road until he reached the gate of a small courtyard.

On the lantern outside the door was written the character Wang, but Wang Fuquan hid in a sneaky way, and Pu Yuan guessed that this was Wang Chang's home.

Xiaoyu suddenly got in front of the Zongzhang and hid in his arms, and in the eyes of the other party who didn't know, pulled Zongzhang's arms around his body and circled them.

Just as Pu Yuan was about to make a sound, the door of the small courtyard opened, and a woman with a pretty face came out, with hair tied on her head, she was already a married woman.

The eyes of Wang Fuquan, who was sneaking to the side, changed immediately, and his eyes were full of greed.

The woman re-ignited the two lanterns at the door, closed the door again and went back to the house.

Wang Fuquan murmured: "I will definitely get you, I will definitely get you..."

As soon as the words fell, he immediately shrank in the corner and twitched and trembled. His long nails kept scratching his hands and feet.

Pu Yuan pulled Xiao Ying behind him: "Don't look."

The Zongzhang walked up to Wang Fuquan and called out the people behind him to carry him away.

"Shut up for two days first, let Meng Linzhi come and lie down."

*****

As the night grew darker, the military guard brought by Pu Yuan took Wang Fuquan back.

Xiaoxie stopped at the same spot and didn't understand what happened. She raised her head to meet the pair of deep black eyes that the head of the sect was looking at, and quickly followed.

At this time, the head of the sect revealed a few things that Xiaoxie couldn't understand, just like a person who was suddenly wrapped in a layer of veil, such A Yuan walked on the cold and desolate street in autumn, and even his shadow seemed to be stretched a few times for no reason. They looked lonely, only A Yuan.

Xiaoyu intentionally lagged a few steps behind and followed slowly.He took one step at a time, trying to keep stepping on A Yuan's shadow.

The figures of the two overlapped, extending longer on the pavement of the blue stone alley.Xiao Jiao stepped on the addiction, and it was not until Zong Zhang turned around that Xiao Jiao continued to follow.

He poked his face left and right to observe the Zongzhang's face, Pu Yuan asked, "What are you looking at?"

Shark replied, "Look at Ah Yuan."

Pu Yuan's purpose tonight is simply to inspect the night fair in the Gulou Tower. It is not in his plan to arrest Wang Fuquan when he meets Wang Fuquan.But since the matter has already happened, then continue to follow the clues to investigate.

He looked at Shark, it was obviously very late at the moment, and the passing watchman made a long shout.

"It's dry, be careful with candles."

Walking out of the alley, there are still shops open on the street, and there are not as many customers as when they came, just a few sitting sporadically.

Pu Yuan bought two horseshoe rolls for Xiaoyu to eat while walking, and when he got back to sit in the carriage, Xiaoying handed the remaining horseshoe rolls to Zong Zhang.

Pu Yuan looked at him: "You eat."

Xiaoyu said, "Ah Yuan didn't eat anything tonight."

When we sat at the lotus root noodle shop with him, all the lotus root noodle went into Shark's stomach, along with A Yuan's portion.

One day after A Yuan came out, he actually ate less than a goblin.

On the contrary, the Shark Demon does not have the slightest self-consciousness of a monster. Logically speaking, he, a demon, can stop eating human food, but Xiaosha can’t stop eating. He is nostalgic for all kinds of fresh tastes. How can flower cakes be sweet and glutinous?

A person is not like a person, and a demon is even less like a demon.

After eating enough, Xiaoxia leaned on the cushion and fell asleep, and when the carriage drove back to Zongyuan, Xiaoxia had already slept soundly.

Pu Yuan took off his cloak, wrapped the Merman and carried him back to the courtyard, the servant guarding the door was bewildered.

Their patriarch didn't raise the shark at the beginning to summon Yunyu, but now he is raising it, and he has to do everything by himself, even the physical work of carrying the shark back to the house is not done by others. The patriarch has been alone for more than [-] years. He has never hugged a girl before, but Shame has hugged her several times.

Pu Yuan sent Xiao Ying back to the room, and when he came out, the servant brought a basin of water into the room.

Liu Songzi had quite a lot of experience in taking care of Xiaosha. The Zongchang sent Xiaosha back to the room and went to the bookstore. He dipped a towel in water and gently wiped Xiaosha's face, hands and feet. will sleep more comfortably.

The scent of sweet-scented osmanthus flowers that filled the courtyard floated from the wing room to the book pavilion, and in the book pavilion, Steward Li reported everything he had found to the Zongzhang.

"The Xu family is not a member of the Quli clan. I went to the county government office and checked the population of the clan. Not only the Xu family, but many women among them have not been registered. Then the servant specially asked someone to transfer I went out of the register of the clan responsible for recording the people who came and went, and after investigation, it was found that there were more than [-] women who were not recorded in the county government register this year."

Li Guanshi unfolded the paper: "The booklet responsible for registering population exchanges within the clan also omitted a number of lists. These lists that were not recorded in the booklet are all women, and they are all classified in the Zuixiang Pavilion. Most of them have used their stage names."

"The people on this list refer to the new names they used in Zuixiang Pavilion. Within one year, 47 of them disappeared from the territory of the Quli nationality in less than two months. After investigation, we guessed that they should be with them. The Xu family is almost the same, and was bought by the caravan that came and went."

Zuixiang Pavilion is not only a voluptuous and extravagant gold-selling cave, but also a purgatory for selling women. Those women were originally unknown, and most of them were forced into the attic by Zuixiang Pavilion with some excuses, and then paid a lot of money to sell them. The price is sold to caravans in need.

Li Guanshi unfolded a list of caravans entering and leaving the city: "It is said that the girls in Zuixiang Pavilion are not sold to people in the city, including the entire clan, and are only sold to foreign caravans. Xu's is an exception. Because these women entered the city for a short time, most of them stayed. It was bought in two or three months, and there were people who specially covered it, so there is no record, and when you want to check, you can’t find any traces.”

Li Guanshi took out a medicine bag from his pocket and put it in front of the Zongzhang.

"This is a piece of fairy powder bought at a high price from the caravan of the servants who left Anli City. I don't know if it has anything to do with the special incense in the Zuixiang Pavilion. All this will not be known until the high priest comes to verify it."

Pu Yuan carefully smelled the fairy powder contained in the medicine bag, and raised his eyebrows lightly.

Guanshi Li looked at the candles that were half burned, and said at the right time: "Master Zong, it's late at night, please take care of your body and rest as soon as possible."

Pu Yuan put away all the papers and didn't go back to the wing room to sleep until the candle was burned to the bottom, it was not safe.

The gentle and cool wind of autumn night leaks in through the windows, and the same ray of wind comes in as sharks "drill" through the windows.

Shark leaped to the top of the tree, and with a slight swing, it landed like blue moonlight.

He walked up to the head of the sect, and put his tender white fingertips on the slightly raised brows of the other party, gently scratching.

Xiaosha exhaled a sweet breath from his lips, then with a hook of his finger, he immediately slid into the vacant space on the side of the bed skillfully.

Xiaosha said softly, "A Yuan hug me."

You can sleep well if you hug him.

A shark bead emitting a faint light was placed on the side of the pillow, and the little shark waited and waited until he was exhausted, only to see the Zongzhang's arm hanging by his side wrapping around his back, slightly retracting it, and pulling the shark under the pillow. bosom.

Xiaosha lazily narrowed her eyes.

I don't know when, this matter seems to have become something that has not been stated by each other, but will be agreed and completed tacitly.

In the beginning, Xiaosha had to wait for an hour and a half, but now it's only a quarter of an hour at most, as soon as he comes, as long as he speaks, the Zong Zhang seems to acquiesce in the closeness between Shark and people.

However, the right to actively choose this intimacy has always been in the attitude of Xiaoyu and the head of the clan, which is more like a silent and silent acceptance and connivance.

In the morning of the next day, Pu Yuan looked at the merman who was sleeping next to him, the soft and dense black hair of the merman could be seen in the palm of his hand.

Xiaosha's hair is long and thick, and the sleeping position is fixed in the arms of the Zongchang. After waking up, there is a picture of the two people's hair intertwined, holding each other, and the cool skin feels like autumn dryness. special existence.

Liu Songzi quietly put the water basin in, and didn't speak until the Zongzhang finished washing, "The high priest is already waiting in the Book Pavilion."

Pu Yuan closed his clothes and went towards the Book Pavilion again.Sleeping drowsily, Xiaosha came out with soft wobbly steps, Liu Songzi lowered his eyes: "I will wait for you to wash up."

Xiaoyu: "Ah Yuan went to the Book Pavilion?"

Liu Songzi: "Well, it is said that the matter of Zuixiang Pavilion has been found out, and the high priest is also here."

He said again: "After all the busy work, it will be the autumn harvest again. At that time, the clan will be busier than the New Year. The clan leader will also hold a harvest prayer ceremony. At least the winter will come before we can really rest for a while."

Every patriarch of the Quli nationality devotes all his enthusiasm and time in his life to the development and continuation of the clan. He is busy from the beginning of spring to the beginning of autumn and early winter.

In this way, day after day, year after year, no one can control the slightest moment of time.

The patriarch, who seems to be so respected by the people, is actually less comfortable than a servant like him.At least the servant is tired and even wants to leave, that's a matter of one sentence, but their patriarch wants to protect the Quli people for the rest of their lives.

Liu Songzi babbled about Zongzhang's difficulty, Xiaoying left the house, he hurriedly chased after him: "Aren't you going to have breakfast?"

Xiaosha walked all the way to the outside of the fire room with only his back left.

The strange old man sat under the autumn-yellow tree to clean up the rabbits that were delivered yesterday. He peeled off the fur of the rabbits completely, and when he saw the little shark coming, he smiled and pointed to the direction inside. There were food that the little shark liked to eat For breakfast, there are sweet-scented osmanthus sesame crisps wrapped in paper, and glutinous and soft flower cakes that have just been baked.

Xiaoying sat on the bench with the dough in his hands and watched the strange old man handle the rabbits while eating.

The strange old man said: "It will be cold when winter comes. Leave a few pieces of rabbit fur for the little doll to make into an apron and a cotton cap. When winter comes, put it on your head so that the wind can't blow the doll."

The strange old man had no children all his life, and he used to scare people away when he talked to children from other families. Others said that the strange old man was too ugly. He had one eye that was born with a defect, and he couldn't see it any older.

The invisible eyes are covered with a layer of white, and many children are scared away when they see him. No one is willing to eat what he makes, but it is strange that the old man likes to spend time in the fire room, wasting a stove and a pot in a bowl.

Blame the food made by the old man, even if it is just a simple bowl of noodles, the taste is different from that made by others.

Xiaojiao cleaned up the whole egg noodles with minced meat, and the old man laughed so hard that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear, so he went to wash his hands, and helped Xiaoying wrap the crispy candies and flower cakes, and asked him to take them out to eat.

Xiaoying carried two packs of food in both his left and right hands. Just as he walked out of the stone arch, Dongyue, the maidservant who passed by, couldn't stop laughing when she saw it.

"Eat so many sweets, be careful not to break your teeth."

He said again: "I don't dare to take too much, even if I take medicine, the marks on the skin can't be eliminated, so I blame the old man for taking whatever you want."

Dongyue looked around: "Yesterday, I saw someone bring in a cage of fat rabbits. The hair of those rabbits is smooth and shiny. I want to ask the strange old man for two to make bibs, which are beautiful and warm around the neck. .”

Xiao Sharma rolled her eyes: "The rabbit fur is all for the doll."

Dongyue knew that the little baby that the strange old man was talking about was Xiaoying, so she said, "This old man——"

Xiaoxie ran away with two bags of food, stepping on the osmanthus flowers that had just fallen, all the way to the outside of the book pavilion.

Just as Guanshi Li walked out of the door of the bookstore, he saw Xiaosha, and Ban Su's face twitched slightly. Before he could speak, he was stuffed with a piece of candy that Xiaosha took out from the paper bag in his left hand.

Xiaoying smiled and said, "Guan Li eats it, one piece, the old man said it's not sweet."

He poked his head out first, and the Zongzhang and Meng Linzhi were talking in a low voice on the seat by the window.

Meng Linzhi couldn't help laughing when he saw the shark sneaking around, "It's fine, Zong Zhang, let him in."

Xiaoyu rejoiced: "A Yuan, I'm coming in."

He took out a piece of crisp candy and handed it to Pu Yuan, but the Zong Zhang didn't seem to want to take it.

Meng Linzhi smiled: "I just talked on the phone, and my throat is tight. I think it would be nice to have some sweets to moisten my throat."

The crispy candy handed to Zongzhang turned around, Xiaoyu gave the crispy candy to Meng Linzhi, and gave him three or four pieces of the wrapped flower cake.

Meng Linzhi took apart a piece of crispy candy and put it in his mouth, chewed it, and said slowly, "Scream, do you see if someone's face is darker than the ink next to it?"

The author has something to say:

Typo to be fixed, thanks everyone!

Is Xiaoyu and Zongchang in love?No, but it seems to be talking, anyway, I can't understand it!