Cold sweat crawled up Yuan Yao's back like ants. Yuan Yao felt his scalp tingling. This person is probably the kind of local snake that can crush a strong dragon. If you want to be unfavorable to Yuan Yao, Yuan Yao will have no ability to resist.

People's hearts are sinister, but Yuan Yao is still too naive.

Xu Cen hadn't seen Yuan Yao for a day, and he felt bad.However, he searched through An's mansion and didn't see Yuan Yao's shadow, Xu Cen felt a little bit in his heart, maybe something happened to Yuan Yao.

He has been with Yuan Yao for a while, enough for Xu Cen to feel Yuan Yao's temper.Yuan Yao is very boring except for his disguise of a good-for-nothing prince. He fiddles with his few small medicine bottles all day long, and never leaves the door unless necessary. This kind of person will never be lost by the trend of curiosity.Yuan Yao disappeared, the only possibility is that something happened.

Xu Cen was very anxious, his mind was full of Yuan Yao's accident, he was very dangerous now, he had already thrown him to the Nantianmen for the prince who was not a prince.Yuan Yao is not by his side now, he is very worried about him.

Xu Taifu has several students who work in Yanzhou. They are not high-ranking officials but they can speak a little bit.That An Xiren was also Taifu Xu's student, and Taifu Xu was happy for three months because he had such a good seedling, but he didn't know how sad he must be knowing the current situation.

But Xu Cen has no time to take care of his father's psychological feelings now, he only knows that Yuan Yao needs him now.

Taifu Xu also gave Xu Cen a way to save his life. As the eldest son of Taifu Xu, who is full of peaches and plums, Xu Cen has also met many officials from various walks of life over the years.

The little note that Xu Taifu saved Xu Cen's life was rolled up and hidden in his hairpin. He has a knife-bladed Tibetan sword hairpin pinned to his head all the year round, and a small note can be squeezed in the hairpin if squeezed.

Xu Cen took out the note and spread it out in the palm of his hand. On it he wrote down the names and brief biographies of several people in small script, and a simple road map was drawn under the note, using ink as the road, simple and straightforward.

Xu Cen walked along the path written on the note, turned east and west, and walked to the market. His ears were filled with all kinds of cries, and it was very lively for a while.

But at this moment, Xu Cen's heart is full of Yuan Yao, and the splendor and prosperity of this world has nothing to do with him.

Xu Cen stood at the entrance of a tavern, and the road map in his hand also stopped here.This tavern is in a deep alley, sporadically two middle-aged men in shabby clothes come to the tavern for a few sips of wine.

Xu Cen's expression was dignified, his brows were furrowed, is there anyone who can save Yuan Yao in such a small broken place?He didn't believe it, but there was no way, Xu Cen went into the tavern anyway.

There is not even a waiter in the tavern, and the shopkeeper is sitting behind the counter leaning against the wall, drowsy.The drinkers in the store gulped down their poor-quality drinks and talked loudly.Xu Cen looked around, but didn't see the person he was looking for.

"That one over there, if you don't drink, don't block my business." Xu Cen was stunned, looked around, he was the only person standing, he pointed at himself, and asked, "Me?"

The boss was still lazily leaning against the wall, he didn't even bother to raise his eyelids, he pointed at Xu Cen with his finger: "Come and get it yourself if you drink, and get out if you don't drink, don't add any trouble to me."

Xu Cen was stunned. He went to the counter and took a wine gourd and sat down nearby. When the gourd was opened, a pungent smell hit his face directly. Stopping to spit it out, he forced himself to swallow the wine, but after so swallowing, he still felt nauseous for a while.

The smell of bad wine lingered in Xu Cen's mouth, and it couldn't go away. It was easy for a person who was used to drinking bad wine to drink good wine, but it was difficult for someone like Xu Cen who was used to drinking good wine to drink bad wine. up.Xu Cen was almost killed by this wine.

The shopkeeper leaned on his cheek with one hand behind the counter, and looked at Xu Cen as if he was watching a play. This kind of person looked like the young master of a certain family. Why did he come to this kind of place?That's what he thought and asked.

Xu Cen was still struggling with himself, so he took another sip of wine and forced himself to swallow it, not letting the wine stay in his mouth for too long, when suddenly he heard someone talking to him, Xu Cen swallowed the wine in a hurry, choking his face All red.

He stood up and straightened his clothes, bowed his hands to the shopkeeper, and said: "The junior is looking for someone."

"Walking around, looking for someone to come to my tavern for bad luck, turn right and roll as far as you go out." The shopkeeper looked dissatisfied, and said that he was about to drive Xu Cen out.

Xu Cen muttered silently: "Go out, turn right, and go straight." Before he walked out of the door, he did not forget to turn around and salute the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper probably saw such a sincere person for the first time, his forehead twitched, and he quickly called back Xu Cen who had left the door: "Hey, hey, you, come back, if you tell you to get out, just get out?"

Xu Cen pretended to be confused: "The junior doesn't understand what the senior said."

The shopkeeper couldn't bear it anymore, raised his hand, put it down after thinking about it, and rubbed his temple.He pointed at Xu Cen and took two sips of wine, and said, "You can get out if you want to, but I can't drink this wine for nothing."

To be on the safe side, Xu Cen buried the valuables on the two of them under a tree on the outskirts of the city. At this time, he cleaned up all the money on his body and only found a dozen or so copper coins.

He put the copper plate in his palm and asked, "Is it enough?"

The shopkeeper shook his head: "Is this enough?" He said and stretched out three fingers.

Xu Cen asked: "Then, thirty Wen?"

The shopkeeper looked contemptuous: "Thirty cash is not enough for you, I'm talking about three taels of silver!"

Now it's Xu Cen's turn to be confused, three taels of silver, a gourd of bad wine that can't be tasted, I have never seen such a bullying outsider, this is clearly a scam!

"You! You are a black shop! I want to send you to the government!" Xu Cen was in a hurry and excited.The other drinkers in the store acted as if they didn't hear them talking, and they drank happily on their own.

The shopkeeper looked at Xu Cen with his arms folded, and didn't take his threats seriously: "Okay, then please pay me back the wine money I owe you before going to the government. I'm a businessman, so I won't do it." Losing business."

A messy little head slipped in from the door and was caught by the shopkeeper: "Yan Xiaojiu, where have you been? Look at your gray face!"

Yan Jiu blinked at the shopkeeper, turned his head, and then saw Xu Cen standing on the ground.

The smile on Yan Jiu's face froze, and Xu Cen looked at her with more sinister eyes.

The atmosphere was very awkward for a while.

Yan Jiu smiled dryly: "Well, I'm sorry when I was on the mountain."

Xu Cen didn't talk to him, and just stared at Yan Jiu: "Yuan Yanyang is very worried about you."

Yan Jiu later realized that Xu Cen was missing someone, so she shrank her neck and asked angrily, "Where is Mr. Yuan?"

Xu Cen looked depressed: "I can't find him, something happened to him."

"Please, save him." Xu Cen's face was full of affection that even he himself could not imagine.He looked at Yan Jiu, his amber eyes were full of seriousness.

For some reason, Xu Cen always felt that the girl in front of him who had overshadowed them could save Yuan Yao, but now he had no idea, and could only use the dead branches and rotten leaves floating on the water as straws to save his life, hoping that Yan Jiu could really help him Bar.

Yan Jiu couldn't bear it, sighed lightly and said, "Uncle Lan, let's help him."

The shopkeeper looked at Xu Cen's face in a daze, and suddenly thought of something, grabbed Xu Cen's shoulder and asked, "Boy, what's your last name?!"

"The junior's surname is Xu."

The shopkeeper shook Xu Cen's shoulder: "Is your father Xu Jing?!"

Xu Cen was stunned: "Yes, I don't know if senior asked this?"

The shopkeeper grabbed Xu Cen and pushed him onto the chair, and at the same time interrupted what he hadn't finished speaking.

The shopkeeper turned back behind the counter, picked and picked from the cabinet, took out a bunch of weapons and lined them up.He looked at Yan Jiu and said, "Yan Xiaojiu stay here to watch the house." The shopkeeper greeted again: "Brothers, it's time to work!" As soon as the words fell, the men drinking in the hall put down their wine glasses and chopsticks one after another, and stood up Come on, the pressure is full.

"Little brother, what is the name of the person you are looking for?"

Xu Cen told the shopkeeper about Yuan Yao's affairs, and added a little speculation of his own.

The shopkeeper sat next to Xu Cen, with a serious expression on his face: "An Xiren's behavior has become more and more strange in recent years. He got involved with that An Jun, and your friend may be in danger."

These words exploded in Xu Cen's mind like thunder, more ominous than good, does it mean that there will be no such person as Yuan Yao in his life in the future?Thinking about this kind of thing makes me feel desperate, Xu Cen dare not think about it.

Yan Jiu, who was behind the counter, poked his head out and asked, "Uncle Lan, isn't An Jun a well-known benevolent person? Why is it so bad?"

The shopkeeper glared at her lightly: "What do children know?" Even so, the shopkeeper didn't intend to explain too much about An Jun's question.

The shopkeeper asked: "Little brother, you said that your friend disappeared in Anfu?"

"Yes. He has been missing for a day."

The shopkeeper shouted: "Yan Xiaojiu, bring me a cup!"

After the cup was brought, the shopkeeper poured the wine into the cup, and dipped his finger in the wine to draw a map on the table.

After swiping a few times, the map of Anfu appeared on the table like a magic trick, and after a few more swipes, the house next to Anfu also appeared on the table.The shopkeeper pointed to the map and said, "This is An Xiren's house." He pointed to the one next to him and said, "This is An Jun's." He dipped some more wine, drew a circle in An Jun's house, and said : "Under here, there is a dungeon, and An Jun is lynching in this dungeon."

Xu Cen's brows never relaxed, he was puzzled: "How could the person who disappeared in Anxi Ren's house come to An Jun? Isn't An Jun a businessman? How could he use lynching?"

The shopkeeper obviously didn't want to explain too much, Xu Cen was the only son of his mentor Xu Taifu, since he had already been involved in the mess in Yanzhou, then he had to make sure that Xu Cen would not be further involved.The turmoil in Yanzhou definitely didn't start when the Yellow River burst its embankment. He had to do his best to protect his teacher's only son.

The shopkeeper only revealed a little information to Xu Cen: An Xiren and An Jun are distant cousins, and they have a good relationship in private.In this way, most of An Jun's dungeons were prepared for An Xiren.

The shopkeeper waved his hand and led a group of people straight to An Jun's mansion.

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