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Chapter 1184: By some strange coincidence, we are all old friends (Part 1184) [Seeking monthly votes]

  How many people who work as counselors have slow brains?

Liao Jia realized something in a split second, and his pupils trembled. He suppressed his excitement, took a deep breath to calm his wildly beating heart, and asked expectantly, "My Lord, are you asking this because you have seen a similar jade pendant somewhere?"

He looked at Shen Tang's lips nervously.

He was afraid that the other party would give an answer that was contrary to his expectations.

Shen Tang knew the importance of this matter to Liao Jia, so he naturally would not keep him on hold and was ready to tell him all the details. Just as she was about to speak, Cui Mi heard that Shen Tang had returned from an inspection and was going to discuss something with her. Stepping in with her left foot, Shen Tang pointed at him with her right hand: "I saw this jade pendant on Hou Bai."

Before Cui Mi could digest what this meant, a shadow passed by and a face full of complicated emotions approached. He dodged backwards and raised his hand to reject Liao Jia, saying, "Wait, it's not me, you got the wrong person!"

Liao Jia's emotions came to an abrupt end.

He looked at Cui Mi's face carefully, trying to find the shadow of his old friend from his eyebrows and eyes. After searching for a long time, he always felt that the other person's facial features were somewhere between similar and not at all similar, and he looked like a lot of people: "I haven't even opened my mouth yet, how do you know what I'm going to do? And how can you be sure that I must have recognized the wrong person?"

Cui Mi was only willing to answer the latter question.

"You must have made a mistake because the age doesn't match."

Liao Jia's brain cooled down slightly.

  Just as Cui Mi said, he was a few years younger than the person he was looking for. The latter had long passed the age of twenty, and the young man in front of him still had unpolished childishness in his eyes. However, if we deny the speculation that Cui Mi was the son of an old friend, then why did he have half a jade pendant on him? Is the real owner of the jade pendant still alive?

Before Liao Jia could fully appreciate the joy, the clues pointed to the worst outcome. The ups and downs made him feel heavy in the chest. He bit his back teeth secretly, trying to suppress the spasmodic illusion: "Sir, can you tell me how you got the jade pendant? Where is the original owner of the jade pendant now? This matter is extremely important to me!"

Cui Mi said, "I found it when I was bathing by the river that day."

The southwest is either cold or hot for more than 200 days a year. Even the lightest summer clothes will make you sweat, not to mention working for hours in the sun. People who work like oxen and horses have endless energy and chores to do every day. After a day or two, their skin becomes sticky and they can't sleep well. Therefore, they bathe very frequently.

As evening approached, the brave warriors who had finished their work jumped into the water like dumplings, no matter whether it was river water, stream water or any other water, just to have a good bath. Although Cui Mi was born into a noble family, he was not so particular and would bathe outside like them.

After taking a shower that day, he sat on a rock by the stream waiting to dry himself. He saw something floating from upstream and stuck in a rock. Curious, he moved forward and found that it was half a jade pendant. The texture of this jade pendant is exquisite, but what is even more rare is its workmanship. Judging from the shape, it should have another half. The gap of the jade pendant was carved with colorful patterns, and it can be rotated at a certain angle to become a complete piece. Cui Mi looked for it upstream along the stream, but he didn't find anyone, so he could only return with half of the jade pendant.

Liao Jia asked: "Where is the jade pendant?"

Cui Mi asked someone to go to his room and get it.

Liao Jia stared blankly at the two jade pendants that fit together perfectly. Even though he felt endless pain in his heart, he habitually hid it and made an analysis: "The string of this jade pendant is still bright in color. The last time it was replaced should have been within a year. It is very likely that the owner accidentally lost it while bathing... The person may still be in the county."

Cui Mi added information.

"That stream was just cleared last month. It was dug specifically to facilitate the irrigation of the newly reclaimed fields nearby. It's noisy nearby and common people are not allowed to approach without permission, so the only people who might go there to bathe are warriors. The person you're looking for may be among them." This may not be good news.

Those brave warriors are all rangers.

The jade pendant may also be obtained by them for their “righteous acts”.

Liao Jia could naturally think of this.

However, this was much better than the initial search for a needle in a haystack. Liao Jia couldn't wait to take the jade pendant to find someone, Cui Mi raised his hand and held his arm, and their eyes met. Cui Mi's expression was briefly stunned, and then he quickly ran away as if he had been electrocuted.

"At this hour, they should be taking a bath."

They are all naked, so it is convenient to see everything.

Liao Jia realized that Cui Mi's ability was extraordinary, and subconsciously looked at his master. Shen Tang nodded at him: "You go."

The subtext is that Cui Mi is temporarily trustworthy.

Liao Jia bowed and withdrew. Before he even stepped out of the door, he used the [Chasing the Wind and Stalking the Scenery] with one hand, and turned into a misty red shadow and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Cui Mi smiled and said, "Sister Shen, don't you want to go and take a look?"

Shen Tang rolled his eyes, showing no interest in Cui Mi's suggestion: "What's so good about looking at a sea of ​​buttocks?"

Bathing and washing hair by the water is a major local feature.

Take a bath and rub your clothes, including but not limited to holding your belly and wearing a calf-nose trousers. One day when the temperature was suitable, Shen Tang went out for a walk and was caught off guard by dozens of men bathing with their upper bodies naked by the water. Those standing in shallow water only took off their upper bodies, and covered themselves with clothes or wore calf-nose trousers. In deeper water, only the part above the neck was exposed... I won't say much about that scene. Men do this, and some married women and older women will also wash clothes by the river and then take a bath in the water.

Such scenes are rarely seen in the Northwest.

It's not that the people are more conservative than here, it's simply because it's cold more often in the northwest. Ordinary people will die if they catch a cold, and it's too luxurious to heat water at home to take a bath. Before Shen Tang promoted the earthen kang and built a perfume shop, taking a bath once a month was considered clean. As expected, the local climate and soil nurture the local people.

Shen Tang thought of something and smiled maliciously.

"However, we can watch Zun Guang's good show."

Shen Tang did not reveal Liao Jia's true identity in front of Cui Mi. The "Zun Guang" she mentioned was Liao Jia, but in Cui Mi's ears, it became someone else: "Master, have you guessed who the owner of the jade pendant is?"

Cui Mi just found out the identity of the owner of the jade pendant.

He saw several images on Liao Jia and basically determined who the other party was looking for. Cui Mi didn't say anything because he didn't want to expose his ability and didn't like to get involved in other people's affairs. Even if he didn't say it, it would be a matter of time for Liao Jia to find the person.

Shen Tang said: "Why don't you go and take a look and find out?"

The two followed.

Shen Tang imagined Liao Jia hiding in the dark, sneaking around to find someone. Sooner or later, his presence would be exposed, and he would probably be considered a pervert by the warriors bathing. If the situation got out of control, he would come forward to rescue Liao Jia. In fact, Liao Jia just walked to the water's edge calmly and openly, bent down to put his clogs neatly on the shore, and took off his outer shirt naturally.

The warriors who were taking a bath to cool off the heat in the water initially noticed him, but when they saw that he didn't do anything unusual, they turned their eyes away. Some were taking a bath, some were washing clothes, some were chatting... and even when Liao Jia was half wrapped in the water, he was chatting with him: "This gentleman looks unfamiliar, are you here because of his reputation?"

Liao Jia pinned up her long, loose hair: "Yes."

His peripheral vision casually swept across everyone's waist.

After scanning more than a dozen people, he did not find the birthmark he was looking for.

until--

A target appears in sight.

There was a birthmark on his waist, the color was not very strong, and it was blocked by someone so he couldn't see it clearly. Liao Jia wanted to get closer to see it more clearly, but the man turned around and the birthmark disappeared from his sight. Instead, there was a well-defined abdomen and a crisscross pattern of old wounds. One of the scariest ones was the most horrible, almost running diagonally from the waist to the thigh, and the mark was the deepest. Liao Jia looked up at his face.

Meat bun: “…”

As a brave warrior, his perception of aura is naturally not weak. Liao Jia looked at him for more than ten breaths, and he felt like a thorn in his back! Just when he was about to teach a lesson to whoever looked at him disrespectfully, he saw the face he had just seen not long ago. The red-robed scholar with a flowery hairpin brought by the 5-cent and 2-cent profiteer! The profiteer superior who had the same name, surname, and characters as himself and made him lose his real name! No, is this person sick?

Are scholars of literary talent also accustomed to bathing in the wild?

Looking at the other person's eyes, his emotions changed from scrutiny, consideration, realization, to excitement, and he had goosebumps all over his body and wanted to rebel. My goodness, this treacherous business leader is not only evil-minded, but also gay? In a flash, he had an idea.

He secretly winked at his lackeys.

The two lackeys understood what was going on, sank into the water, and pretended to swim. If they did something secretly, as long as they didn't catch anyone and didn't have evidence, they would have to suffer the loss obediently, which was also a lesson for him. At this time, Liao Jia took out an object that was very familiar to him, and Roubaozi was instantly furious: "Okay, so it turned out that you were the thief who stole my things!"

Liao Jia didn't even have time to say the words he wanted to acknowledge his relatives.

Two forces suddenly came from his legs, pulling him down!

The other warriors heard the noise and didn't care what happened. They just knew that Liao Jia was a thief who stole things from their foreman! How could this be allowed? Whether half of the body was in the water or the neck was in the water, the waves rushed over. Liao Jia: "..."

Shen Tang: "..."

Cui Mi slapped the stone and laughed so hard that his mouth was about to be crooked.

Although he had seen the spoilers for this scene, he was still shocked when he watched it again! Liao Jia had never thought that he would be surrounded by dozens of naked men one day. As soon as he was dragged into the water, he used his words. Shen Tang was keenly aware that there was more moisture in the air around him, and he knew Liao Jia had used a trick without turning his head.

He switched places with Cui Mi.

  Who made this kid laugh so loudly!

Shen Tang: "..."

Although he choked on water twice, Liao Jia was in a better mood than ever before. Regardless of the chaotic scene, at least he found someone. Liao Jia slowly put on his clothes and said, "The child just now is the one I'm looking for. He looks a bit like her, and he has a jade pendant and a birthmark on his waist..."

It’s not a waste of time to break through the iron shoes.

Liao Jia asked again: "The second son of the Cui family has some special abilities. He knew I was looking for someone even though he didn't know me. I almost mistook him for him... Maybe he was preparing for a rainy day? It's a pity that Luan Gongyi is not here, otherwise I could ask him what he is."

"You've offended him, be careful he might cause you trouble."

The influence of the Cui family in the State of Qi cannot be underestimated.

Perhaps it was because he had found the son of an old friend that Liao Jia's depression was relieved by seven points, and his mind became clearer: "So what if he can plan ahead? The future he sees is only a possible future, and I have three thousand poisonous plans, how many of them can he prevent?"

Liao Jia came to Qi State this time to stir up trouble.

"You caught the wrong person—"

"stop it now!"

When Roubaozi found out that the person being besieged had changed from Liao Jia to Erlang Jun, his heart was about to fly away, and the four words "My life is over" were hanging in his mind. After a lot of chaos, the wet Cui Mi was pulled ashore. Shen Tang did not show up, but just sent a message to Cui Mi and Roubaozi, asking them to come with Liao Jia to find him.

Roubaozi thought a disaster was about to happen.

"County Magistrate Shen...has been here all this time?"

Shen Tang said: "I am here with Zun Guang to look for someone."

Cui Mi realized that the "Zun Guang" Shen Tang mentioned was not the same person he thought of, and his eyes fell on Liao Jia: "You are also called Zun Guang?"

Shen Tang: “Also?”

Cui Mi pointed at Roubaozi: "He is also called Zunguang."

Liao Jia used his literary energy to dry the water stains on his body.

After the chaos just now, the tear-jerking part of the recognition process could not be staged at all. Liao Jia just wanted to know a definite answer. He asked the young man next to him: "Your name is Liao Qian, Liao Zunguang? Which elder in your family gave you this name?"

Roubaozi pursed his lips and said nothing.

Liao Jia asked a series of questions: "Is it your father or your mother? Or do you have forgotten? You should have a sister, where is your sister? Is she with you?"

The real Liao Qian frowned: "Why are you asking these questions?"

Liao Jia spread out his palms, and two jade pendants appeared in front of Liao Qian. In Liao Qian's memory, there was only half of this jade pendant, one of which was his, and the other half was naturally Liao Jia's. There must be some connection between the two: "Who are you?"

"From your mother's side, I am your uncle."

"From your father's side, he is also your uncle!"

"If you want, just call me uncle."

Liao Qian just took a step back, thinking it was ridiculous, and said cautiously: "Without any evidence, you want to recognize your relatives with a jade pendant? What uncles and uncles? The relationship in your family is really messy..."

He has no memory of the past.

I only vaguely remember that I had a hard time when I was a child. My sister held my hand and we hid from place to place. When we were hungry, we would pick up anything to fill our stomachs. Liao Jia's dress and demeanor were no less than that of a young man from a noble family. If there was a connection, why did they suffer?

Liao Jia said: "..."

He was speechless in response to Liao Qian's comments.

He asked again, "Where is your sister?"

"at home."

"Your mother entrusted your sister to me without saying anything about you. You have grown up and are able to protect yourself. I will not interfere with your decision. If you are in trouble in the future, just come to me. I will take your sister with me."

Liao Qian scratched his ears, thinking he had heard it wrong.

"You want to take my sister away? Why?"

Liao Jia said: "Just based on this letter from your mother."

A letter that he had carried with him for many years was also his lifelong regret. The son of an old friend that Liao Jia had always been thinking about was Liao Qian's elder sister, not Liao Qian: "Her lifelong regret was that her lifelong ambitions could not be realized, which delayed your father's life and ruined his life. What she missed must be grasped by her descendants."

Liao Qian said that he didn't care, but in his heart he was eager to see what was written in the letter - he had no concept of mother in his memory, only an elder sister who was like a mother to him. But that didn't mean he didn't want to know a word from that strange woman.

When I opened the letter, I saw scribbled handwriting.

It can be seen that the writer's wrist is weak and he wrote in a hurry.

"What is her life ambition?"

Liao Jia said: "She has the ambition to enter the government and fight."

Liao Qian returned the letter to Liao Jia: "But everyone has their own ambitions. Regardless of whether what you said is true or not, even if it is true, and our mother is really her, it doesn't mean that my sister has to follow the path she wants to follow, right? It's her business if she has ambitions to enter the government, and my sister is not her substitute. My sister is most comfortable with a club, not a sword or a pen."

When the current king came to power, he thought about the possibility of his sister practicing. He didn't ask for strength, but only for strengthening the body and prolonging life. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, it is worth trying. However, his sister said: "Your world is too complicated. I won't go. Whether you are a brave warrior or a literary scholar, aren't they all human? Ordinary people are also human! They are all human, why are they divided into different levels?"

【Then sister can only accompany me for another thirty or forty years. 】

My sister hit him on the head with a stick.

[It’s not that I have to be a person like you to have a complete life. I’m tired of living my life. The greed of ordinary people is easy to satisfy, just eat and drink enough, but if I become a person like you, no matter how much I get, I will never be satisfied. I’m exhausted just thinking about it. Nothing is difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to give up...]

In her eyes, scholars with a literary mind and warriors with a martial courage are just ordinary people, nothing noble about them, so naturally there is no need to pursue them deliberately.

  |ω`)

I only slept four or five hours in 48 hours over two days, and I felt like I was going to fly. Today, I was at a funeral, the sun was so strong and scorching, I got heat stroke right there... I felt nauseous, and everything I saw at the banquet afterwards made me want to vomit.

As far as I can remember, the last time I had heatstroke was last time.