twin moon

Chapter 22, Scene [-]: The Meeting of Fate II

There are [-] guards in charge of public security in Mulu City, known as Yuling.Among the Ye Kingdom's boat divisions, only generals above the captain's level can wear a pheasant tail long feather on their helmets, while in the Yuling Army, everyone wears feathers on their helmets.And the feathers are not ordinary pheasant tails, but peacock feathers carefully selected by craftsmen.

According to the color of the feathers on the helmets, the Yuling Army can be divided into five guards: blue, red, white, ocher, and black, respectively responsible for guarding the middle, south, west, and north districts of the city and the location of Miyagi.

Right now, on Zitong Street in Nanshi, the disturbance caused by the two children finally caught the attention of Chi Lingwei, who was patrolling the street.After a while, Jiang Yan suddenly realized that the people following him had changed from small merchants in different clothes to regular soldiers in light armor and armed with knives and guns. stop.

The Red Feather Guards are not ordinary traffickers. Under the extremely efficient division of labor and command, the imperial guards completed the outflanking of the teenagers and girls from the two wings.Seeing red feathers appearing all over the roads around him, Jiang Yan finally realized that the situation had grown beyond control.

"Yue'er, let's go to the roof!"

With a loud roar, he suddenly rushed towards a small three-story building in front of him.The small building is being repaired, and a bamboo ladder of more than two feet has been erected in front of the door.The boy urged Ning Yue to go up first, while he followed behind, climbing up to the roof one after the other.

As soon as he entered the room, Jiang Yan kicked the bamboo ladder down and away.Although Chi Lingwei has a large number of people, it is difficult for him to pick up the ladder again and continue to chase.And this is enough for the two children to keep a safe distance from them.

The blue tiles on the roof are smooth and difficult to move, and the black-eyed child can only climb up the corner ridge by stepping on the hanging animal statue at the corner of the eaves, and then climb over the towering mountain flowers carefully to climb to the main ridge.With the help of the young man, Ning Yue also bravely climbed to the highest point of the eaves.She jumped in the air and landed successfully on another nearby roof.

The girl's body was light, and the hem of her skirt flew up in the air, as graceful as a frightened bird.The piece of gauze used to wrap her hair has long been loosened during the chase, and at this moment, her red hair is scattered in the wind, like a group of fireworks blooming in mid-air, which is not inferior even under the dazzling sun, even It's so bright that it's a little dazzling.

This scene stunned all the onlookers in the market.Some exclaimed that it was dangerous, and urged the two to come down and accept the punishment; others seemed to be watching a good show, and applauded one after another.

"Look, little stammer, there are people who come out of the house to see us and smile at me!"

At this time, Ning Yue still doesn't seem to fully understand how much trouble she has gotten into. To her, a chase seems to be just an exciting game.Having enjoyed herself so much, she excitedly turned her head and shouted at her companion before she could stand still.

"Yue'er, don't be distracted, be careful to fall and break your leg!"

Jiang Yan, who was still on the opposite roof, hurriedly sounded a reminder, but it was too late.I saw that Ning Yue's foot slipped, she swayed a few times and lost her balance. She fell on the steep roof and turned over on her back.

The black-eyed boy groaned inwardly, kicked his feet and jumped over immediately.Although he stopped Ning Yue's body, he had nowhere to put his strength, and he couldn't stop the falling momentum at all, so he could only let their bodies continue to slide down along the roof tiles.

The eaves ahead soon came to an end.Accompanied by Ning Yue's exclamation, the two of them seemed to be sitting on a sled, flew out along the slightly raised eaves, and smashed straight at the door of a tea shop opposite.

The spectators at the entrance of the tea shop were afraid of hurting themselves, so they scattered on the spot.But she didn't know whether she was stunned by the two living people falling from the sky, or she had no time to react. Ning Yue saw a boy in white raised his head, and stood there without moving. He stretched out his arms, intending to catch himself.

She and Jiang Yan landed directly on the sackcloth awning erected outside the tea shop, and then brought down a row of wooden racks at the door, and took all the bamboo strips used to dry tea out of them. Knocked down.

In the emerald green tea rain that was flying all over the sky, the girl pressed heavily on the chest of the white-clothed boy impartially, and rolled on the ground together with him.Immediately afterwards, Jiang Yan also fell off, and sat down on the boy's vest.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you didn't get hurt, did you?"

Hearing the young man in white being crushed, Ning Yue immediately stood up and apologized.But the other party seemed a little shy, just shook his head and lowered his head to pat the dust on his body, but turned to ask the tea merchant who was hiding in the shop and was dumbfounded:

"This shopkeeper, I'm really sorry, I'm really sorry. What's the price of these teas? I'll pay you twice as much."

"Oh idiot, why don't you run faster if you broke someone's stuff? You can't ask how much you have to pay. This is how the two of us were blackmailed to escape here! If you are not injured, hurry up and go with us Well, after a long delay, those soldiers will catch up again!"

Ning Yue couldn't help but pull up the other party's sleeve, pulling the white-clothed boy staggeringly.The other party raised his head, and suddenly met the girl's blue eyes, and immediately seemed to be persuaded by her, and immediately stepped forward and continued to run forward along the bluestone-paved streets with the two of them.

"Are you a local?" Jiang Yan turned his head and asked his new companion.Seeing that the other party nodded, he immediately pushed him in front of him, "Then hurry up and lead the way. If we can't get rid of those pursuers today, we will all have to go to jail!"

"Actually, you don't need to run." The boy in white said calmly.

"How can we not run away? We can't even pay for a single gold baht, and the other things we knocked over along the way may not be enough to accompany dozens of gold bahts. If we are caught up, can we be spared?"

"Okay. The east end of Zitong Street is the canal leading water from the Yanjiang River into the city. There are [-] stone bridges on the river. Let's run towards the canal, use the stone bridges to set up obstacles and escape to the other side, and we should be able to escape. The tail behind it!"

The boy in white didn't say much, he just explained a few words, then quickened his pace and led the two of them towards the canal.

As he said, near the exit of the market, there is indeed a small stone bridge that is not too wide.The deck of the bridge is quite steep, and there is a shop selling sesame oil at the end of the bridge. The back door is facing the canal, and there is a small pier beside it.At this time, several oil workers were swiftly transporting the sesame oil packed in earthen jars from the boat into the thriving shop.

The three of them rushed towards the small stone bridge tacitly without even thinking about it.As soon as the front foot stepped on the stone bridge, the pursuers behind him appeared at the corner of the street.The young man in white gave Jiang Yan a wink, and the two immediately exerted their strength simultaneously, knocking over the goods in the hands of the oil workers passing by the bridge to the ground!

The earthen jar burst with a sound, and the sesame oil in it also gurgled out.The Chi Lingwei who was chasing him didn't even have time to stop, he slipped under the thick oil film and fell into a ball.Helpless, he had no choice but to watch the figures of the three children disappear into the cobweb-like alley on the other side of the stone bridge and completely disappear.

"It's true this time, get rid of them, right?" Ning Yue covered her beating heart with her hands, and looked back at the way she came, "Little stammer, the city is so exciting and fun, I want to come again once!"

"Do it again? It's better to be caught by those soldiers in the first place." Jiang Yan leaned his back against the moss-covered brick wall in the alley, and quickly waved his hands, looking dumbfounded.

"Okay, okay, just kidding, look at your face stretched so long, it almost falls to the ground!" Ning Yue stuck out her tongue playfully, but walked to the place just now with great interest. In front of his new companion who helped him, "I want to thank you just now. My name is Ning Yue, and his name is Jiang Yan. What's your name?"

However, after waiting for a long time, the boy in white seemed to be unwilling to speak clearly: "I - my name is -"

His facial features are quite handsome, and his thick eyebrows are like swords, straight into the temples.His gaze was gentle and clear as water.A pair of amber pupils shone like gold in the sunlight.The skin is also very fair, not as dark as ordinary street boys, but looks like a girl at first glance.

Wanzhou, located in the southwest corner of the mainland, relies on the Yanjiang River flowing from east to west to control the shipping channel from the entire west coast to the inland.Relying on the superb shipping technology, Ye Kingdom has become the wealthiest among the three Marquis Kingdoms in the Southwest. Merchants gather in the territory and it is bustling and prosperous.

And the young man in front of him was wearing a robe with complicated dark patterns, which looked like a very expensive brocade.Although the white fabric was covered with a lot of dust and stains, he didn't take it seriously.This made Jiang Yan secretly guess that this helpful peer in front of him might be the son of a wealthy businessman in the city.

"What's so rare about my own name? It's fine if you don't say it, but I still want to thank you for your help. Little stammer, let's go." Seeing the other party's silence, Ning Yue pouted a little unhappily, turned around and was about to leave .

But the boy in white suddenly stretched out his arms, and stopped in front of this bright and charming girl: "Girl, wait a moment, in fact, I—"

However, before he finished speaking, Jiang Yan, who was leaning against the base of the wall, jumped up, and ran between the two of them like an angry cub, protecting the girl behind him:

"What are you doing?! I am very grateful for saving my life today. But Yue'er has always been with me. If you dare to bully her, you are bullying me!"

"I don't mean anything else, I just want to tell this girl my name—" The white-clothed boy looked blankly at the black-eyed boy in front of him, and then turned to look at the girl beside him.

"Oh, what are you talking nonsense, little stammer, who promised to be with you!" Ning Yue suddenly blushed, pushed Jiang Yan who was standing in front of her, and ran to the depths of the alley.

"Miss Ning Yue, my name is Qi Ziyin!"

The boy in white hurriedly yelled at the girl's back, but the girl still ran away on his own.He turned his head to look at the side, feeling a little embarrassed, and also didn't know what to do with Jiang Yan, but from a distance, he heard a girl's scream suddenly came from the alley ahead.

The two became tense again as if they were facing a big enemy, and rushed forward, only to find that the red feather guards who refused to give up easily surrounded the alley where they were located from all directions.

"You mean there is such a big commotion in the city, do you think you can just leave?"

A strong man with sweat all over his face came forward, staring helplessly at the three naughty children in front of him and said.He is the captain on duty who is in charge of this pursuit. It seems that in the previous chase, the Yuling army suffered a lot.

"Obviously those two peddlers want to blackmail us!"

Jiang Yan still used his body to block in front of his companion, arguing with his neck stuck.But the person on the opposite side blocked him speechless with a single sentence:

"So you can use your temper to cause more damage in the market?"

However, what Jiang Yan and Ning Yue didn't expect was that the young man in white next to him spoke again, intending to completely settle the dispute for the two who met by chance:

"We were wrong. After all, many honest traders have suffered losses. If we can settle the matter, I am willing to compensate all the losses. Please don't embarrass the two of them any more."

"The merchants who can lose money to appease their anger are the best results, and it will save us from bringing everyone back to Tingwei Division."

The lieutenant on the opposite side nodded——Wanzhou focuses on business, and many civil disputes are not willing to resolve through complicated official channels, so various private compensations are commonplace, and most people can keep their word.

"How much is the loss? Is sixty gold baht enough?"

As the young man named Qi Ziyin spoke, he took out a small heavy bag from his bosom.The bag was made of lambskin, very soft, and a family crest was stabbed with gold thread on it.

Seeing that the other party was generous, the captain didn't want to make trouble for himself, so he reached out to pick it up:

"It's enough, it's enough, there should be some surplus. I don't know where the son's mansion is located in the city? After the final calculation of the losses here, I can send back the excess money in person."

"No need. The rest of the gold baht will be used to buy some drinks for the Red Feather Guards who have been troubled today, and I will make amends to them."

The boy in white only smiled slightly, and threw the money bag in his hand towards the other party.

The captain held the purse firmly in mid-air, but as soon as he saw the family crest tattooed on it, he immediately stepped forward as if he had changed, and bowed respectfully , seems to have something to say.

But before the other party could speak, the boy in white smiled and shook his head at him:
"Master Captain, please be sure to appease the merchants who have suffered losses. There is one more thing I want to ask you, today's matter, it is better to let it rot in the stomach. After the money bag is used up, it is also lost for me. , don't mention it to anyone again."

Qi Ziyin always spoke politely, neither humble nor overbearing.The school lieutenant standing opposite suddenly froze for a moment, then nodded as if suddenly enlightened, and then ordered the left and right troops to withdraw and return to the camp.

"Sixty gold baht! Little stammer, what are we going to give back this favor?"

Ning Yue pushed hard the black-eyed boy who was also dumbfounded beside her, and lowered her voice.But her words still fell into the ears of the boy in white.The other party turned around, shook his head again, and smiled at the two who were a little at a loss:
"I was also at fault for what happened today. It is only natural to pay for compensation. The two of you don't owe me anything. But after running for a long time, I am really hungry. It just so happens that there is a shop I often visit not far ahead. Unique. If the two of you are willing to honor me, then come along too? Let me be the host!"

As the white-clothed boy said, he tidied up his clothes meticulously, and walked up Zitong Street again.Ning Yue and Jiang Yan hesitated for a moment, but they still couldn't hold back the gluttonous screams in their stomachs, and followed behind one after the other.

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