Wish Junshou and Tianqi

Far Mountain Inn.

The fire-like banners danced with the wind in the whitish night sky, and the forests on both sides whistled desolately behind the bare hills.

The moon sank to the west mountain, and the sound of horseshoes came from not far away, and the dust was flying, gradually taking shape.

A group of officers and soldiers in light armor rode towards the inn on big horses. The horses were strong and heroic.

Soon a group of people stopped at the door of the inn, the leader stepped forward, raised his hand and slapped the door heavily, once or twice, until the inn lit up candlelight, and the door was opened a little .

Qiuniang was wearing a coat, holding a candlestick in one hand, and propping the door with the other, revealing her snow-white jade arms like lotus roots, and the spring light suddenly appeared.

Although Qiuniang is no longer young, she is a well-known beauty in the neighborhood, and her charm is still there, which is not a taste.

The officer and soldier couldn't help but blushed slightly, his eyes wandered, and he didn't dare to look around.

"Yo? Officer? It's so late? What's the matter?" Qiuniang asked.

The team leader "cough cough cough", cleared his throat, concealed his shyness, raised his hand and showed a token, engraved with the five characters of Qingzhou Shuntian Mansion, and said in a serious voice: "The government searched, the bandits in Linglong Village are running around, sneaking around at night Down the mountain, shopkeeper... can you hear anything?"

Qiuniang raised her eyebrows, frowned subconsciously, thought for a while and said, "It's true that I didn't see any bandits, but I'm all strong and strong. With hard work, even ten bandits are no problem."

Her voice was a little soft, which made the team leader's heart soften. He only looked in, and his intention of going in to search for people was reduced a bit.

The Yuanshan Inn can thrive in this place where bandits are rampant, caravans come and go, and fish and dragons are mixed together. There must be no problem with basic guarantees.

What's more, they were willing to cooperate with the government, and the backup materials for the bandits' encirclement and suppression were all from the Yuanshan Inn, and they were indeed very obedient.

"Where are the people staying today? Is there anything unusual?" The team leader narrowed his eyes and asked cautiously.

Suddenly, Qiuniang's eyes flickered, and she tightened her grip on the door frame. She glanced back and said with a smile, "They're all caravans coming in and on their way. They won't wake up even if the sky falls."

Qiuniang's small movements were caught by the leader of the officers and soldiers. He frowned and looked inside again. There seemed to be nothing unusual inside. He lowered his eyes to think, and twitched the corners of his mouth and said, "Why don't we let our brothers It’s safer to go in and check it out.”

After all, the team leader raised his hand and was about to push the door, but was stopped by Qiuniang, who smiled and said to him: "In the past few days, in order to catch the bandits and seal them up in Qingzhou, our inn will continue to give the officials and you I sent a lot of food, and finally some guests came, so I just pointed to these few copper coins to maintain the expenses... It’s the middle of the night, God is sorry, don’t scare my guests.”

"Is it really all right?" The team leader continued to ask.

Qiu Niang stretched her eyebrows, smiled, and said with a smile, "It's really nothing, it can't be true."

After all, the team leader looked at Qiuniang, put away the token, and took out a piece of paper that had been folded several times from his bosom. After unfolding, there was a portrait of a man inside. The ink was still wet, but it was still distinguishable. Coming out: translucent Shifeng eyes, thin lips... He asked in a deep voice, "Have you seen this person?"

Qiuniang looked at it carefully for a while, and was startled, isn't this person the son who made a fortune today?

She shook her head, and met the leader's gaze again, with firm eyes, "I don't know, I haven't seen it before, anyway, I will come to our inn in the future."

After all, the team leader gave her a fixed look, then gently folded up the portrait, put it in his arms, turned around and took the group of people back on the horse, raised a cloud of dust, and ran towards the nearby village up.

Qiu Niang closed the skirt of her clothes, closed the door gently, turned around with the candlestick in her hand, and said with lowered brows, "Girl, people... I let you go, can you... let him go."

Mu Huashu turned sideways, and the sharp dagger in his hand left Xiao Jiang's neck lightly, and quickly retracted it into the sheath.

Xiaojiang immediately ran to Qiuniang, and stood tremblingly behind her. Qiuniang hugged him in her arms, stroking his back to comfort him.

Mu Huashu stood with her hands behind her back, wearing an ivory white horse-hair embroidered slim gown, with a wide belt tightly tied around her waist, her long hair hanging down, looking extraordinarily elegant and easy-going, she glanced at the two in front of her, and solemnly bowed her hands : "How offending."

Seeing this, Qiuniang and the other staff didn't dare to say anything, they just waited cautiously to see her next move.

Ke Yanhui, who was also left at the inn beside him, also took a step forward, and gently cupped his hands and said: "Shopkeeper, it's an emergency, I really offend you."

Qiuniang looked at him, held Xiaojiang's hand, and nodded slightly.

Cheng Fu, who was leading the horse, rubbed his hands, stepped forward anxiously and said to Mu Huashu, "There is a missing horse in the stable. I saw it with my own eyes. It was ridden away by the young man who paid for it today. Others... I haven't seen it either."

Originally, Shen Yike noticed that Song Yanqing had disappeared into the room, so he rode a horse and chased him out to check. The low neighing of the horse woke up Cheng Fu. He climbed the window and saw only one person, as for the others... That is helpless.

"Then everyone, have you seen my little sister?" Ke Yan smiled softly and looked at the innkeeper earnestly. Everyone shook their heads. Who is okay and stays up in the middle of the night and goes out...

Finding that Ke Yanyue was gone, Ke Yan was anxious, and then asked with great fanfare.

Mu Huashu didn't want to get involved when she heard the commotion, because even if Song Yanqing and Shen Yike disappeared, she still felt quite normal.

They came here to investigate the smuggling of copper mines in Qingzhou, and they didn't say anything when they left Beijing, so she really disliked this Ke Yanhui who wanted to make things big.

"Miss Mu, my little sister is playful and willful. She muttered in her sleep that she lost face today and wanted to compete with the young master. I guess she must have followed them. Please tell Miss Mu something, next time Let’s go and get back the little girl quickly, so as not to hinder the business of the few.”

Mu Huashu was sitting on the bench, with a dagger in her hand, she raised her eyes slightly, and said with a sneer: "Master, you have come to such a hasty conclusion, I really want to ask why you made such a statement."

The eyes of the two met, you won't let me, I won't let you.

When the undercurrent was surging, Ke Yanyue appeared on the corridor on the second floor. She trotted all the way, stepped on the stairs, and said, "Brother! I'm back."

Keyan turned his head, went up to meet him immediately, stopped in his tracks, hid the joy in his eyes, and said in a deep voice, "In the middle of the night, you went to various places again? Don't you know there are bandits running around?"

Ke Yanyue lowered her head and said "I...", and then held back, turning her head to look at the two people walking slowly behind her.

Chu Shou was still in the wuzhi green cage gauze brocade robe, with dark green tassels hanging on both sides of the double bun. She searched her eyes, stretched her waist and said, "I said that you are reasonable in your words, obviously it is your family. The girl wandered around the door of my room in the middle of the night, causing me to wake up in the middle of the night, instead of begging me to help her catch people, whoever acts in the middle of the night..."

"If it weren't for my Ah Zhi being reasonable and helpful, I wouldn't help you in the middle of the night!"

As Chu Shou said, he snorted softly, and put his arms around Song Yanqing who was leaning on the railing. He changed into a plain blue shirt with a dark green pattern around his waist, and his hair was tied high and hanging down. On the neck, the hairpin is a white jade auspicious cloud and crane pattern, just like a young man in Tsing Yi, with star eyes and a straight nose under his eyebrows, eyes as deep as a flat lake, the corners of his lips are slightly raised, and his face is like a crown jade.

He didn't have to speak, but he also had the same look of approval on his face - he was colluding and colluding.

Seeing him again, Mu Huashu stood up quickly, looked up at Song Yanqing with worried eyes, and whispered: "My lord!"

Song Yanqing nodded slightly at her, and after a while, she quickly turned her eyes back to Chu Shou. Her smiling eyes were bright, and the corners of her mouth were round, completely gone from the tiredness when she just came back. It's incredible.

They just came back from the backyard, settled Cangcuo and Yuetong master and servant, and tidied up in the dark for a while. They wanted to sleep quietly again without knowing it, but Ke Yanyue ran away again. After coming over, they knocked on the door and said that their brother was missing, so they stood up.

After hearing this, Ke Yanyue curled her lips, squinted her eyes and stared at Chu Shou, her hands clenched into fists. After being asked by her elder brother if it was as Chu Shou said, she turned her head and stomped her feet, gritted her teeth and said, "Yes. I found Cangcuo in the middle of the night, and asked the young master to help catch him—"

Ke Yanhui frowned, and asked tentatively: "Catch someone? Could it be..."

She nodded, met her elder brother's doubtful eyes, her tone was a little smug, she patted her chest and said affirmatively: "Yeah, man, I have already brought it back, and he is lying in the room at this moment... But, we use Cangcuo and Yuetong are still in a coma after some small tricks."

After Ke Yanhui listened, he immediately raised his eyebrows, raised his hand and pointed at Ke Yanyue, and if he wanted to stop talking, he would have to think a little more about asking him to go to Cangcuo, and go there in the middle of the night without telling him. Doing such a dangerous thing is really hard!

"Oh, my brother, don't be angry..." Ke Yanyue hurriedly turned around, raised her eyes to meet Chu Shou's expression of watching a play, then pointed at Chu Shou and said, "Cangcuo is very respectful to her, and you can't say anything." Lord, she followed us back without waiting for me to do anything..."

"Follow? Didn't you say that you are still in a coma?"

"Yes... yes, it was the first time she saw the young master, maybe she was a little excited... she fainted from the excitement."

Ke Yanyue explained feebly that she didn't expect him, a fatherly elder brother, to nod and praise her. In front of so many people, she would be thankful for saving her some face...

Looking at the scene downstairs, Chu Shou smiled helplessly at Song Yanqing, then turned around and went downstairs, walked up to all the clerks in the inn, took out an ingot of silver from his arms, and said, "Boss, this is the time to see It’s almost dawn, we’re in a hurry to go to the city, and we need to trouble you to arrange some food for us, so we can go on the road when we’re full, you’ve seen a lot, so there’s no need to go into details about some things.”

Qiuniang took the money, stuffed it into her sleeve robe, nodded quickly, and said "Okay...okay..."

"Xiao Jiang! Go and ask your brother to get up and cook, Cheng Fu, go and feed the horses, go and go!"

Xiaojiang and Chengfu took the order, and immediately found their way to do things skillfully. Qiuniang touched the silver, lowered her eyes to think, then raised her head to stop Chu Shou, smiled embarrassedly, and said with a slight smile: "We shouldn't talk too much." , but just now we helped to cover up the lie and deceived the official, if we were found out, our little inn would be uncomfortable, miss, you are sensible, otherwise... how about we do a business?"

After Chu Shou heard this, the corners of her mouth curled up. As expected of the shopkeeper, she was bold and never gave up. She looked at Qiuniang and replied, "Let's hear it?"

"Nowadays, officers and soldiers are more strictly guarded. It is difficult for us to do business. We are bumping into walls everywhere. We have to pay for the purchase of officers and soldiers. The stock in the cellar is almost used up. I am afraid that this business will not be able to continue. We have to do it sooner. It is planned that before the bandits are wiped out in one day, they have to pay for their daily expenses for one more day, and do this kind of business that only loses but does not make money."

"Looking at the situation now, the management of Qingzhou City may only be stricter. If you want to enter the city, it is not easy to enter. You need to ask for a visa notice, and the procedures are extremely cumbersome, but... I can help you, on the condition that you help me Send a letter to the restaurant in the city called Shuiyunjian, which specializes in brewing wine, tell me Qiuniang's name, and help me to buy some basic expenses. Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds? I don't know what the girl thinks ?”

Qiuniang smiled slightly, looked at Chu Shou quietly, and waited for her answer.

Chu Shou smiled and lowered her eyes, looking back, Mu Huashu and Song Yanqing were standing upstairs, talking about something, she turned her head, nodded lightly without thinking: "I don't know how the shopkeeper... is going to help us Woolen cloth?"

"I can send a car to help you pretend to be a caravan. I have a ready-made caravan ultimatum certificate. As long as a few young masters and ladies agree to this matter, I can arrange it for you immediately." Qiu Niang raised After smoothing the broken hair back with his hands, the brows flew up, his eyes were shrewd, and he looked at Chu Shou with bright eyes, and added: "It can save a lot of trouble, and the official sent a small portrait of today's young master, and went around It is not for any purpose to be identified, and when the business is completed, we will naturally be more secretive."

Chu Shou twitched the corners of his mouth, thinking: Little statue?A small portrait of Shen Yike?When Shen Yike covered the two of them going up the mountain, he had already revealed the identity of the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate with the soldiers and guards of the state capital guarding at the foot of the mountain. Logically speaking, the state capital got its name and was very respectful, but now it is called a small statue. It doesn't make sense for people to identify people everywhere... Could it be that they want to find out if the imperial court has sent someone to come with them?
That's right... After all, the timing and occasions of Shen Yike's appearance are quite strange. If she is the chief officer of the state government who is besieging bandits, she will definitely be suspicious. What kind of person can ride a horse in the middle of the night to investigate the book The unproblematic Qingzhou Nanshan flood...

Chu Shou couldn't help laughing as she thought about it, but even if she thought about it that way, what she saw and heard this night strengthened her mind: There is really something wrong with the government.

Then she responded bluntly to the shopkeeper: "Yes, please prepare quickly, the shopkeeper."

Instead, Qiuniang was stunned for a moment, and asked secretly: "You are so straightforward, you don't need to ask the other young masters and young ladies..."

Chu Shou waved his hand, winked at Qiuniang, patted his chest with a wink and casually said, "No, I'm the biggest here."