Jin Tingjiao

Chapter 55 Why is he?

After walking east along the embankment for three or four miles, and then turning north on a wide post road, the scenery gradually became familiar.

There are also more people and horses on the road, many children of the official family in splendid clothes, and there are also extremely gorgeous official family carriages.

This is the main road that runs through the entire town. The town is about four or five miles long from east to west. There are many alleys on both sides of the street, which are full of people.

The streets are full of women and girls strolling arm in arm, everyone has a leisurely and easy-going expression on their faces, even there are quite a few rich and powerful children who drive horses, but it is rare to see them riding horses in the street.

I have to say that it is really not easy to see the common people with such an appearance in the brutal world of Great Zhou.

The house where Shen Chongxin and his wife placed Qi Jiu is located on West Street.

Qi Jiu's whereabouts are hard to come by, so she can only inquire about the house first.

At the intersection of the street, she looked around, and finally asked Wang'er to stop in front of a house with a red lantern hanging under the door.

Yuan Bei exclaimed: "Isn't this the house of our second bedroom?"

Shen Xi glanced at her, and then looked back.

This house is only about ten feet long from east to west, with two entrances inside and outside, so it is not too big.

But it is not easy to own such a house in Qingshi Town.

According to Pearl, Erfang had a very wide network of people back then, and there were visitors almost every day. Thinking about choosing to buy a property here, Shen Chongxin used some connections.

"That's right. You and I sit down in the teahouse across the street first. Wang'er, please help me find out who is living in this house now. The more detailed the information about this house is, the more detailed it is." The better."

In order to avoid Aunt Pei and the others being too suspicious, the information she can get from the people around her is limited, and she can only start from the source of the house's sale.

Such a big house cost at least three to four thousand taels of silver, but the original owner sold it and was still so poor, which made her even more suspicious of the inside story behind it.

Wang'er heard the words and drove the carriage to the teahouse opposite the house.

The teahouse was fairly clean, so Shen Xi ordered a pot of tea, then found a seat by the window and sat down.

After Yuan Bei sat down, he looked behind suspiciously.Turning around and seeing Shen Xi looking over, he said, "Why does this servant feel like someone is staring at us?"

Shen Xi paused, and looked around intently.

There are both men and women in the store, and they all do their daily attire. They are all in twos and threes, chatting and laughing happily, and no one seems to be paying attention to them.

People on the street outside are also very relaxed and leisurely.

She glanced at Yuan Bei: "Just pay attention. In broad daylight, no one will cause trouble easily."

Yuan Bei nodded.

After waiting for tea here, Shen Xi took advantage of the opportunity to look out of the window.

The windows are open, so you can see every move on the opposite side.

On the left side of the house gate is a bank building, and on the right side is a small gambling house.In front of the door is a row of hawkers selling needles, thread, and sugar kneaders.

Pedestrians on the street, whether farmers, women or high-ranking officials, all looked peaceful in the prosperous age.

She couldn't help but think of Qi Jiulai in Aunt Pei's mouth.

The so-called small hermit hides in the forest, and the big hermit hides in the city. It is obviously easier to hide in such a prosperous place.Shen Chongxin hid him here back then, it should be after careful consideration.

As a bodyguard in Emperor Qin Lingdi's palace, he did not follow him south to die for his country, but fell ill by the roadside outside the capital city. No one knew what he had experienced, but what can be imagined is that his existence did not cause anyone to die. doubts—at least until he showed his wounds.

The guards of the Qin Palace all had unique tattoos on their bodies, presumably the reason why his identity was exposed was because the doctor saw the tattoos when he was treating the wounded.

She served the tea, but didn't drink it, she just stared at the street scene through the tea steam, wondering what kind of person he should be, and what kind of business he was doing now.

"open!"

At this time, there was a shout from the gambling house opposite, followed by a flood of shouts.

She followed the trend, and saw that the small gambling house, which occupied an area no larger than two gates, was buzzing with people.

The gamblers were standing and sitting, squeezing the inside tightly.

As for a table by the window, there are many onlookers.

A man with long hair tied casually faced the street, leaning against the side of the square table, with his thin lips raised, his elbow resting on his cheek, his left leg bent and propped on the bench, looking at the people sitting on the left and right.

He is obviously the banker, because there are many pieces of silver, large and small, piled up in front of him.

——In the small gambling house, the focus is on pleasure, and the visitors are all local gentry children, or guests who come here occasionally for entertainment, and rarely use large banknotes.

I used to hang out with my brothers a lot, even though I have never been in this kind of place, she can understand it somewhat.

Shen Xi originally just glanced over the man's face, but when her eyes passed by the man's face, she looked at him intently again!

Seeing this, she immediately held her breath, her back stiffened...

This man has straight eyebrows and a lazy and undisciplined aura. He was the one who saw through her bloodline in the small alley that day!
He was still wearing the well-crafted but comfortable cloth clothes, and his long hair was also loose, but it was tied at the back of his head casually.

This casual look is exactly the same as that day when he was swinging on the swing under the big willow tree with nothing to do!
And he acted like no one else among the group of gamblers, yet somehow he had the aura of being the leader of the group...

Shen Xi's mind suddenly froze.

She thought that it was unlikely that she would meet him again, but she didn't expect that he was here as well.

After all, this is the only person who knows her secret, and she has no reason not to care.

She looked around, the tea drinkers were having their own time, talking loudly, and no one paid attention to her.

She took a sip of her cold tea and relaxed.

In fact, who would have known that she was from Helian if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes?
It's all because she thinks too much.

She looked at the opposite side again, and there was another burst of cheers in the casino, presumably he won another round, and he was raising his lips to collect the money.

Is this person really a reckless person?
But how could a reckless man live in a place like Beicheng?Why can you afford such a small alley?

Where did he get so much money from?
Did you win the bet?
Shen Xi felt that he was too lenient, where did he get the money, and what did it have to do with her?
Her purpose is to check the house, she shouldn't care too much.

But even so, she couldn't help but go around him in her heart.

After all, his reaction was too strange.

It was fine because I thought I would never meet again before, but now that I really saw him again, all the doubts in my heart popped out.

As a citizen of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he turned a blind eye to her who was sent to her door with pure Helian blood. What did he have to do with the Helian clan?
And the point is that she even wanted to kill him, and he didn't want to kill her afterwards!
Now that the Helian people are being killed all over the world, she doesn't believe that he doesn't know what her existence means.

Thinking of this, she couldn't restrain her curiosity.

　This is the third update~~
　　
　
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