my panda city master

Chapter 9 The Dusty Secret Box

The cup in her hand had already stopped, and Xixi's injury reminded her that she should not move more, even such a simple movement would cause pain all over her body.

But when she finishes saying this, everything will be over, that's okay.

Wu Wei couldn't help but said: "It's better for the girl not to speculate about this kind of thing."

Xixi looked at him, sneered slightly, then looked at Mobai: "If you didn't intend to get rid of the prince, why did you live in the prince's mansion knowing that he was jealous of the Mo family? You even relaxed the guards and let his concubine visit him inexplicably." .My self-protection move is outside of your plan, right? Although I don't know what method you will use to get me out, but if you let Zhang Liangdi come in, you are already putting me in a dangerous situation. Just because you are Saying that I am your fiancée in front of everyone, I let go of my guard and even like you more than before."

With outsiders around, Xixi didn't hide these words, but every word was like a knife, and the blade was aimed at herself.

"You like it enough to deceive yourself. You tell the prince that you have found the evidence of Zhang Liangdi's suicide, and you have also found her family members. The fact that you can ask the truth is your negligence. You didn't intend to scare the snake. You want to force the prince to take the next step."

"I like it so much that I can deceive myself. The prince tied me to blackmail you. You didn't predict it. It wasn't for the prince to be charged with killing loyal ministers, so that you would turn him into an army. So you deliberately treated me like that in front of others. Well, let others know that you care about me, and I can be a bargaining chip to blackmail you."

"Even liking it so much that you can deceive yourself, the majestic City Lord of the Moh City really can't beat those who are in ambush. After I accidentally fell off the cliff, you really wanted to save me, not to create the illusion that the City Lord of the Mohist City disappeared, and give the court Put pressure on him, make the Holy One furious, and cut off the crown prince."

After Xixi said so much in one breath, her heart ached more and more, but the tone of her voice never fluctuated.She always thought she was sober, but when she spoke out, she realized that she was stupid.

"I thought about it, even if you gave me a little hint in the middle, I will resolve my suspicion and distrust, try my best to help you, and treat myself as a Mo family to help you complete this plan. Because you are Mocheng is for the peace of our country’s frontier fortress, not for yourself. If Mocheng is gone, the frontier fortress enemy countries will come to invade, so I don’t blame you for using me. But you didn’t hint at me, not once.”

Mo Bai also listened silently, without saying a word.After she finished speaking, he came back to his senses. It turned out that everything that he thought could be done smoothly, ensured the complete implementation of the plan, and was of great benefit to Mo City, was a plan like a knife that hurt her heart.

He did this for Mo City, for the Mo Family, and for the future of the two of them.But I always feel that... there is something wrong.

Mocheng is not his own Mocheng, there are tens of thousands of soldiers there, and they still have to defend against foreign enemies and keep the country stable.Their allegiance is not to the emperor, but to the entire country.If the prince is not eradicated, the prince will eradicate them.Mocheng is gone, and only the common people suffer.

He did not hesitate to bear the infamy of the emperor.

It's just that she was right, he didn't believe her, and even used her like using other pawns.

It's not that she doesn't understand the righteousness of the family and the country, Yu Gong, she didn't complain.However, Yu Shi was indeed hurt too badly.

As she said, if he had given her something that would make her feel at ease, she would put aside her selfishness in the face of righteousness for what he concealed and used.

It was he who blocked the way for the two of them.

He was silent for a long time, with thousands of words in his heart, but he didn't make any excuses, and he couldn't make any excuses, and he didn't even know what to say. In the end, he just looked up at her: "In the future, I will double compensate you."

Xixi was stunned for a moment, and finally smiled: "Mo Bai, you still don't understand anything."

That's not what she wanted to hear.

Seeing his brows furrowed deeply again, Xixi never wanted to straighten them out.

"I'm going home. If you feel that I have contributed a little to this plan, don't come to me. From then on, you and I will have nothing to do with each other." She walked slowly to the door, feeling exhausted from exhaustion .After he had gone out, he stopped again, tilted his head and said, "Please trouble Lord Mo to bring my rabbit back, Yun Xixi is very grateful."

She misses Master Rabbit, misses Master Rabbit who will be tied up with her even if she is kidnapped, likes her like a carrot, and is always by his side.

Mo Bai stared blankly, watching her leave, just took a step, but was stopped by Wu Wei.I thought he was going to say something dissuasive about putting the overall situation first, but Wu Wei was silent and said: "Miss Yun is right, the city lord... doesn't understand her. If she doesn't understand, it's useless to chase after her. Wait for the city lord." Understood, let's go."

do not know?

Why do you understand?

He suddenly wanted to tell her that it was not his plan that she fell off the cliff with the carriage and he jumped off with her.

But really want to save her.

A moment of panic, a moment of panic, afraid that she would really die.

He still wants to see her look heartless, he also wants to see her pulling him to ask her if she is smart, and he also wants to see her hugging a rabbit and talking happily...

He thought a lot, but she had already left.

His eyes were always on the door where she disappeared, and he hadn't left for a long time.

The rain on the mountain was indeed much colder than the one below, and the mountain wind was howling fiercely. Xixi, who was cold, hungry and aching all over, felt like a dandelion, which would fall apart when the wind blew.

She thought that she should have taken away all the carrots in the house just now, so that she would not have to worry about the dry food along the way, which was really a mistake.

The raindrops dripped down her cheeks along the tip of her hair, unable to elicit a self-deprecating smile, she didn't even have the strength to laugh.

Footsteps came from behind, Xixi knew it wasn't Mo Bai, he never ran in such a hurry.

"elder sister."

The voice was immature, and Xixi could still hear it amidst the pattering rain.She turned around and saw that it was the kidnapped boy.

The boy ran up to her, opened the umbrella and propped it up on tiptoe: "Is my sister going out? It seems to be raining heavily, so take your umbrella."

Seeing the umbrella, Xixi remembered that when she was planning to leave just now, she put an umbrella by the window, but she still forgot to bring it.She reached out to take it, patted his head, and smiled: "Thank you. Go back and have a good sleep. I have already told the people in the village that someone will take you home tomorrow."

The boy was also in the lobby just now, and he heard her plan, and knew that the people in the village would change their ways and stop being bandits. He said, "Sister, you will definitely be a female general in the future."

"General... I don't know any martial arts at all."

"Then you will be a military advisor."

Xixi doesn't want to be a military adviser at all, she doesn't want to be involved in the storm again, she just wants to go back to her small pawnshop, hold Master Rabbit in her arms and drink tea every day, and occasionally go to the theater next door to watch a play and listen to a little song.As always, take it easy and have nothing to worry about.

"My sister is gone, you go back quickly."

Hearing the meaning of the words, the boy took a step forward: "Let's go? Isn't that brother with you? He will follow my sister wherever she goes."

"He..." Xixi glanced into the room, her eyes flickered slightly due to the dim yellow light from far away, and after a long time, she said, "He won't come."

She patted his head again, didn't say another word, and went down the mountain alone holding an umbrella.

Slanting wind and drizzle, beautiful women walk alone.We meet, but in a hurry; spring is here, with whom...

In the past, as long as Mocheng made a move, the prince Huangfu would be so frightened that he would miss two bowls of rice.But now he doesn't have to worry about it, after all - this is the new prince's business.

The news that the prince was deposed was quickly spread to Mocheng.

After receiving the news, Bai Yan went to report to Mo Bai.Just as she was about to ask someone about his whereabouts, she saw a guard passing by carrying a bag full of carrots. She jumped forward and patted him on the shoulder: "Is this carrot for the little city lord?"

"No."

Bai Yan turned around, and according to the usual practice, where is Yun Xixi's rabbit, the city owner must be there too, she asked: "The rabbit is still in the green bamboo forest?"

"Correct."

"Sure enough..." Bai Yan subconsciously shook her head.

The guard asked in a low voice: "Ever since the city lord came back from the capital, he has been staying in the bamboo forest and thanking guests behind closed doors for a month. All of us are saying..."

He swallowed half of the words, Bai Yan raised his eyebrows: "Finish the words."

"Cough... Boss, has he really turned into a panda?"

Bai Yan rubbed her chin and pondered: "I think so too. And..." She pointed to a pile of carrots in his arms, "And he became the father of a rabbit."

Thinking of living in the bamboo forest and not coming out, and raising a rabbit as the boss of his son, the hearts of everyone in the guard team were broken.

Bai Yan sighed and patted him on the shoulder: "I happen to be going to the green bamboo forest, give me the carrot."

Green Bamboo Forest is the place where the genius doctor Song lives. There are bamboos everywhere, which is simple and boring.Bai Yan has been here countless times without any change. What is there to do in this place, watching birds fight and counting fallen leaves?
She grabbed the two corners of her skirt and walked deep into the bamboo forest with a bag full of carrots on her back.Passing through the path, she saw a bamboo hut from a distance, and in front of the stone table in front of the door, there was a man in a green shirt sitting on a medicine pound.When the stone pestle was pounded in the stone pot, the sound was not clear and muffled due to the hindrance of herbs.

The muffled sound resounded in the bamboo forest, as muffled as the person in front of him.

Bai Yan walked quickly to the stone table, poured out a bagful of carrots, smashed the herbs, and asked, "Where is the little city lord?"

Doctor Song stopped the stone pestle and looked up at her. Through the sunlight pouring under the fine bamboo leaves, it reflected on her energetic face, which made her less natural coquettish and more lively than a girl.After a pause, he said earnestly: "I've said it several times, that's a rabbit, not the son of the city lord, aren't you afraid that the boss will teach you again?"

"But now it's spread in the city, saying that the city lord is not serious enough to find a girl to have a relationship with, but he is inseparable from a rabbit. He must be the illegitimate son of the city lord, so what is the little city lord?"

"Fizz!"

Three copper coins came flying in a hurry, Bai Yan quickly raised her hand to grab them, and easily pocketed them: "Yeah! I can buy three steamed buns again."

Suddenly there was a cool breeze blowing from behind, Bai Yan became serious, turned around and said loudly: "Boss!"

The visitor came in a black robe and white clothes, long robe and boots, handsome and handsome, but indifferent and speechless, accompanied by the crisp sound of dead leaves.The artistic conception is very good, people can be drawn into the painting, but... a round white rabbit is hugged in the arms, and the painting style changes drastically.

Mo Bai sat down, took a carrot, saw that it was covered with grass, dusted it off carefully, and handed it to Master Rabbit.

Seeing this, Bai Yan slumped on the stone bench, puzzled: "City Master, since you still miss Miss Yun, go and capture her back."

"Hey." Song Miracle Physician smashed the medicine pot, looked at her and said, "With the martial arts of the city lord, if he didn't intend to let Miss Yun go, why should he catch her now? Just knock her out then and bring her back. .Even if you don’t catch her, it’s because the city lord followed her up and secretly sent her home instead of letting the guards follow her.”

Bai Yan slapped the table: "Then why didn't you knock her out?"

Doctor Song, who couldn't explain it, felt that someone had punched her in the temple—it hurt so much, so she patiently explained: "The city lord just doesn't want to force her anymore."

"Then go find her. Why are you keeping someone else's rabbit? It's better to eat it."

Master Rabbit cast a resentful glance at the man who always wanted to eat it.

Song Miracle Doctor smiled: "I kept the rabbit just to have an excuse to find her." He stopped the stone pestle again and asked, "City Master, it's been a month, haven't you thought about it yet?"

The sound of the rabbit gnawing carrots is very pleasant, crunchy and pleasant.Mo Bai listened for a long time before saying: "No." He was silent and said again, "I'm still reflecting."

Bai Yan was stunned: "Boss, you have once slapped the devil, kicked over the Peacock City, and pinched the prince to death with one hand without even frowning. You are the Mobai Mo City Lord who never thinks you will do anything wrong." Ah." She grabbed Miracle Doctor Song's hand and shook it vigorously, "Cure the boss quickly!"

Song Miracle Physician said leisurely: "Heart disease."

"The heart disease is cured quickly."

"It can't be cured."

"You quack."

"Oh, girl Baocai, do you know that this is slander?"

"Shut up, don't call me cabbage girl."

The two were arguing right in front of him, and Mo Bai, who always liked to be quiet, suddenly felt a little envious when he heard this.He remembered that when Xixi was by his side, she was always chirping, like a lark, full of energy every moment, as if she was tireless.

Even if her heart was pierced with a hole, her hands and feet were injured and she was hung on a tree branch, she still had to joke with herself.

But that day when she left alone down the mountain, her back was so lonely and exhausted.

The rabbit in his arms seemed to be aware of his emotional changes, and turned around in the toga, holding the carrot in a daze.

Mo Bai stroked the rabbit's head, thought quietly, and said, "It said it wanted to go home."

The two who were having a good time stopped talking at the same time, and turned to look at him: "Huh?"

Mo Bai stood up and said seriously: "I have to send it home."

After all, the bamboo forest blew up a gust of wind, and the black and white man disappeared in a blink of an eye. The rolled up bamboo leaves fluttered and fell down, and Bai Yan was stunned for a while, and said: "Should I bring the guards to follow the boss?" ..."

Doctor Song smiled: "Don't follow. If you follow, he is the city lord; if you don't, he is just an ordinary person chasing the person he likes. This is probably a decision made after introspection."

Bai Yan also smiled: "Okay. But the boss is really, obviously I want to see Miss Yun, so I have to find a rabbit as an excuse." Then, she took the pounding pot and snatched the stone pestle. Come on, "A quack doctor who has no power to restrain a chicken, I will do this, go and make me tea."

Doctor Song got up with a smile, walked two steps and asked again: "Where are you having lunch here?"

"Okay, I want to eat scrambled duck eggs."

"Well, and your favorite braised chicken with bamboo shoots."

The morning sun is shining, and there is a slight cool breeze in the autumn morning, but it doesn't feel cold when it blows on the face. The weather is just right and makes people feel comfortable.

After breakfast, Xixi walked from the yard to the front hall, walking slowly, feeling very comfortable with the wind blowing.When I arrived at the front hall and opened the door, and was moving the wooden planks, the aunt from the rice shop next to me yelled, "I said Xixi, your rats came to my house and ate them again, so why don't you take care of them?"

Xixi turned around and looked at the aunt whose body was short and round like a snail, with an innocent face: "Auntie, there are so many mice on the street, how can you be sure they belong to my family?"

The fat aunt stared: "I just saw a mouse get into your dog's hole. I don't care. If my food disappears again, I will ask you to pay for it."

The visitor was aggressive, Xixi smiled apologetically, "Alright, I'm sorry, Auntie."

The fat aunt snorted heavily, and took the broom to sweep the dirty things in front of the door. Her door was clean, but she swept all the garbage in front of Xixi's door.

Not angry or annoyed, I swept away the garbage, opened a store in the bright morning sun, guarded the deserted ancestral business, and made a pot of tea.

While drinking, she missed her Master Rabbit.

It's been almost two months, and the panda didn't want to return her Lord Rabbit to her because of old love, and the cabbage girl even wrote to herself saying that Master Rabbit ate too much and sooner or later she would stew it to pay off the debt. Sure enough, they are all bad guys.

Xixi shook the rocking chair, and followed Aunt Fatty's example with a heavy snort.

--unhappy.

As soon as the night fell, Xixi closed the store, took an oil lamp and went to the house to look for mice. After searching for a long time, she couldn't find one, probably only in the cellar.

She took the mouse cage into the cellar, put the meat in and threw it in, then closed the secret door and went back to sleep.

In the middle of the night, she heard rats squeaking and screaming. She stretched her waist and rubbed her eyes, got dressed and went to the cellar to check. Sure enough, she saw two rats in the cage.Satisfied, she picked it up, went out of the cellar, climbed up the wall in the yard, and walked carefully along the wall to the low house of the fat aunt's house.She climbed up to the roof, found the room where the fat aunt lived, gently lifted two tiles, and poured the mouse into it.

"Boom, boom."

"Squeak, squeak."

"Huh? Huh?!! Ah--mouse!!! Ah--"

The screams in the room almost shattered the sky, Xixi covered her mouth and held back her laughter, her shoulders trembled, almost holding back her internal injuries.

"If you bully me, I will eat all your food and scare you to death. If you have the ability, go to the government to sue me and see which law can make me pay you back." Xixi lowered her head and made a big grimace. Only then did she go home with her mouse cage.

Jumping down from the wall, Xixi put the cage down, clapped her hands and got ready to go to sleep.When she was almost in front of the house, she remembered that the cellar door had been left closed.

She wanted to ignore it at first, but there are too many treasures in the cellar, what if a thief sneaks in by such a coincidence?That would cause big waves, after all, the things in the cellar are worth three thousand beauties.

After thinking about it, Xixi decided to close the door before going to sleep.

She walked towards the cellar with a kerosene lamp, and when she reached the door, she saw a mouse running desperately towards the cellar with a chicken leg in its mouth. drumstick!

She was so annoyed that she picked up the broom next to her, screamed and rushed in, jumping down seven or eight wooden steps bravely.With a heavy step, the decades-old wooden plank could not support it, and it snapped apart with a click.Xixi's foot was unsteady, and she rushed forward with her whole body, pushing the wooden frame in front of her, and the wooden frame shook suddenly, and the treasures stacked on it collided, and instantly the whole room fell into a mess.

"Pang pong!"

A wooden box that had been dusty for a long time fell, and happened to hit the head of Xixi, who was on the ground.

Xixi rolled her eyes and was knocked unconscious.

The old man said, get up wherever you fall.

Xixi now wants to ask: What if I fall twice at the same place?Will he be called a fool?

She rubbed the back of her head, well, there is no need to spend money on buns, there is one here.She sat up in pain, and just gasped for air when she was choked by the dust raised on the floor.

"Ahhh, if it wasn't for the fear of being asked by the official where these treasures come from, if it wasn't for the fear of being hunted down by my enemies, I would have pawned everything a long time ago, and then went to buy beautiful men." Xixi turned her neck before returning Come to think of it, "That's right, I'm not the shopkeeper of the pawn shop."

She stood up while muttering, but found that the foot that was stuck in the broken wood just now seemed to be injured. She rubbed and rubbed it, and it took a long time to recover. Why is this cellar so bright?

She searched and found that it was a box that was glowing.Xu Shi fell from a high place just now and smashed it half open. When he opened it, a night pearl was shining brightly.

"Baby..." She couldn't help swallowing, stretched out her hand to take it, held back, and shook her head, "No, Yun Xixi, you are not this kind of person, you can't even take anything here, why do you want to touch it? A second panda?"

She shook her head again and again, and when she realized that her palm was slightly cold, she opened her eyes and saw that Ye Mingzhu was already tightly grasped by her hand.She suddenly felt pain: "No..."

But since I took it all, then... I took it.

Quickly convincing herself, she rolled her eyes and looked at the Ye Mingzhu over and over again. The place was dark and there was no light, which revealed the value of the Ye Ming Pearl.

It is as bright as the sky and the moon, and what it emits is not silver light, but real white light, illuminating the room brightly.

She stared at it obsessively for a while, then took the box, and prepared to go up with the light, and put the box back in the daytime tomorrow.

Carrying the box back to the house, Xixi sat on the bed and applied medicine to the swollen big bag on the back of her head.People just can't touch the bed, and when they touch the bed, they feel sleepy. She yawned and planned to sleep.She reached out to put the Ye Mingzhu back into the box, but the lid seemed to be broken and couldn't close no matter what.

"I really want to sell you for money to eat and drink spicy food." Xixi fiddled with it, and after a closer look, she realized that the engravings on the box were really exquisite.

The box is made of rosewood, and the surface of the box is a blooming lotus flower. There are four crossbars extending to four corners, and each corner has a small lotus flower.Holding it in your hand, it's like watching four small flowers holding each other.Rosewood is a high-quality wood, but it is also hard and difficult to carve, but the details of this small flower are carved flawlessly, not to mention that the bottom is still hollowed out, and the box is divided into two layers.The box alone is worth a fortune.

But when it broke a little bit, Xixi felt distressed.

Even if you can't sell Ye Mingzhu blatantly, you should have no problem selling this box.She didn't feel sleepy at all, she lay on the bed and concentrated on fiddling with the box, and fiddled with it, but the box became even more broken.

If it was said that it could sell for 20 taels just now, it can only be sold for [-] taels now.

Xixi was so annoyed that she dropped the box: "Sleep!"

"Pong!"

The box was slammed to the ground with a dull sound, and it shattered even more.Xixi got out of bed and wanted to turn off the lights. She passed by the box and took a look. She had already looked away, but was attracted back.She stepped back and squatted aside, only to see that there was another layer at the bottom of the box.She picked it up and shook it, and a note with wide fingers floated down.

She picked it up and saw that the handwriting on the note was beautiful, and she could tell that it was written by a woman.

"On the top of the willow on the moon, after the evening of the appointment. On April [-], Yulang keeps the agreement and will be a friend for the rest of his life; Yulang breaks the agreement and will be an enemy for the rest of his life! ——February [-]nd, the tenth year of Qingfeng, Lanlan characters."

"The tenth year of Qingfeng..." Xixi calculated for a long time before finally calculating the year, a full 60 years ago...

She held the box for a while, and looked through the box several times before she vaguely guessed something.

Sixty years ago, a girl named Lan Lan sent a message to her lover in February, asking him to meet in April.But there should be obstacles between the two, so she hid the note in Ye Mingzhu's box and sent it in the name of sending treasures.

In the end, I never expected that the Ye Mingzhu was so precious that it was stolen by Miao Shou on the way...

Xixi caresses the forehead, grandpa, you really got into trouble this time.

If the couple hadn't seen each other back then, wouldn't they have hated each other for 60 years?Na Lanlan thought it was her lover who betrayed her.

Xixi sat cross-legged on the ground and looked at it for a while. The paper had turned yellow due to age, but the content on it seemed like yesterday.

It has been 60 years, and this pair of lovers may not be alive anymore.

Xixi frowned, what if they are still alive?But what if they still hate each other?
She rested her chin in a daze, but she had no place to live and no real name, and there was a huge crowd, where could she find them and resolve their grievances?
Xixi sighed, Grandpa, you really gave me a big problem.

Before Xixi woke up in the morning, she was awakened by earth-shattering shouts outside the door.She pricked up her ears to listen, and it was Fat Auntie's pig-killing cry again.

She turned over and wanted to continue sleeping, but after a while, she heard the door being knocked hard, as if it was about to break her door.She hurriedly got up and dressed and went outside to have a look. As soon as she opened a door, she saw a fat hand slapping her.Fortunately, she quickly dodged it. Looking at the huge monster in front of the door, she immediately smiled apologetically, "Oh, auntie, why are you here so early in the morning?"

The fat aunt panted like a cow: "Yun Xixi, I really didn't realize that you are this kind of person."

Xixi pretended not to know and asked, "What kind of person?"

Fat Aunt pointed at her nose and said, "You say one thing and do another, you are an insidious villain who secretly takes revenge on others!"

"What?" Xixi's back was in a cold sweat, maybe she found out about the mouse release last night.No, Aunt Fat is not such a bright-minded person.And she was really going to find out, she had broken her door in the middle of the night, so she had to wait until now.

The fat aunt grabbed her out, almost brought her to the door, and pointed angrily: "Look, you did a good job!"

Xixi stared at her door with wide-eyed eyes, and her heart suddenly blossomed with joy.

There are piles of rubbish in front of the fat aunt's door, half the height of the door, like a mountain of rubbish.

Xixi showed sympathy: "Which guy did it, so unscrupulous."

"Yun Xixi!" Aunt Fat roared angrily, "You still don't admit that you did it."

"I'm wronged, auntie. If I had such a cruel heart, I wouldn't be called Yun Xixi. The neighbors in the neighborhood know that you are the only one who bullies me, and there is no chance for me to bully you. And if I really want to fight back, I don't have to wait until now." Now."

Xixi looked aggrieved and pitiful, she was a beauty in the first place, but now that the pear blossoms were raining, it was even more distressing.The onlookers talked a lot, accusing Fat Aunt of bullying again.The fat aunt also felt that she was wrong without any evidence, so she let out a heavy snort and left.

The troublemaker left, and everyone dispersed immediately.Xixi looked around, it was still early, and there was no one on the whole street.She looked towards the opposite roof again, only to see a round of rising sun.

Back in the house, the rosewood box had been overturned, and the beads and notes rolled out again. Looking at the marks around, it was probably kicked by her in the middle of the night.

Xixi picked up the box, played with Ye Mingzhu, read the note for a long time, and repeated the words on it:
"On the top of the willow on the moon, after the evening of the appointment. On April [-], Yulang keeps the agreement and will be a friend for the rest of his life; Yulang breaks the agreement and will be an enemy for the rest of his life! ——February [-]nd, the tenth year of Qingfeng, Lanlan characters."

"I've been enemies forever..." Xixi breathed out, and lay down with a note in her hand, "It's been 60 years, who knows if they're still here...but what if they are..."

If the great-grandfather hadn't stolen the box back then, maybe there would be an extra couple of gods and immortals in the world.But it just happened to be such a coincidence, so next time I have to pass a small note, and I must not put valuable things.

Xixi lay down for a while, and then read the note of only fifty characters a few times.She sat up slowly, and said to herself, "How about... go find them?"

Xixi, with a hot head, made up her mind and started to pack her things. After packing, she went to the hut where the spirit tablets were enshrined, and offered incense to the ancestors.

"Ancestors of the Yun family, Xixi is going on a long journey, you must bless me for my safe return, otherwise no one will burn incense and burn money for you." Xixi turned to Grandpa's tablet and bowed three times with incense, " Great-grandfather, my great-granddaughter has gone out to accumulate merit for you, so don’t cause trouble in the next life.”

After burning the incense, Xixi burned all the paper money in a basket, then closed the door, tied the bundle around her body, and left through the back door.

She went out from the alley, avoided the familiar neighbors, and walked towards the gate of the town.Halfway, she turned left again and entered a woodcarving shop.

When she entered the door, she saw an old man with a white beard holding a big log and examining it carefully, as if he didn't know that someone had come in.

Xixi squatted in front of the log, stretched out her hand and shook it under his eyes, and the old man raised his head.She smiled and said: "Mr., I know that your carving skills are the best in Changle Town, and I want to ask you something."

It's always nice to be praised, especially early in the morning.The old man said, "Young lady, ask."

Xixi took out the rosewood box and put it on top of the wood: "Please show me this box."

Before he picked it up, the old man showed surprise in his eyes: "This carving skill is really not easy!" He picked it up and looked at it carefully, looking inside and out several times, sometimes commenting, sometimes exclaiming, "This rosewood is very hard. , so it is difficult to carve, but this craftsmanship is really exquisite, I can't tell who it is from, but I can guess one or two, it is the handwriting of the Southern School Shao."

"Southern Shao family?"

The old man nodded: "Shao was originally the surname of a craftsman with superb skills and unique style. Later, he recruited many apprentices, and the peaches and plums spread all over the world. They gradually became a school and were passed down from generation to generation. Because most of them lived in the south, the patriarch's surname was Shao, so they adopted It's called the Southern School of Shao."

Xixi suddenly said: "If there are many apprentices, it means that there are all directions. It is difficult to find out who carved it?"

"It's really difficult, but the experts in the Southern School of Shao's are basically in the Xuanji Pavilion, go there to inquire, maybe you can ask something. And I see that this box is made by everyone, it must be custom-made, not Store the common things sold in the store. But it is thousands of miles away from here." The old man asked kindly, "What is the little girl doing?"

Xixi smiled: "Look for an old friend. Thank you, grandpa."

"You're welcome, but be careful all the way."

Xixi's heart warmed, and after saying goodbye to him, she came out of the store, continued to walk towards the gate of the town, walked out of the gate quickly, and entered a jade shop.

The shopkeeper was thin and had two mustaches. He was leaning on the cabinet and fiddled with the abacus. When he heard someone coming in, he immediately looked and saw a girl carrying a burden. He looked at her clothes and twitched the corners of his mouth slightly. He smiled sarcastically and didn't bother to pay attention.

Xixi blinked, walked to the counter, took out Ye Mingzhu, and put it on the counter: "Shopkeeper, I want to save some money, and I want to sell it at a cheap price."

sell cheap?The shopkeeper's eyes brightened immediately, he rubbed his hands together and greeted him with a smile: "It's easy to say, easy to say."

(End of this chapter)