Chapter 111: The Abandoned Son of Zimen Mansion (2)
The market at the foot of the mountain in Baidicheng was crowded and lively. There were particularly many people on the street buying today. It was said that merchants from the Western Regions came to the city today. Thanks to the emperor's permission, they were given special permission to trade at the foot of the mountain.
This is a very rare exception. Special market days like this in Baidi City are not frequent. There are a few fixed days every month that are specially opened to several surrounding big cities in order to pay tribute and trade the goods of this isolated mountain city.
The needed supplies. Extra special cases like today's are no different than a festival. They are very new to the people of the mountain city, so many people rushed around early in the morning just to see what the group of Western Region merchants could bring.
What novel and weird goods.
The fireworks street at the foot of the mountain is also lucky enough to be blessed with a lot of breakfast stalls and food shops. Business is booming. Needless to say, rich people have already become accustomed to eating out. Even poor people are still thinking about it today even if they have no money.
Most people in the market are like this when they buy those expensive goods and take their children to try some meat and breakfast to have a satisfying meal. As long as they are satisfied with their eyes and satisfied with their taste, even if they go back empty-handed in the end, as long as they feel comfortable in their hearts,
There is also a sense of pride in returning home with a full load.
Guan Shanyue sat quietly next to the bun shop, holding a bun in her hand and slowly nibbling on it. The owner of the bun shop next to him was already very busy, and even in his busy schedule, he did not forget to take care of this little customer who often came here.
He pulled out a bench for her to sit on. The girl in the crowd with green clothes and ponytails was carrying a long knife as high as a person, with the invisible head wrapped in a leather knife cloth, standing upright behind her.
, just leaning on it next to the bun shop, like a flagpole for the boss.
The owner of the steamed bun shop finally saw off a group of customers. Looking at the situation, he was afraid that he would close the stall early today. While wiping his sweat, he glanced at the ponytail girl not far away. She had already eaten all the steamed buns. The girl seemed to
He clapped his hands with some unfinished thoughts, and the boss asked kindly: "Is there another young guest?"
The girl shook her head. Although she was indeed not full, she still politely declined the boss's offer. She lowered her head and looked at her toes. She was waiting for someone. The other party asked her to wait here. She was used to arriving early and came as soon as dawn.
Here, it happened that the boss was setting up his stall. The boss of the steamed stuffed bun shop thought that this loyal customer came here for the first basket of steamed buns, and was very happy. However, Guan Shanyue didn't know about Yu Shuheng's morning affair.
, seeing that even the bun shop was about to close its stall, the girl just thought that Yu Shuheng had something to do and was delayed.
The boss mistakenly thought that the girl didn't have enough money and was reluctant to order more. So he softened his heart and took out two more buns from the bun drawer and stuffed them into the girl's hands. He said generously: "It's okay, I will close the stall soon.
Mr. Sir, you are also a regular customer. If you don’t have money, please take it on credit. Just pay together when you come next time. The most important thing is that we have enough to eat."
Although this little regular customer has eaten no less than five big buns from the time he set up the stall to now, Guan Shanyue's fighting ability has already impressed the boss from the first time he came back here.
The six-year-old girl was impressed by the terrifying fighting prowess. Thinking of the long knife behind Guan Shanyue's back, the boss tried to convince himself that it was normal for martial arts practitioners to have a large appetite.
Guan Shanyue, who was stuffed with buns, was in a panic. When the boss saw this, his face turned serious and he said seriously: "Sir, don't be polite to me. If you can't do it, just treat it as my treat. You have a big appetite."
It’s not like I don’t know Zhang!”
When the ponytail girl heard this, her ears turned slightly red, and she finally reluctantly accepted the two buns.
"Thank you, boss." The girl's tall ponytail swayed and her voice was not loud. In fact, she wanted to wait for Yu Shuheng to come before eating. She never thought that the boss would mistakenly think that she had no money on her. The boss of the bun shop did not hear it at all.
The girl thanked her, and the business came again. She had already run back to the stall to do business.
A figure shook his eyes, and the man's bell-like voice sounded: "Hey, Xiao Yue'er has arrived, you didn't wait long!" Yu Shuheng didn't wait for her to answer, then took away the two buns in the girl's hands and handed them aside.
middle-aged man.
The flow was smooth and there was nothing unfamiliar at all. While General Yu was chewing on the bun, he also said hello to the owner of the bun shop next to him: "Boss! Are there any more buns? Here are ten more!"
"Okay! The last drawer is almost sold out. Boss Yu, you came at the right time." Yu Shuheng, who has been familiar with the bun shop owner for a long time, did not reveal his true identity when asked what he did.
, the cunning tall man casually mentioned that he was a jade merchant from the southwest, and from then on the bun shop owner began to change his name to Yu Shuheng as Boss Yu.
"General, do you have any mission?" Guan Shanyue stood up and whispered. Although Yu Shuheng said many times that you can call him Uncle Yu at the foot of the mountain, it was still difficult for the girl who was used to the relationship between superiors and subordinates to speak.
Yu Shuheng shook his head slightly and said with a smile: "What? I've been too free recently and want to sharpen my knife?"
Guan Shanyue nodded slightly. After the last battle in Wenxing Lane, Yuchai obeyed Yu Shuheng's order and immediately calmed down, and began to enter a long latency period in the city. This made the ponytail girl who was aroused a little wary.
She was still unfinished. If there was still a chance, she would definitely have a good meeting with the two owl snows that finally escaped that day.
Yu Shuheng did not answer directly. Instead, he looked at the girl's injured left arm, stretched out his hand to pinch the wound that was originally smoothly broken, and asked: "Is the injury almost healed?"
The girl nodded without hesitation, and even extended her left hand to show her strength. The strong muscles under the green outfit were beautiful and very healthy. "It's no problem at all, General. I have a strong body and a broken arm is nothing to worry about."
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"Very good, very good." Yu Shuheng looked at the most proud Yuchai general. Although the girl is still young, her talent as a martial artist is high and her physical fitness is terrifying. She is a rare genius in the southwest that has not been seen in a century. This is
He took her out once and for all, Guan Shanyue acted quickly and efficiently and solved a lot of troubles for him.
"Xiao Yue'er, this is not a battlefield, and there are no frequent assassinations and assassinations every day, but this Baidi City is no safer than when we were in the southwest," Yu Shuheng lowered his voice and motioned for the girl to turn around and look at the layer behind her.
The mountain city that was built up to the clouds said slowly in a voice that only two people could hear: "There are many enemies stronger than you here. You can be a hunter or a prey, and depending on your identity,
It’s about how long you can endure it.”
Yu Shuheng bent down slightly and looked at the majestic mountain with the girl. Pavilions and pavilions were crowded one by one. Among the thousands of buildings, the golden emperor's seat on the top of the mountain was still eye-catching.
In the battle at Wenxing Lane, it seemed that Bai Chi was the first one who couldn't help but break the rules and assassinate him. In fact, Yu Shuheng knew very well that the white fox still calmly had a backup plan. At such a critical moment of the battle between Yu and Bai, Bai Chi
Chi suddenly pointed his finger at the Minister of Rites behind him for no reason. Yu Shuheng, a bad chess player who was not good at playing chess, naturally couldn't figure it out. Could it be that as Shi Ming said, the head of the Bai family was like this?
Behind everything you do, you just want this Baidi City to be more chaotic?
A sudden cough sounded from behind. The two of them, immersed in their thoughts, turned around and saw Wen Jiu clearing her throat in embarrassment. The Minister of Rites felt that he was an outsider at the moment. After waiting for a long time, the two of them were whispering and couldn't sit still.
Only then did he stand up.
Seeing the baffled look on the ponytail girl's face, Wen Jiu smiled and said hello: "Long time no see, little girl, can you remember me?"
Guan Shanyue was silent for a long time, and finally shook his head and asked the general beside him for help: "General, who is this lord?"
Wen Jiu's heart was full of energy at the moment. Even though he had prepared several excuses, he didn't expect that the girl couldn't even remember who he was. He was the hostage protector with an important task at the time. Could it be that from the beginning, this knife-backing man had no idea who he was?
The girl didn't remember his face clearly? When thinking of this hypothesis, Wen Jiu suddenly felt that she had walked away from the door of hell again.
But the Minister of Etiquette, who has been in the officialdom for a long time, still said shamelessly and sincerely: "Maybe the little girl is too forgetful. I am an important official you protected in Wenxing Lane not long ago. I finally waited for the storm to pass. Today,
I also especially want to express my gratitude to the girl."
Guan Shanyue suddenly realized, and for a moment he said subconsciously: "Oh, it's you, you're not dead!"
Wen Jiu felt a mouthful of old blood pooling in her heart when she heard this. She forgot how to answer for a moment and looked at Yu Shuheng with a pale face.
The tall general laughed happily, patted the ponytail girl on the head with a pair of rough hands, and pretended to educate the junior in the family: "Xiao Yue'er, why are you talking! Isn't this a good thing for Mr. Wen!"
The educated girl secretly tilted her head to avoid the big hand and exclaimed in disappointment: "Congratulations to Mr. Wen for escaping. I hope everything is fine."
That expression looked more like she was pitying why the middle-aged man was not completely dead. Wen Jiu was so shocked that she mistakenly thought that the pony-tailed girl was the assassin sent by Bai Chi.
This is no wonder Guan Shanyue, she really didn't care about this. After all, in the second half of the fight that day, both sides became angry. As for the instructions to protect the dragon and carp of the Ministry of Etiquette, the red-eyed girl with a rising competitive spirit was already killed.
Where did he care? So much so that after the war, Guan Shanyue hurriedly evacuated and did not return to the old house to confirm whether Wen Jiu was dead or alive.
Thinking of this, Guan Shanyue suddenly remembered the young man in white who was carrying a strange bone knife. When he was fighting with Xiao Xue, that young man was in Wen Jiu's house, and he didn't even take action?
The pony-tailed girl suddenly asked Wen Jiu a strange question: "Master Wen, what happened to the boy in white who assassinated you after the war that day?"
Wen Jiu was a little frightened when she thought of the young man in white who wielded the knife. Even Xiao Xue who appeared behind him had never given him a sense of danger so close to death.
"He...eh? I really don't remember. When you guys hit me on the roof, little girl, I still remember he was in front of the hall. When did he disappear...I really don't remember him."
Guan Shanyue felt a little regretful, not that she was worried that the other party would come back, but that she could have easily crushed the defeated enemy to death with one hand, but in the end she just left the trouble in the future. Such a mistake was really inappropriate.
When Wen Jiu saw that she had said everything, she bowed solemnly and said: "Little girl, although I don't know what to call you yet, I am a scholar who knows a little about military rules. If you can, don't ask. I Wen Jiu
Jiu still wants to thank the girl for saving her life, and thank her for her generous help. Mr. Wen's family is not well-off, and he doesn't have a thank you gift that he can give. He has little contact with the medicine and elixir of you practitioners. But I
Mr. Wen promised that as long as there is a need for Wen Jiu in the future, as long as it is outside the power of the Minister of Rites, Mr. Wen will not hesitate to do so."
Guan Shanyue still said calmly: "No need to be polite, Lord Wen. I am also acting on the orders of the general. If you want to thank me, please entrust this favor to the general. Besides, apart from your rights as the Minister of Rites, I really can't think of anything worthy of us."
Something to take advantage of.”
The calm words revealed a very powerful lethality. Wen Jiu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said repeatedly with a guilty conscience. Guan Shanyue was right. He was a weak scholar and his family was not wealthy.
, if others don’t want your rights, what else do they want?
But the man still sticks to his bottom line. Only on this point, he cannot give in, and only on this point, is what he can do well as a scholar.
"Hey, don't say that!" Yu Shuheng, who had unknowingly finished the buns, came over and said with a malicious smile: "Xiao Yue'er, this is because you don't understand the world. Master Wen only said that he was the Ministry of Rites.
Apart from the power of the Minister of Rites, there is no other position mentioned. How could someone like Mr. Wen stay in the position of the Minister of Rites for the rest of his life?"
Guan Shanyue understood the idea and immediately understood, not giving Wen Jiu the possibility of regretting it and said: "Then I have thanked Mr. Wen. My surname is Guan. If I come to you for help in the future, please don't deny it."
Wen Jiu suddenly felt that his body was weak, and his red heart was showing signs of breaking. He had been subjected to the calculations of his superiors and subordinates in the morning market. At this moment, he just wanted to go back to the house and lie down, oh no.
, I have to work in the Ministry of Etiquette later, so I can’t even steal my free time.
Guan Shanyue didn't do any ink, turned around and confirmed to Yu Shuheng again: "General, why did you call me out today?"
While picking his teeth, Yu Shuheng said nonchalantly: "It's nothing, just to see how our jade dragon head is recovering. After all, it is a knife that may be unsheathed at any time. We must always pay attention to maintaining its sharpness."
Guan Shanyue was speechless, then nodded and said: "I understand, General. If there is nothing important, I will leave first."
As she spoke, the girl turned and walked towards the nearest alley. The girl who acted like the wind always acted vigorously and resolutely, and rarely exchanged polite greetings. Before leaving, the girl even asked Yu Shuheng to put her two buns
The money was settled, after all, it ended up in Yu Shuheng's stomach. In this regard, Guan Shanyue could distinguish between public and private matters.
"With such a straightforward temperament, which young man will like him in the future?" Yu Shuheng felt distressed and dug into his pocket to pay the bill.
The mountain roads are winding and winding, as are the mountain roads lined with rows of lanes. After walking around for a long time in the narrow lanes that could only accommodate one and a half people, Guan Shanyue finally had to admit that she was lost.