In the gambling house, Zhang Baogu, who was having fun, suddenly seemed to be frozen. He turned around and stared at the back door of the gambling house as motionless as a wooden sculpture.
I saw a Vincentian gentleman appearing there at some point, dressed in a white shirt that looked better than the snow. He was stepping over the threshold of the back door, making the dark room feel much brighter than before.
After a moment of silence in the gambling house, there was loud shouting again, but Zhang Baogu turned a deaf ear to it and just stared at the young man in white.
But I saw that the man was wearing a plain white gown, with a Xiaoyao scarf on his head and two silk ribbons hanging freely in the wind.
An emerald green jade gourd hangs on the white silk ribbon around his waist, a black python skin scabbard is carried behind his back, and a yellowed bamboo tube is held in his hand.
There was an inexplicable flower in front of Zhang Baogu's eyes, and it felt as if the surrounding air was flowing and shaking like water waves. In just one breath, the man actually walked from the door to the front.
"Zhang Baogu?"
Zhang Baogu looked at the gentle and jade-like gentleman in front of him and asked himself, and nodded subconsciously.
"You have a letter here. Your uncle from Qianjiang Fucheng asked me to carry it with you."
"Ah...ah? Uncle's letter?"
Zhang Baugumu blankly took the yellowed bamboo tube, looked down at the three small characters "Qianjiang Zhang" etched on the bottom of the tube, and immediately recognized that this was indeed from his uncle's house in Qianjiang Fucheng.
Ru woke up from a dream and hurriedly saluted:
"It is indeed my uncle's bamboo tube. Could you please follow me to a quiet place to talk?"
After Zhang Baogu finished speaking, he bowed to the end. Even until now, he had not noticed that the gamblers around him were still shouting and drinking, turning a blind eye to this extraordinary young man who was so close.
After he finished speaking, he couldn't help but raise his eyes to peek at the other person, because he subconsciously felt that the person in front of him must not be neglected.
So he skillfully swept less than half of the broken silver left on the table into his arms.
The gamblers next to him were even more strange, as if they had completely forgotten about Zhang Baogu, the big fat sheep, and allowed him to roll up the money and put it into his arms without anyone stopping him.
Zhang Baogu was about to lead Cheng Yu out to find a convenient place to talk, but when he saw Cheng Yu standing there without moving, he smiled and said to him:
"If I were you, I wouldn't go out the front door."
Zhang Baogu was stunned when he heard this, and then remembered that shopkeeper Song's servants were watching outside the door, so he chuckled and said:
"Sir, you are worrying too much, but there is no harm in leaving."
Seeing that Cheng Yu had not moved yet and looked at him with a meaningful smile, Zhang Baogu felt guilty for some reason, but he still defended:
"Don't pay attention to the boy outside, you might as well..."
Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, he was unexpectedly kicked from the side. Zhang Baogu fell to the ground. When he looked back, he didn't recognize who the other person was at first glance.
The visitor stomped over Zhang Baogu with great force. He was panting heavily and was covered in injuries. He pointed at Zhang Baogu and scolded him angrily.
As soon as he opened his mouth, he didn't know whether it was because there was blood in his mouth or because his tongue was swollen and his lip was broken. In short, it was unclear. Zhang Baogu just heard it sounded familiar, but couldn't remember who it was for a moment.
When the newcomer saw Zhang Baogu, he was stunned and grabbed him by the skirt of his clothes. He didn't care about the wounds all over his body and dragged him to the ground, still cursing in his mouth.
The two of them were fighting and cursing here, but it did not affect the interest of the gamblers nearby to make money. It was as if they were in two different worlds.
Cheng Yu shook his head slightly when he saw this. Although it was effortless for him to set up this blinding barrier, at this moment, he was in this dark gambling house, and the sky was full of excitement, plus there were a dozen men mixed in
It smells bad together and is ultimately not a place to talk.
He leaned down and took one hand with each other, separated the two people on the ground, lifted them up respectively, stepped over the threshold of the back door in a few steps, and placed them on the ground in the backyard.
Behind him, the gambling house became quiet again, and it resumed after a few breaths.
In the courtyard here, the man who was full of wounds struggled to get up. He first gave Cheng Yu a deep salute, and then grabbed Zhang Baogu's lapel again. He wanted to raise his hand and punch, but he felt pain all over his body, so he had to curse:
"Straight bitch, you stole the treasure from the palace, and you actually dare to come to me to sell it!"
"Stealing? It's not stealing, that's... I picked it up. If I picked it up, can it be considered stealing?"
Zhang Baogu replied subconsciously, and suddenly his whole body was trembling. He looked at the man opposite him carefully and finally recognized him as Ge Sange who had just parted at noon.
"Ge... Third brother? How did you end up like this?"
"Zhang Fugu! Straight bitch!"
Brother Ge San, who had already been broken, struggled to stretch his waist and approached Zhang Baogu. He weakly grabbed the man's clothes and cursed in a hissing voice:
"You...you stole the treasure from the palace, and you actually dared to come to me to sell it! It made me...ahem..."
"Snapped!"
Zhang Baogu knocked Ge Sange's hand off, causing him to fall to the ground and keep making ouch sounds.
Zhang Baogu wiped the sweat from his forehead, raised his head and glanced at Cheng Yu, who was wearing white clothes beside him, squatted down to support Ge Sange, and asked:
"Third brother, could it be that... it's Shopkeeper Song."
After Brother Ge San heard the words shopkeeper Song, he howled loudly and cursed:
"Shopkeeper Song! Old dog Song! I...I also brought it upon myself! I brought it upon myself...ah wuwu!"
Ge Sange sobbed while telling the whole story.
When it was said that Song Laogou led his men away, leaving only a boy to guard him, but the boy was not a good man. Seeing that there was no one around, he first plundered the remaining money from him and did not give up.
, and continued to torture and interrogate him about his family background.
He was about to be beaten to death, but luckily he met the young man in white next to him, knocked him out, and rescued him.
When he was freed from the ropes, perhaps the rope had been tied for too long, and he suddenly broke free and felt blood rushing upwards. His feet went soft, his vision went dark, and he fell unconscious.
When I woke up again, I was in the backyard of this gambling house. I happened to see Zhang Baogu in the house. I was so angry that I stumbled into the house to seek bad luck for Zhang Baogu.
Ge Sange finished speaking in a hurry, raised his hands and sang to Cheng Yu, and after thanking him again, he was about to leave in a hurry, but he was grabbed by Zhang Baogu behind him and asked:
"Third brother, you...you are not playing tricks with that shopkeeper Song to tease me...are the injuries on your body real or fake?"
After saying that, he was going to take off the other person's clothes to see the injuries underneath, but Cheng Yu who was next to him stopped him in a funny and angry way.
Ge Sange wanted to yell when he saw this, but because of the trauma on his body, he was too lazy to get angry, so he could only sneer and said:
"Zhang Fugu, yes, I am indeed acting with Shopkeeper Song, just to let you lower the price. You go out now. Maybe you will meet Shopkeeper Song. Go and ask him in person, will he invite you again?
Have a nice cup of tea."
After Ge Sange finished speaking, he ignored Zhang Baogu, turned around and bowed to Cheng Yuzuo:
"Mr. Ge San will never forget his life-saving grace. I just ask him to tell me his name. In the future, Ge San will make an incense tablet for him and recite it endlessly every day."
Cheng Yu smiled and waved his hands repeatedly, while Zhang Baogu scratched his head, bowed to Cheng Yu and said, "Sir, please wait a moment," then turned around and ran back to the gambling house.
Cheng Yu looked back at Zhang Baogu's back, knowing that the other party still had doubts in his heart, so he shook his head and smiled, while silently muttering something.
Zhang Baogu trotted all the way, only heading towards the front door, and didn't notice that the gambling house became quiet again for no reason.
With his heart pounding, he went straight to a window and peeked out, only to see that Shopkeeper Song had arrived at the tea house across the street.
Behind him were the steward and another boy, who were whispering to each other and looking towards the casino from time to time.
Zhang Baogu saw that there was a bit of ferocity in the other person's eyes, which was different from the lunch table. At this time, he believed Ge Sange's words to the ninety-nine points and hurriedly ran back to the backyard.
As soon as he came to Cheng Yu and Ge Sange, he heard someone shouting from the gambling shop behind him:
"Shopkeeper, why is it so strange that your place is turning on and off today?"
"That's it, is it time to put more oil in the lamp? Don't be so petty as the shopkeeper."
"Fuck you! I just filled up the oil this morning."
"The shopkeeper, just now, there was some confusion..."
"Maybe... it's going to rain outside, and there's lightning in the sky?"
"..."
Zhang Baogu in the backyard ignored the noise of the idlers and gasped:
"Third brother, Zhang Baogu has caused trouble for you, but it was you who really found Shopkeeper Song. Logically speaking, you cannot blame me for being in this situation. You and I will say goodbye today. We owe nothing to each other. We will see you later.
stop."
"Nonsence!"
Zhang Baogu was about to stand up and leave, but Ge Sange spat again:
"Who will have a date with you? I got into such trouble for nothing just to help you sell the stolen goods. I don't think I can stay here. Fortunately, I am alone and full, and the whole family is not hungry. So I moved to another place overnight to join my uncle. You
I will go my own way from now on, no need to see each other again!"
After speaking, Cheng Yu said again:
"This gentleman is very righteous. Since he doesn't want to tell me his name, if he encounters me Ge San in the future, he will try his best to repay me."
Cheng Yu returned the greeting and saw Ge Sange limping out of the back door and walking away along the alley wall with great pain.
At this time, Cheng Yu and Zhang Baogu were the only two people left in the courtyard. Zhang Baogu took out a piece of broken silver from his arms, worth about five taels, and handed it to Cheng Yu:
"Mr. Thank you for sending this letter. This is a small amount of travel expenses. Please don't think it's too small."
When Cheng Yu saw this, he waved his hand and said with a smile:
"My uncle has already given me some money. Besides, I am not in a hurry to return to Qianjiang Fucheng. I still want to spend some time in the capital, so this travel fee is not necessary."
Zhang Baogu glanced at Cheng Yu's clothes and guessed that the other party must have some background and didn't care about the small amount of money, so he put the broken silver back into his clothes.
"Shopkeeper! I was looking for Zhang Baogu and Zhang Yuanwai. I just saw him come in. Why is he missing now?"
As soon as Zhang Baogu put the broken silver in, he heard a familiar voice of inquiry coming from the gambling house behind him.
Shopkeeper Song!
He hurriedly looked back and saw that it was shopkeeper Song who led three men into the gambling house and was asking the shopkeeper.
"Zhang Fugu, isn't it right there...eh? You were playing at that table just now, why did he disappear?"
Shopkeeper Song turned around and saw that there was no one he was looking for in front of the table pointed to by the other party. After looking around again, he suddenly saw the open back door and the courtyard door outside was also open. He immediately stamped his feet, "Wow!"
Call out.
It didn't matter what he called, Zhang Baogu, who was standing in the middle of the courtyard, shivered intuitively, twisted his body like a mouse before a cat, and ran towards the courtyard door.
"thump!"
"Crash!"
Already panicking, he stumbled over the threshold and fell almost a foot away. The scattered silver in his arms splashed all over the ground like mercury.
Zhang Baogu was desperate to escape at this time. He neither cared about the broken silver on the ground nor Cheng Yu who was calling him from behind. He got up with a "chirp" and ran westward along the alley. After two or three breaths, he turned around and hid.
After entering a fork in the road, he disappeared.
Its speed was so fast that even Cheng Yu couldn't help but sigh:
This guy really has a good body.
Cheng Yu casually picked up the bamboo tube that fell on the ground and smiled helplessly. He was here to deliver the letter, but he didn't expect to have to deliver it twice.
He carried the bamboo tube to the door of the backyard, looked at the broken silver scattered on the ground, took out the Five Elements Blunt Spirit Pouch he took from Jia Fei, first put the bamboo tube into it, and then picked up the silver pieces on the ground one by one.
"Master! That guy must have escaped through the back door. I've been watching outside. Not even a sparrow, let alone a human being, has ever come out of the front door."
The boy who was in charge of keeping an eye on the outside saw Shopkeeper Song looking unhappy, so he cautiously approached him and whispered.
Shopkeeper Song snorted coldly and rushed to the courtyard with three of his men. Because the backyard was not big, the four of them did not stay in the courtyard for long. They rushed out of the courtyard and looked around for a while, not knowing which direction to turn to.
Chase in the direction.
"Sir, Ge San said that this guy has always loved gambling, but why did he suddenly leave at this juncture and go through the back door instead of the front door? Did someone tip him off? Or..."
After the steward asked the question, he and Shopkeeper Song turned to look at the boy who was following him.
"Or are you staring too closely and being discovered?"
Shopkeeper Song grabbed the boy by the collar and asked fiercely.
The boy was so frightened that he fell to his knees with a thud:
"Master Mingjian, I didn't follow him once or twice. I always praised him for his cleverness before. Just now, he followed that man from a distance all the way. Even after he entered the gambling house, I didn't dare to stay too far away.
It’s definitely not a small mistake to just blend in with the crowd opposite and watch from a distance!”
"Master, we are not pursuing this right now. Let's find that guy first and then talk about it. I remember Ge San said that this guy lives in the center of a village next to the east of the town. There are two tile-roofed houses in the courtyard.
The only thing about the crooked locust tree is that there are only two wooden door panels in his yard in the surrounding area, which is very easy to find."
"Useless trash! Go to the ferry to pick up Liu Zi and Wu Du. If you go on business again, your family of five will be skinned! You two follow me!"
Seeing that there were some naughty idlers in the gambling hall who came out to watch the fun, shopkeeper Song could only curse a few words in a low voice. The four of them got into the alley one after another and hurried eastward, but they went in the opposite direction from where Zhang Baogu fled.
No one among them saw Cheng Yu or the scattered silver on the ground.
Only at the end, the little boy who was watching stepped on a piece of broken silver. When he looked back, he saw that the ground was flat.
I was in a hurry and didn't think much about it. I just muttered and left in a hurry.
Cheng Yu stretched out his hand to pick up the half-broken piece of silver that had been trampled into the soil, but unexpectedly saw a milky-white dice lying quietly in the grass next to it.
