Let's say that Liu Xiaoqi and others met a group of green forest thieves in Huashan. The leader of the thieves was an old man with a shaved head. He asked Liu Mingyi's origins with a smile. Liu Xiaoqi did not hide anything and said bluntly: "She is my niece." Walking up to the child.
He touched her head.
The old man said "Oh" and looked at Uncle Yang: "I heard that this friend's accent is from the capital city, but he is actually in the same place as Yang Daxia?"
Liu Xiaoqi asked curiously: "Wouldn't it be nice to get along with Master Yang?"
The old man hurriedly said: "My friend has misunderstood. Yang Daxia is from Jiangxi. Now that Jiangxi has prosperous green forests, it is not surprising that friends from other places go to Jiangxi to make a living. However, in recent years, the reputation of rangers in the capital has also spread far and wide. Isn't it easy to do business in Beijing?
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Liu Xiaoqi said: "It was the easiest to do business in Beijing in the first two years. It has become a little more difficult recently, but it is still better than elsewhere. Jiangxi is not prosperous, but you can do business openly."
The old man wondered: "Can't it be done elsewhere?"
Liu Xiaoqi was surprised: "Is there any other place besides Jiangxi where the green forest business can be done openly? The Eagle Claw Sun doesn't care about anything else?"
The old man said "Oh," "That's right. Many things can be done cheaper in Jiangxi."
Yang Erbo said: "I can't control the people in Jiangxi, but I can't control them. Anyway, my brothers live in peace and don't cause much trouble."
The old man thought: "I haven't left Huashan for many years, so I don't know much about the market outside."
Liu Xiaoqi asked casually: "What do friends do?"
The old man said: "In my early years, I did pole-carrying and walked across the sea sand. In recent years, I have become too lazy. I don't go out much. I only occasionally cut darts in the mountains."
Liu Xiaoqi smiled and said: "I have also done pole picking. Now this business is the most profitable, and it only depends on people's faces. The old man has the ability and the manpower, so it is better to do two things for nothing than to cut darts on the mountain."
The old man clasped his fists: "Thank you!" He then looked at Liu Mingyi and smiled, "Why are you taking such a young child out to climb the mountain? How can she climb?"
Liu Mingyi said in a loud voice: "I crawl very fast!"
The old man smiled and said: "Are you climbing fast? Do you usually have mountains to climb in Beijing?"
Liu Mingyi said: "Inside Beijing, you can only climb trees and walls. When you leave Beijing, there are many mountains."
Liu Xiaoqi coughed and touched the top of her head: "You are as naughty as a wild boy!" He raised his head and said, "We are all brothers in the four seas. While the moon is still there, you can find another sheep, so be careful not to leave again.
Got the goods." Liu Mingyi took advantage of the situation and yawned, and Jia Gui also yawned.
The old man glanced at Liu Mingyi again and cupped his fists at Erbo Yang: "My brother is not very good at tricks and didn't recognize Yang Daxia. I hope you, sir, have more."
Uncle Yang looked at Jia Gui. Jia Gui hummed and stepped forward to untie the handcuffs. The man got up and returned to the old man. Uncle Yang said, "My friend, are you willing to say goodbye?"
The old man said: "It's not worth mentioning." He took out a bunch of copper coins from his arms and put them on the steps as compensation to the store owner. He whistled and led the people away on the moon. Seeing that he disappeared, Liu Mingyi clapped her hands and said, "Oh
Oh~~" he yelled. The shop owner had woken up early, so he dared to come out now. Dong Yu comforted him a few words, pointed at the copper coins and asked them to collect them.
Liu Xiaoqi took her niece's clothes by the collar and invited everyone to come to his room. She dipped her fingers in tea and wrote the pinyin of "Partition walls have ears" on the desk. Then she erased it and glared at Liu Mingyi and said, "Tell me, what's going on?"
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Liu Mingyi was confused: "Huh? What?"
Liu Xiaoqi hummed: "You are the one who brought these people here today. What did you say to the old woman selling candles and flowers in Bajing Palace?"
Liu Mingyi was still confused: "Huh? I don't remember! I just asked her how to tie those paper flowers and paper horses."
Dong Yu said from the side: "Two of the people who just came are Taoist priests, and the rest are not."
Liu Xiaoqi asked: "Where is the bald one?"
"No." Dong Yu said, "That man has always been a farmer, and being a thief is probably a part-time job."
Jia Gui asked: "Did Yi'er reveal her wealth in front of that old woman?"
Dong Yu said: "We didn't bring much money with us!"
Liu Xiaoqi said: "Let's test that old woman tomorrow."
Liu Mingyi said hurriedly: "Aren't we going to play somewhere else tomorrow? I don't want to climb here anymore."
Liu Xiaoqi glanced at her: "What on earth did you say to her? Do you really think that adults are all fools? You have been wrong since this morning."
Dong Yu said: "Yi'er, there's no need to pretend. That bald head is obviously trying to provoke you and try to trick you. The old woman in Bajing Palace has a good temperament. She must have been a beauty when she was young. I wonder if she is some kind of female thief who got into trouble with others and hid here.
Come."
Liu Mingyi blurted out: "No!"
"Oh? You know again?"
Liu Mingyi regretted her words as soon as she said them. She knew that she had exposed her secret. After waiting for a long time, seeing that the adults had no intention of letting her go, she could only mutter: "I... was helping her man deliver the message to her."
Liu Xiaoqi and Dong Yu all trembled: "What did you say?" "Who are you helping?!"
Liu Mingyi was startled and hesitated: "That old man..."
Liu Xiaoqi and Dong Yu looked at each other, and after a while they asked: "Who is her man?"
Liu Mingyi shook his head: "I don't know. An old man was imprisoned by the bandits in Jinggangshan. I heard he was imprisoned for many years."
Liu Xiaoqi took a breath, and after a while, she stabbed her finger hard: "Your master fostered you on someone else's mountain, and you ate their food and used their food. They even assigned two minions to look after you, and you actually helped
People send messages to their enemies?"
Liu Mingyi was stunned: "Enemy?"
"How can you be imprisoned for so many years if you are not an enemy?" Liu Xiaoqi said angrily, "Then what message did the old man ask you to spread?"
"It's not a big deal." Liu Mingyi looked at her uncle who didn't seem to be very angry, pouting cutely, "It means that anyway, he can't leave on his own, so he asked me to send a message to his wife and children, just saying that he is dead, so as not to miss him
." After a pause, "He didn't even tell me his name."
Liu Xiaoqi thought for a while: "I didn't even tell you my name. I just asked you to go to Huashan to find the old woman selling flowers and candles at the entrance of Chaoyang Peak Bajing Palace?" Liu Mingyi nodded.
Jia Gui couldn't help but say: "If there is more than one old woman selling flowers and candles at the entrance of Bajing Palace, should Yi'er tell every old woman, 'Your old man is dead, don't miss him anymore'?"
Liu Mingyi was stunned: "There is only a flower and candle seller there!"
Jia Gui clapped his hands and said: "It seems that the old man who was locked up knew that there was only one candle seller in the Eight Views Palace. At least two of the Taoist priests in the Eight Views Palace were thieves, right Xiaoyu?"
"right!"
"Could it be that the Bajing Palace is a den of thieves? The old woman selling flowers and candles is a lookout?" Jia Guixing was confused. "The old man imprisoned in Jinggangshan is the bandit leader of the Bajing Palace. He formed a relationship with others and fell into the hands of the enemy?"
Dong Yu thought to himself: "There is some truth to it. They came here today just to find Yi'er and ask about the old man."
Liu Mingyi snorted: "A sneak attack in the middle of the night is also called inquiring? If only I could ask for it in return, then I wouldn't tell them!"
Liu Xiaoqi poked her finger: "It's not you who caused the trouble!"
Liu Mingyi murmured in a low voice: "I think that old man is pitiful..."
Liu Xiaoqi said: "What's so pitiful? You only fall into the hands of your fellow gangsters if you do too many things. If you come out to mess around, you have to pay back. Otherwise, how could your uncle stop? Right?
Master Yang."
Uncle Yang smiled and said: "There are interesting things in the green forest. If you like walking, just keep walking. If you don't like walking, just stop. As long as you don't create any big problems, it's easy to handle."
Dong Yu drooped his eyelids and said: "As long as nothing happens. Go back to the house and sleep, we have to play tomorrow."
Jia Gui said disappointedly: "Are you having fun? Why don't you go check out the Bajing Palace?"
"No more checking, it has nothing to do with us anyway." Liu Xiaoqi said, "Yi'er is just a messenger. The words have been transmitted, and we can't care about anything else." Everyone then went back to their houses to rest. The store gave Jia Gui another replacement.
took a room.
When they got up the next morning, a few people had just had breakfast when they saw a Taoist priest walking into the inn and beating everyone up. Liu Xiaoqi reached out and took out a piece of broken silver from her arms and gave it to him, and also chanted
"Infinite Heavenly Lord". The Taoist priest smiled bitterly: "I am not here to ask for alms." He looked at Liu Mingyi and said, "The person who troubled the little donor to pass the message is my biological father."
Liu Mingyi blinked: "No! You don't look like that old man, nor do you look like the candle seller."
The Taoist priest was stunned: "Not all children may look like their parents."
Dong Yu asked: "Dare you ask me the name of the elder?"
"The poor know the truth."
Dong Yu and Liu Xiaoqi looked at each other and knew that this was not the son of the Supreme Emperor. They said, "Our children don't know anything."
The Taoist priest sighed softly: "I haven't heard from my father for many years. Now I have received this bad news. My mother is bedridden."
Liu Mingyi pulled Jia Gui, who was sitting next to her, and whispered: "I don't think this Taoist priest looks like his biological father is dead."
"I see so." Jia Gui also whispered, "The circles under her eyes are not red, it's obvious that she hasn't cried."
The Taoist priest coughed and told a story shamelessly. He said that his mother was originally his father's concubine. His father's family was a wealthy family, and the brothers fought over property and suffered a bloody blow. His mother was originally
He tried to persuade his father not to get involved, as he would lose a share of the family business anyway, but his father refused to listen and still jumped in. His father's eldest wife didn't like his mother and wanted to take advantage of his mother's pregnancy.
His mother died. His mother then took the opportunity to tell his father that they could not live at home, so she secretly left home with him in her arms and took refuge in Huashan.
This man talked for a long time, Liu Xiaoqi's face darkened, he stood up and clasped his fists at him and said: "These are Taoist priest's family matters, you don't need to tell us!" He shouted to the store to pay, and they left. The Taoist priest
Not annoyed, he bowed and turned around to leave.
Liu Mingyi poked her head around, unable to hold it in for a long time, and asked: "Uncle Qi, what did that Taoist priest say he wanted to do for a long time? Why did you change your face?"
Liu Xiaoqi glared at her: "Go back to the house and clean up quickly, let's leave now!"
Jia Gui said: "Why did the old man who was imprisoned find it so easy to get a message and only Baba told the little wife? Where is the eldest wife?"
Dong Yu said: "He has been imprisoned for so many years, and the family property has probably been divided among his sons. Will the eldest wife still care about his life and death if she has an old lady? She still has to serve him while he is alive. I think this is the only one who has some sense of responsibility.
He is a conscientious person. Besides, his brothers are fighting over the family property, so maybe it was his brothers who fell into the hands of bandits."
Liu Xiaoqi shouted: "No one will think you are dumb if you don't speak! Pack your bags and go!" Dong Yu shrank his neck, quickly stood up and took the lead, followed by Jia Gui and Liu Mingyi.
Yang Erbot stayed behind and asked softly: "Xiao Qi, what are you doing?"
Liu Xiaoqi smiled bitterly and said: "Send a pregnant concubine to hide in the mountains, and also let the son become a monk. How can this be an ordinary family? Even the eldest wife refuses to believe but believes the concubine. I don't know how much is inside.
Bad debt. This Taoist priest is here to test us and wants us to help."
I heard someone outside the window chuckle: "Yes, I really want to ask a few people for help." After a while, the old man from last night slowly walked in, cupped his fists and said, "There is a good deal, I wonder if Yang Daxia and this friend are willing to
Willing to do it together.”
Liu Xiaoqi immediately said: "Don't do it." Without waiting for the old man to speak, he waved his hands and said, "The bigger the business, the more difficult it is. The trapped old man obviously believes that his family can't do it. If he can force you to come here, his family's
The ability must be great. I don't want to think about the wonderful things of 'I will make a fortune when things work out'. What if things don't work out? Wouldn't I lose my life?"
The old man narrowed his eyes and looked at him for a long time: "It is rare to have such security at a young age. If you think about it again, the more difficult the transaction, the greater the profit, huge, huge, huge. Children, don't you want to hear it?
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Liu Xiaoqi waved his hand: "I don't want to think about it anymore. No profit in the world that can be called 'extremely' can escape from the word 'Tianjia', but only things related to their family can't escape."
In the green forest, free and easy, who wants to mess with them?"
The old man was surprised, and after a while he nodded and said: "The Liu family has accepted a good disciple." Then he asked, "How did your master become a monk? Their family has been protecting the emperor for generations, and they cannot become a monk randomly, let alone accept disciples."
Liu Xiaoqi looked at him for a while and said, "Everyone is out, what else can I do?"
The old man raised his head and clasped his hands and said: "Even if you become a monk, you are still a servant of the Emperor. Since you are your master's disciple, you should also take it as your own responsibility to defend the Emperor."
Liu Xiaoqi raised her eyes and said, "I am from the Green Forest, thank you."
The old man hummed: "Go back and ask your master, he was ordered to hide in the green forest."
Liu Xiaoqi said: "Don't ask. What if he really loses his life and goes out to do mischief again and cause trouble for me? Anyway, now that the emperor is in decline, the Tian family can no longer control him."
The old man choked, slapped the table and said: "Master of Heaven and Earth..."
Before he finished speaking, Erbo Yang coughed: "Is your master from Chi Zi Yao'er?" The old man looked at him and frowned.
Liu Xiaoqi cupped her fists towards Uncle Yang and said, "Even if my master is really from Chizi Kiln, no one in the world will know his identity now that the world has become like this. It is appropriate for him to be a thief for the rest of his life, rather than to interfere with those who entered the emperor's family."
Damn it. I'll go back and look for it to see if he has any brands, secret orders, or anything like that. If he has any, I'll destroy them all."
The old man was anxious: "How dare you!"
Liu Xiaoqi chuckled: "See if I dare!"
The old man said: "If you help my master, you will have eternal prosperity and wealth!"
Liu Xiaoqi spread his hands and said: "The little saint can't get glory and wealth himself, so what can he give me?"
"Not a little saint, but an old saint."
Liu Xiaoqi was startled, his eyes widened and he took a deep breath; a smile appeared on the old man's face. After a long time, Liu Xiaoqi said slowly: "That's even worse. The little saint still has an identity after all.
He has nothing." He pointed to the sky and said, "Those who have money and soldiers, who will recognize him?"