It’s the night when the lanterns are on, and the Zhouqiao Night Market becomes lively again. (《》)
The Zhouqiao Archway is not on the Zhouqiao, but at the entrance of the night market. It is the symbol of the night market.
Chen Ke appeared under the archway and saw the tall woman among the people at a glance.
The woman also saw him at a glance, her lips moved but she said nothing.
"Hey, you're so early." Chen Ke walked over lazily.
"It's you who are late." The woman said expressionlessly.
"Yes, I was waiting for the moon, but it turns out it's cloudy tonight." Chen Ke laughed and said, "What do you call me? You can't just feed me here and there." After that, he introduced himself: "My surname is Chen, your name is Chen.
Your surname."
"My surname is Liu." The woman said calmly.
Her voice was a little soft and could not be heard clearly in the noisy environment. Chen Ke said: "Uh, Miss Liu..."
Chen Ke spoke with a Sichuan accent, but Miss Liu didn't hear anything wrong, so she nodded and said, "What are you going to do?"
"Look." Chen Ke pointed to the Zhouqiao Road in the distance where the shacks were connected: "Zhouqiao is an important link extending in all directions. Anyone visiting the night market will pass by here."
"Um."
"If I were a kidnapper," Chen Ke said, "I would definitely choose Zhouqiao to look for prey."
"You are very experienced." Miss Liu looked at him suspiciously and said to herself that you are indeed a pervert.
"Hey..." Chen Ke said displeased: "If you keep this attitude, I won't care."
"..." Miss Liu was indeed threatened and muttered in a low voice: "I didn't say anything."
"Come on." Chen Ke smiled and said, "Let's go." After saying that, he walked inside.
Miss Liu didn't ride a horse this time, so she quickly spread her long legs and followed. ""
The two walked side by side in the night market, which was really eye-catching. There were many handsome men and beautiful women in the Song Dynasty, but such tall handsome men and women were rare. Chen Ke was already over six feet tall, and Miss Liu actually reached his eyebrows. According to Chen Ke's visual inspection, she should be one meter tall.
Around seventy-five...
Feeling that his evil eyes were looking at her, Miss Liu looked at him alertly and realized that this guy was so tall, half a head taller than herself... It would be great if all the men in the world were so tall, Liu
The girl thought to herself, but forgot to blame him.
As Chen Ke walked, he bought this and that at the stalls he passed. Not far away, he already had two bags of food in his hand.
"What on earth do you want to do?" Miss Liu endured it again and again, but couldn't help but said: "I don't have time to hang out with you."
Chen Ke ignored her and continued to spend money to buy a box of raw pickled papaya. The stall owner filled it in a plum-red box and put it in his oil paper bag.
Miss Liu had no way to deal with this kind of person, so she could only say bitterly: "I will fight you to death!"
"I can't hold on, I'm hungry." Chen Ke carried two bags, took two more steps, stopped and said, "Go in."
"Yuxian Tower?" Miss Liu thought to herself, what are you doing here? But it was estimated that the other party still wouldn't answer, so she simply didn't ask.
As soon as he saw Chen Ke, Zhang Wu immediately came up to him, smiled like a flower and said: "Official, you are free to come here today!" Although it has been a few days, who can never forget this generous master?
?
"I won't eat today," Chen Ke handed him the two bags of things and said, "Find a good place for me, I want to see the scenery."
Zhang Wu looked at Chen Ke, then at Miss Liu, and suddenly said clearly: "I understand, I understand, the high official is really sentimental, just follow the villain."
"The second floor, no, the first floor is fine." Chen Ke ordered: "It's too high to see clearly."
"Okay." So Zhang Wu led the two of them to the verandah on the second floor. It was dinner time, the guests were all drinking and mingling in the building, and there was no one on the verandah.
Chen Ke chose a location facing the Zhouqiao Bridge, and Zhang Wu moved a set of tables and chairs, and also diligently arranged the wine and lunch boxes.
"No need." Chen Ke put a dime of silver in his hand and said, "Go and do your work. The latest chapter of the Holy Church"
"I know, I know." Zhang Wuyi said with a lewd smile, "I won't disturb the officials anymore."
"Go." Chen Ke nodded and said with a smile, "Don't you want to eat some?" Zhang Wu had already left, but he was asking Miss Liu this question.
"I'm not hungry." Miss Liu leaned on the railing and looked at it for a long time. When she turned around, she saw him holding a cup in one hand and a bunch of roasted lamb tongues in the other, sitting there enjoying it comfortably. She suddenly lost her temper and said: "You are not only a
You're a loser, you're still a loser!"
"Sages are not immune to the vulgar nature of food and color." Chen Ke picked up a chopstick to braise sheep intestines, brought it to his mouth and chewed it carefully: "It's really delicious, don't you want to try it?"
"I've been eating it since I was a child!" Miss Liu exhaled a long breath and said, "How awesome do you think you are? It's nighttime when the lights are bright outside, and you can't see people's faces clearly from such a high position!"
"Be patient, there are problems that you can discover with your intelligence," Chen Ke said with a sip of wine indifferently: "I wouldn't have thought of it in advance?"
"You!" Miss Liu finally couldn't bear it anymore, grabbed his collar, shook her white fist and said, "You want to be beaten, don't you?"
"I am injured."
"Then just be honest!"
"you are vicious……"
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"What is this? I have never seen it before." Miss Liu fiddled with a copper rod and said strangely: "These two sides are made of jade, such a big piece..." She naturally knows the goods.
"Telescope, a gadget invented by me." Chen Ke straightened his clothes and cursed in his heart: "You will never find a husband in your life, you are a violent woman!" Little did he know that in the eyes of others, he was also a violent man: "It can be used to see far away.
A dark object."
"how to use?"
"Put one end in front of you and the other in the direction you are looking at." This telescope was used by Chen Ke when he observed the Battle of Kunlun Pass. He deeply felt that commanding operations in the era of cold weapons cannot be without a telescope. After returning, he first asked someone to use an ordinary telescope.
The lens was ground out of glass. After repeated trials, the ideal curvature was obtained. Then I spent a lot of money to buy two pieces of jade as big as an egg from a jewelry store... which is transparent crystal. I ground the lens carefully and found it with a coppersmith.
The retractable lens tube was assembled by myself, the first telescope in the world.
Originally, he planned to give it to Di Qing, but when he came to Beijing this time, he realized that Mr. Di might never need this thing, so he never took it out.
Miss Liu followed what he said, put one end of the telescope against her eyes, and then turned the other end toward the night market. She was suddenly surprised and said: "There is really someone... but why has it become smaller?"
"With the big head facing out." Chen Ke took a sip of wine and watched the tall girl playing with the telescope like a child, and couldn't help but smile.
"I told you earlier..." Miss Liu turned the telescope upside down, and when she saw people and objects on the street, they rushed to her eyes, frightening her to let go and the telescope fell down.
"..." Just when Chen Ke had time to open her mouth, she saw her right foot suddenly raised, and with a Cuju movement, she clicked on the telescope. The next moment, the copper pipe was back in her hand. Miss Liu quickly checked both ends.
Seeing that it was intact, he hurriedly patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief. He smiled sheepishly at Chen Ke, showing a rare girlish attitude.
Miss Liu was so happy to see that she was hunting. She held a telescope and looked here and there. It took her a long time to remember the business, so she carefully observed the faces on the Zhouqiao Bridge. After looking at them for a long time, they were all very clear, but how could they tell the kidnapper apart?
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She looked back at Chen Ke, not daring to question this time, but with a questioning look on her face.
"The reason you can't see it is because..." Chen Ke ate a thin piece of fish and narrowed his eyes comfortably and said, "The kidnappers haven't gone to work yet."
"How do you know?"
"It's too early now. There are not the most people in the market, and people's attention is concentrated, so it's not easy to make a move." Chen Ke explained: "It's useless to come out early. It's better to sleep more."
"Well..." Miss Liu nodded. She found that she always nodded like an idiot in front of this guy, so she asked a little angrily: "Then, why did you call me so early?"
"Eat something. How can you catch a thief on an empty stomach?" Chen Ke pointed at the food on the table and said, "I bought your share even though I didn't see it."
"..." Miss Liu squinted her eyes and looked at him for a while, then sat down and said dullly: "I don't like meat."
"It's not easy to grow so big."
"You..." Miss Liu couldn't even count how many times she had been angered by him. She must have been very angry.
"Open it and take a look." Chen Ke said with a smile.
Miss Liu opened a plum-red food box suspiciously and found that inside was minced dumplings with fine ingredients. She opened another one, which was Bingxue Leng Yuanzi. Opening it again, she found Xiangxi Yuan, Jitou Rang, Ma Yin fine powder, and mustard pepper.
Melons, and various papaya products... She was stunned for a moment, then whispered: "Thank you..."
"Don't say that, I'm not used to it..." Chen Ke smiled, stood up with a telescope and said, "I'll keep an eye on you, you can eat without worry."
Miss Liu looked at Chen Ke's broad back for a long time, then lowered her head and started to enjoy it with small sips.
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After a cup of tea, she was sucking a piece of fine powder uncivilly, when she suddenly heard a low voice: "He's here!"
"Cough cough cough..." She was caught off guard and was so shocked that she almost breathed it into her nostrils, but she didn't care about anything. She jumped up, grabbed the telescope and said, "Where is it?"
"In front of the Houjiahuan cake stall," Chen Ke said before he could react, he had empty hands and rolled his eyes: "The one wearing long-sleeved black clothes."
"Wait...I saw it." Miss Liu said nervously: "Why can't I see anything abnormal?"
"Judging from his demeanor, actions, and clothing."
"..." Miss Liu looked at it for a while, but still couldn't see anything.
"Stupid, it's May soon, why is he still wearing long sleeves? The tattoos on his arms are covered with eighty cents. Besides, he wears all black at night, so he's not afraid of being hit by others? Look at him yawning again and again.
"It's impossible to be sleepy. He obviously just got up not long ago." Chen Ke broke it down one by one: "And the most important point is that it shows that he is not a thief. If you look at his eyes, he always comes and goes.
Staring at the older girl and the younger daughter-in-law..."
After hearing this, Miss Liu glanced at him and said to herself: "You are like this too..." But she didn't say it out loud.