Chapter 53: Pretending to be ambushed in Peach Blossom Town
The magistrate’s office of Fufeng Prefecture is located in the center of the city. It is an official office building with cornices and brackets, purple and black bricks, stone lions in front of the door, drums for grievances, and strong guards on duty. Ordinary people can't help but be afraid when they see it and dare not approach it.
The front yard is where the small "Six Local Ministries" work, and the backyard is where the prefect's family lives.
The rain has stopped.
In front of the gate of the back house of the Yamen, there were many young men dressed in silk and silk brocade, ladies, maids, servants and other "flowery" costumes.
A group of people stood on their feet and looked at the end of the road until the carriage was slowly approaching, surrounded by twenty policemen. They couldn't help but cheered, and they approached it from a long distance.
One of the beautiful middle-aged women in gorgeous clothes, with red eyes, shouted towards the carriage: "Miaojin, my son, I have suffered so much for you..."
No words were said. By the time I finished, my eyes were filled with tears and my steps were staggering.
Su Miaojin opened the car curtain, wearing a snake bun and a white dress. She was so beautiful that she could not escape the world. She hurriedly jumped out of the carriage and hugged the middle-aged beautiful woman. She couldn't help but mist her eyes: "Auntie ! ”
The beautiful woman is the wife of the prefect Su Xingming. The couple has adopted Su Miaojin for ten years, and she is better than her biological daughter.
"Let me take a good look at it."
The prefect's wife let go of Su Miaojin and looked up and down, focusing on looking at a certain part of Su Miaojin. As a mother who gave birth to two children, she could naturally tell the girl's family. Signs of a broken melon.
Su Miaojin's face turned red with embarrassment: "Auntie, Miaojin is fine, but Xin... the thieves didn't touch Miaojin at all!"
"What Miss Su said is wrong!"
Before the magistrate’s wife could speak, a fair-faced and thin young man not far away appeared with both hands. A hint of surprise and regret flashed in his eyes, and he cupped his fists and saluted: "I have seen the girl in Jiang Hezhu of Du Kang Mansion. I thought she was the thief king and treated her with courtesy. However, I have been convicted of offending Miss Su. I heard that the masters of the four major families went to hunt her down. At that time, the thieves will be chopped into pieces with thousands of swords.”
Su Miaojin frowned slightly. Now she couldn't listen to Xin Zhuo's affairs. She didn't want to hear the good things, and she didn't want to hear the bad things.
The other young master smiled with admiration on his face and said: "What Mr. Jiang said is absolutely true. I also believe that the hatred in my heart can be relieved by cutting the thief in pieces with a thousand knives."
"Wonderful!" A fat young man next to him slapped his folding fan, "I'm afraid the four masters have already After capturing the thief king, all we have to do is wait for the thief king to come and watch his execution!"
"By the way, I bought three thousand taels from the Murong family!"
" Haha, it’s the same for me. If I can relieve Miss Su’s hatred, so what if it’s thirty thousand taels?”
In order to please the beautiful woman, all the young men said more and more outrageous things, and the more strange they became.
“How many people in the world are as beautiful as Miss Su, with a beautiful bun like a snake and white clothes like snow? They are as wonderful as the heavenly beings! I have admired them for a long time!”
“That’s right, that’s right. ! I heard that the Prince of Nanli won another big victory a few days ago. I am so talented, and I yearn for him. I wish I could be a pawn beside the Prince..."
Su Miaojin's face became colder and colder, without any contrast. There is no harm.
A group of nice gentlemen who are sanctimonious and cling to powerful people, are they really praising me? I am afraid that the woman captured by the thieves has already been extremely disliked in your hearts, right?
Compared with Xin Xiaothief, who was straightforward and forthright, he was shrewd and...
She didn't want to stay any longer, she pulled her clothes back slightly as a courtesy, turned around and entered the courtyard, leaving a group of young men behind who were still chattering.
The prefect's wife caught up and said with a chuckle: "Miaojin, are you annoyed?"
Su Miaojin turned around and said: "Auntie, why did these people block the door? There was no one there in the past. Dare!"
"This matter..." The prefect's wife sighed, "You still don't know that Mrs. Hua, the concubine of your biological father, Prince Nanli, went to the Jiang family of the capital for a few days. Marriage.”
Su Miaojin was stunned. Da Zhou's daughter's family usually got married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, unless the woman was extremely high in martial arts, it could be later. She had also wondered why the giant family had not discussed marriage yet.
Is this... coming?
The prefect's wife continued: "As a result, the Jiang family's old minister spoke in a flashy way. I don't know what he meant. It seems that something happened to your fiancée. It is said that no one in the capital has seen him for many years.
Mrs. Hua guessed that maybe your fiancé had a broken heart when he was young. Didn’t this drag you down? In one incident... the Jiang family's old order ordered someone to leave the house with a stick.
The Jiang family dared to publicly beat the wife of the county prince who had a heavy army. Afterwards, the county prince not only did not complain, but also spent money. Madam... divorced. There is a rumor all over the world that this marriage is about to break up, so those young men outside dare to come..."
"I know."
Su Miaojin was not interested and led the maid straight to her east wing.
The plum blossom courtyard is extremely elegant. At this time, the autumn plum blossoms are blooming, exuding an intoxicating fragrance. Fifteen maids are already waiting in line.
Su Miaojin went straight into the room, picked up a letter on the table, opened it and glanced at it casually, then sighed leisurely and looked at the beautiful Qiu Mei outside the room in a daze.
Her biological father finally decided to take her back to Nanli soon.
"Miss!"
At this time, Dong Ling, the personal maid, came up to her in a sneaky way: "I heard that the odds of killing the thieves at Golden Hook Gambling House have soared again. Let’s put down some money, right? I’m going to put down thirty taels to buy the Yuan family!”
Su Miaojin was silent for a while and said: “Take all my private money, Mr. Xu Da and Mr. Studious each paid five hundred taels for the medicine, and the rest..."
The corner of his mouth raised a nice arc: "The young master who dominated the four families was caught by Xin... the thief!"
That little thief is so smart that six people dare to face thousands of policemen. I heard that Mr. Studious was injured. I don't believe that people from the four families can deal with him.
"Ah? Miss, you, this..." Dong Ling and a group of maids opened their mouths wide.
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Taohua Town is located in a flat area next to the Zhuguan Road to the west of the Fulong Mountains. The town is not big, with sixty or seventy households and only one main street.
Because tourists often pass by Dajian on Guandao, there is a tavern, a noodle shop, an inn and a braised meat shop imitating Fucheng Luxiangzhai on the street.
Unfortunately, with the recent bandit suppression in the mountains, tourists are rare, so today only the noodle shop is open.
The noodles are hand-rolled by the owner himself, and the soup is made from beef bones boiled for two days. You only need to be 300 meters away to smell a strong aroma that will make your stomach itch. cried out.
"Gululu..."
Yuan Yourong's stomach rumbled. She touched her flat belly, bit her teeth like braided shells, and cursed angrily: " This damn little thief knows how to run away, and my aunt is so hungry after wandering around in the mountains for a few days. Where do they get the fragrance in this town? "
A Yuan family next to me? The young warrior pointed to the noodle shop: "There is a noodle shop!"
"Save it!"
Yuan Yourong waved his hand, and immediately seven people behind him carefully dispersed throughout the town. Then she walked to the noodle shop with her hands behind her back, and looked up at the noodle shop "Youjia Noodle Shop" Four-character plaque, smile Said: "Sure enough, there is a noodle shop, and the boss is an interesting person."
In the restaurant, the owner of the shop who was sitting idle saw the customers, and ran out quickly, hunched over: "Guest, what do you think? Okay, we have noodles in this noodle shop You’ve got enough soup!”
Yuan Yourong looked at the bruises on the shop owner’s face with a naughty smile on his pretty face: “Could it be that the shop owner suffered a new injury? My mother-in-law beat me?"
The shop owner’s face tightened and he quickly said: “My wife is very cruel. I lost half a tael of silver, so I took action and divorced her sooner or later! How many bowls does the guest want?”
Yuan Yourong covered his mouth and chuckled happily: "Nine, nine bowls are ready!"
"Okay!" The shop owner quickly went in to do some work.
Yuan Yourong glanced at the whole town: "Ada, do you think it is possible that Thief Xin is in this town?"
Because Xin Zhuo and the others have too many suspicions. , after Song Dongxi left, she and the Chen Guiyan and Murong Lei families also separated. The Chen Guiyan family went to another town in the southwest, and she brought people to this town.
“It is very easy to detect a fire in the mountains. If Xin Zhuo and the others want to supply supplies, they can only go to nearby villages and market towns.”
The young warrior named A Da pondered for a moment and then said: "Murong and Chen went to Jianxia Town, and Song Dongxi went to Menghu Village. When we come to Taohua Town, we must meet them along the way."
"That makes sense!" Yuan Yourong smiled, and when he raised his head, he saw two young men in tattered and dirty clothes walking out with faces in their hands.
(End of this chapter)