Chapter 802 802: Wang Ji’s staff [asking for monthly votes]
Official road, tea shop.
The scenery here is slightly different from that of the northwest continent.
The wind in the northwest continent is like a burly and strong man, full of rough strength. The wind here is hot and sticky with a little moisture, like a foreign woman wearing a mysterious mask and acting sinisterly. The sun at noon was extremely fierce.
In the corner of this quiet tea shop, a tall, strong man in coarse linen clothes rolled his Adam's apple a few times and drank a bowl of tea that was larger than his face in three gulps. After drinking the tea, the heat in his body dissipated a little, and he put down the pottery bowl.
"Shopkeeper, add another bowl."
The tea shop owner was holding his chin with one hand and half-closing his eyes with a look of sadness. When he heard the sound like thunder, he suddenly woke up. He was about to get angry, but when he saw the man's physique and fierce expression, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva in fear and obediently added tea.
The tall and strong man drank another bowl happily.
He pulled his collar and cursed something in a low voice.
At this time of year, the temperature in the northwest continent is still moderately hot and cold, but here it is already extremely hot and humid. The exposed skin is also covered with a thin layer of sweat, making it look like it has been waxed at first glance. If the wind blows dust, the fine dust in the air will stick to the skin. At this time, if you rub it with your fingers, you can rub off a strip of gray-black mud, and there is an unspeakable sour smell of sweat.
"It's not enough, add another bowl."
I drank seven or eight bowls in a row before I stopped.
The shopkeeper of the tea shop was feeling angry, but when he saw the corner of broken silver that the man took out from his lapel, he immediately beamed with joy. The man fanned himself with a bamboo hat in one hand while asking the tea shop owner for information. For the sake of money, the shopkeeper told everything he knew.
The tall and strong man asked simple questions, just asking about the royal family's current surname and whether the situation was peaceful.
Ordinary people know these problems.
The tea shop owner answered them one by one.
But——
“The accent sounds like a local, right?”
The tall and strong man said: “Well, a local, but he has been away from home for many years and has worked hard recently. I didn’t come back until I received an urgent report from home.”
The tea shop owner lowered his voice. Voice: "I think the guest officer has an extraordinary bearing and is not like ordinary people. I dare to tell you the truth - if there is nothing important, you should leave here as soon as possible after finishing the work. In the past few years, wars and recruitment have been going on everywhere. Like the guest officer Yes, he will definitely be taken away if he is discovered!”
When fighting to catch strong men, they are basically used as consumables.
The tall and strong man smiled and said: "Aren't you afraid of being caught, shopkeeper?"
The shopkeeper of the tea shop said: "I'm not afraid, I'm going to do it now."
Some people are willing to give up. Spending money can avoid being taxed, and if you don't have money, you can use food instead. The tea shop owner's relatives have some connections, but others don't have such good luck. The wars fought here for several years resulted in the recruitment of soldiers for several years.
The lower and upper age limits for conscription are constantly being refreshed.
It’s hard to see young people on the streets now.
The tall and strong man said: "If you are a soldier, you will be arrested. Anyway, I used to do murder. Thank you for the shopkeeper's concern."
After that, he asked the shopkeeper about some things.
When the sun turned slightly to the west, he grabbed a bamboo hat and put it on his head, walked out of the tea shop and stepped into the harsh sunshine.
He did not move his legs very frequently, but each step was a few feet away, and he disappeared after a while. The shopkeeper stared blankly at the man's retreating figure, secretly speechless - a person with such ghostly powers must be a brave warrior!
The shopkeeper's previous worries were unnecessary.
The man didn't know what the shopkeeper was thinking. After leaving the tea shop, he drove for two days. During this time, God turned his back on him and there was a thunderstorm without warning. If he hadn't used force to block the rain, he would have been soaked in the rain, but he would have been in a state of embarrassment.
I haven’t taken a shower for several days, and my body smells sour.
Finally, I saw a city.
He has no road certificate, and his true identity is still a wanted criminal. Naturally, he cannot enter the city arrogantly and sneak in directly based on his ability. I found a house with the best architecture in the city, borrowed water from the mansion's well to take a bath, and even stole some clothes.
Judging from the size of the male master's clothes, he was much smaller than him, but wealthy families would choose to make their clothes in large quantities, so he could barely fit them into them. He put on his clothes, touched some money and was about to leave, but something unexpected happened.
There was a sound of footsteps in the corridor outside.
Several maids said in unison: "Madam."
Then another soft female voice was heard.
"Is there a greeting card at home today?"
The maid replied: "Madam, there is no greeting card."
The footsteps gradually approached, and the man said trouble in his heart, and immediately turned over to hide in the beam. The next moment, the door creaked and someone pushed it open from the outside. Several graceful figures fell into the room, and several maids filed in, burning incense, making tea, and some maids went behind the screen to get clean clothes... It seemed that they were preparing to serve the lady to take a bath.
The man on the beam was silent for three seconds.
“Ah——”
The maid behind the screen exclaimed.
"What's wrong?" the lady asked softly.
"Husband, madam, there seems to be a thief at home."
The woman called madam got up and walked quickly behind the screen. What was stolen was a set of men's clothing. This maid is responsible for sorting and taking care of the clothes and jewelry in the lady's room. No matter where something is placed, she can find it with her eyes closed.
At this moment, a set of men's clothing is missing.
The lady was calm: "Look, there is something missing."
The maid quickly found the answer after some searching.
Besides the set of clothes, there is also some silver missing.
These taels of silver are the rewards that the lady usually uses to reward her servants. Although there is only a small handful missing, it is difficult to find compared with the small box, but the maid can't help but have a habit. She likes to put them away The reward coins are piled up layer by layer, looking neat and comfortable.
The silver reward at this moment is in chaos.
The maid in charge of guarding turned pale with fright.
Just as he was about to bow and plead guilty, he heard the lady's gentle voice: "If there are no other stolen items, don't worry about it. There are many people who have a hard life in this world. That person may have been forced into desperation and became a thief. Since there is no other stolen property, there is no need to worry about it." The person was injured and not much was lost, so let’s just forget about it.”
The maids burst into tears upon hearing this.
"Prepare water, it's getting hotter and hotter today."
Because summer comes early here, wealthy people put on light summer clothes early, and the same goes for this lady. .
This woman looks very young, with delicate and white skin. She should not be old, but her eyes are full of romance and charm that cannot be ignored. This kind of charm is obviously not something that a woman in her teens or 20s can possess. Her age is hard to guess.
The lady sat on the side of the table next to the leaky window. While the maid was fetching water to prepare for bathing, she opened a volume of letters and read them carefully. She looked focused and time passed quickly. When I came back to my senses, the maid was already ready, and the bathtub was filled with half a bottle of floral water and fresh flower petals. The maid wanted to step forward to help her take off her clothes, but the lady smiled and said: "Go down, you don't have to wait any longer."
The maids did not ask why, and Fu Shen withdrew.
After a while, the lady was the only one left in the house.
No, it should be said to be two people.
She raised her beautiful eyes with a slight smile, and looked at a certain part of the beam with clear and confident eyes: "The little woman understands the difficulties of a strong man's life and will not report it to the official for investigation... This strong man is still here. Here, slandering the little woman’s name is not repaying kindness with enmity.”
The man sitting on the rafter: "..."
He assumed that these women were ordinary people and could not see through his traces, so he used a little trick to hide his body and prepared to wait for the woman to get into the bathtub. Then follow the maid and leave quietly.
Who would have guessed——
It seems that I made a wrong judgment.
The lady asked: "Won't the strong man come down?"
The strong man finally responded, but the words and tone he spoke were very frivolous: "Now that I have been a gentleman, why not be a flower-picking thief again? How about repaying kindness with enmity? The real 'kindness' might as well be said on the couch?"< br>
The smile in Madam’s eyes instantly turned into ice. She raised her hand and patted the screen beam, then drew out a bright long sword with a swipe sound. Her eyes darkened and she said, "Are you looking for death?" Restless.
Seeing this, the strong man stopped pretending and showed off his body.
When the lady saw the strong man's appearance, her heart sank.
She could not see the true strength of this person, and there was not even any fluctuation of the energy of heaven and earth in the air, but this gentleman in Liang Shang was obviously not an ordinary person. This only proves that he is far stronger than himself. We encountered a tough situation today...
The lady was frightened, and the strong man also had a stern face.
The two faced each other with a distance of more than ten feet.
A long time——
The strong man's eyes moved down from the woman's face, and then back to her face after a glance - the women here were all dressed in a combination of tube tops, long skirts and gowns, with an open style, and the tube tops were positioned lower. You can tell at a glance whether something here is genuine or a forgery.
So, the lady in front of me is really a woman.
A woman who opened up a palace of alchemy and gathered a literary heart!
The strong man frowned tightly, as if he was still thinking about whether he was still in the northwest continent or whether he had returned to his homeland after a long journey. If it were the motherland, how could there be female scribes? While he was lost in thought, the woman did not move rashly.
He asked: "Are you a woman?"
The lady said: "What about women?"
The strong man fell into silence, and after a while he spoke: "My surname is Qi, and my name is Cang. I passed by here accidentally, and I didn't mean to disturb the host. I have no ill intentions towards you, but you can Put down the sword in your hand. If I have any ill intentions, what can you do to resist?"
Madam knows that Qi Cang's words are not false.
A quarter of an hour later——
The two sat opposite each other making tea, without any sign of tension.
Qi Cang looked at the woman opposite him carefully and asked: "I hear your accent, I guess you are not a local?"
"Well, I came here to live with my brother to avoid trouble many years ago."
< br>Qi Cang asked again: " From the northwest?"
The lady nodded: "Yes."
Qi Cang asked again: "Are you from Heyin County, Longwu County, Sibao County or Min? From Fengjun?”
Compared with the vast Northwest Continent, these four places are small and not well-known, and you have basically never heard of them unless you deliberately understand them. The lady's hand while pouring tea paused, and she raised her eyes to look at Qi Cang with doubts and questions in her eyes. Qi Cang understood this reaction as soon as he saw it.
He couldn't help but grin.
Muttered: "The road between enemies is narrow..."
She didn't understand what he meant: "The little woman is indeed from Sibao County, but the road between enemies is narrow... Where do you start talking about strong men?"
Qi Cang took a sip of cow drink: "Literally."
Madam continued to make insinuations.
"Why can a strong man guess the little woman's ancestral home in just one word?"
Qi Cang said: "Because you can practice."
The lady frowned: "..."
She discovered that she could practice a few years ago, but she was already past the age of enlightenment at that time, and her body carried too many acquired worldly things. She could barely feel the flow of heaven and earth, let alone Accommodate them into the body.
It's just that she has better luck.
I accidentally got a rare treasure.
It is said that it can eliminate the turbid air accumulated in the body over the years. She relied on this thing to accumulate it bit by bit. Huangtian lived up to her wish, as long as she smashed down enough precious medicinal materials, she would get what she wanted and successfully gather Wen Xin.
Only she knows the difficulty and effort involved.
The words of the man in front of me seemed to contain a secret.
She said calmly: "The two are not necessarily related."
Qi Cang said: "Yes, the lord I served before was killed by the governor of Longwu County. Interestingly, this person was also A woman. She also has many female scribes and warriors, you "Is there any connection between this?"
The madam was shocked at first. She didn't know that there were other women who could practice besides herself, and then she became confused: "...But, the little woman was born in Sibao County. It's not Longwu County..."
You can't hit it with eight poles, right?
"The Longwu County Sheriff captured Sibao County last year, but you said you were able to practice a few years ago, which is somewhat different from what I know..."
Madam: "..."
The sky was getting dark and Qi Cang had no intention of moving his buttocks. Madam had no choice but to invite him to stay in the house for a few days. She also said: "The clothes on the strong man don't fit. If you don't mind, If so, I will ask the embroiderer in the house to make a new one for you. "
Qi Cang also said: "It's okay to make a new one. I'm wearing your man's clothes, which will inevitably cause misunderstandings."
The lady said: "That's not the case. ”
Because there is no male master in the house.
Qi Cang discovered this very early.
Although the master bedroom closet contains several sets of men's clothing from different seasons, there are no signs of wearing them. They are all new clothes. Apart from these, there are no traces of male activity. Qi Cang just thought she was a widowed woman, didn't pay much attention to her, and fell asleep with his head on the pillow.
At night, the lady went out.
Instruct the groom: "Go to the official office."
To be precise, it is Wang Ji's government office that was entrusted here.
She always felt that the name Qi Cang sounded familiar.
“Qi Cang…Qi Cang…this man’s surname is Qi?”
The lights inside the official office were brightly lit.
She rummaged through a pile of letters and files.
An hour passed in the blink of an eye, and she found nothing. At this time, a woman was heard teasing from outside the door, with a full smile: "My sweetheart, aren't you going back on duty? When did you become so diligent and come back on duty at this point?"
Madam: "...Your Highness, we are looking for someone."
The person came with swaying steps, but Madam did not even raise her head.
"Who are you looking for? Let me tell you, I will find it for you."
The lady said: "Qi Cang."
The woman she called your highness" "Huh?" He turned around and asked, "Qi Cang? Why are you looking for him if you have nothing to do?"
The lady was surprised: "His Highness knows him?"
His Highness covered his mouth and smiled foolishly: "Oh, if we go forward more than ten years, who in the whole country does not know this person named Qi? But, you haven't known him yet? Why did you suddenly come to him?”
The lady said: "There is something wrong."
His Royal Highness sat sideways on the table, leaning back with his right hand: "If you want to find him, you have to ask the King of Hell if he is willing to accommodate."
The lady frowned: "What do you mean?"
His Highness said: "The man has been dead for many years. If you dig in the mass grave outside the city, you might be able to find his whole family."
Madam: "..."
Could it be? Same name and surname?
A coincidence?
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My dears, I wish you a happy Dragon Boat Festival
PS: The identity of the lady should be easy to guess, and she is a subordinate of His Highness.
(End of this chapter)