I'm the villain in the book

"..."

Narrowing his eyes slightly, the old man took a deep look at Lu Jingyao.

Obviously, his guess just now was right.

They don't even understand the principle of "wealth should not leak out". These two women are definitely a pair of masters and servants from those wealthy businessmen.

Although he didn't know which family he was from, but he was in business to make money, so he didn't bother to care about it.

"Hehe, if that's the case, then I'll make some arrangements for the two girls. If there is no accident, I can get out of the city before the curfew."

"However, the current situation is turbulent, and the two of you are leaving in a hurry, so the escort fee will naturally be more than usual..."

Lu Jingyao asked, "How much?"

"50 taels."

The old man smiled and reported a number that was several times higher than usual: "As long as the girl can figure it out, I can guarantee that the two of you can leave tonight."

50 taels, which is the income of ordinary people for at least two or three years, but for Lu Jingyao, it is about the same as fifty taels.

"Clap!"

A bag of broken silver was thrown on the counter, exactly 50 taels, no more, no less.

Using broken silver instead of ingot silver shows that Lu Jingyao is not too stupid.

But it doesn't matter if she doesn't.

The most important thing in the escort agency industry is credibility, especially a large escort agency like "Wantong", and they will not engage in "killing for money".

"Okay, the two girls, please go to the side room to drink tea and rest for a while, and the old man will arrange the carriage and accompanying bodyguards."

After shaking the purse, the old man smiled happily.

He was just about to order someone to take Lu Jingyao and Qiu Yun to rest in the quiet room, when suddenly another woman walked in outside the door.

Compared with Lu Jingyao and the other two wearing mink velvet cloaks, this woman's clothes are very thin and ordinary.

A cyan linen dress, a cyan linen skirt, and a pair of worn-out cloth shoes, with white ankles exposed.

It would be fine to dress like this in the scorching summer, but it would be a bit strange in early March when the river ice is still intact.

"This girl..."

The old man ordered the man to take Lu Jingyao and the two to leave first through his eyes, and asked, "I don't know if you want to deliver goods or travel far away?"

"Please, may I ask, how much money does it cost to take a carriage to Shuzhou?"

The woman said weakly: "I'm going to find my husband..."

Why are so many women going to Shuzhou today?

"Girl, the current situation is turbulent..."

The old man had a strange expression on his face. He glanced at Lu Jingyao who had stopped, and repeated what he had just said.

"...If you leave tonight, it will cost 25 taels of silver. If you are willing to wait for a few days, then [-] taels of silver will do."

"Twelve..."

The woman's expression was a little embarrassed, obviously she didn't have so much money.

She hesitated to speak for a long while, but in the end she didn't say anything, just nodded slightly at the old man and prepared to leave.

But at this moment, Lu Jingyao, who had been standing not far away, suddenly called out to stop her.

"Stay away, girl!"

"Well?"

The woman turned her head in a daze, and asked timidly: "This, this sister, what's wrong?"

"You said just now that you are going to Shuzhou to find your husband?"

"Yes, it is."

"Well......"

Lu Jingyao looked at Qiu Yun, who immediately went to the high cabinet and took out another 25 taels of silver from the purse.

"I will pay for this girl's bodyguard fee, just let her go with us."

"Naturally no problem!"

After earning another 25 taels, the old man hurriedly put away the money and complimented him over and over again: "The girl is really a bodhisattva, I think she will be rewarded with good fortune in the future."

"Please hurry up and prepare the carriage."

Lu Jingyao replied indifferently, and then walked up to the woman who was stunned, and asked softly:

"Girl, what's your name?"

"what?"

Only then did the woman come back to her senses, and hurriedly replied gratefully:

"This, this sister, my name is Yunlian."

Chapter 229 Journey of a Thousand Miles, Not Taking a Step

A quarter of an hour later, in a quiet room of Wantong Escort.

Lu Jingyao was holding a cup of hot tea, sitting opposite Yun Lian.

If Wei Changtian were here at this moment, he would have already started thinking about whether to kill this Son of Heaven.

But Lu Jingyao didn't know that the weak woman in front of her was actually a fish demon, and she didn't know that her husband was not only dead, but even died because of Wei Changtian.

"Here, madam."

Qiu Yun next to him rummaged through his luggage for a while and found a cloak of his own.

"Ah."

Lu Jingyao took the cloak and put it beside Yunlian with a smile.

"Miss Yun, put it on quickly."

"No, no need."

Yun Lian hurriedly waved her hands, and gently pushed back the cloak: "Sister Lu, I'm not cold..."

"How can you not be cold if you wear so little?"

Lu Jingyao laughed and said: "You can wear it as you are told, don't shirk it."

"..."

Yunlian lowered her head in embarrassment, and did not refuse again.

"Thank you, thank you, I will definitely pay back the money for the escort fee and clothes..."

"We'll talk about that later."

Seeing Yun Lian put on the cloak, Lu Jingyao asked again: "Miss Yun, where are you from?"

"Qingzhou, Yu'er Island."

Yunlian hesitated for a moment, then added in a low voice: "It's a small island..."

"Fish Island?"

Naturally, Lu Jingyao had never heard of this name, but she didn't care, she nodded and asked, "Then what does your husband-in-law do in Shuzhou?"

"I don't know, he, he hasn't been home for a long time..."

As if a certain nerve was touched, Yun Lian burst into tears in an instant: "I, I found the capital all the way from Qingzhou, and some people said that he went to Shuzhou, so I wanted to go to Shuzhou to find him... ..."

"Ok?"

Lu Jingyao was not stupid, and immediately heard a lot of doubts from these few words.

However, Yunlian's appearance really didn't look like some villain with ulterior motives, so she didn't ask any further questions, thinking that she would learn more about it on the way to Shuzhou.

"Miss Yun, I actually went to Shuzhou to find my husband."

Passing her handkerchief to Yun Lian, Lu Jingyao comforted softly: "When the time comes, I'll beg him, maybe I can help you."

"Really, really..."

When Yun Lian heard that Lu Jingyao wanted to help her find a husband, she was so excited that she knelt down on the ground with a "plop".

"Lu, Sister Lu, I don't know how to repay you, your great kindness..."

"What are you doing, get up."

Lu Jingyao was startled by this sudden kneeling, and hurried to help Yunlian.

But at this time, a drop of the latter's tear just happened to fall on the back of her hand.

"ah!"

Lu Jingyao subconsciously exclaimed, and suddenly withdrew her arm.

"Ma'am, what's wrong?"

Qiu Yun at the side immediately leaned over, nervously following Lu Jingyao's line of sight.

I saw a small patch on the back of the white hand had turned red, as if it had been scalded by something.

"This......"

The second daughter looked up at Yun Lian in astonishment, and the latter of course also noticed all this.

She hastily wiped away the tears on her face, bit her fingertips at the same time, knelt down and lifted up the bleeding finger.

"Yes, I'm sorry...I, I didn't mean to..."

"Just, just smear my blood on it!"

"T-really!"

"..."

According to legend, on the banks of the Weishui River, a fish demon and a fisherman fell in love with each other, but because the fish demon could not stay on the shore forever, one day he had to return to the river, so he gave the fisherman a wing-shaped knot before leaving, and kept a knot for himself. A demon meets again after ten years.

The fish demon returned to the Weishui River, and practiced hard every day. After ten years, he finally got the Dao and could stay on the land forever.

Revisiting the old place, the fish demon searched hard several times, and got the fisherman's residence.

The fisherman is drying his nets outside his house, his wife and children are standing beside him, and his wife wears a wing-like knot in her skirt.

The fish demon returned to the Weishui River, and the next day, it set off a torrent of water with its demonic power.

After the flood, the fish demon found the corpses of several people and buried them in the soil. He took back the knots he had given to the fishermen and hung them on the left side of his clothes, and his own knots on the right side of his clothes.

A pair of knots turned into wings, and never entered the Weishui River again.

"Shan Hai Jing": Ying fish has a fish body and bird wings, and its sound is like a mandarin duck. When it is seen, it is full of water.

[12: Daning Dynasty, East China Sea Fish Demon, Yunlian]

The way of disaster.

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Half an hour later, Wei Mansion.

"Master Wei, we have already found Miss Lu's trace."

In the study room, several spies from Xuanjing Division's sticky pole bowed to report: "Miss Lu and Miss Qiuyun are currently at Wantong Escort Bureau, preparing to go to Shuzhou."

"Hmph! Sure enough!"

Wei Xianzhi snorted coldly, but his expression finally relaxed.

Although there was indeed no guard outside the tunnel, the guards of the Wei family were not useless. They soon discovered that Lu Jingyao and Qiu Yun were missing, and reported to him immediately.

And in the case of the sticky pole, how could a person like Lu Jingyao who had no anti-reconnaissance awareness hide her whereabouts, so she was quickly found out.

"Master Wei, according to the staff of Wantong Escort Bureau, there is a woman named Yun Lian traveling with Miss Lu."

"This girl said she was going to Shuzhou to find her husband-in-law, but she didn't have enough money to pay for the bodyguard. In the end, it was Miss Lu who paid for her in advance..."