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The storyteller started again, and after finishing his closing remarks, the conversation changed to the main topic of the story.

The story this time is the story of an ordinary hero traveling the rivers and lakes as a teacher, marrying a chivalrous woman he met on the way, and wandering the rivers and lakes together.

The people in the teahouse forgot about the previous quarrel, and their attention returned to the storyteller.

"It's boring." Lu Huaiyuan said.

Shen Huaiyu sighed: "I think if you keep listening to the previous one, you might be so scared that you can't sleep in the middle of the night."

A woman suddenly said, "You two, can you share a table with me?"

Lu Huaiyuan was taken aback, and when he looked up, he saw a slim woman in a pink dress.The woman was wearing a bamboo hat with a red veil covering her face, so she couldn't see her face clearly.However, walking in the crowd wearing this suit can be said to be quite conspicuous.

She didn't know when she walked into the teahouse, and she didn't know how long she stood beside the two of them, but no one noticed.

Shen Huaiyu said, "Miss, please sit down."

The woman sat down at the same table with them, Lu Huaiyuan saw a hazy smile on her face through the red veil.

He frowned: "Why are you laughing?"

The woman chuckled: "I laughed at you for praising me for being young. If I had married my sweetheart back then, my children would be about the same age as you by now."

Shen Huaiyu said: "It turned out to be a senior, I'm sorry."

The woman called the waiter and asked him to order the best pot of tea.

"You don't need to be formal, I'm not a person who pays attention to these things at first," the woman said casually, "Since you called me senior, I will treat you to this tea. In fact, I quite like the address you just called. What woman wouldn't like that? How about staying young forever?"

Lu Huaiyuan secretly looked at the woman, and felt that if it was true what she said, the woman was well maintained.

"The two of you are going to He Shuo's house for a banquet?" the woman asked.

"Exactly," Shen Huaiyu replied, "Senior too?"

"That's right." The woman stroked the umbrella in her hand. She had been carrying the umbrella behind her back just now, and the sun was shining brightly outside. I don't know why she was wearing the umbrella. Her movements were as gentle as if she was caressing her lover's chest, "I hear In your conversation just now, the Taoist leader seems quite dissatisfied with the story told by the storyteller."

The storyteller was talking about heroes and chivalrous women falling into trouble together, falling into the pool at the bottom of the cave.The clothes of the two were soaked and their bodies were injured. The hero collected some dead branches and leaves and lit a small fire. The two snuggled together to keep warm.

Lu Huaiyuan said: "The sons and daughters have personal affairs, how can they abandon their future because of such things."

The woman said with a smile: "The Taoist leader is still young, and I don't know what love in the world is like. If you really step into the mud, let alone your future, she will kill you, and you will pack a bag for her." .”

Lu Huaiyuan was noncommittal.

The woman knew that he was dissatisfied, so she didn't say this again, but started another topic: "Actually, I was also interested in the story that the storyteller told at the beginning."

Shen Huaiyu asked: "What?"

The woman said: "That story is 'true'."

This kind of weird, thrilling, or affectionate stories are often written by poor scholars for others in order to make a living.Some were printed as legendary stories and circulated in the market; some were adapted into arias, which were sold and sung by troupes; The girls hummed softly.

But in the final analysis, these are all fabricated, which is a fascinating hypocrisy.

The woman said the story was true.

"I don't need to lie to you," the woman said indifferently, "When I passed by here, I heard the coachman chatting with the people next to him while drinking the horse, saying that a woman disappeared in this town some time ago."

The missing woman is Hong Yuan, a firework woman.She doesn't look top-notch, and she doesn't know how to compose poems, she is always of the unobtrusive type.Hearing that there were many girls in Xiangfang, the bustard didn't notice that there was one missing for a while, and after a few days, Hong Yuan's regular customers found that she had never seen her, so they asked the bustard to look for her, only then did the bustard realize that the girl had disappeared.

At first the bustard didn't pay attention, thinking that Hong Yuan had escaped.After all, no one likes to do this business, and entering Tingxiangyuan is forced by life, so it is not surprising that the girls want to escape.The old bustard scolded Miss Hongyuan severely from the air, thinking that she didn't receive many customers and had one more mouth to eat, so she calmed down and didn't take it to heart.

I thought that this matter would be exposed, but who would have imagined that when the Xiangfang was cleaning, the girl Hongyuan was found.

It was said that it was "found", but in fact, no one could recognize that it was the missing Hong Yuan.Under the bed in Hongyuan's room, they found a handful of broken bones, a torn gauze beside it, and Hongyuan's name tag.I invited an expert to inspect it, and it was indeed human bones to take a handful of dregs.

Hearing this, Lu Huaiyuan frowned: "This Hongyuan girl..."

"That's right," the woman said, "It's as if she was eaten by some beast, leaving only a handful of bone dregs."

What can eat people?And eat so cleanly...

"I heard that Xiangyuan panicked for a while," the woman said, "Unknowingly, this story spread throughout the town."

"What about the fox fairy?"

"That was fabricated by the person who wrote the story. After all, no one knows what Hong Yuan experienced."

Shen Huaiyu said: "Compared to eating only a handful of broken bones, dying after being sucked out of blood by a fox fairy is probably not bad, at least the whole body remains."

The woman chuckled: "Since it's a made-up story, it must be beautified."

Lu Huaiyuan suddenly said: "Brother."

"What?" Shen Huaiyu was taken aback.

"Will this matter have anything to do with the incident where the Xu family lost their child?"

The three of them had some discussions on the disappearance of the Hongyuan girl, and the story of the storyteller over there was coming to an end.

"...Wu Ya hugged Bi Xiao tightly, and murmured, 'As long as I'm with you, I will never let you suffer any more harm'. With tears in his eyes, Bi Xiao said, 'Brother Ya! As long as I can be with you , what else can I ask for!' The two embraced each other for a long time under the darkness of night, vowing that they would never be separated again..."

When the woman heard this passage, her expression suddenly became a little subtle.

She called the waiter from the shop and settled the tea money.Xiao Er took the broken silver, weighed it happily, and thanked her for her generosity.She turned around and said to Huaiyuan and Huaiyu, "You two are also destined to me, and I look forward to seeing you again in Heshuo."

"Wait a minute, senior." Shen Huaiyu called her, cupped his fists respectfully and saluted, "The two of us are disciples of Qing Yunzong, my name is Shen Huaiyu, and this is my junior brother Lu Huaiyuan. I haven't asked senior for his name yet."

The woman was stunned: "... Qingyunzong, okay, Qingyunzong! Qingyunzong has indeed produced a lot of heroes. My name is Hua Jin, and I hope to meet again by fate."

After she finished speaking, she held her umbrella and turned to leave.