Thousands of Miles

"Tokyo in the Great Song Dynasty is indeed very prosperous." A tall, stubble-faced man walked swaggeringly on the streets of Tokyo, looking left and right like a countryman who just entered the city, and nodded pretendingly, " Not bad."

"Your Majesty, did you hear that people from the Song Dynasty are especially good at playing?" A servant-looking man next to the tall man said with a smile, "They all from the Song Dynasty said that Li Shishi in Zhen'anfang, Tokyo is the most beautiful and charming. Kind of, all the kings and grandsons of Song Dynasty like to play with her."

"Really? Hahaha." The man called "The Great King" laughed and said, "Then let's play with him tonight! Haha!"

"Hahaha."

So, the two talked and laughed, and entered Zhen'an Square in a grand manner.

"Shishi, Shishi, a distinguished guest is coming! Hurry up and come out to greet me!" Li's mother happily ran upstairs, and pushed the reluctant Li Shishi out, until she was taken to a room full of people. In front of the bearded man, "Master, this is the girl Li Shishi you want!"

"Oh? Li Shishi is here?" The stubble-faced man was stroking the hand of a red-clothed girl who was accompanying him with a smile. He raised his eyes and glanced at Li Shishi, and immediately widened his eyes in surprise, "Li Shishi? Looks good! looks good!"

Compared with the fairy-like beauty Li Shishi, the red-clothed girl who accompanied the drink just now is much inferior. The man pushed the red-clothed woman beside him away, and said with a seductive smile: "What I want is She! Li Shishi!"

Although Li Shishi is a prostitute, she has been well-trained since she was a child, and all the distinguished guests in the Song Dynasty were received, and they were often gentle and well-educated.Anyway, Li Shishi had never seen such a rude guest, and she hated such a guest from the bottom of her heart. She wished him a blessing and said nothing.

"Hahaha, you guys talk, talk slowly." Mother Li saw that the man was interested in Shishi, so she didn't care about his appearance and personality, as long as he had money to get, she cheerfully dismissed the others, and she personally moved the house. The door closes.

"It's really beautiful..." The man stood up and approached Li Shishi, stretching out his hands and wanting to touch her.

"Don't come here!" Li Shishi took a few steps back, quickly took out a pair of scissors from her pocket, and pressed it against her neck, "If you come here again, I'll die!"

"Hey, I have something to say." The man smiled, "I came to Tokyo from a long distance, and I came here just to see the girl's demeanor. How can you receive me like this?"

"What do you want to do?" Li Shishi asked warily.

"I'm going back to China tomorrow. Tonight, I heard that you can play the piano, sing, and dance...so I want to come and listen, and I have no other plans." The man sat down on the chair with a smile on his face, " I've already spent money, so I can't see anything, no matter how bad you are, you can sit down and chat with me."

"Then, Shishi will sing a section for the guest officer..." Li Shishi held up the scissors, walked carefully to the zither stand and sat down, carefully put the scissors aside, played a song for the man, and sang: "Southeast Xingsheng , Three Wu metropolises, Qiantang has been prosperous since ancient times. Yanliu painted bridges, wind curtains and emerald curtains, there are 10 homes. Clouds and trees surround embankments and sand, raging waves roll with frost and snow, and the sky is boundless. .The heavy lake is stacked in Qingjia, there are osmanthus seeds in three autumns, and lotus flowers in ten miles. Qiang pipes clear the sky, water chestnuts sing in the night, play and fish for old people and lotus babies. Thousands of horses have high teeth, listen to flutes and drums while drunk, and enjoy the haze. Go back to Fengchi to praise the good times."

"Sanqiu osmanthus, ten-mile lotus...you still have such a beautiful scenery in the Song Dynasty?" The man pondered for a while, and suddenly asked, "Miss Shishi, can you dance our Jin Kingdom's dance?"

Li Shishi nodded: "A little bit."

"Then how about we dance together? Hahaha." Seeing Li Shishi's vigilant look, the man smiled, "You can also see that we Jin people have a bold personality and don't have as many tricks as Han people. Letting you dance with me means being together What are you thinking about dancing?"

"Oh, no, Shishi doesn't mean that." Li Shishi got up and said, "Since the guest officer wants to dance, let's dance."

"Come on, let's dance together!" The man took the lead in dancing on his own.

Li Shishi saw that he had a carefree personality, not like a man in a city, so she relaxed her vigilance a little, and slowly danced beside him.

The man smiled slyly, took Shishi's hand and danced together.Suddenly, a fierce light flashed in his eyes, and he threw Li Shishi onto the bed: "Haha! Li Shishi! What a fucking effort!"

"Ah! Let go! Ah..."

"Hmph!" The man sneered, and tore off Li Shishi's clothes "呵——".

"Don't...don't!"

"Hey." The man was gearing up and was about to make a move when the door behind him was suddenly kicked open with a bang.

"Your sister isn't here! Oh, what are you doing? Don't disturb other people's guests..." Mother Li chased a ten-year-old boy into the house, and apologized repeatedly to the stunned man in the room, "Guest officer is really not good. I'm sorry, I don't know why this person is looking for his sister, please excuse me."

"Looking for his sister?" The man put on his clothes very displeasedly, and shouted fiercely, "Which one is your sister! Get out of him!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Li's mother quickly apologized, and pulled Ximeng's arm, "Get out quickly! This guest officer is going to lose his temper."

Ximeng shook off Li's mother's hand, walked to the bed without fear, stood in front of Shishi, raised her head and said to the man clearly and calmly: "Don't touch my sister, otherwise, no one will live. "

"What did you say?" Being threatened for the first time, the man looked at Ximeng in disbelief. He really couldn't believe that a kid in his teens would say such threatening words so calmly, and suddenly burst out laughing. , "Hahaha! I want to see what skills you have?"

Ximeng quietly took out a light yellow paper bag from his sleeve, and spread it lightly in front of the man. Inside was a bag of granular black powder.Ximeng held the bag of powder and placed it within an inch of the candlelight, and looked up at the man expressionlessly: "Not long after the Lantern Festival, I bought it at the fireworks shop, and I added some saltpeter by the way, do you want to see it?" See the scene where the whole building is razed to the ground?"

"There is something to say, something to say." Mother Li's legs trembled in fright, and she quickly waved her hands, "Little ancestor has something to say, my garden has no grievances or enmity with you, what good will it do you if you blow us up?" ah?"

"Hehe, interesting." The man looked at Ximeng with great interest, nodded with a smile, "It's really interesting, I suddenly feel that I don't like Li Shishi anymore."

Ximeng looked at him with disgust and said, "Then can you leave?"

"Hahaha, I'll let you go tonight first." The man turned around and walked away, laughing as he walked, "Little beauty, I admire you very much! Hahaha!"

The man walked towards the outside of Zhen'an Square as if there was no one else around, and he didn't rest until he passed a man in white who hurried through the door.

The man in white hurried into Zhen'an Square, and saw Li Shishi hugging Ximeng, crying bitterly on Ximeng's shoulder, looking extremely miserable, not knowing what happened.

"What happened to Shishi?" Zhao Ji asked Ximeng.

Xi Meng shook his head.

"Official...Zheng...Woooo..." Li Shishi was crying, and wanted to call Zhao Ji to complain, but when she thought that she almost lost her body just now, she was terrified, "Go out...Woo..."

Zhao Ji had no choice but to look at Ximeng, and went outside to wait.

"Sister." The sister kept crying in her arms, Ximeng felt very uncomfortable, hugged her sister and comforted her, "Sister, it's okay."

"Ximeng... woo woo woo... My sister only has you..." Li Shishi choked and said to Xi Meng, "My sister really has no choice... There is really no way to go... woo woo..."

"No, sister, there is always a way to go. If you want, sister, let's go now." Ximeng said, "We can go far away and leave here forever, and you won't be so sad."

"Ximeng, don't be stupid, we can't leave." Li Shishi shook her head, "You are still young, the most important thing is to protect yourself, lest my sister worry, you know?"

Xi Meng nodded.

Li Shishi stopped crying, sat up straight and asked, "Ximeng, where did you go last night? My sister has been worrying about you to death."

"Master, oh, it's that official Zheng outside." Xi Meng said, "He took me to the palace and let me enter the painting academy."

"Really?" Shishi asked in surprise, "Isn't he a businessman? How could he arrange for you to enter the painting academy in the palace?"

"Huh? Zheng... Isn't Master a painter in the palace?" Xi Meng thought for a while, "Maybe he not only paints, but also does business outside."

"Anyway." Li Shishi said softly, "Ximeng, my sister thinks that Zheng Guanren is a good person. If he can arrange for you to go to the painting academy, you can do well."

"Yeah." Ximeng nodded, "Sister..."

"what happened?"

"Sister, why are you so unhappy here, but you have to stay here?"

"Because our mother owes mother Li a lot of money." Li Shishi smiled wryly, "When my sister earns enough money here, she can probably leave."

"Is it because of money?" Ximeng thought about the scene of his stepfather pestering him for money, "Is it because of money again..."

"Okay, Ximeng and Zheng Guanren go back, he has been waiting outside for a long time." Li Shishi smiled and said, "My sister is not unhappy here, as long as she thinks that Ximeng is doing well, she will be very happy. Hope Meng and Master paint well, and they will have money to save my sister from now on."

"Yes." Ximeng nodded, "Sister must wait for me."

"Okay, sister is waiting." Li Shishi blinked, quietly hid the tears in her eyes, and smiled reluctantly at Ximeng, "It's getting late, Ximeng, please go, sister will take care of herself."

"Yeah." Ximeng got up and nodded, "Sister, Ximeng will definitely pay back the money to save you. Sister, wait for me."

"Well, my sister is waiting for Ximeng to take her home, and my sister still wants to eat Ximeng's cooking." Li Shishi smiled, "Ximeng, go quickly."

Ximeng looked back at her sister reluctantly, and walked out of the room silently.

Zhao Ji, who was sitting anxiously outside, saw Ximeng coming out from the inside, he quickly pulled him to his side, and dragged him outside without saying a word.

Ximeng is short, and his thighs are almost half shorter than his master's. When his master walks fast, Ximeng can only barely catch up with him by running.

"Official Zheng, why don't you sit down a little longer today?" Mother Li saw Zhao Ji pulling Ximeng out in a hurry, thinking that he was annoyed by Shishi's attitude of ignoring him, so she quickly said with a smile, "Officer, but because of Shishi's poor hospitality? I'll tell her. Don't be angry, come here often in the future."

"Hmph." Zhao Ji snorted coldly, and without looking back, he pulled Xi Meng into the sedan chair.

"Ah, what's the matter today?" Li's mother pushed Yugong, patted her thigh and said in annoyance, "Shishi, a dead ghost, why did you drive away the God of Wealth! Hurry up and see , inquire about his servants, and ask Official Zheng if he will come again in the future?"

"Hey." Hearing Mama Li's order, Yu Gong hurriedly chased him out.

A bright yellow sedan chair outside the door has not gone far, the sedan chair is carried by eight people, it is very grand.The sedan chair was accompanied by hundreds of guards, and the people on the street were all driven to the side of the street to make way. A wealthy businessman was even more ostentatious than a high-ranking official in the capital.

Yugong quickly opened his eyes and followed secretly, and asked the people nearby: "Do you know where this official is going?"

"This official?" The commoner gave Yugong a disdainful look, "Are you stupid? So the one who used to be an official?"

"Official... official?" Yugong was dumbfounded.

"Boss Li, you really don't know your blessings while you are in the blessing." A commoner came over and patted Yugong on the shoulder and said, "Officials often come to your place to play Li Shishi, you don't know? Someone saw that with their own eyes. The sedan chair came out of the palace and went back to the palace. You didn’t know it all this time?”

"Oh! My god! It's over!" Yu Gong was so scared that he ran back, panting, and ran back to Zhen'anfang, holding Mama Li's hand and crying, "Mom, it's over, it's over! We It's over, it's over!"

"What's the end? You damn ghost, what's the end?" Li's mother shook off Yugong's hand in disgust, rolled her eyes and said, "What are you doing like dead parents? I'll let you inquire about that Official Zheng went, why did you come back to my old lady crying like a mourner?"

"Official official." Yugong stammered nervously, "He is an official."

"Who is so and so? Who do you say is the official family?" Li's mother asked.

"It's that official Zheng, he, he's an official!"

"Ah?" Li's mother slapped her thigh, "Ah! It's over, it's over! Shishi annoyed him today... I, we won't be chopped off by everyone! You, you, me, me, let's go Pack up and pack up, let's run! Run!"

Thinking about offending the officials today, nine out of ten will be ransacked by the whole family, so Mama Li hastily dragged Yu Gong upstairs to pack his things.If you really want to kill all the people, then run here and there to escape for your life; if you don't hear anything after running away today, then run back to Tokyo to do business.In short, to be on the safe side, it is more important to escape to save your life.

Mama Li and Yu Gong were packing up their valuables in a hurry, when suddenly someone outside the door shouted, "The imperial decree is here!"

"Ah? So fast!" Mother Li was so frightened that her legs shook and she sat down on the ground.

①Official family: The title of the emperor in the Song Dynasty.