The worst is the next cousin

Mu Canshang led Mao Xiaofei into a small alley. He looked out with his head. It was very quiet here. There were no people at the intersection where he came in. It was a dead end with courtyard walls less than two feet high on both sides.

There is no place that Mao Xiaofei is not familiar with in Shangnan City. The west of the city is the place where ordinary people live under the root of the imperial city, with white walls and black tiles, and these small households are densely distributed in the small west area like a spider web.

"Brother Xiaofei." Mu Canshang looked down at Mao Xiaofei, hesitated to speak, and after a while, carefully asked the question that had been hidden in his heart, "Who is the girl just now? Is it your old acquaintance?"

"You've been following me?"

Seeing that Mao Xiaofei was about to frown again, Mu Canshang hurriedly said, "The three of you suddenly split up, I'm afraid you will be in danger."

But thanks to Mu Canshang following him all the time, if Mu Canshang was not around, he would be even more flustered now. If Mu Canshang was around, Yan Ningrong's people would chase him, at least he could buy some time to escape.

"I don't know her. I knocked over the flowers she was going to sell just now, and someone was chasing me, so I went to her house to hide." Mao Xiaofei frowned slightly, and looked at Mu Canshang suspiciously, "Why do I think You're much faster now."

In Mao Xiaofei's understanding, at least Mu Canshang can't do light work. At the beginning, he was very impressed. Although Mu Canshang has amazing arm strength, he can't do light work. Therefore, he believed that what Mu Canshang learned was from the army. Sticks, those internal strength and lightness skills that Mao Xiaofei only saw after getting acquainted with Xu Qi and glimpsed a vague outline of the rivers and lakes, are all things that Mu Canshang doesn't know.But Mu Canshang didn't say he couldn't, but he never used it in front of Mao Xiaofei.

"I'm worried about you." Mu Shen said.

Mao Xiaofei's lips moved, and when he wanted to say something, his mind went blank, and Yan Ningrong's people were chasing after him. The last time Mu Canshang mentioned that King Anyang was still angry, he didn't want to mention Yan Ningrong to this young man. .

"What should we do now?" Mao Xiaofei asked.

"Wait here for a while. I saw a clothing store on the way here. I changed my clothes and refitted them before going out." After speaking, Mu Canshang took off a heavy black coat and gave it to Mao Xiaofei. Put on, "Wear mine first, I'll be right back."

Mao Xiaofei held Fu Dong in his arms and waited in place in confusion.

Fu Dong looked up at his father, grabbed Mao Xiaofei by the collar, and asked in a low voice, "Father, who is chasing you? Why did we run away? Do you owe him money?"

Mao Xiaofei stroked Fu Dong's soft hair, "No, I don't know anyone either."

"I don't know why he wants to chase you? Is he out of his mind?"

Mao Xiaofei curled his lips helplessly, and sighed in a low voice: "Yeah, he's mentally ill."

"There are so many people with mental illness." Fu Dong muttered dissatisfiedly, his cheeks puffed up and down, "Compared to the one just now, it's not bad for you."

"Oh?" Mao Xiaofei patted Fu Dong's head dumbfounded, "What do you know?"

"He is willing to spend money for you." Fu Dong pursed his lips and said triumphantly, "Every time he wants to stay alone with Dad, he will give me money."

"Why did he give you money?" Mao Xiaofei was simply puzzled.

Fu Dong grinned happily, "I said I will only go out after paying the money."

"..."

"If I had known that he would be willing to give money, I should have asked for 100 taels at a time."

"..." Mao Xiaofei was so angry that he wanted to throw the child to the ground, resisting the urge, "Then how much did you sell your father for?"

"Twelve taels at a time!"

"Thank you. Generally, the red card is only five or six taels after meeting, right?"

"How can my father be cheap!" Fu Dong said confidently, "Next time I will increase the price!"

Sure enough, children are different every day, and they need strict discipline in the process of growing up. Mao Xiaofei deeply understood this, and solemnly hugged Fu Dong, so that he could just look him in the eye, and said earnestly: "Next time Stop doing that."

Fu Dong's eyes widened, he swallowed his rebuttal abruptly, and let out an "oh" unwillingly.

"Okay, I won't charge him next time."

"..." Mao Xiaofei thought and thought, and said helplessly, "You'd better take the money, a little more, 100 taels is fine." Only a fool would spend 100 taels to ask why a lifeless old man stays in a room The room was covered with quilts for pure chatting. Although ten taels was a relatively high market price, it was obviously nothing to Mu Shenshang.He must have bought it without hesitation because the bid was too low.

Not long after, Mu Canshang came back and brought two clothes of completely different colors, and asked Mao Xiaofei to dress up as a fisherman, put on a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat, and even gave him a fishing rod and a fishing basket.

He himself bought a basket, put Fu Dong in it, and covered his head and face with a floral cloth.He wore a royal blue long gown over the black robe.

Mao Xiaofei looked at the looks of the two with satisfaction, and whispered to Mu Canshang, "Go ahead."

But Mu Canshang said: "No, brother Xiaofei, don't look nervous. We are a couple and we are going to walk together. I'm not sure if anyone noticed me just now, we should walk together like a family of three. I have already observed that there are quite a few couples of men on the street, and your monarch's decree has been thoroughly implemented."

In the end, Mu Canshang held Mao Xiaofei's hand, carried Fu Dong on his back, and walked out into the street swaggeringly.

Mao Xiaofei couldn't help looking around, and suddenly, a warm hand held his chin, and he was caught off guard by Mu Canshang's eye contact. Mu Canshang's serious eyes on Mao Xiaofei made him want to dodge.

"Brother Xiaofei, you are too nervous, so it is easy to be found out. We should chat while shopping, eat while walking, find a place to drink tea, and see if there are any small things suitable for home shopping at the street vendors. Buy some food That's fine too."

The tension eased involuntarily. What Mu Canshang said was right. Now that he was looking around like this, he was more likely to be discovered by spies who didn't know where he was hiding.

As soon as he relaxed, Mao Xiaofei found that the temperature in Mu Canshang's hands was very high. He was originally such a cold person.Mao Xiaofei glanced sideways at Mu Canshang, his perfect profile was like a god in mythology, so handsome that it made people jealous.

The afternoon sun shines on the whole street, and there are bustling people coming and going everywhere. Shangnan City is always bustling with people, and the noise of hawking is endless. People come for profit and go for profit.It seems that people's life has been like this from ancient times to the present.

For a moment, Mao Xiaofei didn't know why, emotion and vague melancholy surged into his heart along with the crowd.

Mu Canshang's hands tightened.

Only then did Mao Xiaofei come back to his senses, and heard Fu Dong's excited shouts——

"I want to eat that, Dad, what's that? The red one, those boxes, the one they're all eating!"

It was a small stall, and a row of dozens of small plum red boxes were neatly placed on the stand, which was not sealed.Many boys and girls hugged and bought in front of the stall.

"It's not something delicious..." Mao Xiaofei just wanted to leave quickly. At this time, what made Mao Xiaofei even more worried was whether Xu Qi and the others had successfully got rid of Yan Ningrong's people, and what happened to the Qinglong gang? On the southern border, as long as Yan Ningrong gives an order, it is very likely that everyone will not be able to beat them up.If he can't get away, what will happen to the poison on his body.

When he was overwhelmed, Mu Canshang held Mao Xiaofei's hand tightly and bought three boxes of gadgets.

Sliced ​​yellow apricots, plums and gingers, bright red candied candies and candied plums were piled together in a box.

"Father, this is delicious!" Fu Dong twisted half of his body and stretched out his back basket, and directly fed a golden silk plum into Mao Xiaofei's mouth.

As the sweet and sour taste melted in the mouth, the nervousness disappeared immediately.

Mao Xiaofei found that he had absolutely no way to deal with Fu Dong, the kid was only thinking about food and money.

There was a smile in Mu Canshang's jewel-like eyes, "Brother Xiao Fei, try this."

After eating apricot slices and plum ginger, Mao Xiaofei originally wanted to tell them that these things may not be clean during the pickling process in the back kitchen, any bird can peck them, and any insects can crawl twice.But seeing Mu Canshang's innocent and innocent smile, Fu Dong was so focused on eating that he didn't even bother to lift his head up. When he heard the child excitedly calling him daddy, he had found something delicious.

Mao Xiaofei couldn't say anything for a while.

On Shangnan Street, many men and women squeezed each other, and even came out generously, and there were also men and men happily walking around the street arm in arm.

This was unimaginable a year ago.

At this moment, Mao Xiaofei didn't see how Mu Canshang moved at all, only heard a "whoosh", and Mu Canshang turned slightly sideways.

Mu Canshang raised his left hand and backhanded a long arrow that he had just caught, and the arrow flew out with the bloody arrowhead dragging it.

"Let's go." Mu Canshang patted Mao Xiaofei's back.

Mao Xiaofei broke out in a cold sweat, he didn't dare to look behind him, picked up Fu Dong and ran away.

Mu Canshang naturally fell behind to protect them.

Uneven screams erupted from the crowd, and the vendors pushed their carts and withdrew with the crowded flow of people. Men, women, old and young hid towards the teahouses on both sides.

Mao Xiaofei hugged Fu Dong tightly, ran desperately for tens of meters before he dared to look back, saw Mu Canshang not far away, his heart sank suddenly.

"Mu Canshang!" Suddenly, Mao Xiaofei's pupils constricted and he yelled.

Mu Canshang struck back with a sword, and his clanking voice made people's teeth ache.

Mao Xiaofei looked around, and finally saw clearly from the arrow tower not far away where the arrow that was shot at Mu Canshang just now came from. A few tens of meters away, Mao Xiaofei could also recognize it at a glance, the one standing proudly on the upstairs was hugging him. The man in bright gray sable fur is exactly Yan Ningrong with frosty face.

Yan Ningrong moved really fast!Mao Xiaofei thought to himself, he stood up and gasped for a few breaths, turned around and ran to Mu Canshang's side, and shouted loudly: "You hold the child, you go to the front!"

"No." Mu Canshang stubbornly refused.

"I'll be fine, he won't shoot arrows at me." I don't know where Mao Xiaofei's confidence comes from, his lips trembled guiltyly, "If he wants to catch me, he must catch me alive, otherwise what are you doing? You go to the front go!"

Regardless of Mao Xiaofei's intentions, Mu Canshang wrapped his arms around his shoulders and pushed him forward amidst the crowd.

There were several clangs again.

The crowd gradually dispersed, and people around found that the two men holding the child were the targets of those people on the watchtower, so the crowd who had been running away in panic diverted to avoid Mao Xiaofei and the others, and instead, the three of them were completely exposed to the ambush in the teahouse. A target for archers.

"Go over there." Mu Canshang said in a deep voice, and the three of them directly picked a teahouse around their arms.

Mao Xiaofei desperately kept up with Mu Canshang's speed, not letting himself be held back.Stepping up the stairs, I heard Mu Canshang yell with iron determination: "Don't move, just wait here for me!"

Soon, there were countless screams from upstairs, and hundreds of people crowded together downstairs, each of them probed their brains to see what happened.Mao Xiaofei patted Fu Dong with his sweaty palms.

Fu Dong curled his lips, "When my teeth grow out, I can protect Dad."

"You boy..." Mao Xiaofei was relieved and sad at the same time. If he was strong in martial arts, he wouldn't have to hide here and be a coward. He could fight side by side with Mu Canshang, and he didn't even have to be afraid of Yan Ningrong. He confronted.Mao Xiaofei found that the moment he saw Yan Ningrong, he felt uncomfortable instinctively. The discomfort was not because he still had any remaining feelings for Yan Ningrong, but because seeing this person reminded him of those deceptions, and reminded him of how Like a fool, he wanted to live the most ordinary life with this high-ranking prince, and those times when he had completely unrealistic dreams.

It was like a loud slap, slapped on his face again after a few months.

The tip of the tongue pushed against the soft gums of the lower front teeth twice in the mouth. The pain from the tooth extraction was still as clear as yesterday, and the flesh there was still aching when pressed by the tongue.

If it weren't for that experience, Mao Xiaofei, who was a bit of a rascal and a bit of a ruffian in the past, would not be able to look forward and backward when facing Mu Shenshang.He just wants to accept his fate, be a common man, save his life, and live a stable life with one acre of land.However, Mu Canshang wanted to provoke him, and he intervened in his affairs again and again, which made him passively owe more and more favors.

"Father!" Fu Dong yelled suddenly, clutching Mao Xiaofei's lapel and piercing into his chest.

A silver bright and cold light flashed by, Mao Xiaofei was surprised to find that he could see the origin of the knife clearly, without leaving any trace in the air, but let Mao Xiaofei see the direction of the blade clearly, he quickly moved to the right With one side and short shoulders, he slid over as quickly as a snake, and kicked him from behind like a winter melon and rolled down the stairs.

Upstairs, Mu Canshang's face was pale with shock, and his outstretched hands trembled slightly.

"Come up."

Mao Xiaofei grabbed Mu Canshang's hand dripping with cold sweat, and Mu Canshang carried Fu Dong over. The upstairs was full of archers lying on the ground who could no longer get up and fight. Mao Xiaofei followed behind Mu Canshang, gently pulling Fu Dong with one hand. The sleeves of his robe followed him closely step by step.

As soon as he went upstairs, Mu Canshang suddenly hugged Mao Xiaofei tightly.

Fu Dong rolled his eyes in dissatisfaction at being squeezed.

The hug came quickly and hard.

Mao Xiaofei was stunned for a moment, but fortunately Mu Canshang didn't stop, the bloody long sword was hanging by his side, needless to say, Mao Xiaofei didn't dare to slacken at all to follow him closely.