Placid Chang'an

"Xiao Hong..." Qu Ling'er frowned, before she could speak again, a length of water sleeve was already in front of her eyes, her waist was folded back, Qu Ling'er dodged in a panic, and shouted angrily, "What are you doing?!"

Qing Chen glared: "How many times have I told you, don't call me Xiaohong!"

"If I don't call you Xiaohong, what should I call you?" Qu Ling'er was aggrieved, "Could it be that they call you Miss Qingchen like them?"

"You can call her whatever you want, but you can't call her Xiaohong!"

"Xiaohong is so nice," Qu Ling'er muttered in a low voice, dragged a stool and sat down, "Why did you come to Yangzhou?"

Qing Chen flicked his sleeves and sat down on the chair carelessly, "After you left, many things happened at the secret door. The situation in the north was tense, and many people withdrew back. I don't know if you are not at the secret door these days. The people in the village were exposed, and the people at the gate of death were almost wiped out, and even several secret posts in Chang'an city were destroyed. The north is not peaceful, so the master asked me to transfer here."

Qu Ling'er lowered her head and rubbed her nose, she didn't have the nerve to say that he was involved in that incident, she just said: "Then how are you all? Are you, Han Shu and Master all right?"

"Do you still know how to miss us?" Qing Chen gave Qu Ling'er a serious look, "When you left, we thought you were dead, look at my eyes, I almost cried for you Han Shu went to sit and drink on the edge of the cliff for several months in a row, and he was drunk every time. If the master hadn't paid him out, he would probably still be soaked in the wine jar. You are lucky, you don't know how to come back when you are alive Say hello and let us be sad for so long."

Qu Ling'er bit her lip, he, Han Shu and Xiao Hong were all brought up by their master, and they had deep feelings since they were young, if it wasn't for love, he would never betray the secret door and leave them alone.

"Master misses you too. Although he didn't say anything, I saw him pacing outside in the middle of the night several times, sighing nonstop."

"Master, he..." Qu Ling'er lowered her head secretly. Master should be the first person to find out that he is not dead. Back in Chang'an City, he used the man in black to pass the news to him, but Xiaohong and Han The book doesn't know about him, so the master probably didn't disclose the news of his life to others.

What is Master sighing about?Lamenting the heinous crimes he committed?Or lament that the future of all of them is uncertain?

"Hey," Qing Chen took a candied fruit from the table and threw it at him, "How did you survive in the first place? So many people saw you jump off the cliff, thousands of feet off the cliff, and there were no bones left when you fell off the cliff. Can't you fly?"

Qu Ling'er raised her eyebrows and smiled: "The secret door chased me, and they could find me even if I fled to the ends of the earth. I can only let them think that I am dead to escape. I have already wedged myself on the cliff. I planted two long logs, and climbed up the cliff after everyone left."

Master must have seen those two long logs before he concluded that he was not dead.

Qing Chen frowned: "Why did they chase you down?"

Qu Ling'er rolled her eyes back: "Do you want to be hunted down too?"

Qing Chen shut his mouth angrily.

After a while, he kicked Su Cen again and asked, "What about him? How did you hook up with him?"

Qu Ling'er looked at the sleeping Su Cen, and said softly, "He saved me."

Qing Chen picked up a strand of hair on Su Cen's temples that covered his face, looked carefully, and said, "You have a pretty face, but you didn't say a word of truth, and you even tried to get me to say something."

Qu Ling'er was afraid that his elder brother Su would be thrown into the river in a fit of anger, so she explained: "He is indeed from the north, and his family is indeed in business."

Qing Chen stroked Su Cen's face lightly with his finger, "No wonder the raw skin is tender and fleshy, it shouldn't be drugged, it should be aphrodisiac."

"No," Qu Ling'er twitched her lips, pointing at Su Cen, "He...he won't lift it."

Qing Chen raised his head: "How do you know?"

The two of them took a lot of effort to carry Su Cen to the next room and just came back to continue talking about the old days. This talk lasted most of the night.

At dawn, Qu Ling'er yawned and went to the next door, thinking about calling Su Cen to get off the boat. She opened the door and looked on the bed, her mind exploded with a bang.

Su Cen is gone!

Xiao Hong is a master at using poison, if she wants someone to sleep until the fifth watch, there is absolutely no reason to wake up at the third watch, if Su Cen is not in the room, someone must have touched her.

A window in the room was open, facing the dark water outside, in case someone threw Su Cen down here while Su Cen was asleep...

He said he would protect him, but something happened right under his nose!

Qu Ling'er forcibly collected herself, she didn't hear the sound of something falling into the water, and the boat didn't touch the shore, so the person should still be on board.Qu Ling'er jumped out from the window string and flew onto the mast. As long as she was still on board, he could always be seen from the highest point.

As soon as she got up, Qu Ling'er was stunned, a figure in white clothes stood facing the wind at the bow of the boat, whoever it was, Brother Su.

Qu Ling'er went down from the mast silently, she couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief when she saw the people on the bow, and patted the people on the shoulder: "Brother Su."

"Huh?" Su Cen tilted his head and smiled at Qu Ling'er, "Are you done talking?"

Qu Ling'er was startled: "How do you know...you weren't asleep?!"

When the night breeze was blowing, Su Cen raised a few strands of hair on her temples and squinted at Qu Ling'er: "Didn't you tell me not to touch the things on the boat?"

"I clearly saw you drinking that tea!"

Su Cen: "I spit it out again."

Qu Ling'er: "Then...then, then you know everything? You heard everything we said?"

Su Cen nodded, "I won't raise anything."

Qu Linger: "..."

"No, Brother Su, listen to my explanation," Qu Ling'er gestured with her hands and feet on the ground and said, "I didn't do it on purpose, I did it for your own good, you don't know that Xiaohong is... Brother Su, I was wrong, Don't want me anymore."

Su Cen was amused, "Why would I not want you?"

Qu Ling'er frowned and said, "Because I have contacts with people from the secret door."

Su Cen said with a smile: "You came from a secret door, so it's not surprising to meet an old friend and say hello. If you deliberately deny it, I will suspect your motive for approaching me."

Qu Ling'er scratched her head and said embarrassedly: "Did you already know that Xiaohong is the person from the secret door?"

"No," Su Cen shook his head and said, "I only found out after I got on the boat. The three rounds of competition she set up seemed random, but in fact they were very sophisticated. In the first round, she beat the drum and passed the flower. When the drum was in her hands, she counterattacked." The drum will be able to eliminate some people first, the second round is actually a test of kung fu, and the third round is the real knowledge. If I guessed correctly, she kept me until the end because I was part of this group of people The only fresh face, she wants to find out about me."

"Xiaohong is indeed staying here by the secret door to find out about the situation in Yangzhou City," Qu Ling'er thought of something again, "Then before you boarded the boat, you said that there was someone you were interested in, isn't it Xiaohong?"

"No, what I'm interested in is the second son," Su Cen tapped on the railing lightly, "Although he is dressed in fine clothes, his behavior is a bit vulgar and rascal. The only ones who can be called sons are salt merchants Wang's and Jia's, tea merchants Su's, and cloth merchants Yue's family. It's impossible for me not to know the Su family. The remaining Wang family has no males, so the second son can only be from the Jia family. I just want to see if this young master from the Jia family is really as ignorant as the rumors say."

"What's the result?" Qu Ling'er continued to ask.

Su Cen shook his head, as long as the second young master didn't hide too deeply, he would be an idiot without a doubt.

The Wang family has no males, and the entire family business has fallen into the hands of a cheap son-in-law, He Xiao. The young master of the Jia family died young, and the master is old, leaving only an illiterate wanderer to hang around in Qinlou and Chu. Therefore, the salt in Yangzhou city is actually in the hands of He Xiao alone.

Seeing that Su Cen was lost in thought again, Qu Ling'er tugged at Su Cen's sleeve, a little confused: "Brother Su...can you stop embarrassing Xiaohong and the others, she is responsible for passing the news to the secret door, she didn't do it What happened to murder and arson?"

Su Cen turned her head and squinted her eyes for a while, then raised her lips and smiled: "It's not impossible, but you have to help me with something."

Qu Ling'er tilted her head: "Huh?"

When the sky was turning white, the flower boat returned to the east water gate and docked. The young masters and young masters who spent a happy night on the boat left the boat, and once they landed, they turned into their well-dressed appearances again.

Qu Ling'er felt the imposing aura on the shore from a long distance away, when the boat approached slowly, she saw a man standing in the mist, tall and tall, with a face as cold as ice, with a long sword in his hand waiting to be released.

Qu Ling'er swallowed her saliva: "Brother Su...can we change?"

Su Cen narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Then what can I do, I can't let Li Shi know that I went out to the flower houses behind his back while investigating the case, if you don't take it, I can only tell Qi Lin that I came to investigate the secret door Yes, if he finds out something by then, I won’t be able to help him.”

Qu Linger: "..."

Last night, he actually felt that this person was considerate and thoughtful, such a big-headed ghost!If I knew it was like this, I should have thrown the man into the river to feed the fish.

Qu Ling'er hid behind Su Cen all the way ashore and did not dare to say anything, but Su Cen greeted Qi Lin with a candid look.

Qi Lin stood with his sword in his arms, staring coldly at the two people who did not move.He came back from delivering a letter from the Weiyuan Escort yesterday, went to the inn and saw that the two of them were gone, he searched anxiously in the middle of the night and almost revealed his identity and asked Xue Zhi to search for the two of them in the whole city. Boat.

Su Cen tugged at Qu Ling'er, and Qu Ling'er reluctantly poked her head out from behind: "Brother Qi, it's me..."

Qi Lin gave him a cold look, "We'll talk about it when we go back."

According to Su Cen's recollection, after going back that day, Qu Ling'er was dragged into the room and could not come out for a day. My legs trembled, and I didn't walk smoothly for several days.

But when Su Cen got up at night, he still saw this man secretly knocking on the door of Qi Lin's room in the middle of the night, and when the door opened, he jumped up and hung on Qi Lin's neck without letting go.

Su Cen clicked his tongue twice, sighed "Young people don't know how to feel sad", lifted his trousers and went back to the room.