bastard returns

The servant girl was puzzled, "Aunt Tang's happy life, why are you so happy, Aunt Tang, won't the master come less often in the future?"

"At least the master won't go to Da Furen's courtyard anymore. As long as Da Furen suffers, I will be happy." Zhuang took a sip of tea and said to the servant girl: "Go, quietly send a message to Ruining Yuan, saying The master is going to stay at the Xianglian Courtyard tonight, if Aunt Tang can have a bright future, she must let the eldest lady join in the fun, right?"

That night, many people in the Ning Mansion did not fall asleep, and most of them turned their eyes to the Ruining Courtyard and the Xianglian Courtyard to watch the show. There was no other reason. For the first time, I went to Aunt Tang's residence.

This news is not small. In the eyes of everyone in the mansion, the Xianglian courtyard has always been disliked by Ning Ruhai. For so many years, he has been living a life almost under house arrest. He doesn't even like his father with a pair of children. , why Ning Ruhai would suddenly spend the night with her is really incomprehensible.There were even quite a few servants quietly gossiping about gossip, similar to the sound of the piano playing in the Xianglian courtyard for most of the night, and the sound of falling things in the Ruining courtyard for most of the night, and the spread was very exciting.

The next morning, Yan stared at the two bruises under his eyes and was eating breakfast. Madam Xu didn't dare to speak as long as she was a servant. Almost smashed all the miscellaneous things in the bedroom, and even cursed Tang like a crazy woman, with no manners at all, which frightened them all, especially Mama Xu who has served Yan for many years and never saw her Having been so hysterical, she thought about it carefully, it seems that Yan's temper has become weird since she started to practice the "Jade Heart Sutra" she got from the fourth prince. When Ning Ruhai was around, she was tender and tender, but Once Ruhai is not around, she will be very irritable and angry.

At this moment, a maid came in and whispered a few words to Mama Xu, Mama Xu's complexion changed, and she immediately said: "No, let her go back where she came from!"

But Mother Xu's words were obviously too late, because before her words fell, a woman in red came in with two maids. Chaotian's appearance was completely different. After she came in, she only bowed her knees to salute Yan, and opened her mouth and said, "Madam, I'm here to pick up my daughter."

Yan stared coldly at the woman in red, and sneered, "Tang Yingyao?"

"Xin'er has lived here for a few days, and it's really bothering you. Before she disturbs your peace, it's better for me to pick you up." Tang's back straightened, "Madam, please bring her out Bar."

"Hmph, where do you think I am here? Do you bring people when you say you take them?" Yan's heart was originally angry, but now that he has met the sufferer, there is no reason to be polite to her. Not only is his tone cold, but his expression is not Maintain the dignity of the past, "And as I said, Ning Xiner is being trained by my mother-in-law here. When I feel that the training is good, I will naturally send her back. Why are you so anxious!"

"I think you made a mistake, Ma'am. I didn't come here to discuss with you." Tang's words did not show any compromise, and even repeated the sentence that Yan's leading people that day What I said at the time, "I have said that, I have already obtained the master's instruction, and I must take Xin'er back today. If the eldest lady does not hand over someone, don't you want me to ask the master to come over in person?"

"What are you, you dare to lift the master out to crush me!" Yan Shi slapped the table and stood up, "So what if I don't pay, someone, come and drive her out!"

"Ma'am, no, no!" Xu's mother hurriedly persuaded in a low voice, "Since Aunt Tang dared to come here, she must have really got the master's instruction. If you don't like Aunt Tang, you have to take care of the master's face and your relationship as husband and wife!"

Xu's mother was right, Yan took a few deep breaths of anger, and finally said: "Come on, bring that girl here!"

Soon, a maid brought Ning Xiner over. Ning Xiner's face was full of timidity. After seeing Tang, she hurriedly called "Mother", and immediately broke away from the maid who was leading her, and went to Tang's Flutter in his arms.

Tang shi suppressed her emotions, knowing that now was not the time to talk, she only protected Ning Xin'er behind her, and said to Yan shi: "Thank you, madam, madam is so considerate of my concubine, if the master knows about it, he will definitely praise her virtuousness .”

Yan Shi was only angry and didn't want to talk to Tang Shi, just wanted to wave his hand to make people go away, but Tang Shi said again: "I have behaved all these years, and I have never had any trouble with you, Da Furen, what I think It's just to live a safe life, but if the eldest lady pushes me so hard that I can't even get a safe life, then I have to fight for my child to grow up safely, I hope Da Furen will take care of it, rabbits will bite people when they are in a hurry!" After speaking, she bent her knees to Tang again, led Ning Xiner to turn around and left.

Yan Shi looked angrily at the back of them leaving, and finally couldn't hold back his temper anymore, grabbed the dishes in front of him and threw them in the direction they left, splashing debris all over the floor.

Ning Mo's two successive biography letters can be said to make Ning Yuan's heart hang high and then fall heavily.

Knowing that Ning Xin'er was finally taken back from Yan's hands by the Tang family, even though Ning Yuan felt relieved, she still couldn't help worrying. Tang's obviously wanted to save Ning Xin'er, so she had no choice but to abandon her plan to live in peace, and began to humiliate her To curry favor with the man who had betrayed her for so many years, she did so, which was tantamount to confronting the eldest lady directly. Thinking of the situation of Tang and her younger sister, Ning Yuan wished to understand the matter at hand and rush back.

But now he can't leave. Firstly, the rumors in Jiangzhou City are still unresolved, and it's not time for him to go back; secondly, in the past few days in Xianghe, he has found almost nothing useful. will not be reconciled.

Over the past few days, Ning Yuan can be said to have walked all the fields around the farm. Except that no crops can grow, there is no other abnormality in the fields, but he has no intention of giving up at all. His intuition tells He, the change in Xianghe Town must be inextricably linked to the Da Furen's unidentified property, and he must be able to find the loophole.

As for some of the fine work around Ning Yuan, Huyan Yuanchen has already taken over from Zhou Shi's hands. He is like a big follower, bringing tea and water to Ning Yuan during the day, and stretching his shins with internal force at night. Ning Yuan is no stranger to such courteous intimacy. In any case, he has long seen that Huyan Yuanchen has no bad intentions and is simply doing things according to his own preferences. Since he will not hinder himself, Ning Yuan There is no need to worry about that much.

What's more, after walking so much every day, it is inevitable that his legs will be sore, but every time Huyan Yuanchen massages him with a pair of big palms for a while, the soreness will disappear, and he will often fall asleep halfway and wake up again When he came, he had already been wiped and changed into clothes, and fell asleep on Huyan Yuanchen's arm.And whenever Ning Yuan opened his eyes in the middle of the night and looked at Huyan Yuanchen's face close at hand, he would have a strange idea in his heart, feeling that the way the two of them got along was really like a pair of lovers for a moment .

But this kind of thinking will only appear for a moment, because Ning Yuan's intuition tells him that Huyan Yuanchen is not the type of person who would like men. As for himself, after experiencing the things that happened to Sikong Xu, his heart is ashamed. He doesn't need anything other than guarding his mother and sister well.

On this day, Ning Yuan came back from the field as usual, and when he was still some distance away from the farm, he suddenly saw a group of shabby men chasing and kicking an eleven or twelve-year-old boy, who was lying on the ground, He only covered his head with his hands, and said nothing. There were a few officers and soldiers standing next to the second group of people, but they watched this scene as if they were watching a play, and they didn't care about it.

Ning Yuan recognized these people as criminals exiled here. Seeing that the young man was about to be beaten to death, he couldn't bear it. He glanced at Zhou Shi behind him. The officers and soldiers whispered a few words, and handed over a piece of silver. Those officers and soldiers took the money to do things, and drove away the besiegers who beat up the young man. Followed him to walk in front of Ning Yuan.

The young man seemed to have been beaten into a daze, with his head lowered all the time, Ning Yuan saw something tightly clutched in his hand, and after a closer look, he found that it was a black cornbread.

"Master, these people are all criminals who were exiled here. Those people beat him, as if he stole other people's food." Zhou Shi said briefly: "The life of these exiled prisoners is very bad. Every day He can only get a little food, and the rest of the time has to go to the river not far away to dig river sand, judging by his appearance, if he is not very hungry, he will not steal things."

Ning Yuan took the water bottle that he carried with him, squatted down to lift the boy up, and wanted to feed him some water, but when he saw the boy's facial features clearly, he froze for a while.

Even though the boy hadn't grown up yet, and his face was bruised everywhere, he could still be recognized as a handsome face with well-defined features.

The boy didn't know where the group of people in front of him came from, especially the guy who was squatting down and looking at him, who looked only one or two years older than him, but he was really hungry and thirsty, even though he pursed his lips tightly , with gloomy eyes, pretending to be willing to die rather than submit, but looking at the kettle in Ning Yuan's hand, the wriggling throat still betrayed him.

Ning Yuan was stunned for a moment before regaining his senses, and handed the water bottle out. The young man was not polite, grabbed the water bottle and began to eat and drink without caring about his image with the black cornbread in his hand.

The cornbread was not big, so he finished it in a while, and gulped down all the water in Ning Yuan's kettle before hiccupping, and said stiffly to Ning Yuan, "Thank you."

"What's your name?" Ning Yuan asked him.

"Nuxuan." The young man wiped his mouth and glanced at Ning Yuan, "If there's nothing wrong, I'm going back, so that the officers and soldiers won't trouble me with this as an excuse." The young man rushed to Ning Yuan very old. Yuan nodded, got up and patted his buttocks, and ran towards the way he came from without looking back.

Ning Yuan kept looking at the direction he was leaving until the thin figure disappeared.

Huyan Yuanchen said in a slightly strange tone beside him: "It's rare to see you caring about a person like this. Could it be that you see that kid is smart and want to take him in as a servant?"

Ning Yuan turned his head and glanced at him, "Didn't you find out who he looks like?"

"Who does he look like?" Huyan Yuanchen recalled the boy's face, but just now he was all focused on why Ning Yuan was so nice to that boy, and he didn't pay attention to the boy's appearance.

Seeing Huyan Yuanchen shaking his head, Ning Yuan let out a soft breath, thinking, it's fine if he can't recognize him, one thing more is worse than one thing less.

Slave is not a surname, but a person who committed a crime and was exiled. According to the law, he was deprived of his original surname, so he will take slave as his surname to declare that they are low-status, sinful bodies who are not even worthy of having a surname. .

The boy just now, if Ning Yuan read it correctly, his appearance is three to four points similar to Sikong Yue and Sikong Xu, and his name is Xuan, which makes Ning Yuan naturally think of a person, In his previous life, the sixth prince, Sikong Xuan, who was once framed by the concubine Yue and was kicked out of the palace by the emperor on the charge of disrespect, and exiled as a slave for two years.

Ning Yuan suddenly discovered that his trip to Xianghe was not in vain, because God had placed a huge opportunity in front of him.

Although Sikongxuan was framed and was expelled from the imperial status for a time, after the empress dowager sent concubine Yue, both he and his biological mother, Concubine Shu, were rehabilitated and restored, but Concubine Shu was forced to live in exile because of the hardships. As for the sudden death, Sikong Xuan had to return to the palace with regret. Even though the prince was young, his intelligence and intelligence were not inferior to Sikong Yue's. Enemy No. [-] outside.

After Ning Yuan was reborn, he was entangled in many things and couldn't spare any energy to pay attention to this. Now that he thinks about it carefully, after Sikongxuan and Shu Guipin were kicked out of Huajing, the place where they were assigned was not the right place. Is it Xianghe Town, Jiangzhou Prefecture? After a long time, this His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince, who was regarded as a thorn in the flesh by Sikong Xu a few years later, is now living in the backyard of his own farm?

Ning Yuan couldn't help laughing, how could he let go of such a god-given opportunity, God let him form a good relationship today, but also gave him a powerful weapon that can deal with Sikong Xu!

"Zhou Shi, if you have nothing to do recently, you don't have to be by my side anymore, and help me secretly take care of the child just now." Ning Yuan said: "If necessary, give some benefits to the officers and soldiers who guard them, and let them pay more attention to it. , don’t let people bully him again.”

"Yes." Although Zhou Shi was puzzled by Monk Zhanger's arrangement with Ning Yuan, he had always been loyal to Ning Yuan and would not question him, and immediately took orders.

Huyan Yuanchen, on the other hand, looked at Ning Yuan with more and more amazement, as if he didn't understand why Ning Yuan cared so much about such an exiled prisoner, and in those eyes staring at the back of Ning Yuan's head, there was a trace of him himself. The jealous fire that can't be seen is slowly bursting out.

082 Fragrant River Secret

"Young master, I have already found out the general situation. The crimes of those people in the backyard are just sending them here and banning them from entering the capital forever. These people are guarded and work every day, anyway, those people are waiting for crimes, as long as they don’t kill people, no one will hold them accountable.” Zhou Shi said slowly in front of Ning Yuan, “They have to go to the river every day to carry Hesha, and then receive food according to the amount of labor. The nuxuan you asked me to take care of secretly, because his mother fell ill and couldn’t work, his labor force as a child must be inferior to that of an adult man, and he can’t get enough food every day. How much food is needed to feed my mother, so I often don’t have anything to eat for two or three days, and then I’m so hungry that I steal other people’s food.”

Ning Yuan sat at the table, staring at the open book in front of him, but didn't speak or turn the pages.It is really pitiful that a prince who has been pampered since childhood has fallen into such a situation.

"Are the government officials so stupid that even women and children are forced to work?" After a while, Ning Yuan asked.

"This is also the strangest point. Almost all the people who are guarded to work every day are grown men, with the exception of their two mothers and their children. I asked a few soldiers, and they said that according to the rules, they would not arrest the old, the weak, women and children. They came here to work, but the two mothers and sons seem to have been ordered by officials above to arrange them to work, so they did this on purpose."

Ning Yuan nodded, "I see, you can continue to do as I told you."

Since the official got the order, what else can he order must be related to the struggle for power and profit. Since Ning Yuan decided to form a good relationship with the troubled sixth prince, even if the biggest purpose is for himself, from the perspective of the heart, Nor could he ignore the bullying of such a pair of orphans and widows.

I don't know when, Nuxuan found a good place to get food.

There is a young master living in the front yard of this village. The young master has to go to the barren fields every day. Before returning, he will drink water and rest under a dead tree that is far away from the side door of the backyard with his followers. When they left, Nuxuan took advantage of the unpreparedness of the officers and soldiers and ran over quietly, always finding some leftovers from their meals.

Of course it's not a good thing, it's just ordinary corned yams, but for Nuxuan, these vulgar foods are life-saving things, so after he came back from carrying river sand every afternoon, the others were busy sleeping on the bed. To recharge his batteries in the house, he would quietly go to the side door to squat, wait for the young master to take someone away, and then immediately go to pick up the leaks, not only to eat for himself, but also to save some for his mother.

But Nuxuan is not stupid, gradually, he noticed something strange, the things that the young master left every day were fixed and rationed, and it didn't look like leftovers, but rather put them there on purpose for people to pick them up. , Nuxuan couldn't help his curiosity, thinking that the handsome young master had helped him once, unlike the bad guys his mother told him to beware of, so before the young master and his entourage left, he nervously Appearing and leaning over, he saw that the young master did not drive him away, but instead pushed the food box in front of him towards him with a kind smile, he blinked, and immediately grabbed the food box without any scruples Eat up.

Once there is the first time, there will be the second time. The things in the young master’s food box are much better than Wotou yams, and sometimes there are fish and meat, but what makes Nu Xuan strange is that every time he appears, the young master can only let it go. Watching him eat, but never opening his mouth to speak, when he finished eating, he packed up his things and left, which made Nuxuan's curiosity gradually grow, and the tall "guard" beside the young master seemed very dissatisfied with him , always looked at him with a strange look, as if he was in the way, and finally one day, when Nuxuan reappeared, he did not sit down and eat immediately, but said to Ning Yuan: "During this time, I'm giving you trouble."

Ning Yuan smiled, as if he finally waited until the young man took the initiative to speak, "Why do you say that?"

"Young master, you seem to come from a wealthy family. It's better not to have anything to do with criminals like me." Nuxuan said with a serious expression, "Thank you for the food during this time, but I don't want to cause trouble for the young master."

"Since I let you eat, I naturally won't find you troublesome." Ning Yuan smiled and said, "It's just a little food, you don't have to pay too much attention to it."

"That's right, it's just a bit of food. I don't think the young master looks like a stingy person." Nuxuan was also open-minded, and after a few sentences, he felt relieved, sat down without restraint, grabbed something carelessly, and put it into his mouth. Sai, obviously already hungry.

Looking at the young man in front of him, Ning Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.If he is too deliberate in giving benefits and helping people, there is no guarantee that people will not be suspicious, especially since Sikong Xuan was framed and left the palace. Self-defeating.Only by using such a trick of playing hard to get, making Sikong Xuan feel that he took the initiative to get together, can the relationship between them develop naturally.

However, Ning Yuan also felt that whenever he treated this boy better, there would be an inexplicable burst of low air pressure behind him, and the center of the air pressure was Huyan Yuanchen. Still feel weird.

Thinking about it carefully, they seem to have not spoken for several days. After returning home every night, Ning Yuan is almost reading, and Huyan Yuanchen is either teaching Zhou Shi to practice martial arts, or he doesn’t know what he is doing even if he goes out in the middle of the night Although the two met every day, they didn't have the opportunity to chat.Sometimes when Ning Yuan wakes up in the middle of the night, he finds that he is lying on the bed alone, and Huyan Yuanchen is not there. Although the rare spaciousness of the bed allows him to stretch out his body, he feels like something is missing in his heart.

The days are going on in an orderly manner, just over a month has passed, judging from the regular letters sent by Ning Mo, there has not been any major changes in the Ning Mansion, and the Yan family has been surprisingly quiet during this time, he does not know where to invite A doctor came to treat Ning Zhan, and he stayed in his yard all day and hardly went out. Because Tang had regained Ning Ruhai's attention, everything in the Xianglian courtyard was safe, and Ning Yuan forced people in the city. The rumors of Ning Xiang's death have also subsided a lot. According to Ning Mo's intention, he asked Ning Yuan to prepare and pick a date to go back.

But Ning Yuan was not reconciled to leaving like this. After staying in Xianghe Town for so long, not only did he not find out any clues about the eldest lady, but he also couldn't find any clues about why the fields were not producing food. Going back now is equivalent to a waste of time. , how could he agree.

But this fact is very strange. For more than a month, Ning Yuan has searched almost all possibilities, from seeds to water sources, and checked them all one by one, and found nothing wrong. , I picked a field and sowed a lot of seeds, but those seeds could indeed germinate and break through the soil smoothly at the beginning, but before they had time to grow to a high level, the seedlings would turn yellow and die, which was very evil.

For Ning Yuan's attempt, Li Guanshi of Tianzhuang is not surprised. In his opinion, this Xianghe Town has probably recruited some kind of plague god, otherwise why would there be seedlings that were lush one day, and all the seedlings would appear the next day? Regarding the matter of withering, Ning Yuan tried to find out the reason, but it was a waste of effort.

Ning Yuan was very distressed, and the weather had entered the dog days, and the sun was very hot, so he didn't go out for several days. On this day, Ning Yuan was wearing only a thin shirt, and was sitting under the eaves to enjoy the shade. Zhou Shi suddenly came to report that there was a young man among the exiles in the backyard clamoring to see him, and he had already fought with the officers, soldiers and servants who blocked him, and asked Ning Yuan to go and have a look.

Ning Yuan's eyes froze, and he immediately followed Zhou Shi.

They walked around to the side door of the backyard, and they really saw several officers and soldiers wrestling with Nuxuan. Nuxuan, with red eyes, surrounded by officers and soldiers, howled fiercely several times trying to break out of the encirclement, but was pushed hard again Shoved back and fell to the ground, then kicked and beaten.

"Stop!" Ning Yuan immediately went up to meet him. Those officers and soldiers recognized Ning Yuan as the owner of the farm, the young master of Wu'anbo Mansion, so they stopped, and a leader-like man came up and said, "Master, now the It should be the criminal's working time, but this kid not only ran back quietly, but also made a lot of noise and disturbed the young master's cleanliness. It's really that the young man didn't take good care of him, so he took him away so that he wouldn't disturb the young master. .”

This is Nuxuan who also saw Ning Yuan. He seemed to be seeing some savior. Regardless of his bruised and swollen face, he almost crawled over and grabbed Ning Yuan's sleeve, "Master, please!" Save my mother, save my mother!"

"What's the matter with your mother?" Ning Yuan's heart skipped a beat, and he bent down to help her up.

"My mother, my mother..." Nuxuan actually burst into tears as he spoke, presumably out of a panic, "Since my mother arrived here, she has been in poor health. She was ill a few days ago, but the officers and soldiers refused to invite her." The doctor treated her, but now she is seriously ill, these people actually want to throw my mother out to let her fend for herself, young master beg you to save my mother, I can do anything for you!" Just finished speaking, Nu Xuan He hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed his head a few times, and the skin on his forehead was immediately torn and dripping with blood.

"Master, don't listen to this kid's nonsense!" The leader of the officers and soldiers was a little impatient, and immediately said: "This kid's mother is not suffering from an ordinary disease, but a seasonal epidemic! That thing is contagious, if you don't throw people out, What if I infect someone else?"

"You're talking nonsense! My mother is just not acclimatized. You didn't even invite a doctor. How could you conclude that it's an epidemic!" Nu Xuan seemed to be terrified that Ning Yuan would not help him, and his voice was so shrill that his throat almost broke. Beggingly shaking Ning Yuan's clothes, tears and blood on his face were all muddy, "Master, I beg you...save my mother, save my mother..."

"Where is the man?" Ning Yuan looked up at the leading officer and soldier.

The officers and soldiers were stunned for a moment before they realized that Ning Yuan really wanted to meddle in this business, and they couldn't help saying: "Master, it's not good, the disease can't be careless, why should the master do it for these criminals..." But he didn't finish his sentence , his eyes widened, because Ning Yuan raised his hand and threw a piece of broken silver at his feet, and repeated, "Where is the man?"

"People haven't come to throw it out in a hurry, it's still in the backyard." When the officers and soldiers saw the silver, they hurriedly picked it up, and they would say nonsense.

Ning Yuan was quickly led by Nu Xuan into the backyard, and in a dilapidated house at the farthest corner, he saw a beautiful woman unconscious on the bed.

This room looks to be the most humble one in the whole backyard, full of dilapidated rooms, even the bed is made of stones, with only a straw mat spread out.The woman was sweating profusely, lying there with a pale face. Ning Yuan didn't dare to neglect, and hurriedly went up to check her pulse. After a while, he said to Zhou Shi: "This is not the epidemic. You let Bai Tan and the others come here. It's hot and humid here, and it's not suitable for recuperation." , first move this lady to their house."

Nuxuan's anxious face was immediately relieved when he heard Ning Yuan's words "it's not the epidemic". As soon as he let go of his tense nerves, he immediately rolled his eyes and passed out.

Because their mother and son are specially "cared for" to work here, when Ning Yuan proposed to move them out and gave them enough money, the leader of the officers and soldiers who guarded them didn't say anything, and let Ning Yuan send them out. People moved them to the front yard, the woman temporarily stayed in Bai's sister's house, and Nu Xuan was arranged in Ning Yuan's room.

As Ning Yuan said, the woman did not have a seasonal epidemic, but the weather was too hot, the room she lived in was stuffy and humid, and her body was not acclimated to the weather, she just got heatstroke, because the symptoms were similar, the Treated by those officers and soldiers as an epidemic, Ning Yuan asked people to boil some water with mint leaves and feed it to her, and the woman recovered and woke up.

But Nuxuan's condition is not very good. He was young, he suffered such a beating, and he worked a lot every day and hurt his roots. As soon as he passed out, he had a high fever, and he lay on the bed talking nonsense, which made Ning Yuan has been busy at the bedside, cleaning and bandaging his body for him until night.

When Huyan Yuanchen opened the door and came in, Ning Yuan was sitting by the bed and feeding Nuxuan medicine, but Nuxuan was so dizzy that the medicine couldn't go in at all, so he had to take a sip of the medicine, then bent down, and saw the The lips were about to touch that Nuxuan's mouth.

"Don't!" Huyan Yuanchen rushed over and grabbed Ning Yuan's shoulder without thinking. Ning Yuan was caught sideways by him, and the medicine in his mouth gurgled and swallowed by himself.

He stuck out his tongue that was numb from bitterness, and shouted at Huyan Yuanchen: "What are you doing!"

"You, what are you doing again?" Ning Yuan's gaze made Huyan Yuanchen retract the hand on his shoulder like lightning, his face turned red inexplicably, but thinking of the scene just now, Huyan Yuanchen immediately He became a little more confident, "How can you exchange medicine with others so casually, don't you know how to avoid it?"

"There's no taboo about feeding medicine." Ning Yuan looked at him inexplicably, "When you were sick, I also fed you like this, but I didn't see that you had such opinions."

"I'm just..." Huyan Yuanchen was also surprised. He had been busy outside for the past few days, and finally brought back a piece of good news, but before he came, he was in a hurry to tell Ning Yuan. The medicine was being fed mouth to mouth, and the boy who was being fed was the young man Ning Yuan had always been friendly to all these days, and an unknown fire burst out in his heart.

"It's just a medicine, why do you have to do this step?" Taking a deep breath, Huyan Yuanchen shook his head, took the medicine bowl in Ning Yuan's hand, and suddenly sat down on the edge of the bed, holding up Nuxuan He squeezed his mouth open with his left hand, and poured the medicine into his mouth with a bowl.

Such a rude way of feeding medicine made Ning Yuan feel his face hurt when he watched it, but it was indeed effective. Seeing Nuxuan's throat moving slightly, he presumably drank the medicine.

"It's finished feeding, clean and tidy." Huyan Yuanchen showed Ning Yuan the empty porcelain bowl, as if showing off some great achievements.

Ning Yuan shook his head helplessly. After feeding the medicine, he also heaved a sigh of relief, sat on the side and patted his sore shoulder.

Huyan Yuanchen froze there for a while, then suddenly said: "You don't want to ask me where I have been away today?"

Ning Yuan glanced at him, "If you have something important to do, you don't need to stay here with me."

"That's not what I meant." Huyan Yuanchen didn't expect Ning Yuan to say such a heartless remark, and he was a bit arrogant for a while, "I am..." But his words suddenly froze, and instead of continuing to speak, he got up Said: "Forget it, Brother Ning, I will take you to a place."

After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for Ning Yuan's reaction, stepped forward and grabbed Ning Yuan's hand, and walked out the door.

Ning Yuan wanted to say that it was getting dark now, but it seemed that Huyan Yuanchen didn't even give him a chance to speak. After leaving the door, he actually stretched out his arms to wrap around Ning Yuan's waist, and then lightly carried him with him. He rushed up to the roof, and climbed over the eaves and walls into the distance.

The sun is hot during the day and cool at night. Ning Yuan doesn't know where Huyan Yuanchen is taking him so inexplicably, but his lightness skill makes him steady. Huyan Yuanchen would not harm him, so Ning Yuan let him hug him obediently and didn't say much.

It's just that the two of them are so close, under the moonlight, Ning Yuan realized that Huyan Yuanchen looked a bit embarrassed, not only had a circle of stubble growing on his chin, but also his hair was a bit messy, and there were even a few hooks in the hair. There was a piece of grass, and there was a lot of dust on his cheeks. Thinking of Huyan Yuanchen's mysterious whereabouts in the past few days, Ning Yuan suddenly had a thought in his heart, this guy could not...

Xianghe Town is not big, except for the fields of the farm, there are several low mountains around. Huyan Yuanchen took Ning Yuan all the way out of the town, and jumped among the treetops in the forest for a long time before finally finding a large tree. stopped on the branches of the tree.

This big tree has dense branches and leaves, the moonlight can't even shine in, the surroundings are dark, and insects can still be heard. Ning Yuan didn't know why, so he asked in a low voice: "This is..."

"Hush." ​​Huyan Yuanchen pressed his lips with his fingers, and then pointed to a not-too-distant direction through the gap in the treetops.

Ning Yuan looked intently, only to find that through the shadows of trees, many scattered lights could be seen at the bottom of the mountainside.

At this time, Huyan Yuanchen held Ning Yuan in his arms again and began to move, but his movements were very light, not only did he not make a sound, he didn't even disturb the nocturnal birds. After he got out of the woods, his eyes suddenly opened up. In this mountain forest, there is actually a wooden house built with a fence, and there are wooden sentry posts interspersed between the wooden houses. There are many burly men standing on the sentry post, each of them is carrying a bow and arrow. stand guard there.

At this time, there was a sound of snorting horses in the distance, and I saw several carriages loaded with goods walking along the mountain road to the outside of the wooden house. After getting over the fence and starting to unload the goods, someone opened the box in the middle. Even though it was far away, by the light of the torch over there, Ning Yuan could still vaguely distinguish that there was everything in the box, including silk, jewelry, and a bag. I don't know what materials are in the bag.

"Who are these people?" Ning Yuan wondered: "They are gathered in this wilderness, and they are quite large. Could it be bandits?"

"You're only half right." Huyan Yuanchen said: "Did you see those people who brought things in carriages? Their bodies are still wet. These people are not mountain bandits, but river bandits."

River Pirates can be regarded as one of the characteristics of Dazhou. Dazhou’s waterways are unobstructed, and the cost of waterways in terms of logistics and transportation is much cheaper than that of the 6th Road, so that alternative thieves organizations such as River Pirates have been born. They don’t have any tools. , but all of them are diving high water. When night falls, they can rely on a reed pole to approach the cargo ships in the river from underwater and steal the goods from the ships, because they move secretly and come and go without a trace. , Although the government has made great efforts to crack down on them for many years, the results have been minimal, so later on, the government changed the direction of the crackdown. Since they couldn't catch anyone, they started with stolen goods.

The laws of the Great Zhou clearly stipulate that the goods must be registered and filed before boarding the ship. Once lost during transportation, as long as there are suspected lost goods on the market, no matter whether it is the seller,