wife and king

After getting into the carriage, Qingbo, who was dizzy from the stench of the horseman's sweat, finally took a breath of fresh air. She rubbed her thighs that had been worn by the rough horse hide, stretched her neck, and called the groom to speed up and move towards the carriage. North City catch up.

The groom responded, raised his whip, and headed towards Beicheng non-stop.

I thought things would go smoothly, but unexpectedly, Qingbo was stopped by the guards at the North City Gate. The reason was very simple, and she was required to show her "pass".

After being tossed about for a long time, Qingbo got impatient, took out a dozen copies of the papers from her bosom, glanced through them quickly, and handed one of them out.

The guard took it, glanced at it, and suddenly raised a "huh", Qingbo's heart jumped when he heard it, and Fang slowly fell down when the guard continued.

The guard looked at the moonlight for a long time, and sighed, "Oh, what's wrong with my eyes, it suddenly doesn't work, and I can't see clearly. Come, come, light me with a torch."

Then, another guard handed him a torch to illuminate him. The clinker murmured for a while, either saying that the torch was too bright and blinding him, or that the moonlight was too faint to see clearly. He was so anxious that Qingbo was like an ant on a hot pot, eager to go down and read to him what he had said.

Just as the guard faltered and refused to let him go, the two men in black rushed down the road like lightning. When they saw Qingbo's carriage, they both looked at each other, and immediately sneaked into the nearby alley, sticking to the wall face to face.The person by the side of the road carefully stretched out his head, seeing that Qingbo didn't notice, he picked up a stone from the ground and shot it forward.

Hearing the sound of rolling gravel, the guard quickly raised his eyes on the pass. After seeing the gesture of the man in black in the alley, he gestured to the people around him with his eyes. The man immediately stepped forward and said, "I will help you." Take a look, took the pass, glanced at it, nodded and waved: "It's true, you can let it go!"

"Let go!"

Qingbo finally let go of her heart, and hurried out of the city.Behind her, two men in black also appeared, and after nodding to the guards, they moved away with Qinggong.

After about a stick of incense, Qingbo got out of the carriage in a wilderness woods, her eyes flicked to the left and right, and after making sure that there was no one there, she ordered the groom to drive the carriage to a place where there was no one, while she burrowed into the bushes.

Two men in black also sneaked into the bushes together.

After walking a few steps, a spacious road retreated among the clumps of lush trees. Walking along the winding path, an extremely simple thatched cottage was seen near the end.

The two black-clothed men looked at each other, and immediately raised their heights. Using the cover of the trees, they ran behind the thatched hut and hid themselves.

Qingbo cautiously looked left and right, walked carefully to the thatched cottage, raised her voice, and called out nervously: "Sister."

Clang, the people inside seemed to be a little excited, the teacup was knocked over, and immediately after that, a person opened the door and rushed out.This person is Qingbo's younger sister, Mengrong.

Seeing her sister, Mengrong's tears flowed down, crying till the pears rained down, her voice was timid, blaming her sister for leaving her in this eerie place, after Qingbo saw Mengrong, her nervous expression also followed Panasonic hugged Mengrong's back and patted again and again, wiping her tears carefully with a silk handkerchief.

The two held hands and entered the thatched hut, and there was another whisper of a private conversation from a little girl's house, which made the two men who were stuck on the tree feel bored and dozed off.

At this time, it seemed that the words were about to be exhausted, the sound of Qingbo getting up came from the room, she said goodbye for a while, and Mengrong stayed with her in a panic, asking her to take her back to Fangcheng.

Qingbo patted her hand and comforted her in a low voice: "You can't go back for the time being. That person has an extraordinary background, and with King Yan intervening, if he finds out the reason, he might lose his head. How can I just sit and watch?" Something happened to you."

"Then why did you come here today? I thought..." Mengrong's voice started to cry again, and she choked up for a while before she continued, "I thought you were here to pick me up."

"Oh, before the truth comes to light, I did you a disservice by taking you back!" Qingbo sighed regretfully, "Do you think I don't want to pick you up? King Yan came to the door today, I thought he had found you Your whereabouts, I was so anxious that I rushed over immediately to check, but fortunately you are safe, otherwise I really don't know what to do."

"Sister!" Meng Rong was startled, "Where did King Yan come to you? He... what did he do? Hey, it's all my fault. I was greedy for the little money. If he harms you, I, I, I... ..."

"Don't worry, I'm fine," Qingbo reassured, "I just came here to make a drunken madness, and I fooled her back." She paused, smiled and shook her head, "I should be thinking about what happened tonight, so there's no need to panic , the next thing, let me take care of it for you. You are wronged to stay here for the time being. If you go to another city, I am afraid that King Yan will find out your whereabouts. But you don't have to worry, it will take a few days After I have settled everything properly, I will take you far away, so are you afraid that Yan Wang and Yan Wang will come to your door?"

"Alright." Qingbo's words were like a reassurance pill, making Mengrong calm down.

Then, the two sisters babbled some more personal words, and Qingbo got up to leave.The two bid farewell with tears, Qingbo smiled at Mengrong, walked slowly into the bushes, and disappeared after a while.Without the company of Qingbo, the whistling wind seemed to be a little more ghostly, so frightened that Mengrong immediately hugged her arms tightly and went back to the room.

No, as soon as Mengrong entered the room, he saw two men in black standing in the room. The two pairs of bright eyes were like wolves at night, emitting a fierce light.

"Ah..." The short scream was instantly stopped by a stone that hit the acupuncture point, Mengrong was terrified, her eyes were wide open, and her teeth were chattering.One of the men in black sat down leisurely, and the other pulled out a dagger in a hurry. The slanting moonlight shone, and the light on the dagger was cold and distinct. Dreamy eyes.

"Mengrong, do you want to recruit yourself, or do you want me to force you."

The two men in the house were Yan Cangling and Tongle Ziyou.It turned out that the two of them had planned to go to Chunxing Building and Pinfang Pavilion today. On the one hand, it was to get the contract of prostitution and Nightmare, and on the other hand, it was to deal with Qingbo and stimulate her to look for Mengrong, so that they could follow her to find Mengrong whereabouts.As for Chunxinglou's borrowing of a carriage, drugging the manger, and the fact that the guards couldn't see what happened, these were all done to lower Qingbo's vigilance and delay time.After they left Pinfang Pavilion, Xiaoer, who was driving the horse in Chunxinglou, became suspicious, and actually went back to the palace. Afterwards, they changed into night clothes, and learned from Xu Songming that there was a person who looked like Mengrong, who came out of the north this morning. Door.They hurriedly chased towards Beicheng, and after catching up, Fang asked the guards to let Qingbo go.

Yan Cangling stepped forward with a sneer, and gently scratched the dagger from left to right on Mengrong's face. The silvery white light projected his strange smile, which made people feel terrible fear on this gloomy moon night: "You said that the king What will happen if this knife goes down?"

Mengrong shuddered several times, her almond eyes stared like copper bells, looking at the dagger as cold as a piercing muscle.In their line of work, what they care most about is their face. If this face is blurred, how will she survive in the future.She was so frightened that her throat was rattling, and her lips kept opening and closing. Looking at the shape of her lips, she seemed to be saying something begging for mercy.

Yan Cangling winked at Le Ziyou, Le Ziyou understood, and walked to the door to watch the wind, while Yan Cangling pressed the dagger on Mengrong's face, threateningly said: "If you don't scream loudly, I will The king will let you go, otherwise, watch your face."

Mengrong shrank her pupils and shook her head hastily.

The corner of Yan Cangling's mouth raised a contemptuous smile, pointed to open her dumb acupoint, and without giving her a breath, he asked sharply: "You know what this king is here for, and honestly tell me everything you know. king."

Meng Rong screamed, and Fu was forced to swallow it back by the dagger: "My lord, I... I really don't know. Your lord has a lot, let me go."

"Nonsense!" Yan Cangling's eyes flashed fiercely, and he pressed the dagger to her face again, "Honestly entertain the process of buying and selling."

Mengrong's tears rolled in her eyes anxiously, swallowed a mouthful, and confessed honestly: "Half... half a month ago, a man brought two strong men to Pinfang Pavilion with a large box on their backs, and asked to see the servants. , The slave took a look behind the door, the man looked ordinary, dressed in simple clothes, and did not look like a rich man, so he didn't want to meet him, but the man raised his voice and said, "There is a big business to do, if I don't agree, He doesn't care if he suffers a loss. As soon as I heard that there was business, I received him."

Meng Rong paused, then secretly glanced at Yan Cangling's face, seeing that his face had softened a little, he continued: "The box contains the 'immortal' that the prince said, as soon as I see the appearance of an 'immortal', I will ...Agreed to buy him. The man offered a low price, only 5 taels, and told the slave that the origin of this "immortal" is not simple, so be careful when selling someone, and don't let people follow the "immortal". The slave was also dazzled by the cheap price, and took the risk in a daze to agree. The man then gave the slave a prepared contract of sale. After calling the slave to sell the person, he sold the slave The contract is given to the buyer, and there is no need to make another contract of sale with the 'immortal'. The slave was happy for a while, and did not ask why, so he just bought the person. Later, I found out that the 'immortal' had broken limbs and muscles, and he could not sign and sell himself."

"Hands and ankles are all broken?"

Yan Cangling's voice sank, and Mengrong was afraid that he would blame herself for the fault, so she nodded hurriedly and said, "That's right, that's right, when his limbs were sold, they were picked off, it has nothing to do with slaves, nothing to do with slaves of!"

"It has nothing to do with you, huh?" Yan Cangling was as cold as ice, "Then he is dumb, how can he explain it?!"

The author has something to say:

This chapter mentions the thing of "passing the house" again, so I will explain it in depth.In ancient times, in order to facilitate tax collection and restrict population movement, something similar to customs clearance certificates such as customs clearance certificates was produced. This thing has different names in different dynasties. Everyone is more familiar with "Lu Yin" in the Ming Dynasty, just because of this article Referring to the Tang Dynasty, it was only used.

The pass is a certificate written on silk, which is issued by the Shangshu Province in the central government, and Hu Cao joins the army as the presiding judge in the local area, and consults and joins the army to judge.Anyone who needs to leave the customs needs to apply for a pass, and the pass will indicate the personal identity, the items and people they are carrying, and the destination.Those who smuggled out of the customs without any fault, those who lent the fault to others, and those who did not follow the itinerary they applied for, etc., if found, would be sentenced to imprisonment.The use period of the pass is only [-] days, and if it is overdue, you need to apply for a change.

In a word, after getting the application, those who should take their wives out of the city, don't take their concubines.Those who should go to a certain city to see the mistress, don't go to such and such a city to see the mistress.If you think there are not enough maids, don't bring more.Otherwise, you will be arrested. (⊙o⊙)