wife and king

"The antidote and money?" The shop owner rubbed his chin playfully, "Well, that's not bad. As the saying goes, a penny can't kill a hero. I really need money. As for the antidote, I would like to ask, when will you Give me the medicine."

The corner of Yan Cangling's mouth curled up: "Guess?"

"Hmph," the shop owner snorted, "after we parted that day, I felt very unwell. As a result, I ran to the toilet three times that day, and the number increased day by day. I haven't recovered yet, that is, You said that you gave me laxatives on that day, so you figured out that I would come to find you unbearably, right?"

Yan Cangling smiled calmly, went to the chair beside him, lifted his robe and sat down, and politely waved his hand to invite: "Would you like to sit down?"

The shop owner pursed his lips, and walked over to sit down opposite Yan Cangling, looked at the teapot on the table, poured himself a cup of tea, drank it in one gulp, and didn't want Yan Cangling to feel strange as soon as the tea went down his throat. Shaking out a sentence: "If you are so bold and dare to drink it, aren't you afraid that there will be laxatives in this tea?"

"Cough, cough, cough." The shop owner coughed anxiously, scratching his throat with one hand, trying to spit out the water.

The corners of Yan Cangling's eyes raised into a smile: "You are too easy to deceive, you will believe everything I say."

The shop owner's face was pale and white, he gritted his teeth and wiped his mouth with his sleeves: "We people in Jianghu don't understand your court's intrigues, conspiracies and tricks, and you can speak up about anything. Give me the antidote, I will know everything you want to know." Tell you."

Yan Cangling unhurriedly took out a bottle of medicine from his pocket, unscrewed the cap, poured out a pill, and shot it toward the shop owner.

The shop owner rolled his backhand, and the pill was caught between his two fingers, he threw his head up, took a sip of tea, and the antidote went into his stomach.

"Do you remember that I picked up your skirt at that time, and it was the medicine that I gave you at that time. This medicine is colorless and tasteless, and it will be effective when it is inhaled."

The shopkeeper curled his lips, let out a dissatisfaction from his nasal cavity, put one foot on the chair beside him, put one hand on the raised knee, and said impatiently: "It's strange that I entered the mansion so smoothly, I'm afraid you made arrangements early, Wait for me to find you. It's done, what do you want to ask, ask quickly, I don't have time to pay attention to you."

"You frequently travel between this city and other cities with coffins, but do you do some human trafficking business?" Yan Cangling's voice sank, and the smile on his face also subsided.

The corner of the shopkeeper's mouth twitched, and he waved his hand impatiently: "No." After hearing Yan Cangling's "Huh?", he moved his mouth, his eyes slid around, and suddenly leaned close to Yan Cangling, lowering his voice , "I told you about this, but you must never tell others."

"It's done," Yan Cangling smiled brightly, "I don't care about the affairs of your Jianghu, I just want to know the things related to me."

The shop owner was wondering why Yan Cangling asked so much about his own background, but after thinking about it, he didn't want Yan Cangling to misunderstand his identity, so he murmured: "Actually, I am in the business of escorting."

"Walking the darts?" Yan Cangling raised a question in doubt, then turned his head to look at the four people who came with the shop owner, all of them were big and majestic, if they were dart runners, they were really quite a bit alike.

Talking about his weird bodyguard agency, the shop owner turned his nose proudly: "We use selling coffins as a cover, but we are actually flying darts on various roads, so the darts we use are very safe."

"Well," Yan Cangling responded shortly, seemingly not interested in this, frowned, and suddenly realized, "You mean, he is your cargo?" He was referring to Ji Linchuan.

The shop owner also understood who Yan Cangling was asking about him, touched his chin, and went through the past in his mind: "Yes, he is indeed my cargo. We have a rule here, as long as everyone Anyone who wants to walk the darts will contact me through a special method, and I will meet at the appointed place. As for how to contact, that is a secret in our business, so I can't tell you. In short, "The shop owner Hanging up a sound, he grabbed his long hair and fiddled with the end of it leisurely, which whetted Yan Cangling's appetite, and Fang continued, "That time, when I got the news, I rushed to a place near Fangcheng. I was in the wilderness, and I made this transaction, and the destination in the transaction was Fangcheng, after the transaction was completed, I took the person to Pinfang Pavilion to sell according to the content of the transaction."

Seeing the shopkeeper's indifferent shrugging, Yan Cangling frowned: "The person who traded with you at that time looked like this." He took out a portrait from his pocket and laid it flat on the table, so that the shopkeeper could see clearly at a glance .

The shop owner glanced briefly, then nodded: "Yes, it is indeed this person. I heard that this person is called Li Jie, and he is still from your court."

"I heard?" Yan Cangling raised his eyebrows and said, "Could it be that he didn't tell you his name?"

"Hahaha," the shop owner pressed half of his body on the table, pointed at Yan Cangling's nose, and laughed so hard that tears flowed, "Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter, you say he is a member of the court, dare to openly How can he reveal his real name if he sells someone? How stupid is he! Hahaha!"

The corner of Yan Cangling's mouth twitched, he didn't bother to pay attention to this uncertain person, of course he knew that Li Jie wouldn't really tell the shop owner his real name, so asking this was just a temptation.

"Hahaha, hey, stop laughing, stop laughing," the shop owner leaned back, almost fell back, quickly stabilized the chair and sat down, waved his hands, "I know, you definitely want to ask me again How did you know the name of Li Jie. Let me tell you, I am very disciplined in this business. I will not accept the dart easily until I find out the identity of others. Otherwise, no one will know. What kind of tricky thing has caused a mess."

"Then you dare to pick up a dart that clearly violates the laws of the Huan Dynasty?"

When Yan Cangling shook his head, the shopkeeper's smile froze immediately, so stiff that he had to move his muscles a few times before he could straighten his face. He paused for a moment, then slowly lowered his head, and the candlelight made his face black and white. , with a vague expression.

"That man paid a lot of money."

If such words were uttered by a money-grubbing villain, it would undoubtedly make people disgusted, but Yan Cangling could feel helplessness and despair when speaking from this person.

"Why do you need money?" Yan Cangling opened his mouth and raised his hand to stop the puzzled lips of the owner of the upper shop, "Don't ask me why I know, I guess. I see that your shop is rotten You can't get it right, and many of the coffins are moldy and smell bad. Let alone selling such coffins, I can't bear it even if I have been in this pile of coffins all year round. I guess, you are either really I have no money to repair it, or I will do other things in the name of selling coffins. But today I learned from you that you are a dart walker, but if I am a person who does business with you and see this moldy coffin, I'm afraid I don't want to do this business either. Thinking about it this way, but you have no money to repair it, which makes the business of this shop dwindle and you can't maintain it. So you took over Li Jie's business? But why did he come to you? , You said just now that he was looking for you to buy and sell in the wilderness near Fangcheng, so why did he ask you to transport people here for him instead of transporting them himself."

"You ask me, who am I to ask?" the shop owner shrugged, "Go ask him."

"You don't know?" Yan Cangling rubbed his chin and smiled strangely, "I don't seem to have told you just now that I drugged this candle."

"What!" The shop owner was startled, shaking his hands and pointing at Yan Cangling, "You... you actually took medicine again!"

Yan Cangling just smiled and said nothing, poured himself a cup of tea indifferently, took a sip, and twirled the teacup contentedly: "Say it or not, it's up to you."

"You bastard!" The shop owner was so angry that smoke rose from his head, he shook his fingers for a while, then retracted them, wiped them at the corners of his eyes, and moaned in a low voice, "You caused me to have diarrhea for several days Not enough, you even burned my coffin clean, how can you pay me! Alas, the world says that there are no good people in the court, the emperor is like this, and so are you, fortunately, I misjudged the person."

Yan Cangling's goosebumps were trembling when he heard this cry, and he felt that talking to the shop owner gave him two big headaches: "Stop talking nonsense, if you tell the truth about everything you know, I will not only compensate you Your coffin shop will still support you."

"Is that true?!" The shopkeeper's eyes lit up, he sucked back the snot with a sip, raised his hand to wipe the remaining snot, and shook his dirty hands outwards - this action made Yan Cangling sick to the point of nausea .

Yan Cangling turned his eyes away in disgust: "Say it quickly, I'm not in the mood to waste time with you."

"Okay, okay," the shopkeeper smiled so much that the corners of his mouth were wide open, and his eyes were full of tears just now, but now he smiled through his tears, and moved the chair closer to Yan Cangling's side, his eyes rolled around, Mysteriously, he raised his hand to cover the back of his hand, and said in a low voice, word by word, "Actually..."

"Ah."

"actually……"

"Ok?"

"Actually... I don't know either."

"..."

Yan Cangling slapped the shop owner with a palm, and the shop owner slid out like a fish in water: "Hey, don't count your words, just now you said, I will tell you what I know , you pay me money, I know so much, I don’t know anything else. Ah!” Seeing that Yan Cangling was going to beat someone up when he got angry, the shop owner ran around the room with his light work, "Yes, yes, stop, stop," he raised his hand towards Yan Cangling, gasped for breath, saw that Yan Cangling didn't move forward again, and said in shock, "I also found something, um, maybe it's for you Well, the person who was sold was known as Ji Linchuan, a relative of an official family, and he seemed to have offended someone above him, so he was sent to Pinfang Pavilion for sale. As for why Li Jie borrowed my hand Come to sell someone, ah, it should be! It should be that Li Jie didn't want to be found out that he sold other people's identities privately. Ah, ah, don't chase after him!"

"Who did he provoke!" There was a bang on the door, and a person rushed into the door angrily.

Yan Cangling paused, and his figure quickly stopped the shop owner from escaping through the opened door: "Where do you want to escape, if you don't tell me, I will kill your companion!"

The shop owner immediately became honest, stopped in disgrace, walked back with his head drooping, looked at the two people who had arrived, was surprised for a moment, pointed at Ji Linchuan and said, "Hey, aren't you the one who was sold?" , yo, look at your blushing face, Ganqing is doing well here."

Ji Linchuan turned his eyes away and didn't say a word, while Ji Chongde's head was ablaze, and he rushed to the shopkeeper and said, "What did you just say, what was sold, and what was provoked?" people."

The shop owner was taken aback by Ji Chongde, pulled his hand away, slipped behind Yan Cangling, poked Yan Cangling's back with his finger: "Hey, you have to protect me."

Yan Cangling's eyebrows sank, and he shook his head helplessly.Just now, in order to prevent the shop owner from escaping, he focused all his attention on the shop owner. He didn't realize that Ji Linchuan and Ji Chongde had arrived, but now their conversation was overheard by these two people. I really don't know what Ji Chongde would think.

"Father, don't ask any more." Ji Linchuan raised his head silently. Facing the worry in Shangyan Cangling's eyes, he let out a sigh, wrapped it around his mouth, and breathed it into everyone's ears. "Whatever you want to know, just ask me. Don't embarrass others anymore."

Yan Cangling and Ji Chongde were stunned at the same time, while the shop owner curled his mouth, stroked his hair, and smiled playfully: "Look, he is willing to talk, but let me go. As far as I know That's all, I've told you all of it. Hey, you just said you'd pay for my shop, so don't take your word for it."

When Yan Cangling heard Ji Linchuan take the initiative to mention this matter, he was worried and curious at the same time, his heart was on Ji Linchuan, and he didn't have half a minute of spare time to share with the shop owner, so he threw a pill to the shop owner in annoyance : "Take it, your antidote!"

The shop owner didn't doubt it, and immediately threw it into his mouth, seeing the three of them glaring at me and I glaring at you, he didn't know where the interest came from, so he didn't leave, he untied his partner's acupoints carelessly, and sat down On the table, I poured a cup of tea and looked at them leisurely, as if watching a play.

Ji Linchuan glanced at the shop owner, frowned, and asked, "Are you the one who brought me to Pinfang Pavilion?"

The shopkeeper nodded with a smile.

"Why doesn't the sound sound like it?"

The shop owner was startled, squeezed his throat and coughed a few times, and when he spoke again, it was another person's voice: "How, does it sound like it?"

"Well," Ji Linchuan responded shallowly, turned to Ji Chongde and Yan Cangling, and said directly, "After my father was exiled, I was sent to the labor field. He framed me and sent me to Pinfang Pavilion."

In just a few words, he calmly told his past, Yan Cangling was stunned for a moment, and Ji Chongde clearly couldn't believe it, he climbed onto Ji Linchuan's arm, pursed his lips and asked deeply: "Jing Han, what you said is true? "

"Father, don't you believe me?" Ji Linchuan seemed a little sad, his slender eyelashes drooped, covering his sad pupils, "Father, do you want me to explain all my past experiences so that you can feel at ease, since that's the case ,I……"

Seeing Ji Linchuan's mournful expression, Ji Chongde didn't dare to ask any more questions, and quickly stopped him with a wave of his hand: "Don't ask, Dad, as long as you are fine now, the past is over, so there is no need to mention it."

Ji Linchuan didn't answer, he nodded slightly, raised his eyes slightly, and gave Yan Cangling a look.

Yan Cangling frowned deeply, seeing that Ji Linchuan's expression was not in a good mood, he said to Ji Chongde: "Senior Ji, Jing Han is not in a good mood, can you let him go back to rest first, what's the matter, ask him when he is in a better mood."

Even though Ji Chongde was full of doubts, he was worried about his son after all. He even forgot to say goodbye to Yan Cangling and took Ji Linchuan with him.

A long-awaited farce ended in a few words. The shop owner stretched his neck and waved to the two people who were leaving, with unfinished thoughts: "Hey, why are you leaving so fast, I haven't seen enough, hey !” He slapped his thigh and shook his head endlessly.

Yan Cangling kept silent, walked to the side of the shop owner, took a seat gracefully, brought a bowl of tea to his mouth, but the fragrance was in his nostrils, and he put it down irritably.

The owner of the shop was eccentric, with unpredictable temperament, his eyes slid around in all directions, he bent down and said to Yan Cangling: "I said, if you are really worried about him, why don't you ask?"

Yan Cangling paused for a moment, and the corner of his mouth raised a mocking arc: "You have never seen him before, and you don't know his reaction when he talks about the past. I can't bear to expose his scars."

"If you don't ask, if he doesn't tell, aren't you two messing about?" The shopkeeper rubbed his chin and said with a smile.

"Toss it, just toss it," Yan Cangling breathed out, "It's better than making him suffer."

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's really different once a person has feelings. Alas, for the sake of your infatuation, I will tell you secretly, but you must not say it." As soon as the shopkeeper's voice fell, Yan Cangling buried his head. Then he raised it abruptly, with a stream of light like ink, and stared at the shopkeeper's mouth, not moving for a minute, for fear of missing something.

"Actually, half a month before I actually met Li Jie, I received news of this business deal. At that time, Li Jie, I reckoned, was still on the way from Beijing to Fangcheng. After I received the information, I immediately went to Check Li Jie's identity, learn his identity as the inspector censor, and find that he seems to be transporting your lover to Fangcheng in the name of inspector."

"In the name of patrol?" Yan Cangling raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Hmm, less than half a year ago, I saw the inspector censor on patrol, and the theory was that it was not yet time for him to inspect, so I guess he must have secretly used inspection as an excuse to bring people out Sell."

Yan Cangling frowned, and said hesitantly: "If that's the case, it makes sense for him to ask you to sell someone on his behalf. After all, he violated the law and went on patrol. It would be bad if he was found out."

"Hmm," the shop owner said proudly, "Our business has already reached the capital, so some dignitaries in the capital also know us. When Li Jie gave us the news, he asked me to go to the capital to pick him up. Let’s go, but for some reason, he was one step ahead of our people who were going to Beijing, brought them out, and met our people in the middle of the road.”

"In a hurry," Yan Cangling's brows became more and more depressed, "Could it be that he has a last resort reason to sell him as soon as possible?"

"Who knows, you can ask your little lover for help," the shop owner shrugged. "It will take more than a month to travel from Beijing to Fangcheng. It is impossible for your lover to be in a daze and not know what happened... No," the shopkeeper said in astonishment, "No, no," he stood up abruptly, walked around the room several times with his chest folded, and clapped his palms, "I remembered, when I brought him back, he was very Quiet, neither noisy nor struggling."

Yan Cangling pondered for a while, then explained: "At that time, his tendons in his limbs were broken, so it was natural for him not to struggle, but he didn't make any noise, but..."

Doubt suddenly flooded his face, the shop owner thought hard, and recalled: "Yes, at that time, his expression was in a trance, his eyes were dull, he saw nothing bright, and he kept saying something, don't come here, don't come here."

A thunderbolt hit his head and face, Yan Cangling's eyes widened in astonishment, the words "don't come over" were exactly the same as what Ji Linchuan shouted to him at that time, what happened to Ji Linchuan at that time!

"Hey, let me tell you, with his appearance, you are right not to ask him about the past," the shopkeeper shook his head, "I will tell you this, I don't want to get involved in the intrigue of your court." And, I'm just talking about what I've heard. As for whether you believe it or not, I don't care. When I took over your lover, I heard Li Jie spray a few times on your lover, saying something boss It's really unlucky to transport you here with your head on your shoulders. Fortunately, you are quite sensible. The master only sold you and didn't kill you. Thank you master. Then he said that you should be more peaceful when you arrive at Pinfang Pavilion. This time, it is not as simple as a broken limb."

Yan Cangling's anger sank to the bottom of the valley, to the extreme, and he could no longer rush to his head. He took a few breaths, and asked in a calm voice: "Do you know who Li Jie's master is?"

"I don't know about that," the shop owner shrugged, bent down and pointed at Yan Cangling, "Oh, I really only know that much, so I won't say anything else, I still have to worry about my head, who the hell Knowing what a powerful person Li Jie's master is, he can make a good person like this."

Yan Cangling took a deep breath and stopped speaking.I thought it was Li Jie who harmed Ji Linchuan, but I didn't expect that there were people behind him, how many people and things were involved behind Ji Linchuan.

The shopkeeper yawned and waved his hand: "That's it, that's all I know. You can't find out if you ask any more. Since you're already on good terms with him, treat him better. I think he's weird too." Poor thing, when I fed him food, he was too scared to eat, if I hadn’t tapped his acupuncture points and force-fed him, I’m afraid he would have died of hunger.”

"Hehehe, hahaha!" Yan Cangling went mad for some reason, and laughed loudly, "Jing Han, Jing Han, how many stories are you carrying on your body!"

The shop owner was silent, looked at Yan Cangling for a moment, then shook his head lightly: "You are pitiful, alas, I will be kinder and let you pay me [-]% less money."

Yan Cangling directly picked up the stool and threw it at the shopkeeper's head.

"Oh, hey, turn your face and deny people, it's terrible, it's terrible!" When the word "hell" sounded, the shop owner had already taken his four companions into the night sky, and the guards in the mansion heard their voices. exclaimed.

Yan Cangling sat down abruptly, slapped the table with his palm, grabbed the teacup and poured tea into his mouth, the cup bottomed out, but it was still not enjoyable enough, picked up the teapot, opened the lid, and poured warm water into his own mouth. Fill your mouth.Hot water dripped down his chin, and the lukewarm temperature intertwined with his own cold heart, but it couldn't warm that cold heart.

He was so irritable that he wanted to kill someone, he raised his foot and kicked the stool under his feet, and he blew towards Chaoling Pavilion like a wind, no matter whether Ji Linchuan was sleeping peacefully inside, he rushed to Ji Linchuan's bedside in the dark, lifted the quilt, and dragged him up: "Jing Han!"

"Well," Ji Linchuan responded in a low voice, his eyelashes moved, revealing a pair of sober eyes.His eyes reflected Yan Cangling's angry eyes without blinking. He smiled suddenly and touched Yan Cangling's face. He was obviously smiling, but there was a look of sadness in his brows, "I thought you were here You didn't even intend to ask. During this period of time, you encouraged me and enlightened me, which made my heart knot gradually knotted. I am very grateful, so I am willing to tell you the past. I didn't expect that you would not want to mess with my heart Hurt, if you don’t let me talk about it, I won’t talk about it anymore. I never thought that you are still investigating behind my back. Mu Qing, Mu Qing, if you want to know about my past, why don’t you ask me? It's useless to investigate. If I hadn't accidentally heard the conversation between the two of you today, I'm afraid I would have been kept in the dark."

Yan Cangling was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly, and with a deep pain that was hard to get over, said word by word: "I always remember your painful expression when you recalled the past. I can't bear to expose your scars and make your heart hurt. "

Ji Linchuan was startled, a sudden smile appeared from the corners of his eyes, and sadly moved to the corners of his mouth, pulling out a difficult smile: "Actually, I have also been thinking these days, if you don't ask me, will I forget it? No, the sins I have borne, the pain I have suffered will be engraved in my heart for a lifetime, and I will never forget it."

"Jing Han..." Yan Cangling shook his hand in shock, hesitating.

"There's no need to say more, just ask. While I'm in good condition tonight, I can speak freely."

Yan Cangling paused for a moment, doubts and doubts swirled in his mind, and finally he couldn't hold back his mouth: "I want to know the name of that person, the name of the person who harmed you."

"What will happen to you after I tell you." Ji Linchuan was silent for a moment, without answering the question.

"kill!"

Violent murderous aura erupted from his body, revealing a vicious hostility in the quiet night, Ji Linchuan was almost frightened by him, held his heart and paused for a moment, then suddenly smiled: "You promised me to kill him before!" , why bother to ask me who the shop owner is now. I don’t want to mention that person’s name, and even when I see it, I will be afraid. To me, that person is the pain of my life.”

"You promised me to kill him?" Yan Cangling stared blankly, could it be that person is...