Stage [Republic of China]

After seeing Er Shao Qin, he had no choice but to go out of the city to avoid disaster for a while.No, I just returned to the city this morning. "Shui Jiu answered every drop of water.

Several soldiers looked at each other.Shanzi's eyes lit up, and he took the initiative to explain for Shui Jiu. "There is indeed such a thing! Desheng's team has not started for more than a month because of this. Oh, I'm so hungry."

The soldier walking at the front pulled the bolt back and looked Shui Jiu up and down. "Why did you come to this floor to avoid disaster?"

"Hey, people have three urgencies. Who knew it was such a coincidence that they happened to run into officials doing business." Shui Jiu smiled calmly, squeezed out a pack of foreign cigarettes from the bottom of the sleeve of the gown, and passed it to the soldier in front of him calmly. . "Several officials are working hard on business, so they smoke cigarettes to refresh themselves."

As soon as the soldier took it, he felt heavy. It turned out that the outside was a foreign cigarette box, and the inside was full of oceans.Hey!Real gold and silver goods.The soldier immediately turned his anger into joy, put the cigarette case in his pocket, tilted his mouth, coughed a few times, and turned his mouth downstairs. "Since it's not your business, Boss Shui, please go downstairs?"

Shui Jiu lowered her eyes, cupped her hands at everyone again, and raised her feet to go downstairs.

But Shanzi reluctantly grabbed him by the arm and asked quietly, "Boss Shui, when will you be on stage again? We'll be thinking about your meeting at Broken Bridge!"

"Wait a few more days." Shui Jiu looked back and smiled faintly.

He has a beautiful appearance, and when he smiled, Shan Zai immediately opened his mouth wide open, unable to say another word.

Shui Jiu lifted up her gown, and walked away under the watchful eyes of several soldiers in the Yamen Mansion.

"Extraordinary, urgent extra for today—!"

As soon as Shui Jiu walked out of Eryuanli, he heard the loud yelling of newsboys on the street.With a thought, he stopped and spent four big coins again, taking out a newspaper from the newsboy.

The newsboy held on to the corner of the newspaper and looked at him with a smile. "Sir, the price has increased today, and it takes seven copper coins per piece."

"Why did the price increase again? Didn't it only cost four dollars yesterday?" Shui Jiu turned to the newsboy seriously in surprise.

Under the skylight, the two people's eyes met, and they were so clear that they could see Shui Jiu's long and curly eyelashes trembling slightly when he spoke.The newsboy was taken aback and recognized him immediately. "Oh, so it's Boss Shui! Since it's Boss Shui, then..."

The newsboy scratched his head, puffed his face for the last time, and loudly said generously: "Forget it, forget it, I'll give you this newspaper!"

Shui Jiu squeezed the newspaper and smiled. "Hey, I don't need you to send it."

As he said, he took out three more copper coins from his pocket.

The newspaper boy refused to accept it, and waved his hands repeatedly. Seeing that Shui Jiu insisted on giving the money, he seemed to be afraid that Shui Jiu would rob him. There was no one to be seen.

Shui Jiu couldn't help but stare blankly at the newsboy's disappearance, then lowered her head, and saw two columns of bold characters, which said arresting the thieves who stabbed the Daotai all the way.

Finally, the official announced.

Shui Jiu held the newspaper, raised her head under the bright sunlight, the corners of the newspaper were rattled by the wind.

His eyes were heavy, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Half an hour later, Shui Jiu arrived at Fengyu Rice Shop in a rickshaw.He got out of the car and found the rice shop, and found that the rice shop was in a mess, the gate was open, cloth strips, rice bags, and boxes were scattered, and rice grains were thrown out as if they didn't want money.Strangely, there were no refugees nearby who dared to come and snatch it.

Shui Jiu immediately felt vigilant, slowed down his pace, and glanced left and right, and sure enough, he saw many people who looked like military police walking back and forth nearby.The gendarmes had all changed into plain clothes, but the posture with slumped shoulders and a cigarette dangling from their mouth could be seen as coming from the yamen.Shui Jiu stopped going inside, guessing that Zhu Zi, the Mihang buddy who had delivered the news for them, was also arrested.

The current situation is indeed dangerous.

Shui Jiu pondered for a while, then walked slowly along the street, with a newspaper rolled up in his hand, and the brim of his hat pulled down.

A few plainclothes gendarmes only glanced at him, but didn't pay much attention when they saw that he didn't stop at the gate of Mihang.

Shui Jiu deliberately slowed down and left the street, turned another corner to the entrance of the alley, and immediately beckoned a rickshaw again.When he sat in the rickshaw, he realized that his back was sticky and he was covered in cold sweat.

"Sir, where are you going?" the rickshaw driver asked him back.

"Oh, I'm going to find a friend at the gate of the Yamen prison." Shui Jiu's face was pale, but her voice was still clear, and she forced herself to be calm. "You don't need to stop when you get there. I'll take a look first. If that person is on duty today, I'll ask you to stop again."

"Okay—sit tight!"

The rickshaw driver pulled him and ran fast, walking through the streets and alleys. The white towel hanging around his neck seemed to be blown into a huge white butterfly by the wind.

Shui Jiu breathed a sigh of relief, until now he is still in shock.After thinking about it, I decided to visit Lulu first.Lulu was taken away, where exactly was she locked up?What happened?He can't help but ask these questions.

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly saw a familiar figure with thick black braids rushing past him.Shui Jiu was startled, the foreign cigarette almost burned to the tip of her fingers just as she brought it to her mouth to calm herself down.

The girl who just passed by the rickshaw had thick black braids hanging down to her waist, and was wearing a pair of green silk trousers with black wide hems embroidered with gold-lettered longevity patterns on the trousers, and her upper body was loose. He was wearing a pink gown, and walked quickly on the street.Could it be the maid Amei who came out of Xu Jishan's house!

"Amei..." Shui Jiu just opened her mouth, but immediately closed it firmly again.

"Sir, do you want to stop?" The rickshaw driver had already heard it, and cleverly supported the car, turning his head to ask him.

Shui Jiu pondered for a moment. "Stop the car, I'll give you the car money."

The rickshaw driver took the money, wiped his sweat with a white towel, and said to him with a smile: "Turn a corner from here and you will see the Yamen Prison. Sir, if you are happy later, just walk over by yourself."

Shui Jiu thanked her, and then slowly leaned her back against the cement wall to smoke a foreign cigarette.Right now, his status in Jibei City is embarrassing, he might be arrested one day, and maybe he should keep away from each other so as not to cause trouble for Xu Jishan's people.

He thought this way in his heart, when he finished smoking a cigarette, he couldn't help following Amei.From a distance, I saw Amei walking to the street, hurriedly took out a roll of paper from his hand, and posted it on the white wall of the street, but it was a missing person notice.

From Zhang Xu away, Shui Jiu could see clearly that it was Shui Jiu himself who was looking for him written on it.

Shui Jiu was a little surprised.It has been a month since he and Xu Jishan got lost outside the dense forest, why did Xu Jishan order people to post missing person notices everywhere?

It stands to reason that now that Li Daotai is dead, the whole city of northern Hebei is under martial law, and the officials are arresting people, so Xu Zhai's blatant posting of missing person notices is probably to cause trouble for his upper body?

Shui Jiu's long eyebrows were furrowed, and just as she opened her mouth, suddenly there was a splash, and a large amount of rain fell from above her head.He raised his head to realize that at some point there was thunder and lightning in the sky, and there was heavy rain in summer, but the maid, Amei, didn't seem to notice it at all, and she was still struggling to put up missing person notices along the street.

"Run, it's raining!" People around shouted one after another, putting their hands on their heads, or rolling up newspapers to cover their faces and rushing to the eaves to avoid the rain.

This reminded Shui Jiu.

Shui Jiu hurriedly covered her head with a newspaper, mixed in the crowd, and shouted at Amei. "Run, it's raining!"

The maid Ah Mei suddenly turned her head, and Shui Jiu hurriedly turned around and fled in a panic among the crowd.

Unexpectedly, Amei had helped him change his clothes and makeup, so she recognized him just by looking at his back.

"Mr. Shui, Mr. Shui, slow down! You wait for me!" Amei called his name while chasing after him in the rain.

Shui Jiu panicked, and rushed into the cross alley in a panic.He was originally a native of Jibei City. He walked the streets and alleys, turning from one alley to another, and he could never go wrong with his eyes closed.But unexpectedly, Amei seemed to be a native of Hebei City, and wherever he ran, Amei would chase him.

Shui Jiu ran more and more flustered, feeling out of breath.He didn't eat and sleep well these days, so he was hurting his roots.Dong dong dong, Ah Mei's powerful footsteps sounded behind her.

Although Amei is a maid, she is very strong and tall, and she is about to catch up with Shui Jiu.Shui Jiu was anxious and flustered, and accidentally went astray and turned into a dead end.Under the torrential rain, the dead end was quiet, there was no one there, and the doors on both sides were tightly closed.

broken!If Ah Mei caught him, how would he explain his disappearance these days?What should I do, Shui Jiu was drenched all over, feeling panicked.

Suddenly, an arm caught him.

Shui Jiu hurriedly turned his head, and it turned out that Ning Jimin was hiding under a door to avoid the rain in his blind spot.Seeing that he opened his mouth to speak, Ning Jimin hurriedly raised his index finger to his lips, and hissed.

Shui Jiu shut her mouth knowingly.

"Come here!"

Ning Jimin moved his lips silently, grabbed his arm, and gently arched his back, and the ebony door with peeling paint quietly opened.After the two hurriedly entered the door, they quietly closed the door and pulled the bolt.

Just at this time, Amei had already chased here, looked around, but there was no sign of Shui Jiu, so she could only shout loudly: "Mr. Shui, where have you been, Mr. Shui?"

Shui Jiu closed his eyes and gasped for breath. He was exhausted from running this distance, and his face was as white as snowflakes.

"You recognize her?" Ning Jimin asked softly.

Shui Jiu nodded first, then shook his head again.

Before he had time to explain, he heard Ah Mui outside again.