The emperor read the story book in the memorial

"City Lord, City Lord! That girl in my family is so pretty, she can not only cook, but also help out in the fields!"

"What are you talking about? What are you doing with a girl who knows how to farm? Like my niece, who is proficient in everything from piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so she is suitable for the city owner!"

Li Jianyu looked expressionlessly at the chattering villagers around him.

"Oh! Don't talk about it, you have no experience!" A big man threw himself on the table and shouted: "The city owner is going to be the queen!"

Li Jianyu: "..."

The rest of the villagers immediately blinked and looked at the big man curiously.

"Why?"

"Dazhu, you often go out and walk, tell us quickly!"

The big man was already drunk, he lost his mind, and said in a daze, "That day, the city lord threw, threw the hydrangea ball! He deliberately threw it towards the emperor, and the emperor caught it, and was very happy. left!"

"Wow--"

Everyone gasped, covered their mouths, and looked between Li Jianyu and Zhao Linxu.

Li Jianyu: "..."

Is it.

incredible.

"So, what about that mysterious vixen! The emperor has been looking for a vixen for a long time!"

"The Emperor is the Son of Nine Dragons! Don't talk about hugging from left to right, so it doesn't matter if you have three thousand beauties in the harem!"

These days, guards have been coming to their village to check and search for men with tattoos, and guards have been placed everywhere, so that everyone knows about it, and they are more and more looking forward to who this mysterious beauty is.

Li Jianyu said loudly: "My Majesty and I only stop at the monarch and ministers, that day was purely accidental."

"That's right." Zhao Linxu blinked and said with a smile, "Don't ruin the innocence of the city lord."

Li Jianyu felt in a delicate mood.

Leaving aside the rumors, in fact, Zhao Linxu really lost his innocence.

"Will the city lord come to my place later? My daughter boiled mung bean water!"

"Hey, come and sit at my house too!"

Li Jianyu ate with his head down, pretending to be deaf and dumb.

After finally leaving the village, Li Jianyu collapsed.

"The beauty's popularity is really high." Zhao Linxu couldn't laugh or cry.

Li Jianyu also didn't answer, stepped on the horse and said, "Next village."

The two walked for a while, and saw smoke rising from the kitchen ahead.Long white smoke passed through the woods and drifted into the air.

"That is?"

Li Jianyu said: "There is a small post station in front, and the nearby villagers like to go there to chat and drink tea."

"I see."

Li Jianyu can't eat anything now, and there will be a banquet later, so the two of them didn't plan to order food, at most they just tasted the tea that was said to be very good.

The scale of the inn was small, just a dilapidated thatched cottage with a few horses tied to one side, and tables and chairs in twos and threes.

At this moment, perhaps because of the celebration, there were no customers at all in the station, and even the shopkeeper hid in the house. There was only a small figure behind him who didn't know what to do, presumably it was Xiao Er.

The two sat down at one of the tables and ordered a pot of tea.

"Guest officer! Your tea is here!"

To their surprise, the Xiaoer in front of them was a nine or ten-year-old boy. His body hadn't grown yet, he looked a little thin, and his hand holding the plate was trembling.

When Zhao Linxu saw this, he wanted to take it for the little guy, but before he could reach out, the boy's red hand softened the next moment, and the pot of tea poured on Li Jianyu.

"what……!"

The boy exclaimed, and hurriedly put down the tray to wipe Li Jianyu with a rag.However, the dishcloth was already quite dirty, and after wiping Li Jianyu's robe, it was not only wet, but also became more and more dirty, so Li Jianyu had to gently stop the boy's movements.

"It's ok."

The boy became even more anxious, his head was almost buried in his neck, and he retracted his nervously trembling hands.

"sorry Sorry!"

As he spoke, he ran away in a hurry, unable to stop him.

Li Jianyu looked at his clothes helplessly. The fabric from his chest to his knees was wet, sticking to his inner garment, which made Li Jianyu a little uncomfortable.

Zhao Linxu then took off his overcoat and put it on Li Jianyu's body, saying, "Let's do this first, and buy another set of clothes when we get to the village."

"Hmm." Although Li Jianyu didn't want to use Zhao Linxu's overcoat, that's the only way to do it now, otherwise it would be really indecent to enter the village wearing a clothes stained with tea.

There was also Zhao Linxu's masculinity and warmth on the coat, Li Jianyu thought to himself, in modern terms, it probably smells like hormones, it's fluffy and warm.

Li Jianyu pulled up his coat in embarrassment, but was taken aback.

"what happened?"

Li Jianyu frowned slightly, lowered his head and searched carefully before saying: "My purse and jade pendant are gone."

The two subconsciously thought of the boy just now.The boy threw himself directly into Li Jianyu's arms, and moved his hands up and down beside his belt while wiping the tea. Although he didn't want to suspect a child, he was the most suspicious right now.

It doesn't matter if the purse is lost, at most it is some silver, but the jade pendant is a family heirloom of the Li family, so Li Jianyu got up quickly and walked around to the back of the post station.

Behind is a small yard, and in the yard, there is a thin old man lazily lying on a wooden chair and taking a nap.

The old man was in a shallow sleep. After being awakened by the sound of the two people's footsteps, he paused and then jumped up and said, "Oh, you see, I am a useless old man. I really didn't expect that there would be guests in the celebration, so I fell asleep here. .It is really a crime for neglecting the two guest officers. Quick, go to the front, the old man will serve you tea."

Zhao Linxu first declined the old man's invitation, and then asked straight to the point where the little boy had gone.

"Huh? Have a child?"

The old man squinted his eyes and said: "Where are the children, the old man can't control the little baby."

what happened?

Zhao Linxu and Li Jianyu looked at each other.

There are tricks.

"That kid said he was the shopkeeper here."

"Fart!" The old man was in a hurry, jumping up and down: "The old man is running this post by himself! Everyone in a radius of ten miles knows it!"

In other words, the kid pretended to be the second child to deceive the old man while he was asleep?

Or is the old man lying?

"Ah!" The old man clapped his hands as if remembering something, "Maybe it's Xiao Jiu'er on the mountain! Xiao Jiu'er came to beg me to let him work here, but I refused. The officers and soldiers came to tell us before. , you are not allowed to let the little boy work, the old man will always remember it!"

"Then what does the little Jiu'er you mentioned look like? How tall is he? Which mountain does he live on?"

The old man said one by one, and it was indeed the boy who brought them tea.

Looking at the anxious old man in front of him, Zhao Linxu dragged Li Jianyu away first.

"I asked the shadow guard to watch the old man, and we went to chase the boy. The shadow guard also said that he saw him running up the mountain."

Li Jianyu nodded.

"Can you catch up?"

"That's a child after all, and he can't run very far, let alone us chasing him on horseback."

The two got on the horse. Zhao Linxu, who was born as a soldier, was very good at hunting and tracking. He could tell where the boy had gone just by looking at the traces, broken branches and footprints left on the ground.The two went up the mountain, following the traces and climbing higher and higher.

After walking for a while, Zhao Linxu, who was leading the way, turned around and said to Li Jianyu who was behind him, "If it's farther away, we can stop here. You should rush to make an inspection?"

"It's just as important here." Li Jianyu frowned slightly, "I must know why that young boy wanted to steal, and why there are people living in this barren mountain."

He is the lord of the city, and he must be responsible to every citizen.

Zhao Linxu nodded approvingly.

After walking the mountain road for a while, Zhao Linxu finally saw a figure walking alone in front of him.

The boy was startled when he heard the sound of hoofbeats, he quickened his pace and rushed forward desperately.

"Drive!" Yuefeng was able to catch up with the boy without any effort, and Zhao Linxu swung his whip to entangle the boy.

"Well……!"

The boy fell into the grass, his face was covered with plaster, and a few leaves got stuck in his hair, but Zhao Linxu controlled his strength very well, and the boy was unscathed.

"Don't hit me! Don't hit me! Return the purse to you!" The boy bit his lip, took out the purse and jade pendant from his pocket, and handed it to the two of them, "I'll return it to you!"

Sure enough, it was taken by this boy.

Li Jianyu breathed a sigh of relief, stepped forward to take it and asked, "Why do you want to steal?"

The boy bowed his head and said nothing.

Zhao Linxu squatted down and threatened: "If you don't tell me, we will send you to the Yamen."

Zhao Linxu is tall and tall, and it's okay to smile normally, but now he deliberately put on a scary and hideous look, which is really no different from a bandit, except that there is no scar on his face.

The boy looked at Zhao Linxu, and burst into tears with a "wow", crying so hard that he was heartbroken.

Zhao Linxu: "..."