The first volume of pearl curtains rolls up the western mountain rain at dusk Chapter 80 Catch Back
The two little ones sat by the forest under the moonlight. Gao Xining's cheeks were bulging with food. He hadn't eaten for the whole day and was extremely hungry. He finally went to the kitchen at home and stole half a steamed bun, but Li Diudiu knocked it and it fell to the ground.
"Eat slowly."
Li Diudiu took off the kettle and handed it to Gao Xining: "Don't choke."
Gao Xining hummed, and after taking a sip of water, she felt much smoother. She chuckled and said, "I won't eat tomorrow, so you can bring me food at night. You don't have to go into my yard, just tie it with a small rope on the wall and let it down to me. I want to see if my grandfather will be scared if I keep doing this for a few days."
Li Diudiu smiled and said, "You can eat normally tomorrow, because I have something important to go out for."
Gao Xining immediately looked at Li Diudiu: "Where are you going?"
Li Diudiu didn't dare tell Yan Qingzhi or his master about this matter, but he felt there was no need to hide anything in front of Gao Xining, so he told him everything.
After listening to this, Gao Xining fell into deep thought. After a long while, she asked Li Diudiu, "Is it okay not to go?"
Li Diudiu shook his head: "I have to go when my life is entrusted to me."
Gao Xining: "You are still a child, and you have never traveled far away alone. What if you are caught by those bad guys?"
Li Diudiu said with a smile: "You really underestimated me. Don't worry, I will be back in seven or eight days. I will bring you some delicious specialties from Laihu County."
Gao Xining was silent again.
She suddenly raised her hand: "Make a pinky promise."
Li Diudiu: "Childish or not, no one over seven years old would do something like making a pinky promise."
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Gao Xining tapped Li Diudiu on the head and said, "Make a pinky promise!"
Li Diudiu just stretched out his finger reluctantly and hooked it with Gao Xining's finger. Gao Xining said very piously: "Go safely and come back safely. Those who don't keep their promises are pigs."
Li Diudiu asked: "Generally speaking, aren't the ones who don't keep their word the puppies?"
Gao Xining curled his lips and said, "The puppy is so cute, it doesn't have the weight of a curse at all. Besides, you should change the dog you swore last time."
Li Diudiu: "Do you think this is a poisonous oath?"
Gao Xining was too lazy to pay attention to him, so he stood up and walked back: "If you don't come back on time, I will... I will... I will not find you a wife, I will go find someone else, find ten for them."
Li Diudiu: "Is this another poisonous oath?"
After he left the grove, he went to Xiahou Zhuo's residence. Xiahou Zhuo had expected him to come, so the door was not closed and the lights were still on in the room. When Li Diudiu entered, the guy was sitting there pretending to read a book.
It was not until Li Diudiu got closer that he realized that Xiahou Zhuo had fallen asleep while sitting there, with the book on the chair. He lowered his head to take a look curiously, wondering what kind of book could Xiahou Zhuo be so absorbed in?
It didn't matter that he lowered his head, his expression changed immediately after he took a few glances.
"What kind of vicious Kung Fu is this? Why are two people entangled and killing each other like this? These two people must have a deep hatred, one is pinning the other down..."
He muttered to himself for a few words, and Xiahou Zhuo suddenly woke up. Seeing Li Diudiu staring at the book, his old face immediately turned red and he threw the book out with a whoosh.
"What are you looking at!"
Xiahou Zhuo stood up and said, "Shameless!"
Li Diudiu was stunned.
"What kind of Kung Fu is this? Why do a man and a woman who practice Kung Fu have to be so closely entangled?"
"This...is not a practice."
Xiahou Zhuo answered seriously: "It's cultivation."
Li Diudiu: "You are not a Taoist, and there is nothing like this in the Taoist teachings my master showed me. Your book has only a few words, it's all pictures!"
Xiahou Zhuo waved his hand and said, "It's not important!"
He quickly changed the subject and pointed to the table: "I expected you to come back to see me, so I prepared everything you need for your trip. Just now, you went to see Gao Xining, and I went to see Ye Zhangzhu and took almost all of his stuff."
Li Diudiu looked at the table. There were many things on it, including long swords, short swords, knives, daggers, hooks, Emei Spears, rope guns, and even crossbows, etc.
"Ye Zhangzhu...lives here?"
"Well, the small courtyard at the back, he lives here most of the time."
Xiahou Zhuo said with some pride: "Take whatever you need from these things."
Li Diudiu said, "If I take any of these things, I won't be able to get out of Jizhou City."
Xiahou Zhuo snorted, "I've prepared it for you."
He pointed to an iron plate on the table and said, "That is the waist plate of Prince Yu's Mansion. With this waist plate, ordinary people will not make things difficult for you, nor dare to make things difficult for you, so just choose whatever you like."
Li Diudiu became happy, looked back, and strode towards Xiahou Zhuo's bed. Xiahou Zhuo was startled: "What are you doing!"
Li Diudiu went over and pulled off Xiahou Zhuo's bed sheet, then packed all the things on the table into the sheet.
"Only children choose. Of course I want both."
Li Diudiu packed up all the things, picked them up and put them on his shoulders. There were too many things and they were heavy, so he swung them on his shoulders and turned around.
Xiahou Zhuo was unhappy.
"It's fine that you took my things, but you're also dancing?"
Li Diudiu: “Pah…”
He looked at Xiahou Zhuo and said seriously, "Please look after my master for me while I am away for seven or eight days. He always feels bad for me to go out and make money. Who knows what trouble he might have caused in these days. Please keep an eye on him for me."
Xiahou Zhuo nodded: "Don't worry, you can go with peace of mind... Bah!"
Li Diudiu: "Since you are young and ignorant, I won't bother with you."
He walked out with the package on his back: "There is another thing I want to ask you about. How was Wang Heita's body disposed of? If you know, I want to burn some paper money for him when I come back."
Xiahou Zhuo hummed: "Say thank you!"
Li Diudiu said as she walked: "We are sisters with a deep bond, no need to say more."
Xiahou Zhuo let out a "Pooh" sound in the air.
The next morning, Li Diudiu took advantage of the fact that the class was not yet timed. Knowing that Yan Qingzhi was too lazy to go early, he ran to the cafeteria to have breakfast, then put on the bag and went out.
Although he planned to hand over all the banknotes to Wang Heita's family, he couldn't really walk all the way there. The round trip was long, and he felt that his tender feet would not be happy about it, so he went to the coach company to inquire about how much it would cost to hire a coach for this trip.
"There are three classes of carriages. The first-class carriage will take nearly ten days to travel the distance you mentioned, so I'll charge you two taels of silver. You also need to leave a deposit of ten taels of silver with me. The total value of my carriages is more than ten taels."
"A second-class carriage costs 1 tael and 8 cents for a round trip, and a third-class carriage costs 1 tael and 5 cents for a round trip. The deposit is the same for both."
After hearing this, Li Diudiu felt that it was a bit expensive and looked embarrassed.
"Sir, if you don't like it, I have a special carriage over there, which is extremely luxurious. If you are worried about being bored, I can also arrange for a girl to accompany you. It will only cost you fifty taels for the round trip."
Li Diudiu said seriously: "Why do I need a girl?"
The shopkeeper said, "Sure."
Li Diudiu was startled and asked, "What is possible?"
The shopkeeper said, "Young Master, you are asking... Forget it, just pretend I didn't say anything. I'm afraid you won't be able to do it at your age."
Li Diudiu asked: "Is there anything cheaper?"
The shopkeeper finally reacted and turned around, pointing to a donkey over there: "This one, the deposit is five taels, and the return is one tael."
Li Diudiu looked at the donkey and asked, "Why is it so cheap?"
The shopkeeper gave Li Diudiu a cold look. Li Diudiu thought that since it was cheap, he might as well take it. So he paid the deposit and set off leading the donkey. The donkey was actually quite strong. He hung the package on the donkey and actually felt quite high-spirited after riding it.
Fortunately, the donkey's driving skills were quite simple, and he managed to ride the donkey to the city gate smoothly. The guards at the gate came over, one on each donkey, and stopped him as a routine matter.
"Open the package and inspect it."
Li Diudiu handed over the badge of Prince Yu's Palace and said, "I am from the palace, I am going out to do something."
The soldier looked at him and immediately became polite, leaning forward and saying, "Sir, take care."
Li Diudiu urged the donkey, but the donkey got angry and refused to move. The soldier was kind-hearted and slapped the donkey. The donkey jumped and the bag fell off. With a crash, the ground was covered with swords, spears, halberds, axes, hooks and forks...
The soldiers looked at the weapons on the ground, and then looked at Li Diudiu. Li Diudiu did not show any embarrassment at all. He jumped off the donkey, calmly put away the weapons one by one, and then said to the soldier, "It's hard to explain the matter of the palace."
The soldier nodded quickly and said, "Yes, yes, yes..."
Li Diudiu climbed onto the donkey's back again and whispered softly in its ear: "If you don't leave, I will burn you tonight."
The donkey seemed to understand and ran forward briskly on all fours.
"The people in this palace are really different. They don't look that old, but why do they carry so many weapons..."
The soldier muttered something, and the sergeant next to him said, "Don't worry about it. Even if the people from the palace took out a cart of weapons, we wouldn't dare to stop them. Besides, there are all kinds of strange things in this world. You think it's strange for a young man to go out with a bunch of weapons. This morning, I ran into Lao Chen and a few other patrolmen from Jizhou Prefecture. There are even stranger things."
He lowered his voice and said to the soldiers, "Lao Chen and his men encountered a ghost while on patrol last night... They saw the ghost and wanted to kill them, but then he said he was in a hurry to collect 300 heads and ignored them and left... Did you hear that the people from Changxing Casino and the people in the Qingyi formation had a fight last night, and a total of 300 people died on both sides..."
After he said this, he shuddered.
Li Diudiu hadn't walked far yet, but when he heard these words, he felt a sudden shock in his heart.
Three hundred lives.
Shortly after Li Diudiu left the city gate, he arrived at the Jizhou government office.
After hearing what his men said, Lian Gongming slammed the table in anger: "Hundreds of people searched all night but couldn't find the account books. What's the use of you! Go and look for it again. If you can't find it, you don't have to come back."
One of his one-eyed men leaned forward and said, "Sir, we have indeed searched everywhere. We have dug deep in the Changxing Casino but still cannot find the account book. It is possible that Wang Heita gave the account book to someone."
At this time, someone came in and leaned over and said, "Sir, someone just reported that the man named Li Chi left the city with a package containing many weapons."
Another person said, "It seems that Wang Heita met Li Chi at night a while ago. When interrogating Wang Heita's men, they said that Wang Heita asked them to leave. I don't know what he said to Li Chi. Maybe he gave him something?"
Lian Gongming frowned.
"I don't care if it's on that child or not, but we must not let him go. Catch Li Chi and Li Chi's master!"
"yes!"
A group of people leaned over and responded.
