Wishful Things

The man in Tsing Yi looked at the slop bucket that fell to the ground next to the young man. There was no swill flowing out of this bucket, and it was obviously 'empty'——

At this time, a carriage came and stopped to check the situation.

"What's the matter?" The coachman jumped off the seat.

At the same time, a figure flashed in the carriage, using the body of the carriage and the night as a cover, he quickly stepped forward and nimbly brought the black figure next to the slop bucket into the carriage.

It was chaotic everywhere, and several caring people were covering it up, so no one noticed anything strange.

"I said, how do you ride a horse?"

"This is the swill brought out from the palace. Now that it's been spilled, how do I explain it to the master?"

Several men complained that it was difficult to start.

"Everyone calm down, this is indeed my fault. This horse has only been tamed for a few days, and somehow it committed a wild nature and ran into everyone..."

The men became even more angry when they heard this.

"A horse that has just been tamed dares to ride in the city, and it's not afraid of—" a man just opened his mouth when he saw a few gold leaves suddenly handed to him. Good-hearted rebuke: "...Aren't you afraid of hurting yourself? It's better to get another one for such a fierce horse."

"Yes." Xiao Qi, who had specially modified her eyebrows and complexion, stuffed the gold leaf over: "I'll buy you a jug of wine to calm you down."

"It's easy to say..." The man showed a cheerful smile, and while putting away the gold leaf, he asked in a chatty manner: "I haven't asked which family you are from?"

——Where do you ride horses on weekdays?

"I'm just a foreigner, I just came to the capital for fun." Xiaoqi saluted again, and the tone of his speech was indeed not a serious Beijing dialect: "I still have important things to do, so it's not easy to accompany you to clean up together. , I have to work harder, everyone."

"It doesn't matter, since the young master has something important to do, don't delay it."

"Farewell."

Xiao Qi got on his horse and left, several men gathered around and held the golden leaf happily.

Where is the horse that hit it, it is clearly the God of Wealth!

"Okay, okay, clean up quickly, brothers and sisters, go drink and eat meat!" The leading man urged with a smile.

Several people quickly carried the swill bucket back into the carriage and drove away.

But not far after walking, the man driving the cart at the back suddenly thought of something, stopped the mule cart, and looked behind him: "Wait...it's not right!"

"What's the matter? Surprised?"

The man pointed to the carriage behind him, and when he was about to speak, he suddenly heard the sound of horseshoes approaching.

Several people subconsciously looked up.

The sound of horseshoes was getting closer and closer, and soon broke through the night, and came before the eyes of several people.

After seeing the clothes of those people clearly, the expressions of several men changed.

It's the Police Guard!

But when he was about to pull the mule cart to the side to make way, he saw the pedestrians rein in their horses and turned over, and the leader drew a knife and walked towards them, asking coldly: "The car is from Xixiao Gate today. The swill shipped out?"

Seeing the long knife gleaming with cold light, several people were so frightened that their faces turned pale and they nodded like pounding garlic.

"I have been in charge of transporting swill for several years. I don't know what the officials are doing..." the leader asked boldly.

However, the security guard ignored him, went straight to a mule cart, and picked up the wooden cover of a bucket with a long knife.

A sour smell rushed straight to his forehead, the police guard frowned and looked into the bucket, but his face changed, the knife light in his hand turned, and the tip of the knife pointed at a man: "Why is this bucket?" Is it empty?! What was there in it!"

If you want to hold people, you must use an empty barrel!

"This... it was originally filled with swill, but it accidentally collided with a fierce horse on the way back, and then it spilled out!" The man's voice was anxious and trembling: "If the official doesn't believe it, You can check them one by one...the bucket is not the only one that is empty in the car!"

The police officer frowned when he heard this, and turned his head to signal his subordinates to step forward to check.

The lids of the swill buckets were taken off one by one, and it can be seen that many of them were empty, and some were only half-filled.

"When and where did they collide? Does the horse have an owner!"

The man was sweating profusely from fright: "It's in Yongqin Lane behind Caishikou...the man said he came from another place! Dare I ask the officer, what...what happened?"

The police guard glanced at several men, and examined them coldly: "Today, an assassin hid in a slop bucket and slipped out of the palace. Didn't you all notice the slightest difference?"

These people have been transporting slops for the palace all the year round, or there are indeed people who don't know about it, but if no one of them cooperates, it is absolutely impossible!

"Assassin, assassin?!"

"This...how is this possible!"

"I...Master, I thought of a suspicious person!" The man who parked the car earlier changed his expression and swallowed nervously.

"explain!"

The man said: "Today there is a stranger with us. He said he came from a foreign country and wanted to find an errand. The master saw that he is honest and reliable... It just so happens that one of us has been ill recently, and one of us is missing." It was carried with the car, so the master asked this person to go with us!"

As soon as these words came out, the other three men subconsciously looked around.

That's right, a young man surnamed Guo joined them today!

Wait - what about people?

And that young man!

"It must have run away with the man on the horse just now when we weren't paying attention! They must be in the same group!" A man belatedly exclaimed—good guy, the assassins nowadays are so generous , what's wrong with this family background!

The police guard gritted his teeth.

Still one step too late!

"Which way are they fleeing!"

"Go east from Yongqin Lane!"

"Deng Jiu, take the two of you to stay and watch them first, and the others follow me!" The police guard gave the men a last glance before getting on his horse: "If anyone dares to spread a word about what happened tonight , Watch out for your heads!"

...

The curfew is approaching, and the Xuesheng Teahouse in Chengnan Lane has closed its doors to welcome customers.

At this time, a green curtained carriage slowly stopped at the back door of the teahouse.

A servant girl jumped out of the car first, stepped forward and knocked on the back door of the teahouse.

Immediately afterwards, a girl wearing a bright blue embroidered white orchid fine silk thin shirt and a moonlight woven gold skirt stepped out of the carriage.

With a soft "squeak", the door quickly opened a thin crack, and half of the head poked out of the thin crack. After seeing who the girl standing under the moonlight was, Shou Ming just pushed the door open. She greeted her with a smile, and said in a low voice, "Miss Xu, please come in."

Xu Mingyi then took Ah Zhu into the teahouse.

"Young Master hasn't arrived yet, but he has already brought him back. Miss Xu, do you want to meet him first?" Shou Ming asked in a low voice.

good evening everyone~