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Back at the inn, Qi Zhong suddenly remembered the bad thing about having slept soundly last night, but was doused by the heavy rain, so he hurriedly went to the counter to check out.

"...Guest officer, you, what are you going to do?"

The waiter at the counter was startled, seeing the man standing in front of him with a gloomy expression, staring at him without speaking for a long time, he couldn't help asking guiltily.

"Do not you know me?"

Qi Zhong blinked his sore eyes, pointed at the little girl and asked.

"No, I don't know you." Xiao Er honestly shook his head.

"Fart, didn't you give me this room card yesterday?" Qi Zhong threw the bamboo piece on the counter, feeling depressed.

"It's not me, Xiao Fuzi was on duty yesterday, but I'm on duty today."

The new Xiao Er on duty looked aggrieved, and hurriedly turned over the notebook to Qi Zhong to read.

"Then you didn't say it earlier? It made my eyes sore from staring."

Qi Zhong was so angry that he rolled his eyes, he wanted to stare at him all the time, so that the black heart store would realize his mistake, but he didn't expect that he would even admit that he was wrong.

"Guest officer, you didn't ask." Xiaoer complained in a low voice.

"I want to change the house! Look at your leaky house, it almost flooded me yesterday."

He knocked the bamboo piece several times to express his dissatisfaction.

Xiao Er hurriedly handled it, fearing that if she was a step too late, she would be yelled at again.

During lunch, a storyteller came downstairs, and the atmosphere suddenly became noisy again.

Qi Zhongsha stared at him with interest and told him that he even ate a few extra peanuts.

At this moment, two people came in from the building, well dressed, one of them suddenly walked up to Mu Yun and bowed deeply to him.Everyone who was eating was taken aback.

Just as Mu Yun was about to get up to return the salute, he saw that the man's face changed, and he directly walked away from him, and went to the back table with dodge eyes.

Qi Zhong felt strange and asked him, "Do you know him?"

"do not know."

Qi Zhong wanted to laugh even more: "Where is this stupid hat? You really pretended to be like that. If I didn't know everything about you, I really thought you had friends all over the world."

Min Zhi looked suspiciously at the behavior of that person just now, and said suspiciously: "They seem to be liars, and the tricks they use are common in Shengjing. If you don't believe me, take a look."

When Qi Zhong and the others turned their heads, the man had already bowed to a guest who was sitting alone at the back table, and started talking, as if they had known each other for a long time.But when the guest bent down to return the gift, another accomplice of the man had already stepped forward, hung the string of money on the table around his waist, and then sat down at the adjacent table and drank tea naturally.

"Oh, sorry, I recognized the wrong person, please leave."

The man pretended to ask the guest's name, then made an expression of not knowing him, apologized again and again, and then walked out quickly.

The guest didn't say anything, and when he turned around, he found that the money on the table was gone.

"Hey, my money, there are thieves, there are thieves."

He couldn't help shouting in a panic. At this time, the accomplice got up and walked over, provocatively said: "Oh, brother, you are too careless, how can you put the money on the table casually? Like me, just hang the money It's on the waist, it can't fall off at all."

"This, isn't this my money?"

The guest took a closer look and found that his string of money had gone to someone else's waist. He remembered the guy who said he had misidentified the person just now, and realized that he had been fooled.

"Hey, what is your money? It's mine. Kindly remind you, why are you still relying on me?"

The man pretended to be decent, and he was really framed, leaving the guest speechless, watching his money hanging on others, but there was nothing he could do.

……

"Haha... Interesting, really interesting, is the trick of the liar so funny now?"

Looking at this scene, Qi Zhong laughed so hard that he didn't even listen to the storytelling.

"Nine out of ten times this kind of deception is held in Shengjing, I'm tired of seeing it. Wait, this heroine will deal with him."

Not pleasing to the eye, Min Zhi walked towards the arrogant liar, patted him on the shoulder and began to exert force. The man turned to look at her proudly, but he didn't even have time to say anything, so he was pressed on the table cried out in pain.

"Ah—my hand, hand, hand..."

"He's from Shengjing, right? Pay him back the money wisely, or you'll die as a pickpocket."

As soon as he let go, the man suffered a loss, so he had to obediently put the money on the table, guessing in his heart that he had met someone from the same city, and hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the heroine, please forgive me."

Min Zhi nodded: "Go."

After the person ran away, the guest thanked her again and again.

When the people came back, Qi Zhong laughed again: "It's thanks to our large number of people, otherwise, Mr. Yun, your wallet will not be guaranteed."

Mu Yun nodded without denying anything.

Qi Zhong opened up and chatted again: "Hey, do you still remember the last time you came to our Changting, I helped you catch the thief..."

The more they chatted, the happier Mu Yun patiently listened to his reminiscences.Min Zhi couldn't stand it anymore, and frowned and said: "It's alright, you, can you let Mr. Mu Yun have a good meal, I keep hearing where you are arguing, it's annoying."

"Well. All right."

After taking a look, he found that Mu Yun had really put down all the bowls and chopsticks, and Qi finally took the interest of chattering wisely.

……

In the afternoon, Qi Zhong and the two took advantage of the crowds on the street and went out to inquire about the news.

As soon as they walked to the center of the street, the two ran into a young man who was bargaining with silver for copper coins in the market.The posture of talking with his hips on his hips was like a little rooster. Qi Zhong stood aside and paid more attention.

Suddenly, another old man dressed in rags rushed over, knocked down the young man from behind, grabbed the unopened purse, and cursed: "Father is so poor, you are an unfilial son and steal money to exchange for it." , do something stupid."

Then he swore away and walked away. People passing by all pointed and pointed, thinking that it was the father who taught the son a lesson.

The beaten boy fell to the ground, almost unconscious.

Mu Yun stepped forward to help him up, and persuaded him: "Don't do it again next time. Although your father beat you cruelly, it was you who stole the money from the family first. Go back and admit your mistake, and he probably won't blame you again. gone."

The spectators at the side also nodded in agreement and persuaded the young man one after another.

The young man rubbed the back of his painful head in confusion, and cried, "How can I have a father? My father died a long time ago!"

"what--"

Everyone present sighed, even Mu Yun was stunned for a moment.

Qi finally came to his senses and pulled him out of the crowd.

"Are you stupid? Stay there, and later people will think you are an accomplice of thieves."

"I...they are too much."

Seeing the boy crying on the ground, Mu Yun couldn't help sighing sympathetically.

"Let's go, that old guy is running this way, there is still time to chase him now."

Determined to get back the money for the young man, the two followed the old man out of the countryside and came to a ruined temple.

Qi Zhong was wary that he might have accomplices, so he called Mu Yun to stop, and first took a peek outside the door.

Sure enough, not long after the old man entered, two sneaky figures emerged from behind the Buddha statue.Qi Zhong recognized the two of them at a glance, and was surprised: "Aren't these two liars from the restaurant?"

In the ruined temple, the three gathered together to report today's performance.

"How is it? How much did you two get along?" the old man asked first.

The two looked distressed: "Don't mention it, I met someone from the same city in the restaurant today, almost broke my hand, it's still a girl, alas."

The old man snorted, "It's really useless."

"How much have you messed up again? Just scolding us." Another young man was dissatisfied with his attitude.

"Me, tsk, ginger is still old and spicy, let's see."

The old man proudly pulled out the money bag, and both of them stared straight, feeling that the bag of money was not light.

The two young men quickly took the money bag, ready to count it carefully, but the moment they opened the money bag, their faces turned green with anger.

"Old man! Are you bluffing your uncle and me? Take some peanuts and want to use them as silver top-ups, just a few copper coins."

The old man who was hit in the face by peanuts was stunned and stammered: "No, can't you? I even snatched the bag together, but it was still heavy in my hand. Why did it turn into peanuts?"

Looking at the scattered peanuts on the ground, he looked in disbelief.

And Qi Zhong outside was so teased by this scene that he couldn't straighten up.He didn't expect that the little spell he cast in the morning made the young man pick up a lot of peanuts. He thought he had made a lot of money and ran to exchange the money, but the old man stole it back. Now that the time passed, the spell disappeared and everything changed. Back to the original appearance.

Mu Yun looked at him helplessly and smiled, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Looking up, Qi Zhong saw his serious expression, and couldn't help but burst out laughing, startling the people in the temple.

The three hurried out of the temple gate, but Qi Zhong stopped them coldly with a raised sword: "Stop."

The hairs of the three stood on end, and they asked nervously, "Master, yes, is there something wrong?"

Qi Zhong stepped forward with his hands behind his back, and said a lesson: "You have committed scandalous theft, and you should have been handed over to the government, but now there is a chance to reform, let's see if you can grasp it."

The three of them stared helplessly, and had no choice but to nod: "Yes, yes."

"Fine then. I'll ask you something."

The three of them stood aside, Nuonuo, looking at him timidly, waiting for him to ask questions.

"When did you come to Liuxi Town?"

"In the past year, there have been a lot of people doing business here, and most of them haven't stayed here for a long time. They don't know the local conditions, so we can easily succeed." The old man replied.

Qi Ding nodded, and asked again: "Then have you ever heard of any strange things here? For example, evil spirits or something."

"Yes, I heard that people here can't get married openly, or they will die." The person who had been taught a lesson in the restaurant hurriedly replied.

"I know that, is there anything else?"

"I've heard other people say something else, but I don't know if it's true or not." The old man spoke slowly in a contemplative state.

"Let's talk first." Qi finally said impatiently.

"Let's say that Liuxi Town has a lot of people coming and going. A few years ago, I joined a troupe of opera troupes and set up a theater. It was said that they were from the Beijing troupe, and it became prosperous after two visits. At that time, anyone in the town who had some spare money would go to the theater every day. Go there and spend the morning."

The old man swallowed, looked at Qi Zhong's face resentfully, and added.

"It's just that the good times don't last long. The troupe disappeared within half a year after it was set up. I heard that it was leaking, and it was burned clean. Many people died."

The young thief on the side also echoed: "It's a pity that the troupe leader is still a stunning beauty, good at dancing and singing, and the town's nobles and nobles once went there admiringly. Before the troupe became famous, she had already become a celebrity in the town. .Furthermore, their family's performance not only sings well, but also dances wonderfully, which puts everyone in the same industry ashamed."

"Wouldn't she also be buried in the sea of ​​flames if the theater was flooded?" Qi Zhong asked again.

The old man shook his head and said: "She didn't die, and she married the son of the richest and most powerful noble family in the town to be a child. .”

After asking for a while, Qi finally felt that it was almost done, waved his hand, and let the three of them run away.