Chapter 12 Loves to cause trouble too much

Bai Jiuxiao returned to Chunni Inn and still didn't see Ning Shiqian.

She was not in a hurry, thinking that if he looked around outside, he would naturally come back here if he couldn't find him.

Neither the Book of War nor the Theory of Ping Guo were brought over at Qingfeng Inn. She had nothing to do, so she stood at the window of the inn with her hands folded, looking at the lively streets outside, watching people coming and going, and observing the various changes in people's livelihood.

The waiter knocked on the door and came in to bring tea. She threw a handful of copper coins on the table and said, "Go and call the beggar at the gate of the cloth shop."

When he saw the money, the waiter's eyes lit up and he asked her, "Which one?"

Bai Jiuxiao raised her hand and pointed out the window.

"Okay, okay, wait a minute, girl." The waiter put the coins in his pocket and ran quickly.

Not long after, the beggar was brought.

Bai Jiuxiao signaled the waiter to go out, then raised his sleeves and struck out a blast of palm wind to close the door.

The beggar was so frightened when he saw her great kung fu: "Girl, I have no enmity with you."

"Don't worry, I'm just asking you something."

Bai Jiuxiao walked to the table and sat down, took out a piece of silver and threw it on the ground in front of him: "As long as you answer truthfully, this silver will be yours."

I have never seen such a piece of silver. The beggar's eyes were straightened. He bent his knees and fell to his knees: "Girl, just ask."

"Are there many beggars like you in Yunlai?"

"During the Dragon Boat Festival this year, Zhang Shanren gave rice dumplings to all the beggars. I heard that the number of people present at that time was more than a hundred, maybe less than two hundred. It should be that many. I don't know if this is too much or too little.

"

Bai Jiuxiao's eyes narrowed slightly.

The population of Yunlai County is about 80,000 to 90,000, and there are between 1 and 200 beggars, which is not too many.

But for a prosperous land with plenty of land, it's not too little.

"You rely on mountains and rivers to eat. Yunlai County has mountains and rivers. Why did you become a beggar?"

"Although there are mountains and rivers, it still requires family and labor. Most of the beggars are old, weak, sick and disabled people who are unable to make a living. They have hands and feet. Who is willing to beg? Like me, it was also because a pair of arms were injured.

If you don’t have the strength, you have to join this industry.”

The beggar said as he rolled up his sleeves to show Bai Jiuxiao.

Bai Jiuxiao pursed her lips and said nothing.

If this is the reason, it is acceptable, but it may be due to exploitation by powerful forces or oppression by evil forces, resulting in displacement and becoming a beggar.

With a thought in his mind, Bai Jiuxiao said again: "Do you know County Magistrate Chen of Yunlai County?"

"Yes," the beggar nodded, "our Yunlai parents."

Bai Jiuxiao raised his hand and threw a handful of copper coins on the ground in front of him: "Tell me three of his evil deeds!"

"Ah?" The beggar didn't react for a moment, "Evil deeds?"

"Yes, you just have to say it. There is no need for you to testify, and there is no need for you to bear any responsibility. After you have finished speaking, you can take these and leave."

Bai Jiuxiao pointed to the silver and copper coins on the ground in front of him.

"But if you don't say it, or say nonsense." Bai Jiuxiao raised his sleeve again, and a dagger flew out, inserting it squarely on a copper coin in front of the beggar's knees, "you will follow this copper coin.

Same."

The beggar was shocked and turned pale.

He thought for a while, shaking like chaff, and looked as if he was about to cry: "But Mr. Chen is a good official. I, I really can't think of any evil deeds he has done."

Although he wanted to get those silver and copper coins so much, he couldn't make it up, and he would die if he told nonsense.

"Are you sure?" Bai Jiuxiao narrowed his eyes dangerously.

"Yes, sure."

Bai Jiuxiao stared at him for a moment and saw that he didn't seem to be lying.

It seems that Chen Zi is indeed a good official. When she came to Yunlai, she saw people living in peace and order along the way.

Then he waved his sleeves and said, "Go away and do something with that money."

The beggar was overjoyed. He quickly picked up the silver and copper coins, hit his head on the ground at Bai Jiuxiao, and kowtowed three times.

"." Bai Jiuxiao frowned, "No need."

She doesn't need this.

The beggar staggered to his feet.

Because I had been kneeling for a long time, and the moment I just knelt down was too hard, my knees hurt terribly, but I still couldn't hide my excitement. I bowed deeply to Bai Jiuxiao again, and then left with tears in my eyes.

As soon as Ning Shiqian went up to the second floor of Chunni Inn, he saw a beggar coming out of Bai Jiuxiao's room, limping, with red eyes and sniffling, and a large bruise and swelling on his forehead, which was obviously a new injury.

Ning Shiqian frowned.

Are you bullying a beggar?

Especially when he entered the door and saw Bai Jiuxiao in the room bending down to pick up the dagger stuck on the copper coin from the ground, he was even more sure of this.

Coins, daggers, injured beggar.

He didn't know whether he was beaten for coming to beg or for some other reason.

All he knew was that having this woman around him would definitely be a nuisance.

Loves to cause trouble too much.

Seeing him entering the door, Bai Jiuxiao's eyes lit up: "You're back."

Ning Shiqian said "hmm" calmly.

"Did you just ask someone to find me?" Bai Jiuxiao asked him.

Ning Shiqian denied it: "No."

If he admitted it, it would be equivalent to telling her that he already knew that she was a hidden guard sent by his father because he used the code word "Angelica".

Since his father sent him here secretly, he definitely didn't want him to know her identity.

Just let her mistakenly think that it was his father who instructed her colleagues to shout.

"No?" Bai Jiuxiao raised his eyebrows slightly.

He is the only one in the world who knows the name Heiyunwai.

He probably wanted to save face and didn't want her to know that he hadn't seen her for a while, so he looked around for her in a hurry.

Okay, since she doesn't want to admit it, she won't expose him.

"Has lunch been eaten? I asked someone to prepare the food." Ning Shiqian asked.

Bai Jiuxiao was happy and surprised.

He actually asked her to have dinner with him!

Sure enough, the strategy has changed and the focus has been on customers.

"No."

It is true that she did not use lunch, and even if she did, it must be that she had never used it.

"Let's get together then." Ning Shiqian walked to the table, lifted his robe and sat down.

Soon a waiter came with a tray of food.

Although it was just a very ordinary home-cooked side dish, to Bai Jiuxiao who was used to seeing delicacies from all over the world, this was a delicacy.

"Do you want to drink?" Ning Shiqian asked.

"Drink!" Bai Jiuxiao said boldly.

He immediately took the bowl and poured the wine from the pot, only to find the small wine cup that Ning Shi had handed over.

The movements of both of them were the same.

What Bai Jiuxiao was thinking was, hey, I'm used to drinking from a big bowl, I forgot to restrain myself, and I became too aggressive.

What Ning Shiqian thought about was that, not to mention that as a woman, she could be so bold and unrestrained, but as a hidden guard, she shouldn't be exposed to alcohol.

Such an undisciplined and imprudent temper will lead to bad things sooner or later.

Bai Jiuxiao took the wine cup from Ning Shiqian's hand and was about to pour the wine again, but Ning Shiqian stopped him: "No, a bowl is fine."

The bowl is good.

The bowl is large, the amount is large, the medicinal properties are strong, and the medicine can be poured quickly.

The two began to eat.

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