"It's two o'clock in the morning, the weather is dry, so be careful with the candles."
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There were two watchmen, one holding a lantern and a bangle, the other holding a gong. There was a half-moon above their heads, and their voices gradually became distant in the night.
Jin An happened to pass by two watchmen.
I just returned to the inn where I was staying before the 1:30 o'clock curfew.
The ancients had little night life, and curfews were implemented at three o'clock in the morning, prohibiting people from taking to the streets except for funerals, childbirth, illness, etc.
And if he is caught by a night watchman, he will be punished with thirty to fifty canes at the least, or executed on the spot at the worst.
One update is divided into five points.
One o'clock is almost twenty-four minutes.
One to two o'clock is equivalent to around eight o'clock in the evening.
It's unrealistic for people to go to brothels late at night like in costume TV dramas. Brothels also have to close during curfew, so literati and sluts arrive early, close the door and play flute.
Don't ask Jin An why he knows so much.
He also heard it from his friends.
The innkeeper at the inn where Jin An stayed was a thirty-year-old beautiful woman with a pink and crispy texture, a very beautiful charm, and three thousand worries tied up her hair in a bun, revealing a snow-white neck that was as smooth as fat.
Jin'an heard from the waiter in the shop that the shopkeeper was a widow, and she had arranged a wedding with a baby since she was a child. However, on the first day of marriage, before entering the bridal chamber, the groom was kidnapped by a group of bandits and torn up.
The shopkeeper is also a chaste and fierce woman. Although they are only in the name of husband and wife but not in reality, she has never remarried and is willing to wear her hair in a bun and remain a widow.
When Jin An walked into the inn, he saw a pair of sisters, one older and one younger, one about sixteen years old and one less than six or seven years old, with similar facial features, chatting with shopkeeper Zhang.
Like a little sparrow that keeps talking.
The eldest sister carries a suitcase on her back and a sharp sword in her hand. Since she was a child, she has always been a wandering woman who can travel around the world on horseback with a sword?
My sister is sixteen years old, which is the age of maturity. She has dark eyebrows and clear eyes, a face as delicate as snow-white porcelain, a delicate face, delicate and fair skin, straight and firm legs, a tall figure, and a slender waist, perhaps because of martial arts training.
It's related, so there is no excess fat and the chest is full...
Well.
Turns out she's a girl with breasts wrapped around her breasts.
Women who practice martial arts in Jianghu have the habit of wrapping their breasts to prevent the dancing cranes from disturbing the balance of their sword skills, and then being caught by the Caihua Mountain Bandits.
People are so beautiful.
His eyes are just a little colder.
The shuriken made the whole person look murderous, as if he was intimidating others.
As for the five or six-year-old, she looks like a snow-white porcelain doll, and her big, watery eyes are more delicate than wearing brown contact lenses.
Just at this time, there was a waiter in a shop, holding a bunch of baggage, and was about to pass by him. Jin An stopped the waiter and asked curiously: "Is your shopkeeper visiting relatives today?"
Jin An was now considered to be half famous in Chang County. The boy did not dare to neglect him, so he paused and replied: "I heard the two young ladies calling me the shopkeeper's aunt, she should be the shopkeeper's niece."
After saying that, the boy secretly pulled Jin An aside, avoiding the shopkeeper's eyes, and then whispered in a low voice:
"Those two ladies are the daughters of County Magistrate Zhang. I only found out today that Magistrate Zhang actually has two daughters."
"The eldest daughter has been frail and sick since she was a child, so she was sent to the mountains by Magistrate Zhang to practice martial arts since she was a child. She just returned to Chang County recently. As a result, she quarreled with Magistrate Zhang when she came back. Then she ran away from home with her younger sister because she forgot
Taking the money with me, I ran away mysteriously and walked to the shopkeeper, and that's when I saw what happened."
"I didn't expect the shopkeeper to be Zhang Zhixian's blood sister. She doesn't look like her at all. I've never heard anyone talk about this."
Jin An was also surprised after hearing this.
Thinking of the dark-skinned Magistrate Zhang.
These siblings really look nothing alike.
However, Jin An also noticed a detail: Magistrate Zhang seemed to be a cautious person.
He is obviously the county magistrate and the largest official in the county, but he is cautious and cautious, hiding his blood relatives so deeply that no outsider knows that County Magistrate Zhang also has an eldest daughter and a widowed sister.
Jin An is not a person who likes to gossip about other people's privacy. After chatting, he noticed a bag in the boy's hand and curiously asked the boy what he was doing.
The waiter didn't hide anything and said truthfully: "Some time ago, a Taoist priest moved into our store."
"The Taoist priest was wearing a five-color Taoist robe. He had an eccentric personality and spoke very little. I usually greet him in silence. But half a month ago, the Taoist priest in the five-color Taoist robe suddenly left without saying goodbye without checking out with us."
"The shopkeeper thought that the Taoist priest would come back, so he kept a guest room for him. Unexpectedly, he has been waiting for half a month without any news. The shop lost a lot of money, and he was still feeding the Taoist priest every day in the backyard.
The goat that came in had a very voracious appetite. It would not eat any weeds or rotten leaves, but would only eat carrots and peanuts. The shopkeeper was so angry that his face turned pale and he gnashed his teeth during the day."
"No, the shopkeeper saw that the Taoist priest would not come back. I guess the Taoist priest also knew that he could not pay back the money after staying in the hotel for half a month, so he ran away because of the money. So the shopkeeper decided not to insist on waiting any longer today and asked me
Let’s see if the Taoist priest left anything valuable, and kill the fat goat in the backyard to make mutton hot pot and sheep whip hot pot to recoup some of the capital.”
"Just as I was boiling hot water and preparing to slaughter the sheep, I happened to see Magistrate Zhang's eldest daughter running away from home with her younger sister, and they both came to the shop to seek refuge with the shopkeeper."
Taoist priest!
Five-color Taoist robe?
Jin An was surprised at first, and then he was happy.
"Is that Taoist priest in five-color robes middle-aged and wearing a pair of blue and white Shifang shoes?" Jin An asked hurriedly, breathing heavily.
The young man looked at Jin An in surprise and asked the young master how did you know?
Do you know this weird Taoist priest with a bad temper?
Jin An didn't answer, but smiled, Yuan! It's so wonderful!
He thought of the five-color robe Taoist priest's ability to look at the Qi, and his abilities. He was definitely a true Taoist master, a master with real abilities, and definitely not a charlatan or a charlatan.
Thinking of the abilities of the five-colored Taoist priest, Jin An's head became more and more intense.
"As for the items left by the Taoist priest, including the goat in the backyard, let me buy it. All the money owed by the Taoist priest will be paid by me."
Jin An is in a very happy mood now.
He is not short of money.
When the young man heard this, he was also happy, but he did not dare to make a decision in private. He said lightly, "Master, please wait a moment," and then hurriedly ran to ask the shopkeeper for instructions.
Soon the boy ran back again.
The shopkeeper agreed!
Jin An laughed loudly and took the baggage from the boy's hand in a good mood.
Then, let the boy take him to the backyard to adopt him, but be sure not to make him into mutton hot pot or mutton whip hot pot.
Just as the servant led Jin An to the backyard and passed Magistrate Zhang's daughter in the lobby, the five or six-year-old girl who was eating her fingers quietly pulled on the eldest sister's sleeves.