Chang Anqing

Chapter 296
When the sun was setting that day, there was only half an hour left before the sound of the curfew, but even so, the people in Chang'an City were still very lively.

The artisans selling sugar are happily making some rabbit, phoenix, and beauty sugar figures, attracting all the curly-haired children to gather in front of the booth, clapping their palms and laughing, while shaking their sides. Ye Niang's hand was drooling.

Under the bright lights of the market places, the young ladies in beautiful clothes and beautiful shadows are picking up the powder and rouge cream on the stalls together, and the young men in fresh clothes and angry horses are in groups of three, and groups of five are heading towards the wine shop. Going away, for a while, Chang'an will be more noisy like a pearl that will never go out, standing on the Longshouyuan.

At this moment, the exclamation of a little lady attracted the attention of the crowd, and a disheveled, ragged beggar accidentally bumped into a little lady who seemed to be from a good family.

"The little one has eyes but doesn't know Mount Tai, and offended the little lady. The little one is at fault, and the small one is at fault."

Seeing that the poor beggar was still polite, the little lady couldn't bear to swallow the reprimand after all, the young man who accompanied him carefully checked that the little lady was not injured, and then he breathed a sigh of relief: "Forget it, I will walk in the future. Be careful."

"Thank you lord, thank you lord, there are a lot of lords, and the little ones don't dare to—"

Seeing the harmonious scene in front of them, the people could not help but praise.When the turmoil subsided, the beggar immediately ran into the alley without a sound, took out the heavy money bag from his sleeve, touched the tip of his nose and smelled the still scent of beauty on it, and he immediately lost half of it.

"How about it, our brothers have a lot of income today."

When we came to a deserted alley, several decent-looking people were gathering under a lamp full of old baskets. Hearing their questions, the man dressed as a beggar was about to rot. He took off his ragged clothes, wiped his fluffy hair, and revealed a clean face.

As he poured the money in the purse into the palm of his hand, and seeing the strings of Jingyuan Tongbao, the accomplices on the side immediately sighed: "Although there are many, but it's nothing more than that—"

The man dressed as a beggar snorted, and took out several exquisite purses from his pocket, immediately arousing everyone's envy and jealousy, and praised repeatedly: "Okay, Qiu Er."

"Let's go, let's go, let's go to Hu Yulou to have a good time. I heard that some orchids came here a while ago. That figure, that appearance, are the stunners in the world—"

Hearing this unsatisfactory suggestion, everyone's eyes lit up, and they couldn't wait to say: "Hurry up, hurry up, there will be a curfew in a while."

After all, these people put away the money they had stolen or robbed today, and walked towards Chang'an City's famous Red Mansion Chu Pavilion and Hu Yulou with smirking smiles.

As the cold light of the sword unsheathed pierced the dark alley, those people had no time to react, and saw a vague figure standing in the dark place in front of them at some point, only a long sword glowing with silver light in the shadow.

"You, who are you?"

"Do you know who our brothers are, and dare to—"

Before they could finish their vicious words, the inhuman figure in front of him came out of the darkness little by little, dressed in black clothes covering his face, his eyes were filled with a chilling murderous intent, and a cold voice escaped from his throat .

"I'm here today to do business with you."

"Business?"

Hearing this, standing at the head, Qiu Er, who was dressed as a beggar just now, seemed to have heard some fairy tales, and said with a smile to the people beside him: "It's really a damn long life, even a mouse dares to give it to you!" The cat is giving away business, there are still people in Chang'an City who dare to negotiate terms with our brothers, it's fresh."

As soon as this place came out, mocking laughter immediately resounded through the alley, and when the man in black who was blocking the way in front of him took out a handful of gold from his arms, and the golden light almost blinded their eyes, the contemptuous smile The sound stopped abruptly, as if being strangled by someone's neck.

"This this--"

While looking at each other, the leader, Qiu Erxian, gave a flattering smile, stepped forward, nodded and bowed his head, and said, "Talk, talk, any business is easy to discuss, how many of us brothers are—"

Just when the discussion was going on, that Chou Er suddenly became ruthless in his eyes, and he sneaked away sullenly. After several fist fights, he suddenly pulled out a dagger from nowhere and pressed it against the man's neck. Then, he spat on the ground and said, "Instead of doing business with you, why don't we just grab this gold and go away—"

Just as he snatched the bag of gold over, causing his accomplice to laugh, suddenly a cold light flashed and dazzled his eyes, and just when he instinctively squinted to avoid it, along with the pain of the broken bone, , the knife in his hand dropped at the sound, and then a trace of pain overflowed from his throat.

Amidst the terrified voices of his companions, Qiu Er saw five or six masked men in black appearing out of nowhere and surrounding their brothers. Such a gangster can't go too far.

"Hero, hero, negotiable, everything is negotiable—"

During the trembling words, the pain in his neck was even worse. Looking down at the long sword on his neck, Qiu Er couldn't help swallowing. The man in black can decapitate him with just a gesture of his hand.

"I know that you are gangsters who murdered and robbed you in the suburbs of Chang'an, but since I dared to deal with you, I naturally found out about your affairs. Now there are two ways in front of you, or take my money and do it. What I ordered, how about I kill you on the spot and eliminate harm for the people?"

The person who restrained Qiu Er behind him spoke easily, but he sounded shuddering, nodded immediately and said: "Do, do, hero, we brothers will do whatever you say."

As soon as the words fell, the people behind him drew back their swords swiftly, and at the same time, the sword cut across his neck like a warning, and blood immediately overflowed.

"Ah, ah-"

Amidst Qiu Er's terrified voice, the masked man sneered and said, "This is a warning to you, you can't die, but it won't be so next time."

"Heroes spare their lives, heroes spare their lives."

Seeing Qiu Er and his terrified brothers kneeling down and begging for mercy, the man in black walked over condescendingly and dropped a piece of paper down.

"I know that you have a wide range of contacts. As long as you spread the matter on paper to the entire Chang'an City, and everyone knows it, the gold will be yours."

As soon as these words came out, Qiu Er stopped his frightened body and touched the paper tentatively. When he opened it and saw the words inside, he immediately understood that the brothers were involved in the whirlpool.

"Why, don't want to?"

Hearing this plain question, Qiu Er immediately said with a tense back: "No, no, we will do it, we will do it."

He knew very well that if he refused, his head would be taken off by the person in front of him.

"very good."

With a "ding dong", the whole bag of gold fell to the ground so easily, smashed in front of him, and scattered all over the ground.

Although I don't know if there is a life flower, but seeing the golden, real gold, Qiu Er and the others still have uncontrollable greed in their eyes.

The wages of avarice is death.

As long as he can be rich and honored for a lifetime, it doesn't matter if he fights him to the death.

With the sound of the sword being unsheathed, those people suddenly disappeared without a trace like a ghost, like a dream.

"Gold, gold, this is real gold!"

Hearing his fellows swarming up, grabbing the gold and handing it to his teeth to bite, Qiu Er forgot even the pain in his neck, just propping himself up on the ground, trying to make himself numb and trembling Standing up his legs, he could faintly see something not far away.

When he limped up suspiciously and picked it up, he saw clearly under the dim yellow light that it was a copper token in his hand.

In a blink of an eye, he immediately understood that it should have been dropped by the man in black when he was fighting with it just now.

Thinking of this, he immediately held it tightly in his hands and threw it into his arms calmly.

At this moment, the more drums of Shifang sounded, and the curfew time was approaching.

(End of this chapter)