The night is quiet, the stars are dim,

After gathering his mood, Qiao Xi walked to the well to study how to open the cellar under the moonlight. However, Qi Anze felt that it was not necessary and was about to go back.

"What if there is someone else who can save me?"

"Don't you smell blood?" Qi Anze said calmly,

"Moreover, even if someone is not dead, we must go to the doctor to save him. In that case, Shi will know that we have not left the city.

The truth they want will be covered up, and their deaths will be in vain."

Qiao Xi: "..." It's really cold and ruthless. When the plot starts, I don't know how much blackening value will be increased.

The girl's eyebrows are like crescent moons, her nose is upturned, her lips are red and her teeth are white, like the blooming peach blossoms in the poem. Her eyes are downcast, unable to conceal her loss.

The moonlight reflected on her face, and the man was in a daze. He unconsciously stepped forward and twisted something next to the well a few times, and then the ground opened.

Qiao Xi looked back at the man who was looking up at the moon, with a smile on his lips, and quickly ran in to check.

…

Looking at the girl who came out dejected, Qi Anze said nothing, silently restored the mechanism to its original state, and motioned for her to take him out.

City God's Temple,

A frightening whine sounded from the surrounding wilderness,

Because they were afraid of being discovered by Shi Yuanjing, they could only temporarily live in the deserted City God's Temple.

"Yeah!" Qiao Xi was just about to pick up some weeds from the side and prepare to sleep when his fingertips touched a warm object. He squeezed it doubtfully and said to himself,

"Is this... a person?"

Qi Anze, who was on the side, looked at her serious look and the man facing him with his face covered in black, and hesitantly said,

"He might be turned into a ghost by you."

The homeless man stood up and coughed, covering his neck, "You guys are from there, don't you know anything about it? This is my territory."

"The host is great, he is the City God."

Qi Anze reluctantly pulled her to his side and explained,

"He just lives here because he has nowhere to go, just like us, but he lives here longer."

"Isn't that a beggar? Why do you say this is his territory?"

Qiao Xi was a little confused. Does it belong to him if he lives there for a long time?

Doesn’t this small world still need land deeds and house deeds to prove ownership?

Qi Anze nodded and did not argue with her, but the homeless man next to him spoke,

"Little girl, I am not a beggar, I am a great scholar."

"A scholar?" Qiao Xi sneered, "How can you still be a scholar like this?"

"Of course, I was also a master?" The tramp raised his head proudly.

"Master, where is the master?" Qiao Xi asked while roasting sweet potatoes.

After waiting for a long time, I didn't hear an answer. I turned around and found that he was staring directly at the sweet potato in his hand, deliberately teasing him.

"If you tell me who you are as a master, I will let you eat the sweet potatoes."

"Yuncheng, county government."

Qi Anze was looking at the sky and thinking about the weirdness of Lingnan, but suddenly he turned around after hearing these words.

Qiao Xi looked at the sweet potato that had been snatched away from his hand, paused for a moment, looked at Qi Anze and said softly,

"Host, did I hear correctly just now? Is he talking about the Yuncheng we went to before?"

Qi Anze looked at the homeless man who was already hiding in the corner, and walked quietly to his side, "Are you Master Yu?"

Unexpectedly, the person who had been having a normal conversation with them just now suddenly threw away the sweet potato and kept putting straw on his head, trying to hide himself.

His sunken eyes showed a dazed fear, and he kept mumbling, "I am not Master Yu, don't kill me, I am not Master Yu, don't kill me..."

Qi Anze and Qiao Xi looked at each other and motioned for her to go out and talk.

"Master host, could this person be the dead master in Prince Rui's letter?"

"It seems he has escaped." Qi Anze said solemnly.

"Then is he really crazy or is he pretending to be crazy?" Josie looked at the homeless man who was still mumbling to himself in the corner.

"True or false... we have no way to test it out in a short time now."

Qi Anze thought for a while and then said,

"Don't pay attention to him for now. Just treat him as an ordinary homeless man. Wait until we find out what happened in Lingnan before taking him back to the capital. Maybe there will be new evidence that we haven't finished what we did in Yuncheng."

Josie nodded.

——

The next day,

Qi Anze and Qiao Xi deliberately changed into ordinary people's clothes and pretended to be businessmen to buy fruits and mingled with a group of businessmen.

"Boss, where are you from?" A dark-skinned man chatted happily with them in a dialect.

"We are from Xucheng. We heard that the fruits here are relatively cheap, so we came here to take a look."

After hearing this, the man frowned slightly and said, "Boss, you must have been deceived. Although the fruits here are cheap, they are far less delicious than those in Chun'an. The fruits in Chun'an are cheap and delicious."

Qiao Xi pretended to be suspicious and said, "Brother, what are you selling?"

"We are here to buy rice. We can't make much money, so we are not as good as you selling fruits." The man waved his hand modestly.

"Lingnan rice is quite famous, but wasn't it hit by a disaster this year? Is the taste still the same as before?"

"Boss, you are just an amateur. The output was not that large due to the disaster, but the taste is still the same when you get it back."

Seeing that Qi Anze still didn't believe it, the man patted him on the shoulder and asked,

"Brother, if you can trust me, then sell this rice with me, or go to Chun'an to sell fruit, otherwise you will lose all your money."

Qiao Xi raised his eyes and looked around, then tugged on Qi Anze's sleeve.

"How about we listen to this big brother and use half of the money to buy this rice and the other half to buy fruits."

"This is a good idea, little lady. At least you won't be able to compensate me."

Qi Anze followed the man into the tasting room with a look of unwillingness.

Looking at the rows of rice buckets in front of him, Qi Anze deliberately walked behind and waited until everyone in front had finished tasting before he tasted them, acting like a layman pretending to be an expert.

Finally, I directly ordered 300 taels of rice and sent it to Xucheng.

Looking at the people loading the truck, Qiao Xi thought for a moment and said, "The rice this time is the same as what we ate at Master Shi's house."

Qi Anze nodded and said nothing.

When he was about to leave the city, Qi Anze handed a letter and a bundle of silver to the man loading the car, and asked him to take the letter to the cashier there, and then took Qiao Xi out of the car.

…

"Host, why are we back here again?" Qiao Xi looked at the tasting room just now with a look of doubt on his face.

Wasn't that rice okay just now? The host was stunned?

"Shh!" Qi Anze motioned for her to look forward.

I saw the dark man just carrying bags of rice to the tasting room.

"He just..." Qiao Xi suddenly realized, "They are a group?"
Chapter completed!