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Everyone looked at the adults. The lord was wearing the new clothes made by Shiba, with a calm expression on his face, seeing that everyone was looking at him, he repeated tirelessly: "Who says you are not worthy?"
Shiba panicked and said, "My lord, don't make fun of Shiba..."
"I'm not joking." The lord straightened his clothes, looking handsome and steady. "If two people are in love with each other in this world, there is no question of whether they are worthy or not."
After finishing speaking, he walked up to Shiba and said: "Next year, at twenty-five years old, I have not yet married a wife. I have no father or mother in my family. I only have fame. If you marry me, someone will take care of you in the future. You don't have to serve me." In-laws and aunts, just be my wife."
Shiba was taken aback, backed up and waved his hands again and again: "You can't do it, sir, don't say such things, Shiba's body is broken..."
"I don't care." The adult said frankly. "As far as I know you, you are a good girl, and that's enough."
"Okay! Eighteen, please agree to the adults!" Xiao Jiu cheerfully pushed the adults into the arms of the eighteen Chaos from behind. She was too strong, and the eighteen had no way to resist, and was directly pushed into the arms of the adults. In order to prevent her from falling, the adult gently held her waist with one hand. Eighteen's entire face was flushed red, Xiao Jiu chuckled: "Although your lord is a little pedantic and rigid, he is definitely the official of Qingtian's parents. You must marry him!"
The scholar also smiled and said: "I think it's not bad. I have been with you for almost ten years, but I have never seen you propose to any girl. If you say it this way, then you really like Miss Eighteen. If Miss Eighteen doesn't I don't like the fact that adults don't know how to speak sweet words, and are always busy with business, so I might as well just nod and get married."
Cheng Pu snarled and said: "If the eighteenth girl doesn't look down on you, then it's great to see me!" As he said, he turned a few somersaults, jumped onto the roof and the big tree, and after a few back and forth, he was handsome Landing on the ground, she put on a very handsome pose: "What do eighteen girls think? I am strong and obedient, and I will give you all the money I earn to support my family. You can do whatever you want, absolutely nothing!"
The adult glanced at him, and he immediately smiled coyly: "Hey, just kidding, just kidding."
"How?" The adult asked eighteen.
Shiba's heart was beating like thunder, her little face was flushed, she quickly broke away from the adult's embrace, and said softly: "It's better not to say such things to me, my lord. I'll go back first if you don't want to kiss me." Walking, the pace is getting faster and faster, and it disappeared from everyone's sight after a while.
Xiao Jiu was stunned: "This is the first time I saw Shiba walking so fast, did she just fly?"
The scholar said with a smile: "After all, the girl has a thin skin."
Xiao Jiu stuck out her tongue and asked the adults, "Is the adults sincere?"
"Have you ever seen me say something against my will?" The adult asked without answering.
"That's good, I'll leave this matter to me, but if it happens in the future, my lord will have to give me a big red envelope!"
The corner of the adult's lips curled up: "I will give you my salary for three months."
That was a lot of money, and Xiao Jiu's eyes lit up: "It's a deal!" After speaking, she immediately went after Shiba who had left, and worked hard for the matchmaker's red envelope.
When Xiao Jiu's figure also disappeared around the corner, the scholar teased the adult and said: "Wan Sheng has long thought that the adult is interested in eighteen girls, and now it seems that it is really good."
"What? You've seen it a long time ago?" Cheng Pu was very surprised. "Then why didn't I see it? You saw it and you didn't tell me?"
"It's you who are stupid, with well-developed limbs and a simple mind." The scholar joked, "Haven't you noticed that every time Shibayi appears, the adults' eyes are fixed on them. Shiba is now in charge of buying vegetables and cooking. Jiu, if you don't have time to follow along, the adults will take the initiative to follow and help carry the basket, did the adults follow you when you were shopping for vegetables before?"
Cheng Pu shook his head honestly: "That's not true. But I'm not a woman either. Why do you want adults to follow me?"
The scholar sighed, "Don't chat with Xia Chong."
"What kind of worm or ice?" Cheng Pu scratched his head. "What's the meaning?"
"You don't care what it means, just remember that adults have already taken a fancy to her girl." Speaking of this, the scholar was so moved that he wanted to cry. "It's been almost ten years, and my lord has actually moved his heart. Wan Sheng thought that my lord would die alone all his life."
The adults let them tease, but when they heard this sentence, they gave the scholar a half-smile. "I have only known Shiba for more than a month, and now it is possible to have a good relationship. You and Xiaojiu have known each other for seven years. Isn't there still nothing to look forward to?"
These words were too poisonous, the smile on the scholar's face froze instantly, and he couldn't laugh anymore.
Xiaojiu caught up with Shiba, and kept telling her all kinds of advantages of adults, such as being loyal and reliable, you will not have a concubine, smart and wise, you can solve even the most difficult cases, and you are handsome and good-looking, very seductive... In short, my lord She used everything on her body as an advantage, and tried her best to make Shiba nod her head.
Shiba just listened quietly, and when Xiao Jiu spoke dryly, she got up and poured her a glass of water, and brought over the handkerchief that she hadn't finished embroidering before. Okay so hard. A county magistrate's monthly salary is only a little more, which is not enough for expenses. In addition, the adults have a good attitude and never accept bribes. They can only eat meat every few days. It can be said that the conditions are very difficult.
That's why Shiba was going to make some female celebrities and sell them. She is a superb embroidery worker. When she was shopping for vegetables, she accidentally met a cloth shop owner. When she saw the handkerchief she dropped on the floor, her eyes lit up and she strongly invited Eighteen worked for her, and the owner of the cloth shop also ran a shop specializing in women's clothes, and there was a shortage of good embroiderers. Shiba thought that he would not be involved in childbirth in the county government office, so he agreed, and brought back the clothes or handkerchiefs to embroider, and handed them in once every three days.
Now she has been embroidering for half a month, her embroidery is good and fast, plus the profit here is good, and the proprietress is very sincere, and it has always been the highest price for 18, so recently they can already eat meat every day The scholar sighed more than once that it is better to be an embroiderer than being an official, and urged the adults to resign from office and go to embroidery, but was knocked on the head by Xiao Jiu several times.
"... Eighteen, are you listening?" Gudu Gudu finished drinking the water, Xiao Jiu wiped his mouth and asked.
Shiba lowered her head to embroider, and said, "I heard."
"Then what do you think?" Xiao Jiu asked. "You can't be unmarried, right? There is no one in your daughter's family who is unmarried."
"... I want to marry." Eighteen said softly. "Just marry a man who doesn't dislike me. My lord deserves better."
"You are the best!" He would get angry when he heard Shiba belittled Xiaojiu. "Are you thinking wildly again, who else can be better than you! The adults have said it, and he has a crush on you!"
"Xiao Jiu, stop talking, I won't marry an adult." Shiba embroidered flowers with a calm tone. "Maybe after a while I will remember everything. No one knows what I was like in the past. What if I..."
"Stop talking nonsense." Seeing that Shiba was so worried, Xiao Jiu quickly held her hand and comforted her, "You are the best girl, there is no doubt about it. You are so good when you lose your memory, of course you are if you have a memory Same, Eighteen, promise me, don't say anything that belittles yourself, okay?" She was really distressed.
Hearing this, Shiba raised his head and smiled at Xiaojiu, and said: "Okay, then you have to promise me, don't mention marrying an adult again, I feel very embarrassed. If I mention it again, I won't live in the county government office." gone."
Xiao Jiu quickly agreed: "Okay, okay, I don't say anything." It's just a pity that I lost three months' salary... dozens of taels of silver!
Shiba really laughed.
Afterwards, Xiao Jiu told the adults about Shiba's thoughts, but the adults were silent, and Xiao Jiu asked: "Does the adults really like Shiba?"
The adult glanced at her: "You don't believe me?"
"Of course not, it's just..." Xiao Jiu twisted her fingers, looking hesitant to speak. "Aren't all of you men..."
"That's just the thoughts of ordinary people, not me." The adult said while looking at the official document. "What Shiba was like in the past has nothing to do with her now. For a girl like her, I believe that even if something bad happens, she is not willing. To take a step back, even if she was willing, now She's so beautiful and that's enough for me."
Xiao Jiu turned around and went back to tell Shiba. She didn't ask Shiba to marry the lord anymore, but just told Shiba what the lord said and did, and let her know that the lord really liked her, not out of any intention, nor out of sympathy.
But Shiba refused to accept it. Not only that, but now she has started to avoid adults, and she will disappear if she can't meet, and if she must meet, she will keep her head down and not speak. If she really has to speak, she will use a few words instead, and the distance will be very far away.
But she was so obvious that even Cheng Pu, who was the most nervous, could see it, and asked the scholar: "What happened, did your lord do something bad to eighteen girls? Saw a ghost?"
The scholar sighed that he didn't understand the style, and walked away without explaining. Cheng Pu scratched his head, Monk Zhang Er was puzzled as to what was going on.
So when he saw the adults blocking Shiba on the path from a distance, he quietly ambush behind the rockery, his eyes wide open and his ears pricked up to eavesdrop.
After Shiba was more than ten meters away, she saw an adult walking this way, and she was so frightened that she hurriedly turned a corner and changed to a small path. Who knew that after walking a few steps, she saw the adult also turn a small path, and looked straight at herself. . That posture seemed to be about to settle accounts, Shiba was so frightened that he almost turned around and ran away.
However, the lord is tall and has long legs, so he came to her in a few strides and blocked her way: "Where are you going?" Looking at the handkerchief and clothes she was holding in her hand, "Going out?"
"Hmm..." Eighteen voices sounded like gnats, "Today is the day to hand over handkerchiefs and clothes."
"I'll accompany you, it's not safe for you to go out alone."
Shiba hurriedly refused: "No, no, I'm fine by myself..."
"Because I expressed my love for you, don't you even want to see me?"
"No, that's not the case!" Shiba firmly denied. "Just, just—"
The adult who didn't have the slightest thought of pity and pity pressed on step by step: "Just what?"
Shiba backed back again and again: "It's just, just..."
"Just what, you said it." The adult narrowed his black eyes, and there was something bottomless in his eyes that made Shiba blushed so much that he was about to explode. "Don't get so close to me!"
After yelling, seeing the unbelievable look in the adult's eyes, she quickly explained: "I didn't mean that..."
"Then what do you mean?" The adult didn't understand. "Eighteen, is it difficult to promise me, or do you think I'm not worth entrusting for life?"
"That's not the case, my lord... you are really a rare gentleman. If anyone marries you, he will be happy all his life." Eighteen grasped the cloth in his hand, trembling a little, "It's just me... I don't have that blessing."
"What kind of blessing is it? As long as you promise me, this blessing is yours. If you don't marry, I don't think it's a blessing."
"I'm not good enough for your lord. My memory will come back sooner or later. At that time, I don't even know how to face your lord, Xiao Jiu, and others. So please don't force me, my lord. I will definitely meet a good girl, a thousand times better than me, a hundred times better... "
The lord was about to say something to her in a low voice, but he saw that the clothes she held in her arms were suddenly wet.
She actually cried.
He sighed, regardless of her refusal, he hugged her forcefully into his arms, and said in a low voice, "Silly girl, why are you crying? In my heart, you are cleaner than anyone else."
Shiba listened blankly, and then told him in his heart: No, I am not clean.
I'm already unclean.
First the body, then the heart, and now my soul is full of filth.
"I don't care what your past is like, but now that you are under my wings, I have the obligation to protect you. No matter whether you agree to marry me in the future, I will protect you and never let anyone bully you again "The adult touched her head, held her shoulders and looked at her, and smiled very softly: "Okay, I won't mention these in the future, I wonder if you can take me out together now Woolen cloth?"
Shiba raised a hand to wipe away tears in embarrassment, smiled at him, sniffed, and walked beside him.
The two gradually drifted away, and Cheng Pu came out from the back of the rockery. He was always too lazy to use his brain, but he was not a fool. Just now, the Lord was holding Eighteen Girls. The expression on Eighteen Girls' faces always felt a bit strange...
He thought about it for a while, but he couldn't think of anything, so he just gave up thinking about it. Anyway, Shiba is a good girl. If you want to marry someone, you must be sincere. This is a matter between two people, so he won't marry her. I mixed it up blindly, so as not to be kind enough to help.
After this day, the relationship between Shiba and the adults softened a lot, and Shiba relaxed a little when he stopped mentioning the marriage proposal, at least he was no longer so cautious when speaking.
Instead, the disappearance case started again.
This time it was the fourteen-year-old daughter of a family in the south of the city, named Huancui. It is said that yesterday morning I went to the city with my little sister to go to the market, but there were too many people and got separated. In the end, the little sister returned home safely, and Huancui disappeared. The family first waited at home, thinking that the little girl might like to watch the excitement and play in the city, but by the afternoon, no one came back. So Huancui's father and mother called the villagers into the city to look for her, but the good girl just disappeared, and they searched everywhere to no avail, so they had to come to the county government office to report the case the next morning.
At that time, everyone was having breakfast, and when he heard that the disappearance case had started again, his lord's face darkened. It was also rare for the scholar to stop being so relaxed and cheerful, with a dark expression on his face: "It's started again."
Cheng Pu threw the bowl and chopsticks: "These sons of a bitch."
Xiao Jiu lost her appetite, and those dead girls appeared in front of her eyes. They didn't know where they were abducted, and they didn't know where they would be sold. Thinking about what kind of life those girls lived inside, no matter how delicious the meal was, I couldn't eat it anymore.
Everyone stopped eating, so Shiba naturally put down his chopsticks. She looked at everyone worriedly: "Don't worry, everyone, let's see what's going on first."
Now they are considered a family, and they don't shy away from her when they talk about the case. I seldom mentioned it in front of her in the past, because I was afraid of arousing her memory, but Shiba planned to face it honestly, and they would discuss it in front of her. Shiba always listened quietly, and occasionally gave a few words. opinion.
"Alright." The lord stood up. "I'll go to the court first, Zigui, come over after you and Cheng Pu have breakfast."
Not wasting food is also an iron discipline of the county government, but it's faster to eat it again. The scholar and Cheng Pu finished their share in a turbulent manner, and said hello to Xiao Jiuba before they all rushed to the court up.
At present, all the adults can do is to find someone, but it is a pity that even sending all the yamen servants out has no result. This group of criminals is cunning and sophisticated. They have been abducting people for so many years and have never been caught. Apart from the strong backing behind them, their own superb modus operandi is also a reason.
After going back and forth to find no one, the adults finally decided to meet the new bosses of the industries under Bai Qi's name.
It's just that when he came back, he looked dignified. Xiaojiu and Shiba were both waiting at the county government office. When they saw him come back, they hurried up to meet him, but seeing the serious faces of the three of them, they couldn't help asking: "What's the matter? How did it turn out? Did you find Huancui?"
The scholar shook his head: "No."
Cheng Pu said: "As soon as I heard that Huancui was abducted, my lord immediately sealed off the gate of the city. I just hope that those people don't send Huancui out. If Huancui is in the city, there might be a chance to get her back." Although their county is remote, it covers a large area. It is too easy to hide someone, and it is troublesome to find talents.
Shiba looked at the adults: "What's the matter, my lord?"
"We met the new boss of Baiqi Industry, what do you think his name is?" the scholar asked.
How could Xiao Jiu and Shi Ba know, they both shook their heads, and the scholar told them. "Bai Qi." "What?"
The two looked at each other, both feeling incredible: "But isn't Bai Qi already dead?"
"So that's where the problem lies. Who is this Bai Qi? Why is it also called Bai Qi?" The scholar chuckled, but the smile didn't reach his eyes. "This man is very friendly and hospitable, and speaks very decently. He even offered to open the door for us to search, but the more he is like this, the more suspicious he is."
"So, Bai Qi...isn't Bai Qi." Shiba murmured, "Bai Qi is just a code name, and everyone in charge of these industries is called Bai Qi. That is to say, there are very likely black People like seven red, seven blue and seven, how big is their net? Who is behind it? Isn’t this something ordinary people can do?”
Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about the first Baiqi, who has been entrenched in this county for more than ten years. More than ten years, who knows what kind of tricks the person behind it has? Such a big network, what is their purpose? Just for money? That's not the case, just relying on the income from these industries is enough for them to have enough food and clothing for a lifetime.
What is that for
The adult said: "This matter has to be discussed in the long term. This Bai Qi is a smiling tiger, I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with. You should be careful when going out in the future, especially Shiba and Zigui. You two don't know kung fu. You must be accompanied when you go out."
"Your Excellency, you mean that we might be in danger?" The scholar immediately frowned. "That person is so courageous?"
"They can steal physical evidence in the county government and kill people to silence them. What do you think they can't do?" Xiao Jiu gave the scholar a blank look, jumped up and patted his head: "So next time you don't care where you go. , you have to tell me or Cheng Pu."
The scholar took her paw off his head and asked the lord: "We don't have any evidence in our hands now, why did he kill us?"
"Although there is no evidence, if I want to investigate the case, how can I lose you few right-hand men?" The adult said lightly. "I can't do it alone. If my arm is cut off, no matter how powerful I am, I can't investigate such a big case by myself."
Eighteenth Dao: "Since this is the case, my lord should be careful himself. If they dare to break into the county government office, then assassinating the imperial court official will be nothing."
The adult's mood suddenly improved: "Eighteen is caring about me?"
His tone was relaxed and ambiguous, Shiba pursed his lips: "What time is it, my lord still cares about this."
The adult smiled and said: "If you are really worried about me, you might as well nod your head and agree to marry me earlier, so that I don't have to worry about not being able to marry a wife until I die."
He intentionally downplayed the heavy and dangerous topic just now, and the scholar immediately followed up: "That's right, Shiba hastened to agree to marry the lord, so that the late student might be able to raise some money."
Shiba said: "Then it's better for the son and Xiaojiu to get married as soon as possible. I have saved some money now, and I am worried that I have nowhere to spend it."
Xiao Jiu felt that he was really wronged, and he could be shot while lying down without speaking.