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Chapter 15 Cookie Cutter
Kong Huyuan sighed,

"That's fine, please keep an eye on it for me, and I'll go to Liu Zi's place again."

"You're welcome, we've been brothers for many years, but...hey, that's why I'm loyal enough to tell you, don't be upset, no matter how fierce the Li family is, they can't kill people with a sword, you just have to Earn a living in the Li family? Why work so hard?"

The small eyes are wrinkled into "Sichuan", and the words are disgusted.
"Shouldn't it be for Qianrou?"

Heard a new name.Wu Qing glanced sideways, just in time to see the small eyes staring sideways at Kong Huyuan's back, spit,
"Don't talk about earning a living, I don't even have the appetite to eat when I look at her."

Wu Qing looked behind Kong Nuyuan following the eyes of her small eyes.

A rickshaw was parked a few steps behind Kong Nuyuan, an old maid was standing beside it, and a young woman was sitting on it.

The young woman has a pretty face, combed with gold ingots, thick bangs on the forehead, a blue peony-yellow cardigan jacket with a cyan border on the upper body, a long black umbrella skirt on the lower body, and red cloth double butterfly embroidered shoes.Dress up richly.

This young woman is Qianrou, the junior sister of Kong Nuyuan?Wu Qing guessed.

Kong Huyuan was stunned for a moment, turned his head to see this young woman, and raised his foot to walk over.

Little Eyes stretched out his hand and tugged at him,
"Be sober, you threw away your family and business for her, and you were cut off by bandits to protect her. What about her? A relationship of two years is worth more than the soles of a shoe, and you'll be treated like a concubine."

"I can save it."

"Can you save it? If you can save it, you won't get drunk and go crazy when you're on business. Drink less in the future. It's a mistake."

The small eyes turned around and left with a mouthful of saliva.

Kong Nuyuan walked to the rickshaw, opened his mouth, finally bowed and saluted, and shouted clearly,
"concubine."

On the rickshaw, the woman covered her mouth and smiled,

"It's too natural, senior brother, I have always regarded you as my own brother."

It really is the junior sister of Kong Nuyuan.Wu Qing, who was sneaking a peek, continued to watch without looking back.

"is it?"

Kong Huyuan nodded, then shook his head again,
"But after all, I'm eating from the Li family."

"Brother, you are too serious."

The woman still laughs,
"Speaking of eating, I had a wedding banquet two days ago, and senior brother is my only family member. How can I sit at the same table with some outsiders?"

Kong Huyuan, "Drunk, sitting around."

"Did you get drunk before the dinner?"

It corresponds to what Li Biaotou said.Wu Qing said to himself.

Kong Nuyuan didn't answer, but instead asked,
"Where is this going, Auntie?"

"Go to the small courtyard to get some old things, the jewelry box from before."

"Oh, small courtyard." Kong Huyuan was in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking, and said after a while,

"Okay, I'm going to get something too."

"Let's go together then." The woman said to the coachman, "Let's go."

"Okay, ma'am."

The rickshaw driver, already drenched in sweat, raised the handlebar, took two steps slowly and vigorously, and then ran quickly in small steps.Kong Nuyuan and the old maid, who had been silent all this time, followed on both sides of the car.

Among the messy stalls and crowded people, Wu Qing walked out from the back of a food stall and quickly chased after it.

After a while, the rickshaw left the main road and turned into an alley.

At the end of the alley, a small courtyard stood alone beside a canal, very secluded.

Seeing that Kong Huyuan unlocked the door, let the woman and the old maid in, and went in by himself, Wu Qing came out from the corner, walked towards the small courtyard, and bypassed the side courtyard wall in front of the rickshaw puller who was parked at the door. , like a tired pedestrian, with his hands folded around his chest, resting against the wall of the side courtyard.

A woman's voice sounded in the courtyard,

"Brother, help me find the jewelry box from before."

"Ccrunch."

The frequent sound of doors opening and closing came from the courtyard.

"Dingling, booming."

It was the sound of rummaging through boxes and boxes again.

The woman's voice sounded again,

"Oh, it's so messy, how can I find it?"

Wu Qing found a short stone to step on, poked out half of his head, and looked into the courtyard.

Kong Huyuan, who was disgraced by the rummaging of boxes and cabinets, came out of the house, glanced at the old maid beside the woman,
"I haven't been back for a long time, I forgot where I put it, I have to find it."

The woman said to the old maid, "Mama Li, how much should I say to my senior brother?"

Li Ma was very conscious of being a servant, she nodded "Yes" and left the courtyard.It seems that he has never listened to the gossip of his wife and his senior brother.

After Li Ma closed the courtyard door, the woman said,
"Brother still angry?"

"What did my aunt say?" Kong Huyuan's tone was flat, and he turned back to search in the house.

"It's fine if you don't get angry."

The woman put one hand on her waist and waved a handkerchief in the other, with a graceful posture,
"Oh, there are some gossip and gossip outside, I'm afraid you will feel uncomfortable listening to it, brother. Especially the brother has ruined the family errand again. It's really strange, it's just a sword, not many people want it, It was locked well, why did it get lost?"

"The sword is not lost, it's just gone."

At this time, Kong Huyuan came out of the house with a jewelry box in one hand and a long box in the other, but before going out, he put the jewelry box by the door, and went out into the yard with the box alone.

The woman looked at him and deliberately lowered her voice,
"A lot of people say that it's senior brother, you stole the Jiushou sword on purpose to save your family's face, so it shouldn't be true...Huh?"

The woman covered her mouth, watched as Kong Huyuan opened the box on her handle, and with the smell of wine, a beautiful sword was revealed.

The sword is three chi long, with a silver hilt and black sheath, inlaid with a piece of jasper on the hilt, and the silver sheath and silver hoop of the black lacquer sheath are also inlaid with jasper and carved with bat longevity patterns.

Nine Shoujian?
Wu Qing, who was leaning on the courtyard wall, focused his eyes and tightened his hands, and was about to climb over the courtyard wall.

"Senior brother, this..."

"My sword."

Kong Nuyuan's words suppressed Wu Qing's excitement, and Wu Qing's hands relaxed again.

Kong Huyuan pointed at the sword and said to the woman,
"Do you still remember the appearance of the sword I brought when I came to Yujiang two years ago?"

"It really scared me." The woman regained her bright smile,
"Brother said that I just remembered, it's been two years, do you plan to go home sometime and have a look?"

"Well, I didn't plan to go back at first, but now it's not easy to go back, the journey is far away."

The woman suppresses her smile,

"It's all my fault... I am really grateful to my senior brother for protecting me and coming to Yujiang two years ago, so that I could marry a good man, and I am really grateful to my senior brother for taking care of me over the past two years. If it wasn't for my senior brother, I think I would have died a long time ago."

"Small things, don't need to mention it again... Do you remember what my sword looks like?"

Kong Nuyuan repeats the previous question.

"How could I forget? Isn't that what it looks like?"

Pointing at the sword, the woman looked at the scar on Kong Nuyuan's face extending from the corner of her right eye to her neck, and said firmly,
"Didn't Senior Brother use this sword to rescue me from the bandits, and almost died because of it?"

Kong Huyuan frowned tightly, looked puzzled, and stared down at the sword.

Then he took the sword out of the sword case, threw the sword case on the ground casually, drew the sword out of its sheath in a "bass", and looked at it carefully in the faint morning light. After a while, he stared at an inch of the sword body in a daze.

(End of this chapter)