The Black Sheep (The Black Horse) - Chapter 53

Bai Shiqi was born with a free and unrestrained temperament. It was handy for her to act as one of the two men vying for one woman, but on the contrary, it was all awkward.

“If you feel happy, why don’t you try?” She said to Zhu Shoumei: “My parents are fooling around, so do you follow the fooling around? Let the marriage matter take its course, besides, I have no plans to get married!”

Zhu Shoumei’s disappointment was beyond words: “Do you like Master Zhao Ruo?”

“I like a ghost!” She cheered up and stood in the yard with a blower and basking in the sun. She wanted to stretch her waist but was afraid of getting wounds: “Don’t be guessing!”

After a word was not finished, someone under his hand suddenly came to report that it was Wu family brothers and sisters who came to visit the sickness, but they were directly led by.

Bai Shiqi was still ill and was impatient with these etiquettes, but Wu Rong brothers and sisters came with a heavy gift and repeatedly apologized to her: “That day my father was very ill and panicked, and the hospitality was poor. Hope Young Master Bai helps Haihan!”

Wu Rong spoke earnestly, but Wu Jing’s eyes had never left Zhu Shoumei, as if she had met a male god.

“There are patients in my family who are panicked. I was ill a few days ago but I did not worry about my parents. Even the woman who was guarding the door was withdrawn only a few days ago. If the two came a few days earlier, I’m afraid I will You can’t even see the face of Wu, so why don’t you say that it’s not a good reception?” Bai Shiqi’s eyes turned around and he understood what the Wu family brothers and sisters were coming from. Take care, I really can’t get better so quickly.”

Wu Jing heard her call cordially, as if unconsciously said: “Are you old acquaintances between Master Bai and Brother Zhu?”

Bai Shiqi laughed exaggeratedly: “It’s not just old knowledge? It’s still a young age. When I was a child, I fought together and climbed the mountain to collect medicine. When Thin Mei was a child, I was not smart enough. All medical books can be learned backwards, and it is special to recognize herbs. Come on, don’t mess with the children of Murakami, really smart and sensible like a little adult!”

She tried her best to praise Zhu Shoumei in front of Wu Jing. The more she praised the other party, the more unsightly her face was. Later, she almost rushed to catch up with her hard work. She took a bowl of medicine from the table and handed it over: “Drink the medicine quickly. Right?!”

Bai Shiqi took the medicine bowl and prepared to moisturize his throat and continued to boast. He didn’t know that he couldn’t speak after taking a mouthful of medicine, his face became pig liver-colored, and he pointed to Zhu Shoumei: “You…you… “What a cruel heart, he actually used Old Man Huang’s old tricks.

She just contributed to Zhu Shoumei’s lifelong event.

Wu Jing asked curiously, “What happened to Young Master Bai?”

Zhu Shoumei clinging to the rim of the bowl almost forced Bai Shiqi to pour a bowl of bitter medicine, and still complained to the Wu family brothers and sisters without changing their face: “Young Master Bai helps the master drink medicine and fears hardship. I really don’t know where the problem came from. It’s a weird look when you drink the medicine. It is said that Shao Bai is the leader of the young hero, Yi Bo Yuntian, and those rumors about the rivers and lakes are probably not counted?

The young hero Bai Shiqiqiang was full of bitterness, looking at him speechlessly: “…”

——Is this still the thoughtful Zhu Shoumei?

Wu Jing hid her mouth and laughed, and even excused Bai Shiqi: “Maybe the people in the rivers and lakes are a little quirky, and Young Master Bai may not taste the medicine.”

The girl’s understanding made Bai Shiqi wishing to marry home as a daughter-in-law, and cast her grateful glances at her, but Zhu Shoumei misunderstood her, and when she was thinking about hooking up and molesting a little girl, her teeth itch with hatred. , The sewage then splashed on her: “Miss Wu, don’t look at Young Master Bai, who is honest now. She is seriously injured and has to go out. Otherwise, she is a regular visitor in Huajie Liuxiang and a hero in the pink circle.”

Bai Shiqi glared at Zhu Shoumei, and questioned him with his eyes: I have hatred with you?

Destroy my reputation everywhere.

Zhu Shoumei looked back at her frankly: Isn’t what I said is true?

The two of them froze, staring at each other.

Wu Rong vaguely felt that something was wrong, but then he turned to think that he also had one or two friends tearing down each other, and then he felt reasonable, and laughed and praised: “The relationship between the two is really good!”

Wu Jingyin’s elder brother’s words even gave birth to the meaning of being close to Bai Shiqi: “I heard Mr. Huang say that Brother Zhu has been alone since he was a child. It turned out to be a brother to Bai Shao. It is really a blessing.”

Zhu Shoumei: I really want to prescribe some decoctions for the treatment of eye diseases for the Wu family brothers and sisters.

The four people in the room have their own thoughts, but they can talk about the sky harmoniously. Although Bai Shiqi is sick, under the suggestion of the Wu family brothers and sisters, he is also very happy to talk about the funny stories of Zhu Shoumei when he was a child. It is obviously his own. “Great achievements”, such as resisting the bullying of the children in the village for Zhu Shoumei, and by the way, he took those small carrot heads as a younger brother to expel them, but they changed hands and put them on Zhu Shoumei: “…I would hurt my leg with a splint, even I couldn’t walk, and my father sent me to Mr. Huang to recover. The children in the village saw me with a lame leg. They played children’s songs every day to play with me. When they saw me, they would call a little lame, or Shoumei cleaned up the boys. Let them dare not to insult me ​​again…”

Zhu Shoumei dismantled the stage without hesitation: “Don’t believe her, Young Master Bai can clean up a few village children even with a limping leg. I dare not take credit!”

Bai Shiqi stared at him desperately: idiot! I will stand up for you in front of the girls, you collapse your own platform?

The corners of Zhu Shoumei’s mouth are faintly ironic: do you need you to save me?

Obviously, the two have been getting along well over the years since they were young, but they showed signs of breaking up when the Wu family brothers and sisters came to visit today.

If Bai Shiqi hadn’t been seriously injured, he would have to knock Zhu Shoumei’s head to make him think clearly: The eldest lady of the Wu family, the richest man in Baoying County, was raised by a thousand spoiled pets, and she would marry a farm shop in the future. If you can live in peace, why bother to hang around with dangerous people like her who begs for food in the Caohe?

Like Zhao Ziheng, it’s okay to have brothers, but the marriage is not a joke, maybe you lose your life accidentally.

Not long after, Lady Song Si brought Zhen’er with a snack, and Bai Shiqiru was the savior, and waved affectionately: “Si Niangzi come in.”

Song Si Niangzi came to visit Bai Shikai once after she lifted the ban, and sat down in front of her bed in tears: “If there are three long and two shorts in Seventeen Lang, who will the slave and maid rely on for the rest of his life?”

Bai Shiqi’s most unseen little ladies wept in tears, and took out the veil to wipe the tears for Mei Jiao Niang: “Don’t worry, I will live for a long time and be your great backer!” Let the Si Niangzi master and servant excited Endlessly, I didn’t fall asleep for half the night after returning.

Zhen’er further said: “The girl has a good chance of supporting her now. Even if the boss and his wife don’t want to see the girl, as long as Lang Jun has a girl in his heart.”

The master and servant had been soaking in the kitchen for half a day early this morning, and they made two plates of snacks and brought them over. They didn’t expect that it would coincide with Bai Shiqi’s hospitality.

Wu Jing saw Song Si Niangzi dressed up, and said: “This elder sister is?” Her gaze swept back and forth on Song Si Niang and Zhu Shoumei, for fear that this young and beautiful woman might be related to Zhu Shoumei.

Bai Shiqi waved his hand: “This is the fourth lady in my room.”

As she said so, it was a well-known and decent concubine.

Wu Jing dropped her heart steadily back into her belly.

After the Wu family brothers and sisters left, Zhu Shoumei asked Bai Shiqi angrily: “What do you mean by that?”

Bai Shiqi took the soft and sweet snack made by Song Si Niangzi and fed it to his mouth, while not forgetting to answer Zhu Shoumei’s confusion: “I’ll be a matchmaker for you, look at the look in your eyes, hot, hot, old man Huang and The Patriarch of the Wu family is still an old acquaintance, what a good marriage.”

“I want you to worry about it!” In the presence of Song Si Niangzi’s master and servant, Zhu Shoumei couldn’t argue any more, and Zhu Shoumei angrily left.

Song Si was very puzzled: “Master, Doctor Zhu seems very annoyed, why doesn’t he agree with the Wu family’s marriage?”

Miss Wu is fresh and pleasant, with a soft and kind personality and a wealth of family resources. What else can she choose?

Bai Shiqi sighed long, like a seventy-year-old man who saw through the world: “Young man, he is very willful. I don’t know the benefits of a flat road. I have to hit the south wall with all my heart.”

The Cao Gang is like the southern wall. Ordinary people only see the wealth and wealth of the ships coming and going, but who knows the dangers of the high winds and waves in the canal, and the murderous intents everywhere?

Zhu Shoumei is considered to have a small hair, a stubborn personality, but her heart is the most kind. Compared with Qiu Yunping, who has no power to bind a chicken, she has a lot more physical strength than that nerd, but In the unlikely event that she encounters a gang fight or a water bandit along the coast, she can’t take care of him alone, wouldn’t it hurt his life?

Qiu Ying grew up in the Cao Gang, and has fought many times side by side with her. In the end, she didn’t end up with a dead body. When she chased him to the scene of the battle, she didn’t even find his body, and there were broken limbs everywhere. Only the head of one of them was found, and the rest were completely unrecognizable, white and bloody, and it was difficult to distinguish the enemy from us.

Unfortunately, Zhu Shoumei did not understand.

Bai Qiban leaned on the bed and sent her master and servant Song Si back. When Huang Youbi came to change her dressing again, Shi Potian said, “Old man Huang, you don’t want to see your apprentice blood splashing.” Caohe?”

Huang Youbi was taking down the white silk wrapped around her waist and abdomen in circles, until the last layer was glued to the newborn flesh and blood. Hearing this, he only heard Bai Shiqi “hiss”. With a cry, the white silk was separated from the flesh and blood, and the new wound was bleeding. He cursed expressionlessly: “I don’t think about something with no conscience, if I didn’t look at that stupid boy’s wishful thinking, I wouldn’t agree with it! ”

Bai Shiqi’s teeth cracked his mouth with pain, but his words were like a knife: “With my skills, I have to bring back injuries from time to time. Guess how many times can he avoid such fighting with Shoumei’s skills?”

Huang Youbi raised her head and ran into her dark eyes, as if she had seen this little villain’s serious expression for the first time. She said: “It’s not easy for you to save his life. How many years have you trained carefully, and you have to die on the Caohe? “She looked away, and her voice was inconsistent with the vicissitudes of her peers: “The Cao Ding who ate in Caohe are desperate desperadoes. If there is a weapon fight, how likely is the thin plum to win?”

Suddenly, Huang Youbi regretted that he was heavier, and hurriedly took a clean white silk to wipe the blood drops on her wound.

The room is very quiet, it is rare for the old and the young to not harm each other, each with their own minds.

In the afternoon, Huang Youbi went to see Bai Zhenting in person.

The next day Bai Zhenting saw Bai Shiqi and wanted to poke a hole in the little bastard’s head: “What did you say to Huang Youbi? Ask him to quit his marriage personally? He also scolded you for being cold-blooded and heartless. His apprentice, he is not easy to force.”

Bai Shiqi leaned on the bedside and looked like a fool: “What else can I say? I looked forward to the prospect of Zhu Shoumei entering our house. Whenever the water meets the bandit, I sacrificed his apprentice, and the mountain was in danger. , Let his apprentice explore the way first. Although old man Huang is stubborn, he loves his apprentice very much. Besides, the apprentice is no better than the precious medicinal materials he planted and dug from the mountains, and it can be regarded as the best use for patients. Just use it. Zhu Shoumei is not an object. Throw it into our wolf-like cat gang. Who can I go to if I lose my life?”

No matter how selfless Huang Youbi is, he can’t use his lover to fill the hole.

Bai Zhenting wished to beat her up, but seeing her look languid after being seriously injured, his brows wrinkled: “You mean… that one?”

——Does this **** like Zhou Wang?

Bai Seventeen lay on the bed and understood, and heard the old father’s words, “sneer” and laughed: “Father, are you stupid? If that person is Zhao Ziheng, I can still hold it in the palm of my hand. But who is he? Can you be controlled by me? Really want to get somewhere, which shows that we are suffering a lot. He is just a momentary distraction, and now he is not good at doing things. Naturally, he wants to be wrong. When he can stand up and return to Kyoto, remember that I am Who?”

Really want to talk about beauty, the palace is beautiful, how talented are there?

Bai Shiqi stretched out his two dung-fork-like hands. The palms of his palms still had old wounds. Recently, his skin color has been pretty good, but he is not as good as the hands of the slender boudoir daughter with Yuzhi Agar. Great care: “Father, do you think I am beautiful or talented? Or is my family background up to those official ladies in Beijing?”

Bai Zhenting is not a stupid person either. She was amused by a few words, and couldn’t help but shove a note in her forehead: “Ghost and clever, you can see it!”

The fathers and sons of the Bai family reached an agreement, and the lively and scary Bai Gang leader sat down on the Diaoyutai again. Every time Zhao Wujiu talked with him, he threw the pot on Bai Seventeen, pretending to have a frowning expression: “Seventeenth, the stubborn temperament who would rather bend than bend, Your Highness I’ve seen it too. Anything she doesn’t like is to break her leg with a big stick, and I can’t twist it. I’ll take a look, it’s not in a hurry.”

Before, it was clear that he was anxiously angry for the next generation of the Bo family, and he wished to find a suitable person for Bai Shiqi.

At the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, Bai Shiqi was already alive and kicking out to harm people. Huang Youbi was also preparing to take his apprentices to continue traveling. Today, the emissaries sent the imperial decree, and Zhao Wujiu and Yu Ang secretly investigate the corruption of the salt roads in Lianghuai , And sent a soldier talisman, and ordered Zhao Wujiu to clear the water bandits.

Yu Ang looked forward to the stars and the moon, and there was a lot of news on the street outside. The new imperial minister had arrived in Lianghuai half a month ago and began to take people to the Yandao Yamen to check the accounts, but the king of Zhou was silent here.

He knelt on the ground and burst into tears, knocked his head on the cold floor tiles, and almost knocked out a big bag.

As soon as Zhao Wujiu received the secret decree, he specially invited Bai Shiqi, the reason is also high-sounding: “You have led people to clean up the Caohe banditry over the years. If you are familiar with this group of people, no one can match it. I don’t know this king. Can you please help Master Bai to eliminate banditry?”

Bai Shiqi could still refuse other reasons, but it was her long-cherished wish to eliminate the banditry above Caohe.

“I don’t know what can I do to your Highness?”

Her eyebrows were powerful and her eyes looked like stars. Apart from her complexion, she was still a little pale. It was a deficiency disease after a serious injury and could only be recuperated for a long time.

Zhao Wujiu once again deeply realized that the ordinary lady is Tangqianyan, while Bai Shiqi is an air eagle… He can’t use ordinary strategies to impress her.

“If Young Master Bai is free, please be an assistant to me for the time being. First, let me familiarize myself with the Lianghuai waterway, where water bandits are easy to hide and where are easy to ambush, and if there is a boat that is inconvenient, I will survey on land. When the time comes, if the two rivers and water bandits have been suppressed, I will seal Bai Shiqi in front of his father!”

Bai Shiqi smiled: “You don’t need to seal it, please. If you can make the officials along the way collect less money, I’ll thank God.”

The two reached an agreement, and Bai Shishi laid paper and painted the two Huai waterways overnight.

She was born in Si and grew up in Si, and she often wandered down the river in a boat. These years, she has touched the rivers in the Lianghuai area. The water courses are in her mind, so she can draw the same without having to go there.

Zhao Wujiu sat next to her. Seeing her rubbing ink and pondering, he drew with a brush. While painting, he marked the place names, the depth and width of the river, the feasible ships, and the hiding places. Even the reed meadow was drawn. Can not help secretly surprised.

If in the army, she can be a scout and make contributions.

It’s a pity that she is a daughter.

Bai Shiqi buried himself in the drawing, and the sky darkened before he knew it. Zhao Wujiu got up and took the lamp, and Shu Changfeng suddenly said: “Is there something wrong with Lady Song?”

Song Si’s voice came from outside the door: “I heard that my father hadn’t used dinner today, so my concubine sent me some soup and food.”

Bai Shiqi’s painting was absorbed, and only then discovered that it was too late, and Zhao Wujiu was also hungry with her. He was a bit embarrassed and lowered his voice and said, “Why doesn’t Your Highness call me?”

Zhao Wujiu saw more of her slouchy appearance, and had never seen her doing something so focused. When she was drawing pictures at the desk, he kept watching her, and occasionally asked, she went on talking, as if in front of her. It was Bibo Qingzhou carrying the two of them on the waterway she drew, and then went down and indulged in, forgetting to talk to him.

Writing and rewriting paintings, most of the time has passed.

I can only hear Shu Changfeng outside the door: “The young gang leader has a serious discussion with my master. Lady Song can put down the food and soup and hand it over to the younger one. Please come back.”

Song Si said anxiously: “My father hasn’t recovered yet, but I can’t do it. Brother Shu also asks to pass on the message for him to take care of his body.”

There was the sound of leaving footsteps in the courtyard, and Shu Changfeng came in with dinner. Zhao Wujiu glanced at Bai Shiqi with a complicated expression: “Are you really going to live with Song Niangzi as Feng Xuhuang?”

Bai Shiqi carefully put away the picture of the water course drawn on the table. Zhao Wujiu helped to clean up the paper and pen. She raised her eyebrows and said, “The world is very fortunate. If you can’t choose a beloved person for the four women, let her Push the marriage fire pit, then I might as well keep her by my side.”

“A lot of unlucky ones? Where did you draw your conclusions?”

Bai Shiqixin said: As a follower of a modern monogamous society, which one is not unlucky to embrace the right?

But the concept is different, so you don’t have to be clear.

She then smiled and said: “The conclusion drawn from me, if it is a man, I will hug the left and the right, and see one loves the other. Anyway, as long as you marry a wife and accept ten or eight beauties in the room, who will stop you? I can’t do it? At most a young and romantic comment, and I won’t lose half of the meat.”

Zhao Wujiu saw that she was showing a rude appearance again, and he couldn’t laugh or cry: “You! You! It’s not a man to blame, otherwise how many girls have been harmed by you.”

Bai Shiqi shook his head: “Neither, nor, I am saving a lot of beauties. Have you never seen some alone husbands along the river who scolded their wives, raised their feet and beat them, and treated them like cows and horses. Married a beautiful woman back, but Lian Xiangxiyu is so caring, it makes no sense for a woman not to fall in love with me!”

Zhao Wujiu was taken aback by her complacent look: “You mean, I…I’m not pitiful enough?”

This is simply a paradox-what is the appearance of Bai Shiqi’s street ruffian, why should others pity him? She is still a flower protector herself.

Shu Changfeng was dumbfounded, and he recovered and hurriedly set up the meal.

After eating, the two of them withdrew their bowls and chopsticks and began to draw the lanterns. Yu Ang came back for a while. Seeing that the pen of Bai Shiqi looked like a god, he was amazed: “The Lord Bai is really a young talent, why not enter the army? Country?”

Bai Shiqi stretched his waist, immersed himself in the desk and continued to paint: “I still have a self-knowledge, and I have such a sloppy and free temper. If I were to play in the army, I might have been beaten to death by a military stick.”

Zhao Wujiu smiled: The little girl sees everything clearly.

Bai Shiqi drew water course diagrams day and night, and Zhao Wujiu took back the guards who had been scattered, and ordered them to investigate the guards of the troops stationed in the two Huaihe Rivers, and he and Bai Shiqi were together recently. , Those guards inevitably came in and out of the seventeenth room of Bai.

Huang Youbi had set a date to leave. Zhu Shoumei had her heart on Bai Shiqi. She came to say goodbye when she entered the yard. It was a lively scene when she entered the yard. Although Shu Changfeng was guarding the door, a guard was in the room. Reporting the inquired news: “…Your Majesty, the guards who subordinated to Gaoyou have been staring for a few days, but they didn’t find anything unusual, but I felt strange that the guards in the guards seemed very shabby in terms of weapons and clothing.”

The two Huai Rivers are rich, and the health offices in various places should not be so shabby.

Zhu Shoumei heard the word “His Royal Highness” in her ear. Before turning her mind, Shu Changfeng had already said loudly, “Dr. Zhu, come here, but something?”

Zhu Shoumei listened to Zhu Shoumei after he made a difference between “Doctor Zhu” and the “His Royal Highness” of the guard in the room.

“Hall…Your Highness?”

Zhu Shoumei inherited from Huang Youbi and was well versed in the family motto of the Huang family. When the blood rushed into his head, he wanted to rush in: “Who is your Highness? Who is in it?”

The door suddenly opened from the inside. Zhao Wujiu was sitting in a wheelchair. Bai Shiqi was holding a pen and staring at him in shock. Another young man stood straight, looking at him unclearly.

Zhu Shoumei pointed to Zhao Wujiu: “He he…who is he?” His expression was excited: “Seventeen, who is he?!” It’s fine if you don’t accept his affection, even if their master and apprentice are cheated together?