Crossing the Passenger Sacrifice

The second brother was calculating these pages. Li Huoyue had not yet figured out that, but he vaguely remembered this foreign owner.

It is from a small village near Lingjing Temple in the south. He proposed to donate another sum of money to Lingjing Temple. His wife is expected to give birth in two months, and he wanted to pray for more blessings for the child.

Li Huoyue thought this proposal was a bit strange at the time. If the owner of the manor wanted to pray for the child, why didn't he pay for it himself?

But this was considered a good deed, so she did not refuse. She immediately ordered someone to withdraw silver and rush to Lingjing Temple, add incense oil and get red silk in the name of Li Mansion's outer manor, and asked them to leave the red silk to the wife of the outer manor owner.

"It seems that his wife is about to give birth, and he went to pray for blessings. I agreed." Li Huoyue said, "But I didn't agree that he used the money from the outside village, and...it was too frequent."

Li Huoyue took the account book and quickly looked through it.

It seems to have started recently.

The second brother nodded, sighed, and said:

"I don't have anything to do these days, so why don't I go take a look first."

Li Huoyue also nodded:

"You deserve it. I don't need to thank you."

The second child laughed speechlessly, made a few jokes, and then walked away with his small bamboo basket.

Before leaving, he asked again: "Are you really not going to meet?"

Li Huoyue refused again: "We will meet if we are destined to, don't force it."

"Good good."

After his second brother left, Li Huoyue checked the accounts again, tidied up the desk, and planned to go find Xu Jiaoer as planned.

The old woman in the Sang mansion is being forced into a corner and will probably start with Xu Jiaoer.

Li Huoyue had to rush over first and take action in advance.

The southern capital is divided into the inner city and the outer city, with a total area of about ten thousand hectares.

The inner city is for wealthy and powerful families to live in, while small families or outsiders generally live in the outer city. The two cities are separated by a white wall, and there is a city gate in each of the four corners of the southeast, northwest, and northeast. People and cars line up in and out of the city, and it is very lively every day.

But today it was unusually lively.

The Li family is also a small family in Kyoto, located near Suyun Bridge in the south of the outer city. If they want to find Xu Jiaoer now, they have to go through the Small South Gate.

Now we are gradually entering spring, with occasional drizzles of spring rain, and the air is moist.

Along the way, he often saw houses by the woods and streams. There were a few more houses than when Li Huoyue first passed this road as a child. It seemed that the South was still developing.

Before reaching Xiaonan Gate, Li Huoyue discovered that there were an unusually large number of people heading towards the inner city today, so many that she had to dismount in advance to avoid accidentally injuring others with the horse's hooves.

"Hurry up! It will be too late if you go too late!"

After Li Huoyue got off his horse, he found a small teahouse outside the city and tied his chestnut horse there, waiting to come back after leaving the city.

I hadn't walked far when I heard a conversation behind me.

"There's no point in being anxious! There are too many people here, we can't even move!"

What happened in the inner city?

Why hasn't anyone mentioned it?

Li Huoyue looked back in confusion.

At this time, someone asked: "What are you all in such a hurry to do? Has anyone in the inner city distributed silver?"

"That's about right." One person replied, "It was in the Nanxia River near the east gate. A miracle suddenly happened. A lot of treasures flowed down the river! I've never seen so much of it! If my brother hadn't happened to pass by there and asked his sister-in-law to inform us, we wouldn't have known about it! You should go there too. Even if you don't catch anything, it's good to broaden your horizons!"

"Wow! There is such a good thing?!" The person who asked the question was extremely excited after getting the answer, "Then we have to run faster and find a good position to watch!"

Li Huoyue also found it strange, but at the moment, her more important thing was to find Xu Jiaoer.

Anyway, she couldn't go down to the river to participate. After the fourth brother's spies found out everything, she could just watch the results. There was really no need for her to join in the fun.

She tried hard to make her way through the crowd, but her destination was different from that of most people, so it was particularly difficult for her to walk through the crowd.

He was not careful and almost knocked down a young man in white.

The boy didn't look like he was in good health. Li Huoyue felt that he had just touched him and without pushing him too hard, the other person suddenly lost his balance and slid to the ground.

There are so many people here now, and if he falls down, he will definitely be trampled repeatedly by people who won't have time to pay attention.

Fortunately, Li Huoyue reacted quickly, reached out and grabbed a handful, and pulled it back, thus avoiding a tragedy.

The young man in white was so scared that his voice trembled, "Who, who pinched my waist?"

Li Huoyue: “????”

She looked down.

My goodness, the boy’s spring shirt was already thin, and it was outlined by a wide red belt, making the whole outline look even thinner.

In order to pull him back, she pinched him hard, but the boy was not a girl after all, and his waist was not soft and flexible, and even felt tight after exercise.

Could it be that you are talking about her?

Li Huoyue let go almost immediately, but he was still half a step slow and was caught by the other party just as he left.

The boy had a fair and handsome face. His face flushed red at this moment. He grabbed Li Huoyue's wrist and looked at Li Huoyue in shock. "Girl, even though you are pretty, you can't pinch a stranger's waist so unscrupulously, right?"

The smell of this melon was so strong that everyone around looked over here to see what was going on.

"I saw you were about to fall, so I tried to help you." Li Huoyue pulled his hand back and explained.

Bai Yi didn't buy it, and stuck to the point, saying aggrievedly: "Who needs to pinch others' waist when they are kind-hearted? I am the son of an honest family!"

Li Huoyue was still thinking about something and just wanted to solve it quickly. "I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention in a hurry. I hope you can forgive me."

The people around were also in a hurry to go to Nanxia River, so they comforted the young man in white casually, saying that there was no loss anyway, and the girl was so humble and polite, so he should let it go.

After everyone finished comforting them, they hurried to the Nanxia River, fearing that they would go too late and miss out on anything.

Li Huoyue also set out again to find Xu Jiaoer.

At this time, someone came out from the city and said that the banks of the Nanxia River had been surrounded by the Imperial Guards and no one was allowed to go down to the river to fish.

The general guarding the city gate also stood on the city wall and issued an order, demanding that anyone who salvaged items from the Nanxia River must hand them over. Anyone found hiding anything would be sentenced to death!

Some people around who wanted to take advantage of the situation lost interest in an instant and started yelling and cursing that they were wasting their time.

Now that the Royal Guards had appeared, there was naturally nothing for common people like them to do. After cursing a few words, they didn't care anymore.

Those who should go home should go home.

The work that needs to be done.

Li Huoyue was actually aroused by this scene.

What kind of treasure requires the royal family to mobilize the Royal Guards to protect it?

Still not allowed to hide privately?

Even if you keep it secretly, instead of just handing it over, you will be directly sentenced to death?

The strange behavior forced Li Huoyue to change his route.

She had a feeling that this miracle might not be as simple as a rare treasure, so she wanted to go and take a look.

Suddenly, someone in the crowd held up a powder box and shouted anxiously to the general in charge, "I, I, I! I have it here. I just fished it out of the river. I'm handing it over voluntarily! This shouldn't be considered as hidden possession, right?"