Oriole Line

Are you familiar with the boss? "

"Oh, does the guest officer want to inquire about someone?" The boss said, "I dare not tell you about other places, but seven or eight of the ten households in the vicinity are my regular customers, so I promise to ask!"

"To be honest, my younger brother fled from the north and came to join his cousin who married into Jiankang." He said with a sad face, "My younger brother was originally from Yuzhou, and his family also had a few acres of Susukida. There are many bandits and bandits, and life is going from bad to worse. My mother died of illness a month ago, and my younger brother has no one to turn to, so I had to come to Jiankang to find relatives." Wen Tao threw some dust on his face before going out, and he looked really dusty. look.

Now is the troubled season, there is an endless stream of refugees fleeing from the north, if it is not for relatives, it will be difficult to enter Jiankang.The boss felt sympathetic and sympathized, "Where do the little brother's relatives live?"

"It's in Xikou Lane. I received a letter from my cousin saying that she moved here recently."

"Oh, the family diagonally across the door moved here a few months ago, and the maids who serve in that house often come to buy breakfast." The boss frowned, "It's just that the head of that house has never seen it before."

"That's right." Wen Tao hurriedly said, "My cousin's husband is a tea seller, and he is not at home on weekdays."

"Haha, let me tell you. This family has only moved here not long ago. They usually live in seclusion and don't see her man. Our neighbors are still wondering."

"Thank you boss for letting me know." Wen Tao said politely.

"Little brother, your family used to be a big family." The boss said again.

"Huh?" Wen Tao was puzzled.

The boss continued: "Our family can't afford to hire someone to serve, it's just the way of a maid, tsk tsk, she doesn't look like a girl from a small family."

"Oh, my uncle used to be a housekeeper for a wealthy family." Wen Tao lied temporarily.

"No wonder, the clothes on that maid's body don't look like those from the market. The neighbors in the neighborhood are guessing that this family is not a big family in trouble."

Wen Tao smiled gratefully, and gave some extra change to the boss.

He already had a rough idea in his mind, Cai Bo came to visit this woman alone late at night, the identity of this woman must not be revealed, otherwise Cai Bo would not keep silent.That being the case, it would be best for him to secretly find out the identity of the woman during this trip.He thought for a moment, then went around to the remote place behind the alley, and seeing no one around, he jumped up the back wall.He lay on the roof and looked carefully into the courtyard. He saw that it was a small courtyard with two entrances. The doors were all closed, and the fire under the stove had not been extinguished, which meant that there were still people in the room.

Wen Tao lay on the roof for a long time, but there was still no movement. He was thinking about jumping into the courtyard when he heard a slight "meow, meow". There was a civet cat lying on its stomach, shrunk into a ball because of the cold weather, looking at Wen Tao tearfully with its big black eyes, very pitiful.Wen Tao suddenly felt compassion, moved his body close to the civet cat, and gently stroked its furry head.

Suddenly, a sword strikes from Wen Tao's back. It was impossible for Wen Tao to avoid it, but the moment the sword strikes, Wen Tao rolled to the side as if he had been prepared. Go straight down the roof.The sword edge didn't have time to stop, and it touched the front paw of the little civet cat. The civet cat was injured and couldn't move, yelling "woo woo".

Wen Tao stood up in the barren space outside the back wall, in front of him was a man in black who covered his face, with a pair of triangular eyes showing fierceness.Seeing that the man missed a hit, the blade of the sword came down like raindrops.In order not to arouse suspicion when traveling, Wen Tao did not bring a sword, so he had to pull out a self-defense dagger from his boots at this moment.Because the dagger was short, it suffered a great loss in distance, Wen Tao couldn't use his left sword at all, so he had to barely defend himself.The man in black had fierce swordsmanship, Wen Tao could only dodge to the left in order to wait for an opportunity to escape.

Unexpectedly, although the man in black didn't kill him, he was watching his every move, especially blocking his escape direction.Wen Tao was anxious, completely unaware of the intention of the person who came, the person who attacked him just now obviously had his eye on him long ago.Why is there someone staring at him here?Could it be that Pu Chen's personal guards followed Cai Bo last night?So soon there are top experts deploying defense here?As for the identity of the woman in this courtyard... Wen Tao took a deep breath, no matter what, he must inform Pu Chen immediately.Now there are still people in this courtyard, as long as they are caught, they will definitely be able to find out the news about the person behind Cai Bo!Wen Taosi mobilized his internal strength and launched a wave of violent counterattack with all his strength.The man in black was obviously taken aback, he didn't expect that the boy's skill was much higher than he expected, although he had a weapon in his hand, it was difficult to suppress him.Seeing that Wen Tao gradually gained the upper hand and was about to tear open the man in black's defense and escape, the man in black suddenly slowed down his attack.Wen Tao was puzzled, and stabbed a few times with the dagger, but the man in black didn't fight back, but just dodged.Wen Tao saw a gap and cut the arm of the man in black, and the man in black covered the wound with his hands in pain.Seeing that the man in black was at a disadvantage instantly, Wen Tao pointed the dagger straight at the man in black's neck.The man in black retreated again and again and was cornered.Wen Tao pointed his dagger at the man in black and said, "Who the hell are you? Why are you here?"

"I..." The man in black obviously lowered his voice, and Wen Tao had to hold his breath to listen.

At that moment, the man in black shot a dart from his sleeve, piercing Wen Tao's chest.Wen Tao felt dizzy for a while, and fell straight down. The moment he fell, Wen Tao suddenly realized that the last wave of counterattack was not because the man in black was inferior to him in martial arts, but because he saw that he had escaped. He deliberately showed weakness and hurt him with a hidden weapon the moment he let down his vigilance.

Jiankang's water is really deep...

Wen Tao didn't know how long he had been in a coma, but when he woke up, the lights were already on.Wen Tao opened his eyes with difficulty, feeling numb in his limbs and a splitting headache.He didn't expect that he could still be alive. At the moment when he was stabbed by the dart, Wen Tao thought that he would definitely die.At this moment, he felt a stabbing pain in his chest. When he touched it with his hand, the blood was almost dry. He gritted his teeth and pulled out the dart. Although the bleeding was not much, the wound was still unbearably painful.He looked at the sky, guessed that it should be Xu time, and he was unconscious for five full hours.

No, that woman...

Wen Tao suddenly realized that if five hours had passed, that woman might have been transferred!Regardless of the pain in his chest, he got up and leaped to the roof. Sure enough, the courtyard was in a mess, and the doors were wide open. It was obvious that people had left long ago. In order to avoid people's eyes, the latch of the front door was still locked, while the back door was locked. Cover up.It seems that people go through the back door, and the neighbors will not see who took them.

Wen Tao was annoyed, this clue was broken, and they suspected that Cai Bo's matter must have been discovered, and it would be difficult to act later.Wen Tao sighed, and just about to get off the roof, he suddenly heard a sound of "meow, meow". It turned out that the raccoon cat whose front paw was stabbed by the man in black was still curled up on the roof because he couldn't move. Wen Tao cried out as if seeing a savior.Wen Tao moved over and quickly put the civet cat in his arms. The cat was injured and curled up on the roof for a whole day, now trembling in Wen Tao's arms.

Wen Tao stroked the raccoon cat, and said softly: "Speaking of which, you saved my life." Wen Tao recalled the experience during the day and still felt a little scared.The man in black had obviously been ambushing around the house long ago, and probably escorted the woman inside the house.I don't want to throw myself into a trap and come to find out the identity of the woman.Judging from the way the man in black treated him later, he didn't want to kill him, but if Wen Tao had ventured into the yard when he was on the roof, the man in black probably wouldn't have kept him alive.At that time, Wentao was able to dodge the first sword stabbed by the man in black from behind, thanks to the raccoon cat. He was stroking the cihua cat's head at that time. The cat's eyes were big, round, and watery. Like a mirror, Wen Tao escaped from the catastrophe when he saw the sword blade stabbing from behind through the eyes of the civet cat.

Thinking of this, Wen Tao strengthened his determination to bring the civet cat back.He himself was also injured, and with the civet cat in his arms, he finally got down from the roof, and felt a pain in his chest every few steps he took.When he arrived at the general's mansion, it was past the hour of Hai. He was afraid that others would see that he was injured, so he covered his chest tightly. The wound on his chest was being pulled uncontrollably. He gritted his teeth and walked straight to Puchen's room.

Tang Yu was waiting for him at the door of Puchen's room. Seeing that he had finally returned, he ran to pat him and said, "You are back, the young master has been waiting for a long time."

Wen Tao snorted softly.Tang Yu immediately realized something was wrong, Wen Tao's face was pale, still trembling slightly.Because he was afraid of alarming Cai Bo's eyeliner in the general's mansion, Tang Yu pretended to be casual and said, "Where have you been hanging out again?" While taking off his cloak and putting it on Wen Tao, he whispered in his ear: "Don't talk, I help you in."

At this moment Cai Bo leaned forward and said, "Young master, can you ask this old servant to serve you?"

Tang Yu waved his hand, pretending to be relaxed and said with a smile: "The young master said, as long as Wen Tao serves, it will be fine. Since Wen Tao is back, Cai Bo, you can go back and rest."

Cai Bowei retreated obediently, but his eyes were fixed on Wen Tao who walked into Puchen's room.

16, 16.

As soon as Wen Tao entered the door, he couldn't support himself and fell down.Tang Yu quickly helped him to sit down, he put his hands on his chest, and there was a striped civet cat inside!Tang Yu saw that the cat was small, with big eyes open, so pitiful, he couldn't help hugging it