what?

Everyone looked at the adults. The adult was wearing the new clothes made by 18th, with a faint expression. Seeing everyone looking at him, he repeated without hesitation: "Who said you are not worthy?"

Eighteen panicked: "My lord, don't make jokes about eighteen..."

"I'm not kidding." The adult tidied his clothes, and he was handsome and steady. "If there is a happy relationship in this world, there is no reason to say that it is not worthy of it."

After finishing speaking, he walked up to the eighteenth and said: "Twenty and five in the next year. I have not married yet. There is no father or mother in the family. Only fame and fame are in my family. If you marry me, someone will take care of you in the future. Aunt-in-law, just be my wife."

Eighteen was taken aback, and back and forth repeatedly waved his hands: "If you can't do it, don't say that, my lord, the eighteenth can't help but defeat the willow..."

"I don't care." The adult was very open. "As far as I know you, you are a good girl, that's enough."

"Yes, you can agree to the eighteenth!" Xiao Jiu happily pushed the eighteenth dynasty into the arms of the eighteenth dynasty from behind. She was too strong to resist, and she was directly pushed into the adult's arms. In order to prevent her from falling, the adult gently supported her waist with one hand. Eighteen's entire face was red, and Xiao Jiu smiled: "Although the adult is a bit pedantic and rigid, he is definitely Qingtian's parent official. You can marry him!"

The scholar also smiled and said: "I think it's not bad. I have been with an adult for almost ten years, but I have never seen a girl begged by an adult. In this way, the adult really likes the eighteen girl. If the eighteen girl doesn't If you don't know how to speak sweet words, and you are always busy with business affairs, it is better to nod your head and marry."

Cheng Pu slashed and said: "If the eighteen girl can't look down on adults, it would be great to look at me!" He turned a few somersaults, jumped on the roof and the big tree, and looked handsome after a few rounds. He landed and put on a particularly handsome look: "What do you think of the eighteenth girl? I am strong and obedient. I will give you all the money I earn to support my family. You can do whatever you call it, absolutely nothing!"

The adult glanced at him, and he immediately smirked: "Hey, kidding, kidding."

"How?" the lord asked eighteen.

Eighteen with thunderous heartbeat, her face flushed, and she quickly broke away from the adult's arms, and whispered softly: "It's better not to say this to me, an adult. I will go back first if I don't accept a man or a woman." After that, she turned around. Go, the pace is getting faster and faster, and soon disappeared from everyone's sight.

Xiao Jiu was stunned: "The first time I saw Shiba walk so fast, was she about to fly just now?"

The scholar smiled: "The girl's face is thin after all."

Xiao Jiu put his tongue out and asked the adult, "Is the adult sincere?"

"Have you ever seen me say something against my heart?" The adult asked not to answer.

"Okay, this matter is on my body, but if it is done in the future, the adults will have to wrap me a big red envelope!"

The corner of the adult's lips twitched: "Give you my salary for three months."

That was a lot of money, and Xiao Jiu's eyes lit up: "A word is sure!" After speaking, he immediately chased after the eighteen who had left, and worked hard for the matchmaker's red envelope.

When Xiao Jiu's figure disappeared around the corner, the scholar teased the adult and said: "Late born I thought that the adult was interesting to the eighteen girl, but now it seems to be pretty good."

"Huh? You saw it a long time ago?" Cheng Pu was surprised. "Then why didn't I see it? You didn't tell me when you saw it?"

"It's you stupid, well-developed limbs and simple mind." The scholar joked, "have you not seen it yet, every time the eighteenth day appears, the adult's eyes can be fixed on the person. The eighteenth is now responsible for buying vegetables and cooking, Nine, if you don’t have time to follow along, the adult will take the initiative to help with the basket. Did the adult follow you when you were shopping for vegetables before?"

Cheng Pu honestly shook his head: "That's not true. But I'm not a woman, so what do you want an adult to do with me?"

The scholar sighed: "Don't talk to Xia Chongyubing."

"What insect or ice?" Cheng Pu scratched his head. "What do you mean?"

"Don't worry about what you mean, just remember that adults have long been attracted to other girls." At this point, the scholar was moved and wanted to cry. "It's been almost ten years, and the adults have moved the heart, and I thought that the adults would have to die alone in this life."

The adults allowed them to tease, but when they heard this sentence, they gave the scholar a smile. "I have only met Shiba for more than a month, and now it is possible to achieve a good relationship. You and Xiaojiu have known each other for seven years, and now there is still no hope?"

These words were too poisonous, the smile on the scholar's face instantly froze, and he couldn't laugh anymore.

Xiao Jiu caught up with the eighteenth, and kept telling her the various advantages of adults. No matter how loyal and reliable, there will be no concubine. No matter how clever and clever, tricky cases can be solved. She looks handsome and looks very eye-catching... In short She used everything about the adult as a good point, trying to make Eighteen nod her head.

Shiba just listened quietly. When Xiao Jiu was talking dry, he got up and poured a glass of water for her, and then took the handkerchief that he had not finished embroidering before. He wanted to eat only by the salary of these people. Good too hard. A county magistrate only pays a little bit more for a month, which is not enough. In addition, the adults never accept bribes. They can only eat meat every few days. It can be said that the conditions are very difficult.

That’s why the eighteenth was preparing to make some female reds and sell them. She has a superbly good embroidery worker. When she was shopping for vegetables, she accidentally met a cloth shop owner. She saw her handkerchief dropped on the floor and 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. Eighteen thought that he would not produce in the county office, so he agreed to take the clothes or veils back and embroider them, and hand them in every three days.

Now she has been embroidering for half a month. Her embroidery is good and fast. In addition, the profit here is sufficient, and the lady boss is very sincere. She has always been the highest price for 18, so recently they have been able to eat meat every day. , The scholar sighed more than once, that it is better to be an embroiderer to be an official, so that the adult resigned to embroider, and Xiao Jiu knocked his head several times.

"...Eighteen, are you listening?" Xiao Jiu asked when he finished drinking the water.

Eighteen lowered his head to embroider and said, "I heard it."

"Then what do you think?" Xiao Jiu asked. "You can't help but marry, right? How can your daughter's family not not marry."

"...You want to marry." Eighteen whispered. "It's enough to marry a man who doesn't dislike me, adults deserve better."

"You are the best!" When I hear that Shiba is scornful of Xiaojiu, he will get angry. "Are you thinking about it again, who else can be better than you! The adults have said that, he will like you!"

"Xiao Jiu, don't tell me, I won't marry an adult." Eighteen embroidered flowers, with a calm tone. "Maybe I will remember everything after a while, no one knows what I was like in the past, just in case I..."

"Don't talk nonsense." Seeing that Shiba was so worried, Xiao Jiu quickly took her hand and comforted, "You are the best girl, there is no doubt about it. You are so good if you lose your memory, and of course you have memory. Same, eighteen, promise me, don't say anything that degrades yourself, okay?" She really feels distressed and distressed.

Hearing that, Eighteen raised his head and smiled at Xiao Jiu, and said: "Okay, then you have to promise me, don't talk about marrying an adult in the future, I feel very embarrassed. If I mention it again, I won't live in the county government office. Up."

Xiao Jiu quickly agreed: "Good, good, I don't want to say it." It's just a pity that three months of salary... dozens of taels!

Eighteen only then really laughed.

Afterwards, Xiao Jiu told the adult about the eighteenth idea, the adult was silent, Xiao Jiu asked: "Does the adult really like the eighteen?"

The adult glanced at her: "You don't believe me?"

"Of course not, it's just..." Xiao Jiu twisted his fingers, as if he wanted to say nothing. "Aren't you guys all..."

"That's just a common man's idea, not me." The adult said while looking at the document. "What it 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. Take a step back, even if she was willing to, now She is so beautiful and it is enough for me."

Xiao Jiu turned around and went back to tell the eighteen. She didn't ask Shiba to marry the adult anymore, but told Shiba to tell her what the adult said and did, to let her know that the adult really liked her, not any attempt, nor out of sympathy or pity.

But Eighteen refused to accept it. Not only that, she is now avoiding adults, and she will not see if she can meet each other. If she must meet, she will also keep her head down and not speak. It is really necessary to speak, so she will use a few words instead, and the distance will be very far.

But she was so obvious that even Cheng Pu, who was the most nervous, saw it, and asked the scholar: "What happened? Did the adult do something bad to the Eighteenth Girl? How could the girl follow him when she saw him? Seeing a ghost?"

The scholar sighed that he didn't understand the style, did not explain, and walked away. Cheng Pu scratched his head, but Monk Zhang Er couldn't figure out what was going on.

So when he saw the adult blocking the eighteen in the small road from a distance, he quietly ambushed behind the rockery, widened his eyes and pricked his ears to eavesdrop.

Eighteen years later, she saw the adult walking this way. She was so scared that she quickly turned and changed the path. Who knows that after walking a few steps, the adult also turned the path and looked at herself. . The posture seemed to be settled, and Shiba almost turned around and ran away in fright.

However, the adult was tall and long, and she reached her in a few steps and stopped her from going: "Where are you going?" Looking at her with a handkerchief in her hand, "Go out?"

"Hmm..." Eighteen voices were like gnats, "Today is the day to hand over the veil and clothes."

"I'll accompany you. It's not safe for you to go out alone."

Eighteen hurriedly refused: "No, no, no, I'll be fine by myself..."

"Because I expressed my love for you, don't you even want to see me?"

"No, it's not like that!" Shiba denied it. "Just, just—"

The adults who didn't have the slightest pity for Xiangxiyu were pressing step by step: "Just what?"

Eighteen back again and again: "Just, just..."

"It's just what, you're saying it." The adult narrowed his black eyes, and some bottomless things in his eyes made Eighteen blushes about to explode. "Don't lean so close to me!"

After the shout, seeing the adult’s incredulous 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 am not worth entrusting for life?"

"Not so, sir... you are really a rare gentleman. If you marry you, you will be happy all your life." Eighteen clenched the cloth in his hand, shaking a little, "It's just me...I don't have that blessing."

"What kind of blessing is not a blessing, you just have to promise me, the blessing is yours. If you don't marry, I won't be a blessing when I look at it."

"I am not worthy of an adult. My memory will come back sooner or later. At that time, I don't even know how to face an adult, face Xiao Jiu, and other people. So adults please stop begging me, my lord Surely I can meet a good girl, a thousand times better than me, a hundred times better..."

The adult was about to say a few words to her in a deep voice, but saw that the clothes she was holding in her arms suddenly got wet.

She actually cried.

He sighed, ignoring her refusal, holding the person in his arms forcibly, and whispered: "Silly girl, why are you crying? In my heart, you are cleaner than anyone else."

Eighteen listened in a daze, and then told him in his heart: No, I'm not clean.

I'm not clean long ago.

At first it was the body and then the heart. Now my soul is stained with filth.

"I don't care what your past was like, but now you are under my wings, and I have the duty to protect you. No matter if you promise to marry me in the future, I will protect you and no longer let anyone bully you. "The adult touched her head, held her shoulders and looked at her with a rare smile: "Well, I won't mention these in the future. I don't know if you can take me out together now. What?"

Eighteen raised a hand embarrassedly to wipe away the tears, smiled at him, sniffed, and walked beside him.

The two of them drifted away, and Cheng Pu turned out from behind the rockery. He has always been too lazy to use his brain, but he is not a fool. The expression on the face of the eighteen girl just now when the adult is holding the eighteen girl, always feels a bit strange...

He thought for a long while, but didn’t think of anything, so he didn’t think about it. Anyway, eighteen is a good girl. If an adult wants to marry someone, he has to show sincerity. This is a matter between two people, he doesn’t. It's been mixed up so that it won't be a waste of kindness.

After this day, the relationship between Shiba and the adults has softened a lot, and no more asking for a kiss, Shiba relaxes a little, at least not so cautiously when speaking.

But the disappearance case started again.

This time it was the 14-year-old daughter of a family in the south of the city, named Huan Cui. It was said that yesterday morning, I went to the city with the little sister to go to the market. As a result, too many people were scattered. Finally, the little sister went home safely, and Huan Cui disappeared. The family waited at home first, thinking that the little girl might like to watch the excitement and play in the city, but in the afternoon, they still did not come back. So Huancui's mother summoned the villagers into the city to look for it, but the good girl was gone, searching around to no avail, so she had to report to the county office the next morning.

At that time, everyone was eating breakfast, and when they heard that the disappearance had begun again, the adult's face sank. It's also rare for the scholar to stop being so relaxed and happy, with a sullen expression: "It's starting again."

Cheng Pu threw the tableware and chopsticks: "This group of bitches."

Xiao Jiu lost her appetite. Those girls who had died appeared before her eyes. They didn’t know where they were abducted and where they would be sold. But she had been to the brothel when she followed the adults to investigate the case. What kind of life those girls are living in, thinking of here, no matter how delicious the meal is, I can't eat it anymore.

Everyone stopped eating, and Shiba naturally put down his chopsticks. She looked at everyone anxiously: "Don't worry, everyone, let's see what is going on first."

Now they are considered a family, adults and they do not shy away from her when discussing the case. In the past, I rarely mentioned it in front of her because I was afraid of bringing back her memory, but when Shiba planned to face it honestly, they would talk in front of her. Shiba always listened quietly and occasionally gave a few words. Comments.

"Alright." The lord stood up. "I'll go to the court first, Zi Gui, and come back 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 ate their share in a turbulent manner, and greeted Xiao Niu-eight and went to the court. Up.

At present, the only thing adults can do is find someone, but it's a pity that all the government officials are sent out to no avail. This group of criminals is cunning and sophisticated. They have been engaged in trafficking and trafficking for so many years and have never been arrested. In addition to the strong backing behind them, the superb modus operandi is also a reason.

No one was found back and forth, the adults finally decided to meet the new bosses of those industries under the name of Bai Qi.

Only when he came back he looked solemn. Xiaojiu and Shiba were both waiting at the county office. Seeing him coming back, they hurried to meet them, only to see that all three of them had heavy faces, so they couldn't help asking: "What's the matter? What happened? Did you find Huan Cui?"

The scholar shook his head: "No."

Cheng Pu said, "As soon as I heard that Huancui was abducted, the adults immediately blocked the city gate. I only hope that those people will not send Huancui out. If Huancui is guaranteed to be in the city, there may be a chance to get it back." Although their county is remote, it covers a large area. It is too simple to hide individuals, and it is troublesome to find talents.

Eighteen looked at the adult: "My lord, what's the matter?"

"We met the new boss of Baiqi Industry. Guess what his name is?" the scholar asked.

How could these little nine and eighteen know? Both of them shook their heads before the scholar told them. "White Seven." "What?"

The two looked at each other and both felt incredible: "But isn't Bai Qi already dead?"

"So the problem lies here, who is this white seven? Why is it also called white seven?" The scholar chuckled, but the smile did not reach the bottom of his eyes. "This person is warm and hospitable talking and laughing, and he speaks decently. He even took the initiative to open the door for us to search, but the more he is like this, the more people are suspicious."

"In this way, Bai Qi... is not Bai Qi." Eighteen murmured, "Bai Qi is just a code name, and everyone in charge of these industries is called Bai Qi. In other words, it is very likely that there are still others. People like black, 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, just say the first white seven, which has been entrenched in this county for more than ten years alone. For more than ten years, who knows what the man behind it has? What is their purpose for such a large network? Just for silver? That is not to say, the income from these industries alone will be enough for them to eat and wear for a lifetime.

What is that for?

The lord said: "This matter has to be discussed in a long-term. This white seven is a smiling tiger, I am afraid it is not easy to deal with, you must be careful when going out in the future, especially the eighteen-legged rule. You two do not know how to work. You must have someone to accompany you.

"My lord means we might be in danger?" The scholar frowned immediately. "That person is so courageous?"

"You can steal material evidence from the county office and kill people. What do you think they can't do?" Xiao Jiubai glanced at the scholar, 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 her head and asked the adult: "We don't have any evidence in our hands now, why is he killing us?"

"Although there is no evidence, if I want to investigate the case, how can I lose you guys?" The adult said lightly. "It's not enough to rely on me alone. If my arm is cut off, I'm no matter how powerful I am, and I can't investigate such a big case by myself."

Eighteenth Road: "In this case, the adults themselves must also be careful. If they dare to break into the county office, it would be nothing to assassinate the imperial court official.

The adult's mood suddenly improved: "Is the eighteenth caring about me?"

His tone was relaxed and ambiguous, and eighteen pursed his lips: "When is it all? Your lord still cares about this."

The adult smiled and said: "If you are really worried about me, it is better to nod and agree to marry me earlier. In this case, I don't have to worry that I won't be able to marry a wife until I die."

He deliberately dilutes the heavy and dangerous topic, and the scholar immediately followed up: "Yes, the eighteenth quickly agreed to marry an adult, so that he may be able to collect some money for his late birth."

Eighteen said: "It's better for the son to marry Xiaojiu as soon as possible. I have saved some money now, and I have nowhere to spend it."

Xiao Jiu felt that he was really wronged, and he could be shot while lying down without speaking.