Chapter 18 Talk about style in Yuehonglou
(I've already made it to the first place! Thank you brothers! One more chapter)
Xu Huai put the knife on the sandalwood square table, picked up the teacup and savored the fragrant tea.
"Mr. Xu must know the rules of Yuehonglou. Is it necessary to listen to my family singing a few songs, or..."
Liu Qiong'er softly spoke and turned her bones. She stood up to prepare the piano and flute, and secretly guarded against the foolish man who would pounce on him impulsively.
"The money I paid was not enough to ask Miss Liu to untidy her clothes, but it was enough to sit until midnight before leaving. Why should Miss Liu be anxious?" Xu Huai picked up the sword, pressed the scabbard against Liu Qiong'er's chest, asked her to sit down, and then kicked a chair accurately behind the boudoir door. He walked over and sat down against the door.
At this time, the maid was driving away the people who wanted to watch the fun outside and closed the gate of the courtyard.
Liu Qiong'er sat at the table for a while, but made Xu Huai stare at her heart and asked again: "Young Master Xu, don't hold a knife, what's the fun of this knife? Young Master Xu is not happy to listen to the piano and music. There are many more fun things in my room..."
"Can this knife really be fun? It seems that Miss Liu Qiong'er, you really don't understand the knife. I'll show you!" Xu Huai stood up and pulled out the knife. After three swords, three afterimages fell in front of Liu Qiong'er.
Liu Qiong'er was so scared that she was about to jump out of her throat. Her apricot eyes watched the three black hairs fall in front of her. Is it a coincidence, or is it that a fool really wanted to cut off three hairs?
Liu Qiong'er watched Xu Huai pick up three black hairs from the brick floor, and didn't even dare to breathe out.
"Is this knife fun?" Xu Huai also sheathed the knife, wrapped three hairs around his fingers, and asked, "Miss Liu Qiong'er, should I still play? My sword skills are now in my state, and I can shave off the hair on your ears without damaging my skin. Should Miss Liu Qiong'er, see it?"
"What the hell do you want to do?" A genius wanted to see the sword technique of shaving the earrings. Liu Qiong'er sat on the imperial concubine's couch with weak feet, looking at Xu Huai with a look of ghosts. She didn't know what unexpected things he would do next, and she didn't dare to call people, for fear of irritating the madman.
"I borrowed the broken silver and more than ten kilograms of copper from Zheng Butcher Zheng. The total silver crock was three taels. The turtle slave Zhou Mazi complained that it was not enough to give gifts to Miss Liu. Zhou Mazi thought I was a fool, and I was too lazy to bother with him, but Miss Liu, you can't complain about me that it was past, right?"
Xu Huai said,
"Since I have given the money, we have to wait until midnight to count. Miss Liu, don't you? As for what I want to do for half a night, I think even if I just sit there, Yuehonglou can't say that I don't follow the rules, right?"
"Aren't you the stupid guy in the Xu family?" Miss Liu Qiong'er asked uncertainly.
Xu Huai has seen it two or three times, and has heard others say anything else, but she is not sure whether this person is stupid or not, or whether he has recognized the wrong person a few times before; she looked at Xu Huai at this time, but she did not look strong as she imagined, but she looked tall.
If I hadn't had the preconceived impression, I was obviously a handsome young man, how could he connect him with "Shan'er"?
"If you want to change the name of Xiaosheng, his surname is Xu Huai, and a person from Lutaizhai, Yuhuangling, Biyang County, was having a leisurely meal by Xu Wujiang, a member of the Huaiyuan Inspection Department. He admired Miss Liu Qiong'er's reputation for a long time. Today, he specially asked the Zheng family butcher to borrow silver to come to chat with Miss Liu Qiong'er!" Xu Huai said.
"Young Master Xu is not like the ones mentioned outside, that..." Miss Liu Qiong'er said timidly.
"Since Miss Liu asked this, I think we can have a little more pleasant night - Miss Liu said that in the eyes of others, Xu Huai should be a complete fool and should not know the fun of talking about love?" Xu Huai patted his thigh with a knife and a sheath and asked with a smile.
"..." Liu Qiong'er stared at Xu Huai at a terrible moment. Where is this a love story?
Xu Huai said again: "I want to say that I am a wise man, maybe I am too confident, but in the eyes of others, I am a fool, but it is convenient for me to do a lot of things. So sometimes I don't want to explain no matter how others look at me - Miss Liu, do I think I am a very talented person?"
"…?" Miss Liu Qiong'er's lips were slightly opened, thinking about what kind of slutty temperament he was. After a while, he asked, "Since Mr. Xu doesn't mind what others think of you, why should he be aggressive in front of me? Mr. Xu really wants to talk about love, Liu Qiong'er will do it too..."
"Miss Liu Qiong'er should not be so aggrieved, as if I forced Miss Liu Qiong'er to sell her skills and body. I heard from the servants in Yuehonglou that Miss Liu is beautiful, gentle and considerate, good at poetry, calligraphy, piano and painting. Even if she doesn't sell herself, she can still make her like her. But Miss Liu also has a bad habit, that is, she likes to eavesdrop on the corners of the guests. I wonder if this is the case?" Xu Huai stared at Liu Qiong'er and asked.
"What's the matter?" Liu Qiong'er denied.
Xu Huai seemed to have not heard Liu Qiong'er deny and continued, "On the day when I dealt with Zheng butcher, eight foreign guests lived in Yuehong Building. The leader's surname was Zheng. It was a response to Miss Liu. I just wanted to know if Miss Liu had eavesdropped on anything interesting at that time?"
"Sometimes I hear something accidentally, but it's just unintentional - the guests you mentioned left after staying in Yuehonglou for three days, and I don't know anything." Liu Qiong'er burst into a chill behind her spine and gritted her teeth.
"Then I'll make it clear," said Xu Huai, "Those eight people were assassins sent by Privy Councilor Cai Ying to assassinate the former Censor Wang Binggong. Anyone who knows this will be silenced by them. So Miss Liu, you are so nervous that you dare not let out any trace of wind. I can understand it very well. However, Hutou Village started killing on the road twice, but Miss Liu couldn't control her fear and ran to the scene to see what happened. You said that all this fell into the eyes of Hutou Village. Will they believe that Miss Liu was confused about the collusion between the assassin and Hutou Village?"
Liu Qiong'er sat on the head of the bed with a pale face and asked in a voice: "Did you send them?"
"Miss Liu should be thirteen years old when she was sold to Yuehong Building, right? I, Xu Huai, was still running around the streets of Huaiyuan Town with bare butt. Miss Liu Qiong'er might have seen my little Que'er - to tell you the truth, Xiao Que'er is growing up now, and it is not convenient to meet Liu Qiong'er sincerely today. How could Miss Liu think I was sent by an assassin?" Xu Huai asked.
"Who are you? What do you want to do when you ask me?" Liu Qiong'er asked in surprise.
"The assassin wanted to kill Wang Bing, but he was reluctant to take action. He also colluded with Hutou Village to do big things. This is naturally because someone behind the scenes is protecting Wang Bing, which makes them afraid of - Miss Liu is well-informed and can become the top red apprentice of Yuehonglou. She has been standing for several years and can win the favor of any guest. Can you even understand such a simple truth?" Xu Huai asked with a smile.
"Prevent the king, why do you want to protect the king?" Liu Qiong'er asked.
"This is called asking Cai Ying why he wanted to kill the king?" Xu Huai said.
Liu Qiong'er stared at Xu Huai, but said nothing.
Xu Huai asked and answered: "Cai Ying wanted to kill Wang Bing, naturally because he was afraid that Wang Bing would make a comeback from the king, and we wanted to protect Wang Bing, of course, it was also for the sake of Wang Bing's comeback one day. Miss Liu might think that telling the eavesdropping would only prompt the assassin to come and kill people to silence him. I thought it would be better to say nothing, and the assassin would not notice you; or Miss Liu thinks that I am a kind person and will not deliberately leak Miss Liu's affairs to the assassin to know--Okay, Miss Liu, it makes sense for you to think so. However, Miss Liu, have you ever thought that now, someone will talk to Miss Liu and give the foundation to Yuehonglou two taels of silver. Miss Liu will help Wang Bing's grandpa make a comeback with us. How much money will others have to pay?"
"I'm full at that time and still doing this business?" Liu Qiong'er said angrily.
"Miss Liu knew very well," Xu Huai laughed and said, "I heard from the servants of Yuehonglou that Miss Liu had secretly saved a lot of money over the years and wanted to redeem herself. She thought that Miss Liu must be a person with ideas, otherwise she would not have become the top player in Yuehonglou. These things are clear and I don't need to spend too much time. By the way, I will send a message to Miss Liu for free. Tang Jia casts silver ingots privately, and I can't help but pour tin and lead into it. In the past two years, I have a problem with the problem of pouring tin and lead into it.
Someone sued the inspection department. However, the Tang family was in great power, and Tang Tiande was in the inspection department to inform him. These incidents did not spread in the end. I don’t know if Miss Liu found the Tang family’s warehouse to have any problems, but I couldn’t help but wonder, if Miss Liu took out the silver when she was redeemed, as long as one of the silver ingots was found, what would happen? This Yuehonglou seemed to be secretly controlled by the Tang family. Will Miss Liu have the chance to complain about the injustice at that time?"
Liu Qiong'er's pretty face was pale and subconsciously looked at a corner of the boudoir.
Xu Huai looked at it and continued, "What's the problem? Miss Liu needs a thug who charges and thugs at that time. Please say hello to Xu Huai. If Xu Huai frowned, he was raised by Miss Liu - can we talk about the assassin now? How much useful information does Miss Liu know? Miss Liu must think carefully and don't miss it. This is related to the reward of merit in the future!"
"Why should I believe you?" Liu Qiong'er stared at Xu Huai and asked.
"You don't believe it. I'll leave after midnight. Yuehong Building has dozens of thugs. I'm a single horse. Can I still tear down Yuehong Building?" Xu Huai walked to the bed at this time, held the sword in his arms and lie down. It seemed that Liu Qiong'er went out to call someone at this time, and he would not stop him.
Liu Qiong'er stood up like a hiding thief and stared at Xu Huai Yinqing for a while.
At this time, a noise came from outside. I soon heard a woman coming over here and being stopped by many people outside the yard. She heard her screaming: "How many evil things have you done in Huaiyuan? I, Su Diniang, can't control me, but today I just searched through Yuehong Building, and I would also find Xu Huai - Xu Wujiang, are you going to find someone?"
Xu Huai didn't expect that the news would reach the military camp, and Su Di actually grabbed all the seventeenth uncle Xu Wujiang and wanted to capture him back.
Why is it so difficult to eat flower wine?
Xu Huai sat up helplessly, looked at Liu Qiong'er for a while, and said, "Miss Liu is still unwilling to say anything now? It seems that I can only find another opportunity to come and disturb Miss Liu in the future - but, if I walk around for too much, the assassin may notice Miss Liu more, which is not good."
"I said, how can you not bother me in the future?" Liu Qiong'er stared at Xu Huai and asked.
"It depends on how helpful the news that Miss Liu said will be to us." Xu Huai said with a smile.
Liu Qiong'er hesitated for a while and finally told the truth about what she knew:
"I have only heard only a limited number of eavesdroppings. I know that the leader's surname is Zheng. Wenwen is weak and half a shorter than you. She looks like a scholar and has no interest in women. They seem to think that the old man from Jingsheng Army in Tongbai Mountain was inspired by a surname Lu. They secretly joined forces to protect Mr. Wang, but they thought it had nothing to do with the Xu family. It seems that they heard that Xu Wufu, the head of the Xu family, had a bad relationship with your seventeenth uncle, Xu Wujiang, and believed that Xu Wufu did not participate in the matter. They refused to give up and let Mr. Wang go, but they did not dare to make things too big. Someone in the court took the opportunity to attack Cai Ying, and then they wanted to help Chen Zixiao control Hutouzhai and help them act in Huaiyuan..."
Xu Wujiang was forced to no avail by Su Di, and at this time he broke into the yard and shouted angrily:
"Xu Huai, you fool, are you a fool, the bird has grown hair? You are so hungry that you are here to drink wine? Get out of here quickly and don't ask me to pull you out of the bed!"
Chapter completed!