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Chapter 23: Confessing to the Lamp

Back at the room where he stayed in the inn, Liu Qiong'er took out a fire note and lit the lamp.

The flames as big as beans were very weak. There was nothing else in the room except a wooden bed with fuzzy bedding, a wardrobe, a rattan chair and a wooden shelf for washing and sanitary basins.

The mud is also bumpy and uneven.

Compared with her boudoir in Yuehonglou, the rooms in the inn can be said to be extremely simple, but at least they are covered with green walls and black tiles on the beams and rafters, which is much more spacious than those of the mountain sheds and thatched huts.

Liu Qiong'er put the oil lamp on the wardrobe and saw Xu Huai dragging it over the only rattan chair in the house and sitting down, asking, "What are we going to do next?"

At this time, when I looked at Xu Huai's fair face with a light, I had not completely removed my childish face. It was still difficult for Liu Qiong'er to relate to what he did in the past two days. I always felt that something was wrong.

Xu Huai had some ideas, but many things still require Liu Qiong'er's willing cooperation, and asked in turn:

"Have Miss Liu thought about the situation after she redeems her from Yuehonglou?"

"Me?"

There was only one rattan chair in the room. Liu Qiong'er didn't want to be too casual in front of Xu Huai, so she stood in front of the window and said,

"Being a business like me, whether to sell our skills or not is a cover. It not only needs to highlight the difference between us and other sisters, but also the difference between Yuehonglou and other brothels. In Yuehonglou, most sisters can only do flesh-and-skin business and have no choice. After I can't afford to take this posture, I can't escape the opportunity to sell myself and pick up customers. Yuehonglou didn't know how many girls and children were like this before. The best result I could think of before was that one day I had to commit myself to, and this person wanted to

If you can think about love and friendship and redeem me from Yuehong Building, I can be a slave and a concubine for the rest of my life with him. When it comes to redeeming myself, there is no such thing as today, I only thought about finding an ancient temple to spend this life when the willows are broken and the flowers are in ruins. Today's situation is different from what I think, but if you ask me what I can do in Tongbai Mountain at this time, I can't bear the hardships of men and women. Maybe I buy a yard in the street market to run a music shop, buy a few maids and mothers, and continue to welcome the laughter of the trip. This is the best livelihood I can think of..."

The oil lamp was dim and Xu Huai couldn't see Liu Qiong'er's face clearly, but her words also made him move secretly, and hesitated at the same time.

"Maybe in addition to using me as bait to lure the assassins to bite the hook, this is also because you must pull me into the fire pit?" Liu Qiong'er's eyes were staring at Xu Huai in the dark and continued to ask.

Although Huaiyuan Town has no county, it is not accessible to the countryside and wild grass market. Its prosperity is no less than that of Xinyang and Biyang.

Located in the thoroughfare, in addition to the larger-scale brothels of Yuehonglou, Hedong Street Market also has private apartments run by elderly and beautiful women who redeem their lives. In addition to relying on previous customers to help with business, he also bought more little girls with good faces.

In addition to using Liu Qiong'er as bait, he operated a private shop and bookstore in Huaiyuan Town, and continued to hold up a brand that sells arts but not sells itself, which can indeed squeeze out Liu Qiong'er's value even greater.

However, Xu Huai was also embarrassed by Liu Qiong'er's thoughts, and denied them: "Miss Liu, you're out of your mind..."

"Maybe I'm really thinking a little bit, so what should I do next? Please tell me Mr. Xu." Liu Qiong'er said in a cold tone.

"You go to bed first today. What should I do? I'll tell you tomorrow." Seeing Liu Qiong'er looking like she saw through him, Xu Huai said in a angrily manner.

He picked up his sword and pushed the door open and walked out. He faintly heard Liu Qiong'er saying contempt behind him: "Wow, this is a man!"

"I got a little sour as soon as I bought this wine!" Cheng Yi was originally curiously strolling outside the yard. When he saw Xu Huai coming out, he raised the teapot in his hand and said in a pretentious manner, saying that he was not curious to come and peep.

Xu Huaiyuan wanted to ignore Cheng Yi, but when he was wrong with Cheng Yi, he suddenly remembered that Uncle Seventeen often complained that the wine sold by the wine shops in Huaiyuan were often sour and hard to drink. He also said that Yuehonglou bought wine from the wine shop and blended it, which was different from others. Even if people like Deng Gui were not interested in visiting prostitutes, they only drank Yuehonglou’s wine on weekdays.

Dayue salt, iron tea, wine and other products are sold in a de-selling system.

In Huaiyuan, only a few wine merchants designated by the government are qualified to make wine, and these wine merchants must also purchase wine chorus from the state. Yuehonglou does not have the right to make wine, and the wine drinks that guests need to buy wine from the wine merchants, and it is OK to blend and improve the quality by themselves...

Xu Huai ignored Cheng Yi, turned around and walked back to Liu Qiong'er's room, and asked, "Do you know how to blend wine with Honglou?"

"I know a little about the method of mixing wine with Yuehonglou, but it is extremely complicated and the price cannot be low. Do you think that without a beautiful woman, how many pots can you sell a day?" Liu Qiong'er stared at Xu Huai and asked.

"No matter how much alcohol can be sold, we need to have a name to gain a foothold in Huaiyuan Town now," said Xu Huai.

"Mr. Wang doesn't seem to know that you are intentionally using me as bait. How many people do you have and how to lure the assassin to take the bait? Can you tell me the truth?" Liu Qiong'er stared at Xu Huai's face and asked, "Since you hope I can cooperate with many things, you can't ask me to guess everything, right?"

After Lu Xiong reminded him yesterday, Xu Huai thought of many things clearly.

The assassin was indeed frightened by his bluff, but the local forces in Huaiyuan were also in a state of mind. They are now using Hutou Village to cause trouble, which may be to alert the snake, or they may be to lure the snake out of the hole.

No matter what the assassin thought, Deng Gui, the man named Xu Huai, was very worried.

Today, Deng Gui sent his seventeenth uncle and Xu Xin'an to the vicinity of Hutouling to detect the enemy situation, which should have been unintentional.

However, one day, Deng Gui guessed that the purpose of the assassin hiding in Hutou Village was to target the old subordinates and descendants of Jingsheng's army in Tongbai Mountain. In order to quell the bandits, will he take the initiative to send them to die?

The information that Liu Qiong'er overheard from the assassin is also very important.

The assassin now even knew that the head of the family Xu Wufu and Uncle Shiqi had a secret conflict, and at the same time, he also believed that only the former subordinates of Jingsheng's army were involved in the matter, which had nothing to do with the entire Xu clan.

Once the situation continues to worsen, will Xu Wufu abandon the car and deliberately sacrifice them after learning the secret of inner affairs?

Xu Huai didn't think he was capable of turning the tide, but he always had to work hard before the situation could not be cured.

He broke into Yuehong Building yesterday and made such a big noise. In addition to asking for some news from Liu Qiong'er, he also had another purpose to use Liu Qiong'er as bait to lure the assassin to take the bait.

He asked him to miscalculate, but he didn't expect Liu Qiong'er to be so smart.

Xu Huai pondered for a long time, stared at Liu Qiong'er and asked, "I want to say that all this in front of me was accidental. Do you believe it, Miss Liu?"

"Tell me, listen..." Liu Qiong'er said.

"At first, I accidentally bumped into Mr. Wang and was chased by someone in Yingzi's mouth. In order to scare the three bandits away, I stood at the cliff and pretended to be entrusted by someone to wait for Mr. Wang to come over at Yingzi's mouth. I never thought that the three bandits would be the assassins sent by Cai Ying to chase Mr. Wang and believed my words. I didn't expect that the old soldiers of the Xu family in Jingsheng's army in Tongbai Mountain were actually involved with Mr. Wang, and the misunderstanding became deeper and deeper."

There is nothing to say if you can't explain some things clearly. Xu Huai carefully uses words,

"The current situation is that the governor Chen Shi, county magistrate Cheng Lunying, Deng Gui and others should have guessed that the bandit Wang Laogong met was an assassin, but they only wanted to clear their responsibilities and dare not break everything to offend Cai Ying; Uncle Seventeen and others were kept in the dark for the time being, and Mr. Wang mistakenly thought that I was in the same group with you, and they didn't know that all this was a misunderstanding..."

"..." Liu Qiong'er subconsciously wanted to grab her long hair and howl twice. What's this? She stood up suddenly and said, "You have to explain this to Mr. Wang clearly; since everything was a coincidence, why not explain it to Mr. Wang and Mr. Lu?"

"No!" Xu Huai pressed Liu Qiong'er's chest with a knife and a sheath and said, "I tell you all this, I don't want to lend your mouth to explain it clearly to Wang Bing and Lu Xiong."

"Why not?" Liu Qiong'er asked in confusion without retreating.

"If I had explained all this clearly before, would you have the chance to leave Yuehonglou?" Xu Huai asked, "Another, do you feel no gratitude when you came out of Yuehonglou today?"

"..." Liu Qiong'er fell silent.

"Mr. Wang is strong in nature, has the idea of ​​establishing a heart for the world, and asking for fate for the people. This is worthy of admiration, but it is easy to break, which is also his biggest disadvantage. Otherwise, Mr. Wang would not have been expelled from Bianjing by Cai for the crime of "disrespect". Lu Xiong obeys Mr. Wang in everything. If he really wants to tell them all the truth, it will not only not be beneficial to the matter, but it may also harm us to be unable to use any advantage." Xu Huai said.

"My grandson Wang has been ups and downs in the officialdom for decades. How could he not see through everything? Everything is worse than you?" Liu Qiong'er shook her head and said.

"I'm not saying that Mr. Wang is not as good as me, but that Mr. Wang is determined, which limits him," Xu Huai said. "Don't say that he used dangerous tricks to help you get out of Yuehonglou before, I later thought of using you as bait to lure the assassins out to ambush the assassins - do you think Mr. Wang would agree to me doing this?"

"..." Liu Qiong'er sat on the bed and couldn't help but think.

"Miss Liu thinks that after knowing all this, Mr. Wang will find out everything with Uncle Seventeen and the old soldiers of Jingsheng Army. Then everyone will join hands to fight against the assassin sent by Cai Ying? Ms. Liu thinks that Mr. Wang will not choose to sacrifice himself and us who are insignificant in order to avoid the situation from escalating and deteriorating, which will harm the foundation of the court, and finally let the whole thing stop with the death of the bandits?"

Xu Huai stared at Liu Qiong'er and continued,

"Miss Liu, you must know that in the eyes of people like Wang Laogugong, the life and death of our villains has always been insignificant compared to the court and the country! Not to mention thirty or fifty villains, what's the point of thirty or fifty soldiers for the country in the world?"

Liu Qiong'er has been in contact with the past business travelers in Yuehonglou in recent years, and she also claims to be extraordinary in her horizons, but this is true. Xu Huai's words shocked her even more: "How could you know these truths?"

"Look, I know this, Miss Liu feels incredible. If I go to Mr. Wang to confess all this, will Mr. Wang suspect that there is a bigger conspiracy behind him targeting him?" Xu Huai sighed lightly and said, "What Mr. Wang said just now is actually suspicious, but I can't explain this - do you think I am willing to deceive all this?"

"Then why did you tell me this?" Liu Qiong'er asked.

"I just think Miss Liu is smart and reasonable, maybe she will believe it?" Xu Huai said.

"You just think that whether I believe it or not, I will be controlled by you!" Liu Qiong'er said ruthlessly.
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