Chapter 197 Fighting! Cai Bian's Consciousness and Choice!
People were coming and going on the bustling streets, and the faces of the people in winter clothes were filled with smiles.
Li Qian did not ride in the carriage this time. Instead, he took the two secretaries and walked openly on the street, shopping around all the way.
Dongshi, Baoanju.
Even in the capital city where luxury is everywhere, this store is famous and can be regarded as one of the most comprehensive and high-end jade jewelry stores in the East Market.
Their home also has supporting businesses such as a pawn shop, a bank account, and a restaurant. At first glance, it looks like a store with a great background.
Bright glass lamps are burning in the luxuriously equipped hall, making the interior of the hall look like daylight.
On the second floor of Bao'an Residence, Li Qian and his group were looking at the pieces of jewelry on the shelves at the counter.
"Master, isn't this expensive?" Lu Pheasant looked at a mutton-fat jade hairpin in the hands of the shopkeeper at the counter. Although there was a bit of fondness in his beautiful eyes, there was also a bit of worry on his pretty face: "There are already many at home. Yes, do you still want to buy it?”
"It's not expensive, it's not expensive." With a spring breeze smile on his face, the store manager explained the advantages of this jade hairpin to several people in Li Qian's group.
"My lord, please don't underestimate this jade hairpin. Look at it, there is no flaw at all. It is said that it is an item that came out of the palace..."
Although the New Year was approaching and there were many distinguished guests, the shopkeeper still came to receive these few in person. His intuition told him that this order might make him a lot of money.
But the current progress is not very smooth.
"From the palace?"
Li Qian curled his lips, and most of his originally strong interest suddenly disappeared.
If I buy back the things that leaked from the palace, am I seriously ill?
Wu Meiniang and Lu Zhi, who were holding his arms on both sides, also covered their mouths and laughed. Their unintentional display of amorous feelings stunned the shopkeeper opposite.
He became more and more certain that he was right to serve these people.
Being so young and having such a beautiful concubine by his side, he must be the young master of some high-ranking family.
A young man with money and a woman is the best way to make money...
The smile on the shopkeeper's face became more sincere, but before he could speak, Li Qian walked along the counter to the other side.
"Is there anything else?"
As Li Qian walked, he looked at the things on the shelves behind him, wanting to choose another jewelry or something like that.
The shopkeeper hurriedly followed, and he could vaguely see that these distinguished guests didn't seem to like the objects in the palace, so when he recommended things next time, he no longer used this as a selling point, but introduced them honestly. Things in the store.
To be honest, although the things here are considered top-notch outside, in Li Qian's opinion... they are just like that.
He had seen some of the remaining treasures left in the palace. When He Shen was in the capital, he would run to the palace every two days to give Li Qian treasures, which made him have bad taste.
Lu Pheasant and Wu Meiniang had also seen those things with him, and naturally they became more and more disdainful of ordinary goods.
A few people looked around, but couldn't find anything that was too suitable or exciting.
In desperation, Li Qian had no choice but to buy two pieces of jewelry.
Several people went downstairs a little disappointed. Wu Meiniang seemed to notice that Li Qian was not in high spirits, so she leaned on his shoulder and comforted him softly: "Master, he is fine now."
"At this time last year, I had just been taken back to my brother's house, and I only had a small house to live in."
Her plain white hands held tightly a red agate forehead ring that was as red as flying clouds and crystal clear, and she kept stroking it, her beautiful eyes full of love.
Although her family gave her a lot of jewelry when she entered the palace, this one is different now.
This is the first piece of jewelry that Li Qian bought for her.
Lu Pheasant on the side also happily held a transparent and round green jade earring in his hand. He also raised his pretty face happily and said to Li Qian in a sweet voice: "Yes, sir, I have never thought about it in my life." After all, there will still be such a day."
Li Qian lowered his head and looked at the pretty faces of the two little secretaries, and also giggled.
"As long as you like it."
However, while shopping in Dongshi and experiencing the prosperity, there are also inevitable troubles.
Even though Li Qian was wearing brocade and embroidery, he looked like he came from a wealthy family. However, the most indispensable thing in the capital was wealthy families and powerful people.
A brick thrown down can hit two doctors and three principals.
You are older, but there are many people older than you, and everyone is not afraid of getting into trouble.
Usually Li Qian doesn't encounter any trouble when he goes shopping by himself, but today it's different with Wu Meiniang and Lu Pheasant...
A restaurant not far from them, on the second floor.
Cai Bian Zhenghe and a group of friends sat in a private room to eat and chat.
They said they were chatting, but in fact they were just chatting with others, and Cai Bian was listening.
He just smiled and nodded occasionally, which cheered up those little followers like chicken blood.
"Brother Cai, I'm really sorry."
A young man in blue clothes sitting next to him laughed and apologized: "I originally reserved a table at Dongxing Building today, but I thought there was suddenly no room there..."
Now that Mr. Cai is in the limelight in the court, the officials will naturally be more cautious and fawning over Cai Bian.
"It doesn't matter."
Cai Bian shook his head with a smile and expressed his understanding: "Today is the time when the imperial court seals the seal banquet. It would be great if we could find such a place."
"Brother Cai is a big-hearted person, how could he care about you?"
A man in red clothes sitting on the other side of Cai Bian was very knowledgeable and pretended to scold him, but he was flattering Cai Bian overtly and covertly: "Brother Cai, is there any fun place to go during the Chinese New Year? I heard that fans Yunlou has produced several new beautiful girls this year, and they say they will have some fresh ones during the Chinese New Year..."
"What else do you want from Fenyunlou's sister? Isn't there something better?"
The yameni in blue clothes on the other side seemed to have accidentally looked out the window and saw something terrible, and kept tugging on Cai Bian's sleeve.
"Fuck, you're just talking nonsense, why are you making such a fuss?"
The man in red on the other side was a little unhappy, but still cursed and turned his head.
But when he saw the situation outside the window, he was also stunned for a moment.
"Brother Cai, this is superb!
"
The man in red clothes was extremely surprised and kept tugging on Cai Bian's sleeves.
The other gentlemen in the private room also became interested. They leaned to the window and looked down, and they were all amazed.
However, Cai Bian was not as excited as the two of them. He just looked at the group of people outside the window and frowned slightly.
"Brother Cai, who is that boy?"
The red-clothed Yanai had an unhappy expression on his face, staring at Li Qian who was hugging him from left to right below: "Whose pretty boy can wander around in the middle of winter without fear of freezing?"
When he said this, he never thought that his own face was much whiter than Li Qian's.
Cai Bian frowned and shook his head: "I don't know."
"Don't know me?"
Among the many yamen in the private rooms, the young masters' eyes lit up. Cai Bian himself was the top young master in the capital. If he didn't recognize him, then the pretty boy downstairs must not be a big shot!
In a word, you can afford it.
"Brother Cai..."
Everyone looked at Cai Bian longingly.
Cai Bian pondered for a moment: "Wait a minute."
For some reason, he always felt that something was wrong with the following people.
People who have been in high positions for a long time and can decide the fate of others with a single word will have an unusual majestic temperament in their every move.
Although Li Qian has only approved memorials for more than half a year, this temperament has already begun to show signs.
Ordinary people may not be able to discover it, but Cai Bian lives in Cai Mansion, and Cai Jing is well-connected. He goes to Cai Mansion every day to ask for an audience, and there are more high-ranking court officials as guests than Cai Mansion dogs.
What's more, Cai Jing himself is a high-ranking official in the court, so Cai Bian is naturally more sensitive to this inexplicable temperament.
When he first saw Li Qian, he felt something was wrong. The man downstairs... seemed a bit like his father...
Of course, it's not that they look alike, but their temperaments are somewhat similar.
After hearing what Cai Bian said, the officials stopped trying to persuade him. It seemed that they were still very afraid of Cai Bian.
"Ah? Brother Cai!"
The sharp-eyed man in blue seemed to have seen something again. He pointed down and said: "Someone has gone up for us. It will be too late if we don't go!"
Cai Bian was startled and looked in the direction he pointed. He immediately knew who this "someone" was referring to.
He thought for a moment, then shook his head slightly: "Let's take a look first."
Just looking at it, he stood up in shock...
On the street below, Li Qian was already in trouble.
Several young men in rich and colorful clothes appeared out of nowhere, and passersby had to take a detour when they saw them.
Li Qian originally wanted to go around and not deal with these people, but he didn't expect that they seemed to be coming specifically for him.
"Brother, do you want to get to know each other?"
When they came closer, the leader had long hair that reached his back, with half of his hair hanging down in front, covering half of his face. He had a smile on his face and reached out to pat Li Gan on the shoulder.
Li Qian took half a step back to avoid his hand, frowning and looking at the people in front of him.
His steps were sloppy, his face was pale, and he had big dark circles and bags under his eyes. At first glance, he looked like the kind of young man who was addicted to sex.
Moreover, the appearance of these people... also made Li Qian a little unflattering. He inexplicably remembered the unconventional people in his previous life.
Although he said he wanted to get to know Li Qian, a few pairs of eyes kept glancing at Lu Pheasant and Wu Meiniang who were standing aside.
"Yo? What's the matter? Do you look down on your brothers?"
The leader, Da Gan, with slanted bangs, raised his eyebrows, tilted his mouth, and smiled evilly. The people behind him also slowly moved forward and gathered around.
The surrounding people avoided them one after another, as if they knew how powerful these people were and were afraid of being involved.
"Brother, I just want to get to know each other. There's no need to be so fierce, right?"
The slanted bangs seemed to feel that he had already eaten Li Qian, so he pretended to be crazy, looked up to the sky and laughed, then put his hands on his hips and said loudly: "Today you offended my Sun, if you don't give me an explanation, I will , and my brothers will not agree."
"Today you and your two girls will have a drink with your brothers!"
"I?"
Li Qian was really shocked this time. He pointed at his nose and looked at the non-mainstream person in front of him in disbelief.
Li Qian wasn't surprised that these people got angry because there were such scum everywhere.
But the question is how come the lust comes to me?
Lu Pheasant and Wu Meiniang were also frightened and turned pale. They hurriedly stretched out their arms to hug Li Qian, fearing that he would be snatched away by these dandies.
Seeing the slanted bangs, he smiled arrogantly, and reached out to pat Li Qian on the shoulder: "Brother, please be more honest, today..."
Before he finished speaking, a big hand like a cattail fan stretched out from behind Li Qian and slapped the non-mainstream in the face.
"Fuck you! Whoever steps on the horse is your buddy?"
The section of hair in front of the man's face flew up, revealing the other half of his face that had not been seen for a long time. Several teeth flew out, and then the whole man flew out in a swirl.
Taking advantage of the situation, he also knocked several of his "brothers" away, followed by a scream like a slaughtering pig.
Lu Bu, on the other hand, walked around from behind Li Qian a little angrily and strode towards those dudes.
Li Qian pulled him and shook his head: "It hurts a little, but just doesn't kill anyone."
Today, Wu Meiniang and Lu Pheasant came out together, so Li Qian asked Lu Bu and the old eunuch to follow them at a distance, but he didn't expect that such a thing would happen.
The group of people in front of me are playing tricks on men and dominating women. They don't look like good people at first sight and they should be severely punished.
"Okay! Master!"
Lu Bu laughed ferociously, rushed forward and kicked him. His fists and feet were all bruised and swollen. The beatings made the people in the yamen cry for their fathers and mothers, and ran back while crawling on the ground.
However, these young masters naturally have the capital to go out to hang out in the evil yamen, and they also bring a large group of guards and followers with them.
"Fuck, Liu Er, what are you doing for food! Why don't you come over quickly and save me?"
"Song Gou! Come here quickly and beat these bastards to death! Otherwise, I will beat you to death when I get back..."
Hearing the screams of their young masters, the servants came to their senses belatedly, picked up sticks, benches, tables and chairs on the side of the road and rushed forward with red eyes, along with several others. I grabbed a few cloth cutting knives from a roadside cloth shop, they were sharp and sharp.
However, Lu Bu just smiled coldly, without fear of trouble at all. He picked up a young master on the ground and swung it at the wealthy slaves.
Now, no matter what kind of weapon, no one dared to greet him.
At this moment, the old eunuch also hurriedly squeezed out from the crowd behind him, panting, looking up and down at Li Qian's condition, and said, "Master, are you okay?"
"fine."
Li Qian shook his head, ignored the screams of those gangsters, turned around and waited for Lu Bu to finish.
Street-facing restaurant, private room on the second floor.
In a group of yamen, the young master looked at the tragic situation below and was stunned.
Gudong~
The man in blue clothes swallowed his saliva and said tremblingly: "It's so... so cruel..."
The man in red clothes also nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "Fortunately we didn't go down."
If they had gone down earlier, they might have been beaten now.
"It's so miserable."
"The teeth are all flying..."
The more miserable the people below are, the more they can compare their happiness, and at the same time they keep praising Cai Bian.
"Thanks to Brother Cai! Otherwise we would be the ones getting beaten!"
"Tell me quickly, thank you Brother Cai..."
But now Cai Bian had no time to pay attention to them. He was looking at the situation below intently, breathing rapidly.
Cai Bian naturally knew Lu Bu.
A while ago, Li Qian specially asked Lu Bu to get to know Cai Bian, and Cai Bian also knew that Lu Bu was the adopted son of His Majesty the Emperor.
When he saw Lu Bu for the first time just now, he was amazed at his skill, but the next moment he recognized who it was.
"Why is it him..."
Cai Bian's eyes widened. Why did the emperor's adopted son, the dignified Yu Linwei, go out and work as a follower for others? And help him beat people?
Subconsciously he felt something was wrong.
Is it possible that Lu Bu secretly took refuge with someone else?
But even so, that person should let him hide in secret in order to make a move at the critical moment, right?
Who still lacks a few guards? As for letting him come?
The surprise in Cai Bian's eyes became more and more serious, and the man hugging him was so young and looked like he was in a high position...
Some guesses gradually emerged in his mind, and his eyes became wider and wider...
"If you count it by age...it's almost the same..."
Cai Bian stood up unconsciously and stared at Li Qian below with wide eyes.
"Brother Cai? What's wrong?"
The cadres in the office had just discovered something strange about him, and it was as if he had lost his soul.
At this time, they no longer cared about watching the excitement, and everyone looked at him with concern. Brother Cai and Brother Cai were concerned about him.
"It's okay...I..."
He subconsciously squeezed the window frame until his knuckles turned white, and his eyes flickered.
"I……"
He gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, turned around and was about to walk down, but after only taking half a step, he suddenly stopped and turned his head to look at the chaos below.
But after hesitating for a moment, Cai Bian gritted his teeth again and turned around to walk down, but this time he only took two steps and then stopped.
A few drops of sweat broke out on his forehead, and he clenched his teeth.
There were three parts of joy, three parts of fear, three parts of confusion, and one part of madness in his eyes.
Anyone who is not blind at this time can see his hesitation and entanglement.
But all the officials were so frightened that they didn't dare to ask.
Cai Bian is the most mature, stable and calm person among them. Now he is so frightened that his eyes are red and his forehead is sweating. This is not simple at first glance!
Gradually, the screams below became louder and louder, and Cai Bian turned his head to look down.
Although this "group fight" battle is getting more and more intense, anyone who is not blind can see that it is only a matter of time before the "weak side" Lu Bu wins.
Because from the beginning of the war until now, he has never been hit, and he has always used the "human shield" in his hand to cushion the blow.
If you can't even break the defense, how can you lose?
Cai Bian gritted his teeth. Seeing an opportunity, he suddenly raised his head and looked at the young men with a ferocious expression: "Let's go! Let's go down and help!"
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Swish~
All the office staff took two steps back and crowded into the corner, shaking their heads in unison.
"Brother Cai...this..." the blue-clothed Yanei's lips trembled: "You are too embarrassing for the brothers..."
"It will really kill someone if you go down now! Brother Cai..."
The red-clothed Yamen secretly glanced at the scene below where Lu Bu was blocking the way to kill the god, and the Buddha was blocking the way to kill the Buddha. He almost couldn't stand still, and he sat on the ground, trembling, and said with a pale face: "Brother Cai...it's not like... …not to the point of…”
"If you are in need of a woman, come to me, brother... My father just took a concubine a while ago, I will get her for you..."
Cai Bian was startled at first, and then gave them a fierce look: "Stop talking nonsense! I'm asking you to help someone! I know him!"
After hearing this, all the yamen came to their senses and all breathed a sigh of relief.
"Brother Cai, you should have told me earlier!"
"That's right! Those bastards use their power to bully others and bully men and women. I have long disliked them!"
"Although that strong man has a fierce momentum now, I am afraid that after a long time, it will be difficult for him to fight against four hands with two fists. There will always be a time when his physical strength is exhausted!"
"Well, not bad! I think he is almost exhausted now and can't hold on any longer!"
"When the road is rough, draw out your sword and help! Brother Cai, even if you didn't say anything, the brothers would have already wanted to go down and help!"
"Let's leave quickly! Brother Cai, if it's too late, all those people will be beaten to death... No, that hero can't hold on anymore..."
Cai Bian glared at these bully bastards, and then he ran downstairs. A group of yamen officials followed him and rushed downstairs, startling the guests who were eating in the restaurant. They thought they were scared. It was an earthquake.
"Stop it!"
"The bold murderer dared to commit such crimes in broad daylight and didn't stop immediately!"
"Under the emperor's feet, there are such lawless madmen, committing murders in the streets! You will spend this year in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment..."
Li Qian was startled, and turned to look at the source of the sound. He immediately saw a group of people who were similar in spirit to these young men rushing out of the restaurant. He wondered, could this non-mainstream group have accomplices?
In the yamen, where they were being beaten and pressed, the servants turned their heads and looked over, their eyes brightening as if they had seen a savior.
The leader with slanted bangs seemed to recognize Cai Bian, and he was squealing like a slaughtered pig, wailing: "Master Cai, you are here, you have to make the decision for me! Arrest them all in the Criminal Department!"
Lu Bu also paused slightly, sneered, and turned to look at the door of the restaurant. For him, as long as he has a hostage in his hand, he can fight as he wants.
But when I looked over, I saw a familiar person, Cai Bian.
"Brother Lu, don't be afraid of these villains. I'm here to help you!" Cai Bian rushed over with a righteous attitude.
The yamen behind him also shouted: "When the road is rough - draw your sword to help! Don't panic, good man, we are here to help you!"
Lu Bu:?
The severely beaten Yameni and servants:???
Now it's not me who has a problem, it's you who have a problem.
The group of people rushed past Lu Bu like the wind, without even staying, as if they were afraid of being beaten.
Then he rushed to the side of the non-mainstream gang and kicked them, showing no mercy at all.
Seeing that the battle was developing in a strange direction, Lu Bu didn't care about hitting anyone anymore, but ran back to Li Qian in a flash.
"master……"
"That man is Cai Jing's son?"
Li Qian pointed at the young man in white clothes who was at the front, who screamed the loudest and hit people the hardest.
He is Mr. Cai, and he is in prison of the Ministry of Punishments. There is no room for Li Qian not to think too much.
"The master knows things like a god!" Lu Bu gave a thumbs up: "That's Cai Bian!"
"Cai Bian?"
Li Qian was startled. Cai Jing had nine sons. He didn't expect that he would meet that one-in-nine chance today.
But looking at his attitude, it seems he has a deeper meaning...