Xia Houshu never believed in gods and Buddhas, but this time, she thought from the bottom of her heart that she should find a temple with effective incense, burn some paper money, put incense sticks and pray for the blessings of the Bodhisattva. After all, she had done it three times and four times in more than a month.
She was put in danger for the first time. She even had some doubts that she had offended some deity by speaking out loud when she went to Huguo Temple last time, and now it was retribution.
I don’t know if it’s too late for her to convert to Buddhism now.
In a panic, Xia Houshu quickly reacted and hurriedly touched the dagger she carried with her. However, the person behind her had already seen through her intention. Not only did she take the dagger away from her first, but she also clasped her hands behind her back.
It was quick and rough, the pain was so painful that she almost shed tears, and she had no power to fight back.
Xia Houshu couldn't help but curse, how many women in the world can withstand such torture? No wonder someone who doesn't know how to show mercy to women likes men!
But the problem is that he is now dressed as a man!
Are they worried that their secrets will be exposed, so they plan to silence them?
This is not right. This is the emperor's feet. It is the most crowded and prosperous neighborhood in the capital. Even if they really have any ideas, they will not take action here.
Xia Houshu was thinking in confusion.
However, the brutal plot as imagined did not happen.
Xia Houshu looked at the man standing in front of him in shock. He had a tall figure with a jade crown tied up his hair. He was the man in purple who was at the Huguo Temple that day. His delicate face was as sharp as a knife and looked very serious because of his stingy expression.
The permeating coldness gives people a sense of oppression and alienation without anger or authority.
He seems to prefer purple. He is also wearing purple clothes today, but the color is darker. The collar, sleeves, train and other parts of the clothes are embroidered with heavy ring patterns, which makes him look more stable. Although I still don’t know his name, but because
Looking at that beautiful face, Xia Houshu still had a good impression of him. The person who locked her hands behind her back was the cold-faced god, but he had changed into a black outfit today and looked even more ruthless, giving people a sense of coldness and ruthlessness.
Feeling of oppression.
Xia Houshu thought that since they didn't deal with her immediately, they still had a chance to defend themselves. However, her mouth was tightly covered and it was really difficult to speak, so she quickly blinked at the man in purple in front of her. The latter
He looked at her with a complicated expression for a while, then waved his hand, commanding the cold-faced man to release his hold on her, and asked: "What is your purpose in following us?"
Xia Houshu originally thought that he had been recognized while disguised as a man, and he felt a little guilty. After all, what happened that day was too weird and secretive. But now that he heard this, he felt at ease. As long as he was not recognized, everything would be easy.
As for the man in purple saying that she was following them, she admitted that she deliberately eavesdropped on their conversation, but she definitely did not follow them. The current situation was a complete coincidence. She didn't even know his last name.
But eavesdropping on other people's conversations is not a shameful thing...
"Who is following you? I just happened to be passing by, but you kidnapped me and trapped me here. I want to ask you what your intentions are."
Why are you saying that I'm following you? If you don't believe it, call the bartender to confront you. I don't believe that there is no justice in this world!" She glanced at the two of them and continued to say arrogantly, "Besides, Luo
Yuefang belongs to your family, so only you are allowed to come, but I can't come?"
"You have clearly gone downstairs just now." The man in purple exposed her without mercy.
"Who went downstairs?"
Go home and drink, what’s the problem?”
The man in purple not only did not change his face after hearing her sophistry, but instead smiled and just stared at her without speaking.
But the cold-faced god couldn't help but interjected: "Sir, I think this person is smooth-talking and doesn't tell the truth, so why not..."
"No need." Before the cold-faced god finished speaking, the man in purple waved his hand to stop him. Then he looked at Xia Houshu with a puzzled expression and asked, "Have we met somewhere?"
"..."
Is this a new way to strike up a conversation? Or have you been recognized?
Xia Houshu's mind was spinning rapidly.
That day in the bamboo forest behind Huguo Temple, although the light was not very good, they were so close. Unless they were really blind or night-blind, they would not be able to clearly see each other's appearance. It's just that she was wearing women's clothing at that time.
, but at the moment, he was pretending to be a man. Normal people would not associate it with each other. Moreover, after so long, no matter how poisonous the eyes of the man in purple were, he would not be able to distinguish between men and women, and connect the two people together, right?
Xia Houshu couldn't figure out what the other party was thinking, so he had to deal with it silently.
Seeing that Xia Houshu didn't answer, the man in purple changed his question: "Then do you recognize me?"
What does this mean?
If meeting each other counts as acquaintance, the answer is yes, but Xia Houshu also knows that if he says he knows him, it is equivalent to answering the previous question at the same time. But why does the man in purple want to ask her this question inexplicably? It is a test
? Or did he find out her identity, regretted not taking her out together that day, and felt it was not too late to do it now?
Not knowing the other party's true purpose, Xia Houshu did not dare to answer casually, so he had to pretend to be stupid and said: "Do you think you are very famous, so you are so arrogant that you think everyone should know you?"
The man in purple raised his lips slightly and said with a hint: "It seems that you are still a smart person."
"Have smart people offended you?" Xia Houshu continued to play dumb, racking her brains to think of how to change the subject. Then she looked at the man in purple, then looked sideways at the cold-faced man, and suddenly remembered the previous
Suspicion. She thought this was a good opportunity to deliberately raise the possibility of the other party's broken sleeves to mislead them. After making up her mind, she straightened her back instantly, half asking and half threatening: "But you,
What's the purpose of bringing me in here? Let me tell you, don't think of me as a good-looking person and plot against me, I'm still young!"
"Planning something evil?" The man in purple was confused at first when he heard this, and then frowned, as if he was pondering the meaning of Xia Houshu's words. After a moment, he seemed to understand something, and then looked at Xia Houshu with interest and asked
: “How small?”
"Little? What little?" Xia Houshu was stunned, completely forgetting what he had just said.
"You just said you were young, how young are you?" the man in purple reminded, taking a look at her body.
Xia Houshu didn't realize there was anything wrong with the man in purple's question, and said honestly: "A man is considered an adult when he is twenty years old, and I am not yet sixteen, so naturally I am young."
"You are indeed still young." The man in purple nodded, as if he understood.
Xia Houshu didn't understand what he meant by asking about his age, and he didn't have time to argue with him. He quickly returned to the topic and said: "In this case, you can't bully me just because you have more people and older age. Why don't you let me go quickly?"
?”
Xia Houshu looked at the man in purple, but he spoke to the cold-faced god in black behind him. The cold-faced god was not stupid, and he immediately wanted to draw his sword again. Xiahou Shu's eyes were quick and he shouted quickly:
"Someone come! Help—"
Suddenly, silver light flashed in front of her, a long sword was placed across Xia Houshu's neck, and her shouts stopped abruptly.
The cold-faced god struck very quickly, looking at her with a look of indifference and disgust.
A good man does not suffer the consequences of his immediate loss. Xia Houshu did stop for a while, his eyes lingering between the two of them for a long time. In a flash, he looked aggrieved and said angrily: "You are bullying the weak by relying on strength, bullying the minority with more!"
"I advise you to be honest!" the cold-faced god scolded in a cold voice.
"You still dare to kill me?" Xia Houshu rolled his eyes at him. He was sure that the other party didn't dare to do anything to him, so he deliberately leaned against his sword blade and continued to provoke, "This is Luoyuefang, the emperor.
Below you, in the imperial city, there are city guards patrolling everywhere. Even if you kill me, you won't be able to escape."
Leng Mian couldn't bear to be provoked by others, and was so angry that the veins on his forehead popped out, but he didn't dare to do anything to Xia Houshu because his master didn't say anything.
The man in purple who had been watching coldly seemed to have seen through Xia Houshu's little thoughts. Hearing this, he glanced at Xia Houshu indifferently and waved his hand gently to signal the cold-faced man to forget it.
The cold-faced god let out a disdainful snort from his nose and sheathed his sword in an instant. The movement was so fast that Xia Houshu didn't even see it clearly.
Xia Houshu felt very unhappy when he was suddenly aggrieved, so he deliberately muttered: "It's clear as day, two grown men are in the same room together, there's nothing shameful about it."
"You make such nonsense again!" the cold-faced god said angrily.
"What did I say?" Xia Houshu took pretending to be stupid and innocent to the extreme, "I just said casually, you were the one who took the position. What? Are you really plotting something that is harmful to nature, money and life? Or is it?
Say...you two are hiding here and doing things on the sidelines?"
"..."
As soon as these words came out, not only the cold-faced god was angry, but also his usually calm master was shocked, his brows were knitted together, he couldn't tell whether he was angry or felt ridiculous.
Xia Houshu gradually realized that what he said might stimulate these two people and make them go crazy. You know, they can deal with more than a dozen well-trained killers, and they can also clean up the scene overnight.
People who leave no clues!
Xia Houshu was about to say something, but the two of them turned around and opened the door and left.
What is going on? Xia Houshu couldn't digest it for a while. After a while, he took a deep breath, touched his stiff neck, and sighed, it turns out that it takes courage to be a rogue.
When I went downstairs, I happened to meet the waiter from before. It was rare for the waiter to see someone sitting in a private room without ordering food, but only asking for a pot of tea. Now that I saw Xia Houshu, I wanted to ask a few more questions.
When Xia Houshu saw him coming up to him again, before he opened his mouth, he asked, "Do you know the two men who came down just now?"
The waiter did see it, but those two people were not regular visitors to Luoyuefang, and they were too aloof. They only ordered a pot of tea like Xia Houshu, and didn't ask for anything. Moreover, the tea hadn't been boiled yet.
But he left, and when he went up to ask, he was completely hot-tempered but cold-hearted. Fortunately, those two people were also generous, and they gave him no less money for room and tea, which was more than enough.
Seeing that the waiter didn't answer for a long time, Xia Houshu immediately remembered the rhetoric he used to deal with him, waved his hand and said, "Forget it if you don't know, just pretend I didn't ask."
The waiter had seen Xia Houshu's generosity, so he didn't hide it. Instead, he looked around to see that no one was paying attention to them, and then lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "I really don't know the specific identity, but listen
The shopkeeper said that he seemed to be a relative of the emperor, and told me to treat him well and not to mess with him. You also know that our Luoyuefang is famous in Beijing..."
Luoyuefang is not only famous in Beijing, but the mysterious boss behind it is rumored to have a royal background, and the person who is active in front of people every day is actually just a shopkeeper hired with a lot of money.
"Okay, okay, you don't need to say any more." Xia Houshu quickly interrupted the waiter. Although Luoyuefang is well-known, he can't stand such a blind clerk taking the opportunity to talk about it. It's too frustrating.
Feeling good.
The waiter was very sensible at this moment and immediately shut up and walked away.
Are they relatives of the emperor? Those two people indeed have a noble air in their gestures, exuding a strong sense of superiority from their bones. But the most indispensable thing in this capital is relatives of the emperor. Because of their noble status, they attract much attention, and they speak and do things with dignity.
He is very cautious, fearing that someone might accidentally catch him and cause him to climb high or fall down. However, it is rare to see a relative of the royal family who secretly commits murder and swindle goods, and who dares to wander around blatantly.
It would be interesting if they were really relatives of the emperor.
Xia Houshu touched his neck and carefully recalled the reactions of the two people just now. He wondered in his mind that since he was now wearing men's clothes, they probably didn't recognize him, right? This chapter has been completed!