Six hundred and twentieth IX There must be a demon if things go wrong
"Didn't I just come here a few days ago?" Hou De said, grabbing Qingqing's hand and kissing it.
"The young master also said that he used to come here almost every day. During this period, he only came here every once in a while. Did he find a new love?" Qingqing said pretending to be angry.
"My little darling, I really have something to do. My father has been at home recently. How can I dare to come out? But tomorrow my father will go away, and no one will care about me then."
Hou Junji was punished for his corruption, so he was naturally very honest during this period, at least on the surface.
Of course Hou De cannot be as carefree as before.
"Okay, don't be angry. I have something for you to handle this time." Hou De said in a low voice.
The smile on Qingqing's face disappeared and she asked in a low voice: "Young Master, I am just a brothel girl. I helped you before to repay your kindness over the years. The kindness has been repaid. Such a thing is a small matter."
My father-in-law should find someone else."
Although she knew that Hou De only coveted her beauty, her life had been so easy in recent years because of Hou De, so she did not refuse when Hou De asked her to send a message.
Although she did not know the content of the letter or the identity of the recipient.
But she knew very well that being so sneaky was definitely not a good thing.
Once the incident happened, she didn't know if Hou De would be fine, but she was a brothel girl and her end would not be any better.
"Baby, as long as you continue to help me deliver messages, I promise to help you redeem your life and take you as my concubine." Hou De promised.
"Young Master, are you serious about what you said?" Miss Qingqing's eyes lit up.
It would be difficult for a brothel to let a beautiful woman like her redeem herself.
Unless the other party is a powerful person, the people behind the brothel will only agree if they don't dare to offend.
But who can open a brothel in Chang'an without some background?
And those with high status would not admit a brothel girl into their house.
So the result is that those who can redeem their lives will not do it, and those who want to redeem their lives, the brothel will not agree.
Of course, we are talking about top names like Qingqing.
As for those ordinary women, as long as they can afford the money, there is no problem in redeeming themselves.
Now that she heard that Hou De was willing to redeem her life, Qingqing couldn't be more excited.
But she soon calmed down. The Hou family was the Duke's residence, how could she, a brothel girl, be allowed to enter.
Even if Hou De didn't lie to her, could Hou Junji agree?
In the final analysis, Hou Junji of the Duke's Palace is the one who is in charge.
Now, no matter how good Hou De promised, if Hou Junji doesn't agree, everything will be in vain.
"Thank you for your mercy, young master, but I'm afraid the slave family won't be able to enter the Duke's mansion." Qingqing said.
"Don't worry, this matter is being handled for my father. As long as it is done well, my father will be happy and why won't he agree?" Seeing Qingqing's refusal, Hou De said quickly.
After Hou Junji met Li Tai that day, he wanted to establish a secret communication channel.
After all, both Li Tai and his identity are relatively sensitive. If what they have done is leaked, both of them will die.
But Chang'an didn't know how many hundreds of spies there were. Hou Jun thought about it and felt that the brothel staff were very mixed and difficult to be discovered, so he left the matter to Hou De.
Of course, Hou Junji is not a fool. He specifically asked Hou De to send a message to Qingqing just to test Qingqing.
The person he sent to get the letter came back with the note on it intact and without any damage.
Originally, Hou Junji wanted to test it a few more times, but it was too late. Li Shimin asked him to lead the troops to Songzhou.
Hou Junji had no choice but to send a message at this time. He had carefully calculated that Li Shimin was going to take advantage of the grassland battle, so he would let Xue Yantuo and the Western Turks fight first.
As for when Datang will enter the scene, it depends on how far the two sides have fought.
Hou Junji felt that if the fight between Xi Turk and Xue Yantuo lasted longer, he might have returned and there would still be a chance to participate.
But the premise of all this is that someone speaks for him in court.
Of course Li Tai can't speak for him, but the family behind Li Tai can.
That's why he took the risk and asked Hou De to deliver the message.
"Young Master, are you serious about what you said?" Qingqing said in disbelief.
"Of course I take it seriously. Don't worry, the letter is just for you. You just need to give the letter to the other party according to the code. If anything goes wrong, just destroy the letter." Hou De said.
Qingqing hesitated for a moment, but still couldn't resist the temptation to redeem herself and become the concubine of the future prince, and said: "Okay, I just ask the young prince not to forget today's promise."
"Don't worry, you don't know how much I like you. If my father hadn't let me, I would have redeemed you long ago. Come on, let's have a good time first, but you miss me so much." Hou De said with a wretched look on his face.
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The bottom floor of the painting boat is used to store sundries. In addition, there is a small room dedicated to punishing disobedient women.
People who paint boats keep a distance from this place, and few people come here. Usually only a little old man called Lao Pan stays here.
Legend has it that this old Pan was a jailer in the Yamen of the Sui Dynasty. He was responsible for interrogating prisoners and knew all kinds of methods.
Later, for some reason, he ended up living on a painting boat, where he was responsible for teaching disobedient women.
Normally, both the boys and the girls would stay away from him when they saw him.
Old Pan also enjoyed his leisure time and basically stayed alone in the hut on the ground floor without going out.
However, at this time, a boy sneaked outside the small room on the ground floor.
"Dong dong dong."
"Who is it?" came Lao Pan's lazy voice.
"It's me, Lao Pan, I'll bring you some food."
"Come in."
The boy opened the door and walked in.
Because there were no windows in the bottom warehouse, there was only one candle lit in the room, making it very dark.
The boy seemed to be very familiar with it and put the things in his hands directly on the table.
"Old Pan, Hou De is here again. I was eavesdropping next door, but the voices they spoke were very quiet. I only vaguely heard what the letter was about." The boy was not as casual as before, with a hint of tone in his tone.
Respectfully.
"oh?"
A glint flashed in Lao Pan's eyes, and he no longer looked listless as before.
The boy asked: "Do you want me to steal the letter?"
Lao Pan shook his head and said: "In our line of work, what we must not do is to alert the enemy before things are clear. As long as they think it is safe, they will naturally show their flaws."
"Then what needs to be done now?" the boy asked.
"Pass this news up and wait until the orders come down from above." Lao Pan said.
Lao Pan is actually a member of Baiqi, and the brothel has a complex staff and can get a lot of information, so Baiqi naturally has many people in place.
There are so many guests coming and going in the painting boat every day, so it is naturally impossible to monitor them all.
Houde was a frequent visitor to Painting Boats and was originally not among the targets of their surveillance.
But the last time Hou De came to see Qing Qing, Qing Qing's maid was guarding the door. This had never happened before.
When something goes wrong, there must be a monster.
So Hou De became the target of Baiqi's surveillance.