Through the curtain, I could hear laughter and sweet voices inside. The Marquis was playing chess pieces with the beauties.
In one section, Jin Zheng sang a lovesickness song about a talented man and a beautiful lady. He was afraid of disturbing the Marquis's elegant mood.
Fortunately, Chen Ming was half drunk after eating and staggered out to change clothes. He quickly asked: "Is it convenient inside?"
"Is there official business? The Marquis is probably too lazy to take care of it and will let you make the decision yourself." Chen Ming thought about it, but didn't dare to make up his mind. "I'll ask for you."
Chen Ming entered the study, and while eating and drinking, he looked for an opportunity to report the matter of "entering the palace" to the Marquis.
The Marquis of Nankang was impatient, but he still came out.
His jade face was as usual, his lips had a black beard, and his hair was tied up with a jade net scarf. He was wearing a real red pine and crane robe blown by the breeze in the corridor.
Sure enough, the rich and the wealthy have leisure.
Liancheng saw Wenxue coming in front of his wife, as if he was coming to see the Marquis, so he quickly stopped at a distance.
Wenxue lowered her head and saluted Song Chengming: "Madam, please go back and talk to Mr. Hou."
"...Tell my wife that I will go back in a few days."
"……yes."
Wenxue could only turn around, walk down the corridor, and return to the inner house.
Song Chengming's face was pale, he glanced at the inner house, stepped out and stood on the porch with his hands behind his back, asking: "What's the matter?"
Liancheng hurriedly said: "The palace lady has come with a message." Before he finished speaking, he suddenly saw Cao Xiwan.
She was on the Chunbo Corridor, but somehow she got angry. She opened the curtain and chased her out of the check-in room. She grabbed her favorite Xiao Qiao, jumped on her feet and shouted at Xiao Qiao: "Go tell Su Jintian who was accompanying her in the first place."
He went to send a love letter to Mrs. Xu, who went to the jewelry store with him to pick earrings as a Valentine's Day gift, who tried on twenty-seven sets of jewelry just to help him choose one, and who stayed with him when he was dumped.
He drinks, who encourages him? Even if his eldest sister dislikes him for not being good in bed, he can work hard to change it!"
It's all her!
Su Jintian is such a bastard! In order to get promoted and get rich, he wants to steal her people. She obviously doesn't have them.
"...What are you arguing about?" Song Chengming looked at him in shock, and suddenly he didn't feel regretful about marrying Lou Shuluan. At least Lou Shuluan would not expose him like this.
"Qing Niangzi should have a group of people who can inquire about information. Su Baihu asked her for it."
"..." He thought for a moment and squinted at the sunlight on the branches and leaves.
Manager Lian Er was silent. He could tell that the Marquis knew what he was doing.
Song Chengming knew for sure that the people in Cao Xiwan's hands were very expensive and time-consuming to raise, and it would take at least ten years to weave a dense network in the capital. But Song Chengming knew better that these people probably had no skills and were just spies, spying on people.
It's just some information. It's not really of much use. Otherwise, he would have gotten the list long ago.
Even he had considered not asking Qing Luo for it. Su Jintian only had the nerve to ask for it.
After all, he had the nerve to borrow money from Qing Luo without repaying it, so that he could support a noble lady and his lover. Is there anything else he wouldn't dare to say?
Xiao Qiao ran away in a flash.
"Isn't Biying Palace's Fangzhongshu very famous?" Song Chengming turned around again, put his hands behind his hands and whispered to Lian Er, the manager.
Marquis Nankang was surprised. Why did Su Jintian sound so bad? But he had so many lovers!
Liancheng smiled bitterly, how could he know such a private matter of bed status: "Master Hou, you have to ask Madam Qing about this matter. Maybe she has it in her hand. I heard that Su Baihu kept the token he brought out from Biying Palace.
Let her keep it."
Token? Song Chengming thought about it for a moment. Is it the Palace Master’s Token of Biying Palace or the secret book of magic in the room? He thought it was better to forget it. He looked at the spring leaves in the blue sky outside the corridor and sighed:
"Beyond the Great Wall, the Biying Palace was famous in the former Yuan Dynasty...Su Jintian is indeed outstanding, but if he were in the Biying Palace, it would be impossible for him to be known as the Sword Lord at his current age."
"What the Marquis is saying is that without the Marquis building momentum for Su Baihu, without the support of the imperial court, without Qing Niangzi and Chen Baihu around, the people of Biying Palace would have killed him countless times, and how could he have survived until this day?"
Liancheng knew that the Marquis wanted to hear some flattery now, but he spoke truthfully. As expected, Song Chengming glanced at his confidant and manager and smiled:
"His junior brothers and sisters, all of them look fine now, but more than ten years ago... they were all a burden."
"That's true. It all depends on Lord Marquis to treat him leniently."
"That's all. I'm not stupid enough to lend him money to raise a child. With a dozen of confidants, what benefit does Xiao Wan get?" Song Chengming laughed on his back, happy to see the two of them restraining each other.
"Where's Xiliu?"
"Reflecting in the room. Madam Qing didn't go back to the inner house, so the two of them didn't quarrel."
"When will she... be like Xiao Wan, I will be relieved."
Manager Lian Er could only apologize. Seeing that the Marquis was stepping on flowers and dividing willows, and wanted to go back to have wine and listen to music, Liancheng quickly asked about the business.
"Master Hou, what do you mean by your Majesty... is to ask Madam Qing to enter the palace?"
"Not necessarily. Doesn't your Majesty mean that Xiao Wan should go and communicate with Miss Lu?" Song Chengming thought casually, looking at the beauties in the study room outside, and then remembered that he had repeatedly apologized softly to Cao Xiwan.
She was all indifferent, so he sighed, "If the empress wants her to enter the palace, that's fine. Let Xiao Wan discuss with Su Jintian and wait for the female official in the corridor between the palace walls. They haven't seen each other for a while. Let Xiao Wan ask
Hello, my dear." After saying that, he turned around and went in.
"..."
The second steward understood this, remained silent for a long time, and asked Cao Xiwan to enter the palace?
Sure enough, she has offended the Marquis these days. Originally, shouldn't the wife take the girl into the palace to see the empress?
Or is the Marquis still regretting getting married and alienating his wife?
But he raised his head and looked at the green building with red eaves and green leaves in the direction of the main room of the inner house. The wife seemed to think that the Marquis was in a bad mood for a while, so there was no movement.
The wife even asked the second wife if she should buy some music players and form a family music team.
The main room of the inner house. Baihua Hall.
"Are there still the same four musicians today?" Lou Shuluan asked calmly with delicate makeup.
"Madam, the leader's famous role is Duan Jin, but she didn't change it. Everything else has been changed."
"One piece of gold?" she said thoughtfully, "I seem to have heard of it too."
"Yes, I have inquired about it. She is a famous musician. Ruan's playing of the piano is only third-rate, and her voice is probably second-rate. But her social skills are first-class. She speaks softly and respectfully, and she speaks every word.
It's reasonable, and it makes people feel at ease. But she is very hard-hearted and refuses to stay overnight. Even if the Marquis is angry, he won't get angry."
Wenxue paused for a moment, with uneasy eyes, "I heard that Duan Jin's mother was a pregnant maid who was kicked out. Some people said that Duan Jin was the daughter of an affair servant. Others said that she was an unknown master in the Duke of Wei's palace.
The daughter you don’t recognize.”
The wife recalled it and smiled: "What a good idea."
Wenxue was convinced. In fact, she didn't believe Duan Jin had any good background at all. It was just a lowly woman's self-preservation technique, spreading rumors and raising her social status. She felt aggrieved for her wife. The Marquis was out in the study with musicians.
They were just messing around for fun. Now there is a rumor in the house that my wife has been waiting for the Marquis in her boudoir for many years, but she actually has another agenda.
Fortunately, the wife laughed it off, so naturally the girl could only inquire about the news and replied:
"Duan Jin, she seems to have asked Xiao Wan to be her god sister. One time, I don't know how she delivered the news. Mr. Hou was alone with her... Xiao Wan directly went to knock on the door and called her away. Mr. Hou
I lost my temper and threw the wine bottle, but there was nothing I could do."
"The women of Lehu are also like foxes and mice. If you keep the Marquis cold like this, you will be able to have your hair tangled for a few more days."
Lou Shuluan smiled. She had also heard of famous prostitutes who did not sell their bodies, but most of them had backers behind them. If it is a very scheming woman like Duan Jin, it is not impossible, but if she really meets the Marquis, this may not be the case.
That's how it came out. The Marquis was an outstanding figure and extremely powerful. A timid woman wanted to rely on the powerful, but a bold famous actor could not twist his arms and legs.
"That piece of gold may help protect your innocence."
Not everyone can win over Cao Xiwan. Lou Shuluan has already seen this clearly.
But she is a first-class lady, so why bother?
Mrs. Hou whispered to Mother Chen, and Mother Chen turned around to open the box and took out a small red enameled copper jewelry box: "Mrs."
Opening it, there were piles of gold, pearls and jade jewelry in the box. She closed the jewelry box and pushed it to Chen's mother.
"Half of it is for Mrs. Cao. Half of it is for her to leave."
Mother Chen understands.
The waiter retired. Lou Shuluan opened the makeup mirror alone in the inner room, adjusted her makeup, and thought about when to go to the second door to pick up her husband. But she saw a line of writing on the mirror:
【I'm coming soon.】
Under the four words, there is a bloody short sword painted with rouge.
Her face turned pale and she closed the makeup box with a snap.
"Madam." Mother Chen heard the movement.
"It's okay." Lou Shuluan quickly calmed down and suppressed the trembling in her voice, "Mom, pick up a new set of bedding and pillows. I want light and warm ones. Send them to the outer study for Master Hou to change. Tell him, the inner house
I'm here, the old lady, I'm waiting on you. He doesn't have to worry."