Bright room, luxurious furnishings.
Exquisite dishes, lonely back.
There is such a room in Qiliu Youlan, and the guests don't even know it exists.
But it exists.
There is a man who often drinks in this room.
Appetizers are the best.
But wine is the worst kind - the kind that can be purchased for a few pennies, the kind that chokes when drunk without water, and tasteless when drunk with water.
He likes this drink because it reminds him of who he is.
Dongdong——dongdongdong——
There was a sudden knock on the door, twice, then three times.
"Come in." The man heard the signal correctly and responded.
Then, the madam opened the door and came in.
"Master." This is what the madam called the man after entering the house.
But in fact, there is no word "庶" in this man's name, but for some reason, he asked the other party to call him that.
"Say." Hearing this, the concubine turned around and looked at the old bustard.
But I saw that this concubine was wearing a black shirt, simple clothes, fair complexion, thin and tall. Although his temples are already gray, he looks to be around forty years old. His beard is not very long, but it is trimmed neatly.
"There is Mr. Sun Yixi, Mr. Sun, and Mr. Huang Donglai Huang... I want to ask to see Miss Chuxue." The old bustard replied.
The madam was just challenging Sun and Huang at "Le Bu Si Shu". Why is he here now?
Because after she took pictures of the table just now, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai announced their respective names...
Although the Madam had heard that one of them was named Sun and the other was Huang through the few words they exchanged, she had always addressed them as sons and did not know their full names; until just now, when she fell out with those two people, Sun It was only then that they reported their full names.
The brothel is a well-informed place, and Xuzhou City is so close to Luoyang. It is impossible for the madam not to know about the deeds of these two popular martial arts rookies in Luoyang, so she weighed it and came here...
"Sun Yixie, Huang Donglai..." The concubine chanted these two names again, and was silent for a moment thoughtfully. Then, he smiled, "Ah... you tell them that they can see Chuxue, but Of the two of them, only one can see Chuxue, while the other has to come and drink with me."
His words made the madam a little surprised.
The madam has been here for so many years. In her impression, the concubine inviting others to drink with him... only happened a few times, and the people he invited were all his "friends"; and Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai both The first time they came to Qiliu Youlan, they probably didn't even recognize the concubine, let alone have any friendship.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that the madam didn't respond immediately, the concubine asked again.
"No...it's nothing." The madam quickly lowered her head and retreated towards the door, "I'll do it now."
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When she returned to the door of "Le Bu Si Shu", the cold sweat on the old madam's forehead had not yet dried, so she wiped it before entering the house.
"You two gentlemen, you have been waiting for a long time." When he returned to Shuangxie, the Madam became much calmer.
"How is it? What did Miss Chuxue say?" Sun Yixie thought that the madam went directly to see Chuxue when she left just now, so she asked this question.
He didn't know that in Qiliu Youlan, if you want to see anyone, you can directly ask me. Only Chuxue, if you want to see her... you have to ask the concubine first.
"If you want to see Miss Chuxue, you must agree to one condition." The madam did not directly answer Sun Yixie's question.
"What conditions?" Huang Donglai complained again at this time, "Does it mean more money?"
The madam ignored the second half of his sentence and replied quite seriously: "Only one of you two can go to see Chuxue, and the other one has to go have a drink with our boss."
"Huh?" Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai said this modal particle from their mouths in perfect synchronization, even the expressions on their faces were the same.
"You can discuss it first." The madam didn't talk nonsense to them and walked out. "If you don't agree to this condition, then there is no need to talk about meeting Chuxue. You two can do what you want."
After saying that, she walked out and closed the door behind her.
Since you are left to discuss it among yourselves, let's discuss it.
"Let me go...who is the boss here?" Sun Yixie asked with a look of doubt on his face.
"Who knows..." Huang Donglai spread his hands, "Even regular customers like Dong Captou don't know about it, how can we find out about it?"
At this time, Sun Yixie rolled his eyes and suddenly had an idea. He continued: "Hey~ Brother Huang, tell me, could it be that kind of setting..." He paused and raised his eyebrows. He smiled at the corner of his mouth and said, "For example, the boss here is actually a woman, and she is a peerless beauty who is even more beautiful than the four great courtesans of spring, summer, autumn and winter..."
"Brother Sun." Huang Donglai looked at Sun Yixie with a very serious look, "Don't you just want to trick me into drinking with a man, so you can go meet the top guy yourself... I'll just go and drink. What are you making up now?" Not even Lei Buji would believe it."
"Oh~ what is editing? People have to have dreams, what if..." Sun Yixie said, quickly grabbing the wine glass on the table and taking a sip of wine, slightly covering up the embarrassment of being exposed by Huang Donglai.
These two people really knew each other too well. They couldn't deceive anyone, so they discussed things very quickly.
Not long after, the two called the madam in and gave him an answer. The madam didn't waste any time, and immediately asked Sun Yixie to wait in the room for a while, and then took Huang Donglai to the room where the concubine was.
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Dongdong——dongdongdong——
Or two plus three knocks on the door.
After the concubine in the room said "come in", the old madam opened the door, stood at the door and said: "Concubine, Mr. Huang is here to bring you."
"Yes." The concubine responded. He stood up and walked to the door. He cupped his fists and said, "Young Master Huang, I have long admired your name."
Huang Donglai also looked at the visitor and returned the greeting: "It's easy to say that Huang is not talented and does not know how to behave..."
"My friends praise me and call me 'Shu Ye'." The concubine continued.
"Oh~" Huang Donglai also clasped his fists and said, "Okay, then Huang, it's better to be respectful than to obey..."
On the surface, he didn't say anything, but he knew in his heart that this was a difficult person to deal with - a person who didn't even want to tell others his real name, and he must have many secrets hidden in him.
According to Huang Donglai's experience, this kind of person is basically the type who "brings a lot of information with him as long as he says his name"... Be extra careful when dealing with this kind of person.
"Go and do your business." After greeting Huang Donglai, the concubine casually dismissed the madam outside the door.
After receiving the order, the madam closed the door and left.
At this moment, the madam had just gone to Chuxue to inform her that someone wanted to see her, and asked the girl to dress up and get ready. Therefore, we will talk about Sun Yixie and Chuxue later.
For now, let's continue talking about the concubine and Huang Donglai's drink.
After exchanging "pleases" several times, Huang Donglai and the concubine both sat down. The food and wine were all ready-made. When Huang Dong came to sit down, all he had to do was add a pair of chopsticks and a cup.
"The name Huang Shaoxia is like thunder. When I meet you today, you are indeed a heroic young man with a proven talent. Let me propose a toast to you first." The concubine has already thought of these words. If the person coming at this moment is Sun Yixie, He changed the word "黄" in this sentence to "孙" and it still works.
"My lord, you are so polite. Huang deserves it." Huang Donglai picked up the wine glass with a smile on his face. While replying this sentence, he calmly checked whether there was any drug in the wine.
After all, he is the young master of the Huang Clan. Before putting anything handed to him by a stranger into his mouth, he will basically observe it carefully. This is also a good habit developed by his father from training him since childhood.
After drinking the first glass of wine, before Huang Donglai put the glass on the table, the concubine immediately asked: "Huang Shaoxia, how do you like my wine?"
"It tastes bad." Huang Donglai almost started to finish the sentence, and gave the answer right after the concubine's question.
This answer was not because Huang Donglai was honest and spoke without thinking. On the contrary, he thought quickly, so he immediately understood that this question was a test.
"Oh?" As expected, the concubine was stunned for a moment by Huang Donglai's quick answer, and then smiled, "Ha... Huang Shaoxia is really quick to talk."
"No, I'm already very polite." Huang Donglai said.
"Then why do you mean you're welcome?" said the concubine.
"To put it bluntly..." Huang Donglai raised his eyebrows and pointed the rim of the empty wine glass in his hand at the other party, "...did you mix wine in your urine?"
"Hahahahaha..." The uncle smiled and laughed.
After laughing, he said again: "Young Master Huang, wait a moment."
With that said, he stood up again, went to the side of the room, opened a cabinet, and brought another bottle of wine.
"Is this good wine?" Huang Donglai raised his eyes and asked.
"It's good wine." The concubine said as he walked back.
"Why didn't you drink just now?" Huang Donglai asked.
"When I'm alone, I only drink bad wine. Only when my 'friends' come, I drink good wine with them." The concubine said.
"Then are you being stingy? Or are you being generous?" Huang Donglai asked.
"Is this important?" asked the concubine.
"Indeed, it's not important." Huang Donglai said, "What's important is that when I sat down just now, I wasn't your friend, but after I drank that piss-like thing, I seemed to be."
"Haha..." The uncle smiled again, "Brother Huang Xian..." His name for Huang Donglai suddenly changed, "You should understand that people like me prefer to listen to 'nice words' Tell the truth', so as long as you tell me the truth, you can be my friend."
"'Can it be'?" Huang Donglai picked out the key points in this sentence and threw it back with a questioning tone.
"Yes, 'it can be'." My uncle said, "Because just speaking truthfully is not enough."
"Anything else?" Huang Donglai asked.
The concubine had already sat down again and filled Huang Donglai's second glass of wine himself: "Yes, you have to be smart."
"So, I'm very smart?" Huang Donglai asked.
"You are very smart." My uncle said, "So now you keep asking me questions that sound stupid, but in fact you know everything, and you also know that most of the questions you ask are nonsense."
Huang Donglai nodded: "Then I'll listen to what you have to say."
"You're here to find out about Zheng Mukai's death, right?" As expected, the concubine didn't talk nonsense, and suddenly brought the topic to the purpose of Sun and Huang's visit.
Huang Donglai picked up the second glass of wine, drank it down in one gulp, and then said: "Since I already know about it, why not...you tell me the whole story now, so that we don't get blinded by you." toss."
"Ha..." Hearing this, the concubine chuckled, and then drank a glass of that good wine, and then said, "What I can tell you is that no matter how hard you try here, you can't find anything. of."
"Then you mean..." Huang Donglai's eyes changed slightly, "...let us stop investigating?"
"Yes." said the concubine.
"But one of our brothers... including ourselves, is now being targeted by the Guangxing Escort Agency." Huang Donglai said, "We can't wash away our grievances without finding out the truth."
Ordinarily, at this time, the concubine can completely answer: "That is your business."
But he didn't say that.
He actually said this: "Then...how about I help you in another way?"
Huang Donglai looked solemn, looked at the other party and said, "Oh? What method?"
Although Brother Huang looked calm on the surface at this moment, he was actually panicking in his heart, fearing that the other party would reply to him, "I will kill you two right now, and it will be over".
"Huang Xiandi..." After a breath, the concubine continued slowly, "If I tell you, I can make Guangxing Escort Agency disappear overnight, what do you think?"
When Huang Donglai heard this, his scalp was numb.
Although the Escort Bureau is not an orthodox martial arts sect, but a special organization that focuses on business and teaches skills secondarily, in terms of strength, the Guangxing Escort Bureau is barely ranked at the bottom of the second-tier sects of the orthodox sect.
Today, even the head of a big first-tier sect would not dare to say that he could make any second-tier sect "disappear overnight", but this concubine actually said it, and he said it in an understatement, not at all like In a joking manner.
"Master... are you willing to do such a thing for us?" Huang Donglai first took a sip of wine to calm down his shock, and then asked.
He didn't even ask the other party "can it", but started to lead in the direction of "why".
"I am willing." The concubine said matter-of-factly, "After all, it's not that difficult."
"Is it difficult? The second is." Huang Donglai answered, "Why do you want to do this for us?"
"Because we are already 'friends'," said the concubine. "Isn't it normal to do something you can for your friends?"
Huang Donglai's mind changed and he realized: "Then... should you handle this matter yourself, or..."
"Ha... How could I do it myself?" The uncle smiled, "I am friends with you, and I am also friends with others. In the past, I have helped other friends do a lot of things, so today, I will You can ask those friends to handle this matter for you."
When Huang Donglai heard this, he complained in his heart: "Why don't you call me 'friend' instead of 'godfather'?"
"Hahaha..." The next second, Brother Huang laughed out loud, "Then can I think so...Today, after you destroyed the Guangxing Escort Bureau for us, in order to repay you this favor, and at the same time to avoid you If you expose this matter, one day in the future, my 'friend' will probably help some of your friends who are strangers to me...to deal with similar things."
The concubine smiled, drank another glass of wine, and looked at Huang Donglai after putting down the glass: "I just said... you are a smart man."
