Su Yan thought about how to replenish Buddha's health, so he took next month's money from the accounting room and went to the street.
After walking around for a long time, I stopped in front of a brothel and admired it.
In front of you is a three-story pagoda-like carved building, half hidden in the shade of lush willow trees. It is no different from the brothel in Chu State.
Yun Lai Pavilion
"Girl, have we met before?"
A voice came from behind her. Su Yan was speechless, shook his head and lamented, in this world, how embarrassing it is to be human, a man would use this sentence to start meeting a woman!
She smiled bitterly: "Your Excellency, you have bad eyesight. Your Excellency and I have never met each other. How could we have ever met each other?"
What was in front of him was a handsome man, wearing a crimson double-breasted brocade robe with golden bird piping, his hair spread like splashes of ink, sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes, he was extremely beautiful.
Su Yan calmed down and said, "Who is your Excellency?"
The handsome man tilted his head to look at her and suddenly smiled.
"Yanzhen, hello sister!"
Su Yan was stunned and subconsciously took a step back. She wanted to run, but her feet seemed to be rooted to the ground and she couldn't move her eyes away. Looking at his face greedily, she seemed to see the immature child she once was, raising her head with difficulty, smiling at her, and sweetly calling her sister.
Yan Zhen raised his head and glanced at Yun Lai Pavilion and said, "Just in time, I'm resigning today. I'll be the host and treat you to a drink!"
After that, he grabbed Su Yan and walked straight into Yunlai Pavilion.
In the elegant room, sandalwood is lingering and gauze is flying.
Su Yan picked up the teacup and glanced at the handsome man sitting opposite him from time to time. He was still leaning on the pillow leisurely, closing his eyes and smelling the fragrance of tea, looking like a rich man.
The tea cup in his hand stagnated, and then he knocked it hard on the food table: "Little brother, seeing how handsome you are, is it possible that you have fallen in love with me, a sister who is a few years older than you? Thank you for that!"
The handsome man opened his eyes, took a sip of tea, and said with a smile: "What did you say, sister? It's too late for me to respect you, how can I offend you?"
"Sister and brother, we don't know each other, so we can call each other quite smoothly." She laughed dryly and avoided his eyes.
"Don't you know him?" The handsome man was in a dilemma, but he was relieved after a moment, "I know you today."
"Okay, okay, let's get to know each other!" Su Yan rolled his eyes and said.
"I haven't been back to the palace for many years. I just came back today and saw the nanny. She told me that she missed me." Yan Zhen said solemnly.
Su Yan stopped his chopsticks and wanted to respond to him, but didn't know what to say.
He added: "The nanny told me that the locust tree in the backyard of the palace was about to die. She went to the mountains to collect a few buckets of spring water to save it after all the hard work. I told the nanny why bother, it is just an ownerless tree. But the wet nurse shook her head and said, how sad she would be if the person who planted it suddenly wanted to go home and found that her most beloved tree was dead!"
Yan Zhen sighed: "Tell me, is the wet nurse crazy?"
"Why don't you hate me?" Su Yan asked him sadly.
"I say that if you have a grudge, you must avenge it. If you have a favor, you may not remember it. Apart from your parents, there are only you and Fo Zhen in this world. I can never hold a grudge."
"But I no longer like the locust tree, Yan Zhen, I have nothing to do with that palace anymore."
"I don't care!" He said stubbornly: "Whether you go back or not, I only recognize you anyway!"
"Your mother doesn't like me. Why would you go against your mother for me?"
"You and I are brothers with Buddha, so anything I do for you is worth it!" Yan Zhen suddenly tilted his head and said coquettishly to her: "Sister, don't be sad, come here, I'll make you smile!"
Su Yan turned from sadness into laughter.
All misunderstandings were solved and disappeared.
Yan Zhen took off the brocade bag from his waist and showed her a bloodshot jade ring: "The day you left, you told me that you wanted the Yan Yu ring enshrined in the ancestral hall by the Changsun family, so I went to the Changsun ancestral hall and took it out. It has been hidden on my body, and today it is finally returned to its original owner." After that, he took her hand and put it on her index finger.
Su Yan looked at the jade ring. That was just a way for her to get rid of him deliberately in order to run away from home. It was just a lie. And this ring was a treasure of the eldest son's family for generations. It was enshrined in the ancestral hall and was guarded day and night. How could it be given away so easily.
Su Yan suddenly realized: "Did you snatch it out?"
Yan Zhen patted his chest and said proudly: "It goes without saying that the few people in Changsun Temple are not enough for me to beat."
"No one noticed?"
"Don't worry, I broke into the house at night and no one saw it through. They still think it's a robber."
Su Yan hurriedly took off the jade ring and handed it back to him, "I just lied to you back then. You'd better return it quickly. If you are discovered, it will be over!"
"It's just a jade ring," Yan Zhen disagreed: "The Changsun family doesn't pay much attention to it, so there's no need to be frightened. You can put it in a sachet and wear it with you. It won't be discovered, and it has a magical effect of sleeping and exorcising evil spirits."
Su Yan rubbed the jade ring, feeling extremely sad. When he insisted on leaving and tricked him into going to the eldest grandson's house to steal the jade ring, the eldest grandson's family would not be unaware. I don’t want to pursue it, it’s just because of Changsun Pingle.
But if this happens, the eldest son Pingle will definitely be scolded by his parents' family, and Yan Zhen will naturally not be well received by his mother.
Just as he was talking, a line of maids opened the door and came in, serving food and pouring wine. Then a graceful woman came in, shaking her feather fan, and said in a high voice: "Hey! The two guests haven't been here for a long time. !”
Su Yan saw that this person looked familiar, and it took him a long time to remember. He slapped his thigh and said happily: "We are destined to come thousands of miles to meet each other. You are not the old bustard from Chucheng! You have opened a branch as far as Rongguo?!"
The Madam then recognized Su Yan and was very surprised: "So it's you. Why, business is not doing well in Chucheng?"
"It's hard to explain in words. If sister is willing, I will tell you in detail in the future." Su Yan buried his head in reminiscing with the old madam and forgot about the handsome man who was still looking blank. After realizing it later, he hurriedly explained to him: "This lovely man It's amazing. There are so many brothels in Chucheng and the competition is so fierce. However, this sister's business is still standing, even far surpassing other competitors. It seems that she knows how to run a business. I see that you are a frequent visitor to brothels, so why not just leave it at that? Just be fawning, maybe we can work together for a win-win situation in the future.”
It was the first time that the Madam was praised in person. She giggled happily, shook her feather fan and said to them: "Ms., I don't know much about other things. I'm good at business. Seeing that you appreciate me, why don't you just stay here with me?" Should I accept you as a closed disciple?"
Su Yan's eyes widened and he was about to move over to become his disciple when he was pulled back by a force. When Su Yan looked back, he had already rushed forward and snatched Xu Niang's feather fan, "How brave are you to force a girl into prostitution?"
Only then did Xu Niang carefully observe this person's appearance. Whether it was his clothing or demeanor, this person had an evil energy all over him. In the capital Ruoshui, I'm afraid there was only that general.
She calmly explained: "Young master has misunderstood. This girl and I are old acquaintances. We are reunited as friends, so naturally we want to make fun of her. Why are you nervous!"
The handsome man was dubious, but still blocked her in front of Su Yan, preventing her from getting even half a step closer.
Seeing that he was so serious, Lady Xu couldn't stay any longer. She wanted to take the feather fan back, but he had no intention of returning it. At this time, a musky smell came over and became stronger and stronger. The three of them looked outside at the same time and saw a young girl in green coming gracefully and stopping outside the door, looking at them with strange eyes.
"Oh! Mo Xuan, I didn't tell you to lie down well, why did you come down again?" Xu Niang went over to help her distressedly.
"I'm fine, you don't have to worry." She tactfully pushed away Xu Niang's hand, picked up the hairpin from the ground and planned to go back.
Xu Niang rubbed her hands in embarrassment, but still greeted her with a smile, even if she didn't even look at herself.
"Mo Xuan, I'll make you a bowl of lotus seed soup later, add more candied dates, and then let the kitchen slaughter a native chicken. You don't feel very refreshed, so you need to take some tonic."
The two people on the side couldn't help but snicker. This is a typical hot face against a cold butt. She won't even look at you. If it were you, you would have taken off your shoes and thrown them at the back of her head!
After Mo Xuan disappeared from everyone's sight, Xu Niang closed her mouth that seemed to be unable to finish her words.
This was the first time Su Yan saw a woman with such a personality in a brothel, and he was suddenly curious about Mo Xuan, "Is Mo Xuan the top one here?"
Xu Niang didn't care about Cai Cai's embarrassment at all, and turned to her and said: "Are you envious? Then you can come too! Mo Xuan is the treasure I asked for. Not only is he outstanding in beauty, but he is also good at both civil and military skills. Looking at the whole Ruoshui, how many can he have? She is even comparable! I will worship her like a Bodhisattva, and if you come too, I will worship you both! Speaking of which, will you come to my Yunlai Pavilion or not? I don’t know if you will be the number one."
Su Yan laughed a few times and said, "You can go ahead and dream, let's just have a drink."
Madam Xu sighed, said it was a pity and left.
After a full meal, Su Yan held his round belly and groggy head and went out to get some air. Unexpectedly, Zuo Qing came to him, followed by Xilou. She was so frightened that she was mostly drunk, and she quickly cheered up and bowed: "Master Applause, Master Chief, you two are so elegant and cheerful, you can meet them here!"
Zuo Qing seemed to choke, and after a while he asked, "Why are you here?"
Su Yan raised his eyebrows and asked him with sharp eyes, "Why are you here?"
"The two of us are just here to drink, don't think too much about it."
Speaking of this, Yan Zhen also came out for some air. Several people looked at him and were all shocked.
Zuo Qing hurriedly stepped forward and handed over his hand: "I didn't expect to meet the general here. I am really lucky!"
Su Yan was impressed by him, his face-changing skills were really amazing!
When Yan Zhen saw it was Zuo Qing, especially after seeing Xilou, he felt extremely unhappy. He couldn't help but roll his eyes: "What happened today? Could it be that I forgot to do a fortune telling for myself when I went out? When you have sex with the two most annoying people in your life, it’s like black smoke is rising from your ancestors’ graves, and you will be unlucky all day long!”
Su Yan forced himself to smooth things over: "We are all colleagues, and colleagues should move around more!"
"Walk around? Are you afraid of sprained feet?" Yan Zhen showed no mercy.
Xilou calmly saluted: "General, your words are serious. Your humble position is just that of the head of Wanchaofang. The title of the second son of the Yan Kingdom is just a false name. Compared with the general's full body of achievements, this humble position is not worth mentioning. If there has been any misunderstanding before, please forgive me, General."
Zuo Qing also cupped his hands and said, "I have always admired the general. Your military exploits are so great that I cannot match them."
Su Yan was shocked. The two of them usually looked aloof and indifferent. Why were they flattering each other now? And the photoshoot was so shameless!
Yan Zhen looked stern and said, "You, Zuo Qing, have a very high threshold. Even my good brother couldn't bribe you. Why are you here to please me today?"
Su Yan said weakly: "We're all here to drink. It's a place of fireworks... we're all friends!"
"You drink with them? What's your relationship?"
"What kind of relationship?" Su Yan pretended to be dumbfounded, "That's just a normal relationship. Zuo Qing and I just met by chance... Well!"
Zuo Qing explained unhurriedly: "Xiaoguan and Miss Su met each other in Chu State, and they became friends after going back and forth. It happened that Miss Su wanted to come to Rong State, so he brought her over. Thinking that Miss Su was not familiar with the place here, he Temporarily place her in the academy and give her a position so that she can make a living."
"Did you arrange it?" Yan Zhen was surprised.
Zuo Qing smiled and nodded, and then said goodbye to Su Yan and the others.
Su Yan wanted to invite them to drink together, but his hand came up empty. Yan Zhen turned around and stood in front of Su Yan, and asked her seriously: "Do you know the details of Zuo Qing, so you dare to follow him all the way to Ruoshui? Aren't you afraid that he will take advantage of you?"
Yan Zhen knew that Zuo Qing was extremely indifferent, but now he and his sister were always together. Isn't it strange? He was worried that Zuo Qing had already discovered his sister's identity and was harboring some bad ideas.
Su Yan disagreed: "Zuo Qing is my savior. He was the one who picked me up and settled me when the master left. How could he harm me?"
"You still have a master? Can you beat me? If you can't even beat me, you'd better not worship him as your master, worship me instead!"
Seeing his younger brother's look of shamelessness, Su Yan couldn't help but tease: "Then one day I will bring a pig's trotter to your house to become your disciple, and I will kneel and kowtow at the same time?"
Yan Zhen became distressed: "I am your brother. If you worship me, you will be struck by lightning. That's all. It's still pig's trotters!"
"We haven't seen each other for a few years, but you are so thick-skinned. Look at you, you are wearing all kinds of fancy clothes. I heard people say that you stopped studying in the academy a long time ago and became a heretic?"
Yan Zhen waved his sleeves: "A serious master, I am also a serious person!"
"Serious, not adulterated?"
Yan Zhen twitched the corners of his lips, lowered his head and drank the wine. Su Yan's laughter lingered in his ears, but he couldn't laugh anymore.
Zuo Qing and his colleagues in Xilou turned to a very hidden room on the inside of the ground floor. Someone opened the door and invited them in.
The room is elegantly and simply decorated. There is a goose-yellow screen in the center, which is the same as the furnishings in the brothel in Chucheng. There is a couch behind the screen and a tea table. There is a copper stove in one corner of the screen. The kettle was steaming and making a shrill sound.
Xu Niang picked it up and prepared to make tea.
"This is the first time we met in Ruoshui. Ruoshui's tea is the loudest. I bought it specially in the morning." Xu Niang poured three cups of tea and raised her eyes to meet Zuo Qing's eyes. "You moved faster than I expected." , but, don’t you want to hear what they have to say?”
Zuo Qing said: "You don't have to listen to know what they are talking about. Eavesdropping will only lead to suspicion."
While they were talking, the two of them had already taken their seats. Xu Niang sat down opposite them and added, "Yan Zhen loves her sister. He will agree to whatever Su Yan says. As long as the Xilou can get Su Yan's people, Yan Zhen will naturally follow your lead." . Even though he is no longer a general, there are brothers in the Imperial Guard who are willing to fight for him through life and death. When Yan Zhen resigned, hundreds of people from the Imperial Guard left the palace and all went to Ge Zheng's patrol to register their names. "She held her hands and rubbed her thumbs back and forth. "Let me remind you, he will not care about his sister's face when he goes crazy. We have to take our time in this game."
Xilou said: "Although Yan Zhen has great martial arts skills, he is simple-minded and easy to deal with. It's just that Prince Zheng...may not be easy to convince."
"Nine years ago, it was not that he was unwilling to investigate thoroughly, but at such a disadvantage and with family ties behind him, he had to swallow his anger. In the past nine years, he has indeed become timid, but now the situation cannot help him shrink back. Zuo Qing said coolly, "Find a good time and let's go meet this wise king."
Xilou sighed slightly when he thought of Prince Zheng, and thousands of thoughts came to his heart.
Xu Niang and Zuo Qing looked at each other, not knowing how to comfort them, so they both fell silent.
Xilou did not linger in his memories, took a sip of tea, and said to Xu Niang: "I thought moving would be troublesome, but I didn't expect you to move Yunlai Pavilion here so easily. I didn't seem to miss anything. "
Xu Niang smiled easily: "Money can make the world go round!" As she said that, she turned her head and looked outside the door, and said to them, "Just now I sent Mo Xuan back to the room, and suddenly I saw Chang Sun Xi, who seemed to be She was shocked by the appearance of Chang Sun Yue and Su Yan, and then she hurried back, as if she was planning something. This person is a trouble, and I'm worried that she will be unfavorable to Su Yan in the future and will affect your plans."
Zuo Qing didn't take seriously the precious granddaughter of the eldest grandson's family. She was just a rich girl who thought too highly of herself. She relied on her marriage to the Mo family and the doting of the eldest grandson's husband to do whatever he wanted in the academy. Conspiracy, no threat. If he really wanted to stir up trouble, he would have his own way of making her unable to move.
When Xu Niang saw that he didn't take it to heart at all, she stopped saying anything and gave them more tea with a smile.
At this time, Xilou thought that Zuo Qing had done a lot of things that violated his principles in order to gain Mo Fei's trust over the years. Although Ruoshui had everything he wanted, he should be suffering in his conscience...
"When all these things are done, I will leave you with a few dead men. Whether it is a river or lake, you can do whatever you want and be yourself."
"Jianghu?" A wry smile stretched from the corner of Zuo Qing's mouth, "I have always been in the Jianghu, have you forgotten?" He took out the brocade box from his arms and opened it to find a piece of human finger bone, engraved with a name - Zeno.
He caressed his knuckles gently, and the sadness in his eyes became more and more intense under the candlelight. "Two years ago, in the woods outside the academy, I followed Mo Fei back to his hometown. On the way, a group of swordsmen suddenly appeared, holding all the weapons on the list. It was one of the most powerful weapons, but before Mo Fei even got close to him, they were all killed by his swords. They were all killed with one knife, so clean and crisp! This was the first time I witnessed a fight with my own eyes, or maybe it was a massacre. I originally thought that eradicating Mo Fei could be done without bloodshed. I could expose his crimes step by step and let the national law punish him! But I forgot how many righteous people would die for it at each step, and how many enemies would stand by. Killed by me on the opposite side!"
Zuo Qing closed his eyes in pain: "Where there are people, there is desire, and desire leads to killing. This is the rivers and lakes! West Tower, Ruoshui is the center of the rivers and lakes. I have never been out. Zeno is one of those swordsmen. Member, he is only sixteen years old, and he is not married yet! I stood next to Murphy and watched all this happen, but I couldn't do anything! "
Xilou looked at him seriously. Zeno's face suddenly appeared in front of him, overlapping with Zuo Qing's. His mouth was open in pain, but he couldn't say anything. Xilou closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, Zuo Qing had placed his finger bones on the table, offered a cup of tea in front of them, and said, "I was careless and underestimated the dead soldiers around Mo Fei, and I ruined these lives in vain! I keep reminding myself of these painful costs, and one day, I will make Murphy pay back a hundred times a thousand times!"
There was a flash of strangeness in Xu Niang's expression, and it disappeared in an instant. She said to Zuo Qing: "We are reunited here just to make him repay, but before that we need to have a complete plan. Do the three provinces and six ministries have detailed countermeasures?"
Zuo Qing held the porcelain cup, touched the brocade box lightly, and drank it all in one gulp.
"Liang Qiluo, the daughter of Liang Luan of Zhongshu Province, Sun Xi, the niece of Sun Xun, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, and Sun Yue, the daughter of Sun Wuzheng, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment, are all in Shu Youtang now. Their weaknesses have been exposed in front of me. I only need to lay a trap, Aren't they all easily captured? But I can't do it myself, it's easy to leave traces. When Mo Fei finds out, all our hard work will be in vain, so I thought of a good idea. "
"What?" they both asked at the same time.
"Su Yan came to the forefront, and we helped him secretly, without anyone noticing."
"By doing this, Mo Fei really didn't expect that we were dealing with him. But... this could easily put Ayan in danger." Xilou couldn't accept his plan and questioned it.
"Being in Shura is full of dangers." Seeing that Xilou was still worried, he continued, "The people we have placed in the court are not strong enough. If they are used easily, they will easily attract the attention of the Mexican Party. If we make the wrong step, we may be All our previous efforts have been wasted! We can only find another way, and now we can only borrow Su Yan’s help. Perhaps, after Prince Zheng finds out, he will also speed up the pace to help us."
Xu Niang felt that this plan was feasible. When Su Yan was in the academy, he would always interact with the children of aristocratic families. As long as he had a perfect plan, he would definitely be able to make good use of it.
"Then...who do you want to touch first now?"
Zuo Qing slowly raised the corners of his mouth and drank the tea in one gulp.
