On this day, King Jingbei once again invited Qin Chuan into the palace. As soon as the housekeeper led Qin Chuan to the front yard, King Jingbei personally greeted him and took Qin Chuan to his study to drink tea and chat.
King Jingbei took a sip of tea and said slowly: "Brother Qin, is the escort agency busy recently? How is the business?"
"It's still the same! Prince, do you have anything good to introduce to me?" Qin Chuan put down the hand making tea, looked at the prince with a smile, and said politely.
King Jingbei chuckled and said, "Would you accept this special job?"
Qin Chuan pondered for a moment and asked: "I dare to ask, what is the 'special' situation that the prince calls? Isn't it escorting some treasure again?"
"Hahaha... This time it is not an escort... I would like to ask your escort agency to escort my mentor Mr. Yang back to Songjiang Mansion..." King Jingbei chuckled, and then said seriously.
Qin Chuan was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said with some confusion: "Didn't Mr. Yang just transfer back to the capital not long ago, why did he suddenly want to return to his hometown..."
King Jingbei was silent for a moment and said in a low voice: "My mentor was too upright. He accidentally offended others and was almost relegated to the wilderness again. My brother and I begged for mercy many times before I allowed my mentor to report his illness and return home." Township……"
"Oh, I see... What a pity..." Qin Chuan nodded thoughtfully and sighed deeply at the same time.
King Jingbei smiled bitterly and murmured: "The world situation is changing... Brother Huang already has some concerns about me... I didn't want you to go through this muddy water, but it's a pity that I have to go north to defend the enemy temporarily and have no time." I have to trouble you all to escort my mentor back home..."
Qin Chuan nodded slightly, silently picked up the tea cup and drank it all in one gulp.
King Jingbei didn't speak again and just drank tea quietly.
The two sat together for a while, then Xiao Kai trotted in, panted, looked at King Jingbei and Qin Chuan, and whispered: "Your Majesty, I just came back from walking my horse and saw someone sneaking around the palace. …”
"Oh? Did you see the person clearly?" After hearing this, the prince looked slightly stunned and sat up straight and asked.
"The kid didn't see clearly. Just when I was about to get closer, the man ran away..." Xiao Kai muttered somewhat depressedly.
King Jingbei pondered for a moment and continued to ask: "That person's Qinggong is better than yours?"
Xiao Kai scratched his head and said hesitantly: "It should be similar to me, but he will use an evil weapon to keep people away..."
"What weapon? Tell me..." Qin Chuan came over curiously and asked eagerly.
Xiao Kai gestured and said excitedly: "A long whip, a long whip with a hook... He swung against the wall and swung to the other side of Wangfu Street. I couldn't even catch up... My brother reacted quickly. Some, he was about to get close to that person, but he almost got stabbed by the iron hook on his whip..." Xiao Kai said, patting his chest with some lingering fear.
King Jingbei showed a slightly surprised expression and turned to ask Qin Chuan: "Brother Qin has been traveling as escorts all year round and is well-informed. Do you know which sect in the world is good at using this kind of weapons..."
Qin Chuan thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "I haven't seen it before. I'll ask my father and the chief escort later. They may know..."
King Jingbei nodded and signaled Xiao Kai to help Qin Chuan add tea. After that, the three of them drank tea for a while, and Qin Chuan left the escort agency.
The branch of Weiyuan Escort Bureau is located in a remote alley in the capital. At first, everyone was confused when Su Qiqi chose to open an escort agency here. I feel that the escort agency should be opened in a bustling and lively place so that it can be popular and the business will be better.
It was not until more than a month after the Escort Bureau opened that everyone felt that the Escort Agency's choice of semicolon was really well-intentioned, and they admired Su Qiqi's wise decision even more.
At this moment, it is dusk. Su Qiqi, Zheng Miao and Yan Ruoyu were drinking tea and admiring flowers in the backyard. The three little sisters were sipping the freshly brewed osmanthus oolong tea and playing with the petals in their hands.
"Sister Wanrou, the sunshine has been good these past two days. I'll dry these osmanthus flowers and you can make osmanthus cake for everyone to eat. How about it?" Yan Ruoyu peeled off the osmanthus petals in her hands and spread them out in a bamboo plaque to dry while looking back. He looked at Zheng Miao with a smile as bright as a flower.
Zheng Miao responded with a smile: "Okay, you can pick more while the weather is good, and I will make some more desserts for you then..." After that, she turned back and touched Su Qiqi, who was still making tea, with her elbow. , said in a low voice: "I heard from my brother that King Jingbei has assigned us a special job, escorting some high-ranking official back to the south of the Yangtze River... Will you be traveling again in a few days?"
Su Qiqi hummed, came to her senses, put down the teapot, and replied in a low voice: "Don't let this matter leak to the wind... Your brother, Ruoyu, and I will probably leave tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Let Brother Xiaoshi do it then." Stay and take care of you..."
Zheng Miao nodded slightly, and then said with some worry: "You must be careful along the way. I heard from Brother Xiao that someone was spying outside the palace today..."
"It's okay, the prince has his own arrangements, don't worry too much... But you, Mr. Ouyang, and Brother Xiaoshi should take more care... Don't set up your stall too late, it's always good to be careful..."
Zheng Miao agreed disapprovingly and turned around to help Yan Ruoyu dry the arranged petals on the low wall.
Soon, the maid came over and asked the three sisters to go to the side hall to have dinner, and the three of them followed.
That night, Qin Chuan and several escorts were drunk and went to bed early. Only Su Qiqi couldn't sleep because she tossed and turned, so she got up in the middle of the night and lit a candle to read.
As he watched, the candle shadow swayed, and the weak candlelight suddenly went out. When the candlelight went out, Su Qiqi felt a white shadow quickly pass by the window and disappear around the corner of the corridor.
She didn't even bother to put on her coat, so she took off the dagger hanging on the wall, jumped out of the window, and chased after him.
"Who are you? Why did you break into the escort agency at night?"
Beside a wall at the end of the garden, Su Qiqi's horizontal sword stopped the man in black who broke into the branch of Weiyuan Escort Agency at night.
The man was stunned for a while, and then suddenly laughed arrogantly. The laughter seemed very eerie in the quiet night, making people shudder.
As his laughter echoed over the garden, a series of hurried footsteps came over.
"Ruoyu!" Su Qiqi shouted in surprise.
Yan Ruoyu nodded, stood a few steps away from the man in black, and looked at him warily.
"Haha, interesting! Here comes another one who is going to die..." The man in black actually made an orchid finger gesture, pointed at Yan Ruoyu, and sneered nonchalantly.
As soon as this voice came out, Yan Ruoyu couldn't help but tease: "It turns out he is a dead eunuch who is neither male nor female!"
"You! Huh, our family is a big celebrity in front of the emperor and the queen mother. If you two little girls still want to survive, don't stand in my way..." After that, the black figure gestured narcissistically with an orchid finger.
Yan Ruoyu looked at it and couldn't help but twitching at the corner of her mouth and cursed: "What a pervert!"
Su Qiqi also frowned and said coldly: "I only know that a thief entered the house. I fought with the thief for the safety of my house and accidentally killed the thief... Is that okay?"
When the man in black heard this, he said angrily: "Hmph, you are a poor escort agency, with a few cheap lives, our family can't even look down upon it!"
"Then why did you come to our escort agency in the middle of the night? Is it possible that you still have a habit of sleepwalking?" Yan Ruoyu glanced at him and mocked.
"You! Haha, I'll let you be proud for a few days first... As soon as King Jingbei leaves the capital, your good days will come to an end..." The man in black suddenly lost his anger and replied in a sinister tone.
Yan Ruoyu rolled her eyes in anger, and just as she was about to reply, Su Qiqi quickly glanced at her, and then the two of them stopped talking and silently moved closer to the man in black.
Unexpectedly, the man in black was very alert. When he saw the two women moving, he also changed his position and slowly moved towards the wall.
"Sister, he wants to escape!" Yan Ruoyu guessed the other party's intention and blurted out in panic.
Su Qiqi secretly screamed something bad and immediately shot out several flying needles held between her fingers.
Unfortunately, it was still a step too late. All the flying needles were nailed to the wall and submerged into the wall, but the man in black had already floated away without a trace.
Su Qiqi and Yan Ruoyu stood on the wall and looked around for a while, then returned to the backyard bedroom in frustration. The two of them lost sleep for a while.
