At night, the heat in Zhuque City is hard to get rid of.
People living in the west of the city have a good place to cool off.
Qingxi River has nine meanders and flows through a large area in the west of the outer city.
The sky is blue and dark, and when night comes, teahouses and restaurants built near the stream are lit up with lanterns.
Guiding the way for those who are still a little embarrassed.
"Your Majesty, you have chosen the right place. Along the Qingxi River, not only the Xiaojin Grotto upstream is worth visiting, our Linfeng Tower is the best place to enjoy the cool air on summer nights."
Under the bright lights, people's eyebrows also flickered. The waiter standing at the door of Linfeng Building did not even see the face of the visitor clearly, so he lowered his head to welcome the two distinguished guests and entered the restaurant.
Hmm... The outfit looks simple, but the fabric seems to be the brocade produced in Jinguancheng...
The waiter showed his warmest smile, and when he turned around, he had already made up his mind that these were two distinguished guests who could be ripped off, so the food and drinks had to be expensive.
"Does the guest need to go to the private room on the second floor?"
"Well, it's best to open the window near the stream."
Wang Xiuwei responded in a low and hoarse voice.
The waiter paused on the stairs, then quickly led the two people behind him to the second floor.
Liu Yueshan followed Wang Xiuwei. She didn't follow Wang Xiuwei's example and looked at the lobby out of the corner of her eye. The two women specially dressed up like men for tonight's trip, and they also chose to be extremely simple, just not wanting to attract attention.
In the private room on the second floor, after the wine and food were served, the waiter was very knowledgeable and did not appear again.
Half the tea time passed slowly. Wang Xiuwei couldn't wait any longer and walked to the window and opened it halfway.
The waiter actually figured out the identity of the two women. Perhaps he was apologetic. The window was in an excellent position, facing the clear stream at night.
The night boats with twinkling lights on the river had just come into view, and the cool breeze and the sound of people squeezed in.
Wang Xiuwei had no time to appreciate the cool night scene on the river, so he tried his best to move towards the upper reaches of the Qingxi River.
"I don't know if Mom and Sister Ye went there. They originally asked me to collect information."
"Mrs. Wang's ability is far beyond ordinary people. Maybe she is worried that we can't handle this matter well."
Liu Yueshan walked to her side, simply opened all the windows, squinted her eyes and breathed in the steamy night wind, and sighed softly: "I didn't expect these people to be so vicious. Since they would use this method to threaten Madam, could this Suzaku Is the city’s city lord’s palace so powerful that it can be decided with just one word?”
Time should be such an existence that you feel it moves slowly but in the blink of an eye it goes a long way.
It has been more than a month since I arrived in the largest city in southern Xinjiang. For Liu Yueshan, who once lost everything, he is slowly gaining some things.
Sijin's yard was bought in the east of the city. After contacting Jinguan City, in addition to a medicinal shop, he also opened a silk shop.
With Wang Yeqing's potential influence, the first transaction in this silk shop occurred with Hongling. Later, the brocade fabric from Jinguan City was recommended by Hongling to several courtesans with whom she had friends.
This is where it happened.
This afternoon, it was supposed to be a day agreed with an courtesan to pick up ready-made clothes. After waiting for a long time, only a little maid with a sad face came and said frankly that her young lady had been forcibly taken away by a group of soldiers, saying that she was with The gangster who injured the nephew of the city lord was an accomplice, and he will be tortured to death by the Qingxi River tomorrow.
Before the city lord's palace could react, Wang Yeqing and Wang Xiuwei moved Yu Xiaotan and Hongling to a newly built house in the east of the city on the night they injured Bai Liqun.
A few days ago, the City Lord's Mansion went to the old courtyard to look for anyone but failed. After struggling for several days, they managed to arrest all the other courtesans who were friends with Hong Ling.
The city lord's palace did not execute the courtesans on the spot. I heard it was to serve as a warning to others, but in fact it was just to give Wang Yeqing and the others time to react.
"These things have nothing to do with you, Sister Yueshan. I'm afraid your silk shop is not safe."
Wang Xiuwei suddenly thought of this question.
Liu Yueshan muttered: "I asked the little girl why she came to my shop. She said it was her lady who said it, and the arrester probably wanted to force Hongling and the others out."
"The oiran hopes that Hongling and Xiaotan will show up to save them?" Wang Xiuwei looked calm, with a somewhat cautious look in his eyes.
Liu Yueshan shook her head and sighed: "The oiran's name is Que Chun, but he asked Hongling Xiaotan and the others to hide it."
Wang Xiuwei suddenly thought of Aunt Liu from Xiaohonglou in Jinguan City, and said softly: "This Miss Quechun is a woman who will talk about love."
Most of the night boats on the Qingxi River were flower boats. At this time, the voices of the men on the boats were louder and reached the window. Wang Xiu faintly heard some of the wanton words and saw some people pointing here and talking and laughing, so he simply closed the door. He dropped the window and said with a cold eyebrow: "These men always scold bitches for being heartless and senseless after venting their stinking desires, but they never thought that they were just getting money for a moment of love."
Liu Yueshan agreed and said: "Friendship is priceless, can these men afford to compare their hearts with each other?"
Sitting back at the table, Wang Xiuwei poured himself a glass of sake. After sipping in silence for a moment, he invited Liu Yueshan to sit down and said with a smile: "Compared with this, Mu Qing is really a good man."
Liu Yueshan was also stunned and looked at her with a strange smile: "What? If Xiu Wei is tempted, even though there are Miss Liu and Miss Ye, I still support you in taking down this kid."
As a married woman, she finally lost the shyness in her words. Wang Xiuwei's eyes widened in silence, and his earlobes turned red at the words.
She stuck out her tongue and said, "He looks nice, but he's so horny!"
After speaking, he quickly shook his head and said seriously: "Since the oiran could guess that the silk shop was coming, and the other ones who were arrested were also possible, we should try to consider the worst case scenario when considering things. Therefore, this silk shop is in the west of the city. It can’t be opened.”
Liu Yueshan nodded: "I told that girl Wu Qing to stay at home and read these days and not to come to the shop to help."
"But wasn't that little maid taken to Hongling's side by you? If the City Lord's Mansion really came to find her, I don't think she can change her place. Otherwise, wouldn't it prove that this guess is true?"
What Liu Yueshan said made sense, but Wang Xiuwei might have put her in a dangerous place, so he said firmly: "No! Mom is right, you can't put your life and wealth on the enemy's moral bottom line."
"Moreover, the arrest of Chu Chun has shown that the city lord's mansion has no bottom line in its work."
Liu Yueshan frowned before saying anything more, but Wang Xiuwei said softly: "We promised Mu Qing that you should take good care of the house for him. As long as the contact with Jinguan City is constant, this silk shop can still be restored. It's open."
Liu Yueshan sighed and agreed to the matter. He did remember another thing. He frowned and asked, "If my brother comes back at this time and cannot contact us, will he go to the old hospital?"
"Don't worry, as long as he doesn't come back tomorrow, he will definitely not go directly to the old hospital when the news spreads. It shouldn't be difficult to contact mother by then."
At this point, Wang Xiuwei's voice gradually became lower.
Liu Yueshan glanced at her worriedly and said, "The City Lord's Mansion is clearly trying to force Madam to take action, but as long as Madam doesn't show up, there's nothing they can do."
Holding her infant child in her arms, exiled in the wilderness, and begging for food among the refugees, Liu Yueshan experienced a period of adversity, and that period of adversity has not gone far in time or memory.
She often struggles to wake up from the nightmare of endless fall. She sympathizes with those innocent people who suffer fate more than anyone else, but because of this, she understands a truth.
In troubled times, it is perfectly normal for others not to help you, because others have also tried their best to stay alive.
The person who once gave her a piece of hard steamed bun, the person who protected the child in her arms from being cooked and eaten, and Mu Qing, were all people she intended to repay with her life.
But will she lose her life because of those innocent people?
She won't.
In Liu Yueshan's impression, it was really impossible to rescue the oirans from the city lord's mansion.
Facing Wang Xiuwei's bright eyes, Liu Yueshan still felt a little ashamed for the first time. She carefully poured herself a glass of wine and drank it, saying: "Maybe Xiuwei, you will think that I am a selfish person. Maybe I can't imagine being like Mrs. How powerful such a person is, but he is still too dangerous.”
Cough, cough——
Liu Yueshan couldn't stop coughing. Wang Xiuwei reached out and patted her back. Feeling the thin shoulders, he felt a little distressed and moved: "Sister, these are all for mother's good. How could I think of sister like this?"
Liu Yueshan said: "I think Madam will go collect information, I'm afraid a decision has already been made."
Wang Xiuwei was silent and said softly: "I can't stop what my mother has decided, but fortunately she is now a master of the extraordinary level. I think it won't be too difficult to save a few people from these soldiers."
"I don't know what kind of realm the extraordinary level is." After Liu Yueshan recovered, he poured himself another glass of wine and whispered: "Xiu Wei, you have never had the experience of facing the army directly. When I was caught in the Among the refugees, they want to rush into Shule City."
The wind and frost have left an indelible mark on Liu Yueshan's eyebrows, which is most obvious when she squints her eyes to recall.
"It was a chaotic time. There should have been thousands of people storming the city gate. But in the end, those soldiers only came out with over 100 people and stopped us all outside the city gate."
"Everyone must have been hungry for many days. If you don't have the strength to rush into the city gate, it will be difficult." Wang Xiuwei was noncommittal.
"No!" Liu Yueshan drank the sake in the glass. The sake was not strong, but she frowned. "When people see hope in a desperate situation, they will really fight for their lives."
"There were many, many people who bumped directly into the knife edge. I was squeezed in at the end. When I saw this scene, I thought that these people must have been pushed forward by people from behind, but those in the first row After the person died, the people in the second row rushed forward..."
