"Xiao Qi, who are you talking to?" Liu Shichu saw Qi Zhixi and his elder brother talking in the corner of the alley again, but this time she did not leave quietly like last time, but did not leave quietly. He walked forward hesitantly and asked pretending to be curious.
"My boss?" Qi Zhixi was startled by the sudden appearance of Liu Shichu. Hearing her question, his guilty expression flashed away, and then he pretended to be calm and replied: "This is a relative from my hometown. Let’s talk if we happen to meet.”
"Oh? So they are relatives?" Liu Shichu blinked and looked at Qi Tao, "It's just that I seem to remember you saying that you don't have any relatives in the family, so you had to make a living by selling calligraphy and paintings after your father died. .”
Qi Zhixi suddenly looked confused and said, "Really? Did I say these things again? I don't remember. But this is indeed my relative. He knows that I work here and came to see me specially."
Liu Shichu said with a smile but not a smile: "You still have relatives far away from you, and the relationship seems to be pretty good? It's just that when I met you and an old servant on the road, I fainted to the ground. Why didn't you look for me at that time? Can this relative help?"
Qi Zhixi choked, rolled his eyes quickly, and then replied: "At that time, my brother happened to be an official in another place with his family. I couldn't go to him, so I fainted from exhaustion." After he finished speaking, He quietly breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead, thankful that he was smart enough to find an excuse.
When Brother Qi heard Liu Shichu say that his brother had fainted on the ground, he was already anxious and angry. He wanted to take hold of his troubled brother and teach him a lesson. But now that Liu Shichu was still there, he had to endure it. He stopped, but he still couldn't help but stare at Qi Zhixi with cold eyes.
"So that's it..." Liu Shichu saw that he was nervous and seemed to slow down his breathing for a few beats, so he kindly let him go and said, "Since it is your relative who is here to find you, you can take your relative to our tavern. Sit down, why are you meeting here secretly? I am not a malicious and harsh boss, so I will still give you this little meeting time."
"No, no need, we'll finish talking soon." Qi Zhixi said quickly. He didn't want his eldest brother and Liu Shichu to appear in the same place, otherwise he would always have to worry that his identity would be exposed.
"Okay then, it's up to you." Liu Shichu said, nodded to Brother Qi, and went back to the tavern.
"Tell me, what happened when you fainted on the road?" Brother Qi grabbed his younger brother's face and asked with a cold face.
Qi Zhixi quickly pulled his hand away and quietly looked back. When he saw Liu Shichu entering the door of the tavern, he said with a smile: "It's nothing. I was just pretending at the time. I wasn't dizzy at all."
"Why are you pretending that you're not faint? What do you want to do?" Brother Qi was so angry that his head was about to explode at this younger brother who could never guess what he wanted to do.
"Brother, don't look at me like this. I'm not doing bad things." Seeing Qi Tao waiting for him again, Qi Zhixi quickly explained,
"I just heard that my boss has opened a very strange tavern. I am curious and want to know more about it. Why don't I just pretend to be fainted on the road where my boss will pass by so that he can 'save' me? With this life-saving grace , I can stay and work in the tavern. Most people tend to have more trust in the people they have saved, so I came up with this method."
After hearing what he said, Brother Qi didn't know what to say to him. After a long time, he asked: "I see that your boss's clothes and temperament don't look like a nameless person. Which family is she from?"
Since his younger brother is working under someone else, Brother Qi has to work hard to get to know his younger brother's boss.
After hearing his question, Qi Zhixi frowned and said displeasedly: "She is not the wife of any family. She and her husband divorced two or three years ago. Her ex-husband was stationed in Liangzhou. Cui Anhua, the general who conquered the west, and his elder brother is Liu Jian, the minister of household affairs."
"Reconciled? Why did you reconcile?" After hearing what he said, Brother Qi frowned and asked doubtfully. It stands to reason that Cui Anhua is stationed outside all year round. His wife must be separated from her husband all year round and stay in Beijing to guard the whole family. Could it be that This former general’s wife can’t stand the loneliness?
Brother Qi thought of Liu Shichu's bright and beautiful appearance that he had just seen, and couldn't help but wonder. Such a charming and beautiful woman should hope that her husband can always be by her side, instead of being a widower and not being able to see her husband all year round. Right?
Unexpectedly, Qi Zhixi curled his lips disdainfully and gave him an unexpected answer: "It's not that General Cui was fond of the new and disliked the old, and was reunited with Qingmei, so he abandoned his wife who had supported his family for twenty years. It's really He is ruthless and unjust, and can easily abandon his wife who has given birth to his children and taken care of the house for many years..."
Brother Qi was immediately surprised and blurted out: "What kind of beauty must General Cui's green plum grow into before General Cui is willing to abandon his young and beautiful first wife?"
After saying that, he felt a little regretful, feeling that he should not comment on a woman's appearance casually, as it seemed disrespectful to others, but he couldn't swallow it back after the words had left his mouth, so he had to cough lightly to cover up.
Qi Zhixi did not notice his elder brother's embarrassment and still defended Liu Shichu:
"I heard that the new general's wife is not as good-looking as our boss. It's just that our boss has a strong and straightforward personality. She is not the kind of weak woman who only cries and clings to men. But General Cui only likes weak characters. , He has to make the decision in everything. His boss, who never shows weakness to others, is naturally not welcomed.
And brother, you have to admit that men are most likely to be attracted to women who are small, gentle, weak and pitiful. The women they love most regard him as their god and obey him everywhere. Our boss is not such a woman. She is the most independent. Can do it better than ordinary men.
I think that General Cui lost the watermelon and picked the sesame seeds. He mistakenly took the fish eyes for pearls and turned a blind eye to the real pearls. But that was because he was unlucky. He didn't see that our boss suddenly turned around after the earth dragon turned over last time. The situation at home was stabilized, but the new general’s wife heard that she only cried and cried and did nothing else. In the end, the boss’s son had to help her clean up the mess..."
Qi Zhixi talked endlessly about a lot of things about Liu Shichu and praised Liu Shichu unabashedly. When Brother Qi saw his expression of joy when he talked about Liu Shichu, his heart skipped a beat and he suddenly opened his eyes. My eyes widened, and I had a bad premonition: My little brother might have fallen in love with this Heli wife, right?
"Brother, what's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that? Is there something dirty on my face?" Qi Zhixi finally stopped and saw Brother Qi looking at him with a weird look on his face, so he couldn't help but touch his face , asked doubtfully.
"It's nothing." Brother Qi quickly calmed down his expression and suppressed this ridiculous conjecture in his mind.
