When I was in high spirits, a carriage suddenly rushed down from the mountain and stopped right in front of me. What was going on? Master Dong Bamboo, even though he is an expert in flower cultivation, still feels that it is hard to save his face.
Just when he was about to get angry, he suddenly remembered, isn't this Chu's chariot?
Isn't Cui Ming, the envoy of Chu, staying with Aunt Liu on the mountain? What's going on with Chai Chai appearing here? Where is Dong Da? Where is Ding Ran?
When I was confused, I saw the car curtain opened, and someone poked his head out of the car, looking at me with bright eyes. It was Cui Ming, the Chu envoy who had tried every means to keep him. This face, I saw it several times along the way!
Master Dong Bamboo suddenly panicked, but he didn't want to be recognized by him. He rolled over and rolled down, rolled out of the bamboo shed, and fled in the night.
Ningxiang, on the other hand, was relatively calm. She straightened her messy clothes, looked at Cui Ming, and said coldly: "Who are you? Don't you know that you should not look at anything inappropriate?"
Cui Ming laughed in the sedan and said, "I see it as indecent. That little lady is having a wild fight outdoors. Is this considered polite?"
Ningxiang said: "The sky is the dome, the earth is the bed, the stars and the moon are the lamps and the trees are the tents. What does it have to do with you that my husband and I perform the courtesy of being respectful?"
Cui Ming asked: "Is that your husband?"
Ningxiang said: "What else?"
Cui Mingxiao asked: "It's not rude, so why did he run away?"
Ningxiang said: "My husband is timid by nature and is afraid of meeting strangers."
With a smile on his face, Cui Ming rubbed his hands, got out of the car, and pursed his lips to his servant. The servant drove away with a smile and waited by the woods.
Slowly walking into the bamboo shed, he leaned over to check the remaining chess pieces: "You and your wife are playing chess? You are quite elegant."
Ningxiang remained calm, tidying up the chessboard and tea sets, and said: "It's getting late, and you and I are alone in the wilderness. I'm afraid there's something wrong..."
Cui Ming sniffed it and praised: "What a fragrant tea... I am thirsty on a night trip, so I asked my lady to lend me a cup of tea to calm my thirst."
Ningxiang refuses to give it: "The tea is cooked by the young woman for her husband. I'm sorry that I can't obey my order."
Cui Ming grabbed Ningxiang's hand as she was packing the chessboard, and said with a smile: "Cui also knows a little bit about how to play chess. Why don't you, little lady, play a lottery with me so that you can relieve the loneliness in the middle of the night?"
Ningxiang pulled her hand back and said angrily: "Why are you, a foreigner, so frivolous and rude?"
Cui Ming took out a golden hairpin and placed it gently on the chessboard: "I'm going to ask a question. If the young lady can solve it, I will lose this golden hairpin to the young lady. If the young lady cannot solve it, I will only give you a cup of fragrant tea." ,nothing else needed."
This hairpin is decorated with pearl flowers and exudes faint fluorescence under the moonlight. It was made by a master craftsman from Linzi and is extremely exquisite. Ningxiang looked at Chai Zi, then at Cui Ming's smiling gaze, blinking her eyelashes, and finally hesitantly agreed: "Just tea?"
Cui Ming nodded: "Just tea."
Ningxiang cleaned up the chessboard and said, "Dear guest, please come up with a question."
Cui Ming immediately picked up the pieces and laid them out. More than twenty pieces fell down with a snap, and his posture was extremely cool: "Please solve the problem, Madam."
Ningxiang thought about it for a long time and tried to make a move, but was killed by Cui Ming in an instant. She was so angry that she bit her lip and poured tea for Cui Ming. Cui Ming drank it with a smile.
Ningxiang was not convinced and said: "Come again, this time I will give the question."
Cui Ming said: "Enough tea."
Ningxiang asked: "Then what do you want?"
Cui Mingdao: "If Cui wins, I hope the lady will tell her her name."
Ningxiang agreed and immediately posed a life-or-death question. Cui Mingxin broke it, and Ningxiang had to name it angrily.
If there is one, there will be three, but Cui Ming lost in the third game. Cui Ming personally put a gold hairpin on Ningxiang, and took out an exquisite bronze mirror for her to look at. Ningxiang looked at herself in the mirror, His face was extremely shy.
Cui Mingdao: "This bronze mirror was made by the beloved disciple of Pan Shi, a great craftsman in Linzi. Cui Guan Ningxiang, the lady, is also a practitioner. This thing is the most useful. Why not try it again?"
Ningxiang was immediately moved: "What does Mr. Cui want to win? The little woman can also play the flute. Sir, would you like to listen to the flute?"
Cui Ming said with a smile: "Miss Ningxiang is willing to play the flute, that's what I want! But Cui is more willing to reward Miss Ningxiang for her waist. If Miss Ningxiang loses, just wear the skirt. Don't worry. Cui will never take action."
"Ah, I lost..."
"I also invited Miss Ningxiang to go to Luoqun..."
"Ah...lost again..."
"Please also ask Miss Ningxiang to take off her obscene clothes..."
"no, do not want……"
"Then I'll spare the little lady this time and only take off my socks..."
"Ah, why did you lose again?"
"I can't do this anymore. Please take off your obscene clothes..."
In this game after game, although Cui Ming lost the gold hairpin and the bronze mirror, Ningxiang also lost the skirt, obscene clothes and socks, leaving only a bellyband hanging and a cloak outside. But it was a short cloak, which made Cui Ming even more daydreaming.
Under the rocks in the distance, Master Dong Bamboo Shoots, Ding Ran, and Dong Da, who had returned, were peeking at each other. The three of them looked at each other, not knowing what to say.
After a long time, Master Dongzhan swallowed: "This time I lost all my bellybands..."
Dong Da was thoughtful: "So Cui likes Ningxiang? But I have always felt that Qiaoqiao is the best!"
Ding Ran shook his head: "That's not the case, there must be something fishy about it. Qiaoqiao and Aunt Liu are both top-notch people. Even if they are not the best in their hearts, how can they control the ones who come to their door on their own initiative? At one point, I thought that this Chu Even though he is a good man, right now...it just doesn't make sense!"
While thinking, he called Zhang Xiaokeng, his subordinate who was hiding behind him, to him: "Xiaokeng, go to Qiaoqiao and Aunt Liu to find out what they talked about at that time. Write it down for me, word for word."
Zhang Xiaokeng agreed and went, but Dong Da asked, "When will my husband's family come forward to catch an adulterer?"
Ding Ran shook his head: "Wait a moment, sit down and come forward again... No, shopkeeper, did Chu Shi see your face clearly just now?"
Master Dongsun said with a grimace: "How do I know? Anyway, I tried my best."
Just as he was talking, the carriage next to the forest started to drive. Cui Ming picked up Ningxiang wrapped in his cloak and got on the carriage. The carriage turned around and went to Cuilin Villa again.
Although accidents occurred frequently, the situation finally developed in the originally planned direction, and several people quickly followed behind and returned to the villa.
When a blushing cry rang out in Ningxiang's room, Dong Da rushed in according to the original plan and pretended to be her husband's family to catch the traitor. The performance of this fairy dance was to make Chu Shi unsuspecting. Due to the circumstances, he was detained in the villa for seven or eight days to buy time for Wu Sheng to refine his elixir.
But Dong Da rushed in and retreated not long after, saying with a bitter smile: "The envoy of Chu said that I am not my husband's family, so I asked my husband's family to come forward in person to discuss it. Fortunately, Ningxiang is smart and said that I am the seventh uncle and grandpa..."
At this moment, Ding Ran could only urge: "Shopkeeper, he has recognized you. If you want to avoid making him suspicious, you, the shopkeeper, have to come forward in person."
Master Dongsun was helpless, thinking that when the time came to check the elixir, he would just hide far away, so he bravely entered the house.
After a cup of tea, Master Dong Bamboo and Dong Da came out of the house, and the blushing sound sounded again in the house.
The two informed Ding Ran of the situation just now:
"He reported his identity and gave me hardware. He said he would stay at Cuilin Villa for a few days, so..."
"My seventh uncle and grandpa also got two golds. He didn't plan to leave anyway, so Dong didn't take action..."
Ding Ran was carefully looking at the bamboo slips sent by Zhang Xiaokeng. The bamboo slips recorded Cui Ming's conversation in Qiaoqiao and Aunt Liu's room. The conversation was very brief and clear at a glance. The only similarity between the two conversations was Cui Ming's question. talk--
Does the lady have a husband?
