"Are you ready for the things to be used for the lantern festival tonight?"
Liu Rushi opened the door and walked in, frowning and looking at the two of them with a strange look.
Pan Xiaoxian seemed to have done something bad and stood beside the bed sternly.
Zhang Fengyi was lying on the bed, although she didn't take off her clothes, she was in a shameful posture.
"What are you..."
Liu Rushi walked over and glanced at Pan Xiaoxian, who was suddenly embarrassed, and then at Zhang Fengyi, who was blushing: "Did you fight?"
"No no."
Pan Xiaoxian quickly explained: "Zhang Fengyi said she was a little tired and lay down on the bed to rest. This Zen room is where we work. It doesn't matter if I leave or not, so it's embarrassing."
Zhang Fengyi stared and was about to say who was sick, but then she thought that Liu Rushi couldn't know what happened in the room between the two of them just now.
Zhang Fengyi could only say angrily: "I am indeed a little tired."
If any man saw the two people's reactions, they would suspect that Pan Xiaoxian and Zhang Fengyi had done nothing good in the room just now.
Liu Rushi had no doubts because she knew very well that Zhang Fengyi naturally hated men and was not interested in men.
Liu Rushi said with concern: "Then you should have a good rest. My cousin and I will go out and check the things used for the night."
Zhang Fengyi didn't want to see Liu Rushi hanging out with a man. She struggled to stand up. She was so weak that she could only say coldly: "Don't think about taking advantage. Although you and Liu Rushi are cousins, she is not something you can Climb high.”
Liu Rushi gave her a reassurance: "It's broad daylight now, Jiming Temple is full of incense and people are everywhere, how dare my cousin take advantage."
Zhang Fengyi watched the two people leave the room, still uneasy, because she had already marked Pan Xiaoxian as a bad guy in her heart.
Especially when Pan Xiaoxian secretly licked her long and sensitive legs.
Definitely not a good person.
Pan Xiaoxian followed Liu Rushi and began to walk towards the place where the lantern festival was held in the evening. He was silent along the way, recalling Zhang Fengyi's words about being unworthy.
He didn't want to admit it in his heart, but he had to admit that Zhang Fengyi was telling the truth.
As a low-level leader of a department in the county, I am indeed not worthy of a female mayor.
This female mayor took him to see the world and often taught him some official rules. It was already a great honor.
How dare you dream of marrying the female mayor one day?
Liu Rushi had been wearing blue official uniform during this period, avoiding a lot of trouble. All the men he met along the way looked at Pan Xiaoxian with envy.
No man dared to come over to strike up a conversation, and could only watch the rumored Jinling Twelve Beauties Liu Rusui from a distance.
"That kid had no idea how much virtue he had accumulated in his last life, and he was actually able to work beside Liu Rushi."
"If I could trade with that boy, I would live ten years shorter."
"Live ten years less? I'm willing to spend three thousand taels of silver just to have a meal with Liu Rushi, let alone stay with Liu Rushi."
When Pan Xiaoxian heard the envious voices of the people around him, his depression quickly disappeared and he felt much better.
Most of these people were rich people and high-ranking officials, and they all looked at him with envy.
There is nothing in the world that is more satisfying than having a group of people whose status far exceeds yours feel envious of you.
Pan Xiaoxian raised his chest and raised his head, followed Liu Rushi, and walked towards the outside of Jiming Temple.
The further he walked, the more something felt wrong.
Jiming Temple is built on the mountain next to Xuanwu Lake. No one dares to cut firewood near Jiming Temple. The nearby mountains and forests are very dense.
Liu Rushi's direction gradually changed, no one was around, and the environment gradually became quieter.
Pan Xiaoxian glanced at the surrounding environment and asked cautiously: "Are we going to the back mountain?"
Liu Rushi said calmly: "The back mountain is where some of the old concubines in the palace practice. Generally, no one dares to break in. Even the eunuchs from the East Factory around Eunuch Huang don't dare to break in. It's a hidden place where they won't be monitored." Place."
After the new emperor ascends the throne, the first thorny issue he has to face is dealing with the concubines left by the old emperor.
No matter how big the harem is, the palace where the concubines live is limited. Only the old ones can move out so the new ones can live in it.
There are generally two ways for a new emperor to deal with the concubines left by the old emperor. One is to send them to the imperial mausoleum to keep vigil for the old emperor, and the other is to send them to some specific temples to accompany them with the ancient Buddha of Qingdeng from now on.
There were very few temples that concubines could go to. As the capital of Jinling, there were only two temples that could accept concubines.
One is Dabaoen Temple and the other is Jiming Temple.
As the two of them got closer and closer to the back mountain, Pan Xiaoxian asked tentatively: "You brought me to the back mountain, didn't you want to continue to borrow..."
Pan Xiaoxian was worried that someone would eavesdrop, so he didn't finish the word "borrow", but the meaning was very clear.
Liu Rushi said calmly: "You guessed it right, we just want to continue borrowing seeds. As long as we go to the back mountain, we don't have to worry about being discovered."
Pan Xiaoxian suddenly understood: "No wonder the female students are clamoring to go to Jiming Temple for an outing. You ignored the objections of all the officials of the Imperial College and agreed to this matter. It turned out to be a cover for you."
Liu Rushi glanced at Pan Xiaoxian, said nothing, and continued walking forward with him.
Just a glance.
Pan Xiaoxian felt an inexplicable pressure from his boss, who was also the mayor.
Pan Xiaoxian could taste Liu Rushi's taste and enjoy the pleasure of having sex with one of Jinling's twelve beauties, and felt very excited.
He was so excited that he didn't even know his last name.
After a brief period of excitement, Pan Xiaoxian felt miserable, thinking only about how to get rid of this borrowed seed.
Borrowing seeds is indeed a good thing.
He was afraid that Eunuch Feng would suspect him.
For eunuchs who do all kinds of evil, no evidence is needed, only suspicion is enough.
Unless he climbed to the position of the prefect of Jinling, the Dongchang run by Eunuch Feng's godson Huang Eunuch, if he casually framed Pan Xiaoxian for any crime, he would be directly arrested and imprisoned without trial.
When Pan Xiaoxian thought about the prison, the hairs all over his body stood up. This was a more terrifying place than the eighteenth level of hell.
As long as he goes to prison and is subjected to the ten tortures in turn, death will be a luxury.
Pan Xiaoxian did not dare to refuse Liu Rushi, so he could only follow behind, racking his brains to think about how to avoid borrowing money this time.
Pan Xiaoxian walked through a winding mountain road, and suddenly a large flat open space suddenly opened up in front of him.
Many houses were built on the vacant land, but there was only one simple house without even a yard.
There are some chickens and ducks raised around the house, and there is also a small pond with many live fish in it.
The concubines living in the back mountain range in age. The younger ones are only fifteen or sixteen years old, while the older ones are only thirty or forty years old.
Two people suddenly came to the back mountain. The concubines didn't even look at them, they were busy with their own affairs.
Liu Rushi said: "We're here, let's go into the house quickly."
