Chapter 18: If Life Is Only as First Seen (2)
In less than half an hour, officers and soldiers surrounded the outer building.
The prefect had a dark face: "There is a serious case in the building outside the building, so let's seal it first." β
A person dressed as a young man in Tsing Yi beside the prefect shouted: "Murder, my lord, the leader of the Qingying Sect, Duan Jinlan, unloaded the grind and killed the donkey, and killed all the branch altar masters, it's too scary." This sentence couldn't help but attract a lot of discussion from the surrounding masses.
"The case hasn't been decided yet, so I'll be quiet." The prefect of Gusu City was friendly with me and wanted to suppress the matter as much as possible, but helplessly, the reporter was noisy and shouting all the way to the sight, and then he was forced to go outside and downstairs.
The officers and soldiers were about to be ordered to enter the outer building, but they heard a thunderous roar: "Who said that Lao Tzu is dead?" β
The person who came was Bai Rusong.
This Kashiwa Matsumoto has the body of a bear, and now it is menacing, and I really feel sorry that my stairs are about to be broken by him.
I saw Bai Rusong's eyes glaring like copper bells, and he walked to the prefect with an angry face: "Who said Lao Tzu is dead?" β
The prefect looked coldly at the Tsing Yi Xiao Er, who had not had time to tremble, and had already been picked up by Bai Rusong like a chicken: "You kid dare to curse Lao Tzu to death?" You go and die first. As he spoke, a punch hit Xiao Er's face, not to mention how swollen his face was, and his teeth flew a few feet away with red flesh.
"The younger brother also wanted to give him a punch, but he didn't expect to be preempted by Brother Bai."
"If you dare to curse our brother to death, a few punches to him won't be enough."
A group of people slowly walked down the stairs again, some talking and laughing, it was none other than the altar masters of my Qingying Sect, and there were many of them.
The rumors are self-defeating.
The little Ertie in Tsing Yi blushed, gritted his teeth and didn't say anything.
"Sect Leader Duan, it's nagging, there's nothing." The prefect saw me at the corner of the stairs and greeted me with a smile.
"If the prefect is fine, bring his brothers over to sit down, what is there to chatter about." I smiled as usual, and said slowly as I went downstairs, "This person is not from the outside of my building, presumably because I invited the altar masters to poison them today." We've found the poison he used. The most poisonous and incomprehensible three-step escape. As for who behind him wants to put my Qingying Sect in a place where there is no return, and ask the prefect to uphold justice for us. β
"Who is the person behind him, why should Sect Leader Duan ask knowingly." The prefect also smiled, "However, I will let him say something good." β
Hearing this, Xiao Er, who was lying on the side, trembled, and then he spurted out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground. He actually bit his tongue and committed suicide.
I watched expressionlessly as the prefect commanded the people to clean up, and after the prefect took the people away, the crowd dispersed, and Bai Rusong behind him hugged his fists and said: "The sect leader is really so wise, he will plan to catch the old man, and he is really beautiful." β
I smiled modestly and picked up the man's tooth from the ground that had been patted by Bai Rusong. The tooth was hollowed out, and a pill inside glowed with an eerie green light. It was precisely because he had discovered the mystery in his tooth that he asked Bai Rusong to shoot it down. I handed the tooth to Liu Yicheng: "Find a beautiful box to put it, and find someone to send it to Yu Wenhua and the bookcase." "I want to sue SΓΉ Yu Wenji, I can completely stop that person's suicide and make his Yu Wenji's scandal public, but I don't want to be an enemy of his Yuwen Lord.
At least, not yet.
I slowly returned to Li Jiancheng's box on the third floor, and when he saw me coming in, he smiled at me; "It seems that Yu Wenhua will leave Jiangdu soon. Miss Duan's methods are really beautiful. β
"Then it goes without saying, big brother, you don't ask her whose brother she is." Motoyoshi sat on the side eating the pastry and said vaguely.
I only smiled slightly, and said to Li Jiancheng: "I don't know what is important for the eldest prince to visit Jiangnan, and what are his plans in the future?" β
"Oh, I came to Jiangnan this time because my father loves Jiangnan women, and he was specially ordered to come down to Jiangnan to choose beautiful women." Speaking of this funny reason, Li Jiancheng still looked like a personable gentleman like jade: "After that, of course, I have to go to Jiangdu to see off Prime Minister Yuwen." β
I don't have the heart to care about the affairs between these warlords, Li Jiancheng threw out such a lame reason, and I didn't have the heart to think about it, but I really felt that it was really interesting to go to Yu Wenhua and see him off, so I smiled and said: "The Jiangdu branch still needs to be taken care of, and I am also going to Jiangdu, I don't know if the eldest prince minds going to go with me?" β
Five days later, Yu Wenhua and left Jiangdu.
This is the first time I have seen a real person from Yu Wenhua. With a thin figure like a knife, and a slender eye like a vulture, the prime minister of the current dynasty in his age of confusion has a different depth and gloom, and the whole person is like a sharp blade. He did not ride in a carriage, but stood proudly on a tall horse, not angry but arrogant. The suffocation of his stomach here in the Qing Ming Sect didn't seem to affect him anything, but just a look of displeasure and sadness and expressionlessness, Yu Wenhua's momentum was enough to make the people around him feel a burst of fear.
I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, it turned out that this was the real behavior of the nobles of the upper class. Joy and anger are invisible, holding all the feelings in the palm of the hand, and wearing on the face is always just a face that still water flows deep and unchanged.
And with such momentum, the so-called Wuling boy in brocade clothes and angry horses can only be ashamed of himself in front of him.
And I, a Jianghu person, am nothing.
Li Jiancheng and I sat on the roof of a high-rise building near the city gate, and my face hurt from the winter wind.
Li Jiancheng saw that my face was a little stiff, and turned to me: "What's wrong?" I didn't see the appearance of Yu Wenhua and wolf bΓ¨i, so I was disappointed? β
I shook my head dumbly: "No, I didn't think he would be a wolf at all, but I felt that I was too far from these big people to match the truth." β
Li Jiancheng smiled comfortingly and said softly: "He is the prime minister of the dynasty, and he is the gate valve of the fourth and third princes. You're so small, why bother if you can't compare to him. Saying that, he stood up, purple clothes and gold crowns, Guisuke**, "The roof is too cold, let's go down." Then he stretched out his hand to me.
The fingers are slender and white as jade, just a simple gesture of reaching out, but they are also beautiful and flawless.
My heart moved, but I remembered that men and women were not from the Central Plains, so I didn't care much about this, but I hesitated after all.
After hesitating for a moment, I still reached out, but unexpectedly, he grabbed my cuff and pulled me up with skill, without even holding my wrist.
I raised my eyes and saw the teasing smile in Li Jiancheng's eyes, and I couldn't help blushing, not only because this jade gentleman rarely had such a good-looking appearance, but also because I actually had expectations in my heart just now.
So, although Li Jiancheng took a stroll around the Jiangdu Market, I was absent-minded all the way.
"What? Uncomfortable? "Li Jiancheng soon noticed my abnormality.
I turned my head to stare into his eyes, carefully confirming that he was not teasing me again, and then said lightly, "No, it's nothing." By the way, Mr. Li, I see that you are not very familiar with Jiangdu City, is it the first time you have come to Jiangnan? By the way, I digressed the topic.
"I used to come to Jiangnan to do errands, but they came and went in a hurry. It's the first time I've traveled like this. He looked at the traffic around him and said lightly, "It is said that the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is the most graceful and meticulous, and a group of big men who dance knives and guns are always out of place." β
For some reason, there was an inexplicable joy in my heart. "Wait a minute." With that, I ran away and bought two steamed buns at a roadside stall and came back, "Look. "It's just an ordinary piece of paper, wrapped in two small steamed buns, but the steamed buns are made into the shape of little pigs, round and cute and lifelike, even the expression is delicately depicted, and the tail of the curly is the finishing touch.
"It's ...... Steamed bread. Li Jiancheng had never seen such a delicate steamed bun, and he was a little stunned for a while.
"Well, steamed buns. In Jiangnan, everything from the carved fence painting building to the steamed bun shop on the street, everything is preserved in its most beautiful appearance. If the eldest prince is always preoccupied with official business and has no time to take care of the surrounding scenery, it is a pity and too monotonous. Na, although it's just roadside food, it's definitely very clean, don't mind, eldest son. With that, I picked up one of the steamed buns and ate it.
"Uh-huh." Li Jiancheng laughed sullenly. I frowned, and when I saw that his gaze was fixed on my steamed bun, I turned to look at it. It turned out that the little pig steamed bun was bitten by me from behind, and the whole face was deformed, but it turned into another cute expression with a puffed mouth, "Sure enough, things in Jiangnan are beautiful at all times." When I heard this, I turned around angrily and swallowed the steamed buns. When he turned around, Li Jiancheng was also eating piggy steamed buns. It's just a steamed bun, but he is as elegant as a meal, and he is the eldest son of Tang Gong.
There is a trace of unconvincing in my heart, but I am also the lady of the General Mansion of Mengshe Zhao, it can be said that I am the nobles of the entire southern Xinjiang, and I actually lost elegance in front of a man. So I said with bad intentions: "Eldest son, the scenery in Jiangnan is not bad." If you want to wander around the market in the future and find a group of big men strange, then please go to the Bronze Bird Pavilion to take care of my business. β
Looking forward to seeing his embarrassed expression, who knew that he smiled and said: "Tongquetai, Suo Er Qiao, in my opinion, it may not be a vulgar fan." "Gusu Tongque Pavilion, gathered in the Jiangnan Oiran, the old men of all provinces flocked to it. Li Jiancheng's words are tantamount to provocation, but when he said it, there was an unclear meaning, which made me not angry at all.
was thinking about the meaning of his words, but Li Jiancheng suddenly said: "Miss Duan, I heard that you and Yuan Ji first met at the Lelai Restaurant in Jiangdu. β
Seeing that it was almost noon, I first let go of the doubts in my heart, and secretly scolded myself for being so stupid, "Yes, Lelai Restaurant has also entered my banner, if the eldest son doesn't dislike it, can I eat there at noon?" β