After a feast, the guests and hosts went their separate ways, and the mansions went from busy to silent, and at last most of them were shrouded in darkness, with only one or two lanterns hanging to illuminate them. The same is true of the big mansion in the Xu family's room, the front door and the corner door have long been closed, and there is no movement at the back door, as if they are all asleep. The clouds in the night sky gradually thickened, and as time passed, the starlight and moonlight disappeared, and the sky was cloudy as if it was going to rain.

I don't know how long it took, there was a slight sound of movement from the back door, and it didn't take long for the door to slowly open, and a person poked his head out to spy on the movement, and then he called softly to the back, and after a while, three people came out one after another, and a person in the door poked out his head and whispered hello, and then closed the door, and after a while there was the sound of the lower door latch.

It wasn't until he walked out of the dark back alley that a little guy found out the fire fold and lit it, and lit a glass lantern in his hand that was not afraid of the wind. Under the dim light, Xu Jin's face was cloudy, and he was standing at the intersection in a daze. After a while, the little guy next to him saw that this was not the case, and suddenly stepped forward and asked, "Young master, it seems that it is going to rain, should we not go too far?" ”

"Hmph, when will it be your turn to call the shots for me?"

Hearing this, the little guy with the lantern immediately smiled and said, "Young master, don't listen to his nonsense, I haven't seen rain for so long, it's a good thing that it's really going to rain...... By the way, should we go to Qingping Tower to listen to the music, or go to Wangjiang Tower to watch the dance, or go to Yinyue Tower to try our luck, and arrange it immediately for the small ones? ”

"Young master, I want to watch Xiao Niangzi dance, you can do it too?"

Xu Jin sneered, and when he saw that the two little guys were sneering, he left impatiently with his hands behind his back. But after walking two steps, he remembered that the stable was locked tonight because of his father's and brother's orders, and there was no car at night, so he didn't want to just walk to the Qinhuai River to have fun, so he stopped in a hurry. He was annoyed when he heard the faint sound of horses' hooves behind him, and soon a carriage came out of the darkness of the night.

When he got closer, the carriage stopped suddenly, followed by the coachman who got out of the car and opened the door without saying a word, and neatly rolled up most of the curtains, followed by the inside and smiled: "Is it Xu Sangongzi?" ”

"Who are you?" Xu Jinzheng was full of breath, snorted coldly and walked up, looked into the carriage, he recognized the person by the small lamp inside, and was stunned for a moment. Although he was short-tempered, he had met twice with his father and brother, so he hurriedly arched his hand and said, "It turned out to be Mr. Luo, I'm sorry, the kid is clumsy, I didn't expect it to be you......"

"Virtuous nephew, what's polite, come up and talk!"

The people in the car chuckled and spoke, and the horseman immediately took out the pedals and put them in front of the car, Xu Jin only hesitated, and immediately bent down and got into the car. Seeing that the coachman put away the pedals and drove the carriage forward, his two little men hurriedly followed, and the pair chased all the way to panting, only hating that his father and mother gave him two legs less.

In the carriage, after greetings and other clichés, Mr. Luo looked at Xu Jin and said, "I heard everything about tonight." ”

Xu Jinyuan came out to distract himself, and when he heard someone mention tonight's incident again, his face sank suddenly, but he didn't show it too much in front of Mr. Luo, so he had to snort lightly: "I don't know if the loser found a poor sour man to say a few words, and let those many people praise him, is there no good word in the world?" ”

"Virtuous nephew, if it is just two crooked words, naturally no one cares about it, but there is a way to see people by words, and from this word, you can see a person's ambition and even situation." Speaking of this, the goose feather fan in Mr. Luo's hand suddenly stopped, and then said word by word, "Unless you have suffered a big setback, you have a big opportunity to take power after a big setback, or you are a person in power, you can't do such a word!" ”

Boom -

Despite being in the carriage, Xu Jin still felt the dazzling white light, and the subsequent boom made him suddenly feel excited. The white light reflected Mr. Luo's smiling face, which actually caused him to shudder again. After a long time, he said unwillingly: "According to Mr. Luo, you say so, could it be that this matter is just settled?" ”

"Of course not." Mr. Luo leaned forward and moved closer to Xu Jin, and his voice was extremely low for a while, "No matter who that one is, I don't care about it for many years, I want to have limited friendships." In this case, there is no room for doing things absolutely, and it will be difficult for others to interfere. For example, instead of spending a lot of money to buy the house of the old man Xu Liang, why don't you ......?"

Mr. Luo shook the goose feather fan and made a gesture, seeing that Xu Jin was stunned for a moment, he didn't pay attention to his stupidity, and shook the feather fan lightly and said: "According to the law, even if you are unintentional, you will be flogged forty, as for the heavier one, it will be flogged fifty, and as for the biggest sin, that is hanging." Of course, there is a moat around the palace, and it would be too much to do that, but now that there is thunder outside, it must not be long before it rains. As long as the weather is still wet, it can be controlled naturally, does the third prince think so? ”

Although Xu Jin has been bold since he was a child, he cursed the girl next to his mother at the age of thirteen, went to the casino outside at the age of fourteen and saw a gambler with red eyes who lost cut off two fingers in one go, and stole the reddest lightboat on the Qinhuai River at the age of fifteen, but even with a surname like him, in the face of Mr. Luo's quiet and silent design, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and it took a while to swallow a mouthful of saliva.

"Didn't Mr. Luo always deal with my father and my eldest brother?"

"Your dad is old." Mr. Luo sighed, and seeing that Xu Jin was all right when he heard this, he shook his head again and said, "As for your eldest brother, there is more than enough to be safe and enterprising, and I am afraid that the top of the imperial examination is the top of the show." Although you don't study, you have an impulse, and getting the title of a prisoner and taking care of the family's property is better than studying hard all your life? Moreover, you made a joke in public tonight, and this arrow is ......"

After the thunder at the beginning, the lightning and thunder outside never stopped, but it was never as good as the thunder at the beginning. Gradually, a light rain began to fall, and the two little men behind the carriage were out of breath, and when they were about to hit the street, the carriage finally stopped. When Xu Jin got out of the carriage, the two wanted to meet them, but their instinctive reaction was to sit on the ground. However, Xu Jin didn't look at his two unproductive little guys, just stared at the car.

"Don't worry, the virtuous nephew is ready to say, and the horse is difficult to chase."

"Good!"

Although the rain was not small, Xu Jin pushed away the oil-paper umbrella handed over by the coachman with one hand, and turned around and walked into the dense rain curtain. Faced with this scene, the two little guys looked at me, even if they wailed in their hearts, they had to get up and staggered after them. The carriage stopped there for a long time, and only after a while did it slowly move again. In a quiet alley, the carriage stopped at the door of a house, but the coachman did not knock on the door, but opened the door and rolled up the curtain.

"This kind of means does not seem to be the usual style of the gentleman."

Bending down to step on the stirrups and getting out of the car, and hiding his body under the oil-paper umbrella, Mr. Luo first lovingly sorted out the folds on his shirt, but first yawned lazily.

"This is not for the sake of the loser, but for Xu Liang, if it weren't for such a trivial matter of the Xu family, I don't know that the bad old man actually has some origins. Someone in the capital can't live long, and someone in Jinling is scheming, since Zhao has taken over the matter, why don't I push it? It is said that the verbal battle has become more and more fierce these days. The four gentlemen of the southern capital relied on the clear stream, chasing those eunuch children all day long, and their children also followed suit, and the water became more and more muddy. Zhao Zhizhi is also a clear stream, and he will stir it up together, and if he doesn't end this matter as soon as possible, he is afraid that he will have many dreams at night. Of course, I was very interested in the guy who wrote for the loser. If you can force people out, that's great! ”

When the last sentence was spoken, Mr. Luo's face showed a deep look of admiration, and he murmured softly: "I don't know what kind of talent and color ...... such lofty and ambitious words."