Cui Zuyao, who had been running back and forth all night, collapsed on the bed. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Xiao Gongzi who lived at home just now suddenly sent someone to chase him back, because the person behind the scenes came with new instructions, so he had no choice but to give up the decision to stay at the manor overnight and hurried back.

Thinking of Xiao Siqi's beautiful face, Cui Zuyao felt bored for a while, as if there was a fire hidden in his body, which made him unbearable, he was a little disappreciative of the words of the son surnamed Xiao at home, what "she is fiercer than a tiger, more cunning than a fox", what can a woman do even if she has some ability, this is Lushun City, not Suzhou City, and two thousand sons under the command of a guerrilla general will be afraid of a woman?

So he didn't kill Xiao Siqi according to Xiao Gongzi's instructions, but sent his right-hand man butler Cui Hao to lead the cronies in the guerrilla camp to Wanghailou to kidnap her and hide her in the manor in the southern suburbs.

At the age of almost forty, he has long lost the ambition of the past, and now he just wants to live this kind of life of making a fortune and playing with women, he is very picky about women, except for the original partner who is marrying the early Ming media, the other four-room concubines are all obtained by him through various means, all of them are charming people, but they are too far behind Xiao Siqi. I wanted to take the opportunity to take it for myself tonight, but the instructions of the people behind me had to obey, backers and women? Of course, he will choose to be a backer, not to mention that this is not a conflict, it is just a matter of possessing her a few days later.

Thinking of the news conveyed by Xiao Gongzi just now, Cui Zuyao was still slightly surprised, he didn't expect the situation to change instantly.

The Tartars are moving again! That person hoped that this batch of goods would be transported to Jinzhou Nanguan for handover as soon as possible, otherwise it would be a little difficult to transport this batch of goods when the Tartar movement caused tension in the border army.

He remembered the letter that Xiao Gongzi brought to him, and he was a little hesitant and uneasy in his heart.

There is no problem with the smuggling trade with the Tartars, many high-ranking generals of the Ming Border Army are involved, Mao Wenlong has even been in direct contact with the Tartars, and he has also carried out small-scale smuggling in private, and he has also received silver to take care of the smuggling of other merchants, but if he wants to completely surrender to the Tartars, is it necessary?

Cui Zuyao believes that the vague exhortation in the letter is not Yuan Chonghuan's own intention, it should be the person's own intention, maybe Yuan Chonghuan himself doesn't know that his generals have begun to work for Houjin, but he will not denounce it, because it is not good for himself.

No matter what, he won't go to Tartar for the time being, and he shuddered when he thought of Mao Wenlong's blood-stained head. But you must also maintain a relationship with that person, and if there is an accident, it is also a way back.

After some discussion with that Xiao Gongzi, it was better to send this batch of goods away tomorrow, and in order to avoid the suspicion of others, it is more appropriate to transport it during the day, and the suspicion of transporting it at night is too great, and it is easy to be suspicious.

After arranging everything, Cui Zuyao also felt a little tired, and he didn't even have the mood to go to the concubine in the fifth room, so he fell asleep while thinking about things.

At this time, the sky was almost dawn, ten miles away on the outskirts of the city, Han Yue and Xue Hu also found Xue Yan lurking around the manor, Han Yue simply told Xue Yan the plan, the three of them discussed, and finally decided to keep Xue Hu's uncle and nephew in the manor to continue to monitor and protect Xiao Siqi's safety, Xue Hu sneaked into the manor, and Xue Yan took care of it in the woods outside the manor.

Han Yue returned to Wanghai Tower to arrange other matters.

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The soft light of the morning light penetrated the window, and Xiaoru, the personal maid, pushed the door in with toiletries, and was startled when she saw Ji Manru with a haggard face, and hurriedly asked worriedly: "Fifth lady... You... What's wrong with you? ”

Ji Man smiled and said that he was fine, in fact, he just didn't sleep all night, thinking of what happened last night, Ji Man felt like he was dreaming.

"That's... Then Han Gongzi can't be in a dream. Ji Manru thought so in his heart, a little apprehensive, a little uneasy, and a little happy.

The maid Xiaoru saw that she seemed to have something on her mind, and knew that it was not good to ask, so she just went forward to serve her to freshen up.

Soon, Ji Manru, who had been dressed up again, swept away the haggard appearance that had not slept all night, and regained her charm and charm, she was only seventeen years old, and her fair skin became more and more radiant.

Thinking of the agreement with the Han Gongzi last night, Ji Manru pretended to ask casually: "Xiaoru, is the master back?" ”

"Well, I heard from Geng Huyuan this morning that the master came back not long after he went out last night." Xiao Ru didn't feel Ji Manru's abnormality.

Ji Manru didn't expect Cui Zuyao to go out and come back in the middle of the night, and he was a little scared when he remembered that he secretly walked into the secret room of the study last night.

"Is the old man up?" Ji Manru continued to ask Xiaoru

"Get up, I came out early in the morning with Steward Cui and a lot of people from Geng Nursing Home, and the maid has never seen the master get up so early." Xiao Ru helped Ji Manru sort out her headdress while pouting casually.

Hearing the news that Cui Zuyao left early in the morning with the housekeeper to protect the hospital, Ji Manru's heart tightened, but his face pretended to be nothing.

"Xiaoru, how do I usually treat you?"

The maid Xiaoru didn't know why the fifth lady suddenly asked this, so she stopped what she was doing and thought about it and said, "Madame treats Xiaoru like a sister, if Madame doesn't care about it, Xiaoru... Xiao Ru maybe..."

Hearing Xiao Ru's tone suddenly choked up, the hand that arranged the headdress for himself began to tremble uncontrollably, Ji Manru was also very distressed, if she hadn't begged Cui Zuyao at the beginning, Xiao Ru might have been given to Liu Qian in the guerrilla camp as a concubine at the age of fourteen.

In fact, it may be a blessing for people who are maids to be able to become Mr. Qian's concubine, but Mr. Liu Qian is excepted, because he is notoriously tyrannical, even more cruel than Cui Zuyao.

Last year, a peasant girl went into the city with her elderly father, but was bumped into by the drunken Liu Renji, and took the girl on the horse on the spot, which is nothing, that Liu Renji actually stripped the poor girl on the horse by means of alcohol, and then humiliated the **** while riding a horse, and when the girl was tortured to death, he snatched a spear to stab the girl through the drunkenness, picked it in his hand and cheered, the girl's father was trampled to death by the war horse in order to save his daughter.

Although this incident caused some public resentment in the end, it happened that the governor of Denglai came to Lushun City to inspect and was stopped by the girl's family to complain, but Cui Zuyao was only forced to symbolically fight Liu Renji's dozens of military sticks under pressure. A month later, the girl's home was burned to the ground, and all seven members of the family were burned to death......

There is such a nursery rhyme in Lushun City: King Zhao Yan, Liu Crazy Demon, and the living Yama in Lushun City. Among them, the Yoo Mad Demon is Yoo In-ki.

Not long after Ji Manru first entered the mansion, Liu Renji saw Xiaoru when he saw Cui Zuyao, and begged Cui Zuyao for a reward, and was finally bumped into by her, thinking about what happened to him, and didn't want Xiaoru to repeat the mistakes of the past, so he begged Cui Zuyao to give her to him as a personal maid. Because she had just entered the mansion at that time, in order to accept her heart, Cui Zuyao took some extra care of her, and agreed to her request, which undoubtedly dragged Xiaoru out of the sea of suffering.

"Xiaoru, if you are asked to do something for me and can't tell anyone, are you willing?" Ji Manru took Xiao Ru's trembling hand and comforted her softly.

Xiao Ru is a simple-minded girl, seeing Ji Manru say this, she hurriedly walked to her and knelt down, said with red and swollen eyes: "The fifth lady saved Xiao Ru from the sea of fire, Xiao Ru can't repay Madame's great kindness for the rest of her life, what Madame asks Xiao Ru to do, Xiao Ru will go even if she fights hard." ”

"That's good." Ji Manru stroked Xiao Ru's head and looked at her like a big sister: "Xiao Ru, in the future, don't call me Fifth Lady in private, call me sister." ”

"Sister!" Xiao Ru hugged Ji Manru's slender thighs and cried and laughed.

Ji Manru hugged her into her arms, like a sister hugging her beloved sister.