"You may not know that in the palace, you can't ask questions casually, especially this very sensitive question. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Song Quinoa whispered to Carol, "Sometimes it can lead to death!" ”

"Oh? Is it that serious? Carol's eyes widened in surprise.

"Of course." Ge Quinoa looked around cautiously again, lowering her voice further.

"I'm really sorry if my question has caused you trouble, my dear 'little wit'......" Carol said apologetically.

"Still, for the sake of our friendship, I'm willing to satisfy your little curiosity." Gonoa blinked, smiled mischievously, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "I'm only telling you one person, don't spread the word......"

"Thank you, dear......" Carol nodded gratefully.

"Do you know Earl Lin Yiqing, right?"

"You know, I read about him in the newspapers, he was a brave knight with a sense of justice, leading the oppressed Japanese people to rise up against the tyranny of the Japanese government. His story is widely circulated in the United States, and many people know it. ”

"He is now visiting Europe as an envoy of the emperor of our country, and he has many wives, and the woman named Li Sizhu is one of his wives, who now lives in Beijing and does not go to Europe with him."

"Why did the Queen Mother mention her name? And he got angry......"

"That's because an official played to the queen mother, saying that she was the daughter of Li Yiwen, the leader of the long-haired bandits."

"Long-haired rebels? Are you talking about the Kingdom of Heaven? ”

"That's right, Li Yiwen, also known as Li Xiucheng, was the leader of the bandits back then, one of the famous anti-kings, and his name was very famous."

"I've heard of him, Li Xiucheng, and I've heard that there were many Americans who fought under him back then."

"Count Lin is the queen mother's celebrity, Li Sizhu was the adopted daughter of Lord Shen Youdan, the governor of Liangjiang, and promised to marry Lord Shen to Lord Lin as a concubine, and the queen mother also knew about it at the beginning, but now there are officials who say that Count Lin married the daughter of the thief in the past, and he has a heart of disobedience, can the queen mother not be angry?"

"I see...... But I listened to the meaning of the Queen Mother's words, and there is no evidence to prove that Li Sizhu is Li Xiucheng's daughter, right? Besides, after so much time, she was just a little girl back then, what can she know? Can't just because she is Li Xiucheng's daughter and Count Lin married her, just say that Count Lin has a rebellious heart, right? This inference is ridiculous! It was unfair to both Count Lin and Li Sizhu. ”

"You are an American, you don't know the rules of our big cadres, although the officials of the imperial historians are small, but they can impeach the big officials, and you don't have to talk about any evidence, here we call it 'rumors and rumors'."

"It's ridiculous, if you don't talk about the credentials, wouldn't you be able to frame others casually? So what fairness and justice is there? ”

"You know that, but don't talk nonsense! Now the queen mother is worried about this matter, she trusts Count Lin, and she definitely doesn't believe that he has rebellious intentions, but if Li Sizhu is the daughter of the anti-king is true, she must give the officials a decision, and it is likely that Count Lin will be convicted. Alas, Earl Lin is in Europe at this time, and I don't think he knows that such a big disaster has happened in Beijing......"

Hearing that Ge Quinoa seemed to be sympathetic to Lin Yiqing's plight, Carol's heart was slightly relieved: after all, among the barbarian subjects of this ancient Eastern Empire where the rule of law was not very prosperous, there was still conscience, sympathy, and kindness.

The next day, as if nothing had happened, the Queen Mother let Carol draw for a while after taking a nap, and then sent a message to prepare a boat for a trip to the lake. Accompanied by the queen and the princesses, plus the usual long line of attendants and eunuchs behind, they entered the courtyard of the throne room, passed through a small palace, and led to the beautiful white marble platform. The platform is enclosed by a quaintly carved white marble parapet that runs along the southern shore of the lake. The Empress Dowager's own pleasure boats were moored at the foot of the white marble steps, and other pleasure boats and other boats were clustered around, forming a small fleet. The Queen Mother walked down the steps and got on the boat, followed by the Queen Mother, the princess, and the female officials. The Empress Dowager sat down on a throne-like yellow chair in the center of the boat's protruding platform, and the Empress, princesses, and female officials took their seats, as has been the tradition for centuries. The high platform was carpeted, and on the carpet were mats, on which they sat on.

After stepping onto the high platform, the Queen Mother motioned for Carol to come closer and sit on her right. The queen was to her left. Several big eunuchs stood behind her with spare clothes, candy, cigarettes, hookahs, etc., from the queen mother. There are two oarsmen on this boat, holding long oars in their hands to control the direction. The boat was towed by thick yellow ropes on two boats with 24 oarsmen each. Only the highest-ranking eunuchs, that is, her personal attendants, cruised with the Queen Mother, and the two shipwrights were only needed to sail the ship. All the oarsmen in the palace rowed standing because they could not sit in front of the Queen Mother, even if they were not in the same boat as her. Only on the Empress Dowager's cruise ship can the Empress and the female officials sit uninvited in front of the Empress Dowager.

Several flat-bottomed boats followed the Empress Dowager's pleasure boats, and the eunuchs on board were the same as the emperors and empress dowagers usually followed as they walked around the palace. One of them contained all the necessities for a small stove and tea, because the queen mother and the female officials often drank tea, and it was available whenever they wanted.

The boat paddled across the lake and landed on an island. Looking back, the palace, the archway, the mountain with the temple, the bizarre jade belt bridge, and the beautiful white marble platform jutting into the lake are like a fairyland. Then the boat rowed into a lotus swing with beautiful lotus flowers, and the queen mother ordered the eunuchs to pick some lotus flowers for the female officials. Carol's heartfelt admiration for this beautiful aquatic plant that the people of Qianguo valued seemed to delight her. After an hour of swimming, they were returned to the starting point and disembarked. This time, the princess and the female officials got off the boat first, and stood and waited to welcome the queen mother ashore. After the Queen Mother had dinner, she invited Carol to dine with the Queen and the ladies at the table in her throne room. After the meal, Carol took her leave and returned to her residence outside the palace.

Throughout the day, the Queen Mother was in a good mood, and there was no trace of gaffe the day before, but Carol somehow always felt a little uneasy.

She had a premonition that a storm was coming.

Beijing City, Bada Hutong, Drunken Star Building

"You come back to me!" Lin Deli slapped the table and yelled, "Master wants to play with a girl*, can't you find it?" ”

The old * bustard was respectful of Wan Fu, but replied in a tone of voice: "Yo...... Master Lin is so angry today. It's really not that you don't give face to Master Lin, Chu Liu, this girl was ransomed and bought a few days ago, and now she is working alone in Nancheng, and she is no longer a person from Bada Hutong. ”

"I'll just ask you." Lin Deli lightly tapped his fingers on the table, "Hatsuliu, is she still not a sister now?" Has she ever been discharged? ”

"Still. No. The old bustard replied.

"Then me to find her current master!" Linde slapped the table with force, "Buy her a night out on the street!" Money is as he asks! ”

"With Master Lin's words, it's easy to do things below." The old bustard smiled and withdrew.

Zuixing Building and Yannian Hall are on the left and right sides of Li Tiegui Street, not only door-to-door and face-to-face, but also pavilions, and they are also first-class and expensive storefronts on this street. The difference is that Zuixing Lou is famous for its dishes and relying on the flower street behind it, which can be used to do greeting and sending business by the way. There are all kinds of dishes in Tingtao Restaurant, the ingredients are expensive and ordinary, legal and illegal, and the golden sign of the restaurant is: only what you can't think of, nothing I can't make. Therefore, most of the guests are wealthy businessmen in Beicheng, and it is a place for them to show their strength and compare with each other. The dishes of Zuixinglou are average, not good or bad, famous is wine, good wine and bad wine, famous wine and bad wine. The Drunken Star Building also has a gold-lettered signboard: there is only wine you can't afford to drink, and there is no wine you can't drink.

Many people wonder, why didn't the Yannian Pavilion also get some good wine and squeeze down the Drunken Star Tower? Why didn't Zuixing Lou replace its own chef with a celebrity chef and collapse the Yannian Pavilion?

In response to this question, Zeng Mimi, the shopkeeper of the Yannian Pavilion, said with a smile: "Haven't you heard the phrase 'the drunkard's intention is not to drink'? The gentlemen who came to the Yannian Pavilion were either looking for fun, or throwing silver, giving them good wine to drink, and not pouring the elixir and jade liquid into the stinky ditch? ”

The manager of the Drunken Star Building also replied happily: "People who love to drink are afraid that the vegetables will spoil the taste of wine, so give them good dishes to eat, don't they use delicious delicacies as grass to feed the cows?" Wait for yourself to get drunk for half a catty, if you can still climb into the bed of the girls, I will give it to you in the drunken star building. ”

"Let him you, you will go!" Lindley felt that everyone couldn't get along with him today, and even if he wanted to drink comfortably, someone would take care of him. Say that the Yannian Pavilion and the Drunken Star Building are peers, and the peers are enemies, and the wine of the Drunken Star Building does not enter the door of the Extension Hall.

"Master Lin, this is the rule." The waiter still insisted.

"Isn't it just that his mother wants money?" Lin Deli casually took out a silver ticket and threw it over, "Buy wine according to my request, I will not get drunk with my brothers tonight!" ”

"Then why don't you just go to the Drunken Star Tower to drink?" The waiter had already picked up the silver ticket and was ready to walk out.

"What so much nonsense!" Lindley secretly scolded this new batch of waiters for not being as clever and sensible as the old ones.

"It's a fart!" The old * bustard, who is not young but still has charm, scolded, "Why don't you see Second Master Lei at this address!" Not only is the house darkly lit, but the door is locked? The attendants who came with him couldn't say anything.

"A bunch of rubbish!" When the old * bustard shook her hand and was about to leave, she heard a slight sound coming from the house, she groaned for a while, and decided to pry open this door, it is a big deal to lose more money, and this business can not be missed tonight, just now the master gave ten taels of silver!

Chu Liu was really inside, but the second master Lei who ransomed her body was still not there, and Chu Liu, who has always been famous for his softness, was unusually disobedient tonight, and in the end, the old * bustard could only let the entourage stuff Chu Liu into his pocket and carry it away. She also politely left a letter to the second master Lei, explaining that there was a big guest in the flower street tonight, and she was bold and scary, and asked Chu Liu to accompany her, so she came to invite the girl back to the building, knowing that this was not in accordance with the rules and embarrassed him, so she hereby left a deposit, and hoped that he would not worry about her. After writing it, Lao * Bustard looked at the letter, and felt that the rules and etiquette were enough, as for the deposit, she gritted her teeth, in order not to make enemies with the other party, she left half, that is, five taels of silver. Don't be too greedy, everyone earns money is the secret of her sitting on the street for so many years.

But the old bustard didn't know that it was this letter that ruined her future and killed her eldest sister in Huajie.

When he saw the letter, Xiao Lei smiled slightly.

He had been waiting for this day for a long time.

Today, I will fully take over Lei Erye's territory, and enjoy the woman that Lei Erye just bought back that has not yet had time, and all the other benefits that should be enjoyed.

"Second master." When Wapen and Xiaofeng saw Xiao Lei appear, they immediately stood up respectfully, and behind them were more than two dozen children from the southern suburbs.

Xiao Lei looked at the gang, frowned, and called the clay pot: "Are they all reliable?" What we're doing tonight is a white knife in and red knife out business. ”

"Big brother, don't worry." He knew that the man in front of him had a bright future, as long as he lived past tonight, he could also become a wolf, "They are all ruthless characters." ”

"What the hell are you doing?" The tallest and strongest bastard in the group said unhappily, "Ye came to help, for Xiao Feng's sake, you are still chirping, I think Ye is not capable, Ye will not do it!" The man said he was leaving.

Xiao Lei stopped him: "This brother is familiar, dare to ask what to call it?" ”

"Don't dare to be, others call me Shanzi." The man also felt that the person who could make Xiaofeng call the eldest brother had to give some face, so he also arched his hand.

"Shanzi?" Xiao Lei smacked the word, "Good name." Just now it was the brother who was disrespectful, and it is not enough to compensate Brother Shanzi here, what we are going to do tonight is a big thing, if it is done, it will be fragrant and spicy, many people will do more work, and Brother Shanzi will be down-to-earth in the brother's heart. Brother's words Speaking of this, Brother Shanzi, do you still want to go? ”

Hearing Xiao Lei's words, Shanzi hesitated for a moment, according to what the other party said, it would be too much for him to say if he didn't agree, but at the same time, he found that tonight's things may not be simple, and he still knows how to protect himself: "The second master's words are serious, it's not that the brothers don't help, it's that there is really something tonight, and the brothers will come to the door to apologize another day." With that, he arched his hand, turned around and left.

"Everyone has their own ambitions, so don't send it." Xiao Lei smiled, and as soon as Xiao Feng saw that cold smile, he knew that the mountain was finished.

Sure enough, when Shanzi just turned around, Xiao Lei's knife swung into a dim yellow and sank into Shanzi's back.

"The people who came here today are all friends of my little thunder." Xiao Lei didn't look at the mountain that was struggling for the last time on the ground, "If you are willing to do it with me, in the future, my Xiao Lei will protect his glory and wealth, and he will have a beautiful wife and concubine." If you don't want to follow your brother, the example on the ground is the example! ”

The rest of the bastards looked at each other, they were calmed by the evil aura emanating from Xiao Lei's body, the big deal is death, with this guy named Xiao Lei, maybe they can really get rich. So a jagged voice sounded around: "We are willing to follow Lei Ye!" ”

"Thank you, brothers!" Xiao Lei bowed deeply, and then raised his eyebrows at the small peak tile basin with a smile.

The old * bustard found two handsome * children, good kung fu, and will serve people, three two to make her feel comfortable, just when the old * bustard was about to reach the top of the wave, the voice of the doorman came from outside: "Mom, there is a customer looking for, said let you give a thread, big deal!" ”

"What a big deal, the old lady won't take it tonight!" The old * bustard rolled her eyes so hard that her voice trembled, "The old lady has made enough money today." ”

"You have to take it if you don't take it!" The door was kicked open, and the two prostitutes were so frightened that they got under the bed.

"May I ask what kind of immortal you are?" The old * bustard is unhurried in her clothes, and she is worthy of being the top card in the flower street for more than ten years, "Where did the little woman offend the big brothers?" Before she could finish her sentence, she was dragged out into the yard by two diminutive men grabbing her by the hair.

The four family members in the courtyard were already lying on the ground covered in blood and groaning, and more than a dozen children surrounded a cold-eyed child: "Where is Chu Liu?" ”

"Childe is looking for Chu Liu? Chu Liu is Lei Erye's person, she is no longer in Flower Street? The old bustard pretended to be stupid.

The child shook the piece of paper in his hand and asked again, "Where is Chu Liu?" ”

The old * bustard's eyes were sharp, and he saw that it was a note she left for Lei Erye, and couldn't help but regret his negligence: "Not bad." The person was received from Second Master Lei, but I paid a deposit, and Second Master Lei agreed. ”

"That old bastard was killed by me a long time ago! Will the dead agree with you? The boy threw out the money bag that contained five taels of silver, "I ask one last time, where is the person?" ”

"You...... You're a thunderbolt! The old bustard recognized the boy in the moonlight, "You killed your father!" She was about to scream, when a child next to Xiao Lei rushed over like lightning, and his hand fell with a knife, cutting the trachea of the old * bustard.

"Whoever knows the whereabouts of Hatsuyanagi will live, and if no one knows, he will die!" Little Thunder roared.

"I know, I know!" An entourage who followed at the time cried and shouted, "Miss Chu Liu was sent into the Drunken Star Tower by the eldest lady!" Uncle spared me! ”

Xiao Lei didn't say anything and walked out. Of the fourteen children he brought, some of them stabbed to death the undead entourage, while others went to the house and dragged out the pair from under the bed and cut the large blood vessels in their necks...... The informant's crotch was wet when he saw this formation: "Your boss promised not to kill me!" When no one answered him, the children cut off his hands and feet, blinded his eyes, gouged out his tongue, and then sprinkled gold on his wounds and followed the child.

"Are they all killed?" Xiao Lei asked Xiao Feng as he walked towards the Drunken Star Tower.

"Except for the snitch." Komine replied. (To be continued.) )