Chapter 40: Public Opinion
When Lihong and Lou Xue came back one after the other, someone in the lobby had already made a move, knocking over two tables, and wine and vegetable juices were splashing everywhere.
A dish suddenly came, he hurriedly pushed Lou Xue, flicked his fingers on the edge of the plate, and then at the bottom, and put the dish on the nearby table completely.
The people in the seats next to him couldn't help but marvel and wanted to ask him his name, but he didn't look at these people, and went straight to the corner where Ding Ruoyu was squatting.
She directly took away the plate with the steamed sea bass, sat on the ground alone and slowly picked the thorns, no matter how hard the fight in the lobby was, it was none of her business.
Seeing her like this, Li Hong wanted to laugh but couldn't. If he had been present, he would probably have behaved similarly.
Lou Xue avoided coming around and asked them why they had become like this in just a while. Fortunately, although these people made a fierce fuss, they did not use their blades, and no one shed blood or casualties, and at most they added some colorful and mixed smells to their bodies.
"As soon as you left, the lifeless sword poured himself a pot of wine, and the wine was bold enough to pull Pianpiao." Ding Ruoyu put down the plate and the wooden chopstick, with an extremely complicated expression on his face, and he stopped talking.
"What did he do?" Lou Xue actually laughed.
"Two people...... That's it. Ding Ruoyu couldn't speak for a long time, stretched out his two index fingers, pointed the fingertips together, and turned around.
"Pian Piao was furious and flipped the table," Ding Ruoyu picked up the plate and ate the meat again, "Fortunately, I was quick and rescued a plate." ”
In the noisy lobby, the sharp voice can still be clearly recognized, and the shrew howls loudly as if scolding the street: "You all die for the old lady!" ”
"He was so angry that he didn't choose what to say, and he called himself 'old lady'." Lou Xue laughed gloatingly, revealing a mouth full of silver teeth, and forgot to care about her image for a while.
"Looks like there's still a lot of trouble, let's go have dinner somewhere else." Lihong threw down half of the fish in Ding Ruoyu's hand, and took her and Lou Xue out of Caihualou along the clean ground.
The light snow was much colder outside than the brazier, and Ding Ruoyu shook his heart and put his hand in his sleeve. However, although it was cold outside, the smell was fresher than in the lobby, and it dispelled all the drowsiness in her head.
They walked slowly through the snow and came to a tavern called "Gluttonous Forest" in the street diagonally opposite.
"That's a scary name!" Ding Ruoyu shouted.
"It looks like it's for big diners." Although it was close at hand, Lou Xue had never eaten at his house.
Li Hong glanced enviously at the atmospheric drifting calligraphy on the plaque, and said to the two: "Then go in, gluttons." ”
Gluttonous Lin is only a bluffer, and the inside is similar to an ordinary restaurant. At this moment, it was the meal, and the box had already been booked, so the three of them had to find an empty table in the hall and sit down to worship the Five Organs Temple.
When they came out, the cold wind was howling outside, and the waterlogged road was covered with thin ice.
There was a small apricot yellow sedan chair parked at the door, and there was a team of officers and soldiers guarding next to it, just standing still, letting the wind blow on his face like a knife and not going to the leeward place to hide.
Lou Xue rubbed her hands and said, "It's not unreasonable that the food in this restaurant is expensive. ”
Seeing this apricot yellow, Ding Ruoyu guessed that it was the royal family. As soon as Lou Xue said this, she was even more sure of her thoughts.
"Look." Li Hong tugged at the corner of her sleeve and motioned for her to look at the door of a box on the second floor.
Outside the door stood a tall and thin young man, surrounded by two attendants. The young man lowered his head and met Ding Ruoyu's gaze, which made the latter's face change on the ground.
Ding Ruoyu in turn held Lihong's wrist tightly.
She almost mistook the young man on the second floor for Yu Feiqiong.
"I made that face of his, and it seems to scare you." Li Hong smiled and nodded at the young man upstairs.
"Do? Can the face still be done? Ding Ruoyu struggled to look away from the young man's face.
"I scraped his mandible, raised my nose, adjusted the distance between my eyebrows and eyes, and modified my eyes and mouth to a lesser extent." Li Hong calmly recounted, "Fortunately, his figure is almost the same as the reference object, just move his face." ”
After listening to this, Ding Ruoyu couldn't calm down at all.
The fact that he is a terrible superior must not be ignored just because he treats himself and his friends differently.
"Listen, is this a human thing?" On one side, Lou Xue generously said her heart.
"That Yu Siyuan didn't trust me, so I secretly replaced his son." Li Hong dragged the two of them to the street, and spoke in a tone as if someone else owed him such a vicious hand.
At that time, he directly avoided the wanted officers and soldiers and took Yu Feiqiong into Xiyan Country, and changed another teenager of the same age on the spot, and in three months, the young man's face was swollen, and he was Yu Feiqiong's twin brother after removing the bandage.
Naturally, some other obvious moles and birthmarks on Yu Feiqiong's body were also installed on the young man's body.
Then the news was released, and the whereabouts of this young man were revealed to Emperor Yuguo thousands of times, so that he entered the palace on the grounds of amnesia, until he completely replaced Yu Feiqiong.
"Why did the little prince provoke you and make you so mad?" After listening to this, Lou Xue suddenly felt a little angry.
"If you say that he provoked me in a previous life, do you believe it?" Off the road.
"Nonsense!" Lou Xue took Ding Ruoyu by the hand and quickened her pace in disgust, unwilling to walk side by side with him anymore.
Ding Ruoyu was led away silently, and unconsciously returned to the lobby of Caihua Building.
The farce has ended, and the maids and maids are cleaning up the tables and chairs back and forth, and they are kind enough to persuade the guests to go back to their rooms to rest for the time being.
"Let's go back to our room." Lihong is in the rear road.
Hearing him speak, Ding Ruoyu let go of Lou Xue's hand, said goodbye to her with a smile, and then entered the guest room without saying a word.
"You only booked a room?" After a while, she reacted to something and screamed.
"This is the only room left when I booked it." Off the road.
The guest rooms are divided into two rooms, separated by screens, and the outer rooms can be used to meet guests, and the inner rooms are for rest. He walked around the screen and walked inside, and saw Ding Ruoyu pointing to the only bed and complaining: "How do you sleep here?" ”
"You sleep on yours, I'll meditate outside." Li Hong guessed that she was still thinking about what he did to Yu Feiqiong, maybe she was angry, and she didn't linger in front of her much, turned around and went to the outer room, so that she couldn't see it.
Ding Ruoyu was stunned.
This person is indifferent, it is really like a piece of ice, it can't be broken or dissolved.
She secretly worried about whether he would be cold outside, and she fell asleep over and over again.
In the middle of the night, she was really uneasy, woke up, tiptoed to take the cloak she had brought from the package, and went outside to put it on Lihong's shoulder.
Without thinking, Li Hong lifted his eyelids and glanced at her and said, "Haven't slept yet?" ”
"I fell asleep and woke up again." Ding Ruoyu sat next to him and sent a small fireball to warm his hands.
"I brought you out this time to avoid a battle within the Yan Country." Li Hong took off his cloak and draped her on, "The Witch Emperor and the emperor above the court, who will have a longer life?" ”
Ding Ruoyu snuffed out the small fireball, hid his hand in the cloak, and looked up at him slightly. In the temple, he almost never said much to her, I don't know how he suddenly brought up the dispute between the witch sect and the court tonight?
"No matter who survives, they will eventually become my opponent." Li Hong said, his face was light and light, and it seemed that he was just a verbal opponent.
Ding Ruoyu stretched out a hand, put it on the back of his cold hand, and hesitated: "You are so cold, why don't you change me to meditate." ”
"No." Li Hong withdrew his hand.
Ding Ruoyu almost lost his mind, and suddenly his eyes rolled and said, "Then I'll accompany you." ”
Li Hong smiled softly at her, raised his hand to stun her, and carried her back to the bed.
"When I was younger, I wasn't as stupid as you." He looked at the sleeping girl and sighed.
In the distant city of fire, a minister finally wrote to Emperor Yan Longxing on the grounds that the Wu Emperor was only for his own selfishness.
There were more and more voices in the court against the Witch Emperor. They dared to speak so bluntly, all because the number one "military advisor" of the Witch Sect, Li Hong, was absent for some reason, and no one could help the Witch Emperor refute their accusations.
The emperor didn't know that although Lihong was not there, he had already paved the way for Liuyan, and as long as everything went according to plan, nothing would go wrong.
The courtiers' doubts about the witch cult soon spread throughout the homes of the people of the Yan Kingdom. The influence of the witch cult for hundreds of years is still there, and the believers regularly come to the door to help the people solve some difficult and troublesome things in life, and it has always been well-known.
In the past two days, I don't know who released the news, Yan Longxing, the emperor of the Yan Kingdom, colluded with the dementors of the Jiang Kingdom to create poisonous corpses to attract witch cults, killing several witch doctors who saved countless people. For a time, there were many discussions in the streets and alleys.
"For the sake of absolute imperial power, even witch doctors are killed, and the old emperor is inevitably too cruel!"
After the news spread, it caused public outrage.
They remembered the corpses that had been salvaged in the river beach some time ago. At that time, all those who touched the corpse, whether it was their family members or their servants, died collectively within two days, and the rumors were spreading.
There is a reason to understand that all this is not a lie concocted by the Witchcraft to win the sympathy of the people.
Some storytellers let out wild words on the street, hoping that the Witch Emperor would be their new emperor, so that pedantic people such as Yan Longxing would step down as soon as possible.
There are also some radicals who have been receiving the blessings of witchcraft all year round, and gangs take advantage of the darkness of the night to go to the mansions of those outspoken ministers, and even one old man woke up to find that his beard had been shaved.
After inquiring about many similar things, Xue Tong also took advantage of the darkness of the night and went to the Four Princes' Mansion to find Sui Han.
"What?" He shouted at his senior brother in surprise, "You said that the mastermind behind the scenes is Lihong? ”
He has been looking forward to the defeat of Yan Longxing and the Witch Emperor, and then let Yan Ci, who holds the power of the army, ascend the throne. The Witch Emperor was injured, and the Witch Cult naturally became his bag. "Sui Han is also an old fox, and he seems to know all of Lihong's plans early on.