readx;? The location of the Zhao Mansion is located in the deepest part of the Night City, and although the Night City claims to be a city, it is not the same as the structure of other cities. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Most castles have four gates, south, south, and north, and even a mountain castle such as Onyang Castle has two gates in front and back. However, the night city of Beiling is a very special example, because looking at this wide night city in the valley of Beiling, there is only one city gate. In other words, Night City feels like a noodle pocket, with only one entrance and exit, and there is no way out unless you fly over the walls.

It is precisely because of the special city structure of Night City that the location of the Zhao Mansion is now relatively safe and secret.

The deeper you go into Night City, the more sparsely distributed the courtyards of houses around the road become, far less dense and scattered than in the city. Most of the courtyard buildings here are low attics of one or two floors, and both the area of the courtyard and the grandeur of the courtyard gate are far beyond the ordinary people in the city. The courtyard is separated by woods and hills, which not only brings a unique tranquility and comfort to the people who live here, but also shows that the people who can live in such a paradise-like courtyard must be the rich and noble people in this night city.

Compared to the bustle of Night City, the environment here can be described as two places, and if you don't see it with your own eyes, no one will dare to believe that this is also a part of Night City.

Under the leadership of the maid in white, after walking for about half an hour, Lu Yifan and his entourage finally came to the deepest part of the entire night city, and the first thing that caught everyone's eyes here was not a grand mansion, nor a magnificent building, but an elegant and chic bamboo forest, the area of the bamboo forest is quite large, at least standing outside the bamboo forest, it is difficult to see the edge at a glance. Now it is the middle of summer, the bamboo forest is lush, not only does it feel hot, but the occasional breeze also gives people a sense of coolness and happiness, the green and bright colors and the fragrance of the air with a faint bamboo fragrance and earth, so that Lu Yifan and several people can't help but feel shocked, and then the whole person can't help but relax, under such a tranquil atmosphere, even the resentful Lan Chen can't help but stretch his frowns, and his eyes have become much clearer.

"I really didn't expect that in the mountains of Beiling, your master would be able to open up such a place outside the world!" Lu Yifan looked around at the huge bamboo forest in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "Along the way, I found that when I arrived here, there was no longer half of the courtyard around, presumably this is already your master's private territory, right?"

Hearing Lu Yifan's words, the maid in white couldn't help but purse her lips and smile, then stretched out her hand and pointed to the bamboo forest in front of her, and said with a light smile: "What Lu Gongzi said is good, this is the Zhao Mansion!"

"What?" As soon as the maidservant said this, everyone felt a burst of surprise, and Sanchun looked left and right looking for something, and asked endlessly, "Zhao Mansion, why didn't I see the shadow of the mansion? I only saw a bamboo forest, but I didn't see any mansion gate?"

"Who said that the mansion must have a walled gate?" the white-clothed maid chuckled, "My wife named this bamboo forest 'Acacia Forest', and the Acacia Forest is the Zhao Mansion, and the Zhao Mansion is the Acacia Forest. My wife was born quiet, and she has always disliked earthly things, especially palaces and temples. She only likes the green mountains and green bamboos, mountain springs and clear streams, so there are different bamboo houses in different places in the depths of this acacia forest for my wife and me to live in. Forgive the slave and maid for talking too much, it is definitely a rare courtesy in the night city that a few of my ladies can be invited to Acacia Forest as guests today. ”

"Actually, I'm more curious about how your wife, as a woman, took this fairyland of the world for herself?" Liu Sandao smiled meaningfully.

Liu Sandao's words made the maid speechless for a while, and for a while she was annoyed or angry, but she didn't know how to answer Liu Sandao's words.

"Qing'er, have you come back?"

At this moment, another woman in white, who looked a little older than the maidservant, moved the golden lotus and walked slowly from the bamboo forest. This woman looks like she is only in her twenties, and although her face is not stunning, it is also quite delicate, but between her eyebrows and eyes, there is a faint maturity and stability that does not match her actual age. The woman in white didn't know where she came out of the bamboo forest, and walked towards Lu Yifan and the others with a smile on her face, and the 'Qing'er' she called in her mouth was the maid who led Lu Yifan and his party here.

"Sister Yu'er, the distinguished guest has arrived, you can go back to Madame!" Qing'er bowed slightly to the woman in white called 'Yu'er'.

"En!" Yu'er nodded with satisfaction at first, then turned her gaze to Lu Yifan and the others again, and bowed to her, "The prince of Jinling is really extraordinary, slave Yu'er, I have been waiting here for a long time on the orders of my wife!"

"Dare to ask where Mrs. Zhao is?" Lu Yifan asked.

"Madame has prepared fragrant tea in the Acacia Pavilion and is waiting for you, please!" Yu'er said that, she stretched out her hand and made a 'please' gesture towards the depths of the bamboo forest, and then walked towards the depths of the bamboo forest with a smile and a few people who were full of doubts.

Acacia Pavilion, in fact, is a two-story attic built in the depths of the bamboo forest, the first floor of Acacia Pavilion only has a spiraling staircase, and there is nothing else. And the second floor is the essence of this Acacia Pavilion, the second floor is like a hanging pavilion, hollowed out on all sides without walls, only in the four corners of each stand four finely carved square pillars to support the pavilion roof. On the four sides of the attic are respectively hung with crystal clear bead curtains and the outside world to separate, between the bead curtains swinging, it can be said that the breeze is unstoppable, the sound of water is difficult to stop, and this is the uniqueness of this Acacia Pavilion, what you want is this transparency that dissolves in nature.

In addition to the closely surrounding green bamboo forest, there is also a mountain spring stream flowing down from the mountain, and the sound of the water jingle and the breeze also add a touch of artistic conception to this Acacia Pavilion. And the most interesting thing is that the spring water has also been specially introduced into the attic, and a thin stream has been specially divided into a stone platform that slowly flows through the center of the Acacia Pavilion, and the stone platform is carved with a sink specially responsible for the circulation of the trickling mountain spring, and the mountain spring flowing through here is the natural spring water that Mrs. Zhao comes to make tea.

At this moment, on the second floor of the Acacia Pavilion, a woman in a bright red pleated skirt robe is quietly scooping spring water from the sink to the teapot on the side with a wooden spoon.

The woman's age looks about thirty, and her proud figure is even more plump under the wrap of the red dress, although it is not slender but it does not show the slightest redundancy. Three thousand green silk high coiled up to be combed is not messy, the face is covered with heavy makeup, painted with crescent moon eyebrows, a pair of seductive eyes at the corners of the eyes outlined a bewitching atmosphere, the high nose bridge, blood-red lips and round cheeks even stained with a little traces of fat powder, fair and ruddy, enchanting and beautiful, only a woman at this age can exude this extremely unique charm, which not only retains the meticulousness of a young woman, but also contains the unique charm of a mature woman.

And this person is the owner of the legendary Acacia Forest, Mrs. Zhao.

"Oooo

With a slightly heavy footsteps, Mrs. Zhao, who had been intoxicated by the fragrance of tea, finally slowly put down the teacup in her hand, raised her head slightly, and cast her irresistible glamorous gaze straight to the stairs.

"Madam, your distinguished guest has arrived!"

The first person to ascend the Acacia Pavilion was Yu'er, under her guidance, Lu Yifan and several people walked up one after another, and the moment Lu Yifan bore the brunt of the second floor, Mrs. Zhao, a woman with a great visual impact in a group of elegance, suddenly poured into his eyes. At the moment when Lu Yifan's eyes and Mrs. Zhao's eyes met, an inexplicable feeling of dizziness actually arose from Lu Yifan's mind out of thin air, which made his heart tremble violently.

In addition to being weird, this feeling also made Lu Yifan secretly laugh at himself, laughing at himself for being confused by the beauty of a woman.

And what is completely different from Lu Yifan's reaction is that the moment Mrs. Zhao and Lu Yifan's eyes meet, a solemn and shocked look quietly flashes across her face, but Mrs. Zhao conceals it very well, so no one notices this fleeting change.

"What a bewitching woman!" Liu Sandao had always been open-mouthed, so when he saw Mrs. Zhao for the first time, the feeling in his heart naturally blurted out.

"A few people came from afar, the little woman missed the distance, I hope to forgive me!" Mrs. Zhao glanced around before she chuckled and apologized. Her voice and her appearance were equally full of charm, so much so that the moment she heard Mrs. Zhao's words, almost no one reacted except for Lu Yifan.

"Ahem!" Seeing Liu Sandao and Xie Yun beside him, Lu Yifan couldn't help coughing lightly twice, and then dragged the two of them out of their trance.

"This woman is not simple, she just glanced at us and said a few words casually, she can confuse our minds, which shows that this woman has practiced such deceptive exercises. Yifan, you must be very careful when dealing with this person!" Xie Yun frowned, leaned forward and whispered beside Lu Yifan.

Lu Yifan nodded without leaving a trace, then arched his hand at Mrs. Zhao, and then led people to sit directly opposite Mrs. Zhao, where a row of futons was placed for people to sit cross-legged at the moment.

"I don't know which of the two is Lu Gongzi?Which one is Lan Gongzi?" Mrs. Zhao waved her hand to signal Yu'er to pour tea, and asked Lu Yifan and Lan Chen who were sitting in the middle with a light smile.

"In Xia Lu Yifan, I heard this morning that the people in your mansion said that Mrs. Zhao has medicinal materials here that can cure Beiling miasma and malaria, and is willing to give them to friends who are treating in Xia, so I have come to thank Mrs. Zhao!" Lu Yifan picked up the teacup that had just been filled, and saluted Mrs. Zhao as he spoke.

Don't look at Lu Yifan's politeness, in fact, in his heart, he is extremely curious about Mrs. Zhao. But after the lessons of the trip to the southwest, Lu Yifan knows very well the truth that more things are better than less things, and it is urgent to seek medicine to save his life at the moment. After all, there is no intersection between them, and Lu Yifan also hopes that it is best not to have any intersection in the future, after all, the more people know, the more trouble will follow.

"Lu Gongzi is polite!" Mrs. Zhao glanced at Lu Yifan meaningfully, then changed her words and asked faintly, "Two sons, Night City is just a small place, not as good as Jinling Imperial City. But I also have some good local teas here, I wonder if you two can still drink it?"

"If you have something to say, who are you?How do you know where we come from?" Lan Chen is not as obscure as Lu Yifan, he himself has no good impression of this Mrs. Zhao's way of doing things, and now that he sees this person so enchanting, he is even more disdainful in his heart at the moment, so he is also very blunt when he speaks, "As for polite words, there is no need to say more!"

"Hehe, the second son of the Beigong of Suwen Town has an arrogant temperament, and it is really like this when I see it today!" Mrs. Zhao was not angry, her face was still a ball of harmony, "I am just an ordinary woman, and there is nothing special about it." As for why I know the identities of the two, of course, it is because their reputations are already well-known in the Holy Land, and the decisive battle of the Heavenly Grace Contest has already made the two sons famous all over the world. Now that the emperor has sent the prince of Jinling to serve in various prefectures and camps, among so many princes in Jinling City, only the two of you have such courage to dare to go to the dangerous northern border guard mansion on an errand, such deeds are not a secret, so I look at the momentum and demeanor of the two, and it is naturally not difficult to guess your identity. ”

"Hehe, Mrs. Zhao has good eyesight!" Hai Lao, who had never spoken, suddenly opened his mouth and said, the old smile made his whole person look like a different sense of scheming, "My son Lanchen has just arrived in your land, and Night City is Mrs. Zhao's territory, so I hope Mrs. Zhao will be more considerate of my son-in-law!"

Hai Lao didn't seem to be confused by Mrs. Zhao, and when he said this, his eyes were staring at Mrs. Zhao without blinking, but Mrs. Zhao was also under Hai Lao's gaze, and the expression on her face froze slightly, but in an instant, she returned to normal, and smiled at Hai Lao as she did just now.

Although Mrs. Zhao covered it up very well, she was still noticed by the cautious Lu Yifan. And more importantly, when Hai Lao said that Night City was her territory just now, Mrs. Zhao did not have any excuses or objections, obviously she had acquiesced to this statement. This further intensified Lu Yifan's jealousy of this Mrs. Zhao.

"Acacia Forest, Acacia Pavilion, it is really a good place, it is rare for Mrs. Zhao to find such a good place in the North Ridge!" Lu Yifan said faintly, and then raised the teacup in his hand, glanced at the slightly red tea in the cup again, and chuckled, "Lin is a good forest, the pavilion is a good pavilion, and the tea is also a good tea, but we still haven't figured out the purpose of Mrs. Zhao's invitation to come here, is it true that she just wants to invite us to taste tea?"

"Hehe, Lu Gongzi is really fast-talking, how can the little woman invite you here to simply taste tea? Of course, there is also free medicine. Has Lu Gongzi forgotten your unwell companions?" Mrs. Zhao said with a smile, as if she was very interested in going around in circles with Lu Yifan, but unfortunately Lu Yifan was not interested.

Lan Chen poured the tea into his stomach with a "grunt", and then said bluntly: "This is very good, since Mrs. Zhao has this kind of good intentions, then we will be disrespectful!"

"Of course! It is a little woman's honor to be able to befriend such a genius as Lan Gongzi and Lu Gongzi! The two of them have cultivated at such a young age, and this kind of talent is really something that a little woman has never seen for many years!" I don't know why, the smile on Mrs. Zhao's face became stronger when she said this, "Yu'er, the tea of several distinguished guests has been drunk, why don't you hurry up and pour the tea!"

"Yes!" Yu'er hurriedly agreed, and then took the teapot and poured tea for Lu Yifan and them again.

"Give medicine, invite tea, and don't want to reciprocate, Mrs. Zhao is really hospitable!" Liu Sandao smiled playfully, and his eyes kept looking at Mrs. Zhao with bad intentions when he said this, as if he wanted to see through Mrs. Zhao's thoughts.

"The little woman has lived in the mountains for a long time, and it is rare to have the opportunity to meet such distinguished guests as a few like this, of course, she must do her best as a landlord!" Mrs. Zhao said and picked the corner of her eyes at Liu Sandao again, which made Liu Sandao, who was already uncomfortable, tremble again, and hurriedly adjusted her spirit, so that she did not let herself fall into Mrs. Zhao's confusion again.

"This tea has an unusually fragrant fragrance, and the color is so gorgeous, I have never heard of it before, dare to ask Mrs. Zhao what kind of tea is this?" Xie Yun weighed the teacup in his hand repeatedly, as if he had some concerns in his heart.

"The name of this tea is Acacia Grass, which is unique to me in this bamboo forest. Mrs. Zhao glanced at Xie Yun with a smile, as if she had seen through the scruples in Xie Yun's heart. Then he stood up faintly and walked slowly to Xie Yun, under the attention of everyone, he actually reached out and took the teacup in Xie Yun's hand, drank it without hesitation, and then put the tea back into Xie Yun's hand, and at this moment, there was still a trace of Mrs. Zhao's red lips on the white cup wall, "Could it be that this son is still afraid that I will poison you in this tea?"

After that, Mrs. Zhao smiled again, and without looking back, she instructed Yu'er: "Go and get a new teacup for this son!"

In this way, under the kind invitation of such a mysterious Mrs. Zhao, Lu Yifan and the others drank acacia tea in this Acacia Pavilion for two hours in a daze. The reason why it is said to be confusing is because Lu Yifan and the others have never figured out the purpose of today's tea party.

Although Mrs. Zhao kept saying that it was to fulfill the friendship of the landlords and give them medicinal materials to save their lives and did not want to make any reports, Lu Yifan always felt that this Mrs. Zhao was not like the kind of person who was willing to help others for no reason.

But the fact is that from beginning to end, Mrs. Zhao did not show the slightest abnormal intention, she only greeted and invited tea, and finally happily ordered someone to send the medicinal materials outside the city, and she even got up personally and sent Lu Yifan and a few people outside the acacia forest before saying goodbye to each other.

Could it be that this Mrs. Zhao is really just an ordinary woman as she herself says, or is there something else hidden in it......

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