In the Yanliu Lane next to the Long'an River, the beautiful woman sits on the jade at night.

Qingyu Pavilion, one of the several newly built hook bars that Xu Yuan saw in the Xuanying Attic before.

Compared with those lively and extraordinary hooks, the main focus of Qingyu Pavilion here is an elegant style.

The lotus-shaped characteristic bright blue light emitted by the bright light, with the spread of wisps of sandalwood, the whole lobby is cold but not a little ambiguous.

The stage was quiet and strings, and the young lady wearing black silk danced gracefully on the stage.

Three sons and brothers dressed in expensive clothes gathered in the corner of the lobby, talking about some family and country affairs overheard from home.

One of the mediocre men with a hairbandage on his head drank a glass of fancy craft brew and suddenly asked in a whisper:

"Little Lizi, I heard my father say that the war in the north seems to be a little unsmooth?"

The man called Xiao Lizi is a handsome man,

In the blurry blue light,

Xiao Lizi had a woman's femininity between her eyebrows and eyes, and her voice sounded a little deliberately depressed and slender, and she replied angrily:

"What do you ask me to do about the war in the north? Also, don't call me Little Plum. ”

The man in the scarf didn't care when he heard this, and continued to ask:

"The fighting in the north is so fierce, and your old man hasn't received an order or anything like that?"

"Tsk, the fighting in the north is fierce, what's the matter with my old man? My family's Xiyuan Army is in charge of the wolf cubs in the desert steppe. Xiao Lizi said as he glanced obliquely at the last man in brocade on the table who was listening intently to the music.

The man in brocade is handsome, with a ring on the index finger and middle finger of his left hand, and his eyes are firmly fixed on the young lady with long sleeves and good dancing on the stage, and the whole person looks quiet and comfortable under the light.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Lizi snorted coldly:

"Isn't there a party? Uncle Xu only went to the Marquis of Wucheng's mansion two months ago to propose marriage, and this guy returned to Beijing two months later, counting the time on the way back to Beijing, Xu Changtian, Xu Gong wouldn't have made any deal with that marquis, right? ”

“.”

Xu Yuan slowly turned his eyes back when he heard this, staring at these two fox friends with a strange look:

"Gong Yuanzeng, Li Junwu, you two didn't take the wrong medicine, when did you start caring about these things?"

Watching these two people talk about family and country affairs is like watching a sow go up a tree.

Hearing this, the man in the scarf twitched, knocked on the table, and snorted softly:

"Xu Buyi, master, I'm in the middle of the matter now, be careful when you speak, be careful that I will go to the emperor tomorrow to see a copy."

Xu Yuan grinned:

"Well, tomorrow morning, I will go to my father's study and wait for your fold to be delivered."

“.” Gong Yuanzeng.

Li Junwu glanced at Xu Yuan with disgust, and he was not surprised:

"Okay, let's not say a word."

Xu Yuan waved his hand, glanced sideways at the entrance screen of the lobby, and asked:

"Wang Chengping, that kid hasn't come yet? I remember coming to this box in the past, and he was the most active. ”

Li Junwu leaned on the soft cushion behind his back and said rather lazily:

"That kid was arranged by his father to go into the Heavenly Imperial Guard to compose a song, and he got married last year."

Xu Yuan was stunned when he heard this:

"This guy is married? Who's the girl? ”

"The daughter of Liu Shilang of the Ministry of Officials." Li Junwu replied.

Xu Yuan thought for a moment when he heard this, and then said:

"Liu Shilang, the daughter of the Shilang family, shouldn't be able to control Wang Chengping, right?"

Li Junwu smiled ambiguously when he heard this, and replied:

"I can't control it, but this kid has more than enough heart and not enough strength~"

Words fall,

Silent for a second,

All three of them laughed in unison.

Drink it all in one cup,

Li Junwu's feminine tone brought a touch of ridicule:

"I haven't seen someone for two years, and the pomp has become bigger, and I returned to Beijing more than half a month ago, and we have to go to the house to invite you in person, isn't it inconvenient to come out?"

Xu Yuan glanced at a few people and said with a smile:

"Jun Wu, you have something to say."

The relationship is very iron, and Li Junwu's soft voice is also direct:

"Wu Chenghou's fiery personality can make you go back to Beijing, who believes that there is nothing in this?"

Saying,

Li Junwu glanced at Gong Yuanzeng on the side: "Do you believe it?" ”

"I don't believe it."

"I don't believe it either."

“.” Xu Yuan.

sighed and took a sip of wine, Xu Yuan didn't hide it, and his words were serious:

"I'm engaged."

“.”

Silence, a moment,

The other two laughed at the same time.

Li Junwu raised his hand and patted Xu Yuan on the shoulder:

"Really?"

Xu Yuan's face was as usual:

"Before returning to Beijing, my father had already told me about the marriage contract with the county lord of the Marquis of Wucheng's mansion."

The other two were stunned at the same time,

Li Junwu thought for a moment, and said in a quick low voice:

"I remember that the news that your eldest brother came out two months ago didn't seem to be marrying, but getting married?"

Xu Yuan seemed very calm about the word "redundant" and nodded:

"Well, it's a no-brainer."

“.”

Speaking of which, Li Junwu and Gong Yuanzeng have already understood that this marriage contract should be a private transaction between Xiangguo Mansion and Marquis Wucheng's Mansion.

Without asking, Li Junwu's red lips were plump, and he smiled sheepishly:

"Changtian, you have been bullied, remember to say it and give us some fun~"

Xu Yuan glanced at this friend who was listening to the music together:

"Zhenxi Hou is just your daughter, and I guess I will give you a marriage soon."

Li Junwu stretched out his waist without any image, and his restrained chest swelled slightly:

"It doesn't matter, he knows about this girl, and no matter how much I say it, it's better than your son-in-law."

After a pause,

Li Junwu glanced at Xu Yuan with beautiful eyes, half-joking:

"Changtian, if you enter the Marquis Mansion of Wucheng, it is better to enter the Xihou Mansion of my town, and you can still deal with the old man of my family urging marriage, and I can allow you to take a concubine~"

Xu Yuan rolled his eyes:

"I'll go into your town Xihou Mansion to take a concubine, and I'll give you a concubine, right?"

Li Junwu cocked Erlang's legs, the corners of his lips were slightly hooked, and his beautiful eyes narrowed;

"Don't say it so ugly, you come in for a long time, no matter how you say it, you can't be excluded~"

“.”

Xu Yuan was suddenly silent, and then gave the other party a thumbs up.

"Alright, alright."

On the side, Gong Yuanzeng rubbed his eyebrows, and interrupted helplessly: "Changtian, after you marry the lord of Namu, won't you be the same as Wang Chengping, right?" ”

“.”

Before Xu Yuan could answer, a deep male voice came from the side: "What is the same as me?" ”

Looking back, it was the last person of the "Four Youths in Beijing", Wang Chengping.

With a national character face, wearing a military uniform, he looks like he is not angry and arrogant at a glance, and he looks like he is in his thirties in his early twenties.

sat on the soft couch, and Wang Chengping, who was wrapped in military uniform, lifted Erlang's legs:

"Come a little later, how many of you start speaking ill of me? Who can't? ”

Xu Yuan ignored him and replied to Gong Yuanzeng:

"Don't compare me to him, I'm much better than him."

Wang Chengping naturally knew what these people were talking about:

"Fart, you're better than me?"

Xu Yuan quietly glanced at the young lady dancing on the stage:

"Tonight, the top brand of Qingyu Pavilion Nanxiang girl is out of the pavilion, I will help you buy it, will Wang Qu stay in this Qingyu Pavilion?"

Wang Cheng's face changed, and he coughed lightly:

"I'm busy with official business, so forget it tonight."

Gong Yuanzeng raised his eyebrows and asked casually:

"Chengping, your identity is nothing even if you are absent from work, right? Why are you here so late today? ”

Wang Chengping took a sip of wine and exhaled a long breath, with a hint of tiredness in his voice:

"Today, my Qu Department is responsible for guarding the Great Honglu Temple, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally ordered it, I really can't leave, and I have to go back in a while."

Xu Yuan was a little surprised when he heard this:

"Honglu Temple? Li Yucheng's guy personally ordered, who is coming? ”

The other three didn't care that Xu Yuan called the prince by his name.

As the biggest gentleman of Dayan, not to mention the crown prince, he even dared to call the emperor's name directly.

Wang Chengping thought for a little and replied lazily:

"It seems to be a nobleman among the barbarians on the other side of the desert, I guess it's at least a prince or something."

Saying,

He looked sideways at Li Junwu, who was pouring himself a drink.

Li Junwu smashed his rosy lips:

"See what I'm doing?"

"Who do you look at if you don't look at it?" Wang Chengping rolled his eyes.

Li Junwu pursed his lips:

"The old man of my family never told me about military affairs."

Xu Yuan asked at this time:

"Junwu, has the Marquis of Zhenxi left Beijing?"

“.”

Silent.

After a while, Li Junwu gasped, and then said with a little hesitation:

"When you ask this for a long time, I found that I haven't seen my old man in the mansion for more than half a month."

As soon as the words fell, the other three instantly understood that the Great Desert and the Northern Barbarians seemed to have signs of an alliance, and their Great Yan Dynasty was also ready to expand the scale of the war.

Gong Yuanzeng glanced at the dancing girl on the stage and said in a low voice:

"This world, it seems that it is becoming more and more peaceful."

Although he is a gentleman, he has been able to understand one thing since he was a child.

Just to deal with the desert and the Northern Barbarians, the Great Yan Dynasty didn't need to mobilize the people so much.

In other words, the enemy has someone else.

Wang Chengping was a little dismissive of Gong Yuanzeng's words:

"Okay, even if there is a real fight, it will be our martial artists who will go first, Yuan Zeng, what are you worried about when you are a civil official?"

"The affairs of the family and the country are the responsibility of the husband, not to mention me, the official of the court."

"Tsk. The court officials who were absent from work to hook the fence. ”

The words fell, and there was a burst of laughter.

I don't know how long it took,

"Click-"

There was a sudden sound of wooden planks shattering in the quiet lobby.

A figure smashed through the wooden wall, flew upside down from the Accord on the third floor, and slammed into the table next to Xu Yuan and them.

Qingyu Pavilion has a lobby, there is an Accord,

Qingyu Pavilion as a famous Beijing master of the hook column, naturally there is a distinction between high and low, most of the Accord on the third floor are some nobles with status.

As senior gentlemen, the four people present were no longer surprised by the scene in front of them.

The place that attracts the opposite sex has been prone to some small friction since ancient times, and a slight escalation of friction will evolve into a fist and foot dispute.

However, when Dai Xu Yuan and the others looked towards the table next door, they found that the person who fell down was none other than the turtle prince of the Qingyu Pavilion.

Seeing this, Xu Yuan asked in a low voice:

"Who opened this Qingyu Pavilion?"

As for who opened these famous hook columns in Dijing, Xu Yuan used to be a door clearer.

After all, if you want to smash things when you come up, you have to be responsible for your own profits and losses if you smash the building and smash it on your own head.

Of course, the most important thing is that Hua Hong wants to beat him.

Li Junwu thought about it when he heard this, and said hesitantly:

"It seems to be the Royal Union Chamber of Commerce in charge of the third prince."

Most of the backgrounds of these hooks in the imperial capital are not as mysterious and huge as the picture books and rumors, and you can basically know it at a glance.

"The Third Prince?"

Xu Yuan's mind came to mind the younger brother who had just been recognized: "In this way, it can be regarded as the property of the prince's family?" ”

Wang Chengping was still leaning on the soft couch, staring at the hole on the second floor without the slightest intention of getting up:

"This guy on the second floor is quite bold."

"Yes, it's all comparable to Changtian back then."

"No, it's still a little worse than Changtian back then, at least this person hasn't dared to greet the prince's mother."

“.” Xu Yuan.

In the constant struggle of the turtle father, the four of them were still chatting and joking, completely looking like they had nothing to do with themselves.

And soon,

The assailant appeared in the hole on the second floor.

This burly figure, with bare breasts and exposed breasts, a bronzed complexion, and a snow wolf skin wrapped around his body.

The Tartars of the desert.

He stood in the hole smashed out by the turtle and said:

"My master said that he sold you Nanxiang girl for three thousand taels and asked for face."

Seeing the visitor, Wang Chengping's eyes in the lobby on the first floor showed a touch of strangeness:

"Huh"

This murmur was heard by Xu Yuan on the side, and asked:

"Acquaintance?"

"Come to Honglu Temple today to follow the escort of the Prairie Prince." Wang Chengping said in a low voice.

"How dare these barbarians be so arrogant in the imperial capital?" Li Junwu frowned.

Gong Yuanzeng shook his head and guessed in a low voice:

"I heard my old man say that there is a heavy snowfall in the north side, and the soldiers must not act rashly, looking at this attitude, it is estimated that they want to take advantage of the fire to rob."

The voices of several people were blocked by the soundproof patterns on the seats,

And the desert man casually threw three thousand taels of silver tickets and one hundred taels of silver tickets to Gui Gong in the air:

"My master will not bully you, buy and sell fairly, buy your first card for three thousand taels, and take one hundred taels to treat diseases and buy medicine."

"Which poor devil from the horns?"

The voice did not fall,

A yin and yang strange voice sounded, quite feminine, but very mocking: "Don't even dare to shout?" ”

It was not Xu Yuan who sent them from this table, but from another private room on the third floor.

Hearing this voice, Xu Yuan's expression became a little strange.

Hou Gonggong.

Before he could think deeply,

The voice of the third prince came from another accord next to him:

"What kind of bullshit master, dare to pretend to be an uncle in my imperial capital, and I will pay three thousand five hundred taels for my master."

“.” Xu Yuan.

This newly-recognized brother has always been good at business.

After a moment of silence, Xu Yuan, who was sitting in the lobby, suddenly answered with a smile:

"That's true, this son will also increase the price, three thousand seven hundred taels."

Li Yunqing continued to bid:

"This son, don't raise the price too much to scare this group of barbarians, I'll give another four thousand taels."

“.”

There are a lot of dignitaries and nobles in this place in the imperial capital, and this Qingyu Pavilion has been promoting Nanxiang Pavilion for nearly a month, and there are not a few sons and brothers who come here tonight for a relative Fangze.

And as the three reeds of Gonggong Hou, Li Yunqing, and Xu Yuan sounded, the voices in the rest of the Accord also joined in.

The price went up little by little, and the Tatar man was not too annoyed, and silently walked back to the Accord, as if to seek the advice of his master.

The originally elegant and chic lobby instantly looked a little noisy, like an auction house.

"Bang!"

In the midst of the commotion, a muffled sound was particularly abrupt.

An interior rockery was thrown directly from the hole on the third floor and smashed into the air towards the private seat located in the lobby!

An hour late, sorry

Happy Valentine's Day

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