At this moment, in the private room, the atmosphere that had been relaxed by the performance of the lark became sharp again.

Qu Changqing looked at Zhao Ping, gentle but resolute, and did not see a trace of weakness. Zhao Ping frowned, then snorted, and said, "Didn't you learn about it by accident when I chatted with the shopkeeper before, as soon as the junior brother said that you would also come, he immediately remembered you." ”

Zhao Ping's explanation was more far-fetched, but Qu Changqing didn't study it in detail, he smiled and said: "So that's the case, it's just that the foolish brother is a person who practices martial arts after all, and he really has no talent in poetry and writing. ”

"Shi Cheng, why don't you have a song?" Iron Mask asked coldly.

"Uh......" Shi Cheng hesitated for a moment, and then said with a forced smile, "Drinking in a restaurant in the Western Desert still has to be a poet in the Western Desert to make a poem." ”

"Senior brother, don't be restrained, all the people sitting here today are your own people, what can't you let go?" Zhao Ping looked into the hall and continued: "Looking at the cheers just now, most of the guests in the other private rooms are going to improvise a song, we can't make it so deserted here." ”

"Second brother of the Xu family, what about you?" Qu Changqing's expression was not unusual, he asked Xu Jincheng while slowly drinking the wine in the cup.

Xu Jincheng also noticed something unusual, he looked at his cousin, although he didn't know what his cousin wanted to do, but he still chose to follow his cousin's tone, shook his head, and excused himself: "Although the younger brother knows some poetry, he has no talent, and he has no inspiration at the moment. ”

"Okay then." Qu Changqing laughed, arched his hand and said, "Then brother, I'm welcome, don't laugh at me for a while." ”

Qu Changqing's attitude was a little unexpected by Zhao Ping, and he stared at Qu Changqing tightly, wanting to see what kind of poems he would make.

The sound of reciting poems came from the hall, and it turned out that the guests in the other private rooms couldn't wait to show their hands in front of the larks, but there were many more warriors among the guests who came here to listen to the music today, so the average quality of the poems written by the guests also dropped a notch. Even Zhao Ping couldn't help but shake his head in his heart after listening to a few poems.

"Senior brother, it's your turn." After the guests in the private room next door finished writing poems, Zhao Ping reminded Qu Changqing.

Qu Changqing gently tapped the wine glass while chanting: "Young chivalrous, befriend Liuzhou Xiong." Liver and gallbladder holes, hair shrugging. In the conversation, life and death are the same. ”

After chanting this sentence, Qu Changqing's hand knocking on the wine glass suddenly stopped, and after a moment of silence, he sighed softly and read slowly: "A promise is a thousand gold." Push bravely, be bold and arrogant. Cover lightly, fly to the east of the city. Booming drinking, spring floating cold urn, sucking the sea and weeping rainbows. Idle eagle and dog, white feather picks the eagle bow, cunning Russian empty. Happy Hurry" [Note 1]

When he read this, Qu Changqing's breathing suddenly became heavier, he rubbed his nose, didn't continue to read, coughed lightly for a moment or two, and then snorted, and said: "Qu has no flowers in his belly, and he really can't think of extra sentences, which makes you laugh." ”

"Brother Qu is too humble." Xu Jincheng said with some surprise, "The poems written by Brother Qu are not much inferior to those slightly famous sons and brothers in the royal city. ”

Zhao Ping didn't answer, and now he was thinking about Qu Changqing's works word by word in his heart, but his thinking was fruitless in the end, and he didn't find anything abnormal.

The maid standing in front of the screen heard Qu Changqing's work, her face was obviously a little more happy, the crooked poems made by the previous few Jianghu martial artists can be said to be a miasma, I don't know what to do, and even more, she also teased the lark and a group of dancing girls in the poem, and now she rarely heard a masterpiece that should be in harmony with the meaning of the lark song, and her mood is naturally much better.

A voice came from a private room on the northeast side of the hall, "The heroic appearance is quite chivalrous, dare to ask which brother wrote Fang Cai's poem, can you move to a step?" As soon as these words came out, the voices of Ying He also came from several other adjacent private rooms, and several sons and buddies who had a slight literary name in the Western Desert King City wanted to meet the author of Fang Cai's poem.

Qu Changqing shook his head and said loudly: "You have praised it, in the next martial artist, he has no talent on weekdays, and today he only has occasional inspiration." ”

After hearing this, several boxes on the northeast side were silent, and Brother Gongzi, who was the first to open his mouth to invite, stopped speaking after saying a few words about the scene.

"Sister Skylark, a few guests who have just done poems, and Lin Gongzi in the Yuezi box is the best. In addition, the guest in the word room is not inferior, and the voice sounds like the qu official who used to come over often, but today he seems to have come with a friend, do you think you want to give these two a song? The maid turned and asked softly behind the screen.

"Of course." The crisp sound of a yellow oriole came from behind the screen, and soon, the sound of the piano flowed from behind the screen like a spring stream, as if to express gratitude.

At the end of the song, the lark stood up, blessed Lin Gongzi and Qu Changqing in the box, and said softly: "Thank you for the poems you give, the slave family likes it very much." ”

Qu Changqing didn't say anything, and the son surnamed Lin in the other box said with a smile: "If you can satisfy the lark girl, it will be worth the trip today." ”

Zhao Ping looked at Qu Changqing, then raised his head to look at where Lin Gongzi's voice came from, and suddenly felt a surprise in his heart, "Wait a minute, just now I only stared at Qu Changqing and the lark, and I actually forgot the rest of the audience in the hall!" ”

Zhao Ping looked at the door, his mind was confused, "Since my senior brother entered the door, I have been paying attention to his expression, and now it seems that his purpose in coming to Wangyunlou is probably not pure." But if he's here to meet someone secretly, who will be the one to meet? Is it a lark? A certain maid in Wangyun Tower? Or is it one of the regulars here? ”

Zhao Ping sighed in his heart, the power he could call on now in his hands was not as good as before, and it was not easy to comprehensively monitor the people who came and went inside and outside Wangyun Tower, "But anyway, now that there is finally a direction, it is better to start with the lark and the regulars who often come to cheer...... Perhaps the list could be narrowed down to see which regulars would often be seen with the senior brother. ”

Thinking of this, Zhao Ping had no interest in continuing to drink. In the following time, the lark played four more tunes, mostly songs describing the beautiful scenery of the wind and snow, and the audience made four rounds of poems, but in the next poetry session, Qu Changqing did not say a word.

The lark stood up and played another song "With You" as the curtain call song of the luncheon. At the end of the song, she stood up, saluted the crowd, and left the hall to the cheers of the crowd.

Zhao Ping looked at the hourglass on the wooden cabinet, and then said to Shi Cheng: "Shi Cheng, I have to leave." Noon has passed, and there is still one hour at most, and the Yuanliu City Lord is about to arrive at Dengnan Port, although the Yuanliu City Lord's visit does not have much intersection with my current mission, but now is a special period, and I still have to go back to stare at the work in the yamen. ”

"Okay." Shi Cheng, Wu Neng and Tie Mian stood up together, and Wu Neng smiled and said, "Why don't we take a good walk around here in the afternoon, maybe we can catch a glimpse of the grandmaster." ”

Zhao Ping smiled and shook his head: "I'm afraid it won't work today." ”

After saying this, he looked at Qu Changqing with a smile, "Senior brother, we are just on the way, why don't we go together." ”

Qu Changqing didn't see anything unusual on his face, and he nodded lightly.

After the meeting, everyone said goodbye and left at the door of Wangyun Tower.

Shi Cheng was about to leave, but was stopped by Zhao Ping.

"Shi Cheng, be careful of Senior Brother Qu." Zhao Ping said very simply.

Shi Chengfang's doubts in the private room were finally answered at this time, and the expression on his face became solemn, "Lord Zhao, what is going on?" ”

Zhao Ping shook his head, "I don't have any empirical evidence in my hands, and all the conclusions are based on speculation." I will write to you to explain this matter in detail, but if you feel at a loss now, you can also help me check Qu Changqing and this Wangyun Tower, I suspect that the reason why my senior brother often comes here to listen to music is probably not so simple. ”

"I see." Shi Cheng was not a stupid person, and he understood the meaning of Zhao Ping's words very clearly.

Zhao Ping patted Shi Cheng on the shoulder, and then walked to Qu Changqing, who was waiting outside the door, and the two left together with a smile.

"Lao Shi, where are we going now, do you want to take a stroll around Dengnan Port?" After getting into the carriage, Wu Neng asked a little impatiently.

"It's okay, let's take a walk around here this afternoon, I see that Lao Wu, you are also holding back a lot these days." Shi Cheng smiled and nodded, and then stopped talking, as if he was thinking about something.

"What's wrong? Did Zhao Ping tell you something just now? Seeing that Shi Cheng's expression was different, Tie Mian asked.

"He told us to be careful of that Qu Changqing."

Wu Neng was taken aback, "Lord Zhao asked us to be careful of his senior brother?!" ”

Seeing Shi Cheng nodded, Tie Mian's gaze also sharpened, "No wonder Zhao Ping suddenly invited such a person over today." ”

"So, Lord Zhao is suspecting that his senior brother surnamed Qu is colluding with the Lu clan? But I can't see that at the banquet today, do you? As soon as Wu Neng spoke, he hurriedly covered his mouth, obviously he also felt that what he said just now was too naïve.

"The reason why Zhao Ping didn't perform today is mostly because he doesn't have real evidence in his hands. But I can understand why he chose this place to meet us today. Shi Cheng looked out of the car window and looked at the signboard at the door of Wangyun Tower, "It is very likely that it is because he thinks that Qu Changqing's comrades are hidden in Wangyun Tower, and Zhao Ping is holding a banquet here today, which should be to carry out an active temptation." ”

"That'...... What do we do now? Wu Neng hurriedly asked.

Shi Cheng frowned and shook his head, "Our identity does not allow us to do too many things in the royal city, and the head-to-head confrontation can only be done by Zhao Ping, the most we can do now is to hire a few people to walk around here." ”

"There are still too few things that can be done....... Shi Cheng sighed in his heart.

At this moment, the carriage suddenly stopped, and a slightly yin and yang strange shouting and scolding came clearly from the front of the carriage into the carriage.

"Do you have long eyes?! Do you want to kill the Sprinkle family? ”

"[Note 1]: From He Zhu's "Liuzhou Song Tou: Young Chivalry", there are some changes to the original text in the article."