Chapter 3 The human heart is not ancient

"Wait obediently, Lord Ben is not short of money, some are money, calculate the time to touch the letter should also be sent over, no accident The person who sent the silver will come soon. ”

"Come on, serve the wine, or how to say it is flower wine, just such a pot will cost a few hundred taels, who can drink it? ”

"What's the matter? Standing still? This is your attitude towards guests? I don't understand the truth that you are a guest, and I don't know how you made this Lichun Courtyard so prosperous with your service attitude. ”

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In the upper room of Lichun Courtyard, where guests are like clouds, there is a handsome boy in a green robe who is drinking properly.

The warm upper room is wafting with a faint fragrance and a bit of women's fat powder smell, no more, no less, two oil lights under the pink bead curtain are dense, enough to illuminate the whole room, but just right can only illuminate the room, so that under the dim light, the five or six dusty women surrounding the young man in the green robe are all amorous and smiling, making people ignore the six powerful thugs who are holding their fists and sneering at the window at the door of the room.

The white peony sitting directly opposite the young man in the green robe is licking melon seeds leisurely with his legs crossed, and looks at the young man in the green robe from time to time, full of playfulness.

The melon seed shells scattered on the table were brushed away with his big sleeves, Bai Peony stood up and patted his buttocks, walked to the opposite side in a variety of styles, bent down and attached to the ear of the young man in the green robe, and exhaled like a blue road: "The wine is finished, the meal is full, and the girl is comfortable serving you, but the people who sent out have been waiting for an hour and there is no movement, this adult, don't you really plan to eat and drink in vain and not be able to touch in vain?"

Not long ago, the blue-robed boy who visited Lichun Courtyard made Bai Peony's eyes shine, especially after this green-robed boy claimed to be the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the Jinyi Guard, Lord Wang, which made the white peony unconsciously transfer the anger that Bai Peony had suffered on Yang Xuyan unconsciously transferred to Wang Chuyi, pondering that he was deflated on the hands of the Jinyi Guard, and lost face, so he had to find the field back, right?

Otherwise, where will the face of the white peony of the dignified Lichun Courtyard be put away in the future?

Therefore, when the young man in the green robe just went upstairs, the white peony tried his best, and he couldn't pull all the girls from the twelve archways of Lichun Courtyard to greet him, and it was good to serve with good wine and meat, as for the price......

Bai Peony glanced at the ledger that was spreading out next to a pot of wine on the table, and smiled brightly, and her heart was already happy.

It's just that even so, Bai Peony is still suspicious.

Earlier, I did hear that there was a new commander-in-chief envoy on the Jinyi Guard's side, who was still young, and the other words were unknown, but Bai Peony didn't care, just because the Jinyi Guard had always been strictly controlled, and the commander-in-chief of the Jinyi Guard in the past dynasties was extremely self-disciplined.

Therefore, such a nonsensical person suddenly appeared, not to mention, and he was extremely greedy for women, and the most important thing was to go out without even a silver ticket of a few thousand taels of Zhengerpin Jinyi Commander-in-Chief, and Bai Peony never had a bottom in his heart.

Fortunately, her white peony is not a good man and a woman, if it is really that adult, it is in the middle of it, and it also allows Yang Xuyan to pretend to be a calf and extinguish the prestige of Jinyiwei, if it is indiscriminately pretended, it will be better to do it, and it will be cut with a knife.

Although Bianjing City is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, her white peony can mix like a fish in water in the capital, isn't there a little means to see the light?

Thinking of this, Bai Peony was in a good mood, and happened to hear a sensation downstairs, so he was in a big mood and said:

"Go, serve this lord two more jugs of good wine......

"Big Sister ......"

On the side, a weak fat pink woman cast an inquiring glance at the white peony.

"It doesn't matter. ”

Bai Peony pursed her lips and smiled, revealing the maturity that a woman in her thirties should have, mixed with a bit of cunning.

"The man who brought the silver to our lord has arrived. ”

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Wind and fire, hurried footsteps, the air is high, in the night a group of people walk briskly on the street of Bianjing City, and there is no need for a special person to open the way, the street has taken the initiative to make way for this line of guards in brocade clothes and clothes with Yu Luan knife.

Of course, the four words "Qi Yu Xuanang" do not include the yellow-toothed old man who is following behind this team.

A warm carriage also took the initiative to make way for the last barrier under the feet of the Son of Heaven, dressed in a black robe, leaving only a black and white hair and cheeks The old man who was driving the car was slightly surprised, with a thoughtful expression, a faint female voice came from inside the carriage and said, "Mr. Qi, why are you stopping?"

The old man chuckled in a low voice, "I happened to run into something interesting. ”

Seeing this line of brocade guards heading straight towards Lichun Courtyard, the curtain of the carriage opened a corner, and the fragrance of nothingness emanated from the inside out, revealing half of a cold face.

At the same time, only an angry shout was heard from inside the Lichun Courtyard.

"Wang Chuyi, get out of here...... I'm not done with you today. ”

This sound was followed by a sound of ping-pong, and in the panic, I don't know how many tables, chairs, benches, bottles, cans, and cans were smashed, and the young man in the green robe who couldn't spit out was kicked down from the window on the second floor of Lichun Courtyard, and then a thin old man rushed down the stairs with a fart and urine, and helped up the green robe boy with a blue nose and swollen face on the ground, showing a mouthful of big yellow teeth and said, "My lord, are you okay? ”

"Get out of your uncle, don't give me cat crying mouse fake mercy. ”

The green-robed boy who grinned in pain didn't care about the flowering buttocks that fell, and said angrily: "Lao Wang, Lao Wang, Lao Tzu can see it today, your old boy is a wall of grass, and you won't help stop him when you see him rushing over?"

The yellow-toothed old man just cried with a sad face and didn't speak, and said in his heart that I am old, how can I afford to use this kick with internal force?

Those who witnessed all this good deeds probably already guessed what was going on, and there was no shortage of people who heard whispers and whispers.

It's nothing more than some of the small people who are used to being bullied on weekdays gloating, as well as some idle people who don't think it's a big deal to watch the excitement.

"Wang Chuyi, you are a man, just fight with me, don't pretend to be a calf in front of Lao Tzu, it just so happens that I have long wanted to understand how powerful your martial arts are, if you win today, I will give this silver, if you lose, hurry up and get out of me, don't be embarrassed again......"

A handsome figure fell from the upper floor, and the hunting sound of the robe blowing in the cold wind was very different from the green-robed boy on the ground.

Bai Peony carried her skirt and twisted her ass and quickly went downstairs, seeing that the gate of Lichun Courtyard was already full of people, she was quickly surprised:

"Oh, why bother, everyone has something to say, it's nothing more than a few thousand taels of silver, and it's not a big deal?

A blue-robed boy who had risen from the ground made a defensive gesture and cast a grateful glance at the white peony.

A group of brocade guards were full of black lines, eager to find a crack in the ground and quickly get in, as for the left envoy who was hunting in robes, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he couldn't wait to slash the unsuccessful guy on the opposite side with a knife.

Yang Xuyan said in his heart that it is not a big deal to detain people? Deliberately let yourself come to the rescue? You Bai Peony has a good calculation, if I don't come, you will let the bastard on the other side lose the face of Jinyiwei, if I come, it will be even more in your arms, I am afraid that it will not take half a day's work, and the news of the Jinyiwei commander-in-chief will spread throughout Bianjing.

It's a shame to be both horizontal and vertical, so it's better to take this opportunity to get out of this evil anger in your heart.

......

Around the corner, two people in a carriage were silently watching all this.

The woman in the carriage said: "No wonder this name is so familiar, it turns out to be the new commander-in-chief of the Jinyi Guard, but the dignified commander-in-chief of the Jinyi Guard, how could he come to this land of fireworks to be merry?

The old man who was driving the car smiled: "After all, he is young and frivolous, don't say it's him, even if it's down, if he can win this honor at his age, I'm afraid it's even better than him." ”

"Mr. Qi ......"

A woman's indifferent voice came from inside the carriage.

The groom knew that he was out of shape, and hurriedly said embarrassedly: "It's the next time to touch the scene, but I heard that this Wang Chuyi is the one in the palace who personally invited him to go down the mountain, he must not be an ordinary person, otherwise how can he get into that magic eye?"

"Mr. Qi, you mean he deliberately made people so careless?"

The woman lifted the curtain of the door, revealing a cold and noble face with a cinnabar mole between her eyebrows.

Seeing that the green-robed boy who had become a rat crossing the street at this time was touching his buttocks with one hand, while squeezing his eyebrows with the famous white peony in Bianjing City, she said lightly: "I don't look like it no matter how I look at it." ”

......

Wang Chu suddenly became an ant on a hot pot.

Let's fight, the dignified brocade guards are fighting in the downtown area, if it is spread out, I am afraid that I will not want to be the commander-in-chief who has just taken office, and I don't want to be an official matter, but I have lost more than 100,000 taels of silver for three years and a second-grade official, and it is not cost-effective.

If you don't fight, you will only be aggravated by the nasty guy who kicks your nose in the face on the other side, and in a better case, you will be beaten by the other side, and that's it, but in this way, how can he, the commander-in-chief of the Jinyi Guard, raise his head in front of these brothers?

Just when Wang Chuyi's heart was full of two voices, he suddenly saw a black-robed old man squeezing out of the crowd, giving a salute to the white peony who was fake and anxious, and glanced at the tense Yang Xuyan with a smile, and then said with a smile: "This adult's silver, someone has already paid for him, and this matter is also clear, and a few people don't have to make trouble like this anymore." ”

After that, the seemingly weak old man took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms, and the denomination was at least one hundred taels.

"It's a lot, even if it's compensation for breaking these doors, windows, tables and chairs. ”

"Oh?"

The old man who suddenly killed made Bai Peony stunned, it was not so simple to be able to take out so many silver tickets at one time and be casual, and then asked tentatively: "I haven't asked the old gentleman yet......

"My surname is Qi, my name is Lin, just call me Old Man Qi, it's just a groom in the next place, and it is our young lady who helps this Lord Wang pay. ”

The old man was smiling all the time.

"Of course, if the proprietress is unwilling to accept it, then forget it. ”

"Collect, why don't you accept it, this is all earned by the girls' hard work, where is there a reason not to take the silver, right?"

A stack of silver tickets was taken by White Peony, although he was a little reluctant, but he couldn't let others see that he was deliberately looking for trouble with Jinyiwei in front of everyone.

Even if I haven't heard of this old man in Bianjing City.

The old man who suddenly appeared formed a strong contrast with the yellow-toothed old man next to Wang Chuyi, so that Wang Chuyi had to sigh in his heart, look, look at the style of others, and then look at your old Wang's grade, it is clearly a heaven and an underground.

Wang Chuyi glanced at the innocent yellow-toothed old man, and said: " Alas, if it is really people's hearts are not ancient, their own family members do not help their own families, but outsiders come to help, it is really sad, but fortunately, this adult is not a matter of care, Yang Zuo, I will not pursue this matter if you kick me today, just set up a ten-table and eight-table atonement banquet for me at will, and you white peony, say that you don't believe it when you look down on people, this adult and friends are all over the world, how can you rely on your thousands of taels of silver?"

Bai Peony just laughed and didn't speak, and the corners of Yang Xuyan's mouth twitched, trying his best to control his temper that was about to explode.

"That's right, sir, extinguish the fire......"

The yellow-toothed old man who came up sneered at Wang Chuyi, but was kicked on the ass by Wang Chuyi mercilessly, and he stumbled several times.

"Fuck you, I'll get angry when I see your old man, or this gentleman is righteous enough......"

After that, Wang Chuyi smiled and stepped forward to pat the shoulder of the old man with extraordinary bearing, the old man did not move, but Wang Chuyi felt an extremely deep but relaxed internal force coming from the palm of his hand at the moment when he just touched the old man's shoulder, as if it was going to spread through his own arm to his internal organs.

Want to test me?

Wang Chuyi squinted, didn't smile, and let the internal force collide with the deer in his body, and finally dissipated invisibly.

The old man was slightly surprised, his doubts were fleeting, and he smiled: "I can use a few thousand taels of silver to hand over a young talent like Lord Wang, and this transaction will only make money and not lose money." ”

"Refreshing, okay. ”

The game between the two ended in secret, Wang Chuyi was in a good mood, and said heartily: "I owe you this wine today, and I will invite you back one day." ”

"Please, what, please?"

Seeing that today's evil breath could not come out again, Yang Xuyan snorted coldly, "Just rely on your Wang Chuyi's annual income of two or three hundred taels? Do you have to be in the Year of the Monkey to make up the money for today's drink? Or does your Lord Wang have other ways to get these thousands of taels of silver? If this is the case, then I really have to weigh your original intention of being an official." ”

Wang Chu was speechless, and his face was unnatural for a while.

Fortunately, the old man hurriedly interrupted: "Then I will wait for your good news, sir, farewell, and have a chance to see you again." ”

The old man got into the warm carriage and walked slowly down the street, the people in the carriage wanted to speak and stopped, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Why does Mr. want me to help this Wang Chuyi, our Jinyi Guard's commander-in-chief doesn't look like a pillar of talent, compared to Wang Chuyi, the Jinyi Guard's left envoy opposite him is not much better?"

The elegant old man who put his hands back into his cuffs said softly: "After all, this Lord Wang is the person who introduced him, let's not look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, so it can be regarded as indirectly throwing an olive branch to the adult, a few thousand taels of silver, this transaction is a good deal." ”

The woman in the carriage thought for a moment, and then said, "Mr. Before, he tried to test this Wang Chuyi's martial arts, what was the result?"

"It's weird. ”

The old man was dignified.

"I don't notice the slightest fluctuation of internal forces. ”

"How is this possible?

"So there are only two possibilities. ”

The old man said slowly: "Either pull the tiger skin and pull the banner, in fact, martial arts are at the end of the nine grades, or it is extremely scary in terms of internal strength, but compared to this, I would rather believe in the first answer, no matter how funny it is, because since the year of Jiazi, the young man in the world who is under the age of thirty and whose internal strength is above me, there are no more than three in the entire rivers and lakes, one of which has been recruited by the imperial court, and one has offended too many enemies because of his sharp edge, and he died prematurely." ”

"Isn't there a last one?"

"The last one is just a rumor, maybe there is no such person at all, after all, who can kill a total of eighteen top masters of the Jiangnan Salt Gang overnight without leaving any traces?"

The old man said with great certainty: "So all kinds of rumors about the guy 'Treading Snow and Looking for Plum Blossoms' can only prove one thing, that is, there is no such person in the world, it's just that some people or forces have created such a supreme master in order to divert attention." ”

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I don't know when, the night snowflakes in the capital are falling again.

In the icy and snowy climate, the warm carriage curtains were opened, revealing a cold face leaning against the window, but at this moment, this face that was originally like frost had a faint smile, enough to melt the ice and snow of this season.

"Is the poem about that man also false? ”

"True and false, false and true, who can tell?"

The old man said lightly.

"But if there is really such a person in the world, then even if he scatters all his family wealth and drinks a glass of wine with him, it is a pity that ......"

"Alas, old man, wait......"

Just as the old man sighed, he suddenly heard a shout, and a young man in a green robe ran up quickly out of breath, breathless: "Just said that I invited you to drink, but I don't even know where you live, so where does this Lord Ben go to find you?"

"Hmm......"

The old man couldn't help but laugh.

He never thought that this new adult who couldn't afford to pay for alcohol because of drinking actually took this matter seriously, and was about to sigh that there are not many people who are so kind in this world now, when he suddenly heard the blue-robed boy behind him who was still happy to do it with a blue nose and swollen face, and said with a smile: "And this young lady in the carriage, I have to find a special time to visit the door another day, if the two of you have no opinion, I think tomorrow will be how?" Wouldn't it be nice to wait for Lord Ben to make two pots of fine flower carvings and come to the door in person, and then the three of us will get drunk and rest?"

As soon as Wang Chu finished speaking, the carriage suddenly accelerated, and he vaguely seemed to hear a disgust.

When he came back to his senses, the carriage and the driver who drove it, along with the frost woman in the carriage, who had only half of her face exposed, were gone.

Only the boy in the green robe was left depressed.

"Well, this lady promises that it's really just a drink......"