Volume 1 Investigation of Corruption, Life and Death, Encountering the Deceased, Chapter 8, Looking for a Deceived Beauty
A hot gust of wind passed, the sun shadow was slight, and it climbed to the highest point of the sky little by little, and the heat wave kept rolling up to the second floor, sleepiness hit, Qu Lian covered her mouth and yawned deeply, dipped her finger in tea, scribbled a few times on the table, and her eyes floated over leisurely: "Stay for a while, let's go to Shengze Street for a walk." ”
"What time is it now, it's three poles on the sun, don't say that there are no good goods in Shengze Street, even if there is, this hour has already been picked up by the family, where is it our turn to pick." Luo Kui shook his head, reached out and slowly peeled off a purple grape, the grape was chilled in the fruit bowl on the side for a while, the white cold air wrapped in a faint fruity fragrance overflowed, peeling off the juice crystal clear, sweet and fragrant.
"That's hard to say, so many people can pick up a leak, maybe we can pick up a leak too. Qu Lian looked up at the dazzling sun, and smiled coquettishly: "Didn't they all say that good food is not afraid of being late." ”
Luo Kui shook his head with a smile, the royal blue glazed ears on his sideburns rustled his cheeks, and he was slightly cold: "There is no real leakage in this world to pick up, it is all a lie, that is, you are raised in the deep boudoir like this, and the eldest lady who does not know the sinister nature of the rivers and lakes will believe it, and will go to the pole to find a deception." ”
"How can it be, with your eyesight, only you deceive others, how can anyone deceive you. The two have known each other for several years, Qu Lian knows too well Luo Kui's ability, although she lives alone in a narrow and small house, but the Shui family is a family of gold and stone, although she is in the middle of the road, she lives by taking the palm of her eyes for others on weekdays, and she looks extremely down, but her eyesight is really unmatched.
Luo Kui stuffed the peeled grapes into her mouth, and smiled cleanly: "My silver is not blown by the wind, not to mention that I have lost my reputation after beating my eyes, and I will lose my job in the future." ”
"Let's go, your reputation is so great, you can't get in the way of losing a star and a half. The grapes were extremely sour, the sour Qu Lian squeezed her eyebrows, she stretched out her white hand, pulled Luo Kui's sleeve and pleaded continuously, looking cowardly.
Luo Kui couldn't help but shiver, got goosebumps all over her body, pursed her lips, raised her hand to scratch her face and laughed: "This handsome appearance, thanks to me being a girl, if I am a man, I really can't bear this beauty's plan." ”
Qu Lian pinched the silk and wiped the sweat on her forehead, and said and smiled: "Then does my beauty plan work?" ”
The bright sun followed people all the way, the heat wave followed like a shadow, and even the thin leaves of the weeping willows on the side of the road were swept up, and there was a weak and low-hanging low, motionless, and occasionally a breeze blowing on the face, but it was also like the steam escaping from the cage, and the steaming scorching skin did not show any coolness.
The cicadas hid in the shade of the trees, unable to withstand the hot hissing, and the two of them were sweating hotly, pinching the handkerchief and wiping it non-stop. If you want to go to Shengze Street, Liumo Street is the only way to go, and there is an herbal tea stall at the corner of the street, there is no signboard, only a gray curtain that breaks through the old one, but it is a time-honored brand. Under the gray curtain, there are four lacquered benches around an equally mottled table, year after year, and two white porcelain jars more than one person high stand side by side in the ice, and the sour plum soup and herbal tea in the jar are the most cool and relieve the heat.
Luo Kui and the others turned the corner, went straight to the herbal tea stall, sat on the bench, put copper plates in the money basket, and asked for a few bowls of herbal tea and a plate of mung bean cake. Take a bite of the soft and glutinous sweet pastry, and then drink the bitter and sweet herbal tea, the hot sweat is suddenly clean, as if it has entered autumn in an instant, and the coolness is deep.
In this way, bowls of herbal tea were poured down, and the two of them were poured through the bones for life.
Seeing that no one was paying attention to the left and right, Qu Lian hiccuped and smiled shyly: "I'm really full of tea now." ”
Luo Kui touched her well-watered belly, and nodded in agreement: "Isn't it, I'll be looking for a place for grain reincarnation all over the street in a while." ”
Qu Lian is a boudoir lady, and she has never heard many words outside, so she naturally doesn't know what to say, and her eyes are very wide: "The place of reincarnation of the five grains, what kind of place is that, it sounds very powerful." ”
"Naturally, it's amazing. Luo Kui approached Qu Lian and smiled in her ear: "If you are not allowed to go to the thatched house one day, will you be suffocated?" ”
"You're really insulting. Qu Lian's onion pointed at Luo Kui with her tube-like fingers, and she shook it three times before she pinched the handkerchief to cover her mouth, and smiled and stomped her feet with shame.
Luo Kui took off her hand seriously: "Hurry up, if you delay any longer, it will not be good food, but leftovers." ”
The two of them smiled brightly, and walked into the depths of Liumo Street with a smile, the most fragrant street and alley in Qingzhou City, in addition to the girls who came and went, even the fat powder was extraordinarily fragrant and enchanting, Luo Kui couldn't help but take a deep breath, and sighed: "It's so fragrant here, it doesn't smell like an ordinary fat powder fragrance." ”
Qu Lian chuckled, raised her finger and pointed to the two red lanterns hanging low under the eaves: "Don't you know, the candle in the lantern in front of the Hehuan Pavilion is not an ordinary thing, it is a candle soaked in tuberose, it burns day and night, isn't it fragrant, and this fragrance is more chic and charming than the ordinary fat powder incense." ”
"Qu Lian, you even know this, you are a beautiful girl, will you also come to Hehuan Pavilion to hang out. Luo Kui's heart moved, raised her hand to scratch her slippery face, and laughed narrowly, her cheeks were crimson when she laughed.
"Don't talk nonsense. Qu Lian took a sip of her, raised her hand to cover her face, looked at Luo Kui from between her fingers, and sneered shyly: "It was the eldest brother who told me, he said that Hehuan Pavilion is the most wonderful place in Liumo Street, and if you are deceived and lose money on Shengze Street, you want to go inside to borrow wine to kill your sorrows, and if you pick up the leak and make a fortune, you have to go inside to drink and celebrate." ”
"Oh. Luo Kui dragged out the last note, and a meaningful smile appeared on his lips: "It seems that the eldest prince of Qu has been deceived in Shengze Street, and he has not gone to the Hehuan Pavilion to have fun. ”
"Shhhh Qu Lian looked around, made a silent gesture, lowered his voice and laughed: "Daddy has always had high expectations for the eldest brother, and he is naturally very strict, even if the eldest brother just drank a table of flower wine, he will be punished for kneeling on the ancestral tablet, but later, the eldest brother said every time that he accompanied the prince of Liehou, and my father was bent on clinging to the Hou Mansion, so he was naturally happy to see that the eldest brother and the prince were on good terms, so it was inconvenient to say anything more." ”
The lantern escapes a rich aroma, lingering and hovering under the corridor, slightly sideways, only to see a cluster of emerald leaf stems at the root of the wall, the raw jasper Xiurong, the tightly closed flower buds are white and graceful, these tuberoses only bloom after the moonset, and the fragrance overflows after blooming, echoing with the fragrance in the lantern, swaying people's hearts, and involuntarily walking towards the gate of the Hehuan Pavilion.
Luo Kui lowered his eyebrows and smiled, this is really a person who carries the blame every year, and there are a lot of them this year. Although Yun Liangjiang said that he was also dissolute, he lived a boring life all day long, and it was good to have some fun, but the rules of the Hou Mansion were strictly taught by everyone, and he didn't dare to go to the Qinglou by himself, that is, he instigated others to visit the Qinglou, and he was also courageous.
The secret in this Qingzhou city is like gravel, blown by the wind, it will float very far, dense and pervasive, you listen to me, he listens to everyone, and then add some fragrant and glamorous passages to the ears of Hou Ye, then Yun Liangjiang has to lie on the couch for three or five months.
Luo Kui thought of Yun Liangjiang's shrewd face in front of the people, and the shrewd faces behind the people, he couldn't help but smile even more, he has always had expensive skin and flesh, and he was afraid of the pain, so he took the initiative to find this kind of thing, so he wouldn't do it.
As he spoke, a group of people came down under the shade of the trees, and the leader was a boy, dressed in a green dark flower gauze placket, but there was no belt around his waist, the robe hung loosely on his body, and the golden silk moire on the hem of the robe with the collar and cuffs was shrouded by the sun, reflecting the bright and bright seven-colored light. Originally, it was a very rich and luxurious dress, but it looked like a colorful parrot from a distance.
This person's hair is oily and slippery, his long eyebrows are in the sideburns, his eyes are bright, and he looks like a noble son of a family, but his eyes move downward, but his collar is loose, revealing his neck and a large white chest, and there is a hideous tarantula tattooed on his chest, with teeth and claws like a living thing, like a bite in an instant, and people who see people chill in the back.
Looking around at the corner of the street, the eyes of the boy in green were not idle for a moment, his eyes like knives cut through the flesh of the strange girl, and he laughed softly: "I didn't look at the yellow calendar when I went out today, why didn't I have a little lady who saw it." ”
The little guy beside him glanced at the distance, as if he had picked up a treasure, and said softly with a smile on his face: "Second young master, look who it is." ”
The green-clothed boy's eyes fell not far away, looking deeply at Luo Kui and Qu Lian, who were talking while walking, and waved his hand quietly, and the two of them were blocked in front of the door of Hehuan Pavilion like wolves.
Only then did he tilt his head and paced out of the crowd, smiling at Qu Lian, with evil implications in his bright smile: "Yo, isn't this the big girl of the Qu family, it's really a place where you don't meet in life." ”
As soon as Qu Lian saw this person, her face changed in an instant, and she pulled Luo Kui's sleeve in a panic, and wanted to pull her legs away, and said in a trembling voice while retreating: "Luo Kui, the road is narrow, and it is the second young man of the Xu Mansion." ”
Xu Fu Er Shao is very famous, and it is a bad name, as the saying goes, good things don't go out and bad things go thousands of miles, this bad name has spread all over the streets and alleys of Qingzhou City early, Luo Kui has naturally heard of it, and has seen several faces, he is a famous swinger in Qingzhou, known as Xu Fu Er Shao, Xu Mansion is a hereditary Hou Mansion, a large family in Qingzhou, and Qu Lian is a businessman with some thin wealth, but to put it bluntly, he is still a commoner who is not worth mentioning, how can he afford to provoke Hou Fu Gongzi.
The shadow of the tree rippled slightly, just shining on the top of the heads of the two of them, and the two took a few steps back, only to find that they had already been tightly surrounded, except for hiding in the Hehuan Pavilion, there was no place to escape, but the Hehuan Pavilion was not a good place to hide.