[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, March 28, Youshi, in the front hall of Xufu]

Hu Yiyi heard Xu Ke's footsteps from the front yard through the front hall, and was walking towards the back garden, she saw Mao Jiaojiao and refused to leave, and said urgently:

"If you don't leave, I won't save your sister Mingyue!"

"Then if I leave, the eldest sister will agree to save Sister Mingyue?"

"Let's go! If you are bumped into by Xiao Wuxi, be careful that he catches you in Tsing Yiwei! Before, he has already let you go once!"

"Then do you save it or not?"

"Okay, good, help, help! The eldest sister promised you, but you have to promise the eldest sister one condition!" Hu Yiyi suddenly had an idea and said.

"What?" Mao Jiaojiao heard Hu Yiyi's words, and vaguely guessed who this "little innocent" was, and then heard the words of "caught in Tsing Yiwei", her heart was even more faintly worried, she looked at the surrounding courtyard wall, and was already planning to wait for an opportunity to jump away.

"If you want to save people, you have to promise the eldest sister, and you will not be able to practice your 'harmony technique' with Xiao Wuzhi from now on!"

"What!" Mao Jiaojiao stomped her feet, and a flush suddenly appeared on her face, it turned out that this "and alloy fairy" was also shy.

"Xiao Wuxian is about to arrive, I'll intercept him first, you quickly climb over the wall and leave!"

After Hu Yiyi finished speaking, she no longer paid attention to Mao Jiaojiao, walked out of the courtyard gate of Hazelnut Residence, and rushed straight to the back garden.

So, Hu Yiyi just walked into the back garden, just in time for Xu Ke to walk in from the front hall.

And the hazelnut behind her is in the center, if someone looks up at the beam of the house at this moment, they will see a small red and white cat, "meow", jumped up the wall, three vertical and two jumps, and then disappeared......

It turned out that Mao Jiaojiao's stealth skills, which used the conversion between her human form and her original body, were just one of them.

Mao Jiaojiao, as a cat demon, is much more convenient than her second brother Lu Huoli in terms of escape and escape.

If her second brother Lu Huoli also learns her method, he will become an old deer, with plum blossom horns on his head and four long-legged meat, and plunge into the downtown area, and in less than half a moment, he will attract countless human beings, slashing with axes and shooting arrows!

Venison is a delicate dish, the deer skin can be used to make clothes, the deer heart and deer liver can be used in medicine, and the antler velvet in his plum blossom horns is even more of a superior nourishment! How can such an old deer, who can exchange money all over his body, survive leisurely in the human world?

Fortunately, Mao Jiaojiao is a cat demon, and she is also an extremely cute little flower cat.

Who would pay attention to a kitten?

Because of this, she turned into a cat and sneaked into the Xu Mansion, quietly turning into the courtyard wall of the Hazel Ling Residence, not only the people in the Xu Mansion couldn't notice it at all, but even her eldest sister Hu Yiyi couldn't notice it.

Speaking of which, although most of the demons are cultivated from the beast race, most of the demons are either too fierce and ugly to appear at will in the human world, or after turning into the original body, the primordial god is imprisoned in it, and the mana cannot be used. Only this cat demon Mao Jiaojiao, according to the spell taught by her master, can not only change between the original body and the human form at will, but also, after turning into a cat body, she jumps lightly, which helps her escape quickly and hide everywhere.

At this moment, Mao Jiaojiao took advantage of Hu Yiyi's turn to turn around, and instantly turned back to her original body and fled suddenly......

Xu Ke followed Hu Yiyi into the front hall of the Xu Mansion and sat down at the large round table in his house. At this time, Yao Zibei had already served food and wine one after another, and waited for the two to arrive, so they started dinner together.

Xu Ke asked, what about his second brother Zhu Wuneng and the elder brother of the scholar fairy? Hu Yiyi replied, these two often go out to play, and two of the three days are eating and drinking outside.

So, Xu Ke had dinner with Hu Yiyi and Yao Zibei in the front hall of his house. He ate a few bites of the dishes cooked by Yao Zibei himself, and suddenly felt that the taste was light and delicious, and he was very much more delicious to his own taste, than the first food in his Tsing Yi Wei!

"Xiaobei, the food you cook is really delicious, just like the food my mother made when I was a child, no!

Hu Yiyi smiled when she heard it, and said in her heart, Xiao Wuxi, you compare a woman to a mother, that is what you say to your lover. She looked at Yao Zibei again at this time, but saw that although Sister Zibei also smiled faintly, after laughing, she was still eating, and there were no extra words.

Hu Yiyi shook his head again in his heart, and secretly sighed to himself, "Hey! Why can't a good pair of beautiful people come together? Could it be that fate makes people, and people can only be at the mercy of fate, and there can be no slightest struggle?"

At this time, although Yao Zibei kept bowing her head to eat, how could she not have the same thoughts as Hu Yiyi in her heart? When she saw Brother Xu next to her eating so happily, and compared her cooking skills to his mother, how could she not be moved? She asked herself countless times in her heart, "Is it true that I can't be with Brother Xu?" Brother Xu is such a good person, he is willing to marry me, why am I not willing to agree? But as soon as she looked down at the slight bulge in her lower abdomen, her heart suddenly stopped like a lake, and there was no longer any ripple.

......

This dinner was hurriedly eaten in a sweet and bitter, warm and regretful atmosphere.

After dinner, Yao Zibei cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, Hu Yiyi waved his hand, and walked into the Wenyu Pavilion in the back garden with Xu Ke, drinking tea and chatting.

Today's spring breeze is warm, compared to yesterday's strange cold, I can't help but feel a little more warm and comfortable. The two sat opposite each other on both sides of the stone table in the Wenyu Pavilion, sipping warm fragrant tea, bathing in the evening breeze of the slanting sun, and their mood was very refreshing.

Or Xu Ke asked first:

"Sister Hu, you saw Mao Jiaojiao today, what did she say?"

"The ninth sister said, that Han Wang Li Zuo, he is begging for death by himself!"

"Asking for death by himself? Could it be that this King Han, he is really impatient to live?"

"Perhaps, he's living too comfortably, isn't it? Because it's too comfortable, it's too boring. You Terrans, if you are bored to a certain limit, you will probably not want to live anymore......"

"This ......" Xu Ke scratched his forehead, a little incomprehensible, so he asked: "Sister Hu, why did Mao Jiaojiao conclude that King Han wanted to die by himself?"

"Previously, the ninth sister hid in Cuiyun Tower, and she used my method, even if she was practicing her 'method of harmony' every night, but she no longer harmed people after all. It's just that the night before yesterday, your King Han suddenly came to Cuiyun Tower in the middle of the night......"

So, Hu Yiyi told Mao Jiaojiao what she said, King Han forcibly begged Mao Jiaojiao, and finally Yuanyang got rid of it and died, and told Xu Kebei again. It's just that for Mao Jiaojiao's tireless detailing, that night, all the details of their men and women's deeds in the clouds and rain, as well as the so-called leather whips, iron hooks, wax oil, bamboo sticks and other things, Hu Yiyi can only pass them off at every critical moment.

Xu Ke listened, thought for a long time, nodded, and said:

"In this way, King Han really seems to be killing himself, but he can't blame Mao Jiaojiao for harming others!"

After a pause, Xu Ke was a little puzzled and said: "It's just that this person is also a prince of Daqian, how can he be so shameless and go to Cuiyun Tower to prostitute late at night?

Hu Yiyi said: "That's because Cuiyun Building was originally opened by him! He went to his own property to engage in prostitution, so he naturally has no fear!"

Xu Ke couldn't believe it, and said, "Cuiyun Tower was opened by King Han, wouldn't it?"

Hu Yiyi said: "Listen to the ninth sister, there is a manager surnamed Pei in Cuiyun Building, who is short and fat, and he is also bald, and the master behind the scenes of this manager Pei is King Han!"

"Pei Caibao?......" Xu Ke couldn't help but be surprised: "Could it be that the head of Cuiyun Building is actually Pei Caibao, this person has lost all his martial arts, and after losing his official position, he actually ran away to run a brothel? This is too funny!"

Hu Yiyi said: "It's not that Pei Caibao ran to run a brothel, but his master ordered him to help supervise the brothel." Xiao Wuxi, think about it, that Cuiyunlou heard that it is the largest brothel in Chang'an City, I 'sold' the ninth sister to them before, and the old bustard casually made a move, it was five hundred taels of silver, what a wealth and generosity! King Han has such a big industry in his hands, and it is inconvenient for him to come forward, so it is safe to hand it over to a trustworthy subordinate to take care of it!"

Xu Ke said: "So, when this Pei Caibao was in Nan'an Pingsi, he had always been a subordinate of King Han......?

Xu Ke suddenly remembered in his heart that two months ago, Pei Caibao led people to secretly arrest Zhao Yu in the Autumn Leaf Grass Hall into the Nan'an Ping Division and tortured Zhao Yu to extract a confession. He thought to himself, it seems that Pei Caibao must have been instructed by King Han to do this at that time! But I don't know why this King Han asked Pei Caibao to arrest Zhao Yu? What can he get from Zhao Yu?

Now that King Han is dead and Pei Caibao's whereabouts are unknown, Xu Ke at this time does not want to think about the causes and consequences of Zhao Yu's arrest at that time. However, in Xu Ke's heart, he immediately felt a hatred for this so-called six princes for no reason. Anyway, these two people only know how to do some tricks, and they don't know what to do behind their backs, and they don't need to think about it, they are not good things!

Hu Yiyi saw Xu Kegu thinking about himself for a while, opened his mouth, but did not say anything. When she saw that Xu Ke didn't talk about it, she didn't ask more, and immediately said:

"Xiao Wuxi, my sister has something to ask for, but I don't know, does this matter make you embarrassed?"

"Sister Hu, what do you say?"

"In the case of King Han's murder, I heard that your Tsing Yiwei has solved the case, and the 'murderer' you are looking for is called...... Bright Moon?"

Xu Ke nodded, and the expression on his face suddenly became a little solemn.

Hu Yiyi said again: "This Mingyue girl, you and I both know in our hearts that she is just an innocent 'scapegoat'. However, your Emperor Daqian has gone too far! He even sentenced her to a 'Ling Chi' sentence! Thinking that Mingyue girl is just a Qinglou woman, and she is not a heinous and heinous murderer, how can the emperor be so confused?!"

Speaking of the future, the more Hu Yiyi spoke, the more angry she became: "Take 10,000 steps back, even if she really kills King Han and commits a capital crime, she will be killed, why bother to drag people to the street and cut her more than 1,000 times in a row! I heard that the executioner had to use the knife for three days in a row to make up the 1,000 knives that the emperor wanted...... It's a shame that you, the old emperor, can figure out that in a big girl's house, you stripped off people's clothes in public, stabbed people up and down one by one, and cut more than a thousand knives, and there were a large number of people around, surrounded by a sea of people, watching the excitement there. Such a cruel punishment is not only a great pain for this Mingyue, but also a great humiliation!"

"Ahem......" Xu Ke sighed and shook his head:

"Sister Hu, not only will Mingyue be sentenced to Ling Chi, but more than a hundred girls in the Qinglou and more than fifty miscellaneous servants in the Cuiyun Mansion will be executed!"

"Ahh......h

Xu Ke smiled bitterly and said: "The emperor should have been bewitched by Shen Huan's gang, otherwise, it would be enough to behead the main culprit, why not involve more than 150 innocent people?"

"The 'main culprit' can't be killed!" Hu Yiyi said disapprerovingly: "Mingyue is not a murderer, why should she be killed?"

Xu Ke said helplessly: "But, Sister Hu, King Han was killed for no reason, and someone has to come out to confess such a big case...... As for the real culprit in this case, your sister Mao Jiaojiao, we can't catch her. Besides, we can't ...... I can't really arrest your ninth sister!"

Hu Yiyi couldn't help but be silent for a moment, and then she asked: "Xiao Wuxi, if someone really wants to come out to take the blame, can it, this person who bears the guilt is not Mingyue?" 16

Xu Ke shook his head and sighed: "Even if Mingyue is not the main culprit, she will still be unable to escape death! Cough!...... It's no wonder, their lives are not good! In this life, they have fallen into the Qinglou as a prostitute, and they have encountered such a case as King Han again, and now, no one can save them......

Hu Yiyi couldn't help but lower her head, looking a little sad and said:

"These people, really can't save any of them?"

Xu Ke asked rhetorically: "Sister Hu, what you asked me to do today is to let me rescue these people?"

Hu Yiyi shook her head and said, "Others don't need to be saved, my sister just wants you to save Mingyue!"

"Why is this? Sister Hu knows this Mingyue girl?" Xu Ke wondered.

"I don't know Mingyue, but the one who knows Mingyue is my ninth sister ......"

So, Hu Yiyi had to tell Mao Jiaojiao how to marry Mingyue as sisters in the Deyue Building, how Mingyue was noble in Mao Jiaojiao's eyes, and how Mao Jiaojiao came to her Hazelling Residence today, just to beg her to help rescue Mingyue and so on, all the reasons for this were told to Xu Ke one by one.

After Xu Ke listened, he was silent for a long time, he thought about it, and he really didn't know whether to agree.

Hu Yiyi said: "Xiao Wuxi, if you think this matter is really difficult to do, then don't do it! What you said is also reasonable, these women have strayed into the Qinglou as prostitutes in this life, and they are already suffering from life, and today they are in the case of King Han, and they are even more inescapable! Perhaps, all this is their fate! Since the fate should be like this, you and I naturally can't change it, so let them ...... Leave it to fate!"

"Resign yourself to fate, resign yourself to fate......" Xu Ke couldn't help muttering to himself repeatedly, he couldn't help but think of the fate of his own journey from these Cuiyunlou girls who were about to die innocently.

These girls in Cuiyun Tower, you can guess without thinking about it, everyone must have a bitter past. But if a woman in this world has a mouthful of food and a place to live, who is willing to enter the green building and become a prostitute who "sells meat"?

There is no doubt that these people are poor people abandoned by fate, they are forced to commit themselves to the Qinglou, they are forced to laugh every day, and they are forced to use all their means to please those prostitutes who come and go in a hurry, in order to beg for a bite to eat and keep themselves alive. In their lives, they are only controlled by fate, they have never had the opportunity to choose, and they can only be forced to endure silently!

No matter what fate throws at them, they can only silently pick it up from the ground, and try to squeeze a smile from their faces, and say one to fate vigorously: Okay!

Now, with the "quick solution" of King Han's case, fate has thrown them a final "gift", that is, death.

Along the way, they have been silently accepting the "gift" of fate, silently enduring the arrangement of fate, until death comes, they still have no right to choose fate!

What did they do wrong to be abused like fate! And, in the end, there was no chance to struggle and resist......

Xu Ke looked back at himself, he had lost his parents since he was a child, and he had struggled to move forward in the situation of displacement since he was a child...... He tasted all those years of wind and frost, the cold and warm of the world, those ice blades, rain and swords, hunger and cold, and what kind of good "gift" fate gave him? !

He grew up alone in extremely difficult circumstances, and several times, he was on the verge of starvation and death, but he was like a weak but strong fluffy grass, pressed by the wind, frost, rain and snow countless times, and sometimes, he almost fell to the ground, but he still stubbornly survived, stubbornly to this day!

Once upon a time, he himself could have imagined that he was only twenty-one years old this year, and he had become a thousand households in Tsing Yi Wei from the fourth grade, or the youngest thousand households in the three hundred years of Daqian!

Who says fate is immutable?

He himself didn't believe the first one!

If I believed in fate, maybe I would have died a long time ago, and if I didn't believe in fate, I would have become stronger and stronger!

Somehow, maybe Xu Ke experienced the change of the wheel of fate in the God King Pavilion, and in his heart, he was born with a strong resistance to the so-called fate!

At this moment, he heard Hu Yiyi's words, let these women, everything be left to fate!

"Sister Hu, you agreed to this matter without illness!"

"Promised, will you go to rescue Mingyue?"

"Not only Miss Mingyue, but others, I also want to save it!"

"However, these people have all been convicted by your old emperor, and they will be executed in three days, Xiao Wuxi, can you help them all overturn the case?"

I can hear that according to Hu Yiyi's thoughts, he naturally wants Xu Ke to narrow down the scope of saving people, as long as Mingyue is rescued alone, as for the others, everything is left to fate!

Xu Ke smiled bitterly a few times and said, "Sister Hu, they only have two days left, and in two days, by the afternoon of the first day of April, they will all be executed!"

"Ah...... So fast!" Hu Yiyi thought for a while, then changed her mind, and she persuaded again:

"Forget it! Xiao Wuxi, there are only two days, if you want to overturn the verdict of the Son of Heaven, it will be extremely difficult! If you are not careful, you will offend the Son of Heaven, when the time comes, you don't want to save people, but put yourself in! Sister has changed her mind now, my sister doesn't want you to save people, if you really want to, you might as well think of ideas, let your old emperor change the Mingyue girl's death, don't use that kind of capital punishment, after all, she is still a girl's family! It is best to let her die comfortably, maybe it is also a relief... ...”

Xu Ke nodded, and said:

"Tomorrow, I'll talk about it when I go to Minami Anheiji to see ......"

......

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Almost at the same time, in the Jin Palace, northeast of Chang'an City, Li Ci, the King of Jin, was walking around in the "Biyun Residence" of the palace, as if he was waiting for someone.

Not long after, Wang Jianling, the head of the Jin Palace, led a man in a black cloak into the door. Wang Jianling only said simply: "Lord Wang, the person has arrived!" and closed the door and retreated cautiously.

After the man in black entered the door, he immediately bowed down to the King of Jin and said, "The villain greets His Royal Highness the King of Jin!"

"Get up quickly!" Li Ci, the king of Jin, commanded, and then asked:

"What message did you bring this time, master?"

The man in black stood up and replied, "Lord Wang, my master only has two words, and I will bring the small one to the prince." ”

"Which two?"

"In the first sentence, my master said, 'This funeral of King Han is a good opportunity, and it must be handled in a big way, and it must be done well!'"

"Okay, what about the next sentence?"

"The second sentence, 'The position of the military department's Shangshu, don't be in a hurry, tofu can only be eaten piece by piece!'"

"Hmm...... This king knows!"

King Jin nodded and waved his hand again.

"The villain retires!"

The man in black lowered his cloak a little more, covering almost his entire head and face, and then turned and went out into the darkness outside.

After the man in black left, Li Ci found a chair and sat down, picked up a tea cup on the table, and took a sip, only to realize that the tea bowl had been placed here for many hours, and the hot tea inside had been cold.

"Wang Jianling!" Li Xi exclaimed loudly.

"What does the prince command?" Wang Jianling, the chief manager, like a ghost, instantly walked into the room from the darkness outside the house, bowed down and asked for instructions.

"Go, make me a hot cup of tea!"

"What kind of tea is the prince drinking tonight?"

"Oops!" Li Ci couldn't help but be a little irritated and said:

"Longjing in West Lake, Shoumei in Jianning, Biluochun in Suzhou, and Silver Needle ...... in Junshan" Li Ci reported more than a dozen tea names in one breath.

"These, you can make me a cup casually, as long as it's hot!"

"Little obedience!" Wang Jianling hurriedly bowed and retreated.

"What the hell is this place! It's so cold at night, it's so troublesome to even drink a sip of hot tea! There's not even a hot water kettle!" After Wang Jianling left, Li Ci looked up at the window, and couldn't help but curse secretly in his heart.

He paced the room again with small steps, and thought to himself:

"Isn't it just a funeral, I'll give him a beautiful scenery, more beautiful than his old son, okay?"

"What 'tofu should be eaten piece by piece'? I'm going to chop it up and cook a pot of tofu soup, okay? I tell you to arrange for a military department to write a book, grind and chirp, and give me a lesson.

......

At this time, the door was opened again, and I saw that Wang Jianling, the fat middle-aged housekeeper of the Jin Palace, had already walked in cautiously with a tea cup.

"Lord Wang, tea is here!"