Chapter 98, depressed

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

Today, after Xu Ke went to Tsing Yi Wei, he was a little absent-minded all day.

Perhaps, it was because he slept too late last night, and he felt a little sleepy, or perhaps, because he felt a trace of guilt in his heart for no reason for the case of King Han, so that he was a little depressed all day.

Early in the morning, the emperor sent his chamberlains to the Tsing Yi Wei to deliver the decree. Xu Ke was shocked to hear that the Mingyue girl was going to be sentenced to death by Ling Chi, and that the more than 100 girls in the Cuiyun Building and the fifty miscellaneous guards were all going to be executed together, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

Where is this punishing the murderer? This is clearly pulling people to be martyred!

Even if the emperor believed Shen Huan and Yang Wenyuan's words, then, since it was presumed that the murderers were Mingyue and Lao Bustard, why did he put the rest of the Qinglou women to death together with the miscellaneous guards?

Moreover, Xu Ke knew in his heart that the death of King Han had nothing to do with Mingyue and the old bustard, if he sat back and watched them die as a substitute for the crime, how could he bear it?

And the most infuriating thing is that the emperor ordered more than 150 girls and miscellaneous servants to be executed, but he let go of more than 40 prostitutes!

In the eyes of the emperor, of course the murderer must die, and the girls and miscellaneous servants related to the murderer must be executed, but those men who rushed to Cuiyun Tower late at night to seek pleasure do not have to die!

What kind of truth is that?!

Just imagine, in this world, if there are no prostitutes who can't bear the loneliness and look for flowers and willows everywhere, where will the prostitutes come from, where will the green building come from?

People who spend money to buy fun only need to go to the border thousands of miles away for a few years, and when they return to Chang'an, they can still continue to live happily and happily.

And those who endured humiliation and steal their lives, forced their faces to laugh, and just wanted to entertain those men, were to be executed one by one.

To put it bluntly, in this world, rich people can still be willful, and those who don't have money can only accept their fate.

Xu Ke felt a burst of sadness in his heart......

He just stayed in his office today, and locked himself up for almost the whole day, without seeing anyone.

Early this morning, with the issuance of the holy decree, Shen Huan also brought the emperor's edict. The Son of Heaven rewarded Nangong with 200 horses of silent silk and 1,000 taels of gold. This verbal command immediately made Nangong silent and even his entire subordinates in the Bei'an Ping Division happy.

Right now, at a time when the treasury is in difficulty, the Son of Heaven is so generous to Nangong Qianhu, which shows how important a position Lord Nangong has occupied in the mind of the Son of Heaven!

Naturally, as soon as the news came out, the entire Bei'an Ping Division, from the hundred households, the school captain to the flag, the leader, all rejoiced. Gu Caixiang and the other four hundred households discussed that they must join forces and invite thousands of households to have a banquet in Deyue Tower. Nangong couldn't shirk it, so he had to agree with a smile.

Later, the thousands of households of the Luan Yi Division and Zhang Qianhu of the Qingjing Division also came together and made a special trip to congratulate the thousands of households in Nangong. Everyone hit it off, so they decided that for lunch today, they would go to Deyue Tower to drink happily to celebrate Nangong Qianhu's award from the emperor!

However, what Nangong Buyu wanted to see most was his friend and right-hand man, inspecting thousands of households Xu Ke. It's just that he searched and searched, but he couldn't find half of Xu Ke's figure.

Until noon, everyone was in the Bei'an Ping Division, looking for Xu Ke everywhere, Gu Caixiang personally went to the South Department to inspect the thousands of official offices, and invited Xu Ke and everyone to go to the Deyue Tower for a banquet, but Xu Ke politely refused.

Gu Caixiang saw Xu Qianhu's depressed and unhappy face, he somehow thought that Xu Ke was envious of Nangong Qianhu and was rewarded by the Son of Heaven, but he didn't get a penny, because he was unbalanced and depressed. So, Gu Caixiang smiled secretly in her heart, so she had to arch her hand and withdraw from the official room.

Xu Ke didn't want to go out, so the guards were ordered to bring the first meal of the thousand households to the official room. However, Xu Ke only ate a few bites of the seven or eight dishes carefully cooked in the company's room, and he only felt that the taste was average, so he ordered the guards to remove the utensils.

In the afternoon, he remained in the office and did not go anywhere.

He took out a few books and unfolded them to look at, but he was still absent-minded.

Originally, he was going to rush to Yang Wenyuan's Nan'an Ping Division to inspect the guards, but after listening to Nangong's words, he had no choice but to give up this thought.

......

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is the hour of the unitary hour, Xu Ke put down the scroll, and then went home.

On this day, he did almost nothing, saw no one, and just like that, he was bored and sullen for a day.

When he walked out of the gate of the Tsing Yi Guard, he could still hear a few guards of the Bei'an Ping Division, talking behind him about how their Lord Nangong was happy to be rewarded by the Long Live Lord, he just smiled faintly and went out......

After Xu Ke returned to his mansion, he went straight to the Hazelnut House in the backyard.

As soon as he walked to the back garden, he saw Hu Yiyi walking towards him:

"Xiao Wuxi, why did you come back so early today?"

"Sister Hu, there is nothing going on in the guard today, so it's worth getting off early. ”

"Okay, let's go to the front hall, Sister Zibei should have made dinner, let's have dinner!"

Xu Ke turned his head and followed Hu Yiyi to the front hall.

Along the way, he asked:

"Sister Hu, did you meet Mao Jiaojiao today?"

"I met her, and I talked to her a lot!"

"Huh......? Did you really meet it?"

"It's really happening!"

Xu Ke couldn't help scratching his forehead, he didn't expect that he just asked casually, but the other party's answer was completely unexpected to him.

He thought to himself, didn't you say last night that Mao Jiaojiao's hiding skills are first-class, if she doesn't want to see you, it's hard for you to find her?

Could it be that Mao Jiaojiao took the initiative to come to you?

This time, Xu Ke's guess was right!

Just half an hour ago, Hu Yiyi was sitting in the small courtyard of the Hazel Residence, staring at the floating clouds in the sky in a daze, but suddenly heard a delicate laughter in his ears: Century

"Hey, big sister, which of your lover are you thinking about again?!"

Naturally, as soon as Hu Yiyi heard this voice, she knew that her ninth sister was coming.

"You little cat, you really come and go without a trace, how did you get in?" asked Hu Yiyi with a smile.

Mao Jiaojiao quietly jumped down from the wall, walked to Hu Yiyi and sat down, with a delicate smile on her face, she said:

"Eldest sister, the ninth sister came to see you, why ...... You're not welcome?"

"You're just in time! I've got something to ask you!"

"Eldest sister, I just have something to ask you!"

"What will you ask me for?"

"Eldest sister, what are you going to ask me?"

Hu Yiyi glanced at Mao Jiaojiao, and said that after all, it was a guest from afar, so she walked to the inner room, took a teapot and two tea bowls, personally poured half a bowl of jasmine tea for Mao Jiaojiao, handed it to Mao Jiaojiao's side, and asked:

"Didn't the eldest sister tell you before? When you go to Cuiyun Tower, you just have to practice the 'art of harmony' with those men, but don't kill people, why don't you listen to the eldest sister?"

"Eldest sister, I'm not disobedient!" Mao Jiaojiao drank the half bowl of fragrant tea in one gulp, and said with a somewhat aggrieved expression.

"You didn't disobey...... Hu Yiyi immediately poured a bowl of fragrant tea for Mao Jiaojiao, and then asked: "Then why did you kill King Han?"

"Speaking of this King Han, cough ......" Mao Jiaojiao picked up the tea bowl again, drank several sips in a row, until the fragrant tea in the tea bowl was drunk again, and then she poured herself full. She then told Hu Yiyi that night, she was forced to pick up guests in the embroidery room, and was forced to have a cloud and rain with King Han, under her repeated advice, King Han was still unwilling to leave, and finally, the story of King Han Jingyuan running out and dying was told to Hu Yiyi one by one.

......

Hu Yiyi heard Mao Jiaojiao say that the skin bag that King Han was carrying with him actually contained all kinds of strange items hidden in the skin, which were all used to deal with women, and she couldn't help frowning secretly. She said in her heart that such a promiscuous, tyrannical and cruel prince is dead!

Hu Yiyi heard Mao Jiaojiao talk about it again, saying that she used the technique of charm to attract Li Zuo, the king of Han, to be so angry and mentally blinded that she used those leather whips, iron hooks, bamboo sticks, wax oil and other things on her body one by one. Hu Yiyi frowned even more when she heard this, she thought to herself, Jiu Mei really thought that even if she wanted to punish this prince who abused women, why would she apply all these cruel methods to himself one by one?

"Ninth sister, you know that your 'Harmony Technique', if you let it go, you can make ordinary man Yuanyang die of mourning, why don't you stop halfway?" Hu Yiyi still asked after listening to her ninth sister's narration.

"Eldest sister, it's because he doesn't want to live anymore, and I can't do it!" Mao Jiaojiao said a little aggrieved.

"He doesn't want to live anymore?

"He himself said, 'I'm a prince, I'm really boring, and if I'm dead, I'll die' I saw his eyes at that time, and it was indeed a loveless look, yes, I will fulfill him!"

"So, this King Han is indeed not greedy for life, but a little begging for death?"

"That's right, those ordinary human beings are greedy for life and afraid of death, I don't know, how can this King Han, as a prince, say such a thing as 'dead is dead'?"

"Okay!" Hu Yiyi couldn't help but sigh: "This prince, since he is bent on dying and letting him die under the 'Great Law of Bliss' of your 'Alloy Immortal', he can be regarded as a well-deserved death and worthy of this life!"

"That's!" Mao Jiaojiao said proudly: "Who is this 'Golden Immortal', how many men in this world can taste the 'Harmony Technique' of this Immortal? The eldest sister is so right! The 'Harmony Dafa' of this 'Golden Immortal' is the 'Dafa of Bliss' of those men! That night, this King of Han begged for pleasure countless times, and although he finally got rid of Yuan Yang and died, he was still extremely happy when he died!"

Hu Yiyi glanced at Mao Jiaojiao and said disapprerovingly:

"What is the 'Harmony Dafa' and 'Alloy Immortal', this is nothing more than a spell-breaking spell passed on to you by the master back then! I see, the master didn't ...... back then" Hu Yiyi suddenly wanted to speak and stopped, and simply turned to him:

"You said you came to see me today to ask me for something? What is it? Say it quickly!"

Mao Jiaojiao thought about it for a while, and then said:

"Eldest sister, I have been in Cuiyun Building for more than ten days, I won't tell you, I am very unhappy, fortunately, I met a sister, her name is 'Mingyue'......"

So, Mao Jiaojiao told her how she spent more than ten boring days in Cuiyun Building, and how she met Mingyue, and the two of them worshiped as righteous sisters in Deyue Building, and prepared it with her eldest sister.

In the end, Mao Jiaojiao begged:

"Eldest sister, this time King Han died, I didn't expect that those minions of the Qianguo didn't come to arrest me, but they arrested my Sister Mingyue! They insisted that Sister Yue was the murderer of King Han, and they would give Sister Mingyue to ...... three days later Give 'Ling Chi death'! I beg the eldest sister to think of ideas and save Sister Mingyue!"

"This matter is a bit difficult to do......" Hu Yiyi pondered for a moment, wondering:

"The eldest sister is the same as you, except for some superficial illusions, she doesn't have much martial arts, how do you let the eldest sister save people?"

"Isn't the eldest sister, there is a younger brother named 'Xu Wuxi', who is on an errand in the Tsing Yi Wei of Qianguo?

It turned out that on that day, Hu Yiyi, Shu Hattian, and Zhu Wuneng found Lu Huoli and Mao Jiaojiao in the Deyue Building, and the five of them went up to the private room "Liaoqiu Pavilion" on the second floor to eat together. During the banquet, Shu hated Tianjiu and talked a lot, and inadvertently, he talked about Xu Ke in Tsing Yiwei. At that time, the speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, and everyone said every word of Xu Ke, but Mao Jiaojiao had already remembered it.

Hu Yiyi is still a little embarrassed: "Although Xiao Wuxian is on an errand in Tsing Yiwei, he is only a petty official. If you let others speak lightly, how can you save your sister Mingyue?"

"Little Disease-free ?......" Mao Jiaojiao's eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but say: "The eldest sister called him, and he called him so kindly!

"Phew!" Hu Yiyi took a sip, but her face turned slightly red, and she immediately said angrily: "Ninth sister, you still begged someone before! This will make you indecent again......

"Eldest sister, have I guessed the matter?" Mao Jiaojiao was a little proud, and said a little provocatively: "'Xiao Wuxi'...... 'Xiao Wuxi' you are so happy, is it ...... He's not your little lover?......"

Mao Jiaojiao and Hu Yiyi are both women, at this time, how can they not know Hu Yiyi's thoughts?

At this time, Hu Yiyi heard that the gate of Xu's Mansion had been opened, and there was a familiar sound of footsteps in the front yard, and she hurriedly said:

"It's bad! Xiao Wuxian is back from the next duty, Ninth Sister, you go quickly!"

"I'm not leaving! I'm not leaving! The eldest sister is really partial! There's a lover hidden in the house, and I won't let the ninth sister see her! Since the ninth sister is here today, I want to see your 'little disease' anyway!" Mao Jiaojiao pouted and said angrily. Looking at her expression at the moment, it seems that seeing this "little disease-free" is more important than saving Mingyue's life!

"Oops, Ninth Sister, you can't see him!" Hu Yiyi stomped her foot, and her face turned even more crimson in a hurry......