Chapter 30: The Conflict Between the Courts
The private room upstairs of the green pavilion.
"Cousin, you said that if someone gives double money, should we give up the position to someone else?" Xu Qing and his cousin naturally heard the words of the young man and woman clearly, they had just come up, Shangguan Changhong said to Xu Qing, with a tangled look, as if he wanted money, but he was unwilling to give up the elegant seat like this.
"Cousin, this is a bad statement, we must be arrogant, how can we covet those things outside the body?" Xu Qing said with a righteous face, and the arrogance that appeared on his body in an instant seemed to be soaring into the sky.
"What a coincidence today, I didn't expect Shangguan Gongzi to be here. When the prince surnamed Qin heard the conversation between Xu Qing and the two, his face was a little unnatural, he didn't think that Shangguan Changhong would give him a seat, but he said such a big thing, but after seeing the guests on another elegant seat, he breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly said Fortunately, he was not a person with status.
"Hey, it turned out to be Gongzi Qin, I'm really sorry, I invited my cousin to dinner today, I can't give up my seat to Gongzi Qin!" Shangguan Changhong said, looking guilty.
Qin Lu secretly scolded Shangguan Changhong for being hypocritical, but he never showed anything on his face, and said politely: "Hehe, how dare you let Shangguan Gongzi give up his seat for Qin, let's sit at another table." With that, the two walked to the old man's table, and the two guards followed closely.
"Cousin, that old man is already a handful of years old, you said that Qin Gongzi won't hurt the old man, right?" Xu Qing asked worriedly, and when he spoke, his voice was so loud that everyone in the private room could hear it.
"Cousin, how can you think that? Qin Gongzi is so personable, how could he do something like bullying and oppressing the people?" Shangguan Changhong grabbed Xu Qing and reprimanded.
"Cousin, who knows people and faces, but doesn't know their hearts, who knows if this Qin Gongzi is a sanctimonious guy. Xu Qing said with a serious face, and said to the old man: "Old man, you don't have to be afraid, as long as they bully others, you will call me, and I am duty-bound to do chivalry." ”
"My cousin is from a reckless background, has a straight temperament, and can't speak, and I hope that Qin Gongzi will not be surprised. Shangguan Changhong said apologetically to Qin Lu, although he had been unhappy with Qin Lu, he still had to do superficial work.
"Hehe, my cousin is straightforward, how can I blame him!" Qin Lu, who had his back to Xu Qing and the two, had a blue face, full of anger but couldn't get angry.
"Old guy, you'd better get acquainted, otherwise..."Seeing that the old man was still indifferent, drinking wine by himself, Qin Lu thought to himself.
"Hehe, old man, I'm willing to pay twice the money, I wonder if I can give up my seat to my son?" Qin Lu asked politely with a warm smile.
"I'm not short of money, if Childe doesn't bother, you can wait here for a while. The old man said politely, but the words he said did not seem polite at all.
"Old fellow, do you know..."Seeing that there was hardly any movement on the dining table, the woman named Yu Rong shouted, but was interrupted by Qin Lu before she could finish speaking.
"Yu Rong must not be rude, the old man, we are willing to pay five times the money, what do you think?" Qin Lu first scolded the woman, and then said politely to the old man.
"Hehe, if you want, you can wait on the sidelines, if you don't want to, you can change the house!" the old man was unmoved, and smiled.
Qin Lu secretly scolded the old guy for not knowing each other, and at the same time gave the two entourages a look, and the two entourages followed their own son-in-law to bully others, so they naturally understood what their son-in-law meant, and the two walked behind the old man.
Seeing this, Xu Qing immediately stood up, he naturally knew that nothing good would happen to the two entourages, and he didn't want to involve the old man. With a bang, the sword was unsheathed, the cold light shone through, and the faint spiritual light on the sword flowed.
"Hmph, if it's strong, don't blame the sword in my hand for having no eyes!" Xu Qing said coldly.
It's just that at this time, the hands of the two guards have been on the shoulders of the old man, and the bench where the old man was sitting was broken, and the old man was sitting on the ground with a pale face and embarrassment.
"Looking for death!" Xu Qing shouted, and in a flash, he arrived behind the two entourages, and without waiting for the two to react, he shot out like lightning and sealed the muscles and veins of the two of them with mana. Then he helped the old man up, carefully investigated the situation in the old man's body, fortunately, he was just surprised, his qi and blood were a little chaotic, and there was no big problem, so he used mana to recuperate him and help him restore his qi and blood.
"What should the old man do with these two people, you can rest assured that I am in charge for you, they dare not do anything to you!" Xu Qing said to the old man, and looked at Qin Lu coldly after speaking.
Qin Lu scolded the two entourage idiots in his heart, telling them to secretly give that old guy a little bit of power, but he actually made such a big move, and it didn't end well for him now.
"I'm really sorry for the old man, it's all because I can't discipline him, this is twenty taels of silver, you take it and suppress it. Qin Lu hurriedly took out twenty taels of silver and handed it to the old man, but the old man didn't have the slightest intention of taking it.
"I don't know how you want to deal with it, as long as it is reasonable, I will definitely give you a satisfactory explanation. At this time, a man in his fifties and sixties also went upstairs, looked at the old man and asked, although he was wearing a chef's clothes, he had an aura on his body, and he was not angry and arrogant.
"Qin Lu has seen Mrs. Wang!"
"Changhong has seen Taifu!"
"I'm no longer a Taifu, now I'm just a Xiaomin, the two of you don't need to be polite, Qin Gongzi must not embarrass me, right?" The man who had just gone upstairs just nodded faintly, looked at Qin Lu and said.
Wang Sheng, the owner of Cuiting Tower, was originally an emperor and had a wide range of contacts in the imperial court, even Shangguan Lin and these people respected him very much, but later he got tired of it, so he resigned to run the ancestral restaurant.
Qin Lu didn't dare to be disrespectful to this emperor in the slightest, and hurriedly responded: "All this is because I am not strict in discipline, what does the old man want, but even if I mention it, as long as I can do it, I will not refuse." ”
Everyone looked at the old man, and at this time the old man still had a trace of panic on his face, as if he was in shock.
"I don't want to see you, you just need to get out of here immediately!" the old man said as he noticed Qin Lu's face, as if he was worried that he would come over again at any time to teach him a lesson.
"You old fellow, who do you think you are? Dare to let us get out of here, don't you want to live?" Qin Lu's cousin's face is not very good, in the face of the old man's request, he objected on the spot, who did he think he was?
"Enough, don't be rude!" Qin Lu scolded, originally the old man said to go out, but now his cousin said to get out, and he didn't give himself the steps at all, so he was also a little annoyed with his cousin.
"I'm really sorry, let's leave now!" Qin Lu saluted Taifu respectfully, and then looked at Xu Qing.
Since the old man didn't pursue it, Xu Qing naturally had no choice but to give up and untie the sealed veins for the two entourage.
After Qin Lu and the others left, Wang Taifu ordered Xiao Er to replace a new bench for the old man, and exempted the old man from all the expenses he spent today, in order to suppress the shock.
"The old man is really sorry, because of the two of us just now, I let that son be angry with you!" Shangguan Changhong stepped forward and said apologetically.
"Hehe, this has nothing to do with you, don't blame yourself, the two of you should hurry up and eat, otherwise it's not good if the food is cold!" The old man smiled indifferently, and at this time, Xu Qing's dishes also came up.
On the sparsely populated street, Qin Lu glared at the two entourages with an angry face: "Tell me what you are doing? I just asked you to give that old guy a little bit of power, did I make you make such a big move? Did you get kicked in the head by a donkey, and the more you live, the more you turn back!"
"Young master, listen to our explanation, we don't know what's going on, when we touch that old guy, the bench breaks, and we haven't had time to make any moves at all. It's not the first day we've been with you, young master, so how can we be so confused?" said the two attendants with innocent expressions.
Qin Lu frowned and thought, his two entourages are usually very clever, so they take them with them every time they go out, but today they are a little strange in Cuitinglou.
"Cousin, could it be the man with the sword?" asked the young woman.
"It's... It shouldn't be possible, could he break the bench in the air?How could he be so young and have such profound skills?" Qin Lu was also a little skeptical, after all, Shangguan Changhong didn't know martial arts at all, and if someone made trouble, it could only be the man with the sword.
"Is that all?" said the young woman, a little unwillingly.
"Hmph, how can you forget it, anyway, the Shangguan family won't be angry for long, and by then..."Qin Lu snorted coldly, and then commanded the two entourage: "That old guy doesn't know how to lift, do you know how to do it?"
The two entourages nodded again and again, vowing to get things done and never let the young master down.
At this moment, the corners of the old man's mouth on the second floor of the Cuiting Building were slightly upturned, as if he was ridiculing, but no one noticed it, even Xu Qing was no exception.