Bright room, luxurious furnishings.
Exquisite dishes, lonely back.
In Qiliu Youlan, there is such a room, and the guests have no idea of its existence.
But it exists.
There is a man who often drinks in this room.
The best food to go with wine.
But wine is the worst kind - you can get one or two for a few pennies, the kind that will choke if you drink it without water, or tasteless if you drink it with water.
He likes this kind of wine because it allows him to remember who he is.
Dong-dong-dong-dong-dong——
The knock on the door suddenly sounded, twice, then three times.
"Come in." The man heard the code correctly and responded.
Then the madam opened the door and came in.
"My lord." That's what the madam called the man after entering the house.
But in fact, there is no word "庶" in this man's name, but for some reason, he asked the other party to call him that.
"Say." When the concubine heard the voice, he turned around and looked at the old bustard.
But I saw that this concubine was wearing a black shirt, simple clothes, fair complexion, thin and tall. Although his temples are already gray, he looks to be around forty years old. His beard is not very long, but it is trimmed neatly.
"There is Mr. Sun Yixi, Mr. Sun, and Mr. Huang Donglai Huang... want to see Miss Chuxue." The old bustard replied.
This old bustard was just challenging Sun and Huang at "Le Bu Si Shu". Why is he here now?
Because after she had patted the table just now, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai announced their respective names...
Although the madam had heard about it through the words of Sun and Huang before, One of them was surnamed Sun and the other was Huang, but they had always addressed them as sons and did not know their full names. It was only when she fell out with those two people just now that Sun Yixie and the others gave them their full names.
The brothel is a well-informed place, and Xuzhou City is so close to Luoyang. It is impossible for the madam not to know about the deeds of these two popular martial arts rookies in Luoyang, so she weighed it and came here. ...
"Sun Yixie, Huang Donglai..." The concubine repeated these two names again and was silent for a moment thoughtfully. Then he smiled, "Ah...you Tell them that it’s okay to see Chuxue, but only one of them can see Chuxue, and the other one has to come and drink with me.”
His words made the madam a little surprised. .
The madam has been here for so many years. In her impression, the concubine inviting others to drink with him... only happened a few times, and the people he invited were all his "friends"; It was both Sun Yixie's and Huang Donglai's first time coming to Qiliu Youlan. They probably didn't even recognize the concubine, let alone have any friendship.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that the madam didn't respond immediately, the concubine asked again.
"No...it's nothing." The old bustard quickly lowered his head and retreated towards the door, "I will do it now."
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When she returned to the door of "Le Bu Si Shu", the cold sweat on the old madam's forehead had not yet dried, so she wiped it before entering the house.
"You two gentlemen have been waiting for a long time." Returning to Shuangxi, the Madam became much calmer.
"How is it? What did Miss Chuxue say?" Sun Yixie thought that the madam went directly to see Chuxue when she left just now, so she asked this question.
He didn’t know that in Qiliu Netherland, you could ask anyone directly if you wanted to see her. Only Chuxue, if you want to see her... you have to ask the concubine first.
"If you want to see Miss Chuxue, you must agree to a condition." The madam did not directly answer Sun Yixie's question.
"What conditions?" Huang Donglai complained again at this time, "Do you want more money?"
The old bustard ignored the second half of his sentence and replied seriously : "Only one of you two can go see Chuxue, and the other one has to go have a drink with our boss."
"Huh?" Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai said in sync with each other. With such a modal particle, even the expression on the face is the same.
"You can discuss it first." The old bustard didn't talk nonsense to them and walked out. "If you don't agree to this condition, then there is no need to discuss the matter of meeting Chuxue. You two can ask for it yourself." Just do it."
After saying that, she walked out and closed the door behind her.
Since you are left to discuss it on your own, let’s discuss it.
"I'll go...who is the boss here?" Sun Yixi said with a look of doubt on his face.
"The devil knows..." Huang Donglai spread his hands, "Even regular customers like Dong Captou don't know about it, how can we find out about it?"
At this time, Sun Yi Xie's little eyes rolled, and an idea suddenly came to his mind. He continued: "Hey~ Brother Huang, tell me, is it that kind of setting..." He paused, raised one corner of his mouth and smiled. , "For example, the boss here is actually a woman, and she is a peerless beauty who is even more beautiful than the four great courtesans of spring, summer, autumn and winter..."
"Brother Sun." Huang Donglai said in a very serious manner. He looked at Sun Yixie and said, "Don't you just want to trick me into drinking with a man so that you can meet the top guy yourself... I'll just go and have a drink. Even Lei Buji won't believe what you're making up now."
"Oh~ what is editing? People have to have dreams, what if..." Sun Yixie said, quickly grabbed the wine glass on the table and took a sip of wine, slightly covering up the fact that Huang Donglai was The embarrassment of revelation.
The two of them knew each other too well and could not deceive each other, so they discussed quickly.
Not long after, the two called the madam in and gave him an answer. The madam didn’t waste any time, and immediately asked Sun Yixie to wait in the room for a while, and then took Huang Donglai to where the concubine was. room.
…………
Dong dong——dong dong dong——
It was still two plus three knocks on the door.
After the concubine in the room said "come in", the old madam opened the door, stood at the door and said: "Concubine, Mr. Huang has brought you here."
"Yes." The concubine responded, stood up, walked to the door, cupped his fists and said, "Huang Shaoxia, I have long admired your name."
Huang Donglai also looked at the visitor and returned the greeting: " It's easy to say that Mr. Huang is not talented and doesn't know how to respect me..."
"I am praised by my friends and call me 'Master Shu'," the Master continued.
"Oh~" Huang Donglai also clasped his fists and said, "Okay, then Huang would be more respectful than to obey..."
He didn't say anything on the surface, but he knew in his heart that this was a A difficult person to deal with - a person who doesn't even want to tell others his real name, there must be many secrets hidden in him.
According to Huang Donglai’s experience, this kind of person is basically the type who “brings a lot of information with him as long as he says his name”... Be extra careful when dealing with this kind of person.
"Go and do your business." After greeting Huang Donglai, the concubine casually dismissed the madam outside the door.
After receiving the order, the madam closed the door and left.
At this moment, the madam had just gone to Chuxue to inform her that someone wanted to see her, and asked the girl to dress up and get ready. Therefore, we will talk about Sun Yixie and Chuxue later.
For now, let’s continue talking about the conversation between the concubine and Huang Donglai.
After exchanging "pleases" several times, Huang Donglai and the concubine both sat down. The food and wine were all ready-made. When Huang Dong came to sit down, all he had to do was add a pair of chopsticks and a cup.
"The name of Young Master Huang is as loud as thunder. When I saw him today, he is really a heroic young man with a talent. I would like to propose a toast to you first." The concubine has already thought of these words. If he comes now, The person in question is Sun Yixie, so he replaced the "黄" in this sentence with "Sun" and it still works.
"My lord, you are so polite. Huang deserves it." Huang Donglai picked up the wine glass with a smile on his face. While replying to this sentence, he had already tested it calmly. Was the wine drugged?
After all, he is the young master of the Huang Clan. Before putting something handed to him by a stranger into his mouth, he basically has to carefully observe it. This is also a good habit developed by his father since he was a child.
After drinking the first glass of wine, before Huang Donglai put the glass on the table, the concubine immediately asked: "Huang Shaoxia, how do you like my wine?"
"It's hard to say Drink." Huang Donglai almost followed the end of the sentence and gave the answer immediately after the concubine's question.
This answer was not because Huang Donglai was honest and spoke without thinking. On the contrary, he thought quickly, so he immediately understood that this question was a test.
"Oh?" As expected, the concubine was stunned for a moment by Huang Donglai's quick answer, and then smiled, "Ha...Huang Shaoxia is really quick to talk."
"No. , I'm already very polite." Huang Donglai said.
"So why do you call it you're welcome? "The concubine said.
"To put it bluntly..." Huang Donglai raised his eyebrows and pointed the rim of the empty wine glass in his hand at the other party, "...are you mixing wine in your urine? Already? "
"Hahahahaha..." The concubine laughed and laughed.
After laughing, he said again: "Young Master Huang, wait a moment. "
As he spoke, he stood up again, went to the side of the room, opened a cabinet, and brought another bottle of wine.
"Is this good wine? "Huang Donglai looked up at the other party and said.
"It's good wine. "The concubine said as he walked back.
"Why didn't you drink just now? "Huang Donglai said.
"I only drink bad wine when I am alone. Only when my 'friends' come, I drink good wine with them. "The concubine said.
"Then do you think you are stingy? Or is it generous? "Huang Donglai said.
"Is this important? "Shu Ye said.
"Indeed, this is not important. Huang Donglai said, "The important thing is that when I sat down just now, I wasn't your friend, but after I drank that piss-like thing, I seemed to be." "
"Haha..." The uncle smiled again, "Brother Huang Xian..." His name for Huang Donglai suddenly changed, "You should be able to understand that people like me are more important than ' I prefer to hear the truth, so as long as you tell me the truth, you can be my friend. ”
“‘Can it be’? "Huang Donglai picked out the key points in this sentence and threw it back with a questioning tone.
"Yes, 'it can be'. "The concubine said, "Because just speaking truthfully is not enough. "
"Anything else? Huang Donglai said.
The concubine had already sat down again and filled Huang Donglai's second glass of wine himself: "Yes, you have to be smart." ”
“So, I’m smart? "Huang Donglai said.
"You are very smart. "My uncle said, "So now you keep asking me questions that sound stupid, but in fact you know everything, and you also know that most of the questions you ask are nonsense. "
Huang Donglai nodded: "Then I'll listen to what you have to say. "
"You are here to investigate Zheng Mukai's death, right? "As expected, the concubine did not talk nonsense, and suddenly brought the topic to the purpose of Sun and Huang's visit.
Huang Donglai picked up the second glass of wine, drank it down in one gulp, and then said: " Since the concubine already knows, why not... you tell me the ins and outs of this matter now, so as to save us from messing around with you. "
"Ha..." Hearing this, the concubine chuckled lightly, and then drank a glass of that good wine, and then said, "All I can tell you is, no matter how much trouble you have with me, , and nothing was found. "
"Then you mean..." Huang Donglai's eyes changed slightly, "...let us stop investigating? ”
“Yes. "Shu Ye said.
"But one of our brothers...…Including ourselves, we are now being targeted by the Guangxing Escort Agency. "Huang Donglai said, "If we don't find out the truth, we won't be able to wash away our grievances. "
Ordinarily, at this time, the concubine can answer: "That is your business. "
But he didn't say that.
He actually said this: "How about... I help you in another way? "
Huang Donglai looked solemn, looked at the other party and said: "Oh? What method? ”
Although Brother Huang looked calm on the surface at this moment, he was actually panicking in his heart, for fear that the other party would reply to him at this time, "I will kill you two right now, and it will be over".
"Huang Xiandi..." After a breath, the concubine continued slowly, "If I tell you, I can make Guangxing Escort Agency disappear overnight, what do you think? ”
When Huang Donglai heard this, he was so impressed that his scalp went numb.
Although the Escort Agency is not an orthodox martial arts sect, it focuses on business and secondary on teaching skills. It is a special organization, but in terms of strength, Guangxing Escort Bureau is barely ranked at the bottom of the second-tier sects of the righteous path.
Today, even the leader of a first-tier sect would not dare to say that he can do it. Which second-tier sect "disappeared overnight", but the concubine actually said it, and said it lightly, not like he was joking at all.
"The concubine... is willing to do it for us. Do this kind of thing? "Huang Donglai first took a sip of wine to calm down his shock, and then asked.
He didn't even ask the other party "Can it be done?", but started to lead in the direction of "Why".
"Yes. "The concubine said in a matter-of-fact tone, "After all, it's not that difficult. ”
“Whether it is difficult or not is the second priority. Huang Donglai answered, "Why do you want to do this for us?" ”
“Because we are already ‘friends’. "My uncle said, "Isn't it normal to do something for your friends that you can do for your friends? ”
Huang Donglai’s mind changed and he realized: “Then...are you doing this yourself, my uncle, or...”
“Oh...how could it be?” I'll do it myself. "The concubine smiled and said, "You and I are friends, and I am also friends with others. In the past, I have helped other friends do a lot of things, so today, I can ask those friends to do this for you. "
When Huang Donglai heard this, he complained in his heart: "Don't call me 'friend', but 'godfather', okay? "
"Hahaha..." The next second, Brother Huang laughed out loud, "Then can I think so...Today, after you destroyed the Guangxing Escort Bureau for us, in order to repay you This favor is also to prevent you from exposing this matter. One day in the future, I, as a 'friend', will probably help some of your friends who are strangers to me... to deal with similar things. "
The concubine smiled, drank another glass of wine, and looked at Huang Donglai after putting down the glass: "I just said... you are a smart man. ”