Chapter 8 The Concubine
Bright room with luxurious furnishings.
Exquisite dishes, lonely back.
In Qiliu Youlan, there is such a room that guests have no idea about its existence.
But it exists.
There is a man who often drinks in this room.
The best food is to serve.
But wine is the worst - it can be eaten with a few cents, and it is choking if you drink without adding water, and drinking with no smell.
He likes this wine because it makes him remember who he is.
Dongdong-dongdong-dong-dong-
The knock on the door suddenly rang out, two times, followed by three times.
"Come in." The man heard the code was correct, so he responded.
Then, the madam pushed the door and came in.
"Missary." After the madam entered the door, she called this man that way.
But in fact, the man did not have the word "shu" in his name, but for some reason, he asked the other party to call him that.
"Say." Hearing the voice, the concubine turned around and looked at the madam.
But he saw that the common man was wearing a mysterious shirt, dressed in a simple and fair-looking face, thin and tall. Although he was gray-white in his temples, he looked only about forty years old and his beard was not very long, but he was neatly tidy.
"There is a grandson of Sun Yixi, and Huang Donglai, and Huang Gongzi... I want to ask to meet Miss Chuxue." The madam replied.
This madam was just challenging Sun Huang and the other two while "I'm happy to see Shu". Why did she come here now?
Because after she finished slapping the table, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai reported their respective names...
Although the madam had heard through the words of Sun and Huang, one of them had surnamed Sun and the other was Huang, but she had always been called the young master and did not know their full names. It was not until just when she turned against the two people that Sun Yixi and the others had signed up for their full names.
The brothel is a well-informed place. Xuzhou City is so close to Luoyang. It is impossible for the madam to know the deeds of these two popular martial arts rookies in Luoyang. So she came here after weighing the pros and cons
"Sun Yixi, Huang Donglai..." The prince reiterated the two names again, and was silent for a moment of thoughtfulness. Then, he smiled, "Ha... you tell them that you can see Chuxue, but only one of them can see Chuxue, and the other one has to come and drink with me."
His words surprised the madam a little.
The madam has been here for so many years. In her impression, the story of the monarch who invited others to drink with him... It only happened a few times, and he invited his own "friends"; and Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai were the first time they came to Qiliu Youlan. They probably didn't even recognize the monarch, let alone have any friendship.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that the madam did not respond immediately, the common man asked again.
"No... nothing." The madam quickly lowered her head and retreated to the door, "I'll do it now."
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When she returned to the door of "Love in Shu", the cold sweat on the madam's forehead had not dried yet, so she wiped it before entering the house.
"The two young men have been waiting for a long time." When he returned to Shuangxie, the madam became much calmer.
"How is it? What did Miss Chuxue say?" Sun Yixie thought the madam went out just now and went directly to see Chuxue, so she asked this question.
He didn't know that in these seven Liu Youlan, you could ask me directly if you wanted to meet anyone. Only Chuxue, if you want to see her... you have to ask the concubine first.
"If you want to meet Miss Chuxue, you have to agree to a condition." The madam did not answer Sun Yixie's question positively.
"What conditions?" Huang Donglai complained again at this time, "Does he want to increase the money?"
The madam ignored his second half of the sentence and replied seriously: "Only one of you can go to see Chuxue, while the other one has to go and have a drink with our boss."
"Ha?" Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai popped out such an auxiliary tone from their mouths in a very simultaneous manner, even the expression on their faces was the same.
"You can discuss it first." The madam didn't talk much to them, and then walked out. "If you don't agree to this condition, then you can't talk about Chuxue. Please do whatever you want."
After saying that, she had already walked out and brought the door with her.
Since you are leaving it to discuss it yourself, then discuss it.
"I'll go...who is the boss here?" Sun Yixie immediately said with confusion.
"God knows..." Huang Donglai spread his hands, "Where can we inquire about things like Captain Dong who don't even know about regular customers?"
At this time, Sun Yixi's eyes rolled, and suddenly an idea came to mind. He continued, "Hey~ Brother Huang, do you think it's that kind of setting..." He paused, curled up the corner of his mouth and smiled, "For example, the boss here is actually a woman, and he is a peerless beauty who is more beautiful than the four courtesans in spring, summer, autumn and winter..."
"Brother Sun." Huang Donglai looked at Sun Yixie with a serious look, "You just want to fool me to drink with a man, and to see the top brand by yourself... I'll just drink it. You can't even believe Lei Buji in this set you made up now."
"Oh~ What does it mean to make up? People should have dreams, what if..." Sun Yixie said, quickly grabbed the wine glass on the table and drank a sip of wine, slightly concealing the embarrassment of being exposed by Huang Donglai.
These two people know each other very well, and they can't deceive each other, so they discussed it quickly.
Soon, the two of them called the madam in and gave a reply; the madam did not delay and immediately asked Sun Yixi to wait in the room for a while, and then took Huang Dong to the room where the councilor was.
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Dongdong-dongdong-dong-dong-
It's still a knock on the door of two plus three.
After the concubine in the house said "in", the madam pushed open the door and stood at the door and said, "Mr. Huang, bring it here."
"Yes." The prince responded, stood up, walked towards the door, and bowed, "Young Master Huang, I have long admired Daming."
Huang Donglai also looked at the visitor and replied: "It's easy to say, Huang is not talented and does not know the honorific..."
"I was praised by my friends and called me "Minister"." The Monk continued.
"Oh~" Huang Donglai also clasped his fists and said, "Okay, then Huang is more respectful than obedient..."
He didn't say anything on the surface, but he knew in his heart that this was a difficult person to deal with - a person who didn't even want to tell someone a real name must have many secrets hidden in him.
According to Huang Donglai's experience, this kind of person is basically the type of person who "has a lot of information as long as he reports his name"... You should be very careful when dealing with such persons.
"You go and go." After saying hello to Huang Donglai, the concubine sent the madam outside the door casually.
After the madam got the order, she closed the door and left.
At this moment, the madam was just about to go to Chuxue to inform her that someone asked for a visit and asked the girl to prepare for dressing up. So, let's talk about Sun Yixiu and Chuxue later.
At present, we will continue to talk about the couple between the Duke and Huang Donglai.
After a few "invitations" to each other, Huang Donglai and the Duke both sat down. The wine and food were ready-made. Huang Donglai sat down, which was to add a pair of chopsticks and a cup.
"The name of Young Master Huang is well-known. When I see you today, I am really a heroic young man. I am a talented person. Rong Shu will give you a cup first." Mr. Shu had already thought about this set of words. If the person who came here was Sun Yixie, he would have replaced the "Huang" in this sentence with "Sun", which would still be used.
"You are polite, Huang is ashamed of it." Huang Donglai picked up the wine glass with a smile on his face. While replying to this sentence, he calmly checked whether there was any drug in the wine.
After all, he is the young master of the Huang Sect. Before he put the things handed over by a stranger into his mouth, he basically had to observe them carefully. This is also a good habit his father developed when he was young.
After drinking the first glass of wine, before Huang Donglai put the cup on the table, the prince immediately asked, "Young Master Huang, how about my wine?"
"It's hard to drink." Huang Donglai almost followed the end of the sentence, and immediately followed the Duke's question and gave the answer.
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?" The concubine was indeed stunned by Huang Donglai's super fast answer, and then smiled, "Ha... Young Master Huang is really quick to speak."
"No, I'm already very polite." Huang Donglai said.
"Why are you so polite?" said the concubine.
"You're welcome to say it..." Huang Donglai raised his eyebrows and pointed the empty wine glass in his hand at the other party, "...Are you drinking in your urine?"
"Hahahaha..." The concubine laughed and laughed.
After laughing, he said again: "Young Master Huang wait."
As he said that, he got up again, went to the side of the room, opened a cabinet, and brought a pot of wine over again.
"Is this a good wine?" Huang Donglai looked up at the other party and said.
"It's a good wine." The concubine said as she walked back.
"Why didn't you drink just now?" Huang Donglai said.
"When I was alone, I only drank bad wine. Only when my 'friends' came, I would drink good wine with me." said the concubine.
"Then are you stingy? Or are you generous?" Huang Donglai said.
"Is this very important?" said the concubine.
"Indeed, this doesn't matter." Huang Donglai said, "The important thing is that when I sat down just now, I was not your friend, but after I finished drinking the pee-like thing, it seemed like that."
"Haha..." The prince smiled again, "Brother Huang..." His name for Huang Donglai suddenly changed, "You should understand that people like me prefer to listen to the 'truth' than 'good words', so you can be my friend as long as you tell me the truth."
"'Can it be'?" Huang Donglai picked out the point in this sentence and threw it back in a questioning tone.
"Yes, 'can be'." said the Duke, "because it's not enough to just speak."
"There is anything else?" Huang Donglai said.
The concubine had already sat down again at this time and personally filled Huang Donglai with a second glass of wine: "Yes, you have to be smart."
"So, I'm very smart?" Huang Donglai said.
"You are very smart," said the prince, "so you've been asking me questions that sound stupid at this moment, but in fact you know everything, and you know that these questions are mostly nonsense."
Huang Donglai nodded: "Then I'll listen to it if you say something irreparable."
"You are here to check Zheng Mukai's death, right?" The concubine did not say nonsense, and suddenly brought the topic to the purpose of Sun and Huang.
Huang Donglai picked up the second glass of wine, drank it all in one go, and then said, "Since the sage master already knows it, why not... you tell me the whole story of this matter now, so as not to bother with you."
"Ha..." The prince chuckled and then drank a glass of good wine, and said, "All I can tell you is that no matter how hard you make trouble with me, you can't find anything."
"Then what you mean is..." Huang Donglai's eyes changed slightly, "...Let's stop checking?"
"Yes." said the concubine.
"But one of our brothers..., including ourselves, is now being stared at by the Guangxing Escort Agency." Huang Donglai said, "If we don't find out the truth, we will not be able to cleanse our grievances."
In theory, at this time, the Duke could completely answer: "That's your business."
But he didn't say that.
He actually said this: "Then otherwise... I will use another way to help you?"
Huang Donglai looked solemn, and he looked at the other party and said, "Oh? What's the way?"
Although Brother Huang appeared calm and composed at this moment, he was actually so nervous that he was afraid that the other party would reply to him, "I will kill you two now, and I will be able to finish one."
"Brother Huang..." After a breath, the prince slowly continued, "If I tell you, I can let the Guangxing Escort Agency disappear overnight, what do you think?"
When Huang Donglai heard this, his scalp was numb.
Although the escort agency is not an orthodox martial arts sect, it is a special organization that focuses on business and teaches arts first, in terms of strength, the Guangxing escort agency can barely be ranked as the last step of the second-tier sect of the righteous path.
Today, even the head of a first-line sect would not dare to say that it could make any second-line sect "disappear overnight", but the sage actually said it out, and it was not as if he was joking at all.
"Mr....will do this for us?" Huang Donglai took a sip of wine and then asked.
He didn't ask the other party whether it was OK or not, but began to lead in the direction of "why".
"I'm willing." The prince's tone was taken for granted, "After all, it's not a difficult thing."
"Is it difficult or not?" Huang Donglai continued, "Why do you want to do this for us?"
"Because we are already 'friends'," said the Duke. "Isn't it normal to do something for your friends in the best of their ability?"
Huang Donglai's mind changed and he realized: "Then..., is this matter done by the Duke, you personally, or..."
"Ha...how could it be that I personally do it." The prince smiled and said, "You and I are friends, and others are friends. In the past, I have also done a lot of things for other friends, so today, I can ask those friends to do this for you."
When Huang Donglai heard this, he complained in his heart: "You are not called 'friend', but 'godfather', okay?"
"Hahaha..." The next second, Brother Huang laughed out loud, "Can I think so... Today, after you destroyed the Guangxing Escort Agency for us, in order to repay you as a favor and to avoid you from exposing this matter, one day in the future, my 'friend' will probably also help some friends who have never met me... to deal with some similar things."
Chapter completed!