Chapter 024 Impact
A little after dusk, Zhao Xiangxiang wiped Liu Yong's body with warm water with a gentle expression.
Liu Yong coughed twice, stared blankly at the silk curtain above his head, and suddenly asked, "Xiangxiang, it's getting dark."
"My dear, are you feeling pain again?" Zhao Xiangxiang brought the plate of lettuce on the table over: "Chew a few slices slowly. There are still a lot of them here. It should be enough to hold on until Lu Xiaolang comes tomorrow."
"No." Liu Yong shook his head: "I mean, that Luo Boss will be here soon."
Zhao Xiangxiang paused, then put the dishes away. She said calmly, as if nothing had happened, "Don't worry, my dear, it's just fake flattery. I can handle it."
"But my heart aches." Liu Yong laughed bitterly. "I think my talent is not inferior to Bao Xiren, Fan Xiwen and others, but I am disliked by the government, so I have to write lyrics according to the government's order. After I retired, I became even poorer. If it weren't for your help, I would have starved to death on the street. Now you have to spend the night with that disgusting man in exchange for my survival."
Zhao Xiangxiang smiled and gently stroked Liu Yong's white hair: "My dear, your poetry is unparalleled. Over the years, you have written countless lyrics for us entertainers. Every entertainer can sing a few lines of your lyrics. You are the husband of all of us entertainers. I am willing to do anything for you."
Liu Yong continued to sigh.
She lay on her side next to Liu Yong, gently hugging the man's arm like a normal couple.
After a while, she heard a noise outside, so she got up and leaned out of the window to look for a while, then quickly retracted her body and closed the doors and windows.
"Boss Luo is here."
Liu Yong sighed again.
He felt that he was a waste, with a lot of talent but unable to realize his ambitions, and yet still needed the protection of a woman.
"My dear, I'll go next door. You can rest here."
After saying that, Zhao Xiangxiang began to change her clothes. Just as she put her hair up and was about to go out, she heard screams outside the window.
Liu Yong struggled to get up from the bed and said, "What happened outside?"
Zhao Xiangxiang went over and opened the window, looked for a while, then turned around with a smile: "Boss Luo is dead."
Liu Yong's eyes lit up: "Really?"
"With an arrow in the forehead, even a great immortal would be dead." Zhao Xiangxiang laughed happily: "The people in Wuyou Cave dare not come out during the day, and now they will run into ghosts if they walk too much at night. My dear, who do you think did it?"
"Maybe he is a knight who enforces justice on behalf of heaven." Liu Yong smiled.
Zhao Xiangxiang sat on the bed and said with a smile: "I think it is most likely Lu who came today..."
"Be careful with your words. No matter if it's true or not, don't involve him in this matter." Liu Yong interrupted her and said, "Just now I seemed to hear a ranger shouting "Carrying out justice on behalf of heaven."
Zhao Xiangxiang was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "I heard it too. I'll go out and ask. Maybe Yu Niang and the others heard it too."
Liu Yong smiled and went back to bed.
This time he felt much more at ease and fell asleep immediately.
But I hadn't slept for long when I heard a noisy sound.
When he opened his eyes, he saw Zhao Xiangxiang sitting at a low table. Opposite her sat two constables, and they were talking.
"Madam Zhao, did you really hear someone shouting 'Carry out justice on behalf of heaven'?" asked the constable in black with a long face.
"It's vague, I dare not say for sure." Zhao Xiangxiang showed a frightened expression: "My two lords, can you send some soldiers to protect Nuanyu Pavilion? I'm really afraid that the strong men from Wuyou Cave will come here to cause trouble."
The broad-faced black-clad constable chuckled, "Don't worry, Boss Luo is only one of the leaders of Wuyou Cave. Besides, now that he's dead, the territory he left behind will only be snatched and divided up by others. No one will think of avenging him."
Zhao Xiangxiang looked at the two black-clad detectives in confusion: "Sir, this Luo Boss was a wicked man. Isn't it a good thing that he's dead now? Why are you still thinking of arresting the criminal?"
"It doesn't matter that Boss Luo is dead. It's a good thing. We don't care about it." The long-faced black-clothed constable sighed, "But Bao Fuyin is very observant. We have to ask a lot of questions clearly."
Zhao Xiangxiang smiled in response. She was familiar with the name of Bao Fuyin.
Seeing that they did not get any substantial information from Zhao Xiangxiang, the two men said goodbye and left.
They took the detectives to investigate in the nearby painting house, and finally came to Yicuifang and reached the top floor.
The two men saw a very handsome short-haired young man drinking wine in the attic. Two young ladies were leaning against him, with delicate bodies, feeding him frequently.
The long-faced constable wanted to go up and ask questions, but the wide-faced constable pulled him away.
"Don't you want to ask?"
"That pale-faced boy looks weak, but he has an elegant temperament and no fierce look on his face. He is definitely not a knight-errant." The broad-faced constable continued with his more than ten years of experience in handling cases, "Besides, Yicuifang is at least two hundred steps away from Nuanyu Pavilion. A sharp arrow from a hundred steps away is already a master archer, but shooting a person's head from two hundred steps away, with an arrow hitting the center of the eyebrows, this is a skill that only an eagle archer can have. Do you think it's possible?"
The long-faced constable thought about it and felt that it was indeed the case.
"We in Kaifeng Prefecture have to deal with a large number of unjust cases left by our predecessors, as well as a large number of trivial cases." The broad-faced constable continued, "Boss Luo is dead, so it doesn't have much impact. We can just hand in the case documents. I guess Governor Bao won't handle this case if he sees it. He doesn't have that much free time to close a case for a villain."
The long-faced constable nodded and said, "Then let's write a chapter titled 'Fighting in the Jianghu'."
"This is the only way." The broad-faced constable yawned and said, "I'm already very sleepy. Let's have the body taken away and we can go home and rest."
At this time, Lu Sen was lying on the railing, watching the detectives busying themselves, watching them carry away Boss Luo's body.
Soon, peace returned to the area in front of Nuanyu Pavilion, and two old turtles rushed out.
Lu Sen chuckled, drank a few more sips of wine, and slept in Yicuifang for the night.
I slept all night and did nothing.
This made the two young ladies quite disappointed. They snuggled up to him and teased the incredibly handsome young man, only to find that he clearly had normal male needs but he just wouldn't let them serve him.
Finally, they both fell asleep on the ground, each hugging a blanket.
After daybreak, Lu Sen took advantage of the morning glow to leave Bianjing City and returned to the door of Aishan's house, where he found Heizhu and Jin Lingqin waiting in the yard.
When the two saw Lu Sen coming back, they rushed out and surrounded Lu Sen.
After turning around a few times and finding that there was nothing wrong with Lu Sen, Heizhu started crying.
Originally, Jin Lingqin's eyes were just red, but when she heard Hei Zhu crying, she couldn't help but wipe her tears.
"Okay, okay, stop crying. My head hurts just listening to this." Lu Sen walked into the yard helplessly, then sat down on the rocking chair and asked, "Nothing happened last night, right?"
Hei Zhu shook his head vigorously: "No. Yesterday, several military officers escorted me back, and then left with some green vegetables. The two scoundrels also left in the evening."
"You didn't sleep?"
"Asleep." Hei Zhu lied.
Lu Sen naturally wouldn't believe it. The two men had dark circles under their eyes. It seemed that they had been waiting for him in the yard last night.
Both of them were born into poverty and have extremely low sense of security.
Lu Sen did not come home last night, and the two felt like the sky had fallen.
They were afraid that something might happen to Lu Sen outside, and they were also afraid that Lu Sen would no longer want them.
The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became, and I couldn't sleep at all.
The two of them had never imagined that even if Lu Sen didn't come back, the two of them could still stay in this yard, with food and clothing and be extremely safe.
It's just an instinctive inertia that they feel they must have a master to take care of them.
Lu Sen looked at their flustered appearance, sighed softly, and said: "Make some porridge for me, and add more green vegetables."
"Okay." Heizhu wiped his eyes and went to work.
Kobayashi also picked up a small bucket and went to water the vegetable field and loosen the soil.
The yard once again returned to its old rhythm.
Soon the green vegetable porridge was ready, and the three of them slurped the hot porridge.
Thanks to the effect of increasing health points from the vegetables in the home, even though Kurozuya and Ringo didn't sleep last night, they felt much more energetic after drinking the porridge.
Lu Sen patted his stomach and sat in the yard to digest the food.
At the same time, he checked his character interface and shook his head helplessly.
He killed someone last night, but after a night, his character's experience points only increased a little, which shows that this place is different from the game and you can't get experience points by killing people.
He closed his eyes and rested for a while, then stood up, went to the east corner of the yard, opened the beehive, scraped out some honey, filled half a jar, then corked it and put it in the system backpack.
Then he called out to the courtyard, "Heizhu, come with me to the city. Ringo will still stay at home."
Kobayashi was loosening the soil in the vegetable field and nodded repeatedly when he heard this.
Heizhu walked out of the wooden building. He had a swollen face and nose yesterday. He had just eaten a lot of green vegetables and looked much better. "My dear, do you want to pick some more green vegetables to sell in the city?"
"No more." Lu Sen shook his head. "It feels a bit wasteful to give our vegetables to outsiders. We are actually not short of money now."
Heizhu originally felt it was a pity, but when he heard this, he immediately remembered that the vegetables grown in the black soil by his husband were all magical vegetables, which were more nutritious than ginseng.
It is indeed a waste to feed it to outsiders.
"But it would be a waste to leave them in the fields until the vegetables are past their season, my lord." Heizhu said after thinking for a while.
"It doesn't matter. As long as you don't harvest this vegetable field, the vegetables will never expire." Lu Sen smiled and walked out.
Heizhu ran up immediately. Although he didn't quite understand what Lu Sen said, but since Langjun said he wouldn't go beyond the vegetable period, then he naturally wouldn't go beyond the vegetable period.
Lu Sen opened the wooden gate and saw the Ding brothers kneeling outside again.
When passing by them, Ding Zhaolan suddenly said, "My dear, if there is anything you need to do but you are afraid of getting your hands dirty, you can leave it to us."
Ding Zhaolan is very smart. When he saw Heizhu with a clear nose and a swollen face being escorted back last night, he understood that Lu Sen must have encountered some trouble.
But Lu Senli ignored him and walked past.
You can kneel down if you want, it has nothing to do with me.
Seeing that Lu Sen didn't talk to him, Ding Zhaolan's expression did not change. He continued to kneel on the ground naked, carrying the bramble on his back, without moving.
About two incense sticks later, Lu Sen and Hei Zhu entered the city again.
In order to get to Nuanyu Pavilion quickly, they took a shortcut.
When passing through an alley, we encountered some minor troubles.
The two beggars in front came over carrying a large sack.
There were muffled groaning sounds coming from inside the sack, and the sack was twisting and moving constantly, obviously someone was struggling inside.
The two beggars were still talking happily.
"Now that Luo Heigou is dead, his position is vacant. Boss Zhang likes beautiful women, so if I give this young lady to him, maybe he can give me some of Luo Heigou's territory."
"The girl in the bag is pretty."
"As the daughter of a noble family, that's natural... Can you please make way for the friend blocking the road ahead?"
The person standing in front of the two beggars was naturally Lu Sen.
He personally didn't want to get involved, but when he saw someone being kidnapped by the beggars from Wuyou Cave, he decided to help out of conscience.
He threw out a piece of wooden armor: "Heizhu, put it on."
Heizhu immediately put on the wooden armor on himself.
"We meet again." Lu Sen looked at the beggar walking in front and said with a smile, "I remember your name seems to be Master Li."
"It's you!" The beggar in the front looked at Lu Sen, his excited expression gradually turned cold: "Young man, you seem to want to see me?"
This beggar was the Master Li whom Lu Sen had met in the refugee street.
When Hei Zhu saw him, he showed an angry expression.
At this time, someone came into the alley, but when he saw someone confronting inside, he immediately retreated.
The struggle in the sack intensified and the screams became louder.
It seemed that he heard Lu Sen talking and desperately called for help.
"I don't want to see you." Lu Sen's eyes fell on the sack for a while, and then two golden sticks slipped out of his sleeves. He threw one to Hei Zhu, then grabbed a stick himself and slowly moved forward: "I don't want to talk nonsense with you. "
Master Li took two steps back and loosened the sack.
With a thud, the front half of the sack fell to the ground, and there was another groan of pain from inside.
"I don't want this person anymore. Can you let me go?" Master Li slowly stepped back.
Lu Sen didn't say anything, but just continued walking forward with the long wooden stick.
The distance between the two people is getting closer and closer.
Master Li's expression became increasingly ugly.
Suddenly, Hall Master Li stopped retreating. He put his hand inside his clothes and rushed forward with a grim smile.
The two men collided.
Master Li held the sharp dagger in both hands and stabbed Lu Sen in the chest.
There was a soft ding sound.
Master Li was stunned as he watched the tip of the dagger pressing against Lu Sen's clothes but unable to move an inch further.
The golden wooden stick was delayed by about half a second before it was swung down heavily, hitting Master Li on the forehead.
With a dull thud, Hall Master Li slowly retreated, blood gushing out from his forehead like rain.
The dark red face was soon covered in blood.
"Why can't I penetrate..."
After taking two steps back, he shook his head and saw a blurry red color in front of his eyes, and he couldn't see anything clearly.
When the beggar behind saw that Master Li was injured, he screamed, rushed up with a small wooden hammer in his hand, and attacked Lu Sen directly.
Heizhu shouted "Don't hurt my husband" and bravely rushed forward, hugged the other person, and then they wrestled into a ball.
Lu Sen's expression was calm. He took two steps forward and continued to swing the stick heavily.
There was another thud and it hit Master Li’s head.
The human head is always a weak spot. After being hit by two heavy sticks, Master Li's whole body shook for a while, then his eyes rolled back, and he fell heavily to the ground and fainted.
Not far away, another beggar hit Heizhu twice with a wooden hammer, but Heizhu did not show any reaction to the pain. Instead, he knocked the beggar down with two punches, then sat on him and beat him hard.
After being hit more than ten times, the beggar was still silent.
I don’t know whether he is fainted or dead.
The sack on the ground kept twisting and tumbling, and the grumbling sound became even more urgent.
Lu Sen picked up the short blade from Master Li, squatted in front of the sack and said, "I have already knocked the man down, now I will rescue you. I will cut the sack open now, but don't move, otherwise I may accidentally hurt you."
Hearing this, the sack stopped twisting immediately.
Lu Sen used a short blade to cut open the sack, revealing a young girl with her hands and feet tied and a cloth stuffed in her mouth.
The girl was wearing a loose green silk dress, had bangs on her forehead, and had long black hair.
Lu Sen first removed the cloth from her mouth, and then cut the restraints on her hands and legs.
During this process, the girl kept looking at Lu Sen with her big black eyes.
As soon as she was able to move freely, she jumped up immediately. Instead of thanking Lu Sen, she ran to the side and kicked Master Li three times in the crotch.
With each kick, Master Li's muscles would tremble for a short while.
I guess even if Master Li could survive, he would no longer be able to be a man.
Lu Sen looked at the other person.
The girl's face was not as pretty as Yang Jinhua's, but her skin was very good.
And she has something special.
Be broad-minded.
After venting her anger, she came to Lu Sen and said with a happy and expectant smile: "Thank you for saving my life, Xiaolang. Can you take me home? I'm afraid I'll meet bad guys again."
