Chapter 166: Officials and Businessmen (II)
The next morning, Su Luo had just finished breakfast and was thinking about going to Li Rusong to ask him to check Liu Chengxuan's background, when the housekeeper came to report that Li Rusong had arrived. Less than two minutes after the message was delivered, another servant came to report that a young man named Qin had come to visit.
Did these two really discuss this? Su Luo went to the front hall for the reception. Before Li Rusong could even sit in his chair, Qin Huai came in. Both of them were stunned for a moment. Su Luo snorted and said, "You two either came or didn't come, but you showed up together. Is there some conspiracy?"
Li Rusong and Qin Huai were even more surprised. They looked at each other and said in unison: "Didn't you come yesterday?" After that, both of them laughed, shook their heads and sat down, confusing Su Luo.
"What's going on?" Su Luo moved between the two of them, looking at this one, then glancing at that one...
"I thought you were going to ask Zimao about that matter yesterday." Qin Huai was still wearing the clothes Su Luo gave him today. He looked even neater and fresher under the natural light. With his warm smile, if there were no gender barriers, the four words "beautiful as jade" really suited him.
Li Rusong was stunned for a moment, "What's the matter?" After saying that, he looked at Su Luo's admiring eyes looking at Qin Huai, pursed his lips and turned his head away, "Me too, you two have been reunited for a long time, so I specially didn't come to disturb you."
"You two are both weird." Su Luo thought of what Qin Huai said the night before, and her face turned red. However, she looked at Li Rusong and saw that he turned his head to look outside the door, but he didn't turn around. She felt a little frustrated and walked out the door, "Go out for a walk."
The three of them left the Princess's Mansion and slowly walked towards the clothing store. Su Luo then told them what happened yesterday. Li Rusong pondered for a while, "This name is familiar. It's probably related to the officialdom. I'll go back and ask around."
Su Luo nodded, and Li Rusong asked again: "What do you want to ask me?"
"I won't ask anymore." Su Luo waved his hand, "Ask won't change anything."
Li Rusong looked at Qin Huai in confusion. Qin Huai shrugged and silently lip-read the words "Yunlang". Li Rusong scratched his head, as if he was in a dilemma. He looked at Su Luo again, who had already left the two of them far behind.
When the three of them arrived at the clothing store, the shop was still as busy as yesterday. Facing this grand scene, Su Luo felt quite accomplished and took the two of them into the store for a tour. Unexpectedly, as soon as Li Rusong showed up in the store, he caused a burst of low cheers.
Most of the guests at this time were officials, businessmen and socialites invited on the opening day. Naturally, they saw Li Rusong's pretentious catwalk performance. If Li Rusong was originally only a little-known figure in the socialite circle of Beijing, after that incident, he had become a big name and became the object of fantasy for countless young socialites.
Li Rusong was almost immediately overwhelmed by the flow of celebrities. Looking at the ladies with shining eyes, Su Luo snorted with contempt from the bottom of her heart. However, Li Rusong was used to pretending to be a human being in front of outsiders. He was so polite that Su Luo felt sick.
"A beast in human form!" Su Luo defined Li Rusong.
Qin Huai smiled and stood by the door to avoid the gaze of the celebrities who were beginning to take an interest in him. His eyes were originally wandering aimlessly, scanning the shops across the street one by one, and suddenly he raised his eyebrows and walked out.
Su Luo quickly followed, "What's wrong?"
Qin Huai walked a few steps and then stopped, turned around and asked Su Luo, "Has this new shop been available for a long time?"
Only then did Su Luo discover that there was a big door with the sign removed diagonally opposite the garment shop. Some workers who looked like carpenters were coming in and out, renovating the shop.
"This used to be a gold jewelry store." Su Luo frowned. "Those who can open a store on this street are not ordinary people. Besides, the jewelry store is doing a booming business. There is no reason for it to be closed just like that."
After hearing what Su Luo said, Qin Huai stepped forward and stopped a worker coming out of the shop. "Young man, what does this shop do?"
The man shook his head and said, "I haven't heard from the boss."
"The boss is..."
Just as Qin Huai asked this, a man walked out of the shop and asked, "Sir, are you interested in my shop?"
"It's you!" Su Luo exclaimed. The person who came was Liu Chengxuan, the red-eye patient who was looking for clothes. He wore a light blue dress with silver branches embroidered on it today. Although it was not as ostentatious as the one he wore yesterday, it was still decorated with pearls. He held a folding fan in his hand, and on the fan hung a few pendants made of finger-sized pearls. The beads were round and smooth, not like ordinary ones, which made Su Luo jealous.
Until now, she didn't have any jewelry to show off, but what about this show-off man? He either wore a pearl headband or a Puzhu incense fan, and he even had a faint smell of high-end incense. As soon as this look came out, people immediately forgot his ordinary face and felt that he looked high-end.
How vulgar! Su Luo despised herself, and at the same time despised the show-off man with the pearl headband. It's not your fault to have money, but it's your fault to show it off! It's even more wrong to show it off in front of Su Luo!
"Is he the person you were talking about?" Qin Huai lowered his head slightly, and was stunned when he saw Su Luo's panicked expression. "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing but jealousy." Li Rusong came out from behind the two of them, stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Su Luo's eyes, "You're drooling."
Su Luo took a deep breath and realized that she had been fooled. She rolled her eyes at Li Rusong and said, "You've had enough of the soft jade and warm fragrance, and now you're here to get scolded?"
Li Rusong stroked his chin and said, "Today I realized that I am also very popular."
"Tsk!" Su Luo stood next to Qin Huai angrily and puffed out his chest, not knowing what he was trying to prove.
Liu Chengxuan waved his fan and looked at them with a smile. Li Rusong met his gaze, pondered for a long time, and suddenly said "Oh", "It turned out to be you."
"Do you know him?" Su Luo asked hurriedly.
Liu Chengxuan was still smiling, and Li Rusong said, "It seems that we met once three years ago."
Liu Chengxuan bowed slightly, "General Li has a good memory."
"No wonder." Li Rusong smiled at Su Luo, "The Left Censor of the Capital is his uncle, the Minister of Revenue is his uncle, his cousin married General Dingyuan, and the son of the Shuntian Prefecture Governor is his sworn brother ..." He said a bunch of things, staring at Su Luo, with a little teasing in his smile, "Most importantly, the current Empress Dowager is his aunt... What do you think? Are you convinced?"
Su Luo almost fainted from hearing this.
