Volume 1 Chushan Bandits Chapter 19: No Good Plans
Liu Qiong'er stood in front of the corridor with her hands on her hips. She was threatened by Xu Huai and was very angry. She glanced at the aggressive Su Di and smiled at Xu Wujiang beside her:
"Master Xu, I haven't seen you for a while. You are such a heartless person. Are you still thinking about me? Xu Huai, this fool, came running over here in a hurry. I thought I could eat a young chicken to replenish my body today, but I didn't expect this idiot to pester me and he couldn't even untie his belt. We spent a long time untying our belts in the room, but we didn't have time to do anything. It really made me anxious. I have already agreed that Master Xu will take this fool away now, and the overnight fee will not be refunded."
Liu Qiong'er was intentionally using her charm at this moment, and all the men around her couldn't help but feel their muscles and bones soften.
"Xu Huai, get over here," Su Di was so angry when she saw her husband stealing glances at this bitch. When Xu Huai came out, she grabbed his ears and yelled, "Who did you learn this bad habit from? If your mother were still alive, she would be so angry that she would die of anger!"
Xu Xin'an had a look of gloating on his face, but also of indescribable envy and jealousy. He just stood behind Su Di and dared not say a word.
"Xu Jieji, this idiot forced the silver into my arms. I was so confused that I forgot to stop him. I really owe you a sin. I will remember this time and will never let this bastard sneak in again..." The slave Zhou Mazi ran over and repeatedly said to Xu Wujiang that he could not afford to apologize, and never mentioned the matter of returning the silver.
"Fuck you, your uncle is a bastard, and your whole family is a bastard!"
Xu Huai was about to jump, but he raised his foot and kicked the elf slave Zhou Mazi in the thigh.
This is one of the few kicks in the Fu Mang Fist. It's like throwing a stone bullet from a catapult with such force and power that Zhou Mazi's whole body flew up into the air, hit the courtyard wall behind him heavily, and fell to the ground. He held his breath for a long time and couldn't recover.
Xu Huai looked around with leopard eyes, and the thugs of Yue Honglou all gasped. They all heard that this fool from the Xu family was born with supernatural powers, but few people had seen it with their own eyes.
At this moment, Zhou Mazi, who weighed nearly 200 pounds, was kicked three feet away, and no one dared to rush over to vent his anger on Zhou Mazi.
Besides feeling that it was impossible to argue too much with a "foolish boy", Xu Wujiang and Xu Xin'an were present. If fourteen or fifteen of them surrounded him, could they really keep him here? As for making such a big scene, just let him vent his anger. A little impatience can ruin a big plan.
Of course, everyone didn't want to look at Zhou Mazi who was groaning miserably at the moment. The best thing to do was to respectfully send Xu Wujiang and take the fool Xu Huai out of Yuehonglou.
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"This rascal of his actually knew to look for the top performer in Yue Hong Lou. At least he's not that stupid. Besides, Liu Qiong'er is famous in Yue Hong Lou for selling her art but not her body. This rascal won't suffer any loss!" When he walked back to the military camp and saw that Di Niang's face was still tense and her body was shaking with anger, Xu Wujiang tried to comfort her.
Xu Xin'an thought to himself, Liu Qiong'er sells her art and her body, so Xu Huai, a fool, can't be said to be at a disadvantage - if this is considered a disadvantage, how many people would be willing to suffer it!
"How many good guys are there among you? If you hadn't led him astray, would you have known to go to such a place? You say you only sell your art but not your body, isn't it just to make your bones lighter so that you can pay more money to sleep with them?" Di Niang was still angry. When she heard Xu Wujiang's nonchalant remarks, she was even more furious. She scolded him, "Go find a whore to live with in this place in the future, and don't bother with me anymore!"
"I was just talking to you nicely, why are you so angry again?" Xu Wujiang said helplessly.
At this time, Lu Xiong accompanied Wang Bin and Wang Xuan, the grandparents and grandchildren, back from outside.
Presumably, this little thing had already spread in the military camp. Wang Xuan's pretty face showed a look of surprise and disbelief. She stared at Xu Huai for a while, then turned around and went into the yard, as if looking at Xu Huai again from now on would defile her pure heart.
"It was old husband Wang who asked me to go to Yuehonglou to find Miss Liu Qiong'er." Xu Huai casually framed Wang Bing.
"..." Wang Bing was stunned and stared at Xu Huai in disbelief: Brother Xu, you can't blame me for not being able to drink the wine.
Lu Xiong tugged at Wang Bing's sleeve, and Wang Bing saw Xu Wujiang, Di Niang, and Xu Xin'an all looking at him in shock. He stroked his long beard and coughed twice, then said thoughtfully, "Well, I have something to ask Brother Xu to do, why did you make such a fuss?"
"..." Di Niang stood there in a daze, totally unable to believe that this was true, but she also couldn't possibly suspect that a person like Wang Bing would lie for Xu Huai, right?
"Look at you, you just can't control your bad temper. It's such a small matter, but you've let the whole town know about it. I told you that Xu Huai, this idiot, hasn't even grown all his feathers yet, and he wouldn't go to a place like Yue Hong Lou, but you just wouldn't believe me. It doesn't matter how you scold him, but you blame me. Don't you think I'm wronged? Liu Qiong'er sells her art but not her body. I really heard it from others. I haven't even set foot in her house. Today I'm still relying on you for help." Xu Wujiang complained as he pushed Di Niang into the yard, thinking he was embarrassing himself.
Before Xu Xin'an walked into the yard, he glanced at Xu Huai twice, but he refrained from asking Wang Bing what mattered for him to ask Xu Huai to go to Yuehonglou to find Miss Liu Qiong'er; he could really do this kind of thing, and it would not cause a commotion in Huaiyuan.
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The riot in Yuehonglou brought more rewards than expected. Xu Huai closed the door of the east wing and said to Wang Bing and Lu Xiong:
"That person told me before he left that if there was anything urgent I could go to see Miss Liu Qiong'er at Yuehonglou. I didn't have much money to go to Yuehonglou, so I had to bite the bullet and go to Zheng's butcher shop to borrow some money. I didn't want to cause a big uproar. The matter was urgent. At this critical moment, I couldn't waste time explaining this to Uncle Seventeen and the others. I couldn't explain these things clearly, so I could only push the blame on Mr. Wang. I hope Mr. Wang will bear with me..."
Lu Xiong felt a little ashamed. The money they gave Xu Huai was too little and they couldn't do anything.
"Haha," Wang Bing laughed and said, "There are many women in the brothel who are good at poetry, calligraphy, music and painting, and have great ambitions in their hearts. Although I don't like singing for money, there is no need to avoid it."
"Who is Miss Liu Qiong'er from Yuehonglou?" Lu Xiong asked with concern and confusion. He didn't know whether the person behind Xu Huai had left long ago or had more chips hidden in Huaiyuan Town.
"Perhaps Miss Liu agreed to work for that person because she had received a favor from him. Or perhaps Miss Liu was more grateful to Mr. Wang for being an honest official, but was persecuted by villains and demoted to Tangzhou. She hated the injustice of God and helped him out of indignation. In short, I have no contact with that person anymore. I don't know what happened to Liu Qiong'er. I just went there to try my luck today and didn't tell Master Lu in advance."
Xu Huai said vaguely,
"However, I just met Miss Liu, and I got some information from her: this time there are a total of eight assassins coming from Bianjing, led by a scholar named Zheng, with a fair complexion and who looks like a scholar. Perhaps these people were frightened by me in front of Yingzi's mouth, and they now suspect that it is the old subordinates of the Jingsheng Army who returned to Tongbai Mountain and colluded with Master Lu to protect Mr. Wang. Therefore, they came to Hutou Village to cause trouble. This is also their real strategy of stirring up trouble - whether the old man leaves the military camp and goes to Biyang, or the inspection department hastily sends troops to clear Hutou Village, they will fall into their trap..."
Fearing that Wang Bing and Lu Xiong would overthink it, Xu Huai did not tell them the details of the information Liu Qiong'er had overheard.
"Zheng Hui should have arrived at Tongbai Mountain." Lu Xiong focused his attention on the information brought back by Xu Huai, and said to Wang Bing with a frown.
Cai Ying had many personal followers, and it was impossible for Lu Xiong to recognize them all, but he knew a few of Cai Ying's core advisers.
Wang Bin nodded and also thought that it was Cai Ying who sent Zheng Hui to Biyang.
"Although they did not suspect that the entire Xu family was involved, they also believed that the old members of the Jingsheng Army in Tongbai Mountain had some secret contact with Master Lu, so they came up with this plan. Under such circumstances, I don't think it would be of any use for you, Mr. Wang, to leave the military camp and stay in Bianyang."
Xu Huai said,
"Even if Mr. Wang really goes to Biyang tomorrow, Zheng Hui and the others will only think that we are trying to lure the snake out of its hole. They will probably continue to use the power of Hutouzhai to cause trouble. Only after they have successfully attacked the old members of the Jingsheng Army and think it is safe enough, will they feel at ease to attack you, Mr. Wang..."
"If Zheng Hui was planning all this in secret, he would indeed do so." Lu Xiong looked at Wang Bin and said.
"What should I do? I don't want to implicate so many people after coming to Tangzhou with a guilty conscience." Wang Bing had experienced many ups and downs in his official career. At this moment, he could only blame himself, but was helpless.
"Speaking of implicating someone, Mr. Wang is exaggerating," Xu Huai said with a smile, "If a thief held a woman and a child hostage and told Xu Huai to kill himself with a knife, and Xu Huai did not obey, and the woman and the child died, wouldn't that mean that the thief was cruel and unjust, and that this would be Xu Huai's fault?"
"..." Lu Xiong didn't want Wang Bin to put too much responsibility on himself, so he said , "We still have to come up with a plan to deal with it..."
Xu Huai would not feel morally burdened by the consequences of the whole thing like Wang Bing did, but as the son of a former general of the Jingsheng Army, since he could no longer escape, he had no fear in his heart and expressed some of his thoughts:
"The assassins' efforts show that they are not yet able, or perhaps dare not, to attack Mr. Wang directly. This will buy us some time, or allow us to plan calmly. In addition, in addition to Hutou Village, there are eight or nine other mountain strongholds in Tongbai Mountain that can report their names. In the past, they fought with the big families in Huaiyuan and suffered losses to each other, but in the end, no one could do anything to the other, which formed a kind of "tacit understanding", which made Tongbai Mountain peaceful for a few years. Now that Hutou Village has broken this "peace", not to mention that the prefectures and counties, the inspection department and the big family forces will find ways to deal with it, I think other mountain stronghold forces should not sit idly by and watch the "balance" being broken. It is not difficult for Zheng Hui to bribe one or two bandit leaders to cooperate with him, but he can't hold up the banner of Cai Ying and bribe all the mountain strongholds in Tongbai Mountain one by one, right? There should be room for us to plan here, and we must not lose our composure now."
"That's true, but we can't just sit here and watch what happens." Lu Xiong said with a frown.
"Miss Liu Qiong'er wants to leave Yuehonglou. If Mr. Wang can lend her a helping hand, it will be much easier to get information with her help in the future." Xu Huai said.
Lu Xiong could not leave Wang Bing easily. What worried Xu Huai the most was that even if he did not want to sit back and wait and see, there was no one around him who could help.
Although Liu Qiong'er could not be considered a good partner, Xu Huai did not believe that there was really such a thing as selling art but not selling one's body in this world. He did not believe that Liu Qiong'er, who had been immersed in Yue Hong Lou for many years and had seen the ugliness of the world, could still be a pure and kind person. But he had no other choice at the moment, right?
Of course, Liu Qiong'er is now controlled by Yue Honglou in everything, and the maids and servants around her are also from Yue Honglou. Xu Huai thought that if he really wanted to make good use of Liu Qiong'er as a chess piece, he had to help her leave Yue Honglou first.
More importantly, Liu Qiong'er left Yuehonglou at this critical juncture. What would the assassin who had been entertained by Liu Qiong'er think when he found out?
Xu Huai thought of this on the way back to the military camp, but Liu Qiong'er was the cash cow of Yue Hong Lou, and behind Yue Hong Lou was the Tang family, which was more powerful than the Xu family and would do anything to achieve its goals. Xu Huai didn't think that he could make Yue Hong Lou and the Tang family willingly let Liu Qiong'er leave by just relying on brute force.
"It would be good if I could do something so as not to be completely helpless." Wang Bing did not think there was anything wrong with getting in touch with the popular prostitute in Huaiyuan Town, so he agreed immediately.
