Volume 3: The Land of Jingchu Chapter 245: General, Please Respect Yourself
"Ah... it hurts... be gentler... wait..."
Bai Tu was shouting exaggeratedly on the desk chair. Lu Lingqi blushed and rolled her eyes at him, saying, "If you shout again, I won't turn around!"
The power of this desk chair depends entirely on a winch, and someone needs to turn it manually.
After it starts to rotate, the wooden poles inside will "push" towards the user sitting inside from all directions.
Bai Tu doesn’t really understand whether it corresponds to acupuncture points or not, but I just know... it’s really “cool”!
Bai Tu suspected that, like the bitter gourd tea before, the strength had been adjusted, otherwise... Hua Tuo was the master of massage, and Bai Tu had also enjoyed Hua's massage, but he didn't have such a big reaction.
After a short while of "refreshing", Bai Tu was already sweating profusely...
"Continue... continue... there are still fifty laps, right?" Bai Tu wanted to have fun all at once.
"Why don't I go and ask him to come out for you?" Lu Lingqi suggested.
"How do you invite me?" Bai Tu asked.
Lu Lingqi looked at the winch of the table chair and said, "I think it will be enough if we just take this rope off!"
White picture: ...
"No, listen to me and continue!" Bai Tu felt that it must be a test, just like the three visits to the thatched cottage.
The seductive (not) sound rang out again in the inner hall, and only subsided after two pots of tea.
At this time, the little maid walked in quietly, making Lu Lingqi suspect that she was being monitored.
"The guest has been waiting for a long time. My little... the host said..."
"Still talking? Believe it or not, I will burn down your house!" Lu Lingqi said angrily.
Seeing this, Bai Tu hurriedly said, "Wait a minute, Lingqi... calm down." Then he muttered with a strange look on his face, "Why do you look a bit like Zhang Yide..."
He wants to kidnap people and burn down the house... Could it be that this is really the same script as the one in Cottage of Thatched Cottage Three Visits?
"What did you say?" Lu Lingqi turned her head and glared at Bai Tu. Although she didn't hear clearly, she instinctively felt that it was not a good thing.
"It's nothing. I just said you are virtuous." Bai Tu looked at her seriously and said.
"Dear guests, don't be anxious. The host asked us to meet him in the central hall." The little maid said hurriedly, and then turned around to lead the way.
Lu Lingqi was about to get angry again after hearing this - so they invited us to the inner hall just to torture us and sit on the torture chair?
"If you continue like this, wait for me outside!" Bai Tu said like an elder brother.
"What did you say?" Lu Lingqi glared back. There was no one around anyway, so she didn't have to worry about Bai Tu's face.
"If you do this again... I will have to praise you!" Bai Tu showed a tolerant look and thought to himself: This is indeed not the script of three visits to the thatched cottage.
However, while the two of them were interrupting, the little maid was about to walk away, and Bai Tu hurriedly pulled Lu Lingqi to follow her.
Soon they returned to the main hall, only to see that there was another person there, with conspicuous blonde hair and a white scarf covering her face - yes, it was Huang Yueying who had disappeared after the battle of Mianyangkou!
There was a kettle boiling in front of him, as if he was making tea on the spot.
"Why did you change another maid? Are you preparing for the next round?" Lu Lingqi said dissatisfiedly.
"I am the new owner here. Guests should follow the host's wishes. Please feel free to sit down." Huang Yueying said.
"A female?" Lu Lingqi was slightly stunned.
Ever since she met Ni Heng, Lu Lingqi always liked to imagine this arrogant and rude person as Ni Heng when he stretched his neck.
So now that she saw that the other person was a woman, Lu Lingqi couldn't help but be a little surprised - this was quite different from the image she had imagined in her mind.
Bai Tu was stunned at this moment, but he was not surprised, but delighted - if he couldn't guess who the other party was, then Bai Tu would have wasted his time... He had wasted those thousands of hours of learning the knowledge of the Three Kingdoms!
"Did you disappoint the guests?" Huang Yueying asked deliberately.
"No! I'm very surprised!" Bai Tu said quickly.
Huang Yueying, Lu Lingqi: ???
Surprise? You're taking it a bit too far, aren't you?
Huang Yueying did not expect such an answer from the other party. Her hands trembled involuntarily and some of the tea spilled!
Lu Lingqi also wanted to ask, what exactly surprised you?
However, since there were outsiders present, Lu Lingqi couldn't be too rude and continued to act as a guard without moving.
"Haha, the general really knows how to joke." Huang Yueying laughed dryly.
Thinking back to Bai Tu’s tone just now, there really was no sense of pretense - could it be that... this person only has such a great reputation, but is actually such a... heroic person?
For a moment, Huang Yueying really felt a little regretful - would it be dangerous for her to do this?
Huang Yueying's original idea was very simple. Despite what Huang Chengyan had said to her, she also understood that a murderer should be killed, not to mention that Sun Ce was seeking revenge for his father. However... Huang Zu's murder still made Huang Yueying feel a little upset.
Even though the relationship between Huang Yueying and her uncle Huang Zu has become much more distant in recent years, mainly after the incident with her aunt Cai Shuang, she still wants to "retaliate".
Of course, it was not to assassinate Bai Tu and Sun Ce directly, but... Huang Yueying happened to hear that Bai Tu was recruiting talents in the field of mechanical engineering. She said this was exactly what she wanted, so she planned what happened today.
In short...
He first uses his knowledge of mechanical engineering to "seduce" Bai Tu to come to his house in person, then makes things difficult for him, and finally when Bai Tu thinks that he has finally recruited the master of mechanical engineering after all the hardships, he will find out that she is actually a woman!
In the Han Dynasty, there was no such thing as female officials except palace maids, and... female officials did not conform to current values.
Bai Tu would then have to go back in great disappointment, having been scolded for nothing and unable to say anything!
However, Huang Yueying never expected that Bai Tu was actually "surprised" after seeing her?
Does this guy have any bad habits?
"No, no, no, what I mean is... I didn't expect the master to be so young, it's really admirable." Bai Tu quickly changed his words.
Bai Tu felt that he was quick-witted. After all... he couldn't tell the real reason for his surprise.
Huang Yueying's words would not have surprised Bai Tu that much. The main reason was that Huang Yueying had already appeared, so was Zhuge Liang...
Well, although Bai Tu’s statement was barely valid, it was just this “longing” look... that made Huang Yueying involuntarily touch her arm... Yes, it was the location of the sleeve arrow.
"I don't deserve the title of master. I heard that the general wanted to recruit great scholars from the Ministry of Machinery and Engineering to serve as the 'Grand Priests' of the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Civil Affairs... It's a pity that Yueying is just a woman!" Huang Yueying emphasized this.
Wake up, I'm a woman!
And if I want to be a high priest, I want to be a palace official instead of being like the female warrior next to you.
If you cannot appoint me as the high priest, then send me back home with regret on your face!
Then I should leave as well... Jinling is too dangerous...
Different from Huang Yueying's psychological activities, Bai Tu's eyes became even hotter when he heard her call herself Yueying.
Lu Lingqi became even more unhappy, and looked at Huang Yueying with a bad look - So you deliberately tortured us before? Do you know how bitter the tea is? Do you know how painful the chair is? Although I don't know... but I saw it!
"High Priest... this matter is not impossible to discuss." Bai Tu sat down, showing no intention of leaving.
Huang Yueying: ...
Originally, this teapot was specially made by Huang Yueying. Half of it was filled with normally brewed Gaolu tea, and the other half was filled with ten times more Gaolu tea. Just by slightly turning the teapot, you can change which part is poured out. It can be called a magic pot that can perform magic!
Originally, Huang Yueying wanted to pour Bai Tu ten times more Gaolu tea, and drink it calmly herself to prevent the other party from getting angry.
However, Huang Yueying, who now sensed the dangerous atmosphere, decided not to cause any trouble and obediently poured Bai Tu some ordinary Gaolu tea.
"This tea is bitter at first but sweet later, and it has a long aftertaste! It must be a specialty of Jiaozhou, right?" Bai Tu changed the topic to tea.
Huang Yueying didn't know what he was planning, so she could only say, "Yes, it's the tea that people from Jiaozhou serve to their guests." Let me emphasize first, this is the most normal tea for serving to their guests!
Lu Lingqi rolled her eyes - bitter first and sweet later? Of course, after drinking a cup of tea, she immediately had a piece of sugar in her mouth, definitely bitter first and sweet later.
"Jiaozhou is a good place..."
Jiaozhou? A good place? Huang Yueying didn't quite understand what Bai Tu was talking about.
Bai Tu changed the subject: "Speaking of Jiaozhou, I remembered that the marriage customs of Jiaozhou are also different from those of the Han people... By the way, is Miss Yueying married?"
Wow, Bai Tu should give himself a thumbs up for his smart brain. What a perfect transition, not abrupt at all!
However, Huang Yueying's face changed and she thought to herself: Is it so direct?
Then, in order to hide her panic, she quickly and skillfully lifted her veil to cover the upper half of her face, and then began to suck tea leaves...
Seeing that Huang Yueying didn't answer, Bai Tu began to reflect on whether he was too anxious - there was no way, after all, it was related to Zhuge Liang, so Bai Tu couldn't help but be a little anxious.
"I heard that in Hepu County, the local natives will get married if men and women like each other, without the permission of their parents or the words of a matchmaker... Yueying, what do you think..." Bai Tu was going to talk more about the marriage customs in Jiaozhou, so that it wouldn't be awkward!
However, Huang Yueying obviously had no intention of chatting with him about wedding customs, and interrupted with a dry cough: "Ahem, my last name is Huang."
It’s almost like saying: General, please respect yourself!
Bai Tu continued to talk about the topic: "In fact, I think that it is better to have no parental orders, matchmaker's words, etc., but Jiuzhen County is quite bad. I heard that there is a custom similar to the Xiongnu people, where the younger brother inherits his brother's wife after the brother dies. This is not good... This is a practice of treating women as private property. And Yunan County is often criticized for revealing clothes. Hey... Actually, it's nothing. After all, it's hot there, isn't it?"
Lv Lingqi, who was standing by, couldn't listen any more - how can you be so excited talking about wedding customs with a girl you just met? But... you really know a lot!
"So... Miss Huang, are you married?" Bai Tu felt that he had laid enough groundwork and it was not abrupt to ask now.
Please tell me honestly, do you know Zhuge Liang?
