Emperor Phoenix Policy: Feng Qingtian

Chapter 237 He's Tempted
Shen Wenqing's face was livid, his eyes were as cold as frost, he stared at Li Qing intently, without saying a word.

Li Qing's face gradually turned pale, the steadfast light in his eyes disappeared, and he murmured, "Wen Qing, don't look at me like this, it's too scary, I'm afraid..."

"Very good! As you wish! You will marry me! Just don't want anything more than that!"

After Shen Wenqing dropped these words, she turned and left indifferently. No matter how Li Qing called him from behind, he didn't look back.

Li Qing sat on the stone bench slumpedly, staring blankly at the empty courtyard gate, his eyes were gloomy.

"Miss, ma'am."

Lan Xin yelled several times in a row before Li Qing responded, and the extinguished light in his eyes gradually brightened.

"Miss, are you alright?"

Such Li Qing made Lan Xin's scalp tingle, and asked cautiously, "Did the maidservant say something wrong just now?"

"No, you did not say the wrong thing."

"But Mr. Shen's face just now was too scary, he told Miss..."

"He's changed his mind about me."

Li Qing said coolly, his face was terribly calm, "But it's okay, just pull back the changed heart, I can wait, and I also believe that I can win him back."

As long as the woman he likes is dead and ruined, he will change his mind.

Men, most of them are ruthless. After the beloved woman dies, it won't take long for him to fall in love with her. Just like he did to her back then, he forgot her and fell in love with the queen after only entering the palace for more than two years.

"What does the lady want to do? All the servants listen to the lady."

Li Qing held Lan Xin's hand and smiled softly, "Lan Xin, you are so kind. You have been with me and taken care of me for so many years. You are loyal and single-minded. If you don't dislike me, we will become sisters." Bar."

Lan Xin's eyes were red, and she was so moved that she didn't know what to do. She was both moved and frightened and said, "Miss, you are too flattering to the servant girl. The servant girl is just a servant girl. How can she be qualified to be sisters with the lady? If people find out about this, they will Miss Joke, if the master finds out, he will kill the servant."

"I'm not afraid of people's jokes, but it's just that I don't want you to be punished by my father. In this way, when there are others, you will be my maid, and when there are no others, you will be my sister. When all this is over, I will choose a good husband and son-in-law for you, and prepare a generous dowry for you."

Li Qing's words moved Lan Xin to tears, and she held Li Qing's hand tightly, "Miss, you, you are too kind to your servant."

Li Qing lowered his eyes, covered the cold light in his eyes, patted her hand lightly, and sighed softly, "Now Wen Qing has changed his mind, thinking about this imperial capital, I have no relatives and no reason, only our sisters depend on each other .”

"Miss, don't worry, I will always be with you and take care of you. I will never let anyone bully you, even Mr. Shen."

Li Qing sighed again, holding Lan Xin's hand without saying a word. Seeing her sad face, Lan Xin asked, "Miss, what should we do now? This place is so far away from Jiangnan, and the master and the eldest son and the second son can't do it for me." You decide, Mr. Shen is so ruthless."

"We can't think about relying on father and elder brother and second brother, we have to find a way out by ourselves."

"What way out?"

Li Qing's eyes flickered slightly, "You send me a letter to someone, remember, don't let anyone find out."

"Who?"

The corners of Li Qing's lips rose slowly, revealing a cold smile, "Pei Xiang!"

At this time, Pei Xiu was riding a horse across the street, planning to go to Yushi Zhai to have a look.

Yushi Zhai has a new batch of jade antiques, and they say they are very good. Among them is a rough jadeite that has just been mined from the mine, which is as big as a washbasin. A jade hairpin tied her hair. According to palace officials, it was Wuming who made it herself as a birthday present for her.

In his opinion, the workmanship is nothing more than that, not comparable to the exquisiteness of the Imperial House, but the Empress is like a treasure.

Pei Xiu felt a little uncomfortable. What he gave the queen was a set of pearl jewelry, and it was an extremely rare pink pearl. Each pearl was as big as a finger, round and delicate, with a lustrous luster. You can take any of them. It took him a lot of effort to buy a house, but he had never seen the empress wear it once.

Maybe the queen likes jade but not pearls?

Pei Xiu comforted himself like this, so he wanted to have a look at the rough jadeite, if it was good, he would buy it and make a set of jewelry for the queen himself.

As soon as I arrived at the street where Yushizhai was located, a woman suddenly ran out from the side alley, chasing after several burly men, cursing while chasing.

The woman panicked and fell headlong in front of Pei Xiu's horse. If Pei Xiu hadn't reined in the horse in time, the horse's hoof might have broken her arm.

The woman got up quickly and was about to run, but the men had already caught up, grabbed the woman, and yelled, "You want to run after entering the Wanhua Building? If you run again, I will break your leg!"

The woman kept whining, but couldn't utter a single word. People around were commenting, "Could it be dumb?"

The woman burst into tears and kept talking, as if she was asking for help from the people next to her. Pei Xiu heard the people whispering that those men were the guards of Wanhualou, and they often came out to catch the fledgling girls. Well, this woman will definitely be severely beaten when she goes back, and she will never get out of the fire pit in this life.

Pei Xiu watched coldly, not intending to care.

The woman kept struggling, and the man who grabbed her got impatient, and slapped her hard on the face, knocking her to the ground, and a piece rolled out of her sleeve.

"Smelly bitch, if you run away again, I will break your leg, hurry up and go back with me, rather than delaying my drinking!"

The man cursed carelessly, grabbed the woman's arm and dragged her up from the ground, about to drag her away.

"Wait!"

"Who the hell are you? How dare you meddle in my business! Believe it or not, I—"

The rough and ugly voice stopped abruptly, and the man was kicked and flew out, fell on a small stall, and smashed the stall to pieces.

When the other guys saw the boss being beaten, they rushed up and were all kicked away by Pei Xiu.

Although Pei Xiang was famous all over the world, not many people had actually seen him.

Pei Xiu picked up the thing that fell out of the woman's sleeve. It was a piece of white jade pendant with the character Gu written on it.

Pei Xiu recognized this piece of jade pendant. The children of the Gu family who are second only to the Shen family among the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River all have such a piece. Pei Xiu stared coldly at the tearful woman, "What's your name?"

The woman pointed to her mouth, indicating that she was dumb.

Pei Xiu was silent, "Is this yours?"

The woman nodded repeatedly.

"Are you the one who takes care of the family?"

The woman's tears flowed out.

Pei Xiu pondered for a moment, but did not return the jade pendant to the woman, and said lightly, "Follow me."

Suddenly thought of something, called the deputy general who came to patrol the city, and ordered, "Send her to the prime minister's mansion and hand it over to the housekeeper Pei Zhong."

"Yes, Mr. Xiang."

When Pei Xiu went to Yushizhai and brought the rough jadeite back to Xiangfu, Pei Zhong had already asked all the questions.

"Master Xiang, although that woman is dumb, she can read and write. Her name is Gu Yingniang. She is the daughter of Mr. Gu and his concubine. Because the main house was jealous, she beat her mother to death and wanted to sell her. She has no choice. , along the way to Beijing to look for her uncle whom she hadn’t seen for many years. Unexpectedly, she ran into robbers on the way. Both the maid and the coachman died. Wanhualou, escaped through untold hardships, just happened to meet Xiangye."

"So coincidentally?"

Pei Xiu raised his eyebrows, and Pei Zhong nodded, "It's such a coincidence, the old slave has already sent someone to verify it, and everything matches."

Pei Xiu was silent, not knowing what he was thinking, Pei Zhong carefully observed his expression, and said, "Master Xiang, someone just sent a letter, it's a maid."

As he spoke, he took out a letter from his sleeve and presented it to Pei Xiu respectfully.

Pei Xiu tore open the envelope, took out the letterhead and took a quick glance, "What a coincidence, there was a flood or a mutiny in the south of the Yangtze River recently, why are people running to the imperial capital?"

"What's the matter, Mr. Xiang?"

"Li Qing, that famous talented woman from the Li family, Shen Wenqing's fiancée, also came to the imperial capital. She said in a letter that she had something to discuss with the truth."

"Could it be that you lied to the Prime Minister? The Li family and the Shen family are inextricably linked. Li Qing and Shen Wenqing are childhood sweethearts and have a very strong relationship."

Pei Xiu threw the letter into the charcoal basin, watched it burn to ashes, and then smiled slightly, "It's better to come early than coincidentally, you go and invite the truth!"

"Who?"

"Li Qing!"

Pei Zhong took the order to leave, and Pei Xiu sat in the study for a long time, carefully observing the rough jadeite, and took a pen and paper to draw some pictures of jade hairpins, an orchid jade hairpin that Wuming made for the queen, then he Make a set of twelve-flower hosta, plum blossoms, peach blossoms, peonies, hibiscus, lotus, viburnum, etc. There is always one that the queen likes.

When he drew the picture of Qionghua, Pei Xiu stopped suddenly. What was he doing?
Is he trying his best to please the queen?He is competing with Wuming for favor?

What is namelessness?Who deserves to fight with him?
Pei Xiu felt depressed, looking at the drawing that had already been drawn, he suddenly felt it was very dazzling, he threw the pen heavily on the paper, the ink stains were scattered all over the paper, and the half-painted Qionghua turned black What a mess.

Pei Xiu looked more and more dazzling, grabbed those patterns, crumpled them into a ball, and threw them on the ground.

I don't know when, before he realized it, he... was tempted.

(End of this chapter)