The Regent's Tender Darling

"Buy wine? Your master?" Little Loach slowed down his pace to pack up the stall, then shook his head and said, "If your master wants to buy wine, he should buy the wine from Zuixianlou, which has the best wine in the whole capital."

Xuemei heard this and was about to shake her head to say something when she heard a shout.

"Stop!"

Looking back, it was two guards!

Before Xuemei could react, Little Loach was startled, hugged the stall cloth, then reached out and grabbed Xuemei's wrist, and ran into the alley behind!

"Hey! What are you doing!" Xuemei was suddenly grabbed by Little Loach and ran away, and she was frightened for a while.

She ran all the way to the alley behind and stopped after turning several corners.

Xuemei was already panting with exhaustion, and she held on to the stone pillar next to her to catch her breath.

Little Loach looked behind her and was relieved to see that no one was catching up.

"Hey?" Xuemei called out to Little Loach, and when Little Loach turned around to look at her, she said, "Why are you running? Are the Imperial Guards chasing you?"

When asked this question, Little Loach was stunned, and his eyes rolled, and he said, "How can I pay them with my small business? So they are chasing me for money."

Then he shook his head and complained, "Recently, the court has exploited us little people too much. Many of us can't pay, and we have to support the elderly and children at home."

"Oh~" Xuemei nodded, not quite understanding, and then felt strange again, and suddenly looked at Little Loach with a puzzled look on her face.

Little Loach was stunned by Xuemei's round eyes, and said with a guilty conscience, "Why are you looking at me? Is there something on my face?"

Then he subconsciously touched his cheek.

Xuemei frowned and said suspiciously: "Didn't you tell me that you are an orphan? How can you have parents with children?"

She remembered that when she first met Xiao Niuqiu, it was because she was listening to a story in a teahouse. When she was halfway through, the storyteller left and said, "If you want to know what happened next, please listen to me next time."

How could she know when this person would come next time? Xiao Niuqiu happened to be next to the teahouse and told her that he knew what happened next, so she paid money to listen to Xiao Niuqiu's story.

Although the story didn't make sense, it sounded like a story. Later, she took the initiative to find Xiao Niuqiu to tell stories. She could listen to the whole story in one go, which was much better than the storytelling in the teahouse.

Later, Xiao Niuqiu told her some of his experiences in the underworld, saying that he had been alone since childhood and was known as the gossip king in Beijing. Although she always felt that Xiao Niuqiu was bragging, it was Xiao Niuqiu who found her a place to live in Li Maonian last time.

So now she also believes that Xiao Niuqiu is a man of the underworld.

Little Loach admitted, "I'm an orphan, but someone picked me up, otherwise I'd have lived this long in vain?"

"Oh~ foster father!" Xuemei understood immediately, and thinking of the wine she wanted to buy just now, she said, "I want to buy wine from you to sell to the wine shop."

After all, she saw how good the business was just now, and it was snatched away in a moment.

When Little Loach heard this, he was stunned. After digesting what Xuemei said, he waved his hand and said, "You have to find a winery to get the source of the wine. How can I exchange so much?"

"Ah? Exchange?"

Knowing that he had slipped up, Little Loach quickly said, "I said a lot, the wine shop must need a lot of wine, how can I have so much." After saying that, he turned his head and touched his nose.

Hearing the rather anxious tone, Xuemei thought Little Loach was angry, and pouted her lips and said, "I'm just trying to take care of your business. My master is very generous."

After hearing this, Little Loach muttered, "The more generous you are, the more you can't afford to offend."