Volume 1 Chapter 151: Clouded Leopard Xu Jiu (Part 1)

  Chapter 151: Cloud Leopard Xu Jiu (Part 1)

  That day, Mozi was studying a gold-embossed invitation in his small cottage in the bamboo forest.

  On the envelope, a majestic golden leopard was printed, and inside, only two large characters were written - Xu Hang. If you looked closely at the red seal, there were four small characters - Yun Bao Xu Jiu. Along with Xu Jiu's name card came an invitation, inviting Mo Ge to attend a banquet at Wu You Pavilion on the fifteenth night of the lunar month.

  It's been more than half a month since Zhen Niang's incident, and I thought the other party might have been intimidated by Mo Zi's power and wouldn't come to make trouble again. Just as Cen Er was secretly letting out a sigh of relief, he received this letter that clearly stated it was personally received by Mo Ge, so he hastily forwarded it to Mo Zi's hands.

  The fifteenth of this month is tonight, and there are still three days before the opening of Wang Qiulou.

  Chen Er meant to let Mozi get out of it, not to attend the Hongmen banquet. But Mozi thought that since Xujiu had come looking for her after more than half a month, he seemed like a very steady person. If she dodged him, she would have given him an excuse for a head-on confrontation. So, she told Chen Er to bring Zanjin over and planned to meet with him one on one.

  To be honest, she thought the venue for the banquet was a good choice. Worry-free Pavilion is a public place and sword fighting is not suitable. Moreover, Worry-free Pavilion is to some extent a competitor of Wang Qiu Tower, it's worth going there to do some market research.

  However, recently she has started to worry about putting on makeup. In Luozhou, there are not many opportunities to dress up as a man, and when traveling by boat, the sailors all know that she is a woman, so except for the time when Xiao Erzhong An was on board, she has always been quite careless, just applying a bit of light powder to get by. But now it's more troublesome. Since Ju Sanniang let her take charge, she has to be out and about every day. If she has to put on that much makeup every day, her skin will probably be ruined in no time.

  Perhaps it's better to show up like Qiu San Niang, although she's a bit too delicate, but she never had the idea of ??desperately guarding her daughter's secret. Women doing business are rare, but it's not a capital offense, nor is it something that everyone wants to shout and criticize. Businessmen value profit, as long as they can make money from you, whether you're male or female makes no difference. There may be some trouble, but it only comes from the customer side. For example, discrimination against women. However, the shipping industry is currently in high demand, she believes that good wine doesn't fear being hidden in a deep alley, as long as she gets one deal, hum, the situation will open up. At that time, people will come to her door seeking business.

  Thinking of this, Mozi decided to start from today, use less powder, until one day she can go out with a bare face, giving people some time to get used to it. As for others who might ask, just say that she hasn't gone out recently and has been whitening her skin. She'll carry makeup with her, in case she runs into Xiao Er or the like, she can quickly change her appearance if needed.

  "Xiao Yi, I'm going over the wall tonight." She glanced back and saw Xiao Yi lying on a bamboo lounge chair, dozing off, seemingly not having heard her words, completely still.

  Mozi sighed, so it's better to rely on oneself than others. This girl has lost her energy to jump walls and climb trees since that night she met her senior brother. In such a life of rotation, she actually sleeps in a chair close to the ground, proving that she doesn't even dare to go upstairs. She can imagine how a little girl is treated by a group of half-grown senior brothers, either very happy or very miserable. Obviously, Xiaoyi suffered the latter. However, if Xiaoyi didn't even want to climb over the wall, what could she do? She wanted to proudly not pass through Yuancheng's house, but in this Wangfu, there was no other way out.

  "Xiao Yi." She made her voice as pitiful as possible.

  "Use the ladder." He didn't say he hadn't heard, but rather pretended to be deaf.

  "Why didn't you say so earlier?" How did she know that Xiaoyi had such a heavy heart, "I haven't even started doing it yet. And I can go up, how do I get down? Can't just tell the people in that house, can I borrow a ladder from your place?" Being able to borrow the road was already very generous of her.

  "How you spend your evening is how you'll spend your tomorrow." Xiao Yi rarely made suggestions.

  "How dare you mention that night?" Zi He said with a smile, "I practiced meowing like a cat for half a day and thought you weren't around."

  She had promised not to stay out overnight, and Xiao Yi waited for her at the appointed time, but she didn't show up. Later, Hua Yi appeared and took her over the wall. Otherwise, she would have had to spend the night in a haystack with a group of rabbits. Thinking back, she was really pitiful, never having lived in a good place where she could enter and exit through the door.

  "You didn't bring me over, your senior brother came to bring me, isn't it the same that I can see you?" That night, Hua Yi jumped over with a swoosh and landed perfectly in front of Xiao Yi, eye to eye.

  "Xiao Yi, I didn't know your voice could get that sharp." At the time, Xiao Yi let out a startled cry and immediately covered her mouth with her hand, her slender eyes filled with panic.

  "I haven't seen your other senior, but this one seems okay." Hua Yi had a single eyelid that slanted upwards, giving her a naturally mischievous look, but she spoke little, making her seem more reserved and reliable. "He even greeted you, it's just that you ran too fast and didn't hear him."

  "I heard it." Xiaoyi's ears were sharper than her legs. "It wasn't a greeting, but saying I secretly went down the mountain and need to be held accountable by the door rules."

  "Never mind. Your master doesn't care about you going down the mountain, he's second to last in rank, what can he control? Xiaoyi wants to be as thick-skinned as her and have everything go smoothly. "However, I didn't know that you were a runaway from your sect."

  "It's not escape, it's learning to come down the mountain." Correcting Mozi's words, "I clearly followed Master's teachings and learned all the skills, but my senior brothers said I had to defeat them before I could leave. That was impossible, so I used ** to knock out my senior brothers, kowtowed to the ancestral master's image in the middle of the night, and left the mountain."

  No wonder people said she ran away, Mu Zi secretly smiled in her heart.

  "Speaking of this little brother, he is actually a Thousand Ox Guard." The Thousand Ox Guard was inherited by the Great Zhou Imperial Court and was the emperor's direct guard corps. Although Hua Yi wore casual clothes, Mozi saw his waist plate.

  "I don't know." After Xiaoyi left the sect, her master would come to visit her once a year, but she never saw those annoying senior brothers again.

  "He's much older than me, twenty-four already." Little Shixiong? Sounds awkward. And Dashi's age can be her father.

  Mozi's mind wandered for a moment, and suddenly thought, what does the presence of Qian Niuwei by Yuancheng's side imply? Qian Niuwei is the emperor's personal guard, only the emperor can dispatch them. The appearance of Hua Yi by a Taixue doctor's side is indeed food for thought.

  Xiao Yi called out twice in a low voice, but seeing that she didn't respond, he went to pull her sleeve. "I'll send you up the wall first, and if there's no one around, I'll send you down again."

  Mozi returned to her senses and let out a cry of surprise, "What if someone is here?"

  A look of "look at your own skills", Xiao Yi hehe didn't say a word.

  Xiao Yi's senior brother had a phobia, and she couldn't help him cure it either. Mozi thought that even if he could climb walls, it would be good. Others found it easy to go up the mountain but hard to come down, but she was the opposite, finding it hard to go up and easy to come down. When she was a soldier, she could jump from the second floor without getting hurt at all.

  At dusk, Xiao Yi first touched the wall and then moved Mo Zi up to the top of the wall. Then he jumped back down to see if anyone was there or not.

  Mozi said a few times that no one was there, Xiaoyi felt a bit uneasy, and the bees under the wall danced in an eight-character pattern, still hesitating. She saw that she had to dry herself, so she simply said she would do it herself and jumped down.

  From then on, crossing the wall became a half-and-half mode.

  All the way north, the surroundings were as quiet as before, with a few fewer rabbits, perhaps used by Yuan Cheng to entertain his colleagues. There was one thing she didn't understand - since Yuan Cheng's mansion wasn't even renovated, how could there be guests willing to come and dine? Were the noble officials of the capital tired of the beautiful and elegant courtyards, preferring the wild charm of overgrown weeds? If so, perhaps the style of Wang Qiulou needed to be changed.

  At the entrance of the alley outside the door, he met Zan Jin and unexpectedly saw Chou Yu as well.

  "Mo Ge, I heard that Wu You Ge has many beauties. Take me to broaden my horizons, how about it?" Stinky Fish changed into a long shirt and made a silly face with a smile.

  "Stinky fish brother, I'm really not used to seeing you dressed like this. It's just like a wooden core tied with an iron chain, it doesn't feel right." Mozi said with a laugh.

  "No choice, can't wear those short shorts and tight pants, would scare away the beautiful woman." Stinky fish continued to boast, "How about it? Although I'm not used to wearing them, at least I have a bit of scholarly air?"

  Purple lips pursed in a smile, nodding repeatedly.

  Stinky fish, can't you see that this is perfunctory? Wrinkling his nose and furrowing his brow, he looked himself up and down, "Not even a little bit, not even half a bit. But Brother Mo, this skin tone isn't dark, it's quite elegant."

  "Recently I haven't been sailing, so I've naturally become a lot paler." Stinky Fish knew she was disguising herself as a man, and Mozi jokingly pulled out her excuse.

  "That's reasonable to say." Who doesn't get dark from running ships for years? "My old man used to be a coal-black face, and even the prettier girls thought he was ugly, so he ended up marrying my mother who was just as dark. Later, he washed his hands in a golden basin and became a stay-at-home dad, but only after half a year, guess what happened?"

  "What's going on?" Mu Zi rarely heard Chou Yu mention his family.

  "My old man turned into a handsome young fellow, very dashing. Those big girls who didn't look up to him back then were now filled with regret and couldn't say anything, they could only envy my mother. My mother saw that my father became handsome after staying at home for half a year, so she also stayed at home for half a year, the result..."

  "Smelly fish, don't sell fake goods." Zan Jin also listened with amusement.

  "My mother didn't turn white or become prettier. She was born dark and ugly, can't change that. However, her kung fu is better than my old man's. My dad may be handsome, but he doesn't dare to have a second heart. The worst thing is, we three brothers look like my old mother, with congenital defects, not attractive to girls." Stinky fish stomped his feet and sighed.

  Mozi laughed so hard that she couldn't catch her breath, sitting on the carriage shaft with her whole body shaking, "It's your father loving your mother, what is there to be afraid of?"

  The stinky fish suddenly took a deep breath and its eyes turned red, "Brother Mo was right, if my dad didn't like my mom, he wouldn't have followed her after she died."

  This world is like this, nothing else, many orphans.

  Mò zǐ (a nickname) bit her lip and comforted them, "It's good that you three brothers have such a deep relationship, it makes the hard days more bearable."

  Stinky fish awkwardly scratched his head, "Moge hurry up and get on the bus, I'm eager to see the beauty."

  Three people in one car, heading towards Yuhefang.

  Worry-free Pavilion, Mozi had stood at the foot of its wall before, gazed at it twice from horseback, and chatted with Zhong'an about it a few times. However, when he actually walked in, he still let out a sigh.

  Right in the middle, a large red lantern with eight trigrams hangs from the eaves, emitting a fragrant scent and casting a warm glow. The four walls are adorned with hundreds of golden, glittering flower-shaped lanterns, illuminating the spacious hall with breathtaking beauty. Inside the hall, six vermilion pillars support the roof, each one bearing inscriptions and poems written by famous scholars and poets who had visited this place and been inspired to express their thoughts. A staircase covered with floral carpets rises from the center of the hall, dividing into two paths on either side, leading to private rooms enclosed by intricately carved red balustrades.

  When the purple ink arrived, the sky was still not completely dark, but there were already many guests here with a wine cup in one hand and a beauty in the other, laughing and chatting continuously.

  "Three noble guests, it's been a long time since we last met." A woman came to greet them, with a slender figure, some charm and elegance, somewhat older in age, but seemingly not the madam of the house. "Do you want to be in the main hall or a private room upstairs? Do you have a favorite girl, or do you want to try someone new this time?"

  Here, whenever they see a new customer, they first say it's an old customer.

  "We're invited to dinner." Mu Zi took out the invitation card.

  One breath was powder and perfume. This Worry-Free Pavilion, though more luxurious than the average brothel, had air just as turbid.

  "It turns out that you are guests of Master Xu, I almost neglected to show respect. Please follow me upstairs." The attitude was just ordinary hospitality before, but now it's overflowing with enthusiasm, a face full of smile lines, "I am the third mother of Wuyou Pavilion, next time you come, just look for me directly, I'll pick the most charming girls for you."

  This business hasn't even started yet, and they're already fighting for the next one. Mu Zi raised an eyebrow and didn't respond.

  Stinky fish can talk, when arriving at the private room, discussing with San Mama whether the cost can be cheaper.

  Seeing that there was no one in the private room, Mozi interrupted Chouyu's excited tone, "Third Mother, has Master Xu not arrived yet?"

  "Old Ninth suddenly had something to attend to and had someone come over to say that he would be late by half an hour. He also said that the guest has arrived, so just focus on serving good wine and dishes first. You few sit for a bit, I'll immediately order someone to serve the wine and dishes." Third Mother seemed to be afraid of Stinky Fish's non-stop chatter, and hurriedly went down to do things.

  "Stinky fish, men who come here don't ask if they can get a discount. They have so much silver in their pockets that the women want to empty them out in one night, how could they give you a discount?" Mozi found a seat near the door and sat down.

  Zan sat on her left side.

  Stinky Tofu muttered to himself: "It depends on how pretty the girl is. I heard that the most beautiful one in Worry-Free Pavilion is a woman named Mo Xiu. If she comes to accompany me, I'll spend all my silver."

  "You sound like you're carrying a lot of silver. " Mozi said, sizing up the room. All she could do was watch the commotion, but the whole set of furniture was solid red wood, obviously this suite was specially prepared for distinguished guests. But what was Xu Jiuyi's play? The Hongmen Banquet? The Empty City Strategy?

  "Twenty taels, that's almost half of my private savings. The money is managed by my elder brother, ask him for it and he'll give you a lot of nonsense." Stinky Fish picked up the teapot and poured three cups of tea.

  It's hard to imagine the appearance of fat shrimp or water snake, and stinky fish wants Mo Xiang girl to accompany him for 20 taels of silver. Mozi hopes he is more realistic, so she tells Stinky Fish what she heard from Zhong An, including the story of Bookworm breaking his leg to make a beauty laugh.

  Stinky fish slaps thigh, scolds Xiong Nainai's illness, loudly claims can't bear it.

  Mei Zi smiled and picked up her tea cup to take a sip.

  He reached out a big hand and pressed it down, saying in a low voice, "Mo Ge, don't drink."

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