dhibooks Chapter 11 Chapter 11
Chapter 11 Chapter 11
Sikong Zhaixing didn't continue to quarrel with Lu Xiaofeng, he was in a hurry to change his clothes, pretending to be a woman for a few days, he was really aggrieved.
Outside the transom window was a remote alley. After saying goodbye to Sikong Zaixing, the two walked slowly towards the main street together.The sun had already set, and the alley was blowing cold wind, howling past, Lu Xiaofeng shivered.Hua Manlou heard it, smiled and handed the red cloak in his hand to Lu Xiaofeng.
Lu Xiaofeng put on his cloak, looked at the thinly clad Huamanlou, and muttered, "Are you really old?"
Hua Manlou could hear it clearly, and said with a smile, "You're probably hungry."
Only then did Lu Xiaofeng realize that his stomach was growling.
After eating two big bowls of hot noodle soup, Lu Xiaofeng felt warm again, poked the bottom of the bowl with chopsticks, and asked Hua Manlou, "Where do you think we should start next?"
Hua Manlou: "Miss Lu's life or death is uncertain, so naturally it is the most important thing, but there are no traces, and there is no way to start, but don't you already have an idea?"
Lu Xiaofeng smiled, the noodle stall they are sitting at is opposite the post house.After paying the bill, the two wandered into the post house, but they were told that Jiang Tongwu was still in the yamen to deal with the Zhang family's affairs and would not be back until tomorrow, so Lu Xiaofeng had to leave a letter for Jiang Tongwu.
On the second day, the two arrived at the agreed restaurant early and waited until noon before Jiang Tongwu walked in with a tired face.
Lu Xiaofeng: "Is the matter of the Zhang family so difficult?"
Jiang Tongwu: "Originally it was just a matter of apologizing, but I never thought that the Zhang family would be so messy and troublesome for a few days"
Lu Xiaofeng: "Then how did you solve it in the end?"
Jiang Tongwu took a sip of wine and said angrily, "I'd better apologize!"
Hua Manlou persuaded: "The Zhang family is bereaved by the loss of their beloved daughter, and their hearts are grieving. Brother Jiang, don't bother with them."
Jiang Tongwu sighed helplessly, and asked, "How is your investigation going? What did you find?"
Lu Xiaofeng took a glass of wine, shook it lightly, fixed his eyes on the wine in the glass, and said casually: "The oiran lady on the first floor of Chun was thrown into the Qingyun Pavilion under the eyes of me and Huamanlou. Vat, but when she woke up, she said a name that had nothing to do with Qingyun Pavilion."
Jiang Tongwu: "What name?"
Lu Xiaofeng: "Maeda Shichu"
Jiang Tongwu's eyes flickered slightly, and he clenched his hands suddenly. Lu Xiaofeng saw all this, but pretended not to know, and continued: "It is said that Maeda Shichu is the boss of Huajiantang, and Huamanlou and I went to see it yesterday. Look, this Huajiantang is really not simple, and we also found two more interesting things."
Jiang Tongwu took a sip of wine, and asked in a dazed way: "What's the matter?"
Lu Xiaofeng: "One of these is that in Hanamido, there is a memorial tablet of Maeda Sakuranoro, the leader of Japanese pirates 20 years ago."
Jiang Tongwu heard the words and looked at Lu Xiaofeng, but Lu Xiaofeng didn't care much, and continued: "The second is that there is a carved screen in the Huajian hall. Under the cherry blossom tree, a man and a woman bid farewell. The woman is from Fusang. Men are dressed up like me"
Lu Xiaofeng put down his wine glass, looked at Jiang Tongwu with a sneer, and said, "What's more interesting is that although the man's face has not been carved, the carving on his waist is your Jiang family's family heirloom sword."
Jiang Tongwu's face was deep, and he said coldly: "Are you doubting me?"
Hua Manlou said: "We just want to confirm something with Brother Jiang"
Without waiting for Jiang Tongwu to answer, Lu Xiaofeng continued: "I hope Brother Jiang still remembers how Uncle Jiang passed away."
Jiang Tongwu stood up abruptly, looked at Lu Xiaofeng coldly, and said for a while: "I will never forget my father's hatred, Ah Chu is a good woman, she will not kill people"
Jiang Tongwu only said three sentences, and his voice was firm and powerful, which could not be refuted.
Lu Xiaofeng also stood up, and said with a hint of anger in his voice: "You know that Maeda Yingzhilang and my Lu family are at odds, and now that the Maeda family's daughter is involved in the female corpse case again, you are going to send me away in just three sentences." ?"
Jiang Tongwu still only had one sentence: "Ah Chu is different from Maeda Sakura, I..."
Before Jiang Tongwu could finish speaking, Lu Xiaofeng flew over and slammed against Jiang Tongwu hard against the pillar, and the royal blue brocade tied on the pillar was torn off.
Lu Xiaofeng: "Ah Chu? Lu Xiaofeng doesn't care how you and Maeda Shichu spent the day before the month, but I don't want you to lose your head because of a woman! Uncle Jiang was hit by Maeda's Liuying Snow in order to protect the two of us. , We watched Uncle Jiang die from poison with our own eyes, and you are now with the daughter of the Maeda family? I didn’t know you, Jiang Tongwu, had such a big heart! Heh, I treat you as a brother, how long do you want to lie to me?"
Jiang Tongwu didn't answer, he suddenly pushed his knee together with an elbow, Lu Xiaofeng was caught off guard and pushed away.
Jiang Tongwu said angrily: "Lu Xiaofeng, you didn't want to listen to me today, you are the one who has lost your head! I don't want to fight with you, so I'm here today, we'll talk after you calm down!"
As he said that, Jiang Tongwu threw his right hand violently on the ground, and white smoke rose, filling the entire private room in an instant, and Jiang Tongwu also disappeared.
"Ninjutsu from Japan! Good job, Jiang family boy"
Lu Xiaofeng still wanted to chase, but was stopped by Hua Manlou.
"He's already outside the courtyard, Xuanwu Street is so busy, you can't catch up with him"
This time Lu Xiaofeng was really angry, he punched the wooden pillar, and the wooden pillar was dented with a punch mark.
Hua Manlou: "You don't often lose your sense of control like this, maybe we can listen to Brother Jiang's words"
Lu Xiaofeng excitedly said: "How do I listen, if it wasn't for Maeda Sakurazhiro, how would Jiang Tongwu have been wandering overseas for more than ten years, how would my Lu family be ruined, and how could your eyes do it!"
As Lu Xiaofeng spoke, he clenched his fists tightly, showing a rare murderous look, Hua Manlou quickly grabbed Lu Xiaofeng's hand, and pulled him to sit down.Although Huamanlou couldn't see her, she had never sat empty, and even pulled Lu Xiaofeng to sit firmly on a mahogany carved and embroidered pier.
Hua Manlou stood aside and poured a glass of wine for Lu Xiaofeng, Lu Xiaofeng took it and drank it down in one gulp, and repeated this three glasses, Lu Xiaofeng finally calmed down a bit.
Only then did Hua Manlou sit down, and slowly said: "You are not the one who will be prejudiced against Maeda Shichu just because she is the daughter of Maeda Sakura, you are just angry that Brother Jiang won't tell you the truth, for Su Jianjian You don't believe it all, you just doubt about Hanamitang, all this has not changed because the boss of Hanamitang is from Maeda's family, you just need to calm down now, don't be disturbed by anger."
Lu Xiaofeng seemed to be a little self-deprecating and said: "So I'm the only one still stuck in 20 years ago, huh?"
Huamanlou didn't answer, and Lu Xiaofeng didn't speak anymore, just kept pouring himself a drink, Huamanlou sighed, and didn't stop him.
When night fell, Huamanlou almost carried Lu Xiaofeng back to the inn with his shoulders.
Lu Xiaofeng is fond of wine but seldom gets drunk, especially when doing business. But today, even Hua Manlou won't say anything, because no one understands the heart of this normally unrestrained little Phoenix better than Hua Manlou. How much pain was hidden, how did it emerge together today.
Sitting in the room, Hua Manlou heard that Lu Xiaofeng was sleeping next door, but she didn't sleep well, she kept turning and muttering something.He suddenly remembered that when he was 12 years old, Lu Xiaofeng who had disappeared for five years suddenly came back, but he didn't dare to see himself, squatting on his roof every night, staying for a whole night.
At that time, Huamanlou was not proficient in hearing and debating, and it happened that Lu Xiaofeng's lightness kung fu was also very young. When Lu Xiaofeng fell on the roof of Huamanlou for the first time, Huamanlou heard it, but couldn't tell the specifics, but Hua Manlou thought for no reason that it was Lu Xiaofeng who came back, even though they hadn't seen each other for five years.
The young Huamanlou didn't know why Lu Xiaofeng didn't go into the house to see her, and why she didn't go out to see him, maybe it was because she was afraid that she would scare Lu Xiaofeng away because she was blind, or maybe she was afraid that she would lose sight of Lu Xiaofeng's face And sad.
Lu Xiaofeng's face has long been blurred in memory, what does he look like now?
The 14-year-old boy sleeps on the roof of the youngest son of the Hua family every night. The entire Hua family chooses not to find him, and no one wants to startle this little phoenix that has been wandering for too long.
It was March at that time, and there would often be a few light rains on the night of mid-spring. Huamanlou listened to the rain falling on the roof, but Lu Xiaofeng hadn't left yet, worried that he would get wet, struggled a bit, and finally held the paper umbrella out the door.
With his toes lightened, Huamanlou also went up to the roof. He can now walk around without relying on other people's help, but he still can't accurately judge the location of other people, so the little Huamanlou, holding an umbrella, gently Said: "Lu Xiaofeng, can you come to my place?"
There was the sound of tiles being lightly stepped on, and she was getting closer and closer until the opposite side stopped. Hua Manlou felt the person opposite was trembling, trembling uncontrollably.After a while, Huamanlou heard a trembling, deep, hoarse, sobbing, young voice.
"Flowers all over the building, I'm sorry"
The sound of Lu Xiaofeng waking up brought Huamanlou back from his memory, Lu Xiaofeng walked out of his room and came towards Huamanlou's room.
Just as Lu Xiaofeng was about to knock on the door, the door had already been opened by Hua Manlou, and the lights in the room had already been lit.
"what happened?"
Lu Xiaofeng stared at Huamanlou without answering. Just when Huamanlou thought that something happened to Lu Xiaofeng, he heard Lu Xiaofeng laugh suddenly, and the smile was a little silly.
"Seven children, let's play together"
Huamanlou was stunned, he hadn't heard this name from Lu Xiaofeng for too many years, Lu Xiaofeng was still smiling, hugged Huamanlou, and leaned against Huamanlou's body.
"Qitong, I'm dizzy, I'm so dizzy"
Hua Manlou finally realized that Lu Xiaofeng was still drunk, but for some reason he got up suddenly.
Lu Xiaofeng hugged him tightly, Huamanlou struggled, found that he couldn't get rid of it, sighed helplessly, had no choice but to be hugged by Lu Xiaofeng and slowly lead him into the room.
Huamanlou slowly moved to the table, and was about to let Lu Xiaofeng sit down, but Lu Xiaofeng suddenly lifted his chin resting on Huamanlou's shoulder, looked at Huamanlou sleepily, then raised his hand to touch Huamanlou. Lou's head said softly: "Qi Tong, why have you grown taller, you are as tall as me?"
While Lu Xiaofeng was talking, as if he suddenly discovered something, both hands touched Hua Manlou's face, rubbing it carefully.
I only heard Lu Xiaofeng scream: "Qitong, you have grown a beard! You have stubble!"
Hua Manlou couldn't help but also touched his chin, he hadn't shaved for a day, yet Lu Xiaofeng touched it.Hua Manlou took Lu Xiaofeng's hand to touch his own mustache, and said with a smile, "Then touch your own."
Lu Xiaofeng was obviously a little frightened, he stroked his beard with both hands, and said in horror: "Why do I grow a beard!"
Hua Manlou couldn't stop laughing, only heard Lu Xiaofeng running around in the room.Even though Lu Xiaofeng was drunk and dizzy, his steps were still steady as if he had dropped a heavy weight.
Huamanlou heard Lu Xiaofeng turning over on the washbasin stand for a long time, suddenly had a bad premonition, and hurried over to stop Lu Xiaofeng.Sure enough, Lu Xiaofeng took out the razor prepared by the inn, and was about to shave off his two mustaches.
"If you Daxia Lu shaves his beard now, the whole world will know tomorrow that Lu Xiaofeng with four eyebrows actually turned himself into Lu Xiaofeng with two eyebrows because he was drunk."
"I am Lu Xiaofeng without eyebrows, hahaha"
Lu Xiaofeng smirked and wanted to shave his eyebrows again, Hua Manlou quickly snatched the razor from Lu Xiaofeng's hand and threw it out of the window.
There was no razor to play with, so Lu Xiaofeng ran to the table to fiddle with candles, Hua Manlou was afraid that Lu Xiaofeng would set the room on fire, so he hurriedly extinguished the candles with his finger.
Lu Xiaofeng: "Why is it dark?"
Huamanlou: "It's time to sleep"
Huamanlou pulled Lu Xiaofeng to the side of the bed and led him to sleep, then turned around to go to Lu Xiaofeng's room before going to bed, but was hugged by Lu Xiaofeng who rolled over again.
Lu Xiaofeng muttered, "Where is Qitong going?"
Hua Manlou smiled and said, "Go to bed."
Lu Xiaofeng hugged him even tighter, and said softly: "Let's sleep together, tomorrow I will take you to the mountain to catch rabbits, okay?"
It's not that Huamanlou can't break free, but it's impossible for him to fight with the current Lu Xiaofeng for this kind of thing, so he had to agree with a helpless smile.
The bed in the inn is not too big, but it is enough for two people to sleep side by side, but at this time Lu Xiaofeng is like a monkey hugging a tree trunk, with one hand and one foot pressed on the body of Hua Manlou who is lying flat, hugging her tightly, forehead Pressing against Huamanlou's ear, he muttered: "Qitong, why are you so good, there will be no one better than you in this world."
Huamanlou was so tied up that he could hardly move, so it was naturally not very comfortable, but it was rare to see Lu Xiaofeng in this state, so Huamanlou seemed to be in a good mood, smiling in the dark, and fell into a deep sleep.
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Changed a few typos, think about it, it must be the fault of the input method╭(╯^╰)╮