Liu Qing was horrified when he saw this, and broke out in a cold sweat. He was almost sober, and said tremblingly: "I am talking nonsense, Your Highness Yi, please don't take it to heart. What kind of person is Your Highness Yi? How could he be as greedy for Wu Ruofei's beauty as a vulgar person like me?"
In fact, Liu Qing did not mention this just now, but he revealed the vague thoughts in his mind in a hurry.
Qiu Yizi became even angrier after hearing this. His face turned red and white, and the bloodshot in his eyeballs seemed to burst.
Seeing Qiu Yizhi about to explode in anger, Liu Qing panicked and quickly explained, "This... This is indeed what I really think. During the few days that Yidian came to Nanjing, he was never seen with Wu Ruofei. Instead, he was always having sex with a woman named 'Wen'. Everyone knows about this, and no one can accuse him..."
When Qiu Yizi heard that Liu Qing had implicated Wen Lingjiao again, she became even more furious and ashamed. A thousand ways of punishing this outspoken third-rank governor flashed through her mind.
However, Qiu Yizi was a man who had experienced great things after all. Although he was young, he was already extremely shrewd. He finally suppressed the nameless fire in his heart. Although his face was covered with dark clouds, he said nothing. He stood up suddenly, without saying goodbye, and walked out around the screen.
Qiu Yizi was in a rage. He strode around the sandalwood screen and headed towards the stairs, lowering his head and forgetting to look at the road. After taking a few steps, he was hit hard by a wall. He took several steps back before he could barely stand. He was already seeing stars from the impact.
"Huh? That's strange. When I went upstairs just now, it seemed that there was a direct staircase here without any walls blocking it!" Qiu Yizi thought secretly and shook his head vigorously. When the golden stars in front of his eyes disappeared, he saw that what he bumped into was not a wall, but a living person.
This person was over eight feet tall, with broad shoulders and a strong waist. He was wearing a gray-white linen robe that was neither new nor old. If you didn't pay attention, you would think he was a wall. When you looked up, you saw that he had a face full of flesh and two big, round eyes. One of his eyes was bloodshot, and the white part of his eye was stained red with blood. He looked like the King Kong King in the temple, and people would naturally be afraid of him.
I also saw that this man had dense hair on his head. Although it was thick, it was not long enough to tie it into a bun, so he had to leave it casually like an unbelievable monk or Taoist. The beard on his face had grown very big, making him look very fierce.
Although Qiu Yizi was furious, he knew that he was the one who bumped into someone else and suffered the loss first, so he calmed himself down, got up from the ground, and apologized first: "My dear warrior, I was reckless, please forgive me."
But the man didn't appreciate it at all. He curled his lips and stammered, "This... this table... table, is it you... you kid who's sitting... sitting?" Although he spoke incoherently, his voice was extremely loud, causing all the guests who were drinking and eating in the hall to turn their heads and look at Qiu Yizi.
Qiu Yizi was already in a bad mood, and when he heard the big man speak so rudely, he became even angrier, so he answered bluntly, "Why? Even if I sit down, so what?"
Qiu Yizi was not very tall, and in front of this towering man, he looked like a child. Therefore, the man was somewhat stunned to see that this little man was not afraid of him at all. Because he was slow to speak, he kept repeating for a long time: "You... you... you... you..."
Just as the big man was obsessed with the word "you", Liu Qing and Shi Wei, who were sitting next to them, had heard the quarrel and hurried out from behind the screen. They saw the ferocious-looking big man blocking their way and guessed that this man had an argument with Qiu Yizi.
Liu Qing had just offended Qiu Yizi and was thinking of finding a chance to make amends, but he was too proud of his status as the military commander of Jiangnan Province to argue with this big man face to face, so he shouted, "Someone come here! Are you all going to eat shit?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the waiter who had just greeted him ran up from downstairs. Seeing this scene, he guessed what happened in a flash. He seemed to be very experienced in dealing with such customers fighting for seats. He did not point it out, but bowed and yawned to the big man and said, "My lord, everyone comes to our Yuanwailou to eat, drink and have fun. There is no need to get embarrassed. If you have any questions, just tell me."
As the saying goes, “Don’t hit a smiling person.” After hearing what the waiter said, the man suppressed his anger and said, “This…this seat…was…reserved…by me. Why…why did he…they sit there first?”
The waiter pretended to be enlightened, slapped himself hard on the face, and said, "This is all my fault. I saw that this seat was reserved for a guest to arrive at noon, and it was still vacant after three quarters of an hour. I thought you would not come, so I took the initiative to bring other guests up. It's all my fault that I slept too much and got dizzy—"
As he said this, the waiter bowed deeply to the big man, and then said, "But since this seat is occupied by someone else, even if we give it up now, we have to clean it up, for fear of delaying your time. Oh, there is a private room over there that is vacant. I am brave enough, regardless of whether there are other distinguished guests who have reserved it, how about asking you to sit over there instead? You must be very tired walking from here to the private room, I will give you a pot of wine to relax your legs and refresh yourself, okay?"
At this point, ordinary guests would have already agreed when they heard that their private seats had been changed into private rooms and they could drink an extra pot of wine for free.
But the man was very serious and said in a deep voice, "Who… who wants to sit… in your… your private room? I… just… just… just… just… just want to reserve… this… this seat."
Qiu Yizi was getting annoyed and was about to explode, but suddenly he remembered the emperor Zheng Rong's letter asking him to cultivate his character. He suppressed his anger and said to Liu Qing and Shi Wei behind him: "Let's go and not bother with him." As he said that, he took a step to leave this place of trouble.
Unexpectedly, the big man still refused to give in. He stretched out his palm as big as a palm fan, pushed Qiu Yizi's shoulder hard, and said, "You...you guys, how much...time have you wasted my time? This...this...I'm giving it to you...you guys to run away?"
This man was strong and muscular, and he was indeed very strong. Qiu Yizhi was pushed by him and hit the screen behind him. Even though Qiu Yizhi had practiced a few moves with Yuchi Lianghong, the impact was reduced when he stepped back. His back hit the extremely heavy, stable and hard sandalwood, and he felt a pain in his waist and back.
Shi Wei was anxious when he saw Qiu Yizi being beaten. Since he was standing close to him, he quickly took a few steps forward to help Qiu Yizi up. Seeing that Qiu Yizi was not injured, he felt relieved.
Liu Qing beside him was also anxious and angry. He took two steps forward, pointed at the man's nose and cursed: "You little thief, you actually dared to hurt someone in the busy city. Aren't you afraid of the law?"
The man suddenly laughed when he heard that: "Hahaha, the law? I'm afraid of everything, but I'm not afraid of the law!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present, including the guests who were eating and watching the fun, were stunned. They all thought: This is Nanjing, an important city in the south of the Han Dynasty, not a bandit den deep in the mountains. What's more, the Japanese pirates have been causing a lot of trouble recently, and there are countless soldiers stationed in the city, protecting the city of Nanjing like an iron barrel - is this guy talking nonsense like this, has he gone mad
Liu Qing had other thoughts in his mind: As the governor of Jiangnan Road, he should be careful in what he said and did, so why did this man dare to speak nonsense? Even if he was a big bandit, he had to hide his tracks in such a busy city. Could he really be a madman
However, Liu Qing saw that although this man was not very good at talking and his attitude was extremely domineering, his answers were well-organized, and his eyes, one red and one white, were piercing and did not seem to be talking nonsense. He also saw that this man's appearance and dress made him look like a chivalrous knight, and he was definitely not an official appointed by the court, let alone a royal relative - a person with no background, who could speak so arrogantly, must not be a good person.
Thinking of this, Liu Qing suddenly saw a group of soldiers patrolling the city passing by downstairs, so he quickly ran to the railing and shouted loudly: "I am Liu Qing, there is a traitor over here, come up and arrest him!"
The leader was a centurion. Hearing that it was the order from the governor, he quickly agreed and led his soldiers to file into the restaurant. The centurion was quite efficient. Hearing that they were going to catch a traitor, he dared not neglect it. Before entering the outer building of the garden, he found the restaurant owner and asked him to immediately send away all the irrelevant guests and to gather all the waiters and waitresses on the first floor to facilitate recording their statements when investigating the case later.
He selected three soldiers to guard the main entrances and exits, and then led a dozen of his men to the second floor.
When Liu Qing saw the imperial soldiers coming, he immediately felt confident and pointed at the stuttering man and said, "This is the traitor. Capture him quickly. I have a big reward!"
Even if there was no big reward, the order personally issued by the governor was enough to motivate the leading centurion. Seeing that the so-called "rebel" was tall and strong, but still only one person, he called out to his soldiers, "What are you still standing there for? Go up and capture him!"
When the soldier heard the order, he immediately shouted and hurried forward to capture the big man.
However, before the soldiers approached the screen, they suddenly saw two figures flash out from between the scattered tables, chairs and benches on the side, holding sharp blades and slashing at the crowd.
The order these soldiers just heard was to arrest the big man in front of them, not to kill him on the spot, so they had not yet drawn their weapons. However, the two men who attacked and wounded him were extremely vicious, showing no mercy at all. It was a pity that these unarmed soldiers were killed by these two men in the blink of an eye. The Garden Outer Building, which was bustling just now, was instantly covered with blood, and the extremely oppressive air was filled with the pungent smell of blood.
The two men who suddenly appeared seemed not satisfied enough after killing more than a dozen people in an instant. They turned around and saw the captain leading the army standing there dumbfounded. He grinned and walked forward to commit the crime.
Seeing how cruelly the two men attacked, Qiu Yizhi was afraid that the centurion would also lose his life, so he hurriedly shouted, "Spare his life!"
Before he could even say the word "people", the two men had already approached the centurion and cut off one of his arms with one of their swords. The centurion, who was either frightened or bleeding too much, stood there and let the blood gush out from the two bowl-sized wounds on his shoulders. He stood there stiffly until all the blood had flowed out, with a frozen expression of confusion, surprise and pain on his face. (To be continued)