Xia Ying was surprised: "Why?"
Liu Qiaoer stopped talking, and Xia Ying analyzed it belatedly.
"Oh, I forgot. Zui Le Fang reopens tonight, and Miss Ni Chang is the top star. Since our young master is still alive, he will definitely want to reminisce with Miss Ni Chang."
"The Master never let me wait at the door before, and it seems like it's the same today."
After saying that, Xia Ying yawned, blew out the candle, and went back to her room to sleep.
Liu Qiao'er, on the other hand, couldn't sleep. Yue Nishang, a woman with a tragic life experience, dignified appearance, manners and gentle personality, probably no man would not like her.
Could it be that she is the woman in Lu Yunzheng's heart
Forget it, as long as she can make money, she doesn’t care who Lu Yunzheng likes.
Wait, something doesn't seem right...
Liu Qiaoer sat up suddenly from the bed. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that the relationship between Zui Le Fang and Lu Yun Zheng was very strange.
As she was thinking, she suddenly heard voices in the yard.
"Brother Zhuo Li, it's getting late, let's go back."
"Okay, you should go to bed early too."
Zhuo Li is Gu Mubai's pen name. It seems that Lu Yunzheng is back too.
With a "creak", Lu Yunzheng pushed the door open and walked in. His legs had almost recovered. Although he was still in a wheelchair, he no longer needed anyone to serve him.
However, the diligent Xia Ying quickly ran out of the house, putting on her cotton jacket and saying, "Master, you are back so early. I will wait for you to rest."
Lu Yunzheng glanced at Liu Qiaoer, who was lying on the kang with her back to him, and waved his hand.
"It's okay, I'll do it myself, you go and rest."
However, Xia Ying still made hot water for Lu Yunzheng, helped him wash up, and then helped him onto the kang. After Lu Yunzheng lay down, she packed up her things, turned off the lights, closed the door and left.
As soon as Xia Ying left, Liu Qiaoer sat up quietly.
In the darkness, she stared at Lu Yunzheng with a burning gaze that made him feel uneasy.
"You, you're asleep, aren't you?"
Liu Qiaoer kicked him and said, "Get up. I have something to ask you."
Lu Yunzheng stared at Liu Qiaoer with his deep eyes for a long time without moving.
Liu Qiaoer kicked him again and said, "Get up. Do you hear me? If you don't get up, I will tell everyone tomorrow that the eldest son of the Lu family, Lu Yunzheng, is still alive."
Lu Yunzheng finally sat up, leaning against the back of the bed, and looked at Liu Qiaoer in the dark with a complicated expression: "What do you want to ask?"
Liu Qiaoer pursed her lips, and an inexplicable feeling of grievance suddenly surged up in her heart.
"Is your sweetheart Yue Nishang?"
"no."
Liu Qiaoer asked directly and Lu Yunzheng answered straightforwardly.
This made Liu Qiaoer slightly stunned: "Why? Miss Nishang is so beautiful and loves you so much, why don't you like her?"
Lu Yunzheng's low voice was a little more gentle: "I don't like it, I don't like it, there's no reason."
Liu Qiao'er didn't quite understand. She looked at Lu Yunzheng with a resentful look in her eyes. After hesitating for a long time, she asked again, "Who is the person you like?"
In the dark night, the room was pitch black, and you couldn't see your hand in front of you. No one could see each other. Perhaps under the cover of darkness, Liu Qiaoer became much bolder, and Lu Yunzheng became less concealed.
I saw him narrowing his eyes slightly, and the corners of his mouth raised habitually: "What, you don't want to pretend anymore? You used to be so patient and calm, why are you so irritable now?"
Liu Qiaoer was so angry that her face wrinkled into a ball, her eyes became more and more resentful, and she muttered: "It's all because of the women around you, one on the left and one on the right. If I had known you were so flirtatious, I wouldn't have liked you no matter how pretty you were."
Liu Qiaoer's voice was very low when she complained, but Lu Yunzheng still heard it clearly.
His chest felt like it was burning with wildfire, and some kind of emotion was like a gust of wind, burning the fire very fiercely. He almost couldn't control himself and wanted to hug the little person in front of him in his arms.
But the fire was finally suppressed by Lu Yunzheng. His expression remained calm, his long eyelashes trembled slightly, and the undercurrent in his eyes was suppressed by him.
"Who is the person you like then?"
Liu Qiaoer raised her chin proudly: "Humph, it's not you anyway."
The fire in Lu Yunzheng's eyes dimmed and eventually went out.
I thought Liu Qiaoer was going to rest, but she asked another question in a quiet voice.
"In fact, you are the biggest owner of Zui Le Fang."
Lu Yunzheng's expression suddenly changed: "How did you guess that?"
"I won't tell you."
Liu Qiaoer was angry that Lu Yunzheng didn't tell her anything, so she turned around, covered her head and went to sleep.
Lu Yunzheng looked at her childish appearance and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Zuiyuefang accepts girls from official families. What does their family members' mistakes have to do with them? The imperial court confiscated their families and punished them collectively. These girls were originally of noble birth, but they fell into the quagmire in an instant."
"Zuiyuefang was originally a music hall owned by the government. It can also be contracted out to private individuals, but the monthly tax is 1.4 cents more than the government's. I will find someone to contract out this music hall so that the girls here can live a less difficult life."
One point and four percent is 14%, which means the tax on modern culture and entertainment is 14%.
Liu Qiaoer snorted coldly: "I didn't expect you to be so kind to women. Since you saved Yue Nishang, she should repay your kindness with her own body."
The full smell of jealousy made Lu Yunzheng smile helplessly. He put his big hand on the top of Liu Qiaoer's head and was about to touch her hair, but Liu Qiaoer suddenly sat up again.
He quickly retracted his hand, but fortunately it was dark in the room and he couldn't see anything.
"So, do you plan to marry Su Xueying and then take Yue Nishang as your concubine, so that you can have two wives at the same time?"
Lu Yunzheng stared at Liu Qiaoer for a long time, and finally sighed softly.
"Qiao'er, my current identity is Gu Mubai, a scholar from Fengxin County. I have a 70-year-old blind mother at home, and you, my unmarried wife, Liu Qiao'er."
"Remember this identity, and don't forget it. If people knew that Lu Yunzheng was still alive, all of us would be arrested and thrown into jail."
Seeing that Lu Yunzheng spoke so seriously, Liu Qiaoer also restrained her temper.
"I understand. Does Miss Nishang know about this?"
Lu Yunzheng shook his head gently: "We are the only ones who know about this matter. One more person means one more danger."
Implicitly, Lu Yunzheng did not tell Yue Nishang that Liu Qiaoer finally felt better.
"I see."
Lu Yunzheng added: "Now that Zui Le Fang has you, I don't have to worry about them anymore. You have already received 40% of the dividends. If I give you my 60%, I wonder if it can offset my debt?"
Liu Qiaoer knew that the biggest owner of Zui Le Fang was Lu Yunzheng.
But she had already obtained 40% and was not greedy.
"That's not necessary. You still have subordinates to support. The Lu family has no other income now, and it's barely enough to rely on Zuiyuefang."
Lu Yunzheng didn't say anything else, while Liu Qiaoer was calculating the assets in her hands. She suddenly felt that the money from Zuiyuefang was not enough to support so many people.