Outside the house, there were two men and horses guarding each other, looking at each other coldly, and the atmosphere was stiff.
It seems like it's going to hit the next moment.
This is the palace, I dare not say that it is impregnable, at least for the forces of the rivers and lakes, it is unfamiliar and dangerous.
Moreover, Qiu Jing only brought two henchmen, and quietly sneaked into the palace without disturbing the surrounding guards.
It's just that Cheng Jingchuan cautiously set up a lot of defenses around him, including the experts dispatched from Fengxing Pavilion, so when she appeared, it inevitably caused a burst of confusion. The people in Fengxing Pavilion looked at each other, apart from embarrassment, there was also a strong sense of unease.
Qiu Jing's confidants watched them firmly, preventing these people from going to tip off.
The palace's room is nothing but large enough, and with the barriers of the inner hall's screen and the outer hall's windows, it is difficult to hear what is being said no matter how high the martial arts are.
The Praetorian Guards can still hold their breath, but the Jianghu people can't.
"Lao Luo, where did you guys come from?"
A man with a goatee disguised as a bodyguard said to his confidant who has been with Qiu Jing all the year round, "Isn't the young master in the north?"
The other party didn't buy it at all, and said with a cold face: "It's the pavilion master, there is no so-called young master in Fengxing Pavilion."
"Hey, Lao Luo, it's boring for you to say this. Outsiders call Mr. Qiu, what do we call it?" The goatee rolled his eyes and quibble, "We call the benefactor and the old master, because both Mr. Qiu and the young master treat us well. If there is no Fengxing Pavilion, our brothers will either be gangsters on the rivers and lakes, or set up a small gang to fight to death for a little money, let alone start a family and start a business, I am afraid that even our own lives will not be saved."
Lao Luo ignored him, the goatee became more and more energetic, and he raised his voice: "I admit, the young master has the ability and skill to make our Fengxing Pavilion to today's prominent reputation, but we must not forget our roots, where did Fengxing Pavilion's original staff come from ? Who paid the money for the turnover? Isn't it Mr. Qiu?"
He walked up to Lao Luo and said arrogantly: "Mr. Qiu doesn't like us calling him a benefactor, but we can't forget this, what's wrong with the young master? Without Mr. Qiu, she... she can have today?! "
The goatee originally planned to say a few ugly words, but he swallowed the words again.
After all, Mr. Qiu has only one daughter, and he is no worse than his son.
Although the goatee felt that women should embroider and sew clothes and cook at home, but saying it directly would completely offend Qiu Jing, and maybe even offend Mr. Qiu.
Lao Luo endured his anger and squeezed his fists until his bones crackled.
The goatee thinks he has the right, and he takes a step forward: "Lao Luo, my brother has advised you for many years, Mr. Qiu and Cheng Xiaowei are very talented, and what they have to do is not just to sell news and mix up the rivers and lakes, young master. It's amazing, but she's a woman after all."
The guards on the sidelines were a little surprised. They were able to stand here, and naturally they were extremely trusted.
- Didn't Mr. Qiu have no son and his daughter died of illness many years ago? Otherwise, will it be Cheng Jingchuan's turn
Their ideas are very common, and they are the ideas of most people these days.
Regardless of ability, the father's belongings should belong to the son. If there is no son, the son-in-law and the student can also be.
Suddenly, the eyes of some people looking at the house changed. Cheng Jingchuan has not been married yet. Could it be that—
It is no wonder that the favor of the three county masters is not taken seriously!
The Guards thought they understood the point, but the people from Fengxing Pavilion really started fighting.
Lao Luo punched the goatee in the face, as if he had stabbed a hornet's nest, and there was a sound of swords being drawn in the courtyard.
"you!"
The goatee jumped up and was about to start, but was pushed aside by an old man with a tattoo.
"Okay, what does it look like?!"
This tattooed old man has quite a bit of prestige. As soon as he made a sound, the two sides stopped temporarily.
However, the tattooed old man was from Cheng Jingchuan's side. He held a delicate snuff bottle and sniffed it, before he said slowly, "Hun Jianglong said something ugly, he shouldn't offend the young master like this. The reason is correct. No matter how capable the young master is, she is also Mr. Qiu's daughter. If Mr. Qiu hadn't been very righteous, could she have achieved what she is today? Don't lose to a man, as a child, shouldn't you thank your parents for the flesh and blood, and teach them the grace of nurturing?"
The implication is that Qiujing's natural talents are the credit of Qiu Si, and the later skills are also the credit of Qiu Si.
Even if Fengxing Pavilion could stand in Jianghu at first, it was inseparable from Qiu Si's plan - there was no one who received his kindness, no money from him, no channel in his hands, a boudoir girl who just came out of Jianghu, and has not been accepted. Swallow so much that there are no bones left? Even if Qiu Jing has the ability again, it will take decades if he wants to win a place in this martial arts.
And Fengxing Pavilion only took ten years to get to where it is today.
Lao Luo's face was blue and purple, looking at the smug goatee, he wanted to knock out all his teeth.
There is tension outside, but calm and peaceful inside.
Qiujing rushed the road for several days and nights, and the person was exhausted to the extreme.
Even so, her eyes were still bright as fire.
Blood is a delicate bond, Qiu Jing doesn't look like Qiu Si, and his temperament is quite different, but these eyes make Cheng Jingchuan feel the pressure.
He looked away without a trace, lifted the purple clay pot on the table, and slowly poured out a cup of just-brewed tea.
"Master Qiu, please."
This is the first time Cheng Jingchuan and Qiujing have met.
Before that, they all knew that there was such a person as each other, and they hadn't met seriously. At most, Qiu Jing, the owner of Fengxing Pavilion, watched Jingchuan in the crowd, because Cheng Jingchuan was considered a man of power in Ningtai City for a certain period of time, and he was attracted by King Ning's third daughter.
In the eyes of others, Cheng Jingchuan did not have a prominent surname, was not a scholar of the imperial examination, and could not gain any relationship with his classmates, fellow villagers and the same year. He might have nothing but a face. The three county masters have always been reckless. In fact, civilians, scholars, and even Taoist monks are brought into the house. As long as the door is closed, no one cares about you. But it's different when you focus on military attachés with rank. The point of being an official is to be on duty, and you can't disappear for no reason.
—To be honest, even if the three county masters wanted to forcefully kidnap them, Cheng Jingchuan was not a scholar without the power to tie a chicken.
As for other traps and traps, in Cheng Jingchuan's eyes, it's like a child's play. Just imagine that he can't even avoid these, how can he live under Qiu Si's hands until now
After going back and forth like this, it has aroused the curiosity of many people, wanting to see what the sacred place of Cheng Jingchuan is. Cheng Jingchuan also took advantage of this momentum to catch the eyes of many dignitaries. Perhaps most of them were for the sake of watching jokes and getting ridiculed after dinner, but there was no lack of appreciation for Cheng Jingchuan by truly talented people.
It's not difficult to turn a bad thing into a good thing. What's difficult is how to survive the gossip.
For example, King Ning couldn't feel that this little captain had ruined the reputation of the royal family, and found a reason to get rid of him.
"Even I don't think it's easy for you to get to where you are today." Qiu Jing slowed down, trying to make himself less aggressive.
Across a few cases, the mist of the clear tea rose slowly, changing into a shadow of nothingness, which was fleeting.
Cheng Jingchuan looked at the changing mist, and suddenly laughed: "Before today, you didn't think so."
Qiu Jing paused and nodded without shyness: "Yes, I thought you were just an ambitious person, and there are too many such people. You may be the better one among them, but that's all."
"... Now you have discovered Mr. Qiu's true face." The smile in Cheng Jingchuan's eyes added a lot of complexity.
Qiu Jing suppressed his anger and said coldly, "He is really a good father."
"To be honest, Pavilion Master Qiu, in the early years, I thought Mr. Qiu had a perverse temperament, but he still had a loving father's heart in his heart. You are his weakness and his bottom line." Cheng Jingchuan's tone was gentle and his expression was strange, as if Considering every word that is about to be exported.
He wants the sentence to be turned into a blade, without making it too sharp, making it painful, and within the tolerance of the person it stabs.
"The whole of Ningtai City... No, the entire Jiangnan, like him, who is willing to do his best to raise his daughter, see that her daughter is not in the pool, and even obey her daughter's wishes, let her get rid of all constraints and realize her ambition, can find the second one?"
Cheng Jingchuan didn't wait for Qiujing's reaction, and directly asked and answered, "No, not only in Jiangnan, but in the whole world. After you left, the Qiu family announced that their only daughter died of illness, not to go to Zhuangzi to recuperate, not to become a monk to pray for blessings, Mr. Qiu There is no room for you to show up as the daughter of the Qiu family again, and in the future, this identity will not drag you back to the backyard, let you marry or recruit new children to continue the Qiu family. I once thought about what kind of mind this is, What kind of loving heart is he? He has always been a good father in front of you. You have never known his crazy and perverse side. Originally, few people knew the secret. Only his confidant, the enemy he was about to die. , and maybe... Lingtang, who has long since passed away?"
When Qiu Si was young, in the eyes of outsiders, he was a Gao Shi who did not want to associate with ordinary people.
Because of a dispute with a friend, he left a book alone and went south to King Yichun Ning under his arrogance. As a matter of course, he settled down in the south and started a family and business, but he was still depressed and could only be a small official. Not only did he have no children, his wife and daughter died early due to illness.
Qiu Jing didn't die, but her mother really died. The root cause of the disease in the confinement dragged on and off for five or six years, and finally died.
It is also for this reason that Qiujing has made up her mind since childhood that no matter what kind of person she becomes and what kind of ambition she has in the future, she will never have children.
A woman giving birth is a real gate of hell, and she won't open the door just because her status is high or low.
If you want to show your grand plans and master the situation, you must first live. However, as Qiu Jingsheng is a woman, there is an extra life-and-death difficulty.
This difficulty is easy to solve, but not easy. It was Qiu Si who waved his hand to help Qiu Jing solve this problem. If she was trapped in the backyard, no matter how talented Qiu Jing was, she would not have the power to resist her father after all, saying that Qiu Jing was not grateful to Qiu Si, that would be impossible.
However, even this gratitude is obscured by a cloud.
At least it numbs the autumn scenery and further establishes the image of a loving father.
As the owner of Fengxing Pavilion, doesn't Qiu Jing know anything about Qiu Si's movements? Of course that's impossible, she just believed in Qiu Si's disguise, thinking that Qiu Si's revival of Chu Xingbang. King Ning can't support the wall, and Ningtai's aristocratic family is addicted to seizing power and pushing the gangsters to death. If they don't think of ways to change all this, what can they do to support a smart little county king
Qiu Jing didn't know and didn't believe that Qiu Si was a lunatic.
before today.
Everything in Ningtai City, the trend of Fengxing Pavilion, the slander of former subordinates, and Cheng Jingchuan's expression at the moment, all confirm this.
Qiujing was like waking up from a long dream, and reality turned into a sharp blade, stabbing her with blood.
"You don't need to provoke me anymore, my mother doesn't know anything, just like me before." Qiu Jing said with a blank expression.
Cheng Jingchuan lowered his head and continued pouring tea. The water overflowed from the porcelain cup and flowed into the square below along the gap between the tea trays.
The fragrance of tea is overflowing and refreshing.
This is a tribute to Jiangnan.
Qiu Jing suddenly raised his hand to take it, and said to Cheng Jingchuan, "You and I are just the rare tea leaves that person has, good tea should be brewed, even if you don't drink it. Because putting it in a jar can only absorb moisture and change its flavor. , he matched good tea with good water and good china, not to respect and cherish, but he felt that it was suitable for him in his heart."
The tea cup was turned over and overturned with the leaves and water.
Cheng Jingchuan sighed: "Qiu Pavilion Master clearly sees that Mr. Qiu didn't mean to disguise and deceive, he... Maybe he was born without these, he didn't know love or hate, he didn't care about love or hate, he realized that he was different, so he pretended to pretend all the year round. Perfect, and now that he's old, there's no need for it."
Seeing that the picture is poor, the chess game has come to the end.
A few minutes apart, the two looked at each other silently.
Their understanding of Qiu Si had been deviated. Cheng Jingchuan thought that Qiu Jing was Qiu Si's weakness, but when it came to him, he realized that Qiu Jing was just a useful pawn in Qiu Si's hand. Because this chess piece can play a very good role, Qiu Si can go beyond the worldly rules to give Qiujing all the convenience.
Like a barrier, until now, I can see everything clearly.
"There are eighteen organs and three traps in this room." Cheng Jingchuan always stood in one position and did not move, he said softly, "I believe that Qiu Pavilion Master has already seen some of them are wrong."
"He asked you to kill me?"
"Mr. Qiu just let me choose, and he should also know my choice."
Cheng Jingchuan suddenly lifted the tea tray, exposing the hidden hinge below.
"I don't want to kill you, but will you kill me?" Cheng Jingchuan stared at Qiu Jing and asked word by word.
Qiu Jing's martial arts are far inferior to that of a top expert like Su Li'er, but she is already amazing in the arena. If she wants to kill Cheng Jingchuan, people outside will definitely not respond. Maybe even before Cheng Jingchuan pressed the switch, he cut off his arm and slit his throat.
Cheng Jingchuan also knew this very well. He closed his eyes halfway and smiled wearily:
"George Qiu, this is the problem that Mr. Qiu gave us. You came with murderous intentions, but you can't kill Mr. Qiu, it's useless to kill him, he gave everything to me, and the only one who can You are the one who stopped me from launching an expedition. You are the master of the Fengxing Pavilion. Maybe Ningtai City is not under your control, but you can still persuade people from all walks of life in Jiangnan and Jiangbei. Jianghu people are a mob, they If you don't listen to the elders of Fengxing Pavilion and the rudder master, you will listen to you. If you put your best effort into it, you can drag me out for at least three or five years.
"If you die here, I have no worries; if you kill me, Mr. Qiu will not have a more suitable heir, and the disaster of Jiangnan swordsmen may be solved. Choose, Jiangnan and even the world's pattern, you and me and more Many lives are decided in this room, at this very moment."
The author has something to say: As I said earlier, Qiu Si has an anti-social personality. This setting is not to give him fashion value, but to explain why he is so good to his daughter, why he has no feelings for Qiu Jing.
People like him are born with difficulty in developing feelings for people and affairs other than themselves, and lack empathy. However, he is very good at observing, disguising himself through observation, and can give others what they need urgently, both psychologically and materially, so it is quite scary
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After Qiu Jing suddenly woke up to how strange his father was, he looked at Cheng Jingchuan with a complicated expression: "It's not easy for you to get to where you are today."
Thinking that Qiu Si loves her daughter in her heart, she reluctantly has the side of a normal person, but Cheng Jingchuan, who was pitted: ... Actually, I was jealous of you, and now I think I'm a fool
These two are not CP, don't believe the random speculation about them in the background.