In the palace, in the study.
The sunlight shines through the window, casting patches of light on the red carpet.
The red curtain swayed beside it, and cigarette smoke fluttered.
Nangong Huoyue was wearing a fiery red dress, with a pair of snow-white feet exposed. She was sitting in front of the desk with a slightly frown on her face, looking at the notes she had written yesterday.
"Attack when the enemy is least prepared, take advantage of the situation..."
"Ambush from all sides, a dragnet..."
"The fox is using the tiger's power to bully others, making a feint..."
After a long time, she couldn't help but sigh: "It's such a waste to keep such a talent in the Qin Mansion."
She tapped the table with her slender fingers, paused, narrowed her eyes and said to herself, "Why don't I feel out her attitude tonight and see if she can come over. She probably got married out of necessity in order to stop that man from having any thoughts about her. How could someone like her marry someone so easily? She doesn't even like that man, so how could she like a lowly bastard?"
"No matter how talented that young man is, he is still just a mortal after all. She may not take him seriously."
Just as I was thinking about my plans for tonight, I heard footsteps outside.
Then, Yue Wu led the young man and girl in and said respectfully outside the door: "Your Highness, Miss Qin Er and Master Luo are here."
Nangong Huoyue stood up, her face full of enthusiasm: "Sir, please come in."
Luo Qingzhou and Miss Qin Er took off their shoes, entered the house, bowed and saluted before walking over.
"Sir, I spent the whole night thinking about it and added a few more tactics. Please help me check if there are any loopholes."
Nangong Huoyue personally picked up the teapot and poured tea for the two of them.
After Luo Qingzhou sat down, he said respectfully, "Your Highness, please speak."
Nangong Huoyue spread out the rice paper on the table and began to speak impatiently: "One of the thirty-six strategies you mentioned last time is called luring the tiger away from the mountain. The strategy I am going to use today is called releasing the tiger back to the mountain. Releasing the tiger back to the mountain may not necessarily lead to endless troubles. In the 22nd year of the previous emperor, there was a battle in the north, and the general leading the army of our Great Yan was King Bei Gu..."
She was not present at the battle, but she described it vividly, as if she were there in person, with excitement on her face.
After listening to this, Luo Qingzhou nodded and said, "King Bei Gu's plan is indeed ingenious. First, he let the tiger go back to the mountain, then lured the snake out of the hole, and then caught them all in one fell swoop, eradicating the roots..."
"The words you summarized are very good, I have to write them down!"
Miss Qin Er was grinding ink on the side.
Nangong Huoyue's face was full of excitement, and he immediately picked up the pen and started writing.
This conversation lasted for another whole afternoon.
It was not until the evening, when the sun was about to set, that Luo Qingzhou stood up and bowed for the second time to say goodbye: "Your Highness, it is really late, we should go back."
Nangong Huoyue was still not satisfied. She looked at the ink written on the rice paper and savored it for a moment. Then she looked up at him and said, "I always felt that time passed too slowly before. It was not until I met you that I felt that time passed by like a white horse. You are leaving before I can say a few words to you. I wonder when you can stay here and talk to me for three days and three nights to your heart's content?"
After saying that, she looked at the weak girl next to her and asked, "Second Miss Qin, can you let the gentleman stay in the palace and stay with me for a few days? Not much, three days will be enough."
Miss Qin bowed her head and said respectfully: "Your Highness, you have to ask Sister Weimo, Mother, Father, and Brother-in-law about this matter. Weimo cannot make the decision."
Nangong Huoyue was silent for a moment, then looked at the young man in front of him and asked, "Are you willing, sir?"
Luo Qingzhou bowed his head and saluted: "Your Highness, I am very grateful for your kindness. But I have a wife waiting for me at home, so I am really sorry."
Nangong Huoyue saw that he was saying this again, her eyes flickered, and without saying anything more, she nodded, stood up and said, "Okay, then I won't force you, sir. Yuewu, send you and Miss Qin back."
"Yes, Your Highness."
Luo Qingzhou helped Miss Qin Er away.
In the study, it was quiet.
The smile on Nangong Huoyue's face gradually disappeared.
She sat down again, looking at the ink on the rice paper, and read it over and over again several times before she said, "Yueying, I want this person."
There was silence outside for a moment, and then a woman's voice came: "Your Highness, do you want to use the beauty trap?"
Nangong Huoyue was slightly startled when she heard this: "Beauty trap? Why did you think of this plan?"
Yueying said respectfully, "Your Highness, there is news that the son-in-law of the Qin family may have gone to the brothel to look for a girl last night, and was blocked by the two maids of the eldest lady of the Qin family."
After hearing this, Nangong Huoyue's expression froze for a moment, as if she found it a little unbelievable.
"Yueying, is the news true?"
"Although we haven't seen Mr. Luo show up, the girl holding the sword is very easy to identify, so there should be no mistake."
A smile suddenly appeared on Nangong Huoyue's lips, and a hint of excitement appeared in her eyes.
"Senior sister, you have been humiliating me these past few nights, and tonight I will pay you back!"
She looked out the window and for the first time she was looking forward to it getting dark.
"Your Highness, do you need to use a honey trap?"
"Not for now."
"Yes, Your Highness."
The carriage moved slowly along the street.
The two people in the carriage sat opposite each other, looking at each other, neither speaking.
When they were almost at the Qin residence, Miss Qin II said, "Brother-in-law, guess what Wei Mo was thinking about just now?"
Luo Qingzhou shook his head and didn't want to talk.
I've been talking for the whole afternoon and now my mouth is a little dry.
Miss Qin sighed and looked at him dimly: "Wei Mo was thinking, my brother-in-law is so outstanding and looks so good. If the eldest princess takes a fancy to him and wants to take him away to be her husband, what should Wei Mo do?"
Luo Qingzhou couldn't help but laugh and said, "The eldest princess is arrogant and has a noble status, how could she possibly be interested in me? At most, she would let me be a counselor, and it is impossible for her to have any thoughts about me between men and women. Second Miss is worrying too much."
At this time, the carriage stopped.
Yuewu's voice came from outside: "Miss Qin Er, Master Luo, we're here."
Luo Qingzhou immediately helped her out of the carriage.
Yuewu said hello, turned her horse's head, and drove away with the carriage.
Song Ruyue had been waiting at the door.
Luo Qingzhou kept a distance from Miss Qin Er, thinking about the affairs of Chengguo Mansion. After greeting his mother-in-law, he returned to his own courtyard.
The moonlight is bright in the courtyard.
A girl in a pink dress was holding a pink flower in her hand. She was sitting on a stone bench in the yard, sniffing it with her eyes narrowed.
Under the blossom tree next to him, a girl in a light green dress, with her arms folded across her chest, a sword in her arms, her pretty face as cold as ice, stared at him coldly.
Xiaodie hid in the house and didn't dare to come out.
She felt that something was not right with Sister Bailing and Sister Xiachan tonight, and they were a little scary.
Thinking about what her sister Qiu'er had secretly said to her today, she felt that the young master might be in trouble tonight.
"Um... I suddenly remembered that I forgot something at the Second Miss's place. I'll go get it."
Luo Qingzhou keenly smelled the dangerous atmosphere in the courtyard and turned around to escape.
Bai Ling immediately said coldly: "Within ten steps, Chanchan will kill him with one sword!"
Luo Qingzhou paused, turned around and looked at her and said, "I thought about it, I didn't seem to have done anything wrong, why did Miss Bailing say this to me?"
Then he looked at the sword-holding girl under the tree: "And Miss Xia Chan is a reasonable person, she won't use a sword on an innocent person casually."
"Sir, if you confess, you will be treated leniently; if you resist, you will be treated severely!"
Bai Ling snorted coldly: "Where did you go last night, Master? Tell the truth!"
Luo Qingzhou calmed down and said directly: "Tianxian Tower. The second lady asked me to go do something, and I came back after I finished the work."
Bai Ling immediately looked at the girl under the tree and said, "See, Chanchan, I didn't lie to you, did I? My son-in-law really went to the brothel to find those dirty women and got played with by them."
Luo Qingzhou said seriously: "Miss Bailing, please be reasonable. I just said that it was the Second Miss who asked me to go. I went for a look and came back, and I didn't look for any woman."
Bai Ling snorted coldly: "Then why did you lie to us last night, saying that you were not feeling well and wanted to go home to rest?"
Luo Qingzhou said directly: "The Second Miss asked me to say this. Because the matter was very urgent and could not be known to others, the Second Miss helped me make up a lie. If you don't believe it, you can go ask the Second Miss."
Bai Ling sneered: "Does Uncle think I'm a fool? The Second Miss is in the same group with Uncle. She protects Uncle in everything. It's useless to ask. Chanchan, Uncle is not honest. Tonight..."
Before he could finish his words, the girl under the tree suddenly walked away quickly.
"Chan-chan! Chan-chan!"
Bai Ling was startled, and hurriedly chased after him. When she reached the door, she stamped her feet and said, "Didn't we just agree to come and ask the son-in-law for clarification? Why did you leave?"
There was no sound outside the door.
The figure holding the sword had long since disappeared into the night in the distance.
Bai Ling stood at the door for a while and decided to fight alone!
She turned around, put her hands on her waist, and was about to continue questioning angrily when Luo Qingzhou suddenly walked towards her and said, "Okay, stop talking. I admit it all. Bailing, let's go to the room and talk. I'll tell you the truth."
Bai Ling was stunned for a moment, then she ran away with a whoosh. As she ran, she turned back and said angrily, "Stinky son-in-law! Bad son-in-law! You're scaring me again! I don't want to go to the room with you!"
Luo Qingzhou stood at the door and said, "Then I'll come find you later?"
Bai Ling's face changed, and she dared not speak anymore. She ran even faster and soon disappeared from sight.
Luo Qingzhou shrugged, felt bored, and turned back to the house.
at this time.
On the roof of Yuanyang Building.
The red figure had already been standing on the eaves, waiting with anticipation, a sneer on his face.
"Sister, you don't want your lover to know that your husband would rather go to a brothel for pleasure than touch you, right? You don't want him to think you are incompetent, right? You don't want him to look down on you and laugh at you in his heart, right? Then, let's shake hands and make peace. Please take back those words you said before to humiliate me."
"Let your lover tell me a story. I can force him to call me sister."
"You are Sister Yue, and I am also Sister Yue. How about you be the boss and I be the junior?"
Thinking about what he was going to say later, the sneer on the red figure's mouth became more intense.
Compared with "Master and Brother", "Sister" could still be barely accepted, after all, she needed help from others.
The night wind blows, and her long hair flies.
Time goes by so slowly.
Just when she was getting a little impatient, the familiar moon-white figure finally flew over from a distance.
…
Monthly ticket, monthly ticket!
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