Aggrieved Fish Sprite

The two parties guarded outside the house, staring at each other coldly, and the atmosphere was stiff.

It seemed as if a fight would start the next moment.

This is the royal palace, I dare not say that it is impenetrable, at least for the forces of the rivers and lakes, it is unfamiliar and dangerous.

Besides, Qiu Jing only brought two confidantes, and sneaked into the palace without making a sound, without disturbing the guards outside.

It's just that Cheng Jingchuan carefully placed many defenses around him, including 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, embarrassment aside, there was also strong uneasiness.

Qiu Jing's confidants kept a close eye on them to prevent these people from reporting.

There is nothing else in the palace room except that it is big enough. With the screens in the inner hall and the windows in the outer hall blocking it, no matter how good your martial arts are, it is difficult to hear what is being said inside.

The imperial guards can still hold their breath, but the Jianghu people can't.

"Old Luo, where are you from?"

A man with a goatee dressed as a bodyguard said to Qiu Jing's confidant, "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 meaningless for you to talk about this. Outsiders call Mr. Qiu, what do we call?" Goatee rolled his eyes and argued, "We are called Engong and Old Master, because Mr. Qiu and Young Master treat us well. With the grace of supporting life, if there is no Fengxing Pavilion, our brothers will either be black on the rivers and lakes, or set up a small gang to fight for a little money, let alone start a family, I am afraid that we will not even be able to save our own lives."

Lao Luo ignored him, the goatee became more energetic, and raised his voice: "I admit that the young master has the ability and skill to make our Fengxing Pavilion the prestige it is today, but one must not forget one's roots, where did the first manpower of Fengxing Pavilion come from?" ? Who pays the turnover money? Isn’t it Mr. Qiu?”

He walked up to Lao Luo and said proudly: "Mr. Qiu doesn't like us calling him benefactor, but we can't forget about it. What happened to the young master? Without Mr. Qiu, she...would she be able to have today? !"

Goatee originally planned to say some nasty words, but swallowed them again.

After all, Mr. Qiu has only one daughter, and she is no worse than a son.

Although Goatee thought in his heart that women should embroider, sew and cook at home, but he would completely offend Qiu Jing if he said it directly, and he might even offend Mr. Qiu.

Lao Luo held back his anger, and his fists squeezed until the bones made a crisp sound.

The goatee thought he was right, and took a step forward relentlessly: "Lao Luo, my brother has been advising you for many years. Mr. Qiu and Cheng Xiaoweixiong are very smart. What they have to do is not just selling news and messing around. Young Master It's amazing, but she's a woman after all."

The guards who were watching were a little surprised. They were naturally very trustworthy to be able to stand here.

——Is it true that Mr. Qiu has no son and his daughter died of illness many years ago?Otherwise, would it be Cheng Jingchuan's turn?

Their ideas are very common, and they are the ideas of most people in this day and age.

Regardless of the level of ability, the father's things should belong to the son. Without a son, a son-in-law and a student will be fine.

Immediately, the eyes of some people looking at the room changed, Cheng Jingchuan has not been married so far, could it be——

No wonder no one takes the favor of the three princesses seriously!

The imperial guards thought they understood the key points, but the people from Fengxing Pavilion really started fighting.

Lao Luo hit the goatee's face with his fist, as if he had stabbed a hornet's nest, and the sound of swords being pulled out echoed in the yard.

"you!"

The goatee jumped up and was about to make a move, but was pushed aside by an old man with a tattooed face.

"Okay, what does it look like?!"

This old man with a tattooed face is quite prestigious. When he made a sound, the two sides stopped temporarily.

However, the tattooed old man was on Cheng Jingchuan's side. He was holding a delicate snuff bottle, and he came closer to smell it, and then he said slowly: "Hun Jianglong's words are ugly, he shouldn't offend the young master like this. , but it is true. No matter how capable the young master is, she is also Mr. Qiu's daughter. If Mr. Qiu hadn't understood righteousness, would she have achieved what she has achieved today? She has good roots, knows people and judges everything. Not inferior to a man, as a child of a man, shouldn't we thank our parents for giving us flesh and blood, teaching and nurturing them?"

The implication of this is that Qiu Jing's inborn talents are attributable to Qiu Si, and her later abilities are also attributable to Qiu Si.

Even Fengxing Pavilion could stand in Jianghu in the first place, it is inseparable from Qiu Si's plan - no one who received his kindness, no money from him, no channels in his hands, a boudoir girl who just came out of the world, is not yet Swallowed until there are no bones left?No matter how capable Qiu Jing is, if he wants to win a place in the martial arts world, it will take decades at least.

But Fengxing Pavilion only took more than 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.

The swords are tense outside, but the inside is calm.

After driving for several days and nights, Qiu Jing was exhausted to the extreme, and would have collapsed if he hadn't had internal strength to support him.

Even so, her eyes were still bright as fire.

Blood relationship is a delicate bond, Qiu Jing doesn't look like Qiu Si, and her temperament is quite different, but Cheng Jingchuan feels pressured by those eyes.

He looked away without any trace, picked up the purple sand pot on the table, and slowly poured out a cup of properly brewed tea.

"Lord Autumn Pavilion, please."

This is the first time Cheng Jingchuan and Qiu Jing met.

Before that, they all knew that there was such a person as the other party, and they had not met each other seriously.At most, Qiu Jing, who is the owner of the Fengxing Pavilion, mixed in the crowd and looked at Cheng Jingchuan a few times, because Cheng Jingchuan was a man of the day in Ningtai City at a certain time, and he was taken by the third daughter of King Ning.

In the eyes of others, Cheng Jingchuan does not have a prominent surname, was not born as a scholar in the imperial examination, and could not have any relationship with classmates, fellow villagers, and the same age. He may have nothing but a face.The three princesses have always been reckless. In fact, civilians, scholars, and even Taoist monks are brought into the mansion. As long as the door is closed, no one will care about you.But it’s different to focus on high-ranking military officers. To be an official, you must work as a errand, and you can’t disappear for no reason.

——To be honest, even if the three princesses want to kidnap him, it's useless. Cheng Jingchuan is not a powerless scholar.

As for other traps and traps, they are like child's play in Cheng Jingchuan's eyes, imagine how he can't even avoid these, how can he survive under Qiu Si's hands till now?

Such back and forth, on the contrary, aroused the curiosity of many people, wanting to see who this Cheng Jingchuan is.Cheng Jingchuan also took advantage of this momentum to catch the eyes of many high-ranking officials. Perhaps most of them just wanted to see a joke and get ridiculed after dinner, but there were also some truly talented people who appreciated Cheng Jingchuan.

It is not difficult to turn a bad thing into a good thing, the difficulty is how to stand firm in the gossip.

For example, King Ning should not feel that this little school captain has ruined the reputation of the royal family, and find a reason to get rid of him.

"It's not easy for you to make it this far." Qiu Jing slowed down her tone, trying to make herself less aggressive.

Across a few tables, the mist of the green tea slowly rises, changing into a shadow of nothingness, which is fleeting.

Cheng Jingchuan looked at the changing mist, and suddenly laughed: "Before today, you didn't think so."

Qiu Jing paused, nodded without hesitation and said, "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 in a cold tone, "He is really a good father."

"To be honest with Pavilion Master Qiu, in the early years I thought that Mr. Qiu had a perverse temper, but there was still a kind father's heart in his heart. You are his weakness and his bottom line." Cheng Jingchuan's tone was soft and his expression was weird, as if Think about every word you're about to say.

He wants to turn sentences into blades without making them too sharp, and wants them to bring pain within the tolerance range of the person it stabs.

"The whole city of Ningtai... no, the whole of Jiangnan, who is willing to devote himself to raising his daughter with all his heart, sees that his daughter is not a treasure in the pool, and even obeys his daughter's wishes, letting her get rid of all shackles and realize her ambitions, can find the first Two?"

Cheng Jingchuan didn't wait for Qiu Jing's reaction, and asked and answered directly, "No, not only in Jiangnan, but in the whole world. After you left, the Qiu family announced that their only daughter died of illness. They didn't go to Zhuangzi to recuperate or become a monk to pray for blessings. Mr. Qiu Without leaving any room, you can no longer show up as the daughter of the Qiu family, and this identity will not drag you back to the backyard in the future, so that you can marry or have a newborn child to continue the Qiu family. I used to think about what kind of mind this is, What kind of loving heart? He has always been a good father in front of you. You never knew his crazy and perverted side. Originally, few people knew this secret. Only his confidant, his enemy who was about to die , and maybe... the long-dead Lingtang?"

When Qiu Si was young, in the eyes of outsiders, he was a high-ranking scholar who did not want to associate with ordinary people.

Because of a quarrel with a friend, he was so arrogant that he left a letter to go south to join King Ning of Yichu alone.As a matter of course, he settled down in the south, got married and started a career, but he was still depressed and could only be a petty official.Not only did he have no children, but 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, which fell in the confinement, dragged on and off for five or six years, and finally died of illness.

Because of this, Qiu Jing made up her mind since she was a child that no matter what kind of person she will become or what kind of ambition she has in the future, she will never have children.

For a woman to give birth, it is a real gate of hell, and it will not be waived just because of her status or ability.

If you want to show your ambitions and take charge of the situation, you must first be alive, but Qiu Jingsheng is a woman, and there is an extra life and death difficulty.

It is easy to solve this difficulty, but it is not easy.It was Qiu Si who waved her hand to help Qiu Jing solve this problem. If she was trapped in the backyard, no matter how talented Qiu Jing was, she would have no power to resist her father. It was impossible for Qiu Jing not to be grateful to Qiu Si.

Yet even this gratitude is veiled with clouds.

At least it paralyzed Qiu Jing and further established the image of a loving father.

As the owner of the Fengxing Pavilion, does Qiu Jing know nothing about Qiu Si's movements?Of course that's impossible, she just believed Qiu Si's disguise, thinking that Qiu Si would restore Chu Xingbang.King Ning's mud can't support the wall, and Ningtai's family is obsessed with seizing power and overthrowing the dudes. They don't try to change all this, so what can they do if they support a smart little county king?

Qiu Jing didn't know at all, and didn't believe that Qiu Si was a lunatic.

before today.

Everything in Ningtai City, the movements of Fengxing Pavilion, the slander of former subordinates, and Cheng Jingchuan's expression at the moment all prove this point.

Qiu Jing seemed to wake up from a long dream, and the reality turned into a sharp knife, stabbing her bloody.

"You don't need to provoke me anymore, my mother doesn't know anything, just like me before." Qiu Jing said expressionlessly.

Cheng Jingchuan lowered his head and continued to pour tea, the water overflowed from the porcelain cup and flowed into the grid below along the gap of the tea tray.

The fragrance of tea is overflowing and refreshing.

This is a tribute from 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 it can only absorb moisture and change its taste if left in a jar." , He paired good tea with good water and good porcelain, not to respect and cherish it, but he thought it was suitable from the bottom of his heart."

The teacup was turned over, and the leaves and water were overturned.

Cheng Jingchuan sighed: "Pavilion Master Qiu clearly sees that Mr. Qiu didn't intend to pretend to deceive, he...maybe he was born lacking in these things, he doesn't know love and hate, he doesn't care about love and hate, he realizes that he is different, so he pretends all the year round It had to be perfect, and now that he's old, it doesn't have to be."

As you can see, the chess game has come to the end.

Across the desk, the two looked at each other silently.

Their understanding of Qiu Si had been biased. Cheng Jingchuan thought that Qiu Jing was Qiu Si's weakness, but in the end, he realized that Qiu Jing was just a useful pawn in Qiu Si's hands.Because this chess piece can play a very good role, Qiu Si can surpass the worldly rules and give Qiu Jing all the conveniences. When the chess piece is useless, it will be thrown aside without regret.

Like a blindfold, until now, I can see everything clearly.

"There are eighteen traps and three traps in this room." Cheng Jingchuan stood in one position without moving, he said softly, "I believe Pavilion Master Qiu has already seen some of them are not right."

"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 mechanism hub hidden underneath.

"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 is far from that of a top fighter like Su Lier, but she is already very good in the Jianghu. If she wants to kill Cheng Jingchuan, people outside will never be able to react.It was even possible to cut off Cheng Jingchuan's arm and slit his throat before he pressed the switch.

Cheng Jingchuan is also very aware of this. He half-closed his eyes and said with a weary smile:

"Lord Qiu, this is the problem that Mr. Qiu has posed for us. You came here with the intent to kill, but you can't kill Mr. Qiu, and 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 Fengxing Pavilion. Maybe Ningtai City is not in your control, but you can still persuade people from all walks of life in Jiangnan and Jiangbei. People in Jianghu are a mob. 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 efforts, you can delay me for at least three to 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 easily. Choose, the situation of Jiangnan and the world, you and me and more The lives of many people are being decided in this room, at this very moment."

The author has something to say: As mentioned earlier, Qiu Si has an anti-social personality. This setting is not to give him a fashionable value, but to explain why he has no feelings for Qiu Jing when he is so good to his daughter.

People like him are born with difficulty in feeling for people and things other than themselves, and lack empathy.But 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 realized how strange his father was, he looked at Cheng Jingchuan with a complicated expression: It was not easy for you to get to where you are today

Thinking that Qiu Si loves her daughter from the bottom of her heart, she barely has the side of a normal person, but in the end, Cheng Jingchuan was tricked: ... Actually, I was jealous of you, and now I think I am a fool

These two are not CP, don't believe the random speculation about them by the background in the article