Envy

The carriage entered Pingyang City.

The weather is too stuffy.After setting up the carriage at the inn, Meng Tou took Yan Zhaohan out to breathe, and walked slowly along the street.

There weren't many people coming and going on the street, so the young man in fine clothes rode his horse and raised his whip to disperse the people walking in the middle of the road, shouting "Get out of the way".

Most of the people hurriedly stepped aside, pointing at him angrily.A little girl was walking on the road, before she could escape, the young master reined in her horse, but it was too late.

Seeing that he was about to bump into the little girl, Meng Tou immediately flew over and fell to the side of the road with the child.He protected the child's head, and the child was in his arms, dazed for a while, and then began to cry.

The child's mother was also taken aback, and ran over to see her child in a panic, took her away from Meng Tou's arms, and thanked Meng Tou a few times.

The woman was trembling with anger, walked to the middle of the road, and said to the young man, "Can you be careful! My daughter was almost hurt by you!"

The young man was dressed gorgeously and wore white jade around his waist.He looks like a son of a family.His face was ashen, even a little blue, his cheeks and eye sockets were sunken, but his voice was full of anger: "You don't like her yourself, let her come out and run around, and you dare to blame me, it's simply unreasonable! "

Seeing that he looked familiar, Meng Tou frowned and thought carefully, then suddenly remembered that this was Li Jingyu, the young master of the Li family, and the younger brother of his brother Li Xingfeng.

He had seen this man from a distance at a dinner party.

Coincidentally, they are going to Li's house this trip.

He has a problem, he wants to teach him a lesson when he meets a junior who is out of tune.He said to Li Jingyu: "Don't take responsibility for your mistakes, but blame others. Did your mother teach you this when you were young?"

The young master shifted his gaze to him, frowned, and said impatiently: "What's your business? I haven't bumped into it yet. Get out of the way, don't block my young master's way." He raised his whip , rode away, rolled up the wind and dust.

Meng Tou didn't want him to leave like this, so he jumped on his toes, got on his horse, and sat behind Li Jingyu.

Li Jingyu held the border rope in one hand, and pressed the elbow of the other hand against Meng Tou.Meng Tou dodged sideways, and then put an arm around his neck.

"What do you want to do?"

"I want you to apologize."

Li Jingyu cursed "I'm sick", raised his whip and hit the horse's belly. The frightened horse galloped wildly, and Meng Tou almost fell off.

Meng Tou tightly hugged Li Jingyu's neck, and when he fell off the horse, he also pulled Li Jingyu off the horse.The two fell to the side of the road.

The frightened horse stepped on the dust and went away.

Li Jingyu's hair crown was crooked, and his outer shirt was also covered with dust, making him look a bit embarrassed.He stood up, straightened his clothes, pointed at Meng Tou and cursed, "Are you sick?"

Li Jingyu stepped forward and grabbed the skirt of Meng Tou, who was a head taller than him, his eyes widened angrily.He clenched his fist to hit Meng Tou.Meng Tou looked behind him, and saw a group of street patrolmen with swords coming in from the stone pillar gate.

Meng Tou said: "You call now, let the arresters see, we have to go to the Yamen."

Li Jingyu looked back, and sure enough, he saw the street patrolling policeman.He put down his fist angrily and turned to leave, but Meng Tou grabbed his wrist again.

Meng Tou bent his peach blossom eyes and said, "If you don't apologize, I'll call and we still have to go to the yamen."

Li Jing was furious, pointed at him and said "you", and he was speechless again.

Meng Tou forcefully asked him to apologize.

Li Jingyu really had no choice but to admit that he was unlucky.He was dragged back to the place where the woman and the child were by Meng Tou, and he apologized reluctantly and paid the money.

Li Jingyu felt that he had lost face, so he didn't look at Meng Tou again, and walked towards the outside of the stone gate with a full stomach.

Meng Tou looked at his back, remembered Li Xingfeng's words, and felt that this young master of his family really had extraordinary arrogance.He told Yan Zhaohan about it.

Yan Zhaohan smiled slightly: "Do you remember when we first met more than ten years ago..."

Meng Tou didn't want to mention this matter at all, so he changed the topic: "Are you hungry, let's go eat something."

"it is good."

Meng Tou's heart almost melted when he heard that "yes".Meng Tou especially likes Yan Zhaohan's point, he never clings to things, he has to be forgiving and forgiving, completely different from his sister Yanmiao.

When Yan Miao catches something, he has to dig into the corner, and he has to talk until he is speechless.The personalities of the two siblings are quite different.

They looked for small food stalls along the street, and passed by a flower building called "Lixiang Building", which was very grand.

A row of potted flowers were placed on the front steps of the building, and bright red hydrangea hung on the railing.Upstairs the girls, all dressed up, waved handkerchiefs to the men passing by.

Meng Tou raised his head for a few glances, and felt that the girls in Hualou were really ugly, and few of them could catch their eyes.

The bustard standing in front of the door greeted them warmly: "The two masters are unfamiliar, come in to play?"

Meng Tou subconsciously wanted to pull Yan Zhaohan away.At this time, a luxuriously dressed man came out of the flower building, his face was somewhat similar to Li Jingyu's, gray and bloodless, a little frightening, and he got on the sedan chair in front of the door with erratic steps.

Meng Tou felt strange and looked at him a few more times before leaving.

Yan Zhaohan, who had been quiet all the time, said, "The beautiful and dignified women are all in the building, serving high-ranking officials and dignitaries. They are reserved and arrogant, so naturally they won't show their faces."

Meng Tou smiled: "How do you know what I was thinking, you can read minds?"

"The ability is still shallow, I can only read you."

"Then I have to be careful in the future." Meng Tou took his hand and walked a few steps and suddenly felt that something was wrong, and asked, "How do you know these things?"

"I was born in the city, so I heard a lot. Third brother has never been to such a romantic place, so it is reasonable to be curious."

Meng Tou had never been there.He has no interest in women.When he was very young, he practiced Taoism with his master Xuchang Daoist, and practiced in the mountains for many years, almost isolated from the world.When he was 15 years old, his family was afraid that he would be too ascetic, so they asked the family nun to bring him a stack of books.

The book is brand new, with many pictures and few words, and when I read it over and over again, I can only see two naked people.One of them is a little different. The two in the painting are both men, overlapping each other.Just because this book was different, he read it several times.This book indirectly caused him to become a broken sleeve.He later thought that the book Longyang Erotic Palace should have been accidentally selected by Mammy when she was shopping for books.

When he was 16 years old, he rode his horse past Fulian, and when he was in a trance, he suddenly saw a figure in the street. He reined in his horse and almost ran into him.The young man in front of him took a few steps back in fright, lost his footing, and fell to the ground.That is Yan Zhaohan.

The young man has a gentle face, his eyebrows are distant mountain eyebrows, his eyes are black and clear, and his lips are vermilion.The face is like a peach blossom, and the waist is slender.At that time, he thought, how could there be such a good-looking boy, even more beautiful than the one in the painting.

He felt that Yan Zhaohan's words were jealous, and quickly said: "The girl in Hualou is not as good-looking as you, I'm not curious at all, really."

Having said that, after Yan Zhaohan fell asleep at night, he still sneaked out of the inn.He was thinking about the faces of the young master of the Li family and that noble master, and he was still worried after thinking about it, he had to figure it out.

It was already late at night, and the lanterns in Lixiang Tower were brightly lit like daylight.It was really lively there, at night, the men all came out to have fun, hugging left and right, enjoying the tender embrace of the beauties and the fine wine.Under the lights, the girls in Hualou who are squatting in the daytime have a kind of charming beauty.

He always thought that he would be the one who was out of place, but he didn't expect that there would be someone more out of place.A young man with the appearance of a Taoist priest was blasted out.

The enthusiastic bustard he had seen during the day became vicious: "You boy, you pretended to be a ghost with a broken bell, and said that we have ghosts here! Nonsense! How can there be ghosts in our Lixiang tower? Did you come to make trouble!"

The boy rubbed his nose and looked inside anxiously: "No, you believe me, there really is a ghost inside, it's very dangerous!"

"If you talk nonsense again, I will send you to the government!"

Song Jingran had no choice but to leave, and looked back several times.Look quite helpless.

Meng Tou stopped him and asked, "Little brother, did you find a ghost inside?"

As soon as Song Jingran saw his appearance, he felt that he had met someone of the same kind, and immediately said excitedly: "Yes, I have been paying attention to it for a long time. Many high-ranking officials and dignitaries who came out of Lixiang Tower looked like dead people. As soon as I entered, I felt that there was Yin energy inside, hidden in the smell of wine and powder, there must be Yin spirits in the building."

Song Jingran looked at the young man in white with peach blossom eyes in front of him, and asked, "Are you also a cultivator?"

"Yes. I came here because of this. Those people looked very strange, and I also guessed that there was a ghost." He pondered for a while, and said to Song Jingran, "Well, you go around and go in through the window. We Meet up on the second floor, what do you think?"

The boy said "Success" briskly.