After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

"My lord, this is the tenth cup of tea you've used."

After hearing the voice from the woman in white on the opposite side, Xie Zhengqing coughed earth-shatteringly.After he swallowed the choked tea, the woman in white said, "Master is very different from other guests."

Xie Zhengqing smiled awkwardly: "Xie... No, I seldom come to such occasions,"

The woman smiled lightly, rolled up her sleeves and poured tea for him.Xie Zhengqing was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "You... how can you let the girl do it? I will do it myself."

"Serving people is always Qingruo's duty." The woman glanced at him and said with a smile, "Master looks surprised? Did you not expect me to do such a thing?"

Xie Zhengqing didn't expect that this woman who seemed to keep her fingers off the ground was also skilled in serving people like this, as if she was used to the work these maids should do.He was dry for a long time before he said: "The girl looks, uh, there are so many people around the girl, Xie is really a little..."

"Crowd?"

"The girl is so beautiful, the country is so beautiful..." As soon as he said these words, Xie Zhengqing wanted to slap himself in the face.

"When a woman can only use her beauty as a weapon to live and work, she has already suffered a crushing defeat, because people will only regard her as a plaything-not to compete for pursuit, but to compete for it." Serve the teacup, "People will compete for playthings, but they will not respect a plaything. Even if a plaything is on the highest branch, it will only sway with the wind and cannot be controlled by itself. Its destiny has never been controlled by itself."

Xie Zhengqing was startled, he didn't speak for a long time.The woman smiled lightly and said: "It seems that I said something disappointing, and the young master doesn't want to drink this cup of tea, so let me drink this cup of tea by myself."

As she spoke, she covered her lips with her sleeve and drank the tea in the cup in one gulp.

……

"It sounds very lively outside, I don't know if someone has come upstairs again." The emperor awkwardly wrapped a bandage on Zhou Xun's ankle, chattering, "Do you think some oiran came up? Staying here in the middle of the night will not be good, let's leave early tomorrow morning."

The emperor usually talked a lot, but tonight he talked a lot, and he couldn't tell if it was because he was very happy, or he was trying to cover up something.

Zhou Xun stared at his ankle: ...

"What's wrong?" The emperor raised his head immediately, and said cautiously, "Did it hurt you?"

Zhou Xun looked at his ankle, which was completely swollen by the bandage, and even the sole of his foot was almost completely covered: ...

Just now, he watched the emperor grab those cotton strips, and first wrapped them around his feet...

"This side seems to be a bit thin, but that side is too thick." He heard the emperor talking to himself, "We have to average the thickness..."

Then, he watched the emperor wrap another circle around "Bo".

Now the thin side has become the "thick" side again.With the continuous winding of the cloth strips, the emperor's expression seemed to be extraordinarily dignified due to some obsessive-compulsive disorder of average thickness...

In the end, it became what it is now.

Emperor: "How is the bag? Well, it seems to be..."

He scratched his face with his fingers: "A little... thicker?"

Zhou Xun: ...

He wanted to say "very good", but when the words came to his lips, it turned into a sentence: "... I can't compliment you."

emperor:……

"But it can be regarded as an advantage."

The emperor raised his head: "For example?"

Zhou Xun: "Very warm."

emperor:……

He supported the wall for a while, and after a while he said, "I'm going to the toilet."

The emperor left, leaving only Zhou Xun in the room.

He leaned on the imperial concubine's couch, stared at the flamboyant ankle for a long time, and couldn't help laughing.

The room was really stuffy.He pushed open the paper door leading to the stands, and the street downstairs was still full of people and traffic.

Standing next to him was a man in purple.The man in purple was holding a handful of jade ruyis, and was also looking at the scenery on the street.

Hearing the sound of the paper door being pushed open, he looked at Zhou Xun, and Zhou Xun also glanced at him.

It was just a casual glance, and the two of them separated their eyes in an instant.

The capital is worthy of being a city that never sleeps. It's almost all night, and there are only a lot fewer pedestrians on the street.Zhou Xun watched people coming and going on the street, and suddenly saw a person.

A middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man was wearing unremarkable clothes, holding a package in his hand, and sneaked into an alley.Next to that alley is a brightly lit brothel, where countless Yingying and Yanyan are singing and dancing.

Not long after, the man came out from the alley again.The package that was in his hand disappeared, and the middle-aged man hurriedly left from the other side of Huajie.

On Huajie, there are many middle-aged men like him.Many men in middle age often come to Huajie with their families behind their backs to steal.They are greedy in their hearts, and they still have to pretend to be Taoists to educate their children, so they are also sneaky when they do these things.

however……

"Zhou Tairan."

Zhou Xun whispered his biological father's name, and after a long time, he smiled coldly.

He was not surprised that his pious biological father would come and go here.Zhou Tairan said one thing, but he did another thing. He was incompetent and arrogant, and he relied on teaching the children of his family to gain his sense of authority as a man.It's just that although Zhou Tairan was out stealing, he was a smart person. Why did he not hesitate to disturb his family and come to Huajie in the middle of the night?

Zhou Xun looked at the alley with a bit of thought in his eyes.Not long after Zhou Tairan left, a woman who hired Tingting also came out of the alley.

The woman was wearing heavy makeup, and she looked like a person in fireworks.She held the package given by Zhou's father in her hand, her brows and eyes were full of joy, and the other hand was stroking her abdomen...

Zhou Xun realized it in an instant.

When he saw the woman walk into the brothel named "Revlon", he remembered the woman's appearance in his mind, and the corners of his lips curled up.

"The Zhou family has lost a young master, and gained another young master. The income and expenditure are even." He said softly, "I don't know when my good brother and aunt will know the good news?"

The package in the woman's hand probably contained jewelry from the Zhou family.Mrs. Zhou controlled all the money in the Zhou family. Zhou's father must have known that the woman was pregnant, and he couldn't help but alert his wife to take out a large amount of money, so he had to secretly take things from the Zhou family and give them to that woman. woman, to appease.

The woman's abdomen is not yet particularly pregnant, it seems that the pregnancy is not yet stable.Zhou Xun thought about it, and felt that there was no rush.

Anyway, little brother Zhou is still locked up in Jiangwei's prison.Zhou Xun's fingers tapped on the railing. He had been locked up in prison before. Although it was only a few days, he knew what it was like there.Instead of an early sentence, let him continue to suffer there.

During this period of time, the Zhou family ran around because of Zhou Xiaodi's affairs.Zhou Cai begged for all possible people, Zhou's mother was also in a hurry, and Zhou Xiaomei had no idea except to climb high branches.In such a situation, it's no wonder that Zhou's father became more courageous and dared to come out to meet his lover in the middle of the night - when he returned home, he even used the excuse of going to intercede in the middle of the night on behalf of Zhou's younger brother.

Zhou's mother is a powerful person, no one knows this matter better than Zhou Xun - if she is not powerful, Lin Yan can't make her treat her as her best friend for more than ten years, and can't raise Zhou Cai Such a son.It's a pity that she is now entangled in the matter of Zhou Xiaodi and can't use it.I'm afraid that when she looks back, the woman in the brothel has already given birth to a child, and it's a done deal.

The cold and sticky hatred flooded Zhou Xun's heart again.

When Zhou's family never appeared in front of his eyes, he thought that he could deal with this matter calmly and rationally, and only regarded them as ants in the way.However, when Father Zhou really appeared in his eyes...

He realized that he still wanted to watch the entire Zhou family die.

He wanted to watch the Zhou family's blood flow into rivers.

The man in purple in the opposite stand seemed to have noticed something and looked in Zhou Xun's direction.

The expression under his mask was like a poisonous snake seeing its own kind.

Just as Zhou Xun was thinking, the sound of the paper door being opened came from behind him.

He turned his head and saw the emperor walking in through the paper door. He said to the boy as he walked, "Send some celery and crotons to the gentleman next door."

Zhou Xun:?

Emperor: "I just ran into an acquaintance downstairs. When he saw me, he had a constipated expression on his face."

"By the way, you also know that person." The emperor said, "Xie Zhengqing, you saw him in the imperial garden, do you remember?"

Zhou Xun thought for a while: "I remember."

He knew that Mr. Xie was good friends with Zhou Cai, and most of the famous men in the capital were good friends with Zhou Cai.The emperor said: "It's unexpected that people like him will come here... Shall we rest?"

Zhou Xun said: "Perhaps he thought the same way when he saw you visiting the brothel."

As he spoke, Zhou Xun found himself saying the word "you" easily.The emperor yawned: "A gentleman is magnanimous, a villain is a good man, brother Guangming is magnanimous, what are you afraid he will say? By the way, what were you watching in the stands just now?"

Zhou Xun was slightly startled, for some reason, he was speechless for a while.

The emperor didn't seem to care about his answer either.He seemed a little sleepy, and said to Zhou Xun, "Shall we sleep? We have to go back to the palace tomorrow morning."

Zhou Xun nodded.

He blew out the candle and tossed all night, and the two fell asleep.Seeing that the emperor was about to fall asleep, Zhou Xun asked him softly, "Are there people like you in the world you came to? What kind of place is that?"

The emperor replied in a daze: "Is it a world...full of flowers and sunshine?"

Zhou Xun had no doubts about this, he thought, only such a world could raise a person like an emperor.

He also thought of the cruel and cold killing intent that emerged from the bottom of his heart when he saw Father Zhou's figure.He wanted to see him being beheaded, he wanted to see their blood flow into rivers, he wanted to see them... like his mother who was locked in a temple, no one rescued him when the flash flood hit, and disappeared there, no, ten times Die in agony.

These are the voices that he would never dare to say to the emperor, the voice buried deep in his heart.

Fortunately, the emperor doesn't know anything.

The emperor seemed really about to fall asleep.Zhou Xun looked at his side face from the side, and said softly: "If... I was born in your world, what would it be like?"

After saying this, he suddenly felt a little stupid.

He actually longed for the place he had never seen before, where the emperor was raised.

"...Then your name may not be Zhou Xun." The emperor replied in a half-dream and half-awake state.

Zhou Xun: ...

Emperor: "You may be called Zhou Zirui or Zhou Junjie."

Zhou Xun: ...

"Don't think about it," Zhou Xun's head was suddenly slapped. The emperor held the back of his head and stuffed it in his place. "Go to bed, good boy. You have to get up early tomorrow."

Zhou Xun: ...

Although I don't know what Zhou Zirui or Zhou Junjie mean... But thinking of the emperor's reaction to the name "Haoyu", probably these two names are also very common names in his world.

But if the emperor could give another answer, he wouldn't be the emperor anymore.So he also gave up on pursuing the answer, closed his eyes, and prepared to fall asleep.

"correct."

The emperor said again.

"Tomorrow, I will find someone to bring your mother's dowry back from Zhou's house. There must be nothing missing." The emperor said with his eyes closed.

Zhou Xun opened his eyes again, but when he was about to say something, the emperor's slight snoring could already be heard in his ears.

He began to feel that the emperor might not be as... ignorant as he imagined.