The Pretty Fox and the Lone Wolf

When Li Yan returned to Fengde Building, the restaurant was already closed.It was pitch black, only a few rooms on the attic were still lit with oil lamps—the one where Hu Ce lived was dark.

sleep so early?

Then what nonsense are you talking about not letting me go to see that scholar.

Li Yan was slandering, while taking advantage of the moonlight to go up the stairs, he drank a little too much, his steps were soft, as if he was stepping on clouds.

The ditty I just listened to in the theater was a tune I had never heard before. Li Yan hummed softly, not noticing Hu Ce who was leaning against the corner of the stairs with a hidden breath.

"Is it so fun to go out and drink with him?"

Li Yan was frightened out of his wits by the sudden voice, and after recovering, he glared at the gloomy Hu Ce: "Are you trying to scare me to death!"

Hu Ce came out from the dark and surrounded Li Yan by the railing. He smelled the strong smell of alcohol on Li Yan, and said in a bad tone, "You like him very much?"

"Does it have something to do with you?" Li Yan pushed Hu Ce, but he couldn't move, and turned his head angrily, "It depends on how much strength I have."

Hu Zhizhi lowered his eyes in grievance, slowly let go of his arms, and stood in front of Li Yan in a daze: "If you like that, I can also go to school."

"Now? Studying? By the time you finish studying, I'm afraid you'll be in your seventies or eighties."

"Seven and eighty, I like it too."

"I don't like it!" Li Yan rolled his eyes, "Hu Ce, if you can get engaged to someone else, why can't I? If you really want to live here, just mind your own business."

"Or go away."

"Li Yan..." Hu Ce continued to follow behind Li Yan with a stern face, "At least don't rush to make a decision, you, you think about it later?"

"There's nothing to consider. The profits their firm can bring to Fengde Building are extremely considerable, and I'm very satisfied. The scholar treats me well, at least he treats me sincerely." Li Yan stopped in front of his room door and turned around. Said, "Hu Ce, I'm done with you."

……

"He really told you that?" Lu Geshi was called to Fengde Building early in the morning by a servant who served Hu Ce, yawning and listening to Hu Ce's complaints.

Hu Ce nodded, held Lu Geshi's hands solemnly, and said, "Geshi, take me to meet that scholar."

"I...?" Lu Geshi was more energetic at the moment, and hurriedly evaded, "No, no, Fang Yousheng won't let me go out. Besides, aren't you allowed to go out and show your face?"

"Help me get some low-key clothes. Let's take a small path. I won't conflict with him, so I just take a look from a distance." Hu Ce said, "Fang Yousheng didn't let you go out because he was afraid that something would happen to you. With me here, you How could something happen?"

Lu Geshi was uncertain: "But..." "Where is Fang Yousheng now?"

"I want to eat wild pork. He went to the woods in the east very early." Lu Geshi became more and more guilty as he said, "He went to get me some delicious food. If I sneak out and don't say anything, if I still take you out Running around..."

"Why don't you come back after noon from hunting wild boars?" Hu Ce calculated, "Baby, I found out that Li Yan will go to a teahouse with that man for morning tea in a while. It's very close, so we'll go back as soon as we go."

Seeing Lu Geshi's hesitant expression, Hu Ce continued to fan the flames: "If Fang Yousheng really finds out, you can say you were forced by me."

"Ge Shi, Xiao Bao, do you really want to see me die alone?"

"Okay, okay!" Lu Ge's heart was soft, and Hu Ce couldn't help being soft-spoken, "Then you must not go up to the top! No matter what happens!"

Hu Ce fully agreed, he changed into the humble coarse clothes, covered his face black with mud, and followed behind Lu Geshi in a disheveled manner. .

The tea house is not far away, but there are many people.The advantage is that they will be more inconspicuous in the crowd after disguising. The disadvantage is that Lu Geshi and Hu Ce sneaked around the door of the teahouse for a long time, but they couldn't find Li Yan.

With no other choice, Lu Geshi wiped off the ashes on his face, and asked the waiter he knew, "Where is Brother Yan? He asked me to come here."

"Oh! You are the young master that Shopkeeper Li brought over last time, right? Shopkeeper Li is in the Accord on the second floor, the one at the bottom."

Even went to Accord? !How decent is it for this lonely man and widow to live in the same room? !

Hu Ce strode angrily to go upstairs, but was stopped by Lu Geshi.

"Going up in such a fair manner, is it possible that Brother Yan will let you into the Accord?" Lu Geshi said, "We go up from the back, there is a corridor outside, we can climb up."

"...wouldn't that be weird?"

Lu Geshi glanced at Hu Ce: "You are going to peek at them, why are you pretending to be a gentleman!"

The Accord where Li Yan was located had its windows open, which reassured Hu Ce a lot.He and Lu Geshi tiptoed over and hid under the window to eavesdrop.

"This is their new dim sum, try it."

The man seemed to have picked something for Li Yan, his voice was gentle and elegant, Lu Geshi felt that Hu Ce might not be able to make such a voice in his life.

I don't know if Li Yan took the snack, but he asked lightly: "Is uncle satisfied with the wine I sent last time?"

"Satisfied! Of course I am satisfied!" The man replied, with a hint of flattery, "Fengdelou's wine is famous far and wide, how could there be any dissatisfaction."

Li Yan: "Then the price we discussed earlier...?"

"Yan'er, if the wedding date can be set earlier, the price is negotiable, but..."

Hearing the sound of "Yan'er", Hu Ce wanted to kill someone for a moment—why?Why can this person be called Li Yan like that?Isn't their marriage still unresolved?How dare this man?How could Li Yan allow it? "Fu Tianying, I haven't considered it yet." Li Yan said, "If you are not satisfied with the price, we can talk again."

Did you hear that?He hasn't thought about it yet!

Fu Tianying said anxiously: "Do you know how many ladies I have rejected for you? Yan'er, I really love you. Why don't you want to follow me?"

Li Yan sighed, a little impatient: "Do you still want to do this business with me?"

"Of course I want them all." Fu Tianying said as a matter of course, "Why do you hesitate? There won't be anyone better than me in the entire capital!"

Lu Geshi: Fart!Fang Yousheng is a thousand times better than you!

Hu Ce: Just you?I can hit ten with one punch.

Unable to explain his anger, Hu Ce punched the air, but because he didn't control the strength well, the wind from his palm knocked over the small vase on the corridor.

"Dang bang" sounded like thunder, and before the two people outside could react, Hu Ce was strangled by a belt around his neck.

Li Yan lost his belt, and his coat was hanging loosely. He leaned on the window sill and looked down at the two who were laughing at him.

Fu Tianying hurriedly followed. Seeing someone outside the window sill, he subconsciously wanted to call for guards, but Li Yan stopped him in time and said, "My friend."

"your friend?"

Li Yan let go of his hands, and was too lazy to tie the belt again, so he changed hands and wrapped the ribbon around his hands, and said leisurely, "You two... are quite capable."

It was only then that Hu Ce finally saw Fu Tianying's appearance - it was nothing more than well-behaved, with the weak air of a scholar, not very handsome and unrestrained.

He straightened his clothes, completely forgetting that his face was still covered with ashes, and said: "It happened to be passing by, disturbing the conversation of the two of you."

"It's okay, it's okay." Fu Tianying said with a smile, "Since we are Yan'er's friend, why don't we sit down and have a cup of tea together?"

"No need." Li Yan looked at Lu Geshi who was huddled behind Hu Ce, and reminded him leisurely, "Geshi, Fang Yousheng came to the teahouse to buy shrimp dumplings for you just now. Right now... probably he has returned home."

Lu Geshi's eyes were darkened, and he wanted to cry but had no tears.

"Hu Ce, as for you..." Li Yan thought for a while and said slowly, "If you break the rules, don't live in my Fengde Building. Pack up your things and get out as soon as possible."

How could Hu Ce tolerate himself being defeated in front of his rival in love, his face turned green and then red, red and then white, and finally choked out a sentence: "Then you need to accompany me back to take care of things first."

Li Yan blinked, not understanding how the tiger could be so shameless: "...I'm still talking about things."

"Then I'll sit here and wait for you to go back."

Li Yanchao, who was so frightened that he was half breathed, raised his chin: "But some people can't wait to go back home."

Lu Gezhi tugged on Hu Ce's clothes with a drooping face: "Brother, if you don't go back, Fang Yousheng will..."

Before the words were finished, the door of Accord was suddenly knocked open.

Fang Yousheng ran in in a panic: "Li Yan! You saw Ge—" Four pairs of eyes looked at him with different expressions.

When Fang Yousheng saw Lu Geshi, his uneasy heart finally calmed down. He leaned against the door frame with his face half covered, and let out a long sigh of relief.

Seeing this, Lu Geshi hurried over to greet him, hugged Fang Yousheng flatteringly, before he could say "I'm sorry", Fang Yousheng pushed him away.

Regardless of the presence of outsiders, Fang Yousheng raised his eyebrows, and his voice was stern: "Lu Geshi! How did I tell you that!"

Guilt and fear made Lu Geshi speechless, pursed his lips, and looked at Fang Yousheng anxiously.

"Do you know how impatient I was when I saw that you were not at the mansion! I almost rushed straight to the palace!" Fang Yousheng brushed the broken hair on his forehead with lingering fear, and he simply raised his head in anger. Instead of looking at Lu Geshi, "Do I have to lock you up so that you can be obedient?"

Hu Ce couldn't bear to see the little fox being murdered, and said, "I asked him to bring me here, what do you have..."

Before Hu Ce could finish his sentence, Fang Yousheng's fist had already hit him in the face.

Fu Tianying, who had never seen this battle before, was dumbfounded, and carefully hid in a corner.

Fang Yousheng picked up Hu Ce's collar: "Hu Ce, I punched you lightly. If something happens to Geshi today, I will kill you."

Hu Ce spat blood on the side, rolled up his sleeves, showing lumps of muscle: "Are you the only one who loves Geshi? I will let Geshi have an accident? If we really fight, can you fucking beat me?"

"Enough!" Li Yan scolded, "You guys have to fight out! I don't want to see any of them!"

Hu Ce realized that he was far away from elegance and gentleman, and he wanted to make up for it: "I don't want to fight..."

Fang Yousheng snorted coldly, grabbed Lu Geshi by the collar and carried him away, apparently not intending to bring Hu Ce back to the mansion.

Li Yan looked at him: "Go back by yourself."

Hu Ce shyly put down the sleeves that had just been rolled up, put his hands respectfully in front of him, and said awkwardly, "I don't."

"Okay, Tianying, let's talk in another place."

"do not!"

Fu Tianying was smart, and saw the clues between Hu Ce and Li Yan, so he lost the good look at the beginning, and only became more intimate with Li Yan, and even put his arms around Li Yan's shoulder: "And A delicious place, not far away, I'll take you there."

Li Yan's footsteps stopped because of Fu Tianying's outrageous movements, and after a moment, he nodded as if nothing had happened.

Hu Ce's eyes were wide open: "Li Yan, do you have to do such a trick?"

No one answered him.

[The author has something to say:

Fight it, fight it! (applause excitedly

But the next chapter might not be so fun***Shou Shou]