lord and beauty

"The one that was put in the bamboo basket last time was probably this little guy."

Tan Qiu hugged the little white dog in his arms, raised his hand and gently rubbed the puppy's head, the white dog whimpered a few times, then closed his eyes comfortably, and ate the leftover pastry with his mouth.

"Yes, I thought the weather was fine today, so I let it out for a run. Unfortunately, the servants didn't watch it, and accidentally left the door behind, so it ran away. Fortunately, there are stars, otherwise I don't know how to find it." The man said. Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, he took out a few thumb-sized white sugar pills from the embroidered cloth pouch at his waist and handed them to the black dog's mouth, and the black dog licked them in.

Tan Qiu touched the fluffy puppy in his arms a few times, then handed it back to the man, and the man took out a white sugar ball for the puppy to eat again.

"What is this?" Tan Qiu asked curiously.

"This is our snack. It's made with goat's milk and honey. It's something I made for them. I added some nutrients suitable for dogs." The man replied with a smile, and immediately took out a slap from his pocket. The big and small porcelain vases will be sent to Tanqiu.

"Try it? The taste is still very good."

Tan Qiu snorted, took the porcelain bottle with suspicion, poured two sugar pills into his palm, and swiped them with his fingertips. When the man saw this, he smiled and poured one from the bottle into his mouth, then shrugged, "I I don’t know if you Jiangnan people are used to eating it.”

Seeing that everyone had already eaten one, Tan Qiu couldn't push it anymore, besides, he wanted to eat it, so he put the two sugar pills in his palm into his mouth with peace of mind.

The taste of milk is wrapped in honey and permeates the tip of the tongue. The moment the sugar pill melts, Tan Qiu's eyes light up instantly. This taste is similar to the pastry from Jiang Beimu's shop he ate before, but the milk taste of this sugar pill It was heavier, while Jiang Beimu's pastries were more sweet.

"By the way, do you know when this Xianshui building will open?" Tan Qiu asked the man while sipping the sugar pill in his mouth.

The man shook his head sincerely, and said frankly: "I'm not very clear about this. I'll give you this bottle. It's time to make friends. I still have something to do, so I'll take my leave first." The black dog disappeared into the crowd.

"Hey, then tell me what's your name?" Tan Qiu reacted, and quickly shouted to the crowd, attracting many people to look back, but the man was nowhere to be seen.

Tan Qiu didn't get discouraged when he didn't get an answer. Thinking of asking him next time he met, he turned around and followed the crowd on the other side, agitating towards the end of Lingyu Street.

It was almost noon when Tan Qiu found another Xianshui building. The strange thing was that this Xianshui building hadn't opened yet, and there was no one there. Tan Qiu went to knock on the door, but there was no sound for a long time.

"Strange, if Brother Mu is not here, where else can he go?" Tan Qiu was a little confused for a while. In his impression, Jiang Beimu was busy all day long, and most of the time he was in the shop. Today is the small temple in Sifang City, which should be a good time to open for business, but Brother Mu is not there.

Could it be that he went to hang out with some cronies?

Tan Qiu stood at the entrance of Xianshui Building like a headless fly for a long while, and finally met a woman who was sitting and resting with big bags and small bags of various New Year's fruits, so she hurried forward to ask: "What's the matter?" Miss, may I ask why the Xianshui Building is not open today?"

The woman was wearing a coarse hairpin skirt, with a bamboo basket slung over the crook of her right arm. When she heard this, she turned her head and looked at Tanqiu carefully, before answering: "Why are you asking this? If you want to buy his food, I advise you You should think twice, someone just had an accident two days ago, and the yamen has not yet made a decision. Who would dare to buy it now?"

"What?" Tan Qiu was at a loss for a moment, what the woman said made him even more confused.

Seeing Tanqiu's abnormal appearance, the woman knew that she didn't know the ins and outs of the situation, and a look of color appeared on her face, she turned her head slightly and lowered her voice: "You don't know yet? There was a family two days ago Reported to the government, saying that he bought the pastries from Xianshuilou and ate him up, and he is still being treated by the doctor, and he has not woken up yet."

"Eating dead people?!" Tan Qiu was taken aback, subconsciously trembling in his voice.

"Hey! Don't shout!" The woman hurriedly waved her hand, "He's not dead yet, he said he was hanging himself with ginseng. It's just that this case is not closed for a day, who would dare to buy things from Xianshuilou? In the future I'm afraid no one will dare to buy it!"

"It's impossible!" Tan Qiu argued subconsciously without even thinking about it, "Brother Mu couldn't possibly make a mistake, who knows if that person ate something else?"

"It doesn't matter what we say, it still depends on how the government decides this matter?" The woman said with a leisurely smile, "But which one of these businessmen is not fat and oily, and it's okay to say that life is at stake. It's a matter of stuffing a few ingots of silver."

The woman stood up after saying that she had enough rest, patted on the clothes, put the goods in the bamboo basket again, and hung them up.

"Brother Mu is not that kind of person! Don't slander him!" Tan Qiu couldn't hear someone saying bad things about Jiang Beimu in front of him. If someone said that to him in normal times, he would definitely raise his hands in agreement, but if this person was replaced by Without Jiang Beimu, Tan Qiu bared its teeth and claws like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

"Hey, you, you can do whatever you want, if you're not afraid of death, just keep buying it!" The woman snorted softly, waved her sleeves, glared at Tan Qiu angrily, turned and left.

"I not only want to buy it! I also want to eat it!" Tan Qiu yelled angrily at the top of his voice, causing many people on the street to look back, and some even hurried away while covering the eyes of children.

Tan Qiu walked towards Jiang's mansion full of anger and anger, like an irritated kitten, exuding an aura of keeping strangers away from his whole body, and went all the way back to Jiang's mansion until he was more than ten meters away from the gate. Only then did I realize that there was a dense group of people outside the gate of Jiang's mansion, roughly there were more than 20 people.

The group of people blocked the door and almost formed a human wall, blocking the door of Jiang's mansion airtightly. What's more, there were many young and middle-aged men in the crowd, holding hoes and hatchets and other utensils in their hands. He was yelling something loudly, as if he was going to break in.

Standing at the very front were two or three women in their thirties who were shouting loudly with their hips on their hips, their faces were flushed, and their eyes seemed to be swallowing life.

Standing in the middle was a tall woman in her 20s, dressed in plain clothes, crying pear blossoms with rain on her side.

Tan Qiu could only roughly make out what the group of people were yelling, such as "come out" and "justice".

The gate of Jiang's residence was closed tightly, and there was no movement at all.However, this posture of not seeing the door angered the group of people even more, and the emotional man and woman even took out eggs and vegetable leaves and threw them towards the door.

The gate was immediately in a mess.

Tan Qiuyuan's anger, which had been subdued before, became even stronger.Immediately, he rolled up his sleeves and rushed towards the gate. Unknowingly, he got the strength and pushed the mature men in the outer circle away abruptly.

"Who allowed you to make trouble here!! Humiliate the family in broad daylight, is there any law?! Believe it or not, I will report to the officials! Arrest you all!" Tan Qiu stood in front of the gate of Jiang's mansion, With his hands on his hips, he roared angrily at the crowd.

The group of people seemed to have not expected that someone would come out to fight them. They were taken aback for a moment, but soon came back to their senses. Immediately, that savage woman stepped forward and said viciously: "Who are you! You are needed here Pretending to be a good person, Wang Fa?! Our youngest is still in a coma in the hospital, is there anyone who will uphold justice for us?"

"We only ask the head of Xianshui Tower to explain, and don't interfere with irrelevant people!" A tall and strong man said ruthlessly. People who do heavy work.

Tan Qiu looked thin and weak in front of him and looked like he could be pushed down with one hand, but Tan Qiu was not only not afraid, but even took a step forward and said angrily: "What the hell! Wouldn't you go to the government if you want to explain it! The government is set up there for Are you burning incense?! Come to my house and make trouble.”

"Your family? Who are you?" A woman keenly grasped the key information and asked immediately.

"Son!"

Just when Tan Qiu was furious and was about to reply, suddenly behind him the door of the Jiang Mansion opened slightly, and a familiar voice came, it was Ruan Yue.

Ruan Yue said anxiously through the crack of the door: "My lord, come in quickly, they are being unreasonable."

Seeing that the gate of Jiang's mansion was opened, the group of people rushed forward like chicken blood. Ruan Yue reached out to drag Tan Qiu into the room, but was pushed in by Tan Qiu with only one hand.

"I'll see who dares to move!!" Tan Qiu turned around abruptly and shouted angrily.

"Let me tell you, if you need me, I am the head of the Jiang family. If the master is not here, I will talk. You came to bully us while my master was away."

"Okay, okay." Tan Qiu's attitude was tantamount to adding fuel to the flames. For a moment, the two sides were at war, and Tan Qiu's momentum was not inferior.

"Hi, what are you!" Tan Qiu said angrily, pointing to a slash mark on the gate of Jiang's mansion: "If you hack my door with a weapon without authorization, you will have to pay me the full compensation! And if you beat our maidservant Ding Yes, I still want to trouble you! Breaking into a private house is a serious crime for Yuan Dynasty!"

"Isn't it a great crime for you to kill someone?!" A man said loudly.

"What evidence do you have that there is something wrong with our pastry? We sell countless pastries in a day, why is it only your family that has an accident?!" Tan Qiu slapped the door so hard that his palms went numb. .

"There is no evidence to say that we harmed people. Let me tell you that breaking into houses without permission and destroying property is all evidenced by witnesses!" Tan Qiu clapped his hand on the door as he spoke.

With a "squeak" the door opened, Ruan Yue walked out alone, and the door closed again.Tan Qiu glanced at the closed door, with a trace of disdain in his eyes.

"Everyone, be safe and don't be impatient, our master will definitely find out the truth of the matter." Ruan Yue was not as angry as Tan Qiu, so she tried her best to persuade her with a loud voice.

When the original group of arrogant and angry men saw Ruan Yue, their arrogance disappeared instantly. Seeing this, Ruan Yue softened her voice again to persuade a few words, and Tan Qiu saw with her own eyes those men who just rolled up their sleeves and wanted to rush forward to fight. All of them extinguished the fire at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Tan Qiu was speechless for a while, and thought that this group of people knew without thinking that they were "friends and neighbors" calling for their reputation.

The few women standing in front turned pale when they saw this, and hurriedly raised their voices and shouted: "The truth, you profiteers have money, we are just common people with no power and power, and now the third child is still here!" Lying in the medical hall, life and death are unknown, and a few ginseng beards can be delivered by half of us! Will you bear the loss?!"

Tan Qiu sneered, and said sarcastically, "I told you, the government will investigate whether it's true or not. You're here for a profiteer, and you're paying for money. The government won't believe it. You go to file a letter, to sue! Besides, how can I I know if you ate something on purpose to blackmail us."

"You!" Seeing Tan Qiu's retort, the leading woman was even more furious. She pointed at Tan Qiu's fingertips and trembled for a long time, but she couldn't say a word.

Tan Qiuxu swept around, and at some point there was already a circle of onlookers outside.

"Sister, I can understand your feelings." Ruan Yue walked down the steps and walked to the headed woman, "None of us want to see this kind of thing happen, and we can't argue with each other, the only thing we can do It is to report this matter to the government and let the government investigate and deal with it."

"Go away! Who wants you to be hypocritical here!" The woman became ruthless and pushed Ruan Yue away. Ruan Yue was defenseless, unable to stand still and fell backwards. Tan Qiuyan quickly pulled her away. Only then did Ruan Yue react and put her hands on the ground so as not to hit her head on the steps.

"You!" Tan Qiu became angry, and was about to reprimand again, but saw that the woman had taken a bucket of viscous dark red liquid from somewhere. Tan Qiu could only smell a fishy smell, and immediately felt bad, and returned Before he could dodge, he saw the woman took a ladle, scooped up a ladle of liquid and poured it towards the gate of Jiang's residence.

"Stop!" Tan Qiu was impatient, and went forward to snatch the ladle from the woman's hand, but was pushed away by several big men, who each carried the bucket, and poured their heads on Tan Qiu.

"Ah!!" Ruan Yue exclaimed in shock.

The expected stinky liquid did not splash, Tan Qiu looked up, but saw Jiang Beimu holding a cloak in one hand to cover it, and the other hand covering Tan Qiu in his arms. Jiang Beimu's body was so tall that he almost Tan Qiu covered everything tightly.

Tan Qiu was stunned for a moment, staring blankly at Jiang Beimu's handsome face, which was almost close at hand.The breath is full of that familiar breath.

A drop of red liquid passed by Jiang Beimu's ear and sank into his collar. Only then did Tan Qiu regain his senses and saw Jiang Beimu's wet hair on his temples.

After a long while, the bustling noise came back like a tide.

"Are you OK."

At this moment, Tan Qiu could only hear Jiang Beimu's words and the heavy and clear heartbeat beside his ears.