lord and beauty

"Didn't you say that your brother is very powerful? Why did you get this injury yourself?"

From the backyard of the Shifu, a woman's soft voice came, and a hoarse male voice replied: "I was careless and underestimated the enemy. I didn't expect the Jiang family to have such kung fu..."

The sky outside was gloomy, and it began to snow intermittently in the afternoon. Now it was nearly You, and lanterns were lit everywhere in the Shifu, making the white snow red with blood. In the room where the sound came, one could faintly see figures on the window paper .

Mrs. Shi was dressed in a light gauze dress, her fair face was flushed with a layer of blush, her black hair was loosely pulled up, and a white jade hairpin was pinned to the back of her head. There was a charcoal brazier in the room, which made people warm and isolated. Chill outside.

"At first, I guessed that he must have found a backer, and at most it was the City Lord's Mansion, but I didn't expect that the Jiang family would hide it too... This time it was a mistake."

Mrs. Shi didn't show any resentment, she held a box of plaster in her hand, rubbed the plaster with her fingers and pushed it away on the bruises on the man's body.

The man snorted coldly, with a grim expression on his face, he gritted his teeth and said, "Burn my camp and hurt my brother, this beam is settled."

"That Jiang Beimu... have you checked?" Mrs. Shi hesitated. After so long, the resentment and resentment in her heart had long since dissipated. Forget it, who knows that he kicked a hard rock.

She doesn't act recklessly like a man, she still has a shop, if that Jiang Beimu really has a lot of background, if she is found out one day, he might hurt his shop.She can tell which is more important.

"No." The man snorted coldly, "I have arranged for the brothers to investigate, and it won't take long to find out. Sifang City is not too big or small. No matter which big person there is, the brothers in the village can find it. come out."

"When the time comes, he will naturally look good!"

The man was obviously brooding over what happened that night, his body was covered with bruises and wounds, Mrs. Shi's ointment was black, and almost half of his body was stained black when he pushed it away, it looked very scary at first glance.

Hearing what the man said, Mrs. Shi couldn't help hesitating: "Or... forget it, after all, if Jiang Beimu can deal with the city lord's mansion, he might be from the capital..."

The man interrupted Mrs. Shi impatiently, and looked at her with some annoyance, "My brothers only went to trouble you to vent your anger. Now you are shrinking back and don't want to do it. How can I go and talk to my brothers?" Say? Could this beating be in vain?"

Mrs. Shi choked up immediately after being scolded by the man, and her expression was a little unkind, but she endured it several times when she wanted to start.

"Besides, that guy surnamed Jiang hurt so many of my brothers, it's no longer a grudge between you and him." The man waved his hand, fending off Mrs. Shi's hand that applied medicine to him, and put it on his shoulder. The clothes he was wearing were thrown away on the ground, his chest rose and fell with his breath, and he looked out of the window with dark eyes, groaning silently.

Mrs. Shi saw that she was determined, and knew that what she said was useless, and for a while, she felt a sense of resentment for no reason. It was obvious that they were not good at learning and were beaten, and she even blamed herself. She didn't even beg a man to give her a head start.

Mrs. Shi snorted angrily, put the medicine jar on the table, turned around and opened the gauze curtain and went to the bed curtain.The man ignored her, and was still sitting at the table, his eyes fell on the dancing flames in the candle tent, he got up suddenly after a while, went to the closet to grab a piece of clothes in a hurry, and began to put on.

"Where are you going at night?" Mrs. Shi's voice muffled from behind the curtain.

The man didn't reply, and went out the door directly after getting dressed.

The wind and snow outside the house did not stop, the tops of the branches and the eaves of the roof tiles were all covered by the wind and snow, covered with a layer of white snow, even more silvery white under the moonlight, as if carved from ice and snow.

"There has been so much snow this year, has it been falling for a long time?"

Sitting in the carriage, Xiao Ye looked at the brightly lit street outside, and could clearly hear the bustling voices of people in the night market across the room.

The carriage was driving slowly on the back street, Xiao Ye, Jiang Beimu, Tan Qiu, and Fu He shared the same carriage, and the driver was also Xiao Ye, not far behind them, not far or near Following another carriage, the driver was Zhou Zhang.

Zhou Zhang's face was full of reluctance, and he followed Xiao Ye's carriage with a dark face all the time. One couldn't help but wonder if he would get angry for a moment and drive directly to overturn the carriage in front of him.

"I hope it won't happen again."

Tan Qiu shrank his neck, and stretched out his fingers to press the gap in the window of the carriage tightly to prevent the cold wind from pouring in.

Following Tan Qiu's words, Xiao Ye said a few more homely things, nothing more than asking where Tan Qiu's family was, and who else was in the family. Jiang Beimu's expression was as usual, and he was slightly relieved, but soon realized why he cared so much about his opinion...

"Well... father, mother and younger sister." Xiao Ye responded vaguely, and said with a smile: "I'll help you bring them all to Sifang City. Although our place is not as prosperous as the capital, but in Yuan Chaozhong It is also one of the best places to live. After they come, they will be rich and powerful, at least I can arrange a house for you. When the time comes, you can find a living by yourself, and we can help you find it. After all, it will not be better It used to be bad."

Tan Qiu has to admit that Xiao Ye's words are indeed very tempting to him, after all, these things can be done by just moving his fingers for Xiao Ye...

but……

"Forget it." Tan Qiu smiled, "If my parents know that I have received favors for no reason, they will accuse me."

Xiao Ye shook his head after hearing this, while Jiang Beimu remained motionless and sat on the spot, closing his eyes for a nap, just quietly listening to a few people talking, without opening his mouth, Xiao Ye saw that Tan Qiu was determined, but he was not too concerned After tangling, a few people chatted for a while, and soon the carriage stopped.

"Here we are, right here."

After Xiao Ye finished speaking, he got up first and jumped down.

Immediately afterwards, Tan Qiu heard someone coming to greet him, he seemed to be talking to Xiao Ye, but he couldn't hear the specifics, Xiao Ye's voice was getting farther and farther away, maybe he went in to make some arrangements.

"Let's go."

Jiang Beimu opened his eyes and said the first words since getting into the carriage.

Fu He and Tan Qiu followed Jiang Beimu out of the carriage. After the three of them got out of the carriage, Zhou Zhang and others behind them also got out of the carriage and walked up. Soon Xiao Er came forward to lead their carriage to the backyard.

Penglai Tower is just like his name, and it is magnificent. Tanqiu has seen the shadow of Penglai Tower from a distance a few times before when he went to the street, but from a distance, he can only see its buildings and eaves, but it is so, I can still feel the momentum of this building.

Now standing in front of the building, Tan Qiu only feels that the high-rise building looks like a giant beast in the night. The dark red lanterns are his eyes. The giant beast blinked, looking down at the people on the ground.

"what happened?"

Jiang Beimu's voice rang in his ears, and Tan Qiu came back to his senses suddenly, only to realize that he had inadvertently looked up at the building and was fascinated by it. He didn't come back to his senses until Jiang Beimu spoke.

"It's okay..." Tan Qiu shook her head, a little embarrassed.

"Mother..." The baby huddled in Ruan Yue's arms, blinked at Tan Qiu with big grape-like eyes, and waved her small hand in Tan Qiu's direction.

Tan Qiu has long been used to the baby calling him like this, but it's just a title, if the baby likes to call him that, after all, it should be Jiang Beimu who should have an opinion...

Thinking of this, Tan Qiu couldn't help but looked sideways at Jiang Beimu's direction again. It happened that Jiang Beimu was also looking at him at this time, and the two looked at each other. Tan Qiu turned his head silently and walked to Ruan Yue Taking the baby by his side, the baby got his wish and slipped into Tan Qiu's arms, lying contentedly like a kitten, purring and lying still.

"Okay, the seats are all arranged, let's all come in!"

Xiao Ye walked out of the Penglai Building, stood at the door and waved to everyone. Jiang Beimu took the lead, followed by Tan Qiu and the others, and walked in with Xiao Ye.

After entering the hall, Tan Qiu realized that the Penglai Building was really magnificent. The outside building was already magnificent, and the inside of the building was even more exquisite and elegant. As soon as he walked into the hall, he saw a pure white building that was as tall as two people. The stone, the stone was carved into the shape of a bird with long tail feathers, the left hand side is the tent counter, and the right hand side is the guest seat in the lobby. On both sides of the white bird carving, there is a vermilion staircase winding to On the second floor, Tan Qiu and the others were led to the second floor by the waiter in the store. On the way, Tan Qiu couldn't help looking up, only to realize that there were only three floors in this building, but it looked like there were five floors from the outside. So high, is the extra place just for decoration?

Tan Qiu suppressed her curiosity, and followed Xiaoer to the second floor with the others.

Before Xiao Ye came, he specifically said that today Penglai Building specially thanked the guests, and only invited some dignitaries to watch inside, so the walk was very quiet, only seeing a few maids and servants hurrying along with melons, fruits and side dishes from time to time .

A wooden stage was set up in the center of the second floor, with red silk hanging on it. It must be the place where the new troupe will perform later.

Tan Qiu didn't know anything about opera libretto, he didn't like to listen to it since he was a child, and he didn't have any idea about the love on stage, but Xiao Ye invited him kindly, and he couldn't refuse, and he really wanted to see the troupe to the end Is it different from other troupes, the ostentation is so big.

Xiao Er led a few people to a side room. The door of the side room was opened, and it happened to be able to see the stage. It seemed that the seat was second only to the right side of the main seat. The view was also excellent, and the side room was also large. People sit down and it's not crowded at all.

Jiang Beimu and Tan Qiu sat on the far left side of the soft chairs. Sitting in the same row were Xiao Ye and Fu He. Ruan Yue and Zhou Zhang sat in the back row. Zhou Zhang leaned against the wall with arms folded, looking bored. Ruan Yue was very interested and kept looking around.

"I don't know when it will start, I'm going to ask for some food."

Xiao Ye thought about it and went to do it. After speaking, he got up and went out, and came back after a while, followed by several maidservants. The maidservants held different styles of pastries and fruit wine in their hands, and put them on the small table next to the soft chair. , one copy per person.

"Their pastries are delicious, try them all."

It seemed that this was not the first time Xiao Ye came here, and he greeted everyone to eat cakes very familiarly. Tan Qiu was not very hungry, so he just took a sip and stopped eating. Jiang Beimu didn't even look at the cakes, obviously he didn't intend to Eat, not to mention Zhou Zhang, who was already leaning against the wall and taking a nap with his eyes closed, only Ruan Yue and Fu He were eating cakes slowly, waiting for the opera to start.

"When will it start?" Tan Qiu waited for a while, but still didn't see anyone speaking on the stage, so he couldn't help but asked Xiao Ye, "Zheng'er is sleepy, if it's too late, I'd better go back first, Otherwise, it will be too late and Zheng'er won't be able to survive."

"Sleepy? Then I'll go back with you?"

Without waiting for Xiao Ye to reply, Jiang Beimu spoke first, his eyes fell on the yawning baby curled up in Tan Qiu's arms, his voice was soft and gentle.

"It's coming soon, I'm going to remind you..."

Just as Xiao Ye was about to get up, there was a clear and clear sound of the piano, the melodious and melodious sound of the piano was like the singing of birds in the mountain stream, flowing out like a gurgling stream, it seemed that it was just a few notes that were simply plucked.

However, the sound of the piano suddenly drew everyone's eyes to the stage.

At some point, there was already a person sitting on the stage.

The person who came was wearing a plain white long gown, covered with tulle, the end of the hem and the hem were smudged with a layer of light green, because of the sitting position, the end of the tulle was piled on the ground, looking from a distance as if a cloud of mist had accumulated under the person's feet , The man is more and more handsome, the man's ink hair is like a waterfall, a jade hairpin is pinned behind his head, he is holding a pipa, his five fingers are white and slender, his head hangs slightly, revealing a snow-white sharp jaw.

The man was wearing a mask, which could barely cover half of his face, but the lower half of his face that was exposed was astonishing. One couldn't help but want to take off the mask and see what kind of face it was.

Tan Qiu curiously followed everyone's eyes to the person in the middle of the stage. He could tell at a glance that the person was a man, but he was too thin, and the pipa covered nearly half of his body. I thought it was a woman.

The man plucked the string lightly, and the intermittent string sounds rolled like jade beads falling to the ground, and the second floor suddenly became quiet.

The man's slightly pale lips opened and closed slightly, and the strings gradually converged into a tune.

"Yingying Yanyan Chunchun..."

As soon as the man opened his mouth, Tan Qiu heard a surprised voice from someone in the field. The man's voice was soft and full, between a man and a woman, and he sang a joyful ditty. A lingering meaning.

"Flowers and willows are really..."

The slender jade-like hands gently plucked the strings, accompanied by the man's clear and melodious singing, which made people unconsciously intoxicated, but Tan Qiu suddenly felt that something was wrong, subconsciously got up with the baby in his arms, stepped forward and stood on the wooden Outside the railing, he seemed to want to get closer to the stage.

"Delicate and tender..." The man raised his head slightly, and the candlelight illuminated his entire face. A thin layer of rouge was deliberately applied on his lips, but for some reason, the part of the rouge near the inside had been wiped clean , revealing the already pale lip color.

The man turned his head slightly and looked to the right.

Tan Qiudeng was startled, and his eyes were full of disbelief when he looked at the man.

"Stop and stop...everyone"

The little song sung comes from Yuan Qiaoji's Yuetiao Tianjingsha Jishi.