A traitor

On the second day, Su Qinglang woke up early, and was yawning and coming out of the backyard, when he saw Mei Liusheng and the others were already waiting.

In the main hall of the inn, there were seven or eight tables in the middle, spacious and bright, neat and orderly, Mei Liu gave them one table, and the escort soldiers occupied three tables.

The other guest officials saw that they had extraordinary backgrounds, like imperial envoys from the imperial court, so they crowded into the corners one by one, looking at their team with some trepidation, and whispering about something from time to time.

Su Qinglang paused and walked towards them.At this time, Mei Liusheng had already finished his breakfast and was sitting in the banquet hall, as if waiting for him to come.

And Sun Zizhong was sitting opposite him, holding a cup in his hand, drinking tea unhurriedly, only brother Lu Xun was still working hard to eat.

Seeing him approaching, Mei Liusheng raised his head and smiled: "Brother Su, are you up?"

Thinking of how hard it was for him to get up early in the morning, Su Qinglang felt a little depressed, and sat down on the empty seat with a hum.

He reached out to get his share of buns, but Mei Liusheng subconsciously stopped him. Seeing Su Qinglang looking at him in surprise, his expression was slightly embarrassed.

Clenched his fists and coughed lightly, and said to him: "These things must be cold, Brother Su, let's get some warm ones up."

Lu Xun raised his head when he heard the words. Since a bun was stuffed in his mouth, it was inconvenient to speak, so he quickly swallowed it with his eyes wide open, and immediately complained: "Brother Mei, are you too partial? When I ate, Why don't you say it's cold, and bring some warmer ones up?"

Mei Liusheng cast a slanted glance at him, and said calmly, "Brother Lu, be careful, don't choke, drink more water."

At this moment, Su Qinglang had already called the servant and ordered him to tell the kitchen to cook some more food.

Then he looked at little brother Lu Xun, saw that he was serious and dumbfounded, decided to tease him on a whim.

So he purposely said: "Brother Lu Xun said this, why do I sound like I'm jealous?"

Hearing this, Sun Tzuzhong spit out tea with a puff, looked at the people on the table, knew that he was impolite, and quickly took out the handkerchief in his sleeve to wipe his mouth.

Su Qinglang knocked on the table again, and said leisurely: "It's a pity, it's a pity, brother Mei is mine after all, you say he doesn't care about me, who else can he care about?"

When Lu Xun heard this, he showed a confused expression, apparently with his brains that had been supported by a bamboo pole, he hadn't realized what the relationship between the two of them was.

Sun Zizhong's face darkened, and he said half as a warning: "Qinglang..."

Only then did Su Qinglang restrain himself, sticking out his tongue, like a child who was caught playing a prank, with a little naughty and innocent expression on his face.

Turning to Lu Xun, he said, "Just kidding, Brother Lu, don't complain to Xiangye Pei when you go back, lest he say that I spoiled their good boy."

Lu Xun was even more surprised, the confusion on his expression deepened, he didn't understand what he could complain to his uncle, and what his uncle could blame Su Qinglang for.

Then he looked at Mei Liusheng and asked, "Brother Mei, what does Lord Su mean by saying this, why are you his, and why can you only care about him?"

Hearing what he said, Su Qinglang almost fell off the chair. This little brother Lu Xun is little brother Lu Xun after all, and every time he reacts...it's just too loud.

For a while, the atmosphere during the banquet was very awkward. Sun Zizhong gave Su Qinglang a reproachful look, and Mei Liusheng turned his head even more, his face smelled like salted duck eggs. After a while, he suddenly stood up and said to them : "I... I'll go back and pack my things first." Then, he walked around the bench and walked away without looking back.

"Hey..." Lu Xun's younger brother, Monk Zhang Er, couldn't figure it out, saw him leave, and waved to him.

Seeing that Mei Liusheng ignored him, he looked at Su Qinglang and asked in surprise, "Brother Mei, what's wrong?"

Excited for a while, he lost his sense of humor when joking, Su Minglang was also very guilty, glanced at the direction Mei Liusheng left, and muttered vaguely: "I'm ashamed..."

Under the displeased gaze of his grandson again, he refrained from playing around, lowered his head a little apprehensively, thinking whether it would be better to apologize to Mei Liusheng later.

At this time, the food from the back kitchen was presented, and it was the proprietress of the inn who delivered the food.

Although it is over [-] years old, it still has a charming charm. Wearing an embroidered red dress, it looks gorgeous and festive. Maybe there are more guests today. Considering the image of the inn and myself, I specially added an extra flower on the sideburns .

Beautiful features, straightforward and straightforward, standing in the hall with sleeves rolled up, laughing and cursing with the guest officials in the store, without any trace of stage fright, at first glance, she looks like a heroine of women like Su Qinglang and Er Niang.

She put the food in front of Su Qinglang, and said: "My lord, when you first come to our small shop in the backcountry, do you know if you can get used to it?"

Su Qinglang raised his eyes to look at her, and said with a wry smile, "If you eat enough and sleep well, you will naturally be used to living here. I just hope that the next residence will be the same as the proprietress's here, and you won't have to worry about it on the way." Don't worry about accommodation anymore."

The lady proprietress groaned, pushed his shoulder, and said, "My lord, you are really good at talking. Everyone wants to move the inn to the next one."

Su Qinglang laughed loudly, bright and brilliant, like a sunflower, and continued to echo: "It's so good, anyway, we have a lot of people, and the proprietress can move the inn wherever she wants, but the people here should blame me later, and move them away." The beautiful and hospitable proprietress was kidnapped and taken away."

The proprietress was so coaxed from ear to ear by his sweet words, she raised her orchid finger in a shy posture, and her pretty face smiled coquettishly.

Sun Zizhong sat aside, looked at them and shook his head helplessly, then sighed again, Mr. Su looks good.

And he has a sweet mouth, so he has always been very likable, especially women. He has not seen this kind of thing once or twice, and he has already been extremely calm.

Brother Lu Xun, seeing Su Qinglang getting along with the proprietress of the inn so quickly, felt so much admiration that his jaw almost dropped from shock.

When Mei Liusheng came back, he saw such a scene, he paused, saw Su Qinglang teasing with the proprietress, and walked over again.

Seeing him coming back, the proprietress hurriedly said: "My lord, your horses have been fed, and you can leave at any time."

Mei Liusheng hummed, but with his gentle and elegant temperament, it was rare that he didn't thank others. He sat beside Su Qinglang with a sullen face, and was silent for a while. Seeing him stir the rice porridge in the bowl, he lowered his head and took a few sips. , picked up the chopsticks and poked the vegetables on the plate a few times, and finally picked up a bun and broke it open.

While eating, he said to the proprietress: "I took a bath yesterday and got a little cold. I wonder if it is convenient for the proprietress to ask the kitchen to cook me a bowl of ginger soup?"

The proprietress let out a hey, and hurriedly stepped back, walked towards the back kitchen, and started making ginger soup for Su Qinglang.

Seeing her walking away, Su Qinglang looked at Lu Xun with a smile on his face and said, "Brother Lu, I don't like this bun very much, why don't you and I change it?"

Lu Xun was startled, picked up the plate in front of him, looked at Mei Liusheng, and said to him, "I'm full. If you're not afraid of the cold, you can eat."

Su Qinglang took it over, took out one of the buns, broke the two halves, looked at the stuffing in the middle, and finally put it down again.

"Sure enough, it's getting cold, it's getting late, we should start now, Zizhong, you go back and pack your bags first, Brother Mei, come with me."

Lu Xun was puzzled for a while, scratched his head, and asked, "Hey, Mr. Su, you have caught a cold, do you still want to drink ginger soup?"

Su Qinglang hummed, and said flickeringly without changing his face: "Your bun is a miraculous bun. You see, I touched it, and the disease was cured. Hurry up and pack it. There is only a quarter of an hour. If it is late, I won't wait for you."

Little brother Lu Xun's mind is muddled, he doesn't know why Su Qinglang is in such a hurry to go on his way, and he doesn't even know why his buns are so magical, that they can heal illnesses just by touching them?

But when he heard Su Qinglang say that they only had a quarter of an hour, if they were late, they would leave him behind, so he didn't say anything, and hurried back to pack his luggage.

Mei Liusheng followed behind Su Qinglang, saw him hurrying, and asked strangely, "Brother Su, what happened?"

Su Qinglang stopped in his tracks, and said slowly: "Brother Mei, you know that I'm not a picky eater, but there is one thing that I won't eat even if I'm beaten to death."

Mei Liusheng was silent, waiting for his next words, but Su Qinglang turned to look at him: "Since yesterday, there is no ginger in my meals, and there is no ginger in my meals today."

Mei Liusheng was startled, and realized the meaning of his words, he couldn't help being a little bit stunned, and then heard Su Qinglang say: "It seems that there is an annoying tail following up..."

Mei Liusheng frowned: "I asked Chengying to drive them away."

"Forget it..." Su Qinglang bent his lips and smiled faintly: "Since they came with me, let me take care of it. Besides, I don't even know where they are now, how can I catch them?"

He paused, lowered his head again, and said softly: "It's just that, in this case, you will be wronged, Brother Mei, because of my matter..."

"We are all walking on the same road, we should support each other, why should Brother Su apologize?"

Mei Liusheng answered slowly: "Besides, Brother Su is an imperial envoy for this trip, and we are all here to assist you, Brother Su. Naturally, we must follow Brother Su's lead. Wherever Brother Su goes, we will go there."

After he finished speaking, he turned and left. Seeing that he was about to leave, Su Qinglang hurriedly stopped him.

Facing his back, Su Qinglang hesitated, and finally said: "Well... today it's all my fault. I wanted to make a joke with Lu Xun, but I didn't want to... I didn't intend to offend Brother Mei."

Mei Liusheng didn't turn around, he was silent for a moment, and then said: "I know Brother Su didn't do it on purpose, so how can I blame him. It's just...is Brother Su always like this? For the girls who meet by chance, for the high-ranking Dangchao County Lord, to the inn proprietress who I have never met before... I never thought that even though you didn't mean it, they might have feelings because of it?"