With a tiger in my heart, I smell Xinlan carefully

When Xiaolong was in a state of uncertainty, finally when someone was willing to give him his attention, it was Lu Yan who wanted to discuss business with him: "General Tang, I heard from Xiaohu that you are working in Zhan Shifu. Got a purchase order from Zhan Shifu?"

The Lu family's business is well-known throughout the world, and it is not unusual to have deals with the royal family.Just when Xiaolong was about to say no, he saw Xiaohu secretly winking at Lu Yan, and Anping also secretly kicked him under the table.Xiaolong is not stupid, seeing this scene, there is still something he doesn't understand, his face is pale and white, he got up and left the table.

"It's good this time, cleverness is mistaken by cleverness." Lu Yan looked at the faces of the other two and said with a chill.

Xiaohu suppressed his smile, pursed his lips and tensed his face: "He has something on his mind, please take care of him."

The banquet broke up badly. Lu Yan said that he wanted to inspect the clerk's homework and took Anping to the study. Before leaving, he also explained that there is always a doctor waiting in Xiaohu's garden, so don't be polite to him.Xiaohu couldn't laugh or cry, so he just sent him away.

Staying alone in the lobby, looking at the table of delicacies without touching a few chopsticks, Xiaohu couldn't help but fell into deep thought.But after much deliberation, I still can't decide whether to give Xiaolong some time to be quiet or to enlighten him as soon as possible so that he doesn't have a chance to think wildly.When he was freed from his own thoughts, he raised his eyes and looked out of the window. The moon was in the sky, and the night was already deep.

He shook his head mockingly, got up and walked towards the wing where Xiaolong lived.Seeing that the host and guest had finally left the table, the servant who had been waiting for a long time stepped forward and quickly cleaned up the table of leftovers.

Walking in the corridor, thinking about what to say to Xiaolong, when I got to the front of the house, I heard a sound of knocking on metal.When he entered the room, he saw that Xiaolong was viciously bombarding his family-heirloom sword with his body-protecting qi.Xiaohu didn't understand what he meant, but he hurriedly stepped forward to stop him: "Xiaolong, what are you doing?"

"It's trash, what are you doing with it..." Xiaolong lowered his eyes, with a sarcastic smile on his face.

Xiaohu followed his gaze, and saw that the sword that Xiaolong's family had passed down from generation to generation and accompanied him in countless battles had completely changed. Although the silver wire has been broken into three pieces under the destruction of Xiaolong, it is still like jewels.

"I was always ridiculed by my colleagues during official social gatherings, saying that it is too clumsy and it is not as good as the machete of a villager in the mountains. I finally got angry and paid three months' salary to dress it up. After that, it is no longer my It’s a laughing stock.” Xiaolong stroked the edge of the broken sword, his voice filled with deep sorrow, “However, it has also become a flashy waste, just like myself...”

Xiaohu clenched his arm uncontrollably, and said in a low voice, "Don't say silly things..."

Xiaolong smiled and shook his head without answering, then swiped the broken sword off the table with a wave of his sleeve, the crisp sound of the steel colliding echoed in the silent night, making one's heart palpitate.

"What both Lu Yan and Anping know must have spread throughout the world."

Xiaohu was speechless for a while, but Xiaolong continued on his own: "You don't have to worry, I'm neither stupid nor deaf. When I was a student in high school, there were already many rumors that the prince manipulated a The famous Sun Shan and his ilk were promoted to the top three—of course I don’t believe it. I found out those who only dared to tell stories behind their backs and punished them severely. It was just that they were jealous of my talent. But this is also an incentive, and I wholeheartedly want to do something. After all the achievements, those who look down on me will not be able to find fault with me."

He closed his eyes, his back that was always straight was slightly curled up, and his eyes were full of self-deprecating: "I misjudged the prince, and I also misjudged the officialdom. It is not a place where one can gallop on the basis of talent. It is as cruel as a party conquest, trivial Such as dealing with people, you have to learn everything from the beginning. The prince persuaded me to just do my job well, win over courtiers, and deal with political affairs. With Tang Xiaolong's talent, it is his duty to assist Ming Jun to become a generation of virtuous ministers."

"After that, it will probably be a nightmare."

The young man with lofty ideals and full of enthusiasm plunged into the officialdom, and his nature was distorted little by little by the cannibalism. From flamboyant to trembling, he finally realized that he had become one of the princes; the emperor's health continued to deteriorate. , the prince's ambitions are getting bigger and bigger, and his desire for him is becoming more and more undisguised. Finally, he understands that he is just a plaything in the eyes of others.

After hearing Xiaolong's words, Xiaohu looked at his blank and blank expression, although his heart ached, but he also breathed a sigh of relief: the grievances and grievances accumulated over the years were finally vented.

Bending down to pick up the broken swords carefully, Xiao Huzhen placed them heavily in Xiaolong's palm again, raised his eyes, and showed a mouthful of white teeth with a smile: "Stainless steel is fine steel, although for a while it was overwhelmed by these colorful and flashy swords. Things eroded, no matter how unusable they may seem, they will still be as sharp as ever after being tempered again.”

Hearing this, Xiaolong opened his mouth and was interrupted by Xiaohu before he could make a sound: "If you are still a man, don't say hypocritical words like 'it's different' or 'you can't go back'. No It’s okay to be a good official, and it’s okay to be scolded by the prince. Are you Tang Xiaolong worthy of those people who can’t even recognize yourself? Wasting your life for insignificant people and things?"

Being hit by Xiaohu's straightforward and thorough words, Xiaolong was speechless for a long time.After a while, he blinked his eyes and said, "I thought... I thought you would despise me..."

"In my place, we have never changed." Xiaolong lowered his head and didn't see it, and Xiaohu looked at him with indescribable tenderness.

After looking at each other for a short while, both of them smiled in relief.

Just at this time when the previous suspicions were cleared up, a new life was reborn, and it was worth a glass of enlightenment, Master Lu, who hadn't slept in the middle of the night, kicked open the door of the room and shouted loudly: "Tang Xiaolong! Today, the master has given you a lot of face. According to your temper back then, you must have started a fight with the master early in the morning; now the master waits until dawn and you still don't fart, you are getting older and less courageous, what's the matter, don't dare to be presumptuous on the master's site for fear that you won't be able to get out, right? That's easy, just kneel down and confess, the master will let you go!"

Xiaolong stared at him for a while, and suddenly broke into a heroic smile: "Master, you are never timid to beat you!"

As he spoke, he rushed forward and pinned the person to the ground, which was a severe beating.Amidst Lu Yan's half-dead screams, Xiaohu finally let go of a heart that had been suspended for ten years.

The next day, the two went to say goodbye to Lu Yan together.Walking around the corridor and approaching the main house, before stepping into the door, I heard Lu Yan's extremely impatient reprimand from the room——

"It's against the rules, what's against the rules? It's a rule that the owner is not allowed to intervene in the ticket office business, but the master just asked you to keep that stinky street man, what kind of business are you interfering in? Besides, why can't the master let him stay? ?Since the master is his guarantor, he represents the master's level of knowledge. If you drive the man out, what is the face of the master? What if the customer comes to the door if the matter is not handled well? Can the Lu family afford this idler? In the future If you dare to bring up such a shitty thing again, you'll just get the hell out of me!"

The two looked at each other, and saw the big shopkeeper of the Lu family bank come out in disgrace.Shrugging each other, the two walked in without saying much in a tacit understanding.In the room, Lu Yan was slumped on the chair with a face full of ruffians, with undiminished anger in the corners of his brows and eyes, and he was circling the couple in his hands one after another.

Xiaohu stepped forward and clasped his fists, and said with a teasing smile, "Thank you, Mr. Lu, for your hospitality these two days, and I will take my leave."

"So you're going to get out?" Lu Yan stared in surprise at first, then straightened his expression immediately, and frowned in disgust, "Where are you going next, you don't need the master to receive you in other places Right? If there is another master, he will collect money."

Xiaohu understood that he was worried about himself and Xiaolong but he didn't want to say it out loud, so he smiled and said, "I dare not bother Master Lu anymore. My subordinate Wang Rong sent news that Xiaolan went to the ghost house two days ago, and Xiaolong and I are going to Find her there."

"Xiaolan? Hua Xiaolan..." The sentimental look was fleeting, Lu Yan blinked, and curled his lips, "If that Huniu is still alive, remember to tell her to restrain her temper, otherwise she won't be able to marry in the future."

Xiaohu couldn't help laughing and said: "When everything is settled, we will bring Xiaolan to visit together, and you can tell her in person."

"Who wants to see that tigress!" Lu Yan said, knocking a walnut on the table, and waving his hands like chasing flies, "It's done, stop talking nonsense, get out."

Xiaohu hadn't known him for a day or two, so he naturally didn't care about his attitude, and clasped his fists again and said, "Leave me here."

Xiaolong, who was silent for a long time, looked around and asked, "What about Anping, isn't he coming to see us off?"

Elder Lu snorted when he heard the words, and said with disdain on his face: "Of course a stinky streetwalker has gone to earn a living, otherwise who will support him?"

Hearing these words, the little tigers and little dragons all laughed but said nothing.

After riding the horse out of the Lu Family Manor, Ao Xin, who had completed the task early but could not show himself in front of ordinary people, showed his figure, floated in the air and said to Xiaohu: "You are wicked, I will go to find Hua Shi Xiao Lan? Where is the old ghost house?"

Xiaohu, who has always been regarded as "bad" for using Ao Xin to play tricks, said with a smile: "The place where old friends meet again."

Xiaolong beside him looked at him, his eyes were dazzled by his wanton smile, a great warmth gushed out from the bottom of his heart, and he began to have infinite expectations and yearning for everything in the future.

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