Chapter 31 – Stopping the Street
In the past, only the Moon Tower threatened people, where someone dared to threaten the Moon Tower?
The Li Ren surnamed Shi Qing’er, is Yuan Meng single-handedly cultivated a powerful assistant, originally thought that this night just came a few investigating the case of small officials, only subordinates reported that this Chen Gongzi extraordinary temperament, martial arts profound, think it is a tricky character, which is ready to be strong, and the other side of the compromise – the reason why the choice of a compromise, because from September, the Big Boss had been asking the Moon Embracing Tower to be more peaceful. But she didn’t expect the other party to refuse to choose peace, and even made a naked threat!
Shi Qing’er’s anger was unkind as she stared at Fan Xian and said word for word, “You will regret what you did tonight.”
“Don’t threaten me, hurry up and bring the contract.” Fan Xian smiled and said, “I’m not in the mood for this whole thing by you guys, so I’m ready to go home.”
Looking at Fan Xian’s gentle and incomparable smile, Shi Yanli sighed in his heart, knowing that the Gate Master was very unhappy, and that the consequences were quite serious, and in a few days, this Moon Embracing Mansion would probably have to close its doors. Shi Qing’er’s anger knotted, a stern look in her eyes flickered, and she instructed her subordinates to go and do their work, but in a few moments’ time, a thin piece of paper was resting on the table between the people.
“Cash-and-carry deal, you have ten thousand taels of silver bills, I’ll give you the man.” Shi Qing’er stared at Fan Xian’s eyes, “There is indeed a redemption clause for Liang in the Qing law, but …… I can’t possibly put Miss Sang on display in the building waiting for you to buy her, and if you can’t shell out the cash silver at this point in time, there might be a buyer on the other side of the street who will buy her out later.”
Fan Xian’s face remained unchanged, but in his heart he let out a laugh of shame, who else would spend ten thousand taels of silver to buy someone? If you really don’t make a bid to buy someone, then the buyer that will appear later will only be you, Moon Palace itself.
Shi Yanli had already taken a pen and ink, written a deed of settlement, and placed it together with that personal instrument of Sang Wen, just waiting for Fan Xian to take out the silver check. He had always had great trust in the financial ability of the Gate Master, and was, after all, a scholar who always thought that such things as silver were nothing to a family of great wealth.
Shi Qing’er also stared at Fan Xian, she didn’t know how many rich people she had seen in her life, but even the salt merchants and royal merchants in Jiangnan didn’t have the habit of carrying 10,000 taels of silver bills up their sleeves, unless they were preparing to give a generous gift to any high-ranking official at the banquet, so she didn’t believe that the young man in front of her was able to take out 10,000 taels of silver bills.
It seemed like a long time, but in fact, it was only a while later, Fan Xian did not make any moves, Shi Yanli was slightly flustered and surprised, but the corner of Shi Qing’er’s lips surfaced a smile of pride that was really so.
Fan Xian looked at this beautiful woman’s slightly proud and self-respecting demeanor, and suddenly felt very happy. Smiling, he hooked his finger at Deng Ziyue, who had been standing quietly by his side.
Deng Ziyue leaned down and said, “Mr. Chen, what are your orders?”
Fan Xian laughed and cursed something in a low voice before saying, “What are you pretending to be? I don’t have that much silver on me, this is to borrow money from you.”
Deng Ziyue’s face was embarrassed. Although it is not clear why the Lord Tiji so presumed that he carries tens of thousands of taels of silver, or hurriedly reached into his pocket, fumbled for half a day, touched out with a blasphemous clothes tightly tied in a purse, purse simple, inside slightly drummed.
The people in the room looked at each other in dismay, watching Teng Zi Yue pull out a stack of silver bills from this ordinary purse, as if he was digging out his heart and lungs!
Teng Zi Yue put the silver bills on the table, counted them painfully, took ten, and handed them to Shi Qing Er.
Shi Qing’er’s face could no longer hang on, holding the entire ten thousand taels of silver bills in her hand, incomparably shocked, her mouth open, deep down she had long been too shocked to speak! In her mind, this young gentry might be the son of a rich family, but even his entourage actually had ten thousand taels of silver placed on their bodies!
She pinched the silver ticket and looked at Fan Xian’s calm face, her heart shocked as she thought, “What kind of immortal is this?
Fan Xian ignored the other party’s gaze and gently touched the girl Yan’er who had been sleeping behind himself, his fingertips gently slipping and fiddling with the nape of her neck for a few moments, seemingly flirting in general, but Yan’er woke up leisurely, reaching out to cover her lips and yawning, seemingly having had a good night’s sleep.
“Let’s go.”
He said mildly, taking the lead and getting up, walking towards the outside of the courtyard. Behind him, Teng Ziyue picked up the sneak attacker who was soaked to the skin and whose life or death was unknown, while Shi Yanli also held up the Sangwen girl whose heart and mind had been stimulated too much, and walked out with him.
In a short while, this line of characters of unknown origin disappeared along the dotted orange lights along the banks of the Thin River into the Moon Embracing Mansion.
Shi Qing’er fingers hard, the ten silver tickets pinched wrinkled, but ultimately can not afford to give up this large sum of silver money, carefully into the arms, looking at the back of the pedestrian hate voice: “Give me a close watch!”
There are two mysterious bosses in the Moon Tower, and this Shi Qing’er belongs to the faction of the second boss, and is extremely ruthless. It was at this time that Yan’er frowned and came forward, at this time her brain was a little dizzy, looking at the scene in the room, she naturally knew that she was not as simple as sleeping, it seemed that the young Chen Gongzi with a relatable smile was indeed a powerful character.
Shi Qing’er slapped her face with a backhanded slap!
No one expected it, but Yan’er coldly dodged it and looked at Shi Qing’er and said, “Why is sister hitting me?”
Shi Qing’er gritted her teeth and said, “You useless little hoof! I asked you to come and trap me, but you ended up sleeping most of the night!”
Yan’er’s eyes swept through the field and guessed what had happened, sneering, “I am useless, but if sister is really capable, how could she let these people still take sister Sang away? You will have to answer to everyone in Yuan for this matter.”
“Hmph.” Shi Qing’er stared at Yan’er’s intensely colored face and said contemptuously, “Don’t think that just because the big boss likes you, you dare to be reckless in front of me, Holding the Moon Tower is open for business, of course, you can’t start a conflict with the guests here, and there are naturally ways to resolve the matter afterwards.”
These two girls both seemed to be the popular figures of Moon Embracing House, so they spoke with dark wind and thunder, not giving way to each other. The subordinates hurriedly retreated, fearing that they would be victimized by a pool of fish.
After a short pause, Yan’er said with a light smile, “Don’t forget, the big boss told you to be more peaceful these months, and to do less of those things that hurt the heavens and harm the reason.”
“Harming the heavens and harming the reason?” Shi Qing’er sneered, “In this Kyoto, we are the reason of heaven.”
Yan’er raised her eyebrows and said with fake doubt, “Oh? The ones who came today are presumably the powerful figures from the Thirteen Yamen.”
“Bullshit Thirteen Yamen.” Shi Qing’er brow killing machine hidden movement, “the whole Kyoto can painlessly take out 10,000 taels of silver bills to the character, there are not a few, the Ministry of Penalty’s lapis lazuli plate all overturned, the burning sticks are pouting folded, are seized not a few stars of silver flower flower child …… I look at that person, maybe it is which the prince and marquis of the family of the world son of the master. ”
Yan’er slightly stunned, seems to have not thought of that Chen Gongzi has such status position, and then think back to the previous previous that Gongzi’s “means”, for a time actually some trance.
Shi Qing’er looked at her brow now charming, spit a mouthful, scolded: “small slut hoof do not indiscriminately spring, beware of the big boss is not happy.”
Yan’er was not afraid to listen to this and responded with a cold smile, “Sister previously arranged for me to accompany the guests, is not afraid that the big boss will be unhappy?”
Shi Qing’er said with a cold smile, “That Mr. Chen you accompanied will soon become dead, what does it matter?”
Hearing these words, after Yan’er was startled, the tip of her eyebrows knit up and said quietly, “Another murder?”
“Daring to drop the face of my Moon Embracing House, of course there will be no good days for him.” Shi Qing’er’s brows were all a color of cold self-respect, “Even if we take into account his identity and don’t kill him for the time being, we should at least kill that bitch surnamed Sang, and blame them for their bad luck, today, the second boss’s gang of little brothers are all playing in the building.”
After hearing this, Yan’er judged the death penalty of “Mr. Chen” and his group, although she didn’t know the identity of the second boss, she knew that the second boss’s little brothers were domineering and bold in the whole of Kyoto. Even if that Mr. Chen is a noble relative of a royal family, and can survive the night, but those people around him are afraid to die.
She couldn’t help but sigh and said, “Always acting so recklessly, one day when the court really investigates, those of us, I’m afraid we won’t have a way out.”
Shi Qing’er sneered at her, seemingly sarcastic about her cowardice, and said, “With a popular lord in the courtyard as a backer, and people from the palace to talk to, who do we need to be afraid of to hold the Moon Tower?”
After leaving the Moon Embracing Building, Sang Wen made a big salute to Fan Xian with a tear-stained face, Fan Xian couldn’t bear to see this kind of scene, so he comforted her with warm words and hurriedly got into the carriage, and a group of two carriages went along the street in front of the Moon Embracing Building towards the bright place.
The carriage didn’t take a few steps, but stopped on a long street. Fan Xian lifted the curtains of the carriage and looked forward, and was not surprised to see a group of people holding torches, blocking the street in front and behind.
These people are not very old, only fourteen or fifteen years old, or some teenagers, pale face declares these people’s unhealthy habits, the high horse underneath represents their identity, there are also farther away some protect the master of the family servants accompanied, unconcerned about the scene of blocking the street, seems to have already been accustomed to their own masters in Kyoto’s streets of the murderous.
“The people in the car get the hell out of here for my little master!” A teenager in the lead had a face full of grimace, his pupils flashing with excitement, as if he thought that it would be a very quick thing to kill a few more people for fun today.
“Moon Embracing Mansion’s response is very direct.” Fan Xian in the carriage let out a cry of appreciation and turned to ask, “Zi Yue, what are these little guys from?”
Teng Ziyue’s face was a bit grave: “These are the most famous ranger children in Kyoto, who do nothing wrong, but they are all descendants of the princes and lords of the state, so there has always been little to no one who dares to control them.”
“It seems that the Moon Embracing House is not only related to Hong Cheng, but also to these state princes.” Fan Xian shook his head, looking at the dark shadows that swept by on both sides of the street, knowing that the Qienian group lurking in the shadows had already moved, and couldn’t help but shake his head again.
The Qing Dynasty won the world by force, and the generals who fought with the Great Ancestor later returned to their fields and settled in Kyoto, but after all, the merit was here, so the princes and dukes were sealed quite a lot, and the later several majesties also looked at the face of the original, and were quite favorable to these princes and dukes’ families, but they couldn’t allow these patriarchs to reach out too much in the imperial court, and were wary of their sons and daughters, and did a lot of tricks in the imperial exams and career paths secretly. A lot of tricks.
So, these princes of the House, to the third or fourth generation of princes, in addition to a very small number of extremely talented, the rest are just some false rank, and these people are often in their teens, the family is rich and powerful, the court looks the other way, naturally greedy for secular enjoyment, nothing else can be done, young and hot-blooded, they go horse-drawn dog in the court, bullying men and women in the city, the unspeakable arrogance of the boredom, often a word would be Drawing knives on each other, extremely ruthless, without regard for the way back.
These youngsters thought that they were quite chivalrous and had raised a group of punks in Kyoto to be their fighters, so they called themselves “Ranger Children”. In fact, in Fan Xian’s view, this is just a group of dregs of the playboys, and I do not know how many women have been victimized, and how many lives have been cut off in their hands.
Although Fan Xian is not much older than these Kyoto famous ferocious teenagers, but the nature of the heart is much more mature than them, as soon as he saw this situation on the street, he narrowed his eyes, retreated back to the carriage, and refused to show his face, and only handed things over to his subordinates to take care of.
The lineage of the Duke of State, although there is no more strength, but those seven turns of the relatives are really complicated, even the Fan House and the Duke of State Liu’s house are still relatives, how can this be pulled off? Fan Xian thought that it would be the best choice to not have to do it himself.
“Smash that carriage for me!”
The leader of the powerful teenagers shouted excitedly, urging his horse forward, and behind him, a large group of teenagers rushed towards Fan Xian’s carriage with strange cries, carrying straight swords commonly seen in Kyoto in their hands and waving them around, like a group of small sharks that had smelled blood and were generally exuberant.
Sang Wen timidly glanced at them, then hurriedly shrank back, clutching the hem of her dress, her body trembling a little, but gritting her teeth and not letting out a cry of alarm.
Fan Xian glanced at her, did not say anything, pulled the curtain open a small slit, looked at those vicious teenagers rushing on horseback, thought to himself that the law and order in this Kyoto is really getting worse, but the Kyoto Prefect is the second prince’s person, coupled with the sensitive identities of these teenagers, there is really no one who dares to take care of it. Just looking at the excitement contained in the eyes of those teenagers, he was still disgusted as if he had eaten a fly.
Because in these young and even somewhat tender eyes, in the midst of the excitement, a deeper indifference to life, contempt for the lowly, and a perverted love for the smell of blood was present. Fan Xian was a person who had been exposed to death since childhood, and wouldn’t feel very horrified at depriving others of their lives, and would even be at peace with it.
But he had always been very careful to keep himself from reveling in the process of killing; instead, he was a person who cherished life and celebrated the rest of his life.
Moreover, he thought that he was just trying to relax at public expense tonight, but as a result, he was actually reduced to having to fight with a bunch of foppish punks on the street, which was a real downer.
Therefore, Fan Xian was very unhappy.