Chapter 8
Chapter 8
One is jealous, and the other loves to see him jealous.
Savior?
Speaking of which, Xu Muzhou and Hu Qinglian did have an intersection before.It was a month ago when Xu Muzhou was invited to a restaurant in the town for dinner.
As soon as he stepped into the gate of the restaurant, he heard a beautiful sound of the piano fluttering.Xu Muzhou didn't know the rhythm very well, and he only heard the clerk who invited him to dinner praised the sound of the guqin.
He also said that the sound is like a person, and the player who plays the piano must also be a beauty.
Xu Muzhou didn't pay much attention to it. In fact, playing the guqin, guzheng, or pipa sounds similar to his ears.
However, when he left the restaurant after dinner, he was robbed by gangsters in the alley behind the building.It was not Xu Muzhou who was robbed, but a young man with a guqin on his back and a masked hat.
When the outsider saw the guqin, he said that this person must be the one who played music in the building just now, and he wanted to fight against injustice when he went up.Xu Muzhou looked at his short and thick figure like a pumpkin, and was afraid that he would be beaten up in the past.
So he stopped the people, paid for it himself, and sent those gangsters away.
Seeing the injustice, Xu Muzhou drew his sword to help. At first, Xu Muzhou didn't take this matter to heart, but now that he thinks about it, the person he helped at that time must be Hu Qinglian.
""The grace of saving life" is too serious, I just paid a few dozen taels of silver. "Xu Muzhou didn't dare to take the credit, "Furthermore, if it is said that the person who deserves the most thanks, it should be Yuanwai Zhao." "
"By the way, Qinglian, when you first started, I didn't seem to see you with a piano. If it weren't for your wonderful piano sound, Zhao Yuanwai would not have felt compassion. In my opinion, that piano should be treasured."
Hu Qinglian couldn't figure out this man's attitude, he seemed to be alienated, but at the same time he seemed... willing to get close to him, let's say close... but he seemed a little distant.
During the meeting that night in the bridal chamber, Xu Muzhou seemed to know that he was approaching him for another purpose, but his attitude was not defensive at all, and he even cared about his piano now...
Hu Qinglian was not sure what this man was thinking.
I can only answer honestly: "At that time, I was in huge debt, and Qin used it to pay off the debt."
When Hu Qinglian fell into prostitution at the beginning, it was because of his family's downfall that he had to bear huge debts and had to commit himself to a brothel.It's just that he was regarded as a son of a family at first, and the rule was to show off his skills but not his body.
Xu Muzhou thought for a while, it seems that when we first met, Hu Qinglian was stalked by the gangsters who were demanding debts from him, so he could easily settle it with money.
"Qinglian, I heard that you are proficient in rhythm?" Hu Qinglian is well-known in Huajie Liuxiang, and Xu Muzhou has also heard of it.
Hu Qinglian lowered his brows and pleasing his eyes: "I don't dare to be "proficient", but I just know a few musical instruments. "
"It's going to be the fifteenth day soon, and no one in our yard can play musical instruments, and they find it boring to watch the moon every year. Finally, there is hope this time."
Xu Muzhou spoke nonsense seriously.
Not to mention himself, Pei Yunchu is good at playing the piano, and even A Yuan can play a few ditties on the wooden flute.
"But...the concubine's piano is not with me... I see that there are no musical instruments in this compound."
Xu Muzhou smiled brightly: "It doesn't matter, just buy one and bring it back." He got up and took out a brocade box from the bookcase at the back, and found something similar to a silver ticket from the brocade box.
"The boss of the piano shop in the town is like a brother to me. Last time, he gave a "ticket" to buy a piano with a [-]% discount.Qinglian, see you off. "
Holding the so-called "coupons" in both hands, Hu Qinglian was a little flattered.
He stayed in Xu's house these days, and he had no chance to go out at all. The eldest son of the Xu family asked him to report Xu Muzhou's every move, but he couldn't complete it.
Going out to buy a piano this time may be a good opportunity to send a message.
Hu Qinglian responded immediately, and did not forget to ask Xu Muzhou when he could go out.Xu Muzhou just hooked the corners of his mouth gently, saying that as long as he wanted, he could do it anytime.
After Hu Qinglian left, there was another figure at the door of Xu Muzhou's study, but this person just stood still, unwilling to step into the room as if angry.
Xu Muzhou raised his eyes and glanced at a small shadow in front of the door, and couldn't help but smile: "The autumn night is cool, and it's easy to feel the cold when you stay outside."
"Come in and sit down."
When Zhuang Bai stepped across the threshold of the study room, he deliberately increased the strength on his feet, and stepped on it twice in the room, looking very angry.
"I heard it all, hum, "Savior". "The last four words were pronounced emphatically by Zhuang Bai, almost gnashing his teeth, "Second brother is really a good person who helps others, how many people have you been a "life-saver" in this whole world?" "
After all, Zhuang Bai was also seriously injured, and was rescued by Xu Muzhou. From the beginning, Zhuang Bai stuck to Xu Muzhou's side in the name of "repaying his favor".
Now that he heard that Hu Qinglian wanted to repay his favor, he was furious.
Stared at by Zhuang Bai's reproachful eyes, Xu Muzhou didn't rush, and his smile even deepened, "How can you be someone's eyes and ears in the savior's house? Isn't it just revenge for kindness."
"The coincidence a month ago, I guess, was specially arranged by Xu Xiuyu."
When recalling the past just now, Xu Muzhou had already thought about it. It happened that Hu Qinglian appeared at that time, and the debt collection scene of the bully should have been deliberately staged for him.
Even those gangsters should have been bought by Xu Xiuyu to cooperate with the acting.
The purpose was to find a reason for Hu Qinglian to "voluntarily" enter Xu's house as a male concubine to repay his favor.
"Besides, at that time, it was Lao Qian who was dedicated to righteousness and bravery. If he wanted to be repaid, Lao Qian would be the first to bear the brunt."
Xu Muzhou implied that Hu Qinglian and the others were targeting him.
Of course Zhuang Bai also knows this truth, but it is one thing to understand the truth, but another to be unhappy in his heart, he still looks full of anger:
"That's hard to say, the second elder brother was born so attractive, what if Xiao Hu is in the middle of you and Qian Yuan, and only sees you?"
Xu Muzhou frowned helplessly, "Are you praising me?"
Two people, you look at me, I look at you, you talk to me, it seems that Zhuang Baixing blames the teacher and makes trouble for no reason, but the atmosphere is also inexplicably harmonious.
Xu Muzhou is also quite strange, looking at Zhuang Bai like a furry fox, he comforts Shun Shun Mao again, and enjoys the process very much.
He stood up, walked from the chair behind the desk to the chair by the window, and got closer to Zhuang Bai, "Whether the source of the news that Xu Xiuyu sued me in front of the old man was leaked by Hu Qinglian? We'll see."
Zhuang Bai knew that he deliberately created an opportunity for Hu Qinglian to go out alone, in order to test how Hu Qinglian would inform Xu Xiuyu.
However, even if it is known that Hu Qinglian is indeed passing the news to outsiders, how can he be sure who he is sending it to?
Unless someone is sent to follow him all the way, and he will intercept the letter after he writes it down.But among the people in Xu Zhai, there are not many people who know the art of tracking, and Hu Qinglian is not a fool. Once he finds out that someone is following him, he will naturally stop sending messages. Isn't this a waste of time?
Xu Muzhou felt that it was reasonable, and then pretended to be mysterious and said: "However, I have a secret weapon."
Zhuang Bai sat on the chair next to Xu Muzhou, put his elbows on the armrest of the mahogany chair, and held his face. He saw that Xu Muzhou didn't intend to explain the so-called "secret weapon", so he didn't ask any more questions, just said: "Is the five delicacies of crab and fish delicious?"
Xu Muzhou teased him: "The noodles are delicious."
Zhuang Bai didn't fall for his tricks, "You mentioned this dish to others on the first night of the wedding, you couldn't be just to have a good meal today, right? Anyway, I don't believe it."
Zhuang Bai is smart, he knows that Xu Muzhou will not mention a dish for no reason, so he must have a plan.
And Xu Muzhou didn't hide it from him: "You know, the hometown of Uncle Pei Yunchu, who brought me up, is also Yunshui Town in southern Hunan."
"What do you mean?" Pei Yunchu's native place is also Yunshui Town in southern Hunan, Zhuang Bai really doesn't know.
"There is a famous dish in southern Hunan, "Five Treasures of Crab and Fish". A chef who lived in Yunshui Town opened a restaurant by himself, and then his private dishes were well-received and famous all over the country. "
"But the recipe for this dish is actually from Tufang in the town next door. The chef moved to Yunshui Town and brought the recipe with him. However, the world only knows that this dish is from the restaurant in Yunshui Town. So I took this dish as the representative of Yunshui Town in southern Hunan."
"People in the world don't know the root cause, and they spread it around ten times. It's understandable to have such a misunderstanding. However, the natives of Yunshui Town will never make a mistake."
Zhuang Bai understood that Hu Qinglian's hometown was forged.
Xu Muzhou lived with Pei Yunchu since he was a child, and he knows a lot about things in southern Hunan, including the story of "Five Treasures of Crab and Fish" in Yunshui Town.
On the night when Hu Qinglian came in, the reason why he inadvertently mentioned this dish was not to satisfy his appetite, but to test how much of Hu Qinglian's identity was true.
However, Hu Qinglian did not respond to the statement of "five delicacies of crab and fish from Yunshui Town", so Xu Muzhou determined that his hometown was false.
Since the native places are all fake, it is certain that Hu Qinglian is an "inner ghost" that Xu Xiuyu deliberately sent into Xu's house.
In fact, from the very beginning, Hu Qinglian had already stepped into the trap set by Xu Muzhou.
"Young Master Xu is really scheming, cunning and cunning." Zhuang Bai said so, but he looked at Xu Muzhou with a deep appreciation in his eyes.
Xu Muzhou nodded lightly, as if he accepted his compliment.
"But what are you going to do about the farmer Liu Cheng?" Ever since Xu Muzhou was summoned to court, Zhuang Bai has devoted all his attention to finding the person who put medicine on the farmland.
Everyone in Xu Zhai didn't know how to investigate, so Zhuang Bai taught them everything.First of all, Liu Cheng is an out-and-out farmer and has no relationship with people in the medicinal material business, so the medicine he dispensed must have been bought from a pharmacy or medical center in the town.
Secondly, because what he did was not aboveboard, he definitely didn't dare to buy all the medicinal materials at once, they must have been bought separately in each shop, Pei Yunchu had already sorted out the ingredients of the poison, took the medicine list, and asked from shop to shop , must be able to find clues.
Fortunately, there are not many pharmacies and clinics in Xialiang County, so it doesn't take much effort to find one of them.
Huangtian paid off, after such a search, he indeed collected evidence from various shops that Liu Cheng's subordinates purchased medicines in batches.
Moreover, these medicinal materials are connected in series to piece together the kind of poison that destroys farmland and destroys crops.
"Now the evidence is solid, and Liu Cheng can't let it go. It's a pity that he ran away." Zhuang Bai stared at Xu Muzhou deliberately, "This shows that he has a guilty conscience."
"It's also possible that someone gave him the news in advance." Xu Muzhou answered, and then looked at Zhuang Bai: "Thank you for taking so much trouble about my affairs."
"Hmph, then you should remember my kindness to you." Zhuang Bai muttered.
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