mountain chase

Cursing his lips, Fourth Master Qiao picked up a glass of red wine, "Mr. Duan's birthday, why don't I come?"

The visitor was a middle-aged man in his 40s, well-groomed and upright.

"Fourth Master Qiao is really interesting," Duan Honggang smiled, but he was really surprised in his heart - he had only heard about the reputation of Fourth Master Qiao's family, and this was the first time he met him.

What the fourth master of the Qiao family heard most about was his worth, but he never thought that he was such a rare beauty.

Duan Honggang's eyes couldn't help looking up and down at Fourth Master Qiao's body, but he said: "I wonder if Fourth Master can show your face, let's go to the side for a drink?"

What he pointed to was the small compartment at the back of the hall, and there were naturally people with more valuable status inside.

Fourth Master Qiao smiled, "This is Mr. Duan's birthday party. Mr. Duan is naturally very busy. How can Qiao go over and delay?"

"Alas..." Duan Honggang shook his head, "Si Ye said this because he regarded himself as an outsider too much. When I first saw Si Ye, I felt very close, so I regarded you as a friend. For Si Ye , what is not allowed?"

What he said was ambiguous, even a little frivolous.

But Fourth Master Qiao didn't respond at all, "Since Mr. Duan said so, it's hard for Qiao to refuse."

"That would be great," Duan Honggang laughed, and summoned an attendant, "Take fourth master to sit in the private room inside." After saying that, he reached out to support fourth master Qiao's waist, "fourth master, you Go over and sit down first, Duan will come later."

"En." Fourth Master Qiao lowered his eyes, staring at Duan Honggang's hand on his waist.

Nothing was said.

The back of the hall is said to be a private room, but it is actually a small compartment separated by vines and decorative carvings. The one that Duan Honggang asked his attendants to take Fourth Master Qiao to was the innermost private room.Walking along the way, behind Chong Shaman, Fourth Master Qiao could vaguely see some familiar faces.

The Beiyang warlords, Yuan Shikai's old department... and the Japanese?

Fourth Master Qiao squinted his eyes, and continued to walk forward calmly.

Originally, I just wanted to get to know this person, but I didn't expect that Duan Qirui, who can be regarded as a national hero, would have such a good nephew who is collaborating with the enemy and traitorous to the country.

In the private room, Fourth Master Qiao turned the teacup in his hand and slightly raised the corners of his lips.

"Fourth Master, I'm late, are you in a hurry?" After a while, Duan Honggang lifted the gauze and walked in.

"No." Fourth Master Qiao raised the teacup in his hand, "The tea from Mr. Duan's house tastes good."

"Ah, does Fourth Master like tea too?" Duan Honggang sat down happily opposite Fourth Master Qiao when he heard this, and stretched his head to look at the cup in Fourth Master Qiao's hand, "This is not the best, I remember that someone gave me half a catty of Yangxian Xueya some time ago, that is the real best."

"Yangxian Xueya?" Fourth Master Qiao also smiled when he heard that, "It is indeed a real good thing, but I don't know if there are authentic Yangxian Xueya in this day and age."

"Oh? So, fourth master Qiao has drunk this tea?" Duan Honggang asked.

"I tasted it once when I was young, but it's been more than ten years, and I have already forgotten the taste." Fourth Master Qiao said lightly.

"Isn't it easy?" Duan Honggang saw Fourth Master Qiao's indifferent and melancholy appearance, almost wrinkled his heart, and immediately called the attendants outside.

"gentlemen."

"Go, get the Yangxian Xueya in a wooden box from my study."

"Yes."

"Mr. Duan?" Fourth Master Qiao asked suspiciously.

"Fourth Master, don't be polite to me. Duan said just now that we hit it off right away. Since Fourth Master likes this tea, it is the blessing of this tea. No matter how precious it is, it is not so precious."

"So, Qiao has thanked Mr. Duan for his kindness."

As the two talked, a long line of attendants came in and put out the teapots, Gongdao cups, smelling cups, tea boxes, and stone pots one by one.

Fourth Master Qiao looked at the delivered things, they were all top quality, and they all had traces of being used for a long time, "I never thought that Mr. Duan also loves tea ceremony so much."

"I understand a little bit, I understand a little bit." Hearing Fourth Master Qiao say this, Duan Honggang's old face turned red for some reason.

"Since it's a good tea from Mr. Duan, if you don't dislike it, why don't you ask Qiao to make a fool of yourself?"

"Of course it is good!" Duan Honggang of course agreed wholeheartedly.

Then I saw Mr. Qiao burning incense and cleaning his hands. Among the faint sandalwood, the young man on the opposite side behaved elegantly, soaked the tea set, put the tea, hung the pot, flushed the water, and then poured the tea into the Gongdao cup next to him, pouring it back and forth Smell the cup, put the tea tasting cup upside down on top of the smell cup, turn it over again, wipe the quilt clean with a tea towel, put it in the tray, and push it in front of you.

The whole movement is smooth and flowing, elegant and dusty.

Taking the tray with both hands, Duan Honggang picked up the smelling cup, rubbed his hands on his back, and brought it to the tip of his nose. It really smelled like an empty valley, fresh and elegant.Looking at the tea in the soup bowl again, the green color is uniform and the soup color is clear.Take a sip, you will be full of aroma, the taste reverberates leisurely, delicious and mellow.

"Fourth master is such a master of tea ceremony, Duan admires him." Putting down his teacup, Duan Honggang was full of admiration.He is also a tea lover for many years, this Yangxian Xueya is certainly the best, but if it is not for Master Qiao's tea making skills, it will not have such a good taste.

"Mr. Duan's reputation is too high." Fourth Master Qiao also put down his teacup and smiled faintly, "Qiao is just free to do his own thinking."

"Haha, if the fourth master wants to say that, it will really make the tea lovers in this world bleak." Duan Honggang flattered the fourth master Qiao again, and then gradually entered the theme, "Fourth master is here now, don't you?" Do you know if you are in the mood to stay in Duan Fa's mansion for a few more days? Duan has heard about the fourth master's name for a long time, so he also hopes to have more contact and exchanges with the fourth master."

"Mr. Duan's kindness is appreciated by Qiao, but there are still many things in Qiao's family. Presumably Mr. Duan should have many things today, and Qiao is inconvenient to bother."

"This..." Duan Honggang hesitated for a moment, "Since the fourth master said so, it is not good for Duan to stay longer, then if there is time...Duan will invite someone to Qiao's mansion, fourth master...don't refuse .”

"Naturally." With a faint smile, Fourth Master Qiao stood up, "Then Qiao will leave first, and Mr. Duan will be busy first."

"Okay, Duan...see off fourth master."

Said it was a send-off, but Duan Honggang accompanied Fourth Master Qiao all the way to the gate outside the garden of the Duan mansion, and watched Fourth Master Qiao get into the car.

"Fourth Master." In the car, the butler handed Fourth Master Qiao a wet handkerchief.

After taking the handkerchief, Fourth Master Qiao wiped his nails carefully, "How is Lin Shuang and Wang Dachuan's arrangement going?"

"Lin Shuang has already finished it completely. As for Wang Dachuan, there is not much news sent yet."

"Don't worry," Fourth Master Qiao said flatly, "It will take some time for this medicine to really take effect."

"Yes." The butler nodded. "But fourth master...subordinates, subordinates still feel that it is better to find someone to do this matter, and there is no need for fourth master...to go in person."

Thinking of Duan Honggang looking at his fourth master's expression, the housekeeper wished he could take a knife and scrape off that live pig one by one!

"I have to do it myself."

Fourth Master Qiao said flatly that he was originally cold and indifferent, it's not that he didn't see Duan Honggang's thoughts on him today, but he just felt a little bored and didn't even have the interest to look at it.

It's just - originally planned to kill Duan Honggang directly, but Fourth Master Qiao thought of the Japanese face he saw behind the gauze man, and felt that this matter - absolutely can't be good.

So, he just added a small amount of modified morphine during the tea ceremony, although it was only a little bit, but the days - it was still long.

After arriving home, after taking a shower, the housekeeper knocked on the door of Fourth Master Qiao's room, "Fourth Master, the invitation stickers from the Duan Mansion are here."

"Oh," Fourth Master Qiao was letting the maid to wipe his hair, "I'll come back tomorrow, just say, I'm busy recently, so I don't have time to go."

"Yes."