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He interjected, "Master always says everything but as long as I like it, I can get whatever I want. Today I will boldly ask the master, may the master's words be true?"

"Seriously, why can't it be serious?" Master Zeng laughed loudly immediately, "Tell me, what do you want?"

"I don't want anything," Shui Jiu frowned calmly, and glanced at Master Zeng with wide eyes.

With just one glance, most of Master Zeng's body was softened immediately, his laughter was rough, and the expression between his brows was somewhat similar to that of Qin Ershao back then.

Shui Jiu suppressed the nausea in his stomach, frowned, and pretended to be unhappy, "I don't have any other desires, but I have never been out of the city since I was brought home by the master. This afternoon, I I want to go out of town."

"What are you going to buy? Just send the boys to buy it."

……Ah!

Shui Jiu forcibly pulled her own hand from Master Zeng's, turned her face to the side, with a displeased expression on her face, and was about to lift her feet to walk out, complaining in her mouth: "I know that Master is just coaxing me."

"Why are you coaxing you?" Master Zeng got anxious, grabbed his arm from behind, and said again, "It's just that these refugees are pouring into the city in waves, causing chaos everywhere. I don't have to worry about you going to the streets alone. "

Shui Jiu stared at Master Zeng out of the corner of his eyes, with a half-smile.

Master Zeng immediately said again, "I would like to accompany you, but..."

"It's just that the status of the master is not suitable!" Shui Jiu interrupted him neatly, snorted through his nostrils, shook off Master Zeng's hand, and walked out again.

As soon as Shui Jiu took three or four steps, Master Zeng really compromised, sighed heavily, and said behind him: "All right, all right, I'll send a few people to accompany you. Look, is this okay?"

Shui Jiu turned her head and glanced at Master Zeng with a half-smile. "The places I'm going to buy rouge pollen, I'm afraid the boys are impatient!"

"Don't let the boys go, send a few girls." Master Zeng waved his hand, thought for a while, and looked sad again. "Don't go shopping too late. Li Daotai invited a banquet tonight. I originally thought that I would like you to go with me."

Li Daotai?With a thought in his mind, Shui Jiu immediately stopped in the posture of raising his feet and walking outside.

The author says:

Like a dream, like a moon, like a flower, just like a flower - from Li Bihua's "Rouge Button"

15, 15

◎"Let's have a cup first"◎

In the dimly lit night, Shui Jiu finally saw the legendary Li Daotai.

Unexpectedly, Li Daotai looked very humble, he was very tall and thin, and his clothes were floating around like hanging on bamboo poles. When he saw Shui Jiu, he just glanced at him and turned to be a Beijing official Mr. Zeng cupped his hands and said politely: "My lord, have you been here recently?"

Master Zeng smiled blushingly, deliberately led Shui Jiu in front of him, and said, "It's very good, look! The old man just found another confidante."

Shui Jiu smiled in response to the occasion, lowered her head, her swan-like thin white neck drooped slightly.

Li Daotai was very cautious, he only took a glance at Shui Jiu before returning to his senses, and continued to greet Mr. Zeng. "A tree of pear blossoms crushes crabapples. Mr. Zeng, you are truly blessed!"

Master Zeng laughed haha, and put his big hand on Shui Jiu's slender waist.

Shui Jiu changed into a white cheongsam with dark patterns tonight. This kind of plain color looks particularly beautiful on ordinary people, let alone Shui Jiu.He was born with red phoenix eyes bulging inwards, he didn't move or say anything, he just lowered his head and smiled slightly, overwhelming the audience.

After entering the table, the eyes of the dozen or so men on the table were fixed on Shui Jiu from time to time.Shui Jiu felt a little uncomfortable. It always felt shameful to be blatantly measured as a commodity like this.So he lowered his head the whole time and didn't move his chopsticks much.

Mr. Zeng did not avoid suspicion, he kept adding vegetables to his bowl, and soon the pile was as high as a hill.

Shui Jiu couldn't eat, her stomach cramped and felt nauseated.

Lulu, who was also there to accompany the drink tonight, had sharp eyes, saw through his discomfort at a glance, and immediately helped him out.Raising his voice, he laughed like a silver bell and said, "Hey, what's the matter? Could it be that when Sister An comes, I will become a day lily that has fallen out of favor?"

"Where is it, who dares to make Miss Lulu a daylily!"

Naturally, there were fans and admirers of Paramount dancer Lulu at the banquet.These admirers complimented Lulu one after another. "Miss Lulu is so beautiful and young, I'm afraid she will marry into the Daotai mansion in the future and become a concubine."

Li Daotai was called out suddenly, so he immediately put down his wine glass, straightened his expression, and said solemnly: "I dare not say that! The people in my family are all tigresses."

"Hahaha……"

A burst of unbridled and wild laughter suddenly broke out during the banquet.

Shui Jiu was very impatient with these conversations between the cups and cups, but he couldn't walk away right now, even if he saw Li Daotai, he couldn't get any useful news.He was secretly anxious, and his cold white slender fingers clenched the ebony chopsticks in his hand.

"I heard that Boss Zeng is going to retire at the end of the month?" Li Daotai brought the topic back in time.

Shui Jiu's heart trembled.Sure enough, Mr. Zeng who was sitting beside him smiled and replied, "That's not true! I also avoided this Jibei City for about half a year, and it's not interesting. When people are old, it's better for Ye Luo to return to his roots."

"Master Zeng's hometown is next to Jingxi?" Someone asked tentatively.

"Yes, the old man still has a few acres of Susukida over there. It's not very rich, but it's okay to support yourself." Master Zeng smiled slightly as he stroked his two strands of goatee with a little complacency. .

Shui Jiu frowned slightly with her long eyebrows.He was pretending to be a woman at the moment, and he had somewhat changed his makeup, but the expression in his eyes was still clear, with a natural sense of alienation.

As soon as he frowned, Mr. Zeng next to him immediately noticed it keenly.Master Zeng put his hand on the back of his hand, coughed thick phlegm, turned his head and said softly, "If Miss An is willing, can I go to Jingxi to retire with the old man?"

When he said this in public, the people around him immediately booed.Even Li Daotai laughed a few times, held the wine cup in his hand, and said jokingly, "Master Zeng is always accompanied by a confidante, so proud and carefree. I'm not envious, I can't come here!" "

Shui Jiu was anxious.He re-entered Jibei City with only one purpose, which was to spy on Li Daotai.Now he finally found Li Daotai, but he still couldn't touch him.

Banquet is meaningless.Besides, he had to get away from Mr. Zeng as soon as possible.

Shui Jiu half hooked her lips, and licked the rouge cream on her water chestnut lips, smiling brightly and coldly.

There was some silence during the meeting.

Lulu raised her glass with a smile, and winked at Li Daotai. "Master Daotai has been raising him in Xishan recently. I don't know if the old disease is getting better?"

"It's much better, it's no wonder that Miss Lulu is still thinking about it. Haha!" Li Daotai laughed, but he didn't explain what he was doing in Xishan these days.

Everyone was exchanging lively greetings, Yu Yan laughed at Yan Yanjian, when suddenly a loud, cheerful and annoying voice sounded.

-"Ouch, brother-in-law! My sister sent me to look for you, but I couldn't find you anywhere, but you were hiding in this paramount drinking with the dancing girls!"

Everyone heard the reputation, especially Li Daotai, whose skinny Daoma face immediately trembled.

Shui Jiu turned his back to the visitor, and when he heard the voice, his back shrugged slightly, and his stomach felt nauseated.Shui Jiu would never forget this voice even if he was beaten to death!

This arrogant, happy and obnoxious guy is none other than the Daotai brother-in-law Qin Ershao who dragged Shui Jiu into the bathroom of Paramount a few days ago to do evil.

"Second Young Master, come, come, sit here." Immediately, two or three dancers got up and walked over with smiles, wanting to invite Second Young Master Qin to the table.

Qin Ershao shook his hand and snorted loudly, only attacking Li Daotai. "I said brother-in-law, what you did is not authentic!"

"This is...?" Mr. Zeng didn't seem to understand the situation very well, he leaned over slightly, and asked Li Daotai in a low voice.

When Li Daotai heard Qin Ershao's voice just now, he stood up in panic.At this moment Master Zeng asked him, he looked panic-stricken, like a tall antelope being chased away by a wolf. "Ah, this is Jiannei's younger brother, named Qin Shou."

Mr. Zeng twirled his gray and white goatee, let out a long oh, and sat back down again.

The wife Li Daotai was talking about was not his original wife, but Li Daotai's newly married concubine in the city after he took office in northern Hebei.

Doting on concubines and destroying wives is not new in the imperial court, but it is not on the table after all.

It's a pity that Qin Ershao didn't realize this at all.

In the northern city of Jibei, the name of "Qin Shou" is so loud that even Mr. Zeng, a fourth-rank Beijing official, has heard of it.

Shui Jiu especially didn't want to see Qin Ershao, but Qin Ershao came to provoke him.The annoying Qin Ershao leisurely walked to the wine table, while crackling firecrackers in his mouth to attack Li Daotai, while his eyes quickly swept over the popular dancers who accompanied the wine on the table tonight.

Lulu bears the brunt.

Seeing Qin Ershao looking towards her, Lulu lightly picked up a glass of wine with her finger painted with bright red Koudan, stood up with a smile, her proud chest stood tall, and said to Qin Ershao: "Second Young Master, calm down!" Why don't you sit down and have a glass of wine first!"

Lulu smiled lightly, and handed the tall glass in her hand to Qin Ershao.Qin Ershao deliberately turned his elbow outward, took advantage of the situation, and grabbed Lu Lu's arm, stared at her chest, and smiled obscenely: "Drinking with Miss Lu Lu, of course, it's fun to drink with each other."

"Hahahaha!" The two thugs and helpers brought by Qin Ershao laughed loudly beside him, regardless of the fact that the highest status at the banquet was Zeng, who had retired as a Beijing official.