When Shen Jianli woke up the next morning, he found himself lying on the headquarters' own bed, and he didn't know how he got back.Recalling last night that he was like a madman, talking nonsense, Yue Qiluo saved his life anyway, and he even lost his temper with her, grabbed her by the collar and yelled at her.Thinking of this level, his face became hot, and he didn't dare to go to Yue Mansion again, he just hoped that Yue Qiluo wouldn't hold grudges against him.

It's just that Yue Qiluo was right, and within a week, he had no choice but to ask her for help.Although the first few boxes of gold were valuable, they were still a drop in the bucket compared to the current deficit of the party-state.The war is tight, and there is not much left for that little money.Therefore, Shen Jianli could only bite the bullet and ask Yue Qiluo for instructions.Yue Qiluo seemed to be okay, as if the events of that night only existed in Shen Jianli's mind and never happened.

Today, the front line is short of a batch of supplies again, and the higher-ups are anxious like ants on a hot pot, and they are urging him to clear up the relationship.Shen Jianli was kicked out of the office, kicking stones on the street and walking slowly forward, with a sad face.

After walking a few steps, a scent wafted from the candied fruit shop next to it, and Shen Jianli swooped in.This shop is very popular. A woman with a double heart bun is standing beside a small mahogany drawer and weighing dried apricots with a copper scale. A young man is standing opposite the gate, arguing with customers.

The customer leaned over to sniff the honey in the altar, shook his head, and didn't know what to say.In a fit of anger, the young man took a spoon to scoop up a bee with both head and tail, brought it to the customer, and said, "What do you think this is?"

Shen Jianli looked at this young man, and the more he looked at him, the more he looked familiar. When he got closer, he found that he was not the "noble guest" he met in Yuefu that day.

"You..." Shen Jianli pointed at the boy, "I recognize you."

"Hey, Zhang Xianzong?" Wu Xin threw the spoon into the altar, wiped his hands on the lapel of his clothes, "Why do you have the time to visit my small shop?"

Shen Jianli put his hands in his pockets, looked around the store, and said with a smile, "What is your background?"

"What, you judge people by their appearance?" Wu Xin straightened her skirt and came out from behind the counter.Only then did Shen Jianli see clearly that although the gown on his body was tattered, the lower half was embroidered with dragon patterns, and it was an embroiderer from Suzhou. "Since we met again, it is fate, how about I treat you to a drink?"

Shen Jianli couldn't shirk wine.It happened that I was also hesitant to go to Yuefu, so I agreed.Wu Xin didn't change her clothes, she left the store smelling like candied fruit, and sat down at the nearest tavern.After two glasses of wine, Shen Jianli couldn't hold back, and all his doubts were explained to Wuxin.

"You mean, you suspect that Yue Qiluo drugged you?" Wu Xin shook the wine in the glass, "Why do you think she drugged you?"

Shen Jianli opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say. He hesitated for a long time, so he had to attack from the side: "You have known her for so long, does she have this habit? Or, has she ever done such a thing?"

"Her? She never deals with people, and you are the only one."

"Aren't you one of them?"

"I'm not human."

Shen Jianli was choked back by Wu Xin, and all the words in his stomach disappeared.Wuxin's way of speaking was too wild, and he couldn't catch up for a while.But after thinking about it, I still couldn't help it, and continued, "Actually, besides tea, other things happened that night."

"Wait, let me guess." Wuxin raised his hand to stop him, "Is someone trying to kill you, and Yue Qiluo just arrived and rescued you?"

"How do you know?" Shen Jianli was stunned.

"Guess, she likes to play this game." Wuxin took a fried peanut and threw it into her mouth, chewing it crunchily, "Don't pay too much attention, she won't hurt you."

Shen Jianli turned the empty wine glass in his hand, thinking about it.Judging from the meaning in his words, the assassination that day was not simple...Maybe no one ever wanted to kill him, or...Maybe Yue Qiluo sent someone to do a show for him.

Thinking of this, he knocked the wine glass on the table, stood up, took a few sips from the wine jug, wiped the wine stains with his sleeves, turned around and was about to leave.Wuxin called him from behind, he stopped and turned his head to look at Wuxin.

"I know what you're thinking. But I have to tell you, Yue Qiluo can kill everyone in the world, but he won't kill you alone."

Wuxin sat there calmly, picking peanuts with chopsticks.Shen Jianli thought, maybe this kid really has something extraordinary.Don't worry or panic, all the worries in the world have nothing to do with him, as if he doesn't care about anything.He sat in the position of teacher by himself, and few people who saw him were not afraid.There are only two people who don't take him seriously, one is Yue Qiluo and the other is Wuxin.It's normal for Yue Qiluo to hold a huge fortune.But Wuxin, a poor boss who runs a candied fruit shop, has no burden to drink with him, which is quite unusual.He sat there in rags, as calm as a god, and Shen Jianli inexplicably respected him.

"I know," Shen Jianli turned his head and put on his hat, "I'm going to meet her."

When he arrived at the Yue mansion, Yue Qiluo was not there, so he paid attention and asked the bodyguards to take him to another courtyard.As expected, Yue Qiluo was feeding the birds in the small courtyard, with her back to him, holding a gauze fan in her hand.

"All the dandies in the capital like to raise starlings and parrots, but it's rare for people to raise canaries." Shen Jianshan looked at the speechless bird, his hands were idle, and he broke a branch of peony to play with.

"I don't lack animals that imitate people's language, it's not interesting." Yue Qiluo leisurely took a vegetable leaf and stuffed it into Que's mouth, "What's the matter with you coming to see me today?"

"Yue Qiluo, did the assassination that day... have anything to do with you?"

"You think I'm going to kill you?"

"I want to know what your intentions are." Shen Jianli squeezed the peony into a handful of flower juice.

Yue Qiluo pinched the vegetable leaf in her hand, it was as cold as a palm, and her heart was also as cold as a palm.She turned her face to look at Shen Jianli. Today he was wearing a military uniform and a hat with the brim pressed down, and one of his eyelids drooped.This appearance is enough to look like Zhang Xianzong, but Zhang Xianzong will not be so suspicious of her.Maybe Tang Shanhai would, but in the end he didn't suspect her anymore.She suddenly thought about Tang Shanhai a little bit, wondering if he still had something to say to her, and then died, unable to say it anymore.

"Took my money and favors, broke my flowers, and still talked to me like this." Yue Qiluo walked past him and walked straight into the room, "It's too ignorant."

Shen Jianli squeezed the peony into a ball, leaned closer and sniffed deeply.Peony flowers are fragrant, but when they are crushed, there is an astringent smell of grass juice, which is not so fragrant.Walking into the room, Yue Qiluo made another pot of tea and poured him a cup too.He took the tea cup and didn't dare to drink it, it all fell into Yue Qiluo's eyes, so she exchanged her own tea cup with him and took a sip first.

"It's not poisonous, drink it."

Shen Jianli was a little ashamed, maybe he judged the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and it was indeed impolite.

"I know you don't believe me, so it's no wonder." Yue Qiluo took a sip of tea and put the tea bowl aside, "It's not a day or two for you to be suspicious. Although it's troublesome, you can bear it."

Shen Jianli took a sip of tea, looked at the tea bowl in his hand, it looked more and more like the Tianqing Ru kiln porcelain from the Northern Song Dynasty, and carefully placed it on the table, not daring to touch it again.After hesitating for a long time, he said again: "I always pay attention to borrowing and repaying. You are in business, and you think about it. It's just that I have borrowed so many things from you, but I have never paid them back, so I feel uneasy. "

"Okay, you want to pay it back, that's what you said." Yue Qiluo's eyes lit up, "Repayment, of course I will wait for you later. If you are impatient, it doesn't matter if you cash it now. It’s time for no regrets.”

"Don't go back on your word." No matter how outrageous Shen Jianli wanted to be, he couldn't go anywhere. Could it be his life?That's better than living with one's heart hanging around.

Before leaving the door, Shen Jianli still couldn't help it, turned around and said, "One more thing, I came here because the front line needs a batch of supplies..."

Yue Qiluo picked up the teacup and said leisurely: "I have already sent someone to deliver it."

Shen Jianli said nothing, pressed the brim of his hat as a farewell, and went straight out the door.

Unexpectedly, when he returned to the headquarters, he saw someone moving his things outside.

Shen Jianli was stunned for a moment, then rushed up to stop the person to ask, and asked that it was Yue Qiluo's person who came to move his things to another courtyard of Yue Mansion.One by one, the porters who carried things were stumbled by him.Shen Jianli froze for a long time before he remembered the "one thousand gold and one promise" just now

Could this be the reward Yue Qiluo was talking about?

Shen Jianli was completely at a loss, he never imagined that Yue Qiluo wanted him in return?He thought the idea was so absurd that he couldn't quite believe it himself.Looking again, the eyeballs were about to fall out, Yue Qiluo's people didn't know how powerful they were, they dug out all the guns and ammunition he had hidden in the secret room, packed them into boxes and took them away.

He stood there empty-handed like a little daughter-in-law robbed by bandits.Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of someone standing not far away, it was Lin Huaiqing, his Huangpu classmate, and ran over as if grasping at a straw, saying, "Old Lin, look at these bandits."

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Shen Jianli wanted to slap himself twice. He said what he said indiscriminately, as if he was being bullied by others, and it was too bad to spread it.But Lin Huaiqing smiled, and said: "What bandit, Miss Yue greeted me, please go to the mountain to stay for a few days."

Shen Jianli froze, stretched out his hand to pat Lin Huaiqing's face, and said, "Old Lin, didn't you fall for her too?"

He suddenly felt bad, and said that Boss Yue possessed sorcery, and everyone who met her was submissive. Could it be that Lin Huaiqing also...?

However, the expression on Lin Huaiqing's face was the same as usual, and he patted him on the shoulder again and said, "Ms. Yue is our noble person. If you go to stay for a few days, you may lose a piece of meat, right?" He turned to the adjutant beside him, "Go, take your Master Shen into the car."

"Lin Huaiqing!" Shen Jianli shouted in grief and indignation after being held by both arms, "You are traitorous and seeking glory!"

Shen Jianli was very sad in his heart, could it be that he was too ostentatious in his daily life, Dangguo had disliked him a long time ago, and Yue Qiluo happened to come, so he sold him for money?

The more he thought about it, the more sad he felt, Huluo Pingyang was bullied by dogs, he was a dignified teacher, and he was reduced to the end of being put in a car by an adjutant and sold to the mountains.It's really a feng shui turn, if it was three years ago, who would dare to treat him like this?

So Shen Jianli stepped into the gate of the other courtyard of the Yue Mansion for the second time today.Yue Qiluo stood in the courtyard, holding a round fan and instructing the porters to move the box into the west wing.The old butler also packed his bags and was about to go out when Shen Jianli stopped him and asked him where he was going after packing his bags.

The old butler clasped his hands together and said: "Young Mistress sent the old man back to his hometown to recuperate, saying that he doesn't need manpower in the near future. The old man's health is not as good as before, so he shouldn't stay here to cause trouble for Young Mistress."

He co-authored him to live in and also had to act as a housekeeper.

Yue Qiluo happened to see Shen Jianli who was ashamed at the door, so she walked over waving a round fan and said, "Are you back? What do you think of this west wing room? If you think the sunlight is not good, I'll ask someone to change you to another room. "

The expression on Shen Jianli's face was distorted for a long time before he could say a word: "I have to watch the military training every morning..."

"I'll drive you there."

"I usually drink..."

Yue Qiluo kicked away a wooden plank on the ground, revealing the cellar below, Shen Jianli glanced at it, there were dozens of altars full of flower carvings. "There is still foreign wine in the room, you have to get it yourself."

Shen Jianli racked his brains and couldn't think of any other excuses, so he could only say, "Where is my house, I'm going to check it out."

When he entered the room, it was bigger than it looked from the outside, the furniture was exquisite, and his own things were all arranged properly.After opening the window, I realized that this place is located on a cliff. Looking out from the window, I can see the mighty Yangtze River.He turned and sat on the bed. Opposite the bed was a wardrobe. When he opened it, it was full of clothes.All kinds of suits, long coats, casual clothes, pajamas, dresses, ties and belts of various colors, and a box next to it, which contains pocket watches, belt buckles, bow ties and other small items.Shen Jianli closed the box, took a few steps back and sat on the bed, thinking, what's the difference between this and buying someone in Changsantangzi?

He threw himself on the bed with a splitting headache.Yue Qiluo called him outside again, but it wasn't his name: "Zhang Xianzong, come out and drink mung bean soup!"

He lay on the bed, covered his face with a hat, and the sun shone warmly on him.He seemed to have returned to his hometown again, when the sun was high and his family called him out for dinner.As he was thinking like this, Fang Qian put down all his defenses at some point, and lazily replied: "Okay—"

The author has something to say: This life is the story of the domineering president Yue Qiluo raising a young military master in captivity, and there will be some elements of demons and ghosts... It feels so vulgar hahahaha

In fact, the shadow left by Tang Shanhai's death is bigger than Zhang Xianzong's. Zhang Xianzong was shot while she was asleep, but Tang Shanhai watched helplessly...

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