stand back, let me come

Chapter 1201: A Beautiful Girl in a Golden House [asking for monthly tickets]

Qin Li and Tan Ting get along surprisingly well.

The relationship was so harmonious that even Qishan, the host, felt "isolated".

He grabbed a passing cat with dissatisfaction - humph, ignore him, ignore him, he still has a cat as a companion. So he put the cat on his knees and teased it, ignoring the cat's meowing. The cat was a little unhappy at first and nibbled his finger with its teeth.

This amount of force is not even enough to tickle.

Under Qishan's exquisite fur-stroking technique, the cat quickly forgot its previous unhappiness, stretched on his lap, and lazily lay down to expose its belly. If Qishan's strength was not right, the cat would hold the back of his hand with its claws, curl up into a furry ball, and purr intermittently from its throat. Qishan was interested in listening to the two people's conversation at first, but soon he felt bored and rested his free hand on the low table beside him, with the back of his hand against his forehead. As the candlelight swayed slowly, Qishan gradually felt sleepy.

The head nods again and again.

When he woke up, Tan Ting was the only one left in the study.

He caught a glimpse of the moonlight outside the window and saw that it had moved. Qi Shan yawned and asked, "When did Gong Su leave?"

Tan Ting said, "He just left a short while ago."

Qi Shan frowned and said, "It's already late at night, and the capital is under curfew. Why would he go back? If he is found by the patrol, the Censorate will submit a memorial to the Lord tomorrow to accuse him..."

You can't judge a person's popularity by appearance alone. Even for someone like him, there are friends visiting his house occasionally. If you accidentally stay too late, it will be inconvenient to travel at night, so you can stay in the guest house. Qishan's family is small, and the guest house is empty, so it is no problem to settle Tan Ting and Qin Li.

Tan Ting said, "It's too late to clean up the guest house."

Qishan: "..."

Qin Li is a bit of a clean freak, and Qi Shan's house is full of cats. Even if the guest house is closed to cats, there will be cats that slip in, and regular cleaning cannot prevent cat hair from everywhere. When Qin Li stays overnight, the guest house needs to clean the corners one hour in advance. It's too late today, so I might as well go home and sleep instead of waiting for cleaning.

Qi Shan's previous sleeping posture made his back ache. When he moved a little, the cat sleeping on his legs woke up and ran away. He stretched out his legs, rubbed the numb part, and pouted at Qin Li: "Hey, that's right, our Master Qin is a particular person!"

The blanket draped over his shoulders slipped off.

Qi Shan picked it up and looked at it with a little surprise.

"Not only is he particular, he also has a heart that sympathizes with the poor and the weak."

Qi Shan still remembered that two years ago, there was a night of heavy snow and wind, and Qin Li and his friends suddenly felt like enjoying the night view in the snow, so a few bachelors with nothing to do went hiking. After hiking to see the snow and the moon, they thought that it would not be long before the sunrise, so they decided to wait for two more hours on the top of the mountain to enjoy the sunrise.

Since it was a spur of the moment decision, Qishan didn't bring any warm clothes.

Among the people in the team, only Qin Li was dressed warmly.

He shamelessly asked to borrow a fox cloak from the other party, but he refused.

As a result, Qishan caught a cold and sneezed in the middle of winter.

Don't ask why the spirit can't protect the body from the cold. The answer is that this snow scene was artificially created by the Ministry of War, saying that auspicious snow indicates a good harvest. The mountain they climbed was within the range of the military formation, so the effect of the spirit would be discounted. Except for Qishan, everyone else was alive and kicking.

Had to take a day off sick.

All the civil and military officials in the court knew that Qishan could not tolerate the cold.

Tan Ting said, "Mr. Qin asked the steward to put it on you."

Qishan savored the name Tan Ting.

He smiled and said, "Mr. Qin, you two seem to hit it off right away. Mr. Qin really has some skills."

Qi Shan had personally witnessed how Tan Ting avoided and hated men, and there were only a handful of men with whom he could hold back his temper and talk. Even if Tan Ting re-examined his inner self under the guidance of his master, it would take time for him to improve.

anyway--

Although Qin Li does not have a likable personality in a broad sense, he is definitely a friend that people can feel at ease and trust. With his introverted, self-hardened and restrained personality, as long as there is no deep hatred or crossing his bottom line, there is no need to worry that Qin Li will stab you in the back.

It's reassuring to make friends with such people.

Praying for good is the absolute opposite example.

Tan Ting: “…”

Qi Shan stood up and took cautious steps with his numb feet. It took him a while to recover. "By the way, did Gong Su tell me why he came here this time? It can't be that he welcomes me to leave the battlefield alive..."

Tan Ting shook his head again.

"I didn't say it, but I could guess a little bit. It's just that I was there and you were sleeping so soundly that I couldn't say it out loud."

No matter how much he disliked war, he was still a counselor and could see through the intrigues of people. Qin Li was probably coming for him. He probably wanted to ask Qi Shan for some information, but he didn't expect Qi Shan to hold him back. This caused Qin Li to look a little gloomy and unhappy when he left. However, this matter had nothing to do with Tan Ting. The person who offended Qin Li was Qi Shan, not him.

Speaking of this, Tan Ting was a little surprised.

"From what Mr. Qin said, it seems that he and you have a deep grudge against each other. And I was also present. How could you actually sleep?"

Qishan's legs finally regained feeling.

He tried to move his legs, a rare smile reaching the depths of his eyes: "Headquarters of the emperor, in the royal city, even the dignified Minister of the Central Secretariat cannot rest in peace in his own home, is there any safe place in this world? If you two take advantage of me, I can't do anything about it."

These words are said with confidence.

Now it was Tan Ting's turn to be speechless.

"It's getting late, Mengyuan, go to the guest house and sleep first. Tomorrow, Junqiao will be back, so it's a good opportunity for us to help buy New Year's goods. You should see how prosperous Fengluo Capital is during the day. It is not something that an ordinary small country can compare to!"

Most of the three provinces and six ministries have stopped writing for the New Year.

Tan Ting’s appointment as a senior official would not be granted until after the New Year.

In other words, there will be three people at home celebrating the New Year this year.

Tan Ting said: "It doesn't look much different."

He had seen it in the carriage when he entered the city. He admitted that the streets were indeed spacious and neat, and the eaves and tiles were scattered in an orderly manner, but there were no people near the end of the year, revealing a false impression of exquisite prosperity. Little did he know that Shen Tang did not want to disturb the common people in the city, so he deliberately concealed the news and chose a remote pass to enter the city.

Tan Ting thought it was normal to see few people.

Before daybreak, Qi Shan went out to report for duty and take care of some minor chores. However, he came back in an hour. It happened to be the morning rush hour at the morning market, so he passed by the pastry shop that Qi Miao often visited and picked out a portion of each flavor to pack up.

As soon as I got home, I saw the steward coming towards me.

"Just now I saw the servants brushing Jun Qiao's horse."

The steward reported back, "Go back to the headmaster, the eldest lady just came back and happened to see the distinguished guest. The two of them exchanged a few words and then left together. The eldest lady said she wanted to take the distinguished guest to the city for a tour, so the headmaster didn't need to save lunch for the two of them."

Qi Shan: "...Jun Qiao and Meng Yuan went out?"

The steward said, "The distinguished guest said he wanted to buy some things."

Tan Ting couldn't stay at Qishan's house forever.

If it was just him, he could just live there, but Tan Ting had quite a few people at home, and they couldn't all be crammed in. Tan Ting was going to look for a place to rent, and then get some things ready so that he could bring the people over and move in directly, saving the trouble.

Qi Miao was a kind-hearted person and agreed to be a guide immediately.

The more Qi Shan listened, the more he felt something was wrong.

Qi Miao is kind-hearted, but she has a clear grasp of the boundaries between men and women, and it is impossible for her to just invite a strange guest out.

unless--

"Tan Mengyuan is wearing women's clothes today?" Now it was the steward's turn to be puzzled. What does "wearing women's clothes today" mean? It sounds like the distinguished guest usually wears men's clothes, so he should wear men's clothes... Qi Shan: "..."

Haha, no need to ask more questions.

He took a deep breath: "Let him be..."

Apart from some mental problems, Tan Ting's character is reliable and he will not do anything to hurt Jun Qiao. Even if Qi Shan made a mistake, Jun Qiao is not a lamb to be slaughtered. After studying medicine with Dong Dao for so many years, Qi Miao understands the vital parts of the human body better than anyone else.

Never imagined--

Tan Ting did not hurt Qi Miao, but he and Qi Miao hurt Qi Shan's wallet together! Qi Shan, the left-behind father, had lunch alone, browsed some vegetarian shops, read some Yan Ling Xin Di, and was dumbfounded when a bill was delivered to his door.

"Are these all Jun Qiaohua's?"

To be precise, it was spent by Tan Ting and Qi Miao together.

Tan Ting specifically asked Qishan to pay the bill.

Qi Shan: "...No, why?"

After happily strolling around for the whole day, Tan Ting felt his legs were a little numb. He was sweating in the hot winter, so he sat down and drank a few sips of tea to cool down. "Why? Tsk, based on what you did, Qi Yuanliang, you owe me a huge favor. If I hadn't cleaned up your mess occasionally, why would the Central Branch suffer losses without knowing whose fault it was? You made a lot of profit from it."

Qishan: "..."

Tan Ting smiled: "Is it not worth it?"

Qi Shan gritted his teeth and said, "It's worth it! It's totally worth it!"

How could he forget that Tan Mengyuan, who ostensibly practiced the way of non-competition, himself came from a family with brutal competition. The Central Branch was basically controlled by several families. Tan Ting's position in the branch was not very high, but it was not low either.

Tan Ting asked, "Where did you trick this daughter into coming from?"

He also wanted to trick one into coming back to raise.

Qi Shan rolled his eyes: "Don't think about it."

He held his nose and paid all of Tan Ting's bills.

However, this is just the beginning.

Tan Ting followed the narcissistic lesson Shen Tang taught him, and always asked himself how he felt before doing anything. In just a few days, the bills poured into Qishan's house. The censorate could not hide these movements, and an censor wanted to report him immediately.

Shen Tang sighed and said, "Isn't it time to stop writing for the New Year?"

  Why are there still memorials being submitted to the Censorate?

When I opened it, it was, as expected, from Can Qishan again.

Shen Tang took a look and almost spit out his tea: "Ahem, 'a beautiful woman hidden in a golden house'? 'extravagant and debauched'?"

  Wait a minute, is it that she hasn’t kept up with the latest version?

When did Yuanliang transition to the stage of keeping a beautiful girl in a golden house?

Let’s not talk about the Golden House for now, who is this “Jiao”?

Shen Tang couldn't sit still anymore.

"No, I have to go take a look."

He took the attendant and others on a private visit to find out about the distinguished guest in Qishan Mansion. As soon as he stepped out of the palace gate, Shen Tang suddenly thought of Tan Ting: "No, this distinguished guest can't be Tan Mengyuan, right?"

Walk along the street.

Wow, the rumor has spread.

Shen Tang was cracking melon seeds as he moved towards the crowded teahouse, and took the initiative to bring up the recent gossip about the hidden beauty in the golden house, and immediately the common people chimed in. In the past few days, many people have seen the guest of honor in Qishan's mansion, and this guest was in and out with the eldest lady of the Qi family.

Cracking melon seeds.

Shen Tang said: "This doesn't mean anything."

The person who shared the gossip said, "Why can't you explain it? I saw Qi Zhongshu with them yesterday..."

Immediately a woman spoke up in response.

Her husband usually doesn't even go out with his wife and daughter, and even if he is asked to go out to be jealous, he can find a hundred or eighty excuses.

Shen Tang poured cold water on them: "What does this prove? Qi Zhongshu used to watch operas and appreciate music with a few colleagues..."

"That's different..."

The audience gave explanations one after another.

Try to demonstrate the difference between the two.

Everyone was arguing, and Shen Tang and his group quietly got away. Shen Tang felt bored because he didn't get to eat the melon. It was rare for him to go out of the palace to play, and he didn't want to be locked up again so soon. So he sent the others away, leaving only the secret guards to follow him, and got into the crowd.

The only person he couldn't get rid of was Qijilang.

Shen Tang: "..."

  Okay, okay, she can’t afford to offend!

Even at the foot of the emperor, in the royal city, petty thefts cannot be completely eradicated. In places where supervision is weak, there will be street robberies. If caught, the worst that can happen is a beating. Shen Tang squatted on the street eating wontons. Just after taking two sips of soup, he heard a hoarse shout from the shop across the street: "Robbery——"

The attendant paused with the wooden spoon in his hand.

A gust of wind blew past me.

When I looked up again, where was the shadow of my master?

He was so anxious that he stood up and tried to chase after him, but the wonton stand owner quickly grabbed his sleeve and said viciously, "Stop, you want to run away after one of you ran away? You old man, do you want to eat the King's wontons?"

The attendant hurriedly threw out a copper coin: "No need to change."

The boss yelled: "Not enough——"

When he arrived, the master was escorting the prisoner back amidst the applause of the crowd, and behind him was a foreign high priest named Jimo. The prisoner tried to run, but was kicked in the buttocks, and almost stumbled and fell to the ground.

"Run? Still want to run?"

Shen Tang was still angry.

To rob her in front of her is to slap her in the face.

The crowd did not recognize Shen Tang, who was slightly disguised, and thought that this neatly dressed young lady was some hot-tempered and chivalrous knight. Shen Tang escorted the victim to the victim's shop, smiling broadly, with beads of sweat on his forehead.

"Madam, I have brought the man back to you."

"Thank you, heroes! Thank you, heroes!"

Jimo Qiu, who was behind Shen Tang, was also nearby by chance. He wanted to help take the person away, but Shen Tang refused to let him go, so he could only help take the stolen goods back. The shop owner took it and thanked him repeatedly. Shen Tang took the opportunity to kick the thief and asked the owner for a sip of water. Hey, this is still a thirst-water shop with good business.

The proprietress held the money she had recovered, feeling extremely grateful, and nodded in response: "If there is water, there is water."

After saying that, he turned around and gave Shen Tang a bowl of prepared fruit water.

Shen Tang didn't answer, just smiled.

She used both hands to control the bad guys, what if they ran away when she let go? The proprietress was also a wonderful person, she immediately smiled and handed it to her mouth, Shen Tang's little trick succeeded, her eyebrows and eyes relaxed under the smile, she slightly held the edge of the bowl, tilted her neck and drank it all.

The crowd immediately burst into laughter.

The proprietress was also amused and embarrassed.

  |ω`)

I counted on my fingers and it’s chapter 1201. There should be some signs of romance emerging.