poison king

Chapter 29 (29)
Qingqing followed the sound and saw Situ Ao's figure. He was fighting with a group of dark emperor's minions. The dark emperor had arranged a lot of people here, and the two forces refused to give in to each other. After a while, several people appeared on the ground. seriously injured people.

Situ Ao fought all the way over, shouting: "Hand over my daughter, and I can keep your whole body!"

"Let's avenge the old palace lord together! Let's go together!" A man covered in blood shouted, waving the knife in his hand and slashing at Situ Ao.

Situ Ao easily dodged, and his opponent asked: "Did you see Qingqing?"

Qingqing was afraid that he would be distracted, so she didn't dare to make a sound, so she could only watch.

Fortunately, Situ Ao was so strong in martial arts, he beat a group of minions to the ground in a short while.

Seeing that his kung fu is so strong, the dark emperor knew that he was not Situ Ao's opponent. He just wanted to use Situ Qing to attract Situ Ao, but it was unrealistic to think about it at this time.Then he changed his mind and said to Situ Ao: "Stop! Otherwise I will kill her!"

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Said to Situ Ao: "Stop! Otherwise I will kill her!"

"Qingqing!" Situ Ao yelled, and ran over, seeing Situ Qing tied to a big tree on the edge of the cliff, he panicked immediately.

"Don't come here, come here again and I'll kill her!" An Emperor took a knife and put it on Qingqing's neck.

"Don't touch her!" Situ Ao looked at the thin bloodstains on Qingqing's white and tender neck, and felt very distressed. I haven't seen her for a few months, how did Qingqing become so thin?
The Dark Emperor was eager for revenge, he looked at Situ Ao viciously: "If you commit suicide, I will let her go!"

"No! Dad, don't believe him!" Qingqing yelled.

"You let Qingqing go first, then you let her go, everything is up to you." Situ Ao looked at his daughter nervously.

"Come to the edge of the cliff, and you will jump off if I let her go? Seriously?" An Emperor asked someone to untie Qingqing, but the knife was still on Qingqing's neck.

"Really! It's just that I don't know why you want to kill me?"

"Do you still remember the Compass Palace 20 years ago?"

"You are?" Situ Ao suddenly realized.

"That's right, I am a descendant of Luopan Palace!"

However, Situ Ao suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "If that's the case, then I really deserve to die. After I die, I hope you will do what you say and let my daughter go."

"Don't worry! My target is you!" the Dark Emperor said.

"Okay! You let her go first, and I will jump down when she is safe."

"It's a deal, if you have anything else to say to Situ Qing, just say it!" An Emperor said, Situ Qing was kind to him, so he gave the two of them time to say goodbye.

"Qingqing, don't avenge me when you go back. This is a blood debt I owed when I was young, take good care of your mother and sister!" After finishing speaking, he walked to the edge of the cliff and stopped.

Qingqing didn't speak, she was waiting, waiting for an opportunity!

When the Andi put down the knife and said to her: "You can go!", Qingqing suddenly did something unexpected, she pushed Situ Ao away, and stood on the edge of the cliff...

"Qingqing!" Situ Ao got up from the ground, wanting to get closer.

"Don't come here! Dad, since this is a debt you owe, father and daughter will pay it back, Qingqing will always remember your kindness to Qingqing, let's be father and daughter again in the next life!" Qingqing took another step forward.

"No, Qingqing, don't scare Dad! It's dangerous, come back!"

"Wood doesn't want me anymore. My most important person is only dad now, and dad, you still have mother and sister." Qingqing walked forward after speaking, her weak body rolled down the waterfall on the cliff...

"Qingqing!" Situ Ao yelled, reaching out his hand to grab her.

The only answer to him was the whistling mountain wind and the [-]-foot waterfall. Standing on the edge of the cliff, one could see a flowery girl in her prime rolling down the cliff like this. The figure is decisive and poignant...

Situ Ao failed to grab her hand, not even a corner of her clothes.

Right in front of his eyes, Qingqing's body fell like this, plunged headlong into the turbulent Nujiang River, and disappeared...

Three years later

In the misty night, a large boat docked on the shore. This is a very famous flower boat. The girls on board are all beautiful, and they are all versatile. Even the old bustard Qingjie is first-class beauty.The girls here are very good at playing, playing and singing, and the most distinctive features are storytelling and auctioning portraits of girls.

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The girls here are very good at playing, playing and singing, and the most distinctive features are storytelling and auctioning portraits of girls.

Every night, there will be a beautiful girl on stage to tell stories for everyone. The jokes they tell are all over the world, but they are absolutely unique and unique that you have never heard of.

Basically, after they said it, a bookstore called Mo Kefang in the city would print and sell these stories not long after, but it would never print them before they said it.

What's more distinctive is that there will be a small auction every seven days, ranging from jewelry and jade, to the rouge and gouache used by the girls. The most famous ones are the portraits of the girls. The artist did not People have seen it before, but his paintings are really outstanding. Not to mention the lifelike paintings, the painting method is different from other painters. Others are all fresh and elegant ink painting methods. Only this artist uses heavy color smears The painting method, the paint is very thick, which is also a feature of this flower boat. This flower boat has a vulgar name - colorful butterfly boat.

Looking at the night outside the window, and the endless stream of guests walking onto the boat by the river, Qingqing felt that the time was almost up, and said to the maid next to her, "Tell the front, after a stick of incense, the auction will officially start, let's carry the things up! "

"Yes." The servant girl nodded. Today's auction is a treasure.

Qingqing dressed up in front of the mirror. She purposely put on thick smoky makeup. Over the years, in order not to be recognized by people in the martial arts world, she always dressed like this when entertaining guests. From the eyes of the guests, she She is a coquettish, enigmatic woman who can't be seen through, and no one knows her origin.

After a while, hearing the sound of music, Qingqing walked to the first cabin, walked onto the stage unhurriedly, and said to everyone: "I believe everyone knows the treasure that will be auctioned tonight, but I still have to do it for you." Let me introduce, it is the legendary Kunlun Bi in the Qin Dynasty. Kunlun Bi and He's Bi were as famous as He's Bi. When He's Bi was destroyed, the whereabouts of Kunlun Bi has been unknown. How many people have been looking for it for hundreds of years? A piece of jade, a mysterious seller entrusted it to me tonight, I hope everyone can give this piece of handed down jade a good price."

"How do we know if it's real or not?" a man in brocade robe asked.

"I'm afraid this is the first time this young man has come!" Qingqing chuckled, and said to him: "It's not a day or two since we opened the door for business. Every piece of goods will be appraised by experts in advance. When making a deal, you can also buy it yourself Bring an expert to look at the goods, if you are dissatisfied, you don't need to pay, but as long as you sell this product, I will not be responsible!"

The brocade robed man blushed and nodded. It was indeed his first time here, and he was coming towards the wall of Kunlun.

Qingqing looked at everyone: "Who has any questions? If there are no questions, let's start!"

Everyone said that there was no problem, and everyone could trust the reputation of Caidiefang.

Qingqing asked people to lift the silk, and a large, complete, and delicately carved jade biscuit suddenly appeared in front of everyone: "The base price is 1000 taels, and the minimum price increase is 100 taels each time. Please bid."

As soon as the price came out, many people didn't dare to bid, it was too expensive!

But thinking about it, it should be the case for handed down treasures. A rich and powerful old man raised the sign in his hand: "One thousand and one hundred taels."

"300 taels!" Another rich master raised his hand.

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"300 taels!" Another rich master raised his hand.

"400 taels." The veteran waited and raised his hand again.

"2000 taels." As if impatient, and as if he disliked that the prices offered by these people were too low, a man sitting in the corner raised his cards, and everyone looked at him, that man was Xiahou Xuan.Seeing that it was him, everyone was not surprised, Xiahou's family was as rich as an enemy, and Xiahouxuan was Boss Qing's admirer, so it was not surprising that he offered a high price.

Qingqing glanced at him, feeling bored in her heart, since this guy accidentally saw her taking a bath by a stream outside the city, he seemed to be a different person.Running here every now and then, if her father hadn't washed his hands in the golden basin now and took his mother to live in seclusion, she would have thought that Xia Houxuan was trying to plot something with her.

He came every day, although it brought her some face, it was more of an annoyance, she didn't know how to deal with this man who seemed to have an expression but was actually hiding his secrets, but business!The visitor is a guest, she can't push the guest out!

He could only look at him with a coquettish smile: "Young Master Xiahou is really rich! Who else wants to bid?"

Such a high price, generally at this price, is basically settled, unless some low-key super rich people come here, Long Live Lord has been here several times and bought something once, the price, tsk tsk!

"I'll pay 3000 taels." A voice came from outside the door.

Just as Qingqing thought it sounded familiar, she saw Mu Yanchi walking in from the door. He was dressed in white.He is very handsome, I haven't seen him for a few years, he looks better the longer he grows, Qingqing thinks he looks like himself, he should not be able to recognize him, so he said: "Young master, please sit up, the girls are waiting for you! Everyone, please continue to bid , the current price is 3000 taels of silver."

Mu Yanchi didn't recognize her for a while, so he nodded and sat down.

Xia Houxuan was not willing to be the queen: "Three thousand and five."

"Three thousand and six, I hope that brother Xiahou will hold your hand high. Two months is my mother's fiftieth birthday. I plan to give this piece of jade as a gift to my mother. So no matter what the price is, I will accompany it." Mu Yanchi said He said that Xia Houxuan would not be able to bid with him.

Sure enough, Xia Houxuan had no choice but to give in. In fact, he had already given in. It was just out of face, the price was too high, he didn't need to buy it, and Xia Houxuan didn't bid anymore.

Others didn't dare to bid anymore. After asking three times, Qingqing finalized the small gong: "Deal, please Mr. Mu, please go upstairs to the cabin to trade later after the auction is over."

Mu Yan nodded his head, expressing that he knew.His mother loved jade the most in her life, so she must like this piece of jade. Although it is a little expensive, it will be used as a family heirloom in the future.

The next second treasure, Qingqing ordered someone to bring it up, unfold it, it is a painting, the beauty on the painting is the head oiran Yanniang of Caidiefang, this is another representative heavy color painting, with thick brush and ink However, the woman in the painting is lifelike, very beautiful, and the look and posture make the men salivate.

It is well known that the girls in the Butterfly Boat are pure ladies, without the company of beauties, it is also a beautiful thing to be accompanied by such a lifelike painting, and they all expressed great interest.

Qingqing offered the price: "Starting at 100 taels of silver, each increase should not be less than ten taels."

Now everyone scrambled to bid, and finally sold it to an old employee for more than 400 taels.

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Now everyone scrambled to bid, and finally sold it to an old employee for more than 400 taels.

Qingqing only takes care of the auction, singing and dancing, etc., and the girls will arrange it herself, so she doesn't have to worry about it: "Two buyers, please follow me upstairs to trade. The girls serve the guests well, and everyone eats and drinks!"

Immediately the music started again, a group of girls flooded onto the stage to sing and dance, Qingqing led the two distinguished guests up to the second floor, the old man was thinking about the little beauties downstairs, he didn't feel like sitting down, and took out a stack of The bank note came to Qingqing: "Boss Qing, check if there is any mistake. If you didn't give me the painting directly, I won't go in and sit."

"It's okay." They were all regular customers, and Qingqing was also polite to him. After looking at the bank notes, she asked the maid behind her to wrap up the picture scroll and hand it to him.

The regular customer took the painting and went down without even looking at it.

Only Qingqing and Mu Yanzhu were left in the corridor, Qingqing went to the room and asked the servant girl to serve him tea: "Please drink tea, someone will bring the jade pendant right away."

"Thank you." Mu Yanchi didn't expect that this place of fireworks would have such good tea. This old bustard has a good taste, so he took out a lot of silver notes from his pocket, counted them and handed them over: "You count them .”

"There's no need to count." She can trust Mu Yanchi's character, and she knew his character was good three years ago.

Soon a maid brought the jade bi, and Qingqing handed it to him: "Look, I'm not in charge except for this door."

Mu Yanchi looked at it and saw that it was perfect, without any major flaws: "Then I will take my leave."

"Let's go slowly." Qingqing sighed in her heart, he probably didn't see who he was!

When Mu Yanchi walked to the door, he suddenly turned his head and said, "Did anyone say that you look a bit like a person?"

Qingqing shook her head: "No."

"It's a bit like it, but she doesn't wear as much makeup as you do."

Qingqing replied: "There are a lot of people in this world, their looks are unimaginable, one or two is not surprising, if you see that person in the future, bring them with me to have a look, I will treat her to dinner and drink."

"It's easy to say." Mu Yanchi didn't feel right, the sister-in-law was a very gentle woman, she was by no means as sharp-tongued and arrogant as the woman in front of him, it seemed that he just recognized the wrong person.

After the transaction was completed, Qingqing asked the maid to take him downstairs, and then asked the maid to invite Xia Houxuan. Anyway, it was thanks to him that the price was so high tonight, and it was not an exaggeration to invite him to dinner. According to the rules, half of the net profit of the auctioned goods belongs to Caidiefang. For the 600 taels sold, Caidiefang can get half of it, which is 800 taels, which is equivalent to a normal month's income. Qingqing thinks You can buy another flower boat to run it. Most of the women she took in were poor women. Some sold their bodies to bury their parents, some were unable to have children and were kicked out of the house by their in-laws and had no place to go, and some had both parents dead. .There are also widows who have to raise their children to grow up, and all of them need money very much.

When Xia Houxuan came in, he saw her counting the money again, and said with a smile, "What are you planning?"

"I want to buy another boat and take in some poor girls." Qingqing doesn't want any of the money these girls earn on the boat, she only needs income from auctions and book publishing.Those girls only need to accompany them here for one year, and as long as they don't waste money, they can go home and buy houses and land to do some small business.Qingqing never advocates letting them do it for a long time, it is not a good thing to be a flower girl for a lifetime.

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Qingqing never advocates letting them do it for a long time, it is not a good thing to be a flower girl for a lifetime.

"That's very good. People in the city say that your Boss Qing is a kind person. I believe that as long as you put up a notice to recruit people, poor girls from hundreds of miles away will be willing to come." Xia Houxuan looked at her in front of him, feeling deep inside. I admire her, as a woman, she has always had a hard time doing business in public, and it is really not easy for her to manage the business in such an orderly and prosperous manner.

"I bought a piece of land in the south of the city to build a house. Girls who don't want to get married can buy a house there at a price that is cheaper than the market in the future. In the future, we sisters can be together and be companions when they get old." The benefits she seeks for those girls!She only charged the cost price, so that the workers would not work in vain and not lose money, and she never thought of making a penny.

"You are smart. Let these women unite so that they can protect themselves in the future." In this way, others will not dare to bully them. There are more people and more strength!
"I made you laugh. Anyway, today is thanks to you. I thank you for the children in the surrounding towns who have no money to go to school!" After Qingqing lost a child that year, she opened many free schools to help poor children go to school.This can be regarded as accumulating virtue for the child she lost!It is really in order to maintain such a huge expense that she became the proprietress here, bought this flower boat with the dowry given by her parents, and then made it bigger and bigger. Now besides this boat, there are several shops on the shore that are also hers. under the name.

"You're welcome, we'll be a family from now on." He wanted to marry her, and everyone knew it, and it was precisely because of his cover that most people would not dare to think of Qingqing and make trouble for her.

(End of this chapter)