poison king

Chapter 31 (31)
"I asked someone to set up the stage, Xiaocui, you and Xiaohong, Xiaohua, and Ziyan are in a group. You guys are in charge of arranging the exterior scenes. I have already drawn the layout plan. According to this layout, Du Juan will give them the layout plan. Here is 100 taels of silver, which should be enough." Qingqing took out a bag of silver from her sleeve and handed it to them.

Then he said to the girls who were still stunned: "You guys, hurry up and prepare your talents."

Everyone got busy for a while, Qingqing said again: "I have to invite some literati to write articles, Du Juan to prepare some invitations, I will write, some people have to ask me personally one by one."

It has been two days since Qingqing finished the invitation. She went to invite her family. When she arrived at Wangwang and Xia Houxuan's temporary residence, Qingqing was already exhausted: "Du Juan, go knock on the door."

Du Juan went to the door and knocked: "Is anyone there?"

After a while, someone came to open the door, and the servant recognized the two of them: "It's Boss Qing! Please wait a moment, I'll go ask the young master for instructions."

After a while, Xia Houxuan greeted him personally, waving the folding fan in his hand: "Qingqing, why are you here? Please come inside, I'm really flattered."

"I'm sending you an invitation. I'm thirsty. Do you have some tea?" Qingqing was not polite to him, she walked into the room and found a chair to sit on.

"Longan eight-treasure tea, your favorite!" Qingqing likes to drink sweet ones, he asked someone to buy them once and hasn't brewed them yet, so it's finally ready for use.

"Thank you." Qingqing leaned back on the chair, leisurely and contented, as if at her own home.

Xia Houxuan flipped through the invitations in his hand, and laughed maliciously again: "From now on, we will be a family, so why send out invitations? I will definitely go for your business."

"So sure? Didn't you hear that the various sects are going to besiege the Dark Emperor? Are you willing to join the martial arts?" Qingqing was not sure in her heart, but she was just showing it off, but she didn't expect him to be straightforward.

"I didn't accept him at first, what can he do with me? Beat me while attacking the Dark Emperor? I called my junior brother to go, it's enough to give him face, if we really want to fight, I'm not afraid." Xia Houxuan He said lazily, the abilities of his Xiahou family have improved a bit in the past few days.

"Just blow it up! By the way, I need your help with something."

"Say!" Xia Houxuan was very straightforward.

"I have a sudden craving for peaches these days, so send someone to get me some! On the day of the selection of the oiran, it's better to present it decently." Qingqing smiled.

"Did you come up with some idea? Why don't you do such a simple thing yourself?" How can you kill a chicken with a sledgehammer?

"You have more men and horses than me, and your horses are better and faster than mine. I'm really greedy. You also said that you would go through fire and water for me." Qingqing pressed him with words.

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"You have more men and horses than me, and your horses are better and faster than mine. I'm really greedy. You also said that you would go through fire and water for me." Qingqing pressed him with words.

Xia Houxuan knew that she had a strong mouth: "I didn't say I wouldn't help you, I'll ask someone to buy it for you later."

"That's good. I still have a few more to go, so I won't bother you." Qingqing stood up and achieved her goal.

"Wait a minute, drink tea before going, it's already brewed, just sit down and have a rest."

"Thank you." Qingqing was hungry and thirsty thinking about it, and said to Xia Houxuan: "Having tea and snacks is not a fly in the ointment, do you have snacks? I love horseshoe cake."

"You're making progress. I think you're starving. It's almost time to eat. Why don't you eat at my place! The cooks here are no worse than those at yours." Xia Houxuan rarely had a chance to show off, so naturally he had to be good at it. Performance, try to impress her.

"Then I want to eat pork ribs, braised in soy sauce, or pig's trotters!" Qingqing was very hungry and wanted to eat something with a lot of oil.

Xia Houxuan is easy to talk: "Here, let someone make it for you. The tea is here, let's drink some first!"

Qingqing took it and took a sip, the corners of her mouth curled up: "It tastes good, very authentic!"

Xia Houxuan took the opportunity to say: "In the future, come to my place often when you have time, drink tea, and I will prepare snacks for you in the future. I want to make you feel like going home, so that one day you will want to marry yourself. Give me."

"It's not a conspiracy if you say it, it's a conspiracy!"

"It's what Qingqing says, and if there's anything I need to do in the future, just ask." He guessed that something must have happened to Qingqing, and it's definitely not as simple as wanting peaches to eat.She doesn't want to mention it now, so he won't ask, and he will always know in the future.

"Thank you." Qingqing couldn't tell the difference between the real and the fake, so she took them all as fake, and she couldn't afford to be hurt.

Going out from here, the master and the servant arrived at the inn where Mu Yanzhu was temporarily staying. The shopkeeper said: "The two girls just happened to come. The young master just checked out of the room and was packing his luggage upstairs. He will leave later. Room No. [-]."

"Thank you." Qingqing rushed upstairs.

Du Juan knocked on the door: "Is anyone there? We are from Caidiefang."

"Please come in." Mu Yanji's tired voice came from inside.

Qingqing pushed the door in and put the invitation on the table: "Young Master Mu, we will have a large-scale oiran contest in the Butterfly Boat in a few days, this is an invitation, but I heard that you are leaving now, so I am here to see you off Let’s go! Good luck, Dujuan, let’s go.”

"Wait a minute." Mu Yan turned over the invitation card in his hand. This piece of paper was very delicately made, even tied with a ribbon, which was very interesting, but what caught his attention was the words on the paper. No matter how people change, handwriting will not change.

"Master Mu, what else is there?"

"Sister-in-law, my mother is sick, do you want to go back with me? Over the years, my parents have been guilty of you, they thought you were dead, my mother was afraid, afraid that your wronged soul would kill you, and your life was not good. Maybe You go, and her illness will be cured." Mu Yan said, ever since he learned that his sister-in-law was kidnapped on the way back to her mother's house and forced to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff, his mother has always been very guilty. Personally escort them back and things like that wouldn't happen.

"I don't know what you're talking about? My name is Qing Niang."

"Sister-in-law, don't pretend, I can recognize your handwriting." In the past, my sister-in-law wrote a few words in her spare time. Later, after the elder brother recovered his memory, the maids folded up all the things belonging to the sister-in-law, and the mother ordered him to deal with them. A few words written by my sister-in-law.

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Mother ordered him to deal with it, and among them were some letters written by my sister-in-law.

"Then tell him that Situ Qing is still alive, don't mention anything else, I have something to do, so I'm leaving." Qingqing pulled Du Juan out.

"Sister-in-law, I just received a letter from my family. My mother is sick. Can you go and see her? I know this request is too much, but she has not been in good health these past few years, and the doctor said that she has not been there for a few years." His mother's words were retribution, but after all, it was his mother, his sister-in-law who had always been filial.

Qingqing might as well tell him the truth: "My father may be in trouble now, and I can't go anywhere these days."

"What's wrong with your father? If there's anything I can do to help, just say it."

"This is my family's private matter, thank you, no need. Don't call me sister-in-law in the future, I am no longer." She is just a flower boat bustard now, and Qingqing pulled Du Juan and turned away after speaking.

When I got back to the flower boat, I got good news. A girl handed Qingqing a letter: "Sister Qing, someone sent this today and said that it must be handed over to you."

Qingqing took it back to her room and opened it for a look. She was relieved, it was written by someone entrusted by the oil seller: "The letter was snatched, I ran away, and I won't return for a while, please don't worry, miss."

After reading it, she put it under the candle and burned it, and said to Du Juan: "The oil seller is safe, but there was an accident on the road, the elder brother should not have such a thing that is easy to be caught! That would be Who did it? There must be no problem with the oil seller, could it be that he showed his feet when he left the city?"

"Miss, how are you going to deliver the letter now? You asked Mr. Xiahou to buy peaches today. People must think you asked him to deliver the letter and lured him away. Miss, you are so smart, but who is reliable and will not be deceived now?" Pay attention?"

"I'm afraid that there are more than one or two people staring at us. This time, I still have to entrust you to take the waterway, climb over the wall and enter the courtyard of the city's messenger, and stuff the letter into other letters. People will definitely think that I will be at the oiran meeting. Get my people out of the city. You write the envelope, I’m afraid someone will recognize my handwriting again.” This should be more foolproof.

"Slave obeys, when will the letter be delivered?"

"Don't worry, after the oiran meeting, these people will be suspicious." Qingqing said, she dared not make any mistakes this time.

"Is this the purpose of Miss holding the Oiran Conference?"

"Half, I still want to take this opportunity to catch the people behind the scenes, who is leaking my information."

"How does the lady want to do it?"

"You send someone to deliver a letter, we write a fake one, and send it to Hengling, make sure it looks real, and then use Xia Houxuan's people to follow up secretly, rescue them when necessary, and wait for the enemy to show up to intercept Or if Xia Houxuan's people try to catch them while following them, it's not the real address anyway, and it's harmless. This person will go out on the day of the Oiran Contest, which will attract more attention. Walking from the flower boat in the middle of the night, walking at dawn is the most attractive Suspicious." Qingqing said, there are too few people she can use, so she can only try boldly.

"Miss, this is really a good plan to kill two birds with one stone. Miss's plan is getting better and better."

"I know how to flatter a horse. I'm tired. I want to sleep for a while before going to eat. You go to sleep for a while too!" Qingqing crawled into the bed, really tired.

The Oiran Competition was held at night, and the Butterfly Boat had its own unique symbol, which was a butterfly. In Qingqing's words, it was called a logo.

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The Oiran Competition was held at night, and the Butterfly Boat had its own unique symbol, which was a butterfly. In Qingqing's words, it was called a logo. The logo is a very beautiful butterfly pattern. Every girl in Caidiefang will embroider such a butterfly mark on the left chest of her clothes. The color is all white, but because today is at night, Qingqing’s innovative addition Phosphor powder is included in the logo, so their appearance is already a strange performance. When more than 30 participating girls came to the stage with fluorescent butterflies on their chests, there were bursts of discussions from below , is so special.

Amidst the discussion, Qingqing walked onto the stage with gorgeous makeup: "Welcome to everyone, we will select the annual oiran of the Butterfly Boat here tonight, this is the first time, and it will continue to be held in the future, everyone Whoever supports the girl can buy silk flowers at the office next to the table and cast them on the stage. We will determine the number of champions based on the number of silk flowers. Of course, if you find it troublesome, you can just throw money directly. One tael of silver will be counted as a silk flower, but be careful not to drop it Now, let’s talk about it now, let’s invite the first girl, Miss Juan’er, to come on stage.”

After Qingqing finished speaking, she stepped off the stage to rest, and then the girls entered the stage one after another. The girls who got to the back got more silk flowers and silver. All these uncles lost cash and bank notes, but fortunately the girls stood far away and were not injured.

And the girls also showed their own unique skills, dancing, singing, and acrobatics, but there is no suspense. The one who got the most silk flowers this year was the girl Caier. Yes, I can also play some ditties, and the small appearance is so beautiful that I fake it. I easily got hundreds of silk flowers, plus silver and silver notes, close to 800 taels.Combined with what other girls got, the total is more than 3000 taels.

After drinking enough tea, Qingqing led the girls up, and said to the audience: "Thank you for your support, the oiran of this year's oiran competition has been selected, and according to the sum of silk flowers and silver, this year's oiran is... "

With a sound of "Boom!", a piece of silver was thrown onto the stage.

Qingqing was dumbfounded. She looked at the audience and asked, "Which son did you vote for? Which girl did you vote for?"

A somewhat shy young man said with a blushing face, "It's what I voted for. I have admired Boss Qing for a long time. I wonder if the girl can sing a song for us?"

"Me?" Qingqing pointed at herself in disbelief, she never expected that people would like her makeup so thick, would it be too strong?

"That's right! Boss Qing, please sing a song for everyone too! It's such a good day today, let's cheer everyone up. No one has heard you sing, Boss Qing." An old employee was also curious about her singing voice. How about it, with such a coquettish person, the singing voice should not be bad!He reached out and threw a few pieces of silver onto the stage.

Qingqing didn't want to spoil everyone's face, so she said: "Okay! It's just that I won't participate in the oiran competition, so I will sing to relieve everyone's boredom. You don't need to vote for me. Ladies, go to the audience to rest for a while. Bring up the old snare drum, the left and right sides and the back side, and ask someone to lift it up, half the height of a person is fine, and then bring me the red silk that the girls used just now."

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"Half a person's height is fine, and bring me the red silk that the girls used just now."

"Yes." The girls all dispersed, and went down to the stage to help her prepare. After a while, the things were brought up, and the scenery was ready-made.

Qingqing draped the silk on her shoulders, with the two ends hanging between her hands. She used the strength of her arms to pull it around a few times, and then began to sing: "The road of life is beautiful and dreams are like long roads, and the road is windy and frosty, and the face is dry..."

As she spoke, the silk in her hand was gently thrown out to hit one of the drums. The sound was not harsh, it sounded like a soft sound. With her singing, the dancing postures became more and more diverse. , swinging sleeves, are so beautiful, this dance is inspired by Zhang Ziyi's extremely gorgeous long silk dance in "Ambush from Daggers", but Qingqing's dance is not so hard, when hitting the drum, the force It is also light, like a breeze.

Her movements may not be perfect, but her expression has already achieved eight points, which makes people feel that the dance is extremely beautiful and the singing is extremely beautiful.

At the end of the song, Qingqing saluted everyone: "I made everyone laugh."

After a moment of silence, bursts of thunderous applause erupted from the audience, and those spectators frantically threw money and bank notes onto the stage, and some even threw all the money they had on them.

Qingqing saluted everyone again: "Thank you for your kindness, and we will invite our girls to come on stage."

Du Juan hurriedly asked people to pick up the silver and bank notes on the stage, and filled a small box before finishing the packing, because Qingqing had said in advance that she would not participate in the Oiran Competition, so all these silver coins were not counted, so people put them aside first.Announce tonight's result to everyone: "Now I announce tonight's result, tonight's oiran is girl Cai'er, she will get the lottery that all the girls in tonight's oiran competition have previously won, a total of 100 taels of silver. Let's cheer for Miss Caier."

After Qingqing finished speaking, there was bursts of applause from the audience.

The fireworks that had been prepared for a long time were also set off at this time. When the beautiful fireworks bloomed in the sky, tonight's meeting was also considered to be the end, but everyone was still full of ideas and refused to leave after watching the fireworks for a long time.

At this time, Du Juan had already calculated the lottery that Qingqing had won just now, and waved to Qingqing.

Qingqing walked to the side of the stage and asked softly: "What's wrong?"

"I figured it out, miss, you got the most lottery, more than 1000 taels."

"Immediately bring out the wine, take out as much as you have, ask Xiaoer to set the table immediately, and then go to other nearby inns to buy some ready-made dishes. Tonight everyone will have a night. This night will definitely make the Butterfly Boat a higher level Lou, all expenses will be deducted from the 1000 taels."

"Yes." Du Juan nodded and hurried to order.

Qingqing came to the stage to share the good news with everyone: "If you are not enjoying yourself to the fullest, how about giving Qing some face by staying and having some food and drink on the spot? I have ordered people to quickly arrange it. If you don't get drunk or return tonight, I will treat you. "

Everyone in the audience suddenly boiled: "I must disturb you."

This night really became a sleepless night, everyone ate and drank until the early morning before the show ended, and some drunk and unconscious people were helped to the guest room in the backyard by the mistress to rest and let them leave tomorrow, which was also free.

All the girls were also excited, eating and drinking with everyone, and making noise until very late.

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