Chapter 161: Good or Evil?
Chapter 161: Good or Evil?
The scene of her smilingly looking at several young men was seen by a woman on the stage downstairs who was holding a zither and bowing to thank the guests.
After the piano music ended, Shen Shenshen realized that it was getting late, so he stood up and said goodbye to the four young masters in the pavilion.
Hu Jiaxiu and Qiao Shaoyu have been somewhat uninterested since they knew Shen Shenshen was going to marry Zhu Yanxiao. As the royal family of Prince Zhong, the family they rely on cannot compare. As the eldest son of the prince's mansion and the prince, the two cannot compare. As the man Zhu Yanxiao, the two cannot compete in appearance and temperament.
As expected, only a man of Dongxiang status who was a prince could have such a beautiful and bright woman. Woo woo woo~ The two young masters cried in their hearts.
"God, are you really leaving?" Zhou Yiran's handsome face showed reluctance. At this moment, he was like a puppy, wagging his tail.
Shen Shen looked at him with a smile on her face. She wanted to reach out and touch his head, but she held back her smile and said, "Chang'an, you just said you would only keep half a cup of tea, but it's almost half an incense stick. It's getting late, and I really have to go back home."
"Oh." Zhou·Little Dog·resolutely looked disappointed.
"Hehe, Chang'an, don't feel bad. Next time if you have a tea party, you can invite a few young ladies from other mansions. Shenshen will still attend the appointment." After saying this, he bowed and walked out of the pavilion.
"Hey, God, let me see you off." Zhou stood up resolutely.
“No, no.” She turned around and waved her hand, with a smile on her face: “I am very happy today. Let’s go, everyone.”
The four of them stared at her departing back, each with their own thoughts.
One of the men stood up suddenly and said, "Going to the toilet" in front of the surprised eyes of the other three. He then quickly walked out of the pavilion.
The maid Lu Hen was waiting in the hall on the first floor. It was too inhumane to let the maid stand outside the house and torture the maid. The main reason was that if the masters wanted to say something very confidential, and the maid heard it, and the speaker spread it unintentionally, wouldn't it ruin the whole thing? She never believed in human nature.
Shen Shenshen lifted her skirt lightly and walked down the stairs to the second floor. She walked to a secluded corner in the courtyard on the first floor and was about to turn around and enter the spacious and bright hall on the first floor.
However, at this moment, a figure flashed out from a secluded place like a ghost. This person seemed to have been waiting for a long time. His movements were swift and decisive. He swung out his palm without hesitation and slapped Shen Shenshen's neck fiercely. This palm was accompanied by a sharp wind, and it obviously contained great power.
Shen Shenshen was caught off guard and was immediately knocked unconscious, his body falling backwards.
Just as the masked man in black was about to hold Shen Shenshen's shoulders and take her away, he suddenly stretched out a pair of hands to hold Shen Shenshen's waist in advance, pulled her back against himself, and looked at the masked man in black with cold eyes.
The man in black was empty-handed. Seeing his plan ruined, he said angrily, "I advise you to stop interfering."
The man who was holding Shen Shenshen's mind raced as he looked up and down at the man in black, and said in a domineering tone.
"Who are you?"
The man in black didn't respond, but said viciously: "Give the man to me and I'll let you go. Otherwise, I don't mind killing you too."
"Hmph, you dare to threaten me? Do you know my identity? If you dare to touch me, just try it." The man who rescued the gods was full of momentum.
The masked man in black was a little hesitant. Most of the customers in this teahouse were either rich or noble. There was also a prince from the palace traveling incognito. If he was injured... it would be very troublesome.
While the man in black was hesitating, the man picked up the unconscious Shen Shenshen and turned to run.
"You're looking for death." The man in black shouted angrily and punched the man in the face.
The man heard the palm wind and barely dodged it. Before the man in black threw a second punch, he had already hugged Shen Shenshen and distanced himself from the masked man in black.
"Hmph. Sir, if you don't know Kung Fu, don't get involved in this mess. Give the man to me, and I will let you go."
The man looked behind the man in black, murderous intent on his face, and said viciously: "Kill this man for me."
The man in black immediately turned around and saw no one behind him. He realized he had been tricked. He turned around and saw a corner of the man's clothes running out of the yard quickly.
At this moment, the man in black, who was furious and humiliated, shouted angrily: "You are looking for death." He jumped onto the roof and chased out of the yard.
After only a few breaths, the man behind the door outside the courtyard looked into the courtyard, only to find that there was no one there. He immediately carried Shen Shenshen and went up to the third floor in two steps along the stairs of the teahouse.
The servant guarding the entrance to the third floor saw the man holding a woman and was about to ask a question when he saw the man took out the exclusive key to the third floor room and waved it in front of the servant. The servant nodded ambiguously at the man and pushed open the wooden door of the stairs to let the couple with "something going on" enter the third floor.
The man quickly walked to the private room that had been booked in advance and put Shen Shenshen on the bed in the room.
The private room is not big, with a bed against the wall. There is a large window on the wall on the other side of the bed. The moonlight shines through the window onto the bed, adding a romantic feeling.
In the middle of the room there was a small octagonal table and matching chairs, with a few candles lit on the table. There were no other unnecessary furniture or ornaments.
The man was so tired that he slumped down on the Eight Immortals Chair, breathing heavily. Fine beads of sweat were seen oozing out of his handsome face, and the back of his gorgeous clothes was already wet with sweat. He didn't feel anything when he was in the life-and-death situation just now, but now his hands and feet were shaking after escaping death. If he wasn't sitting, he would have fallen to his knees.
The man who saved Shen Shenshen was Zhu Chutang, who had never said a good word about Shen Shenshen throughout the entire banquet.
That was a close call.
Zhu Chutang was gasping for breath, having gone through a life-and-death situation.
When Zhou Yiran told the three of them that he had also invited Shen Shen, Zhu Chutang had evil thoughts. He left the pavilion while Zhou Yiran's servant went to the first floor to welcome Shen Shen, and booked a private room on the third floor with his status as the sixth son of Prince Zhong's mansion. Today was a good opportunity, so why not find a chance to kidnap Miss Shen Er and destroy the woman Zhu Yanxiao loved most. What would that arrogant elder brother do?
When Shen Shenshen said goodbye, he made an excuse to everyone and told everyone that he went to the toilet, just to catch up with Shen Shenshen and lie to her that Zhu Yanxiao had actually been waiting for her on the third floor for a long time. A woman like Shen Shenshen would definitely believe it and would definitely follow him upstairs.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he caught up, he saw Shen Shenshen being knocked unconscious by a palm strike from a masked man in black. Zhu Chutang didn't think much about the fact that he didn't know martial arts at that time. Now thinking carefully about the danger of being late to realize, a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back again.
Zhu Chutang, who had recovered his breath, walked to the bedside, feeling mixed emotions. At the age of eighteen, he already had a maid to warm the bed in his courtyard, and was very familiar with the affairs between men and women.
I couldn't help but reach out and touch Shen Shenshen's face. He was really beautiful, with delicate and smooth skin, whiter than snow. When he looked at him, his eyes were like a pool of clear water. When he looked around, he had a kind of elegant and noble temperament, which made people feel fascinated but ashamed to not blaspheme. It made people obsessed.
Zhu Chutang couldn't help but lower his head and kiss her lips. At first, he tried to kiss her lips gently. During the exchange of breath, he smelled the sweetness of the tea that Shen Shenshen drank last. It was too wonderful. He couldn't help but deepen the kiss, prying open her lips and entangled with the woman's tongue.
Zhu Chutang began to breathe slightly. Thinking of I's plan at the beginning, he felt a burning sensation inside and his body soon felt impulses and desires.
Today the moon is bright and the wind is clear, and the archway of Jixian Teahouse is particularly eye-catching.
Outside the teahouse, the streets were quiet and silent, but the secret guards "Hong" and "Huang" were looking around nervously.
They had just seen a man in black in the teahouse and followed him here, but just at a corner, the figure disappeared without a trace like a ghost.
"Oh no! We've fallen into a trap! A plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain!" Huang was the first to react, and a layer of sweat broke out on his forehead.
Hong frowned and his expression became serious: "Damn it, he actually got away..."
The two looked at each other and saw regret and self-blame in each other's eyes. They never thought that they would be deceived so easily.
Hong winked at Huang, who immediately returned to the teahouse to look for Miss Shen Er. He was sensitive to the sound in the backyard of the teahouse and immediately rushed to the backyard.
'Hong' didn't waste a moment and sent a firework signal into the sky that all the Feidaowei could understand.
The night was dark and the sky was full of stars. Insects chirped in the corridors of the palace, and sometimes there was a slight coolness on my cheeks, but it was not the wind. Looking far away, every pillar in the courtyard was hung with palace lanterns, and the pale yellow light illuminated the water palace and cloud room, and made the jade trees and branches look like mist. Occasionally, a pair of eunuchs or palace maids in palace costumes walked by, their steps were hurried but orderly.
Emperor Huai Sheng felt a little tired after reading the memorial today. He remembered that he asked Zhu Yanxiao to handle the case of the Zhou Mansion the day before yesterday. He heard that he went to the Duke of Jing'an's Mansion to meet the eldest daughter of the Zhou family yesterday. He was very satisfied with Zhu Yanxiao's initiative. Today, he summoned him directly to ask about the situation and also expressed his uncle's great grace.
So before Zhu Yanxiao had time to leave for Jixian Teahouse today, he was summoned to the palace by Emperor Huaisheng before dusk and met the emperor in the imperial study.
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