Chapter 53 The Demon under the Moon(2/5)
She stopped hesitating and left directly by himself.
This time, Bailichu did not stop her anymore. Waiting for Qiu Yebai to walk out of an arrow, she could still hear the vague sound of the pipa floating away from afar, with the pleasant but cool song.
"There are trees in the south, so you cannot think about it. There are wandering girls in the Han Dynasty, so you cannot think about it. The Han Dynasty is so broad that it cannot think about it..."
The song was low and slightly sandy, but it was extremely pleasant, accompanied by a little sound of the pipa, which was strangely confusing under the moon. From a distance, on the black wooden bridge, a beauty in red dress sang under the moon holding a zither and sang with her wide sleeves hanging down on the ground, but she couldn't see her face clearly. She was both illusory and real, and she looked like a human being.
Under the bridge, carp jumped up lightly, and the dark and quiet water surface splashed with broken water, and silver light splashed on the lotus leaves.
There is no one in the middle of the night, and time seems to have stopped.
Qiu Yebai looked quietly and suddenly understood why the fox demon flower ghosts were so enchanting and lost their minds in Pu Songling’s night talk legends.
People always have uncontrollable exploration and invasion of unknown beautiful things that pop up a corner of the darkness, but they don’t know that maybe they will be tempted the next moment and dragged into the boundless darkness and swallowed the bones without them.
Therefore, her curiosity about not being concerned about her has always been limited.
but……
She touched her nose and thought to herself that although Baili Chu sang it into a soul-suming song, the middle man's courtship song to a woman. If she hadn't been sure that she had not revealed any flaws, she would have suspected that this guy was impliciting something.
So today this guy is drunk and fucked?
Or intermittent nerve-to-collar vertebra syndrome?
She was too lazy to guess the matter without an answer, so she turned around and walked away with the moon and song, her clothes flying.
After a long time, the moon shadow tilted in the sky, and the beauty of Huoge suddenly stopped the sound of the pipa and said lazily: "Yibai."
A slender figure in a white black cloak stood silently behind him and said respectfully: "Your Highness."
Baili Chu closed his eyes, not knowing whether he was tired or tired, his voice was cold and lazy: "Playing the piano under the moon and singing to seek beauty can make the beauty obsessed and throwing her arms into her arms, huh?"
Yibai's exquisite embroidered cloud pattern trembled. I don't know if it was the cold wind in the middle of the night or for some other reason, but his head was buried a little lowered, and his voice became even more respectful: "Go back to Your Highness, your singing is wonderful and the piano sound is outstanding, but I can't help playing the piano with a cow. Maybe the Fourth Master of Qiu Family is a non-musical young man!"
"Tell the truth?" Baili Chu rubbed the strings and gently plucked the strings, and played a cold and sharp sound.
Yibai hesitated, buried his head lower, his voice was extremely respectful, and he said tactfully: "Your Highness's piano song is quite suitable for something."
"Um?"
"spiritualism."
“…What is soul-summoning?”
"Namo Guanyin Bodhisattva, the three sages of the heavens shine on the road, the heavens and the earth are spiritual, the evil ghosts are hiding away from all directions, Dogwazi, Dogwazi's soul, don't get lost, Dogwazi, Dogwazi, Dogwazi, come back soon!"
“….”
“Very good.”
On the second day of the moonlit night, the lively summer festival was the lively summer festival. There was no curfew for three days and nights. All foreign vendors went to the summer festival to sell goods. After closing the stalls for three days and nights, the vendors saw a handsome but sad... The poor man with a gloomy face wandered around the city with a pipa. He held a small local dog behind him, singing a soul song quietly along the way, calling out-...
"Gouwazi, gouwazi is back soon...yo hoho hoho..."
"Oer—Wool—!"
"Gouwazi, gouwazi is back soon...ahhohohohoho..."
"Oer—Wool—!"
"Yo-hohohohoho."
Every time he sang, the little local dog behind him would happily howl.
It makes people confused whether men conjure their children or dogs, which has become the focus of hot discussion among the hawkers in Shanghai.
When men meet people, they immediately cover their faces with their sleeves and their shoulders tremble. I don’t know if they cry or are ashamed. As they sing, the last sound was like a trembling and resentful voice being pinched by a strong cock.
In short, it teaches people to be sad when they hear, and those who see them cry.
The vendor who kept calling the stall closed sighed, "Alas, I lost my son or a dog in my early years, it's pitiful!"
——I am the gorgeous dividing line that Yibai summoned the dog's soul—
Let’s talk about the autumn leaves that day, I walked back to my house on the white moon, took a bath and fell asleep peacefully, so I naturally didn’t know that there were unlucky people singing the soul songs in the next few days.
She was a wise man. Since Bailichu made her understand the situation of the Spring Banquet and made her take care of her future, she didn't need to take too much into account the third prince. Although Bailichu was deeply thoughtful and had strange behavior, she had a pride of being a high-ranking ruler and a royal family, and she was disdainful to be a ghost on such things.
Although she also knew that he would take care of her, she must have a purpose, and it was not a kind heart, but at least she didn't need to pay attention to other people now. After all, there was too much involvement in that day, and she had no intention of getting involved in the royal family's internal struggle.
What she has to deal with is these troubles around her now.
...
Qiu Family Yufeng Pavilion Conference Hall
"Tsk, my fourth brother is so arrogant. I've been here for two days, but I can't invite you, and I'm so late when I come!" Qiu Fengchu sat on the right side of the meeting hall holding a teacup. She looked at Qiu Yebai wearing green bamboo and embroidered clothes and walked in, making her face look like a jadeite, and jealousy flashed in her eyes.
Qiu Yebai glanced at the hall quietly. There were not many people in the hall. It had been two years since his cheap father took out the errands. The main seat in the hall was Qiu Fenglan with a calm aura. Qiu Shanyuan and Qiu Fengchu were sitting on the left and right respectively.
The sixth brother Qiu Fengtian is said to have gone to the Du family a few days ago to visit the sick old lady of the Du family, and was not in the mansion.
Looking at this posture, it tastes like a three-party trial.
Although Qiu Shanyuan has never been able to get married, she is the legitimate daughter and the people of the Tianji Empire are open-minded, so she is indeed qualified to sit in the hall. She looks faint and has no likes and dislikes. At a young age, she is like Qiu Fenglan, and her aura is calm.
On the contrary, Qiu Fengchu couldn't sit still, threw the teacup with a 'bang', and said coldly: "Oh, the people who have become officials are different. They are unwilling to pay attention to us idle people. But don't forget that you are a fourth-rank official. Not to mention the official, you are just a person who is not in power in the Sili Prison. There is also a eldest brother in the hall, so you dare to be arrogant."
The fourth rank is quite high in other provinces and prefectures. The prefect is just a fifth rank official, but there are many first-rank officials in the capital. If a shoe is thrown out on Zhuque Street, maybe it will be a second-rank if it is smashed, let alone the fourth rank?
On the contrary, the military generals who released foreign military officers, third-rank generals can already command a army, but they still do not accept the orders of generals outside the king. Although they are not chief officials in the border areas, they cannot be compared with those of the capital officials.
For rude people who disrespect military orders, they will first beat a military stick in the military camp before speaking.
Qiu Fengchu sneered in her heart. He has been provoking her in front of her elder brother for many days. I think Qiu Yebai is late and will definitely be dealt with by her elder brother.
Qiu Yebai ignored Qiu Fenglan's provocation and directly clasped his fists and gave a comprehensive gift to Qiu Fenglan: "Brother, sorry!"
She didn't explain anything, but Qiu Fenglan's originally cold and hard face slowed down slightly. He nodded without making any embarrassment, and just said, "Fourth brother, sit down."
Qiu Fengchu was a little surprised that her elder brother did not blame Qiu Yebai for being late. She didn't understand, and she was very angry at the light in her eyes, but she also understood that her elder brother was just right and dared not say more, but just looked at Qiu Yebai with hatred and sat down calmly.
He didn't understand, but Qiu Yebai knew in his heart. He was used to the cold wind and frost of the border and was straightforward. He didn't like intrigue in the officialdom in Beijing, and he liked to say things directly. So although his attitude looked at Lu Zhi, he was frank, and Qiu Fenglan did not make any more embarrassment.
Qiu Fenglan looked at Qiu Yebai, his eyes were dark and firm, and he said straight in one fell swoop: "Fourth brother, you have been resting for two days. Why is it late today?"
She looked at Qiu Fenglan with her eyes cold and said directly: "Brother, I didn't intend to delay. I just returned from the mansion in the middle of the night yesterday, and no one told me that my elder brother was going to see me in the hall today. Only when I got up this morning did my servant Shanshan come to tell me later."
"Hmph, excuse!" Before Qiu Fenglan spoke, Qiu Fengchu couldn't help but sneer: "I heard two days ago that my elder brother asked you to come to the meeting hall. You refused to let go of your health. Why, you were unwell in the middle of the night but went out to steal the cat?"
Qiu Fenglan frowned slightly at the thick black sword eyebrows, but did not make a sound, just looking at Qiu Yebai.
Qiu Yebai said lightly: "I returned home for the sake of the Sixth Sister. When I went out in the middle of the night, I was naturally to solve the situation of the Sixth Sister."
When Qiu Fengchu heard this, she couldn't help laughing contempt: "Haha, yes, Qiu Shanning's destruction is not only known to everyone in the house, but also the entire Shangjing is not aware of your sixth sister's shamelessness, which will drag down our Qiu family's reputation. My sister is a shameless person. As a brother, he steals chickens and dogs in the middle of the night, and he is also a guy along the way to raise that kind of thing!"
He had long hated Qiuyebai and gritted his teeth. Not only did he do that to him, he also plundered his private money, which made him so angry that he vomited blood.
Although he was afraid that Qiu Yebai had his own handle, Qiu Shanning did the ugly thing this time. He had to find the place on Qiu Yebai well and humiliate him before he could relieve his hatred!
Qiuye's white eyebrows and eyes were slightly cold. He looked at Qiu Fengchu and suddenly said, "Second brother, what's your surname?"
Qiu Fengchu didn't know why he suddenly pulled her on her body, so she naturally said: "The surname is Qiu."
Qiuye rolled his eyes and mocked: "It turns out that my second brother's surname is Qiu, I thought you forgot."
Qiu Fengchu was stunned for a moment. He just wanted to mock Qiu Yebai, but he put himself in.
I completely forgot that my surname is Qiu and my brother is Qiu Shanning.
Qiu Yebai said coldly: "Since my brother knows who his surname is, he understands that he can't write the word Qiu in one stroke. Shanning did something wrong, so he naturally needs to punish him. He is busy adding harm to the wrong person and gloating, and then the second brother will continue to do it!"
Qiu Fengchu's face turned red in an instant, but she couldn't say anything to argue. She endured for a while before she wanted to speak, but was interrupted by Qiu Fenglan's deep voice: "Enough, the fourth brother is right, and I can't write two words Qiu!"
Qiu Yebai lowered his eyes slightly to block the faint light flashing in his eyes. This was the second time she had seen this elder brother. It was rumored that this elder brother, who was sent to the border to serve at the age of fourteen, has always been a calm and honest person, and has an unbiased attitude towards things. He takes the overall situation into consideration and treats his younger brothers and sisters in his family equally, but after all, he is always away and doesn't get close to him.
Now it seems that it is true.
It is hard for the Qiu family to grow such a red seedling in the quagmire of the Autumn family.
Qiu Fengchu shut up unwillingly, but also stared at Qiu Yebai fiercely.
Qiu Shanyuan slowly spoke: "So my sister dares to ask the fourth brother, is there any solution now?"
Her voice was soft and round, and she also had the tender tail sound of a little girl, but she was not as bright as Qiu Fengchu, but she was not biased.
Qiu Yebai glanced at her and said lightly: "After all, this matter involves the taboos of the boudoir. I will talk to the eldest lady in detail later. The eldest lady thinks it will be decided."
Qiu Shanyuan nodded and said nothing, but thought she agreed.
Qiu Fenglan pondered for a while, and nodded in a deep voice: "This matter is very important, and everything will be decided by the eldest lady and father."
It was considered to have exposed Qiu Shanning's affairs. He, a man, was not happy or good at dealing with these things in the boudoir.
Then, he changed his subject and looked at Qiu Yebai with a sharp expression: "Today, I summoned my fourth brother, not mainly for the sake of the sixth sister, but for the sake of the third sister being pushed into the water. Now the third sister is lying on the bed and cannot get up, and has hurt her throat. I want to hear the fourth brother give a reasonable explanation."
He paused, his voice was cold: "The Qiu family is a great family, and has been blessed by the emperor for generations. He has passed on poetry and rituals. No matter what his identity is, he will never tolerate those who are vicious and harm brothers. If there is such a person, he will definitely submit a memorial and join forces with the Censor to ask His Majesty to take away his official position and punish him severely to correct the family tradition and the court."
These words are loud and harsh.
Moreover, it was obvious that it was for Qiuyebai, so I just wanted to name it.
Qiu Fengchu looked at Qiu Yebai with gloating. His eldest brother was honest and could do it. Who wouldn't know that Qiu Yebai's position was given by the Empress Dowager. Although he had real power, it was not an important position. Otherwise, he would not have been idle for a long time. No one would have sat on it.
To be continued...