Chapter 125: Scheming
Li Jifeng was originally taken to sleep in a side room by Xie Tingzhou's guards, but he felt that the bed was not good for sleeping no matter how hard he slept. After lying there for a while and sobering up, he went to Lumingxuan where he used to stay.
Unexpectedly, Dahuang kicked him out when he entered the door. He thought he was a thief and chased him all the way.
Xie Tingzhou said: "Someone lives in this yard. You can choose a new place."
Li Jifeng snorted, "Shigure, right? You actually gave him the yard where I used to rest. I have long seen that you are a person who values sex over friends."
Xie Tingzhou turned half sideways, "Then I'll give her another yard tomorrow."
Li Jifeng was so moved, "I knew we still have brotherhood."
"No." Xie Tingzhou looked at him with a smile, "I didn't think you lived here before. It's dirty."
"You!..." Li Jifeng was so angry that he slapped his chest, "Forget it, let's go and pick the yard."
After saying that, he shook his sleeves and left with the guards.
Xie Tingzhou looked away, bent down and touched Dahuang's head, "You did a good job, you protected her for me when I was away."
He straightened up and saw Shen Yu standing at the entrance of the courtyard, staring solemnly in the direction Li Jifeng left.
"What's wrong?" Xie Tingzhou asked.
Shen Yu looked away, thought for a moment and then asked, "Can you come in for a moment?"
Xie Tingzhou walked straight over and entered Lumingxuan.
Shen Yu turned around twice, while Xie Tingzhou waited patiently.
Shen Yu suddenly stopped and asked, "What kind of person do you know about Li Jifeng?"
Xie Tingzhou was silent for a moment, then asked instead: "Do you think there is something wrong with him?"
Shen Yu said seriously: "I know he is your close friend, and I didn't want to sow discord, but..."
"Li Jifeng is right about one thing."
"What?"
Xie Tingzhou said warmly: "He said that I value sex over friends, so if anything happens, just tell me."
Shen Yu was now focused on business, "Does Li Jifeng know martial arts?"
Xie Tingzhou thought for a while, "I don't remember."
Shen Yu's expression became more solemn, "He didn't make any sound when he came in, so I thought there was a thief, so I punched something at the door."
She held a small pebble between her fingers. She raised her hand and shot the pebble toward a tree. The pebble "stuck" into the trunk of the tree.
Shen Yu walked over and said, "I don't know whether the person coming is fake or not, and I want to stay alive, so I only used 50% of my strength."
Xie Tingzhou looked at the stone embedded half an inch into the tree trunk. It was so powerful that ordinary people could not avoid it.
"I didn't hear him scream in pain, but then I didn't find the stone I threw, so he should have caught the stone." Shen Yu said.
Xie Tingzhou stared at the stone thoughtfully. Shen Yu was very skilled in martial arts. He could catch her hidden weapon with his bare hands. His skill should be extraordinary.
After a moment, he suddenly said, "Here comes someone."
The secret guard appeared from the darkness, and Shen Yu understood Xie Tingzhou's intention in an instant. She shot a stone towards the secret guard with 50% of her strength.
The secret guard raised his hand to take it, walked over and spread it out in front of Xie Tingzhou.
Xie Tingzhou raised the lantern and took a closer look. There was a stone lying on the palm of his hand. There was a faint red mark on the palm, which was caused by the stone hitting it.
"No offense intended." Shen Yu asked, "How is this brother's kung fu?"
The secret guard said seriously: "It's slightly inferior to Xifeng."
Shen Yu nodded and said: "Since he can catch hidden weapons with his bare hands, the strength of his kung fu can be seen from the color of his hands. If there are no marks on his hands, then his kung fu is probably not inferior to Xi Feng."
It's not scary to have kung fu. What's scary is that if Li Jifeng is really good at martial arts, how deep a person's scheming must be to be able to pretend to be a piece of mud that can't hold up the wall in front of others without being discovered. This is the scary thing.
Xie Tingzhou's eyebrows darkened, "You should rest first."
Shen Yu suddenly pulled his sleeve, "Are you going to find him? What if he..."
"Don't worry." Xie Tingzhou patted her hand, "I'll take someone there."
Shen Yu felt relieved and said, "Then you must be careful."
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Li Jifeng's new yard is not far from Xie Tingzhou's Qingpu Residence.
Xie Tingzhou went without anyone, carrying a wine bottle in one hand and going alone.
Before he even entered the door, he heard Li Jifeng's ghostly cry and howling.
"Hiss--gentle, gentle, it hurts, it hurts..."
Xie Tingzhou paused for a moment, opened the door and stepped into the room.
Li Jifeng, half undressed, was quite surprised to see Xie Tingzhou coming, "Why are you here?"
Xie Tingzhou raised the wine bottle in his hand and said, "I can't sleep, so I came to you for a drink."
"No problem." Li Jifeng said: "Brother, I never say no to things like drinking wine and going to the flower house, but you have to wait for a while."
After that, he called the waiter over and said, "Keep going."
The waiter put medicinal wine on his hands and rubbed a bruise on Li Jifeng's shoulder.
Xie Tingzhou's eyes moved slightly, "How did you do it?"
Li Jifeng grimaced in pain, "What else can you do? I just don't know who lives in that house, hiss - be gentle, Shigure is too cruel, just give me a slap when you enter the door, here -"
Li Jifeng threw a pebble on the table, "That's it."
Xie Tingzhou picked up the stone and looked at it, pretending not to ask, "She hit you with this?"
"Yes." Li Jifeng said aggrievedly: "I know you value sex over friends. If you hadn't protected him, do you believe I would have rewarded him with thirty pieces of gold?"
Xie Tingzhou calmly looked at the injury on Li Jifeng's shoulder. The injury spread in a circle, with the outer circle turning blue and the inner circle turning purple.
Li Jifeng waved his hand to ask the waiter to step aside, and straightened his clothes casually.
"I'm not saying anything bad about you." Li Jifeng changed the subject, "How can you bear such a fierce attack? How can you be as delicate as the girls in Zuiyunlou? Besides, it's not as smooth to travel by water as by land."
Xie Tingzhou was too lazy to listen to his nonsense and poured him a glass of wine.
Li Jifeng put his right hand on his leg and took it with his left hand.
"What's wrong with your hand?" Xie Tingzhou asked.
Li Jifeng said, "Don't you know how good your close guard skills are? You beat me so hard that I couldn't even lift my hand."
"Let me see." Xie Tingzhou held his hand.
"No, no." Li Jifeng waved his hand.
Xie Tingzhou grabbed his hand, held his shoulder with one hand and squeezed it twice, pretending to look at Li Jifeng's palm casually, and let go of his hand and said: "It's okay, no bones are hurt."
He raised the wine glass and clinked it with Li Jifeng, "I'll apologize to you on her behalf."
How could Li Jifeng take Qiao, he chuckled twice, "It's meaningless to just apologize verbally, that Yue Qing..."
"It's been a few years." Xie Tingzhou said: "I still miss Yue Qing."
Li Jifeng said: "You always miss things you haven't tasted, right? I, the dignified prince, can't invite the courtesan, and you have to come forward."
"You don't even give the face of the Ninth Prince?"
"A forced melon is not sweet."
"Okay." Xie Tingzhou nodded and said: "I'll find someone for you another day."
Li Jifeng had drunk a lot before, and he was a little sober after that scene. Now that he has drunk two pots of wine, he is drunk again.
Li Jifeng lay on the table, still shouting, "Don't, hiccup, forget what you promised me, Yue Qing, hiccup..."
Xie Tingzhou was also a little drunk, Xifeng came to pick him up and helped Xie Tingzhou leave.
The eunuch stepped into the door and whispered, "Master, His Royal Highness is gone."
Li Jifeng opened his eyes, and the darkness in his eyes flashed away.
He sat up slowly, "This prince hasn't drunk enough, hiccup, why did he, hiccup, leave?"