Xuanxia

Chapter 18 Do you use this to test cadres?

"call……"

Fu Qingzhou let out a long sigh and felt a chill on his back, as if the draft was blowing through the cold sweat on his body.

He was arranged to stay in a separate stilt house in the Wandu Mountain village. It was quiet and elegant, with a direct entrance and a great view. It was also some distance away from the center of the village where the Miao people lived, so he would not be disturbed by anyone.

"Hey, you got something?"

Only then did the Smoker's voice float over: "Look how those three guys were scared!"

Fu Qingzhou shook his head: "In fact, they may not believe it. Elder Nian has something to hide and doesn't dare to take this gamble. Elder Yu has probably guessed that I was acting... As for Elder Ma, who spoke the least, I didn't see it."

"what?"

The smoker's voice was full of curiosity: "How did you know that?"

Fu Qingzhou laughed dryly: "Aren't you very capable? Can't you see it?"

"That broken stone heart is not easy to hide. These three elders are quite capable. I'm afraid..." the smoker murmured.

Fu Qingzhou smiled, sat down on the chair, poured himself a cup of tea and drank it all in one gulp.

He was not afraid of being poisoned here. Even if the elder was so cruel as to want to kill him, he would not choose this moment.

Even now, his calves still feel a little twitchy.

Even though he acted so cool, he was actually still nervous inside... Especially when he was hiding and revealing the cards, he was not a magician after all, and if he was exposed, the show would be ruined.

Fortunately, I was lucky and everything went well.

After taking a breath, he went to the window and looked into the distance at the Wandu Mountain village shrouded in the spiritual white mist.

Covered in clouds and mist, with fairy air floating in the air...it really feels like a fairyland on earth.

The disciples of Wan Du Mountain who were practicing martial arts in the square in the distance were still shouting and performing their moves. Fu Qingzhou watched for a while but could not see anything special about their sword techniques.

"What do you think of their swordsmanship?" he asked casually.

The smoker lazily responded, "It's so far away, I can't see it."

"waste……"

Fu Qingzhou complained and didn't have the energy to read any more. Although he had reached the third level of martial arts, he felt uncomfortable after sleeping in the haystack in the prison for several days. He walked around the room a few times, saw a basin of hot water and a towel placed next to the bed at some point, so he took off his clothes, wiped his body, jumped onto the bed and took a good sleep.

This period of time was too tiring and exciting. The improvement and repair of the body brought by breaking through the three realms of martial arts could not make up for the fatigue of long-term mental and physical tension. Therefore, he slept very deeply this time.

In a daze, he vaguely felt that someone seemed to have entered the room, with very light footsteps, approaching him.

Fu Qingzhou had been hunting wild beasts in the mountains for many years, and later hunted charlatans many times. He had been walking on the edge of life and death since he was a child, and was extremely sensitive to murderous intent. However, he did not feel any malice at this time, so he struggled a little.

Should I wake up? It would be so comfortable to continue sleeping...

Just as he hesitated, a somewhat cold hand touched the collarbone under his neck.

At the same time, the smoker's scream rang in his ears: "Fuck! Wake up! A woman is trying to molest you!"

There was no way to stay awake this time, Fu Qingzhou suddenly opened his eyes and stretched out his hand to grab the wrist that was moving on his body.

In front of him, a woman in gauze was leaning over the bed, looking at him helplessly.

She looked no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, with a naive and childish face. She was pretty and cute, but she was obviously a girl who knew nothing about the world, yet she was dressed in a thin red gauze dress, with overly bright makeup on her face, and she deliberately dressed up to be a little... coquettish?
"who are you?"

Fu Qingzhou said in a deep voice. The girl was startled and tried to pull her hand back, but she was not strong enough. She could only murmur, "My lord, I am here to wipe your body..."

"Huh?" Fu Qingzhou was confused.

He looked towards the bed.

He had clearly wiped his body roughly before going to bed and poured out the bowl of water beside the bed, but now there was another bowl of steaming water there. The girl held a towel in her other hand, and the hand she had just stretched out seemed to be removing some remaining dirt and stones on the wound on his shoulder that she had not wiped off.

"I don't need it." Fu Qingzhou pushed her gently and said, "Go out."

At this time, it was already dark outside the window, birds were singing quietly in the mountains, and red candles were flickering in the house, reflecting on the girl's blushing face, which was particularly charming.

“Sir, I can’t do that.” The girl lowered her head, tears welling up in her eyes. She murmured, “If you don’t want me… I’ll have nowhere to go…”

Fu Qingzhou frowned: "What do you mean?"

The girl looked at him secretly, and after a long while she spoke hesitantly.

Actually...it's just a very old story.

Her name was Tang Jiao. Her father was a minor official in Beijing, but he stood on the wrong side in politics, was framed and beheaded. The male family members were sent to exile and the female family members were sent to the Jiaofangsi. Her father's classmates could not bear to see Tang Jiao, who was only ten years old at the time, fall into prostitution, so they tried their best to send her away from the Central Plains, away from the jurisdiction of the Dayan court.

Later, the escort was robbed and killed by bandits. She hid in the dark and escaped. She ran around in a daze, meeting good people and bad people on the way, but overall she was lucky and had no danger along the way.

After many twists and turns, Tang Jiao, who was only in her teens, unexpectedly came to Wandu Mountain, was taken in by the Miao people, and worked as a tenant farmer at the foot of the mountain.

But you can imagine what a homeless little girl who lives under the care of others will go through... She has always been ostracized by the Miao people, and in the past one or two years, many Miao farmers have wanted to "marry" her, and have tried to force her many times. If she had not learned a few tricks in Beijing, she would have been violated long ago.

This time, it was the man from Wan Du Mountain who found her and told her that a "big shot" from Beijing had come, but he was also a young master of similar age. The man from the mountain wanted to find a Han Chinese who knew the etiquette of Beijing (Fu Qingzhou was not familiar with the history of this world, nor did he understand why there were Han Chinese in this world) to serve him, and asked her if she was willing.

This time, Tang Jiao didn't think too long and agreed.

She had experienced a lot and matured early. She knew that she would have to get married when she grew up. So, instead of being taken advantage of by those rough Miao peasant men, she might as well become a concubine of a young master in Beijing. At least, she might have a chance to go back to Beijing and burn incense for her father...

Fu Qingzhou looked speechlessly at the girl who was sitting on the bed wiping her tears and whose makeup was smudged, and he felt a terrible headache.

It would be fine if I didn't know about this, but Wan Du Shan had to do this, getting a Han girl to serve and please him...

It's not that he didn't suspect that Tang Jiao was sent by that group of people to monitor him, but with his ability to read people's expressions, he basically judged that this was true from the girl's micro-expressions and micro-movements when she spoke.

But Fu Qingzhou naturally couldn't just trust her and then allow a woman of unknown origin to keep an eye on him. Now he was dancing on the edge of a knife. Wouldn't this just cause more trouble?
But after thinking for a moment, he suddenly had an idea.

"Hmm... let me think about this for a while."

He said in a deep voice: "But now I want to walk around, you come with me."

Tang Jiao hummed softly.

"correct."

Fu Qingzhou frowned and looked at her: "I don't like the way you are dressed, just change into your usual clothes."

"Yes."

Tang Jiao stood up gently and walked back to the table, where was the package she had brought.

She opened the package, took out a set of simple clothes, and then began to take off her gauze dress. Her shoulders slipped off, revealing her snow-white and delicate skin...

"Eh?!" Fu Qingzhou was shocked: "What are you doing?"

(End of this chapter)