Who among the gangsters wants to fall in love?

Chapter 335 A Cause and Effect

The rain in the East China Sea is short and fast. It was raining heavily just now, but now after half an hour, the weather has become clear again. There is even sunshine, which makes people feel warm.

Just looking at the black clouds in the distant sky, it will probably rain again within two hours.

Tread————

The bluestone tiles on the street, which had been walked on by countless people, were filled with water, and splashes of water were created by horse hooves.

Luo Xiangzhu sat sideways on the horse, holding a tray of steaming soup dumplings in his hand. He took a bite and couldn't stop blowing because of the burn.

"Huff--Huff--" White air blew out from Luo Xiangzhu's red lips and her almond-shaped eyes looked at the man and woman on the side of the horse.

"You, how do you know the secret of our Huanzhen Pavilion?" Qi He held an umbrella with a look of surprise on her face. When she thought of Zhao Wumian's knife just now, her legs felt weak for some reason.

I don’t know whether she was shocked or attracted by his handsomeness.

If an ordinary person were to take that vast internal energy head-on, he would either be blown into a bloody mist or have his skin broken off.

"Your Lord...there are many other things you don't know."

"Ok?"

Zhao Wumian glanced at Qi He, but he didn't want to bully this bed-warming maid. Since she didn't understand the dirty talk, he just said:

"After Li Baifeng's matter is resolved, within a month, Mo Jingxue, Guiyi Guiyuan, or other martial arts masters will gather in the East China Sea. You should be prepared and report any news in time... Did your queen ask you to do anything else?"

Qi He frowned and recalled, then shook his head slightly, "The Queen didn't say much, she just said that the Marquis is in the East China Sea, so everything is up to the Marquis, and we all obey your orders..."

As he spoke, a trace of embarrassment suddenly appeared on Qi He's face, and he added: "Besides that, um... Marquis, if you are lonely, you can go to the branch and hang out. If you think any female disciple is pleasing to you, you can take her to bed. I, we won't resist..."

Upon hearing this, Luo Xiangzhu stopped blowing white air and quickly leaned down to pat Zhao Wumian's shoulder with her little hand.

No, you can't let your sister down.

Luo Xiangzhu knew that Luo Chaoyan had been waiting for Zhao Wumian to return to the capital. If Zhao Wumian was out looking for other women, it would make her sister look like a pitiful and miserable woman.

Although Luo Chaoyan and Zhao Wumian had never been married, they would definitely be married soon... Hey, Luo Chaoyan was two years younger than her, and now she had a man she loved, and she...

It’s not that Luo Xiangzhu hasn’t thought about matters between men and women, but she is a mute, and if she gets married and has children, she has to worry about whether the baby will inherit the muteness... In this world, this is an extremely serious matter.

In other words, she is of noble status and good looks. If she were a girl from an ordinary family, I'm afraid no one would come to propose marriage to her until she is almost thirty years old.

She thought to herself, there probably wouldn't be anyone who truly liked her... Who would be attracted to a mute girl?

The men who wanted to marry her were either after her beauty and a night of passion, or they were after King Yan's wealth.

After all, Prince Yan has no son, and Luo Xiangzhu is his only child.

As she was thinking, the tray of buns in her hand accidentally slipped out. Luo Xiangzhu was a good girl who cherished food, so she quickly raised her hand to grab it. However, no matter how steady the horse was, it was bound to be bumpy. Luo Xiangzhu couldn't keep her balance at all, and her face turned pale as she fell off the horse.

Bangdang————

The basket fell to the ground and rolled several times.

Zhao Wumian held Luo Xiangzhu horizontally and looked down at her, finding it funny, "You can fall off a horse when you're sitting on it, and you can actually live safely until now?"

Luo Xiangzhu covered her red face with her hands. She was definitely not afraid with Zhao Wumian by her side, but she just felt embarrassed in her heart... It was so embarrassing.

Zhao Wumian put one arm around her slender waist and the other hand across her legs. He did not take advantage of Luo Xiangzhu. He just made a joke and put her on the saddle.

Luo Xiangzhu was sitting sideways on the saddle, originally facing Zhao Wumian. But as her buttocks touched the saddle, she hurriedly turned her body around, with her back facing Zhao Wumian. Only her slightly red ears could be seen.

I felt really embarrassed.

Zhao Wumian held the reins and laughed again.

Luo Xiangzhu got angry. She put one hand on the saddle, leaned forward with a red face, and patted Zhao Wumian on the shoulder.

Stop laughing.

Qi He looked at the two of them silently, then retracted his gaze, thinking that Princess Xiangzhu was already the most beautiful woman in the world. With her by her side, Zhao Wumian hardly touched her, so how could he be interested in those female disciples of Canghua Tower?
After sending Qi He to the Cang Hua Tower branch, Zhao Wumian said, "I have to go back to Lin'an in the next two days and will not be in the East China Sea. Your Cang Hua Tower's intelligence network is well-connected. Pay more attention and don't be lazy. Work hard."

"Lin'an?" Qi He was stunned for a moment, thinking of Taixuan Palace, and wondered in his heart, could it be that Zhao Wumian was really a traitor?

However, this topic was too sensitive, so she didn't dare to ask more. When Zhao Wumian and Luo Xiangzhu turned around and left, she suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly called Zhao Wumian, asking him to wait for a moment, and then turned back to the branch.

Not long after, she came running again, holding up her skirt, "Look at my memory. Before the Marquis came to Yangzhou, the Queen had already sent something to us."

Zhao Wumian suddenly raised his hand with a strange look on his face, "Wait a minute, could it be her socks or bellyband?"

"Ah?" Qi He looked confused and said:
"How could Her Majesty casually give such intimate clothing to someone? Her Majesty is currently in Yanyun to deal with the branch there. That place is in Changbai Mountain. It snowed. Her Majesty thought it was the first snow she had seen this year and found it interesting, so she asked someone to keep it properly and give it to the Marquis."

"Snow? Now? In June? Sent here across who knows how many thousands of miles?"

Qi He took out a thumb-sized ice cube from his wide sleeves. The ice cube was so small that a few snowflakes could be vaguely seen inside it. In the warm weather in Yangzhou, a few drops of water appeared on the surface of the ice just by taking it out.

"The queen used her inner energy to condense the snowflakes into ice, and sent someone to deliver it to me, using cold-type skills to maintain it all the way... It should have been a large piece, but when it was delivered to Yangzhou, this was all that was left..."

Zhao Wumian raised his hand to take the small ice cube, which felt cold to the touch.

In this world, it is very difficult to send things across a thousand miles, but Shen Xiangge sent the snow from far away Yanyun to Zhao Wumian.

This is not some rare treasure or magical weapon, it's just ordinary snow.

It was cold, but Zhao Wumian's heart was filled with warmth... Ever since the time in Changshan, Shen Xiangge had always been thinking about him and wanted to give him something.

Compared with other girls, Zhao Wumian and Shen Xiangge were the least honest with each other. When they first interacted, it was purely a relationship of interest... But Zhao Wumian could only see the girl's implicit and beautiful feelings from the ice.

The ice cube melted quickly under Zhao Wumian's body temperature, and the snowflakes wrapped in the ice cube fell into Zhao Wumian's palm.

Zhao Wumian smiled at Qihe and said, "I am the first person in Donghai to be drenched in snow... It's great."

The snowflakes melted in a few seconds.

Qi He did not answer, but smiled at Zhao Wumian, bent over and bowed to him while pinching her skirt, then turned around and went back to the Canghua Tower branch.

Luo Xiangzhu glanced at Zhao Wumian. Perhaps it was because she saw her sister's lover accepting gifts from another girl... She always felt weird in her heart.

At Wangbei Bridge, many pedestrians were injured and wailing. They felt pain when they moved, and it was difficult to carry them to the hospital.

The clinic opened in Canghua Tower was named Zhuanzhu Pavilion, which was named by Empress Canghua.

The reason for using this name is that every time Zhao Wumian let Empress Canghua pull the hanging ribbon to play with flowers on the couch, he would smile and say something like "Turning Zhuge".

It was just some of the romantic conversations between the two of them... Of course, no one knew the meaning behind the name of this clinic.

All I can say is that both of them treated this matter concerning the reputation of Canghua Tower as part of a play. It's true that people of the same family are alike.

The doctor from Zhuanzhu Pavilion could only rush over with his medicine box and feed the injured an unknown pill. The injured person's sad expression immediately changed. Some of them even jumped left and right with blood gushing out of their bodies, looking at their bleeding wounds curiously, thinking that they were inexplicably immortal and didn't feel any pain.

The doctor was so scared that he immediately found someone to hold him down.

Zhuan Zhu Pavilion had been opened for less than a month. If it had not been for Marquis Wei Ming's personal order, no one would come to such an unknown small clinic for treatment. But now, seeing these amazing elixirs, everyone couldn't help but secretly remember the name of Zhuan Zhu Pavilion in their hearts.

I heard that it was opened by Cang Hua Tower...hiss, when did Cang Hua Tower start to practice this kind of medical technique?

Guan Yunshu and Su Qingqi, each holding an oil-paper umbrella, also stood on Wangbei Bridge, looking at the bowl-shaped hole that Zhao Wumian had chopped out with his knife, and at the passers-by who were marveling at the efficacy of the Wuhongdan.

Su Qingqi smiled and said:
"Young Master is really busy wherever he goes. He fights wherever he goes."

Guan Yunshu was not in a very good mood. She came to Wangbei Bridge only after finding out about Li Baifeng, but she ended up coming all the way here and found that everything was handled by Zhao Wumian. Didn't it seem that her previous efforts were in vain?

And I heard from passers-by that there seemed to be two women following Zhao Wumian, one was Luo Xiangzhu, who was the other one?
Therefore, Guan Yunshu snorted lightly, "You should pick whatever you want wherever you go. If you just walk around the world, you will meet Zhao Wumian's confidante."

When this matter was mentioned, Su Qingqi's smile began to fade, and the two women fell silent at the same time.

After a moment, Guan Yunshu suddenly realized that the hem of his monk's robe was pulled by someone.

Looking back, she saw a little girl with double buns and a candied haws in her hand looking up at her. Her eyes were bright and she stared straight at Guan Yunshu.

Guan Yunshu frowned slightly, first grabbed his monk's robe and took it out of the little girl's hand, and then asked calmly: "Little donor, do you know this poor nun?"

The little girl giggled and said, "I've been looking for you for a long time~"

?

Su Qingqi looked at Guan Yunshu, "Is this your long-lost sister? Or some other relative...niece or something like that?"

"I grew up in Xiao Xitian since I was a child, and I have never heard that I have any relatives... After I became famous in the world, many people pretended to be my relatives." Guan Yunshu shook his head.

The little girl was not very old, only about five or six years old, and her logical thinking was obviously not very clear. Or maybe she had more important things to do first, so she didn't explain first.

She felt around in her bosom first, carefully counted out the three copper coins, then stood on tiptoe, palm up, and handed it to Guan Yunshu, "Here you go!"

"I didn't ask for alms from the little donor..." Guan Yunshu was even more confused.

The little girl shook her head. Her innocent little head only remembered to explain at this moment. She said seriously but in a childish voice:
"In May, my mother was captured by a bad guy. My father had long passed away, so I had no choice but to go to the street to find someone to save my mother... But, I had no idea what the bad guy was called or where he was. No one helped me... Then, a monk came over!"

Monk?

Guan Yunshu's eyebrows are frivolous.

The little girl clenched her fists, her face excited, "He said, he would help me save my mother, but Bei'er knows that if someone helps you, you must repay the favor, so Bei'er wanted to give money to the benefactor..." This little girl seemed to be called Bei'er.

"Bei'er works very hard and helps mother weave bamboo baskets. Mother rewards Bei'er with a penny every time she weaves a basket... But Bei'er gave all the money to other people to save mother, so the monk said...

...Buddhism emphasizes cause and effect, and there is no need to be bound by one person. In the future, a nun wearing a monk's robe but with long hair will come to Yangzhou. If you see her, give her money, and it will be considered a way to establish a relationship. "

After saying this, Bei'er smiled at Guan Yunshu and said:
"There's a fight going on here, it's so lively, Bei'er is here, I didn't expect to run into you... Bei'er has made a lot of bamboo baskets this month, but I only have three cents on me, all for you! Let's go home with Bei'er later, Bei'er has saved a lot of copper coins in the small jars at home, one, two... a total of thirty coins, all for you!"

Su Qingqi and Guan Yunshu looked at each other and asked in confusion: "The monk is..."

"It must be Abbot Dongwen. He has been traveling around the world for a long time and has not returned to Xiaoxitian yet." Guan Yunshu knew it was from Dongwen after listening to half of the words. Only he would speak like that.

And Dong Wen is not only Guan Yunshu's master, but also Guan Yunshu's biological father... However, at present, only Zhao Wumian and Dong Xuan know about this, even Guan Yunshu does not know.

Su Qingqi nodded slightly. She and Dong Wen had no connection at all. She just sighed in her heart that Dong Wen's action was very chivalrous. Then she squatted down, stroking her skirt, and collected the three cents for Guan Yunshu.

Guan Yunshu frowned, thinking that this little girl was obviously from an ordinary family and there was no need to charge her money.

Then he saw Su Qingqi put a few ingots of silver in the little girl's hand and said with a smile:

"That monk's words make sense. There is cause and effect. Take this silver and buy whatever you want. If you meet a handsome man wearing a blue shirt and carrying a knife and a sword on his waist in Yangzhou City in the future, ask him if he can help you. That will be the end of the relationship between you and me. How do you think?"

"Ah?" The little girl blinked her eyes, her little brain obviously unable to understand.

Guan Yunshu glanced at Su Qingqi and thought to himself that she was thinking about Zhao Wumian all the time.

Obviously, she was the first woman who had a relationship with Zhao Wumian. If she hadn't doted on Zhao Wumian too much and just needed to keep a little control over him, how could Zhao Wumian have so many confidantes now?

Look at Xiao Yuanmu. When Zhao Wumian had not lost his memory, he never touched Zeng Lengyue's daughter just for her.

If it were Guan Yunshu who was in charge of Zhao Wumian... humph!

The little girl looked at the silver ingot in her hand. It was the first time in her life that she had seen so much money. She was obviously dazzled and panicked. After thinking for a while, she raised her eyes and whispered, "Bei, Bei'er wants to ask mother..."

Su Qingqi smiled and said, "Okay."

She simply felt that she couldn't let such a young girl run around the street with so much money, otherwise she would definitely be robbed.

Guan Yunshu pondered for a few seconds, but did not refuse. Li Baifeng was dead, and she was just sitting around doing nothing in Yangzhou. She was not the kind of nymphomaniac who wanted to stay with Zhao Wumian whenever she had free time... Did she think she was Su Qingqi?
Not long after the two women left with the little girl, a wanderer came slowly to Wangbei Bridge, leading a horse.

The man was wearing white clothes, with a folding fan and a pot of wine hanging around his waist, and a bamboo hat. The white clothes were not very clean, and it was obvious that he was a gangster.

It was Xu Ningchuan whom Li Baifeng was planning to kill.

Xu Ningchuan listened to the whispers around him and quickly figured out the situation. He couldn't help but look around.

"Zhao Wumian? Xiao Yuankong likes to use this alias... This playboy rarely comes to the East China Sea, but he doesn't even bother to drink with me... Has he forgotten that he is a good buddy? It's a pity that I helped him hunt down Li Baifeng..."

"It turns out that all the beautiful flowers are in full bloom, but now they are all left to the broken wells and dilapidated walls. What can we do about the beautiful scenery? Who can enjoy the beautiful scenery?"

On the stage in the tea garden, actors dressed in gorgeous and elaborate costumes performed with great control, following the instruments in the hands of the musicians.

There were many square tables placed under the stage, on which were placed fruits, snacks, tea, wine and other food. The audience sat under the tables, cracking melon seeds, either concentrating on watching the show or discussing in low voices. It was not as noisy as a tavern, nor as vulgar as a brothel. It was simply elegant.

In the courtyard behind the stage, Zhao Wumian tied up the Night-Shine Jade Lion under a tree, fed it with fodder, and then said to Luo Xiangzhu who was holding an umbrella:

"I'm going to Lin'an these days. You stay with Master. We'll go out and play when I come back."

The toe of Luo Xiang's bamboo embroidered shoes tapped and rubbed the floor tiles lightly. She thought to herself that by the time Zhao Wumian comes back, it will definitely be June, so there is no point in playing... I have to get down to business.

However, coming to the East China Sea was the wrong place to find the Jinboshan Furnace. Logically, Zhao Wumian should not have gotten off the boat, but should have gone downstream directly to the Tianya Islands. Therefore, Luo Xiangzhu quickly got rid of the disappointment in his heart.

She turned to look at him with a smile, raised her hands like a kitchen knife, cut a few times in the air, and then pushed her hands forward into the air, as if pushing vegetables into a pot, and finally puffed up her cheeks and blew air, which was blowing fire...

I'll prepare something delicious for you when you come back.

Zhao Wumian smiled, and after sending Luo Xiangzhu into the house, he looked up at the sky. The sun was setting in the west, and there was a line of fiery clouds across the sky in the distance.

It's getting dark.

Zhao Wumian came to Xiao Yuanmu's room and pushed the door open. "Have Master and the others returned?"

Inside the house, Xiao Yuanmu was sitting at a small desk writing a letter to Xiao Lengyue. Hearing this, he said calmly without even looking up, "Why don't you knock when you enter? What if I'm changing clothes?"

"Flat body, who's interested?"

call out----

The brush suddenly brushed across Zhao Wumian's face and got stuck into the wall.

Xiao Yuanmu glanced at Zhao Wumian coldly, then slowly took out another brush and continued writing the letter, saying:

"Come with me back to Lin'an tomorrow morning. The sooner you go, the sooner you will be back. According to our walking speed, we will be back in early June... But you should ask Mu Li'er and the others to go directly to the Tianya Islands. We will meet there."

Zhao Wumian pulled the brush off the wall, looked at the dark hole, silently looked away, closed the door, walked to Xiao Yuanmu's side and took a few glances.

The letter contained some trivial matters, mainly saying that she would go back with Zhao Wumian.

"Does this count as proposing marriage to my mother-in-law?"

"Oh? What about your betrothal gift?"

"what do you want?"

"This Jiangshan's surname is Xiao."

"... Come to think of it, you and I were both adopted, right? At present, Jiu'er is missing from the Chen Kingdom royal family, and only your master is still alive. Even if we really take over the world one day... the bloodline is not right, so your master must give birth to a child to inherit the throne..."

"There is no man in the world who is worthy of her, so why have a child? Anyway, she is a master at bridging heaven and earth, and she has a long life ahead of her, so there is no need to rush."

Zhao Wumian nodded slightly, sat down next to Xiao Yuanmu, and looked at the surrounding furnishings boredly.

rustle----

The room was quiet, with only the faint sound of Xiao Yuanmu writing a letter.

"If you're bored, go practice."

"You have nothing to do after writing the letter anyway, so why not stay with me?"

As he spoke, Zhao Wumian looked around and his gaze fell on Xiao Yuanmu.

There was a cushion behind the small desk. Xiao Yuanmu took off her embroidered shoes and knelt on the cushion in a proper manner. Her toes wrapped in black silk stockings were exposed from under her buttocks. Her face was pale and tender as she was writing a letter, like a little girl pretending to be mature...

"Your eyes are so lustful, have you forgotten that I am not grown up yet?"

Xiao Yuanmu didn't even look at Zhao Wumian as he wrote the letter.

"Can you get bigger?"

Xiao Yuanmu glanced at him with a funny expression, "Even if it gets bigger, it can only last for a few breaths, otherwise something bad will happen... What do you want to do?"

Zhao Wumian put his arm around Xiao Yuanmu's slim waist and said with a smile, "Dear..."

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Yuanmu coldly slapped his hand away, "You didn't do anything to please me, why should I reward you?"

"So, as long as it makes you happy, it's fine?"

"That's right." Xiao Yuanmu finished writing the letter, sealed it, and handed it to Zhao Wumian with a smile on his face. He said:

"Go, send this letter for me first, and let the branch leader here do it."

Zhao Wumian picked up the envelope and said, "It seems like I'm pursuing you."

"Stop talking nonsense and go."

Bang bang————

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, accompanied by a pleasant voice.

"Wumian, the nun and Qingqi have some things to deal with, so they won't be back until midnight."

Zhao Wumian's eyes lit up; his master had finally returned.

He stood up and opened the door. "Where did they go?"

Mu Lier was standing outside the house in a white dress, holding the hilt of the sword at her waist, and she looked graceful and elegant. "She said she met a very interesting little girl on the road, so she sent her home..."

"Little girl?"

"Master, I don't know the details. They just sent someone to the tea garden to send a letter. It's probably related to the cave text."

"Do you know where it is?"

Mu Lier shook her head, knowing what Zhao Wumian was thinking. She untied the wine gourd from her waist and poured a sip into her pink lips, then smiled and said:
"With the strength of the two of them, nothing will happen. Don't worry. If you are really worried, don't you still have the Snow Owl? Just let it take them there."

Zhao Wumian had no choice but to nod and went out with Mu Lier to deliver the letter. It was already completely dark and it was drizzling...

He pondered for a few seconds and decided to let Xue Xiao lead the way in case of any accidents.

(End of this chapter)