Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 312: Gold and Jade on the Outside (Additional Chapter for the Leader of Tongye Lotus Flower)

Qiao Zhen took a deep breath and said to Yang Yuan, "Erlang, go upstairs first."

After saying that, Qiao Zhen straightened his back and strode towards Shen Xi.

It looked like he was saying, "I'll cover the rear while you go ahead."

"Erlang, don't be in such a hurry to leave. Do you think you don't like my old friend?" Shen Xi sneered provocatively.

Yang Yuan smiled faintly, not bothering to pay attention to him, and walked upstairs leisurely as if he was strolling in the garden.

Qiao Zhen walked quickly to Shen Xi, stretched out his hand and took his arm, saying, "Mr. Shen, can you please have a word with me?"

Qiao Zhen said this and gave Shen Xi a look.

Young Master Shen Xi was in a bad mood and wanted to vent his anger without caring about anything, but when he saw the look Qiao Zhen gave him, he wondered if there was any other reason behind it.

Shen Xi suppressed his anger and was pulled aside by Qiao Zhen.

"What? Prince Yongjia wrote him a handwritten note?"

Shen Xi was shocked when he heard what Qiao Zhen said: "What is his relationship with Prince Yongjia?"

Qiao Zhen thought that Prince Yongjia probably owed someone a favor when he went to Lin'an.

However, he would not say this kind of judgment, so Qiao Zhen smiled slightly and said vaguely: "I don't know either, I just saw the prince's handwritten order.

Mr. Shen, what do you want me to do in this situation?
If I ignore him and directly ask him to go find your brother with the imperial edict, wouldn't that make your brother embarrassed?"

Shen Xi's expression changed, and his anger subsided a little.

Qiao Zhen advised earnestly: "Qiao really doesn't know what the dispute between Mr. Shen and Wang Er is.

However, he is an outsider, so logically speaking, he should not offend you, Mr. Shen, too much.

Mr. Shen is very generous. If there is no deep hatred, then don't bother with him."

Shen Xi sneered and said, "Forget it. You, Qiao Caosi, are an official. Zhao Shicheng wrote a handwritten letter to you, so you can't just ignore it.

Let's just leave this matter here. I, Shen Xi, am not an unreasonable person, so I will not argue with you, Qiao Caosi. But the matter we talked about before..."

Qiao Zhen puffed out his chest and said, "Don't worry, I've already asked someone to make the plaque. The four characters '正气浩然' were written by Xia Zhuming, a famous calligrapher from Shanyin."

Shen Xi's expression eased, and he said, "Okay, Qiao Caosi is so kind, I will keep it in mind."

He bowed to Qiao Zhen, then walked back, waved to his friends, and went upstairs.

Seeing this, Qiao Zhen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, the waiter came downstairs and led him upstairs.

After Qiao Zhen and Shen Xi and their group had moved some distance between them and went upstairs, they couldn't help but secretly complain again.

The private room that Shen Xi and his group entered happened to be next to Wang Er's private room.

At that time, bricks and stones were rarely used as partitions in elegant rooms.

A restaurant like Lanting, which emphasizes elegant artistic conception, is made entirely of wood.

There was only a wooden screen between the private rooms, so if people on either side spoke louder, they could hear each other.

In fact, Qiao Zhen was the deputy envoy of the Transportation Bureau and was already a powerful person in Shanyin.

Not to mention Shen Xi, even in front of the head of the Shen family, he had a seat near the front, so he really didn't need to be afraid of Shen Xi.

It’s just that Qiao Zhen is a man who lives by the motto of being a fence-sitter and has always been smooth in his dealings with others. He instinctively feels nervous in this Shura field.

Sure enough, after Shen Xi discovered that Wang Er and his group were next door, he started to challenge them loudly with guns and sticks during the banquet.

Qiao Zhen listened with great discomfort, as it was mostly a series of indirect criticisms.

For example, when telling jokes about how stupid nouveau riche are, Yang Yuan always looked indifferent, chatting and laughing with Qiao Zhen in a low voice, as if he didn't hear anything.

When Qiao Zhen saw this, she was in awe of Yang Yuan. This Wang Er was truly a character. Despite his young age, he had such a broad mind. It was extraordinary.

Then, they started making up stories about the barbarians, saying how uncouth they were and how they all had body odor.

At this point, Emmanuelle Belle couldn't sit still anymore.

While Yang Yuan wasn't paying attention, she secretly sniffed her own armpits, feeling so aggrieved. Girls also have body odor!

Could it be that I can't smell myself?

Due to her inferiority complex, Belle, who had been very close to Yang Yuan, now quietly moved away, fearing that he would dislike her.

Europeans do generally have a stronger body odor than East Asians. One main reason for this is that their genes are different and East Asians have relatively fewer sweat glands.

In addition, Europeans' diet is also a major cause of body odor.

However, although Europeans are much more likely to have a stronger body odor than East Asians, this is not absolute.

Belle is one of the lucky few, perhaps because she is naturally beautiful, or perhaps because she has little body hair.

And since three years ago, she has stopped eating European food.

As for bathing, she had no shortage of it.

Before she became a captive, she was regarded as a rare commodity. Every owner wanted to sell her for a good price, so of course they had to keep her nice and clean.

As for now, it goes without saying that she takes a bath every day.

Yang Yuan noticed Emmanuelle Belle's discomfort. He looked at her with a smile, then suddenly leaned over and took a deep breath into her neck.

Belle froze for a moment. Not to mention that there was Qiao Zhen sitting next to her, even if there was no one else around, this action still shocked her, and she was a little at a loss for a moment.

Yang Yuan sat back and smiled, "You don't have body odor, you smell pretty good."

Belle's face suddenly turned red, and a small, not-so-noticeable freckle on the left side of her nose became somewhat noticeable because of her flushed face.

God knows how much harm such unscrupulous degradation can do to a girl.

Yang Yuan's final words were the greatest affirmation and support for her at that moment. Tears welled up in Emmanuel's eyes instantly, and her deep blue eyes looked more like two pools of deep spring water.

Seeing this, Qiao Zhen couldn't help but stroke his beard and smiled, "Erlang is really a sentimental man, very compassionate to women, haha..."

After hearing this, Belle's face turned even redder.

She glanced at Yang Yuan quickly, then quickly looked away, picked up a shrimp and chewed it for a long time, not knowing what it tasted like.

Qiao Zhen's praise was a little loud and was obviously heard by the people next door.

Soon, Mr. Shenxi and his friends changed the subject of the conversation from the foreign woman to discussing their respective women.

For a man who can regard "Yi Nei" as a celebrity and a romantic, what kind of respect can you expect from him when he talks about each other's concubines?
The people he had called upon today were not his friends from the Shanyin aristocratic family circle, but those like-minded people in his own small circle.

As a result, all kinds of dirty words that were thought to be very elegant were heard, and even Qiao Zhen next door frowned.

Yang Yuan sighed and said to Qiao Zhen: "I wanted to treat Brother Qiao to a good banquet today to show my gratitude. Unfortunately..."

Yang Yuan pointed at the wooden screen next to him that was level with the roof and said, "This is really polluting Brother Qiao's ears. Otherwise, how about we just go back now and meet again another day?"

After hearing this, Belle felt relieved.

Even an ordinary woman would feel deeply offended and even humiliated after hearing such obscene words.

What's more, Belle is not an ordinary woman. She is a loyal Knight Templar, a female warrior who has practiced martial arts since childhood, and a female lord of noble status. How could she have ever heard such dirty words?

Even when she was captured, because of her stunning beauty and noble birth, her owner regarded her as a rare treasure. He only wanted to use her to gain endless wealth and luxury for the rest of his life, and never humiliated her.

Belle had been feeling very uneasy for a long time, and when she heard Yang Yuan say that he was leaving, she immediately felt relieved.

Apparently there was a curious person next door who was sticking to the screen and eavesdropping on what was happening here.

As soon as Yang Yuan finished speaking, there was a whisper over there, obviously relaying what was said here to everyone.

Then, Shen Xi's arrogant laughter rang out: "Xiang Xuan, come and have a drink with me."

Xiangxuan's face turned red, in front of so many people.

But Shen Xi was obviously competing with someone. With his temper, if anyone disobeyed him at this moment, the consequences would be disastrous.

Xiang Xuan had no choice but to take a sip of wine and put it close to Shen Xi's lips.

As the gang of friends started to make noises, Shen Xi hooked his arm around her neck, drank the wine from her lips, and wiped the corners of his mouth with a silk scarf.

Shen Xi said smugly, "That's nothing. My lady has to obey me even if I ask her to lick my vagina."

All the dog lovers' eyes suddenly lit up and they looked at Xiang Xuan with ambiguous eyes.

Miss Xiangxuan was immediately ashamed and angry, her face flushed like chicken blood, but how could you ask her to defend herself for such a thing? For a moment, she just wanted to die.

Shen Xi patted Xiang Xuan's slender waist and scolded with a smile: "What are you looking at, you bastards? Of course Xiang Xuan hasn't done that kind of thing for me, otherwise why would I eat a leather cup with her?"

Shen Xi and his friends suddenly felt bored.

Shen Xi sneered, "I'm not like some people. Ha, those who always obey their wives and never show any masculinity will never end well. A man who dotes on his concubine will end up rebelling against the Heavenly Gang, right?"

Here, Yang Yuan and Qiao Zhen, who had been unable to sit still for a long time, stood up. Yang Yuan said in a clear voice: "Some people are like oranges that have been stored for a winter. They look bright and clear, but when you cut them open, they are just a pile of rotten cotton.

As the saying goes, all that glitters is rotten inside. Some celebrities from aristocratic families are just like this, nothing more than that! "

There are people selling Tibetan oranges these days, but they are not really cheating people.

In this day and age, only ordinary people can afford to buy out-of-season fruits. How could you cheat people?

After one scam, the business would disappear. Besides, what if someone peeled it off on the spot?

The buyers actually know what is going on, but they just buy them home to put on plates and use as decorations.

However, the person who wrote “On the Orange Seller” using this analogy was Liu Bowen of the Ming Dynasty!

At that time, the saying "all that glitters is not gold" did not exist in the world.

This sentence is a very frequently used sentence among the countless golden sentences of later generations, not to mention that it suddenly came out in this era.

As soon as Yang Yuan said this, Qiao Zhen and Bei'er's eyes lit up.

Although the people in the next room are all playboys with despicable character, they are actually some well-read and cultured people.

Of course they can appreciate the value of this sentence.

So, for a moment, no one stood up and shouted.

Everyone sat there, chewing over the phrase "all that glitters is not gold" over and over again. The more they savored it, the more they felt that every word was brilliant and indescribable.

After hearing this, Shen Xi's face changed drastically and he felt a chill all over his body.

He knew that this statement would spread throughout the world and could not be concealed.

This sentence is too damaging, his bad friends will definitely go out and show off.

Once this sentence was spoken, the origin and story behind it would also spread.

From now on, no matter how many thousands of years it takes, Shen Xi will be bound to the saying "all that glitters is not gold" and will never be able to be separated from it.

Next door, Yang Yuan and his group had already left.

Here, his friends saw that Shen Xi looked distracted, and when they thought of the comment "all that glitters is rotten inside", they started to scold more than just Shen Xi.

They all felt bored and said a few embarrassed words before leaving. For a moment, only two men and two concubines were left in the huge private room.

One couple is Shen Xi and Xiang Xuan, and the other couple is a middle-aged man with a sturdy build and honest appearance, with a beautiful concubine.

Shen Xi gnashed his teeth and said, "Wang Er killed people and destroyed their hearts. Shen Xi will become a laughing stock for all eternity! I want him to die, and he must die!"

Xiang Xuan shuddered when she heard this and looked at Shen Xi in horror.

Shen Xi grabbed the arm of the man next to him with shaking hands, stared at him and said, "Of course, brother, you have to help me!"

(End of this chapter)