Chapter 71: The Cat Substitutes for the Prince

The servants who were busy sweeping water and collecting lanterns were walking around. When they saw Zhao Jiu, they didn't dare to ask. They just stood by the wall with their heads lowered and made way for Zhao Jiu.

As he approached the door, Zhao put his hands behind his back and waved to the servant on the side to signal him to come over.

The servant who was sweeping the floor hurriedly dropped his broom and stepped forward. He nodded and bowed and asked, "Master, what are your orders?"

"What time is it?"

"It's almost midnight, young master." The servant replied respectfully, standing one step away from Zhao with his waist bent.

Zhao nodded and said calmly, "Look up and listen carefully! I'll go for a walk and write a good poem while the rain stops. Hahaha, it rains so well. Good rain knows the season! If my father asks, that's what I'll say Do you know?"

The servant lowered his hands and looked at Zhao Jiu, nodded and said, "I understand, young master, please walk slowly and be careful of water on the ground."

After saying that, he stepped forward to open the door for Zhao. Zhao nodded, as if he was in a good mood, patted the person's shoulder, and said with a smile, "What a clever servant, go to the accounting room to collect five taels of silver, and say it is my reward from the young master." "

After saying that, he walked out the door, ignoring the profuse thanks from the servants behind him. After the door was completely closed and no other sounds could be heard, Zhao took out the hemp rope from the space and tied it to the tree next to the horse-hitting post next to the door. Then he took out the body of Mr. Hou's youngest son, put shoes on the body, put on clothes and arranged them a little to ensure that the clothes fit naturally on the body. He carried the body and hung it on the noose, pretending to be a ghost hanging on silk. Pull out the dagger stuck in the neck with the cotton cloth and take it back to the space, making sure that the corpse is held tightly with both hands. He hugged the legs to stop the body from shaking, took out a pen and ink, and scrawled the words "filial piety, loyalty, trust, etiquette, justice and integrity" on the back of the body.

Looking at his masterpiece, he smiled and took off his outer clothes and human skin mask before anyone was around to take them back to his space. He quickly walked a few steps out of the alley, used Chasing Stars and Chasing the Moon, and hurried back to Nuanxiang Pavilion.

He got into the house through the window, closed the window, took off his clothes, hugged the girl, covered her with a quilt, and waited quietly for Li Yizhen to call someone. In order to look good, Zhao simply closed his eyes and slept.

When I was half asleep and half awake, I felt someone shaking me. Knowing that the time had come, I quickly sat up and clenched my fists and looked at the person with anger. After seeing it was Li Yizhen, she pretended to be scared and breathed a sigh of relief, "Oh brother, this spring night is worth a thousand dollars. If you don't go to your house, why are you disturbing me?"

"Ouch, brother, you are such a pervert! It's dawn!" Li Yizhen took a few steps back, pulled a chair over, sat down, and said helplessly.

After hearing this, Zhao scratched his head, pretended to smile awkwardly, picked up the clothes on the side and put them on, and asked with a smile, "Brother, what time is it?"

"It's past midnight." Li Yizhen leaned on the back of his chair and said calmly, "Brother, what happened to me last night? I'm so confused that I can't remember anything."

Zhao stretched out his hand and gestured with his thumb, "Brother, if you weren't so powerful and domineering, persevering, and convincing people with your strength, didn't you let the singer go down last night?"

Before Zhao could finish, Li Yizhen asked hurriedly, "Yeah, what next?"

"Then, what you said is comparable to Lao Ai, looks like a dragon, and supports the sky. How can those two fairies believe it?" Zhao paused, as if thinking about something, and then continued after a while, "You also said that you The fairy couldn't believe it anymore. You were so powerful, you picked up a bottle of wine and drank it all in one gulp. My dear, you scared me. You have such a great capacity for drinking!"

"Is this...is...really?"

"Is there any lie? You were so heroic at that time, and you even wrote poems! I can remember clearly: the flowers in the hibiscus tent are full of dew, and the mandarin ducks are manipulated by the mountains. The sword on the waist picks up the flower stamens, and the white tassels on the fingers lock the giant Dragon! What a rare and wonderful poem!”

After listening to Zhao Jiu's words, Li Yizhen suddenly beamed with joy. He could actually drink and compose poems. Could it be that I really have the foundation of a poet? Holding back his joy, Zhao continued to speak.

Zhao was not in a hurry to speak. He sent the woke girl out first, and then whispered, "Brother, you got drunk later and asked me to write a continuation of your poem. Then he pulled the two fairies into the room. , I have to let them know how to ask Wei Wu to crack the whip, oh, that sound, oh, I... I'm jealous!"

"Later, when my mother came up, I had to stop her right away. How could she disturb my eldest brother riding a horse to kill the enemy, so I asked her to go down and not come up. If I wasn't envious of my eldest brother, the sound could be heard in the alley next door! It's a hard work. It’s been a whole hour! I couldn’t bear it any longer. Isn’t this just following the footsteps of my elder brother?”

After saying this, Zhao took a breath, pursed his lips and made a shocked expression, patted Li Yizhen in a serious manner, leaned over and asked, "How did you practice, brother?"

After hearing the whole story, Li Yizhen was pleasantly surprised. Was she really so...so wild and tough? Could it be that he is really the one who takes the lead? Yes, yes, otherwise why would I have fallen asleep? It must have been a big battle, so tiring!

Although he was already happy in his heart, he still pretended to be nonchalant and said calmly, "It's just so so. Brother, this is a small show of skill. Don't go out and talk nonsense, brother. It's too tiring to be an excellent man! You have to hide something." "

Zhao had an "I understand" expression on his face, nodded and promised not to say a word when he went out, and would keep his mouth shut.

After receiving Zhao's guarantee, Li Yizhen smiled and took Zhao down to check out. Until Li Yizhen got on the carriage at the door, Zhao still looked at Li Yizhen's back with admiration and envy. This made Li Yizhen in the carriage sit upright, raise his head and chest, and shake his head majestically, sitting in the carriage as if he was victorious. The returning general.

After the carriage went far away, Zhao Jue stopped smiling, rubbed his slightly painful cheek, and walked towards Zhaoyu with his hands behind his back.

At the same time, a maid in Hu Houye's mansion opened the door with a basket on her shoulder, intending to go out to buy a fresh fish. The old lady wanted to eat fish recently, and the housekeeper ordered her to go out early in the morning to buy it.

After closing the door and walking out, the distance was hazy after the rain stopped, and it felt a little hazy. The maid took two steps and found a piece of cloth hanging on the tree. She walked over and planned to untie it. When she got closer, she found that it was a hanged person.

She cursed in her heart. Going out early in the morning and meeting a dead person, this will be a bad day! Looking at the words written behind the corpse, she couldn't help but read them: "Filial piety, brotherhood, loyalty, faith, courtesy, righteousness, and integrity"

"Strange, how can there be no shame? Isn't that shameless!" The maid said to herself, this person is really, even hanged, he still does this kind of riddle, he deserves to die!

However, these words did arouse the maid's curiosity. She fiddled with the corpse, wanting to see what a person who would play word puzzles even after death looked like. Unexpectedly, she was too weak to move it. After several attempts, the corpse just shook.

Once curiosity is aroused, it is not so easy to calm down. Since she couldn't move it, the maid didn't force it anymore. Instead, she walked around the corpse half a circle, wanting to see what the person looked like. When she walked to the corpse, she bravely looked up and was immediately frightened and took a few steps back. She fell to the ground, and the basket rolled to the side. She grabbed the ground with both hands, her eyes were as big as eggs, and she screamed.

"Ah~"

"No!"

"Master...Master..."