Chapter One Thousand Five Hundred and Forty Six Rumors
Presumably Hosokawa Mochiyuki was depressed, but Komatsu Reiko was very excited.
He waved his hands indifferently, "It's just not easy, but it's not impossible. I never thought that this trip would be solved easily, and the difficulties now are just expected."
After a pause, he continued, "Where does Xu Chengfei live?"
Hosokawa Mochizuki cheered up and quickly replied, "The Kuangyi Marquis Mansion is located at the foot of the East Imperial City in the inner city. Almost all the residences of the Ming Dynasty's dignitaries are here."
"Okay, prepare my name card, and I will go to meet him in person tomorrow." Komatsu Lingzi's eyes flashed with inexplicable meaning.
Kuang Yi Hou Mansion.
Xu Chengfei has been following Han Du for so long. After returning to Beijing, he spent a lot of effort to settle the three guards of Shanziying and Wuliangha, and then dealt with the congratulations of the nobles one by one. Now he is finally free.
After coming down, he was ready to take a good rest.
I was hiding in the study room reading when I suddenly caught a glimpse of the butler's figure emerging from the door.
Xu Chengfei put down the book in his hand, raised his head and asked softly, "What's the matter?"
The housekeeper came in quickly and respectfully handed over a name card, "Master Marquis, someone just came to the house to hand over a name card."
"Whose name card is it?" Xu Chengfei asked strangely.
He had just finished a banquet with all the nobles who came to congratulate him. Even if someone wanted to come to congratulate him, they should have handed over the name card long ago, why didn't they just come now?
Everyone lives in the capital, and yet he is just handing in his name card now. Doesn't it mean he is looking down on him?
The housekeeper quickly said, "I asked, but the other party didn't say anything. He only said that he was an old friend of the Marquis."
As he said that, the butler glanced at his Marquis secretly with a strange expression, placed the name card in front of Xu Chengfei, and then withdrew with an embarrassed expression.
Xu Chengfei glanced at the butler for a few times and let him leave. Then he took out the name card and suddenly smelled the fragrance of powder in his nose. At this time, Xu Chengfei finally understood that the butler's expression was so weird just now. He knew that this thing was a woman.
He also said that he was his old friend and refused to say his name in a secretive manner. No wonder the housekeeper misunderstood.
"Once the spring breeze comes, I will remember it in my heart. When I say goodbye to the past, I will reluctantly leave it."
Xu Chengfei only glanced at it and frowned tightly, "What nonsense? When did I have such an old friend? It's simply inexplicable."
Xu Chengfei didn't even have the interest to continue reading. He directly picked up the name card, squeezed it hard, and threw it into the barrel.
"Maybe I found the wrong person."
After giving Xu Chengfei the name card, Xiao Songling
Zi was waiting quietly in the hall. At first, he thought Xu Chengfei would come to see her immediately, so she waited with confidence.
But as time passed day by day, no one came, not even a message, which made Komatsu Reiko anxious.
"Have you sent the name card to Kuang Yihou's mansion?"
Faced with doubts, Hosokawa Mokiyuki quickly knelt down and said, "Master, this subordinate personally sent the name card to Kuang Yihou's mansion. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it."
Komatsu Reiko quite recognized Hosokawa Mochiyuki's ability to do things. If he had said so, he would definitely have sent the name card.
"Is there someone obstructing this?" Komatsu Lingzi asked to himself, and then said, "I heard that the concierges of these officials in the Ming Dynasty will not do anything for you if you don't give them some benefits, and they will even
Deliberately sabotaging your business. When you sent a name card to Kuang Yihou's mansion, did you give some money to the concierge?"
"That's not true. It was due to the negligence of my subordinates." Noriyuki Hosokawa quickly lowered his head and admitted his mistake.
Komatsu Lingzi nodded slightly, "That's it, they definitely didn't give the name card to Xu Chengfei. In this way, you go and give the name card again. Remember, you must give some money to the concierge."
"Yes, my subordinate will do it now."
Hosokawa Mokiyuki once again took the name card to Kuang Yihou's mansion, handed it to the concierge, took out a piece of gold from his arms and pressed it hard into the concierge's hand.
The porter's eyes widened when he looked at the heavy gold nuggets in his hand. He had been guarding Kuang Yihou Mansion for so many years, and he had never seen anyone give gold as soon as he came up.
The color of this piece of gold is not very good, and the fineness is not the top-grade red gold, but it is big. After weighing it, I found that there are at least ten taels, which is a huge fortune.
Hosokawa Mokiyuki saw all the changes in the concierge's expression, and then told the concierge in poor Ming Dynasty Mandarin to hand over the name card to Marquis Kuang Yi with his own hands. After receiving a positive reply, he turned around and left with satisfaction.
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Xu Chengfei got the name card again, and saw some even more outrageous words written on it. He frowned and said involuntarily, "It's really inexplicable."
Then he pinched again, threw an arc again, and threw the name card into the barrel.
After several days, Komatsu Reiko still had no news about Xu Chengfei.
I couldn't help but call Hosokawa Noriyuki to me, "What are you going to do?"
?Did anyone actually give Xu Chengfei the name card?"
"Master, I asked someone to personally hand over the name card to Xu Chengfei. For this, I also spent ten taels of gold." Hosokawa Mokiyuki quickly defended, and then said bitterly, "Baga, that damn pig,
How dare you lie to me! Master, please give me another chance, and I will definitely send you the name card."
However, Komatsu Reiko directly waved her hand and rejected his proposal, "No, this time I will pay a visit in person to see if Xu Chengfei sees him or not."
The next day, Xiaosong Lingzi put on Daming's clothes and came to Kuang Yihou's mansion in full attire.
The guarding soldier saw a dark carriage slowly stopping at the door. Just as he was about to step forward to ask, he saw a smooth-skinned plain hand reaching out from inside the carriage and lifting the curtain.
Just seeing this hand, the soldiers who came forward couldn't help but widen their eyes and swallow their saliva. But anyone who saw this beautiful hand couldn't help but imagine in their minds who the owner of this hand was.
Overwhelming the country?
Sure enough, when she poked her head out, even though she was wearing a veil, everyone just saw her slender figure, and they all thought in their hearts that she was indeed a beauty who would captivate the whole country.
"May I ask this girl, why do you come to Kuang Yihou Mansion?"
Xiaosong Lingzi smiled slightly behind the veil, and a clear and melodious voice like an oriole came out slowly like a mountain stream, "I am an old friend of Marquis Kuang Yi. I have come to pay homage to Marquis Kuang Yi, and I would like to ask this military master to pass on the message."
"Don't dare, don't dare." The soldier quickly returned the gesture with fists raised.
This woman is very beautiful at first sight, and she keeps saying that she is an old friend of their Marquis. She may have some entanglement with the Marquis. He is just a guard soldier, how can he bear the title of "Military Lord" for this woman?
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Everyone, please go and try it soon.
"It's not a coincidence that this girl is here. The Marquis went to the military camp to organize military affairs today and is not in the palace. How about you come back another day?"
"Not there?" Komatsu Reiko frowned. What a coincidence? Xu Chengfei just happened to be away when she came to see him?
There was no other way. Since Xu Chengfei was not here, she couldn't force her way in, right? She had to ask, "Can I ask when Marquis Kuang Yi will come back?"
"This" the soldier suddenly found it difficult to answer, "so that the girl knows that the Marquis is rectifying military affairs in the army, and the time for rectifying military affairs each time varies. It is really unknown when he will come back. Please invite the girl."
Forgive me."
Don’t know when to come back? This makes Xiao Songling
Zi frowned even more. She felt that Xu Chengfei was avoiding her on purpose. How could there be such a coincidence in the world? He was obviously there when the name card was handed over, but he came to the door in person, and Xu Chengfei went to the military camp. This is not
Are you obviously trying to avoid her?
"Hide, there is a saying in the Ming Dynasty, you can hide past the first year of junior high school, but you can't hide from the fifteenth! I'm going to see how long you can hide!" Komatsu Lingzi snorted coldly in her nose, turned around and boarded the carriage and left.
In the days that followed, Xiaosong Lingzi came several times, but each time she was told that Marquis Kuang Yi was not in the mansion. The soldiers guarding the gate at first also told her the whereabouts of Marquis Kuang Yi, but later they didn't even bother to tell her his whereabouts.
He just said "Master Hou is not here, come back another day" and dismissed her.
But the more this happened, the more convinced Komatsu Lingzi became that Xu Chengfei was deliberately avoiding him, and the more she came to visit him.
Soon, news spread among the nobles. That was that Xu Chengfei had cheated on a girl outside, and now he was blocked by others. Whether they were ordinary people or nobles, the topics of interest between men were definitely not the same.
There will be fewer women.
Nowadays, a stunning beauty visits Xu Chengfei almost every day. If there is no story, who would believe it?
Even Xu Chengfei's wife didn't believe it, and she even thought of letting this woman in in front of Xu Chengfei.
"Master Hou, if Master Hou really likes that woman, just give her the title of concubine and bring her into the mansion. I'm not a jealous person. Why would Master Hou let that woman block the door of the mansion for no reason?
Have people seen the joke?"
Xu Chengfei was being dressed by his wife. When he heard this unexpectedly, he frowned in confusion, "What woman? What concubine? What are you talking about?"
Seeing that Xu Chengfei was full of doubts, the lady thought that he was pretending to be ignorant, so she said, "Master Hou, this is not a big deal, why do you need to cover it up? The woman has come to the door. Doesn't it have anything to do with Mr. Hou?"
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"What woman, what does it have to do with me? What are you talking about?" The more Xu Chengfei listened, the more doubtful he became.
Seeing Xu Chengfei's demeanor, the lady couldn't help but said, "That's right, she is the woman who often comes to the house to see the Marquis these days! Could it be, is it really a misunderstanding?"
"A woman is looking for me? It's just baffling. What is going on?" Xu Chengfei looked at his wife with doubtful eyes.
The lady looked at the Marquis blankly, and quickly explained, "It was rumored that the Marquis was here and had cheated on the woman outside, so they came to the door. Didn't the Marquis have any relationship with any woman?"