Chapter 240 Who says men are inferior to mothers (5,000 words long chapter)
Author: Bachelor in White
Chapter 240 Who says men are inferior to mothers (5,000 words long chapter)
Ximen Bei's book is quite popular in a certain small circle.
Several of his works were even excerpted and used as textbooks in academies.
Zheng Xiu glanced at the message on the brocade box in the basket.
Um?
"Mrs. Jiang Gaoyi is actually a loyal reader of Ximen Bei, and she gave him a sapphire paperweight as a gift."
"Can I go in and wait for Mr. Ximen to return?"
Although Zheng Xiu became the prince, he did not use his power to overwhelm others.
The boy was worried when he heard this: "But the teacher goes out to collect materials, which can take as short as three to five days, or as long as a few months... I am afraid that the prince will not be able to wait for the teacher to come back."
"It's okay, I'll just go in and take a look."
Zheng Xiu took a step forward as he spoke, and the young book boy made a crying dolphin sound from his mouth: "Your Majesty, you must not do it, you must not do it, the teacher will scold him to death when he comes back!"
It seems that Ximen Bei had warned no one to enter his study, but today the person who came was the prince of the dynasty. The scholar had a low status and could not stop him, so he was in such a difficult situation.
"In that case." Zheng Xiu stopped and walked out of the door: "I will visit you another day."
As soon as he stepped out of the threshold, Zheng Xiu blew a whistle, and Qing Shisan came as invited. He silently stretched out his hand and tapped the boy's neck lightly, knocking the boy down, who was helpless.
After Qing Shisan put down the book boy, he blew out a puff of smoke. The smoke instantly enveloped the courtyard, and the wisps of smoke were like hands, closing the courtyard door tightly.
"My lord, what are you doing..." Qing Shisan put down the bookboy, blew the smoke to set off the barrier, and closed the courtyard door tightly. This action was so skillful that it was heartbreaking, and he did it in one go. Then he frowned and said, "Trespassing into a private house?"
Zheng Xiu squinted his eyes and smiled: "Isn't it the king's land in the whole world?"
Qing Shisan was speechless: "But Your Majesty, your land is in Shuzhou."
"Almost, almost. Don't worry about such details."
Zheng Xiu knew Qing Shisan. This Qing Biao was a pure talker. If he really wanted to have sex, he would do it more happily than anyone else. There was a lock on the door, Zheng Xiu weighed it, and was about to let Qing Shisan
Thinking of a way, the window on the side was already unlocked from the inside, and the "other" Qing Shisan smiled and waved to the Red King: "Your Majesty, this way!"
Zheng Xiu was stunned: "My majestic King Qianchi, you want me to climb in through the window?"
"Okay! Then Qing Mou will kick the door open!" Qing Shisan said while standing outside the house and raised his legs.
Zheng Xiu immediately jumped in from the window.
After entering Ximen Bei's study, Qing Shisan had already walked around the room and opened all the windows for ventilation.
"Your Majesty, there is indeed no one inside."
"I know."
Zheng Xiu looked at the inner room, which was elegantly decorated. There were several unnamed paintings hanging on the walls and many antiques on the bookshelves. The whole study had an antique flavor, which was quite in line with Zheng Xiu's concept of "literati".
"impression.
This is what a "literati" is. The level of a literati like Mo Jiu who only knows how to copy books is too low, and he smells like a copycat. If you have a chance another day, you should order some of that kid.
Zheng Xiu thought about it and turned around, but didn't find anything strange. There was a long case in the study. There were many papers scattered on the case, some were folded into a pile. There were pens, inks, papers and inkstones on the corner of the table. Obviously, this was Ximen Bei's usual place.
A place of creation.
The pile of paper on the table is Ximen Bei's unfinished new book. The title is "Exin Juan Xiu". Zheng Xiu is trying to read it.
"E Xin Juan Xiu" tells the story of a "Xiu'e".
Xiu'e grew up in a remote mountain village.
A kind of sweet fruit is grown all over the mountains and fields in the village. The villagers can't eat it all, and many of them rot in the ground every year.
One year, a young man named "Dadi" decided to help his fellow villagers get rich by selling sweet fruits. He ran away for three years, met many people, and bought sweet fruits at a price of six cents per catty.
Xiu'e accidentally discovered that the young man Dadi had made a profit by buying sweet fruits. The sweet fruits sold by Dadi outside were sold at "seven cents" per pound. So the upright Xiu'e scolded the young man in front of the villagers and elders, saying that he was making money from the villagers.
Black money.
The villagers yelled and cursed, scolding the young people for not making money from the villagers and elders.
Dadi felt aggrieved, quit working in anger, and left the village. Seeing that no one cared about the sweet fruits all over the mountains and plains, the villagers scratched their heads. At this time, the kind-hearted Xiu'e stood up bravely and promised to find a way to
Sweet fruits were sold. After she entered the city, she discovered that something was wrong. It turned out that sweet fruits were being grown in the surrounding mountains. The purchase price of sweet fruits in the city was getting lower and lower. Seven cents was the price in the early years. Now there are
In the mountains, it even sells for only five cents a pound.
Xiu'e remembered her promise to the villagers, so she gritted her teeth and approached the local wealthy businessman. The old wealthy businessman, attracted by Xiu'e's beauty, proposed to take Xiu'e as his concubine. Xiu'e gritted her teeth and agreed. Because of Xiu'e's sacrifice, the villagers
The sweet fruit was finally sold for seven cents.
The good times did not last long, and the second year there was an overflow of sweet fruits. The rich man was not happy and thought it was a loss-making business, so he sold Xiu'e to a brothel. Xiu'e cried in tears every day in the brothel, but she worked hard to make money by accepting customers.
, I always buy the sweet fruits from the villagers at the price of seven cents.
A few years later, Young Dadi reunited with Xiu'e in a brothel. After learning Xiu'e's tragic story, he cried bitterly and the two embraced each other. Young Dadi chose to forgive her on the spot. Her troubles over the years
The wandering was just like her going out to experience things, and the two finally returned to the simple mountain village and lived a life without fighting against the world.
…
Reading time always flies by so fast.
Time passed quietly with the sound of turning pages.
"My lord, why are you crying?"
When Qing Shisan's puzzled voice sounded in his ears, Zheng Xiu came back to his senses, stared blankly at the confused Qing Pi, and said to himself: "Yeah, why the hell am I crying?"
He touched his face, it was wet and salty, if not for anything else, it was tears.
Zheng Xiu put down the pile of drafts in shock and said in surprise: "Hey, that's not right, why should I cry?!"
There was something wrong with Zheng Xiu's surprised and suspicious voice. Qing Shisan picked up the draft in confusion and read it patiently.
Qing Shisan was wiping tears while reading.
In the end, the two of them looked at each other: "Why are we crying?"
After a while, a chill came over him, and Zheng Xiu was so frightened that he took a few steps back and stared at the draft on the table warily.
Qing Shisan’s reaction was similar to Zheng Xiu’s.
It stands to reason that the stories written in the book cannot be sympathized with. It is not so much that Zheng Xiu sympathized with the stories in it, but rather... was contaminated by the plot in it.
hiss……
After calming down, Qing Shisan looked solemn, stared at the pile of drafts with murderous eyes, and said a four-word evaluation: "Extraordinary."
Zheng Xiu also nodded with lingering fear. It seemed that he could no longer read this guy's book.
Qing Shisan asked: "My lord, do you suspect that he is...?"
Zheng Xiu smiled bitterly: "Everyone looks like a candle to me now."
"My lord, you are sick."
When Qing Shisan heard this, he didn't realize that it was the prince who was being suspicious and sighed.
"It's not a bad thing to be cautious."
Qing Shisan understood and nodded vigorously: "I'll let the brothers keep an eye on it."
The matter was settled in a few words between the master and the servant.
After Zheng Xiu and Qing Shisan left, it took a while for the book boy to wake up staggeringly. When he woke up, he found that he had fallen asleep on the stone table in the yard. He was so frightened that he looked towards the study door lock.
I went there and found that the door and windows of the study were properly closed, which made me feel relieved.
Just like what Zheng Xiu said to Qing Shisan, since the "Night Lord" disappeared, he is indeed a little suspicious now, seeing that everyone looks like Zhu. But if Zheng Xiu's guess was right at the beginning, Zhu should be
I dare not approach the imperial city. It is unlikely that Ximen Bei is Zhu.
Regardless of whether Ximen Bei is a natural stranger or not, the "literary" path he follows means that the things he writes have strange lethality. He can calmly arouse the emotions of Zheng Xiu and Qing Shisan through words. This is
It's a different kind of "scary".
"It is not necessary to use a knife to kill someone."
Later, when Zheng Xiu told Feng Bei about this incident, he was quite sad and lamented: "Literati, painters, chess players, officials, doctors, some of the top nine schools look gentle and weak, but in fact they have a different kind of terrifying
Wherever you kill people, you can kill people. When you kill people, you can also kill people."
"Weak...powerless?" Feng Bei heard this and slowly asked a question: "But half of the city collapsed with one punch."
Zheng Xiu didn't answer, thinking to himself: "The same is true for painters, even more so."
Feng Bei refused: "But you destroyed half the city with one punch."
"Meow, meow, meow, meow!"
[Fool, fool, fool!]
The orange cat smiled and rolled on the ground.
Zheng Xiu reasonably suspected that the orange cat was not completely drunk that night when he and Wei Chen had dinner. He remembered Zheng Xiu calling him a silly cat, and now he was trying to get revenge on him.
In the early days of the official opening of the Disaster Prevention Bureau, the Disaster Prevention Bureau finally successfully operated. As the leader of the Disaster Prevention Bureau, Zheng Xiu has not been idle these days. In addition to practicing swordsmanship, playing with cats, skating with phoenixes, and soaking in poison to gain experience
In addition, Zheng Xiu read all the secret records left by Weiyang and the Secret Service the night before.
Ye Weiyang didn't leave behind much useful information. They were all sealed files of secret cases over the past twenty years. It would undoubtedly be fanciful to find Zhu's hiding place from these secret records.
On the contrary, the secret records accumulated by the Secret Service over the years have brought many surprises to Zheng Xiu. Since the emperor gave Yin Qingqing to him, Yin Qingqing gradually got used to his new identity, even though his words were still neither salty nor bland,
But from some details, it can be seen that Yin Qingqing's attitude towards Zheng Xiu has truly changed.
She took the initiative to hand over the secret records of the Ministry of Secrets to Zheng Xiu, which contained many anecdotal legends from ancient scrolls and strange things in the mountains. Zheng Xiu found information about "strangers" in a secret volume left ten years ago.
Speculation on the source of ability.
It is said above that the reason why aliens are born to occupy the door is because the existence of aliens itself is between "eternal darkness" and "eternal world". This concept coincides with Zheng Xiu's speculation about "humanoid ghosts". Because
The special nature of aliens is that they can use a thing called "foul air" in "Eternal Darkness" to evolve the "foul air" into various special abilities.
And everything the "thaumaturge" practices is nothing more than pretending to be a "stranger".
Limited by the limitations of the times and horizons, the speculations in the secret scroll are only superficial, and no deeper theories are elaborated. There are many similar secret scrolls. It took Zheng Xiu several days to read them in one go, not to mention that he benefited a lot.
, at least a little gain.
Since the "violent death of a raven" incident, the sky in the imperial city has been clean for a while. Recently, some people have noticed that there are a few dark red crows circling in the sky from time to time, stopping among the flying buttresses of the pavilions.
That's Wei Chen's "Blood Crow".
The blood crows are equivalent to Wei Chen's eyes. Because the crow farmer himself is disabled, he cannot spread the blood crows all over the world like the Night Lord did, but it is not a big problem to put a few in the sky to keep an eye on them.
Wei Chen did not hide this. He told Zheng Xiu that twenty years ago, the broken body of a "one-eyed crow-keeper" ran away and traveled to the desert. It is now hidden in the "Mirage", the base camp of the broken building in the desert.
The "mirage" is the special skill of "Shan Kui" who is the best at defensive skills among the ten chiefs of Quanquan Building. It can be said that these great Weiyangs searched for Quanquan Building overtly and secretly, and even found traces of Quanquan Building in the desert.
There is nothing that can be done about the incomplete building, precisely because of the "Mirage" protective technique of "Shan Kui".
Among the ten chiefs of the incomplete building, those who now receive money to work in the disaster prevention bureau include "Snake", "Ye", "Kong", and the former "Yao" who is now a monk. The ten chiefs of the incomplete building each have their own strengths and can cooperate with them.
Ye Weiyang has been fighting secretly for many years, which shows that she is quite capable.
The two sisters Snake and Ye would visit from time to time, go to Prince Chi's Mansion to have food and keep in touch with each other. During their visits, Zheng Xiu also found out the paths taken by the twin sisters.
The younger sister "Ying Ying", the "Snake", takes the path of "Shen Tiao Shaman", while the older sister "Ye", who is overwhelmed by the burden, takes the path of "Musician".
Nowadays, there are countless strange people around Zheng Xiu, who are many times more powerful than the original "Zheng Family". The combination of the three, including Quanquanlou, Ye Weiyang's old group, and the Zheng Family Brotherhood, gave birth to a new behemoth called "Chang An Disaster Prevention and Control Bureau"
.Zheng Xiu has confidence. Even if Zhu lives for a thousand years, as long as he is still hiding, it means that there is something in the imperial city that he is afraid of. If he dares to come, Zheng Xiu has a certain degree of confidence and will keep Zhu in the city and not go out.
.
A few days passed in the blink of an eye.
Ximen Bei, who had gone out to collect materials, had not returned yet. Zheng Xiu had people watching him and ignored the matter for the time being.
Another wild stranger living in the city - [Credit Knife Man] Sun Erming, a poor man who had been stuck with the Red King for a long time in his cultivation, Zheng Xiu took the time to meet him.
When Zheng Xiu found Sun Erming, he was hiding in Dali Temple, dirty and homeless, eating leftovers from Xiangmanlou. Even so, these were all from Xiangmanlou.
The most expensive dish, and Sun Erming had a great time eating it without even using his chopsticks.
Sun Erming had never shown any particular strength in front of Zheng Xiu, nor was he particularly tough. But Zheng Xiu, in line with the idea of "never underestimate any stranger", threw an olive branch at Sun Erming: "The Disaster Prevention Bureau heard about it
?"
Sun Erming nodded blankly, with the piece of dog skin plaster still attached to his face.
Zheng Xiu smiled and said: "As long as you are willing, the position of 'Pillar' is yours, and you can get glory and wealth at your fingertips."
The young knife owner hesitated and did not agree immediately.
His promotion path was stuck with Zheng Xiu, and his future was in jeopardy. He had been waiting for the "divination" to come true, but Zheng Xiu couldn't, and it was miserable.
Zheng Xiu was not in a hurry. Not long after he said goodbye to Sun Erming, in early August, the "child seeking case" in Lu Town finally came to an end.
It was a sunny afternoon. After lunch, Zheng Xiu secretly waved to Feng Bei. Feng Bei understood and the two of them got into the room.
Zheng Xiu took off his shirt, revealing his increasingly muscular upper body.
"It shouldn't matter if you don't do anything else, right?" Zheng Xiu advised earnestly: "Look, the king has a lot of affairs recently, his shoulders are heavy, his back is sore, and he is overworked. If I fall down from exhaustion, it won't work here.
If it doesn’t work there, you will be the one who suffers in the future...it’s you too!”
Feng Bei had a kind heart, and even though he still had doubts in his heart and hesitated for a while, he still agreed.
Zheng Xiu was lying on his stomach, Feng Bei was riding on Zheng Xiu, and his hands were gently pressing on Zheng Xiu's shoulders, waist and back.
"Madam's technique is as good as ever."
While Zheng Xiu was enjoying Feng Bei's great health care, Chang Shi Hui lit up at an inappropriate time.
Zheng Xiu looked at the call notification and answered the call.
"It's not good, it's not good, it's not good!"
As soon as the phone was connected, Xi'er's opening lightning struck. She panicked, holding Chang Shihui in her hands and shouted:
"Brother Crab, Brother Crab,"
"He's pregnant!"
On the other side of Chang Shihui, in addition to Xi'er's voice, there is also the weak and helpless cry of the young man and Jun Buxiao's playful laughter.
"Hehehe, I'm so happy! Congratulations!"
Xi'er was so anxious that she didn't notice Feng Bei riding on Zheng Xiu's body for a short period of time.
The one who destroys whomever he sees has the three strings in front.
That hand carries the ominous Feng Bei.
He is tenderly giving Chi Wang great health care.
If the news spreads, it will shake up the entire bureau.
"Who's pregnant?"
When Zheng Xiu and Feng Bei heard this, they were stunned at the same time.
"Mo Lie! The one who vomits whenever he sees a praying mantis!"
"Fuck?" The amount of information was too big, and it took Zheng Xiu a while to recover. He was stunned for a while: "How could he be pregnant? No, how did he get there? No, how could he really be a man?
Pregnant?"
hiss…
this…
So evil?
Zheng Xiu's heart skipped a beat.
Before Xi'er could talk about the cause and effect, Zheng Xiu's mind raced and he quickly figured it out.
Jun Buxiao took the order to investigate the case, and he brought helpers.
To say it is a helper, it is better to say it is used for demining.
He was familiar with Douxie in the past, so he called him.
Dou Xie was ignorant, thinking about getting a promotion and a salary increase to prove himself, so he went there stupidly.
I got pregnant as soon as I went there.
"Aren't you laughing?"
Xi'er: "He is smiling next to me!"
Zheng Xiu said expressionlessly: "Tell him that the person he took out died, and the pension will be deducted from his salary."
The laughter stopped abruptly.
Xi'er glanced back dullly, then turned back: "He's crying!"
Jun Buxiao is a guy who recognizes money more than people. He is not loyal to his former night master. This kind of person is easy to use, but not easy to use.
Xi'eryan briefly and comprehensively told the story of Mo Jie's pregnancy.
As expected, it was pretty much what Zheng Xiu had guessed. Mo Jie didn't even understand the origin of the "Wutong Temple", so he went in confidently holding the handwritten book.
After he became pregnant, he cried and recited "Haoran Righteous Song" again, but it was no use.
"What now?"
Xi'er didn't know what to do.
This was the first time this happened to her. What should a man do when he gets pregnant? Xier was confused.
Zheng Xiu was not sure and hesitated: "Give birth?"
Xi'er was dumbfounded: "Where did he come from? There are no men..."
She was about to say that men don't have that kind of thing, but when she thought about it carefully, her pretty face turned red suddenly, as if she insisted on saying that there is still something there. She didn't know what she thought of, and after blushing, she took a deep breath.