"Ha?!" The middle-aged man looked at Chen Mo as if he were an idiot, "Do you know where this place is? You are just messing around here. Don't blame us for being rude."
As he said this, the middle-aged man was about to retreat. His attitude was already quite polite. He dared to identify his relatives indiscriminately like this and brazenly said that he was the brother of General Wu. This was not a good thing. This kind of thing is not the first time.
There have been times before, but they all came to nothing.
"Wait a minute." Chen Mo called to the man.
"Boy, don't take advantage of our goodwill." The man looked coldly at this young man who wanted to mess around.
Chen Mo took out a jade pendant from his arms, waved it in front of the person, and said, "Do you know this? This is what he...she gave to me."
When the man took out something like a token, he didn't say anything like rejecting it. After all, there would still be tokens coming to the door. The man walked over doubtfully and made up his mind that as long as this thing was fake, he would immediately take care of the brothers behind the door to get it.
Serve with a stick.
Taking over the jade pendant that Chen Mo took out, he looked at it carefully for a while, his face became a little solemn, he held the jade pendant and asked: "Are you...?"
The tone became much more polite, and he already addressed me as "you".
"Chen Mo."
"Chen Mo...Chen Mo..." The man murmured twice, looked at Chen Mo again, his expression changed again, and then shouted: "Here, open the door."
"Just go over there." Chen Mo knew a little bit about the rules of such a wealthy family, but he didn't pay much attention to it, so he did whatever he could to save trouble.
"Here, please don't make things difficult for us. Let's go from here." The man pointed at the door that was slowly opening and made a gesture of invitation.
Chen Mo also thought that the gatekeeper wanted to run back and reopen the gate, so he said to take the door over there, but he didn't expect that the gate had already been opened.
Chen Mo and the middle-aged man walked into Wu Mansion one after another, and the open door did not close as they entered.
"Xiao Tao, come here." The middle-aged man followed Chen Mo and shouted to a young servant, who then ran over quickly.
"What's the matter, uncle?"
"You..." The middle-aged man whispered something into Xiao Tao's ear, and handed him the jade pendant that Chen Mo had taken out earlier.
"Go ahead."
"I'm so tired." Xiao Tao accepted the order and left.
"Wu Kou is not at home?" Chen Mo looked at the furnishings and scenery in the Wu Mansion, and occasionally saw a few maids appearing from his sight and then disappearing again.
"My master went to have a party." Regarding Chen Mo calling his master by his first name, the middle-aged man had the previous foreshadowing and didn't make a fuss about it. He was just a little confused.
"Then when will he come back?"
"Here, please wait for a moment, please come this way." The middle-aged man couldn't answer, so he could only invite him to the front hall first.
The front hall of a wealthy family is very large and high. It is brightly lit by candlelight even if there is no one there. Chairs and tables are arranged neatly, and potted plants are dotted around.
"Mr. Chen, please sit here for a while. Our people have already gone to inform the young master." The middle-aged man asked Chen Mo to wait in the front hall.
"You tell me where he is, and I can go find him."
"No need to trouble, I think the young master knows about it and will make arrangements." The middle-aged man can't let this person go to the young master casually. What if it causes trouble? It's better to let him stay here. If it is really the young master,
The person the head of the family mentioned will definitely come back soon.
"Xiao Lan, prepare tea and snacks for this young master." The middle-aged man said to the side.
"Yes." The slender woman on the side took the order and left.
At this time, a woman walked by the front hall, glanced inside, felt a little confused, and said, "Housekeeper."
The middle-aged man answered and walked out.
"Who is this?" the woman asked softly.
"It seems to be the young master's... friend." The housekeeper remembered what Chen Mo said at the door before, and almost blurted it out, but luckily he came to his senses.
"It seems? If you are not sure, just let people in casually. If you think this is a place, let me kick you out." The woman said with a proud face, without any hesitation in her voice.
"I'm afraid that won't work. I came here with a token." The butler looked embarrassed, but there was a bit of discomfort in his embarrassment.
"What's the token? Let me take a look." The woman stretched out her hand, as if she were a hostess.
"The token has been sent to the young master." The butler said in a neither humble nor overbearing tone.
"My brother has to take action on such a trivial matter? Don't you know how busy he is? You, a housekeeper, don't distract yourself for him. It seems very unqualified. It seems that I will have to replace you." The woman said in a tone of voice.
The arrogance is not hidden.
"Whether I am suitable to be the housekeeper of Wu Mansion or not is not decided by the young lady." The housekeeper did not waver at all because of the young lady's words.
"you...."
"Fei'er, what are you doing? What are you doing in front of the guests? Aren't you going to meet the young master of the Wei family? Why aren't you going?" A woman came over, looking a bit like a woman.
resemblance.
"Mom, the people in the family are getting smaller and smaller now. I..."
"Okay, let's go quickly, don't let people wait in a hurry." The woman urged, looking at Chen Mo from beginning to end.
Chen Mo, on the other hand, seemed to have nothing to do with it, eating the snacks brought by the maid named Xiaolan.
"This home is a bit interesting." Chen Mo smiled in his heart.
.....
On the other side, in the private room on the fourth floor of the tall and luxurious restaurant that Chen Mo passed by before, the person Chen Mo was looking for, Wukou, was drinking and chatting with a group of people of similar age. It didn't look like it was a social event.
"Wu Kou, it's been so long since you've been back that you remembered that our brothers have become third-grade generals, and their tails have been raised to the sky?" A young man scolded with a smile.
"Yeah, what's the matter? If you don't accept it, let's fight." Wu Kou retorted, and then rolled up his sleeves.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no."
"Yes, you guys are the only ones who are gentlemen, and I am just a common man."
"By the way, when will you come back and become a capital official?"
"Is this what I said I would come back if I wanted to? If I, a young boy like me, can become a third-grade General Yunhui, then those old assholes in the military department will complain a lot and want me to come back and rob them."
Location? Besides, what’s so good about the capital is that it’s better to live freely outside. If my sister hadn’t forced me to come back, I wouldn’t have come back.” Wukou said disdainfully.
"Your sister? With his young lady temper, can he force you back?"
"I'm not talking about her." Wu Kou said.
"Oh~" Everyone knew it by heart, and they still knew about the family background of this brother who had thrown mud together when they were young.
"I heard that your eldest sister, who has a very bad temper, has been very close to the young master of the Wei family recently."
"Really?" Wu Kou looked uninformed. "That's the best. I really hope that the man named Wei will marry her home quickly."
"Oh, what a pity. If it weren't for that temper, I couldn't stand it, otherwise I would be your brother-in-law." One person sighed.
"Don't give up, work hard, maybe she will change because of you." Wukou tried his best to sell his sister.
"I feel powerless, so let's forget it. My body is weak and I can't get angry."
"Then why don't you come and practice under my command? I'm sure you'll be strong within a year. Then it won't be a problem to hug three or four girls in the red building." Wu Kou put his arm around the man's shoulders and said.
"Forget it, I'm the only one in my family, go to your place, my parents will be pissed to death."
"Look, look, you were envious of me as a general before, but now I have shown you a clear path, but you are unwilling." The warrior made a sound.
"I think it's the underworld."
While these young men were reminiscing about old times, Xiao Tao, a servant of the Wu Mansion, came to this restaurant, asked the waiters here, and then ran upstairs.
Xiao Tao came to the private room mentioned by the waiter and knocked on the door several times.
"Who?"
Xiao Tao recognized that voice and it was his young master.
"Young master, is it me, Xiao Tao?"
"Come in."
Xiao Tao opened the door, looked at a large table of people, and walked straight to the young head of the family.
"What's the matter?" Wu Kou asked, holding the wine glass.
"There is a guest at home, looking for you." Xiao Tao calmed down and said.
"Didn't I tell you that I won't see any guests today?" Wu Kou muttered, raised the wine glass in his hand and asked, "Taozi, are you thirsty? Do you want a drink to quench your thirst?"
"No, no." Xiao Tao retreated feeling flattered.
Wu Kou had no choice but to drink it himself.
"Young Master, this is the token brought by the guest." After saying that, Xiao Tao took out a jade pendant from his arms and handed it to Wu Kou.
Wukou just glanced at it, and then he spit out a sip of wine in excitement, and sprayed it on the face of the man who had said before that he almost became his brother-in-law.
"Wukou, why are you so excited?!" The man cursed and wiped the drink from his face in embarrassment.
Wu Kou took the jade pendant, ignored the man, and asked Xiao Tao: "Taozi, is that man's name Chen Mo? He is about the same age. He looks like someone owes him money. Is he still holding a jade pendant?"
A knife?"
"I don't know if his name is Chen Mo, but it is very similar to the description of the young master. As for whether he is holding a knife, I don't know, but he is indeed holding something tightly wrapped in his hand." Xiao Tao
said.
"That's it, that's it, let's go." Wukou said and got up and left.
"Hey, why are you going? As a guest, why do you want to make such a big move?" asked the companion at the wine table.
"You don't understand, my eldest brother is here." With that, Wukou hurriedly walked out of the box with Xiao Tao.
"Big brother?" The people in the box looked at each other. "Don't he get along very well with his brothers? Why are he happier now than during the New Year?"
"yes."
"Wait a minute, did he pay the bill?"
"It seems not."
"I'm so stupid. This guy is so stingy. He can do such things, but he's still a general."
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