Volume 2: Case within a case, the granary of the world Chapter 61: The bet is Xiao Xian

  The maid brought in the fruit and tea water and then withdrew from the room.

  "Hey! Hou Xuan, you're quite popular among the ladies!" After everyone left and only Hou Xuan and I were left in the room, I started wandering around the messy room.

  "Of course, I'm that kind of person... My mother said that I was born to be a scourge on men and women. But madam, I don't understand what this has to do with men?"

  "Hmm... since all the women like you, what about those men?" I won't corrupt my own son like Hou Xian's mother did to him. He's so adorable, if he gets snatched away by a man, I'll be depressed to death.

  "Hey, isn't it bad for you to rummage around in someone else's room like this?" Hou Xian followed behind me, gnawing on an apple, like a shadow.

  "Don't talk nonsense, I'm just admiring." I casually picked up the perfume box on the dresser and sniffed it, "Women are still better with fragrance."

  "Hey, why are you talking like a man, you pervert." Hou Xuan gave me a weird look and kept a certain distance from me.

  The pink canopy has small hollow flower patterns: "I like this set of bedding, when I go back I will also buy it."

  "Hmph, you women are so troublesome, even a bed sheet has to look this good, luxurious."

  "You know what? Someone who doesn't change their clothes with the seasons."

  "Who said I didn't?" Hou Xuan still wasn't convinced.

  "Hmm. You only have five sets of clothes, and the one you're wearing today is the same one you wore five days ago. Didn't your elegant mother tell you to change your clothes more often?" I walked over to the window, outside was a riot of colorful flowers, summer had begun.

  "Ha, you really are getting more and more like your mother, but... isn't this money for buying clothes all going to you?" He lightly bumped me, with a spoiled tone of voice and a flattering face. "Good wife, give me a discount, okay? He gently pinched my sleeve, shaking it back and forth, "Is that okay, is that okay?"

  "Hmph, even if you don't give it to me, you're still going to show it to your flower sister anyway."

  "I swear, you won't take a single penny from me. I'll never come back again." Hou Xian stood up straight, his right hand still in the shape of an oath.

  "Already tired of the new and bored with the old?" A soft, gentle voice came from behind me, I turned around to look, she walked step by step like a kitten, lazily sat on the edge of the table, curled up her fingers to hold an sour plum, slowly put it into her bright red lips.

  I couldn't help but laugh, and after a slight collision, I said: "It's so sour." Hou Xian puffed up his face: "Sister Hua, don't mess around, Madam will misunderstand and add more money to me."

  "Hahahaha...... Lady Hu Guo, what trick did you use to make this little beast so obedient?" She sat at the edge of the round table like a boneless beauty snake.

  I sat opposite her, grabbed a handful of melon seeds: "This is to get down to business. I'll make a bet with you, one piece of clothing for ten taels of silver. If you can get Jia Shaohua to take off one piece without losing out yourself, I'll lose the bet and give you ten taels of silver. How about it? Is making a bet with the Duchess exciting or not?"

  "What's going on? So it's still that thing... Hmm, but changing the way we play is actually interesting."

  "All right, if you can deceive him into calling out 'bed', I'll give you another twenty taels of gold."

  "Ah, this is indeed a challenging one." The soft and gentle voice was accompanied by a slight tremble. She turned her charming gaze to one side and raised an alluring smile, "However, shouldn't we avoid discussing this in front of children?"

  "Little kid?" I followed his gaze to the person beside him, who was blushing and sipping tea with his head down. I took out ten taels of silver from my bosom, "Hou Xuan, go play with your sister."

  "Hmph! Cough cough!" Hou Xian wiped his mouth and glared at me. "Do you think I'm a kid? Whatever it is that you can't let me hear, I'll definitely stay!"

  "Heh heh heh. Xuanxuan is still so cute. Alright, ten taels of gold, I'll bet on this gamble, but as for the gold and silver, I don't care about them."

  "So what do you want to bet on?"

  Bet on him.

  Orchid fingers point towards the back of the string.

  "Him?"

  She rolled up a strand of hair and slid it over her lips: "If I win, you'll let Xuanxuan go on stage to dance."

  "Pffft!" This time it was my turn to spit, I turned my face sideways, the back of my head tensed up and bulged out my eyes, which were extremely unwilling. Turning back, "Alright!"

  "Hey! How can you betray me!" Hou Xuan angrily pushed me, I smiled and said: "Anyway, you owe me one thing, this is not a matter of murder or arson, just perform well at that time, don't lose my face." I patted Hou Xuan's shoulder encouragingly, he painfully covered his own head, tangled for a while, before raising his face, turning serious again: "You'd better give me the money, I'll go find sister to play."

  "Hahaha..." My friend and I burst out laughing at the same time, and we couldn't help but touch Hou Xuan's head, completely messing up his braids.

  "You, you! Hmph!" Later, Xuan walked angrily to the dresser that had been messed up by us and took down the braids. Flowered and I continued discussing our main topic.

  "This thing I'm sure to win, how about you let Xuanxuan perform on stage tonight?" Hua Lian's gaze floated towards the long-haired Hou Xuan, and I smiled: "What if you can't do it? Wouldn't I be at a loss then?"

  "If I lose, you'll find the most disgusting man in Beijing to sleep with me, how's that?"

  "Alright, thumbs up! Since you've sworn such a poisonous oath, I believe you! Later, get ready to go on stage tonight!"

  "How refreshing! I remember you!" Later, the right hand holding a comb pointed at me fiercely, and the small melon face was almost invisible under the messy hair. A slender figure flashed beside Later, and Later immediately pointed the comb at Huahua: "Sister Hua, what are you doing?"

  "Of course it's for you to dress up, your skin is so dark, how can you go out like that?"

  "Ah - no way, that's what my elegant and unparalleled mother said was a manly flavor!"

  "Be a man! Your wife said you're coming home tonight, so just behave yourself!"

  "The wind is clear and elegant..."

  Hehe, drink tea, watch a good show. Although the previous process was a bit unbearable and miserable.

  When Xiaojuzi and others were still worried about the loss of grain in Qingzhou, I was watching Hou Xian's performance with Hua at the "Baifangong".

  "The front palace of 'Baihua Palace' is just an ordinary brothel's main hall, only larger in scale. As for the back palace, hehe, I don't need to explain."

  It's now the time of moon above willows, just when one is full of wine and food and starts to have lustful thoughts. A beaded curtain hangs down in front of the door, through which one can see clearly the stage inside.

  "Look, Jia Shaohua has arrived." Hua Lian pointed outside the curtain, and I saw a familiar figure walking past the door. I covered my face with my sleeve: "It's all over, if he sees Hou Xuan's performance, he shouldn't really fall for Hou Xuan, should he?"

  "How dare he!" The fan in her hand fluttered gently, her white eyes flashing horizontally. "This is my territory, if he dares to make trouble, I'll chop him off."

  "Hey, hey, don't you dare! I still need him to crack the case. Besides, Hou Xuan is a man, what chastity can he possibly have?"

  "You're absolutely wrong, this is a matter for men to handle. The royal and noble families don't have any moral integrity, let me tell you... which royal or noble family hasn't had their innocence lost here? But with someone like Xiao Xuanxuan, who's such a big fool, maybe if you didn't take the initiative, he wouldn't even know what to do... Hehehe..."

  "Me too."

  "Just look at him like that, and you can tell that some men's strings haven't been plucked yet."

  "Why don't we do it this way, if you lose, you'll teach him how to?" The fan pointed at Huale's chest, and Huale was slightly stunned. Suddenly, she came back to her senses, using the fan to open mine: "Die... who says that Furen is rigid? Look at your evilness... isn't that taking advantage of me? Are you willing to?" Huale leaned softly against my body, with a fragrance wafting around.

  I'm smiling with a hint of sarcasm. If I were to touch the wrong string, I'd be the one who ends up dead. Let alone Little Nine wanting to kill me, even Hansi Yiyi wouldn't let me off.