King of Black Mist

When Li Changzhou returned to his room, a girl named Xiaoling gave him water to wash up.

He took a look and found that the pipes in the house actually had hot and cold water. It was more comfortable than when he was a child. When he was a child, he would boil himself in a pot when bathing, and the tap water was useless, let alone hot or cold. .

"Second Master, I heard that you met an assassin today?" Xiaoling couldn't help being curious and asked.

"A few thieves." Li Changzhou replied, rolling up his sleeves and preparing to wash his face.

"Thief? What's the difference between a thief and an assassin?"

"You are the thief, and my brother is the assassin, do you understand?" Li Changzhou put his hand into the basin and poured water to wash his face.

Xiaoling tilted her head and thought for a while, then shook her head: "I don't understand."

Li Changzhou took the towel from her, wiped his face, and asked her, "How old are you?"

"Thirteen."

"How old were you when you came to the Marshal's Mansion?"

"Eleven, I did a good job later. I started serving my second aunt at the age of twelve, and I started serving you, the young master, at the age of thirteen!" Xiaoling raised her little face and stroked her pigtails proudly.

Li Changzhou wiped his face slowly. After wiping his face, he wiped his hands carefully.

After Xiaoling went down, Li Changzhou returned to the bedroom.

His house has three rooms, the living room, the study room, and the bedroom. The living room is between the study room and the bedroom.

He closed his eyes and meditated on "Book of Thunder" for a while. When the time on the pendulum approached 12 o'clock, he couldn't sit still and took the initiative to use "Twin's" "Bond Summon".

As if opening his eyes, the space in front of him cracked open.

The eyes opened wider and wider, and in the dim light, a piece of snow-white was vaguely visible, swaying like a delicate flower in the wind.

"Brother! What are you doing! I'm getting dressed!" Li Qianxia exclaimed in a low voice from across his eyes.

She squatted down and huddled with her back to the "eyes".

Li Changzhou turned his back: "Didn't you promise to summon me when you get the chance? It's almost 12 o'clock now."

"Stop talking." The sound of someone quickly getting dressed came from behind, "The identity Xiaoyue gave me is that of a female worker in a shoe factory, and I just got off work!"

She complained again: "I wanted to take a bath and I called you, but you spied on me. If you don't treat me to dinner, I'll tell Qinglan."

"I want to treat you to dinner just by looking at your shoulders? Then you usually show your thighs, arms, navel, and wear a strap with a bateau collar. I also saw it. How do you count?"

"Please feed me for the rest of my life...that's it."

Li Changzhou turned around, his "eyes" had turned into a "door", and Li Qianxia jumped over from the opposite side.

As soon as she came over, her eyes full of spirituality swept around Li Changzhou's bedroom.

"It's a good life!" She slapped Li Changzhou's shoulder heavily with her hand and gritted her teeth.

"I'll give you some money when you leave." Li Changzhou was very sensible.

"Give me money? Do you look down on me? I won't leave!" Li Qianxia threw herself on the bed, "This quilt, this pillow, and the fragrance! It's better than my modern life!"

Li Changzhou smiled and explained: "It's dangerous to follow me, so let's act separately first."

"Danger?" Li Qianxia raised her head.

Li Changzhou told what happened today.

"No TV series dares to be so exciting." Li Qianxia commented. Although her brother thought she could deal with those people, she didn't insist on it.

Then he also talked about his side of things.

"I have learned a skill and can tie the soles of shoes."

As she spoke, she used her left hand as the sole of her shoe, holding a needle in her right hand, and threaded the needle up and down with thread. From time to time, she would pick up other tools, poke the "sole", and bite it with her teeth.

"It's so hard." After finishing a "sole", she sighed and hit her left shoulder with her right hand.

After talking about work, we started talking about where we live.

A large courtyard is rented by several families, separated by low boards. Each room can only fit one bed, and a large family is squeezed into it.

Husband and wife, children, eat and sleep there all their lives, children are born there and grow up there. Just like the battlefield, this place is also a kind of hell on earth.

Li Qianxia lives with a group of female workers from out of town, who seem to be from the same village.

Li Changzhou thought of Xiaoling, who had been serving others since she was eleven years old. In modern times, this is the age when people serve others, but Xiaoling did not feel bitter at all, because there were more miserable people and lives.

"By the way," Li Qianxia remembered something, "Have you found Qinglan?"

"No." Li Changzhou came back to his senses, "But once the news of my assassination is published in the newspaper tomorrow, she will know where I am."

Li Qianxia nodded and said, "You give me money later, and I'll buy a theater ticket for 8pm on the 28th, just in case."

"good."

The two siblings chatted for a while, and Li Changzhou gave Li Qianxia 1,000 yuan.

"1000, how much do you think I'll pay for a day's work?"

"An ocean?" Li Changzhou raised his finger and tried to guess the smallest possible number.

"Ha!" Li Qianxia sneered, "Dream on you, Liang Mao! This is your incomparably cute and super capable sister. I'm very handy! Guess again, how much is my monthly rent?"

"How many?"

"Three oceans!" Li Qianxia raised two fingers of her right hand in a gesture, and raised the middle finger of her left hand.

"Then can you afford to live there?" Li Changzhou pressed her left hand back.

"So let's rent together! Ten people can rent together and it only costs 30 cents a month!"

Li Changzhou nodded.

"You can nod?" Li Qianxia spread her hands, "More."

"What do you want so much money for? You can't take out the money here." Li Changzhou gave her another thousand. This time there was no cash, and he used a check from Songcheng Commercial Bank.

"There is a little sister named Xu who is getting married. She doesn't even have a new dress. She picks up other people's old clothes and sews them herself. I will buy her a set of clothes and a few more. I plan to secretly give them some."

Li Changzhou didn't say that this was in vain. The past before him was not really the past. These little sisters were already dead.

Historically, the woman who got married was destined to get married in "new clothes" sewn from rags.

"Be careful," he only said, "don't give too much, and don't be too obvious."

"I know, I'm leaving. Alas, why can't Honey Pot World be used in the dungeon!"

Li Qianxia went back to Qianshu Alley on Xinnan Road quietly (where she lived) in the dark.

The little sister surnamed Xu is always the first to get up to sew new clothes recently. She seizes the time to go to the factory to finish the work, and then comes back to sew clothes until the last one goes to bed.

Li Qianxia secretly lost a hundred yuan in the well water where she was brushing her teeth. After thinking about it, she put away most of it, leaving only 30.

This much money cannot be lost by anyone in the yard - the people who live here will have nothing to eat if they don't work for three days, and they don't have any savings, let alone 30 yuan.

In order to ensure that the money was picked up by the Xu sisters, Li Qianxia woke up first on April 27 and used her senses to pay attention to everything around her.

Sister Xu was still the "first" to wake up, yawning, and keeping her eyes closed when she went out to wash up.

After a while, Li Qianxia heard an exclamation, followed by heavy breathing.

After a while, Sister Xu came back quietly. She gently lifted the mattress at the head of the bed and hid the oceans one by one at the bottom.

Sisters Li Qianxia and Xu breathed a sigh of relief at the same time and smiled.

While working that day, Sister Xu was sometimes worried, sometimes laughing, always distracted, and her fingers were pricked by the awl worn in her shoes.

"What's wrong?" asked another sister.

"No" Sister Xu immediately panicked.

"I can't wait to sleep with a man." Li Qianxia teased her.

"Sleeping with men?"

"It turns out to be Sichun!"

The sisters burst into laughter, and Sister Xu breathed a sigh of relief, but her face soon turned red with embarrassment. A group of young women in 1928, while making insoles and earning two cents, whispered about what it was like to sleep with a man, and asked She must come back after marriage to "teach them a lesson"!

At noon, Li Qianxia went to the street to buy a newspaper from a newsboy on the pretext of going to the toilet.

She didn't rush to read it. She found a rickshaw and asked the driver to go to the opera garden before she spread out the newspaper.

[Master Li and his fiancée met and were assassinated! 】

[The Marshal and the Young Master go out to suppress the bandits, and Mr. Li becomes the "Lord of the City"! 】

There was a photo of Li Changzhou in the newspaper. He was wearing a suit and holding a civilized stick. He was handsome and handsome, and he was as rich as jade. There was no trace of the obscenity of hiding pornographic books.

"Tsk!" Li Qianxia smacked her tongue in disgust, looked at it carefully twice, and then looked away from the photo with satisfaction, as if she had finished admiring the beautiful photo of herself.

The newspaper was in traditional Chinese. Although she couldn't write it, it didn't affect her reading. The only trouble was the layout - vertical.

Difficulties caused by different reading habits are greater than traditional Chinese characters.

Turning over the newspaper, there was another big headline.

【Spring Emperor appears! Liyuan appears! 】

The photo shows a gorgeous beauty, dressed in a cheongsam on the left and an actress on the right.

Spring Emperor?

The Spring Emperor starring Gusu Murong? !

Am I going to see myself? !

Li Qianxia became excited. She had been listening to the play for a long time because Gusu Murong starred in "The Spring Emperor of the Liyuan". She raised her orchid fingers and pinched her throat when talking to her brother.

Looking at the appearance in the photo, even if it is black and white, it is no worse than Gusu Murong.

With excitement, she finally arrived at the Liyuan. She found that she had run in vain, there were no tickets at all, and even the tickets in the aisle (temporarily added seats) were sold out!

"Damn it!" Li Qianxia imitated the two-dimensional curse and cursed.

With eyes as agile as a deer's, he looks around for targets to see if he can launch a personal revolution to "rob the rich and give to the poor" in the hands of a certain bureaucratic capital.

She won't be polite to rich people, and it's just a ticket, so it won't matter if she misses one more show!

I was looking around when I suddenly saw a car approaching. In 1928, having a car at home was the same as having a private jet at home 100 years later.

You are the one!

The car stopped, the door opened, and people got out.

"Huh?"

The man in front of me is wearing no make-up or clothes, but he is as charming as a fairy. His skin is like fresh snow. He looks like Fairy Gushe. No, it is Fairy Gushe herself.

"Qinglan!" Li Qianxia ran over in surprise.

Yang Qinglan put her fingers on her cherry blossom-like lips, signaling her not to speak on the street.

She pulled Li Qianxia into the opera garden and found a remote corner: "There are people coming and going around here. There are many rickshaws parked all year round. There are probably players among those rickshaw drivers, so be careful."

"Got it." Li Qianxia responded, and then asked the doubt that she had been holding back in her heart just now, "Qinglan, why can you go in and out of the opera house? Are you going to perform on stage? I saw you taking a car!"

"The car belongs to the troupe, and I go out to do errands. I am an apprentice."

"apprentice?"

"That is, doing odd jobs."

"Job." Li Qianxia's two red and delicate lips curled into a pout, as if her pockets were tightly tied to prevent laughter from escaping.

‘Yang Qinglan, Fairy Gushe, please tell my brother tonight if you are doing some odd jobs! Hahahahaha! ’

Li Qianxia remained calm.

Yang Qinglan glared at her slightly, completely guessing what she was thinking.

"That's right!" Li Qianxia quickly changed the subject, "Qinglan, do you know my brother? He became Mr. Li! Lots of money! He smells like copper! He also became a bureaucrat!"

Yang Qinglan took out the newspaper from his bag. On the surface of the folded newspaper was Li Changzhou's photo.

"I just went to buy newspapers for Chunhuang." After a moment's pause, she said, "Ask him to come to Liyuan tomorrow. I'll see him if I have anything to do."

"Qinglan, you don't have to worry so much. Apart from peeking at me changing clothes, my brother didn't do anything to regret you. I promise!"

"You come too, I'll prepare a place for you."

"Ah -" Li Qianxia looked down, "I'm just kidding, he just glanced at my shoulders. I usually wear a one-piece collar and show my shoulders."

"You don't want to see the Spring Emperor show?"

"Come!" Soldier Li Qianxia answered immediately when facing the instructor.

Yang Qinglan couldn't help but smile slightly, glanced around, and said softly: "I have something to discuss with you, not to cause trouble for your brother."

She put the newspaper into her bag and said casually: "You will tell him something for me today - don't do evil for small things."

"You're not allowed to touch any women, right? Promise to bring her!"

Although Li Qianxia grasped the key point, Yang Qinglan still wanted to say to her: "Don't generalize, just tell the truth."