024. Green plum

Shopkeeper Xu's attempts to negotiate were in vain, so one of them simply kicked over the wooden table, blocked the girl's path, and cursed, "You old fool, stop ruining the good things of the masters!"

The guests fled in fear. Xu Xing's forehead was covered with sweat. He knew that there was no way to end this matter peacefully. He immediately lowered his voice and said, "Sir, this is Jinjing, the emperor's capital! Why make such a scene?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he kicked the man out. The man who did it sneered: "Master, you don't care if you are under the emperor's feet. You don't know how to behave. Brothers, smash his shabby shop. Master still wants to spend the night here today!"

Shopkeeper Xu held his stomach and gasped, cursing in his heart that if this group of people really did something stupid in the store, there would be no need to open this restaurant in the future!

When Rong Se and Lan Ying heard the news and rushed over, all the diners in the restaurant had already run away. The girl dressed as a scholar was pressed on the table by two men and her clothes were torn off. The whole place was in a mess. Rong Se's blood pressure soared, but he calmed down and looked at Lan Ying: "Can you beat them?"

The original novel mentioned that the three men under Rong Se were all very skilled, especially the martial arts-loving Lan Ying. The Yun twins combined could not last more than thirty moves at her hands.

But Rong Se had never seen it with his own eyes, and Lan Ying was a girl, so he still had some doubts.

Lan Ying's face was cold and she nodded slightly.

"Take action." Rong Se said in a deep voice.

"Yes!" Lan Ying's hand had already grasped the long whip at her waist, and she swung it immediately with a flick of her wrist. The whip was covered with fine and sharp hooks, which could tear the flesh into a bloody mess if it touched it. The two perpetrators were completely defenseless, and they screamed in a moment and were thrown to the ground. The whip marks stretched from the sides of their necks to their backs, and their clothes were tattered and their skin was torn.

Lan Ying quickly stepped forward, picked up the disheveled girl, and pushed her to Rong Se's side. The other two saw how ruthless this woman was, looked at each other, picked up chairs and smashed them. Although Lan Ying was tall, she looked too small to face two men. But she did not retreat a single step, raised her leg and kicked the table to pieces. She swung the long whip and wrapped it around one man's ankle. The man stretched out his hand to grab the whip, but his hands were covered in blood. He screamed and let go.

The other man turned around and tried to run away, but Lan Ying used her wrist to lift the man on the ground and slammed him hard on the fleeing man. Seeing the two men rolling into a ball, Lan Ying picked up the table railing on her toes and slammed the table on the two men. Seeing the other two men rolling and crawling on the ground to escape, she used the same trick again and knocked out two more bastards. In total, she knocked down four people with two tables.

Lan Ying jumped up and sat on the table, bent her knees and put her feet on another table, and spat fiercely in the direction of the four people's heads: "Shameless things, you dare to act wildly in my territory! Master - how to deal with them?"

No one answered.

Bluebird wondered.

After a while, Rong Se came back to his senses from his trance. Before he could even react, the fight was already over.

Lan Ying is not only agile but also very strong. She can break a table with one kick and lift a big and strong adult man with one whip. Just looking at her slim and slender figure, Rong Se couldn't tell at all that she is such a good fighter.

...What is this, a live version of One Man Standing Against Ten Thousand?

"Wait a minute." Rong Se managed to find his voice again, his tone still a little dazed, and then he turned to look at the girl beside him who had already sorted out her clothes, and whispered: "Sorry, I scared you."

The girl wiped her tears, still a little frightened, and said, "I'm dressed like this, do they like men?"

Rong Se: “…”

It turns out there are people who really think that if they dress up as a man, others won't be able to tell.

Lan Ying laughed first. Rong Se glanced at her in reproach, and she stopped laughing. "Sorry, sorry... No, with the way you're dressed, who can't tell you're a woman?"

The girl was greatly shocked and became even more depressed.

Rong Se sighed, "The people have been caught. Since you are the victim, I will do as you wish. How should we deal with these people?"

She lowered her head and thought for a moment, then quickly recovered her spirits. She pointed at them and said, "These scoundrels must be sent to the authorities! They dared to tease me. My brother is the Dali Temple Secretary! Let them spend the rest of their lives in prison!"

"Okay... huh?" Rong Se felt that the official title sounded familiar, and then he reacted suddenly.

The Dali Temple Secretary, his name seems to be Yu Qingzhou.

So this is his sister Yu Qingmei?

Rong Se had a complicated expression.

The traitor mentioned by Yun Chu and Liang Shenyu is Yu Qingzhou, the Dali Temple Secretary. The secret letter informing Liang Shenyu of the changes in the capital came from him. In the original novel, Yu Qingzhou is not alive today. Liang Shenyu was dismissed and imprisoned by the original owner less than half a month after arriving in Beijing.

In order to save her brother, Yu Qingmei went to Qiu Zihan for help, but she didn't know that Qiu Zihan only used her as a pawn to control Yu Qingzhou, and even sold her to a brothel to please the original owner. After learning that her brother died tragically in prison, Yu Qingmei hanged herself.

Rongse doesn't think he is a good person, nor does he have a kind heart. He is even extreme and radical when facing malice and harm, but he is unwilling to be cruel to the Yu brothers and sisters.

Yu Qingzhou is a scholar. He won the top three places in the imperial examinations that year and was personally awarded the title of Jintu by Rong Xu. He is a truly talented person. He knew that Qiu Zihan was not a good match for him, but he could not resist his sister's interest in him, so he had to find another way out. That's why he secretly informed on Rong Se and his cronies.

In the final analysis, the original owner owed those people who risked their lives for him, which is why he was eventually deserted by his friends and relatives.

After Rong Se came here, he never mentioned the matter again, because he didn't want Yu Qingzhou to die tragically like in the original novel. Unexpectedly, Yu Qingzhou's sister still got into trouble in the restaurant he opened.

Rong Se was in a heavy mood. He clenched his fists and said to Lan Ying, "Just do as Miss Yu said and deliver the newspaper..."

Before he could finish his words, one of the four men, probably frightened by Yu Qingmei's background, cried out for mercy: "I was blind and offended the young lady. Please spare my life, please spare my life. It's all, it's all the fault of the shopkeeper of Qifengju! He gave me three taels of silver and asked me to come to Fushenglou to cause some trouble. I know I was wrong!"

Rong Se paused for a moment and narrowed his eyes slightly.

This matter is also related to Qifengju.

"What about you?" Rong Se asked the others, "Are you also invited by Qifengju?"

“Yes, yes, yes!”

"I have eyes but I don't know the real Mount Tai!"

"Spare my life! Miss, spare my life!"

Several people rushed to explain it clearly, without any trace of the complacency they had just shown.

Lan Ying was so angry that she swung the whip again and hit the ground with a bang. "How shameless they are! They stole our food and even wanted to throw dirty water in our store!"

Rong Se smiled kindly and said softly, "Miss Yu is the victim, send them to the authorities."

As Yu Qingzhou is a sister-con who is willing to take risks for his sister, as long as Yu Qingzhou knows about this, Qifengju will be thoroughly investigated.

Lan Ying jumped down immediately, "Okay!"

Yu Qingmei was frightened but relieved. She calmed down and suddenly asked, "How do you know my last name is Yu?"

Rong Se was silent for a moment, "I just happen to know that the current Dali Temple's Secretary's surname is Yu."

Yu Qingmei believed it and nodded and said "Oh".

Rong Se smiled secretly, this girl is quite bold, even if a girl of his generation experienced such a thing, she would probably be trembling with fear.

She, on the other hand, pulled up her clothes and started to take revenge. Her temper is rare.

Soon, Rong Se found it difficult to laugh again.

It was such a cheerful and broad-minded girl who chose to commit suicide in the original book.