Chapter 5
9. False Truth
At this time, the song sung by the singer had changed from "Spring River Moon Night" to "Pipa Song".
I sat not far behind Yunniang, listening to the song while shaking my head.
"I see my guests off at the Xunyang River at night, the maple leaves and reeds are rustling in the autumn..." The singer's voice is gentle and affectionate.
Yunniang looked back at me, then said to the young marquis, "Young marquis, I just went out and saw Thirteen crying in the corner outside the door."
When the young marquis heard me crying, his expression became even happier.
"Haha, I beat the God of War. My cricket has become the new God of War in this city."
As he spoke, he excitedly picked up the bamboo cage containing his large cricket and observed it for a long time before slowly muttering to himself, "I have to give it a name. What should I call it?"
I was sitting not far behind the young marquis. When I heard what he said, I also started to think about it for him.
What name can be worthy of the title of the number one god of war in this city?
Just when I was racking my brains to come up with a name for the young marquis' new god of war, Cricket, what he said next made me heartbroken.
He said, "I want him to take off his four legs."
"Why are you called Xie Situi?" Yunniang asked in confusion, "Your last name isn't Xie either?"
"It's not 'thank you', it's 'remove'. My god of war removed the four legs, so it's called 'remove four legs'."
Accompanied by the young marquis's happy voice and the singer's beautiful singing, I curled up in pain.
"Wow, wow, my four legs were removed, and I have to be humiliated like this. What a miserable life."
I secretly wiped away the tears that had slipped down from the corners of my eyes without anyone noticing, and my heart ached.
"Shang Shisan is very sad. You must give him some compensation, young marquis."
When the young marquis heard this, he immediately covered his cricket and said, "Don't even think about taking my four legs away from me."
Woo woo woo, his big cricket is really about to cry out for its four legs to be cut off.
What a cruel and sad name.
I was heartbroken, curled up in the chair with my face covered, immersed in sadness and unable to extricate myself.
When Yunniang heard what the young marquis said, she rolled her eyes.
"None of us care about your four legs."
Woo woo woo, Yunniang also called for it to remove its four legs.
It seems that the game is over, and that big cricket is really going to have its four legs cut off.
I twisted back and forth in my chair in agony to relieve my tangled and complex emotions.
"You see, thirteen is not young anymore..." Yunniang changed the subject and turned to the core plot.
The young marquis finally took his eyes off Cricket. He looked at Yunniang and replied, "I think he's okay. He still looks like a little boy."
The young marquis thought for a moment before saying, "Ah, I think Thirteen's biggest problem isn't his age, but his androgynous physique. I feel like he seems to like boys, but he's also a little boy. How strange."
When Yunniang heard this, she covered her mouth with her handkerchief and smiled.
"Our Shang Shisan is actually a girl, but she was raised as a boy, so she looks like a boy."
"So that's how it is." The young marquis looked a little surprised.
"It's time for Thirteen to find his mother-in-law's home. You see..." Yunniang paused here, her eyes rolling around.
"What am I looking at?" The young marquis still looked like a fool and asked Yunniang blankly.
"Do you want Thirteen to follow you?" Yunniang said, winking at the young marquis.
The young marquis was obviously stunned for a moment, then smiled awkwardly.
“What a pity.”
"What a pity?" Hearing this, I couldn't help but lean on the back of the young marquis' chair and ask him.
The young marquis turned around and smiled brightly at me.
"It's a pity you're not a boy. Actually, I like boys."
10. False Truth
I was stunned for a moment, then stood there blankly.
I caught a glimpse of Yunniang standing beside me, and she looked as if she couldn't bear to look at my pitiful face, and was silently wiping away her tears.
The young marquis seemed to be still smiling and saying something, but I had no time to care about him and Yunniang at the moment.
At this moment, my chest is filled with huge waves.
It hit the solid rock in my heart hard.
My blood started boiling and my face felt hot.
I took deep breaths, trying to relieve the tension and pressure in my body.
But it was all in vain.
I finally couldn't help it and kicked the young marquis's stool away.
In the stunned eyes of everyone, he rushed out of the house.
When I left, I heard Yunniang exclaim, "Young Marquis, I'm sorry. Thirteen was so sad at the time that this happened..."
But those things don't matter anymore.
The important thing is, I know the truth!
As soon as I went out, I saw the big maid waiting for everyone at the door. She was chatting with the man in the black brocade robe who was drinking tea downstairs. During the conversation, her old face stretched out into a big blooming chrysanthemum with a smile.
"Sister, do you know?" I gasped and grabbed the maid and said to her, "The young marquis really likes men. He and the emperor are really together. Damn it!"
The maid's attention finally shifted from the handsome man in black robe to me. She was also very surprised. We squatted in the corner and talked to each other for a while, and then I continued to walk out.
I saw Yunniang's bodyguard again, sitting with the entourage of the mysterious man in black robe, eating and chatting.
I rushed forward, grabbed Yunniang's bodyguard's sturdy arm, and began to say, "Brother, let me tell you, the young marquis really is having an affair with the emperor, and he himself admitted that he likes men."
The bodyguard was also stunned on the spot, and we discussed the matter for a long time as if no one was around.
I continued walking out and saw a man selling fried dough sticks at the door. "Are you Lao Ba from the Northwest?"
The man turned around and looked at me in confusion.
"I'm not Old Eight, I'm Twenty-Seven, and Old Eight is sick."
"It doesn't matter. You know, the young marquis likes men. He admitted it himself, so he and the emperor... you know."
When I said this, I raised my eyebrows and grinned with a complicated expression, as if saying "you know what I mean", looking at the simple-looking Twenty-Seven.
Twenty-Seven realized it later and slapped his thigh, as if he had suddenly realized something.
We sat on the door frame and gossiped for a while, and then Twenty-Seven left with satisfaction, carrying his load of fried bread.
After I watched Twenty-Seven leave, I turned around and found that the mysterious man in black robe was sitting next to me and looking at me. He still had the same expression, his eyes slightly narrowed, and he was looking at me with a smile on his face.
"It's really fun, isn't it?" The man who came from nowhere said this to me inexplicably.
I glanced at him and saw a piece of first-class Hetian jade tied around his waist.
I knew this handsome guy was definitely not a good person.
However, at this moment, my heart was filled with lively gossip, and I was too lazy to pay attention to him.
I leaned my elbows on my knees, clasped my hands together and raised them in front of my mouth, my eyes calm and composed as I began to seriously think about the direction of the whole incident.
After thinking for a long time, I still couldn't figure out where things were going.
I leaned my elbows on my knees again, crossed my hands and raised them in front of my mouth, my eyes calm and collected, and began to think seriously about who I should find to help me sort out the whole process of events.
After thinking for a long time, I felt that the smart Yunniang would be able to figure out the whole thing in one go.
I decided to go back to the house to find Yunniang.
When I returned to the house, the young marquis had already left.
Yunniang paced around the room in a panic.
"You are finally back, young marquis..."
"Yunniang, you heard it, he said he likes men." I took a step forward and grabbed Yunniang's hand.
"Young Marquis..." Yunniang seemed to want to say something, but I interrupted her immediately.
"Yunniang, now the whole world knows that the young marquis is having an affair with the emperor. We have finally cleared your name."
After I said this, I saw that Yunniang looked like she wanted to cry but had no tears.
"The young marquis was just joking with you, how did the whole city know about it?" Yunniang held her forehead. "Now there's no way to end this."
"ha?"
Yunniang then told me that after the young marquis finished speaking, he immediately said he was joking and said that he could take me to live in the young marquis's mansion.
However, at that time I was already immersed in my own world and couldn't extricate myself. I kicked the young marquis's chair away and ran away.
By the time Yunniang started looking for me, I had already told everyone in the city that the young marquis liked Longyang.
"I didn't tell everyone in the city. I only told the maid, the bodyguard, Ershiqi who sells fried dough sticks at the door, Tiezhu who sells masks and toys at the entrance of the alley, Xiao Ergousheng who works at the drugstore next door, and..."
"How can you meet so many people in just one stick of incense?" Yunniang asked me with a roll of her eyes.
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