NOVEL NEXT Chapter 41 41 Showdown
Chapter 41 41. Showdown
Ling'er had packed her luggage and was waiting for Song Cheng.
But Song Cheng hadn't come back, so she and Tong Jia were anxious.
In the evening, she heard someone outside saying "the eldest lady is back", and then she heard "the eldest lady took Song Cheng to the back room, closed the door, and didn't know what they were talking about".
Ling'er and Tong Jia hurried over and came to the door, only to see Ying'er standing against the wall.
Ling'er ran up and said in a tender voice: "Yingying, you are back so early?"
Ying'er was wearing a silver sword robe, with cold eyebrows and cold eyes. She didn't say a word and just held the knife.
Ling'er grinned.
She really didn't know what was going on.
Why did the eldest lady come back early and get together with Song Cheng again?
These two people could decide her fate, Ling'er was in a state of anxiety.
She was laughing and wanted to walk into the courtyard, saying, "Yingying, I'll go make a pot of hot tea for the young lady."
Ying'er suddenly glared, her eyes fixed on Ling'er.
Ling'er retreated awkwardly again, and said in a tea-like voice, "Stubborn, how many years have we been sisters?"
Ying'er said coldly, "My sisters will not betray the young lady."
Ling'er was stunned, and then she understood, and did not quibble, crying and said, "What can I do? Shi Yi is the head of the guards, he uses his power to suppress me, and I am just a little maid."
Ying'er sneered, but ignored her, just holding the handle of the knife, so that she dared not enter the courtyard.
At that time, she was flirting with Shi Yi, did she really think that others were blind?
In the house.
"How did Shi Yi die?" An Chenyu's pretty face was covered with frost, like a relief sculpture of ice and snow quietly engraved in the dark.
Her long legs were crossed, and under her black ink-like hair, her almond eyes were charming and bright, flashing with a soul-stirring light.
Even Song Cheng had to admit that in terms of appearance, An Chenyu was better than his wife.
Hmm.
Her temperament seemed to be better.
However, the two were not of the same type.
One was like ice and snow, and the other was full of vigor.
Hearing this, Song Cheng replied formally: "Sister An, the government is investigating."
An Chenyu said: "Xiao Song, I didn't just come back, but in the afternoon.
But after I came back, I was stopped by the county magistrate, who asked me for something."
Her beautiful eyes looked at Song Cheng quietly, as if she was paying attention to the details of his reaction, and her red lips moved slightly: "A book of exercises, "Snake Formation in the Sea of Grass"."
After that, she took a deep breath and said: "Xiao Song, sit next to me."
Song Cheng nodded and sat over. The two of them talked sideways across a table.
An Chenyu said: "Shi Yi secretly made a deal with a powerful force in exchange for that force's Xingjing Gongfa, and that force also gave him the first half.
The price Shi Yi promised was that after he took control of Ruyi Chamber of Commerce, not only would Ruyi Chamber of Commerce submit to that force, but it would also have to pay tribute every year."
"Five thousand taels."
An Chenyu's face was frosty, his eyes were cold, but a quiet fire began to grow inside.
"That force is quite big. If we surrender, we will be involved in something.
I don't want to be involved, but Shi Yi actually promised on my behalf.
And now the magistrate has found me and asked me to continue to fulfill my promise.
Not only that, because Shi Yi died, the first half of "Snakes Startled in the Sea of Grass" was lost, which is very serious. The magistrate asked us to double our annual tribute as compensation."
"He wants us to pay 10,000 taels of tribute!"
Song Cheng was puzzled and asked curiously: "Sister An, isn't Shi Yi doing a deal with that big force?
Why did the magistrate come to you?
Is the magistrate also a member of that force?"
An Chenyu didn't say this, but turned to talk about another thing.
"Xiao Song, I have a bad habit. I always like to find out more about the things in a place before I go there, even when I return to the Chamber of Commerce in Shanghe County or go back to my own home.
Before I arrived, I asked my men to come back at full speed to collect the recent events in the mansion.
As a result, I found out that Ling'er was close to you.
I already knew what kind of person Ling'er was.
She was considerate and lively in front of me, arrogant outside, but she was very scared and insecure in her bones. She was born to admire the strong.
I actually knew that Ling'er had colluded with Shi Yi.
But what surprised me was that after Shi Yi died, Ling'er actually got close to you.
I thought you could bring your mother It is not easy for you to escape from the ghost disaster, so I want to establish a relationship with you, let you integrate here, and stand with me.
But I still underestimated you. "
An Chenyu drank a sip of tea and said in an unusually calm tone: "Xiao Song, you killed Shi Yi."
Without waiting for a response, An Chenyu said again: "But it doesn't matter. If you don't kill him, I will have to kill him one day.
But the problem now is that my An family is too disadvantaged.
But I delayed a little and told the county magistrate that it was okay to pay tribute, but it had to be paid to their headquarters, not to him.
Interestingly, the county magistrate did not agree.
He. Want to covet this money, at least half of it. "
Song Cheng was silent.
He found that the eldest lady was not only smart, but also had a much wider range of information than him.
After saying the above, An Chenyu threw it away calmly and said: "Xiao Song, before answering your question, I want to know an answer first.
What are you going to do now?"
Song Cheng was silent for a while, and suddenly raised his eyes to look at An Chenyu.
The two looked at each other.
Song Cheng said: "I want to marry you."
After these four words fell, the air suddenly became extremely quiet.
An Chenyu held her chin up and looked at him, her eyes flashing with thought, she closed her eyes slightly, and when she opened them again, she responded gracefully: "Okay."
Song Cheng: ? ? ?
An Chenyu continued: "You protect me, sit in my Ruyi Chamber of Commerce, and help me avoid the trouble of getting married.
I will provide you with money, connections, and... allies other than going to bed.
And if we really get along in the future, I will sleep with you and become a real couple.
If not, when we don't need to maintain the alliance in the name of husband and wife, we can divorce."
"But if you don't want to, and just want to sleep with me.
With the means you can kill Shi Yi, you may not be able to use force.
But I promise that even if you take the risk to get my body, you can't get anything else."
The eldest lady looked calm.
Song Cheng said, "Okay."
An Chenyu said calmly, "You know my bargaining chips. Since you and I will bear the name of husband and wife, can you let me see your bargaining chips for the transaction?"
The price is clearly marked, this is a transaction.
At this point, Song Cheng did not waste words, let alone twist and turn. He stood up, slightly distanced, and stood in the middle of the hall, holding the hilt of the rapier with five fingers
An Chenyu looked at the hilt, his almond eyes showed a bit of surprise, as if he recognized it.
Song Cheng's blood and energy were connected, and the Xuanwu true energy surged from all directions. The three forces overlapped, like hundreds of rivers returning to the sea, and the hand that was drawing the sword was the sea.
The hand was like the sea, and the sword was a dragon.
The sword cut into the air.
Buzz! !
A sharp dragon roar.
Although An Chenyu's strength data was only 8~8, he seemed to be very knowledgeable. At this time, looking at this move, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Song Cheng in shock.
No matter how strong Song Cheng was, she would not be shocked. However, she actually saw the shadow of "Fu Liu Jin" and "Jue Jin" in this sword.
This was a slash that combined the two powers and added the original power.
Although they seemed to be the same power, they were actually quite different.
This gap might not be so obvious at the beginning, but the more time passed, the more it became different.
"Fu Liu Jin? Jue Jin?"
An Chenyu's voice, which had been calm from beginning to end, finally showed astonishment.
Song Cheng looked at her and asked, "Sister An, do you believe in genius?"
An Chenyu covered her lips and actually laughed, then she calmed down and said calmly, "The sky is high and the earth is far away, and the ghost disaster is besieging the city. It is normal that I didn't have time to tell my parents.
Two days later is the auspicious day, you and I will get married then.
I will give you a divorce letter. If you don't want this relationship anymore, you can get a divorce at any time without any constraints.
After you and I get married, you and Tong Niang will move to my courtyard.
Tong Niang will be wronged for a while, and I will tell the outside world that she is my personal maid, who is used as your concubine.
In fact, I call her a sister."
Song Cheng said, "Sister An will arrange it."
An Chenyu said, "Xiao Song, the matter about the county magistrate and the ghost disaster is not a secret in the middle and upper classes of this land, but it's a long story. Do you want to hear it now?"
Song Cheng nodded. He was full of patience for this information. Even if he talked about it for a day and a night, he would not lose his patience.
An Chenyu said, "Which one do you want to hear first?"
Song Cheng said, "Ghost disasters."
An Chenyu said, "Ghost disasters have existed since ancient times. They are like tides, and towns are like islands.
When the tide comes, the islands are submerged in the ghost tide and separated from each other.
Just like Shanghe County now.
As for when the tide will recede, I can only say that it will not be too long, and the specifics are unpredictable."
Since ancient times?
The doubts that Song Cheng had always had in his mind were immediately answered.
His previous doubts were: Why is there a paradise? Where did the paradise come from? The "taboo" on his panel had always been displayed as "unlocked". If Yun'e's appearance opened the prelude to the taboos of this world, then Yun'e should be the first taboo.
It was precisely because of this preconceived notion that he had stayed in the back mountain of Tanghe Village before.
But now An Chenyu's words awakened the dreamer, and he suddenly realized: the "taboo option" on his panel is not so much "unlocked" as "unrevived".
In this land, many ancient taboos that are extremely terrifying are sleeping.
Now, they are just awakening.
Compared with them, Yun'e, the drowned ghost, is just a newborn child.
No wonder the ghost servants who invaded Shanghe County did not seem to come from Yun'e. It turned out that Yun'e had been sidelined and suppressed to the bottom of the ghost tide.
Whether it is a human or a ghost, the one who plays the wave is always the strong.
But he doesn't want to play the wave.
He has to hurry up to break through the "Yellow Grade B" and then turn the Ruyi Chamber of Commerce into a "safe environment" suitable for the immortals to live in.