northernbook Chapter 607 Pepper Hill x Original Heroine 17
Chapter 607 Pepper Hill x Original Heroine 17
"Yes." The maid ran away immediately after hearing Wandan's order.
"Master Jiaoqiu, you don't know that we have a new zither player named Miss Zuiyan in Zuixianlou recently. She is a master in zither playing and has both talent and beauty. She has won the first place in Zuixianlou in one fell swoop. I fought hard to get this best viewing position."
Lord Liu, who was sitting next to Jiaoqiu, was trying to curry favor with him. Based on the investigation of his subordinates, Lord Liu learned that there were many portraits hanging in a special room in Jiaoqiu's mansion.
The portraits all depict the same woman. Although the current Miss Zuiyan is not as pretty as the women in the portraits, she is still 50% similar in appearance to the women in those portraits.
Lord Liu guessed that Lord Jiaoqiu might like the woman in the painting, so he secretly arranged for an informant to kidnap Zuiyan and give her to Lord Jiaoqiu.
In this way, Lord Jiaoqiu will have to speak well of him in front of General Feixiao, and his career path will be much easier.
Moreover, Lord Liu also saw many beautiful maids in Jiaoqiu's mansion.
After questioning, Lord Liu found out that they all had an affair with Lord Jiaoqiu, which made Lord Liu even more convinced that Jiaoqiu was a womanizer. Now Lord Liu had no scruples about tying people up to bribe Jiaoqiu.
What Lord Liu didn't know was that Jiaoqiu had been close to him these days precisely because Feixiao had instructed him to do so, in order to find an opportunity to eliminate this scourge in the officialdom.
"Lord Liu is so thoughtful. Since she is a beauty, I, Jiao, will really appreciate her." Jiao Qiu waved his folding fan elegantly and dashingly, his eyes as charming and sparkling as peach blossoms moving around, and he really looked quite romantic.
This kind of romantic and lustful look was naturally deliberately displayed by Jiaoqiu in front of Lord Liu, and those beautiful maids were also actors played by soldiers hired by Jiaoqiu.
As soon as Ruan Yan came out of the bathroom, she went straight to the backstage. The curtain of the stage slowly rose, but Ruan Yan did not play the piano on the side. Instead, she danced to the music coming from backstage.
Ruan Yan did have some basic martial arts skills, and she occasionally learned dancing from other geishas who could dance these days. She could basically perform some uncomplicated dance moves, but her skills were not that advanced.
"No, why did she change the program at the last minute? We don't have this show tonight!" Wan Dan in the backstage looked unhappy, but the piano had already started, and if it stopped, the responsibility for the stage accident would fall on her.
Wan Dan's original plan was for Ruan Yan to play the piano in the front, and then she would play the piano in the back. During the performance, Ruan Yan suddenly fell into a coma due to drugs, but the sound of her piano remained the same, so that Ruan Yan could make a fool of herself in front of the public.
When Ruan Yan made a fool of herself and fell into a coma, she was picked up by people arranged by Lord Liu in the name of sending her to a clinic, but in fact she was kidnapped and sent to someone else. It could be said that she killed two birds with one stone. However, Ruan Yan's current actions disrupted Wan Dan's plan.
Here, the pepper hill below is like an elegant viewer, sitting in the best viewing position.
Jiao Qiu's sparkling light golden eyes originally casually glanced at the veiled woman on the stage, but after this glance, he could no longer look away.
The moment the figure of the veiled woman suddenly appeared in Jiaoqiu's narrowed light golden eyes, Jiaoqiu's action of drinking tea suddenly paused, and his expression seemed to be stunned for a moment.
Jiaoqiu's left hand tightly grasped the teacup, and the tea in the cup spilled out onto the table. Jiaoqiu looked at the dancing figure of the woman on the stage, his eyes seemed a little dazed and absent-minded, as if he was lost in some distant thoughts.
"Miss Zuiyan is not only a good piano player, but also a very good dancer." When Lord Liu noticed that Lord Jiaoqiu spilled the tea, he knew that he had done the right thing. Although she was just a stand-in for the woman in the painting, Lord Jiaoqiu should like her.
"...It's really good." Jiao Qiu picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, then squinted his eyes and smiled. That smile was like the withered petals in autumn, hiding a bit of sadness and desolation.