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Chapter 126 Baimeitang

The effect of the perfume is very good, not only the fragrance is refreshing, but also lasts for a long time, which is far beyond the comparison of aromatherapy.

Except for the two bottles that were kept for himself, Li Yizhi gave away the other ten bottles.

Among them, seven bottles were dedicated to Yang Guang, and Yu Shiji, Pei Yun, and Dugu Sheng also gave a bottle each.

On the day when the perfume was presented, Li Yizhi received a reward from the Jiangdu Palace. Yang Guanglong Yan Dayue directly rewarded him with a thousand taels of gold and a hundred pieces of fine Sichuan embroidery.

At the same time, Li Yizhi also received news about Yuchi Sheng.

Yu Chisheng led a [-] Yangzhou army, and had already camped in Quanjiao County, and had no intention of continuing westward to fight Du Fuwei.He sent messengers to ask Li Yizhi to speed up the preparation of grain and grass, and he must deliver [-] shi of grain within half a month.

"Prefect, are you looking at the food and grass?"

Xue Zhen looked at Li Yizhi anxiously, because the wording of Yu Chisheng's warrant was very rude.

Li Yizhi just smiled lightly, and said: "The important thing is, since he wants fifty thousand shi, then give him fifty thousand shi."

Xue Zhen was puzzled, felt that this was not Li Yizhi's character, so he hesitated for a while, and came up with a bad idea: "Prefect, do you want to mix sand in the grain, or use moldy grain from years ago?"

Li Yizhi's eyes were sharp, and he said coldly: "Are you going to kill me? Once the army riots, who will be responsible?"

Xue Zhen's whole body was cold, and he quickly admitted his mistake: "Your official deserves to die, this lower official deserves to die."

"Okay, do things seriously in the future, don't think about crooked ways."

Li Yizhi waved his hand and said: "Also, I'm going to visit friends today, to live in Xibai's Passionate Villa for a few days, to learn about painting skills, so you and Gao Juncheng will discuss with each other in the prefect's mansion before taking it. I really can’t make up my mind, I’ll talk about it when I come back.”

"Yes, prefect!"

Xue Zhen quickly agreed.

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After leaving the prefect's mansion, Li Yizhi took a carriage and arrived at the Duoqing Villa in the south of the city.

Passionate Villa has an elegant environment, with winding paths leading to secluded places.

Blooming flowers can be seen everywhere, and bursts of fragrance are tangy.

Holding a folding fan in his hand, Hou Xibai said with a hearty smile, "Brother Li is here, it's really full of splendor."

Li Yizhi smiled and said: "Brother Hou, I am here this time, but I am rushing to your Baimeitang."

Hou Xibai is good at drawing pictures of beauties. Whenever he meets a beauty, he will draw a picture and gather all the pictures of beauties together, which is called Baimeitang.

"Haha, I didn't expect that brother Li is also a fellow, please come here."

Hou Xibai smiled, and then led Li Yizhi to a main room.

The inside of the Baimei Hall is extremely empty, only pictures of beauties are hanging, and the windows around are opened, a gust of breeze blows in, and the drawing paper flutters, like beauties dancing lightly.

Hou Xibai said proudly: "Brother Li, please look, since I have made a total of 36 pictures of beauties since I became a master of painting skills, it is still far behind the number of hundreds of beauties. My ideal is to make all the portraits of beauties in the world Collect them, so those who can enter my beauty map are all people who are heavenly and beautiful."

Li Yizhi was casually admiring a picture of a beauty. It was a young girl dressed in Miao nationality, holding water with both hands by the stream, with an innocent smile on her face, bright eyes, pure as water.

After appreciating more than a dozen pictures of beauties in a row, Li Yizhi asked in confusion: "Brother Hou, why are most of the beauties on you from ethnic minorities?"

"It's like this. I have lived in Chengdu since I was a child. These pictures of beauties are all made by me before, and you also know that there are many ethnic minorities in Sichuan, so the beauties I created are mostly beauties of ethnic minorities."

Hou Xibai explained, and then said regretfully: "It is said that Shi Qingxuan, a strange woman who is famous all over the world for her flute skills, also lives in seclusion near Chengdu. It's just a pity that she has been unable to find her."

Li Yizhi couldn't help chuckling, I'm afraid that Hou Xibai still doesn't know that Shi Qingxuan is the daughter of his master Shi Zhixuan, otherwise Hou Xibai would have the courage to look around.

Next, Li Yizhi continued to admire the picture of beauties, and saw a portrait of Fan Caiqi in it, the daughter of Fan Zhuo, the leader of the Chuan Gang, and Hou Xibai were somewhat entangled.

Among the 36 pictures of beauties, Fan Caiqi is the first.

It's just that Li Yizhi doesn't have the heart to gossip with Hou Xibai right now.

Therefore, after appreciating the picture of the perfect person, he stated the purpose of this trip, saying: "Brother Hou, in fact, besides Baimeitang, I am here this time, and there is one more thing that needs Brother Hou's help."

Hou Xibai was not surprised, he waved his hand and said: "Brother Li is being polite, if you need help, please feel free to tell me."

"It's like this. I need to deal with some things secretly, so I want Brother Hou to help me cover up." Li Yizhi said.

He wanted to personally assassinate Yu Chisheng, so naturally he couldn't do it openly, and at the same time, he had to create evidence of his alibi, so as to avoid Yu Huahua and others from associating with him, so he came to the Sentimental Villa in the name of discussing painting skills.

Hou Xibai didn't ask why, he just nodded and said, "It's a small matter, when will Brother Li leave?"

Li Yizhi said: "Time is tight, I will leave later. After I come back, I will have a drink with Brother Hou."

"Okay. Come with me, you leave through the back door, it's hidden there."

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It is said that after leaving Yangzhou, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, like wild horses that have run loose, were having fun everywhere.

The two traveled west all the way, stopped and stopped, and came to the territory of Liyang, ready to cross the river to Danyang.

In the early morning of this day, the two passed a small village and were about to enter the village to buy some food. Suddenly, there was a sound of horseshoes on the opposite hillside, and a group of cavalry rushed towards the village.

This group of cavalry was dressed in disorganized warrior uniforms, with green scarves tied around their shoulders. They should be Du Fuwei's Jianghuai Army.

As soon as they entered the village, they shot and killed the hunting dogs patrolling the village, and then rushed into the village, chasing people from house to house.

"Young Master Ling, it's Du Fuwei's Jianghuai Army. Damn it, no wonder Boss Li said that Du Fuwei can't make a fortune. It's no wonder that such a bandit-like soldier can make things happen."

Kou Zhong yelled viciously with his face full of anger, he saw a little girl was kicked out by a soldier because she was walking slowly, and she vomited blood continuously.

The little girl's mother screamed in distress, and wanted to rush to have a look, but her hair was pulled tightly by the soldiers, and she couldn't move at all, so she could only howl.

Xu Ziling was also furious. He turned his head and said in a deep voice: "Young Master Zhong, Boss Li has taught us more than once to be righteous. Now that we have encountered such a thing, we can't ignore it."

Kou Zhong chuckled, and said: "Good brother, we want to go together. Come on, let's approach carefully, as long as we can get close and prevent them from shooting arrows, then no matter how many of them there are."

"Ok!"

Xu Ziling nodded, although their martial arts were at the top of the rivers and lakes, they were at the third-rate level at best.

But that was relative to the entire arena. For ordinary cavalry, they were undoubtedly strong.

After making up their minds, the two of them approached the village slowly under the cover of grass, and came to the entrance of the village more than ten meters away.

In the open space at the entrance of the village, the men and women of the village stood apart, panicking.

In the Jianghuai Army, the leader of the army rode to the front of the men's queue under the left and right wings of four personal followers.

Pointing with his horsewhip, he picked out all the strong men, drove them aside, and tied them into a string with a rope. It seemed that they were here to catch the strong men.

Seeing this, the women, children and old people in the village all cried out.

In this chaotic era, almost all those who were arrested could never return.

(End of this chapter)