flstandardbreds Chapter 107: The Affair Exposed
Chapter 107: The Affair Exposed
"Zhao Laixi." Si Chengxu really didn't like Li Xiaoxiao calling him Mr. Si, but when there was no one around, Li Xiaoxiao never called him cousin.
"Yeah." Li Xiaoxiao nodded, as if she had forgotten what happened last night.
Soon the two drove the carriage to the alley they were in yesterday, and Li Xiaoxiao got off the carriage and knocked on a door nearby.
Soon someone came to open the door. It was a middle-aged woman who looked to be in her thirties. She was obese, about 1.5 meters tall, wearing bright red clothes, and her face was covered with rouge. Her big red face looked like a monkey's butt.
She opened the door and started to curse: "Who is the one who dares to wake me up from my sweet dream? You must be tired of living."
Li Xiaoxiao didn't expect that she would meet such a person just by knocking on the door. When she saw her, she couldn't help but think of Aunt Hua. Compared with the two of them, the person in front of her was even worse than Aunt Hua.
The door was open. Even though she was not happy about it, she had no choice but to go ahead. She had plenty of ways to deal with this kind of person.
"My beautiful sister, can I ask you something?" Li Xiaoxiao called out sweetly.
Apparently, the fat woman enjoyed this very much. Being called sister by a teenage girl, her fat face narrowed her eyes and she said, "What's the matter? Tell me."
"It's like this, pretty sister. My son wants to rent a house nearby, but he doesn't have anyone he knows to ask. So I came to ask you, sister, if there are any houses for rent nearby." Li Xiaoxiao called the fat woman "beautiful" all the time, which made the fat woman very happy, and the anger she had been woken up by was gone.
Glancing at the carriage, Si Chengxu had already sat in the carriage shed without her knowing. The curtain at the front of the carriage shed blocked the fat woman's view.
The fat woman retracted her gaze and asked, "You've asked the right person. I've lived here since I was a child, so there's nothing I don't know. Which yard do you want to rent?"
"Sister, you are so beautiful and kind-hearted. My young master hasn't said which one he wants to rent. It seems that all the houses in this area are the same." Li Xiaoxiao pretended to look around, and when his eyes fell on the yard that Zhao Laixi entered yesterday, he stopped immediately.
"That yard looks nice. It's on the roadside and easy to get in and out."
"Oh, that, that won't work. Someone lives here." The fat woman shook her head, and a flash of contempt passed through her eyes, which was seen by Li Xiaoxiao.
"I like that one. Who lives inside? Can it be given to us?" Li Xiaoxiao opened her eyes wide with curiosity.
“But…” The fat woman seemed to have thought of something and immediately shut up halfway through her sentence.
Sure enough, there was a problem. Li Xiaoxiao took out a few copper coins from her pocket and handed them to her: "Sister, why can't I rent it? Please be kind and tell me. If my master asks about it, I can have an answer."
Seeing the few extra copper coins in her hand, the fat woman smiled happily. She approached Li Xiaoxiao and looked around. When she found no one was there, she said in a low voice, "The one living in there is the mistress of Mr. Wang from our county. She has been living there for two or three years. You must not tell anyone. Mr. Wang's wife is a powerful woman. If she knew, she would skin this woman alive."
Li Xiaoxiao pretended to be surprised. This Zhao Lai Xi was really capable. He could even hook up with Wang Yuanwai's mistress.
In ancient times, women who served as mistresses were usually prostitutes. It would have been fine if she was a mistress, but the fact that she found a lover showed that this woman's character was not very good.
"Don't worry, sister. I will never tell anyone." Li Xiaoxiao assured her.
After asking a few more casual questions, he drove away in his carriage. The fat woman weighed the copper coins in her hand. She didn't expect that such a good thing would happen and someone would come to her door to give her money.
After walking a long way, Si Chengxu's cold voice came from the carriage: "What are you going to do?"
Li Xiaoxiao waved the whip in her hand out of boredom, with an evil smile on her face: "What can I do? Wang Yuanwai secretly raised a woman, but she ended up being raised by someone else. If he knew about it, what do you think would happen?"
After a while, his voice was heard again in the carriage: "It's up to you."
That afternoon, Mr. Wang, who had just celebrated his 66th birthday last year, went to a restaurant for dinner. As soon as he got out of the sedan chair, a little boy in ragged clothes ran past him and slipped a small note into his hand.
Mr. Wang wanted to call out to the little boy, but the boy had disappeared. Confused, he opened the note in his hand and almost fainted when he saw the contents on it. Fortunately, the sedan bearer next to him noticed that something was wrong and held him up.
The elderly Mr. Wang was breathing heavily and it took him a while to recover.
At night, the moon was still bright in the sky. A dark shadow walked to the gate of the yard with ease, pushed it gently, and the door opened.
The black shadow was none other than Zhao Lai Xi. He had agreed with the woman last night that he would come again today. In fact, their acquaintance was quite accidental.
Zhao Lai Xi was a hunter, and whenever he killed wild animals, he would take them to the county town to sell for silver. One day, as usual, he took two rabbits to sell for money, and it happened that his mistress, whose name was Yanzhi, came to the market to stroll around and buy some snacks.
When he saw the little rabbits, he liked them very much and wanted to buy both of them. Zhao Laixi saw a beautiful woman who wanted to buy his rabbits, and his eyes were fixed on her. He immediately said that he would give the rabbits to her for free and asked if she wanted to give them to her.
Yanzhi was redeemed from a brothel by Wang Yuanwai and kept outside. She was not presentable to the public. Zhao Laixi's eyes were burning, as if he was going to pounce on her. Naturally, he knew what was going on. Seeing that Zhao Laixi was strong and healthy, and thinking of Wang Yuanwai's old body, he immediately agreed to let Zhao Laixi send the girl to her.
Along the way, the two walked one in front and the other behind. Yanzhi looked back at him from time to time and smiled charmingly, which made Zhao Laixi lose his soul. After finally arriving at Yanzhi's residence, the two naturally rolled together. From then on, Zhao Laixi would come to her place every thirty or fifty days.
As usual, Zhao Laixi locked the door gently and found that the yard was dark and there was no light in the room. He thought Yanzhi did it on purpose, so he opened the door with joy and shouted into the room: "My sweetheart, my baby, I'm here, come out quickly and let me take good care of you."
There was no sound in the room. Zhao Lai Xi shouted a few more times, but it was still quiet. He realized something was wrong and was about to go out, but the door was kicked open by someone from outside.
Several people who looked like servants came in at once, and finally an old man in his sixties came in. Zhao Laixi had seen him from afar and knew who he was.
"Wang, Mr. Wang." Zhao Lai Xi could hardly speak clearly.