My husband, please respect yourself. The princess is here to grab the bride.

Chapter 161 Give You Two Umbrellas

Bai Shaoqiu returned to the eaves of the hut, soaking wet.

He wiped the rain off his face and stared at Lao Yu.

Lao Yu glared at him:

"Xiling City is such a small place!"

"I've already told you that the prince values ​​you very much...very much!"

"No one outside knows about the Shadow Guard except you."

"The prince knows where you went, what you did, and even how many times you went to the toilet in a day!"

Bai Shaoqiu frowned: "The prince has been monitoring me?"

"How can this be called surveillance? You...you are the prince's son-in-law, and the son-in-law bestowed by the emperor. If anything happens to you, how will the prince explain to the emperor?"

Bai Shaoqiu didn't believe it and asked again, "Then why didn't anyone take action on the day I was assassinated?"

"Well...with the Fourth Young Master by your side, Your Highness didn't expect that he would lose his mind so much once he started fighting!"

"Think about it. With the Fourth Young Master's abilities, if he had stayed right beside you, could those assassins' arrows have hit you? He wouldn't have been hit in the butt by that arrow either."

"Sit down, my prince has absolutely no ill intentions towards you, otherwise I wouldn't have given you the best internal martial arts skills, sword manual, and sword in the world!"

"Zou Kongqing won't teach you those things that can protect your life."

"Even if you are the prince's son-in-law, the prince is not dissatisfied with you for secretly meeting that lazy girl outside... What else do you want?"

These words are sincere and very reasonable.

Bai Shaoqiu felt that he had been caught in the rain for nothing.

He sat down again, took the glass of wine handed to him by Lao Yu and drank another glass of wine.

"Since the prince values ​​me so much, how am I supposed to survive in Kyoto?"

"Don't tell me to look for Prime Minister Qin. I think Prime Minister Qin can't even protect himself!"

Old Yu grinned again: "You underestimated Prime Minister Qin. If someone doesn't have some skills and tricks, how can he stay in the position of Prime Minister?"

"But I'm not asking you to go find Prime Minister Qin."

"The prince said that after you go to Kyoto, he will find you two umbrellas."

"Two big umbrellas!"

“It not only blocks the wind but also the rain!”

As he said this, Lao Yu took out a small dark red box from his arms.

The box is only the size of a palm.

He looked at the box for three breaths before opening it and taking out a round dark green jade pendant from it.

He picked up the jade pendant and looked at it for three breaths before handing it to Bai Shaoqiu.

"Put it on!"

Bai Shaoqiu took the jade pendant and turned it over and over to look at it.

One side of the jade pendant is carved with a leaf.

The carving is very good.

The meridians of this leaf are extremely distinct.

The other side of the jade pendant had only one word: 'Autumn!'

秋？

Could it be Bai Shaoqiu’s Qiu?

"mine?"

Old Yu nodded, and his gaze towards Bai Shaoqiu was very gentle at this moment:

"yours."

“…Why are you here?”

"Have you forgotten? You lost all the money you had and pawned this jade pendant to the Yin Gou gambling house. Then you became the son-in-law of the prince's mansion, and the owner of the Yin Gou gambling house, He Yin Gou, returned your jade pendant to the prince's mansion."

Bai Shaoqiu was stunned and searched his memory carefully, but found that there was no such thing in his memory at all.

He was a little skeptical, but Lao Yu didn't look like he was lying.

Besides, there is nothing to cheat about this thing.

This is most likely due to some missing information after the memory fusion, causing him to forget about this matter.

But what does this jade pendant have to do with the umbrella?

Bai Shaoqiu asked suspiciously:

“Has this thing been blessed?”

This made Lao Yu stunned: "Then I don't know if it has been consecrated."

"If it doesn't know, how can it save my life?"

"It's not this thing that saved your life, it's two people!"

"……who?"

"One is the old Grand Marshal Fu from the Grand Marshal's Mansion!"

Bai Shaoqiu was surprised: "Old General Fu? Didn't they say he was unemployed at home?"

"He is unemployed at home, but he is still in Kyoto!"

"A toothless tiger is still a tiger!"

"I'm telling you, as long as Old General Fu doesn't leave Kyoto, Ye Qionglou won't dare to kill Qin Shiwen easily!"

"Of course, Qin Shiwen couldn't use Old Commandant Fu to do anything to Ye Qionglou, because... there is still a living old queen dowager in the palace!"

"You could think of it as a mutually reinforcing relationship."

"That is, they're wrestling in secret."

"It's like a spider web, with all sides pulling at it, but the disparity in strength is minimal. And you... you were once an insignificant little person, and now you've suddenly been caught in this web..."

"That might upset the balance of the web. It's not that you can pack a lot of power with just one collision, but there are spiders that want to eat you, and there are spiders that want to protect you. Wouldn't that just be chaos?"

"Do you understand what I mean?"

This analogy was not very appropriate, but Bai Shaoqiu understood it.

What a disaster!

Wouldn’t it be nice if I could write and sell books in Xiling City?

The profit is so great that it makes you laugh even in your sleep.

I did some calculations in my spare time. If I finish writing the forty chapters of "A Dream of Red Mansions", I can lie down comfortably for the rest of my life!

But now,

Even wanting to elope with Lan Lan is impossible.

Because Lanlan is not in Chunman Cottage.

"Wait, do you know where Lazy went?"

Old Yu raised his eyebrows and said, "I heard she went to Shuzhou...her hometown seems to be Shuzhou. Don't talk about this. It's definitely too late for you to elope."

"When you get to Kyoto, you should go to the Fu Mansion to pay your respects to the old commander Fu. In the martial arts world, this is called paying respects to the boss."

"The moment you step into Kyoto, someone will be watching you."

"You went to pay your respects to Old General Fu. Even if those people wanted you dead, they would have to think twice. If Old General Fu sent someone to protect you, then your life would be almost safe."

Bai Shaoqiu: "...Why did Old General Fu come to see me and protect me? Did he have a letter from the prince?"

Old Yu shook his head: "I really don't have that. Even if I did, the prince's letter wouldn't necessarily work. But as long as you show this jade pendant to Old General Fu, he will definitely see you!"

Bai Shaoqiu's eyes widened in surprise: "...Is this jade pendant so powerful?"

Old Yu grinned and said, "Well, when General Fu sees this jade pendant, he will protect you."

Bai Shaoqiu: "... Could it be that I am the grandson of this old general who has been away from home?"

"……gab!"

Old Yu glared at Bai Shaoqiu. Bai Shaoqiu didn't believe that the great general would protect him just because of this ordinary jade pendant.

There is no love without reason in the world!

Bai Shaoqiu is not someone who can be easily fooled.

"He and I have nothing to do with each other. He's already unemployed and living a retired life. He's wading into this muddy water just because of this jade pendant... If it were you, would you believe it?"

Old Yu looked at Bai Shaoqiu.

Bai Shaoqiu looked at Lao Yu.

They stared at each other for five full breaths before Lao Yu spoke again:

"Why don't you believe it, kid? Your father once owned a bookstore in Kyoto and was a close friend of Fu Jie, the son of the old general Fu."

"Hmm...they were even engaged at one point, and this jade pendant seems to be a token of their love. However, since they both had sons, they had to call it quits."

"Later, your father's business in Kyoto wasn't going well, so he brought you, a newborn, to Xiling City. However, your father's relationship with Fu Jie remained intact..."

"The Fu family will definitely take care of you because of our past relationship. After so many years, they definitely won't recognize you, but they will recognize this jade pendant!"

Bai Shaoqiu finally understood and thought that his father had quite a wide network of contacts, and he had even climbed up to the Fu family in Kyoto as a businessman.

Now that my father and mother are missing, will the Fu family really go to the trouble of offending the Ye family just because of their old friendship?

You'll finally find out when you go to Kyoto.

"Whose umbrella is the second one?"