Chapter 764: Old Friend Green

People were watching the detailed introduction by Divine Physician Qu on the stage with great interest, and then suddenly saw the young girl's face pause, her half-open mouth froze, then she lowered her head, gathered all the silver on the table with a clatter, and turned to walk down the stage quickly.

"Thief, don't run!!"

The hall was silent, and then the youth's angry shout came from the window. Everyone turned their heads sharply, looking in surprise and shock at young hero Pei, who had nimbly drilled out of the window, leaped across a distance of several feet, just like an eagle diving with sharp claws.

Divine Physician Qu carried the heavy bag of silver on her shoulder, looked back after walking off the stage—still with that flat expression—bent down and scurried under the table like a slippery little mouse.

But the next moment, young hero Pei landed heavily on the table. Divine Physician Qu had just scurried out from under the table, and young hero Pei reached out and grabbed her collar, making Divine Physician Qu's feet reach out three feet away, but her upper body leaned back.

Qu Xin looked up at the youth's face, and Seeing Pei Ye stared down at her coldly like frost.

"Finished." Qu Xin said flatly.

Seeing Pei Ye jumped off the table, pressed her heavily against the wall, then pressed her two hands behind her back one by one, pulled her hairband and tied it tightly.

Qu Xin's half face was pressed against the wall, and she said calmly: "You want to rape me in public."

"I want to send you to the officials!" Seeing Pei Ye said angrily.

"Why did you come back again?"

Seeing Pei Ye was even angrier: "I thought that one should not accept rewards without merit, and felt embarrassed to accept so much silver from you, but who knew you were a dog…… a dog that can't change its habit of eating shit!"

Qu Xin was silent for a while: "I didn't expect you to have such a conscience."

Seeing Pei Ye tightened the knot fiercely: "I must have grown yours as well!"

Qu Xin said: "Do you know, Seeing Pei Ye, actually perhaps when I misjudged your character, my failure was already doomed. Just like in the storybooks, good people always win because of kindness and integrity, and villains always fail because of negligence. Seeing Pei Ye, have you read storybooks?"

Seeing Pei Ye lowered his eyes coldly.

Qu Xin calmly persuaded: "In storybooks, good people are benevolent and magnanimous, and in the end, they will spare the lives of villains who have extenuating circumstances, and persuade them to turn over a new leaf."

Seeing Pei Ye sneered, pulled up her collar, and walked toward the stairs with big strides.

Qu Xin's body slumped down, her collar being pulled, her heels dragging on the ground. She looked at the twenty-something shocked eyes and nodded calmly: "After the wind passes, I will bring new Seeing Pei Ye young hero products to everyone."

Seeing Pei Ye turned around, spread her hands, raised the sword hilt and whipped it up fiercely.

"Ah!"

Seeing Pei Ye walked up the stairs, raised his hand to push open the door of the terrace, and carried Qu Xin in.

Cui Zhaoye and Changsun Jue had just been lying on the railing looking down in fear, and at this time, they sat upright in their chairs with hurried footsteps.

Seeing Pei Ye threw Qu Xin against the wall, turned around and drank a mouthful of tea angrily: "Stand up! Stand against the wall!"

Qu Xin leaned against the wall.

"What is going on with that painting!" Seeing Pei Ye was both ashamed and angry.

"It's a painting of you lying on the bed without clothes, mainly highlighting the exposed skin, wounds, and lip lines, to arouse people's pity, admiration, and desire." Qu Xin said, "I made some small modifications and made you look more handsome."

"……" Seeing Pei Ye took a deep breath, "How many did you sell!"

"This painting sold five today, the first one just sold for one hundred and sixty taels, purchased by the daughter of the Censor-in-Chief Zhang Tao."

"One hundred and sixty taels!"

"The famous painter Zhang Qiuwan's portrait is priced between eighty and two hundred taels, the price is quite fair." Qu Xin thought for a while, "Small business, I don't earn much."

"You are a business with no capital!"

Qu Xin looked up at the roof beam.

"What else have you sold of me?"

Qu Xin thought for a while: "Portraits, besides this, I have sold three other types of you. "Seeing Pei Ye Upright Picture", which is a block print of your full-body portrait, three taels of silver each, sold one hundred and thirty; "Seeing Pei Ye Post-Surgery Sleeping Face", twelve taels each, sold fifty-three; then this "Seeing Pei Ye Sword Injury Night Bare Picture", just sold one."

"……" Seeing Pei Ye was shocked by this amount, and was almost speechless for a moment, "You sold so many…… why do people spend so much money to buy my portraits!"

Qu Xin thought for a while: "The price is truly very fair. For example, "Seeing Pei Ye Upright Picture", the cost of each block print is two hundred wen, mounting is one hundred wen, plus my mental burden of one tael, risk assumption of one tael, it's actually a profit of seven hundred wen. The others are about the same."

"What is risk assumption?"

Qu Xin was silent for a while, turned her head to look at her tied hands.

"……Then what mental burden do you have?"

"Your body was originally only something I could see, now I am short of silver and have to sell it to them, I am very unhappy in my heart." Qu Xin thought for a while, and said earnestly, "This kind of emotion is human nature, it is very normal for me to have it."

"If you make up more nonsense to quibble, I will stuff this twenty-tael silver ingot into your mouth."

"……"

"Besides paintings, what else have you sold of me?"

"Puppets." Qu Xin looked up at the roof beam, "There are three types, 【Wooden Puppet】 five taels, 【Copper Puppet】 fifteen taels, 【Puppet of Puppets】 eighty taels."

"

I ask you again, what is the situation with those people you let me meet just now?"

"They wanted to meet you individually."

"Do you charge money?" Seeing Pei Ye stared at her.

"A little bit of money."

"How much is a little bit."

"Ten taels."

Seeing Pei Ye actually felt it wasn't much for a moment.

Cui Zhaoye, who had been staring from the side, stood up and scolded: "You actually charged money for members to meet Seeing Pei Ye! No wonder you were so active!"

Changsun Jue also opened her eyes wide: "Divine Physician Qu, how could you do this!"

Qu Xin explained: "I didn't charge them money to meet Seeing Pei Ye, I charged them money to meet Seeing Pei Ye individually. They were very willing, I satisfied them, so I charged a little. And doing this, little male duck might hate me, which is very dangerous."

Cui Zhaoye said righteously: "You are the one who corrupted the atmosphere of our fan club!"

Seeing Pei Ye turned his head and stared at her and Changsun Jue: "What fan club are you talking about?"

"……"

Qu Xin said flatly from behind: "Paintings and puppets, President Cui bought a copy of every version, and the bookworm also bought a wooden puppet."

Seeing Pei Ye turned around, walked to Cui Zhaoye and Changsun Jue, and looked at them.

"Your fan club, is it already like this?" his voice trembled slightly.

Cui Zhaoye lowered her head first, then turned her head to look outside the railing.

"She is playing deaf." Qu Xin accused calmly.

"What is a 'Seeing Pei Ye Fan Club'! How can you do this!" Seeing Pei Ye was red-faced, "If this spreads out, how can I face Yang Zhenbing and Yan Feiqing! I thought you were just playing around with a few people!"

Changsun Jue lowered her head in shame: "Pei classmate…… sorry, I, I didn't, I was coerced by Sister Cui."

"Then why did you still buy my little wooden man!" Seeing Pei Ye stared at her, as if a father looking at the most obedient child who also followed along to be naughty.

Changsun Jue lowered her head deeper, whispering: "That…… that was indeed carved very beautifully…… sorry Pei classmate."

"Then what kind of coercion is that, you are half-pushing and half-following!"

Changsun Jue's face was so red she was about to cry.

Seeing Pei Ye scolded the three of them, turned around and sat on the chair, poured himself a cup of tea, and while drinking, smoothed his breath.

The three stood in the room, silent as cicadas in winter.

Seeing Pei Ye thought for a while: "Qu Xin, write down everything you have done from beginning to end! And you, Cui Zhaoye, immediately, dissolve this whatever fan club!"

He swept around them: "Are you three the only masterminds, who else participated—Yiner isn't in it too, right?"

Thinking that his cousin also looked at these unbearable things every day, Seeing Pei Ye simply felt a red heat spreading from his neck to his ears.

"Jiang Yiner refused to join." Cui Zhaoye said, "But there is another one……"

"Pei classmate, can I be an accomplice……" Changsun Jue whispered.

"Who else?" Seeing Pei Ye breathed a sigh of relief and asked.

"There is also President Little Li."

"Who is President Little Li?" Seeing Pei Ye frowned.

Cui Zhaoye lowered her head: "Changsun, go call President Little Li quickly."

Seeing Pei Ye was also annoyed: "Call her over!"

He thought he didn't know a president surnamed Li. If it were truly a stranger, he should be restrained and polite, but the necessary cold attitude could not be less—these few young girls were truly too capable of turning the world upside down, and they had already become such a climate in just two months since he left.

So he took a deep breath, lay back on the chair, and looked at the finely carved roof beam.

After a while, two sets of footsteps sounded outside the door behind him, accompanied by the faint female voices of the young girls.

"……Pei classmate must be angry, you should go see him quickly." Changsun Jue's weak voice.

"I am also very afraid of him, what if he gets angry with me too?" the young girl's small laugh.

Seeing Pei Ye was stunned for a moment.

"He specifically asked you to come over, he will definitely scold you a few words…… it's okay, as long as you admit your mistake obediently, Pei classmate has a very good heart…… it's all Sister Cui and the others who are too much……"

Seeing Pei Ye stood up in a panic, put down the teacup in his hand, didn't care about the yellow soup that spilled out, supported the armrest of the chair, but his legs forgot to cooperate, and he didn't stand up for a moment.

It was at this moment that the door behind him creaked open. Seeing Pei Ye first smelled that refreshing fragrance he hadn't smelled for a long time, and then finally stood up in a panic. His head turned before his body, and he saw that clear and smiling pretty face, and the familiar, eye-catching green skirt.

Like the mountain color of spring.

The room was silent for several breaths.

Seeing Pei Ye moved his lips and said in a low voice: "You…… why are you also messing around with them."

"Why are you angry?" Li Piaoqing looked at him with a smile, "Changsun girl is almost scared to tears."

Even when he saw that huge painting hanging in the hall, Seeing Pei Ye didn't experience the kind of micro-emotion he was experiencing now—that was his shallow emotion of being moved and messing around, but now it really touched his stable heartstrings lightly.

He suddenly became inexplicably serious, with the embarrassment of being caught in a prank, but at the same time, a long-lost intimacy rose because of this "being seen through".

"……I did it on purpose to scare them." Seeing Pei Ye touched his head—he hadn't done this action for a long time—lowered his head and pulled over a chair, "Have you always been in the Tianshan garden?"

Li Piaoqing walked to the table, helped him pour out the remaining tea in the cup, touched the slightly cool teapot

body, and took some new tea leaves: "I have been on this terrace just now."

"Hmm?"

"Watching you practice the sword with everyone, young hero Pei, so handsome, so majestic."

Seeing Pei Ye was embarrassed: "Please don't talk about it."

Li Piaoqing smiled, washed the teapot, and placed it on the small stove: "I think this fan club is quite good, everyone truly likes you, that's why they gathered together."

"I wasn't angry with those girls below either." Seeing Pei Ye turned his head and stared at the gray skirt standing against the wall, "I just didn't expect Qu Xin to be so bold."

Li Piaoqing narrowed her eyes and also turned to look. Qu Xin was stared at by these two pairs of eyes and moved uncomfortably for the first time.

"……What do you want to do."

Li Piaoqing turned back, and after finishing the tea, smiled: "Report all the silver income, not a single cent less."

Qu Xin looked up at the roof beam: "Paintings one thousand one hundred and eighty-six taels, puppets five hundred and sixty taels. Today, meeting fee two hundred and twenty, donation silver two hundred exactly."

Seeing Pei Ye was shocked and speechless.

"Report to the officials!" he said decisively.

Qu Xin was silent for a while: "How will the yamen punish?"

"Fraud and deception, involving huge amounts of silver, one hundred strokes of the cane! Three times the confiscation!"

"I didn't commit fraud or deception, I was selling things, the prices were all fair." Qu Xin thought for a while, "At most the two hundred taels of donations, I haven't had time to give to you yet."

"You would still give it to me?"

"I planned to use it to buy medicinal herbs and roll you a pill."

"What pill?"

"Eating it can make your muscles and bones recover faster, making you more resistant to being chopped." Qu Xin thought for a while, "I haven't thought of what to call it yet."

"……You figured it out yourself."

"Hmm, haven't refined it yet, you are the first to eat it." Qu Xin looked at him and comforted, "Don't worry, it won't kill you."

"I don't want to eat it."

Qu Xin was silent for a while: "If you report to the officials, can you not confiscate it, and give me three hundred more strokes instead?"

"No."

Li Piaoqing smiled: "Don't report to the officials, leave her to me to deal with."

Qu Xin said: "Little male duck, hurry up and report to the officials!"

Seeing Pei Ye snorted coldly.

He walked over, picked up the heavy bag of tools at Qu Xin's feet, and opened it.

"First, take all this silver—" Seeing Pei Ye looked down at the bag, was shocked by the silver-shining brilliance, paused, and said decisively, "—return it all!"

"Painting fees don't need to be returned, right……" Qu Xin struggled.

"Returning it all will also make everyone feel uneasy." Li Piaoqing smiled, "It's all a small matter, leave it to me to handle."

Seeing Pei Ye lowered his head: "Troubling you with these things…… are you also very busy these days."

"Busy to the point of being unable to get away. Otherwise, how could I only see you today. There are things in the afternoon, and I want to ask you to lead the way." Li Piaoqing said, and smiled, "—Let's not talk about this first. Go, let's go downstairs first. It's not easy to invite young hero Pei over, we must meet everyone properly."

She pulled the youth's sleeve.

Seeing Pei Ye stiffened for a moment, dazed as if wanting to say something, but his feet had already followed obediently.

The two walked out of the door, leaving Qu Xin and the two young girls on the terrace.

Changsun Jue turned to look at Cui Zhaoye in silence and surprise. Cui Zhaoye also turned to look at her in shock, her eyes full of respect for the new president. ===== CHAPTER 765 =====

"I've been so busy I couldn't get away. Otherwise, how could it be today that we finally meet. There are still things in the afternoon, and I wanted to ask you to lead the way." Li Piaoqing said, then smiled, "—Let's not talk about this first, let's go, let's go downstairs first. It was not easy to invite Young Hero Seeing Pei Ye over, we must have a good meeting with everyone."

She tugged at the youth's sleeve.

Seeing Pei Ye stiffened for a moment, stunned as if wanting to say something, but his feet had already obediently followed the steps.

The two walked out of the room, leaving Qu Xin and the two young girls on the terrace.

Changsun Jue turned her head to look at Cui Zhaoye in silence and surprise, and Cui Zhaoye likewise turned her head to look at her in shock, her eyes full of respect for the new president.