Quick Wear: I and the Female Match Share the Battle Shirt

The conversation between the two ended with Xie Yuanshuang being unhappy. Lu Changqing was not angry at Xie Yuanshuang's stubbornness. She was mysteriously tolerant of ancient women.

It is not the fault of women like Xie Yuanshuang that they have such a thick filter for men. It is their growing environment that has shaped their current cognition.

They have too few resources. If they want to live a good life in the first half of their lives, they have to rely on their father and have a good background. If they want to live a good life in the second half of their lives, they have to marry and rely on men to achieve the goal of “where I rank among men, you rank among women.”

Their lifelong honor and disgrace are tied to men. Such a living environment forces them to worship men and deify men in their hearts.

Therefore, Lu Changqing fully understood Xie Yuanshuang's move to protect the prince, but he really couldn't respect her.

Lu Changqing was invited to the study by the people called by Qi Cheng. The door was wide open and there were two servants standing outside. As it was broad daylight, Lu Changqing was not afraid of Qi Cheng doing something wrong.

It doesn't matter if the other party does something wrong, she can defeat the enemy with one kick and help Qi Cheng with a vasectomy at the same time.

Qi Cheng asked Lu Changqing to sit down, poured her a cup of tea, and then asked, "Ming'e, you said you had something important to discuss with me, what is it?"

Lu Changqing opened and closed his mouth several times and found that it was a bit difficult to ask people for money.

"Give me some money to spend." It seemed a bit too impolite.

"I saved your life before, so give me some money as a way of repaying my kindness." This sounds a bit like asking for repayment.

Lu Changqing was so troubled that he wanted to scratch his head. It would be better to rob, as there would be fewer troubles if he robbed someone.

Seeing that Lu Changqing was having difficulty speaking, Qi Cheng smiled and said, "Ming'e, if you have anything to say, just tell me. There's no need to be so formal between you and me."

After much hesitation, Lu Changqing decided to get straight to the point and ask for money directly, "Do you have extra money? If you do, give me some."

Qi Cheng was stunned for a second, but quickly reacted, "Ming'e, are you short of money?"

Look at the question. The emperor's treasury is short of money. How could she, who is penniless and living under someone else's roof, not be short of money?

Lu Changqing nodded in agreement, indicating that he was in great need of money.

Qi Cheng did not pay immediately, but asked: "You eat and live in the mansion, why do you need money? Is it because the servants are not serving you diligently?"

Lu Changqing decided to use courtesy before force, and first help Qi Cheng and get the money first.

"I am very grateful to the general for taking pity on me and bringing me back from the border to the capital and placing me in your mansion. However, the general and I are not related in any way. If I continue to live in your mansion, outsiders will spread gossip, which is not good for either me or the general's mansion. So I am thinking of moving out of the mansion in the next two days."

"Gossip? What gossip? I am the third-rank general of Huaihua. Who dares to spread gossip about my general's mansion?"

Lu Changqing rolled his eyes in his heart. They even dared to spread gossip about the emperor. Your general’s mansion is nothing.

"Did the servants in the mansion whisper something in your ear?"

Qi Cheng's words were very scheming. The people serving Lu Changqing were arranged by Xie Yuanshuang. These were the only people who had been guarding Lu Changqing since he entered the mansion. Didn't Qi Cheng mean to ask if Xie Yuanshuang was making things difficult for her?

Keep it simple. Keep your words simple.

"No, no one is whispering in my ear. I just care about my reputation as an unmarried girl, so I want to move out."

Qi Cheng smiled comfortably when he heard this: "You can stay here. I don't care what your reputation is like."

Lu Changqing: ???

"Ming'e, stop pretending. I knew how you felt about me when we were in the military camp. In fact, I like you too, otherwise I wouldn't have kept you by my side and protected you all the time. In fact, you don't have to test me by retreating. I wanted to talk about it later, but since you can't wait, I will discuss it with mother and madam and let you enter as a concubine." Qi Cheng looked at Lu Changqing affectionately and stretched out his claws to hold her hand, but she shook it off.

Lu Changqing jumped up from the stool and looked at Qi Cheng with a stupid look. How shameless must he be to say such a thing.

"General, I don't ask you to repay my life-saving grace with my own body, but you shouldn't repay kindness with evil either. I just want you to give me a few thousand taels of silver so that I can settle down in the capital, but you want to force me to die!" Lu Changqing said indignantly.

"Why would I force you to die? Don't you want to stay with me?"

"Of course I don't want to. Why should I, a pure and innocent girl, stay with you and be your concubine?"

Qi Cheng was confused. If Fang Ming'e didn't want to stay with him, what was the point of her meticulous care for him when they were in the military camp? What was the point of their days together? His feeling was not wrong. Fang Ming'e liked him when they were in the military camp.

"You don't want to stay because you don't want to be a concubine?"

"This has nothing to do with being a concubine or not." Lu Changqing was really speechless about this self-righteous man. She expressed her demands in the simplest words, "I want money, then I can leave the general's mansion and live my own life. It's that simple."

"You want money? You just want money?" Qi Cheng thought it was ridiculous. "What about me? What about the days we spent in the military camp?"

It is really the case that the previous generation committed sins and the later generations bear the blame.

Lu Changqing pointed to his empty back and asked, "Do you see this big, round black pot behind me?"

Qi Cheng didn't care what was going on. He just wanted to ask the woman in front of him what she thought of him.

Qi Cheng said angrily: "Money, money, money, you only care about money, what am I to you?"

Lu Changqing was speechless. She still had to live in this world. She didn't care about money. What did she care about? The Hulunbuir grassland?

You still have the nerve to ask him what he thinks he is, bah, you are a piece of shit!

Lu Changqing muttered like a mantra: "You are the pillar of Joker, the largest number of playing cards, Batman's big customer, McDonald's mascot, and Gotham City's big boss."

"What are you talking about?" Qi Cheng said impatiently, "Just stay in the mansion. I won't let you go."

Lu Changqing turned around and said, "Then I'll go find the old lady. She has a kind face and must be a reasonable person."

"Stop!" Qi Cheng gritted his teeth and blocked Lu Changqing's way. "Ming'e, are you really determined to leave the General's Mansion?"

Lu Changqing swore to the sky and said seriously, "It's true, more real than pearls."

Qi Cheng's face turned pale, "I won't let you go!"

Lu Changqing almost vomited blood. Damn it, she thought he asked her this because he agreed to give her money.

Lu Changqing looked up at Qi Cheng, his face cold, "General, you are still young and have a bright future. Do you really have to let yourself bear the infamy of forcing a decent girl to be your concubine?"

Qi Cheng sneered, "Are you threatening me?"

"General, what you said is really serious. As the saying goes, a forced melon is not sweet. This relationship should also be based on mutual consent. Please don't embarrass me."

"What if I insist on making things difficult?"

Qi Cheng was still unwilling to give up. He was a third-rank official. The status of a general's concubine was much more valuable than that of an orphan with no one to rely on. He could not understand why Lu Changqing refused this honor.

"General, if I rush out now, crying and howling, and then hang myself at the gate of the general's mansion, what will the people in the capital say about you? And how will the imperial censors report you in the court?"

Qi Cheng's face darkened even more, "You threaten me again!"

"I'm just reminding you that you, a piece of fine porcelain, should not confront me, an old friend. You are responsible for the honor and disgrace of the General's Mansion, and I feed my whole family. It's not worth it to argue with me. In addition, don't forget your father-in-law. Your wife has been serving you for three years at home. You want to take other women into the mansion as soon as you come back. If you really do this, what do you think Prime Minister Xie will think?"

Qi Cheng didn't care and snorted coldly, "What do you think? It's natural for a man to take concubines. Doesn't he have several concubines in his backyard?"

Lu Changqing glanced at Qi Cheng and said, "Your wife is his daughter, not his concubine. Do you think he would be as casual with his daughter as he is with his concubine?"

Qi Cheng lowered his eyes and thought about Lu Changqing's words. He had to admit that what Lu Changqing said sounded somewhat reasonable. He had just returned to the capital and had not yet established a firm foothold in the court. He would still need help from the Xie family. For now, the best option was to treat Xie Yuanshuang well and leave a good impression on his father-in-law.

Qi Cheng's gaze fell back on Lu Changqing. He wanted power and beauty. He compromised and thought for a while, then said, "It's not impossible for you to leave the General's Mansion. There is a manor in the northern suburbs. It is our manor's property. You can move there temporarily. I will assign some servants to serve you."

Lu Changqing sneered in his heart, thinking that this guy was trying to hide a beauty in a golden house. Even if Qi Cheng thought of himself as Liu Che, she was not Chen Ajiao.

"General, I think I've made myself clear. Do you really want me to make a big fuss and then hang myself?"

Lu Changqing could probably guess why Qi Cheng didn't want to give up on her. It wasn't because he loved her too much, but because he felt unwilling to give up.

A powerless orphan girl dared to reject him and threaten him. Whose love do you think you rejected? A third-rank general of Huaihua! What a high position! How could the high-ranking general who was sure of victory accept this?

Xie Yuanshuang was shocked to hear that Lu Changqing was going to leave the house. She didn't expect that he would act so quickly. He had just told her that he wanted to leave the house, and now he had packed his things and came to say goodbye to her.

The original person didn't have much stuff, just two boxes of luggage, so she didn't have to pack it up. She could just carry it out the same way she carried it into the general's mansion yesterday.

"Have you found a place to stay?" Xie Yuanshuang asked.

"Not yet, let's stay at the inn first." Lu Changqing patted his bag and said with some pride: "We are rich now."

Xie Yuanshuang pursed her lips and said, "It's not safe for a girl like you to be alone outside. Why don't you live in the manor I gave you as a dowry? There are managers and guards there, so it's safer this way."

Lu Changqing thanked the other party for his kindness and said that she could do it on her own.

Seeing that she was unwilling, Xie Yuanshuang said again: "How about I send a few people to stay with you, and when you are settled, I will let them withdraw?"

Lu Changqing smiled and waved his hand, saying, "Really, no need. If I need you in the future, I will come to you. Don't pretend not to know me then."

Seeing that Lu Changqing was still in the mood to joke, Xie Yuanshuang didn't force it anymore. Since the other party didn't want to, she didn't mention it again.

After saying goodbye to Xie Yuanshuang, Lu Changqing carried a small bag on her back and got on the carriage carrying her luggage to a small inn in the west of the city.

The people from the General's Mansion politely delivered the luggage to the guest room where Lu Changqing lived, and then drove the carriage away. After everyone left, Lu Changqing closed the door, took out the silver bills from his purse and threw them into the space.

Lu Changqing felt that Qi Cheng would never let her go so easily. Just in case, she decided to hide the most important things in the space so that no one could steal them.

Lu Changqing decided to stick to her old profession for the time being - practicing medicine. Apart from this, she really couldn't think of anything else she could do for the time being.

Lu Changqing plans to find a job first and then find a house. Of course, it would be better if food and accommodation are provided, so that she can save some expenses.

It is said that it is difficult to find a job nowadays, and it was even more difficult in ancient times. Many medical clinics saw that she was a woman and drove her away without even asking her a few questions.

Lu Changqing wandered around the city for the whole afternoon and returned to the inn only when the sun set.

After a simple dinner and washing up, Lu Changqing lay on the bed, covered himself with the quilt, closed his eyes and went to sleep.

The sound of a night watchman's clapper was heard on the quiet street. A dark shadow nimbly dodged the patrolling officers and soldiers on the long street and after a few jumps, it entered the backyard of the inn.

The inn was pitch black late at night. The man in black walked into the lobby of the inn in the dark. The creaking sound of his footsteps on the wooden stairs was completely drowned out by the rhythmic snoring of the night watchman.

The man in black walked to the door of a guest room on the second floor with ease, put his ear to the door and listened carefully. Seeing that there was no movement in the room, he took out a long and thin bamboo tube from his arms and blew a puff of thick smoke into the room through the gap in the door.

After the man in black put away the tools he had used in the crime, he counted in his mind. When he counted to one hundred, he gently pried open the bolt with a knife, then tiptoed into the room, turned around and gently closed the door.

There was no moon in the sky tonight and the room was too dim. Thinking that the drug had taken effect, the man in black took out a tinder from his bosom and lit the oil lamp on the table.

The man in black walked to the bed, looked at the woman sleeping peacefully on the bed, waved his hand in front of her eyes, and after making sure that she was completely asleep, he began to search the room with peace of mind.

First, he looked at the two wooden boxes in the corner. The man in black came to the boxes with an oil lamp and searched through them, but he didn't find what he wanted.

Then there was the pile of clothes beside the bed, also missing.

There is still nothing in the purse.

Putting down the oil lamp, the man in black rubbed his chin through the black cloth on his face. He had searched everywhere he could. Where could this man hide the money? Could he have hidden it in his inner garment?

The man in black walked back to the bed and waved his hand in front of the woman's closed eyes. She was sleeping like a dead pig and had no reaction at all.

He gently lifted the quilt, and just as the man in black reached out to prepare for the next move, he felt a strong wind coming from the front. Before he could dodge, his head was hit by a hard object.

With a "bang", something flew out.

The man in black covered his aching head and took two steps back. His eyes were blazing with fire as he looked at Lu Changqing, who had risen from the bed with a half-broken tablet in his hand.

Damn it! Who the hell hides their own father’s tablet in the bed as a self-defense weapon! ! ! ! !