The private room is not big, but it is quite elegantly decorated.
There are several meticulous paintings of ladies hanging on the wall, and a burner of sandalwood is lit in the corner, with green smoke curling up.
There is a round mahogany table in the center. Several plates of dried fruit preserves and a pot of warm rice wine are already prepared on the table.
Xu Zhoufeng waved his hand and shouted at the door, "Cuihong! Liu'er! You all come in!"
Not long after, the bamboo curtain was raised, and four girls filed in.
The one in the lead is Cuihong. She is in her early twenties, wearing a water-red tulle skirt. She has a plump figure and a touch of rouge on her face. As soon as she entered the door, she walked towards Xu Feng with a smile and said angrily, "Master Xu hasn't been here for a few days. I thought you had forgotten about me!"
Xu Feng chuckled, grabbed Cuihong's waist, and pinched her waist dishonestly with his palm. "How can I forget you? Isn't I here? Come on, come on, sit on my lap."
Cuihong feigned anger and patted his chest, but her body tilted and she was sitting on his lap. She picked up the wine bottle and poured a glass for Xu Feng.
The other two girls, one named Xing'er and the other Chuntao, also found their own places.
Xing'er was gentle and gentle, sitting next to Zhao Chuan, with half of her body next to her at a distance, only lowering her head and smiling.
Chuntao took the initiative to get close to Ma Ping and reached out to pull his arm. Before she even touched the sleeve, Ma Ping suddenly shrank to the side, and her whole body was as stiff as an iron stake.
Chuntao laughed out loud, turned around and winked at Cuihong: "Sister Cuihong, look, this young man is still shy."
Cuihong was being hugged by Xu Feng while drinking. Hearing this, she turned around and said with a smile, "It's been like this for the first time. Sister, if you talk to this young master more often, you'll get to know him."
Chuntao moved closer to Ma Ping again. Ma Ping was almost pressed against the wall, with a thin layer of sweat on her forehead.
Jiang Fa was sitting by the window, and there was a girl next to her. She was wearing a light blue gauze skirt, she was petite and exquisite, her name was Qingluo.
Qing Luo sat down next to him, and was not as proactive as Chuntao. She just poured him a cup of tea quietly, then pushed the plate of dried fruits on the table in front of him, and said softly, "Young Master, come back? You're looking strange."
"Well, it's my first time here."
Jiang Fa said "Hmm", picked up the tea and took a sip.
Seeing him like this, Qing Luo covered her mouth and smiled. She didn't say much and waited quietly aside.
Xu Feng was already having a hot time with Cuihong. The two of them got together and didn't know what they were talking about. Cuihong laughed so hard that her branches were trembling, and Xu Feng's hands moved around her body dishonestly, and her mouth was full of dirty things.
"Jiang Fa! Why don't you chat with Miss Qingluo for a while? What's the matter, are you afraid that Qingluo will eat you?"
Xu Feng joked with a smile.
Jiang Fa ignored him.
Zhao Chuan is more natural than Jiang Fa. Although he is not as open-minded as Xu Feng, he at least talks and laughs with Xing'er. He peels peanuts in his hand and occasionally puts one to Xing'er's mouth. Xing'er lowers her head to suck it, with two red clouds flying on her face.
"Jiang Fa, Ma Ping, are you two here to drink or to meditate?"
Xu Feng hugged each other, and toasted to the two of them loudly. "Don't just sit there, the wine is for drinking, the girl is for hugging, and she is not a tiger, can she bite you?"
Ma Ping sat upright, with the wine glass in front of him still full. Chuntao pushed towards him, and he moved to the side. His look as if he was facing a formidable enemy made several girls laugh.
"Ma Ping!" Xu Feng laughed so hard, "What the hell are you going to do when you get a wife in the future? Is this the virtue of a wedding night?"
Ma Ping blushed and said in a low voice, "I... I haven't thought that far yet."
"I just didn't want to bring you out to see the world!"
Xu Feng slapped the table and said to Chuntao: "Chuntao, show your skills. You must let the young man next to you drink a few more drinks tonight."
Chuntao responded, picked up the wine glass and put it to Ma Ping's mouth. Ma Ping didn't want to hide, and it didn't matter if he didn't hide. In the end, he took a deep breath and coughed because of the burning, and everyone in the room laughed.
Jiang Fa was sitting in the corner, but there was nothing in his heart.
Qingluo refilled his tea, peeled a few peanuts and put them in a small dish. She said softly, "If you find it too noisy, sir, we can move to the next door where it is quieter."
"No need." Jiang Fa shook his head, picked up the teacup and took a sip.
He really wasn't used to this kind of situation.
It wasn't that he was being arrogant, but that these things about singing and dancing and changing glasses were far from what he had in mind.
His mind is filled with cultivation, elixirs, money, killers, and techniques. Women will only affect the speed of his cultivation.
"Jiang Fa, please say something. Don't let Miss Qingluo just sit there."
Zhao Chuan also came to tease him.
Jiang Fa glanced at him. "Zhao Chuan, if you haven't drunk yet tonight, please shut your mouth first."
Zhao Chuan laughed, and instead raised his glass and saluted Jiang Fa: "Okay, I'll punish myself with a drink first, but you can't just drink tea, at least you have to have one cup with you."
"Yes! Jiang Fa drink!" Xu Feng followed. Cuihong had already poured the wine for him, and he almost put the wine glass directly into Jiang Fa's mouth.
Jiang Fa had no choice but to pick up the wine glass and take a sip.
The wine is a fine Huadiao wine, soft in the mouth but with plenty of staying power.
"That's pretty much it!"
When the fun was almost over, Xu Feng chased away the four girls, leaving only four senior brothers in the private room.
Xu Feng sat down by the window, picked up the wine bottle and poured a glass for everyone. "Come on, let's have a drink!"
When the other three people saw this, they raised their glasses and clinked them with him, then drank the whole drink.
After three rounds of drinking, Xu Feng's chatterbox opened up and he talked endlessly.
He talked about everything from the latest news at Black Wind Ridge to the new notices issued by the county government, and from the notices to the trends of various martial arts schools.
Zhao Chuan occasionally interjected a few words, but Ma Ping just drank and ate in silence, wondering if he had not recovered from the scene just now.
"Speaking of it,"
Xu Feng put down the wine glass with a bit of emotion on his face.
"We are the only ones who entered the inner courtyard and are still in the martial arts hall. Even Xu Xiaomeng..."
He paused and sighed, "Now I'm gone..."
"Xu Xiaomeng is gone?" Jiang Fa raised his eyebrows.
It was indeed a long time since he saw her, so much so that he almost forgot that there was such a person in the martial arts school.
Xu Feng nodded.
He sighed, "I saw it with my own eyes probably a few months ago."
Zhao Chuan looked at him in confusion. "Gone? Where did you go?"
"I don't know."
Xu Feng shook his head,
"That evening, I returned to the wing after practicing. I passed by the back door of the martial arts studio and saw a carriage parked there. The carriage looked like it belonged to an ordinary person. The two horses pulling the carriage were both solid-colored Qingfeng horses. Such horses are rare even in wealthy families."
"Then Xu Xiaomeng came out of the martial arts gym."
He said slowly, "There are two people accompanying her, a man and a woman. They look to be in their forties and are very respectful to her."
Zhao Chuan's mouth was wide enough to fit an egg in. "My dear, what's the origin of Xu Xiaomeng? She usually looks quiet, and her clothes are similar to those of us..."
His mouth opened and closed, opened and closed again, and it took him a long time to hold back one sentence. "Qingfeng pulls the cart? Who kind of family is that? The three major Lineages of our Qingshan County are just like this, right?"