Young Master, Don't Show Off - Chapter 76
[Chapter 76 Catching an adulterer]
Lihua Garden, the second floor of the elegant pavilion, the woman is still raising the price.
“One thousand taels!”
“This is really not a matter of money, this is dignity and bottom line!”
Seeing Lin Xiu’s firm attitude, the woman looked a little disappointed, but still said: “If you regret it, you can come to Baoding Marquis Mansion to find me at any time, and we can still negotiate the price…”
Unexpectedly, this woman also has the background of the second-class marquis mansion. Lin Xiu said helplessly: “Madam, please tell me what you want me to do.”
Speaking of this, the woman’s eyes showed a fierce look, and she gritted her teeth and said: “That bastard, eating my food, living in my house, spending my money, and even dared to find a woman behind my back. I want you to help me get evidence of his betrayal. After the matter is done, I will give you a reward of one thousand taels!”
Lin Xiu quickly figured out the situation of this woman.
It turned out that she kept a gigolo, and usually provided him with food, drink and entertainment, on the premise that the gigolo would accompany her to play.
Recently, she found that the public grain that Xiao Bai turned in was seriously insufficient, so she suspected that she was cheated. For this reason, she found several secret detectives, but none of them found the key evidence. Lin Xiu was already the fifth secret detective she had changed.
It seems that this business is still a bit difficult, but Lin Xiu still took it up readily.
After all, one thousand taels of silver is a great temptation for him.
There is another detail that made Lin Xiu speechless. This rich woman kept another little white face and asked him not to cheat on her, but what she said to Lin Xiu just now was that he could do anything except spend time with her. This is obviously a difference in treatment.
Before leaving, the woman did not forget to remind Lin Xiu: “If you change your mind, remember to come to me!”
After paying a hundred taels of remuneration in advance, she left here reluctantly.
After finally sending her away, Lin Xiu saw Cai Yi with a smile on her face and asked, “Miss Cai Yi, what are you laughing at?”
Cai Yi smiled and said, “I just think that the young master has a bottom line and perseverance. How many people can resist such a great temptation with one thousand taels of silver per month?”
In fact, Lin Xiu couldn’t resist it either. According to the price of this world, one thousand taels of silver is almost one million yuan in the future. One million a month, even if it is a steel wool warning…, some people may grit their teeth and endure it.
Lin Xiu said to Cai Yi helplessly, “In fact, I also like silver, but I really can’t do it to that lady. If it is Miss Cai Yi, let alone one thousand taels, I would be willing to give one hundred taels…”
After Cai Yi and Lin Xiu became familiar with each other, she was flirted with by him every time, and she also let go a lot. Hearing this, she just smiled lightly and said, “Then I will make a lot of money. When the time comes, you must remember what you said today…”
“Once a word is spoken, it cannot be taken back. I am waiting for Miss Cai Yi…”
…
After teasing Cai Yi for a while in Lihuayuan, Lin Xiu returned to the Lin Mansion. He did not forget that he still had things to do.
This was his first business as a secret agent, so he had to do it well so that he could make a name for himself. This was very important for a new secret agent.
The woman had given Lin Xiu the appearance and address of the pretty boy. What Lin Xiu had to do was to monitor the man’s movements and find evidence that he had betrayed the woman.
For this kind of thing, Lin Xiu didn’t have to do it himself. After bribing the thrush with a meal of bird food, it flew out to help Lin Xiu monitor the target.
It wasn’t until two hours later that it flapped its wings and flew into Lin Xiu’s room from the window, landed on the table, and chirped a few times.
Lin Xiu raised his eyebrows and said in surprise, “You lost it?”
The little thrush chirped
a few more times, and Lin Xiu listened thoughtfully. Just over an hour ago, it saw the target leave home, go into a restaurant to eat, and then didn’t come out. Later, it got impatient and went to the man’s house to check, only to find that he had returned home.
The first reaction of a normal person upon hearing this is that when the target left the restaurant, he was distracted and did not notice it, but Lin Xiu did not think so.
In order to find evidence of this person’s betrayal, Lin Xiu was not the only spy that the rich woman had found. Before him, she had found four more famous spy than Lin Xiu, the newcomer, but without exception, they all failed.
Before finding a spy, she had also asked the servants around her to follow the man, but still got nothing.
This business is indeed a bit difficult.
It seems that the 1,000 taels of silver are not easy to earn. Lin Xiu asked Huamei to observe the target for two more days and found that he would leave home at a fixed time every afternoon, and then disappear until two or three hours later, when he would appear directly at home.
This also aroused Lin Xiu’s interest. One day, he went out in person with Da Huang and Huamei. Seeing that the man entered a restaurant, he sat by the tea stall outside the restaurant, drinking tea and waiting. It
was now dinner time, and people came in and out of the restaurant from time to time, but the target that Lin Xiu was waiting for did not appear.
At a certain moment, Da Huang, who was lying at Lin Xiu’s feet, suddenly sniffed and called out in a low voice: “Master, Master, he’s out!”
Lin Xiu immediately looked at the door of the restaurant, but found nothing. Just as he was puzzled, Da Huang said again: “Master, it’s the man who just walked out. Although his appearance has changed and he has changed his clothes, the smell on his body has not changed!”
Lin Xiu’s eyes immediately locked on a young man in a gray gown. This man’s appearance was also very handsome, but he was very different from the target that Lin Xiu was tracking. His clothes were also different. However, the height and body shape of the two were very similar.
Lin Xiu was stunned for a moment, and soon realized something and stood up suddenly.
This person is a person with supernatural powers. He can change his face!
No wonder neither the servants of the Hou Mansion nor the secret detectives before Lin Xiu found any evidence that he was looking for a woman. Huamei returned empty-handed every time, and even Lin Xiu was deceived. Fortunately, he brought Da Huang with him today.
He can change his appearance, but he can’t change his smell.
A trace of heat appeared in Lin Xiu’s eyes, and he followed without leaving any trace.
What he was thinking about at the moment was not only the one thousand taels of reward, the ability to change one’s appearance was too important to him now!
It can be said that Lin Xiu’s face brought him a lot of trouble. The king didn’t know how many people wanted to kill him secretly. Although His Majesty sent people from the Secret Investigation Department to protect him, Lin Xiu also lost his freedom accordingly.
He knew that the two secret detectives were protecting him in the dark. His safety was guaranteed, but he also lost his own secrets.
If he encountered thunderstorms again next time, Lin Xiu would have no way to go out to practice. This was a problem that had always troubled him.
If he could change his face, things would become much simpler.
When doing something that could not be known or was inconvenient for others to know, he could completely change his face, change his identity, and do it silently, and no longer have to worry about being assassinated in the street or the biggest secret being exposed.
And the premise of all this is to get this person’s ability!
Liu Dong walked on the bustling street, feeling very disdainful.
That short, fat and ugly stupid woman actually suspected him and hired a secret detective to investigate him. It was a joke. Liu Dong had been in the flower garden for many years, relying on this ability to change his appearance. Even if he went out to find women every day, she couldn’t find any evidence.
If it weren’t for her money and her extravagant life, he would never go to the bed of that dead fat pig. Being hugged by a piece of fat meat every day to sleep made him have a great shadow in his heart. Only those beautiful and gentle little sisters in the brothel could soothe his injured heart…
As for the dead fat pig, she would let people investigate it slowly. Just check it casually. If there is evidence, he will lose!
Thinking of this in his heart, Liu Dong had already walked to the door of a brothel he often visited. After
rubbing the girls soliciting customers at the door for a few times, Liu Dong hugged one of them with one hand, walked in with a smile, and prepared to comfort himself for the grievances he suffered last night.
Lin Xiu stood on the street not far away, watching all this silently.
He knew that few people could resist the temptation of working less for thirty years, especially after entering society and suffering the beatings of life, they would gradually realize that dignity and bottom line are actually the most worthless things. Some people would choose to take shortcuts with a gritted teeth.
Dreams are not worth mentioning in the face of reality.
But few people understand that the gift of fate has already been secretly marked with a price.
The shortcut of working less for thirty years is not so easy to take. In his previous life, Lin Xiu knew that many beautiful men and women who were kept by rich women at a young age actually spent their own money to have fun in private. They had been psychologically suppressed for a long time and needed to be released more than normal people.
Especially the little milk dogs and little wolf dogs kept by old rich women, their situation is even more miserable, because men’s desires in certain aspects will decrease with age. They pursue more things, money, power, which are more attractive to them than beauty. Occasionally looking for beautiful girls is to meet normal physiological needs.
But women are different. Their desires will increase with age, and they have more methods, some of which are even unheard of. Lin Xiu felt chilled just by hearing that description, and the misery of those who experienced it personally is even more miserable.
Lin Xiu understood Liu Dong’s behavior, but did not sympathize with him.
There is no free lunch in this world. Since you have decided to be a gigolo, you must be aware of being a gigolo. From the perspective of the gigolo industry, his behavior is also considered to be against the rules.
Lin Xiu found a teahouse opposite the brothel to drink tea, and gave the waiter two coins of silver, asking him to go to Baoding Houfu to invite the woman over, saying that he had found clues that Liu Dong had betrayed her.
Half an hour later, a round body, accompanied by more than a dozen servants from the Houfu, rushed to the door of the brothel.
Lin Xiu walked out of the teahouse, and the woman asked angrily, “Where is that bastard?”
Lin Xiu said, “Don’t worry, wait until he comes out.”
The woman gritted her teeth and said, “I can’t wait!”
After that, she rushed in with more than a dozen servants. After entering the brothel, she moved a chair and blocked the door, saying, “Look, look for me one room at a time!”
It was not yet night, and there were not many people who chose to have fun at this time. Including Liu Dong, there were only three guests in the brothel at the moment.
The three were having fun when someone kicked the door in. They were immediately scared, but seeing the momentum of the person who came, they didn’t dare to say anything. They put on their clothes in disgrace and came down from upstairs.
When Liu Dong saw the fat woman sitting at the door, a flash of fear flashed across his eyes, but he soon calmed down.
He was absolutely sure that no one could recognize him.
At this time, the fat woman also found that there was no one she was looking for here, and looked at Lin Xiu, wondering: “Where is the person you are talking about?”
Lin Xiu walked in front of Liu Dong, and in his horrified eyes, she stretched out her hand, pulled Liu Dong’s face to both sides, and rubbed it.
Then, a magical scene happened.
After Lin Xiu rubbed it, the young man’s face just now suddenly became another look.
Liu Dong’s face was full of fear, but the fat woman’s eyes were instantly widened.
She stood up from the chair suddenly, with endless rage in her heart, and shouted: “Damn it, I provide you with food and clothes, and you dare to find a woman behind my back, beat me, beat me hard!” Upon hearing this
, the followers she brought with her immediately rushed up, kicked Liu Dong to the ground, and punched and kicked him.
“Yuanyuan, I was wrong, I was wrong!”
“I will never dare to do it again!”
“Please forgive me this time!”
…
Liu Dong held his head and kept begging for mercy on the ground, but the fat woman had no intention of stopping. She showed disgust on her face and said, “I hate betraying men the most. Beat me, don’t stop!”
The ability to disguise is only the lowest level of strange skills, without attack or defense capabilities. Under the punches and kicks of more than a dozen strong men, she soon fainted.
Seeing that the woman still had no intention of stopping, Lin Xiu took the initiative to walk over and said, “Don’t beat me. If someone dies, no one will end well.”
He separated the crowd, carried the fainted Liu Dong on his shoulders, and said, “Why did you knock him out? I’ll send him to the clinic first. It would be bad if something happened. That, Miss Yuanyuan, we’ll see you at Lihuayuan later.”
Carrying Liu Dong, Lin Xiu walked out of the brothel on his own.
At the same time, the healing power in his body had already traveled around in this person’s body, and had some understanding of his physical condition. It was just two broken ribs and fainted from the pain, which was not a big problem.
Half a minute later, Lin Xiu dropped the man off at the nearest clinic, left a few pieces of silver, and came to Lihua Garden.
The woman was already waiting here.
Lin Xiu said to her, “I’ve left the man at Tongren Clinic, and I’ve also prepaid the medical fee. Madam
, you can have someone pick him up later.” The woman snorted coldly and said, “Who do you think I am? Once betrayed, I won’t use him for the rest of my life. Let that bastard fend for himself.”
Then, she threw a coquettish look at Lin Xiu and said, “Why call me Madam? I’m not much older than you. Call me sister…”
A coquettish look almost made Lin Xiu vomit the overnight meal. The woman was probably a few years older than his mother, so Lin Xiu really couldn’t call her sister.
The woman looked at Lin Xiu and praised, “This bastard can actually change his appearance. No wonder I found several spies before, but couldn’t catch him. This little brother is really extraordinary. How about it, have you thought about it? As long as you follow me, you can get one thousand taels of silver every month. Even if you keep other women outside, I don’t care…”
Lin Xiu said decisively, “I have found the evidence of that man’s betrayal. As for the subsequent rewards, madam…”
The woman looked at Lin Xiu dissatisfiedly, took out a stack of banknotes from her sleeve, and said, “It’s just one thousand taels. Follow me and you can get several thousand taels…”
Lin Xiu took the banknotes, and then said seriously, “I’m sorry, madam, I’m a serious person. The education I received since I was a child does not allow me to do this kind of thing…”
The woman shook her head and stopped forcing her, saying, “You are still too young. Dignity and bottom line are all empty. What I said is still valid. When you change your mind, come to me…”
Although Lin Xiu is not a serious person, he is also picky about people.
If it was Caiyi or Lingyin Xue Ning’er who said this, he might have agreed, but this…, he really couldn’t bear it.
The owner of Lihuayuan stood behind Lin Xiu and said enviously: “One thousand taels of silver, our theater can’t make so much in a few years, these people are really rich…”
Although all roads lead to Rome, some people are born to live in Rome.
What they have when they are born is what ordinary people can’t have even if they struggle for their whole lives. It’s like this now, and it will be like this in a few thousand years.
That’s why some people choose shortcuts to save decades of struggle and give up their efforts at a young age. Lin Xiu also hopes that a young and beautiful rich woman will give him 100,000 taels, so that he won’t have to work hard to make money for practice.
Of course, Lin Xiu’s biggest gain today is not the one thousand taels.
He returned to the Lin Mansion, closed the door, and came to the bronze mirror.
Lin Xiu touched his face, and his face changed for a while, and finally turned into the appearance of a simple and honest man.
It was Sun Dali.
Afterwards, Sun Dali’s face changed into Li Baizhang, Liu Qingfeng, and Yang Xuan…
He originally wanted to change into Lingyin and Caiyi, but then he thought that this feeling was too inconsistent, and it would be embarrassing to see them next time, so he gave up the idea.
Lin Xiu was having a lot of fun playing in the room alone. This art of disguise seemed to be different from what was recorded in the book. The book said that this art could change a person’s face, but the change took time, and the face could not be subjected to external force, otherwise the original form would be revealed. But this was not the case with Lin Xiu.
He could change whenever he wanted, and different faces could even be switched seamlessly. Moreover, even if he squeezed his face very hard, the face of someone else would not change.
Lin Xiu soon realized the reason.
The art of disguise is a lower-grade yellow-level special art. In history, people who have awakened this ability only have the energy level of the first awakening, so of course it changes slowly and is easily destroyed by external forces.
But Lin Xiu is using this ability with the energy level of the second awakening, so it naturally changes faster and more stably.
In a sense, from now on, the ability of disguise is already a higher-grade yellow-level ability.
However, after becoming familiar with this ability, Lin Xiu also discovered a drawback of this ability.
That is, he can only change his face, but not other parts of the body, such as height, body shape, etc. If he changes into a woman, it will only be a flat face with a Adam’s apple, which will be seen through at a glance.
In general, with Lin Xiu’s current strength, there are still many limitations to using this ability. I wonder if there will be some changes after the energy awakens many times.
Lin Xiu thought about it and suddenly blushed…
(End of this chapter)
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