Chapter 291: The World in the Sleeve

“Don’t worry about me, just keep chatting.”

Zuo Chen waved his hand.

After looking around and finding no place to sit nearby, he said to the madam next to him:
“Are there any other chairs in this yard?”

“I…I’ll get it for you.” The madam ran to the door in panic and slammed it shut before leaving.

Seeing how she ran out, she probably won’t come back.

The rich young man’s heart trembled violently as the door was closed.

The madam has escaped, and they want to escape too!

However, Zuo Chen stared at them closely and smiled very happily.

How dare the young masters act rashly?

They curled up in their chairs obediently.

Whoever Zuo Chen’s eyes fell on, that person could only force out an awkward yet polite smile.

Master Zhou, who was noisy just now, suddenly fell silent. He looked at his nose with his eyes, his mouth with his nose, and his heart with his expression as if to say, “Who am I? Where am I? Don’t come looking for me.”

The eldest son of the Lu family was seated apart from Mr. Zhou, and in the middle sat a chubby young man who looked like a meatball.

After staring at Master Zhou for a while, the eldest son of the Lu family reached out his hand, passed over the plump meatball, and poked Master Zhou:
“Mr. Zhou, why don’t you continue talking? Now that the Taoist priest is here, please continue talking.”

Master Zhou: “…”

You’re damn brave!

You went through all that trouble just to poke me?
Get sick!
Just now I saw that the atmosphere of the meeting was not right, and everyone was threatening to die, so I stood up and spoke.

Now that the person involved is here, you still want me to pick a fight with you in person?

Look at me, I’m an old man hanging myself, do you think I’m too old?

Mr. Zhou adjusted his mood and forced a smile:

“I think that our major families should sincerely apologize to the Taoist priest. Those old guys had no respect for their elders and even resorted to reckless means against the capital. They really deserve to be killed.

“If you, Taoist priest, want to deal with those people, hey, my Zhou family fully agrees with you!”

The eldest son of the Lu family froze in his tracks.

As expected of the young master of the Zhou family, his expression changes faster than turning the pages of a book.

This shameless spirit won unanimous praise from the other young masters present, but they dared not say a word. They could only sit there quietly, not daring to move.

Zuo Chen didn’t care and walked to the main seat next to the eldest son of the Lu family:

“I just walked around the street and I’m a little tired.”

The eldest young master of the Lu family jumped up on the spot and immediately pushed the stool to Zuo Chen’s side:
“Please sit down.”

He swaggered over a chair and sat down. The chubby meatball next to the eldest young master of the Lu family hesitated for a breath, pulled the chair away, and let Caiyi sit down.

At this moment, Zuo Chen became the host here.

Looking around at the anxious young masters, Zuo Chen suddenly smiled and said:

“Please rest assured, I am in a good mood today and will not harm your lives. But since I am here, I also have something to ask you.

“I heard that you know a noble person? Riding in a sedan chair, supported by a paper doll?”

The eldest young master of the Lu family was silent for a few seconds and nodded:

“There is such a noble person.”

“This man was the mastermind behind the attack on my disciple. He is like a rat, circling around my nose with a foul odor. I can smell the scent, but I can’t catch him. It’s very annoying. I wonder if you gentlemen have any way to catch a rat?”

Upon hearing this, the faces of the young masters suddenly changed, and they shrank their bodies, not daring to say a word.

“No one knows?” Zuo Chen asked again.

No one spoke.

The whole room was silent.

The faces of the young masters turned pale and blue, and no one dared to speak.

He could see that these disciples from aristocratic families were now trembling with fear, and were obviously extremely afraid of him.

But still didn’t say a word.

“You really don’t want to tell me?”

“Master, it’s not that we don’t want to tell you, it’s that we don’t know much.” The eldest son of the Lu family sighed, “The noble man has never shown his face in front of us. We only know that he is a high-ranking official in the capital, but we don’t know which one he is.

“Even if you really beat us to death, we can’t say it.”

“Pity.”

Zuo Chen shook his head and stopped sitting on the chair:

“The lady boss just said that this is the former residence of my disciple. He always likes quietness, so it is normal for him to build such an elegant courtyard.

“But now this courtyard is connected to a brothel outside, and there are many dogs, horses, and music scenes in the guest rooms inside the courtyard. It is too noisy and dirty for my apprentice. It is not good.”

Zuo Chen pulled up the colorful clothes with one hand and raised the other hand high, waving his sleeves.

A strong wind blew from the ordinary cuffs, blocking out the sky and the sun in just a moment.

It covered the stars in the sky, the rockery and water on the ground, and the entire courtyard floating in the mezzanine.

“Please come to my place tonight and stay there. Your parents will pick you up tonight.”

The sky suddenly darkened, as if covered by an endless shadow.

By the time these young masters came to their senses, Zuo Chen and Cai Yi had disappeared.

The entire Changxian Courtyard was still the same as before, with stars twinkling in the sky and the long table motionless.

The pool of water in the yard didn’t even make a ripple, there was no movement or change at all.

The young men sat down in their seats in a panic and dejected manner, looking around blankly, feeling that everything they had just experienced was like a dream.

“What’s going on? Where is the Taoist priest?” “I don’t know…”

“Did we fall for an illusion?”

“Illusion?” Young Master Zhou’s face turned pale and blue: “You call that an illusion?”

When he said this, he finally couldn’t help it. He opened his mouth and vomited with a “vomit” sound.

The vomit instantly covered the entire table, with blue, white and yellow liquid flowing all over the table.

“You were screaming happily just now, but now you are vomiting miserably. You are really bringing shame to your Zhou family.” The eldest young master of the Lu family criticized mercilessly.

“What should we do?”

“What else can we do? Let’s go! I think that Taoist priest must have gone to find King Wei! If we don’t leave now, King Wei’s troops will come here soon and block the gate. Who can leave?”

The meatball-like young man immediately stood up and ran out in a hurry.

What he said seemed to make some sense, but most of the young masters still had doubts in their hearts.

It is rumored that this Taoist priest has very mysterious methods. When he said he wanted to arrest them just now, these young masters’ hearts were in their throats.

However, nothing happened now.

There is always something…

The feeling of starting well but ending badly?
Could it be that the other party has already performed some magical trick and I don’t know about it?
While I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard a sharp scream from the Rouyuanzi who had just escaped, followed by a series of cries for help:

“Help! Help!”

The young men in the room rushed over and found that Rouyuanzi, who had just run away, was nowhere to be seen.

Looking closely, I found that he was holding on to the door edge with both hands and was hanging on the door.

A group of young masters gathered at the door, looked outside, and gasped.

The courtyard is no longer connected to the prosperous and intoxicating flower building.

But in a space that was completely dark all around!

This space is extremely large, with no end in sight, like an isolated dream world.

Several young masters reacted quickly and hurriedly pulled the one who fell up. Then they looked outside in horror, muttering:

“What kind of method is this?”

……

Zuo Chen appeared in the brothel holding Caiyi.

There was a table where they appeared, and on the table there was a middle-aged man in luxurious clothes holding a beautiful girl in his arms.

The man was touching her all over with a lewd smile on his face, and it looked like he was about to do something sexual, when suddenly he noticed two more living people in front of him.

He immediately let out a strange cry, was so scared that he fell back on the spot and almost fell to the ground.

Withered.

The other guests were also startled. The old procuress, who was trembling at the door and trying to run away, was so frightened when she saw Zuo Chen coming out that she knelt down on the spot with her legs going weak.

Zuo Chen ignored them and shook his sleeves with a smile to show off to Caiyi:

“I have just discovered something new.”

Caiyi was also stunned.

She had never heard of such a method when she went out to listen to storytellers telling mythological stories.

Looking closely at the cuffs, it is impossible to tell how such a large yard can be accommodated in such a seemingly ordinary wide cuff.

If I encounter an enemy, wouldn’t I just need to wave my hand to make the enemy lose resistance and be trapped in the robe?
Caiyi looked at her clothes.

It seems that I am not suitable to learn this.

Recovering her thoughts, Caiyi asked:

“Master, can this really force us to reveal the identity of that nobleman?”

“If not, I will force him out.” Zuo Chen said, “He has been operating in Kyoto for so many years. I will remove his nails one by one. I really don’t believe he can sit still forever.”

“Master, where are we going next?”

“Of course, we will continue to walk around this street and then go back to Yaochi Tower for dinner in the evening.”

After Zuo Chen finished speaking, he called out to the madam who was slumped on the ground.

The madam’s legs were weak and she couldn’t stand up for a while. She could only force a smile:
“Do you…do you have any instructions? The chair…the chair will be here soon.”

“I have taken over your hidden house, and I have invited the people inside to stay as my guests for the time being. Please go and notify their families.”

Zuo Chen smiled and then left with Caiyi.

The madam was stunned when she heard this.

The hidden house was taken away?

What do you mean?
I have such a big house, can you just take it away?
Not daring to ask Zuo Chen any further questions, the old procuress could only wait until the Taoist priest completely disappeared from her sight, then she forced herself to stand up and head towards the hidden house.

Looking towards the entrance:
Where is the unique space trick? There are large tracts of empty space, and there are no floor tiles.

“Where is my house? Where did my huge house go?!”

I almost vomited blood and my head was buzzing.

There was no other way but to call the turtle man over:

“Go and inform those nobles, go and inform those nobles!”

I repeated this twice before I finally drove the turtle away.

After the performance, the madam sat down on the chair dejectedly:

“My house… My house…”

(End of this chapter)