Chapter 45: The Brocade Robe Arrives at the Door

  "Engaged to Du Zhifu's family's thousand gold?" Tang Yin's eyes widened, but there was not much envy in his gaze.

  "It's not an engagement, but... let's get established first and then we can talk about getting engaged." Qin Kan couldn't help but explain.

  Tang Yin's gaze suddenly turned strange, staring at Qin Kan for a long time, shaking his head and sighing: "Brother is really... enduring humiliation and bearing heavy burdens. In the past, I also had countless official family daughters showing affection to me. If I had your kind of courage to abandon my body, I would have taken a bite and closed my eyes to follow through. Why did it end up like this now? Alas."

  Qin Kan was certain that Tang Yan wasn't jealous of him, but rather admired his... endurance in the face of humiliation?

  "What makes you say this, Brother Tang?" Qin Kan asked in surprise.

  Du Yan may be a bit violent, but she's not that bad, right? Look at her face, especially her model-like figure and those long, beautiful legs...

  Why does Tang Yin's expression look like he married a mother pig?

  Tang Yan sighed and explained, "I've seen Miss Du a few times, I can tell that she has feelings for you, but her family background is higher than yours, and even their children are not on the same level as you. Don't you think it's quite mismatched?"

  "What?" Qin Kan was shocked: "What's wrong with the tall woman?"

  Tang Yin slanted his eyes at him: "Husband is Qian, wife is Kun, this is the heavenly order of ethics, so men are destined to be higher in status and stature than women. Look around, younger brother, where can you find a woman with a stature as tall as a five-foot-tall man? In the future, if you get married, how will you decide on the Qian Kun ethics at home?"

  Qin Kan was shocked and couldn't speak for a long time.

  In ancient times, women with model-like figures were not popular and were actually a huge disadvantage. The aesthetic views of the ancients were different from ours, they were deeply poisoned by the Three Bonds and Five Constants, and believed that women who were too tall posed a challenge to their patriarchal authority, so they did not like them.

  How ignorant they are, don't they ever imagine how wonderful it feels to be wrapped around the waist by a pair of long and beautiful legs at night? You can find a radish legged dwarf pumpkin, touch it carelessly and slide from head to toe, or find half a piece of pork lying horizontally and achieve the same tactile effect, what romance is there to speak of?

  His loss is my gain, this feeling is quite good.

  Now Qin Kan's only concern is Xiaobao's combat power, and he doesn't know who she practiced martial arts with. Her lethality is quite terrifying. In the future, if they get into a fight, he might be able to emerge victorious, but after the fight, he will definitely be a tragic figure on his last breath...

  This woman still needs time to be trained, otherwise he would rather die than marry her into his family.

  Qin Kan narrowed his eyes and suddenly burst out laughing.

  He can guarantee that he won't mind the tall stature of Xiao Ba Po, hmm, not at all. Some poses can only be done by someone with a tall stature, I'll teach her later...

  In this era where one cannot become an official without a good reputation, wanting to make a name for oneself can only be achieved by getting rich. His understanding of the two words "make a name" was that after a year, he would earn enough money and then throw silver coins from the main gate of the prefecture's government office, throwing them at everyone until they reached Du Hong's face...

  If Du Hong hadn't despised him to death, marrying Xiaobaibai wouldn't be a big issue.

  Sitting in the inn room still thinking about getting rich quick, suddenly outside the inn there was a burst of people shouting and horses neighing.

  "The Brocade Guard has arrived!" someone downstairs cried out in terror, and there was a sudden scramble as people rushed about wildly, the scene descending into chaos.

  Then came the sound of footsteps creaking up the stairs.

  Qin Kan's eyes widened, the Brocade Guards? The legendary killers who could take a life without batting an eye, with agents everywhere? Were they here to arrest someone? Who was foolish enough to offend the Brocade Guards?

  He was really curious and wanted to go out and take a look at the legendary Jin Yiwei, but Qin Kan didn't dare to. He was a safety-first person who tried not to stir up unnecessary trouble, and in his eyes, the Jin Yiwei were undoubtedly big trouble.

  Although unwilling to provoke trouble, trouble still came knocking on the door.

  A gentle knock at the door came, and the soft, elegant voice was almost enough to move Qin Kan to tears.

  He had been living in this room for several months, and finally... someone visited him in a normal way.

  As he opened the door, Qin Kan was stunned, and his face couldn't help but turn pale.

  Outside the door stood several tall men, all wearing yellow flying fish brocade robes, with a long and slightly curved knife hanging from their waists, and black silk hats on their heads. The crowd's expression was cold and stern, their eyes gleaming like electricity, and at first glance, it was clear that they were not good people.

  Qin Kan was stunned for a long time, and big drops of cold sweat kept falling from his forehead.

  Brocade Guard!

  The Embroidered Uniform Guards have come knocking on the door, what crime has been committed? Is it worth mobilizing the Embroidered Uniform Guards to make an arrest?

  Except for beating up Xiao Gongzi recently, I've been very well-behaved myself.

  "You...... you guys......"

  A man in his thirties wearing a brocade robe stepped forward and bowed heavily with his fists clenched, saying in a deep voice: "Is your honorable self Qin Kan?"

  Qin Kan blinked his eyes and pointed upstairs: "You've got the wrong person, Qin Kan lives upstairs, my name is Tang Bohu..."

  The man in the brocade robe furrowed his brow and muttered, "Wasn't Qin Kan supposed to live on the second floor? Why did he move to the third floor?"

  Qin nodded slightly, and a group of far-from-benevolent guys turned around and thumped upstairs.

  Qin Kan's whole body was trembling as he quickly gathered a large bundle of silver in the room, then... flash!

  It's too scary, why did the Brocade Guards come looking for me? I've heard that their prisons are extremely brutal, and once you go in, there's no precedent for coming out alive. This place is not suitable to stay for long, first find a deep mountain and old forest to hide for a few days, then think of a way to cross the sea to Japan. Japan is currently in the Edo period, it's very dark, those little devils, wait for me, I'll come to wreak havoc on you...

  Just as he was about to slip away, a loud wail came from upstairs, like Tang Bohu killing a pig: "I'm not Qin Kan! Really not him! You've got the wrong person! I'm Tang Bohu, really! You have to believe me, I just write articles and poems, never provoked the Brocade Guards, Heaven, you're blind..."

  "Where is Qin Kan?" The man in brocade robes shouted sternly.

  "Downstairs..."

  "What's going on with the guy downstairs who just said you're Qin Kan?"

  "Huh?"

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  Carrying a bundle full of silver, Qin Kan felt wave after wave of pain. The bundle only had over 100 taels of silver in it; he could only carry that much. The remaining 800-900 taels were left scattered around the room, who knows which lucky bastard would get them... all hard-earned money...

  Sneaking down the stairs like a thief, the lobby of the inn was in disarray. The guests were huddled in one corner, shivering with fear. The shopkeeper and several apprentices knelt at the foot of the stairs, kowtowing repeatedly towards the stairs with a look of terror.

  The disaster of the Da Ming factory guard can be seen from this one instance.

  Qin Kan crouched down, his hands and feet barely making a sound as he walked out of the main hall. Just then, a black shadow descended from above, landing steadily and precisely in front of Qin Kan. It was none other than the leader, the brocade-robed big man, who had jumped down from the second floor window.

  Qin Kan almost collapsed to the ground, his face rapidly losing color, instantly filling with despair.

  The man in the brocade robe sized him up with a glance, didn't mention his escape, and merely nodded, saying: "So you're Qin Kan."

  He suddenly flashed a smile at Qin Kan, his fluffy big mouth revealing two rows of yellowed teeth, particularly frightening.

  "Qin Baihu, nice to meet you for the first time."

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