Having known each other for so long, even knowing that Song Yinzhang has grown up compared to the first acquaintance, Zhou Ji still felt a bit of novelty and amazement when he saw her so mature, capable and vigorous.
"Ah ~ Zhou, Mr. Zhou"
Song Yinzhang dragged Du Changfeng who turned his head three times a step and refused to let him go back. When he walked to the bridge, he suddenly saw a familiar figure on the side of the crowd. He couldn't help but stop, and quickly let go of Du Changfeng's sleeve.
‘Hey hey hey~ It’s late at night, don’t catch cold in the water’
Du Changfeng loosened his sleeves, and then he noticed someone beside him. He looked back at Fu Zifang who crawled out of the river, thinking that he was Sanniang's flesh and blood after all, pursed his lips, and bowed to Zhou Ji with his hands, simply After saying hello, I hurried to the river.
"Young master. In fact" Song Yinzhang was afraid that Zhou Ji might misunderstand, and just wanted to explain that he was not as unkind as he seemed, but stopped in the middle of the sentence.
A generous and warm palm gently rested on her head, calming down all the uneasiness in her heart.
"I've seen it all." Zhou Ji sighed softly, slowly withdrew his palm, turned to look at Du Changfeng who took off his coat and put it on Fu Zifang, and said softly, "After all, I made you a villain."
Yukinoshita Yono asked Hikigaya Hachiman what is the most important element that can unite an organization.
Although Mr. Da pretended to be a 'ruthless leader', he and the Riddler both knew the answer: the common enemy.
Pulling in the relationship between people, the same is true.
Song Yinzhang watched the two of them get farther and farther away in the night market, and said softly: "If it weren't for this, how could Fu Zifang accept Du Fuzi and get along with him?"
Zhou Ji shook his head slightly, but didn't think so.
He has never minded using the darkest psychology to figure out human nature. In his opinion, Fu Zifang has no choice but to accept Du Fuzi rather than to weigh the pros and cons.
After all, his stepmother and biological father don't want to see him. If even Sanniang doesn't care about him, then he will really be homeless.
Nowadays, throwing up and down, and forcing her to death can't change Sanniang's mind. Even if Du Changfeng doesn't go to him, he will obediently go home and apologize to Sun Sanniang to admit his mistake.
But no matter what, from now on, Sun Sanniang will no longer dote on Fu Zifang as before, and Fu Zifang will not be able to manipulate Sun Sanniang with the affection of mother and child.
I hope that in the future, under the discipline of Du Changfeng and Sun Sanniang, I can go on the right path, and don't become those "young devils" who were indulged by their families and lost their conscience at the age of 13 or 14 that Zhou Ji saw in the news.
"Forget it, let's not talk about the 'big dutiful son', what's the situation with the 'big dutiful daughter'? I heard that she and Gu Qianfan have gotten into trouble recently, how is it now?" Zhou Ji waved his hand and walked around the stone bridge However, along the path by the river, go forward.
At first, Song Yinzhang didn't realize who the "big filial daughter" was talking about, but only then did he realize when he heard "she and Gu Qianfan" behind him, and couldn't help giving Zhou Ji a blank look, and said coquettishly, "Don't say that, Sister Paner, she .She's actually quite a nice person, um, really nice."
"A few days ago, Ouyang Xu asked someone to send a letter, trying to swindle money from Sister Pan'er and Fushi Gu. Sister Pan'er has already tried to stabilize him until Ouyang Xu's external order is released. , there will be no problem." Song Yinzhang suddenly remembered something, and said mysteriously, "By the way, Sister Pan'er is now moving to the ancestral house of the Gu family. What~!"
"So fast?" Zhou Ji asked in surprise.
Song Yinzhang slowed down, looked at the lights reflected on the river, and said with emotion, "Yes, Sanniang and I were also surprised, but Sister Pan'er said that she and Fushi Gu finally got together after going through twists and turns. Go on, it won't be good if something happens again. Recently, many troubles have collided, and getting married as soon as possible can still be full of joy."
After listening to Song Yinzhang's explanation, Zhou Ji roughly estimated the time, and hesitated: "The Mid-Autumn Festival is less than five days away. It is indeed a beautiful thing to get married in time for the Mid-Autumn Festival, but the time is still too close, and the wedding process is cumbersome." Da'cough, isn't Miss Pan'er all she wants to be that the matchmaker is marrying in a palanquin and have a very grand wedding, so that she can marry into the Scholars' Mansion in a splendid way? I'm afraid five days is too late to prepare, right?"
"I'll get angry if you do this again~!" Song Yinzhang pursed his mouth and glared at Zhou Ji, longingly said, "Sister Pan'er doesn't care about these superficial things long ago, as long as she signs a marriage contract with the government, even if everything is kept simple, Putting on two or three tables of wedding banquets, and receiving sincere wedding blessings from relatives and friends, she will be satisfied."
"So impatient?"
Zhou Ji frowned slightly, he seemed to have guessed something with a dark mind, and tentatively said: "Then the package of relatives, friends and guests in her mouth does not include her father's old department who ran around to buy relationships and pleaded with the prefect to save her from Jiaofang?"
At the beginning, in order to save the Song people who were looted and slaughtered by the Liao army, Zhao Paner's father opened the door to kill the Liao army, saved thousands of people, and finally died at the hands of traitors.
The old bustard in Leying escaped from the North, and she deeply felt Zhao Qian's righteousness, so she allowed Zhao Pan'er to hide her clumsiness, not only did not whip her to the lowest outside camp to pick up guests, but also sent her to a relatively safe and hidden rear accountant to find her. Someone taught her to calculate accounts. (Note)
And her father's old department was also moved by Zhao Dushi's righteous deed, and it took a lot of hard work to help Zhao Pan'er get out of citizenship.
If they knew that Zhao Pan'er insisted on marrying the son of the treacherous official who murdered Zhao Dushi, they would be so angry that they would vomit blood and smash their heads to death in front of her father's grave!
"Should. Probably include it?" Song Yinzhang looked complicated, and said with difficulty, "It is extremely difficult for official prostitutes to get out of their nationality. They cannot redeem themselves, they are not named by the official, and they are not subject to amnesty. At the beginning, the old Ministry of Zhao Dushi spent all his money to buy Qiantang. The prefect, in the name of an amnesty, helped Sister Pan'er get out of citizenship. Logically speaking, Sister Pan'er has to tell them when she gets married."
Zhou Ji let out a long sigh, and said with a gloomy expression: "Ah~ I don't know if her parents know that the coffin board can still be pressed down."
After last night's crisis public relations, the business of Yong'an Building became more prosperous than before, and Pan Lou and the other shopkeepers of the restaurant guild were intimidated by Song Yinzhang, and they became more restrained.
Everything seems to be getting better and better, and the wedding date of Zhao Pan'er and Gu Qianfan is approaching.
Gu Qianfan slashed his wrist to repay the blood that night, and had already severed ties with Xiao Qinyan. In addition, he was born in the Imperial City Department. Apart from Chen Lian and his best friend Wan Qi who was killed by his own hands, he had no friends.
Zhao Pan'er's situation is better than his. Needless to say, Zhou Ji and others, as well as Du Changfeng, Chi Yanei, and Zhang Haohao, together they can barely make up two seats.
Surprisingly, Xiao Qinyan was not present on the wedding day, but Xiao Wei, who had conflicts with Zhao Paner and Gu Qianfan before, came uninvited.
Although this kid has great ambition and lack of talent, he is different from his father Xiao Qinyan in that he is not an outright bad person in essence.
After experiencing the accident on the night boat last time, when Gu Qianfan was injured by a sword, he was deeply moved, and he no longer rejected his half-brother. It was his own idea to come to the wedding this time, and he didn't tell his father.
When the wedding started, Zhou Ji glanced across the banquet, but he did not see Zhao Qian's former team.
Maybe it's because time is too tight, Miss Pan'er has no time to notify each one, right?
Song Yinzhang saw Zhou Ji's strange expression, he seemed to be muttering something, as if he understood immediately, he glanced at him reproachfully, picked up the jug across the red sunflower next to him, got up and poured a glass of wine for Zhou Ji, "Master, I heard Young Master is not good at drinking, this is Baihua Niang specially sent from the south of the Yangtze River, it is fresh and refreshing, with a soft aroma, Young Master, why not try it?"
"Miss Yinzhang has a heart." Zhou Ji came back to his senses, raised his eyes to look at Song Yinzhang's eyes, saw the flash of reproach in her eyes, smiled casually, returned a clear look, and took the wine cup from her hand , gulp it down.
bang~
A firecracker sounded, and Gu Qianfan, who was dressed as a groom, came out from the outside, leading Zhao Pan'er, who was wearing a phoenix crown and xiabei.
Gu Qianfan’s adoptive parents are both deceased. One of Zhao Pan’er’s parents died on the **** road, and the other died in a brothel. Probably out of some considerations, neither side displayed the memorial tablets of their parents.
The two of them just worshiped the heaven and the earth in front of everyone, the second worshiped the court, the husband and wife worshiped each other, and they were officially married.
Now Zhao Pan'er finally got what she wanted, and became a famous Jinshi wife.
Gu Qianfan is a fifth-rank official, still a Beijing official, several ranks higher than her father's commander of the capital.
However, before Mrs. Gu Zhao could enjoy the glory of Jinshi's wife, some officials in the court impeached Gu Qianfan for not distinguishing between scholars and ordinary people. Marrying a merchant woman is out of class. It is inhumane for a wife to bully and dominate the market and compete with the people for profit.
So Zhao Pan'er approached Song Yinzhang again, and wanted Song Yinzhang to continue managing Yong'an Building, so that she could get out of it and be the boss behind the scenes.
Three generations of Song Yinzhang’s family have been musicians. Even though she wanted to quit her nationality, she did not dislike the fact that pipa has become an indispensable part of her life since she was a child.
At the same time, she is not very interested in running the restaurant. The previous equity in Yong'an Building has been transferred to Gu Qianfan and Zhao Pan'er as part of the money, which can be regarded as repaying Zhao Paner for taking care of her from Qiantang Jiaofang to now.
Zhao Pan'er heard that she wanted to focus more on the troupe, tried to persuade her to no avail, and said in a deep voice: "San Niang is usually in charge of the back kitchen, if you don't take care of the shopkeeper, then you can only ask I'm recruiting."
Song Yinzhang frowned slightly, and looked at Zhao Pan'er in disbelief. Seeing that she didn't look like she was joking, she lowered her head in silence for a moment, then smiled in relief, and said casually: "Zhaodi is a clever person, good at observing words and expressions, and usually runs inside and outside the restaurant. It’s also suitable to be a shopkeeper.”
"You don't care?" Zhao Pan'er hesitated.
"What do I care about? I care about recruiting the younger brother to seek benevolence and gain benevolence, and finally get the position?" Song Yinzhang looked calm and smiled, "It's all over, there is nothing to care about."
Whilst speaking, Gu Qianfan strode into the courtyard with a vague expression on his face.
Zhao Pan'er noticed something strange and hurriedly asked why.
Gu Qianfan's face was sinking like water: "After Ouyang Xu was transferred to Xinzhou General Judge, he left Beijing yesterday to take up his post. The merchant ship he was on was suddenly attacked by bandits on the canal last night and died."
Zhao Pan'er and Song Yinzhang looked at each other in disbelief, then looked at Gu Qianfan and said, "Who moved the hand?"
Gu Qianfan has been dealing with the impeachment of officials all day long these days, and he has already been battered. He rubbed his brows with a little tiredness, and said in a deep voice: "I'm already investigating, but I feel that this matter is not easy."
At this moment, another series of rapid bangs came from outside. Gu Qianfan turned his head to look, and a group of guards with knives broke into the door. The leading officer walked up to the three of them, looking at Gu Qianfan said: "Gu Qianfan, the envoy of the imperial city? I'm the Marquis of Yu Zhang Yun, the commander of the infantry and guards."
"I don't know what to do?" Gu Qianfan had a vague premonition in his heart.
"By order, I invite Gu Huangcheng to Busi Prison for investigation!" Zhang Yun's eyes were indifferent, and his tone and expression without fluctuation were more like "grab" than "please".
Obviously just became the wife of Jinshi, but such a sudden change happened,
Zhao Pan'er's complexion changed suddenly, and he took a few steps forward and softly called Gu Qianfan's name.
Gu Qianfan patted the back of Zhao Pan'er's hand lightly, and comforted him: "Don't be impatient, don't worry, I'll go back as soon as I go."
Seeing that Gu Qianfan was taken away by Zhang Yun, Zhao Paner hurriedly asked Song Yinzhang to find Chen Lian to find out what happened.
Through Chen Lian's analysis, Zhao Pan'er guessed that the officials mistook Gu Qianfan for an alliance with the Houdang and ordered her to lie about the night banquet picture in front of the officials.
Combined with what Du Changfeng saw when he visited Gu Qianfan, Zhao Paner thought about it, and there was only one person who could save Gu Qianfan.
So she asked Chen Lian to help her get through the relationship, and went to Xiao Mansion alone, and met Xiao Qinyan, the culprit who ruined her family.
Knowing that Xiao Qinyan has been working hard to repair his father-son relationship with Gu Qianfan, knowing that Xiao Qinyan dotes on Gu Qianfan even more than his eldest son Xiao Wei.
In order to let Xiao Qinyan save Gu Qianfan, Zhao Pan'er did not hesitate to kneel and kowtow to her **** enemy.
Begging Gu Qianfan's biological father to save Gu Qianfan.
Xiao Wei, who was hiding outside the door and eavesdropping, was in a daze the whole time.
As the son of Xiao Qinyan, the eldest son of the Xiao family, he knows his father better than anyone else.
Xiao Qinyan's father-son love for Gu Qianfan is just talking in front of power. If he has no other choice, he will choose power without hesitation and abandon Gu Qianfan.
It seems that Xiao Qinyan is smiling and comforting Zhao Pan'er now, but in fact, he is already planning **** Zhao Pan'er and put it on Qingliu Qimu's group to remove his suspicion.
After Zhao Paner left, Xiao Wei found her and told the truth, and Zhao Paner realized how terrible this old monster was.
As far as she is concerned, there is only one person who can help her break the situation, and that is Ouyang Xu.
Zhao Pan'er went to the study to find Ouyang Xu who had cheated on his death. Now he has nowhere to go, so he can only rely on the queen to win the last sliver of life.
(Thanks to '1504******1186' for the reward of 100 coins.)
(Has Zhao Paner’s innocence come back now? The procuress was deeply moved by righteousness, so keeping her innocence, hiding in the account room, and not allowing her to pick up customers logically makes perfect sense.)