Qi Ning sent Mrs. Tian to Tian’s house. After Mrs. Tian got off the car, Qi Ning did not get off the car and smiled and said, "Madam, take a rest first when you go back. Don't think too much. I'll lend this carriage to go back first."
Mrs. Tian hurriedly ordered: "Dali, please send the Marquis back to the house."
The coachman agreed and was about to leave, when Mrs. Tian hurriedly said, "Wait a minute." He took off his outer robe and sent it over. Qi Ning took it over. Mrs. Tian hesitated for a while before asking, "Marty, will the Imperial Hospital forget it in the future?"
Qi Ning smiled and said, "Why, don't you want to do business in the Imperial Hospital?"
Along the way, Mrs. Tian had recovered from calmness, and her previous fear had disappeared a lot, saying, "If you have business, why don't you not do it? It's just that old pervert!" When she said this, her cheeks were slightly dizzy, and she said hatefully: "If you offended that old thing today, he will naturally not let us send medicinal materials again."
Qi Ning said: "The little Lang Cheng of the Doctrine of Pharmacy can control the Imperial Hospital, and his wife is overestimated. He offended his wife today, and the account is not over yet. The wife has been staying at home these few days. You can do all the medicinal materials you should prepare. In less than three days, she will keep them and send them to the Imperial Hospital."
Mrs. Tian was skeptical, but thinking about who Qi Ning was, since he said that, there was naturally no big problem.
Seeing the carriage leave, Mrs. Tian was filled with mixed feelings. If it weren't for Qi Ning standing up today, she wouldn't know how to deal with the situation at that time. Qi Ning, who was the noble of the brocade clothes, actually fell from the sky and rescued herself from the old pervert. Mrs. Tian was extremely grateful in her heart.
For any woman, having a man stand up to protect herself in the most dangerous time is enough to make her grateful for her for the rest of her life. Mrs. Tian’s situation is particularly special. She is a widowed woman, and there are many people who are drooling at her, but there are very few people who stand up in times of difficulty.
She was in a complicated mood and suddenly thought of the scene in the car before. She was held in Qi Ning's arms and her cheeks became slightly warmer again.
Qi Ning sat in the carriage and just held the outer robe in her hand. Although the outer robe was not covered with Mrs. Tian for a long time, it was stained with the fragrance of mature women on Mrs. Tian. This carriage was Mrs. Tian’s special carriage. Although she had already gotten off the car, the smell was still on the carriage and lingered on the tip of Qining’s nose.
At this moment, Qi Ning also thought of the feeling of hugging Mrs. Tian just now, and thought that this beautiful mature woman was really a beauty. Her plump and soft body was just a hug, which made people feel rippling. It seemed that she still didn't have much resistance to this mature and mature woman after all.
Back at the Hou Mansion, he drove away in a carriage. Qi Ning didn't see Gu Qinghan, thinking that since Gu Wen had sent someone to inform him, Gu Qinghan naturally knew that the Gu family's danger had been lifted and would not worry too much.
After returning, the gap between him and Gu Qinghan still did not disappear. Qi Ning knew that Gu Qinghan was very wary of him. Although he did have some thoughts about Gu Qinghan, he also knew that Gu Qinghan was really not easy to get close to him.
By the way, Gu Qinghan strictly adhered to the bottom line, but Qi Ning admired him even more.
But Gu Qinghan was close and distant, and he was very cold from time to time. This made Qi Ning feel a little uncomfortable after all, but he could understand it.
Qi Ning secretly pursued Gu Qinghan, so he naturally had no psychological burden. His Jinyi Hou is Li Dai Taozun, and he actually has no relationship with Gu Qinghan. Even if he really did something with Gu Qinghan, Qi Ning would not feel guilty. But he knew that Gu Qinghan thought he was the real Jinyi Hou, and the two were aunts and nephews. Of course, Gu Qinghan would not allow such a relationship to happen to something that shouldn't have happened.
Although many of the lives of the official class are corrupt and degenerate, and some unknown things happen and there are no scruples, Gu Qinghan is obviously not such a person.
Since Qi Ning knew that Gu Qinghan didn't want to get too close to her, she simply stopped taking the initiative and acted much less indifferently, so as not to feel that she was imaginative about her.
After he entered the mansion, he did not see Gu Qinghan or ask his servants. However, when General Manager Han saw Qi Ning coming back, he hurried over and said, "Mr. Liao, the accountant, has something to ask for a meeting."
"Mr. Liao?" Qi Ning never asked about the accountant of the Hou Mansion, and he didn't know that the accountant's surname was Wang and Li, so he asked, "What did he ask me for?"
Mr. Han said: "Mr. Liao knew that after the Marquis came back, he was going to come here in person, but the Marquis was very busy these two days. Mr. Liao did not dare to disturb him. He privately said to the old slave that if the Marquis had time, he would come over. He said that before the Marquis went to Xichuan, he told him to do something, and he had done it."
Qi Ning felt inexplicably confused and wondered when he asked the accountant to help him with his business? Gu Qinghan always took care of the accountant, and he never asked about it. He was puzzled and said, "You let him come over."
General Manager Han immediately stepped down. Not long after, an old man in his fifties wearing a black hat came into the hall, bowed and bowed, "Mr. Marquis!"
Qi Ning looked at it, had some impression, suddenly remembered it, got up and smiled, "Mr. Liao."
At this time, he had already thought that before he went to Xichuan, he really asked Mr. Liao to do an errand.
Zhuo Qingyang of Qionglin Academy was stabbed and his whereabouts were unknown. Before he disappeared, he left clues, allowing Qi Ning to find a piece of bamboo tube after the plaque, and found an extremely strange scroll from the bamboo tube.
The scroll was full of strange words, with three larger ancient characters at the left at the very top. Qi Ning seemed to read a heavenly book and couldn't read a word of the words on it.
He knew that the people in the account room were quite knowledgeable in the marquis's mansion, so he copied the three words and gave Mr. Liao a glimpse of one of them.
However, although Mr. Liao was not very knowledgeable, he could not recognize him at that time. Qi Ning only thought that this kind of ancient text was indeed rare, so he asked Mr. Liao to check it casually. After that, he went to Xichuan and put the matter down. He also secretly hid the scroll. Until today, he almost forgot that there was still this matter.
When I saw Mr. Liao, I immediately remembered it.
Mr. Liao said respectfully, "Mr. Marquis, I have done what you told me to do." He walked up and took out two pieces of paper from his sleeve. One was the one that Qi Ning asked him to identify the text that day, and the other was a new piece. Mr. Liao gave Qi Ning the piece first and said, "Mr. Marquis, this is the word you gave me to identify that day. I wonder if it's right?"
Qi Ning took it and saw that the text was simple and elegant, and the font was actually very beautiful, but it was extremely rare. He nodded and said, "Yes, this is the word."
Mr. Liao smiled and said, "After the Marquis left, the villain looked up all kinds of classics, but he never found this word. Not long ago, drinking with a few friends, and talking about calligraphy, one of them was a little proficient in ancient characters. I wrote this word for him to identify it, but he couldn't recognize it on the spot, but he took me to his house and found an ancient character book."
"Ancient characters?"
Mr. Liao nodded and said, "That is a hand-copied ancient character, which is extremely rare. According to him, the word Marquis is not an ordinary ancient character. If it were an ordinary ancient character, he could see the clue at a glance. The word Marquis is probably a secret shadow character that has long been extinct."
Qi Ning was very surprised and thought to himself what the word "Secret Shadow" is?
But he also knew very well that, as an important symbol of human cultural heritage, writing has gone through an extremely long and complex evolution process.
Although this world is different from the history he knows, in the history he knows, during the Warring States Period, the writings of different countries were very different. The same word was written in different ways.
There are obviously such periods in this world. Perhaps there were various kinds of writings in history, and many ancient writings slowly disappeared into history. The secret shadow word in front of you may be one of the ancient writings that disappeared.
"Where did this word "Secret Shadow" come from?" Qi Ning asked: "How long has it been?"
Mr. Liao explained: "Marty, the word "Secret Shadow" has not been widely circulated. According to my friend, the word "Secret Shadow" appeared less than two hundred years ago and was circulated for about twenty years, and then disappeared. In fact, the word "Secret Shadow" is not widely used, and only a very small number of people have used it."
"How do you say this?" Qi Ning became more and more strange.
Mr. Liao shook his head and said, "The clouds break the moon's shadow, duckweed sends autumn, Marquis, I wonder if you have ever heard of the name of this lay Buddhist Yingping?"
Qi Ning shook his head, and Mr. Liao said regretfully: "Mr. Yingping is a music master less than two hundred years ago. People's evaluation of this Mr. Yingping is divided into two parts. Some people say that he is the master with the deepest music accomplishments throughout the ages, and no one can match his music. But some people say that he is just a madman with a strange and gloomy voice, and there is no beauty that the music requires, and it is not worth mentioning."
Qi Ning immediately became interested and smiled and said, "There are such strange things."
"What's even more strange is that there is also legend that this lay Buddhist Yingping is not one person, but a group of people. These people are all called the lay Buddhist Yingping, and they are all like-minded strangers in music." Mr. Liao said: "There are many different opinions, and it is difficult to explain clearly now."
Qi Ning asked, "Have Mr. Liao listened to this music of Mr. Yingping?"
Mr. Liao hurriedly smiled and said, "Where do I have such luck? As far as I know, although Mr. Yingping is unparalleled in music, he has no musical score left behind. Legend has it that Mr. Yingping is unruly and never sticks to the rules. He travels all year round, either on the peaks and mountains or on the ocean. At that time, many dignitaries invited him to perform, but he never answered the call."
Qi Ning smiled and said, "This is an amazing person."
"So Mr. Yingping offended many people." Mr. Liao said: "Some people say he died in the end, while others say he traveled across the ocean and went to a very distant place. What was the result? We can only hear from others."
Chapter completed!