Mu Yan reached out his hand out of nowhere and gently brushed it away.
Both of them were stunned. Their eyes met.
Huo Xi turned her head away first. Mu Yan didn't and looked straight at her.
Huo Xi's face felt a little hot and she felt the atmosphere was a little awkward.
"I never knew that it was you who saved me many years ago. If not, Nian'er and I... wouldn't know where we are at this moment."
The cruise ship swayed, cutting through the lake water, making ripples, just like her restless heart.
"Does this count as me saving you?"
Huo Xi looked at him and nodded blankly: "Forget it."
"Then, do you want to pledge yourself to me?" Mu Yan said in a serious tone.
Huo Xi's eyes widened. She couldn't rest during this period. Was she hallucinating? "I saved you too." More than once, it was even.
Mu Yan nodded, "I remember. So, should we commit ourselves to each other?"
ha?
Seeing that her eyes were so wide, Mu Yan felt that his face was burning, and he stretched out his big palm to cover her face.
Huo Xi didn't respond for a moment, and her eyesight went dark. When she realized what she was doing, she angrily pushed his palm away, "Do you think marriage is a child's play?"
Mu Yan shook his head: "No. I never thought it was child's play. I am willing to wait for the person of my heart. If we match each other, I will be filled with joy. I will devote my whole body and soul to it. I only want to go to the morning and evening with her and enjoy the sun, moon and stars together. If If I don’t like it, I would rather be alone and have nothing to worry about.”
Huo Xi stared at him blankly, not knowing how to react.
After a long time, "Then you have found someone who is compatible with you, right?"
Mu Yan looked at her steadily, his eyes extremely sincere. When Huo Xi felt that she couldn't bear such a gaze, she suddenly heard him say: "Are you stupid?"
Huo Xi jumped up: "You are stupid!"
Mu Yan turned his head and slightly twitched the corners of his mouth. He was really stupid.
From the corner of his eye, he saw how angry she was, her tears had been dried by the wind, and she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
"I will keep an eye on the Wu family and the Wu family. It's the end of the year. It's time for you to do your accounts and meet with the shopkeeper. I won't let them harass you. You don't have to worry about the people in the dark pavilion. This is the capital. , Jin Yiwei is everywhere, Ange just wants to make money, and doesn’t want to be taken over by others.”
He looked at her and said, "Don't worry. I have everything."
Seeing that he had returned to his serious look, Huo Xi didn't know that what he just said was true and he was just making her happy.
A heart, like a lake rippled by the wind, with layers of ripples, gently and shallowly like feathers, plucking at her heartstrings.
"I understand." He bowed his head and responded.
Zhang Fu was in the Yamen that day, feeling restless and making frequent mistakes.
But he was the governor of the Chinese Army Dudu Mansion, and there were many people working for him. He didn't need to worry about everything. He sat blankly on the chair and thought about Nian'er's sister. She yelled at him and treated him with a face. Disappointment, looking at him with complicated eyes...
Zhang Fu doesn't know how to describe it. Now that he thinks about her look in his eyes and is affected by her emotions, he feels a little sad?
Zhang Fu couldn't explain clearly.
Huo Nian's sister, he didn't even say a word to her, why did she look at him with such complicated eyes?
She also sent people to arrest Wu Youcai. Everyone in the capital knew that Wu Youcai was his brother-in-law, but she was full of disdain, saying that he was just the brother of a concubine, and that the Wu family was not a serious relative of the Zhang family.
Is it too courageous, or is there another reason? Would an ordinary family dare to confront the Duke's government?
Wu Youcai was looking for Ange, why did he look for a 16-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy?
Zhang Jin suddenly appeared, interrupting his train of thought.
"My lord, Wu Youcai actually went to Ange and spent a lot of money to find out which family in the capital has a sixteen-year-old girl and a ten-year-old boy, and they were registered in the household registration in the fourth year of Jianwen."
"You were registered in the household registration in the fourth year of Jianwen?"
"yes."
What's the reason for this?
"The secret pavilion explained that they also found Jiangning and Huo Nian's hometown. According to Huo Nian's grandmother, his sister was adopted, and she was not sure whether Huo Nian was adopted. She said that Huo Nian's sister and brother returned to their hometown.
Not many times.”
"Huo Nian's sister was adopted?"
Zhang Fu was a little surprised. "Huo Nian and his sister look very similar. It's impossible for one to adopt a biological child, right?" Could it be that both of them are adopted?
Zhang Fu was stunned. What does the two adopted children have to do with Wu Youcai? Why did the Wu family want to investigate them?
Zhang Jin was also surprised to hear that the two children might have been adopted by the Huo family.
"According to the information from the Ange people, Wu Youcai also went to Songjiang County and tracked down a business. However, it was said that the owner behind the business was related to Langguang Pavilion, so they did not take action."
"Langguang Pavilion? Who is the master behind Langguang Pavilion?"
Zhang Jin shook his head, "Langguang Pavilion opened in the capital just a few years ago, but no one knows who the master behind it is. It's mysterious. Langguang Pavilion also started a maritime trade business and shipped large quantities of grain to border customs.
The frontier army exchanged salt for the salt, and made a lot of money in the salt business. They were also willing to spend money on it. Many people wanted to know the owner behind it, but they found nothing."
Zhang Fu frowned, "Are you saying that Langguang Pavilion is related to Huo Nian's sister? Only Wu Youcai investigated her?"
Thinking that Wu Youcai was in the shipping department and Langguang Pavilion was doing maritime trade, could they be investigating smuggling? But what does it have to do with a sixteen-year-old girl and a ten-year-old boy?
Zhang Jin glanced at Zhang Fu, thought for a while, and said: "My lord, I heard that the incident was caused by a young woman coming to see Madam, so Madam asked the Wu family to investigate."
"A little woman goes to see Madame? Who is she?"
"I don't know." Zhang Jin is just a slave of the Zhang family. How dare he ask the Duke's wife?
However, the fourth year of Jianwen? Is there any connection there?
In the fourth year of Jianwen, the government and the public were in turmoil. Many people died in the capital, and almost everyone in the capital was changed. Even the first wife of the Duke, Mrs. Li, and the eldest lady were gone.
Huh? Something flashed through Zhang Jin's mind quickly, but it was so fast that he couldn't catch it for a while.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Fu asked him.
Zhang Jin thought about it again, but his head was empty and he shook his head.
"Should I ask your wife about this matter? If there is any misunderstanding, it is best to clear it up. It would be bad if it is because the master wants to accept a disciple and the wife misunderstands that the master wants to pass on the mantle or something, which will cause a misunderstanding."
is that so?
In order for him to accept a disciple, he was looking for someone to inquire about him? He was looking for people all over the capital? Zhang Fu's instinct was not. But if he was asked to explain why the Wu family acted like this, he couldn't figure it out for a while.
"You and Zhang Liang and Zhang Dong will keep an eye on this matter personally. If anything happens, report it in time."
"Yes." After Zhang Jin responded, he remembered that his two sons were still staring at the eldest young master of the Mu family, and asked: "Do you still want to keep an eye on the eldest young master of the Mu family?"