Chapter 967 967: Tea shop proprietress [asking for monthly ticket]
The craziest and most daring thing the landlady has ever done in her life is to run away from an engagement. She ran away from the engagement on the eve of her wedding after the family had made it. When she learned about the hastily finalized engagement, she strongly opposed it and burst into tears, hoping to take it back.
[If you don’t marry into the Gong family, who do you want to marry?]
Hope ignited in the despairing eyes of the landlady.
The name of Lan Yan’s confidant was revealed categorically.
Unexpectedly, the elders sneered at him.
[How can a romantic dandy who spends all his time in makeup and makeup protect you and be your husband? Not to mention, his father has offended Zheng Qiao to death, and a disaster will come soon!]
Only then did the proprietress know that her lover’s family belonged to the faction that was riding a wall in the court, and they would fall to whichever faction was more popular, which was despised by many scholar-bureaucrats. I think back then, before Zheng Qiao returned to the country, and she was favored by her, the lover’s family would
He was extremely flattering to Zheng Qiao.
After Zheng Qiao returned to China, he immediately changed his face.
He said a lot of curses to Zheng Qiao in public.
No one expected that Zheng Qiao would ascend the throne of the Geng Kingdom and bring back the best soldiers and generals of the Geng Kingdom. Those who offended him back then would naturally be liquidated. If the boss's wife married her lover, she might be implicated before the wedding even started.
, lost his life.
The landlady was unconvinced: [Is Gong Cheng your husband? I don’t even know him. You yourself have said that I will like whoever you marry in the future. Why go back on your word? I won’t marry!]
Ever since she was little, people around her have always been obedient to her. This sudden incident, ignoring her wishes, made the rebellious mood in her heart reach its peak. She did not want to marry Gong Cheng!
[No matter how bad it is, it’s thousands of times better than the one you picked! You have to marry even if you don’t want to marry. You are really going to piss us old people off to death...]
The elder's attitude is stern and his tone does not tolerate disobedience.
[You are not allowed to go anywhere, prepare well for your marriage! In the past, we were too pampered by you, and it is not your turn to make the decision in this matter!] Even when she was at the peak of her anger, the slap she raised did not really land on her face.
This simple wedding was almost done. The more the proprietress thought about it, the more panicked she became. She couldn't help but want to find her lover to discuss a plan, but on the way to find him, she found a group of soldiers and horses rampaging on the street. Their destination seemed to be in the direction of the lover's house.
?
The words of her elders suddenly appeared in her mind, and her hands and feet felt cold.
At night, when she was feeling sad, her lover appeared in embarrassment.
When Zheng Qiao sent people to search his house and arrest him, he happened to be visiting friends and escaped. His parents also replaced his identity with a boy of similar stature. This move is not foolproof, and he still needs to find a safe place as soon as possible.
. He was alone and desperate, and really didn't know who he could turn to to save his life. At a loss, he thought of Mrs. Shen and wanted to get shelter from her.
I took the risk to come over for a meeting, but unexpectedly found traces of happy events everywhere in Shen's house, and a wedding dress was placed in the boss's residence.
It is clear at a glance who wants to marry.
The two hugged each other and cried.
[I'm leaving, you have to take care of yourself. Gong Yunchi is a good match that I have met. You and I can only treat it as a missed opportunity.] This is just a way for him to play the emotional card and retreat in order to advance. In his heart, he hopes more.
Hidden in Shen's house, safe and sound.
Who would have expected that the landlady would be able to speak astonishingly.
A trace of determination flashed on her face!
[Let’s go together!] The landlady suddenly grabbed his arm as he was about to leave, her back molars trembled with excitement, [What’s the use of Gong Cheng no matter how good he is? It has nothing to do with me! I’ve never met Gong’s husband.
How many times have we met and spoken several times, why do we have to marry him? I will only marry the person I like in this life, and no one can force me. Let’s go together?]
The lover hesitated: [But your parents...]
She said: [Marry whoever you want!]
He hurriedly packed up his gold and silver and followed the other party to escape from the marriage.
She also knew in her heart that her behavior was inappropriate, but the elders in her family had always indulged her and took care of her no matter what trouble she got into.
Looking at the young man who was carefully absconding with her, her thoughts wandered - she didn't like this guy that much. In her inexperienced years, finding a blue-faced confidant was just to compete with others.
If she finds out that she is running away from marriage, even if her elders are angry at the time, they will forgive her after a while. If she uses a teenager to escape from marriage, she will apologize to him properly after the storm is over.
The young man's mind is simpler.
She holds a hostage in her hand. Even if she is caught after the Dongchuang incident, Shen will try her best to conceal her identity and protect his safety in order not to be held accountable by Zheng Qiao. The two of them set out on the road to escape from marriage with their own thoughts, but they received a message halfway
News about the Shen Yi tribe.
In an instant, it was like being struck by lightning.
All plans came to nothing.
I heard that not only the Shen family, but the Gong family also suffered.
He was arrested and imprisoned on Gong Cheng's wedding day.
Gong's ending was better than Shen's. She was just exiled and sent to a slave. If she survived the hardships on the road to distribution, she might still be alive.
The landlady guessed that a substitute bride had been found in the clan to cover her up, and while grieving, she also realized how much trouble she had caused. During that time, she was haunted and had thoughts of death several times. For some reason, the lover who took her to escape from the marriage did not give up.
Get off her.
【You still have me.】
The two of them went to seek refuge with distant relatives.
But there are wars everywhere and there are many dangers along the way.
Although my lover has some talent in cultivation, he is spoiled and cannot bear the hardships of cultivation. He has always been lazy when he can, and perfunctory when he can. His past victories were all deliberately let down by his opponents. The elders in the family doted on him and did not want him to go into battle to kill the enemy.
, to build a successful career, the weakness of strength will be weakness. Anyway, if the family has a big business, we don’t have to worry about the future.
Unfortunately, things didn't work out as planned, and the plans couldn't keep up with the changes.
Two half-grown teenagers with no experience in society, naive and naive, and shady fugitives, their lives hung by a thread several times and suffered a lot during their escape.
She didn't want to recall those experiences.
More than ten years have passed in circles.
These years are almost longer than her days in the boudoir.
Just when she thought her life was finally calming down, she unexpectedly met Gong Cheng. To be precise, Gong Cheng came looking for her and recognized her.
At that time, Gong Cheng didn't know her true identity, but he noticed that she only had a face that was 60-70% similar to the leader of Kang State, and that was how they initially interacted with her until they exchanged names.
They were both silent, looking at each other.
In terms of fate, the fate between the two of them is a bad one that cannot be explained away.
When Gong Cheng found out that she was the eldest lady of the Shen family who had escaped from marriage, he was in a calm mood and had no intention of killing her in anger.
Asked him why, Gong Cheng just sighed with relief: "You and I are both involuntary puppets. One puppet will kill the other puppet because he tried his best to break free from control? Although I, Gong Cheng, am not a gentleman, I can't help myself."
Not completely indifferent to right from wrong.]
【There is no point in embarrassing a woman.】
After going back and forth, the two of them became familiar with each other.
Gong Cheng would occasionally visit her tea shop.
Before, the official debt of Jinli County was not high, and he could come and go freely. Now that the relationship between Beimo Kang State is tense, he still goes his own way.
It can only be said that powerful people can do whatever they want.
The landlady rested for a while.
"You should be melancholy for now, I'll go out."
She stood up with her knees up, slinging the bamboo basket filled with incense and candles on her arm, as if to go out. Gong Cheng came here for the sake of purity, and when he borrowed someone else's land, he should always be concerned about the safety of his master's family.
"It's not safe outside at this juncture."
"It's not far away. I'll give the dead man a grave and come back. Your spy agents in the northern desert have been wiped out. I saw several familiar heads near the mass graves. The business of the tea shop has been deserted these days, so I just took the time to
He spent some money and left me alone."
Gong Cheng was silent for a moment: "Is it bothering you?"
After he met the landlady, he found out that she and his wife had a life-long commitment to that lover. Unfortunately, he died within two years of their marriage.
The landlady nodded and replied casually: "I have had night sweats and dreams lately, and I feel guilty. I often see dead men coming to disturb my purity. I thought he was underground and had no money to spend, so I burned some for him. After all, I was the one who killed him.
Yes, it is reasonable for me to burn some paper money for him if he gives me his life."
Gong Cheng was silent for a while: "That makes sense, I'll give it to you."
The landlady did not refuse.
Due to the tense relationship between the two countries, various places in Kunzhou have entered a state of war preparation, and even this small place has many strange faces.
Once the water is turbid, there will inevitably be bad people fishing in the muddy water. If Gong Cheng goes with him, he can really sit back and relax and be safe.
The dead man in question lives in a small graveyard.
The weeds on the grave have long been knee-deep.
Gong Cheng looked at her hands clasped together, kneeling in front of the grave with a pious expression, and his eyes moved to her hands - these hands had thick calluses from years of hard work, the skin was dry and rough from the wind, and the fingers had a stiff straightness.
The knuckles are deformed and look very inflexible at first glance. However, this is not the case when they peel human skin.
After the incense candle burned out, the landlady stood up.
On a country road, two people are walking in front of each other.
"This kind of tranquility doesn't come around very often."
Gong Cheng, who had been two steps behind, suddenly spoke.
Lady boss: "There is no long-term peaceful place in this world. Even if there is, they are just flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water. Just like the Kang country under our feet now, they are just short-lived."
Gong Cheng paused, and the proprietress in front of him walked a few more steps before she noticed that his breath was far away: "Is it wrong?"
She stood there and looked back at Gong Cheng.
Gong Cheng said: "It could have lasted longer."
How to get the national seal in the Northern Desert?
The person in front of me should know something inside.
If the Northern Desert did not have a national seal, they would not have the confidence to confront the rejuvenated Kang State. Based on the behavior of the Northern Desert for hundreds of years, they would honestly submit to the Kang State just like they had submitted to the northwest countries in the past.
"How long is it?" The landlady turned her head. Her face was less sharp and sharp, but more low-key and cold. "There's no need to look at me with such suspicious eyes. I didn't do anything. If you don't believe it, you can't believe it."
With such strength, it would be easy to kill me."
Gong Cheng: "..."
The landlady said: "You think highly of me too much."
After that, he left without looking back, and Gong Cheng followed.
When he was about to see the outline of the city gate, Gong Cheng asked the purpose of his trip: "Do you know why we can't contact the inner committee? Something happened?"
The landlady asked back: "When did you find out?"
Gong Cheng said: "A while ago."
The landlady suddenly revealed a charming smile.
"So, after so many years, you didn't try to contact the inner committee until a while ago? Then you found that the inner committee couldn't be contacted?"
Gong Cheng frowned: "No?"
"Okay, why not? Don't say you contacted me a while ago. Even if you contacted me ten years later or ten years ago, the result will be the same."
Gong Cheng heard something in the words and strode forward to block her path: "What do you mean... the inner meeting couldn't be contacted ten years ago? This is impossible. Before the annual meeting of the Gods Association, the inner meeting
All members are present, as well as the waiters in the chamber, there will be no falsehoods."
The landlady asked back: "Did you see the members of the inner circle coming in person?"
Gong Cheng pursed his lips and said nothing.
He probed: "A member of the inner chamber is dead?"
The landlady thought for a while, then shook her head and objected: "That's not true. If that can be considered a kind of job, well, it is indeed still alive."
Gong Cheng was about to breathe a sigh of relief, as if some kind of shackles were about to break away from him, but he heard the boss's wife add: "The external conference is much scarier than the internal conference. Instead of worrying about the internal conference, you should worry more about the external conference. After all, who is the one who provokes the power struggle?
Not a foreigner?"
The inner person is a shit stirrer, and the outer person is the shit stirrer.
Intuition told Gong Cheng that the other party was not lying.
This trip was destined to be fruitless, but Gong Cheng still refused to give up: "Gong is suspicious, what is Mrs. Shen's identity?"
This was a question that had puzzled him for a long time.
According to the investigation, from the time she was born to the time she escaped from marriage, she was an ordinary girl from an aristocratic family. What was special about her was that the head of the Shen family was particularly doting and pampering to this only daughter, and she responded to her every request.
This is not common in the Kang State today, let alone the Xin State at that time? It is a pity that the Shen family has been destroyed, and there is no way to investigate.
The landlady smiled and said: "When that person becomes the leader of a subjugated country and a prisoner in the Northern Desert, you will know by asking. Or if you become a defeated general and a prisoner of hers, you will get the same answer by asking again."
Gong Cheng shook his head: "No."
The man admitted that he had no past memories.
Gong Cheng believed that she was not lying.
I'm afraid that person doesn't know as much inside information as I do.
"I'm curious, what have you experienced these years?" If you can get clues, you can follow the clues to investigate.
The landlady replied simply: "Escaped from marriage, hid in Tibet, got married, opened a butcher shop to make a living, became a widow, and opened a tea shop after the butcher shop failed. All of these can be found, are you going to check?"
Gong Cheng: "..."
None of this is a secret.
He even knew what kind of meat the butcher shop sold.
These answers from the landlady were not what he expected.
When he was about to enter the city, Gong Cheng wanted to say goodbye and leave.
The proprietress raised her hand to tuck the fallen hair behind her ears, winked at her charmingly, and said with a sweet smile: "Don't contact me for a while. The imperial chariot is about to go on a personal expedition. There's no guarantee that you won't expose your whereabouts. You
It doesn't matter if you are surrounded and suppressed, don't involve me and I will be beaten as an accomplice. You can escape from prison without fear of death, but I am just a weak woman with no power to restrain a chicken, and the life of a pretty widow has not been enough."
Gong Cheng's mouth twitched: "Yeah."
"Because of the close relationship between you and me, let me tell you some information. Foreign aid will arrive in the Northern Desert in the near future."
Gong Cheng: "Foreign aid? Where do they come from?"
He said frankly: "I have not received any information."
The boss's wife said: "It's only normal that you haven't heard about it. A general like you runs out every three days without seeing anyone. Who should they keep if they don't keep it to you? I don't know where that person came from. I just know that he is a difficult person."
Role."
On the second day, tea guests came to the tea shop as usual.
But I saw that the tea shop was crowded with people watching the excitement.
Passing through the crowd, I saw the tea shop swaying this way and that, as if it was swept by a strong wind - the tea shop had been robbed, and the whereabouts of the proprietress was unknown.