When Cheng Jiaoniang's carriage stopped in front of the door, Saturday Lang Qin Shisanlang, who had been waiting for a long time, hurried over.
"Where have you been?" Zhou Lang asked, looking at Cheng Jiaoniang who got off the car.
"Are you sick?" Cheng Jiaoniang asked.
Saturday Lang stared.
"You're the one who's sick!" he said.
Cheng Jiaoniang glanced at him.
"You're not sick. Why are you looking for me?" she asked.
This woman has nothing serious to say when she sees him!
"It's not about your marriage." Zhou Lang said angrily.
While they were talking, they had already entered the door. Cheng Jiaoniang went straight to the hall, followed by Qin Shisanlang and Liu Liulang naturally.
"Sister." Brother Jin said, looking at the maid and Banqin, he was startled, "Are you crying?"
The maid and Banqin raised their hands to wipe away their tears.
"What happened?" Brother Jin asked in surprise.
"We'll talk about it later," the maid said, "Go and serve the lady first."
"...My mother has agreed, and she will send someone to Jiangzhou soon..." Qin Shisanlang said, "...I couldn't find a suitable one for a while, so I will use mine first...at least to hold off your family and the Wang family first.
marriage."
"...Don't worry, my father also agreed." Saturday Lang said with a sullen face.
"Do you have a suitable one at home?" Qin Shisanlang asked, smiling, "It won't be you again, right?"
"What's wrong with me?" Zhou Lang said through gritted teeth, "Anyway, it's not you who said it. Let's hold off first."
As he said this, he looked at the woman from the corner of his eye.
She has not spoken since she came in. She is leaning on the table now, changing from her usual upright posture.
This is the kind of relaxation that can only be found in the presence of people you know well.
Is it because she feels that someone can help her and care about her, so she feels relaxed...
The maid pushed tea over and blocked Liu Lang's sight.
"...I have already thought of several families." Qin Shisanlang said, "My sisters have already chosen many families for marriage."
"..Who are the people who are willing to marry into your family? Do you think they listen to you like your mother?" Zhou Lang said with a snort.
"...Although they don't listen to me as well as my mother, it's because I'm not worthy in their eyes, but my wife is." Qin Shisanlang said.
Saturday Lang scoffed.
"It's useless to be nice and obedient," he said.
"I also thought of something. When I have chosen someone, how about I show it to you first?" Qin Shisanlang said.
Cheng Jiaoniang suddenly sat upright.
"Banqin." She said.
The maid who had just served the tea and stepped aside quickly answered yes.
"Let Banqin bring some snacks," Cheng Jiaoniang said.
Taipingju’s tea snacks, Taipingju’s plaque, and Taiping tofu are the three treasures of Taiping that people today refer to Taipingju.
In the eyes of outsiders, these three treasures have different origins. They belong to the good cook who was invited, the Taoist priest who can make tofu, and the calligraphy treasure from the scribe.
But Qin Shisanlang and Zhou Liulang naturally knew that these three treasures were actually made by the same person.
I have been here several times and I can drink tea every time, but this is the first time I have snacks.
"Thank you, madam." Qin Shisanlang smiled.
The maid responded and left.
"...I know your lady's intention, let the Cheng family choose, and then you make the final choice." Qin Shisanlang continued.
Cheng Jiaoniang shook her head.
"No," she said, "The reason why I let them choose is to save me the trouble. I don't need to worry about such trivial matters."
"How can this be a trivial matter?" Zhou Lang frowned and said, "A major event in a lifetime."
"This is a lifetime event for you." Cheng Jiaoniang said.
Saturday Lang frowned and was about to speak, when Banqin came in with some snacks.
"My wife's snacks are best paired with tea." Qin Shisanlang said, stretching out his hand.
"Pretend it up." Cheng Jiaoniang said.
Banqin was stunned for a moment, and Qin Shisanlang also stopped.
"Put it on and take it away to eat." Cheng Jiaoniang said, looking at the two of them, "I have something else to do, so I won't play with you."
Qin Shisanlang took back his hand and looked at Cheng Jiaoniang thoughtfully.
"Cheng Jiaoniang, who is playing with whom?" Zhou Lang said with a glare.
"Don't you know it yourself?" Cheng Jiaoniang looked at him and said, "Okay, go, go, I have something else to do, you can go back."
On the other hand, he pointed at the snacks that Banqin had already wrapped.
"You can take these and eat them. Thank you for your kindness. Go play somewhere else," she said.
Qin Shisanlang and Zhou Zuorang looked at her blankly, and then looked at the snacks handed to them.
"Okay, okay... let's play with the candy..."
"Okay, so good..."
They seemed to be back when they were children, being teased and teased by the adults in the family who laughed and gave them handfuls of candies.
At this moment, they stood here helpless, with the fire of shame rising from their feet to their heads, their faces burning red.
I have long said that this woman has the most venomous tongue!
The street door slammed shut.
"Marry whoever you want to marry!" Zhou Lang shouted.
Qin Shisanlang smiled.
"She would marry whoever she wanted," he said. "It was how we wanted her to be, not what she wanted."
Saturday Lang turned to look at him and saw that he was still holding a box of snacks in his hand, and became even more angry.
"I told you to take it and you took it!" he said, reaching out to grab it.
Qin Shisanlang hurriedly ducked away.
"If you don't want to take it, don't come and steal it from me," he said.
Zhou Lang raised his hand and punched him.
"Do you feel good about being teased like this?" he shouted.
Qin Shisanlang smiled and carefully picked up the snack box.
"Actually, it's not that we are being tricked by her, it's that we are tricking ourselves." He said, turning around and taking a step forward, "She said that after she recovered, people are a little different. It's been so long now, and it's time for me to return to normal."
"We are not doing it for her..." Zhou Lang said.
"I don't know if you are." Qin Shisanlang stopped and turned around and said, "I'm not. I know her, I've benefited from her, I feel like I know her well, I feel like I'm her friend, and I feel like I should help her.
, I feel that I can help her, and if I help her, I can get her gratitude and love. Therefore, I am not helping her, but myself. It is to satisfy my self-righteous kindness. I used to laugh at people and always move myself.
Unexpectedly, I am now better and a normal person, and I have also committed this problem."
Liu Lang stopped and looked at him.
Qin Shisanlang breathed out, threw the box in his hand, and held it tightly in his hand again.
"Okay, even though I admit that I am not cruel in her eyes, I can't really be pestering her like a child." He said with a smile, "Let's go."
As expected, he slowly climbed into the carriage, lowered the curtain, and the carriage creaked away. Liu Lang stood still and did not move.
He looked back at the closed door of the house, stretched out his hand to whistle, and the horse that was gnawing on a willow tree came over immediately.
Gone.
Zhou Lang got on his horse and galloped away.
Cheng Jiaoniang's hall was quiet as usual. The maid and Banqin carefully packed away the tea sets and trays and exited, sitting on the corridor in a daze.
"What happened?"
Brother Jin, who had been waiting impatiently, hurried over and asked in a low voice.
It's okay if I don't say it, but when I say it Banqin can't help crying.
"The men were caught," she said.
Brother Jin was shocked.
"Why?" he shouted.
"Because they are deserters," the maid said, "and have been put in prison."
The prison is a very scary place for Brother Jin. The last time Xu Maoxiu and others came out of the cell, he was shocked by the injuries on their bodies. This was because Qin Langjun had said hello behind his back to protect him.
"Well, Qin Langjun was here just now, so my wife forgot to ask him for help!" Brother Jin thought of something and said hurriedly.
The maid and Banqin looked at each other.
Cheng Jiaoniang didn't say anything along the way. When she went to Shenxianju, she just asked shopkeeper Wu about the process of Xu Maoxiu's arrest.
"Actually, this matter is nothing." The maid said, "It is not a big matter of murder and arson. Besides, it is so far away and it is not fleeing in front of the battle. The princes are not important ministers or famous generals. They are just small soldiers who committed some fights.
If you run away, you don’t have to worry about the adults in the court. When the time comes, you can find someone to say hello and you’ll be fine.”
Banqin and Brother Jin looked at her.
"Really?" they asked in unison, with hope.
The maid nodded.
"Really," she said, "this small matter can be handled by Liu Lang alone. This matter is simply incomparable with Liu Xiaoli's matter..."
Before she finished speaking, Cheng Jiaoniang's voice came from the room.
"Look, the lady has already thought of a countermeasure." The maid whispered, getting up and going in.
Banqin and Brother Jin were also busy guarding the door.
"You go out." Cheng Jiaoniang said.
"Yes." The maid said, "Should I talk to my uncle directly, or should I talk to the Sixth Young Master?"
"I'm going to see my uncle." Cheng Jiaoniang said, "How about you go and see if your old man is back?"
Want to see Mrs. Zhang again?
The maidservant's eyes widened immediately and she knelt straight up.
It’s actually reached the point of using Mrs. Zhang?
In the past, when we encountered all kinds of difficulties, we never talked about going to see Mr. Zhang. Now, for this small matter of desertion, Mr. Zhang is actually needed?
Then this matter turns out to be not that simple? (To be continued)
