"Why did you just rush into the house without asking any questions?"
In the Qian family compound, in front of the gate, the guard guarding the gate scolded and stopped a woman wearing a rough shirt.
The woman looked flustered. She came from the west street and went straight to the door without asking any questions. She seemed to be very anxious about something and wanted to find someone in the house.
"Ah, sorry, I'm sorry."
"I'm so rude to you."
The woman was stopped by the guards. While she was frightened, she also realized that she had indeed been rude and took a few steps back in a hurry.
She calmed down her panic and bowed respectfully: "Ms. Qian Wang from the slave family came to the house to see Second Master Qian to report something extremely urgent."
This woman is Qian Ruoyun's mother, Qian Wang.
Qian Ruoyun left home in a hurry the night before yesterday, which made her uneasy all the time, and Qian Ruoyun never returned home yesterday, making her even more uneasy.
She lay in bed tossing and turning in bed last night, and finally fell asleep just before dawn. However, before she could sleep for half an hour, she was awakened by a nightmare.
She dreamed that Qian Ruoyun was against her eldest son Qian Ruohong, and was eventually beaten to death by a slave sent by Qian Ruohong.
After waking up with a start, she saw that it was already bright outside the window. She would definitely not be able to fall asleep if she continued to sleep, so she simply got dressed and got up.
However, I was alone in the room, and the more I waited, the more anxious I became, and the more I waited, the more panicked I became. Finally, I couldn’t wait any longer, so I came out of the house and walked to the alley to wait.
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But she suddenly discovered a pool of dried blood on the ground at the entrance of the alley.
It was what Qian Ruoyun had vomited that night, and it had been mostly covered up by the dust on the street.
She didn't know whether it was because of her uneasiness, or because she sensed something from somewhere, but Qian Wang stared at the pool of dried blood. Suddenly her face turned pale and her eyes felt dizzy. She felt that the pool of blood was left by her son Qian Ruoyun.
Thinking back to the nightmare in the morning, she paralyzed on the ground in fear, and it took a while to regain her composure.
She was eager to find her son, but looking at the criss-crossing streets in the distance, she didn't know where to look, so she found the Qian Mansion in a panic and asked Qian Tongtong to help find Qian Ruoyun.
After hearing what Qian Wang said, the guard couldn't help but frown.
He didn't know Qian Wang and had never heard of this person, so he asked tentatively: "Are you the second master Qian?"
"Concubine." Qian Wang replied.
After hearing this, the guard frowned deeper and said: "This is the main courtyard of the Qian family. You are not allowed to come without the master's summons. Even if you are summoned by the master, you cannot enter the mansion through the gate."
"The slave family does have something urgent to report to the second master. Please tell me if you can help me. I would be very grateful." Mrs. Qian Wang pleaded.
The guard shook his head and said: "It's not that I won't inform you, but Mr. Qian went out early in the morning and hasn't come back yet, so you might as well invite him back. If you are attacked by the housekeeper or the ladies in the mansion,
If we see you causing trouble in front of the door, we will give you a hard time."
Mrs. Qian Wang is not a stupid woman who doesn't understand anything. She knows what the guard said is right. Rich families want face most. If the big shots in the palace find out that an unknown concubine of hers is causing trouble in front of the door, they will definitely send their slaves to drive her away.
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Her thoughts suddenly changed, and she had an idea in her mind, and said: "The slave's bastard is called Qian Ruoyun. Do the two poor men know each other?"
When the guard heard Qian Ruoyun's name, he immediately showed a look of respect on his face and said politely: "It turns out she is Young Master Ruoyun's young lady. I'm disrespectful. But... you still can't go in, for Young Master Ruoyun's sake."
, please don’t make it difficult for us.”
"Have you seen this bitch in the past two days?" Qian Wang asked.
"I've never seen it before, you-" the guard shook his head and replied.
As he was speaking, his expression suddenly changed, and he lowered his voice and said urgently: "Go quickly, the second master's eldest wife is back. If she meets you here, you will be dead. Go west, quickly!"
A carriage drove up from the east side of the street. It was the car of Qian Li, the first wife of Qian Tongtong.
When Qian Wang heard this, her face turned pale with fright. She didn't dare to stay in front of the door any longer, and hurried away towards the west.
"Who is that woman?"
The carriage stopped in front of the door. Mrs. Qian Li got off the carriage and looked at the back of Mrs. Qian Wang as she hurried away and asked with a frown.
"Madam, I'm asking for directions."
The guard replied.
Mrs. Qian Li nodded without any doubt and entered the house with the help of her maid.
"fine."
The guard couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief after Qian Li entered.
Because if Qian Li knew that Qian Wang had come to visit him, and he didn't chase him away immediately, he would definitely be punished.
"Why are you nagging her so much? She should have been kicked out long ago. She almost caused trouble for us two."
Another guard who had been silent the entire time said displeased.
"Hey..." the guard sighed and said, "We are all suffering, why should we make things difficult for each other? Just help us if we can talk about it."
"You have a good heart and will bring trouble to yourself sooner or later." Another person shook his head.
Qian Wang did not go too far, but squatted down at the foot of the wall in the distance, looking in the direction of the Qian Mansion gate, preparing to wait here for Qian Tongtong to return.
…
Zhang Xiaozu and Ye Mingyue returned to their residence at Jinshiyuan Inn.
Just outside the inn, he was stopped by dozens of people, all of whom came to ask for his help in making alchemy.
He did not refuse and agreed to help them make elixirs, but not today, but after the last game tomorrow.
The person who asked for the elixir was overjoyed and gave all kinds of praise to Zhang Xiaozu without hesitation.
Zhang Xiaozu laughed happily, wondering if there would be a fight if the people who praised him and the people who scolded him in the examination room were put together.
"Master, this is a gift from the Wang family in the north of the city."
"This one is a gift from the Zhang family in the south of the city."
"This is……"
Back at their residence, the steward Gillian and six maids brought the beautifully wrapped gifts to Zhang Xiaozu one after another, and told Zhang Xiaozu who sent them.
It turned out that during the time Zhang Xiaozu left, many forces who wanted to make friends with him sent people to visit him, but after waiting and waiting, Zhang Xiaozu never came back, so he could only go back disappointed, but he left gifts before leaving.
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It wasn't Gillian and others who helped Zhang Xiaopou accept the gift without permission, it was those people who forcibly kept it.
"This is from Qian's Tea Shop."
Gillian pointed to an exquisite sandalwood box.
Zhang Xiaozu heard this and said: "Open it and take a look."
He roughly guessed what was in the wooden box. It was probably Fengjian'er and Bixuelan tea.
Gillian immediately moved the sandalwood box to the tea table next to Zhang Xiaozu, and then opened it carefully.
The sandalwood box contained two more beautifully crafted jade boxes. When he opened the jade boxes, as Zhang Xiaozu expected, it turned out to be those two kinds of tea.
Not only are they of excellent quality, but each one weighs almost a pound.
Zhang Xiaozu asked Ye Mingyue: "Should you accept it or not?"
"Do you have time to send these things back one by one?" Ye Mingyue asked.
"I don't have time." Zhang Xiaozu shook his head, looked at the pile of gifts in front of him, and said, "Then just accept them all. Anyway, when you open the Alchemy Pavilion in Paradise City, you will have to deal with them sooner or later. Gillian, take all the gifts
Open them all, then write down who sent what, and finally give the list to...you call Qian Ruoyun out, he is good at this kind of thing."
The last sentence was said to Ye Mingyue.
Ye Mingyue took out the painting of the Three Realms, shook it in his hand, and threw Qian Ruoyun, who was practicing, out of the painting.
Qian Ruoyun woke up from his practice, opened his eyes and saw clearly the surrounding environment, and immediately greeted Zhang Xiaozu and Ye Mingyue.
His cultivation level recovered quickly, and he had reached the ninth level of the Sea Realm in just one morning.
However, in the morning outside, a whole day has actually passed in the thatched house of Painting of the Three Realms.
In addition, there is plenty of spiritual energy and elixirs in the Painting of the Three Realms.
Moreover, his understanding of the law of power is not only still there, but more advanced than before he lost his body, because his soul was fortunate enough to comprehend it in the air of Zhang Xiaozu's Zhanmen for a period of time.
So it was very easy for him to recover his cultivation.
Zhang Xiaozhu explained the matter. Although Qian Ruoyun was still reluctant to leave the training space in the Painting of the Three Realms and felt that if he was given one more day, he could restore his cultivation to the star realm, he still accepted the order happily.
It took about half an hour for Qian Ruoyun and the Seven Girls of Gillian to finish counting the pile of gifts.
Zhang Xiaozhu saw that there was nothing he liked, so he asked Qian Ruoyun to divide everything with Gillian and the Seven Girls. He was so happy that everyone thanked him.
"Sir, I want to go home. I ran out of home in a hurry that night and didn't go back for two days. I'm afraid my mother will miss her very much." Seeing that Zhang Xiaozu had no other instructions, Qian Ruoyun proposed that he wanted to go home.
trip.
Hearing this, Zhang Xiaozhu said: "I will go with you to visit and greet your father-in-law."
Some people's loyalty needs to be forcibly captured through a slave contract, while some people's loyalty can be obtained simply by treating them as friends. If you are careful enough, the loyalty of the latter will even be higher than that of the former.
Qian Ruoyun obviously belongs to the latter.
"Ah?" Qian Ruoyun was greatly surprised when he heard this. After being surprised, he hesitated and said in fear: "My house is very simple, lest... lest it taint the noble master's dignity."
"Why, you're not welcome?" Zhang Xiaozu asked.
"Welcome, of course you are welcome! I'm just afraid..."
"Let's go." Zhang Xiaozu interrupted Qian Ruoyun's words, looked at Gillian and ordered: "Get the car ready."
…
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, a carriage drove from the west side of the street in front of Qian's house.
Qian Wang who was squatting at the base of the wall thought that Qian Tongtong was back. She stood up excitedly and was about to run to follow, but her two feet
He was so numb that he suddenly fell to the ground.
The people sitting in the carriage heard Qian Wang's cry of pain after falling, opened the curtain and looked outside, and happened to look at Qian Wang's anxiously raised head.
When Qian Wang saw that the person in the carriage was not Qian Tongtong, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief and turned to knead her numb legs and feet.
However, the people in the carriage looked at Qian Wang and frowned.
Soon, the carriage stopped in front of Qian's Mansion.
Qian Ruohong stepped down from the carriage and asked the guard guarding the door: "Is that woman Qian Ruoyun's daughter?"
He met Qian Wang once last year. Because Qian Ruoyun's appearance was 60% like his mother's, Qian Ruohong had a slightly deeper impression of Qian Wang.
"I don't know," the guard replied pretending not to know.
Qian Ruohong walked into the mansion with some suspicion, walked forward for a while, suddenly stopped, and whispered a few instructions to the servant who was following behind him.
The slave was ordered to leave.
After a while, he led another slave out of the house and went straight to Qian Wang's family.
The two of them stopped in front of Mrs. Qian Wang and asked, "Are you Qian Ruoyun's daughter?"
"Yes, I am." Qian Wang immediately nodded in response, thinking that there was news about Qian Ruoyun.
"Get out of here, this is no place for you to stay." The slave scolded him with a cold face.
"I...I won't leave. I have to wait here for the second master to come back. Please be kind to the two poor masters and be tolerant. Can you just pretend that you didn't see the slave family?" Qian Wang pleaded.
"Bitch, don't ask for trouble. If you don't leave, my brothers will carry you away later and leave you like a pig or dog on the street far away. Don't blame us for your disgrace." The domestic slave said harshly.
The evil words threatened.
"No, I won't leave. Unless...unless you tell me where Ruoyun is." Qian Wang said while shrinking towards the base of the wall.
The two slaves looked at each other and rushed forward. One of them grabbed one of Qian Wang's arms, easily lifted Qian Wang up, and then dragged her to the west corner of the street.
"Ah - let go, I won't leave!"
"Let go!"
Qian Wang struggled violently.
But her struggle was nothing to two mature domestic slaves.
Boom!
One of the slaves punched Mrs. Qian Wang in the stomach.
Mrs. Qian Wang immediately choked in pain, her screams got stuck in her throat and she couldn't hold them back for a while.
Tap tap tap!
At this moment, a carriage came from the opposite direction and stopped in front of the three of them. Qian Tongtong raised the curtain of the carriage, stuck his head out and asked with a frown: "What's going on?"
