Huo Tingyu estimated that relying on the Chen family would be enough to revolutionize the entire market in Yongzhou.
He couldn't help but glance at Chen Jinjun and saw that she was talking to someone else.
At this time, his senses, which had been on the battlefield for many years, noticed that someone had been watching him. Following the feeling, Huo Tingyu saw a man in black leaning on a pillar next to the railing on the second floor, looking at him.
Huo Tingyu frowned and looked back.
He remembered this man in black clothes.
Huo Tingyu clearly remembered that this person was the entourage who followed Chen Jinjun's sedan chair that day, but now it seems that he was not just an entourage.
Xu Fanming raised his eyebrows at him and raised his chin to signal Huo Tingyu to come up from the stairs.
Huo Tingyu squinted his eyes and raised his hand to press the brim of his military cap.
Seeing Huo Tingyu's figure disappearing at the top of the stairs, Xu Fanming exerted strength on his waist and abdomen and lifted his entire body away from the pillar he had been leaning on. He looked at Huo Tingyu walking up with a half-smiling expression on his face.
Huo Tingyu looked at Xu Fanming without saying a word.
"Shuai Huo, I have long admired you." Xu Fanming hugged him and stared at Huo Tingyu with his eyes.
"I don't know your surname yet." Huo Tingyu nodded at him.
"My surname is Xu, and I am the chief escort of Taipingshan Villa."
Xu Fanming narrowed his eyes and looked Huo Tingyu up and down.
"Brother Xu, why did you come to me?" Huo Tingyu nodded and looked downstairs, his eyes unconsciously falling on Chen Jinjun.
Xu Fanming smiled and said nothing. He followed Huo Tingyu's line of sight and happened to see Chen Jinjun talking to Zheng Wen.
"I didn't expect that the commander-in-chief also has a heart for beauty." Xu Fanming lowered his eyes and suppressed the displeasure in his eyes.
Huo Tingyu glanced at him curiously: "Why did you say that?"
Xu Fanming looked at Huo Tingyu's tall and strong figure, pursed his lips and said nothing.
Now it was Huo Tingyu who became curious and glanced at Xu Fanming.
Xu Fanming raised his eyebrows again: "It seems that the commander-in-chief thinks our boss is not good-looking?"
Huo Tingyu frowned: "What is good-looking or not?"
In fact, he recognized Chen Jinjun's beauty in his heart, but now he couldn't say it out loud, let alone in front of Chen Jinjun's men.
If you tell someone and you are caught by someone with ulterior motives, then you don’t know why you are trying to get someone to take advantage of you?
Xu Fanming looked like he could say whatever he wants but I don't believe him, and nodded leisurely.
Huo Tingyu narrowed his eyes and thought back: "Could it be that you have some thoughts about your employer that you shouldn't have?"
Xu Fanming turned around and looked at Huo Tingyu with a fake smile on his face: "The commander-in-chief is serious. How can a person like me dare to miss my employer?"
Huo Tingyu said nothing, his expression remained unchanged despite being in a high position all the year round.
Xu Fanming recalled the way Huo Tingyu looked at Chen Jinjun at Cai Ying's banquet that day.
He lowered his head and smiled secretly, not intending to expose Huo Tingyu's little thoughts.
But Huo Tingyu cannot be allowed to just ignore his special feelings for Chen Jinjun, otherwise, the longer time goes by, the more likely this feeling will cause trouble to Chen Jinjun.
But we can't reveal Huo Tingyu's thoughts, otherwise Chen Jinjun's journey in Yongzhou will not be so easy.
After weighing the situation, Xu Fanming stood up straight and said to Huo Tingyu: "Let me tell the commander a story."
This sentence aroused Huo Tingyu's interest, and he glanced at Xu Fanming.
"you say."
"When the host was outside Yongzhou City, she learned that her fiancé had gone. At this time, there was a man who wanted to take the host away and fly away, but the host was unwilling and made up his mind to join the Huo family."
Huo Tingyu lowered his head, recalling that more than three months ago, Chen Jinjun spent three days in front of the Huo Mansion just to welcome her into the house, and nodded secretly.
Xu Fanming continued: "My boss's fate is not good. My old boss has just been buried. I have to prepare a dowry for myself and give me a wedding. Even when I get to my fiancé's house, I have to rely on money to get in."
"When I was in the capital, I heard that on the day the old man was buried, the white cloth in the Chen family's mansion was replaced by red silk. It was just a farce that her third uncle made for the sake of the Chen family's business. When they arrived in Yongzhou, the owner's sedan chair happened to bump into it again.
My fiancé’s coffin.”
Having said this, Xu Fanming chuckled lightly.
"If a woman is treated like this, she may be tempted to throw herself into the river."
Listening to what he said, Huo Tingyu thought of the scene when Chen Jinjun came out of the sedan chair holding the other end of the marriage decree.
It had been so long, and he still remembered the unyielding look in Chen Jinjun's eyes, and the burning ambition beneath that unyielding look.
"But my boss didn't take it seriously. She never cared what outsiders said about her."
Xu Fanming looked at Huo Tingyu with a very serious expression: "Commander, do you know? The person who wants to take his boss away and fly away, only wishes he had to take her boss's wishes into consideration and take her away from this place of right and wrong."
"Then why don't you take her away?"
Huo Tingyu's deep eyes fell on Xu Fanming, making it difficult to see his emotions for a while.
Xu Fanming smiled and shook his head: "My boss is also a human being. Whatever she wants to do, I can only accompany her and have no status to interfere."
Huo Tingyu narrowed his eyes and looked at Xu Fanming warningly: "Then Huo still hopes that Xu Xu will put away his inappropriate thoughts, so as not to break the agreement between the Chen family and the Huo family."
Seeing that Huo Tingyu had threatened him, Xu Fanming smiled at him nonchalantly.
"I just want to tell the commander that the boss is not the canary in the cage," Xu Fanming suppressed his smile, with a hint of sarcasm in his tone, "the boss in the business world is a wolf."
Then he immediately put on a smile: "Commander, it's better not to think about locking up a wolf."
"Then what are you?" Huo Tingyu looked at Xu Fanming, and there was a hint of anger in his heart that he was not even aware of.
"Me?" Xu Fanming slowly looked at Chen Jinjun.
Chen Jinjun felt someone was watching her upstairs, so she raised her head and met Xu Fanming's gaze.
She waved her hand to Xu Fanming and signaled to him that she had arrived.
The interaction between the two happened to fall into Huo Tingyu's eyes, and Marshal Huo, who had always been calm and self-possessed, couldn't help but frown.
Xu Fanming's somewhat sad voice came from not far away: "I don't know what I am."
Suddenly Huo Tingyu was stunned. He couldn't help but follow Xu Fanming's words and think about what he was.
Is he Chen Jinjun's nominal uncle? A collaborator of Chen Dong's family in the capital?
But when he really thought about it, he couldn't help but frown, and a strange and unfamiliar feeling came to his heart.
Looking back, Xu Fanming was no longer there, but had gone downstairs and stood next to Chen Jinjun.