Yuan Qi was stunned when he heard this, and then smiled: "It is indeed her style."
Su Yunwei didn't answer, but just walked out.
As the day grew late, Yuanqi came out of the Pavilion Chief's Mansion and went straight to the pastry shop.
When he came in, he happened to catch everyone having dinner.
"Master Yuan is here, have you had dinner?"
Yuan Qi looked around and didn't see the person he met, so he smiled and said: "Not yet, where is Huanhua?"
"She's not awake yet. Leave some food for her later and ask Qiaoqiao to deliver it to her." Cheng Hua'er arranged the dishes and chopsticks and said, "Master Yuan, please come and eat some too."
Motoqi smiled and nodded, and had dinner with everyone.
It wasn't until he was about to go back that Cheng Qinghan slowly walked downstairs.
"How did you come?"
"I tasted your pastries at the pavilion chief's house today, so I just wanted to say that they are delicious."
Cheng Qingwen was stunned for a moment and chuckled: "Just to say this?"
Moan Qi shook his head, took out a hairpin from his sleeve, and handed it to her: "When I came here just now, I saw it at the stall. I thought it was suitable for you, so I bought it."
Cheng Qingwen took the peony hairpin and looked at it carefully: "It's very beautiful, but I don't know how to tie my hair."
"But I still want to give it to you."
Song Qiaoqiao on the side was shocked when he heard these words, and quickly pulled Lian Zhi away: "Go quickly, go quickly, don't see anything inappropriate, don't hear anything inappropriate."
"Sir, we have to leave, otherwise it is late at night and we will easily encounter wolves on the road." A Zhu stood at the door and coughed lightly.
"If you want to go back to Songjia Village, then leave quickly." Cheng Qingwen sent the person to the door and then said, "I have to go back tomorrow to collect those snow mountain stilbeans."
"Okay, then I'll wait for you at home tomorrow."
Cheng Qingwen smiled and nodded, watching the carriage go away, then turned and returned to the house.
"Stay here, miss. Are your adults here?"
Before Cheng Qingwan went upstairs, she heard the sound at the door.
When I turned around, I saw two men standing outside the house.
The leader was in his thirties or forties, wearing dark green clothes, a crown, and a thin face.
The person following behind was an acquaintance.
"Aren't you... the owner of this shop?" Cheng Qingwen looked at the man behind and asked doubtfully: "It's so late, what's the matter?"
The man had no expression on his face and said sternly: "This property belongs to my master. I just signed on behalf of my master that day."
"Oh...so what's wrong with you?"
"We have something to do and need to find your grandma."
Cheng Qingwen became even more confused after hearing this. She turned her head and met the eyes of the man in dark green clothes.
Those eyes were too deep, full of disbelief and heartache.
Her intuition told him that these two people were not good people.
"Sorry, my grandma is not in good health and has gone to bed now."
The man's eagle eyes stared straight at her: "I have the best doctor on my carriage. As long as you let her come out to see me, I will let him treat your mother-in-law."
Cheng Qingwen frowned. Two grown men came to the door late at night. It was absolutely impossible for them to meet just once.
Just when she was about to refuse, she heard a voice coming from behind Shen.
"Wanwan, who is here?"
Cheng Hua'er walked over and when she saw the person standing at the door, she froze on the spot.
"Hua'er..." As soon as the man saw the woman, he immediately murmured: "It's really you!"
Cheng Qinghan looked at this scene with some confusion. Do these two people know each other?
Cheng Huaer came back to his senses and put a smile on his face: "When Mr. Yuan told me that you were in Hua County, I guessed that such a day would come. Come in and have a cup of tea."
The person in front of me is not the Jinghou mentioned by Yuanqi on New Year's Eve.
Cheng Qingwen looked at the person walking in with a confused face and sat in front of A Niang: "A Niang, who is he?"
"This is you...Uncle Jing." Cheng Hua'er made tea and said with a smile: "Sister Liu, take Huanwan and the others upstairs to sleep."
Aunt Liu on the side responded and took everyone upstairs.
The attendants brought by Jinghou also walked out with a look and closed the door.
"That year, I searched the entire Cheng Mansion but couldn't find you. Later, they said that the unrecognizable female corpse in the lake was you. The clothes and tokens matched, but I always felt it didn't look like it. Fortunately, I came.
I came to Hua County, luckily you rented my shop."
Cheng Hua'er lowered her eyes to block her red eyes: "It's my daughter who fell in love with this shop."
When Jinghou heard this, his face paused, and he asked disappointedly: "Is that your daughter? How old is she this year?"
Cheng Hua'er nodded: "It's time to have a haircut after your birthday."
"She was born the year you left the capital?"
The woman's hand when pouring tea paused and she responded softly.
"What about your husband?"
"He divorced me." Cheng Hua'er said calmly: "I heard that you haven't married yet. Why?"
"My engagement with you has not been cancelled, so how can I marry another one?" Jinghou took a sip of tea and chuckled: "Anyway, I have thought about it. In a few years, I will adopt a child from my second brother.
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Cheng Hua'er clenched her fists and said with red eyes: "I used to just want to survive, and I think the same way now. I just want to live a good life by guarding the 婵婠."
Jinghou seemed not to understand what she said and looked at her doubtfully: "If I marry you, I will definitely treat her as my own daughter."
He doesn't care about her past. After all, it's been more than ten years. The worst outcome is that she disappears. But now, she is still alive. It doesn't matter if she is married and has a daughter. He doesn't care.
"You are still young. Marry a girl from a good family and have children." The woman took off half of the jade pendant that had been hanging on her chest and placed it in front of him: "This is the jade pendant that we were engaged to have. If I return it to you, you can
Consider me dead."
Jinghou looked at the jade pendant in front of him, his face pale.
"It's getting late, Marquis Jing, please go back first. I am the daughter of a guilty minister. It's not appropriate to see each other again in the future."
After the woman finished speaking, she got up and went upstairs.
As soon as he raised his eyes, he saw Cheng Qingwan eavesdropping at the top of the stairs.
"Aunt..."
As if he didn't see her, Cheng Hua'er walked over in despair: "After he leaves, go down and lock the door."
Cheng Qinghan nodded in agreement and sat at the top of the stairs looking at the people below.
Unexpectedly, this man is like a stone, unable to move for a long time.
Cheng Qingwen was so sleepy that she yawned repeatedly, so she got up and went downstairs, intending to talk to this uncle.
"Uncle Jing, it's time for you to go back to sleep."
Jinghou raised his eyes, looked at the little girl in front of him, and asked softly: "How have you been in the past few years?"
"If you want to ask my grandma, just ask directly."
"You're doing well, isn't your grandma doing well too?"
Cheng Qingwen thought for a moment and realized that this was the truth, so she sat down, held her chin and said, "I lost my father right after I was born. My mother-in-law took me all the way from the capital to Huaxian, and then in Songjia Village two years ago.
I found a stepfather for me. This stepfather must be uneducated and incompetent. He beat and scolded me and my mother-in-law. Last year, he hooked up with a widow and divorced my mother-in-law."
"You... are living such a hard life." Jinghou held half a jade pendant and his eyes were red: "Your mother-in-law had just grown hair that year, and she gave birth in the twelfth lunar month of winter."
Cheng Qingwen heard this and thought about it carefully. The original owner's birthday was in April: "Although the atmosphere is very affectionate, I have to interrupt. I was not born in the twelfth lunar month of winter, but in April."
"April?" Jinghou's expression changed, he looked at the person in front of him and nodded, lost in thought.
At the end of April, Cheng's mansion was raided and Cheng Hua'er left the capital. How did she give birth to this child? Could she have been pregnant in the capital?
Impossible, I had just seen her the day before the raid, and she didn't look like she was pregnant at all.
Since she was not born to her, where did this child come from? Was it picked up along the road?
Jinghou confirmed this idea and immediately laughed out loud.
Cheng Qingwen was startled and couldn't help but wonder if this uncle was crazy.
"Child, please return this jade pendant to your grandma." Jinghou handed the jade pendant to the person in front of him and said with a smile: "Tell your grandma, I don't agree to break off the engagement, and I don't care that she is the daughter of a guilty minister.
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"Huh?" Cheng Qingwen was confused. She didn't expect that the woman had talked to this extent and that this man didn't intend to break off the engagement.
She watched him walk out the door and went back to the house to sleep with a lot of questions.
When we got together the next day, Cheng Qingwen returned the jade pendant to Cheng Hua'er and repeated what he said yesterday.
"Oh, listen to this, your mother's tears last night were not in vain." Aunt Liu stood aside and said, "You cried most of the night."
"Huanwen, don't listen to her nonsense. Aren't you going to visit Songjia Village with Qiaoqiao today? Go quickly."
Cheng Qingwen looked at her swollen eyes, nodded, looked at her and said, "Auntie, I think Uncle Jing will definitely come again today. So, you should use those two eggs to apply to your eyes."
After saying that, he turned around and ran away.
Cheng Hua'er looked at her figure and smiled helplessly.
When Cheng Qingwen took Song Qiaoqiao back to Songjia Village, Yuan Qi was already waiting at the door.
She got off the carriage, took his sleeve and said, "Last night, a man named Jing came."
"Oh, what happened?"
"There are so many things. Have you known my grandma's identity for a long time? Why didn't you tell me?"
"I gave you a hint, but you didn't notice."
When Cheng Qingwen heard this, he frowned and thought carefully: "When, why don't I remember?"
"Do you still remember what I said when I returned the dowry Song Da sold to you?"
Yuan Qi looked into her eyes and asked seriously.
[Do you know what words are written on the jade pendant?]
【Yuanjun, a name with excellent meaning】
[I think the last wife of Cheng Shangshu also used these two words, Xie Yuanjun.]
Cheng Qingwen immediately remembered it and twitched her lips: "You call this a reminder?"
"You only had to look back at your grandma's panicked look and you would have noticed it."
