Chapter 417: The Lost Pearl
Recently, Liang Qi's mood is a little weird, as if she is impatient or something, the exposed emotions always give people a feeling of impatience, it is useless to persuade anyone, this kind of emotion is heavier today, and after Zhu Mother came over and whispered, her mood seemed to fluctuate greater, Zhu Pei'an looked suspicious in his eyes, but he didn't say anything.
When Zhu Pei'an went up, Liang Qi went out in a panic on his hind feet, fidgeting as if she would go crazy if she stayed in the house for a quarter of an hour longer.
She wore a relatively simple dress today, and did not wear any extra ornaments, but went out in plain clothes, and told the coachman to go straight out of the city to Tongcheng on the outskirts of the city.
Tongcheng Town is a small town outside the Liangdu City, it is said that the towns are only five or six streets together, there are very few aborigines in this town, and the people who live in Tongcheng Town are basically foreigners, if you ask the reason, just because since the first gambling house in Tongcheng Town opened, the gambling houses in Tongcheng Town have sprung up one after another like mushrooms after the rain. The gambling house opened, followed by the Qinlou Chuguan Lefang Theater, and over time, the small Tongcheng Town became a well-known amusement place in Liangdu City and the surrounding cities. The atmosphere of the beautiful **** has given birth to many business opportunities, and has also brought new prosperity to Tongcheng Town, and now the popularity of Tongcheng Town has spread throughout Yueliang Country, and Doujin Street in Tongcheng Town is a well-known gambling street in the country.
Liang Qi's carriage was blocked on this street for half an hour before he walked out, and the traffic jam on this road was heard in the gambling houses on both sides of the road. In these noisy, you can still hear the soft murmuring and coquettish voices of those vulgar warblers, Yanyan, and they will give people goosebumps when they hear it from afar.
Liang Qi frowned, and asked the grandmother sitting opposite in a deep voice:
"Best wishes Mom. Are you sure that Miss Su San is in Tongcheng Town? ”
"Back to the princess, Zhao San'er inquired clearly, Miss Su Sansheng came to Tongcheng Town last night, and she didn't go back all night, this time she was in the Xiaoyao Fang in front."
When Liang Qi heard this, his brows furrowed even deeper, and he felt uncomfortable for a while. She didn't understand why a girl's family would run to the gambling house in the middle of the night. This is so shocking, this is too unruly, even she finds it difficult to accept it when she listens to it. She could only desperately comfort herself in her heart that the child must have something important to run the casino in the middle of the night, definitely not because she was interested, but she ran the casino in the middle of the night because of why she was in a hurry, and when she thought that maybe there was really something. Liang Qi's heart clenched again. I became very worried that this child would be even more restless than when I first sat at home.
Zhu mother saw her emotions in her eyes, and her heart was a little chaotic, she was Liang Qi's nurse, she knew everything about the early years, and while lamenting the injustice of fate and pity Liang Qi, she deeply felt that such an eldest princess was very bad, and hesitated for a while. She cautiously spoke:
"Don't worry, princess, our people are watching. Miss Su San will not suffer. It's just the princess, don't say that the identity of Miss Su San has not been confirmed, you are too anxious, it will be bad if you scare Miss Su San, besides, even if the identity of Miss Su San is really confirmed, after all, there is a layer on the prince's side, although the prince is very considerate of the princess, but it is difficult to guarantee that the prince will not have other thoughts in his heart, fortunately, Miss Su San is a girl, the princess wants to make up for it, as long as she finds a good family for her, the princess now The main thing is not to let the prince chill the prince's heart because of the fact that you are looking for Miss Su San. ”
This is 100% for her sake, although it is more direct, but it falls on Liang Qi's ears but makes her angry, she is now paranoid to the point of going crazy, her eyes glared, a beautiful face immediately became fierce, she glared at Zhu's mother hatefully, and said sharply: "Who said that there was no identity confirmed? That's the Chan'er of this palace! She is the Chan'er of this palace! She is the Chan'er of this palace! I won't recognize my Chan'er! What do you know, you just comment, if it wasn't for you back then, the Chan'er of this palace would not have been lost, for the sake of being the nurse of this palace, this palace did not blame you, but it does not mean that this palace does not blame you, you had better not remind this palace of the things of the year! What will he think, Lord Wang, he has been helping the palace to find Chan'er for so many years, and now that the Chan'er of the palace has found it, the palace will naturally thank him, the matter between the palace and the prince, you better not talk too much! ”
Mother Zhu looked at her suddenly became vicious, her heart was sad, heartache and self-blame, the princess in the past was gentle and lovely, since those things happened, the princess's personality has changed greatly, although after the scars in her heart healed, she is still gentle and gentle on the surface, but once she mentions the child she lost back then, she will be as terrible as a fierce she-wolf. It had become her heart disease, and she would be hysterical because those heart diseases were brought up again, and that hysteria was like suddenly going crazy.
Zhu mother didn't dare to say a word, she knew that the princess resented her, and she had been resentful of herself all these years, but what could be done in that situation at that time.
Liang Qi took a breath after quickly finishing speaking, and then leaned on the pillow as if he had lost his strength, looking out of the window quietly through the densely woven gauze curtains. The method of making this curtain is very special, she can't see the inside of the carriage from the outside, and she can see the scenery outside from the carriage, she looked motionless at the window, and didn't say a word.
Zhu Mom's expression was even more worried when she looked at her.
Opposite Xiaoyaofang is a fairly quiet teahouse, although there is no private room, but the elegant seat is quite hidden, Zhu's mother reluctantly agreed to Liang Qi's request to settle here, in fact, she can't object if she wants to.
Liang Qi sat in the private seat of the teahouse, and from her window she could see the gate of Xiaoyaofang opposite.
Tongcheng Town is a gambling street, I have never heard that there will be serious women in and out of the gambling house, so the gambling house street is naturally a man's paradise, in this kind of place women are extremely rare, generally appear in this kind of place women are either singers and maiko or maids who work in the gambling house, Liang Qi attracted many men's ill-intentioned eyes as soon as she appeared in the teahouse, but because she also brought two murderous palace guards beside her. But no one dared to come near. Rao is like this, Liang Qi still feels uncomfortable, although he has lived with Zhu Pei'an at the border for many years. Her mind was no longer as conservative as it was when she was in Liangdu, but she was still a little flustered by such a complicated environment, and her eyes were firmly fixed on the gate of Xiaoyaofang, not daring to look elsewhere, for fear of attracting more annoying eyes.
It was another half an hour of waiting, and it wasn't until noon that Liang Qi finally saw Su Chan come out of the Xiaoyao Fang opposite, with a wooden face. Because she didn't have any expression, she couldn't tell whether she was in a good or bad mood.
Su Chan is still dressed in a smoky gray linen short brown today, with snow-white leggings tied. A pair of cross-beam cloth shoes that men often wear, her long black hair tied at the back of her head with a cloth rope very casually, lining a narrow and thin little face that is more and more white and straight, she is tall and straight. Walk with a tiger. Heroic, magnificent, and truly indisputable.
Seeing such a scene, Liang Qi not only did not feel happy, but the sourness in his heart was even stronger, and at the same time, he was more worried, how would such a girl who was not a little girlish take care of housework in the future, and at a glance, he saw Su Chan with a bulging little burden under her armpit, and the two fierce-looking guys in Xiaoyao Fang happened to poke their heads out and glared at Su Chan's back viciously. stared at the burden under her armpit again, and this look fell into Liang Qi's eyes. Liang Qi's heart tightened, and he became more and more worried.
Fortunately, the maid he sent to guard the door had already met him, and the two fierce-looking guys did not go out anymore when they saw this, but retracted their heads and disappeared into the gambling house.
Liang Qi breathed a sigh of relief.
Su Chan, who had just come out of the gambling house at that time, was suddenly blocked by a gorgeously dressed maid.
"Miss Susan, please stay." The maid stopped in front of her with a light smile, blessed a blessing, and said politely.
Su Chan glanced at her indifferently, ignored her, bypassed her to continue her journey, she was hungry and wanted to go to Lao Liu Tou on East Street to buy fried cakes to eat.
When the maid saw that she was gone, she was anxious and annoyed, and hurriedly ran forward two steps to stop in front of her again, and said with a smile:
"Miss Su San doesn't remember the slave? The slave maid is autumn frost, the last time the slave maid saw the girl in the Big Buddha Temple, that time the slave maid was offended, and asked the three girls to have a lot of not to worry about the slave maid. As she spoke, Ying Ying bowed again, which was regarded as a plea.
Su Chan didn't miss the contempt in her eyes, if she didn't mention it, she really didn't think about it, it turned out that this maid was the one who scolded her last time in the Big Buddha Temple.
Su Chan is a jealous and hateful person, she is not like the eldest sister who can pretend to be face-saving, she doesn't like this maid, she is even more bored when she stops herself, she frowned, and snorted:
"Get out of the way!"
Qiushuang was startled by her scolding, and then became angry because she was frightened by her, and plucked up the courage to step forward again to block her way, but this time she made a tense face, gritted her teeth and said:
"Miss Susan, my wife invites you to the teahouse to talk."
Su Chan naturally knew who her wife was, Su Chan didn't have a good impression of the eldest princess of Jingyang in her heart, she always felt that she was a strange and crazy woman, and always looked at her obsessively with an almost fanatical look, so that every time she met her, she would get goosebumps in several layers.
Frowning, I wanted to push this annoying maid aside so that I could leave, but there was already a soft call from upstairs with anxiety:
"Chan'er!"
Su Chan was uncomfortable, frowned and raised her head, and what caught her eye was a beautiful woman's face that could still be perceived even through a veil.
Su Chan was uncomfortable calling herself "Chan'er" to her, the title "Chan'er" has always been the patent of her family, even if others are close, they just call her "Sister Chan'er", and now this family's patent has been called by outsiders, and she doesn't like it very much.
But after all, she is just a commoner, and she is not impatient enough to make a princess angry, and she is bored with a princess running to Tongcheng Town to do it, the old, well-dressed old mother came out of the teahouse, smiled and blessed, and said softly to Su Chan:
"My wife said that it was rare to meet here, and I want to invite the girl to a cup of tea, girl, please."
It's not an invitation at all, they've already decided for themselves.
Su Chan felt more disgust in her heart, frowned and hesitated for a while, but still took a step, and followed Zhu's mother into the teahouse with an impatient face, and walked upstairs.
Mother Zhu has been observing her carefully, the more she observes, the more she feels that this is a rude and rude young man, no education at all, let alone the aristocratic style, how can such a girl be the pearl left outside by her master, the master wants the child to go crazy, she can understand, but she will never let an imposter of unknown origin replace Allah's son and pretend to be a golden branch and jade leaf to steal glory and wealth, thinking of this, the smile on his face also faded a little, and without saying a word, he led Su Chan to the elegant seat on the second floor, Only then did he laugh again and said to Liang Qi diligently:
"Madam, Miss Su San is here."
Liang Qi was overjoyed, and he had already stood up from his chair and greeted Su Chan with joy.
Su Chan was confused by this inexplicable development, the eccentric old lady who was full of hostility to her, the eccentric and loving eldest princess, and the little maid who looked down on her but tried her best to slap her, this group of people...... Sick!
Su Chan made a perfunctory salute, and Zhu's mother on the side frowned even more.
Liang Qi didn't care at all, and asked Su Chan to sit down, and ordered someone to ask Xiao Er to change the pot of new tea.
Her excessive enthusiasm made Su Chan's hair stand on end, she calmed down, and asked calmly:
"Madame summoned the grass people, but what is the important thing for the grass people to do?"
"No, no, this palace just wants to see you."
Su Chan was stunned, thinking to herself, what do I have to look at?
"Chan'er, come, sit down, you kid, look at the sweat on this end." Liang Qi said with a smile, took Su Chan's hand and pulled her to sit down, and took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat on her forehead.
Su Chan was "flattered", the hairs on her body stood up, she avoided her handkerchief uncomfortably, stood up with a stabbing face, and asked again:
"Madame, but there is something to tell the grass people to do, if Madame is fine, the grass people themselves still have some things, so they have to leave first."
Liang Qi noticed her rejection and alienation, his eyes darkened slightly, and then he barely became happy, stood up and asked with a smile:
"What's the matter, girl?"
Su Chan was stunned for a moment and replied, "It's not a big deal, I just want to buy something, and then I'm going back." ”
"What are you going to buy? I'm on the way today.,It's the first time I've come to Tongcheng Town.,I'm not familiar with it.,See if it's not the first time you should come.,You should be very familiar with here.,Do you have any recommended shops.,Accompany me to go shopping? Liang Qi asked with a smile.
Su Chan was stunned for a moment, and replied: "The shops here are almost all gambling houses, even if there are other kinds of shops, you shouldn't be able to go there, madam." ”
"What's there to go, I can go if you can go, you can go to be a guide today, let's take a good look around this Tong Town, you can tell me what you like, I'll buy it all for you, okay?" Liang Qi took her hand, his smile full of love and pampering. (To be continued.) )