Chapter 231: The Beginning
"Zhenniang, I will go to the north tomorrow, Wang Decai and the Qin family will lay out in Huizhou, and I will go to the north to cast a net." Luo Wenqian said to Zhen Niang, there was also a hint of sharpness in his eyes, this was a duel between Wang Decai and the Li family, but at the same time, it was also a duel between him Luo Jiu and the Qin family.
"Brother Naluo, be careful." Zhenniang couldn't help but advise, she also knew that this was a critical time, and Luo Wenqian had to do it this time.
"Well, don't worry." Luo Wenqian stroked the hair on Zhen Niang's forehead and said with a chuckle.
The corners of Zhenniang's mouth also curled.
At this time, the sun was setting, Zhenniang looked at the sky, and it was time for her to go home. So he waved goodbye.
Luo Wenqian sent Zhenniang out of the house, and the two of them went all the way, side by side, talking about some future plans. The sunset was projected on the bodies of the two from the north, projecting the figures of the two on the ground in front, and Zhenniang looked at the long shadows, which seemed to be close to each other, revealing all kinds of harmony and warmth.
The next day, Zhenniang sent Luo Wenqian out of the city to the Sanli Pavilion outside the city. Luo Wenqian took Luo Ping'an with him, and the two of them rode away in the morning light.
And at this time, outside the city of Sanli Pavilion, a chaste archway has just been built in the city, a hundred sons and thousands of grandchildren firecrackling sound, it is Tian Ronghua's chaste archway, and back then, the Luo family aunt that archway is exactly the same.
On the side, Zhen Niang saw Tian Benchang and Sun Yuejuan spilling water and wine in front of the archway.
Zhen Niang also stepped forward, and Sun Yuejuan also handed Zhen Niang a glass of water and wine, and Zhen Niang spilled the water and wine on the ground.
Then there was silence in front of the torii for a quarter of an hour, and Zhen Niang left.
More than ten days later, it will be the New Year. Luo Wenqian really couldn't rush back. But. Luo Ping'an came back first. brought Luo Wenqian's message. Everything went well, and in a few days, Luo Wenqian would be able to go to Huizhou.
Zhen Niang knew it in her heart.
In the first month, the seven rooms of the Li family are particularly lively, not to mention all kinds of New Year's greetings.
After eating at noon, Zhen Niang went to the seventh room with her grandmother and talked with the seventh grandmother. In the past two years, Seventh Grandmother's body has become weaker and weaker.
When Zhenniang and her own grandmother came over. The two aunts in the seventh room, and the three aunts in the sixth room are all there, plus the ninth uncle and Xiao Huang in the ninth room, plus Aunt Jingming and Hua'er, a group of women will fill the hall to the brim.
The Seventh Grandmother now likes the crowd of people in the house to talk and be lively.
At this time, a room of women was talking about the Li family's New Year.
This year, at the beginning of the year, the Li family ushered in two happy events, one was the marriage of Li Jinhua and Cheng Changgen.
The sixth old man has been here for the past year. There are always some sometimes sober and sometimes confused, and then think. The seventh, eighth and ninth are all gone, but he has survived to Zuihou, but he feels it himself, and he also has a feeling that there is not much time, and he is really not at ease with Jinhua's daughter, so he has to find a support for her, and finally takes a fancy to Cheng Changgen.
At first, Brother Run'er objected, and he put it down for the time being, but now Brother Run'er has also been taught a lesson, but he is sensible, and he is no longer against his mother's and Changgen's affairs.
This is a happy event, and the second happy event is naturally a family affair of Zhenniang.
Mrs. Li has already completed with the third uncle and third uncle of the Luo family, and the one-year filial piety period is actually nine months, and in February, Zhen Niang will be full of filial piety, plus Zhen Niang is twenty years old this year, so she will quickly cut through the mess, and Zhen Niang's family affair with Luo Wenqian is scheduled for March 26.
I'm in a hurry, but in fact, the things that should be prepared were prepared last year.
At this time, Zhen Niang was talking to the seventh grandmother about the development of the ink shop in the coming year.
"Zhenniang, Seventh Grandmother still has a wish, do you know what it is?" At this time, the seventh grandmother sat on a wicker chair, the sun shining behind her through the open window, and it felt like an old grandmother in an old photo from her previous life, nostalgic, warm and kind.
"Lee's Ink Spectrum." Zhen Niang said with a grin.
Literati, reading, being an official, writing books and biography, and ink making, to the extreme, is also a book and a biography, and an ink book is something that has been passed down through the ages.
"You girl, you know the heart of the seventh grandmother best." Old Madam Li said happily, since Zhen Niang said so, it means that she is already preparing.
At this moment, Ergou came in with a gift, this guy had a two-skinned face, and as soon as he came in, he made a circle to the women in the house: "New Year's greetings to all old ladies, grandmothers, and aunts." ”
This guy's sex made everyone giggle for a while, and the flowers stared at her angrily, only to feel that the little face she had lost was lost. angrily pinched him secretly and drove him out, here are all women, what is the matter with a man with a two-faced face.
"By the way, Ergou and Hua'er's relationship has been set for some time, when will they get married?" Seeing that Ergou was pushed out of the house by Hua'er, Aunt Chunhua asked with a smile, after all, she had been talking about Li Jinhua and Zhenniang's relationship before, and now she thought of Hua'er again.
As soon as Aunt Chunhua's words came out, Hua'er's mother Fang's face was a little depressed.
Chen, the grandmother of the seventh room on the side, said with a smile: "No, Hua'er is going to wait for her sister-in-law to enter the door before getting married." ”
But when it comes to my sister-in-law's entry, I really don't know when it will be, Li Zhengping is now overseas for most of the year, even this year's New Year, and he couldn't rush back, so the marriage was delayed.
"Zhengping is coming back soon, right? I think we should help him see the house first, and when he comes back, we will handle this family affair. At this time, Xiao Huang on the side said.
"I'd like to, but this stinky boy can't help it." Fang Shi snorted a little, she knew in her heart that Zhengping Bacheng was still thinking about Sister Ge Qiu in her heart.
At this point, it's hard to continue.
"Sister, Sister Yuejuan is coming to you." At this time, Brother Xi poked his head in from the outside and said to Li Zhenniang in the house.
Li Zhenniang got up, said goodbye to a few uncles and aunts, and then followed Xi Ge'er out of the door.
Sister Sun Yue stood at the door, looking a little anxious.
"Yuejuan, how are you doing lately?" Zhen Niang stepped forward quickly. Greetings.
"It's fine." Sun Yuejuan nodded slightly. Then he pulled Zhenniang aside. After looking around and seeing that there was no one, he lowered his voice and said: "Zhenniang, Benchang heard a news, let me tell you and Boss Luo, Wang Decai and the Qin family They want to harm you, during this time, Wang Decai and the third uncle of the Qin family forced another person named Feng Daniu to find your father, afterwards." I heard the third uncle of the Qin family tell Wang Decai that as long as Feng Daniu goes to find your father, he will report to the official, and when the time comes, as long as the government catches Feng Daniu at your house, your father will be speechless. ”
As soon as Zhen Niang heard this, her face sank, Wang Decai's cloth was really deep.
"I see, Xiexie." Zhen Niang said to Sun Yuejuan.
For the specific inside story, Sun Yuejuan doesn't understand. After the words arrived, he gave a few more words. I was in a hurry to go back again, don't look at her now living in the Tian family with Tian Benchang, but in fact, it is very inconvenient to move, she still came out by going back to her parents' house to pay New Year's greetings, and her every move on weekdays is watched by others.
Knowing Sun Yuejuan's current situation, Zhenniang didn't stay long and sent her away. Then he went to Yihou Raw Goods Store to find Luo Ping'an.
"Chaste Maiden." Seeing Zhenniang come in, Luo Ping'an hurriedly stepped forward to say hello.
"Brother Ping'an, has Wen Qian arrived?" Zhenniang asked.
"It should be in these two days." Luo Ping'an calculated the itinerary.
"Brother Ping'an, you might as well ride a horse to greet Wen Qian, let Wen Qian be a little faster." Zhen Niang said, and the rest didn't say anything else.
"Okay, I'll ride to meet you." Luo Ping'an didn't say much, nodded, and immediately beckoned his men to help him prepare the horse.
"Then it's troublesome, big brother Ping'an." Zhen Niang thanked her and left.
After a while, Luo Ping'an rode out of the city.
Then Zhenniang returned home, and as soon as she entered the house, she saw her father playing in the courtyard with Hui Guan'er.
"Xiao Guan'er, you take Hui Guan'er to play." Zhen Niang called Xiao Guan'er to take Hui Guan'er away, and the matter has come to this point, so there are some things that I have to make clear to my father.
"Zhenniang, but what's the matter?" When Li Jingfu heard Zhenniang's words, he knew that his daughter should have something to say to him.
"Well, Dad, let's sit down and talk." As she spoke, Zhen Niang moved two stools over and sat on the patio with her father.
"Dad, do you remember clearly what the Qin family's gold digging team saved you back then?" Zhen Niang sat next to her father and asked.
"Of course I remember, I will never forget this thing for the rest of my life." Thinking of the situation back then, Li Jingfu still has lingering palpitations.
"Tell me about it." Zhen Niang said that at the beginning, because it was the rest of his life after the catastrophe, the Li family was afraid of arousing Li Jingfu's memories, so Gu Xiu's situation was not carefully asked.
"Hmm." Li Jingfu nodded, and then told the situation of the year.
"Dad, are you saying that the road where you had an accident is very biased, and it is a horse road discovered by local mountain people?" Zhenniang asked in confirmation.
"That's natural, there are a lot of Tartars in the Northland, and this horse gang has to find local mountain people as guides when they go to the Northland." Li Jingfu said.
"That means that road is usually not taken by anyone except for a single mountain person?" Zhen Niang confirmed again.
"Yes, I don't see a single figure for a few days." Li Jingfu replied.
"Daddy, don't you think it's strange? Usually there is no one for a few days, and as soon as your side was robbed, the Qin family's gold digging team passed by? Zhenniang asked.
"What do you mean by that?" Li Jingfu could hear that his daughter was saying something, and asked with a frown.
At this time, Zhen Niang then told Luo Wenqian about the Qin family's Tongtar when he went to Shizhou and inadvertently got the Qin family's Tongtar, and the inside story of the caravan being robbed and killed that year, and then told the eldest uncle Yao Qianshan about the investigation of Feng Daniu and the grievances between the Qin family and the trading house back then, and Zuihou mentioned what Sun Yuejuan came to tell her today to her father.
"Do you mean that the Qin family was actually the mastermind behind the robbery and killing of the caravan back then, and I was rescued by the Qin family in the aftermath?" Li Jingfu is not the Li Jingfu who only knew how to drink and gamble back then, in the north, this kind of thing is actually not uncommon, as soon as Zhen Niang said it, he can sort out the context of the whole thing.
It's just that he has always regarded the Qin family as a life-saving benefactor, and he really can't turn a corner at this time.
"It wouldn't be wrong that the real culprit behind the robbery and killing of the caravan back then was the Qin family, of course, as for the Qin family's gold digging team passing by to save you, whether it was premeditated or coincidental, it's not easy to say." Zhenniang is also the way of talking about things.
After all, the Qin family is a big family, and the matter of the Tartar is not everyone's share, the caravan was robbed and killed, and the Qin family is the mastermind behind the scenes, but if the gold digging team that saved his father back then was really just passing by by by chance, then for his father, this sentiment is still real.
"I want to think about it." Father Jingfu said with a gloomy face.
Zhen Niang retired, and at this time, she had to leave some time for her father to digest. (To be continued......)