Chapter 75: Exposed
Xiao Yin did not answer Ran Qiunian's questions, and drove the carriage unhurriedly following the carriage that entered the city in front of him, and slowly drove into the bustling streets and alleys of the city.
Walking here, the carriage in front seemed to notice Ran Qiunian's movement, and slowed down in some surprise, waiting for the carriage behind to catch up.
Ran Qiunian noticed this in the carriage through the gap in the curtain opened in front of her, and she couldn't help mentioning it in her heart, and withdrew her hand to cover the curtain.
Xiao Yin didn't mean to mess with himself at all, as if they were really just ordinary passers-by, and the speed of the carriage did not increase or decrease, and they walked forward as usual.
He passed by the carriage that came out of the money bank, and continued to turn into the alley in front without hesitation.
"Okay, I'm shocked, it's just a passerby, so I'll scare you like this, hurry up, don't miss a big thing."
The fat shopkeeper lifted the curtain of the carriage and urged two sentences angrily, and the driver nodded again and again, and the carriage returned to its original speed and turned into the second alley in front.
"Big brother, what are we going to do?"
After Ran Qiunian and Xiao Yin turned the carriage into the first alley, they got off there. It's a dark alley that connects the backyards of the shops on both sides, and inside is a dead end.
If the Qian Zhuang guy knows more about this place, he is afraid that he will see through the mistakes between Ran Qiunian and Xiao Yin and point out, but fortunately, everything is going well.
After getting off the carriage, Ran Qiunian followed Xiao Yin out of the alley and watched the two carriages of Qian Zhuang turn into Xishi Street from the front.
"Xishi Street is not far from the post station where Zhang Shaoxian's caravan stayed, and the streets are all teahouses and elegant gardens that are specially used for the pastime of dignitaries and nobles, except for Zhang Shaoxian, no one in the caravan should come here."
Xiao Yin thought about it again and again, and simply took Ran Qiunian on this bustling West Market Street openly.
"It's a bit clever to choose such a place to meet privately."
Ran Qiunian snorted and said angrily.
Relying on the fact that no one knew him, Ran Qiunian followed Xiao Yin and swaggered down the street, and the two saw a familiar carriage in front of a music shop.
"I know how to enjoy it, and it's the first time I've come to a place like Le Fang."
Ran Qiunian was about to raise her feet and walk inside, but she was pulled by the person behind her, and her raised feet were fixed in mid-air, and she was caught off guard, and was pulled back a few steps.
"This is not where you should be."
Xiao Yin didn't expect that Zhang Shaoxian and the shopkeeper of Qianzhuang would meet in such a place, and seeing Ran Qiunian's excited and curious face, he couldn't help but darken his face a little.
Before Ran Qiunian could protest, he was dragged into the teahouse diagonally opposite by Xiao Yin, who could not refuse, and settled in the Meizi private room on the second floor.
"Big brother, Nian'er also wants to follow you to Lefang to investigate, didn't we say okay?"
Ran Qiunian was a little unwilling, this music workshop is not that kind of place, what does she have to go?
"You just eat something here, and when Zhang Shaoxian's side disperses, I will come to pick you up and take you back to the General's Mansion." Don't run around, or I won't take you out next time. ”
Xiao Yin glanced at Ran Qiunian with a slight warning, and made sure that people would not run around, so he relieved himself and turned around and entered the music shop.
After watching Xiao Yin's figure disappear at the door of the music shop from the windowsill, Ran Qiunian pursed his mouth and sat back unhappy. With Xiao Yin's last words, Ran Qiunian was curious, no matter how hard she scratched her heart and lungs, she had to obediently stay in the teahouse and wait for Xiao Yin.
"What do you need to eat?"
Outside the door, the guy from the teahouse knocked on the closed door and asked earnestly.
"No...... Forget it, give me a pot of good tea, a stack of lotus leaf cakes, and a stack of hibiscus cakes. ”
Ran Qiu changed his mouth angrily, ordered a table of pastries, and watched the movement outside while eating.
There is a window in this private room in the Mei Zi Building, which is very cleverly positioned, and the open window is facing the street market below, so you can see the music shop diagonally opposite.
"I wonder what they're talking about? Why hasn't it come out yet? ”
Ran Qiunian bit the lotus leaf cake, his eyes couldn't stop lingering at the door of the music shop outside the window, and the lotus leaf cake in his mouth was fragrant, but Ran Qiunian tasted the same as chewing wax, and bit absentmindedly.
When Ran Qiunian drank a pot of tea, he saw a familiar man walking out of the door of the music square: "It's Zhang Shaoxian!" ”
Unexpectedly, it was him who came out first, Ran Qiunian sat up straight in an instant, looked down from the window, but saw Zhang Shaoxian suddenly seemed to be aware, cast his eyes upward, and was facing Ran Qiunian who had no time to retract his head.
Ran Qiunian was stunned in his mind, he didn't expect this Zhang Shaoxian to be so sensitive to people's sight, and he was a little at a loss all of a sudden.
Zhang Shaoxian also seemed to be a little surprised, he naturally recognized at a glance the person who looked at him from the window on the second floor of the teahouse, it was Ran Lei, the young master of the side sect who was introduced to them by Ran Qiubai when he was attending a banquet in Ran Mansion.
Seeing that Zhang Shaoxian had changed the direction he originally wanted to go, he turned around and came towards the teahouse on his side.
Ran Qiunian felt a cold sweat on his back, and quickly thought of countermeasures. Without waiting for her to come up with a foolproof plan, Zhang Shaoxian had already walked to the outside of the Meizi private room on the second floor, raised his hand and knocked on the door.
"It's the little young master Ran Lei of Splendid City? In the next Zhang Shaoxian, I don't know if the little master still remembers it? ”
Ran Lei? Ran Qiunian didn't react for a moment, but she soon remembered that this name was the one she casually made up to fool people when she was dressed as a man that day.
"Zhang Shaoxian? Young Master Ben has never heard of this person, where are you a kid who dares to have a casual relationship with Young Master Ben? ”
Ran Qiunian asked in a rough voice pretending to be impatient, and made a gesture of a young master with no one in his eyes.
Zhang Shaoxian's voice paused, and he secretly hated in his heart, one day he would step on the soles of his feet one by one because he was born well.
Although he hated Ran Qiunian very much, his voice did not bring any dissatisfaction, but became more gentle and humble.
"We once met at the dust-washing banquet of Young Master Qiubai, at that time, the young master and my cousin who were not angry were still talking very happily, and talked about a lot of interesting things about running business, I wonder if the little young master can remember?"
If it weren't for worrying about him and the earth. Under. Money. The matter of the secret transaction of the shopkeeper Zhuang was looked at by this Ran Lei, and after returning to Splendid City, he secretly told Ran Qiubai and let him be exposed in advance, Zhang Shaoxian had no patience to deal with this little young master at all.
Unexpectedly, after he said these words, the door of the room that was still closed before was suddenly opened from the inside, and the attitude of the young man in a brocade robe who looked more precious changed greatly, and welcomed Zhang Shaoxian directly into the private room of the plum brand.
"It turned out to be Brother Zhang, why didn't you tell me earlier? I thought it was those annoying guys who came to make friends, you know, there are always this kind of villains who tend to be inflammatory, and when they see you making a generous move, they will stick it up. ”
Ran Qiunian looked tireless, as if she couldn't see Zhang Shaoxian's stiff face, and after saying everything to herself, she looked at Zhang Shaoxian curiously.
"Don't talk about that, when did Brother Zhang arrive in the capital, did my second cousin come with him? I haven't heard of it before, and it's too boring for you. I said I was going out for a drink with Shulin last time, but this time he's here too, right? ”
When Ran Qiunian talked about Zhang Shaoxian's cousin Zhang Shulin, he deliberately used a warm tone, as if he couldn't forget him, and compared with Zhang Shaoxian's treatment that his name was not even remembered by Ran Qiunian, it almost made the good-looking Zhang Shaoxian unable to hold back the smile on his face.
"He didn't come with him this time, but he lived up to the little master's kindness."
Ran Qiunian had long known that Zhang Shulin didn't come with him, so he used him as a raft and deliberately angered Zhang Shaoxian.
"It's a shame. It seems that I can only wait for me to return to Splendid City, and then drink three more glasses with him. ”
Ran Qiunian drank the last cup of tea on the table and said with regret.
"It's his honor to get the little master's blue eyes."
The more Zhang Shaoxian looked, the more he felt that this little young master was probably really a straw bag, and he didn't know how to look at people's eyes or the city, so he shouldn't know what he did when he went to Lefang.
"I don't know what the little young master is doing in the capital this time? You left suddenly, and that kid Shulin couldn't contact you, and he was sad for a long time. ”
Ran Qiunian saw that Zhang Shaoxian's ability to tell nonsense with his eyes open was so good, so he simply followed his wishes and made up stories.
"Alas, don't say it, not everyone can be as lucky as my second cousin, born as the lineage of the main family, and as soon as he was born, he was destined to be able to take over the entire Ran family's family property in the future...... Forget it, tell you what to do. ”
Ran Qiunian showed a little jealousy at the right time, but after realizing that the person in front of him was from Ran Qiubai's side, he quickly stopped and stopped complaining.
But what she said before was enough for Zhang Shao to think about it first. It turned out that this little young master was not so close to Ran Qiubai on the surface, since this was the case, he didn't have to worry about what he saw here and would talk nonsense to Ran Qiubai after he went back.
"Little master, why bother to be arrogant, you are from a rich background, although you are a side branch, you can also inherit a family business, and you will always have no worries about food and clothing. Isn't it more fortunate than those of us who were born in cloth clothes and have nothing and can only rely on their hands to work hard for a little family business? ”
Ran Qiunian looked at the jealousy and hatred that Zhang Shaoxian unconsciously revealed when he spoke, her eyes were slightly cold, she lowered her eyes to hide this cold color, and then raised her head with an approving smile.
"You have a point in saying this, although I don't have the wealth of the lord's lineage, but I won't be reduced to the point of being on a par with you ordinary people."
Ran Qiunian didn't seem to see Zhang Shaoxian's ugly face, smiled at Zhang Shaoxian and ordered the pastries on the table, and said with a smile:
"I know that people like you are very difficult to go to such a place for recreation on weekdays, and you have to tighten your belt for many days when you come here, I have heard what the scholar said, and you don't fool me when I don't understand anything."
Ran Qiunian said to Zhang Shaoxian quite enthusiastically, beckoning to call the guys outside in.
"Little young master doesn't have to be polite......" The smile on Zhang Shaoxian's face was already very reluctant.
"Since I met it today, I should be the east of everything, please taste the food here, don't be polite to me. Although I don't have the wealth of the main family, it is more than enough for you to have ten or eight meals. ”