After Zhang Shulin and Ran Qiunian met, they returned to the inn where the caravan settled with a heavy heart, and met Zhang Shaoxian and a strange son.

"Shulin, where did you go again? I'm looking for you everywhere just now, come, let me introduce you, this is Liu Gongzi, and he has a big deal to talk to us about. ”

Zhang Shao beckoned Zhang Shulin outside the door to come closer, not caring about the lost soul in his eyes.

"Young Master Liu, this is my cousin who is not angry. Shulin, come and meet Liu Gongzi. ”

"I've seen Liu Gongzi."

Zhang Shulin instinctively couldn't get close to this laughing and amiable Liu Gongzi, but he was used to obeying his cousin, and although he was preoccupied, he still cheered up and saluted.

"Young Master Liu, let's go upstairs and talk." Zhang Shao invited people upstairs first, and the two were about to leave, when Zhang Shulin hesitated and shouted his cousin behind.

Zhang Shaoxian's footsteps paused slightly, and he was a little impatient and didn't plan to pay attention to it, but he heard the young man Liu say softly: "You two brothers must have something important to talk about, I will take the first step, and you will come back after you finish speaking, don't worry." ”

After speaking, Liu Gongzi went up to the second floor alone, leaving Zhang Shaoxian standing impatiently. When the people couldn't see it, he glared at Zhang Shulin: "I'll talk about it later, don't you see that there is something serious to do?" ”

"Cousin, Brother Qiubai has been missing for two days, how can we still take care of talking about business?" Although Zhang Shulin was a little weak, he couldn't help but express his disapproval of Zhang Shaoxian's approach.

"It's really a rotten wood, what kind of ecstasy soup did Ran Qiubai feed you to make you more loyal to him than my own brother? You've been looking for him all over the streets today? ”

Zhang Shaoxian glanced at him angrily, and was tired of seeing him like this, if it weren't for the other use of keeping this person, he would have kicked the person away, where would he still need to show his eyes here.

"I met Xiao Lei today, cousin, Brother Qiubai is not thin on us, now his whereabouts are unknown, and I don't know if anything happened, how can you still be in the mood to talk about business with that Liu Gongzi?"

"Ran Lei?" Zhang Shaoxian directly interrupted Zhang Shulin's words, with suspicion and vigilance in his eyes, "Where did you meet that kid?" You told him about Ran Qiubai? ”

Seeing that Zhang Shulin shut up and didn't speak, Zhang Shao didn't get angry and kicked directly: "It's a waste that has more than enough success, who asked you to talk nonsense about this matter with the Ran family?" You didn't say it all, did you? ”

Zhang Shulin shook his head: "It's not too late, but see you tomorrow, I will definitely tell the truth." Cousin, you can't be a man without a conscience. ”

Zhang Shulin got up from the ground, and didn't care about the faint pain on his body, just lowered his head and said in a low but firm voice.

"You dare." Zhang Shao first lowered his voice and threatened, but considering that there was still a Liu Gongzi waiting for him upstairs, he could only leave one sentence, "Wait for someone to leave and then clean you up." ”

Angry upstairs.

"What? It seems that the conversation is not going well, is something unpleasant happening? ”

Seeing that Zhang Shaoxian, who pushed the door in, still had a little displeasure on his face, Liu Yufei's eyes flashed, and he asked meaningfully.

"Let Liu Gongzi smile, it was my cousin Lu who met the deceased and said a few unhappy words. It's just a child's temper, so you don't have to pay too much attention to it. ”

Zhang Shaoxian said, and suddenly remembered that day in the capital, the annoying Ran Lei went to his warehouse to mess around, quite strange behavior, his heart moved, and he couldn't help but ask.

"But this old man is also related to the Ran family, maybe Liu Gongzi also recognizes him."

"Oh? I don't know what the man's name is. Liu Yufei saw that Zhang Shaoxian wanted to inquire about the situation from him, and he didn't mean to refuse, so he listened to the person opposite.

"A young master named Ran Lei, who is very arrogant, said to be the little master of the fourth room of the Ran family, and it is good to be very close to Ran Qiubai, and he was specially introduced to our brother by him."

Zhang Shaoxian looked at the playful smile on Liu Yufei's face inquiringly, and couldn't help but ask softly, "I wonder if Liu Gongzi has an impression of this person?" ”

"Then you're afraid that you were deceived by him, as far as I know, there is only one only daughter in the fourth room of the Ran family, who married to other places a few years ago, moved his family, and has little contact with the main family."

The Ran family is simple, and it is really difficult to make up a person to make up a fake mess, but Sifang was not active in Splendid City in his early years, and not many people knew anything about this room, but it happened that Liu Yufei was among them.

"What? Who is Ran Lei, why is he pretending to be the little master of the fourth room, but Ran Qiubai does not debunk it? ”

Zhang Shaoxian's heart was shocked, thinking of Ran Lei's strange actions before, and he couldn't help but think about it.

"How old is he? What is the appearance? Although Liu Yufei already had a guess in his heart, he still followed the temptation and waited for Zhang Shao to take the initiative to ask for him.

"He looked like he was about a teenager, a few years younger than my cousin. As for appearance," Zhang Shaoxian pursed his lips disdainfully, "It's not bad, but it looks like a little white face, and the girls chirp." ”

That's it, the playful smile on Liu Yufei's face deepened, causing Zhang Shaoxian to ask again and again: "Does Liu Gongzi remember the true identity of this person?" Could you please tell me who this man really is? ”

"At this age, he is so close to Ran Qiubai, and there is only one person in the Ran family."

"Who's that man?"

"The daughter of the main family, Ran Qiubai's sister, Ran Qiunian." The smile on Liu Yufei's face remained unchanged, but there was a vicious taste in his eyes, and he lowered his eyes and shook the cup in his hand, which also covered the calculation revealed at that moment.

"It can't be!" Zhang Shaoxian was shocked, and instinctively wanted to refute, "That Ran Lei is a man!" ”

If so, if she is really the concubine of the main family who was raised in the boudoir, then what did she have in mind when she used the pseudonym Ran Lei to inquire with herself in every possible way?

and Ran Qiubai, he let his own sister test himself like this, could it be that he had been suspicious of him for a long time?

Liu Yufei saw the rebuttal he blurted out, and he didn't say more, yes or no, he had already made up his mind about it, no matter what, his goal had been achieved.

"Forget it, what are you talking about? It's not early, let's talk about business first, that business, my lord's family is in a hurry, you'd better take the goods as soon as possible and transport them north, after the matter is completed, your remuneration is indispensable......"

Zhang Shaoxian was originally full of this big business, but now he was a little absent-minded, nodded indiscriminately, and just accepted it.

In the inn on the other side, Xiao Yin listened to what Ran Qiunian said, let her vent her anger, and waited for her to calm down a little before she spoke:

"I'll go with you tomorrow, but now the situation is unknown, I don't worry about you going to meet Zhang Shulin alone."

"No, because the situation is unknown, I can't help but startle the snake, and I can only go to see Zhang Shulin by myself tomorrow."

Ran Qiunian shook his head, although Zhang Shulin is a good man, but he is inevitably indecisive in doing things, if Xiao Yin, who he is not familiar with tomorrow, also follows, Ran Qiunian is worried that Zhang Shulin is unwilling to let down his guard and tell her the truth of the matter.

Although he understood Ran Qiunian's concerns, Xiao Yin still frowned uneasily, and before he could speak, Ran Qiunian said again:

"It's just that you don't go into the private room with me, if the eldest brother is not at ease, you can open another room next to the private room we have set, as long as there is something wrong, I will shout, nothing will happen."

"That Zhang Shulin's nature is not bad, not to mention that I am not an insider, he doesn't know my true identity, and there is no reason to harm me."

Hearing Ran Qiunian say this, Xiao Yin reluctantly agreed, and agreed that after noon tomorrow, she would set up a nearby private room in Tianxiang Building one step ahead of her.

The next day, when the time came, Ran Qiunian got into the carriage alone and went to Tianxiang Tower in Lingzhou City. Because Zhang Shulin had seen Qingxi, Ran Qiunian didn't bring Qingxi with him this time.

"Little boy, today I caught up with the tri-monthly market in the city, the road ahead is not easy to walk, it is all people, if you are in a hurry, you can only take a detour, or go down the ground to walk."

It was Xiao Yin's person who drove the car, Ran Qiunian was very trusting, and when he saw him say this, he also thought about it seriously.

She lifted the curtain and looked out of the carriage, and the street was indeed crowded, and it was a bit difficult for them to walk through such a carriage.

"Then," Ran Qiunian looked at the crowded crowd in front of him again, giving up the idea of walking over, "Let's take a detour." ”

The coachman answered, turned the horse's head, and drove the carriage into the empty alley beside it.

As the carriage got farther and farther away from the bustling street, the noisy sound that came into Ran Qiunian's ears became smaller and smaller, until only the sound of the carriage running over the ground was left in his ears.

Ran Qiunian felt that the carriage had been gone for a long time, and there was no trace of human voices coming in outside, so she couldn't sit still and asked, "How long will it take to get to Tianxiang Building?" ”

"It's almost there, don't be impatient." After Ran Qiunian's voice fell, there was silence outside for a moment, and then, a muffled voice came from the front.

Ran Qiunian didn't notice anything unusual, she was not familiar with the road in Lingzhou City, so naturally she listened to what the coachman said.

She leaned back, and with a bored hand she lifted a curtain from the window, and by this time the carriage had gone out of the alley into a more deserted street, which looked like the back wall of the house.

Ran Qiunian's eyes tightened, and she felt that something was wrong. No matter how unfamiliar she is with the streets and alleys of Lingzhou City, she knows that all the bustling streets are always crowded.

And the Tianxianglou they are going to is on the most lively street in the city, no matter how much they detour, it is impossible to enter such a deserted place.

At that moment, Ran Qiunian quickly became vigilant. She lowered the curtain without a trace, and subconsciously pressed her hand on the sleeve arrow tied to her right arm, calmed down, and then said out loud as if she didn't notice anything:

"By the way, Brother Xiao asked me to bring him a piece of fine ink from Huizhai when I went back, but I forgot about it. First turn back to the street just now, stop at Huizhai, and wait for me to buy ink blocks before going to Tianxianglou. ”