Since Shen Qian's birthday, the relationship between the two has become ambiguous, although Shen Qian can't go over, but he asks Qingfeng to send a letter every day, this trick is naturally taught to him by his mother Song, saying that his father used this trick to gradually capture her heart.

With the good story of his father and mother, Shen Qian is naturally convinced, and only writes about some daily things in the letter, like chatting, Meng Xiaoran is not good not to reply when he sees this, usually he will always reply to the last letter in a few days to answer some of the questions he asked.

Meng Xiaoran is mainly at home these days to draw drawings, because she received a lot of summer clothes at the last banquet, she has to be busy for a long time, first selecting cloth, transporting it back from Jiangnan, and finalizing the color, these things are enough for her to be busy.

In order to arrange everything, she would go to the store every morning to arrange related matters, meet with the embroiderers, send the drawings that had been drawn, and let them start to do part of it first, and spend the afternoon at home, often painting an afternoon.

On this day, Meng Xiaoran was drawing carefully in the room, when there was a sudden knock on the door, and the voice of the cuckoo sounded, "Master, the old man of the Zhao family sent someone to send a post." ”

Meng Xiaoran stopped after drawing the last stroke, and frowned, Master Zhao? When did she know such a person?

"Come in."

Du Juan pushed open the door and walked in, sending the post in his hand over, Meng Xiaoran took the post and looked at it, "Zhao Quansheng? Who is he? Meng Xiaoran looked at the cuckoo with some confusion.

Du Juan immediately explained: "The Zhao family is a well-known wealthy merchant in this Yunzhou city, and before the arrival of the Shen family, he was also a tyrant in Yunzhou, and his family was involved in many industries, mainly garment stores and cloth villages. ”

I see, Meng Xiaoran nodded, "It seems that it's because our Jinyi Fang is blocking their financial route, so you want to invite me to tea?" ”

The cuckoo couldn't help laughing, "The slave thinks the same way, master, so should we go?" ”

Meng Xiaoran thought about it, and then looked at the address on the invitation, it was in Yunzhou Restaurant, and he didn't dare to do anything in such a public venue.

"Since he wants to talk to me, let's go, after all, they are all peers, look up and don't look down, I don't know if there will be cooperation in the future, it's not good to offend him, he made an appointment with Shen Shi, let's clean up, you come with me, let Lily stay at home."

The cuckoo nodded, "Yes, master, the slave and maid will go down and prepare." ”

In order to travel conveniently, Meng Xiaoran had already bought a carriage a few days ago and came back, but every time he went out, he still had to go outside to find a temporary coachman, there were many such coachmen outside, and he relied on driving carriages for people every day to earn some silver, and there were a lot of them outside Buyi Lane.

The cuckoo went out for a while, and soon found a coachman, asked him to wait outside the door, and went in to serve Meng Xiaoran to change his clothes and put on a hat, and Lily was instructed to stay at home, she sent the two to the carriage, and watched the carriage leave before returning to the yard.

Meng Xiaoran and Du Juan sat in the carriage, neither of them spoke, perhaps because he was a little tired recently, Meng Xiaoran leaned there to close his eyes and recuperate, Du Juan didn't dare to make a sound when he saw this, so I don't know how long it took, Meng Xiaoran was suddenly woken up.

"Master, master, wake up quickly......"

Meng Xiaoran woke up and saw Du Juan's anxious and vigilant face, she leaned closer and whispered: "Master, something is wrong, there must be something wrong with this coachman, he took us out of the city, I just felt that the time was a little long, so I opened the curtain to see, but I didn't expect to be out of the city." ”

Meng Xiaoran was shocked when she heard this, and immediately lifted the curtain, sure enough, she was already outside the city, and the more she walked, the more desolate she became, she also realized that there must be a problem, but fortunately, she had some martial arts, so she was not so worried.

After the carriage was bought, Meng Xiaoran carefully studied the structure, knowing that the back could be opened, and if they quietly removed the plate behind the carriage, it should be no problem to jump out of the carriage.

"Cuckoo, you and I will remove the back panel of the carriage and be quiet." Meng Xiaoran whispered to her, and the cuckoo nodded immediately when she heard it, and the master and servant got up quietly, lifted the curtain behind the carriage, and then moved the board gently, although it was spliced together, it took some effort to remove it.

The two didn't dare to move too much, moved cautiously, and after a while, beads of sweat oozed from their faces, and finally the baffle was removed, the two glanced at each other, Meng Xiaoran motioned to the cuckoo to jump down first, but the cuckoo shook his head desperately, and said to her silently: "Master, you go first!" ”

Meng Xiaoran had no choice, so she had to jump lightly, jumped out of the carriage, and then beckoned to Du Juan and asked her to come down quickly, only to see that she jumped down very easily, and ran towards her quickly, Meng Xiaoran was slightly stunned, and then realized that Du Juan may also have martial arts.

Before she could think about it, the carriage in front had stopped, and oops, the man had found out!

Meng Xiaoran and Du Juan glanced at each other, the two nodded, and immediately jumped into the body, and fled back with light skills, as long as they returned to the city, they would be fine.

But the two seemed to have misestimated each other's strength, and before they could fly out of ten meters, a group of people appeared in front of them, all holding bright knives in their hands, Meng Xiaoran stopped, looked around, and found that they had been surrounded.

Du Juan suddenly pulled out a soft sword from his waist, blocked Meng Xiaoran behind him, and said coldly: "Who are you, do you know who my master is?" ”

"Haha, I don't care who you are, someone paid us to catch you, it's only to blame you for messing with people you shouldn't be messed with!"

Du Juan snorted coldly, "Do you know the former imperial merchant Shen family?" Our master and Shen Qian, the third son of Shen, are close friends, if you dare to hurt half a hair of our master, just wait for the third son of Shen to settle accounts with you! ”

Meng Xiaoran looked at the cuckoo in front of her, and instantly understood who she was, and at that moment she suddenly felt a strong emotion in her heart, and she couldn't figure out what it was for a moment.

She looked around, then walked out, "Who sent you to arrest me?" How much silver did he give you? I can give you double, as long as you let us go. ”

Who knew that these people were also a little bloody, they just laughed when they heard the words, and then the leader said: "Since we have collected the money, we must do things for others, I have always done things morally, and never do that kind of backsliding." ”

"Hmph, I can't see it, you're quite principled." Meng Xiaoran knew that he couldn't make peace, and said with a sneer.

The cuckoo whispered to Meng Xiaoran: "Master, the slave and maid will rush out of the hole with them later, you leave quickly." ”

"Their target is me, it's useless, you give me the sword, I'll cover you later, hurry back to find Shen Qian, and tell him that I was captured." Meng Xiaoran said in a low voice.

How could Du Juan agree, she was arranged to Meng Xiaoran's side to protect her, how could she leave at this time, "Master, you listen to the slave maid say that the slave maid was sent by the son to protect you, no matter what, it is impossible to leave you, if you don't leave, then we can only stay." ”

"If I can go, I will naturally go, but if you look at the current situation, can we still go? Listen to me, we still have a glimmer of life. Meng Xiaoran snatched the sword from her hand as she spoke, and the two quickly exchanged hands with each other.

The situation was as Meng Xiaoran expected, these people's martial arts were not weak, Du Juan's martial arts were very high, but the other party had too many people, and the two of them couldn't get out of so many people's hands at all, Meng Xiaoran and her back to back, and said quickly: "I'll go over and entangle them in a while, you hurry up, remember the location here, and find Shen Qian to save me!" ”

The cuckoo knew that this was the only way to do it now, and she nodded solemnly, "Master, you have to take care!" ”

Meng Xiaoran nodded, lifted her sword and rushed forward, as soon as those people saw her passing, most of them surrounded her, and Du Juan took the opportunity to repel a few people around him, flew away, and quickly went back in the direction from which she came.

Seeing this, those people immediately wanted to chase after them, Meng Xiaoran suddenly stopped at this time, and the people led by him immediately called out to those people, "Forget it, don't chase it, our purpose is to catch this woman, as for the rest, don't worry about it, just catch her and send her over there, and we will complete the task." ”

Meng Xiaoran thought highly of this person in her heart, obviously he had not completely lost his humanity, she threw the soft sword on the ground, smiled at them and said, "Okay, where do you want to send me, take me there, I won't run, I can't run anyway." ”

When the man saw her like this, he also laughed, "Okay, it's a cheerful person, but in order to prevent you from playing tricks, I still have to tie you up. With that, he nodded at the people on the side.

Immediately, two people stepped forward to hold Meng Xiaoran by the shoulders, and someone came to pull her hands behind her, tied her up with ropes, and then sent her back to the carriage with the rear plate unloaded.

The carriage galloped quickly, and after another quarter of an hour, at an intersection, the men let the coachman leave, and the carriage was thrown on the side of the road, and the men grabbed Meng Xiaoran and performed light feats, and finally stopped in front of a Zhuangzi.

A middle-aged man came out and handed over to the leader, looked at Meng Xiao and nodded, and after handing him a few silver tickets, the group left, and the middle-aged man called a few maids to come over, and escorted Meng Xiaoran into Zhuangzi and locked him in a room.

Meng Xiaoran heard that the door was locked, and she never understood, who was going to arrest her? These people didn't seem to want to harm her, and a thought suddenly crossed her mind, could it be him?

She immediately shook her head and denied this idea, no, no, no, that person is now in a high position, and he is too busy with government and politics all day long, where is there still time to be distracted to come to Yunzhou to find her?

Who else would there be? She will only come out today after receiving Zhao Quansheng's post, could it be him? Does he want to get rid of himself? But if it was really him, wouldn't it be good to let those people kill him directly, why did he go to great lengths to arrest himself in this Zhuangzi?