In order to show his importance to Rong Hong, in the early morning of the next day, after arranging the affairs in the barracks, Wu Chaoyue hurriedly returned to Shanghai City, preparing to personally accompany Rong Hong to visit the weapons laboratory of the Zijun with Huang Sheng, and also to see if he could find an opportunity to talk to Rong Hong alone.

When he arrived at his own house, because the house outside the city was destroyed by the war, Huang Sheng, who temporarily lived in Wu's house, was still changing clothes, Wu Chaoyue waited patiently, but suddenly heard a sparse collision sound from the West Cross Courtyard, Wu Chaoyue entered the West Cross Courtyard to check the situation in confusion, but saw Xiao Luoli Feng Wanzhen was cleaning up a freshly broken flower pot, and there was a lancet next to it, it was obvious that the flower pot was the masterpiece that she accidentally injured during her morning exercise.

Sure enough, seeing Wu Chaoyue suddenly appear, Xiao Li's cute little face immediately turned red, and she stood up and said writhingly: "Brother Wu, I'm sorry, I broke your flower pot again." ”

"Broken again?" Wu Chaoyue smiled when he heard this, stepped forward to pat Xiao Luoli's cute double ponytails, and said: "It's okay, let's break it, Shanghai City has just been recovered, and my family has not had time to take care of it, and there is still a little mess, and there are many people living in it and there is no extra space." After a few busy days, I will ask someone to set aside a courtyard for you to practice martial arts. ”

Xiao Luoli thanked her writhingly, and Wu Chaoyue asked again: "By the way, I haven't had a chance to ask you, are you still used to living here?" ”

"It's boring." Xiao Luoli pursed her mouth and told the truth, and said: "I have nothing to do at home every day, not to mention that I can play everywhere like before, my mother doesn't even allow me to go out, I'm bored to death." ”

"Why?" Wu Chaoyue was a little strange and asked: "You can shoot and earn money by yourself when you are in the capital, why is your mother not even allowing you to go out now?" ”

"Not because of you?" Xiao Luoli was straightforward and straightforward, and said: "My mother said that since I live in your house, I have to look like a girl." If you run around like you used to and get into trouble, you and your grandfather will look down on me, and I ...... with you. ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Luoli finally found out that something was wrong, and quickly closed her mouth, and her face suddenly turned red to the base of her neck, but Wu Chaoyue smiled slightly, patted Xiao Luoli's cute double ponytail, and said: "It's okay, if you want to play, just go out and play, if your mother objects again, you can tell her directly, saying that I won't mind, and my grandfather won't mind, I allowed you to go out to play." ”

"Really?" Xiao Li, who had been stuffed for a long time, was overjoyed when she heard it.

Wu Chaoyue nodded with a smile, stroked her jet-black hair and said, "It's not good to blame me, I'm busy with official and military affairs all day long, and I haven't had time to accompany you around Shanghai until now." In this way, you can take the two maids around first, see what you like in Shanghai, and when I am busy for the past few days, I will definitely find time to accompany you. ”

Xiao Li's face was even redder, but she also nodded again and again, and Wu Chaoyue pinched her smooth little face again, and said with a smile: "As for whether you are in trouble, if you like it, just go ahead, and report my name immediately if you get into trouble." Don't forget, your future minister is the envoy of Jiangsu, and I am in charge of all the affairs of the Jiangsu lawsuit, no matter how you get into trouble. ”

Hearing Wu Chaoyue's flamboyant tongue, Xiao Li's face began to be hot, but it was unfortunate that when Wu Chaoyue just wanted to continue to move his hands and feet on his inner Dingxiao San, Huang Sheng's voice had already come from outside the courtyard, Wu Chaoyue was helpless, so he had to pat Xiao Li's cute double ponytail again, said sorry and stuffed Xiao Lili with some pocket money and left quickly, leaving Xiao Lili in the courtyard with a red face, her heart beating fast, and at the same time secretly disappointed - after coming to Shanghai, Wu Chaoyue and her alone time was indeed pitiful.

Poor Feng Xiaoluoli is indeed bored in the old Wu family, with Wu Chaoyue's personal permission, Feng Xiaoxiaoli also found her mother and asked to go out, at first Feng's mother had to object, but after learning that Wu Chaoyue didn't mind Feng Xiaoxiaoli's madness, and considering that it was not a way for her lively and active daughter to be bored at home for too long, Feng's mother finally agreed to let her daughter go out. Feng Xiaoluoli was overjoyed, and hurriedly took two maids who knew the way out, and went directly out of the city to the Huangpu River Waiyang Wharf that she had long wanted to visit.

The Shanghai wharf that had just been destroyed by the war was devastated, but it was still more than a little more prosperous than the mites-infested capital, and there were countless Western things that could never be seen in the capital. And when she learned from the maid that the concession was more prosperous and lively than the wharf, the lively and active Feng Xiaoli did not hesitate, and immediately took the maid to the concession outside the north gate of Shanghai.

Walking along the city wall all the way to the north, I just saw the prosperous concession in the distance, I never thought that there was a noisy and noisy sound from the civil wharf on the right, Feng Xiaoluoli looked curiously and followed the sound, but saw some Qing soldiers arguing with people on the dock, the active Feng Xiaoluoli did not hesitate, and immediately ran over to see the excitement.

When she arrived at the scene, Feng Xiaoluoli first saw a middle-aged woman in coarse cloth clothes arguing with the Qing soldiers, "You are the long-haired spy, your whole family is a long-haired spy!" Lady, I am a Qing citizen from Anhui, and I brought my goddaughter here to find relatives, why do you say that we are long-haired spies? ! ”

"Not a hairy spy? So what are you doing with knives? The chief of the Qing army asked, and said: "Immediately hand over the weapons, come with us, find out if you are not a long-haired spy, and let you go immediately!" Otherwise, be careful, I'm not kind to you! ”

Roaring, the chief also asked his subordinates to raise the arquebus to force the middle-aged woman to put down the shoulder knife in her hand, but a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old immediately stood next to the middle-aged woman, protected the middle-aged woman with his body, and said to the Qing soldiers with a vigilant expression: "A few military masters, can you talk about it?" We came to Shanghai from Anhui, and there were long-haired bandits everywhere along the way, can we not bring some weapons to defend ourselves? Also, our hometown has also suffered from long hair, and my mother and I hate long hair to the bone, how can it be their spies? ”

"Less nonsense!" The Qing army commander was very rude, and shouted: "Take it down immediately, search their bodies, and see if there are any hairy letters." ”

The warm-hearted Feng Xiaoluoli couldn't stand it anymore, because the mother and son still had a young girl who was her age, and they were already scared to tears, and if they were really searched by the Qing soldiers, the consequences would be unimaginable. So Feng Xiaoli immediately stood up and shouted, "Stop! Do you want to be shameless? Some big men, searching women's bodies? ”

Everyone's eyes were naturally focused on Feng Xiaoluoli, seeing that Feng Xiaoxiaoli was beautiful and luxuriously dressed, those Qing soldiers didn't dare to mess around, and the chief asked carefully: "Dare to ask this young lady, who are you?" ”

Feng Xiaoluoli took out her name, but unfortunately there were no middle school textbooks in this era, and those Qing soldiers naturally didn't know her famous name. But it's okay, the maid of the Wu Mansion brought out by Feng Xiaoluoli is very good at pulling tiger skins to make big banners, and said to the Qing soldiers: "A few military masters, she is the fiancée of our Jiangsu envoy Wu Chaoyue Wu Zhentai. ”

Wu Chaoyue's name was of course a bad thing for these Qing soldiers, and under the shock, the dozen or so Qing soldiers hurriedly saluted Feng Xiaoli together, and said respectfully: "I've seen Mrs. Zhentai." Mrs. forgive your sins, the little ones don't know that you are Wu Zhentai's wife, and they have offended you a lot, I hope you are a lot of adults, and don't be like the little ones. ”

Feng Xiaoluoli, who had not officially married Wu Chaoyue, had a flushed face, extremely shy but did not deny it, but at this moment, a crisp girl's exclamation suddenly came into Feng Xiaoluoli's ears, and when Feng Xiaoluoli looked at it suspiciously, she saw that it was the girl she was about to rescue who screamed, and looked at her in disbelief, with a look of horror on her equally delicate and moving little face. At the same time, her mother and son companions were also shocked, and they all looked at her blankly as if they couldn't believe it at all.

When Feng Xiaoli was puzzled, the commander of the Qing army had already explained to her, "Mrs. Zhentai, it's not that the little ones are deliberately making things difficult for these three people, it's that they all have weapons, or they are from Anhui, where a large number of soldiers are recruited by Long Hair, and the little ones have to check them carefully." ”

"But two of the three of them are women." Feng Xiaoluoli defended the mother and son and the others, and pointed to the girl in coarse cloth clothes and said: "You pay attention, that little girl has wrapped her feet, I heard ......, I heard Xianggong say that although there are female soldiers in the long hair, they are all female soldiers with heavenly feet, don't wrap their feet, so how can they be spies with long hair?" ”

Feng Xiaoluoli has said it to this point, of course those Qing soldiers did not dare to continue to entangle, and the commander of the Qing army hurriedly praised Mrs. Zhentai's wisdom and martial arts, and then obediently left with his subordinates. As a result, after the Qing soldiers left, the warm-hearted Feng Xiaoluoli walked in front of the mother and son again, and asked gently: "Auntie, little sister, are you okay?" Don't blame those military masters, Shanghai's long-haired ones have just been beaten away by the official army, and there are still a lot of long-haired ones hiding in the people of Shanghai, so they investigated them strictly. ”

"We're fine, thank you." The middle-aged woman shook her head, looked at Feng Xiaoli suspiciously, and asked, "This young lady, are you really Wu Chaoyue's wife?" ”

As mentioned earlier, since the battle of Tianjin out of the city, Feng Xiaoluoli has been deceived by Wu Chaoyue, which will be asked by the middle-aged woman in public, although Feng Xiaoluoli is very shy, she also nodded and said: "But it is not officially married." ”

For some reason, the faces of the mother and son suddenly changed greatly, and the beautiful little Luoli who was about the same age as Feng Xiaoluoli was even more tearful, and when the middle-aged woman went to see her, the beautiful Xiaoluoli also snuggled directly into the arms of the middle-aged woman, crying bitterly, "Godmother...... ”

"Good, don't cry, there's a godmother." The middle-aged woman patted the delicate little girl on the back and said softly: "Yuru is good, you will be fine, even if you really meet Chen Shimei, the godmother will take care of you for the rest of your life." ”

"Why are you crying so sadly?" Feng Xiaoluoli was confused, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Auntie, why is the little sister crying?" What do you mean by Chen Shimei? ”

Glancing at Feng Xiaoluoli, whose appearance was no less than that of her goddaughter, the middle-aged woman said hatefully: "My goddaughter met a negative Chen Shimei!" Her family was ruined, the family was almost killed by Long Hair, and her grandfather was exiled to Xinjiang again, I originally brought her to Shanghai to find her fiancé, who would have thought that her fiancé had changed his mind and had other women! That's why my goddaughter cried so sadly! ”

Feng Xiaoxiaoli's face changed, and she shouted without thinking about it: "Who is that Chen Shimei?" Auntie, I'll take you to see Brother Wu and let him call the shots for you! My eldest brother Wu is a procurator in Jiangsu, and all the lawsuits and criminal cases in Jiangsu are under his control, so I asked him to arrest and punish Chen Shimei, who was unsympathetic! ”

The middle-aged woman looked at Feng Xiaoli a little dumbfounded, seeing that Feng Xiaoxiaoli's beautiful little face looked serious, and her anger and hatred for Chen Shimei did not seem to be fake, the middle-aged woman couldn't help sneering, nodded and said, "Okay, then thank you very much." ”

Feng Xiaoluoli is indeed a jealous and hateful warm-hearted, and decisively gave up the rare opportunity to go out to play, and immediately led the mother and son back to the city, during which she had to ask the maid where Wu Chaoyue was now. It's a pity that Wu Chaoyue is so busy that his feet don't touch the ground all day long, and the two maids can know Wu Chaoyue's whereabouts, but this is not difficult for Feng Xiaoluoli, Feng Xiaoluoli quickly said: "Then go to grandpa, ask grandpa to make decisions for the eldest lady and them first, and also ask grandpa to send someone to find Brother Wu." ”

In this way, Feng Xiaoluoli really led the mother and son to the customs yamen near Xiaodongmen, and had already learned from Feng Xiaoxiaoli that it was Wu Chaoyue's grandfather who was sitting in the customs yamen, and the angry middle-aged woman did not wait for Feng Xiaoxiaoli to let the officials report, and rushed directly to the customs yamen's shocking drum, and knocked the drum hammer all the time.

Things soon got bigger, although the old comprador Wu who was also confused didn't care about civil affairs, but since someone beat the drum, the old comprador Wu still hurriedly ascended to the court, and when he saw his satisfied future granddaughter-in-law leading the drummer to the court, the old comprador Wu was inevitably even more puzzled, and hurriedly asked: "Wanzhen, what's wrong?" ”

"Grandpa, please help me catch a Chen Shimei."

Feng Xiaoli was very coquettish, so she ran directly to the side of Wu Lao comprador and hugged his arm, and quickly told Wu Lao comprador about the situation of the mother and son, and then shook Wu Lao comprador's arm and said coquettishly: "Grandpa, I don't know where Brother Wu is now, so I can only ask you for help in this matter." Look how pitiful this young lady is, you must redo the Chen Shimei who bullied her! ”

"It's really not a family, if you don't enter a family, and before you officially marry the old man's grandson, you will first learn his troublesome temper."

complained lovingly, and shook his head helplessly, Old Comprador Wu still asked the middle-aged woman: "Say, who is the person who regretted marrying your goddaughter?" Where do you live? What is the identity? ”

"Lord Wu, the one who regrets his marriage to the daughter of the people's daughter is your grandson, and Wu Chaoyue is the envoy of Jiangsu."

The middle-aged woman's sneering answer almost didn't make Old Comprador Wu faint, and also made Feng Xiaoluoli dizzy on the spot, and asked in exclamation, "Is that Brother Wu?" ”

The middle-aged woman nodded with a sneer, and after coming back to her senses, Wu Lao comprador also jumped up, pointed to the equally delicate and moving little Luoli and exclaimed, "Your goddaughter?" Do you have to have a relationship with the old man's grandson? Really? Why didn't the old man know about this? ”

"Lord Wu, if the people's daughter doesn't have real evidence, then dare to sue the officials with the people?" The middle-aged woman replied with a sneer, and then asked her goddaughter Yang Yuru to take out the marriage certificate and let the official pass it to the old comprador Wu.

In just one marriage book, Wu Lao comprador read it more than ten times, and rubbed his eyes several times during the period, and finally confirmed that the ugly signature on the marriage book was his baby grandson's handwriting, Wu Lao comprador raised his head in surprise and muttered: "Little girl, who are you?" When did you get married to my grandson, why didn't the old man know about it? ”

Next, of course, it was Yang Yuru's turn to cry, and after introducing her identity and background, Yang Yuru cried again about the destruction of her family and the process of being rescued, and said that when her godmother and brother-in-law took her to Hezhou to find the matchmaker Li Hongzhang, it happened that Li Hongzhang had been defeated by the Taiping Army and did not know that she had fled there, and her godmother and brother-in-law were helpless, so they had to take her directly to Shanghai to look for Wu Chaoyue, and then what happened just now.

During the period when Yang Yuru cried about her tragic experience, Wu Lao comprador has not been silent, and has been carefully looking at his legitimate granddaughter-in-law, or until Yang Yuru finished crying and thinking for a long time, Wu Lao comprador slapped the shocked wood and yelled: "Someone! Go and arrest the old man's unfilial grandson right away! ”

"Master, we heard you right, right?" The official next to him asked cautiously, "Do you want us to arrest Wu Zhentai?" ”

"That's right! Lock it up! The old comprador Wu yelled: "What if he is bigger than the old man? The old man wants to kill his relatives today, and ruthlessly clean up this Chen Shimei, who regrets her marriage and is privately engaged for life behind her husband's back! ”

The officials agreed if they didn't dare to laugh, and hurriedly picked up the chain and ran out to arrest Wu Chaoyue, while the old comprador Wu got up and left his seat, and walked to his righteous granddaughter-in-law to comfort her, promising that he would definitely force his grandson to give her an explanation. At the same time, the old comprador Wu was still muttering happily in his heart, "Little bastard, he still has some eyesight, not to mention being beautiful, and he was born in a scholarly family, after the official eunuch, such a granddaughter-in-law will not embarrass the old man." ”

"I ......, I'm not dreaming, am I? Brother Wu, is he such a person? ”

When Feng Xiaoluoli was dizzy and pinched her thighs, Wu Lao comprador also remembered to thank the godmother of his genuine granddaughter-in-law, and asked about their names, the middle-aged woman replied that she was Nie, and the young man who had been standing straight replied: "Back to Lord Wu, the villain's name is Nie Shicheng." (To be continued.) )