Qin Baichuan always had a skeptical attitude towards Cheng Yanran's words, but after some observation, when talking about Chen Heming, Cheng Yanran looked at Qin Baichuan from beginning to end, her eyes did not dodge a little, and it didn't seem like she was lying. For a while, Qin Baichuan was a little undecided.

"The concubines who should say and shouldn't say are not hidden at all, if Mr. still has questions, just ask." Cheng Yanran wanted to get up and pour tea for Qin Baichuan, but found that Qin Baichuan's teacup hadn't even moved, so she had to turn around and sit down.

"If it's really as you said, you already knew that the whole thing was inseparable from that woman surnamed Cheng, why did you deliberately direct my investigation direction to Li Desheng?" Qin Baichuan asked casually.

"I knew that Mr. had a misunderstanding about the concubine." Cheng Yanran shook her head and said: "I have lived in Anyang for fourteen years, and after I took charge of the painting boat, I also secretly cultivated a group of my own forces, and attracted many dignitaries, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't find out the origin of the woman surnamed Cheng. ”

"Even if I told Mr. so much truthfully last night, you can't find a woman surnamed Cheng and have no way to start, wouldn't it be a waste of time?" Cheng Yanran explained righteously: "Desheng Gong is different, he covers the sky with one hand in Anyang, wouldn't he be able to get twice the result with half the effort with his help?" Besides, I didn't guide Mr. to be an enemy of Desheng Gong, I just said, 'This Anyang big and small things can't be hidden from Desheng Gong', I'm afraid that Mr. was a lot wary of me at that time, and he didn't give the concubine a chance to explain the situation at all. ”

Cheng Yanran glanced at Qin Baichuan resentfully, and her expression was quite dissatisfied: "Having said that, the woman surnamed Cheng is like a fish in water in handling various affairs in Anyang, and many characters with heads and faces in black and white have to sell her a few thin noodles, how can there be no huge forces behind her?" And in Anyang, who can ensure that the sea breeze does not move and the water does not shake for more than ten years, who else can there be except Desheng Gong? ”

Cheng Yanran seemed to dispel all Qin Baichuan's doubts, and continued uninterruptedly: "Maybe if Mr. wants to come, the post carriage only earns a mere two or three thousand taels of silver every year, and Desheng Gong doesn't care about it. If it had been placed in the past, it was true that Desheng was righteous and squandered money, and this bit of silver might not be enough for him to ask the beauty to smile. Sir, have you ever thought that a few years ago, when the coastal army was turbulent, the coastal army often did some things at sea to plunder merchants and rob and kill corrupt officials. ”

"I seem to get it a little bit." Qin Baichuan is a smart person, and he can guess a little clue without others needing others to say too clearly: "Now, Li Desheng has broken through the fame of Desheng Gong and righteous Bo Yuntian, and he can no longer rob his family and rob the rich to help the poor, which is equivalent to cutting off the source of sudden wealth." Moreover, now that Dasong is relatively stable internally, even if Li Desheng still wants to return to his old business, I am afraid that what awaits the coastal army will be a devastating blow to the imperial court. ”

"Besides, Desheng bus friends have to spend silver, bubble sisters have to spend silver, and playing with antique calligraphy and painting is a lot of expenses, if you add thousands of brothers waiting to eat, in fact, the silver has long been stretched. There are some things that Li Desheng can't do openly, so he secretly cultivated the sea breeze painting boat, and although the annual income of two or three thousand taels of silver for the post carriage is not much, it is enough for a month's ration for the coastal army, isn't that what it means? ”

"It's a pleasure to talk to Mr., and there are many less concubines." Cheng Yanran pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "The concubine didn't want to tell Mr. so much, but Mr. made the concubine tremble last night's temptation, so I asked Mr. to come over and make a special trip to resolve the misunderstanding." ”

"Miss Cheng has a heart, as long as she doesn't deliberately target Fairview Villa, someone Qin is willing to make you a friend." The authenticity of Cheng Yanran's disclosure of the information needs to be further discussed, but after saying that, Qin Baichuan has also changed some of his attitude towards her.

"The concubine has worn a wedding dress for her husband, but the word friend is used lightly." Cheng Yanran glanced at Qin Baichuan: "It's a pity that the concubine is in the bureau at this time, and she can't help herself, if she wasn't afraid of implicating the disaster on Mr., the concubine really wanted to follow Mr. regardless of it." ”

"Don't." Qin Baichuan waved his hand and said, "Everyone in Jiangling knows that there is a tigress in my family. ”

"How can you talk about your own lady like that?" Cheng Yanran laughed and said: "I'm afraid that after you got married, you are still attracting bees and butterflies outside, so your lady will give you a face, right?" But you don't have to worry about me, if I insist on following you, your lady will beat or punish me, what else can she do? ”

Most Dongying women in the family will put their posture very low, so Cheng Yanran can say this kind of thing, Qin Baichuan is not surprised. If it was when he first came to this world, Qin Baichuan would definitely have to help but talk to her for a few words, and even actually operate the realistic version of Mr. Cang's movie with her. But after going through so many ups and downs, especially since there are several women around him who have not yet sorted out their relationship, Qin Baichuan doesn't want to play ambiguous anymore and cause trouble for himself.

"I don't know if Mr. is happy in Fairview Villa, if you are not happy, or if Mr. is tired, it is better to let the concubine elope with you." Cheng Yanran waited for a while, and seeing that Qin Baichuan didn't mean to speak, she suddenly said again.

"Take me to elope?" Qin Baichuan's eyes widened: "You're not mistaken, right?" Even if it is elopement, it is a man with a woman. ”

"Mr. can't do that kind of thing, so he has to take the initiative by the concubine." Cheng Yanran is not a big praise woman, although she knows that women should be reserved, but she doesn't care too much about this kind of etiquette that binds people, and said very calmly: "Anyang is surging, and all forces are staggered, and it has long become a place of right and wrong. Take a peek and see the whole leopard, the whole Dasong is also the trend of the mountain rain, as the people of the Dasong, it is too difficult for Mr. to be alone. ”

"Instead of living in fear in Dasong, why don't you take the concubine to Dongying, let's find a remote island, grow flowers and raise fish, and spend the rest of our lives in peace?" Cheng Yanran smiled sweetly: "In my memory, when the cherry blossoms bloom in Dongying, the scenery is like poetry and painting, and Mr. will definitely like it." ”

"Under the cherry blossoms, hugging a beauty and tasting fine wine is indeed a great pleasure, but although someone in Qin did not praise the plot, Jiangling is my root, and I have no plans to leave for the time being." In fact, Qin Baichuan also yearns for the life described by Cheng Yanran, but now that everything is entangled, he can't retire after success: "Maybe I will figure it out in the future and find a place to live in seclusion...... Hey? Miss Cheng, don't you still have an enemy in Dongying? ”

"The Deyang family?" Cheng Yanran's face was flushed with a hint of coldness: "Many acts of injustice, the Deyang family has indeed been prosperous for a few years, but later the family fell into the middle of the road and was gradually alienated by the shogunate. ”

The ridicule and murderous intent in her eyes were almost substantial, Cheng Yanran narrowed her eyes and said: "There are still more than thirty old, weak, sick and disabled people left in the Deyang family, when I find a chance to go back to Dongying, arrest them all, dig up their ancestral graves in front of them, and then kill them all, this revenge will be avenged." ”

"Ruthless!" Qin Baichuan gave a thumbs up, Cheng Yanran's idea was very vicious, but the Dongying people beat the Dongying people, and it had nothing to do with him.

"In Sir's opinion, the concubine may be a murderous female demon king, but if Mr. was also killed when he was five years old, and lived in fear for more than ten years, you will understand my approach." Cheng Yanran calmed down for a long time and dispersed the anger in her body.

"Miss Cheng's experience is sympathetic, Qin has not experienced it, and he doesn't want to experience it." Everything that should be asked has been asked clearly, and what should be said is not hidden, Qin Baichuan got up and said, "Thank you Miss Cheng for your hospitality, Qin will leave first." ”

"It's fine." Cheng Yanran didn't keep it this time, and got up to see off the guests: "Sir, many of what I told you today are just speculations, if the final result is a little different from this, it is not that the concubine deliberately deceived him." In any case, the concubine's heart for her husband is like a bright moon, and only heaven and earth can learn from it. ”

This girl does not leak, Qin Baichuan smiled indifferently, nodded and thanked and left the Sea Breeze Painting Boat. Along the way, Qin Baichuan chewed the things that Cheng Yanran said over and over again, and after careful analysis and comparison, he suddenly realized a very strict problem - it seems that Cheng Yanran was right, and the problem finally fell on the coastal army.

The monkey who was running around was also full of doubts and wanted to ask clearly, but when he saw Qin Baichuan's fingers tapping the carriage rhythmically, his brows were tightly locked, he didn't dare to bother, slowed down the car slightly, and didn't return to the Anyang branch until the middle of the month.