Chapter Twenty-Five: Miss General?
A carriage decorated with silk drove slowly, and the horse was snow-white without a trace of stray hair, and it was shining, as if it were covered with silver threads.
The horse's head was raised high, his eyes were shining, and his hooves were vigorous and powerful, and he guessed the majestic sound on the bluestone slab.
Inside the car sat a young man dressed in a crescent white brocade robe, and an old man of about 40 years old.
This old man's name is Liu Quan, a military general, and he was afraid of scaring the students, so he had to suppress his breath and ask in a low voice, "Who is making a noise?" ”
As soon as Liu Quan finished asking, he saw An Manyue in the crowd at a glance, thinking that he had seen it wrong, but he rubbed his eyes, and without waiting for someone outside to reply, he lowered the curtain and turned his head to look at the young man sitting beside him.
"General, I seem to have seen the old lady," Liu Quan finished in a panic, only then did he realize that he had said something wrong, and corrected, "Bah, the lower official said it wrong, that woman is really similar to the old lady when she was young." ”
The young man was none other than Bai Qi, the general of the Great Xia Kingdom, he glanced at Liu Quan and asked lightly, "Huh?" ”
"Yes, it's exactly like the old lady." Liu Quan originally started with General Bai, and he was able to get to this point all thanks to the support of the Bai family, and because of this, he had seen the old lady when she was young.
Bai Qi glanced at Liu Quan, and Liu Quan opened the curtain with understanding.
At just one glance, Bai Qi was stunned, the young woman was exactly like his mother.
"Go down and see." Bai Qi glanced at Liu Quan, leaned back in the chair and closed his eyes.
"Yes." Liu Quan responded softly.
Lord Chen hurriedly opened a way out of the crowd, walked to the carriage, and bowed respectfully: "The lower officials see Lord Liu, and they are disappointed, and they hope that Lord Liu will atone for their sins." ”
The curtain of the carriage was opened, Liu Quan got down from it unhurriedly, he glanced at Lord Chen, and said with a smile: "It's just passing by here, I heard the noise, what happened?" ”
"Lord Liu, it's just that a couple with unclean hands and feet stole something, and the lower official is preparing to punish it severely, but I didn't expect to disturb you, it's the lower official."
Lord Chen sincerely apologized, and his appearance was completely different from that in front of An Manyue.
An Manyue frowned slightly, and was about to speak, when he was pulled behind by Ning Yongchuan.
"Lord Liu, this matter is wronged." Ning Yongchuan bent down at Liu Quan and said, "My lady was first framed by Mrs. Li for her reputation, Mrs. Li not only did not apologize, but also accused my lady of stealing her hosta, we explained to Lord Chen, the hosta was newly bought by us yesterday, and we can find the shopkeeper to come over to confront us, but Lord Chen couldn't help but convict us, and begged Lord Liu to return my lady's reputation and innocence." ”
When Ning Yongchuan said Li Xiu'er, he didn't forget to glance at Li Xiu'er.
Lord Chen was weak-hearted by Ning Yongchuan's words, and said angrily: "Dare to make a fool of the people, dare to talk nonsense in front of Lord Liu, don't kneel and bow, you guys gag him down!" ”
Several guards surrounded him.
Ning Yongchuan glanced at Lord Chen and asked rhetorically: "Lord Chen, I remember that this dynasty stipulates that Xiucai can not kneel when he sees officials, right?" ”
Lord Chen's face changed, he had seen that the couple had an extraordinary bearing, but when he saw that they were not dressed well, he thought that their whole family would provide for a child, if he knew that the man was a showman, he would definitely not be so partial.
But it's too late to say anything at this point, and the only thing Lord Chen can do is to hold on.
An Manyue stood behind Ning Yongchuan, and she realized the reason why Ning Yongchuan didn't let her come forward to speak.
The guards looked at each other and retreated.
"No need to salute." Liu Quan was originally from a grass people, if he hadn't followed General Bai Lao to fight in the south and the north, how could he become an official, so he was most impatient with the red tape of the literati, so he stood aside, his eyes fell on An Manyue's body, and asked, "Is it the hosta on her head?" ”
"Yes." Master Chen silently wiped the cold sweat on his head, and at this time he only hoped that Li Xiu'er was not lying.
The reason why Li Xiu'er's surname is Li and not Chen is mainly because Li Xiu'er's mother does not invite her second brother and sister to see her, and she also specially invited a senior monk, saying that if Li Xiu'er's surname is Chen, she will kill Chen's family and so on.
When Lord Chen thought of this, he had a bad premonition in his heart.
"My lord, this hosta is mine," Li Xiu'er stood up with a pale face, pretended to be calm, and said, "The hosta is my dowry, this woman saw that my hosta was good-looking, so she stole it, and she still refused to admit it." ”
Seeing that Li Xiu'er stood up, Lord Chen nodded with satisfaction, and the two sides insisted on their own words, and he saw how Lord Liu would judge.
"In that case, invite the shopkeeper here!" Liu Quan's expression was faint, he looked at Ning Yongchuan, and asked, "Where did you buy the hairpin?" ”
"It's a shop from the past and present." Ning Yongchuan bowed slightly.
The people around were stunned, it has been a place to buy and sell antiques throughout the ages, and generally no one will go, who can afford such expensive things?
Lord Chen and Li Xiu'er were both stunned, and Mu Mu looked at Ning Yongchuan and An Manyue, just like them, they still dare to go to that kind of shop?
In the carriage in the distance, Bai Qi lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked at the woman with a frowning brow, her frown was exactly the same as his mother, the only difference was the eyes, this woman's eyes were brighter and more energetic.
Liu Quan asked his cronies to invite someone, and he was not in a hurry at this time, he chatted with Master Chen without a word.
The shop from the past and present is not far from here, and it only takes a quarter of an hour to go back and forth, and the shopkeeper Shen was invited.
Liu Quan asked An Manyue to show the hairpin to Shen's shopkeeper, Shen's shopkeeper only glanced at it, and said with a smile: "This hairpin was indeed sold by me to this couple, and there were nine hostas sold together at that time, and this set of hairpins originally had twelve, because there were two missing, I sold it to this brother cheaper." ”
Li Xiu'er's face was blue and white for a while, she didn't expect that the hosta was really what they had just bought, so her eyes were red in a hurry, and she hurriedly said, "I also have one like this." ”
"How could you possibly have?" Without waiting for Ning Yongchuan and An Manyue to speak, Shen Shopkeeper looked displeased and said, "This set of hairpins was originally called twelve jade hairpins, and there is only one set in the world, and it is impossible to have two identical ones. ”
Shen shopkeeper naturally couldn't dismantle his own desk, and said sharply.
Hearing Shen's shopkeeper say this, Li Xiu'er's ~ legs were trembling, she glared at An Manyue fiercely, tears fell, and said: "This is obviously my hosta, not her at all, you guys join forces to bully me, otherwise they are so poor, they will definitely not be able to afford it." ”
Hearing Li Xiu'er say this, the person who originally thought that Li Xiu'er was lying was a little hesitant.
An Manyue glanced at Li Xiu'er coldly, raised her hand, silently withdrew the jade bracelet on her hand and put it in the palm of her hand, and said calmly: "This is the jade bracelet that my father-in-law bought for me." ”
The women around them looked at An Manyue with envy, although they were dressed well, but there were few pieces of jewelry in their hands to go out, they also wanted it, but their own men slammed the door tightly, and said that the jade bracelet was useless to look good.
Li Xiu'er panicked for a while this time, her eyes fell on the jade bracelet in An Manyue's hand, and she couldn't quibble anymore at this time, and fell to the ground.
"You cheap hoof, you dare to deceive this official!" Seeing that the matter was revealed, Lord Chen turned his head at Li Xiu'er, and said righteously, "Come on, pull this shrew down and put her in prison!" ”
Li Xiu'er knew that she couldn't get close to Master Chen now, so she turned her head to look at Xianggong who was standing aside, but she didn't want to see only the cold back of her Xianggong's head.
Li Xiu'er's heart was even colder, and she was dragged down by the guards, and she looked at the handsome man who was putting on a bracelet for the woman, and the whole person was like falling into an ice cave.
The matter was finally resolved, and Ning Yongchuan thanked Lord Liu gratefully.
Liu Quan glanced at An Manyue from the corner of his eye, and said with a smile: "What is your surname?" ”
"Grass people Ning Yongchuan." Ning Yongchuan said neither humbly nor arrogantly.
"Okay." Liu Quan nodded with satisfaction, silently remembered the name Ning Yongchuan, didn't look at Lord Chen, and turned to leave.
Master Chen wanted to find Ning Yongchuan again, but when he heard the bell of the academy, he had to go back to prepare for the invigilation.
After An Manyue and Ning Yongchuan sent Ning Zezhi in, they walked back hand in hand as usual.
Bai Qi, who was sitting in the carriage, opened the curtain and looked at An Manyue and Ning Yongchuan in the crowd, his eyes were dark, and he asked, "Ning Yongchuan?" ”
"Well, he's still a showman." Liu Quan touched his nose and replied in a low voice.
General Bai had a son and a daughter in his life, and his daughter disappeared when she was two years old, and since then this matter has become a regret in the hearts of the old general and the old lady.
Liu Quan looked at the young woman standing beside Ning Yongchuan, if she was really the long-lost daughter of the old general, then she was the high-ranking general of the General's Mansion, and marrying such a little show as Ning Yongchuan was a low marriage, of course, Liu Quan didn't dare to say these words.
"Check, let me check the details of Ning Yongchuan's wife." Bai Qi's face was gloomy, his fingers clicked, and he lowered the curtain, "After we find out, we will go back to Beijing." ”
"Yes." Liu Quan responded, he really hoped that the woman was Miss General, so that the old general and the old lady would be very happy.
As for An Manyue herself, she didn't know that someone had already checked her again, she was full of pretending to be what meals she was going to prepare for the fourth child tomorrow morning and bring it into the examination room, and as for Li Xiu'er's matter, she had already left it behind.
"I'll accompany you when you go out in the future." Ning Yongchuan clenched An Manyue's hand and said softly.
"Well, okay," An Manyue is a homebody girl in modern times, with two points and one line at home and hospital, "By the way, what do you say I will prepare for the fourth child tomorrow, sushi, or cold noodles, or rice bowls?" ”
Ning Yongchuan looked at An Manyue dotingly and said, "It's okay." ”
An Manyue shook her head, her brows twisted into a ball, and she said in frustration: "You can't do this, if you are found by Su Wan'er, it will be terrible." ”
As soon as An Manyue's words fell, I saw Su Wan'er standing in the middle of the crowd from a distance, and her good mood suddenly disappeared, which really means that Cao Cao Cao arrived.