Chapter 18: Heartbeat
Jiang Lan said busily,
"I'm not a thief!"
The man in black ignored her,
"Whether it's a thief or not, you'll know when you go to the government to hit the 20th board."
Jiang Lanqian hurriedly argued,
"I am the daughter of Dr. Jiang Boqi, I am not a thief, if this matter is big, my father will not easily forgive you."
When the man in black heard this, he shook his fan and sneered.
"What is Dr. Jiang Boqi? Haven't heard of it. ”
"Take it away, there are more and more thieves escaping nowadays."
At the other end of the long street, Lu Danruo wrapped himself around Jiang Ruofu and pulled one of his sleeves,
"Cousin, do you like to eat hibiscus cakes, recently my aunt found a chef in Jiangnan, hibiscus cakes are very good, I want to learn from her, I learn, I will make it for you to eat."
Jiang Ruofu responded indiscriminately.
The little maid behind him had already carried many boxes and followed behind.
But Lu Danruo didn't seem to have enough shopping, and Jiang Ruofu couldn't spoil her interest, so she had to continue shopping.
Suddenly, a group of big men appeared in front of him, those big men Jiang Ruofu didn't know, but the man in black at the head couldn't pretend not to see it when he met it.
It was Wen Guqi's second brother Wen Guyu.
Born weak, very gloomy, completely two faces to different people.
Handsome but dark.
Wen Guyu obviously also saw Jiang Ruofu.
The fan in his hand turned, stepped forward first, and said,
"Eldest brother."
The attitude is not deferential, but it is beyond reproach.
Wen Guyu looked at Lu Danruo behind Jiang Ruofu, and the corners of his mouth raised,
"The son of the world came out with his sister-in-law today, and it seems that I swept the Yaxing of the son."
Lu Danruo didn't seem to like Wen Guyu, so she hid behind Wen Guqi.
Jiang Ruofu took advantage of the situation to block her and didn't let Wen Guyu look at her.
Jiang Ruofu put his hands behind his back, lowered his voice, and pretended to be calm,
"Danruo is just my sister, the trouble comes from the mouth, and the second brother should pay attention to his words."
And Jiang Lanqian, who was following behind, desperately struggled to restrain her people.
I was so anxious that tears were about to fall.
She is a woman from an official family, if she is touched on the arm and shoulder by a few lowly men today, and she swaggers all the way through the market, her reputation will be over.
How else can she get married?
What's more, there is also this reputation for thieves who can't be explained clearly.
If the government is confused, she will be beaten first and then tried, no matter whether she can argue clearly or not later, she will definitely be punished.
If it is even worse, the yamen will not be able to judge clearly, and she will have to bear the reputation of a thief for the rest of her life.
Jiang Lanqian wanted to explain, but she didn't dare to explain again, for fear of attracting the attention of passers-by, she could only lower her head as much as possible to prevent others from seeing her face.
Moreover, even if it is explained, this group of people is afraid that they may not be able to listen.
Jiang Lan wanted to cry without tears, and when she saw the eldest lady being punished, she thought that today was a good day, and wanted to come out to breathe, but she didn't expect that disaster would fall from the sky and be accused of being a thief in vain.
Jiang Ruofu inadvertently saw a familiar figure in that group of big men.
Although Jiang Lanqian tried her best to keep her head down so that no one could see her face clearly, Jiang Ruofu still recognized her at a glance.
After all, it is a wall of people, who meet day and night.
Jiang Ruofu was puzzled in his heart,
Why is the second sister here?
Without waiting for Jiang Ruofu to think about it more, Wen Guyu said leisurely,
"I won't bother Shizi and Miss Lu, and I'll take my leave."
Jiang Ruofu said busily,
"Wait!"
Wen Guyu stopped and looked at Jiang Ruofu,
"What? The prince wants me to accompany him? ”
"It's a pity that I still have to do it, so I can only miss it."
Jiang Ruofu looked at Jiang Lanqian, she couldn't help but feel a little nervous,
"What are you doing here?"
Wen Guyu followed Jiang Ruofu's line of sight and turned around, and saw Jiang Lanqian who was being held hostage.
He smiled,
"A thief, just about to send the official."
"This is my business, so I won't bother with my eldest brother."
Unexpectedly, Jiang Ruofu walked directly to Jiang Lanqian.
Those big men didn't dare to stop Jiang Ruofu, Wen Guyu looked at Jiang Ruofu's back, his eyes gradually became alienated and cold.
He lowered his voice,
"What is this going to do?"
"Could it be that even my prince has to meddle?"
Jiang Ruofu was stunned and stopped, but in a moment, she realized that she was not the concubine of the Jiang family, but the noble son of King Chen.
She stopped her back and turned around slowly, her narrow peach blossom eyes narrowed slightly,
"Then why does the second brother think that I am not qualified to meddle in your affairs?"
For a moment, she gave people an indescribable sense of oppression.
Suddenly, it was very much like Wen Guqi, the son of King Chen, who had always been cold and indifferent.
There was a slight hint of sharpness in those narrow peach blossom eyes, Wen Guyu and Jiang Ruofu looked at each other, but she didn't let them at all.
Lu Danruo looked at Jiang Ruofu and recalled her cousin's surprising gentleness in the past few days, but those thoughtful gentleness made her feel unreal.
And although Wen Guqi at this moment in front of her is cold, he is more like the person she admires in her memory.
Jiang Lanqian raised his head, and what he saw was a tall back, dressed in a white wide-sleeved robe, with a straight back, like a jade tree in the wind.
And from afar, the man in black who faced her seemed to be confronting the boy in white.
But the next moment, the eyes of the man in black were lowered and retracted, and he bowed his head to the man in white, he slowly lowered his eyes and said respectfully,
"Wherever the prince says, the prince is noble, and he is naturally qualified to intervene."
Jiang Lanqian heard the word Shizi, and her heart moved.
And Jiang Ruofu looked at Wen Guyu like this, but he actually felt very uncomfortable in his heart.
Because Wen Guqi and Wen Guyu are brothers or brothers next to each other, the difference between the two is only two months.
But Wen Guyu's attitude towards Wen Guqi is not like a younger brother to an elder brother, but more like a slave to a master.
The voice called her son instead of the eldest brother, obviously she was still-for-tat one moment, but the next moment she whispered to her.
It's true, the alienation is strange.
No wonder the prince specially instructed her to pay more attention to Wen Guyu and not communicate with him more.
Wen Guyu gave her an inexplicable sense of threat, and she couldn't get rid of it no matter what.
Jiang Ruofu looked at Jiang Lanqian,
"She can't be a thief."
The surrounding eaves dripped rain, the rain passed through the azure, and the bluestone slabs all the way were deep blue, and the traces of the rain stretched to their feet.
The moment Jiang Ruofu looked at Jiang Lanqian, time suddenly became very slow, and in Jiang Lanqian's eyes, all the senses around him were magnified.
The rain was dripping, the wind was blowing, and the white clothes moved with the wind in her eyes.
Jiang Lan heard him clearly,
"She can't be a thief."
The voice is low and steady, and the tone is flat, but it gives people great confidence and affirmation.
At the same time, she could see the faces of the people who came.
The face is handsome and outstanding, and the eyebrows are long into the sideburns, especially the pair of affectionate peach blossom eyes, for some reason, she actually feels that there is a smile in those eyes.
Her heart was beating a little faster.
The heart that was still sad and anxious just now was ironed by the spring breeze at this moment.
But soon, there was a microwave and a pool of spring water was blown.
Jiang Ruofu looked at Wen Guyu steadily, and said loudly,
"She is the daughter of Dr. Jiang Boqi, and there is no reason to risk losing her reputation and ruining the rest of her life to steal your things."
"What's more, she is a weak woman who can't martial arts and is unarmed, and the possibility of being able to run away on the street after stealing is almost non-existent, and it is too risky for her to steal."
"Second brother, don't you want to say that Miss Jiang, a weak woman, can steal this Jade Buddha from your dozens of big men, right?"
Jiang Lanqian's hand trembled slightly, and her pupils involuntarily dilated.
This son... Know who she is?
Wen Guyu approached,
"But as long as the temptation is big enough, someone will take the risk to do it."
Wen Guyu opened the burden on the street like this, and inside was a white jade Guanyin with a clear body of ice.
The color is good, and the market is priceless.
"Shizi, this is the Jade Guanyin to be dedicated to the Queen Mother, which is priceless."
"There is absolutely no second piece of such material in the world, and it is normal for someone to pass by and see wealth, and he is hot-headed for a while, and he wants to snatch the Jade Buddha recklessly, isn't it normal?"
Jiang Ruofu glanced at the Jade Buddha, and his eyes turned to Jiang Lanqian.
Jiang Lan hurriedly waved her hand, anxiously arguing,
"I didn't, Childe, it's really not me."
Jiang Ruofu didn't look at Jiang Lanqian again, but said confidently,
"She can't be a thief, and now you are taking her to the government, which is naturally useless, and you have wronged people in vain."
"And, too, miss the real thieves and let the real thieves get away with it."
Wen Guyu didn't smile at his skin,
"Then you can only give the prince some face."
"I didn't expect that if I met Miss Lu today, forget it, the prince actually has other women to protect."
"It's boring, it's boring."
Wen Guyu took the jade Buddha, and Jiang Ruofu also knew that he was about to settle down.
Unexpectedly, Wen Guyu actually lifted the jade Buddha high and fell on the spot.
The jade was shattered all over the ground, and the sound was as crisp as a gurgling spring, but it was indescribably piercing and piercing.
Lu Danruo subconsciously hid behind Jiang Ruofu and screamed,
"Ahh
She dodged the splattered debris.
Jiang Ruofu hurriedly held her hand and comforted her in a low voice,
"It's fine."
Lu Danruo calmed down a little, but he was still short of breath, as if he was frightened.
Wen Guyu wiped his hands with the cloth of the Jade Buddha, and threw it into the arms of his subordinates, with a gloomy smile,
"Shizi, what happened today is a misunderstanding, I haven't bought the Jade Buddha, and no thieves have stolen my Jade Buddha. When there was a misunderstanding, I invited this ......."
Wen Guyu was silent for a while as if he was thinking,
"This Miss Jiang drinks tea, but people don't want to, and you don't want to, so I have to do it."
Jiang Ruofu frowned.
Wen Guyu looked at the fragments of a place, and kicked at a minion,
"Why?"
"Why don't you sweep the long street now! Don't get in the way of the prince, if you get in the way, you will be taught a lesson if you keep you indiscriminately. ”
This is said in a weird way.
The slave was kicked and took several steps back, but he reacted quickly, knelt on the jade fragment on one knee, and said in a loud voice,
"It's in the way of the prince, please be magnanimous and forgive you, otherwise the second son will go back, and he may not know how to punish the slave."
The splinter pierced the man's leg, and blood seeped out immediately.
However, this was not over, the man immediately stretched out his arm and bowed high and fell to the ground, and the jade fragment pierced the face and arm of the next person.
Lu Danruo subconsciously "hissed", and hurriedly hid behind Jiang Ruofu, not daring to look again.
The man said in a loud voice,
"It's a small one who doesn't know the etiquette, and he collided with the prince of the world, and the scum all over the ground is all small ones that haven't had time to clean up, and they have dirty the eyes of the prince."
Although he admitted his mistake, the minion's voice was loud, and his tone was not half respectful, as if he wanted passers-by to hear his words clearly.
The servant continued,
"In the final analysis, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, the slave followed our second son, the second son wronged people everywhere, confused right and wrong, and even the slaves were so rude that they didn't know the number of etiquette, and I also asked the prince to have a large number of adults and let go of the small ones."
This is full of yin and yang weirdness.
But it just happened to be in harmony with Wen Guyu's temperament.
Jiang Ruofu frowned,
This slave is really a henchman of Wen Guyu, and the strength of yin and yang is the same.
didn't say that he didn't admit guilt, but he made a big fuss and took the opportunity to scold the second son, Wen Guyu, but if you think about it carefully, where is the scolding of Wen Guyu for not distinguishing between right and wrong?
This is obviously saying that she does not distinguish between right and wrong.
The upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, the top beam here is not the eldest brother Chen Wang Shizi?
The second son, Wen Guyu, was crooked, but it was all because the prince of Chen Wang himself was not right.
On the surface, he scolded Wen Guyu, but in fact, he scolded her thoroughly.
People who don't know, seeing this look, I'm afraid they only think it's Jiang Ruofu's fault, and they deliberately make it difficult, asking people to kneel on the scum of debris and kneel to admit their mistakes with blood.
Ruthless and cruel.
Lu Danruo couldn't listen to it anymore, she said angrily,
"What are you dog slaves talking about!"
Lu Danruo originally wanted to help Jiang Ruofu, but when she said this, it was in line with the minion's intentions.
The minion directly raised his palm covered with blood, slapped his face left and right,
"Damn it!"
"Damn it!"
"The life of a slave is cheap, and it is not a pity to die!"
"I collided with the prince of the world, it's not a pity to die!"
And Wen Guyu watched with interest from the side, as if this person's actions were quite satisfactory to him.
The blood on the hands of the next person stained his face, with the yin and yang weird curses of scolding himself and the sound of "pop" and "pop" slapping himself, the picture became more and more uncomfortable.
Jiang Ruofu's eyes sank, no wonder the prince said that Wen Guyu had a withdrawn temperament.
What you see in front of you is not just a withdrawn personality.
Careful and careful, not giving a cent, the yin and yin and yang weirdness in the temperament are particularly uncomfortable.
Jiang Ruofu didn't pay any attention to Wen Guyu and the subordinate.
She turned around and walked towards Jiang Lanqian, who looked at the extremely outstanding son walking towards her.
The heart beats uncontrollably.
He... Walking towards her.
Jiang Ruofu stood in front of her, or because she was a sister, Jiang Ruofu's tone naturally carried a sense of intimacy.