Ji Yanning's courtyard quickly returned to calm, and the people under him were busy with the things at hand in an orderly manner.

Ziyu walked into the room with the pastry, and looked at Ji Lan sitting in the room wearing a goose-yellow plain gauze skirt, her hair was combed into a simple and generous look, and there were not many hair accessories on her head, but only a tasseled pearl jade hairpin was enough to attract people's attention.

Ji Lan's current appearance is very imaginary from the way Ji Yanning dresses up in normal times, plus they are about the same height and covered with a veil, if they are not very familiar with Ji Yanning, I am afraid that they will not be able to recognize the difference.

Seeing Ziyu standing at the door with a pastry, Ji Lan's eyes looked over, and he said impatiently: "Don't bring the things over yet!"

Ziyu lowered her eyes and placed the delicate pastry in her hand on the table.

Ji Lan picked up one of the crystal clear pastries and put them in his mouth, the pastry melted in his mouth, and the cold made it extra comfortable between his lips and teeth, which was a good thing.

Ji Yanning's food and clothing are excellent, and now it seems that this is indeed the case.

Those clothes and jewelry are all enviable, even the pastries are so exquisite.

"Does the third young lady have any other orders?" Ziyu asked with her head down, but her tone was not as respectful as that for Ji Yanning.

This third lady is too difficult to serve.

Let her pretend to be the eldest lady, she is moving around with the eldest lady's things, fortunately, the eldest lady has never cared about these jewelry and clothes, and let Bao Chang Ji send some more in the future, but the appearance of the third lady is clearly to occupy the magpie's nest!

Ji Lan listened to Ziyu's words and raised his head to look at Ziyu: "What do you call me?"

Ziyu was puzzled: "Third Miss?"

Ji Lan said: "Since I am pretending to be a big sister now, don't make a mistake when you call me in the future, you have to call me eldest lady." ”

Ziyu choked, then bit her lip and said, "Miss." ”

Seeing Ziyu compromise, Ji Lan's mood was really good, she ate a few more pastries, got up and walked towards the dresser, looking at all kinds of gorgeous jewelry in the cabinet, it was rare to see Ji Yanning wear it out on weekdays.

These things are really a waste to Ji Yan.

She picked up a string of pearl necklaces and touched them carefully with her hands, and sure enough, each one was crystal full and exquisitely made, such a string of necklaces was expensive.

Ziyu stood behind Ji Lan and said, "The eldest lady doesn't like too luxurious ornaments. ”

What she meant was that if you pretended to be her now, you should pretend to be good, and don't make any other noise.

Ji Lan listened to Ziyu's words and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Is it?, then since the eldest sister doesn't like it, it's a waste to put it away, so it's better to give it to me." ”

"You!" Ziyu frowned, "Miss's things, not everyone can take them casually." ”

Ji Lan turned her head to look at Ziyu, a little disliked this maid who was in the way, she threw the pearl necklace in her hand directly back into the drawer, turned around and sat down on the stool next to the table.

"I'm thirsty, go make me tea. Ji Lan commanded.

Although Ziyu didn't like the third miss, after all, it was Steward Wu's order to let her serve the third miss as the eldest lady, so she had to do it.

If she hadn't known that the eldest lady was okay now, she wouldn't have been willing to come to serve Ji Lan!

In the past, when they were in the Ji family, Ji Lan and Ji Wan'er often came to the eldest lady to ask for things, all kinds of ornaments and treasures, sometimes they didn't ask for themselves, and they were found to be sisters, so what if they borrowed it!

But what they borrowed, they never returned!

Originally, I thought that the eldest lady had become like this, and after being powerful, the people in the third room would never dare to provoke the eldest lady again, where did they think that the third lady would come again, and said to Steward Wu that they were worried about the eldest lady, but in fact, it was just to satisfy their own selfish desires.

Ziyu was a little reluctant to go down to make tea for Ji Lan and withdrew from the room.

Li got the news that she had come to Ji Yanning's courtyard, she walked in quickly, and as soon as she stepped into the room, she saw Ji Lan sitting at the table dressed like Ji Yanning.

"Lan'er, what are you doing here!" Li stepped forward.

Ji Lan stood up, looked at his mother, and said, "Steward Wu should have already told his mother about the matter." ”

Li frowned, Steward Wu had indeed told her, saying that he planned to let Ji Lan pretend to be Ji Yanning.

"You can just find a maid to come to this matter, you can join in the fun!" Li was very puzzled by her behavior.

Ji Lan said: "If those maids pretend to be Ji Yanning, won't they be seen at a glance?"

Li said: "It can be seen that it has nothing to do with you, Wu Geng has already decided to exchange 50,000 taels of gold for Ji Yanning to come back." What's more, I don't know how many people are eyeing Bao Chang Kee now, what if you pretend that something happens to her?"

Now Jiangzhou City is in chaos, and there are many people staring at Baochang Ji, Ji Yanning's abduction is the best proof, and now Ji Yanning hasn't come back yet, Ji Lan pretending to be her, isn't it causing a lot of trouble for herself?

Ji Lan stepped forward and said to his mother: "Now that Ji Yanning is in the hands of the robbers, they naturally know that the eldest lady of the Ji family is fake, and my eldest lady is just pretending to be shown to the shopkeepers and stewards of Baochang Ji, and they will not pose any threat to me." ”

Ji Lan's eyes moved slightly, but he had a different plan in his heart.

Seeing that he couldn't persuade Ji Lan, Li said, "That's it, you just have to know it yourself." ”

This daughter of mine is really becoming more and more disobedient to her discipline.

The family affairs that she looked at before couldn't even look down on any of them, and her heart was too high.

Seeing that Li's attitude eased, Ji Lan also chuckled, she stood in front of Li, turned around, and asked, "Mother, do you think I look good dressed like this?"

Ji Lan is wearing the style that Ji Yanning likes on weekdays, and the material is the best material in Baochang Ji, which looks a little bit like Ji Yanning.

Li nodded: "It's really good-looking." ”

Although it is a little worse than Ji Yanning's temperament.

Outside, it was rumored that the eldest lady of the Ji family had been rescued by the guards and returned to the Ji Mansion, but she was a little frightened and needed to recuperate, so she didn't see anyone for the past two days.

Wu Geng was checking the accounts, closing some shops in Jiangzhou City, and settling the money of Baochang Ji.

These two preparations made Yan Xiaoming and Beigong Han a little strange.

If Ji Yanning really returned to Ji Mansion, it shouldn't be such an action, she already knew Yan Xiaoming's intentions for Bao Chang Ji, and with her temperament, it was impossible for her to hand over Bao Chang Ji's money so easily.

So why did she do that?

She told everyone so openly that she had returned to the Ji Mansion, so she was not afraid that the government would do anything else to Baochang Ji?

However, now that the Ji family is tightly defended, ordinary people can't go in to find out whether the "Ji Yanning" inside is true or false.

Wu Geng is now raising money, perhaps preparing for the ransom, I don't know which is what they are really planning.

Therefore, Beigong Han felt that it was necessary to fight quickly, and he couldn't drag the mud and water anymore.

Ji Yanning, that woman is not comparable to ordinary people, and she has more ghost ideas in her heart!

If you can't grasp the initiative, you can only be led by Ji Yanning.

On the third day of Jinhe's departure, the entire city of Jiangzhou was under martial law, and the reason given by the prefect's yamen was that there were major suspects mixed in the city of Jiangzhou, and in order to arrest the criminals, the people in the city were not allowed to let them go without the permission of the prefect.

While Yan Xiaoming sent people to search the city, he also wrote down an ultimatum to Baochang that they must prepare what they wanted on the second night.

Some of the stewards in Baochang Ji have already received the news, and they are afraid that Steward Wu wants to close the shop of Baochang Ji, so they have asked to see the eldest lady, and they have even made trouble in Ji Mansion, so they have to see Ji Yanning.

Ji Lan was resting in the courtyard, Ziyu hurried over, walked into the room, and said, "Three...... Miss, now the shopkeepers of Bao Chang Ji are asking to see you, and Steward Wu said that you should put on a veil and go out to deal with it, and don't speak. ”

Ji Lan frowned slightly when he saw Ziyu's anxious appearance, and said with some displeasure: "I know, you don't have to be so flustered, if you don't want to be discovered, don't be careless." ”

Ziyu bowed her head and fell silent.

Ji Lan walked outside, put on his veil, and walked towards the hall of the main courtyard.

She took a deep breath, her eyes sinking.

Although she was prepared, when she stepped into the hall and saw many shopkeepers and stewards sitting inside, she was inevitably apprehensive, and she felt a little afraid for a while, and she didn't even know whether to continue walking in.

Wu Geng glanced at Ji Lan and stepped forward and said, "Miss!"

When the others saw her figure, they all stood up and saluted her, "Miss." ”

Ji Lan eased his mind, and finally stepped forward, looking at the main seat in the hall.

Only Ji Yanning can sit on the throne in front of so many people at this age, right?

Everyone saw that she was veiled and behaved a little strangely, but they thought that she was probably a little frightened because she was kidnapped, but they didn't pay much attention to it.

"Miss. A shopkeeper stepped forward and said, "Now that Steward Wu has closed all the shops in Jiangnan, and even the goods cannot be supplied, is this what you mean? I don't know why we want to do this? We are also the old men of Baochang Ji, if we encounter something, we have to let us know." ”

"That's right. The other chimed in, "What's the matter with closing the shop for no reason!"

"Steward Wu has been taking care of Baochang Ji for so many years, we are naturally trustworthy, but we have to give a reason, otherwise we will make a decision inexplicably, and no one will be comfortable in their hearts. ”

A few shopkeepers and stewards said a word, Ji Lan's eyes flashed slightly, and he didn't speak.

Steward Wu said: "The eldest lady is unwell, but she also knows about this matter......

As soon as he opened his mouth, he said two words, and a small servant hurried over from outside, and seemed to be reporting something important in Steward Wu's ears.