When he stepped out of the carriage, looking at the mansion in the high-walled compound in front of him and the surrounding streets, the expression on Yan Liqiang's face was slightly strange, he didn't expect Zhong Ruolan to actually live here, because a few steps from here, he arrived at the place where he and Ye Xiao had a story with the Ye family, that place was one of the turning points of his fate.

"Yan Gongzi, please here!" The housekeeper of the mansion was already waiting respectfully outside the door, and Yan Liqiang got out of the carriage and was welcomed inside.

This time, Yan Liqiang did not bring any entourage, and even the carriage he rode in was a four-wheeled carriage produced by the brand-new manufacturing bureau sent by the Zhong family to Yan'anbao.

This time I came to Pingxi City again, Yan Liqiang had nothing to do, and the whole person's mood was different, there was a feeling of vacation, the steam engine came out, the wool textiles came out, the Kyudo Society came out, the new spinning machine, the new loom came out, Yan Liqiang felt that his layout had been basically completed, and the rest of the things, in the overall situation, were no longer important, the only thing he had to do now was to wait, wait for the bullets to fly for a while.

Under the leadership of the housekeeper of the mansion, Yan Liqiang walked through the corridors and courtyards in the mansion, and finally came to a courtyard with lush trees and fragrant birds.

"The young lady will hold a banquet in the water pavilion in the garden to welcome the son, and the son can go in by himself!"

"Okay, I'm tired!" Yan Liqiang nodded to the housekeeper, and then walked into this courtyard, in the Han Empire, especially in the northwest, Yan Liqiang saw such a delicate garden, with the charm of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

There is a pond in the garden, a large lotus flower in the pond is budding and waiting to be released, in the clear pool water, a group of carp is playing in a good way, and on the willow tree by the pool, a group of birds are chirping happily, several rockeries are like a screen to isolate the whole garden into several independent and interconnected parts, there is a sound of spring water murmuring in the artificially dug stream covered with pebbles, a white moon flower is blooming brightly by the stream, attracting a group of bees to be busy among the flowers, this garden looks not big outside, but it is quite deep inside, Yan Liqiang walked for a while, only to see a water pavilion by the water, the beautiful sound of the piano followed the intoxicating breeze, and gently came out of the water pavilion......

The breeze blew the white yarn in the water pavilion into the air, and in the flying white yarn, Yan Liqiang saw Zhong Ruolan, who was dressed in snow-white light yarn, caressing the piano.

It is really a pleasure to watch a beauty like Zhong Ruolan stroke the qin, even if Yan Liqiang is not very proficient in music, but he can also hear that Zhong Ruolan's piano attainments are very superb, almost the highest piano attainments among the people he knows......

Yan Liqiang, who came to the pavilion, didn't make a sound, just silently took off his shoes, sat quietly opposite Zhong Ruolan, closed his eyes, and enjoyed this rare moment of leisure.

I don't know how long it took, at least more than ten minutes, until the sound of the piano stopped, and the aftermath lingered, Yan Liqiang opened his eyes, smiled slightly, and began to applaud, "Miss Ruolan's piano skills are really good, even if I don't understand the rhythm, I can hear that Miss Ruolan's piano skills have entered the realm, admire, admire!"

Zhong Ruolan looked at Yan Liqiang with a pair of big watery eyes, "Seeing that the son closed his eyes, Ruolan still thought that the son disliked Ruolan's appearance and did not fit the eyes of the son?"

"Miss Ruolan laughed, if people like Miss Ruolan are not good-looking, then there will be no good-looking people in the world!" Yan Liqiang smiled, "Just now I just heard that Miss Ruolan's piano sound seemed to have a special meaning, as if someone was talking in the piano, so I closed my eyes and listened carefully, if there is any disrespect, please forgive Miss Ruolan!"

Zhong Ruolan's eyes lit up, but at the same time, the smile on her face became thicker, "Oh, then I don't know what Yan Gongzi heard from Ruolan's piano sound?"

"Miss Ruolan's piano sound seems to be light and cheerful, but in fact it is a little dignified, full of heart, the sound of the piano in the light wind and light, but also like the legacy of the orchid, born in the empty valley, let you fragrant peerless, no one to smell, occasionally picked by people, brought into the world, but can only be put in the workshop, as a decoration, and the vulgar flowers, and the green leaves for spring, bosom friends are hard to find, confidants are hard to find, inevitably sad, but it is rare to be sad but not sad, fall into the world but not in the vulgar, a little heart fragrance, own heaven and earth reward, Miss Ruolan thinks I am right!"

Zhong Ruolan was stunned, looked at Yan Liqiang blankly for a long time, her eyes seemed to be faintly red, and finally sighed faintly, "Bosom friends are hard to find, confidants are hard to find, Ruolan really didn't expect to be lucky enough to meet Yan Gongzi in this Pingxi City, Yan Gongzi can hear these from Ruolan's piano sound, then the Zhong family's intention to let Ruolan go to Pingxi County, Gongzi is afraid that he already knows it, but he didn't say it, Ruolan is ashamed, he didn't mean to deceive Gongzi before, Ruolan is by no means a water-based Yanghua person, please don't blame Gongzi!" After speaking, Zhong Ruolan got up and bowed deeply to Yan Liqiang.

Yan Liqiang hurriedly helped Zhong Ruolan up, and said sincerely, "Miss Ruolan doesn't need to care, life in the world, where can everything go well, everywhere is perfect, Miss Ruolan is a member of the Zhong family, since she was selected by the Zhong family, it is natural to contribute to the Zhong family, I will never look down on Miss Ruolan in my heart!"

"If the son doesn't dislike it, call me Ruolan in the future!"

"Okay, then I'll call you Ruolan!" Yan Liqiang said calmly, the two of them looked at each other, each of them smiled, as if they got to know each other again, and the atmosphere between them became much closer all of a sudden.

"Childe is worthy of being a masterpiece in the world, Ruolan can know Childe, it is really Ruolan's luck!" Zhong Ruolan looked at Yan Liqiang with bright eyes, "Before knowing Childe, Ruolan didn't believe that there would be people like Childe in the world, and after knowing Childe, Ruolan finally believed that in this world, there are indeed people like Childe, who can turn over and manipulate the world, and influence the general trend of the world!"

Yan Liqiang was stunned for a moment, and quickly shook his head, "Ahem, Ruolan said that I was joking, I just luckily broke into a little reputation, where is Ruolan so powerful?"

"At this moment, there are only two of you here, so why should Childe deny it!" Zhong Ruolan shook her head, still smiling, " Gongzi made cloth with wool and used cloth as a rope, and he had already put it on the neck of the seven divisions of the Gulang Grassland, but the seven divisions of the Desert had not yet reacted, and everyone in the world only saw the gold and silver mountains brought by the woolen cloth, and when the Seven Divisions of the Desert knew what was going on, the Gulang Grassland, I am afraid that it would still fall into the hands of the child, and the son himself could take back the Gulang grassland for the Han Empire without a single soldier. Such a means, those emperors and generals in the past dynasties, who can have them, Ruolan said that Gongzi is a masterpiece in the world, where can Gongzi not be?"

Yan Liqiang's heart was shocked, he looked at Zhong Ruolan blankly, watched it for half a minute, and finally sighed, touched his chin, smashed his mouth, and said slightly embarrassed, "Ruolan...... This one...... You see...... Am I not going to be able to admit it now?"

Zhong Ruolan covered her mouth and smiled, her beautiful eyes flowing, "What do you say?"

"Okay, tell me what hush money you want, I said in advance, you want to offer too high, I can't take it!" Yan Liqiang smiled and said in a joking tone.

Zhong Ruolan looked calm, "I don't want any hush money, I will try my best to help you, and if you wait until the day when you really become Qi Yun's guardian, I want to ask you to promise me one thing!"

"What's the matter?"

"Help me kill someone!"

"Who?"

"Ann...... North...... Will...... Army...... Stone...... Tao!" Zhong Ruolan said word by word, her eyes staring at Yan Liqiang's eyes tightly.

After only hesitating for less than two seconds, Yan Liqiang nodded and said simply, "Okay, I promise you, if I really become Qi Yun's guardian, I will kill Shi Tao, then I also want to ask, how are you going to help me?"

Hearing this question, Zhong Ruolan's face showed a hint of blush, and then she took a deep breath, trying her best to make the expression on her face appear calm, "If you want me to really help you, you must marry me first and become the son-in-law of the Zhong family......"

"This ......" Yan Liqiang scratched his head.

"Your marriage with the Lu family can allow you to gain a firm foothold in Pingxi County completely, if you marry the Zhong family, with the strength of the Zhong family, the entire northwest will be in your pocket in the future......" Speaking of this, Zhong Ruolan glanced at Yan Liqiang, and suddenly said faintly, "Do you think I am not as good-looking and understanding as the young lady of the Lu family?"

"Of course not!" Yan Liqiang's expression was strange, "It's just that I think this kind of thing seems to be something I should take the initiative to say, why do you say it, I feel a little weird!"

Zhong Ruolan got up suddenly, turned the table between the two, came to Yan Liqiang, knelt down, then smiled, and kissed Yan Liqiang lightly on the face, "Do you still feel strange now?"

"Well, a little, it was too fast just now, I haven't reacted yet!" Yan Liqiang glanced at Zhong Ruolan's light gauze dress, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said.

Zhong Ruolan gently kissed Yan Liqiang's lips this time, and after a few seconds, they separated, "What about now?"

"It still feels strange!" Yan Liqiang shook his head, serious, "This strength and heat don't seem to be enough!"

"Then how is it enough?" Zhong Ruolan glared at Yan Liqiang amusefully and angrily.

"...... like this" In the midst of Zhong Ruolan's coquettish cry, Yan Liqiang had already hugged Zhong Ruolan in his arms, and then kissed Zhong Ruolan's delicate lips heavily......