Since Yan Huaizhen and his mother made a vow in the temple that day, Jin Jiaojiao has not seen anyone from the Yan family for half a month.

Seeing that the wedding date was approaching, she had someone among her to meet Yan Huaizhen two or three times, but they were all rejected by his entourage on the grounds that they were busy with official business.

The people of the Yan family are so indifferent to this marriage, and Jin Jiaojiao grew up pampered when she was young, where did she suffer such a wretch.

But there is nothing to be done about the snubbing of this Yan family, so he can only secretly poke and poke at home to vent his anger.

Jin Wen found out the clue, naturally he couldn't see his daughter suffer a little grievance, so he immediately prepared a small profit, and personally went to the door to ask the teacher to ask for the guilt, but he didn't know that Yan Huaizhen's mother suddenly fell ill and was seriously ill in bed, so he had no time to take care of the marriage contract.

Yan Huaizhen asked for the marriage contract to be extended, and there was a reason for it, and Jin Wen saw that Mrs. Yan was seriously ill and didn't look fake, so he agreed.

After returning home, Jin Wen sent someone to invite the best doctor in the city to visit Mrs. Yan, and selected high-grade ginseng from home, and tonic medicines such as Ganoderma lucidum were given to the Yan family in the name of Jin Jiaojiao.

The marriage between the two was naturally shelved.

Early this morning, Jin Jiaojiao personally came to visit Mrs. Yan, but saw a luxurious carriage parked in front of Yan's house.

The word Ouyang was written on the lantern.

Ouyang of Bianjing City, who can take such a carriage, can't find a second one.

For some reason, a strange feeling came to her heart, and Jin Jiaojiao was inexplicably stunned by the word Ouyang.

After the Yan family was cleared, they led the people to the main hall.

"Miss Jin, wait a moment, my old lady is meeting your distinguished guest."

Before Jin Jiaojiao could ask who the distinguished guests in the house were, the servants put tea on the table and retreated, and she waited for three hours.

If it weren't for Jin Wen's repeated advice to restrain his temperament before going out, and be more considerate of Yan Huaizhen's mother who is still sick, if he takes care of it more, Jin Jiaojiao would have picked her son and left, where is there any patience to put a hot face on a cold ass.

Jin Jiaojiao's thought in her heart was that if Yan's mother still looked down on her like this after marriage, it should not be difficult to persuade Yan Huaizhen to move out and live separately with Yan Huaizhen's usual friendship for her, anyway, their Jin family has no shortage of houses, so there is no need to rush to see other people's faces to live.

Mother Liu couldn't bear to wait like this, so she went to find someone in the house to inquire, but there was still no result.

Another hour came, it was already the time for lunch, Jin Jiaojiao's face was dark, and when she was about to leave, the Yan family came out and said, "Miss Jin has been waiting for a long time, my old lady invites you to go to the dining room to eat together." ”

Xi'er wanted to question the next person a few words, but was quickly stopped by Liu's mother.

Before she arrived at the dining room, she only heard the sound of Yan's mother laughing and laughing in the room, Jin Jiaojiao sneered and pinched her ears, this was the first time she had seen a seriously ill person talking and laughing.

The voice is loud and the confidence is enough, I'm afraid it's not back to the light?

The laughter was harsh.

Stepping into the door, I saw that Yan's mother had a ruddy face, much better than when she was first taken into Beijing, and she was holding hands with a woman and chatting about family life.

It's not intimate.

The woman was thin, weak willow and windy, with upright and delicate facial features, and two curved eyebrows were very distinctive, looking a kind of morbid beauty, delicate and pitiful.

Jin Jiaojiao once met this person at the poetry collection meeting, Ouyang Qingzhi, the youngest daughter of the Shoufu Ouyang family, I heard that she has suffered from heart palpitations since she was a child, and she does not often walk around with the official lady in Beijing.

How could she appear in the Yan family?

Ouyang Qingzhi also saw Jin Jiaojiao, and showed a kind smile at her, but her eyes were dark and unclear.

Jin Jiaojiao walked up to them, and Yan's mother greeted Jin Jiaojiao to sit down as if she had just discovered her, and asked her subordinates to add a pair of dishes and chopsticks.

Mother Yan introduced: "Jiaojiao, this is Miss Ouyang, this time thanks to Miss Ouyang invited the imperial doctor Shen in the palace to see my old woman, I have seen a lot of folk doctors before and after, but it has no effect, and the imperial doctor in the palace has a way, after eating the prescription prescribed by the imperial doctor Shen, it will be much more refreshing in a few days." ”

Jin Jiaojiao didn't bother to echo her.

Seeing that she was indifferent, Mother Yan smiled awkwardly at Ouyang Qingzhi, and said by name: "Jiaojiao, don't thank Miss Ouyang soon."

Jin Jiaojiao looked at Yan's mother innocently with big eyes and was silent.

Thanks for what?

The scene became strange and embarrassing.

She thought to herself that her father had also invited a famous doctor in Bianjing to treat her, why didn't she thank herself at all?

And deliberately hung her in the main hall for so long......

Besides, Shen Yu didn't heal her disease, where did Xie come from?

"Aunt Yan, you are polite, that day outside the city, if it weren't for Aunt Yan and Lord Yan to save each other, the little girl is afraid that her life is in danger, I should thank my aunt."

Ouyang Qingzhi played a round game, "Your Majesty pities me for suffering from heart palpitations since I was a child, and for the sake of my father's face, I am allowed to see the little girl often in this palace. ”

Jin Jiaojiao thought again, how can this thank Your Majesty, this should be thanked to your father Shoufu for his big face, even Your Majesty has to look at your father's face.

Ouyang Qingzhi continued: "Besides, aunt, you are still red-faced, but you are not allowed to say that you are old, since Imperial Doctor Shen's prescription is effective, then why should we take medicine on time and completely cure this headache." ”

Jin Jiaojiao glanced at the crow's feet, frowning lines, forehead lines, and eye bags and tear troughs on Yan's mother's face......

No opinion was expressed.

"You kid, don't make fun of me, come on, eat vegetables, this pig's heart soup is good for heart palpitations."

Yan's mother filled herself with a bowl of soup and handed it to Ouyang Qingzhi, "I know that you love Yangzhou food, so I specially instructed the kitchen to make several Yangzhou specialties today, you eat more, see that your child is thin, and you need to make up for it." ”

Ouyang Qingzhi glanced at Jin Jiaojiao as if she didn't have any, and said, "Auntie, don't patronize me, sit down, these are all things that our juniors should do." ”

The Yangzhou dishes on the table are also Jin Jiaojiao's favorite food, Mother Yan and Ouyang Qingzhi, you say a word, and behave like an ordinary mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Thinking of Yan's mother's completely different attitude towards her and Ouyang Qingzhi, Jin Jiaojiao only felt that it was difficult to swallow.

It's redundant.

Mother Liu and Xi'er next to them watched their young lady being left out in the cold, but they couldn't do anything and couldn't speak, so they could only keep their eyes open and anxious.

"yes." Mother Yan squinted at Jin Jiaojiao meaningfully, "Otherwise, the children of official eunuchs know how to educate." ”

Jin Jiaojiao wanted to ignore Yan's mother's yin and yang weirdness, but emotionally she couldn't suppress the evil fire in her heart at all, and the chopsticks were pinched by her and gurgle, she really wanted to poke the chopsticks into her criss-crossing old face.

"Miss Jin, I see that you haven't touched your chopsticks much, is it because the food is not up to your appetite?" Ouyang Qingzhi asked with concern, like a hostess.

"No, the food is delicious, very appetizing."

It's just that you don't have an appetite, Jin Jiaojiao is holding her breath in her heart, and she just wants to get out of here quickly, otherwise she can't guarantee that she can do something.

The sky was like a mirror that could reflect Jin Jiaojiao's mood, gloomy and gloomy, and after a while, lightning and thunder roared, and it rained heavily.

Raindrops rolled down from the eaves like beans, snapping into the corners.

The official family of the King of Jinfu came from the rain curtain in a robe, and he was in a hurry.

It turned out that there was a problem with a batch of medicinal materials at the Jin family wharf, so Steward Wang was in a hurry to find Jin Jiaojiao to deal with it.

Naturally, lunch could not be used anymore, Jin Jiaojiao said goodbye to Yan's mother, and Ouyang Qingzhi enthusiastically handed Jin Jiaojiao an oil-paper umbrella to cover the rain from the rain.

"It's raining heavily, Miss Jin be careful."

Jin Jiaojiao took the umbrella, but heard Yan's mother in the house coldly say: "How can there be a little bit of a boudoir woman, showing up all day long, isn't it a shame for our Yan family." ”

She held the umbrella for a moment, Yan's mother's voice was not loud or small, just enough for her to hear, the thunderstorm season was sweltering, and it had never rained, but Jin Jiaojiao felt that she was drenched in the cold.

"Thank you, Miss Ouyang, the umbrella will be returned another day."

With that, she turned around and walked into the rain without looking back. Ouyang Qingzhi stood under the eaves, watching Jin Jiaojiao's figure disappear completely into the rain curtain with an expressionless face, and then walked into the house with a gentle smile, accompanying Yan's mother to talk and laugh.

Yan's mother is so painstaking, she just wants Jin Jiaojiao to recognize the gap between her and Yan Huaizhen, and the gap between a famous girl like Ouyang Qingzhi.

Jin Jiaojiao's embroidered shoes stepped on the rain, soaking from the inside out, and she laughed bitterly to herself, Yan's mother wanted Yan Huaizhen to marry the daughter of a family like Ouyang Qingzhi, just like she desperately wanted to be an official's wife, it didn't seem to make a difference.

In the end, it's all about self-interest.

But if you pay attention to your affection and my wishes, she has this face now, and it doesn't matter if she doesn't end this family business, she will let her father withdraw from the marriage when she returns home.

If the mean Yan mother knew, she would definitely not be able to ask for it, and she would wake up with a smile in her dreams.

After getting into the carriage, Jin Jiaojiao temporarily put aside her grievances and asked Steward Wang for the details of the wharf.

Wang Guanjia gasped, touched the rain on his face, and said: "At the beginning of the month, the lord bought a new batch of medicinal materials from Yunnan, which were originally placed in a sealed and waterproof warehouse, and discussed with the seller to wait for them to get the goods, and then unload the goods. But the waterproof warehouse still put the Yunjin purchased by Jiangnan, I think it was the unloading workers who mixed up the two batches of goods when they moved the goods, and moved the medicinal materials into the dock warehouse, the tide has risen these days, and it has rained heavily today, and half of the medicinal materials are now soaked in rainwater, and the workers are grabbing the goods, but I'm afraid it ......"

"Where's my dad? Why did you come to Yan's house to look for me? Jin Jiaojiao's face was solemn, her father had always taken care of the family's business, and she only occasionally intervened when she had nothing to do.

The number of medicinal materials in this batch is huge, and if such a serious thing happens, Steward Wang will not go to her father, but will come to her, there must be something else going on.

Steward Wang replied: "As soon as you left today, someone came to pass a message on the back foot, saying that a batch of goods in our family was seized by the Gongzhou government, and the master had rushed to Gongzhou." ”

The horse-drawn carriage ran through the torrential rain, its wheels crushing over the muddy road, splashing puddles of muddy water on both sides of the road.

The heavy rain rushed to the roof of the car, and Jin Jiaojiao was simply confused.

Calculating the time, her father should still be on the way to Gongzhou, and Bianjing needs to pass through a mountain road in the direction of Gongzhou......

Jin Jiaojiao didn't dare to think about it anymore.

"Coachman, drive carefully, don't be in a hurry." She shouted out of the car.

said that she was not in a hurry, but in fact, she was more worried and anxious than anyone else.