On the pedestrian-filled street, a gorgeous and wealthy carriage came at a very fast speed.

The street is narrow, and there are small stalls on both sides of the stone road.

The carriage drove down the alley so as not to crash into passers-by.

The carriage did not slow down when it turned the corner, and seeing that the carriage was about to hit the wall, the coachman immediately pulled the reins, and the galloping horse was forced, and the horse's hooves were raised high, and when it fell, it was facing Zhao Wanning in front.

At this moment, Zhao Wanning was leaning over to look at the winter dates on the small stall, the winter dates were big and red, and they looked very gratifying.

"Girl, try it, this is the winter dates we grow on our own mountain, they are very sweet." An old woman with gray hair said.

Zhao Wanning wanted to pick some winter dates and bring them back to Zhao Wangshu to taste, but she had no experience, and some of the winter dates she picked out were broken and some were wormed.

Yin Zhu couldn't stand it, so he squatted down directly to help her choose, and explained to Zhao Wanning why she chose it this way. The master and servant were so engrossed on these winter dates that they didn't know that a horse's hooves were about to fall behind them.

At this moment, Pei Yue, who was dressed in cyan clothes, suddenly appeared from the shadows.

He moved quickly, holding Zhao Wanning in one hand and pushing away the silver candle with the other.

Silver Candle was pushed to a crooked body, and almost wanted to curse, but found that the horse's hooves were stepping on the position she had just squatted down, and she was a little afraid.

As soon as Silver Candle looked up, he saw his county lord standing aside by a man in a green shirt, and when he looked closely, he found that the man in green shirt was a little familiar.

Silver Candle hurriedly rushed up and pulled the man away, only then did he remember that this was not Lord Pei Yue Pei of Dali Temple?

"Are you alright?" Pei Yue hurriedly let go of Zhao Wanning.

Zhao Wanning shook her head, the accident happened too quickly, and before she could react, she was taken away from danger by Pei Yue.

Zhao Wanning looked at the stall again, and the winter dates on the stall had been trampled by the horse's hooves.

This winter date is the hope of the old woman's family, who originally pointed to selling the winter date for some silver money to buy winter clothes for the children in the family, but he didn't want the good winter date to be broken because of this sudden change.

The old woman stepped forward to grab the coachman and reasoned with him: "You, you lose money!" ”

The coachman broke away from her swarthy hand in disgust: "Get out, who let you stand in the way of my master!" And dare me lose money. ”

"Laifu, why don't you leave?" A flirtatious male voice came from the carriage.

The coachman immediately flattered: "Childe, let's go, let's go." ”

With that, the coachman drove the carriage out of here. The old woman immediately stepped forward and grabbed his sleeve and said loudly, "No! You can't go! You trampled on my winter dates and lost money to me! ”

The coachman continued to break away, but the old woman used ten percent of her strength, and he couldn't break away at all. The coachman simply ignored her, and planned to drive away in the carriage.

Zhao Wanning immediately blocked the front, and she said sharply: "You, a coachman, driving a horse in such a narrow alley, ramming pedestrians, and crushing other people's winter dates, do you want to leave?" ”

The coachman scolded and said, "Where is the little lady, get out of the way!" It's good to delay my master! ”

Zhao Wanning didn't make any moves, she stood straight in front of the carriage, blocking the carriage and not letting it go.

When the coachman saw this, he was about to attack. But he didn't want the curtain of the carriage to be lifted.

A gorgeously dressed man leaned out: "Little lady? Where is the little lady? ”

When Pei Yue heard this, he wanted to rush up and punch the man, but he found that he had a wooden waist tag around his waist.

He knew that the waist card was a token of the Chengxian salt farm.

Pei Yue has been secretly investigating the case in the past few days, and according to some clues, he found the Yang family in the salt field of Chengxian County. At this moment, it was inconvenient for him to be discovered by the Yang family, so he had to hide into the crowd.

The man saw Zhao Wanning standing in front of the carriage at a glance, she was dressed in pink, wearing only a pink beaded flower on her hair bun, her eyebrows were not dyed, and her lips were not dotted.

The delicate pink color makes her look like a peach blossom blooming in early spring.

"It's a beauty." The man sighed to himself.

At this moment, the beauty's eyebrows were frowned, her peach cheeks were angry, and she looked very coquettish.

The man was itchy when he saw it, and immediately jumped out of the carriage, walked in front of Zhao Wanning in a few steps, and pretended to be reserved and said, "I don't know that my slave collided with the girl, and I hope the girl will forgive her sins." ”

Zhao Wanning just came to Qingzhou, and she didn't want to cause trouble, she just wanted to make a big deal into a small matter, so she didn't want to entangle with him.

She said coldly: "Your house slave trampled on other people's winter dates, so let's apologize to others first." ”

The man nodded immediately and said, "The girl is very right. ”

He turned to the coachman and winked. The coachman followed him for a long time, and naturally knew what his son-in-law meant, thinking that he wanted to be included in the house because he saw the little lady who stopped the car.

The coachman didn't dare to spoil the master's good deeds, so he immediately took out a few taels of silver and handed it to the old woman, and his tone became polite: "I'm really sorry, this is with you." You see if it's enough. ”

The old woman took the silver taels and stopped talking.

The man turned his head and continued to say to Zhao Wanning: "Below is Yang Zixian, the second son of the Yang family, today it was my slave who collided with the girl. ”

Zhao Wanning saw that the old woman had received the compensation, so she didn't want to entangle with the prodigal in front of her, she said in a cold voice: "No need. ”

With that, Zhao Wanning turned around and left.

Who knows, Yang Zixian walked quickly in front of her and stopped her and said, "My house is not far in front, if the girl is inconvenient, you can also go to this restaurant." ”

Yang Zixian pointed to the restaurant on the street, which looked a little dilapidated, but it didn't matter if you kept people first.

Silver Candle stepped forward and pushed Yang Zixian away, and said angrily: "My young lady said that it is not necessary, and I hope that the son will give way, we have to go." ”

After that, the silver candle pulled Zhao Wanning and left.

Yang Zixian didn't catch up this time, he looked at the backs of Zhao Wanning's master and servant, touched his chin and said, "I like a temperamental beauty." ”

Zhao Wanning felt bad luck in her heart, it was really disgusting to be molested by such a prodigal on the street.

What's even more angry is that Pei Yue didn't know where to go, she originally thought that Pei Yue had been standing behind her, so she had no fear and rushed directly to reason with the coachman.

thought that she was molested by that prodigal son, and Pei Yue would stand up for her, but she didn't want her to turn around, Pei Yue ran away without a trace, and she didn't even say a word about where she went.

Zhao Wanning returned to the government with anger.

Zhao Wanning was so angry that she didn't even eat much for dinner. In less than half of the night, Zhao Wanning was woken up by hunger.

In winter, the physical exertion was very fast, and Zhao Wanning was lying on the bed tossing and turning with a hungry stomach, unable to sleep at all.

"County Lord?" Silver Candle was woken up by her turning over, rubbed her eyes and walked to her bed, half-asleep and said, "Do you want to drink water?" ”

Silver Candle was still wearing his underwear, and his thin body was still trembling in the night.

Zhao Wanning couldn't bear to toss the silver candle, so he said, "It's okay, you go back to sleep." ”

"Oh." The silver candle went back to sleep on the couch.

Soon, Zhao Wanning heard the sound of the silver candle's even breathing.

Zhao Wanning closed her eyes and wanted to fall asleep. As long as you fall asleep, you won't feel hungry.

Quiet winter nights, all silent. Zhao Wanning listened to the sound of her pounding heartbeat, but she couldn't fall asleep.

She opened her eyes in self-deprecation, and regretted why she didn't have more dinner, just because she was angry with Pei Yue, she couldn't get along with herself, and now she couldn't sleep in this long night.

"It's all to blame on Pei Yue." Zhao Wanning scolded in a low voice. She rubbed the corners of the quilt and stared at the darkness with her eyes open.

Squeak –

Someone pushed open the wooden window!

Zhao Wanning was so frightened that she didn't dare to speak, she quickly closed her eyes, leaving only a thin slit, wanting to see the thief's face clearly.

The world is declining, and now even this Qingzhou Mansion has people who dare to sneak in at will, and tomorrow I must talk to that Wu Daoquan.

The thief walked with almost no footsteps, and in the dark, Zhao Wanning only felt that the thief was getting closer and closer to the bed, getting closer and closer.

Zhao Wanning couldn't help but hold her breath and concentrate, and she didn't dare to breathe.

She thought that her gold and silver were all put away by the painting screen, as if they were locked in a box, and there were only some worthless beaded jewelry left on the dresser, hoping that the thief was trying to make money, so she took the things and left quickly.

But the sky is unsatisfactory.

The thief actually came to her bedside!

Zhao Wanning was so frightened that she didn't dare to open her eyes, for fear that the thieves would find out that she was still awake and be killed by the thieves.

She felt the thief sit down at the head of her bed, and a cold fragrance suddenly entered the tip of her nose, like the fragrance of ink, very familiar.

Zhao Wanning inexplicably thought of Pei Yuelai, Pei Yue always had a smell of ink on his body, Zhao Wanning once joked that he was pickled because he soaked in the study every day.

Zhao Wanning opened her eyes suddenly, and her gaze met the thief.

The thief was dressed in a black night suit, with a black mask over his face, and only a pair of piercing eyes.

Those eyes are very familiar to Zhao Wanning, the eyes are slender, but the corners of the eyes are slightly drooping, there is a trace of coldness when he is not smiling, and his eyes are bent when he laughs.

It's Pei Yue.

"Pei Yue, I'm hungry." Before thinking about it, Zhao Wanning blurted out as soon as he recognized Pei Yue.

The tone was familiar, as if they were still married.

Pei Yue: "......"

There is a small kitchen in the courtyard where Zhao Wanning lives, and Wu Daoquan is afraid that Zhao Wanning will not be used to eating the food of Qingzhou, so he specially sent someone to put ingredients in this small kitchen every day for her to use.

Zhao Wanning is not a picky eater, she has the intention of trying new things, and tries all kinds of food in Qingzhou.

Therefore, she didn't use this small kitchen, so in order not to waste the ingredients, she ordered someone to give all the ingredients prepared by Wu Daoquan to the people nearby.

At the moment, the small kitchen is only a few rough noodles left over from the day.

Pei Yue rummaged in the small kitchen for a long time, and finally found two eggs from the cupboard.

"Do you want to eat egg noodles?" Pei Yue looked up at Zhao Wanning who was standing aside.

Zhao Wanning was wearing a thick cotton coat, with black hair like a waterfall, hanging obediently behind him. She was holding her stomach with one hand, looking very pitiful.

"Eat!"

Pei Yue sighed, he found a small stool, carefully wiped the stool clean with his sleeve, and then asked Zhao Wanning to sit down.

"Then you sit and wait, and it will be fine soon."

After that, Pei Yue found an apron and began to boil water to cook noodles.

Zhao Wanning looked at Pei Yue's busy back a little strangely, the gentleman was far away from cooking, but he didn't expect Pei Yue, a scholar, to cook.

Pei Yue's movements are smooth, making a fire, boiling water, and below, beating eggs.

Soon, a steaming bowl of fine noodles was ready.

Pei Yue broke up an egg and boiled it into soup, so the bowl of noodle soup was white and rich, the noodles were strong, and there was a soft-boiled egg lying on the noodles.

Zhao Wanning smelled the fragrance of her face and became even more hungry.