Chapter 183: Like a Day
"The shopkeeper has something to tell me." Meng Shisan answered the question.
Shopkeeper Tong knew the reason why Meng Shisan walked back as soon as he heard this, and he was immediately moved and said: "Yes!"
He whispered what Cui Yu wanted him to convey to him.
After hearing this, Meng Shisan said: "I am not alone now. I have just escaped from the water. They are watching me closely. If I should go down to see Cui Dong's family, I am afraid they will also go with me."
"Then..." Shopkeeper Tong felt that his boss's visit today was probably in vain.
She said: "The shopkeeper told Cui Dong's family that I will find an opportunity to go to Quexian Tower to have tea."
After Meng Shisan left, shopkeeper Tong went to Wangbei Lou went back to report to Cui Yu. Cui Yu didn't say anything and asked him to leave.
It seemed that Cui Yu had expected this result, and Cui Yu was not disappointed.
On the other hand, Hu Qiao muttered: "It's in vain, Master Qi, that you waited for her all day."
Cui Yu looked back when he heard this, causing him to shut up quickly.
“I don’t want to hear such words again from now on.” Cui Yu said coldly.
“No!” The steep lake lowered its head and closed its eyes, not daring to do it again.
Today I came with high expectations and left with disappointment, but Cui Yu's mood was inexplicably not disappointing.
Even standing in front of the window sill of Ye Ge's wing, watching from a height as she dealt with the scheming Qiao Sang step by step, he saw the shadow of Thirteen in her.
Familiar yet strange, shocking yet bitter.
During those few breaths of trance, countless clips of him and Thirteen chatting and laughing together flashed through his mind. For a moment, he almost thought she was Thirteen.
If it weren't for the age difference, if it weren't for the completely different appearance, he would think so.
He also thought about whether she was old enough to be Shisan’s daughter. She called Shisan an aunt and had been raised by Shisan’s side since she was a child. However, the facts were quickly discovered. shattered his illusion.
Zeng really spent a lot of time in Jinling. Shisan also said that his ancestral home is in Jinling. So it is not surprising that Zeng and Shisan met. The two of them met. Zeng’s daughter was called Shisanyi. Auntie Sheng, it’s not that strange either.
But with these solid evidences, every time he saw her, he couldn't help but have an impulse deep in his heart. He wanted to ask her directly. She said she didn't know if Shisan was lying now. If he really knew it, could he tell him?
She told him that she didn’t know where Thirteen was before she gave him the picture. She said she didn’t know, but he believed it. After giving him the picture, he couldn’t help but become suspicious.
After all, she even knows where Shisan placed the pictures he drew and gave to Shisan many years ago, so it is very possible that she knows Shisan’s traces!
For this, he can pay any price.
It means asking for this Bixu Manor, or half of all his property, or all of his wealth in exchange.
He came here today just to ask her this question and give her a yes or no answer.
Unexpectedly, God is not as good as man. Hearing that she was out of town with her two cousins from the Zeng family, he hurried over to find a chance to ask her, but it turned out that he had no chance at all.
Things in the world are unpredictable and things go against expectations. In the past ten years, has he still experienced little? Cui Yu smiled bitterly: "Go back to the city."
"No." Hu Qiao opened the door.
Cui Yu walked out of the Wangbei Building and went straight to the gate of the manor, with a steep lake right next to her.
Under the moonlight and facing the night wind, Cui Yu sat in the cart with the emblem of the Cui clan of Qinghe outside the gate. Hu Qiao sat on the driver's side of the cart. The driver waved his whip. The cart quickly disappeared into the night.
Yan Zhu and shopkeeper Tong stood outside the gate and watched.
Shopkeeper Tong patted his round belly twice: "Master Qi, it's really been twenty years."
"Three more years, it will be twenty years, and life can be How many twenty years are there?" Yan Zhu put his hands in his sleeve pockets and took a long breath. He was as heavy as if he had been waiting for a girl for twenty years. "Fortunately, Miss Meng has appeared now, and she has finally brought some news. I hope that in the near future, regardless of whether Miss Thirteen can be found, In Master Qi’s heart, everything can be settled.”
"It's difficult." Shopkeeper Tong shook his head, feeling that his tone was not affirmative enough, so he repeated it solemnly, "It's difficult."
Yan Zhu squinted and said, "Can you hope for a little bit of Master Qi? "
"Of course I wish Master Qi well, but Master Qi is stuck in the quagmire, blind and deaf, and he doesn't believe the facts he sees. , I don’t believe the facts I heard, and I am stuck in a dream I made up. I have been stuck like this for almost twenty years, do you think it can be cured?” Shopkeeper Tong was also Qinghe Cui who came to Beijing with Cui Yu in the early days. One of the sons of the family originally had no surname. Later, in order to make it easier for them to travel outside, the owner allowed them to restore their original surname.
If not, one of them would still be called Kong Zhi and the other Hou Xiang.
They work as waiters by the owner's side. This name was given to them by the owner after he became more sensible.
The harp is the favorite musical instrument of the master. At that time, the master gave them this name. I don’t know how many slaves in the house envied them and said that they could get these two names from the master. It shows that the master was very satisfied with them.
Later, they were asked to restore their original names and surnames. He didn’t know Yanzhu, but he cried secretly.
Until he realized that his boss was not giving up on them, but reusing them in another place, and that they were still the most loyal and reliable slaves around his boss, he was no longer so sad.
Yan Zhu always said that he was too sentimental. No wonder he had only been a small shopkeeper in the Flower Pavilion for so many years and had no ambition.
If you don’t have great ambitions, then you don’t have great ambitions. As long as you can do things for your employer, you are just an ordinary clerk, and he feels that there is nothing wrong with him.
"You are still young, you still have no family, and you have never even held a girl's hand. How can you understand Master Seventh's sincerity towards Miss Thirteen?" Yan Zhu said that he knew more than Shopkeeper Tong. In fact, there wasn't much. He couldn't name a single flower.
The only thing that is much better than Shopkeeper Tong is probably that he has become the chief steward of Tongzong Bixu Manor and that he has a wife and children.
"Only you can!" Shopkeeper Tong glared with disappointment, then snorted loudly. He turned around and walked into the door, not forgetting to shout, "Close the door, close the garden!"
Yanzhu followed happily. The servant of the manor who also didn't listen to Shopkeeper Tong said: "Didn't you listen to what Shopkeeper Tong said? Close the door, close the garden, we have been busy all day, let's go to bed early tonight."
"No." The two manor servants guarding the door responded in unison.
After entering the city gate, Meng Shisan did not return to the Zeng Mansion. After parting ways with the Zeng sisters and Dong Linglong, she took the food box that Li Shou asked Chang Qing to deliver to the Zeng Mansion this morning and returned home steadily in the Meng family's cart. Home.
She and her cousins had eaten all the dumplings, but the empty food box had to be washed and put away to be returned to the East Palace next time.
Back at the Meng Mansion, everything was as usual.
(End of this chapter)