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Jiang Yanyi was sitting in the medical hall, the stones that had been pushed in on his feet had been picked out and wrapped in gauze.

Thinking about the embarrassment she made on the street just now, she wished she could find a crack in the ground and sneak in.

Chu Changping was sitting opposite her, the door was guarded by Chu Changping's cronies, there were no other patients in the medical clinic, and the doctor took the little boy to cook medicine in the back kitchen.

Jiang Yanyi lowered his head like a quail, and told the story of his opening a restaurant from the military camp to Xizhou City, "At that time, I didn't dare to trust anyone. I was afraid of causing death, so I just messed around." Made up an identity. After leaving the barracks, I was alone, worried about any accidents on the way, and didn’t dare to go elsewhere rashly, so I had to open a restaurant in Xizhou City for a while, and write books to go to the capital to ensure safety.”

"Although the prince is benevolent, I have never dared to let him know my true identity because I was suspected of being deceitful before... I just met my uncle, and I was afraid that he would break it, so I had no choice but to deliberately pretend that I didn't know my uncle."

She summed up these things in Xizhou in a few words, so Chu Changping didn't know that she was avoiding the important things.

He hammered the square table hard, turned his head and wiped his eyes: "It's all my uncle's fault. The last time my uncle came to Xizhou, if he had inquired more carefully, he would have asked someone to have an autopsy first when he got up and returned to Beijing. It took such a big circle to find you."

That time was also a mistake, Feng Shuo thought that Jiang Yanyi was the one who died, and asked someone to collect the body in a coffin and bury it.

Chu Changping's people made great efforts, but only found out the news that "Jiang Yanyi" was dead. After digging up the grave and raising the coffin, because the camp "prostitute" died in such a miserable state that he didn't even have any clothes all over his body, Chu Changping couldn't bear it. Take a closer look.

He left his residence in Yongzhou privately. He was anxious to return to Beijing for fear of incidental incidents. He couldn't find a woman to clean up the remains of his "niece" on the way, so he had to transport the coffin back to the capital first. Go clean and change your "niece".

Jiang Yanyi didn't know there was such a thing, and asked in confusion, "Uncle has been to Xizhou?"

Chu Changping nodded, and told about the wrong coffin.

For a moment, Jiang Yanyi was a little confused. It can be said that all the oolongs originated from that coffin, so her fate with Feng Shuo began with a coffin?

What Chu Changping said next made her restless.

"It's thanks to the King of Liaonan that my uncle can come to Xizhou to see you this time. Otherwise, the entire Chu family might have been copied by that stupid king! The letter you sent was also sent to the capital by the King of Liaonan in a hurry. Uncle thought that you had confessed your identity to the King of Liaonan earlier in the morning."

Otherwise, why did Feng Shuo help the Chu family?

Chu Changping has been in the officialdom for many years, but he doesn't believe that the King of Liaonan's support of the Chu family is just because he can't understand what the emperor did.

He originally guessed that the King of Liaonan wanted to use Jiang Yanyi's experience as a sharp knife to penetrate into the nobles of the family. The emperor lost his heart, and when the time came, the King of Liaonan would respond to everything he did.

Jiang Yanyi will become the most powerful weapon for the King of Liaonan to gather people's hearts, but if everyone in the world knows that she was sent by the emperor to serve as a "prostitute" in the army, what reputation does she have?

The King of Liaonan saved the Chu family, and Chu Changping wanted to repay the favor, but if the favor had to be repaid with the reputation of his niece, Chu Changping would rather not accept this kindness.

Part of the reason why he came to Xizhou this time was to see his niece, and part of the reason was to let the King of Liaonan dispel the idea of ​​using his niece's reputation as a weapon of public opinion. Thank you for your kindness.

From Chu Changping's point of view, the niece had already suffered enough, even if it was to deal with that stupid king, Chu Changping was unwilling to use such methods to hurt the niece again.

Jiang Yanyi was stunned for a while before recovering.

The letter she sent to the capital was sent by someone sent by Feng Shuo. After the emperor knew that his uncle came to Xizhou to collect her body, he wanted to deal with the Chu family, which was also under Feng Shuo's protection...

Did he know his true identity early on? !

Jiang Yanyi's mind was flustered for a moment, and it took him a while to ask, "Is mother and Yangui okay?"

Chu Changping thought of the embarrassment of his sister and nephew when they returned to Chu's house, and felt very uncomfortable. He was also afraid that Jiang Yanyi would be worried for no reason, so he said: "It's all good. When the situation stabilizes, I will try to get them all together." Get out of the capital."

Although the emperor dared not touch the Chu family because Feng Shuo had the handle, the capital was not safe after all.

Now is Feng Shuo's clampdown on the emperor, and on the day when the world is in chaos, the Chu family may have to become the emperor's hostages again.

Jiang Yanyi wanted to ask something else, but the voice of Chu Changping's confidant came from the door: "Third Lord, my lord, please go over."

Chu Changping responded, "I'll go right away."

He turned his head and asked Jiang Yanyi: "Where is Ayi now? Uncle will send you back first."

Jiang Yanyi said: "It's just beside the Duhu Mansion."

Today's assassination must not be simple, and Chu Changping may have gone to Fengshuo to discuss the matter.

Chu Changping frowned subconsciously when he heard Jiang Yanyi say that her restaurant was next to the Duhu Mansion, but after thinking about it, maybe the King of Liaonan sent people to protect Jiang Yanyi more conveniently, so he didn't say anything.

Jiang Yanyi couldn't step on the ground because her foot was bruised by the stone, and she didn't have a maid by her side, so Chu Changping had no choice but to help his niece out, "I'll buy some maids for you later."

Jiang Yanyi thought about his already crowded small courtyard, and the monthly money to be sent to the maid, and suddenly felt pain in his heart, and refused: "Thank you for your kindness, but it's fine now, I'm I'm used to it, not to mention that outside the pass is no better than the capital."

Chu Changping was dazzled by the joy of seeing his niece before, but now he has calmed down, and listening to Jiang Yanyi's conversation, he felt that he was far from the niece in his memory.That squeamish and self-willed girl doll was rubbed like this outside the pass.

The niece is sensible, Chu Changping should be happy, but at this time he can't be happy, he just feels heavy. How much did she go through before she was forced to mature?

For a moment, there was a bit of embarrassment in his eyes, and he said: "Ayi, as long as uncle is still there, everything will be the same as before. Even if you are not the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, you are still my cousin of the Chu family. You don’t have to suffer yourself, you know?”

Perhaps it was due to his blood. Hearing these words, Jiang Yanyi felt sore in his heart, and tears welled up in his eyes: "I know, uncle."

There were people outside the medical hall, and Jiang Yan didn't want to cry in front of outsiders, so he suppressed his tears.

Lu Linyuan had a cut on his hand. He was sitting on a bamboo chair outside the medical hall, and the doctor was bandaging him.

When Lu Linyuan proposed to regret the marriage, Chu Changping was still in Yongzhou, thousands of miles away, even if he felt angry, he couldn't do anything to Lu Linyuan.

Now that I see him, new and old grudges are combined, and I will go up and beat him up: "You Lu family claims to be a clean stream, is what you do called human affairs? How can my cousin girl from the Chu family feel sorry for you? You want Openly renege on the marriage and ruin her reputation?"

Once an engaged woman is divorced, no matter whether it is the woman's fault or not, it will only be the woman who is mocked.In the future, if you want to meet a good family, you can only choose from a lower-ranking family. People who are of the same family as the retired man are unwilling to marry him again, otherwise spreading the word is like picking up a broken shoe that someone doesn't want. , a laughing stock.

Jiang Yanyi quickly stopped him: "Uncle, it's all over."

Now she doesn't want to have anything to do with Lu Linyuan anymore, and she is afraid that Lu Linyuan will misunderstand what she has in mind for him.

Seeing Jiang Yanyi stopping him, Chu Changping thought that his niece would never forget Lu Linyuan, so he was angry and sad, and shouted: "You silly girl, you still protect him at this time!"

Jiang Yanyi's scalp tingled with embarrassment: "I didn't! Uncle, let the past go, I was the one who was obsessed with not realizing it!"

That marriage was originally forced by the original body. If there is anything wrong with Lu Linyuan, it is probably because he did not resist to the end with his strong mother and was accepted by the marriage.

*

In the carriage not far away, Feng Shuo looked at the scene outside the medical hall through the half-raised curtain, the corners of his mouth almost curled into a cold straight line.

Isn't she just protecting Lu Linyuan?

He knew that she was engaged to Lu Linyuan, he had his arrogance, and he never sent anyone to investigate their past, but at this moment, he really wanted to know what they had in the past.

She said that she kept a lot of things from herself, and she had to think carefully before deciding whether to accept his feelings, whether there was a reason for Lu Linyuan.

It's been a while since I've been out today, the cold wind hits my bones, even though I'm wearing a fox fur, the wound on my back still hurts from my bones, Feng Shuo covered his lips and coughed twice.

Xing Yao heard Feng Shuo coughing outside the carriage, and said worriedly: "Master, let's go home first."

Feng Shuo's eyes fell on that beautiful figure for a long time before he put down the curtain, "I can't leave out a piece of paper about her and Lu Linyuan's past, let me check it out."

This cold and cold voice made Xing Yao's heart tremble.

*

Jiang Yanyi felt a sharp gaze on her, and she looked around, only to see a majestic carriage slowly driving away at the opposite corner.

She couldn't see the emblem on the carriage from too far away, but somehow felt that the sight just now came from the carriage.

At this time, the doctor also helped Lu Linyuan bandage the wound on his arm.

Jiang Yanyi's four words of "persevering in obsession and not realizing it" were inexplicably harsh to Lu Linyuan's ears.

She used to be "obsessed with obsession", and it is not an exaggeration to say that she is shameless.

But now that these words came out of her own mouth, Lu Linyuan suddenly felt that all the love she had for him in the past had become light and ethereal, like a phantom created by a piece of fine sand, trapped by the words "obsessed with not realizing it" Once smashed, it was scattered all over the place, and it was never found again.

He concealed the inexplicable emotions in his heart, stood up and bowed to Chu Changping: "It's because Linyuan is sorry for Miss Jiang about regretting the marriage. But you can't force it when it comes to feelings."

Chu Changping suppressed his anger, looked at the young man in front of him bowing his head and apologizing, and said, "You can just say sorry, but what she paid was almost a lifetime."

If there is no marriage contract, there will be no unreasonable joy, and after regretting the marriage, it will not lead to unreasonable disaster.

Chu Changping is a rough person, but he still knows a little about his niece's temperament, and she will not do such reckless things until the end of the road.

Chu Changping had seen Jiang Shangshu's eccentricity before. He remembered that one Chinese New Year, he went to Jiang's house to pay New Year's greetings. At that time, Jiang Yanyi was only five years old. Ignore it, if the people who come to pay New Year's greetings don't ask, I'm afraid the daughter who was born for that concubine is the Jiang family's concubine daughter.

The five-year-old "milk" baby hid in the backyard and cried secretly. He carried his niece out of the house to watch the lanterns on the street, and bought her a bunch of gadgets to coax her.But when she was sent home, the "milk" doll still cried with her mouth pursed, her tears rolling like beads: "Uncle, Daddy doesn't like me, no one likes me..."

From then on, Chu Changping thought, his cousin from the Chu family was favored by his Chu family.

Others have it, and Chu Changping's niece is not bad either.

He knew that the child was sensitive since he was a child, and his younger sister, Mrs. Jiang, was blindly spoiled. She would yell at the concubine and aunt in the house from time to time in front of the child. He said Mrs. Jiang many times, but Mrs. Jiang never remembered long. sex".

The hostility led by the mother and the unfair treatment by the father made the niece savage since she was sensible, and she would target the sister-in-law whenever she got the chance.

After so many years of petty trouble, she finally had the idea of ​​destroying people's innocence, probably because she knew that her reputation had been ruined by the divorce, and Lu Linyuan forced her to marry a concubine by death, so she completely went astray.

Chu Changping's words made Lu Linyuan's heart heavy, and he wanted to say something, but Chu Changping had already stopped an ox cart and took Jiang Yanyi away.

There is a locust tree next to the medical hall. At the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, the dead leaves are scattered all over the place. Lu Linyuan looked at the girl who was walking away in the bullock cart. When the wind blew, there were many dead leaves on the locust tree. Ye whirled and landed at his feet.

He has always felt that Jiang Yanyi's current situation is all her own doing, and has nothing to do with him, but at this moment, she feels a little guilty and anxious for no reason.

***

It was already afternoon when Jiang Yanyi returned to the store, and Chu Changping sent her to the store before going to Fengfu next door.

Although he was dressed in dust and dust, he was imposing, and he was surrounded by a few cronies, who looked quite dignified.

As soon as Chu Changping left, the neighbors came into the shop to inquire about Jiang Yanyi in the name of caring about Jiang Yanyi.

"Shopkeeper Jiang, the elder personally helped you into the store, is it your relative?"

Jiang Yanyi smiled and nodded: "It's my uncle, who came to see me from the capital."

When they heard that they were from the capital, everyone felt even more extraordinary.

"Let me just say that shopkeeper Jiang's bearing is definitely not something that ordinary people can have. Your uncle can be seen as a capable person!"

"Shopkeeper Jiang, is your uncle married yet? I have a niece. Although she is twenty years old, she is talented and beautiful..."

"That niece of yours is a slope, how can she be worthy of her!"

"You widow selling tofu, no matter how my niece is a big girl, why can't she be as good as you?"

……

Although his uncle was a handsome uncle, Jiang Yanyi didn't expect someone to ask about his marriage so soon.She laughed awkwardly, "Neighbors, I'm not feeling well today, so I won't entertain you. I'll invite you to the store some other day."

The assassination on the south side of the city had already spread throughout the city. After hearing what Jiang Yanyi said, and seeing that her feet were still wrapped in gauze, they all left after saying a few words of condolence.

Jiang Yanyi breathed a sigh of relief, closed the shop and went to the backyard.

Aunt Guo probably saw through her identity, afraid that she would think too much, so she went back to Fengshuo and did not come to the store again.Jiang Yanyi didn't think so much, she also wanted to thank Aunt Guo personally, if she didn't have her today, she would be in bad luck.

She was going to tell Feng Shuo about Aunt Guo when she was going to deliver herbal meals tomorrow.But when she thought of Feng Shuo, Jiang Yanyi's heart was very confused again, she hadn't figured out how to face him yet.

How should I put this feeling, it's like growing up to see the dark history of her childhood, she didn't know that Feng Shuo had already seen through her identity, pretending to be something...

Jiang Yanyi felt suffocated just thinking about it.

She put all these aside for the time being and looked at the dishes in the backyard.

Although there was no business in the store today, the ingredients were all ordered a day in advance. There were a lot of mutton and various vegetarian dishes piled up in the yard, and Jiang Yanyi looked at it quite a headache.

Fortunately, the vegetarian dishes in this season are basically green vegetables and radishes, and the more difficult ones are those fat sheep that have just been slaughtered.

She stood in the yard looking at it with her hips on her hips for a while, and said to Okra, "Let's take one to roast a whole lamb, and then make a mutton pot, and if the lamb chops... make smoked lamb chops, the rest of the lamb can't be eaten up." Just build a shed and smoke it into bacon.”

Tonight I have to hold a welcome banquet for my uncle.

There were a dozen or so cronies who came to Xizhou with Chu Changping, who happened to be able to help her with the unsold ingredients today.

In a while, I have to send someone to the horse butcher and other vegetable suppliers to tell her that there will be no need to send ingredients to her shop in the next two days.

The Hu family discredited her shop, and now it continues to open, and there is no business in the shop.Two of the three big men died, and the remaining one was captured by Feng Shuo. After the interrogation, how much he knew about today's assassination, he would know whether the dead cat in front of her shop this morning had anything to do with the Hu family.

After everything is clarified, her hot pot restaurant will continue to open.

Let's take a break for the past two days, and she also happens to take care of the injury on her foot.