MTL - Perfect Encounter-Chapter 24

Zong Zeqing also babbled: "You don't think about your injured leg. When you knelt down to thank Gang earlier, you moved too neatly and too fast..."

"None of my business!" Xie Gang interrupted him.

"It's not about you." Zong Zeqing reasoned with him, "It's about Miss An's legs."

"Shut up." Xie Gang interrupted him again.

"You are too unfriendly." Zong Zeqing criticized him, then turned his head and said to An Ruochen: "Don't look at him like this, in fact, he has a good heart."

Xie Gang didn't listen, turned his head and left.

"You'll know in the future. They're serious, but they're really not bad. Their faces are disgusting and kind, their mouths are bean curd, and they're talking about them." Zong Zeqing helped An Ruochen walk slowly, nagging Very happy.

After walking for a while, An Ruochen suddenly asked: "General Zong, is my father still here? Can I see him?"

"What are you doing seeing him?" As soon as Zong Zeqing finished speaking, Long Da turned his head and said to An Ruochen, "You go to the carriage and wait first." Then he turned around and called Wei Jun to find An Zhifu Come.

Zong Zeqing and An Ruochen whispered: "General Long's ears are sharp, right?"

An Ruochen was embarrassed and didn't know how to answer.

"Why, don't be afraid. It's not a bad word to have good ears and eyes, it's a compliment to the general." Zong Zeqing spoke plausibly, and waited expectantly for An Ruochen to answer.

Long Da replied solemnly for An Ruochen: "She's not afraid, she just followed your advice and is being reserved."

"..." An Ruochen's face flushed red.

"..." Zong Zeqing was thinking about the general's sudden outburst for no reason, was he molesting him or Ms. An? Presumably it was to tease him, Miss An is a woman, the general doesn't know how to tease him.

"So what exactly do you want to see your father do?" Zong Zeqing decided to ignore General Long's indecency and satisfy his curiosity first.

An Ruochen straightened her back, and replied sincerely: "After all, he is his biological father, so we have to tell him face to face."

After a while, An Zhifu came. Seeing her daughter in front of Long Da, she didn't know what to say. If you want to ask, you can't ask, if you want to scold, you can't, and if you want to beat, you can't beat. On the contrary, An Ruochen limped over, stood in front of An Zhifu, and said softly: "Daddy, my daughter is not filial, she is gone."

Zong Zeqing sighed, feeling that An Ruochen was too kind and weak. An Zhifu treated her like this, but she still thought about her unfilial piety.

"In the future, if you want to hit your daughter, you won't be able to." An Ruochen continued softly, "Are you very angry? Just be angry, and die quickly when you are angry. Don't forget how you treated your mother. I hope that you can also experience the same suffering as her. But you have no conscience, how can a person without a conscience feel those sufferings. But it doesn't matter, since my daughter is not filial, she will definitely try to make you suffer."

Zong Zeqing almost choked on his saliva. And An Zhifu's face was as black as charcoal, and he was so angry that he breathed heavily. Although he was extremely angry, he was still rational, and he still remembered to peek at General Long.

Long Da stood not far behind An Ruochen, with his arms crossed, looking at him with a leisurely and peaceful look, clearly supporting An Ruochen.

An Zhifu was angry and startled, unable to figure out what happened. He was really not reconciled, and lowered his voice and said cruelly: "Don't be complacent, no matter what, you are my daughter, and you will come back anyway. Just wait."

An Ruochen still whispered softly: "Wait for me to go back, Master An to clean me up? Master An should wait too. We've made a deal."

An Ruochen looked directly into An Zhifu's eyes, watching his anger, unwillingness, and doubts. She smiled, took a step back, and said in a loud voice, "General, I will say goodbye to Daddy."

"Let's go." Long Da said concisely.

A guard came over and Fu An Ruochen got into the carriage. Long Da and the others mounted their horses and rode away.

An Zhifu stood there, looking at their backs, almost vomited out a mouthful of old blood.

After that, I stood for a while, but I didn't know if I could walk or not. It was daylight, and he was tired and hungry. Jiang Hongqing said that there was nothing to do with him for the time being, but An Zhifu was not at ease.

An Zhifu wandered outside the yamen, and Anping led his servants to pick him up, "Master, Master Qian has already returned to his mansion in Zhonglan. I heard that he was very angry and smashed many things."

An Zhifu was so frightened that he didn't dare to go home, but went to Qian's mansion in Zhonglan City first.

Arriving outside Qian Pei's mansion, An Zhifu was turned away.

The concierge went in and reported and came out soon, saying that the master had fallen asleep and saw no guests.

How could he fall asleep so quickly when he was so angry, An Zhifu knew that Qian Pei must have been annoyed by his divorce. But he can't retreat. There's no rush to make amends, right? An Zhifu begged to see the steward again, had a good word with the steward, and asked him to help tell Qian Pei, and said he would come to visit again in the afternoon.

After tossing around, An Zhifu returned home. All the houses were awake, hearing that An Zhifu was back, everyone wanted to inquire, but was driven back to each courtyard by Mrs. Tan. Mrs. Tan herself took the opportunity to ask An Zhifu about food and sleep. Hearing the reason, he was shocked.

An Zhifu also couldn't tell the details inside, but he only knew that the other side of the yamen had ordered that An Ruochen's affairs should not be revealed to the public, so as not to hinder the general's capture of the thief. And the most important thing right now is to appease Qian Pei, otherwise the business in the future will be stumbling everywhere. He asked Mrs. Tan to prepare some gifts, as well as the resignation matters, and asked Mrs. Tan to call the matchmaker to make a thorough arrangement.

Mrs. Tan hurriedly went back to the courtyard and summoned her mother-in-law and maids. Pick up gifts from the treasury, send someone to invite the matchmaker, and send someone to report to her mother's house in Fu'an County immediately, so that her family can help pay attention to the movement of Qian's house.

An Ruoxi didn't sleep well that night, she got up quickly when her father came back, and watched her mother busy, listening carefully to what happened. It wasn't until Mrs. Tan's Zhang Luo was about the same that she had time to explain to her daughter.

An Ruoxi broke out in a cold sweat when she heard this: "The elder sister's marriage is called off? What about the fourth sister?"

"Nobody knows where Fang'er is. Your father said that the divorce letter was written on the grounds that an accident at home could not delay Mr. Qian. Naturally, they retired together. But for fear of offending Mr. Qian, the marriage will be written later. It’s a good idea to leave a way out.”

An Ruoxi's face turned pale, leaving a way out, whose way out? "Mother, you won't get married again, let me marry you?"

Tan paused, but did not answer immediately.

An Ruoxi grabbed Tan Shi's hand anxiously: "Mother, you won't ask me to marry you just to appease Mr. Qian? Then Mr. Qian was tricked by the elder sister, and the fourth sister disappeared. She must have accumulated a lot of money." If he asks me to marry him, he will take all his anger on me, how can I have a life!"

Even if there is life, it is afraid that life is worse than death. She doesn't want to marry that old man Qian, and she doesn't want to die!

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Mrs. Tan patted the back of her daughter's hand, "Your father hasn't met Master Qian yet, he hasn't talked about anything, and he hasn't asked you to marry. Besides, your father is not stupid. Things If it’s like this, there’s no reason for another daughter to get married, isn’t it a joke.”

An Ruoxi's heart was beating fast, and she couldn't believe it. It will make people laugh, but Dad is not afraid of making people laugh, Dad is only afraid of offending nobles, and he will not be able to please in the future.

An Ruoxi was about to say something more, but Tan shooed her away with a straight face. When An Ruoxi returned to the room, the more she thought about it, the more she panicked, and the more she thought about it, the more frightened she became, she threw herself on the bed and cried bitterly.

An Ruochen sat on the carriage, swaying with the carriage, she thought about her fourth sister, if she hadn't told her to run away, what would happen now? She wanted to find her, she had promised her fourth sister that as long as she was alive, she would definitely meet her.

An Ruochen closed her eyes, thinking about it, her mind became a little dazed, like a dream but not a dream, as if she had returned to the day when she said goodbye to her fourth sister, she saw the tearful eyes of her fourth sister through the small hole in the window paper …

He was talking with his sister when he suddenly felt a sudden shaking... "Boom", An Ruochen felt a pain in his forehead and woke up.

She fell down.

An Ruochen blinked her eyes, gritted her teeth in pain, and didn't want to move, but suddenly came to her senses, raised her head, and saw that the carriage door was open, and Long Da was standing outside the door looking at her.

And she was kneeling in the carriage.

"I, I just accidentally fell asleep." The last three words were as thin as a mosquito's moan, and An Ruochen's face flushed with embarrassment. After explaining, his face turned even redder.

"The girl's sleeping position is quite hard." Long Da said seriously.

"Obviously fell." Zong Zeqing squeezed out from nowhere, "We're here, get out of the car." While speaking, he stretched out his hand to help An Ruochen. He felt that among all the people, he and An Ruochen were the most familiar. If he didn't take care of them, who would?

Sure enough, Long Da turned around and left with his hands behind his back. Zong Zeqing smiled at An Ruochen comfortingly, and helped her out of the carriage.

Fang Yuan, the manager, had already received the message from the guards and arranged a room for An Ruochen. This society is waiting to lead her there. Zong Zeqing followed behind, explaining that An Ruochen had treated the wound in the yamen, but he still asked the doctor to come and change the medicine or something, and let the doctor take a second look at the prescription prescribed by the doctor at the yamen, and went to get the medicine if there was no problem . She hasn't had breakfast yet, she can sleep for a while after breakfast, she was so tired that she fell asleep on her knees in the carriage...

An Ruochen peeked around, Long Dayuan was walking ahead, Xie Gang was nowhere to be seen. Why don't someone let General Zong's mouth rest for a while, why did she sleep on her knees. An Ruochen couldn't help but sighed.

Hearing her sigh, Zong Zeqing hurriedly comforted her: "Don't be sad, although you are away from home, no one beats or scolds you here. It may be harder to work for the general, and it is better than marrying Qian Pei. Ah, Do you have leg pain and can't walk?" Quickly helped her up, "Look, it's not easy for me to carry you if a man and a woman can't kiss each other. The general is walking, so naturally I can't order someone to carry you. We don't have any here either. soft car..."

Before finishing speaking, Fang Yuan and Long Da stopped at the same time.

Turning around, Fang Yuan silently handed An Ruochen a crutch.

Zong Zeqing was taken aback for a moment, amazing, as expected of Steward Fang, where did he get it. Could it be that a little servant came over just now to deliver this? And my lord general, what do you mean by being so serious with your hands behind your back? Miss An can't walk fast, I really can't blame her.

Long Da asked with a straight face, "Does your leg hurt?"

Zong Zeqing quickly comforted An Ruochen with his eyes, don't be afraid, the general always spoke in this tone.

An Ruochen couldn't help but straighten his back, and replied with a serious face: "Go back to the general, it doesn't hurt."

"Does your ear hurt?"

An Ruochen was taken aback, his face flushed, and he replied in a low voice, "It doesn't hurt."

Long frowned, seemingly dissatisfied with her answer.

Zong Zeqing helped An Ruochen to educate An Ruochen: "You have to tell the truth to the general. There is no reason why your leg hurts like this. Does your ear hurt..." Wait, he also realized that he was saying that he was noisy ?

Long Da looked at him blankly, then turned and walked away.

Zong Zeqing's face collapsed. General! Is it really appropriate for you to tease your capable general like this? Still in front of Miss An! Then how will he establish his prestige in the future, and how will he teach Miss An?

Zong Ze cleared his throat, and explained as if nothing had happened: "General Long just likes to joke. He is actually quite lively, but he hides it deeper."

Fang Yuan in front suddenly coughed a few times, as if he was choking. An Ruochen laughed. General Zong is really lively.

An Ruochen's residence is an independent courtyard with only three rooms. Fang Yuan assigned two maids to take care of her daily life. An Ruochen entered the room and saw three stacks of files on the table.

Long Da ordered: "In the past few days, you should eat, sleep and recuperate, and read these files."

The task is heavy.

"Here is all the information of Matchmaker Xu and the marriage and dental transactions that we have found out that she has handled." Xie Gang said: "After you read it well, pick some people from it that you think are suspicious."

An Ruochen hurriedly nodded in agreement.

"Xie Gang will teach you how to deal with various situations, how to distinguish situations, how to read people's faces, and how to spy on news. After that, I will test you. If I think you are competent, I will let you go out to handle the case."

What if you think she can't do it? An Ruochen didn't dare to ask.

Long Da's instructions were concise, and he walked very simply. Xie Gang was on business, and he didn't stay for long after explaining clearly. Zong Zeqing procrastinated a bit, and said a few words of comfort. An Ruochen suddenly remembered the old nanny, so she asked him to help pass the message.

"My old nanny's surname is Song. She was originally my mother's nanny. She came here as a dowry. She has no contract of sale with Anfu. She doesn't receive monthly money from Anfu. She can leave at any time according to the law. She said that she will marry me when I marry her." Go back to my hometown to take care of the elderly. If General Zong has the opportunity to go to Anfu in these two days, please tell the nanny that I am fine and let her go back with peace of mind. My father will worry about how to appease Qian Pei during this period of time, and he will not take care of the family Let the nanny go quickly, don't be offended."

Zong Zeqing readily agreed.

An Zhifu was really focused on calming Qian Pei's anger, even when he went home to catch up on sleep, he never got a good night's sleep. After getting up, he hurriedly called An Ping, Tan Shi and An Ronggui to ask how things were going.

Anping and Tan said one by one. The matter of retiring the engagement has been properly arranged, and the gift list, dowry, and various etiquettes have all been arranged with the matchmaker. Today, someone will be arranged to send it to Qian's residence. The ceremony of apologizing to Qian Pei is also prepared, but I don't know how Qian Pei's reaction will be.

An Ronggui also said that he has figured it out, the business of the jade shop is stable now, and the two boxes of goods can last for a while. Anyway, the customs and trade between Nanqin and Daxiao are still sealed, so there is no place to ask for Qian Pei. There should still be time to slowly bring the relationship back together.

An Zhifu thought about this, and hated An Ruochen again. "I just don't know what that girl said in the yamen. She was able to get the prefect and the general to help her. She died as soon as she died, so don't drag us down. Master Qian didn't know what to use to get the goods back. What means, I'm afraid that girl will talk nonsense and get involved in this matter."