Chapter 13 Our Three Girls (Update )
Feng Qi is an old man beside his own prince. How could he not know about his prince's problems? Naturally, he is worried! But what's the use of worrying?
He said with a bitter face: "Mr. Rong, please don't embarrass me. I am not a person of such status, how dare I advise Your Highness.
But, Mr. Rong, why do you want to touch our Highness's fingers? Could it be that you..."
As he spoke, he looked at Rong Ruo with a wary look.
Normally, the noble ladies in the imperial city would stare at their highness like a piece of fat meat, but Mr. Rong is a man! How could this be allowed!
Rong Ruo: “…”
He gritted his teeth and said, "I am giving an example, an example! You are at least someone close to your Highness, can you not be so strong-limbed and simple-minded?!"
Feng Qi looked aggrieved. He suddenly raised his hand, plucked the muscles on his arm, and said seriously, "Mr. Rong, I don't know whether my mind is simple or not, but my muscles are not well-developed. I still need to work hard. Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Rong."
Rong Ruo: “…”
He deeply suspected that a certain prince kept this guy around in order to further anger him to death.
In the end, he gave up on communicating with this guy, and said with one hand on his chin, frowning: "Forget it, forget it, I'd better worry about it alone. Who can control your master? He just relies on this point to act so willfully."
Everyone only knows that the person sitting on the throne now is Zhou Xiaokun, but those who are familiar with the inside story know that most of this world was conquered by their highness.
Precisely because their Highness commands a large military force and has tremendous power, even though countless people are eyeing his position as Crown Prince, they dare not say a word.
Even Your Majesty is very afraid of their Highnesses.
However, showing off one's edge too much will definitely bring disaster. If this continues, who knows if there will be any unexpected changes in the future.
After all, when the world is at peace, what matters is not just the ability to march and fight.
"Just watch."
Rong Ruo said unhappily, "Even if your master doesn't want to get married, there will be a lot of people forcing him to do so. I wonder how long he can hide."
While the people from Jingzhao Prefecture were arresting the criminals, Su Liuyue took Ersi and Er'an to hide in a corner. They did not come out again until the people from Jingzhao Prefecture left and the onlookers dispersed.
At this moment, Shopkeeper Yuan had a look of relief on his face. With the help of the young man beside him, he slowly walked towards Man Yifang.
Being dragged into such a thing for no reason and nearly arrested as a murderer and taken to Jingzhao Prefecture, Shopkeeper Yuan felt so exhausted that he didn't even care about the pain on his head.
I don’t know if he violated any taboo by going out today. It seems that I have to ask my wife to take some time to go to the City God Temple outside the city to pay his respects on his behalf.
He was about to walk into Manyifang with a sigh when a familiar voice suddenly came from behind him, "Is the wound on Manager Yuan's head okay?"
Shopkeeper Yuan was startled, and turned his head suddenly, looking at Su Liuyue standing behind him with a look of surprise, "Miss...Miss, didn't you leave? I just wanted to find you to thank you!"
Su Liuyue smiled faintly and said something that shocked Shopkeeper Yuan even more, "I came here specifically to see Shopkeeper Yuan, so how could I leave so easily?
When I was a child, I often heard my uncle and aunt say that Manager Yuan managed the Man Yi Fang very well. This Man Yi Fang was opened by my grandfather for my mother before he died, so the person he hired to manage the shop was also the person he trusted the most. Manager Yuan's eyes suddenly widened, and for a moment he thought he was hallucinating.
After a while, he finally confirmed that this was not a dream. He looked at the graceful woman in front of him with surprise, and his eyes couldn't help but turn red. "You...are you the third girl? The only daughter of our eldest girl? You have grown up so much!"
He never dreamed that the third girl would come to Man Yifang!
Just now, I even helped him clear the injustice!
Seeing that Shopkeeper Yuan was very excited, Su Liuyue smiled faintly and said, "Shopkeeper Yuan is still injured, let's go in and sit down first, and then talk slowly.
Just now, I asked my maid to call a doctor, and I will ask him to help Manager Yuan take a good look at him in a while."
Even after sitting down in the store, Shopkeeper Yuan still felt like he was in a dream. When Su Liuyue took off her veil and saw the face that was almost identical to her own daughter, Shopkeeper Yuan's tears suddenly fell. His lips trembled slightly as he said repeatedly, "It's really the third daughter. You look so much like your mother... Especially those eyes, they are just like her..."
Su Liuyue smiled slightly, "My aunt said before that you were with my grandfather when my mother was just born, and you watched my mother grow up.
I should have come earlier to see Manager Yuan."
The love in Manager Yuan's eyes cannot deceive anyone. Although his love is only for the whole family, it is much more sincere than those people in the Su family.
Not only Manager Yuan, Su Liuyue could clearly judge from the original owner's memory that the people from the original owner's mother's family also truly loved her.
Unfortunately, the Xue family, the maiden family of the original owner's mother, is just a small and inferior family. The ancestors of the Xue family were once prominent, but their descendants were not good enough and gradually declined. The current head of the Xue family, Xue Chengyi, did not pass the imperial examination until he was nearly 30 years old, and he is still just a sixth-rank imperial censor.
The original owner was raised by Guo and became arrogant. She even looked down on Zheng Jiulang, so how could she look down on the Xue family? Therefore, after the original owner gradually became sensible, she began to distance herself from the Xue family, often acting as if her mother's family was not worthy of her.
How could she, such a person as she was, pay attention to a small shop owner who worked for her mother?
Upon hearing this, Shopkeeper Yuan seemed to be slightly stunned. He looked Su Liuyue up and down several times and said in a trembling voice: "The third young lady has become so sensible. I clearly heard before..."
Su Liuyue could more or less guess what he had heard.
She lowered her eyelids and said, "My mother died when I was very young. I have never had a biological mother to teach me, so it is inevitable that I am biased in my actions. But after experiencing what happened to the Zheng family, I realized that instead of relying on others, it is better to rely on myself. Only I will never betray myself."
Shopkeeper Yuan's expression changed involuntarily, and he said nervously, "Third Miss, but... but did those people from the Su family bully you?"
Su Liuyue would have to rely heavily on Shopkeeper Yuan in the future and had no intention of hiding anything from him.
She paused, and then told Manager Yuan everything that had happened during this period, except for the speculation that the original owner was killed by her biological father.
Shopkeeper Yuan was stunned and could not help but slam the table in front of him, gritting his teeth and saying, "Assholes! Assholes! Those people are bullying the Third Miss because she doesn't have her mother to back her up! It's obvious that General Wu is not a good match! If...if the Third Miss really marries him, her life will be ruined!"
Su Liuyue gave him a soothing look and said, "To be honest, I don't want to sit and wait for death, but I am a girl in the boudoir. I have no money and no power. I can't do anything even if I want to.
That’s why I tried to get this shop back from Guo and came to you specially…”
Shopkeeper Yuan was a smart man and immediately understood what Su Liuyue meant. However, he looked a little embarrassed and said, "I... may disappoint the Third Miss. If it were a few years ago, the money earned by Man Yifang might have helped the Third Miss, but now, I am powerless..."
(End of this chapter)