"What did you say?"
Song Lianzhou leaned over slightly and stared at her face carefully for fear of hearing wrongly.
"Suzuland, what do you mean..."
"It means that I recognize you, Song Lianzhou, give me a chance to love you properly again. This time, I will be braver and firmer, and I will not abandon you again."
Song Lianzhou's eyes were blurred with tears, and he looked at her in disbelief. He moved his lips but could not speak.
He couldn't believe that the person in front of him and the words in her mouth were true.
It was too fast and too sudden, so much that the surprise was a bit more frightening.
"you."
He opened his mouth to ask if the reason why she said that was because she was hiding some plan from him. She pretended to say such nice things to him, but in fact...
He was afraid, so he didn't even dare to ask.
"Did something happen?" he asked politely.
Shen Zhixi shook his head and shed tears, "I just want to tell you, I'm sorry...Tang Zhou, I'm sorry."
But the more he said this, the more frightened Song Lianzhou became.
"This is something I am willing to bear. I don't want you to say sorry. Are you..."
"You believe me." Shen Zhixi hugged his waist, looked up at him and repeated, "Tang Zhou, can you believe me? I really am not lying to you this time."
Song Lianzhou's lowered eyes were particularly tangled, not because he was afraid that Shen Zhixi would lie to him again, but because he was afraid that something would happen to her.
But in the end, facing her expectant eyes, he nodded and said, "I believe you."
*
In the afternoon, the banquet gradually dispersed.
Song Lianzhou had military affairs and had already left the Hou Mansion. As soon as he left, his father sent Wan Ying back.
The people who came to pick him up were carrying large and small bags of things, all of which Song Yijue had bought for Wan Ying.
"Ah Ying, what do you think of Grandpa Song?" Shen Zhixi wiped Wan Ying's sweat with a handkerchief and asked seemingly casually.
Wan Ying played with the wooden carved chick in her hand and replied with a smile: "I like it, I like grandpa."
Seeing that she didn't reject him, Shen Zhixi felt much more at ease.
From time to time, Wanying complained that she was sleepy and wanted to take a nap.
After settling down Wan Ying, Shen Zhixi took Yuanyang out.
The coachman driving the horse belonged to Shen Zhixi. She sat next to the curtain of the front carriage so that she could talk to him more easily.
"Back to the master, Mr. Xie, the second master of the Xie family, has nothing unusual except for normal interpersonal interactions. Except for the Taoist temple outside the city, which we cannot enter, we are watching everything else carefully. I guess, the master said last time The woman in Jiuyun Lane must have been imprisoned in a Taoist temple. Most of the things that the master wants to investigate are also in the Taoist temple. It’s just that the time is too short. It’s not clear how many people there are in Taoguan Mountain. If you want to enter the Taoist temple, you have to Give me more time to make plans."
"knew."
He said he knew it, but Shen Zhixi knew in his heart that there was no time for them to slowly plan.
If it was what she suspected, then the crisis might be coming tonight.
"Where's Qi Yuan?" she asked.
"Go back to the master, Commander Qi has gone out."
"Are you going to see Concubine Yu's coffin?"
"Yes, Master."
Shen Zhixi slowly turned around and stopped answering.
Soon, someone outside said again, "Master, the Fang's Spice Shop is just ahead."
Shen Zhixi opened the curtain and took a look. Sure enough, there was a shop with a plaque of "Fang's Spices" on the opposite corner of the street.
The shop is not small, and you can smell the fragrance wafting from the spice shop when you open the curtain.
After a while, he lowered the curtain, looked back at Yuanyang and said, "I'm going to meet an old acquaintance."
The carriage turned around and stopped at the entrance of Fang's spice shop.
After entering the door, Yuanyang asked to see the shopkeeper.
Before Shen Zhixi came, he asked someone to inquire and confirmed that the shopkeeper was in the shop before going out for this trip.
"Sir, our shopkeeper is busy in the accounting room upstairs. If you need anything, just tell me."
"Then I'll go upstairs to find her." Shen Zhixi couldn't help but said, and walked up the steps to the second floor.
The man wanted to stop him, but he couldn't stop the guards brought by Shen Zhixi, so he screamed anxiously. The people in the room above heard the noise, opened the door and came out, and were shocked when they saw Shen Zhixi.
"Boss Shen, it turns out it's really you."
The person who came out was dressed in women's clothing, elegantly dressed, and if you look closely, there are still traces of the original one.
It was Fang Shuo who disguised himself as a man and came to buy makeup, powder and spices from Shen Zhixi.
I remember that Fang Shuo helped her scold Qin Mu with righteous indignation.
"I have long heard that the richest man in Yanzhou, Shen Zhixi, came to Yuejing City and became the daughter of the Marquis of Ningcheng. Not only did he marry the uncle of the dynasty, but when I heard the news, I thought I had made a mistake. , it’s just a person who happens to have the same name and surname. When I met him today, I was sure that it was real. It’s really you, Boss Shen.”
Shen Zhixi nodded to her with a smile and asked indifferently, "Can I come in?"
"Oh, okay, boss Shen, please come over here."
It was not convenient for outsiders to enter the accounting room, so Fang Shuo took her to another guest room, turned around and shouted down to ask the waiter to bring tea.
"It turns out that Boss Shen still remembers me, but we only met him once. I thought you had forgotten me a long time ago."
"Of course I remember. I found it interesting when I saw you disguised as a man and came to my house to buy perfume."
The person who pushed the door in front was stunned for a moment, then turned around with an embarrassed smile, "Yes, I still remember Boss Shen could tell that I was a woman at a glance. At that time, women dressed in men's clothing to save trouble, and wore men's clothing when going out. It’s always more convenient than being a woman.”
She entered the door and made an invitation gesture to Shen Zhixi again.
When Shen Zhixi and Yuanyang entered the house, she closed the door and continued: "My name is not Fang Shuo, my name is Fang Yao, Fang Shuo..."
"It's your brother." Shen Zhixi answered with a smile.
Fang Yao's expression froze, but then she quickly regained her composure. She then approached Shen Zhixi with a smile and sat down next to her.
"Boss Shen, have you investigated me?" Although Fang Yao's words were probing, her tone was extremely certain.
She was not a fool, she realized for the first time that Shen Zhixi had other motives for coming to her.
Although Shen Zhixi looked calm on the surface, her eyes, words, and expressions contained an undisguised edge.
"To tell you the truth, I didn't come to Yuejing City voluntarily, but someone secretly stuns most of the people in my yard with incense, and then secretly kidnaps me here. What a coincidence, there is something in that incense The special spices are specially made by my Shen family, and those spices are expensive and extremely difficult to make. Because the cost was too high, only one batch was sold, but that batch happened to be shipped to Yuejing City, and the seller also It happens to be your Fang’s Spice Shop.”
Fang Yao's face turned dark.
"I don't understand what Boss Shen said. Could it be that Boss Shen thinks that I was the one who kidnapped you and came to Yuejing City?"
"Of course not."
Shen Zhixi raised his long eyelashes, and the flashing edge in his eyes became colder and colder.
Most of the Shen family's business in Yanzhou is rouge gouache, and they also make some good spice ingredients. Fang Yao buys the ingredients from her, and after buying them back, she uses other spices to make other fragrances, scented wax, etc. things for sale.
Mi Xiang is also one of them.
