Jiapingguan Chronicle

"Said the same thing?" Shen Cha and Jin Miaomiao looked at each other and said in unison, "What the same thing?"

"That's what you just talked about. Does the guy named Luan have an outside wife, another family, and a child?"

Hongye quickly finished all the skewers in his hand, and then handed the skewers in his hand to the boy who was walking towards him. He wiped the skewers on his mouth with a handkerchief and took it from the boy's hand. She was delivering a bowl of fruit cheese to Song Qiyun. The whole set of movements was smooth and smooth. One look at it and it was clear that she was doing it all the time and was very skilled at it.

"Whose fruit cheese will you eat?" Jin Miaomiao was a little dumbfounded, "Oh, yes, Xiaoyun is the only one in our house who likes this."

"Yes, so, I always go with his wishes. He also knows that I will occasionally eat a bowl of his food, and he doesn't care much."

Hongye quickly finished the bowl of fruit cheese and breathed a sigh of satisfaction. He handed the empty bowl to the boy, wiped his mouth with the handkerchief again, and made sure that he didn't smell of skewers on his body. Then he felt relieved.

"Every time you eat the kebabs secretly, you use my cheese to cover up the taste of the kebabs, right?"

Song Qiyun's voice came from behind the three people. They turned around and looked over, and saw Song Qiyun and Chen Jiu walking towards them with arms around each other and steps that they did not recognize.

"Are you okay today?" Shen Cha waved to them, "Can we have dinner at home tonight?"

"Sister!" Song Qiyun and Shen Jiu saluted to Shen Cha and Jin Miaomiao. Shen Jiu squeezed in between Shen Cha and Hongye with a smile, holding his sister's arm, "We have dinner at home tonight, we don't have to stay up late today. "

"Well, very good!" Shen Cha rubbed his brother's hair, looked at Hong Ye who was caught stealing by the master of suffering, and couldn't help but smile, "Okay, I've eaten everything, and you still follow Why are you, Sister Xiao Zizi, so fierce? Or in a moment, you will confiscate all the snacks she hid in the flower hall?"

"I think this works!" Song Qiyun nodded in agreement, patted Hongye's shoulder, held her arm, and said cheerfully, "As time goes by, our relationship will become deeper, right?"

"Forget it, I've eaten so many bowls from you, I should give you some snacks." Hongye pinched Song Qiyun's face and looked at Shen Cha helplessly, "How did you know I hid the snacks in the flower hall?"

"Xiaosi saw it when I was hiding it, and Xiaosi told me." Shen Cha chuckled, "It's not that big of a deal, why are you hiding it? Brother Xiaotian restricts you from eating snacks?"

"Indeed, he said that I like to eat snacks, but I don't like to eat, and I don't eat well, so..." Hongye shrugged, "Every time he sees me eating these things, he will talk about it endlessly next to me. Yes. In order to prevent my ears from getting calluses, I put all those things in the flower hall."

"Brother Xiaotian is right, but you don't eat well." Shen Cha smiled and raised his chin towards Hongye, "Continue, what were you talking about before, why did you mention this? She thinks Does her husband sometimes disappear?" "We can't sit face to face and stare at each other, right? We have to say something." Hongye shook Song Qiyun's arm and followed Shen Cha, Jin Miaomiao and Shen Jiu slowly walked towards the Duke's Mansion together, "We just want to talk about their relationship and life as a couple over the years, and whether they are relatively harmonious or something."

"There is violence between them, so why talk about harmony and disharmony." Jin Miaomiao shook her head helplessly, "What did she say herself?"

"She said it was fine when she was young, and she would respect each other more, and she would treat each other as a guest. As for the disharmony between husband and wife, she thought it was okay. After all, her husband-in-law did not have concubines, and he did not marry a concubine. Compared with the ladies from famous families in Jiangnan, it is much better, and she is already very satisfied. She is living a good life among the wives of wealthy businessmen, except that she cannot have children. "

"Yeah!" Shen Cha nodded, "This was when I was young, but what about now?"

"It used to be the so-called long-term relationship, but as I got older, it became more relaxed in this regard. Both of them have their own businesses and tasks. Sometimes they overlap, sometimes they don't, even for a few years. , she remembered very clearly that the two people met very rarely, let alone lived together. Being able to see this person, say a few words, and have a good meal was considered a blessing in those years. It’s such a luxury. In those years, even if they wanted to quarrel, they couldn’t find anyone to quarrel with.”

"In those years? When?" Shen Cha looked at Jin Miaomiao and asked, "Did she say approximately what age she was?"

"I don't know how old I am, but it was during the years when I opened up the trade routes in the Western Regions that my life was very difficult." Hong Ye sighed softly, nodded towards the young man who came towards them to make way for them, and waited for the young man to walk over. After that, he continued, "The person surnamed Liu told me that they opened up the trade routes in the Western Regions, and it was not their own idea. It was a task assigned by the superiors, and the person surnamed Luan must be personally responsible for it."

"What about their business in Jiangnan and their mission here?"

"Everything was handed over to the person named Liu, so it was later rumored that the person named Liu had a very say in the Luan family and was the real head of the family. In fact, there is nothing she can do if she is not the head of the family. I’m working hard in the Western Region, and I don’t know when I’ll come back!”

"So that's how this rumor came about." Shen Cha nodded, "How long has the person named Luan been in the Western Region? Is he there continuously, or does he go there every once in a while?"

"I've asked this question before, and the surname Liu said that at the very beginning, that is, when the business roads in the Western Regions were just opened up, he stayed there for about a year and a half, and then he went there every six months." Hongye looked at it. Shen Cha looked at Jin Miaomiao again, "Do you suspect that if the Luan family has a concubine, it is very likely that they will be in the Western Regions, don't you?"

"The one from the Liu family thought so too, but she didn't find any direct evidence."

"No direct evidence was found. Is there any indirect evidence?" Jin Miaomiao pushed open the small door connected to the Duke's Mansion, stepped aside, and waited until Shen Cha, Song Qiyun and Xiangjiu had passed by before dragging Hongye with him. Go through that little door and say, "What's her circumstantial evidence?"

"Every time the guy named Luan comes back, he is in a very good mood. Even mentioning His Highness Prince Ning at this time will not make the guy named Luan furious and attack her."