Otoharu

Chapter 23
Li Meier heard the conversation between her father and uncle, and the smile on her face suddenly faded a lot. She had forgotten that the Liu family would send silkworm workers to participate in the Dragon Boat Festival every year.

Speaking of which, she also has a lot of connections with the Liu family. In her previous life, the Liu family was appointed for her by her family, and she was also the eldest grandson of the Liu family. If she did not die of illness, she would probably have married into the Liu family as the clan wife. .

"Mei Meier, what are you thinking? You didn't even hear my father calling me." Li Meier was lost in thought when she heard Li Yan say in her ear.

Li Meier came back to her senses, and immediately showed a naive smile, "I was wondering if there would be a prize for winning the first place in the dragon boat race."

"There is no bonus, it's just to get a good start, but if you get the first place, the reward from the master must be indispensable." Jiang Yanzhi said with a smile on the side.

"Mei Meier, are you hungry? Dad will go ashore to buy you some food." Li Yan was afraid that Li Meier would be thirsty and hungry, so that was what he asked just now.

Li Mei'er just ate a lot of snacks, and she didn't feel very hungry at the moment, but she was greedy, seeing more and more food stalls on the shore, she swallowed her saliva and nodded.

Jiang Yanzhi asked the old boatman to row the boat to the shore, but after rowing for a while, he saw a very delicate and gorgeous flower boat slowly approaching their boat not far away.

The flower boat was so eye-catching that everyone's eyes were immediately attracted to it.

Li Yan stared intently for a while, then said "Hey", and looked at Jiang Yanzhi who was beside him, "That... seems to be the Zhou family's boat. See if the man standing at the bow is the Zhou family's boss."

When Li Meier heard this, she started gossiping immediately, stood on tiptoe and looked desperately at the ship, and sure enough, she saw a 27-year-old young man standing on the deck.

Jiang Yanzhi didn't speak, but frowned slightly. He obviously didn't think it was a coincidence that he met the Zhou family here.

"How about I take Meier and Shanqing to hide in the cabin for a while." Li Yan looked at Jiang Yanzhi's face and said hesitantly.

Jiang Yanzhi shook his head, "No, if they came here specifically for me, then they must have heard something, and we don't need to cover up and hide our ears."

Li Yan sighed lightly when he heard the words, and said nothing more.

Li Meier looked at Jiang Shanqing with some concern, and stretched out her hand to gently hold his hand.

Jiang Shanqing frowned and glanced at her, but he didn't break away from her hand.

The flower boat soon approached, and the young man on the boat cupped his fists to slightly signal to Jiang Yanzhi, and said with a loud smile, "Brother Shuyu, I looked like you from a distance on the boat, and I was not mistaken."

Jiang Yanzhi also cupped his fists in return, "Brother Ziyu, I didn't expect to meet you here, it's really a fate."

He emphasized the word "destiny", which seemed very meaningful.

There was nothing strange on Zhou Mujin's face, he still chatted happily and said, "It's fate, so can we talk on the boat if we don't say anything?"

"This...may be inconvenient. I am traveling with my family today, and there are naughty children on board. I'm afraid I will disturb Brother Ziyu." Jiang Yanzhi declined with a smile.

Zhou Mujin still warmly invited, "It's okay, I also have juniors on this boat who happen to play together, and we will become a family soon, so don't be so polite."

Everyone said that, Jiang Yanzhi couldn't continue to refuse, so he winked with Li Yan.

Li Yan understood immediately, and said with a smile: "Young Master Zhou, these two children in my family are a little shy, so they won't go on your boat, let's go alone."

Zhou Mujin glanced at Li Yan, knowing that he was Jiang Yanzhi's brother-in-law, and it was not easy to save him, so he could only nod his head and said, "Okay then."

Jiang Yanzhi was obviously relieved. He didn't want to implicate the child in today's matter. It would be best not to let Jiang Shanqing face those people.

"Shanqing, wait on the boat with uncle, foster father will be back soon." Jiang Yanzhi squatted down, comforted Jiang Shanqing softly before turning around and boarding Zhou's boat.

Zhou Mujin on the flower boat seemed to watch Jiang Shanqing very carefully for a while before entering the cabin with Jiang Yanzhi.

Seeing the two leave, Li Meier breathed a sigh of relief, looked up at Li Yan and asked, "Father, is uncle okay?"

Li Yan touched Li Mei'er's head, and said with a broken smile, "What's the matter, but just come here and ask your uncle to talk, and it will be fine in a while."

Li Meier knew that Li Yan only thought of herself as a child and would not say anything to her, so she didn't continue to ask, but only looked at Jiang Shanqing next to him, and saw that his face was calm, without a trace of nervousness or fear.

What an old ghost.Li Mei'er muttered in her heart, she couldn't express her emotions, if it was her, she would have been too nervous for a long time.Li Meier waited boredly on the boat for a while, and felt a little hungry, so she took out snacks to eat, grabbed a handful of peanuts and put them in Jiang Shanqing's hand, and said kindly: "You also eat some, I think you can eat it after breakfast." Haven't eaten anything."

Jiang Shanqing glanced at the peanut in his hand with some distaste, but silently peeled one and ate it without saying anything.

"Mei'er, you and Shanqing are waiting here, dad is going to relieve him."

Li Yan didn't know if he had just eaten Jiang Feng, and his stomach was a little overwhelmed. After giving instructions to the two children, he went into the cabin to relieve himself.

Li Mei'er didn't care, she responded casually, and continued to eat snacks.

As soon as Li Yan left, two small heads appeared on the opposite flower boat, a boy and a girl, two children, the boy was about seven or eight years old, and the girl was about three or four years old like Li Meier.The clothes on those two people were made of silk and satin, which was much more advanced than the fine cloth on Li Meier and Jiang Shanqing, but although they were dressed gorgeously, their looks and temperament were not as good as Li Meier's.

"Are you the illegitimate son of Jiang Juren?" The boy looked at Li Meier and the two for a while, then suddenly asked.

Li Meier was concentrating on eating snacks, and didn't notice the two people. The boy suddenly made a sound, and she was startled, frowning and looking up at him.

"Which one are you?" Li Meier stood up, stared at the two of them with her hips on her side and asked.

"I asked you first." The boy said dissatisfied, his brows were full of pride.

Li Meier wanted to argue with her, but was pulled to sit down by Jiang Shanqing beside her, and said calmly, "Don't talk to them."

Li Meier was a little unconvinced, thinking that they scolded you, she could bear it, but she still listened to Jiang Shanqing, so she sat down angrily, and ignored the two children.

(End of this chapter)