Zhurou

Chapter 89
Mrs. Chen's face was filled with resentment, and said: "Who told you to get in??"

"I just ask you to try to follow the people first, and arrange them where you want, and wait for me to send someone to pick them up!" Mrs. Chen spat, "I just heard you speak very differently! What background and family background do you have? How could such an idea come up??"

"Such a half-way man is still a martial artist. Hearing that tone, he is just running an escort agency. How can he match my Chen family!"

"To put it bluntly, it's still hard to send the big girl by my side!"

Chen Zhihui was stunned and said, "Grandma meant that you didn't call me..."

Mrs. Chen slapped the ground with her hands and said angrily, "Your brain is as stupid as your mother!"

"Why did I say that my family was going to Jingzhao Mansion? Didn't I just think that Jingzhao Mansion is not far from Fengxiang, and there are no bandits in Jingzhao. Then I can find another guard to protect the wealth of my family, and I will be with you two." Let's go to Fengxiang together!"

"You and I were robbed today. I'm an old woman. Of course it doesn't matter. You, an unmarried girl, were taken captive by thieves. Not to mention that no one can testify that you are innocent. Even if someone testifies, who would believe it? When outsiders inquired about it, I just asked, which one with some lintels would be willing to come to the door?"

Chen Zhihui panicked and said, "But I...although I've been humiliated, I haven't lost my innocence!"

Mrs. Chen waved her hand and said impatiently: "Don't tell me this, tell the outsiders, and see who is willing to answer."

He added: "Just because you were kidnapped by bandits, once the news spreads, not only will your life be over, but the Chen family will never be able to lift their heads again."

"The less people know about this, the better."

"Just now I wanted to ask him to take the two of us on the road. In this way, only this pair of men and women saw it. After I sent someone to send a letter to Fengxiang, I told your second uncle to send someone to deal with it. The house here was also set on fire. Well, let’s create some other theories, communicate with the Junzhou government, and we can pretend nothing happened.”

Chen Zhihui was dumbfounded when she heard this, and said, "How can we hide such a thing?"

"If you can't hide it, you have to hide it. How can a reputation be ruined by you and me?"

Mrs. Chen said in a cold voice: "If you told that person, then many bodyguards came over later, some of the bodyguards didn't know their backgrounds, most of them were street knights, and there were prostitutes, all of them were vulgar. Seeing your appearance, discovering your background, I don’t know how it will be spread in the future-you can hear me now, have you understood?!”

"I dare you to change your attire to deliver tea and water, isn't it just because there is a woman beside him. Although the woman is ugly in appearance, her manners are extraordinary. I thought it was just to try two characters. If he was the only one , Lonely men and widows, I still call you over? Are you old and confused?!"

Chen Zhihui only felt a mess in her mind, and said, "This...how do I try this?"

"Just now, if you are assigned by me, go and serve tea to that benefactor, talk to him, and see how he reacts to your appearance and actions. If you are really a gentleman, you and I will go and beg that woman—this person looks at you. Gentleness is a negotiable thing, if it is a greedy and lustful... oh..."

Mrs. Chen said helplessly: "If his character is corrupt, and his current situation, he can't choose, so he has no choice but to insinuate and ask that woman to see what she has to say."

"Now that you've been in for a long time, you've been given tea and food, and you've only talked to that woman, and you really don't know anything about what you really want to ask, what you want to see, and all my scheming is in vain!"

"But..." Chen Zhihui felt very aggrieved, "But didn't the benefactor just say that it is inconvenient to take me..."

"Since he can bring one, he can bring two." Mrs. Chen said firmly, "He won't take it, so I'll put up my old face to beg that girl, and I'll bring some more hairpins and jewels. Bo, looking at the beautiful jewelry, and explaining the reasons behind it, there is no one who is not moved or pitiful. The two are not like relatives, brothers and sisters. Although they don't know what the relationship is, but judging by the appearance of the man, as long as the woman persuades him, they will probably be able to Ken."

Hearing this, Chen Zhihui was finally relieved, but turned to regret, and said: "It's all my fault for being confused, but it's like this now, what should I do?"

Although Mrs. Chen disliked her granddaughter to the extreme, she was really powerless to get angry.

She was frightened when she was robbed by the bandits, and later she was tied up and forced to ask where the property was. After hearing the bad news one after another, she had already tried her best to hold her breath. He took out a key from the hood on his head, pointed to a place on the floor of the carriage, and said, "You open the lower box."

Chen Zhihui took the key, although she still didn't understand it, she was also afraid of being scolded, so she didn't dare to ask again, so she went to the ground to grope for a long time.

Mrs. Chen looked very anxious, she wanted to scold at first, but in the end she knelt down on the ground, brushed her granddaughter's hand away, found the opening, pressed the mechanism, and opened the partition.

A large box was immediately revealed.

Chen Zhihui hurriedly opened the box.

Mrs. Chen quickly said: "The jadeite noodles in the small box inside, you take it out carefully."

Chen Zhihui didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly took out the box carefully as she said, and when she opened it, she saw that the water inside was full of emeralds, she couldn't help but exclaimed, "Grandma, isn't this your dowry at the bottom of the box? This... ...Are you really going to send it out?"

Pointing to the rest of the jewelry in the head box, he said: "Isn't this pearl tiara okay? I think all of them are round and beautiful in color, and that red coral and silver hairpin, isn't it hard to get red coral?"

He persuaded again: "Pick up a few more of the rest of the things, so there are so many things to see, wouldn't it be better than just this one thing?"

She still remembers hearing about her grandmother's family background from her mother when she was a child. She only said that when she married into the Chen family, her natal family was not in ruins. The dowry had been carried for several hours, and the front boxes and cages had all entered the house, and the last one had not yet entered the city gate. .

The most precious of these is this set of emerald heads. It is said that it was specially invited by famous goldsmiths and jade craftsmen in Shu. They worked together for five or six years to make it. Be it the daughter-in-law or the daughter-in-law, everyone hopes that they will inherit in the future.

Chen Zhihui was deeply impressed by hearing her mother talk about it every now and then since she was a child.

When she first came back to the mansion, her mother often used this to encourage her, and said today: "You need to practice calligraphy well, and in February, copy more scriptures for your grandmother to offer, and ask her to remember your name. That set of emerald heads will be your dowry."

Tomorrow, he said: "You should learn how to be a female celebrity with your mother. When your grandmother is born, make a good screen carefully and come out. It's best to ask her to put it in the main hall. When people come in and out to see, they all come to ask, she With face, I will naturally value you more, maybe when you get married in the future, you can get that set of emerald hair as a dowry."

When she grew up, she naturally knew that she was born differently from the other sisters, and that she was inferior. If the grandmother really wanted to give the emerald head, it would not be for herself, but after all, she had heard it for a long time, and she always missed it.

Who would have thought that it would be taken out today, as if it was going to be given to an outsider, how could he be willing to do so.

Mrs. Chen said: "Where did you raise your petty air? Is this the situation you and I can choose now? Pick out a few good ones, and use other things to pretend!"

Chen Zhihui had no choice but to follow suit.

After finishing everything, the grandparent and grandson each took a wooden box and walked out of the backyard to the front.

Mrs. Chen entered the room, but she walked towards Zhao Mingzhi and said: "Miss Zhao, I have a merciless request, can I take a step to speak?"

Zhao Mingzhi was sitting, and when he heard this, he saw that it was an old man, so he stood up and followed him out.

Mrs. Chen did not go far, so she stood at the door leading to the backyard from the main hall and asked her family to ask her, and finally wiped her tears and said: "Miss Zhao, they are usually women. If Zhihui can't go first this time, I will ask you to come later." Master knows, how can she behave? Can you understand?"

He said again: "At this moment, benefactor refuses to help, and I don't know why, can Miss Zhao help to find out? Zhihui has always been able to endure hardships, and will not hold you back."

"As long as you bring her with you, in fact, if you walk quickly, you will be able to reach Jingzhao Mansion in a few days' journey. At that time, you will have your own place to seek refuge, and you really won't cause any trouble."

At the end of her speech, she specially opened the wooden box in her bosom, and sent the full jewels and treasures to Zhao Mingzhi, asking her to see clearly, before she said: "If you can help our grandparents and grandchildren this time, all these jewelries will be given to you." Let me thank Miss Zhao, what do you think?"

While speaking, he looked at Zhao Mingzhi's expression again, seeing that she had no reaction when she saw all these treasures, so she turned her head to signal Chen Zhihui to do the same.

When Chen Zhihui opened the box, the emerald head appeared, but Zhao Mingzhi still didn't move at all. Mrs. Chen couldn't figure out what she was thinking, so she said: "This is my dowry in the past. Although it is not priceless, it is Emerald water head is very rare, many years ago someone wanted to spend [-] guan to buy scraps of materials to carve jade, but my father would not sell it..."

She wanted to say more, but she saw Zhao Mingzhi shaking his head slowly, his body became cold for a while, and his voice became hoarse, and said: "Miss Zhao wants the old woman to kneel down and beg for love..."

When Zhao Mingzhi came, he knew what the two of them were going to do, but now seeing Mrs. Chen's many ways, she couldn't help sighing, but said: "You don't have to do this, Mrs. You come to ask me, but I'm actually not that kind Those who can make the decision depend on the ability of others to get here, as for the incident, I just ask Miss Chen a few questions, and you can answer me after you think it through."

Chen Zhihui nodded quickly, and said: "Miss Zhao, tell me, I've already figured it out."

Zhao Mingzhi said: "Firstly, we have traveled this way day and night. When we are slow, we need one person and two horses, and when we are fast, we need one person and three horses. The old lady said that Miss Chen is very good at riding. I wonder if she can or cannot?"

Chen Zhihui never expected to be asked such a question, she opened her mouth but was unable to speak.

She involuntarily went to look at her grandmother, and seeing her wink at her, she nodded, feeling uneasy, and said: "I...although I have difficulties, it's not like I can't learn how to learn."

Zhao Mingzhi said: "Even if I have to leave, I'm afraid I don't have time to learn."

He also said: "Secondly, we set off at Yin time in the morning, stop at Hai time at night, and only rest for a short time at noon. Together with eating, sleeping, and other miscellaneous things, the total is less than three hours."

"It's hard to talk about it now, Ms. Chen may find it hard to think about it, but I think it's easy, but let me mention something first - when I was traveling like this for the first time, I had scratches and bleeding between my legs, and now it's half a month younger Healing, the wound actually hurts when you touch it, but you can bear it by force, I don't know if the girl can bear it or not?"

Chen Zhihui swallowed, not knowing how to reply.

Although Zhao Mingzhi gave some advice, but thinking about it out of thin air, it is difficult to know whether he can bear it or not.

Zhao Mingzhi said: "Thirdly, I also follow the road and stay in the bodyguard bureau at night. There are few women in the bodyguard bureau, most of them are men, and there are bodyguards all around. When I am on the road, there are often bodyguards who come to pick me up - according to what the old lady said. , I am afraid that the bodyguard will spread the word and don't want to go with me, but I don't know how to treat it?"

When I first talked about the first two things, Mrs. Chen was fine, but after hearing the last one, she said: "I am not afraid of the bodyguard's message, but I am afraid that they will see the current scene and see Zhihui. How many times will I go?" If you want to spread rumors... If it is the place where you stop on the road in the future, people don't know Zhihui's origin, and she also lives with Miss Zhao, so I think it will not be a big problem."

Zhao Mingzhi said: "That's it, there's another four—maybe the old lady doesn't know, just now the second brother interrogated, this time these robbers came from Dengzhou Wenjiazhai, they are wandering bandits, they have been following along the road since Xuzhou, I came here specially to follow up with the group from your house, because I stepped on it early, and I will not stop until I have to cut off the road of the Chen family."

"There were hundreds of people in the Wenjiazhai, seven or eighty people who came to rob the way, but there were no more than 80 people in the wine shop at the moment. Because they were afraid of missing a single blow, there were still two ambushes in front of them. I don't know if there are still people running bandit."

"In addition to robbery in that village, there are other things to do - the two of us sent a few of his accomplices to prison, and if they chased them, they probably also wanted to catch and kill us. If there is any accident, my second brother and I dare not guarantee it, so, is it okay?"

Chen Zhihui heard these two, three and four points, and each one was more terrifying than the other. Although she felt that Zhao Mingzhi was just bluffing, it would never be like this, but she was really frightened.

She had just been in a catastrophe, and she was already very scared. She wished she could stay with her grandmother all the time, or guard her with some bravery. When she heard that there were probably many robbers in front of her, even the robbers were still there. Those who go after this couple, don't have half of their minds.

When Mrs. Chen heard this, her expression changed, and she lost her voice: "They... really followed from Xuzhou??"

Zhao Mingzhi nodded and said: "There are quite a few guards in the old lady's house. They originally wanted to wait until the border of Xiangyang to attack, but they postponed for some reason, so they had to postpone it until now."

Fu asked again: "So, what does Miss Chen think? What does the old lady think?"

Then he said: "If you want, why don't you write your promise letter first, and then I will bring the horse over. Miss Chen will go back and forth with three horses first, and have a cup of tea time? If it's done, I'll ask again—only this It's just a matter of asking, whether we can go together or not is up to the second brother to make a decision."

Since it is impossible to do all these troublesome things, it is just a chance to ask questions!

Chen Zhihui took two steps back, forced a smile, and said, "Are you going to test the horse right now? Didn't you say there are bandits ahead?"

Zhao Mingzhi was about to nod his head, when he suddenly heard the sound of horseshoes in the distance, as if a group of horses were rushing towards him, he had no time to pay attention to this place, but hurried forward.

(End of this chapter)