Raiders of the Duke and Duchess

Chapter 48 The Hunter and the Bait

When he got into the carriage, Ziqiu's face was blushing a little, and facing Jifeng with innocent concern, it was just Gu Zuoyan who prevaricated.

After all, it's a summer afternoon, so it's normal to have a red face, isn't it?

After prevaricating, he started to gossip instead.

Gucuo is different from all of them, different from himself, Cen Yan, and Jifeng.

He is not a servant, and he can be regarded as being selected by a prestigious family in Jiangnan.If you say it's like... It's more like the steward arranged by the old lady for the girl, or... a teacher, a guide.

In addition, the ancient house is somewhat unsmiling on weekdays, and both myself and Cen Yan are a little afraid of the ancient house.

It's just that when I came here, I felt...he seems to be a little different.

I want to gossip about it, but I don't know where to start. In addition, there is a little guy next to him who is leaning on the window of the carriage and poking his head to look around. Half of his body is outside, as if he has never seen the world... Ziqiu watched with fear from the sidelines, and forgot to ask for a while.

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The carriage drove in Dongshi at a leisurely pace, Ning Xiuyuan leaned against the wall of the carriage and closed his eyes to rest his mind.

While driving, Xi Yu reported, "The old man ordered you to have dinner at his place tonight. It looks like he has heard some rumors about you outside and wants to ask you a question."

Ning Xiuyuan rolled his eyelids lazily, "What rumor?"

"Just, just... oh, just before you were at the Bai family, you personally agreed to take care of Ji Wuyan, and then someone saw you went to Fengchenju that night, and everyone was spreading the word that you treated Ji Wuyan, It's very different. The old lady will have to intervene when the rumor spreads to the mansion."

Ning Xiuyuan closed his eyes and listened. After a while, he replied in a low voice, "Understood. Go back."

After thinking about it, he opened his eyes and sat up straight, and confessed, "When I see her in the future, don't call her by her first and last name." Girls from the Ji family still need this bit of etiquette.

As he said that, he looked sideways out of the window, and when he touched a certain figure, his eyes paused slightly.

While Xi Yu was dumbfounded, she heard her master suddenly call out, "Stop."

The window of the carriage was facing a fried sugar and cake shop. There were no customers in front of the shop, only a child, who was pulling a countertop higher than him on his feet.Looking at the dress, looking at it from a distance, it is carved in powder and jade. When waiting eagerly, I was still a little impatient, jumping and jumping.

Dressed in a white robe, spotless, she looked well taken care of.

That child... Ning Xiuyuan knew him, the child next to Ji Wuyan.

With a slight movement in his heart, he got out of the carriage and walked straight towards the child.Xi Yu was still in a daze, what the master just meant...can't be called Ji Wuyan with both first and last name, should it be Miss Ji, or...the third young lady? !

The master can't be real... Has the Red Luan star moved? !

Chasing after Ning Xiuyuan with a stiff neck, seeing him walking straight towards a child, he was even more shocked and couldn't be more shocked-this is, want to have a little son? !
However, after thinking about it, although Miss Ji didn't know what she looked like, her eyes were extremely beautiful, and she couldn't think about it, and her son's appearance was first-class. ...

The old lady should be very pleased.

It's just that it may be more difficult to deal with in terms of identity. Although the Ning family has no background, there are a lot of people who talk badly in this city. At that time, the rumors will be directed at the girl. It seems that we have to prepare in advance.

Xi Yuwu folded his arms beside the carriage and thought about something, even thought about the baby name of the young master several times.

Ning Xiuyuan didn't expect that his unreliable subordinate would make up such a big drama on his own with a casual reminder. It's hard for him to justify himself like this.

Standing behind Jifeng, Ning Xiuyuan looked at the child jumping up and down because he couldn't wait, and looked around, as if he was worried that the adults would come over.

There was an unconscious smile in his eyes, "I've seen you before, what's your name?"

The other party looked surprised, stared at Ning Xiuyuan up and down, looked up and down, and took half a step back guardedly, without answering, turned around and asked the shopkeeper, "Are you all right? Are you all right?"

While speaking, his eyes were erratic, obviously guarded, but he pretended not to care.His acting skills are not really good, but he is quite clever among his peers.

"It's coming, it's coming...Young master, wait a moment!" The store owner responded enthusiastically, while calling out to Ning Xiuyuan, "Young master, do you want some fried sugar cakes?"

Ning Xiuyuan didn't eat these things, and when he was about to refuse, he suddenly changed his decision, "Okay. Let me have the same one as this kid."

"okay!"

Ning Xiuyuan didn't eat, he just saw Ji Feng's longing look on his feet just now, he felt so cute for no reason, patted Ji Feng's head, "Is this for you?"

Ji Feng glanced back at Ning Xiuyuan, his eyes were not friendly, this person struck up a conversation inexplicably, and now he wasted a lot of effort to give fried sugar cakes to himself, whom he had never met before. He obviously didn't like it, so why did he come and wait?The girl once said that any inexplicable and sudden kindness may be the bait on the trap dug in advance by the hunter.

He is seven years old now, not a three-year-old boy, not stupid.

The child obviously didn't trust him, and seemed to be on guard, so Ning Xiuyuan softened his voice, "I know your girl, and your girl's name is Ji Wuyan, isn't it?"

Ji Feng stared at him without saying a word. After a long while, the little child crossed his arms and imitated the posture of an adult, "Do you know about hunters?"

The child's thoughts jumped too fast, and Ning Xiuyuan couldn't keep up, "What?"

In the guarded eyes, there was a little more of a foolish expression, he pursed his lips, frowned again, and asked, "Then... do you know the hunter's trap?"

Ning Xiuyuan didn't understand what he meant.

Ji Feng shook his head, tsk tsk, and solemnly took the fried sugar cake handed over by the store and put it behind his back, with a mature look, "You don't know it at first sight. The girl once said that if a hunter wants to catch the prey, Usually a trap is dug, covered with weeds so that it cannot be seen, and in order to attract prey, bait is placed on it..."

"It's like... the fried sugar cake you're going to give me." Saying that, she lifted her chin and left proudly while holding her own fried sugar cake.

Ning Xiuyuan choked, as if... it was indeed the same thing, but it didn't seem to be the same thing.This child... was taught by Ji Wuyan?Such a spooky look...

This Ji Wuyan is the same, teaching a child such weird things well.

Not far away, a woman holding candied haws went up to her, and she could hear some whimpering complaints, "Oh, you damn kid, didn't you mean to eat candied haws? Turn around and disappear. See if I go back and don't tell the girl that you are secretly eating stir-fried haws again." Candy Cake!"

(End of this chapter)