Blackening starts from the golden years

Zhao Pan'er lowered her head to avoid Yuan Xudong's gaze and said softly:
"I'm not trying to make excuses, but the bad guys just came over and knocked over the stove, spilling all the spring water. If you're really thirsty, there's a teahouse over there."

Looking at the stubborn Zhao Pan'er, Yuan Xudong smiled and said:

"If the water is spilled, it can be poured out again. If the stove goes out, it can be regenerated. I want to drink tea here today. If your tea is not good enough, then I will just stop doing business and have your place demolished. How about that?"

Hearing Yuan Xudong's threat, Zhao Pan'er raised her head and stared at him stubbornly without saying a word. Seeing her like this, Sun Sanniang hurriedly apologized to Yuan Xudong while pulling the still stubborn Zhao Pan'er into the teahouse next door, looking at her worriedly:

"Oh my God, he's the evil star of the Imperial City Department. Why do you have to provoke him?"

"I just don't want them to drink my tea!"

Zhao Pan'er said angrily. As she prepared to make tea, she looked at Sun Sanniang beside her and explained:

"Back then, it was the Imperial City Division that broke into my house in the middle of the night. It's been fourteen years. As soon as I saw that lion-head waist badge, I..."

Zhao Pan'er choked up and with red eyes, she added something to the tea she was preparing. Seeing her do this, Sun Sanniang slightly widened her eyes and said in shock:
"Hey, don't be silly, what did you add in here?"

"Don't worry, this is frosting."

After adding the frosting sugar, Zhao Pan'er continued to prepare the tea. She looked at Sun Sanniang who was a little worried and smiled:
"I have plenty of ways to deal with them."

Seeing Zhao Pan'er's smile again, Sun Sanniang also smiled, lightly touched her nose, and said with a smile:

"You, you just have a lot of tricks."

After saying that, she looked at the tea that Zhao Pan'er was preparing, still a little worried and said:

"Is there really nothing wrong with your tea?"

"Don't worry, it will definitely be fine."

Zhao Paner smiled and said, there was nothing wrong with tea, but it was a problem to drink snacks together with tea. She felt that she could trick Yuan Xudong without anyone noticing and make him vomit and have diarrhea after a few hours, which would be considered a small lesson for him.

……

Yuan Xudong was still sitting in his original position, admiring the lake scenery outside the window. At this moment, Zhao Pan'er came over with a tea tray, and Sun Sanniang followed behind her with tea cakes. When they came closer, Zhao Pan'er brought the dragon and phoenix tea on the tray to the table in front of Yuan Xudong and smiled lightly:

"Dragon and Phoenix Tea, please enjoy it slowly, sir."

As she spoke, she handed the tea tray to Sun Sanniang behind her, took the three trays of tea and fruit from her, placed them one by one on Yuan Xudong's table, and said with a smile:
"Pear strips, peach rings, candied fruit carvings, and Bijian bean cakes. Please enjoy them slowly, young master."

Looking at Zhao Pan'er who was standing beside him with a faint smile, and then looking at Sun Sanniang who seemed a little too nervous behind her, Yuan Xudong smiled slightly and said:
"You didn't poison me?"

"Sir, why do you say that? I guarantee with my life that there is absolutely no poison in this tea."

Looking up at Yuan Xudong, Zhao Pan'er looked calm. She took off the silver hairpin on her head and handed it to him, saying:

"If you don't believe me, this hairpin is made of silver. Check it yourself."

Taking the silver hairpin from Zhao Pan'er's hand, Yuan Xudong played with it and said with a smile:

"Why bother?"

As he spoke, he looked at Sun Sanniang, who was a little nervous behind Zhao Pan'er, and said with a smile:
"You, drink this cup of Dragon and Phoenix tea, and eat all these tea fruits."

"what?"

Sun Sanniang widened her eyes slightly, and Zhao Pan'er beside her was also a little dumbfounded. Why was he like this?

Looking at the two silly women in front of him, Yuan Xudong laughed jokingly:
"Why, did you really poison me?"

"No, who poisoned it?"

Zhao Pan'er stood up, she blocked Sun Sanniang behind her, looked directly at Yuan Xudong and said:

"I drink."

"Pan'er."

Sun Sanniang looked at her with some worry. Zhao Pan'er smiled and said:

"It's okay, I didn't poison you."

After saying that, she picked up the Dragon and Phoenix tea on the table and drank it all, then looked at Yuan Xudong and said:
"I finished it. There's no poison in the tea."

"The tea is not poisonous, but what about the snacks?"

Yuan Xudong stretched out his hand and pushed the plate of Bijian Bean Cake on the table forward, then looked at Zhao Paner and smiled:

"Try this plate of Bijian Bean Cake and see how it tastes."

"it is good."

After looking at Yuan Xudong, Zhao Pan'er could only reach out to take the Bijian Bean Cake on the table. She had originally wanted to make Yuan Xudong vomit and have diarrhea in a few hours, but now it seems that she will be the only one who will be unlucky.

Just when Zhao Pan'er's hand was about to touch the Bijian Dou'er Cake, Yuan Xudong suddenly grabbed her wrist, pulled it slightly, and pulled her into his arms.

"Ah~~"

Zhao Pan'er couldn't help but exclaimed, and Sun Sanniang said anxiously:

"Pan'er!"

She was about to come up to rescue Zhao Pan'er, but was immediately stopped by Ada and the others. She could only watch Zhao Pan'er being held in Yuan Xudong's arms and molested wantonly, but she was powerless to do anything.

"Pan'er!"

Being stopped outside by Ah Da and the others, Sun Sanniang was anxious and shouted to Yuan Xudong:
"Asshole, let go of Pan'er. What kind of ability do you have to bully a weak woman?"

"She is not a weak woman."

Yuan Xudong smiled.

"Let me go, what are you doing?"

Zhao Pan'er struggled hard, but was held firmly in Yuan Xudong's arms. According to the information displayed on the system interface, Yuan Xudong looked at her and smiled:

"Dragon and Phoenix tea, pear strips and peach rings, candied fruit carvings, the first two are just ordinary tea cakes in the market, but the last one is the most exquisite, but it is the Bijian Bean Cake. As long as you are not blind, nine out of ten people will choose it to go with tea. The reason why Dragon and Phoenix tea is called Dragon and Phoenix is ​​because it contains camphor, which has a bitter and cold flavor, and mung beans are also cold in nature. With the combination of the main and the secondary, it's okay to drink it now, but in two or three hours, I'm afraid I will vomit and have diarrhea, right?"

Hearing Yuan Xudong say this, Zhao Paner was stunned for a moment, but still said stubbornly:

"I don't understand what you are saying, sir. I am not a deity, so how can I know that you will definitely eat this bean cake?"

"Are you talking back?"

Reaching out and pinching Zhao Paner's chin to lift it up slightly, letting her look directly at him, Yuan Xudong smiled slightly and said:

"I'll give you one last chance to reform. Tell me who you are and why you hate me so much. Report your history to me."

"I don't hate you. I'm just a country woman who makes a living by selling tea. Sir, can you please spare me?"

Zhao Pan'er begged, she really regretted it now, if she had known earlier she would not have been so smart as to provoke this evil star from the Imperial City Bureau.

"Pan'er, woo woo woo..."

Sun Sanniang's mouth was blocked by Ada's headscarf, so she could only whimper and utter nothing. Ada and the others held her shoulders and she couldn't move. "I know you are not a country woman. You were performing the Green Waist Dance when you poured tea for me before. As far as I know, most of the people who can perform this dance are not from good families. Plus, you are deliberately showing off your charm. I am sure that you must have performed in a brothel before, or you are from a music school?"

Yuan Xudong looked at Zhao Paner in his arms and smiled.

Hearing this, Zhao Pan'er's face turned pale and said:
"I am a good citizen and shall not speak nonsense."

"Good citizen?"

Looking at Zhao Pan'er, who lowered her eyebrows and looked pale, Yuan Xudong sneered:

"I think you are a good citizen who has been stripped of your official title. Report your history to me one by one. If you tell the truth, I can let you go for now. But if you are flattering and deliberately concealing things, I can guarantee that within three days, I will let every citizen in Qiantang County know all your past stories."

After listening to Yuan Xudong, Zhao Paner closed her eyes slightly, then opened them again and said in a cold voice:

"Zhao Pan'er, 24 years old, from Dengzhou, was a slave to the government at the age of nine because of her father's crime, and was a singer and dancer in the Hangzhou Music Camp. At the age of sixteen, she was freed from slavery and returned to the country due to the grace of the prefect."

"enough."

Looking at Zhao Pan'er in his arms, seeing her eyes reddened, Yuan Xudong said:
"I know you are not an ignorant village woman. I hope you can understand the truth that things that are too hard will break easily. Today's incident should be regarded as a lesson. As your lifesaver, I plan to stay in your teahouse for a few days. Do you have any objection?"

"what?"

Zhao Pan'er was a little confused. Yuan Xudong let her go and said with a smile:
"Okay, I'm going to take a break, you go ahead and do your work."

After saying that, Yuan Xudong stood up and walked towards the inner room of the teahouse, which was Zhao Paner's boudoir. At this time, Ada and the others let go of Sun Sanniang and stood guard at the door of the room.

Seeing Yuan Xudong just walk into her boudoir like this, Zhao Pan'er couldn't help but blush. She opened her mouth but in the end said nothing.

Even Ouyang Xu had never entered her boudoir. Yuan Xudong was the first man to enter her boudoir.

At this time, Sun Sanniang walked to Zhao Pan'er's side. She rubbed her aching shoulders and looked at Zhao Pan'er and said:
"Pan'er, should we report to the police?"

"Forget it, it's useless. He is from the Imperial City Department. Didn't you see that the clerks in the county government acted like mice seeing a cat when they saw him?"

Zhao Paner said helplessly.

"You're right. He's the evil star of the Imperial City Department. Who dares to control him?"

Looking at Zhao Pan'er, Sun Sanniang asked:
"Then what should we do now?"

"Let's see what's going on first."

Zhao Pan'er said, and then she glanced at the messy teahouse and said distressedly:
"Sanniang, please help me clean up first. I'll go to the river to get some water."

"Okay, go ahead, I'll take care of this."

"Ah."

Zhao Pan'er left the teahouse carrying two empty wooden barrels and walked towards the river. Sun Sanniang stayed in the teahouse to clean up the house.

……

Walking to the river, Zhao Pan'er put down the wooden bucket to fetch water. Looking at her own reflection in the water, Zhao Pan'er couldn't help but feel sorry for herself. Looking at the beauty in the water, she was lost in thought and couldn't help but think of the miserable days when she was in the Jiaofangsi in the past, when she was hungry, cold, and beaten all day long. Recalling the past, she, who always appeared strong, rarely showed a trace of vulnerability. She was about to cry, and I felt pity for her.

At this moment, a ball flew over and hit Zhao Pan'er on the head. She cried out in pain and covered her head with her hands. It turned out that Sun Sanniang's naughty son Fu Zifang was playing Cuju and deliberately hit her with the ball. Zhao Pan'er was not angry. She stood up, lifted her skirt with both hands, and kicked with her foot. Fu Zifang's ball flew back again, directly over his head and flew into the goal not far away.

Seeing Zhao Pan'er kick the ball so well, Fu Zifang clapped his hands happily and cheered:

"Madam Zhao, you are amazing!"

"Hey~~"

Zhao Pan'er waved her hands somewhat embarrassedly, with a happy smile on her face, breaking free from the bad memories.

"Fu Zifang, you're skipping school again?!"

Sun Sanniang roared. She saw Fu Zifang, who had skipped school, from the window of the teahouse. She didn't even bother to clean up and chased him out with a rolling pin, wanting to spank Fu Zifang.

She chased after him, while Fu Zifang ran in front. The brat turned back and looked at Sun Sanniang while running, mocking her:

"You can't catch up with me, haha, you can't catch up with me, you can't hit me, come on, come and catch me."

"You brat, stop here!"

"Sun Sanniang, come and chase me, you can't hit me."

"You're dead today, you've been skipping school every day, I'm going to beat you to death!"

"Haha, you can't hit me, come and chase me."

Sun Sanniang was so angry, but Fu Zifang ran too fast, so she could only chase him with a rolling pin, getting farther and farther away. After watching the mother and son run away, Zhao Paner couldn't help but smile. Sun Sanniang always hoped that her son would become a successful person, hoping that Fu Zifang would study hard and pass the imperial examination to become an official in the future. However, Fu Zifang was not a good student. He played all day and skipped school every day. Sun Sanniang chased him with a rolling pin, but it didn't work. In his words, he wanted to sleep when he saw the book, and he would rather have fun playing.

Zhao Pan'er was about to go back with the bucket when a carriage stopped by the river bank.

"Sister Pan'er."

A thin and weak female voice came, Zhao Pan'er turned around and saw her good sister Song Yinzhang and her personal maid Yinping getting off the carriage. When she first entered the Jiaofangsi, Zhao Pan'er could not accept the gap from the official's daughter to the Jiaofangsi musician, so she refused to accept the relevant training of the musician. Thanks to the help of Sister Song Yinzhang, she got through the most difficult days at the beginning. Unfortunately, on the night before Zhao Pan'er was about to be demobilized and return to the country, the judge of Ninghaijun chose her to sleep with him, so Song Yinzhang's sister took the initiative to replace her and never came back.

It was said that the Ning Haijun's men got drunk and killed Song Yinzhang's sister. She died miserably and humiliated her. So, from that time on, Zhao Pan'er vowed to take care of Song Yinzhang's sister instead of her biological sister. Since she owed Song Yinzhang a sister, she had to give her a good sister in return.

Zhao Pan'er didn't expect Song Yinzhang to come to the teahouse at this time. She greeted her and said with a smile:
"Yin Zhang, why are you here?"

Song Yinzhang was known as the best pipa player in Jiangnan and a famous courtesan in Qiantang County. She wore a white strapless silk dress, her black hair was like clouds, her cheeks were whiter than snow, and the white strapless dress on her plump chest added a bit of temptation and purity.

After getting off the carriage, Song Yinzhang hurried to Zhao Pan'er's side, pulled her to look left and right, and said worriedly:
"I heard that there were bad guys in the tea shop, so I rushed over here. Sister Pan'er, are you okay?"

"fine."

Zhao Pan'er smiled and Song Yinzhang's personal maid Yinping took a bucket from her and helped to carry it. At this time, a young man in gorgeous clothes walked out from the back of the carriage with his hands behind his back. Seeing him, Zhao Pan'er couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. Her heart skipped a beat and she immediately had a bad premonition.

"Yin Zhang, who is this?"

Song Yinzhang glanced at the young man shyly and replied:
"He is Zhou Lang. He was afraid that I would be anxious, so he sent me here."

"Zhou Lang?"

Zhao Pan'er's voice changed. She knew that Song Yinzhang was too young, inexperienced in worldly affairs, and unsophisticated in the ways of the world. Although she was proficient in music, especially in playing the pipa music to perfection and was known as the best pipa player in Jiangnan, she was still too immature and extremely easy to be deceived by bad men with ulterior motives.

At this time, the young man whom Song Yinzhang called Zhou Lang stepped forward, bowed, and said to Zhao Pan'er with a flattering smile:
"My dear Zhou She, I have met Madam Zhao. Yin Zhang mentions Sister Zhao to me at least ten times a day. When I saw her today, she was indeed full of energy and extraordinary."

"Haha, sit inside."

Zhao Pan'er gave a fake smile and led Song Yinzhang and Zhou She towards the teahouse. She walked in front, and Song Yinzhang's personal maid Yinping hurriedly followed. Song Yinzhang and Zhou She walked slowly behind.

In front, Zhao Pan'er quietly asked Yin Ping:
"Yin Ping, what's going on with this Zhou She?"

Yin Ping replied quietly:

"We just met fifteen days ago."

Hearing this, Zhao Pan'er was speechless.

...(End of chapter)