swear not to be concubine

Chapter 100

Qin Yan was sitting at the table in the lobby downstairs drinking tea, and had no idea what happened upstairs.Until there was a burst of hurried footsteps, and then Bai Wei's voice was vaguely heard, saying: "Young Master Qin, save..." Then there was no sound.

Hearing the sound, he raised his head and looked over, and could vaguely see a stout servant woman holding Bai Wei's arm and going in another direction.

Qin Yan's heart trembled, he hurriedly stood up, and was about to go up the escalator to the second floor.

But at this time Zhou Yingying happened to come down from upstairs, and stood at the end of the stairs, looking down at him.

She was wearing a double-breasted long jacket with a rose-purple two-color gold engraved silk gourd pattern, and a tooth-colored pleated skirt. Standing there, she was pretty and charming.

But Qin Yan's eyes just swept over her very quickly, without staying on her for a moment, and then asked with a cold face: "What did you do to Bai Wei? Where is Jian Yan?"

Zhou Yingying didn't answer, she just supported the handrail of the stairs with one hand, raised her foot and walked down slowly, and then stood still in front of Qin Yan.

This time it happened to block Qin Yan's way.

Qin Yan frowned, and said in a very bad tone, "Get out of the way."

Zhou Yingying stood there and did not give way, she just pursed her lips tightly, bowed her head, and looked at him stubbornly and silently.

Qin Yan's long eyebrows furrowed even tighter, and his eyes looking at Zhou Yingying became colder and colder.

"You care about Jian Yan a lot?" Seeing the nervous expression on his face, Zhou Yingying felt a little astringent in her heart.So she opened her mouth and asked a question slowly.

Qin Yan didn't answer, he just said in a cold voice: "Miss Zhou, today you called me and Jian Yan over, what's the matter? Why don't you just say it straight. What do you mean by doing these things secretly? ?”

Zhou Yingying was silent for a moment, and then she simply explained to him.

"Actually, I didn't call Jian Yan here today, but my uncle called her here to see her. She is staying in the private room upstairs, and I didn't do anything to her. As for The maid next to her is a bit of a nuisance to stay by her side, so I have someone send her to another empty house for the time being."

Qin Yan suddenly raised his head to look at her, the cold and stern look on his brows made her heart skip two beats in her chest.

"Get out of the way." Qin Yan's voice was like frost and snow, icy without any warmth.

But Zhou Yingying still stood in front of him stubbornly, without the slightest intention to get out of the way.

Qin Yan didn't want to waste any more words with her, so he reached out and grabbed her arm.

After dragging her to a stagger, seeing a gap, he lifted his foot and walked up the stairs.

"Qin Yan," Zhou Yingying's body was unstable when he stretched out his hand and pulled her hard. If she hadn't reached out her hand extremely quickly to hold onto the handrail of the stairs, she might have rolled down the stairs.At this time, she leaned her back against the handrail of the stairs, turned around and looked at Qin Yan and shouted loudly, "It's useless. What's the use of rushing forward? You didn't see the maidservants in the room." The servants and the family members outside? And if you rush forward to stop the person my uncle wants, have you ever thought about what will happen to you? Since my uncle is the chief assistant and has all the power, Not to mention that you will never have the chance to enter an official career again, I am afraid that even if he wants to kill you, it will be easy for you. You have to think carefully, is Jian Yan worth doing this?"

Qin Yan's body froze, and the steps he stepped out also stood in place without moving.

When Zhou Yingying saw her, she immediately said, "Come down, and I'll tell you why my uncle was so shocked when he saw Jian Yan."

But Qin Yan just stood where he was, with his back to her, and didn't continue to walk forward, but he didn't intend to turn around and retreat either.

Zhou Yingying was not in a hurry either.She just stood there and waited quietly.

She could see that Jian Yan was special to Qin Yan, but she didn't believe that Qin Yan would give up his future and life to face her uncle head-on.

And sure enough, after a while, although Qin Yan's face was ashamed and his lips were tightly pursed, he still turned around and went down the stairs slowly, and walked to a table in the lobby downstairs, where he sat slumped. into the chair.

Seeing this, Zhou Yingying was secretly relieved.It's just that the heart in the chest hasn't stabilized yet, it's still beating violently.

Then she also walked to the table, picked a chair and sat down, and ordered the maid beside her to serve tea.

Although there is also a prosperous charcoal basin in the lobby downstairs, the space in the lobby is really too big, so it is still very cold.

Zhou Yingying's plain white hands tightly held the teacup on the table in front of her. Through the white steam rising up, she could see Qin Yan's face was gray.

His whole body is like a dry leaf after dehydration, no longer alive.

Zhou Yingying sighed softly, and waved her hand to signal all the maids and servants waiting around to retreat, and then she slowly said: "I also listen to people talking about my uncle's affairs , and I pieced it together myself."

"My uncle was originally a poor student. Although he entered school at an early age, he failed in the subsequent provincial examinations. He had no choice but to find a library to teach a few young children and earn some money. It was nothing more than repairing and subsidizing the family. One year during the Ching Ming Festival, when the spring was warm and the flowers were blooming, he and his friends went to the nunnery to offer incense. He heard a piano sound in the meditation room in the backyard by chance. He followed the sound and found a girl who was playing the piano. That girl is really gentle and beautiful. My uncle fell in love with her at first sight, and that girl seemed to be interested in my uncle. It is said that she turned her head and smiled at him three times. You know, my uncle, even though It was the meeting that failed after repeated trials, but he always had Ling Yunzhi in his chest, so he only thought that this girl had eyes for talents, so he became more and more interested in her. So after he went back, he made a special effort to inquire about this girl I learned that she is the daughter of the local Zhizhou, and her name is Mei Niang. Originally, one was just a tried and tested scholar, and the other was the daughter of Lord Zhizhou. It is impossible for the two to have any intersection. After all, my uncle was unwilling and couldn't forget that girl, so he managed to get acquainted with the woman who was a rough envoy of Zhizhou's family, and through that woman, he met a maid who was next to Mei Niang. I wrote a poem and asked the servant girl to pass it on to that Mei Niang, in which I described my admiration for her in detail. I don’t think that Mei Niang would return a poem soon, saying that he also has something for my uncle. Of admiration. My uncle was naturally overjoyed. At that time, he also had the cheek to ask the magistrate to marry him. As a result, he was taunted and ridiculed by the magistrate, saying that my uncle has no power. He has no money, and is just a poor scholar. It is a toad or a toad who wants to eat swan meat and comes to ask for his daughter? I don’t even urinate myself to see if I am worthy. My uncle suffered a lot at that time. However, after all, they were reluctant to leave Mei Niang, and the two of them continued to sing along through the poems of the woman and the maid, but they had never met each other. After a month or two like this, neither Knowing what was going on, this matter was noticed by the magistrate. The magistrate was furious at the time and sent someone to arrest my uncle. My uncle got the letter in advance and ran away overnight. And that Mei Niang was She was severely punished by her father, and it is said that she knelt for three days and three nights in the cold ancestral hall. She was a pampered and pampered young lady, but after being frightened like this, she knelt in the ancestral hall for three days and three nights, I fell seriously ill immediately, and I heard that he died soon after. And my uncle, after escaping at that time, worked hard to study, it was a pity for God, and then he passed the provincial examination, the general examination, No. 2 in the palace examination, and was awarded a Jinshi background , awarded the Shujishi, and after two or 30 years of ups and downs in the officialdom, he achieved the current position of the chief assistant of the cabinet."

Having said this, Zhou Yingying lowered her head and took a sip of the tea in the teacup.Then he raised his eyes and saw Qin Yan sitting there with his head bowed silently, not moving at all.

But she knew he must be listening to her.So she continued to speak calmly: "When my uncle became rich, he also went back to find Mei Niang. But at that time, Mei Niang was already dead. My uncle found out that Mei Niang's death was due to the incident with the magistrate. For punishing her to kneel in the ancestral hall for three days and three nights, he felt guilty towards Mei Niang in his heart. After all, when he learned that Master Zhizhou had noticed the matter between him and Mei Niang, his first reaction was to run away overnight. He never thought of staying with Meiniang to take on this matter at all, and secondly, he was really reluctant to bear with Meiniang. So he was furious immediately, and then he found a charge of corruption and skinned the magistrate Chucao, the other family members were also exiled to remote places, and none of them ended well. And my uncle still couldn't forget about Mei Niang. When she died, when she remembered it, she would naturally only have She is so kind in every possible way. What's more, if it is true that they didn't get along at that time, they just met once, and then they just sang poems. Naturally, my uncle would think of Mei Niang in his heart. Refined, pure and pure, there is no other woman in the world who can compare to her. So as time went by, this Mei Niang became my uncle's obsession. Later, anyone who met this Mei Niang For some similar girls, my uncle will definitely do everything possible to keep them as his own. It's me..."

Zhou Yingying paused at this point.

In fact, what she wanted to say was that even her mother, the wife of Zhou Yuanzheng's younger brother, had a red mole the size of half a sesame seed growing on her right hand just like Mei Niang's on the back of her hand. Zhou Yuanzheng has touched.It's just that Zhou Yuanzheng committed something secretly later, but it was his younger brother who stood up and carried it for him, and died in prison. Zhou Yuanzheng felt sorry for his only younger brother, so he didn't do it again after that. Touched her mother.And it was precisely for this reason that Zhou Yuanzheng always felt guilty towards her niece, so he treated her better than his own daughter.

Zhou Yingying sighed deeply.

Thinking of these things, she also felt panicked.But so what?Although she also hated her uncle in her heart, but speaking of it, if it weren't for him these years, how could she and her mother live in such a prosperous life?How could she have those female relatives from official families scrambling to post posts to get acquainted with her?

Zhou Yuanzheng gave her such a glorious life now, even though she hated him in her heart, she couldn't let go of her current life, so she could only pretend not to know.

Zhou Yingying lowered her head and took another sip of the tea in the teacup, suppressing all the grievances in her heart, and then said softly: "As for Jianyan, I didn't know it at first, but since that day My uncle saw Jian Yan's gaffe at home, and after calling her Mei Niang, I sneaked into his study while my uncle was going to the government office during the day, and found a scroll of paintings, which was me Uncle's hand-drawn picture of the Mei Niang whom he had only met once. Jian Yan, she actually gave birth to exactly the same Mei Niang. You said, those girls in the past just looked a little like Mei Niang , my uncle has to do everything possible to keep it for himself, but now Jian Yan is born the same as Mei Niang, it's like she was reborn again, how can my uncle let her go? He must have exhausted all means. I want to take Jian Yan as my own."

"So you are helping the tyrant and deliberately posting a post to invite Jian Yan to come here today?" Qin Yan asked coldly.

Zhou Yingying didn't make a sound.

That day, she sneaked into Zhou Yuanzheng's study and saw the painting of Mei Niang, and she was also extremely shocked, but then she put the painting back as it was, and went out quietly. Just thought no one would notice.But he didn't want to call her into the study after Zhou Yuanzheng came back that day.

She will never forget the cold expression on Zhou Yuan's face when he was sitting in the armchair behind the desk and looking at her.

Zhou Yuanzheng has always loved her dearly.No matter how big a mistake she did, he never scolded her, and he was extremely gentle when speaking to her.But at that time, the expression on his face was like that of a frozen lake in nine winters, without any trace of warmth.

Then he forced her to write that post to Jian Yan, inviting her to come to the Zuiyuelou for a gathering today.

"Young Master Qin," Zhou Yingying sighed, and said in a low voice, "Believe it or not, I actually regard Jian Yan as my friend sincerely, and I don't want such a thing to happen now, but who would have expected Jian Yan looks exactly like that Mei Niang? She can only blame herself."

Qin Yan suddenly got up and stood up.

Zhou Yingying was shocked.Then she hurriedly got up and stood up, and stopped Qin Yan in two steps.

"Mr. Qin, think about it," Zhou Yingying said eagerly, "That Meiniang's father was finally skinned by my uncle. If you go up to Jian Yan on impulse, you want to bring She left, not to mention that my uncle has already arranged so many servants and servants inside and outside the Zuiyue building. It's nothing, he is naturally reluctant to touch her, but you should carefully consider what will happen to you."

Qin Yan's hands hanging on both sides were clenched into fists, and the veins on the back of his hands were bulging.His face was also tense, and the veins near his temples were obviously bulging.

Zhou Yingying stared at him nervously.

After a while, Qin Yan finally slumped back into the chair powerlessly.

He held his head tightly in his hands and said nothing.

He turned out to be so useless!He turned out to be so useless! !Jian Yan was on it, but he didn't dare to rush up to take her away.

Even though he knew he couldn't take her away from here, he could still rush forward and pull her to protect him behind him.But even so he dared not.

He is afraid of death.He didn't want to die again, and he didn't know what kind of death it would be.

Zhou Yingying felt uncomfortable seeing Qin Yan like this.So she persuaded in a low voice: "Don't do this. After all..."

Before he could say a word, Qin Yan could hear Qin Yan growling: "Shut up. Get out of here."

Zhou Yingying was stunned by his roar.A moment later, tears rolled down from her eyes.

She didn't want that either.But she had no choice, nor did she dare to disobey Zhou Yuanzheng.When Zhou Yuan was threatening her to write a post asking Jian Yan to come to Zuiyuelou, she refused at first.But then Zhou Yuan came over with a long sword expressionlessly, cut off the right hand of the big servant girl Wan Cui who had been following her all the time, and said in a cold voice, if she doesn't If she does what he says, then her right hand will be the same as Wan Cui's right hand, and she will never have to write with a pen again.

Only then did she realize that Zhou Yuanzheng was extremely ruthless, and that Mei Niang was deeply obsessed with him.But for anything involving Mei Niang, no matter how close he was, he would be ruthless to do it.

(End of this chapter)