swear not to be concubine

Chapter 96

Jian Yan looked up at Zhou Yuanzheng in surprise.

The last time she met Zhou Yuanzheng in the Jade Emperor Temple, she felt that although this person looked gentle and elegant, but to be able to hold the position of chief assistant, he had naturally cultivated to the state where Mount Tai collapsed in front of him without changing his expression , why is it such a gaffe in front of her now?
And what the hell is Mei Niang?Did he mistook himself for someone?

Facing Zhou Yuanzheng's eager and fiery gaze, Jian Yan felt a little flustered.But she still tried her best to gather her mind, bowed her knees and saluted him respectfully: "Little girl Jian Yan, I have met Master Zhou."

The word Jian Yan is heavier than the other words, to remind Zhou Yuanzheng that she is not Mei Niang, she is called Jian Yan.

But Zhou Yuanzheng seemed to be stupefied, he still called her Mei Niang again, and stretched out his hand, intending to grab her.

Jian Yan took three steps back without hesitation, and she stepped back behind Zhou Yingying, and then she said with a straight face: "I'm afraid Mr. Zhou has admitted the wrong person. The little girl, Jian Yan, is not Mei Niang."

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Zhou Yingying's expression on her face, which was also a little strange, but she just looked at her in surprise.

Why are both of them like this?At this time, Jian Yan was really anxious, but she didn't show anything on her face.Seeing that Qin Yan also rushed over, she hurriedly winked at Qin Yan.

Qin Yan also saw something was wrong, because he bowed his hands to Zhou Yuanzheng, and said aloud: "Master Zhou, Miss Jian and I have been out for some time, so I won't bother Master Zhou, let's take my leave first, and see you at another day .”

After all, he winked at Jian Yan, signaling her to leave quickly.

Jian Yan wanted to leave, but Zhou Yuanzheng's expression returned to normal at this time, but the forcibly retracted eyes still had a bit of blazing heat, and the turbulent waves in his heart still did not stop.

"Miss Jane," he sighed, and his voice returned to his usual gentleness. He sounded calm and soothing, and said slowly, "It's because you look so much like me. An old friend, the old man mistook him for a while and lost his composure, please don't blame Miss Jian."

After speaking, he leaned over and saluted her as a sign of apology.

Naturally, Jian Yan didn't dare to accept his salute, she turned sideways to let him go, and then bowed her knees to salute him, lowering her head and saying in a soft voice: "Your Majesty Zhou is being polite."

But Zhou Yuanzheng was still looking at her from the corner of his eye.

The more he looked at him, the more he found that Jian Yan looked so much like Mei Niang, she was exactly the same.Even this gentle and quiet temperament is exactly the same.

Are there such similar people in the world?Or maybe, somewhere in the dark, this Jian Yan was actually Mei Niang reincarnated to find him?
As soon as he thought of this, Zhou Yuanzheng felt that his exhausted heart immediately burned up, and even the blood in his whole body began to scald.

Almost uncontrollably, he wanted to grab Jian Yan's arm, pull her in front of him, and carefully look at her eyebrows and eyes.

But he still controlled it abruptly, because the guard in Jian Yan's eyes was too obvious.He had no doubt that if he dared to do anything excessive, the little girl would immediately turn around and run in fright.

He didn't want to startle her.In his heart, he already regarded Jian Yan as Mei Niang's reincarnation.

And Jian Yan was impatient to stay here any longer.

No matter how calm Zhou Yuanzheng looked, no matter how gentle his tone was, his constant staring at her still made her feel very uncomfortable.

That gaze was too sticky, and the air in a rainy day was hot and humid, which made her feel uncomfortable in every pore of her body.

So she once again bid farewell to Zhou Yuanzheng.But fortunately, before Zhou Yuanzheng could say anything this time, Zhou Yingying who was beside him said first: "Miss Jian, it's getting late. You and Mr. Qin should go back first, and I will make an appointment with you in another post." Come out and play."

Then he turned around and said to Zhou Yuanzheng: "Uncle, didn't you say that you have an appointment with your colleagues later? Since you still have something to do, then you should go and do it first. It's the same when I send Miss Jian and Mr. Qin out."

Jian Yan knew the elegant meaning after hearing the string song, and immediately saluted Zhou Yuanzheng hurriedly, then turned around and left with Bai Wei.

Zhou Yuan was about to speak to stop him, but in the end he stopped abruptly.

He prefers to imagine Jian Yan as the reincarnation of Mei Niang, rather than simply thinking that Jian Yan just looks like Mei Niang, so that he will feel that his heart that died after Mei Niang's death is resurrected come over.So he didn't want Jian Yan to be afraid of him.

"Zhou Fu," he beckoned his confidant family to come, pointed to the direction where Jian Yan was going, and ordered in a deep voice, "It's a good idea to find out about the background of this Miss Jian. Come and report I."

Zhou Fu respectfully agreed.

And Zhou Yuanzheng looked at the place where Jian Yan left, and remained silent, but his eyes were deep and firm.

He didn't even meet Mei Niang when she died.To this day, he doesn't even know where Meiniang is buried, so he is full of remorse and resentment.But now he has met such a little girl who looks like Mei Niang, even her temperament is the same as her, it is like Mei Niang reborn, how can he let go again?

Unless he dies, he will never let go.

After Jian Yan left the gate of the Zhou Mansion, she immediately got into the carriage and told the driver to leave quickly.

It wasn't until the carriage left the capital smoothly that she breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhou Yuanzheng really scared her just now.

At this time, Bai Wei also said worriedly at the side: "Girl, that Master Zhou just now, his behavior is so real that I still feel terrified when I think about it now."

Jian Yan tried her best to gather herself, then suddenly lifted the curtain of the car, and asked Qin Yan who was following on horseback: "What did Zhou Yuanzheng and you talk about in the study just now?"

When she was with Qin Yan, there were not so many rules of defense between men and women in this era.After all, they have all lived in modern society, and it is very common for men and women to chat and eat together.

As soon as Qin Yan heard her ask this question, his expression darkened, and his eyes darkened even more.

But he still didn't want to say what Zhou Yuanzheng said to him in front of Jian Yan, he just said perfunctorily: "I didn't say anything, just chatted a few words about the article I wrote thing."

Jian Yan naturally didn't believe it.She was always careful, and she had already seen the displeasure on Qin Yan's face.It's just that if Qin Yan didn't say anything, she couldn't ask any more questions.

The senior is really too arrogant, if you ask too much, I'm afraid it will brush his back scales, and it will be bad to make him unhappy.

She prefers to believe that he knows it well.After all, in her heart, her senior is like an omnipotent male god.

So she let out an oh, and didn't ask any more questions about this topic.Instead, he asked with a calm expression: "Just now when Zhou Yuanzheng saw me, his facial expression changed drastically, and he even called me Mei Niang. What do you think of this?"

Qin Yan's expression also became serious.

Just now, Zhou Yuanzheng's expression and behavior were too abnormal. Who is this Mei Niang to Zhou Yuanzheng?How can you teach someone who is still in front of him to be indifferent and intimidating, like a cat playing with a mouse, and the person who said such threatening words sentence by sentence can lose his composure in an instant?

Qin Yan was silent for a moment, and finally said: "He must have mistook you for someone. But no matter what, you'd better try not to meet him in the future."

Jian Yan hummed and lowered the car curtain.

It doesn't matter whether Zhou Yuanzheng admitted the wrong person or whatever, but she will never go to the Zhou Mansion again.

Zhou Yuan was looking at her with fiery and extreme eyes that made her very uncomfortable.But who is this Mei Niang?How could it make him lose his composure to such an extent?
lover?daughter?I was not born to Mrs. Jian in the first place, and my life experience is unknown, so could it be that I am Zhou Yuanzheng's daughter?So that Mei Niang is her mother in this body?Otherwise, how could it be explained that Zhou Yuanzheng mistook him for Mei Niang when he saw him?That means I look exactly like that Mei Niang.

For a moment, Jian Yan wished she could give her a thumbs up for her cleverness.If she was really Zhou Yuanzheng's daughter, why would she be afraid of being someone else's concubine in the future?Who dares to let the daughter of Lord Shoufu be a concubine?

But she smiled and shook her head again, only thinking that she was whimsical.

Not to mention that there are many similar people in the world, but with Zhou Yuanzheng's current status, if there is really a daughter left somewhere else, how could it be possible for him not to look for it for so many years?Moreover, she also vaguely heard people say that Zhou Yuanzheng only started to make a fortune in his 30s, and he has never left the capital since then.And he was just a poor student before, and the poor only had arrogance left.But Jian Yan clearly remembered that the servant girl who died beside her was wearing gold and silver, she looked like she came from a rich family, so how could she be Zhou Yuanzheng's daughter?This is not right at all.

Jian Yan and Qin Yan began to snow on the way back to Tongzhou.At first it was just fluttering around like catkins, but when it was time to hold the lamps, the snow became denser and thicker, like goose feathers.

Xu Zhongxuan stood with his hands behind his back under the eaves of Ningcui Xuan silently watching the snowflakes flying in the air.

At first he didn't hold back, and asked Qing Zhu to find out what Jian Yan was doing now, but was told that she went out with Qin Yan today for Zhou Yingying's appointment.And Qingzhu also said afterwards that Miss Jian often goes out with Mr. Qin these days.

Xu Zhongxuan could only remain silent.

The two of them originally came from the same place, not to mention that Jian Yan once admitted in front of him that she liked Qin Yan, and now that the two of them have such close contacts, it seems that they must be in love Pleased.

As long as he thinks that Jian Yan will smile at him so brightly in front of Qin Yan, Xu Zhongxuan will only feel that his heart is full of subtle sourness and jealousy.

But what could he do?Jian Yan has such a stubborn personality, she would rather be broken than broken, if he really pushes her, he believes that she will do any stupid thing.

The scarlet felt curtain behind him was pushed back, Qingzhu stood behind him, put his hands on his waist, bowed his knees and saluted him, bowed his head and said respectfully: "My lord, the girl said it's cold outside, please come in going in."

Xu Zhongxuan came back to his senses, took another look at the snowflakes floating in the sky, and then turned around and entered the room.

Xu Miaojin is weak, the past two days have been cloudy and cold, and she caught the wind and cold again, and the high fever has subsided a little today, and now she is sitting on the kang by the window, with her back leaning on the big red python satin pillow, and her legs are covered with thick He was holding a small brass hand stove in the shape of a pumpkin in his arms.

Seeing Xu Zhongxuan lift the soft curtain on the green gauze cabinet and walk in, she straightened up slightly and called out: "Brother."

Xu Zhongxuan nodded to her, sat down on the other side of the kang table, put one arm on the kang table, and said to her in a warm voice: "You are just better off from the cold, why are you sitting here again? It was also turned on, and the wind was carefully blown, and the wind and cold did not improve, but other diseases were added."

Xu Miaojin said: "The window is closed all day long, and the room is very stuffy. I also feel restless and flustered, and my head hurts. I opened the half window and sat here looking at the snowflakes outside. With the cold wind, I feel that my heart is not so irritable, and my head is not so painful."

Xu Zhongxuan didn't say anything else, just told her to cover the quilt on her lap, take the small hand stove, and if she felt cold, she should not sit here and blow the air.

Xu Miaojin responded with a smile.

Qing Zhu served tea on a tea tray, Xu Zhongxuan took it, lifted the lid of the cup, lowered his eyes slightly, brought the tea cup to his lips, and slowly took a sip.

The water vapor was dense, blurring and softening his handsome face.

Seeing her thinner face than before, Xu Miaojin sighed secretly.

Regarding the matter between him and Jian Yan, she had already made some remarks on the sidelines, and after careful deliberation, she probably knew that there must have been a lot of conflicts between the two of them, and they even never saw each other again. up.

It's just that even if we don't meet each other, what's the matter with eldest brother being so decadent all day long?Obviously, he still thinks about sister Yan in his heart all the time.

"Brother," Xu Miaojin thought for a while, and then said, "I heard from the maids these days that Wu Kangbo's wife came to visit the one in the big room. Looking at her posture, she must be saying goodbye to her daughter. Here we come."

Xu Zhongxuan hummed lightly, and said: "I don't think she dares to make decisions about my marriage. Since she has never mentioned this matter to me, she must have declined it?"

Xu Miaojin nodded: "She declined. It's just that I see that she always asks that cousin Qin to come and sit with me recently. I'm afraid it's not because she has the intention to make this cousin Qin the second cousin Xuan. "

"Then find another opportunity at that time, and it's the same to drive this Miss Qin out of Xu's house." Xu Zhongxuan closed the lid of the cup, and said lightly, "We will see who else will dare to keep it in the future." I'm surrounded by people's thoughts."

Xu Miaojin was silent for a moment when she heard the words, and finally she asked softly: "Brother, is sister Yan so good? Why are there so many women in the world, some of them have better family background, better looks, and better talents than her, but why are there so many women in the world?" Why do you only care about her like this? Is she really that much better than other women?"

Xu Zhongxuan was startled when he heard this.

In fact, Jian Yan only looks gentle and docile on the surface, but she is stubborn and stubborn on the inside. It is difficult for him to change her thoughts and things.And because she is not a person of this era from the root, some ideas in her mind are also shocking to him, and it is difficult for him to adapt.

But so what?But that's how she occupied his whole heart, making him unable to look at other women without her.

So he could only shake his head and smile wryly: "I don't know. I've never compared her with other women. But she doesn't need to be compared with any other women. She is her and no one can replace her."

This time it was Xu Miaojin who was startled.After savoring these two sentences carefully, she only felt that her elder brother really had the deepest affection for Jian Yan.

But since her elder brother has such deep affection for Jian Yan, why does she still torture herself like this, missing each other every day, but doesn't explain these words clearly to Jian Yan?
Xu Miaojin thought, if Jian Yan knew about her elder brother's thoughts, she wouldn't be indifferent, would she?
Thinking of this, she said to Xu Zhongxuan: "Brother, on such a snowy day, your study must be very cold. You might as well read a book in my study and then go back, and you should also accompany me I asked Myolie to set up a brazier for you in the study."

After sending Xu Zhongxuan to her study in Xicijian, she called Qingzhu over again and told her: "Go to Miss Jian's place, and just say that I have a cold and I am lying on the bed, and I really want to see her." .Brother has also suffered from the old problem of stomach cold, and the pain is severe. Right now, Ning Cui Xuan is in a state of confusion. Please come over here."

Qingzhu agreed, turned around and left.

Xu Miaojin looked at the back of Qingzhu holding an oil-paper umbrella and disappeared at the gate of the courtyard, thinking silently in her heart, if Sister Yan came over immediately after hearing what Qingzhu said, it meant that Sister Yan still had a big brother in her heart, and the two of them would be together in the future There is still hope.If she could still be ruthless after listening to Qingzhu's words, then she would persuade her elder brother to find another suitable woman to marry in the future, so as to save him from torturing himself with such lovesickness every day.

(End of this chapter)