Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

Quite puzzled, recalling what she had seen and heard in the past few days, Qiaoying was surprised to find that almost every commoner, every businessman, and every scholar in Luoyang city had a deep impression on Zhang Yan. , and regardless of their origin, almost all of these people's evaluations of this Luoyang son are [-]% favorable.

"That's all, just like what Lai Ying'er said, whether it's true or not, you still have to judge with your own eyes."

Sighing slightly, Qiao Ying didn't get too entangled in the matter in the end, but came to Zhang Yan's small courtyard located in the core area of ​​Luoyang under such complicated mood.

She also has to pay a visit to Zhang Rang, the constant attendant, for her father.As for what that young master is like, I can only wait until I have visited him before I have the time to slowly appreciate it.

"Jin'er, go and knock on the door."

Softly instructing the maid beside her, Qiao Ying still remembered that the envoy who brought her to Luoyang told her that Zhang Rang would go to that small courtyard to have a rest that afternoon.And when she was wearing new clothes and knocked on the gate of Zhang Yan's courtyard with her maid, a young girl with a delicate and gentle face appeared in front of her in just a moment.

"What a beautiful woman, is this the beautiful maid that Lai Ying'er was talking about, serving Zhang Yan with her every step of the way?"

With just a slight glance, Qiao Ying was a little surprised at the youthful beauty of the other party.

Although the other party does not seem to be from a wealthy family, and his upbringing may be worse than hers, it is absolutely difficult for her to have the aura of a girl blooming like petals at her age.

If Qiaoying herself is compared to a budding flower bud, then the girl in front of her is already blooming in clusters of flowers, exuding a sweet fragrance of flowers all the time, luring bees and butterflies to go and find out.

Especially that slim figure...

Looking down at herself slightly, Qiao Ying suddenly felt a little displeased.

"Qiaoying, the second daughter of the Qiao family, was invited to pay a visit to the Zhang residence."

Facing this maid of the Zhang family, Qiao Ying was surprisingly not as kind as she was with Lai Yinger before, but instead had an uncharacteristically stiff aura.

And just as she was quietly posing as a girl from a family and planning to arm herself, the voice of the girl opposite, as warm as a winter quilt, also reached her ears in good time.

"Are you the 'Little Qiao' whom the master has been thinking about all day long?"

Asked curiously, while Qiao Ying was secretly looking at Ye'er, Ye'er was also looking at him carefully.

"It's so beautiful—no, it's so cute!"

"No, it's still beautiful!"

Carefully skipping over every detail of the opponent's body, Ye'er felt more startled the more she looked at it.

I saw that the girl in front of me was staring at her with a pair of shiny almond eyes, and there was a faint reflection of water in the depths of her eyes, which looked clear without a trace of worldly sophistication.Between the delicate eyebrows and eyes, the clear lines are like the outline of a brush, and there is no trace of defect.

Obviously the other party is just young and cardamom, but for some reason, in Ye'er's eyes, the exquisite facial features that should appear on the face of a girl or even a young woman are gathered on the other's immature face, there is an indescribable... …

Style?

Suddenly thinking of this word, Ye'er immediately shook her head in her heart. This kind of face, as if carved by the top craftsman, obviously cannot be described by a half-praising and half-derogatory vocabulary like amorous feelings.

If I have to say it, it is that at this glance, the first impression is that she is a very beautiful girl; but when I look closely, I find that this beauty is mixed with an indescribable immaturity; When you look down at it, you will feel that this immaturity is not childlike, but exudes a different charm and attraction.

"This is probably what the master often said when joking with me, the feeling of being beautiful and not human."

Ye'er thought silently.

Chapter 44 I don't know either

Afterwards, Qiao Ying entered Zhang Yan's small home in Luoyang City as a guest, and Ye'er, who had been responsible for half of the housekeeping duties, naturally received her with the host's gift because the master was not there at the moment.

When the time finally came to the three o'clock in the afternoon, the person who was extremely old but secretly possessed the aura of a superior person came late in the carriage.

"Hey, are you the girl from the Qiao family whom Yan'er misses so much?"

Pushing the door open, Zhang Rang skillfully went straight to the main seat in the main hall.And at the same time as he was striding forward, the figure standing gracefully in the distance of the courtyard naturally entered his field of vision.

It was Qiaoying herself who had been waiting at Zhang's house for almost half a day.

"Come on."

After lightly giving instructions to the figure, Zhang Rang sat down on the main seat. At that time, he seemed to have just finished his busy work, and he was still a little out of breath.But after seeing Qiao Ying, Zhang Rang quickly adjusted his breathing, and put on a calm and leisurely look in front of her.

Taking a slight breath, Zhang Rang abandoned the complicated thoughts in his mind, and turned his attention to Qiao Ying in front of him.

"Come here, let our family take a closer look, what kind of strange woman is it that can make Yan'er obsessed to such an extent that even the female relatives of those high-ranking officials and noble families are dismissive."

Waving at the girl standing at the door with a cautious face, Zhang Rang seemed to attach great importance to the first meeting between Qiao Ying and him, so not only did he not show majesty like he usually did when he met those officials and Jia, but instead Deliberately suppressing his temperament, so as not to frighten the other party.

It was only after he took a closer look that Zhang Rang couldn't help sighing secretly, no wonder his adopted son was so obsessed with the girl in front of him.

The other party's appearance and temperament are indeed hard to match in Luoyang City.

"Forget it... This appearance is indeed very good-looking, even the two empresses are far inferior. It seems that our Yan'er is really blessed."

Slightly clicking his lips, Zhang Rang's eyes kept examining Qiao Ying, who was acting a little trembling when he saw him for the first time.It wasn't until a while later that he made a leisurely sound, breaking the long-standing silence between the two of them.

"Girl from the Qiao family, what's your name and how old are you this year?"

A neutral and somewhat old voice came. I don't know what Zhang Rang is thinking today, but he didn't use formal expressions such as "Fang Ling" and "Geometry" in his words, revealing an easy-going temperament between his words.

It's just that even though he has tried his best to restrain his aura, for a little girl who is not yet an adult, Zhang Rang is obviously a little too aggressive.

Quietly shivering, different from the calmness of the old man in front of him, Qiao Ying had already put away the aristocratic attitude she showed in front of Ye'er, and her eyes seemed a little afraid to look directly at the old man in front of her.

"Responding to Zhang Changshi's question, Ying just turned thirteen this year."

She replied to Zhang Rang in a low voice, and Qiao Ying stood in front of Zhang Rang in such a well-behaved manner, not knowing whether she should advance or retreat at the moment, and what to do.

It was also the first time she saw Zhang Rang today, and she was already full of curiosity and fear.But when this moment finally came, Qiao Ying found that the old man in front of her seemed to be different from what she had imagined.

"Thirteen? Well...the age is not too bad."

Nodding his head slightly, Zhang Rang seemed to see that the girl in front of him was still a little afraid of his own existence, so he didn't wait for the other party to speak, but took the initiative to chat with Qiao Ying.

"Qiaoying, isn't it... Today is the first time we have met. I think you are still quite puzzled by the fact that you were sent so far away to find you. But before that, our family still had Let me ask you a question first."

"What do you think about your marriage with our Yan'er?"

Asking Qiao Ying lightly, Zhang Rang had a good time at this moment, staring at the eyes of the young cardamom girl in front of him.

……

"How to treat?"

"Such a thing suddenly appeared in front of me unchosen, what should I...how should I look at it?"

On the other side, after hearing Zhang Rang's question, Qiao Ying also asked herself silently in her heart.Just thinking of the answer to this question, Qiao Ying's heart was suddenly filled with a feeling of bewilderment.

"It's really an honor for my Lujiang Bridge family to be married to Mr. Zhang's family...?"

Tentatively responding to the old man in front of her, Qiao Ying was not sure what kind of answer Zhang Rang wanted to hear, and she didn't even know what the standard answer to this question should be.

Therefore, after much consideration, Qiaoying finally decided to respond to the other party in a conventional way, and at the same time try to understand Zhang Rang's true intentions.

But what Qiaoying didn't expect this time was that Zhang Rang soon interrupted her, and at the same time made her fall into a deeper silence.

"Our family didn't ask you what your Qiao family thinks about this matter, what our family asks is how your Qiaoying thinks about your marriage with Yan'er."

"Tell me, Miss Qiao."

Wei Wei shook her head at Qiao Ying, Zhang Rang reached out and tapped Qiao Ying's eyebrows, as if she was not satisfied with the girl's perfunctory response.

"Although you followed the envoy sent by our family all the way to Luoyang..."

"Although your Qiao family has accepted the betrothal gift that our family sent people to Jiangdong..."

"But, are you, Qiaoying, really willing to marry my son Zhang Yan, a man you've never met?"

Zhang Rang's gaze was fixed on the crystal eyes of the girl in front of him, as if he wanted to know something from the other's eyes.It's just that Qiao Ying couldn't answer Zhang Rang's question this time.

"Why would he ask such a question...does it matter what I think?"

Thinking about the question that Zhang Rang hit directly in her heart, the more Qiao Ying thought about it, the more she felt that there seemed to be no answer to such a question.This time she was silent for a long while before a dazed voice sounded softly.

"I……"

"I do not know."

She lowered her head and shook her head in Zhang Rang's direction. Qiao Ying never thought that she would use such a statement to answer the other party, and she didn't even consider whether such an answer would anger the old man in front of her.

It's just that after she repeatedly questioned her heart, she found that although the answer was simple, it was the truest thought deep in her heart.

"I do not know."

Repeated again in a low voice, Qiaoying didn't know whether she was telling Zhang Rang or responding to her inner surprise.It's just that Qiaoying didn't expect that after Zhang Rang heard her answer, instead of showing any anger, he grinned and laughed in a low voice.

"do not know?"

……

"Oh, I don't know either."

……

Chapter 45 Zhang Rang's Confidence

"Oh, I don't know either."

Contrary to Qiao Ying's expectations, Zhang Rang was not very annoyed by her simple answer of "I don't know", but grinned instead.

"Okay, sit down."

Pointing to the futon beside him, Zhang Rang seemed to have thought of something, with a kind expression on his face.And hearing this, Qiaoying finally breathed a sigh of relief. She no longer stood opposite Zhang Rang with a stiff face like before, but knelt and sat beside him respectfully. The feeling has dissipated a lot.

She was standing on the opposite side of the desk just now, her hands were already cold and sweaty from tension.After that, Zhang Rang asked two questions that he couldn't answer in succession. It can be said that the whole person's spirit was tense to the extreme.

It wasn't until now that she was sitting beside Zhang Rang that Qiao Ying's condition eased up a little.

"You say you don't know either?"

Asked a little curiously, Qiao Ying still remembered that she almost choked on what the other party said just now, and she couldn't breathe.Now that the atmosphere between the two is no longer so awkward, she naturally followed the other party's words and asked.

"Hey, yes, our family doesn't know either."

Stretching out his hand to touch his clean and beardless chin, Zhang Rang didn't look at Qiao Ying at that time, but at Ye'er, the pretty maid standing outside the door.

"Since you have come today, our family will no longer hide it from you."

"Actually, it was not my son Zhang Yan's wish to invite you to Luoyang, but our father's own decision. I heard that my child never forgets a daughter named Qiao in Jiangdong. I don't know when I saw him, but I think about it. Mu Xiang doesn't even look down on the daughters of those high-ranking officials..."

Slightly turning his head to look at Qiao Ying who was kneeling beside him, Zhang Rang changed the subject, smiled slightly, and said a rare witty remark.

"Now our family sent someone to find you from the Jiangdong area. After actually seeing you, I somewhat understood Yan'er's original thoughts."

"Such heavenly beauty is far from being comparable to those vulgar fans. It's no wonder that Yan'er is like this."

After complimenting Qiao Ying in a neutral manner, Zhang Rang took a sip of the tea in his cup.And taking advantage of this gap, Qiao Ying also gave a salute to Zhang Rang, thanking him for his praise.