get married first, fall in love later

Qian Xiaobao got up and got out of bed in a daze, walked to the storage box, picked out the top coat and put it on, sat at the table and looked at his pale and haggard face in front of the bronze mirror, laughed at himself, and muttered He murmured: "Qian Xiaobao, Qian Xiaobao, I think you are used to being self-satisfied and romantic, but I never thought that today you will end up being ruthlessly rejected by others. It's really lamentable and ridiculous!"

After being dazed for a moment, he straightened his clothes in front of the mirror, picked up a wooden comb to smooth his black hair, and tied it on the top of his head three or two times, then turned his head to look at the breakfast on the tray and became dazed again.

how?Is this the compensation for the so-called "one-night stand"?Hehe, it's really rare for her to be so considerate. It's worth it to think about it for the first moment of tenderness.Thinking of this, he got up and went to the basin in front of the window, after cleaning his hands and face briefly, he sat back at the table and picked up the steaming porridge in front of him.

While eating, I sorted out my troubled thoughts. Speaking of it, it seems that since the two began to "match", I have been forcing her. Although I get along well after getting married, it seems that I have never explored that. what people really think.As for what happened last night, if you really want to investigate it carefully, it seems that the source is still here. If you hadn't lied to her that it was a hangover medicine, you wouldn't have ended up "eating your own fruit".But then again, is there any normal person in the world who would think of bringing a bottle of "hangover cure" when going out? Isn't this way of thinking too strange?

Thinking of this, the ups and downs of my heart slowly calmed down.In fact, if you look at this matter without any subjective emotions, Ouyang Xi is not an irresponsible person.Otherwise, she wouldn't have to go back and forth, let alone confess what happened last night, so it can be seen that she doesn't have any excuses in her heart.The thing happened so suddenly that she didn't expect it, so she must not know what to do, right?If they had no intention of each other, would they really want to be together forcibly because of such absurd and unruly reasons as losing their virginity?

Qian Xiaobao scooped up the last spoonful of porridge with the spoon in his hand and put it into his mouth, then put the empty bowl back on the table, sighed softly, and murmured in his heart: Well, the matter has come to this point, it is useless to think too much, let it be Bar!

There was a faint knock on the door on the first floor, followed by Ouyang Xi's voice: "Ah Si, did you come to Xiaobao for something?"

Qian Xiaobao lowered his head and straightened his clothes casually, then got up and went downstairs.Walking to the corner of the stairs, they saw Ouyang Xi who was about to go upstairs. Both of them looked up at each other for a moment, then Qian Xiaobao looked away first, and Ouyang Xi turned around with a light cough and walked down the stairs to make way for her.

Just as Qian Xiaobao walked to the table and sat down, Ouyang Xi had already poured out a cup of tea and handed it to her. Seeing that she didn't intend to pick it up at all, she had to put it aside in embarrassment, and said as if to save herself: "Uh... ...Since you have something to say, I'll go out first." After speaking, he glanced at Qian Xiaobao, turned around and went out.

After her figure disappeared, Qian Xiaobao took a sip from the teacup beside him and asked, "Ah Si, what's the matter?"

Qian Si lowered his head when he heard the words and replied, "Master, there is news from Qian Er."

"Oh?" Qian Xiaobao frowned slightly: "Didn't it just come a few days ago? Counting the time, we probably just received the news we sent back to her. Why did we send a new one? Did something happen in the capital?"

Qian Si reached into his bosom and took out the bamboo tube that conveyed the message, held it in both hands and handed it to Qian Xiaobao, saying: "Master, you will know when you see it."

Qian Xiaobao took the bamboo tube and took out the note, scanned the news in two or three, and immediately frowned. Seeing this, Qian Si stepped forward and asked, "Master, but something happened?"

Qian Xiaobao nodded, and handed the note back to Qian Si: "Look for yourself."

Qian Si took the note and read it, then kneaded it into a ball and held it in his palm, and when he opened it again, the note had already turned into a pile of powder.After waving his hand to let the powder float out of the window, he bowed forward and asked, "In the opinion of the young master, what should we do now?"

Qian Xiaobao bowed his head and pondered for a moment, then said: "The things mentioned in Qian Er's letter can be big or small, for the current plan, we should go to the capital to investigate first." After speaking, he seemed to think of something, and then He opened his mouth and asked, "Regarding Lord Wang's death, has there been any progress today?"

Qian Si shook his head: "According to the information obtained by our spies, the government seems to intend to block the news. The outside world still does not know about the murder of Wang Zhifu."

"How did the government handle this matter?"

Qian Si replied: "Yesterday, the prefect of the nearby Hexi prefecture came to temporarily take over all the affairs of the prefect Wang, and the prefect of Hexi prefecture even sent people to seal off the Fushou village estate. As for how to deal with the prefect Wang's body, it is still unknown .”

Qian Xiaobao showed doubts when he heard the words: "Even if the news of Wang Zhifu's murder reaches the capital quickly, it will take two days? Why did the prefect of Hexi Prefecture receive the appointment to take over after only one day?"

"This matter is also puzzling to my subordinates. The aftermath is handled in such an orderly manner, it seems that it has been arranged in advance."

Arranged in advance?That's right, isn't the word "Huang" left by Wang Changmu after his death just to prove that the person who killed him belongs to the royal family?Since he is a member of the royal family, then these things are easy to explain, but why did he touch the interests of the royal family as a small magistrate, and was silenced because of this?Could it be... Thinking of this, Qian Xiaobao suddenly looked up at Qian Si and asked, "Ah Si, have you kept the set of molds you found from Wang Changmu's other courtyard before?"

"Don't worry, young master, the subordinates have properly preserved it, and there will be no mistakes."

Qian Xiaobao nodded: "Maybe that thing will be a key piece of evidence, and it may have something to do with what happened in the capital." After thinking for a while, he ordered: "The matter in Jiangzhou has come to an end. I'm afraid Ah Er alone can't handle it, so you go back and clean up immediately, and after lunch later, we'll go to the capital to meet her."

Qian Si nodded in response, and turned to leave, but Qian Xiaobao asked again: "By the way, has Ah San come back?"

"He hasn't come back yet, do we need to stay one more day to wait for him?"

Qian Xiaobao thought for a while and said: "With Ah San's speed, he should have come back by this time. He must have brought Mrs. Wang's group of women to slow down the trip when he went, so he came back late. If it is the end of the day He still hasn't replied, so you can go to the shopkeeper and leave a message for him, and then he will go to meet with us."

"This subordinate understands, does the young master have any other orders?"

Qian Xiaobao paused, hesitated for a moment and then asked: "Drunk yesterday, you..."

Qian Si heard that a trace of unclear emotion flashed across his face quickly, and he was stunned for a moment, then took out a milky white porcelain bottle from his arms and handed it to Qian Xiaobao, saying: "Uh... Mo Xue is not here, it is inconvenient for my subordinates To take care of you, I asked my young mistress, and my subordinates went to the pharmacy to buy hangover medicine..."

Qian Xiaobao said: "Why didn't you send it yesterday?"

"Yesterday," Qian Si stammered in a rare way: "It was already too late when I came back yesterday, and my subordinates just..."

"That's all." Qian Xiaobao took the medicine in his hand, waved and said: "You go, and by the way, ask the Qianjie restaurant to help me prepare a table of food and drink, and my young mistress and I will go there later."

Qian Si nodded in response, turned around and was about to leave, but after thinking about it, he said: "It's getting colder, young master, I'd better add more clothes, it's best, uh... it's best to change to one with a higher neckline." After Qian Xiaobao answered, he disappeared with a "whoosh".

It's not yet the beginning of autumn, why do you need to add clothes?Qian Xiaobao shook his head inexplicably, then got up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling bronze mirror not far away, just about to straighten his neckline, but suddenly looked at himself in the mirror and blushed.What is the red or purple scar on the neck?Why didn't I notice it when I was upstairs?That's what Ah Si was talking about just now. He also said that Tianliang added clothes, so that he could find a way to cover up the hickey.

Damn Ouyang Xi, how can you be so careless?

Qian Xiaobao stood there and thought angrily for a moment, and finally had no choice but to go upstairs and change into a shirt with a smaller neckline that could be concealed. After carefully checking in front of the mirror to make sure that no one would see anything strange, he turned around and went out to prepare Go to Jiang Qingxiao's room next door.

However, Qian Xiaobao still had some small doubts in his heart as he walked: Did Ah Si bump into something when delivering the medicine last night?Otherwise, with his temperament, how could he pay attention to these things carefully?

Originally, I thought that Ouyang Xi must have gone to Jiang Qingxiao's room when he escaped just now, but he never thought that as soon as he stepped out of the fence gate of his house, he saw that person squatting on the ground with his back to him, vaguely holding something in his hand. Write and draw.

Qian Xiaobao walked up to her and stood still. After thinking for a while, he still asked, "What are you doing here?"

The sudden voice from behind frightened Ouyang Xi, and when he realized that it was Qian Xiaobao, he hurriedly threw away the wooden branch in his hand, got up and turned to her and asked, "Have you finished talking with Ah Si?"

Qian Xiaobao nodded, and walked past her and said: "Go and call Miss Qing Xiao, and go to the front with us for lunch."

"Oh, good." Ouyang Xi responded, and immediately added in a flattering way: "Xiaobao, you go there first, I'll call her and then go to the front to find you."

Qian Xiaobao responded, and then went to the front yard without looking back.

When Ouyang Xi led Jiang Qingxiao into the private room, the food and drink on the table had already been prepared, and Qian Xiaobao was sitting in front of the table, drinking alone with a glass in hand.She immediately stepped forward and snatched the wine glass without even thinking about it: "Drinking without eating, it will hurt your body."

Qian Xiaobao slightly raised his eyelids to look at her, smiled lightly, and said mockingly, "Are you afraid that I'll accidentally get drunk again? Don't worry, even if that's the case, I don't dare bother my lady to take care of her."

Ouyang Xi was choked by these words, and didn't know how to answer for a moment. After thinking about it, she sat next to her, raised her hand and poured a cup of tea in front of her, and muttered: "Anyway, it's not good to drink too much alcohol. Drink as little or as little as possible."

Qian Xiaobao didn't comment, raised his eyebrows, but didn't say anything else, he just turned to Jiang Qingxiao and said, "I don't know what Miss Qingxiao likes to eat, so I ordered some at will. If there is anything Miss Qingxiao wants to eat , even if it is ordered."

Jiang Qingxiao quickly replied: "Brother Qian, you are being polite. Since we met, I have relied on the two of you to help me take care of my food and clothing. How can there be any dissatisfaction?" After finishing speaking, he filled a cup of tea, got up and turned to The two of Qian Xiaobao said respectfully: "Toast to both of you with tea instead of wine, thank you for your care in recent days."

Hearing this, Qian Xiaobao lowered his head and picked up an empty cup to fill up with wine, and said, "Miss Qingxiao is a woman from the Jianghu, born to be heroic and heroic, since good wine comes first, there is no reason to replace it with tea."

Seeing this, Jiang Qingxiao didn't refuse, took it immediately and drank it down, and said, "Take a glass of sake, let's express our gratitude."

Qian Xiaobao reached out to take his wine glass, but Ouyang Xi held it down: "You can drink tea, and I will drink this wine for you." After speaking, he picked up the wine glass and imitated Jiang Qingxiao's appearance. Drank it all in one gulp.However, although Ouyang Xi used to go to bars often, he ordered juice the most. After drinking a glass, he immediately coughed again and again.

Without even thinking about it, Qian Xiaobao passed the teacup in his hand, and unconsciously stroked her back with his left hand and patted her back, but complained: "If you can't drink, what kind of hero are you?"

Ouyang Xi took the teacup and drank it in one gulp. After the spicy feeling faded away, she looked up at her aggrievedly: "I'm not thinking of your body, you still want to scold me?"

Qian Xiaobao withdrew his arm and glanced at her lightly, "It's unnecessary."

No matter how dull Jiang Qingxiao was, he could see that the atmosphere between these two people was not right at this time, so he hurriedly got up and said, "Xiao Xi is right, drinking alcohol hurts your health, so let's all drink less. Brother Qian ordered it." This tea is good, and I happen to be very thirsty right now, everyone, drink more tea, drink more tea." After speaking, he called the waiter outside the door to come in, and said: "Take this wine away, we can drink tea .”

The waiter looked up at Qian Xiaobao and saw that he had not raised any objections, so he stepped forward to lift the flagon, bent down and backed away.

The three of them sat down again and ate some food. After they were about half full, Qian Xiaobao said: "Actually, I asked Miss Qing Xiao to come here today to say goodbye to you."

Jiang Qingxiao was startled when she heard the words, put down the bamboo chopsticks in her hands and asked, "Are you leaving now?"

Ouyang Xi also felt suddenly, he hadn't heard Qian Xiaobao mentioning that he was going to leave today, could it be - stimulated?

Qian Xiaobao nodded and said: "The matter in Jiangzhou has been settled, we have other things to do, the schedule is urgent, and we have to leave after lunch."

"So fast?"

"Yes." After finishing speaking, Qian Xiaobao took out a bank note from his sleeve and put it on the table: "This is the remuneration negotiated when I entrusted the girl to do some work, and I hope the girl will accept it." After speaking, he took out a bank note from his pocket Chujiang Qingxiao's ancestral jade pendant and the bank note were pushed to the opposite side: "And this jade pendant, return it to the girl as well."

Jiang Qingxiao looked down at the things on the table, but didn't reach out to take them, her brows were slightly frowned as if she wanted to say something but she didn't say it.Seeing this, Ouyang Xi hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, Qing Xiao, are you reluctant to part with us?"

"After getting along for the past few days, I hit it off with the two of you very much. When I first heard that we were going to separate, I really didn't want to give up. But," Jiang Qingxiao hesitated for a moment, and finally got up and went around to Qian Xiaobao, bowed and said, "I'm here I have an unfeeling request, and I hope Brother Qian and Xiaoxi can agree."

Qian Xiaobao got up and helped her up, and said: "Miss Qing Xiao, you can just say what you want, why should you be so polite?"

Ouyang Xi also echoed: "Yes, yes."

"I..." Jiang Qingxiao gritted her teeth, and said bluntly, "I want to leave Jiangzhou with you two."

"Come with us? Why?"

"To tell you the truth, I asked my subordinates to inquire about the news before. My elder brother has heard that he is sending people to search everywhere. He is bound to arrest me and take me home. In Jiangzhou City, no matter what, I will wait for you." I can't go on anymore. But I was born and grew up here since I was a child, and I really don't know where else to go, so I hope Brother Qian will allow me to go out with the two of you for a while."

Qian Xiaobao showed a bit of embarrassment when he heard the words: "However, we still have important things to do when we go to the capital, so we really don't have time to take care of Miss Qingxiao."

Jiang Qingxiao hurriedly said: "Brother Qian is going to the capital this time? There is also a branch of our Jiang Shamen in the capital. I will go to find my subordinates when the time comes, and I won't bother you two too much."

Having said that, it would be too unreasonable for him to refuse again. What's more, the reason why Jiang Qingxiao exposed his whereabouts was to help them inquire about the news.It's really not a gentleman's behavior to leave someone in a dangerous place, so Qian Xiaobao could only nod his head and agree: "If that's the case, then Miss Qing Xiao will go and clean up after dinner, and leave with us."