He took off his military uniform outside the city gate, put on ordinary clothes again, and returned to Daxing City with red and swollen eyes. Although it was still early in the morning, Chen Yingliang, who was depressed at the moment, was in a low mood, and had no intention of taking the opportunity to visit the streets, so he rode his horse and trotted He ran directly back to Yiyangfang where his new home was located, ready to take a good rest and calm down his lost mood.
This simple wish seems to be difficult to achieve. Xiao ran returned to the front of his house, but the servant guarding the door hurriedly took Chen Yingliang's horse reins. When Chen Yingliang was about to walk up the steps, the servant suddenly pouted to the side and said in a low voice : "Master, there is a girl who has been wandering around in front of our house, as if waiting for someone, I don't know how to buy someone you know?"
"Girl?" Chen Yingliang was slightly taken aback, turned his head to look curiously, but saw a red-clothed girl standing guard by the gate of his house, and was still looking at him with a cold expression, recognized the person, Chen Yingliang didn't show any expression, He walked up the steps without looking back, and walked directly into the door of his own house, completely turning a blind eye to the girl in red.
Seeing Chen Yingliang being so heartless and ungrateful, the girl felt lost for a moment, gritted her teeth, and ran after Chen Yingliang, shouting at Chen Yingliang's back: "You, wait."
Chen Yingliang stopped, but didn't look back, but turned his back to his former fiancée and said, "What's the matter? You pleaded for your father and brother that day and saved their lives. Don't tell me there's still peace between us? Shall I kowtow in front of you to make amends?"
"Ministers don't dare, even if they have the guts of a leopard, they don't dare to ask court officials to kowtow to apologize to them." Chai Qian's tone was as cold as Chen Yingliang's, and she added: "Ministers have the audacity to visit Lord Chen today. I want to completely end the previous matter and have nothing to do with Master Hou."
As she said that, Chai Qian took out a small wooden box, stretched out her hand to Chen Yingliang, and said with a twisted face, "Return this to you, and return my things. There will be a complete break between us, and there will be no more ties."
"Oops." Although he turned his back and didn't see anything Chai Qian took out, Chen Yingliang still groaned in his heart, turned around quickly, and when he opened the wooden box that Chai Qian handed over, he saw On the red silk in the box, there was indeed an exquisite golden hairpin inlaid with emeralds, Chen Yingliang couldn't help crying even more, knowing that this must be the engagement token exchanged between the dead ghost Chen Yingliang and the Chai family.
Sure enough, Chai Qian said with a stern face: "You probably don't know the origin of this golden hairpin, so I won't say more. Now I will return the golden hairpin to you, and please return my jade pendant to me. Between us There's nothing more to do with it."
Chen Yingliang's face was as ugly as it could be, and it took him a long time to answer truthfully: "Sorry, I have already sold that jade pendant, so I can't return it to you."
"Sold by you?" Chai Qian's icy expression finally loosened a bit, and there was still some inexplicable joy in her heart, but her mouth was a little angry, "Then I am a jade pendant handed down from my family, handed down from the Han Dynasty Shuanghu Shouhuang Pei, you actually sold it?"
"I can't help it. At that time, I had to eat and buy a horse to pay for the trip, so I had to sell it." Chen Yingliang explained with a dry smile.
"Then what do you think we should do?" Chai Qian said with a straight face: "That is the token of engagement between me and you back then. If you don't return it, how will I get married in the future?"
"This..." Chen Yingliang was in a dilemma. After a little calculation, Chen Yingliang nodded and said, "Well, I still remember where the jade pendant was sold. I'll go to that jade shop to have a look. If that jade pendant is I will redeem the jade pendant and return it to you."
Chai Qian was immediately disappointed in her heart, but her mouth was still extremely tough, and she asked, "Where is it? How long will it take?"
"It's not far away, it's in a jade shop in the nearby city." Chen Yingliang pointed in the direction, and said casually, "You can go back first and check the situation tomorrow, or take advantage of my time now, and come with me to redeem the jade pendant." .”
As soon as the words came out, Chen Yingliang felt a little regretful, but Chai Qian hit the snake with the stick, nodded immediately and said: "Okay, I will go with you to redeem the jade pendant, the sooner we understand the matter, the better."
Chen Yingliang had no choice but to meet such a reckless ex-fiancée. He clearly saw that Chai Qian had no good intentions, but he couldn't find anything to say no to, so he hurried back to his room to get some gold and copper coins, and brought Chai Qian and two The servants went to the metropolis to redeem the engagement token. During the period, Chen Yingliang once politely invited Chai Qian to enter the house for a while, but was flatly rejected by Chai Qian. Feeling a little annoyed, he just let her go.
The metropolis city is actually next to Yiyang Fang. It didn't take long for Chen Yingliang to lead Chai Qian to find the jade shop where he sold the engagement jade pendant, and also very smoothly found the owner who bought the jade pendant at that time. Chen Yingliang immediately told the shopkeeper what had happened, and asked for an increase in price to redeem the jade pendant. The shopkeeper recalled it carefully for a moment, but said with a embarrassed expression: "My lord, the jade pendant you sold back then is indeed a Han Dynasty jade pendant." A pair of tiger heads, but unfortunately, that pair of tiger heads has already been sold."
"Sold out? Why did you sell it so quickly?" Chen Yingliang complained.
"It's been sold a long time ago." The shopkeeper replied with a wry smile, "I vaguely remember that after you sold the double tiger head jewel to the small shop, within a few days, a guest officer sold it away. This is also thanks to you, my lord, your Han Dynasty jade pendant is really good, and it made the villain a small fortune."
"I should have sent it to the pawnshop if I knew it earlier. At least it can be redeemed within three months." Chen Yingliang muttered quietly, and then asked quickly: "Shopkeeper, do you know the guest officer who bought the jade pendant?"
"I don't know." The shopkeeper shook his head and replied: "It's been too long, the villain has even forgotten the appearance of the guest officer. I only remember that he seems to be a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties. I don’t remember anything after that.”
Seeing Chen Yingliang's deflated and disappointed look, Chai Qian felt a burst of joy in her heart, and at the same time she secretly rejoiced. After quietly following the dejected Chen Yingliang out of the jade shop, Chai Qian finally found an opportunity to make things difficult for Chen Yingliang. He asked Chen Yingliang expressionlessly, "What should I do?"
"I know what to do." Chen Yingliang smiled bitterly, and said: "Miss Chai, how about this, or I will pay you with another better jade pendant, or you don't want to return my golden hairpin either. Let's even it out."
Chai Qian was even more expressionless, she gritted her silver teeth slightly and said, "No need, I'll give you back the golden hairpin, you give me a divorce letter, give me back my freedom, and forget about the jade pendant."
"Okay..." Chen Yingliang was overjoyed and almost agreed, but when he saw the tears flickering in the corners of Chai Qian's eyes, Chen Yingliang softened his heart and said, "That's not necessary, we are not officially married, so there is no need to write a divorce letter." Right? Besides, if I gave you a divorce letter, wouldn't it be more harmful to you... and your reputation?"
Chai Qian turned away her pretty face, and said with a choked up voice after a while: "Don't worry about the Marquis, folk girls don't care about fame for a long time. Anyway, in Daxing City now, as long as someone mentions Xu Chang, who is famous all over the world, Lord Hou Chen will definitely mention the Chai family who dislikes the poor and loves the rich, and also the folk girls who look down on others, and the folk girls have already looked down on fame and festivals."
Chen Yingliang was silent and couldn't find anything to comfort Chai Qian who was innocent and implicated. Fortunately, at this moment, a clerk suddenly appeared from the jade shop, nodded and bowed in front of Chen Yingliang and Chai Qian and said, "My lord Madam, the villain overheard what you and the shopkeeper said just now, I wonder if you must get back the double tiger head ornament from the Han Dynasty?"
"What? Do you know the whereabouts of that jade pendant?" Chen Yingliang asked happily.
"The villain is lucky, I really know." The clerk replied with a smile: "When the guest officer bought the jade pendant, the villain was in the shop and saw his appearance. Although the villain doesn't know his identity and name, But on the same day when delivering goods to other guest officials, I happened to see him enter the gate of a mansion, it looks like he should live there, if the young master wants to find him, the villain can lead the way for the young master."
"Okay, then please guide me quickly." Chen Yingliang said happily.
"It's okay to lead the way, but the villain is working, and I'm afraid the shopkeeper will not agree..." The guy refused to move, and smiled even more meanly.
Chen Yingliang smiled, and immediately asked the servant to take out the usual money, and threw it to the guy in the style of a nouveau riche, and said with a smile: "Now your shopkeeper can agree? If you get to the place, if you are good, you will also have the usual reward."
"Thank you for the reward, my lord. I'm not afraid that the shopkeeper won't agree." The guy happily took the copper coin, and then suggested: "My lord, the place is a bit far away. It's in Longzheng Fang. If you don't want to walk, you and your wife, you'd better hire a A carriage, the villain will guide you."
In order to get rid of Chai Qian's entanglement as soon as possible, completely break the relationship with her and free up her hands to pursue Yang Yu'er, the contemporary Chen Shimei and Chen Yingliang of course ordered the servant to hire a car immediately, but Chai Qian wanted to kick the troublesome guy to death, and then became angry After getting into the carriage, Chai Qian naturally recalled the ambiguous scene when she and Chen Yingliang were driving together in the same carriage. She was ashamed and sweet at the same time. Unavoidably, Chai Qian was secretly disappointed again, and couldn't help but cursed at Chen Yingliang's back in a low voice, "Wolf-hearted."
Led by the clerk of the jade shop, Chen Yingliang and Chai Qian came all the way to Longzheng Fang, where there are many audiences in the temple, and then led to the gate of an elegant and quiet house by the clerk, and then the clerk pointed at the gate and smiled at Chen Yingliang Said: "My lord, this is here. The villain saw that the guest officer entered this mansion. At that time, the guest officer got off the carriage directly in front of the door, and then the carriage entered the mansion through the side door, so the villain guessed , that guest seems to be the owner here."
"I hope so." Chen Yingliang nodded and got off the carriage.
"I hope that's not the case." Chai Qian muttered in her heart, and got out of the carriage angrily.
The door was open, and the door in the concierge saw Chen Yingliang and Chai Qian's luxurious clothes, and knew that they were not ordinary people, so they hurried to the door to greet him, and asked Chen Yingliang who had just walked up the steps: "My lord, do you dare to ask if you are here?" Who are you looking for, can you ask the villain to report for you?"
"Exactly." Chen Yingliang nodded, and said very politely: "Please inform your master that the crown prince's right inner deputy led Chen Yingliang has something to visit, and I beg you to take the time to meet me, and I will ask for help."
"Chen Yingliang, the deputy leader of the crown prince's right inner?" The doorman was startled, and exclaimed: "Young master, you are the famous little Chen Qingzhi? Chen Yingliang, deputy leader of the chief hero who suppressed Yang Xuangan's rebellion?"
"What? You've heard of my name too?" Chen Yingliang asked with a smile.
"Not only have I heard of it? Chen Fu led you to be famous, who in Daxing City doesn't know? Who doesn't know?" The doorman was very excited, and then he patted his head and said: "Oops, I forgot that Chen Fu led you It's time to get down to business, Deputy Chen will forgive the crime, but unfortunately, my master went to the imperial city on business and hasn't come back yet."
"It turns out that your master is also an official of the court, so when will he come back?" Chen Yingliang hurriedly asked.
"I don't know, I should have come back a long time ago, I don't know why I haven't come back today." The doorman looked embarrassed, and said quickly: "Vice Chen, how about this, my master's nephew happens to be at home, villain Go ask him to come out to meet you, wait at home for a while, and then my master should be back."
"Very good, then I'll take care of you." Chen Yingliang nodded, the doorman was overjoyed, and rushed into the house to report the news. It was at this time that Chen Yingliang suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to inquire about the name and official position of the owner here. It wasn't a big deal, so Chen Yingliang didn't take it too seriously. Chai Qian stood at the side beside Chen Yingliang with a stern face, not saying a word, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
After a while, a boy of fifteen or sixteen suddenly ran over from the yard in a hurry, and shouted with ecstatic surprise from a distance: "Vice rate Chen! Am I dreaming? It's really you!" , I didn’t expect you to come to my uncle’s house, little brother, I almost thought I heard it wrong just now!”
"Why is it you?" Chen Yingliang was a little dumbfounded, because this young man was none other than the elder brother of the pair of young brothers and sisters who appeared beside the Li family brothers on the day Wei Xuan triumphantly returned to Beijing.
"It's me. I didn't expect Deputy Chen to still remember my younger brother. I'm so honored." The young man nodded vigorously and answered excitedly. Vice-leader Chen, the famous general, is well."
"Eldest grandson..., Wuji?" Chen Yingliang returned the salute a little bit out of his wits. Fortunately, he had passed the test of the two Li brothers before, so Chen Yingliang didn't scream as much as he did when he saw Li Jiancheng. But soon, Chen Yingliang's heart was shocked again, and he secretly called out: "Could it be that the cute little Luoli that day was just...?"
Speaking of Cao Cao, when Cao Cao arrived, at this moment, from behind the screen wall in the courtyard, a beautiful and refined little girl suddenly appeared. , we meet again, the youngest daughter and eldest grandson Wugou, met the son, the son is blessed."
"It's really you!" Chen Yingliang finally couldn't help shouting, and then hurriedly returned the salute to his eldest grandson Wugou, and said with a smile: "Little sister Wugou, I really thank you for your timely dissuasion that day, otherwise, Brother Yu would be so impulsive." Next, maybe it will be a big mistake."
"My lord, you are polite." The elder grandson Wugou recalled the scene of that day, his cute little face blushed slightly, and he lowered his head and said, "Your magnanimity, repaying a grievance with virtue, forgave Lord Chejun's family. Wugou took the liberty to intervene between you and Chai The grievances of the Duke of the county, I often feel afraid when I think about it afterwards, it is also the son who is magnanimous and did not care about it with Wugou."
"There, it's sister Wugou who is kind-hearted and woke me up in time. It's too late for me to thank you. How can I argue with you?" Chen Yingliang hypocritically flattered the future empress. The eldest grandson empress at the stage of Luoli is indeed a beauty embryo, even if she has attractive features, her skin is as white as fat, and it is so tender that water can flow out at the touch of a pinch—Chen Yingliang reckons that this Luoli will be more beautiful when she grows up. Not under Yang Yuer, the goddess of my heart.
Little Luoli fell silent, and took another peek at Chen Yingliang, her rosy and tender face blushed immediately, and she felt extremely regretful, "Why didn't he wear the white robe and silver armor that day? He wore Wearing a white robe and silver armor, he is much more handsome than usual."
"Vice Chen, you don't have to be polite to us." Changsun Wuji said excitedly again: "If you don't mind, you can call me Wuji directly. My sister's nickname is Guanyin Maid, so you can just call her that. , you don’t have to be so polite.”
"Okay." Chen Yingliang smiled, and said: "Brother Wuji, the kind and lovely little sister of Guanyin servant girl, Brother Yu will call you that from now on, but you don't need to call me official position, we are about the same age, I am slightly older than you Some, just call me elder brother or brother Chen."
The eldest grandson Wuji, who admired Chen Yingliang very much, nodded vigorously and agreed loudly, while little Luoli blushed even more, and nodded slightly, and then the eldest grandson Wuji hurriedly said: "Brother, please come inside, uncle has gone to work and hasn't come back yet." , please sit at home for a while, our cousin Gao Xing is only five years old now, and he is not very sensible, I will ask him to come and greet you after entering."
"Then bother you." Of course, Chen Yingliang didn't mind getting along with the eldest grandson siblings, so he agreed without hesitation, and followed the eldest grandson siblings into the house unceremoniously.
"Hey, did you forget me?"
Chai Qian's cold voice suddenly came from behind. It turned out that Chai Qian had been standing by the door. The eldest grandson siblings only cared about making out with Chen Yingliang, and they didn't pay attention to Chai Qian who was blocked by the door. The eldest grandson Wugou at the first stage had completely forgotten his former fiancée in Chen Shimei's style. Of course, Chai Qian's face would be as ugly as it should be.
"Sister Chai? Why are you here too?!" The eldest grandson brothers and sisters screamed together, and then turned to look at Chen Yingliang together, their eyes were full of doubts, obviously wondering why Chen Yingliang was with Chai Qian
"Brother Wuji, little sister of Guanyin servant girl, don't get me wrong, I'm with her, there is one matter that hasn't been settled yet." Chen Yingliang explained with an embarrassed dry smile, and then asked: "By the way, have you met her?" Such a jade pendant? The quality of the jade is suet jade from the Han Dynasty, and its shape is two tiger heads plus a rainbow, and the rainbow is on the double tiger heads."