The man who came down the stairs was wearing a royal blue cloud-patterned tufted flower lake silk gown and a white jade belt.
Shen Ziqiao looked at him in surprise, the sunlight came in from the open window, and just fell on him, as if covering him with a layer of golden light, he looked towards her, his deep and dark eyes seemed to have flashes of light.
"Hey, young master Qi is here too?" Luo Zhaohua has already greeted Qi Zheng cheerfully.
Thinking of Qi Zheng saving her, Shen Ziqiao felt that she should be more polite to him, she smiled at him, her smile was as bright as a flower.
Qi Zheng's dark eyes were dimly lit, and he walked towards them at a fast pace.
"Young Master Qi is also here to choose a birthday gift?" Luo Zhaohua asked with a smile.
"Let's take a look." Qi Zheng said politely, his eyes fell on Shen Ziqiao's pretty face, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised. He wrote off the fact that he used her.
How can everything be written off! He didn't agree.
"Miss Luo, the gold inlaid bead and emerald grape earrings you ordered earlier are ready, do you want to have a look?" The shopkeeper of Jinxiu Pavilion saw Luo Zhaohua, a regular customer, and immediately came over to say hello.
Luo greeted with a happy expression, "It's ready? Let me have a look."
Turning around, she said to Shen Ziqiao, "I'll go get the earrings first, and come back to accompany you to choose the bracelet."
Before Shen Ziqiao protested, she had already followed the shopkeeper to the second floor.
Qi Zheng looked down at her, and suddenly found that the little girl's facial features seemed to have opened up, and she looked more beautiful than when he first saw her.
"Want to enter the palace to celebrate the empress's birthday?" He asked softly, his deep and hoarse voice was like mellow old wine, mellow and charming.
Hearing his gentle tone, Shen Ziqiao felt dazed for a moment, and then nodded in a daze. "yes."
Seeing her like this, Qi Zheng felt inexplicably happy, "I'll accompany you to choose."
"Ah? No need, I have Xiaohua to accompany me." Shen Ziqiao declined his kindness. Of course, things like picking gifts are interesting with people of the same sex, and many details can be discussed.
"She doesn't know what the empress likes." Qi Zheng said, reached out and grabbed Shen Ziqiao's wrist, and pulled her up to the wing room on the second floor, beckoning the shop assistants to take out all the jade bracelets.
"Miss San!" Hong Yu glared at Qi Zheng's hand, how could this person treat her Miss San like this!
Shen Ziqiao stared angrily. "Qi Zheng, what do you want to do again? Are you going to use me again?"
Intuition thought that this man might want to use her to cross the bridge again.
Qi Zheng was angry, and the big palm holding her wrist tightened slightly. "How am I using you?"
"Then let me go first. Men and women can't get married. You don't know how to arrange me if you let others see me like this. You have a bad reputation in the first place, and you will definitely not be able to marry in the future. I don't want to be accused of disorderly security again." Shen Ziqiao stared at his hand, wondering how many people had seen it just now, and she would be scolded by the old lady Shen after a while when she returned home.
"Who else do you want to marry?" Qi Zheng's eyes darkened, he let go of her hand, and asked in a cold tone.
Shen Ziqiao snorted, "It's none of your business."
Qi Zheng smiled. "Who else can you marry?"
This tone was simply too contemptuous, as if she really couldn't get married.
"Qi Zheng, don't go too far." Shen Ziqiao shouted angrily.
See her angry look. His mood became particularly good.
Qi Zheng sat down on the grand teacher's chair beside him, his expression looked relaxed and relaxed, and he didn't feel guilty at all for causing trouble to Shen Ziqiao.
"Come and sit down, I have something to tell you." Qi Zheng pointed to the grand master's chair next to him and asked Shen Ziqiao to come over.
It would be embarrassing if she went like this. Shen Ziqiao flicked her face and didn't even look at him. Just can't go through.
"You want me to catch you?" Qi Zheng asked with a smile.
Shen Ziqiao stared at him furiously, "What on earth do you want? Do you understand the defense of men and women? I am a big girl with yellow flowers, do you know that even I...even I know that there are taboos, don't you think so?" Don't you know?"
She was sure Qi Zheng did it on purpose!
How can there be a girl who yells at a man that she is a girl with yellow flowers and that she will not be able to marry? The smile on the corner of Qi Zheng's mouth grew bigger and bigger, and his voice was indescribably cheerful, "Come here."
Shen Ziqiao was so angry that she grabbed the teacup on the table and threw it over, "Get out!"
Qi Zheng easily caught her teacup, stood up abruptly, glared at her and scolded, "You dare to throw me?"
The tall and straight body suddenly made people feel a lot of pressure. Shen Ziqiao remembered that he was a hidden master, and immediately shrank her neck like a quail, "You are too much."
"Why are you still like a child, beating people at every turn, do you look like a girl?" Qi Zheng asked funny, and walked slowly in front of her.
Although Hongyu was afraid of Qi Zheng, seeing him walking towards her master, fearing that he would hurt Shen Ziqiao, she boldly stood in front of Shen Ziqiao, staring palely at Qi Zheng who had come forward.
Shen Ziqiao pulled Hongyu away, and stared at Qi Zheng fearlessly, "Do I look like a girl, what does your family have to do with you?"
Qi Zheng smiled and shook his head, then said in a low voice, "When you enter the palace, don't offend anyone casually, don't say anything, just obediently follow Miss Luo, don't run around anywhere, don't cause trouble, and, Don't get too close to the third lady of the Sheng family, you understand?"
ah? Shen Ziqiao didn't expect that Qi Zheng was going to tell her this, so she was stunned.
It's about caring about her...
He actually cared about her! And the meaning in the words, how could she hear a little ambiguous feeling, she must have thought too much.
Seeing that she didn't react at all, Qi Zheng frowned, and asked in a deep voice, "Did you listen to what I said?"
Shen Ziqiao was startled, and immediately came back to her senses, her face blushed for some reason, and she muttered, "I'm listening."
Hongyu watched from the side and smiled foolishly.
In fact, Young Master Qi and Miss San are really like a pair of lovers standing together.
The Ninth Prince is no match for Young Master Qi!
Qi Zheng's eyes became brighter and deeper when he saw Shen Ziqiao's blushing little face, and he said with a straight face, "Don't look dissatisfied, you don't have any nerves when you do things and talk. If you are not careful, you will cause trouble, what is the palace, it is different from other places, you should be careful, you don't have to be too restrained in front of the queen, understand?"
I don't understand why you don't have to be too restrained in front of the queen
Shen Ziqiao thought for a while, and then puffed up her cheeks angrily, "Where I have no tendons, you have less tendons!"
Qi Zheng laughed out loud, his stern face looked much younger because of this smile, and made people feel a lot closer.
"What's so funny?" Luo Zhaohua's petite voice appeared by the door, looking at Qi Zheng and Shen Ziqiao curiously.
"Luo Xiaohua! You came to choose the gift with me!" Abandoning her and running to look at some earrings, Shen Ziqiao ignored her burning cheeks and ran over to poke Luo Zhaohua's cheek in displeasure.
Luo Zhaohua smiled embarrassedly, "I'm here to accompany you to choose?"
It just so happened that the shopkeeper led the buddies to come in with several brocade boxes.
"Master Qi, Miss Shen, these are the best jade bracelets in Jinxiu Pavilion, you two have a look." The shopkeeper opened the brocade boxes one by one, and inside were all delicate and transparent bracelets.
Shen Ziqiao didn't know how to choose jade, she looked at Luo Zhaohua, and asked in a low voice, "Which one is better?"
Qi Zheng took out a tender green jadeite bracelet from a relatively small brocade box, and said with a twinkle in his eyes, "Just this jadeite double dragon grabbing beads bracelet."
The shopkeeper gave Qi Zheng a thumbs up, "Master Qi has good eyesight."
Shen Ziqiao took the bracelet from him, the surface was shiny like grease, the jade was delicate and transparent, without any blemishes, even she, who didn't know much about jade, knew it was a good thing.
Good things are always expensive.
She is a poor person!
"How about... choose another one..." Shen Ziqiao whispered.
Luo Zhaohua tugged at her, "That's all, shopkeeper, send it to Shen's house."
The shopkeeper responded with a cheerful voice, and asked Shen Ziqiao with a smile, "Ms. Shen San still needs to choose other jewelry. Recently, we have a new batch of gold hairpins and jade hairpins in Jinxiu Pavilion. They are novel in style and will definitely make you look better when you wear them."
Shen Ziqiao squinted at him, "Am I ugly now?"
Qi Zheng chuckled in a low voice, causing Shen Ziqiao to roll her eyes viciously.
In the end, Shen Ziqiao still chose some jewelry, she must not be too shabby when entering the palace.
Qi Zheng left after choosing a bracelet for Shen Ziqiao.
On the way back, Shen Ziqiao asked Luo Zhaohua curiously, "Is the bracelet Qi Zheng chose particularly good?"
Luo Zhaohua lowered her head and fiddled with the earrings she just got, and said absently, "Of course the bracelet he chose is very good, but whether it is good or not is the second priority. The key is that he knows that the empress will definitely like it."
"Why?" Shen Ziqiao became even more curious.
"He is the empress's nephew, how could he not know, he knows what the empress likes best." Luo Zhaohua said with a smile.
ah! Qi Zheng is the queen's nephew? Shen Ziqiao couldn't hide her shock. This was the first time she heard that Qi Zheng was the empress' nephew.
Since he has the empress as his backer, why did he pretend to be stupid for so many years
Shen Ziqiao was wondering.
Not long after returning to Shen's house, people from Jinxiu Pavilion delivered the bracelet, Shen Ziqiao asked the accountant to settle the bill, and then went to look for Shen Zikai with the bracelet worth several thousand taels.
Shen Zikai praised her for her foresight, and she knew that she was in favor of the queen, so she chose this bracelet.
Only the Zhou family scolded Shen Ziqiao for being a prodigal in secret.
Old Mrs. Shen was also so angry that she was hurt internally. Now that Shen Ziqiao was the housekeeper, and the manager of the account room had also been replaced, she couldn't do it even if she wanted to control Shen Ziqiao's expenses.
Although the money came from the public, Shen Ziqiao felt that it would be better for a woman to have money, and no matter what, she must get the dowry back as soon as possible!