"I really didn't expect Mr. Ouyang to be such a person!" After a moment, Yao Zhuo broke the silence with a blushing face, "Fortunately, Sister Shen is determined and was not confused by him."
Xi Fuwei said with a smile: "I didn't intend to be a high-level candidate like him."
She didn't want to hear anyone comfort her at all, so she immediately changed the topic, "I think the rain won't stop for a while, and it's almost noon. Why don't we just eat here?"
Yao Zhuosu said quickly: "Sister invited me for tea, it's my turn to have lunch!"
"We didn't go out specifically to eat today, we have to go shopping later!" Xi Fuwei reminded, "So I'm also treating you to lunch, snacks for shopping, and some for Aunt Yao and Sister Fu to take back. Eat, but it’s all up to you.”
Snacks and other snacks are definitely not as much as eating in this restaurant. Yao Zhuosu knows that Xi Fuwei is deliberately taking care of herself and wants to refuse, but her articulation is not as smart as Xi Fuwei's
After arguing for a few words, Xi Fuwei was silenced. She could only watch Sister Shen call the waiter to come up, order several of the restaurant's specialty dishes, and also order a pot of wine. rice wine.
After the wine and food were eaten, the relationship between everyone suddenly became a lot more cordial. Huang Su and Lu Sha drank a few drinks, feeling a little smoky, and told a lot of secrets between the servants of the Zou family.
It was probably about who was related to whom, who was actually good friends with whom, who had any grudges with whom, etc... Xi Fuwei and Yao Zhuosu occasionally made a few comments, but they didn't take it seriously.
Yao Zhuosu was under the control of others in Zou Mansion and did not dare to cause trouble; Xi Fuwei listened for a long time and did not expect the use of this information, so naturally he was too lazy to pay attention to it.
In this way, after eating until noon, watching the rain gradually stop, and there were still leftovers in front of me, I remembered that I wanted to buy a gift for Fu Chuoxian.
"Are you two already drunk?" Although Xi Fuwei wanted the rice wine, she had always been restrained, so she only drank a few cups. However, Lu Sha and Huang Su, as maids, were serving guests, not The important people of the Zou family usually eat a light diet, and rarely have the opportunity to eat and drink. They are greedy and eat all the food.
At this moment, Xi Fuwei and Yao Zhuosu were discussing leaving. They both stood up after hearing the words, both staggering a little.
Seeing this, Xi Fuwei asked worriedly, "Can you still hold on? Otherwise, just sit here for a while and I'll get you a pot of tea to sober up."
Lu Sha and Huang Su both said it was okay, but it was not believable just to see their faces turned red and their eyes blurry.
Xi Fuwei then asked the waiter to fetch water for them to wash their faces, then removed the table, made a pot of tea, and served four-color cakes for them to sit. She and Yao Zhuosu said: "The stall is set up again. , let’s go take a look and come back to pick them up later.”
Lu Sha and Huang Su pushed them to the stairs, feeling very guilty: "The slaves are greedy and made Mr. Shen and Miss Yao laugh!"
"It was agreed that it was casual, and the rice wine in this store has a strong stamina. We have never been here before, so we don't know." Xi Fuwei said a few words of comfort, watched them go back to the private room, and then went downstairs with Yao Zhuosu.
Yao Zhuosu said to her while walking down: "I just saw a stall selling hairpin rings upstairs. From a distance, it seems that there are many styles. Why don't we go there first?"
Just as Xi Fuwei was about to nod, she heard a ping-pong-pong-pong-pong sound coming from below, followed by someone asking angrily, but the questioning quickly turned into howls of pain and begging for mercy.
The two of them were startled and subconsciously stopped on the stairs.
After a while, a young man's voice sounded, pure official language, with the usual condescension and carelessness of a pampered person: "Let a few of them come over and say what they just said again!"
"..." After a moment of dead silence, someone who seemed to want to smooth things over said calmly, "Young Master, they are clumsy and have offended you. Please give me a lot..."
Before he finished speaking, there were two crisp ear-scratching sounds, and then the young man's voice sounded again, and the carelessness in it faded away, adding a lot of sinister meaning: "What are you, I didn't let you speak, You dare to stand up and interrupt?!"
There was no sound at all. They were obviously suffocated.
Xi Fuwei and Yao Zhuosu looked at each other a little bit on the stairs, looked at each other, and gestured to each other, not to go down yet, so as not to be inexplicably involved in the turmoil.
In fact, Yao Zhuosu wanted to simply retreat to the private room, but as soon as she took a step, she was pulled by Xi Fuwei: At this time, the pavilions were all made of wood, and so were the stairs. Even if they were all light-bodied female relatives, it was inevitable for them to go up and down. There was movement.
A group of people were eating, drinking, chatting and laughing, so it was easy to ignore this little movement.
You can still hear the needles now. If you walk back again, the crunching sound will probably attract the attention of the person below.
Yao Zhuosu was not very courageous at first. After realizing this, he immediately held on to the railing and waited, secretly hoping that the person below him would finish his attack and leave as soon as possible.
But that person didn't say anything for a while, and there was silence down there for a long time. The atmosphere became more and more tense, and then someone who sounded like a servant asked a few questions in a low voice... Because they were two flights of stairs away, and the other person's voice was not the same. It's very high. I didn't hear it very clearly. I was probably feeling sorry for that person's health. He said he was just on his way out. Do you want to use something to cushion him first? So as not to starve.
The person who spoke seemed to have some status in front of the master. After speaking, the person said "hmm", which was regarded as agreement.
At this moment, the whole restaurant felt a little relieved.
"With all the people down here, where is your place?" The servant who spoke before said, "Young master, you'd better go upstairs! It must be cleaner upstairs."
After saying that, he didn't ask the waiter to lead the way, and directly ordered the guards to go upstairs to check, "Look carefully, don't let any cats or dogs disturb the young master's interest again!"
Xi Fuwei and Yao Zhuosu were both at a loss when they heard this. Xi Fuwei thought for a while and whispered: "When they came up and saw us standing here, they thought they were just listening to us on purpose, but it was embarrassing. Why don't we just go down a bit and let them know that we are going downstairs."
So he walked down, and at a turning point, he took a look at two guards.
Upon meeting each other, Xi Fuwei's expression changed slightly: I'm afraid the person below is not an ordinary wealthy child!
The two guards of Gai Yin seemed to be dressed simply, but their aura was definitely not something that a nursing home of the Wen family and the Zou family could have!
Especially when they looked over, their eyes were alert and sharp. They did not relax at all because Xi Fuwei and Yao Zhuosu were just female relatives, but they were still looking at beautiful and weak female relatives.
His knife-like eyes scratched up and down their bodies, but there was no trace of obscenity or lust, but full of scrutiny and suspicion.
After a while, they silently moved out of the way.
Xi Fuwei thanked him and pulled Yao Zhuosu over. She felt that Yao Zhuosu's fingers were trembling slightly. It was obvious that he had never seen such a battle before and was a little frightened.
After the two of them walked up the last step, they happened to meet the person below, Da Ma Jin Dao, who was sitting at the table by the door.
Speaking of which, this man is younger than I thought when I heard the noise on the stairs. He looks no more than eighteen or nineteen years old. He has slender eyebrows and handsome eyes. His appearance is very beautiful, and his skin is especially good. Ordinary girls may not be like him. She is fair-skinned, and she looks like she was raised in a wealthy village.
Wearing a bright red brocade robe, her skin was even more radiant than snow.
Xi Fuwei secretly wondered whether his attack just now had something to do with his fair skin
Because when a group of them went upstairs, someone bit their ears and said some frivolous words, and she restrained themselves after being glared at. If those people hadn't left and saw this person coming in, they might have relapsed... But this person was no easier to bully than Xi Fuwei and his party.
Thinking like this, Xi Fuwei didn't dare to look any further, and turned away as soon as her eyes touched her. She also deliberately took a step forward to block Yao Zhuosu's sight with her body to prevent her from showing an expression she shouldn't and offending him.
But when she turned her eyes away, she noticed from the corner of her eye that this man was wearing a jade belt
"Is it a nobleman from Yingtian Mansion?" Xi Fuwei was surprised and secretly thought, "Or is it a young man from the army who went to the grassland with His Majesty and passed through Jining on the way back to Yingtian Mansion for some reason?"
The imperial dynasty was very strict about the grade of clothing. Specifically, His Majesty the Emperor Taizu was very strict about this aspect. Common people even had very little room to choose the color of clothing, let alone jade belts which have been used since ancient times. It is an object only used by the rich and powerful.
Like Ouyang Yuanshui, he was considered the number one figure in Yanzhou Prefecture. After all, he was a scholar who was promoted from high school at such a young age, and he was already a role model that many people dreamed of.
But he is not qualified to wear a jade belt... He is going to be the top pick in high school and parade through the streets on horseback. Such a scene, if he wants to wear a jade belt in a grand manner, under normal circumstances, he can still endure it.
Therefore, Xi Fuwei felt more and more that this teahouse was no longer a place to stay for a long time, and she felt a little regretful for letting Lu Sha and Huang Su stay in the private room to sober up!
But then I thought about it, the two maids were walking unsteadily at the moment. If they had come down together just now, they might have stumbled on the stairs and made a lot of noise. Instead, they would have offended this one as soon as they came up, and they would have acted for them. Meng Lang's people shared the anger.
"Who are these two women?" Xi Fuwei and Yao Zhuosu lowered their heads and did not look at the smashed tables and chairs not far away. They were about to speed up and leave when the person suddenly asked from behind.
The person being questioned should be the shopkeeper of the teahouse, who said tremblingly: "Sir, those are the guests in the private room upstairs."
"You don't look like you are dressed like a small family. How come you don't even have a maid when you go out?" The man raised one side of his face and looked over with a strange look in his eyes. From the moment he started to pay attention to Xi Fuwei and Yao Zhuosu, A guard came over and stopped the two of them. They could only turn around to see what he was going to do.
I heard the man say slowly, "It looks very suspicious. Arrest him and send him to the local Jinyi Guards later. Let them investigate carefully. Where did he come from?"
Yao Zhuosu was shocked when he heard this, and his face turned pale!
Xi Fuwei was also stunned for a moment, thinking that the two of them walked over cautiously, thinking that they were well-behaved and knowledgeable enough, so how could they be targeted by him
My mind was spinning, and something suddenly occurred to me.