Chapter 142 She Regretted Exchanging Fathers and Brothers with Wen Xingluo

The wind in the mountains is a bit strong.

Xie Guanlan asked, "What?"

"Nothing... nothing."

…

After tossing and turning all night, Wen Xingluo fell into a tired sleep at Yue Tea House.

Xie Guanlan booked the entire restaurant, and his soldiers were guarding inside and outside the restaurant, so she no longer had to worry about anyone attacking her.

Downstairs lobby.

Xie Guanlan sat in an armchair, his long legs casually crossed.

He looked at Yeshui, who was kneeling before him to plead guilty, his narrow eyes expressionless. "Go down and accept your punishment."

Not being chased away by Xie Guanlan, Yishui breathed a sigh of relief and immediately went to accept the punishment.

Fushan smiled and said, "He is young and inexperienced, and his carelessness caused the young lady to be in danger. After what happened last night, I believe he will remember this lesson."

Xie Guanlan remained noncommittal.

"It's those lieutenants around you..." Fushan laughed. "Ever since returning from Qingcheng Mountain, they've been vying to wait outside the young lady's resting room, saying they want to be the first person she sees when she wakes up."

As he spoke, he glanced at Xie Guanlan meaningfully and added, "Speaking of which, Miss has reached the age of marriage. Since the Concubine Dowager wants you to choose a good brother-in-law from your surroundings, you should start looking for one."

Xie Guanlan twirled his black jade ring, half smiling, "Why, deducting four months' salary isn't enough to shut you up?"

Fushan: “…”

Xie Guanlan: "Then deduct another four months."

He got up and went upstairs.

Fushan put his hands in his pockets in a desperate manner.

Just deduct it, anyway the rewards given by the master are several times the salary.

He got four months' salary in exchange for his master being humiliated and watching a good show, so he didn't lose out!

Xie Guanlan stepped into the room where Wen Xingluo was resting.

The girl had woken up, changed into a goose yellow double-breasted jacket and skirt, and was sitting in front of the dressing table combing her hair.

She looked at Xie Guanlan and said apologetically, "I used the gold hairpin you gave me for self-defense. It looks bent and deformed, and it's stained with blood. I'm afraid I can't wear it anymore."

Xie Guanlan said "hmm".

Wen Xingluo held the wooden comb and asked tentatively, "Prince, can you give me a new headpiece?"

"Any number of sets will do." Xie Guanlan sat down. "I asked the kitchen to make some of your favorite dishes, which will be served shortly. You've been hungry for a day and a night, so you should eat more."

"How does the prince know what dishes I like to eat?"

Xie Guanlan was silent.

He couldn't say that he had noticed it at the family dinner at Wansongyuan. He paused and said lightly, "Cuicui said so."

The two of them had their meal together and prepared to return to the palace.

As soon as I stepped out of the door, I saw the chaos in Tea Alley.

The bodies of the tea merchants were brought back from the mountains and neatly laid out in the alley, waiting to be claimed by their families.

As family members arrived one after another, the crying in the teahouse gradually became louder.

After finding out everything that happened last night, hundreds of family members surrounded Wen Ruyun, Wen Yueyin and Xu Miaomiao at the entrance of the alley and denounced them fiercely.

"If you hadn't acted on your own and made irresponsible suggestions, why would my husband have died in middle age?!"

"My son is only thirty years old this year. You have to compensate my son, compensate my son!"

“…”

The three of them were pushed around and looked very embarrassed.

Wen Ruyun was furious, carefully protecting her brocade robe and angrily said, "Stop arguing here. Do you know how much my robe cost?! Besides, this can't be blamed on me. I didn't kill them!"

"Yes." Wen Yueyin's eyes were red. "Life and death are determined by fate, and wealth and honor are determined by God. We sympathize with those who died, but why did they die while we didn't? It shows that the length of a person's life is predetermined. Even if there were no bandits, they would have died last night for other reasons."

"What are you two talking about here?!" A ferocious-looking man stood up. "Anyway, you must pay for what happened last night! Not counting servants and lackeys, ten family heads have died here. Each of you must pay a hundred thousand taels of silver!"

"One hundred thousand taels of silver!" Wen Ruyun gasped. "Why don't you just go and rob us?! Forget about one hundred thousand taels, I won't give you a single copper!"

The family members grabbed his collar and said, "If you don't pay, we will sue the government!"

"Speak nicely and don't pull my clothes! My clothes are very expensive, I only have two sets, don't ruin them!"

The scene was noisy and almost out of control.

Wen Yueyin bit her lip and felt a chill all over her body as she looked at Wen Ruyun, whose hair was disheveled, clothes were messy and his manners had been lost.

In his previous life, my second brother had luxury cars, a large number of servants, and was a romantic and extravagant man who spent money lavishly.

She clearly remembered that when he saw a beggar on the street, he would throw out a thick stack of banknotes, and when he drank too much, he would also go out to the street to throw money.

He said he was born with the ability to make money. As long as he used his brain, piles of banknotes would fly into his hands. He couldn't even remember how much assets he had in his name because he had long lost the concept of money.

He said that money was dirty and filthy, and would naturally corrupt people's minds. He could smell a special stench on those businessmen.

In order to avoid being contaminated by this bad smell, he rarely went out for drinks and social events, and never bothered to associate with his peers.

But even if he sits at home and does nothing, the world's wealth will flow to him like water because of his extraordinary ability to make money.

This is called talent.

But why didn’t my second brother awaken his talent for business in this life?

Wen Yueyin gritted her teeth and decided to wait until this incident was over before slowly thinking about what went wrong.

Thinking of the compensation, she took Xu Miaomiao's hand and said softly, "Sister-in-law, these businessmen are too greedy. You know our family's situation. We have great potential, but we can't afford that much money right now. Please go back to your parents' home and discuss the compensation with my uncle and aunt."

Xu Miaomiao patted her hands and said, "I'm marrying into your family. Your affairs are naturally my affairs, and my affairs are naturally my parents' affairs. Don't worry, I will definitely help my second brother calm down this trouble."

far away.

Wen Xingluo looked at the family's anxious appearance and curled her lips slightly.

Xie Guanlan lifted the curtain of the carriage and said, "Let's go."

"Here I come!" The girl came to her senses, rolled up her skirt, stepped onto the footstool, and got into the carriage as light as a butterfly.

Wen Yue saw this scene out of the corner of his eye.

She stiffened her neck, clenched her fists, and her eyes became redder.

She suddenly felt a little regretful.

I regret swapping fathers and brothers with Wen Xingluo in this life...

"Yue Yin, we can go now!"

Wen Ruyun and the families agreed that the Xu family would pay compensation for him, and only then was he able to get away with it.

Wen Yueyin looked at his miserable and embarrassed back and thought to herself that she should give her brothers another chance.

Only by accompanying them to climb out of the mud will they truly remember her kindness.

Moreover, during her spare time with them, she could also use Mu Zhiqiu's relationship to make more trips to the Zhenbei Palace to try to establish good relations with the old concubine and the Zhenbei Prince.

Wen Xingluo was originally inferior to her in every way, but maybe in this life, she could make the three brothers Xie Guanlan look at her differently and love her even more!