In the afternoon, Yu Yuan came back and they had nothing else to do - now they just had to wait and see if Master Qian could find anything.
Yu Wen was getting impatient waiting, so he played chess with the innkeeper to kill time. Yu Yuan couldn't sit still, so he said hello to Yu Wen and went walking around the streets, wanting to see what businesses were doing well in Hangzhou, what businesses everyone was doing, and how they were doing business.
Yu Tang was making hair flowers in the room.
Someone came in and asked, "Does Mr. Yu live here?"
Yu Wen raised his head and said, "Who is looking for me?"
The man who came was about fifteen or sixteen years old, with red lips and white teeth, dressed like a servant. He smiled and said, "I am Mr. Zhou's servant. My master asked me to come and see if you are in the store." Then he ran away in a flash.
Yu Wenqi asked: "Mr. Zhou? Which Mr. Zhou!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the servant walking in with Zhou Zijin and Pei Yan.
Yu Wen smiled, hurriedly stepped forward, bowed and said, "Who was I wondering? It turns out to be Zhou Zhuangyuan. Why are you here? What do you want to talk to me about?" He then bowed to Pei Yan.
Pei Yan still looked indifferent and nodded calmly towards Yu Wen.
Zhou Zijin said, "I heard that your daughter is ill? We should have come to see her yesterday, but we had an appointment yesterday and had lunch until the afternoon. I was also drunk and didn't want to be rude, so I didn't come. How is your daughter? Is she feeling better? Is there anything we can do to help?"
Yu Wen was very moved after hearing this, and said, "The child has just eaten. I have taken Master Pei's visiting card to invite Doctor Wang Yu to come and take a look. He said there is nothing wrong and that I just need to fast. Thank you both for your concern. I was planning to go to the Pei Mansion in two days to thank you, but I didn't expect you two to come first. I'm really sorry." After saying this, he thanked Pei Yan alone.
Pei Yan said nothing and accepted Yu Wen's gift.
Yu Wen said, "What do you want to do with Mr. Zhou and Mr. Pei? Why don't I host you and find a restaurant or a bar nearby and treat you two to a few drinks."
Zhou Zijin's eyes lit up, and he was obviously very interested in this. But Pei Yan beside him spoke before him: "No need, you must have a lot of things to do here. Let's drink together again when we have the chance!"
Yu Wen thought he was just being polite, so he said more sincerely, "We'll talk about the future when we meet. I'm so happy that you can come to see our girl! How would I feel if you leave like this? Especially Mr. Pei, if it weren't for your name card yesterday, who knows what suffering our girl would have gone through!"
"That was just a coincidence!" Pei Yan said calmly, determined to leave.
Zhou Zijin wanted to stay, but seeing that Pei Yan didn't seem to be polite, she had to step forward and say, "I'm really not being polite to you. We just came here today to see your daughter. Since your daughter is fine, we'll take our leave first."
Of course Yu Wen couldn't let them go like this, so he held on to the two of them.
Zhou Zijin was helpless and said, "It's not that I don't give you this face, it's just that Xiaguang... made Qianjin's stomach upset, and because of this, he stopped me from going to the night market on Xiaohe Street..."
Very regrettable look.
But before he could finish his words, he heard the sound of a door closing from the guest room on the second floor.
Everyone looked up at the same time.
All I saw was a closed door.
Yu Wen thought about it and said with a smile: "Maybe it's our girl, sorry!"
"That's right, that's right!" Zhou Zijin said with a smile.
Pei Yan's eyebrows did not move from beginning to end.
Yu Tang in the room had a red face and was spinning around while biting his nails.
Didn't Pei Yan come to see that Yu Shi? What was he doing here? Meijiaqiao and Ruyi Inn are located in the north and west of each other.
However, Pei’s pawnshop is here.
Could it be that he came to Pei's shop to do some business and was brought here by Zhou Zhuangyuan?
Why didn't she think of this?
How embarrassing!
I ate too much and my stomach got upset.
Can you make Pei Yan laugh for the rest of his life?
Yu Tang felt ashamed to face people.
Especially just now - she ran out when she heard someone calling her father's name, but when she saw Pei Yan, he got excited and lost his composure when closing the door, making a loud noise... She really wanted to sneak in!
Yu Tang was feeling very upset in the room, and suddenly he was glad that he was still fasting.
This way she can stay in her room and not go out.
Yu Tang breathed a sigh of relief and thought that she should make the head flower well. If she was quicker, maybe she could also make one for her mother.
But with the needle in her hand, she didn't know where to insert it for a long time. Her mind was in a mess and she didn't know what to think. She knew that what she was doing was wrong, but she was too lazy to muster up the energy. She thought, who doesn't want to take a break? She will do it later without delay.
When she came to her senses after thinking this, the sun had already set and the proprietress brought her some warm water.
Yu Tang suddenly felt so hungry that he could hardly sit up straight.
She hurriedly asked, "Where's my dad?"
"He's playing chess with our boss downstairs!" The lady boss said with a smile and envy, "Yesterday when I saw the second shopkeeper Tong coming over with Master Pei's name card, I was thinking, your family and the Pei family are really good. I didn't expect Master Pei to come to visit the patient in person today. Your family must be a well-known family in Lin'an, right? Master Yu looks very simple, worthy of being a scholar, and behaves in a low-key and cultured way."
Yu Tang was stunned.
Didn’t her father invite Pei Yan to dinner?
She couldn't help but ask: "You, you also know the third elder of the Pei family?"
"Yes, yes, of course I know them!" The proprietress said cheerfully, "Who in our area doesn't know the three elders of the Pei family? We all make a living from the Pei family. Our inn is rented from the Pei family, and the street where you bought the first flower beads also belongs to the Pei family. However, this is the first time that the third elder has come to our place. The third elder is really good-looking! The last time I saw him, the old lady was still in her prime, and he was only thirteen or fourteen years old. The old lady came to the pawnshop to check the accounts, and he seemed to be very disgusted, so he sat outside on the stone railings by the river. No one had ever seen such a beautiful person, and they wanted to take a closer look, but they didn't dare, so they found excuses to walk around him. Only the girl from the Cai family in the back street was the bravest and threw a flower at him. He looked at it and said nothing. Everyone thought it was funny, and many people imitated the girl from the Cai family and threw flowers and handkerchiefs at him.
"He was so angry that he ran away in a flash.
“I still remember what he looked like to this day.”
"Really!" Yu Tang was so happy just thinking about it that he laughed out loud.
"Really!" The lady boss also laughed so hard that her eyes became gentle. "So many years have passed in the blink of an eye. The third master has become more and more handsome. However, it seems that his temper has become worse and worse."
"That's right!" Yu Tang responded, thinking about the look on his face when she met him several times, and then thinking about what the boss lady said, she not only didn't feel scared, but also felt a little friendly. She asked: "When did Mr. Pei leave? Didn't my father invite him to dinner?"
"He stayed." The proprietress probably rarely talked about Pei Yan to others, so she smiled and said, "Mr. Pei didn't agree, so Zhou Zhuangyuan had no choice but to go with him. He is still the same as before, not sociable."
Yu Tang smiled, and the depression in his heart disappeared. He didn't care so much about the stomach upset anymore.
After all, compared to Pei Yan who ran away in embarrassment after being thrown flowers at by the little girls, her situation was nothing, right?