Chapter 166 What a coincidence
Feng Qingsui smiled and said hello.
After everyone sat down, the waiter served the dishes.
After Feng Qingsui tasted the eel noodles, he said to Ji Changqing, "Second Master's eel rice noodles are still the best."
Ji Changqing's lips curled slightly.
"I can also make eel noodles. I'll make it for you guys later."
Feng Qingsui: "Okay, my mother and I are in for a treat again."
Shangguan Mu listened silently and secretly glanced at the sachet on Ji Changqing's waist.
When Ji Changqing's people reported to him how Feng rescued Pei Minru, he was listening on the side. He knew that Pei Minru had left a trace with the scent pills in the sachet given by Feng, and Feng brought the dog to find her.
The sachet tied around Ji Changqing's waist is exactly the same as Pei Minru's, obviously from the same person.
In other words, Ji Changqing's sachet was also given by Feng.
Tsk tsk.
I really didn't expect that.
Some people look righteous, open-minded, and unconcerned with women, but secretly... they actually covet their widowed sister-in-law.
Ji Changqing noticed his look and gave him a cold glance.
Shangguan Mu: ()
Good and evil will be rewarded in the end.
You always pull him down, and now you're getting your comeuppance.
He said calmly, "Sister-in-law, I haven't tasted Changqing's cooking yet. Next time he cooks, can you let me have a meal?"
Feng Qingsui chuckled: "Then you have to ask our chef. In our house, the chef has the final say."
Shangguan Mu: “…”
We are both wanderers in this world, why is he the only one who is humble?
Pei Minru first toasted to Qi.
Then he raised his wine glass, looked at Ji Changqing and Feng Qingsui and said, "I was in trouble today, and I am grateful for your help. I will never forget your kindness. I will prepare a generous gift and visit you someday. This is a toast to you two."
Ji Changqing and Feng Qingsui raised their glasses and drank them all in one gulp.
Shangguan Mu looked at the wine glass in front of him and lowered his eyes.
In fact, he also contributed...
Pei Minru then asked, "Did my brother tell Lord Ji about my misfortune?"
Her eldest brother is the chief academic officer of the Imperial College, and he also went to Taihe Garden to watch the dragon boat race today.
Shangguan Mu's heart suddenly began to tighten.
He kept squinting at Ji Changqing.
Ji Changqing glanced at him sideways and said slowly, "It wasn't your brother who suggested it, it was a friend."
Pei Minru: “???”
"Excuse me, which friend is it? Lord Ji, please let me know so that I can thank that friend."
"This friend doesn't want to reveal his identity for now."
Ji Changqing replied.
"But he always cared about you."
Feng Qingsui listened from the side and remembered a formula his master had mentioned: I have a friend = me.
I thought that Ji Changqing was indeed hypocritical.
Shangguan Mu breathed a sigh of relief.
He drank the realgar wine in front of him.
After Ji Changqing finished speaking, he felt something was wrong and turned around to see Feng Qingsui's eyes.
“…”
Well, he helped Shangguan Mu, but ended up hurting himself.
I'll explain it to this little fox later.
Otherwise, she wouldn't know what to think of.
Pei Minru was completely confused.
When did she have such a caring friend? And how did this friend know that she was kidnapped?
But Ji Changqing was unwilling to say, and she couldn't force him, so she had to put her doubts aside for the time being.
"Then please, Lord Ji, convey my gratitude. I will always remember this friend's kindness."
Ji Changqing said hello.
After the meal, several people came out of the private room.
"Miss!"
Pei Minru's maid Wenxin came forward to greet her.
"I returned to the mansion after reporting the news, and the Second Master is here to pick you up."
"Second brother?"
Pei Minru looked surprised.
"He's back in Beijing?"
Wen Xin nodded: "The Second Master just returned home. After learning about you..., he came here with this servant. He is now in the carriage outside."
Pei Minru looked up and saw a figure as slender as a bamboo walking towards him.
She greeted him with a smile: "Second brother!"
Feng Qingsui's eyes lit up.
What a handsome man!
The man's skin was as white as jade, his eyes were brighter than snow, and he was extremely elegant, like a banished immortal who had walked down from the ninth heaven, without a speck of dust on his body.
His appearance is comparable to Ji Changqing.
It's just that it's too cold and aloof, as if it's out of touch with the world.
However, judging from his thin figure, he must have been a vegetarian all year round and rarely eats meat.
Maybe he is a Taoist practitioner.
Ji Changqing saw her staring at Pei Yunzhan intently and clenched his teeth unconsciously.
Shangguan Mu leaned over and teased softly, "It turns out that our Lord Ji also gets nervous sometimes."
"Miss Pei wants to know who that friend is so much."
Ji Changqing said expressionlessly.
"I'd better tell her."
Shangguan Mu: “…”
He smiled and said, "Pei Yunzhan is a man who loves to pretend. He has no interest in a career in government yet he insisted on taking the imperial examination, snatching away other people's Jinshi quota."
Ji Changqing, Pei Yunzhan and he were all Jinshi in the same period. Ji Changqing ranked first in the imperial examination, he ranked second, and Pei Yunzhan ranked third.
Since ancient times, the top three scholars have been known throughout the world, but the second place has been unknown to the public.
With his talent and looks, in previous years, even if he couldn't become the top scorer, he would at least be the third place.
Unfortunately, he met two geniuses, Ji Changqing and Pei Yunzhan, who were even more talented and handsome than him, and they squeezed him into the second place.
Even though he was squeezed in, Pei Yunzhan actually refused to enter the Hanlin Academy and went to travel around the world to explore the mountains and rivers.
It made him very angry.
If you don’t want to be an official, don’t take the imperial examination. Why bother trying to steal his third place?
Ji Changqing didn't reply to him.
After Pei Minru calmed down, he turned around and introduced Qi and Feng Qingsui, "This is my second brother, Pei Yunzhan."
Then he said to Pei Yunzhan: "Second brother, this is the old lady and the eldest lady of the Ji family. I won't introduce Master Ji, you should know him."
Qi praised: "Second Master Pei is truly a man of talent."
Feng Qingsui had just said "Hello, Mr. Pei" when she realized that the person in front of her was looking at her with a strange look.
Seems a bit...disdainful?
Suddenly confused.
She had never met or offended this Second Master Pei, right? What was he disdainful of?
The smile on his face slowly faded.
Pei Minru didn't notice anything unusual. After the introduction, he said goodbye to Qi and Feng Qingsui: "I'm going back home first. I'll visit you again another day."
Feng Qingsui said hello.
Pei Minru and Pei Yunzhan immediately left in a carriage.
The brother and sister each took a carriage.
After returning to Pei Mansion, the two got out of the car, and Pei Minru told the details of his capture and rescue.
Pei Yunzhan frowned: "That's too much of a coincidence."
Pei Minru: "What's so coincidental?"
"She gave you a scent sachet, which happened to contain scent pills. You used the scent pills to leave a trail, and she happened to notice it. She also happened to have a tracking dog, and those people happened not to send you out of the city, so she was able to find you."
Pei Yunzhan said lightly.
Pei Minru: "..."
She looked at her second brother in disbelief: "Do you suspect that she planned this kidnapping?"
Pei Yunzhan: "Too many coincidences are no longer coincidences."
"Do you know how many people died? Six!"
"Those people died so quickly, how do you know they weren't faking their deaths?"
Pei Minru was so angry that he couldn't speak for a long time.
"Second brother, have you only encountered the wrong people in all these years of traveling around the world? How could you have such thoughts? I'm just a former Crown Princess who divorced and returned home. What is there in me that is worthy of such painstaking efforts?!"
Pei Yunzhan's brows were cold and expressionless: "You don't have it, but the Pei family does."
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