A window seat on the second floor of the Riverside Building.
Dong Shulan and Chunxiu sat opposite each other.
She looked out the window, where there was a bustling crowd of people and traffic, just like when she came here last year.
Chunxiu looked at the young mistress, feeling a little worried, and said softly: "Young mistress and the young master treat Chunxiu as a family member. Chunxiu has something to say to the young mistress."
Dong Shulan looked back at Chunxiu and said with a smile, "But what about that incident at the mansion?"
Chunxiu nodded and pursed her lips. "Young Madam's words... Young Madam is not a mean person, why would she say such things? They... They are actually quite pitiful. Now that the head of the family and the young master have disappeared, and they are about to give birth, the family has lost its backbone, which will always make us more worried."
"Chunxiu, I did that on purpose..." Dong Shulan also looked out the window, her eyes a little hazy. "If I hand those businesses over to them, they won't be able to manage them. If I really let them go and no longer care about them, I'm afraid that the young master's hard work will be ruined in three to five years at most."
"I'm doing this for their own good. The expenses of the Fu Mansion will not decrease, but will increase by another 20%. Seeing that the population of the Fu Mansion is increasing, the young master's brothers and sisters will have to get married and start their own careers when they grow up, and all of these will require money."
Chunxiu finally understood the young lady's good intentions, and thought to herself that none of the six wives could manage the properties left by the young master as carefully as the young lady did, and they didn't have the young lady's ability!
This is the foundation of the Fu family.
As long as this foundation remains intact, the Fu Mansion will never collapse.
Chunxiu looked ashamed, but Dong Shulan smiled and said, "You are an old man by the young master's side. Learn more from me. When you get married, you can also manage your own business."
Chunxiu pouted, thinking that she hadn't found someone suitable yet.
She also looked out the window and saw a woman in white carrying a sword.
She frowned slightly, and saw the woman getting closer and closer, and then entered the Linjiang Tower.
"Madam, I know, she is Zhang Pei'er."
"Zhang Pei'er?"
Dong Shulan thought carefully and recalled that last year she went to Linjiang to discuss the matter of imperial merchants. The daughter of Zhang Zhice, a cloth merchant from Linjiang, seemed to be called Zhang Peier?
By the way, she also has a brother named Zhang Wenhan, who passed the imperial examination in the autumn of last year. It seems that he was sent to Pingling County to serve as the county magistrate in November or December of last year.
I heard that Zhang Pei'er was deeply in love with Fu Xiaoguan, but she was unmoved by his feelings and ended up drowning herself in the Yangtze River. "Did you see it wrong?"
"I'm sure I'm not mistaken. She came to the mansion last year and stayed in the young master's backyard for a long time. I was there at the time."
There were footsteps coming up the stairs. Dong Shulan looked towards the stairs. Zhang Peier went up the stairs and also saw Dong Shulan.
She walked straight towards Dong Shulan, her face no longer as youthful as before. In just one year, she seemed to have completely transformed.
Her original intention of coming to Linjiang Tower was to have a meal, because Fu Xiaoguan used to have meals there often.
Now that she has made some progress in martial arts, her purpose of going down the mountain is of course to kill Fu Xiaoguan with a sword. In the words of her master Meili Xuehong, this sword must be used to cut off the evil fate, so as to carve out a vast world for your martial arts.
But before she even reached Linjiang, she heard that Fu Xiaoguan had died at the foot of the snowy mountains in Wu Dynasty...
Even though she couldn't cut it down, she still came to Linjiang just to take another look.
Naturally, she also recognized Dong Shulan.
"Can I sit with you?"
Dong Shulan nodded with a smile.
Zhang Pei'er sat at the table, facing the window.
"Is he really... gone?"
Dong Shulan restrained her smile and nodded silently.
Then the two women fell silent. The waiter brought the wine and food, and the three women immersed themselves in eating. Chunxiu filled the young lady's glass with wine, thought for a moment, and poured a glass for Zhang Pei'er as well.
Zhang Pei'er seemed to be very hungry. She ate the food frantically and drank a glass of wine when she was about to choke.
She ate and drank a lot, and did not look like a lady from the Zhang family at all.
Dong Shulan looked at Zhang Pei'er silently, thinking that she was also a pitiful woman who fell in love with someone she shouldn't love at the best age of her life.
Zhang Pei'er's cheeks puffed up. As she chewed, she asked calmly, "Where is his grave?"
"He was buried in the snow. Later, when he was dug out, it was impossible to tell. He was the son of Emperor Wen, and he was buried on the mountain near the Zhaixing Terrace in Guanyun City of the Wu Dynasty."
Zhang Pei'er's cheeks paused for a few breaths. She looked at the dishes on the table and swallowed the food in her mouth. "Wu Chao... was buried so far away... He actually liked Linjiang more."
"We have to move his tomb back." Zhang Pei'er added, scaring Dong Shulan.
"Now that he's buried, let him rest in peace. The Star-Picking Terrace is a nice place, high up and nestled in the clouds, making it easier for him to ascend to heaven."
“…I still think he’s not dead.”
Dong Shulan was shocked again, thinking, could it be that she discovered something?
"He is such a bad man, I think God would not dare to take him away."
Chunxiu was unhappy when she heard this, "What's wrong with my young master?"
Zhang Pei'er raised the corner of her mouth but did not answer. She put down her bowl and chopsticks and drank another glass of wine. Chunxiu did not pour her any more wine, so she picked up the bottle and poured herself a glass.
"I once loved her deeply." Zhang Pei'er looked at Dong Shulan.
"Even though he had a very bad reputation in Linjiang at that time, I still liked his naughty look."
"If he keeps getting worse like that, I think he'll be mine."
She laughed at herself, "It's a pity that he turned out to be a good person!"
"He became a good person because of you, so you win, and I am convinced."
"I've been in the Sword Forest for the past year, cultivating the Heartless Sword, but the love in my heart hasn't died. So I came down the mountain, intending to end it all with a single sword strike... but he's dead!"
Zhang Pei'er took a deep breath and sighed, "Fu Xiaoguan, you didn't even give me a chance to practice with my sword!"
"You want to kill him?" Dong Shulan asked with a frown.
"I don't know if I could kill him myself when I faced him. Besides, he's gone now, so I can't kill him even if I wanted to."
Dong Shulan breathed a sigh of relief. "What are your plans for the future, young lady?"
"I don't have any plans. Now that he's gone, there's nothing left to see in this world. I'm going to Pingling to see my brother, and then I'll go back to Jianlin... Even if Zhang Pei'er is completely dead."
She stood up and said, "Thank you for the meal. I heard that you are still managing his business. You are an amazing woman. It's a pity that he can't enjoy it."
"goodbye!"
"goodbye!"
Zhang Pei'er traveled to the ends of the earth with his sword, and Dong Shulan set out to return to Xishan.
The river still flows below the Linjiang Tower, but the absurd young man who once lived on the tower is no longer there.
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