Chapter 037: Concerning the Future
The decision made by Qin Xue and Liu Zhiyan was talked about for many days. The fact that Wang Xingsheng was not a member of the Wang family, which had been suppressed by them before, was also concluded.
Legend has it that the Wang family head arranged for a coroner he knew to perform a blood test to determine kinship, but the blood of the "father and son" simply wouldn't mix. To prove the accuracy of the test, the Wang family head even had his three legitimate daughters perform the test together.
As a result, naturally, only Wang Xingsheng's blood could not mix with his.
Thinking of the grand family reunion banquet at the beginning of the year, Wang Xingsheng wanted to strangle him to death on the spot, but this brat actually used his fatal handle to threaten him, saying that if he died, the evidence he had given his mother earlier about the Wang family's illegal salt trafficking would be presented to the government.
Wang Xingsheng's actions further confirmed that he had ulterior motives in recognizing him as his father.
This realization made the head of the Wang family look very scared.
But ever since the government proposed the salt administration reform, the head of the Wang family has started to behave himself. If the evidence of him selling illegal salt is handed over to the government, the Wang family's empire will collapse immediately.
Therefore, the head of the Wang family could only resist the urge to strangle him to death on the spot and put the other person under custody.
But the next day after Keren was detained, Wang Xingsheng escaped.
The one who let him go was none other than the wife of the head of the Wang family, the mistress of the Wang family.
Her reason for letting him go was simple: since he wasn't of the Wang family's bloodline and couldn't be killed, there was no need to waste manpower and resources to keep an eye on him. Not only Wang Xingsheng himself, but also the women from the courtyard he had previously summoned, both men and women, and those who served him, were all sent away.
The head of the Wang family thought that he had a successor, but he didn't expect that he would be plotted against. He was very shocked.
So although he was dissatisfied with his wife's behavior, he did not confront her, but acquiesced to her approach.
But he became more and more aggressive and took in more women. He thought that if he worked harder, he might even be able to have a son.
His wife no longer cared about this.
After all, her three daughters were already grown up. Even if she gave birth to a son, how could a newborn baby compete with her three grown daughters?!
As for Wang Xingsheng, although he had successfully escaped from the Wang family with the help of the Wang family mistress, he knew the Wang family master's character very well. He knew that if he got the chance, he would definitely want to pull out his tendons and drink his blood.
He is afraid!
So, on the day he escaped from the Wang family, he took a boat to Japan with his biological mother who had already prepared for him.
The first person to know the news was Ruan Ruyi, who had been as anxious as an ant on a hot bed these days.
As early as the rumor that he was not a member of the Wang family, she regretted not following her father's arrangements and marrying the man he chose. But she had already broken off the engagement once, and had been intimate with Wang Xingsheng before, so there was no way out.
So no matter how much regret I feel in my heart, I can only endure it and pray silently in my heart that the rumor is not true.
Unfortunately, God did not hear her prayers, and the Wang family member she had worked so hard to get turned out not to be the real Wang family member.
Even if she broke off the engagement with him, she would either be sent to a nun temple to be a nun, or be married off to an old man who couldn't afford a wife. Although Wang Xingsheng was no longer a member of the Wang family, he was still young. Although he was a little confused about matters between men and women, he still had some ability.
Who knew that when she had decided to marry him, he would just run away.
He didn't even think about informing his fiancée and just ran away with his mother.
Ruan Ruyi looked at the empty room, her mind completely confused.
She didn't understand why her good life suddenly changed.
She doesn't know her future, where to go...
When Qin Xue learned that Wang Xingsheng had fled to Japan with his mother, she was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth.
Ever since she knew that the man wanted to use her mother's immortality card to plot against her, she was afraid that she would fall into his trap by accident, and she was nervous every time she went out.
It was only later that her father told her that Liu Zhiyan had already thought of a way to completely solve the problem and told her not to worry, and only then did she feel relieved.
Soon after, rumors spread that Wang Xingsheng was not a member of the Wang family. She knew that it must be Liu Zhiyan who did it.
She originally thought that she did that just to distract Wang Xingsheng from plotting against her in the short term, but she didn't expect that whether it was the follow-up that Wang Xingsheng was really not a son of the Wang family, or that Wang Xingsheng had simply run away, it was all beyond her expectations.
She wondered if this follow-up was Liu Zhiyan's doing, or if he had just stumbled upon it by accident.
Just when she wanted to interrogate Liu Zhiyan, she received a letter from Wang Lai Di.
The letter was handed to her by her personal maid. The content of the letter was simple: "I owe you a favor. I will repay you when I have the chance."
It was so confusing that Qin Xue was completely bewildered. She asked the maid who delivered the letter what their young lady meant.
The head maid told her that their young lady said that if she didn't understand, she could ask her fiancé and she would know the reason.
So, early the next morning, Liu Zhiyan arrived at Qin's house, and was greeted by his fiancée whose eyes were full of curiosity.
Without him asking, the other party explained the whole story in a flash, and then looked at him eagerly with a pair of big eyes like black grapes, waiting for his answer.
Liu Zhiyan didn't keep the secret. "Wang Xingsheng's matter can be said to have been jointly facilitated by the mistress of the Wang family and me. She probably did this to thank me for helping her drive away her strongest competitor."
In fact, he deliberately leaked the information to the other party.
Otherwise, he could easily make the mother and daughter know his true identity.
But he thought that the biggest beneficiaries of getting rid of Wang Xingsheng would be none other than the mistress of the Wang family and her three daughters.
He had nothing to be indebted to them for, but his fiancée might be able to use it.
So, let him deliberately let the other party remember the function on his fiancée.
"So Wang Xingsheng is not the Wang family's fault, but actually the work of you two working together?" Qin Xue looked at Liu Zhiyan with sparkling eyes.
She had met bad-hearted people before in her life, but this was the first time she had met someone who had tried to plot against her as many times as Wang Xingsheng had.
Although she was raised to be simple, she is not stupid.
Others plotted against her, but she didn't have the ability to plot back. She was very happy when someone else plotted against her.
So when she thought that Wang Xingsheng was not a member of the Wang family and that he had fled to Japan, and that this might be the person Liu Zhiyan had plotted against her, her face was filled with excitement.
Liu Zhiyan nodded, "Indeed, some tampering was done."
"So Wang Xingsheng is actually a member of the Wang family, but you guys have tampered with him and it turns out that he is not a member of the Wang family?" Compared to finding out that he is not a member of the Wang family, this kind of being proven not to be a member of the Wang family is obviously more gratifying.
"I don't know if he is really a son of the Wang family." Then Liu Zhiyan told Qin Xue that the so-called blood test to identify relatives, even if the blood of two people in the blood test is mixed together, does not necessarily mean that they are biological father and son.
This was the first time Qin Xue heard that the results of blood tests for kinship identification might not be correct. "So the method used by Song Ci to solve cases in "The Washing Away of Wrongs" might not necessarily be the truth of the matter?" She loved reading storybooks and had read "The Washing Away of Wrongs" for a while.
"right."
She had once thought Song Ci was a so-called incompetent person. If so, what he did was not entirely right. "It turns out that what you read in the storybooks cannot be taken seriously."
Since she couldn't trust the storybook, she had to believe what was actually happening before her eyes. So, Qin Xue once again curiously asked the question in her heart, "So, what did you do to prevent Wang Xingsheng's blood from mixing with that of the Wang family head?"
There are many ways to prevent two people's blood from mixing. Alum water, concentrated salt water, vinegar or lemon juice, etc., are all ways to tamper with the water. You can also tamper with the bowl, such as applying beeswax to the bowl wall, or using a magnetic bowl. If the blood is not drawn at the same time, you can also tamper with the blood, such as refrigerating the blood drawn first, or mixing animal blood into one of the bloods, etc., all of which can affect the test results.
Seeing that his fiancée was quite interested in this matter, Liu Zhiyan explained to her in detail the so-called cheating method of blood test.
"This time they used the alum water cheating method. Wang Xingsheng's test water was tainted with alum water, so regardless of whether he is the Wang family head's biological son or not, his blood cannot be mixed with the Wang family head's."
Anyway, what they wanted was for the head of the Wang family to believe that Wang Xingsheng was not his son. They didn't care whether it was true or not.
"What about their escape to Japan?"
"Those two mother and son are both smart people. They know that even though they have leverage over Patriarch Wang, Patriarch Wang won't do anything to them for now. But one day, he will definitely find a way to retaliate. So the best outcome for them is to leave for Japan."
From this point of view, it is very likely that Wang Xingsheng is not the son of the head of the Wang family.
Otherwise, with that woman's methods, she would definitely not accept such an outcome.
From this point of view, the head of the Wang family should thank them.
Otherwise, the Wang family would really fall into the hands of outsiders.
Of course, the Wang family has nothing to do with him, so it doesn’t matter who gets it into his hands.
If Wang Xingsheng hadn't always been thinking about his fiancée, he wouldn't have brought himself into this trouble.
The person who harbored ill will towards his fiancée was completely dealt with. Liu Zhiyan was very happy. "From now on, when you go out, you don't have to worry about this or that, and you don't have to move your mother's longevity tablet."
Speaking of this, Qin Xue felt like breathing fresh air. "Although I don't really like going out now, not liking to go out is completely different from being afraid of being plotted against when going out. Besides, my mother's immortal remains have been kept in Guanyin Zen Temple for more than ten years. It would be quite troublesome to move them."
"It's nice like this now."
Thinking that this result was caused by the man in front of her, Qin Xue said sincerely, "You are really smart. If this matter was handled by my father, he would probably think about how to kill Wang Xingsheng, and he would never think of such a good idea like you."
"I've just been to more places and seen and heard more."
"So this is what they mean by 'Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles', right?" In the past, Qin Xue could not say such words, but in the past few months, she not only put her heart into learning foreign languages, but also picked up and learned some of the things her teacher taught her before.
"I guess so." After agreeing to her words, Liu Zhiyan realized that he had some good news that he hadn't had time to tell her. "If nothing unexpected happens, my mother, your sister Ye, will come to Yangzhou in the second half of the month."
It is already the beginning of July, and in about ten days it will be the second half of the decade.
In other words, in half a month at most, he would be able to see his long-missed sister Ye.
Qin Xue was so happy when she thought of this, "Really? Really? When did you receive news from Sister Ye?"
Seeing her dancing with joy when she heard her mother was coming, without the restraint that other girls had when hearing they were going to meet their mother-in-law, Liu Zhiyan nodded with satisfaction, "Dad told me about it in the letter."
His mother was leading an diplomatic mission, which was a major national event. The court had been paying close attention to the developments. As an important official in the court, his father had always been well aware of his mother's situation.
However, he had never been able to inquire about it, and his father would not specifically write to him. "It was more like he was using me to tell you this, rather than telling me specifically."
Qin Xue was stunned by Liu Zhiyan's words, "Ah? Why do you say that?"
What did he mean by his father writing him a letter, actually using him as a mouthpiece to tell her that Sister Ye was coming back?!
Didn't his father write to him because there was no marriage between them before?
Seeing the doubt in her eyes, Liu Zhiyan said with certainty, "I never corresponded with my father before."
He has a calm personality and his father is busy.
If he doesn't take the initiative to write to his father, his father will never take the initiative to write to him.
Of course, a very important point is that he is often on the move and cannot be found.
"My mother used to say that every time I left the house, it was like I was lost and I couldn't get in touch with anyone."
If other girls heard what their fiancé said, they might worry that he would disappear again after they got married.
Qin Xue didn't think about it at all. She was more curious about where the man in front of her had been. "Where have you been? What did you do there?"
"I was born in Qiongzhou Prefecture and lived there for many years, occasionally visiting Guangzhou Prefecture. Later, I went to the capital for a few years. After passing the imperial examination, many people wanted to propose marriage to me, but I was too lazy to deal with them, so I ran back to Qiongzhou Prefecture on my own and stayed there for three years. During those three years, I went to Southeast Asia several times with the caravan."
"I've been to the Northeast and seen the crops grown on the black soil there. I've also been to the Yarkand Khanate (Southern Xinjiang) and seen the snow-capped mountains there. I've also been to the Huguang Chengxuanzhengsi (Administrative Office), where there's a famous snack street in Yueyang Prefecture that you might like."
This time when he came to Yangzhou Prefecture, he had originally thought that after the Fang's Dessert Shop here stabilized and the wharf here was completed and opened, he could go out to sea and take a look outside.
He really didn't expect to meet the girl in front of him who made him want to start a family.
However, he is not someone who likes to go out.
I want to go out because I feel life is boring and I want to go out and see new things.
Now that he is with this girl, he feels that every day is fresh. Even if he never goes out again in his life, he will not feel any regrets.
Although Qin Xue loved to play, eat, drink and have fun, her experiences were limited to Yangzhou Prefecture and, at most, Suzhou Prefecture. She knew very little about what was available in other places. She had never heard of many of the places Liu Zhiyan mentioned.
So when she heard that she had been to so many places, Qin Xue couldn't hide the envy in her eyes, "You have been to so many places and tasted the food from so many places. I am so enviable."
"Actually, every time Dad goes out, I want to go with him. But Dad says it's inconvenient for a girl to go out. Except for the time he took me to Suzhou Prefecture, he didn't want me to go anywhere else." Qin Xue couldn't help but snort when she talked about this. "That's why girls are born with more restrictions than you guys. There are many things you can do, but we are not allowed to do."
Thinking of this, Qin Xue couldn't help but think of the Lord Ye whom she admired. "Only Lord Ye dared to do what other women dared not do. Because of her existence, the lives of girls nowadays are much better than they were ten or twenty years ago."
"Dad said that before Lord Ye became famous, although women were granted land, it was all dependent on men. Before marriage, it was under their father's name; after marriage, it was under their husband's name. If the husband died without children, the woman could take charge of the deceased husband's land, and if she remarried, the land would be returned to her husband's clan. In short, although women owned land, it was not actually recorded in their own name."
"Unlike now, all land belonging to women can be registered in their own names."
"This is all what Lord Ye fought for for us women."
"The benefits Lady Ye has brought to women go beyond this. Because she has been the first to blaze a trail that others dare not tread, many of her admirers have broken free from their former cages. More and more women understand that they must take control of their own lives."
"Let's not talk about those far away, let's just talk about my favorite sister Jingshuang."
"She has admired Lord Ye for a long time, so she found her own goal very early and worked hard for it. Now she is a business student at the Yangzhou Prefecture Academy. She said that she has her own abilities, and even if life is not easy after marrying into her husband's family, she can still stand on her own feet."
Every time he talked about his biological mother, his fiancée would talk endlessly without even taking a breath.
It can be seen that he really, truly admires and respects his own mother.
He really wanted to know what expression the girl would have when his mother's identity was revealed.
"If you hadn't said it yourself, that you used to be a person who only knew how to eat, drink and have fun, I wouldn't believe it at all." Judging from the words she just said, they were not the words of a person who only knew how to eat, drink and have fun.
"That was all due to Lord Ye's influence." Qin Xue couldn't help but recall the reason for her change. "When I heard the court was going to reform the salt administration, I was quite worried. Now that I think about it, if it weren't for the court's proposal and Ruan Ruyi's inspiration, I might still be the same as before, doing nothing but eating, drinking and having fun every day."
"Maybe I wouldn't have met Sister Ye, and then met you, and even got engaged to you."
When she thought about how Ruan Ruyi had hurt her feelings, it was because his father had arranged a marriage for her that she didn't like.
Qin Xue suddenly had a sense of fate that many things were arranged freely by fate.
Thinking of this, she suddenly stopped being angry at Ruan Ruyi and Wang Xingsheng for plotting against her. "Now that Wang Xingsheng has run away, I wonder what she's going to do next?"
"You reap what you sow. No matter what happens to her in the future, it's all her own fault and has nothing to do with anyone else." If Ruan Ruyi had firmly refused the second time Wang Xingsheng asked her to plot against the girl in front of her, Liu Zhiyan might have said something good about her, but she didn't.
"I just happened to think of her and expressed my feelings a little bit." She is not a pushover and would not repay evil with kindness.
Just like her fiancé said, if she hadn't harbored malicious intentions towards him, she would have successfully married the man her father had arranged for her, and wouldn't have ended up like this today.
So, she quickly put the irrelevant people out of her mind, and then thought about the agreement she had with Sister Ye, "Next, I have to study harder, so that when Sister Ye comes back, I can give her a big surprise."
"Even if you don't start learning now, it will be enough to give her a big surprise."
As the time spent studying foreign languages increased, the girl mastered the learning skills more and more, and her learning speed became faster and faster every day.
I remember when he first started learning these, she finished learning what took him half a year in just three months.
Now, in just four months, he has learned what he learned in ten months.
At this learning rate, she would be able to communicate fluently in those closely related foreign languages in less than a year.
If nothing unexpected happens, his mother will definitely take her with her when she goes on another diplomatic mission.
He is not his father and does not have such a strong career ambition. He just wants to be with the woman he loves.
He would take the imperial examination, but he wanted to serve in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through formal imperial examination means.
This way, when his mother wants to take her on a diplomatic mission, he can follow her.
Thinking of this, Liu Zhiyan felt it necessary to first inquire about the girl's thoughts on being sent abroad as an envoy. "Given your talent in foreign languages, the court is very likely to specially recruit you to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. You may then be required to go on a diplomatic mission abroad. Would you be willing?"
"When we first met, Sister Ye said I was suited to a career in diplomacy. Actually, I had no idea what diplomacy was, and even now, I still don't. But I was very willing to learn foreign languages because it allowed me to read books written by foreigners and learn about a world completely unfamiliar to me."
"I feel like my thinking has been greatly impacted. Although I can't explain the significance of this impact right now, I feel like it has taught me to look at things from more perspectives. Because I grew up in such a monotonous environment, I actually lack the ability to see things from multiple angles. So, putting aside other aspects, for this reason alone, I think it's very good."
Liu Zhiyan's growing environment is not single, but he deliberately avoids many things. His growth trajectory seems colorful, but in fact it is also alternative and single - he only follows his own heart and ignores the opinions of others.
But ever since he wanted to marry Qin Xue, he felt that he should no longer be so willful.
So, he decided to take the imperial examination and become an official. "I used to be just like you, thinking that as long as I was happy, that was all I needed. Now I'm almost the same as you, thinking that people should be more diverse."
Qin Xue would never have understood what Liu Zhiyan meant before, but now she understood. "You mean to say that although we are in different environments, we still have similarities, right?"
"That's why I'm unconsciously attracted to you." He originally thought that he liked her vitality, but now it seems that there are many factors involved.
Even though she was used to hearing his straightforward words, Qin Xue still blushed every time she heard them, and this time was no exception.
But she didn't respond to him. Instead, she answered his previous question, "Put what you've learned into practice. As long as Sister Ye thinks I'm capable, I'll definitely go."
So, in order to give Sister Ye, my future mother-in-law, a big surprise when she comes to Yangzhou Prefecture again in late July.
From that day on, Qin Xue worked harder to learn foreign languages every day.
As her studies progressed and she made rational use of the books that Ye Qinghan had brought with her, her Latin and Italian improved at an increasingly rapid pace.
I used to be able to barely understand one page of The Decameron a day, but now I can read two pages, or even four or five pages.
Whether it is vocabulary, grammar or spoken English, I am getting better day by day.
Seeing how hard she worked, Liu Zhiyan, who was about to enter the examination room, did not dare to slack off.
Although I couldn't study hard, I still adopted the hard-working mode of "getting up earlier than the chickens and sleeping later than the dogs".
Fang, who had been living in Yangzhou Prefecture, saw how hard he studied and secretly thought that their Liu family might be able to produce another top scholar.
Her idea was not groundless. After all, her little grandson had easily defeated the scholar when he was still a child.
Although he had not taken the imperial examinations in recent years, he had never stopped learning and had no shortage of guidance from famous teachers.
The places he has traveled over the years are so vast that the phrase "traveled thousands of miles" cannot even begin to describe the distance he has traveled.
It is said that reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles.
With my grandson's qualifications, this journey will definitely not be in vain.
Therefore, Fang felt that with her grandson's hard work, it was entirely possible for him to become the top scorer in the imperial examination.
The more Fang noticed the changes in his grandson, the more grateful he was to Qin Xue, the little girl who had influenced him.
Her grandson was excellent, but he was too indifferent, always looking like he had no desires or ambitions. People always said he was as happy as a god, which made her afraid that this brat would really pursue becoming a god.
He is no longer like he is now. He looks forward to meeting his young fiancée every day, and thinks about studying hard every day so that he can become a support for his wife and children in the future. He is like a qualified fiancé, and has completely lost his previous image of being out of touch with the world.
This realization made Fang realize deeply that she no longer had to worry about this brat becoming a monk one day.
She is a very down-to-earth old woman. To express gratitude to someone, she would try her best to be nice to that person.
Knowing that Qin Xue was also working hard, she did not bother her. However, she would prepare enough of Qin Xue's favorite desserts every day. In addition, if there was something delicious at home, she would never forget Qin Xue.
In addition, whenever he saw some interesting little things when he went out, he would ask someone to bring one back for Qin Xue.
She has always been thinking about Qin Xue, and Qin Xue's thoughts about her are no less.
Qin Xue rarely goes out now, but the cook in the Qin family is very creative. Every time she makes something new, she will ask Liu Zhiyan to bring a portion to Fang.
The two grandparents and grandchildren were having a lot of fun playing with each other.
This made Liu Zhiyan, the middleman, happy but also jealous.
He was happy that Qin Xue got along so well with the old grandmother, but he was also jealous that he, the person involved, didn't seem to be as popular with his fiancée as the people around him. After all, he was about to go north to the capital, and for the time being, he didn't want to dwell on such a trivial matter of jealousy.
Although he was born in Qiongzhou Prefecture, his household registration was changed to Beijing after his parents returned to Beijing.
In other words, he had to return to Beijing to take the autumn examination.
The autumn examination will start on the ninth day of the eighth month. It will take at least twenty days to travel from Yangzhou City to the capital. To be on the safe side, he plans to set out north on the tenth day of the seventh month.
The day soon arrived at the ninth day of the seventh month, the day before his departure.
He actually wanted to take Qin Xue with him to the north, but Qin Xue said she wanted to wait for his mother in Yangzhou.
He persuaded her that if she went north with him, she would still be able to see his mother in the capital.
Qin Xue said that the meeting place she and Sister Ye had agreed to meet was in Yangzhou Prefecture, and she didn't want to break the appointment.
In fact, she had some concerns in her heart.
Although her marriage to Liu Zhiyan was already decided, they hadn't gotten married yet. It would be inappropriate for her to follow him to the capital. Although she didn't care much about what others thought of her, she would be happy to hear less gossip. No one wanted to hear too much.
Of course, even if she was willing, her father Qin Laicai would never agree.
After all, it concerns my daughter's reputation.
Liu Zhiyan was not surprised by the father and daughter's rejection, but even though he had already predicted this in his heart, he still couldn't help feeling disappointed when he was actually rejected.
Thinking that he would no longer be able to spend every day with his young fiancée, Liu Zhiyan looked at her pitifully, "What should I do? I miss you already before I even leave."
During this period, the two of them were together every day. For the first time, he discovered that being with the person he loved, even if they were doing their own things and ignoring each other, could make him feel wonderful.
To be honest, if various conditions had not allowed it, he would have wanted to get married a long time ago.
Because he is not used to being alone when he goes home every night.
He was not used to being alone for a whole night, and he was really afraid that he would become lovesick if he couldn't see the girl for more than a month or even two months.
Qin Xue was also reluctant in her heart, but she still had her sanity, so she responded softly, "I can't bear to be separated from you either."
After a few months of getting along, she found that this man was better than she had imagined.
He always surprises her with small details that she doesn't notice.
During the time she spent with him, she understood clearly what her father meant when he said that being older, one can better understand how to care for others.
For example, he would remember the exact date of her menstrual period every month, and knew to control her in advance, not allowing her to eat cold food in the first few days of her period, and would instruct the cook to make her sweet soup to nourish her qi and blood.
You know, everyone in the world regards a woman's happy life as a bad omen, but he not only does not shy away from it, he also arranges everything for her properly.
She remembered that the first time he did this, she was so shocked that her eyes widened and her mouth opened wide.
He looked completely frightened.
She remembered that this is what Liu Zhiyan said to her at that time.
He said: A woman's menstrual period, like the waxing and waning of the moon and the changing of seasons, is a natural phenomenon and has nothing to do with bad luck.
When Qin Xue heard his words, she felt that it was worth her life to meet such a caring man.
Thinking of this, Qin Xue felt even more reluctant to see him go. "Without you, no one can stop me from eating raw and cold food for a few days. I'm sure I'll feel uncomfortable."
In the hot summer, she wishes she could eat icebergs every day.
With Liu Zhiyan around, he always has various ways to make her willingly abstain from certain foods.
When he was not around, the maids and nannies had no way of keeping her mouth shut.
After spending so much time together, Liu Zhiyan naturally knew that no one, whether the nanny or the maids, could withstand his young fiancée's coquettishness. "I've made two preparations in advance. Su Shan will arrange the specifics for me when the time comes. I'll ask her about the situation when I get back. If you do as I say, I'll give you a big reward."
"When did you arrange it? How come I didn't know about it?" Qin Xue asked, holding her chin.
"Early in the morning while you are still studying." In the past, the girl read for half an hour every morning, but after hearing that her mother would come to Yangzhou again in the second half of the month, she only read for one hour a day.
"Can I ask in advance what the arrangements are?"
Liu Zhiyan shook his head and refused, "If I learn about it in advance, it won't work when the time comes."
"Be good and listen, okay?"
His voice, which was already quite magnetic, was deliberately lowered by him. Hearing it in the ears, it made people feel itchy in their hearts and their cheeks flushed. "I know, I know. I won't ask about Sushan."
"Be good, I'll give you a pat on the head as a reward." After saying that, he reached out and rubbed her black hair which was simply tied up.
Just because he likes to reward herself with pats on the head, Qin Xue has developed the habit of not wearing jewelry at home.
As he stroked her black hair, Qin Xue began to give him earnest instructions, "The journey north will take nearly twenty days. As for food and lodging, remember to take care of everything. You should know that the last thing our family lacks is money. Don't skimp on anything that can be solved with money."
Liu Zhiyan has never lacked money since he was a child, but he is not a spendthrift who spends money without restraint.
In addition, he himself has a relatively low desire for material things.
Over the years, when he was away from home, he didn't really care much about food and drink.
The arrogant advice from his young fiancée made him feel like he was being kept by a rich woman.
Thinking about what Qin's father had told him before, the Qin family's current wealth, and the girl in front of him, was definitely a rich woman.
"With the servants arranged by my father-in-law, I don't have to do these things myself." Qin's father had asked him before if he needed his help in arranging the servants. Liu Zhiyan didn't hesitate and asked Qin's father to arrange not only the servants but also the book boy around him.
In fact, he can handle everything by himself without these.
But he knew that asking Qin's father for these arrangements would make him more confident in himself, so he asked for a servant and a book boy.
Thinking of the servant and book boy her father had carefully selected for him, Qin Xue suddenly felt that it would be better to instruct those two people instead of Liu Zhiyan. "Then I'll find them later."
"My father-in-law must have made all the arrangements. It would be better for you to spend the time you wasted on them with me."
"..." She had never seen such a clingy man, but she really liked the feeling of being clingy to him. "I heard there's a list of candidates for son-in-law. You must remember that you have a fiancée, so don't let a girl from the capital take you away to be a son-in-law. Otherwise, I will definitely transform into a demon and make you restless for the rest of your life, understand?!"
Thinking of this possibility, Qin Xue's subsequent words inevitably became a bit eerie.
It sounds a bit creepy.
But Liu Zhiyan not only didn't find it scary, he even felt happy.
He liked this little girl and was very possessive of her.
In his opinion, only if you care about someone enough will you want to monopolize them.
So, he cooperated and said, "When the results are announced, I will ask the embroiderer to embroider 'already married' on my left hand and 'twenty-five' on my right hand, so that everyone knows that I am an older man with a family."
Qin Xue thought about the scene Liu Zhiyan described and couldn't help but chuckle. "This idea sounds good, but when the results are announced, there will definitely be a lot of people. If you embroider on your arm, others may not be able to see it. If you embroider on your hat, the hat is high, and you are so tall, everyone will definitely see it."
"I heard that green is the most eye-catching color. Remember to have someone embroider you with green thread."
"..." Doesn't that make him a cuckold? ! !
This is indeed conspicuous enough to make people afraid to approach.
Thinking of this, Liu Zhiyan gave Qin Xue a big thumbs up and said, "High, really high."
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