Chapter 045 Baby, why are you here?

Ruan Qinghuan, with weak legs, leaned on He An's shoulder. The feeling of being outside was very exciting and scary, but He An didn't care about anything and seemed to want to rub her into his body.

After a simple wash, Ruan Qinghuan felt tired and sleepy, but he had not forgotten what happened just now: "Does this Lord Qi want to drag you down with him?"

"He wanted to save his life and thought I would be cautious if he got involved with me."

"Can you do that?"

"What did the lady say?"

Ruan Qinghuan: “…”

He An was not someone who could easily guess, but Ruan Qinghuan felt that he would not do so. He shook the bag against his chest and said, "What if he wants to go all out and use some tricks?"

If matters between men and women get out of hand, Qi Siwei is, after all, the daughter of the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. If she really gets involved in an affair, Qingzhou will have to suffer the consequences even if he doesn't want to.

"Don't worry, I made arrangements before I left. Qing Zhou will be fine."

Ruan Qinghuan: "Your Excellency has long known that Qi Yuanchang has a plan?"

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In Pinming Building, Ruan Qingzhou looked unhappy, but he had to come because of his mother.

The thought of such things was disgusting enough, not to mention that she had no interest in those pretentious and hypocritical young ladies from official families.

Pinming Building originally belonged to the Ruan family, and was later given to Qinghuan as a dowry. Zhou Yunzhi was sitting in a private room next door, drinking tea quietly. The door opened, and Ruan Chengfu walked in with a smile on his face.

Zhou Yunzhi's expression immediately turned colder.

Ruan Chengfu sent Mrs. Chen away, sat down at the table, picked up the teapot and poured some tea for Zhou Yunzhi.

"When I first arrived, I saw the Qi Mansion's carriage downstairs. I guess it's going upstairs now."

Although Zhou Yunzhi didn't want to pay attention to him, she still asked because it concerned her son: "Although Miss Qi is very talented, it is said that she has high standards. Why would she be willing to marry into a merchant family like ours?"

There are so many officials and noblemen in the capital. With her family background, she should have better choices.

"Our Qingzhou is a handsome man, which girl wouldn't be attracted to him? Besides, our Ruan family is a wealthy family, except for the fact that no one in the family is an official. If she really marries him, she won't suffer at all."

While talking, he wanted to hold Zhou Yunzhi's hand, but she dodged him. She winked at Ruan Chengfu angrily, indicating that his son was next door.

The two private rooms were separated by a partition, and faint voices could be heard.

Ruan Chengfu was a little depressed. Ever since that night, the room in Cuijingxuan was locked at night. This lasted for several days. No matter how he tried to please her, his wife just refused to open the door.

There was finally silence in the next room.

Qi Siwei entered the guest room accompanied by her maid and the matchmaker. She had a look of disgust on her face at first, but after seeing the handsome Ruan Qingzhou, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes.

I heard from my father earlier that he wanted her to marry into the Ruan family. Qi Siwei was not willing to do so at all, as she thought that a man from a merchant family could not achieve anything.

Unexpectedly, Ruan Qinghuan's younger brother looks handsome and has a certain temperament.

After they sat down, the matchmaker introduced the two people to each other and then pulled the maid out of the door so that they could talk on their own.

After waiting for a long time, no one was willing to speak first.

Qi Siwei was immediately a little angry. Just as she was about to ask a question, Ruan Qingzhou interrupted her: "Girl, order whatever you want. Today is my treat."

This sounded quite pleasing to the ear. Qi Siwei looked arrogant and said, "No need. I am not used to eating in a restaurant with so many people coming and going. I am worried that they will not wash the dishes cleanly."

"Well, in that case, I'd like to thank you, young lady, for saving me a meal. Bye." After Ruan Qingzhou said this, he stood up and was about to leave.

Qi Siwei was confused: "Hey, what do you mean?"

"It's meaningless," Ruan Qingzhou said innocently, "You don't want to eat, why would I stay if you don't want to eat?"

"you……"

The matchmaker saw that things were not going well, so she hurried in to smooth things over: "Don't worry, Mr. Ruan. Now that you are here, please sit for a while. Miss Qi is outspoken but kind-hearted. Please don't misunderstand me."

The matchmaker looked at Qi Siwei in embarrassment. She took the job, but before Lord Qi left, she had to make sure it was done.

If the conversation doesn't go well, you have to think of some special means.

Qi Siwei rolled his eyes at the matchmaker, snorted coldly and looked out the window.

While the waiter was serving tea, the matchmaker opened a paper bag she had prepared in advance and shook it into the teapot. As long as today's matter was done, she would be able to hand over her job smoothly and get a large sum of money.

After pouring a cup for each of them, Qi Siwei took a sip, put down the cup and said to Ruan Qingzhou: "Sir, there is no need to put on airs in front of me. To put it bluntly, our marriage is no different from an arranged marriage..."

"Wait, wait." Ruan Qingzhou interrupted her: "Who wants to marry you?"

After hearing these words, Qi Siwei was speechless.

What is he talking about?

It was as if she was overtaking him.

Ruan Qingzhou picked up the teacup and was about to drink when he heard a familiar voice coming from the corridor, and the tea that was about to reach his mouth stopped.

"Miss, are we really not going back to the Prime Minister's Residence for lunch?"

"Of course. Didn't that bad guy named Ruan say that as long as you mention his name, you can come to Pinming Restaurant and eat whatever you want? I'm going to order a table of the best today and bankrupt him."

The voice coming from the corridor sounded very familiar, and the most important thing was the sentence "the bad guy named Ruan"?

He put the teacup on the table with a "bang", spilling some water on it, Ruan Qingzhou looked unhappy.

Qi Siwei was frightened by his behavior, but seeing that he looked unhappy, she kept silent.

Ruan Qingzhou has always had good hearing. The voice belonged to Wei Mingxi, who lived in the prime minister's residence. Thinking of what happened that day, Ruan Qingzhou gritted his teeth.

It was he who rescued that woman Wei Mingxi from shore that day in the prime minister's residence. Not only did she not show any gratitude, she even broke in when he was changing clothes and forced him to apologize.

Otherwise she would yell and say that he had forced her into the room and was planning something bad to her.

If it were normal times, Ruan Qingzhou would not be threatened, but that was in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and he couldn't help but consider his sister. He was not afraid of such scary things as people's gossip, but his sister was not.

What's more, my parents are here too, and if I make a big fuss, it will only make my mother upset.

In order to keep things peaceful, I had no choice but to compromise.

I really didn't expect that we would meet again today.

Wei Mingxi was thinking about how to take revenge on Ruan Qingzhou. The more he thought about it, the happier he felt. Now that his cousin and that woman Ruan Qinghuan were gone, Wei Mingxi was in a bad mood and wanted to go to Lucheng, but his parents disagreed in their letters.

But she didn't want to go home, so she planned to wait for her cousin to come back at the prime minister's residence.

But now she had lost hope and her life was boring, so she took her maid to stroll on the street. By chance, she came to Pinminglou and remembered the promise made by the boy named Ruan a few days ago. She didn't expect that it would work when she mentioned it to the boss when she entered the door.

She would eat the good and expensive food, and if she couldn't finish it, she would pack it up and share it with the beggars.

"Baby, why are you here?"

Wei Mingxi passed by a door and suddenly heard these words. Although it had nothing to do with her, she couldn't help but get goosebumps all over her body.

But then, when she saw the figure flying in front of her, she just stood there in a daze.

Then his shoulders sank, and he repeated in his ear: "Baby, do you miss me?"

Wei Mingxi: “…”