Chapter 704 This is the fate

Zou Wanshi went to the matchmaker's place and used kind words to get rid of her, saying that something bad had just happened at home, her son had been nearly kidnapped and had just been found, and now her third daughter was worried about her younger brother and was not in the mood to discuss marriage, so she had to wait for a few days.

The matchmaker thought the woman was deliberately using Qiao to elevate herself. She was not uncommon to see this kind of trick, so she smiled in agreement: "Of course, of course. Miss Zou San is kind to my younger brother. I think she will be able to treat the child left by the previous lady well after marrying into the Ge family. I didn't think it through. I will come again in a few days to propose to Miss Zou San on behalf of Lord Ge."

Seeing the matchmaker being so considerate, Zou Wanshi was very satisfied. She hardened her heart and stuffed a piece of silver into the matchmaker's pocket: "It's not like you've made a wasted trip. Take this little silver and have some tea."

When the matchmaker felt the change in her palm, she could hardly hold back the smile on her face.

This silver... is too "fragile"!

Why not just give me the copper plate?

You can only use it to drink tea!

In fact, it was not Zou Wanshi's fault for being stingy. She had just gritted her teeth and bought a nice maid for her son today, and now she was short of money.

After sending away the matchmaker who was smiling but not smiling, Zou Wanshi became a little worried about her son.

Ever since he brought Yan Shou back, his son dragged Yan Shou into the yard and locked the door.

It hasn't come out yet.

Zou Wan secretly cursed in her heart, that little devil!

Zou Wan thought about it and knocked on her son's door. She tried her best to ignore the sounds of men and women having sex in the room and reminded him with all her embarrassment: "Minglei, you are still young, don't be too greedy..."

Zou Minglei was having a good time, but his mother's disturbance made him feel very disappointed.

He yelled impatiently: "Mom, don't bother me!"

Zou Wanshi uttered an "ah" and looked very worried, so she had to leave.

Zou Minglei was a young man who had just started having sex. He tossed and turned all night long, and the noise died down in the morning.

This resulted in Zou Wanshi, who was worried about Zou Minglei all night, not being able to sleep well at all.

The next morning, Zou Pingping got up and went to Duke Xin's Mansion with great enthusiasm.

Although she said yesterday that she had washed the young master's clothes to pieces, Zou Pingping still reverently dried them in a charcoal basin. Fearing that they would be stained with charcoal smell, she also added a lot of scented powder.

Zou Pingping held the washed clothes and sniffed them hard. She thought they smelled sweet. She believed that the young master would be able to see her true feelings.

However, Zou Pingping still remembered that Zou Wan asked her to go and call her to go to the Xinguo Mansion. Zou Pingping did go to call her, but Zou Wan looked at her with a pair of panda eyes and coughed: "If you go in the morning, the young master will be on duty. It would be better to go in the afternoon when the young master returns home. Maybe you can still see him..."

Zou Pingping believed it and went back with the clothes in her arms.

Zou Wanshi, with her panda eyes, endured the sleepiness and asked someone to call Yan Shou over.

Yan Shou looked much more timid than she was yesterday, and her posture was very strange when she walked in.

The girl's face looked much more tired, her eyes were red, and there were many bruises on her neck and hands.

One glance tells you what Yan Shou went through last night.

Zou Wan was furious when she saw this and started to scold: "You little bitch! I bought you back to teach you about things! I didn't let you seduce me and have fun! You have to persuade the young master to be moderate, understand!"

Yan Shou opened her mouth and her voice became hoarse: "But, but I said it, but the young master didn't listen..."

When Zou Wanshi heard Yan Shou's voice, she became even more annoyed: "If you don't listen, won't you think of a way? I tell you! If you seduce the young master and mess around, and hurt yourself, I will sell you to the kiln! Don't you love to seduce men? I'll let you seduce as much as you want!"

Yan Shou was trembling all over and shedding tears.

Last night's experience was like a nightmare to her.

Is that what she wants?

She also didn't expect that the handsome young master would look so... so scary in bed!

Even now, every time she took a step, she felt a tearing pain down there.

Yan Shouhun was trembling slightly, feeling extremely helpless.

Seeing Yan Shou trembling, Zou Wanshi thought that Yan Shou had heard her words, so she nodded with satisfaction and said kindly, "Okay, go back and think about what I said! Serve the young master well, and don't think about doing anything shameful! When the young master gets married, you can have a baby!"

Yan Shou lowered her head and nodded, then left slowly in a strange posture.

In the afternoon, Zou Wanshi took a nap and woke up refreshed. She paid attention to Zou Minglei for a while, then went to Zou Pingping's room and called her, "Let's go to the Xin Guogong Mansion."

She thought that the family was really short of money, and as a mother, it was not too much for her to ask her own daughter for a few hundred taels to help her through the difficult times!

Zou Pingping quickly put on makeup again, took out her best set of jewelry and put it on her head, then she carried Yu Chongjie's clothes and walked out of the Zou Mansion.

The old man who was guarding the gate of the Zou Mansion glanced at Zou Pingping and her daughter, who were dressed gorgeously, and said nothing.

The mother and daughter walked all the way to the Xin Guogong Mansion, and Zou Pingping shyly asked the Xin Guogong Mansion's doorman: "Is the eldest master in the mansion?"

The doorman had a strange look on his face and glanced at Zou Wanshi who was behind Zou Pingping.

He still remembers this!

Last time, she came to the mansion without a visiting card, and she insisted on seeing their eldest daughter, so she asked him to pass on the message. In the end, it was the eldest young master who brought this woman in!

Now, this woman is coming to see their eldest master again? !

Huh!

No matter what the concierge thought, he smiled and said, "My dear lady, our young master hasn't left yet! You are here to see our young master. Do you have a message?"

Zou Pingping blushed.

She is from a humble family, so how could she use a post like that?

"Although there is no invitation, I have made an appointment with your eldest master..." Zou Pingping said with a red face, "Yesterday I accidentally soiled his clothes and wanted to help him wash them. He told me to come to the gatehouse when the time comes... and ask him to deliver his clothes."

Zou Pingping made a slight change to Yu Chongjie's words.

At that time, Yu Chongjie asked her to deliver the clothes to the concierge, and Zou Pingping only selectively remembered that Yu Chongjie asked her to find the concierge.

Next to it?

The rest is not important.

The doorman's eyes widened and he couldn't help but look Zou Pingping up and down in front of him.

Although this girl is pretty, compared with those young ladies who want to marry the eldest son of their family, it seems...she is nothing, right?

Has their eldest master gone mad?

Could it be that the girl in front of me is lying?

The concierge thought about it over and over again but couldn't figure it out.

After all, the woman behind this girl was taken to the eldest lady's courtyard by their eldest master himself and has not been driven out yet!

What does this prove? It proves that this woman does have a connection with your family!

In other words, maybe it's their eldest daughter who is pulling the strings?

The doorman was startled, but he did not dare to neglect it. He nodded and said, "Since our young master and the young lady have made an appointment in advance, then of course there is no need for a card... But since the young master has not given us any instructions, we, as servants, dare not act rashly. Otherwise, you two go back and rest for a while, and come back after our young master returns home?"

Zou Pingping couldn't help but ask, "Then, when will your eldest master return home?"

The concierge said, "That's hard to say..."

Zou Wanshi's eyes rolled and she suddenly said, "The eldest young master is not at home, but your eldest young lady must be at home, right?"

The concierge hesitated: "Yes, it is, but..."

Zou Wan raised her chin slightly: "Why, when you came to stop me last time, have you forgotten how your eldest master sent me in? I've already said, I'm not a bad person! I really know your eldest lady!"

The concierge wiped his sweat and said, "That's what I said, but the rules can't be broken..."

He thought of a compromise: "Madam, how about this, you and this young lady wait for a while, I will go and report to the eldest young lady first, do you think this is okay?"

Zou Wanshi, however, felt that since she was the mother of the eldest daughter of Duke Xin's mansion, why should this little doorman make her wait?!

Zou Wan said angrily: "You also know that I am acquainted with your eldest lady, but you still blocked me outside. Do you look down on me?! Huh?!"

As she said this, Zou Wanshi wanted to push the doorman.

The doorman knew that he couldn't afford to offend the woman in front of him, but he was also afraid of being blamed by his superiors, which would be a dilemma.

Finally, as they were pushing and shoving, a maid came in with a very arrogant look and scolded the gatekeeper: "Just now, our steward went out to buy things and came back. He saw you guys quarreling outside the mansion. It's very outrageous! Our old lady specially asked me to come and ask what happened?"

The concierge naturally recognized the maid in front of him, knowing that she was the capable maid in the old lady's courtyard. She apologized with a face full of embarrassment: "Oh, oh, sister Bailing, it's true. This lady and this young lady want to see the eldest young master, but the eldest young master is not here. And there is no invitation, so I can't let them in privately... Look, they said they want to see the eldest young lady, but they don't allow me to report first, and asked them to wait a moment. It's also very difficult for me..."

Bailing looked Zou Wanshi and Zou Pingping up and down.

Zou Pingping suddenly felt a little inferior.

There was no other reason. It was simply that the maidservant in front of her, named Bailing, was not only beautiful, but her clothes were much prettier than hers, not to mention her overall elegance. If she went out, even if people told her that she was the daughter of some wealthy family, no one would doubt it.

Zou Wanshi hurriedly said, "Miss, don't listen to the nonsense of this concierge. He saw with his own eyes that it was the eldest young master who sent me in to look for the eldest young lady last time, which has proved that I am indeed acquainted with the eldest young lady and the others. He is deliberately making things difficult for me this time, which is really outrageous! What do you think, yes or no?"

Bai Ling smiled and said, "That does make some sense. I see that Madam is well-dressed, why don't you come with me into the mansion first and talk to our old lady to relieve her boredom? When the young master returns home later, you can go with this young lady to look for him."

When a maid like Bailing praised Zou Wanshi's respectability, Zou Wanshi felt her back straightened a lot.

Zou Wanshi smiled and said, "Okay, okay, I'll trouble you to lead the way."

It was Zou Pingping's first time entering the Duke of Xin's Mansion. At first, she was so nervous that her legs were shaking a little.

But after walking for a while, Zou Pingping forgot about her nervousness. She was so shocked by the wealth of the Xin Guo Mansion that she was speechless.

Zou Wan glanced at Zou Pingping, who was so shocked that she was about to shake her hands and feet, and snorted, thinking that her daughter was petty and not presentable, and was no better than Mingzhu, her younger sister!

But she had completely forgotten that when she first entered the Duke Xin's Mansion, she looked like an inexperienced person.

Bailing saw it all, but pretended not to see anything. She smiled and led Zou Wan into the old lady's yard.

The old lady of Duke Xin was sitting in the hall, with Nanny Qingluan standing beside her.

Zou Wanshi and Zou Pingping entered the house. Zou Wanshi was a little nervous and didn't dare to look up at the old lady of Duke Xin.

But perhaps the sandalwood fragrance in the room eased Zou Wan's nervousness a little. She mustered up her courage and greeted the old lady of Duke Xin: "Hello, old lady. I am Zou Wan, nice to meet you."

Zou Pingping also followed suit and bowed without saying anything.

Neither of them dared to look up.

Naturally, he didn't notice the gloomy expression on the old lady's face.

The old lady of Duke Xin was not in good health before, so she had to recuperate for a long time. When she recovered, Duke Xin told her what he knew about the Zou family.

This would also prevent the old lady of Duke Xin from suddenly knowing the truth and fainting from anger.

Therefore, at this moment, when the old lady of Duke Xin looked at Zou Wanshi, there was a hint of murderous intent in her eyes.

But the old lady of Duke Xin did not make any alarm.

She just said calmly: "Madam Zou, right? What do you want to see Chongjie about?"

Zou Wanshi quickly repeated what Zou Pingping had said before.

Not until this moment when the old lady of Duke Xin spoke did Zou Wanshi dare to secretly look up at this powerful old woman with a legendary experience.

The old lady of Duke Xin remained calm and glanced at Zou Pingping again: "Oh? Little girl, come up and let me see you."

Zou Pingping was so nervous that she had to hold her hands and feet together when walking!

Her mind is full of thoughts. Is this considered a date?

If the old lady of Duke Xin also likes her, would she directly ask her to get together with the young master?

Zou Pingping's mind was full of random thoughts, and as she walked forward, she almost fell in front of the old lady of Duke Xin.

She forced a smile and looked up at the old lady of Duke Xin: "Old lady..."

The old lady of Duke Xin looked at her without any emotion, nodded, and asked Nanny Qingluan to give her a silver coin as a meeting gift.

Zou Pingping was overjoyed, thinking that the old lady of Duke Xin really liked her!

Little did people know that when the old lady of Duke Xin saw the children of other people in the mansion, she would give them silver coins as a reward.

"Come to think of it..." The old lady of Duke Xin's cloudy eyes flashed with a gleam of light, "Not only did you meet Chongjie by chance, but you also met Mingzhu? Isn't it too coincidental?"

Zou Wan stuttered, "...Yes, I just happened to meet her on the street. The young lady is kind-hearted, and I got to know her..."

Zou Pingping thought that the old lady of Duke Xin was very satisfied with her. Although she was still a little stiff, she dared to speak with courage: "Perhaps, this is fate."

The old lady of Duke Xin's eyes were as dark as water.