Peony carried the food box and came to the Silk and Bamboo Pavilion.

Zhemei had nothing to do today. There were no students or customers in the hall. She was arranging her hair in front of the mirror.

Peony saw her smiling face and stepped forward to insert the hairpin for her.

"You are dressed up so attractively. Sister Zhemei, are you going out for fun today?"

"Sima Yuan said he would take me to a banquet in the evening. He is hosting the newly appointed magistrate of Jingzhou at the Zhouzhi County House."

Mudan looked stern, she held Zhemei's shoulders: "Good girl, I have to tell you something truthfully, you must be mentally prepared."

Seeing that Mudan was uncharacteristically serious, Zhemei asked, "Sister, tell me."

"The Turtle Gong of Wazi told me that Sima Yuan will sacrifice you to surrender to Zhizhou."

Zhemei was startled and her face turned pale: "Sister, don't try to trick me!"

"I didn't believe it at first. I even asked the other girls in Wazi this morning. It's absolutely true! Sima Yuan is tired of you. He wants to use you to pave the way for his career. This is all his drunkenness and his A few dandy friends said it."

With trembling hands, Zhe Mei took off the plum blossom hairpin on her head and placed it in front of the bronze mirror.

"Sister Mudan, did Mother Chun also let you attend the banquet?"

Mudan nodded: "Sister, Mother Chun asked me to dance at the banquet, and she also wants to give me to Zhizhou. Sister, since you have been a good person, don't make the same mistakes again."

"Sister, don't worry, I won't be attending today's banquet."

While the two were talking, Sima Yuan walked into the Silk and Bamboo Pavilion to pick up Zhe Mei.

Peony then left first: "Sister, I'm leaving first."

Sima Yuan picked up the hairpin and wanted to insert it for Zhemei, but she waved her hand and refused.

"Master Sima, I'm going to the banquet today, do you have anything to say to me?"

Sima Yuan was startled, then he coaxed gently: "Didn't I tell you that you should accompany me to attend the banquet at the Zhouzhi County Mansion. The Zhizhou is also here, so you can't be late."

Zhemei was a little disappointed: "Aren't you telling the truth? You are going to get me drunk tonight and take the opportunity to dedicate it to Zhizhou and pave the way for your official career."

Sima Yuanzhe Mei already knew, so he no longer concealed it: "I wanted to tell you on the way, but I promise I won't get you drunk. If you don't want to, I won't force you."

Zhemei has already heard the same nonsense, and she no longer believes it.

"So Sima Yuan, you want me to go and serve Zhizhou tonight, right?"

Sima Yuan thought Zhe Mei was shaken: "Zhe Mei, you also know that my official career is not going well, and my father is the one who makes the decision at home, so I can't marry you."

Zhemei raised his head, tears falling down his neck.

"If you get Nazhizhou Qinze today, and with his recommendation in the future, I will be able to fulfill my ambitions in Beidu and marry you later."

Zhe Mei grabbed the blond hairpin and threw it at Sima Yuan, shouting at the top of her lungs:

"Shut up, I will return this hairpin to you, and we will never be estranged from each other."

Sima Yuan picked up the blond hairpin and blew it, and persuaded with a smile: "Zhemei, think about our future. Maybe Zhizhou just wants you to drink with him and won't touch you?"

Before Sima Yuan could finish speaking, Zhe Mei pushed him to the door of the Silk and Bamboo Pavilion and closed the door.

Sima Yuan knocked on the door for a while, chanting poems and begging for mercy, without giving up at all.

It wasn't until some people gathered around that he stopped and walked away angrily.

"Zhemei, why don't you understand? When I go to Beidu, we will have a good life in the future..."

In the evening, Zhemei took the love poem written by Sima Yuan to her and went to the suburbs alone.

She tore open the poems page by page and threw them all into the river.

Standing by the cockpit, she stepped forward slightly with her left foot and stopped in the air.

Just as she was about to retract her left foot.

A fisherman not far away shouted, "Girl, don't jump!"

Zhemei was startled, slipped her right foot and fell into the water.

The fisherman was Yu Xiaochuan returning from fishing.

He immediately stretched out the bamboo pole of the boat to Zhemei and rescued her from the water and ashore.

"Girl, what's so hard to think about that you have to jump into the river?"

Zhemei sat on the raft, choked, and said angrily: "Who is going to jump into the river! I was so scared by you that I accidentally fell into the water."

Yu Xiaochuan saw the paper piled on the riverside and felt that Zhemei was being arrogant, so he stopped arguing with her.

He took off his outer shawl and put it on Zhemei: "You're wet all over. I'll lend you my coat to put on."

The evening wind blew and Zhemei shivered. She quickly got into her donkey cart and prepared to return to town.

Yu Xiaochuan was pulling the rope on the shore, and Zhemei stuck her head out of the car: "Brother, what's your name, and how can I return your clothes?"

"My name is Yu Xiaochuan. I live in Yujia Village. I come to the pond in the suburbs to fish every day." Yu Xiaochuan shouted loudly, and the donkey had already started running.

"My name is Zhe Mei, and I open a shop at the Sizhu Pavilion in Lihua Town."

The sound of breaking plum blossoms mixed with the sound of donkey hooves came from afar.

Yu Xiaochuan vaguely heard: Zhemei and Sizhu.

Just now, he smelled the faint fragrance of plum blossoms again.

Kaitang County, Zhouzhi County Government.

That night, without Zhe Mei's company, Sima Yuan could only go to the banquet alone.

Peony finished a bending dance on the flower drum and was called by Zhizhou to accompany her.

Mudan breathed a sigh of relief when she didn't see Zhimei beside Sima Yuan.

"Sister Zhemei, you finally have a clear mind."

Zhemei returned to Kaitang Town and saw that Liuxiang Snacks was still in business.

She was wrapped in a coat, half wet, and her hair was in a messy bun.

When everyone saw this, they thought she had met a gangster and hurriedly took her to the stove to warm themselves.

Yaomei cooked a bowl of hot ginger soup for Zhemei: "Sister Zhemei, drink the ginger soup to warm yourself up."

Mao Xi found a small blanket and asked Zhemei to dry the water on her body first.

After Zhemei drank the ginger soup, she warmed her little hands over a small fire, but her body still shivered involuntarily, and she couldn't help but start sobbing.

While crying, she said how she was blind and didn't see clearly that Sima Yuan wanted to "sell" her for herself.

Mao Xi took a handkerchief to Zhemei: "Sister Zhemei, you just couldn't think about it, why did you get all wet?"

Zhemei wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and said slowly: "I just went to the countryside to relax. I was startled by a fisherman by the river. I accidentally fell into the water and was saved by him." After speaking, he pointed to the coat beside him, " Or he lent me his clothes."

Mao Xi took the clothes over and warmed them by the fire, and sighed: "It's okay, sister, it's okay! We all thought that we would be able to drink the wedding wine of you and Sima Yuan in the future. It's true that for every man who slaughters dogs for justice, he will be a scholar for his betrayal." '!"

"Girl Ah Shu, the person who rescued me is a fisherman, not a dog butcher."

Mao Xi smiled awkwardly, and she said too much: "Let me use an analogy, haha~"

Seeing that Zhemei was fine, Mao Xi returned to her stove and started cooking.

The waiter Ah Xing came to announce the menu again: "Shopkeeper, one portion of nine-turn large intestine, two portions of spicy chicken. Three portions of bacon clay pot rice."

Mao Xi clamped the wooden clip with the name of the dish on the rope pulled up by the stove for identification.

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