Reborn as a Merchant Girl, the General's Beloved

"Miss, have you forgotten?" Bai Shao touched her forehead. "That day, my lady took you to Liangyue Temple. When you came out, there were a bunch of beggars outside. He was among them. He knocked you over because of the crowd. You cried and made a fuss because he smelled bad. We, who didn't know any better, ran up to him and punched and kicked him. He was so thin and small at the time. He had been hungry for a long time, and he fainted after being beaten. My lady took him home for treatment, but she felt sorry for him because he had nowhere to go, so she kept him."

At this point, the girls were stunned. Dong Qing asked cautiously, "Girl, will he really help us?"

Anan couldn't help laughing and said confidently, "He will, and within three days."

Three days later, he showed up as expected.

Bai Shao was surprised: "Young lady, can you tell fortunes? You are so accurate."

"Although I can't tell fortunes, I can judge people well." She jokingly walked into the ear room and sat behind the sand screen. A little maid had already set the table for dinner.

He was very patient and Anan was also steady. The two of them, one sitting inside and the other sitting outside, each concentrated on eating behind the gauze screen without saying a word.

"Thank you, young lady, for the meal." He waited until Anan's table was cleaned up and he rinsed his mouth and drank some tea before he whispered.

"Has anyone ever told you that you are not suitable for these insincere formalities?" Anan smiled. This man, even if he said the most humble and polite words, could not hide the arrogance in his bones.

He didn't seem to expect Anan to say this, and he didn't seem to care, so he didn't pause at all and said, "I thought he just had some minor problems after doing this for a long time, but now it seems that he can't stay."

"Now that you have made up your mind, you still take the time out of your busy schedule to inform me. I guess there is something about me involved." Anan smiled.

He was silent for a while, then he said earnestly: "It's not difficult to move him, but..."

"Qi'er, just go ahead and do it. I will comfort mother. I think you have been with mother for a long time, so you must know that she is just kind, but not weak." Seeing that he was in a difficult position to speak, Anan simply skipped the step of asking him to speak and agreed to go directly.

Mingqi was silent for a long time before he lowered his voice and said, "In that case, I'll leave everything to you, young lady!"

Anan looked at his departing back and raised his eyebrows.

After Mingqi left the house, Bai Shao asked blankly, "Girl, who are you talking about?"

Anan lowered his head and took a sip of tea, then smiled coldly: "Sun Cheng."

"Girl! Sun Cheng is an old fox, and you just let Mingqi deal with him alone?" Bai Shao was anxious.

Anan laughed and said, "Let alone dealing with Sun Cheng, even dealing with that whole family of monkeys is not a problem. You underestimate Mingqi."

"Could it be that you think too highly of him?" Bai Shao was worried.

"Let me tell you this. I looked through the accounts of my mother's private property over the years. Starting from eleven or twelve years ago, if Mingqi hadn't been supervising, my mother's property would have been swallowed up by Sun Cheng in various ways." Anan put down the tea bowl in his hand. "Sun Cheng's methods were not very clever. Mingqi just didn't bother to argue with him and turned a blind eye."

"But, young lady, you didn't say anything to him?" Dong Qing asked in confusion, "When he came the other day, he looked reluctant, but in just three days, he changed his mind."