After rebirth, she became the favorite of the powerful minister.

After sending Xu Chengjin away, Yuan Ge drank for a while with a heavy heart. The doorman said that Miss Yu had arrived and asked if the third young master's wife was at home. She was passing by and wanted to arrange to go shopping at the market.

Shengjing City holds a market every half month, where merchants from all over the world gather. You can also see some novel gadgets and rare treasures, or scammers pretending to sell rare treasures.

Yuan Ge had never been to such a market before, so he changed his clothes and went out with Zhuo Zhuo and Shi Yin.

The market roads were lined with stalls on both sides, leaving only a very narrow walkway in the middle for people to walk. Carriages could only be parked on the periphery. Yuan Ge and her companions arrived late, so they naturally had to park farther away. After getting off the carriages, they had to walk a long way.

Yu Qingqing's outfit was completely different from the one she wore at the flower viewing party that day. She was wearing a deep blue riding suit and her ponytail was combed high, which made her bare face look particularly heroic. She glanced at the dark crowd of heads in the distance and shook her head, "There are always a lot of people at the market, and there seem to be even more this time. My grandfather gave me two ponies two days ago, and I thought that if we each had one, we could walk slowly and maybe we could squeeze in... I had changed my clothes and was ready to go out, but my mother reminded me that you might not be able to ride a horse, so we temporarily changed to a carriage."

Mrs. Yu's original words were not like this. It was just that Yu Qingqing always spoke directly, so she had no friends to talk to except Zhong Wei in recent years. Zhong Wei was not free today, so she thought of Yuan Ge. As she spoke, she tilted her head and scanned Yuan Ge from head to toe, "I see that you are weak, can you walk?"

The way I asked this question... made me seem like a weak willow swaying in the wind.

"Although I'm not as good as you, I'm not that weak either... As for riding a horse, I'm quite interested in it, but I never had the chance before. Can you teach me someday?" Yuan Ge knew how to ride a horse, and he was an excellent rider. But Wen Qian didn't know how to ride a horse. If he "learned" from Yu Qingqing for a few days, he would be able to explain it well if someone asked about it in the future.

Yu Qingqing was stunned, then she slapped Yuan Ge on the shoulder, and said with great momentum, "Okay! It's settled, there are two ponies, one for you and one for me, both are black, and I have named them, one is Thunder and the other is Lightning, you can pick one when the time comes, I'll give it to you!"

Yuan Ge staggered after being slapped by her, "This is too expensive..."

"What's so valuable about it? It's just a pony." Yu Qingqing said casually, "My grandfather's home is in the northern border. There is a large grassland and he raises many horses. If he knew that you like it, he would definitely be very happy."

This is the truth. There are very few daughters of wealthy families who are good at wielding swords and guns, riding horses and shooting arrows. When the Jin family married a daughter-in-law who was good at wielding swords and guns, it caused a lot of gossip for a while. Now the Yu family has a tomboy, and she is already old, and there is not even a matchmaker to come to the door. Yu Qingqing has heard a lot of these words, but she is used to doing things her own way, and her elders are also open-minded, so she never takes it to heart. However, she still knows what the secular perspective is like. When she heard Yuan Ge say that he wanted to learn horse riding, she was naturally happy from the bottom of her heart.

It's just a pony, she can afford it!

Zhuozhuo was also visiting the market for the first time. Everything he saw was new. He wanted to eat candied haws, buy sugar figurines, and watch acrobatics. He was full of energy like a bird that had just been released from a cage. Soon he ran away with Shiyin. Yuan Ge was worried about the "fugitive" who had escaped before, and was really worried about the two of them, one small and one weak, so he asked Jianshu to go with them.

The news that the eldest son of the Wen family brought back a child had spread quickly. Yu Qingqing had naturally heard about it as well. Seeing Yuan Ge bending over to look at the hairpin, she squatted aside and asked quietly, "Is this really your eldest nephew?"

"Yes, he is my eldest brother's child. Father will hold a banquet in the mansion to announce it to his friends and colleagues in a while, and he will invite you to drink then."

Yuan Ge responded casually, picked up a ruby ​​gold hairpin with a Lycoris pendant and compared it to Yu Qingqing's ear. The woman next to him with a foreign accent quickly praised her, "Young lady, you have good taste. This hairpin is a treasure. Look, the ruby ​​is so big and so translucent, and the flower is so lifelike... This was brought back by my husband when he went to sea. He said it was the final work of a master overseas. I saw that you like it, so I gave you a discount..."

As she spoke, the woman raised her hand, spread her five fingers, and flipped it over again, "Ten taels, how about that?"

Yu Qingqing had no interest in the hairpin. She only looked at the gleam in the woman's eyes and suddenly said, "The color of this flower is not right, it's dark red... and if I remember correctly, this Lycoris radiata is also known as the flower on the road to the underworld, which is unlucky. Which overseas master's final work actually made such an unsalable hairpin? Isn't this destroying his own reputation? At most one or two taels of silver, except for my friend who is not very smart, no one else will want your hairpin."

The "not-so-smart friend" glanced back at her, and suddenly felt that Shiyin's summary of this young lady was very accurate - she had never heard of any good friends, only a young lady from the Zhong family who lived next door.

Yuan Ge felt that he understood why Yu Qingqing, who was willing to give a famous horse to someone when they just met, had no friends. Although Yu Qingqing said it casually, Yuan Ge knew that the horses in the northern border were famous horses specially used for the court's war. Yuan Ge complained in his heart, but still cooperated on the surface. He looked at the hairpin in his hand, frowned and gestured twice, muttering, "Since it is unlucky, it is not good to wear it on your head... Then it's better not to wear it..."

The woman's face immediately changed. "What flowers on the road to the underworld? What a bad omen! You little girl, don't talk nonsense! Girl, your friend is not honest. You look so good in this hairpin. She just can't stand seeing you doing well!"

"You're talking nonsense!"

After the woman had sowed discord, she pulled Yuan Ge and coaxed him, "Girl, I see that you are sincere. How about this, since I haven't opened the shop yet, let's have a good start and pick a lucky number, eight taels?"

Yu Qingqing was so angry that she rolled up her sleeves and put her hands on her hips, wishing she could have a good argument with him about why she couldn't stand seeing others doing well. However, Yuan Ge suddenly pulled her behind him. Yu Qingqing had just stood up and hadn't opened her mouth to ask what was going on when suddenly, there was a commotion at the other end of the street, and the crowd rushed over here, screaming.

"Step aside--"

"Get out of the way—"

Amid the screams, Yuan Ge sniffed gently, holding Yu Qingqing in one hand, while putting the hairpin in his hand back on the stall, and lowered his voice, "Let's go quickly and find Zhuozhuo and Shiyin. The smell of blood... is very strong."