The Sick Beauty in the Republic of China

In the pavilion on the east side of Changquan Garden, Miss Zhao Qingya was sitting in front of the dressing table, combing her newly permed curly hair little by little.

The little girl Bixi hurriedly ran from the door, and whispered in her ear: "Miss, I just heard from someone earlier that the second young master of the Qi family brought a man to the banquet, and he kept saying that it was him." Ma'am!"

Hearing this, Zhao Qingya put the comb in her hand back on the dressing table, and said indifferently: "That's not right, I told my father a while ago that I have never met Qi Ershao twice. It's not appropriate."

"Yes, yes," Bixi was still anxious after hearing this, and kept persuading: "In our Yunchuan City, there is no one better than Qi Ershao. Miss, you really don't—"

Zhao Qingya couldn't make sense with that little girl, so she just shook her head, and then began to draw her eyebrows in the mirror: "If you have time to talk about this, why don't you go to the cabinet and look for it for me, I don't know where I put the white jade bracelet last year .”

Tourmaline curled her lips helplessly, and had to follow Zhao Qingya's instructions and searched for a long time before finding a mahogany box. Because there were too many things on the dressing table, she casually put it on the small table beside Miss Zhao.

"Miss, I'll go ahead to hear the news."

Zhao Qingya waved her hand and let the little girl go out by herself.He continued to frown with one hand, and touched the jade bracelet on the small table with the other, but he didn't see it clearly, so he put it on his hand casually.

It began to rain again outside the window, and the rare sunny evening finally came to an end in the returning plum rain.

After Zhao Qingya put on the bracelet, she continued to trace her eyebrows in the mirror, and suddenly felt wet on her wrist, as if some cold and sticky liquid was slowly dripping down.

She inadvertently raised her hand to look, but saw that the delicate and moist white jade bracelet on her hand was like a woman's skin, with a deep wound split open, and scarlet and stinky dark blood overflowed from it, which had already covered her wrist. , dripping onto her brand new clothes.

Trembling all over, Zhao Qingya turned her head to look at Xiaoji, and saw a intact white jade bracelet quietly placed in the opened box.

She suddenly remembered something, her eyes widened in fear, and she desperately wanted to take off the bracelet on her hand, but the blood-stained jade bracelet was so slippery that she couldn't hold it at all, and it stuck firmly in it no matter what. wrist.

"It's her, it's her!" Zhao Qingya finally couldn't restrain the fear in her heart, and screamed.

The door was suddenly opened from the outside, and Zhao Qingya subconsciously looked up, but it was a blond German girl who seemed to have heard her cry and ran over in a hurry.

Zhao Qingya staggered towards her as if grabbing a life-saving straw: "Leina, save me, she is the one who is back!"

There was also a hint of shock on Lena's face, but she quickly calmed down, supported Zhao Qingya's body and comforted her: "What happened, Qingya? Who do you think is back?"

Trembling, Zhao Qingya raised her hand, and brought the white jade bracelet to Lena: "This is... this is her bracelet."

"My father gave me a pair of white jade bracelets last year, but one of them broke, so I just gave it to her... I didn't expect, I didn't expect... It's her, she's back!"

Lena's face also distorted for a moment, but she reacted quickly, slammed the jade bracelet off Zhao Qingya's wrist, and threw it aside.

The jade bracelet made a crisp sound, and instantly shattered into dirty blood, which splashed on the faces of the two of them in a sticky and cold way.

Zhao Qingya finally burst into tears uncontrollably, and Lena was also in a daze, as if she had returned to some nightmare, and after a while, she patted Zhao Qingya's shoulder comfortingly: "Qingya, the matter is over, everything will be fine."

"Today is your birthday, and many people are waiting for you."

On the other side, Wang Luan and Qi Chensheng were walking along the promenade near the water to the hall where the banquet was held. Although Qi Chensheng didn't care too much, according to the rules of etiquette, he should go to see Mr. Zhao first. .

But Liang Ye Zhao hadn't seen him yet, but Wang Luan saw an old man in a long gown with a pattern of copper coins walking towards them with an angry expression on his face.

At first, Wang Luan thought it was Qi Chensheng's old acquaintance, but when the old man got closer, Wang Luan realized that although his face was swollen and weak, and his clothes were poorly dressed, he was barely decent, but his facial features were very similar to Qi Chensheng's.

Could this be—

"You bastard!" The old man was about to grab Qi Chensheng's arm, but Qi Chensheng took a step back calmly, leaving him in vain.

The old man almost twisted his waist, turned his body even more angry, glared at Qi Chensheng with round eyes, and then gave Wang Luan a hard look, almost pointing at his nose and cursing: "You really healed the scar and forgot to hurt! After a few years of my birthday, I went fooling around with men again."

"How you like to play in private, who cares about you! It's broken at Zhao's house today, where will my Qi family's face be put!"

Facing the extremely angry man in front of him, Qi Chensheng was indifferent at first, as if he didn't pay attention to him, but when he heard this sentence, a smile suddenly appeared on his cool lips, and his gray eyes looked at him coldly : "The face of the Qi family?"

"Who doesn't know that you, the grand master of the Qi family, used to have [-] concubines in the Chun Yuan House, why didn't you think about the face of the Qi family at that time?"

"What's wrong with me taking a concubine?" The old man's face froze, and then he cursed angrily: "Your father and I take a concubine, and you can still lose face of the Qi family!"

"Of course not." Qi Chensheng's voice was full of disdainful sarcasm, and he blocked Wang Luan behind him again: "Father taking a concubine is not a disgrace to the Qi family, so it's not the Qi family that I married my son great joy."

"Who allows you to marry such a thing!"

"You don't want a good engagement with the Zhao family, you, you—"

The elder of the Qi family was really in a hurry, but he was still faintly afraid of Qi Chensheng in his heart, and when his eyes rolled, a burst of anger was directed at Wang Luan, and he raised his hand to hit him.

Listening to the conversation between the father and son, Wang Luan was surprised and confused at the moment, seeing that the slap of the Qi family was about to hit, he thought of retreating, but fortunately, the next moment Qi Chensheng grabbed it tightly. Took the wrist of the grandpa of the Qi family.

Deep anger rolled in Qi Chensheng's eyes, and there was a severe pain in the wrist of the elder of the Qi family, which seemed to be cracking bones, but he unexpectedly got into a fight with his son. No pain.

"You, if you still have my father and the Qi family in your eyes... then go and confess to Mr. Zhao and renew the engagement..."

Hearing this, Wang Luan finally understood why Qi Chensheng interrupted Zhang Fengliang before, and why Zhao Qingchun reacted like that at the door just now. It turned out that Qi Chensheng and Miss Zhao had a marriage contract.

But these words fell into Qi Chensheng's ears, but only made him sneer: "Father is confused, the two families have never personally said about the marriage contract, how can they take the rumors as truth."

"That's, that's—" The elder of the Qi family wanted to reprimand him again, but after all, he couldn't overcome the pain in his hand, so he cried out in a low voice.

There were many people around at the meeting who looked at it. Although Wang Luan knew that Qi Chensheng was wanton now, he didn't want him to gain the reputation of threatening his father, so he tentatively tugged on his sleeve: "Shen Sheng, it's okay." .”

Qi Chensheng didn't want to care about fame or not, but just lowered his eyes a little, and just looked at Wang Luan who was behind him, gently tugging on his sleeve, and his heart suddenly felt a little soft, and he even relieved some strength from his hands.

At this time, there were some lively noises coming from the front, Wang Luan listened carefully, but it was Mr. Zhao, the grain master, who came.

Qi Chensheng did not forget the purpose of coming this time, and let go of the hand that was holding the elder of the Qi family. Regardless of how embarrassed he was, he exchanged a glance with Wang Luan, and the two walked over.

As the saying goes, good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles, not to mention that Qi Er Shao's romantic affair, in a short period of time, has already spread in the Zhao family.

Wang Luan was very sure that since the Qi family had already known about it, then Liang Ye Zhao would not be kept in the dark.

It's just that compared to Zhao Qingchun and the Qi family's uncle, the grain master Zhao in front of him seemed very calm.He didn't seem to have noticed the dispute between Qi Chensheng and the elder of the Qi family. Surrounded by all the guests, he walked out of the banquet hall slowly, with two oily walnuts coiled in his hands, and his expression was as usual, looking at the younger generation. smile.

He only looked at Qi Chensheng——Wang Luan could feel that in the eyes of Zhao, the grain master, he was no different from the pillars on the porch, perhaps more like a gadget used by the Qi family father and son for their fighting spirit.

"Just now I heard the wind saying that Nephew Qi Xian is here." Liang Ye Zhao walked a few steps, then said with a smile, "Why aren't you here?"

Qi Chensheng restrained his eyebrows a little, and greeted him according to the etiquette, with some hypocrisy to deal with the situation: "Master Zhao, please don't be offended if something is delayed."

"Nephew, what are you talking about? If you come to my place, you will be rewarded." Master Zhao said, smiling with the guests around him, and what he said were all praises of Qi Chensheng.

"Master Zhao, you are being polite. I have heard that your place is lively tonight. Of course, the younger generation will come to join in."

The guests didn't quite figure out what the two people meant in front of them, they saw that they were talking very speculatively back and forth, so they had no choice but to join in, and the scene seemed to be very happy.

"After all, today is also for my daughter's birthday. My daughter has been pampered by me. She has never lacked anything since she was a child, but now she lacks a good family." Everyone thought that the previous things had just passed away, but unexpectedly Unexpectedly, Master Zhao brought it up again, and even Wang Luan couldn't help but look sideways.

But Master Liang Zhao was not in a hurry, and even showed a bit of sincerity to entrust others to do things: "Nephew Qi Xian also knows a lot of young talents, I hope you pay more attention to it, and I will take care of the old man. "

What Master Liang Zhao said was really interesting, and he brought the matter directly to the bright side. Not only did his daughter not have an engagement with Qi Er Shao, but he also hoped that Qi Er Shao could be a matchmaker.Not only has he denied the previous rumors, but he has also sold himself in front of Qi Chensheng.

After all, everyone is a businessman, so there is no reason to make a fuss over such a small matter.

Qi Chensheng naturally understood Liang Ye Zhao's meaning, and also pretended to be serious on his expression: "Master Zhao, don't worry, this junior should take care of himself."

Master Liang Zhao nodded with satisfaction after hearing this, but he didn't want Qi Chensheng to turn around and hold Wang Luan's hand, and said brightly in front of everyone, even the ruby ​​ring on Wang Luan's hand was very special under the light. Ming Yan: "My wife and I are planning to hold a wedding at a certain date, and I hope Master Zhao will show his respect when he arrives."

Today Wang Luan was really startled too many times, even if he wanted to be startled, he couldn't be startled anymore, instead he was able to hold up a decent smile, Qi Chensheng probably did whatever he said.

Liang Ye Zhao is an elderly person after all, he has been in business all his life, and he has never seen any scene, and after a while he nodded kindly as usual: "That's natural."

This scene was really embarrassing again. Fortunately, there was finally movement from the direction of the east pavilion—it was Ms. Zhao.