Temperament

In the east chamber, in the elegantly decorated room, Zhuo Tianyi poked a short incense stick on the newly lit candle wick, and the flame shot straight up to an inch high, and a few drops of red candle tears flowed down the candle. The body flowed down and accumulated on the silver candlestick of Panlong Qifeng, like the blood of a virgin, so bright that it is dazzling.

He threw the incense in his hand into the censer, and gently wiped away a candle tear dripping from his hand. The moment the red color spread from his fingertips, an inexplicable desire suddenly rose in his heart.

There was a sound at the door, and when he turned his head to look, a thin figure appeared under the light, still wearing ocher brown disciple clothes, and the loose clothes made him look thinner.

"Young Master, Mr. Shen is here." Zhuo Shi'an reported with his face lowered, glanced at Shen Qinglan, who was a little stunned by the furnishings in the room, and then looked at the tall figure standing by the table. He waved his hand and immediately said, "Shi'an is resigning."

As he spoke, he took a few steps back, closed the door and left quickly.

The sound of closing the door awakened Shen Qinglan from her momentary trance, and the scene in the room came into her eyes more clearly at this moment.

Full of red.

Red curtains, red gauze lamps, red tablecloths, walls and windows, and even an elegant qin in the corner of the room, are all pasted with big red happy characters.A pair of dragon and phoenix wedding candles on the table are weeping silently. In the inner room decorated with red hydrangeas on the lintel, the most eye-catching thing is the big mahogany bed carved with complicated patterns, and a red gauze curtain is hung on the top of the bed. The same red satin quilt covered the bed with pillows, and a red wedding dress embroidered with gold thread was spread out on the bed, as if quietly waiting for the owner to wear it.

This is clearly a well-arranged bridal chamber.

All the furnishing utensils are gorgeous and exquisite without exception, and they look extremely harmonious when placed together, except for the tall man in the center of the field of vision at the moment, who is dressed in black and is looking at him without any scruples as if studying an object.

Perhaps adding that she is the proton who is waiting for the suzerain to question, Shen Qinglan felt an indescribable strange feeling in her heart, and the scene in the gallery in the afternoon reappeared in her mind, and the feeling of suffocation hit her. Chest, he collected himself, tried to ignore the strangeness of the scene and the atmosphere, and called out to the unpredictable man in the middle of the room, "Young master."

With his hands behind his back, Zhuo Tianyi withdrew his two eyes that seemed to pierce Shen Qinglan from him to his face, "Shen Qinglan."

He called out the name word by word, as if seeing a stranger for the first time, with a naked research and judgmental smile in his eyes, "I thought you went back to Meng's house."

In his tone, there was a kind of condescension like a cat talking to a mouse, Shen Qinglan stood up straight, and looked away from this arrogant man, "I am the proton entrusted to the Zhuo family by the Meng family, without the permission of the head of the Meng family, How can you go back to Meng's house privately?"

"'Privately'? I let you go and let you go back. Is it also called 'privately'?" Zhuo Tianyi raised his eyebrows and walked a few steps towards Shen Qinglan.The proton of the Meng family whom he had never looked at in the past three years was so unreasonable that people had to look at him twice.

"Of course it's 'privately'. I'm from the Meng family, and I'm here for the Meng family. I don't mean that the Meng family is the head of the family. That's called 'privately'." Shen Qinglan looked at the open space in the middle of the room and replied calmly.

"What a Meng family!" Zhuo Tianyi laughed, turned around and walked a few steps in, "But, I remember, back then on the Qianlong River, the old master Meng made an oath in front of all the martial arts sects. , you came to the Zhuo family, that is the Zhuo family, the Meng family will never go back on their word?" He turned and looked at Shen Qinglan with burning eyes.

Shen Qinglan smiled faintly, "Since this is the case, why did the Young Master ask me to go back?"

"Okay!" Zhuo Tianyi laughed loudly, walked a few steps towards Shen Qinglan, and came to him, "If you are told to go, you will not go. Since you are back, then don't leave. Be my Zhuo family forever. How are you?!"

"Not good." Shen Qinglan lowered her eyes, but her tone was very clear and firm, "I said before, I am from the Meng family, and I only obey orders from the Meng family. Everything I do is for the Meng family, and only for the Meng family!"

Zhuo Tianyi didn't seem to hear the rejection in his words, but nodded with satisfaction, "Okay, very good! Then I want to see if you can be my Zhuo family for the Meng family!"

The latter sentence was spoken with a stern tone as if it had been squeezed out between the teeth.Shen Qinglan was startled, and unconsciously raised her eyes to look over, only to see that Zhuo Tianyi had turned around, took a few steps towards the room, and her tone became calm again, "Jiang Moyan's matter, the past three years , you should have heard of it, right?"

Shen Qinglan didn't comment, and Zhuo Tianyi didn't wait for his answer, so he continued, "His father was a Hanlin scholar, and he was an official of the third rank. Later, he was dismissed from his official position because of corruption and perverting the law. He was the son of a concubine." Because of his outstanding appearance, he suffered from it. He was taken out of death row by his father's opponents in the officialdom and sold to the largest brothel in the capital——Tianxianglou, just to humiliate his family. When I met him, he was Forced by the bustard to betray Chuye."

"I used the 5 taels of silver that I originally opened the fifth restaurant in the capital, plus the land deeds of the previous two restaurants and two inns, for a total of 20 taels of silver to redeem him and take him back to Luoyang. I Tell my parents that I want to marry him. My father was furious, and with the three palms of ten successes, he abolished the Zhuo Men's inner strength that I had already practiced to the seventh level, and abolished the third level. If it wasn't for my mother, maybe the rest I can't keep the quadruple. But no matter what, I managed to keep him, and didn't let my father drive him out of Zhuo's house."

Zhuo Tianyi's tone was so flat that he seemed to be talking about a trivial matter such as eating and dressing, without a trace of disturbance. Although what he heard at the moment had nothing to do with him, Shen Qinglan somehow felt a sense of unreasonable uneasiness in his heart Come, it seems to be lingering in my heart.

"Later, Zhuo's family built a new house in Jinyang, so I brought Jiang Moyan here to search for various famous medicines and good prescriptions, and treat him with typhoid fever that fell in the death row. In order to give him a name Let him be my Zhuo family in an upright manner. I want to hold a wedding banquet for him, and the media is getting married. Therefore, I bought this new house, and I will follow the etiquette. I will never touch him before getting married. The night when we formed an alliance with the Meng family years ago."

"I thought that from now on, I would be able to stay with him forever. I didn't expect that my father would swear in front of the world and give him to the Meng family as a proton." It was regrettable, but Zhuo Tianyi couldn't hear it in his tone. After half a minute, at this point, he chuckled, "In order to separate me and Jiang Moyan, my father really tried his best to make him think of this method."

"However, so what, I will not stop here. I will never give up what I want because of obstruction from others, no matter how much it costs, I will not hesitate!" His tone became firm, although the voice was not Big, but the toughness inside and outside the words is fully revealed.The unease in Shen Qinglan's heart gradually became stronger, and her chest was also shrouded in that stuffy feeling again.

"It took me three years to restore the triple internal force that my father had abolished, and turned the Zhuo family that my father gave me into my own Zhuo family. Prepare for hostilities again. You also know the rest. In Luoying Villa, when Meng Huaiyuan left the wing where they lived to find you, he took Jiang Moyan away and asked Yun Lei before Meng Huaiyuan saw you Take you away. I need you to take us out of the city."

Shen Qinglan's heart tightened suddenly, and the reunion that had been waiting for three years was ruined just like that.Although Zhou Yunlei had already known the reason before, hearing Zhuo Tianyi say it now, his heart still hurts unbearably.Perhaps, there will never be such an opportunity again.What he lost may not only be an opportunity to meet, but also an opportunity for a lifetime of happiness.Shen Qinglan closed her eyes, and clenched the waistband hanging by her side with her right hand.

"I planned to release you and let you go back to the Meng family when we were outside the city. In this way, the Zhuo family and the Meng family will get what they deserve, and neither will owe each other. It is not considered a breach of the covenant. Unexpectedly, after thousands of calculations, It’s still a little missing—people’s hearts.” Zhuo Tianyi’s originally indifferent tone became sarcastic and indifferent, “Jiang Moyan has changed his mind. He said he fell in love with Meng Huaiyuan and followed him, so he wants to return to Meng Huaiyuan. You can't go back to Zhuo's house with me anymore." Having said that, Zhuo Tianyi raised his head and smiled, then shook his head, his tone full of sarcasm.

Shen Qinglan's already clenched heart seemed to be cut open without warning by an extremely sharp knife. The pain was instantly transmitted from the inside to the outside along with the gushing blood, and a voice was breaking. I shouted in my heart, "No, it's impossible, it's not true! It's not!" But the scene I saw at the gate of Luoying Villa involuntarily appeared in my mind, Jiang Moyan smiled at the corners of his eyes, and Meng Huaiyuan was holding him hands, and the back view of him drifting away after helping him into the carriage.

Shen Qinglan closed her eyes, and the hand holding the waistband was shaking.

"I, Zhuo Tianyi, am not a stalker. I will not force someone who has changed his mind to stay. So, I let him go." He suddenly turned around and looked at Shen Qinglan, his eyes filled with tears. Shining with the light that seemed to be an extremely unexpected novelty, "However, what I didn't expect was that you, who had been let go by me, came back again, and kept saying that it was for the Meng family. Why?! Could it be that Meng Huaiyuan had Jiang Moyan, don’t want you anymore? Or, you never saw Meng Huaiyuan at all, but you are willing to return to the Zhuo family for his Meng family and continue to be a hostage?!”

Shen Qinglan opened her eyes suddenly, "You asked me here just to ask this?!"

"Are you sad? For Meng Huaiyuan?" Zhuo Tianyi seemed to have not heard his words, and cast his unscrupulous eyes on Shen Qinglan's face, observing carefully. After a while, he looked away, " I can see that you still have him in your heart, but you don’t know how well he remembers you now? He is already a beautiful woman in his arms. He only sees new people laughing and sees old people crying. You still have to be wholeheartedly for him The Meng family, are you spending your time here?"

"What exactly do you want?!" Shen Qinglan gradually lost her patience, and her tone became hurried.

"I don't want to do anything. Since Jiang Moyan has already followed Meng Huaiyuan, let him go. I, Zhuo Tianyi, don't want to turn against the Meng family for a man who is always in trouble. It's not worth it." He said, turning his eyes again. Throwing at Shen Qinglan, looking at his side face, "However, I will not swallow Meng Huaiyuan's breath. So you, I want it!"

What he said was extremely relaxed, as if he was talking about an ordinary item, but to Shen Qinglan's ears, it was like a thunderclap exploding in his ears.He raised his face and looked at the man in front of him in amazement, who was a real stranger even though he had lived in the same mansion for three years, wondering if he had heard it wrong.

"Didn't understand? Okay, let me say it again, I want you to forget Meng Huaiyuan, follow me, and be a real Zhuo family." Zhuo Tianyi's eyes swept across the room, and then returned to Shen Qinglan's face, " Tonight is our wedding night, do you understand?"

The attitude of giving orders, the unquestionable tone, if it is not in this new house with red candles burning high and such a weird atmosphere, Shen Qinglan really wants to laugh out loud.He shook his head in disbelief, but couldn't find the right words to refuse for a while.However, this kind of unreasonable request does not need to be ignored.

"Why, you don't want to? Why? Just now, weren't you still sad because Jiang Moyan followed Meng Huaiyuan? Could it be that Meng Huaiyuan forgot you, but you still defend yourself like a jade?"

Zhuo Tianyi's tone was full of unbearable sarcasm and ease, Shen Qinglan turned and left.The heart that was sore and unbearable because of Jiang Moyan was relieved a lot at this moment.Yes, these are Zhuo Tianyi's one-sided remarks. He never asked Meng Huaiyuan, how could he believe it based on a few words from outsiders and the scene at the entrance of Luoying Villa.During the short meeting at the birthday banquet, Meng Huaiyuan saw the excitement and joy in his eyes, but he saw it with his own eyes and felt it with all his heart.

Before he had walked a few steps, he heard the wind of palms blowing past his ears, and the latch behind the door fell with the sound, locking the door tightly.

Shocked, Shen Qinglan stopped abruptly, and Zhuo Tianyi's still calm voice came from behind, "You really don't want to? Yes. But, if it's for the Meng family, aren't you willing too?! "

Shen Qinglan turned around abruptly, and couldn't bear it any longer and said: "I am the hostage that the Meng family handed over to the Zhuo family, not something that the Meng family sold to the Zhuo family, and it's not what you want!"

"What if I have to?!" Zhuo Tianyi turned his face sideways, with a smile hanging on his tough face, but the threat was revealed from the smile unabashedly.

"The head of the dignified Zhuo family wouldn't do such indecent things!" Shen Qinglan raised her voice and retorted unceremoniously.

"Xiao San Chao? Do you mean □□?" Zhuo Tianyi's tone was indifferent and calm, "You are right, I really can't do this kind of thing that relies on force to seize the body." He took a few steps closer, "However, what if I use the Meng family and Meng Huaiyuan's life to blackmail you?!"

"The Meng family, Meng Huaiyuan's life?" Shen Qinglan sneered, "If you can do it, the Zhuo and Meng families won't have to fight for so many years, and they won't need to make a peace alliance, right?!"

"That's right, but that was in the past, not the present." Zhuo Tianyi still had a smile on his face, but his tone gradually turned cold, "The me now is to be able to kill Meng Huaiyuan, whom you miss so much!"

The author has something to say: President Zhuo used the method of dealing with President Meng to coerce Shen Xiaomi to remarry him, and even prepared the bridal chamber candles.