Yuque Qiu

Yan Yuque returned to his mansion, just as he stepped on the threshold, his stomach suddenly churned, and he staggered a little.

"Grandpa, what's wrong with you?"

Yan An came up to help him, but Yan Yuque pushed him away, rushed to the wall, opened his mouth and spat out.

Yan Yuque is actually a very clean person. Before Liu Qi used tricks to make him sluggish in love affairs, his desire for love affairs was very weak, and he rarely went to places like brothels to have fun. An took Hua Niang to the house, and most of the people she looked for were the top cards who were hard to find and rarely received customers. She didn't like to let the filth get on her body when she was in bed, and she would take a bath immediately after the affair.

I don't know if it was because when he was a child, he saw too many situations where his mother targeted the second mother, so he hated the rivalry and jealousy among women, so he planned to marry only Xu Rou and not take other concubines.

The anger at Liu Qi's place just now overwhelmed everything, but now thinking that Liu Qi used to be a servant girl and even served Lian Yulou, he felt as disgusted as if he had swallowed a worm, and almost vomited out his bile.

And Yan Yuque really vomited until the end, only clear water came out, finally slowed down a bit, Yan An hurriedly handed him ginseng tea to rinse his mouth, but Yan Yuque hadn't drunk the ginseng tea, and his chest felt a dull pain , Something went straight to the throat, but this time when he opened his mouth, a mouthful of blood spewed out, and then the whole person fell to the ground unconscious, scaring Yan An away half of his life.

As soon as Yan Yuque fell down, the entire Yan Mansion became busy, with servants running around, those who asked for doctors, those who boiled medicine, all became a mess.

After seeing it, the doctor said that Yan Yuque was irritated and the blood surged up, which caused the vomiting of blood. As long as he rested a little and took some medicine to smooth the blood, he would be fine. The important thing is to relax the mind and not stagnate in the chest.

Although the doctor said so, Yan Yuque's illness took several days before he got better. When he was able to sit up from the bed, he was not only thinner, but his face was also haggard.

During the period, Mr. Xu brought some colleagues to visit him, and he was exhausted only when he devoted all his efforts to the dowry for the princess's marriage, so he was full of praise and praise, and even said that he would write a memorial and report it to the current emperor. Please ask the Holy One to reward you.

On the surface, Yan Yuque agreed one by one, but the anger in his heart could not be calmed down. Only he knew that his illness was all the work of that person.

Then things are much more simple than they are now.

After Yan Yuque heard the truth, he was really shocked and angry, but calmed down and thought about it carefully, if Liu Qi just wanted to return to himself all the words that he had humiliated him back then, and at the same time let himself have a relationship with him If he feels uncomfortable and disgusted by the matter, then the layout he has set up is not in line with the effect he wants to receive, and it is obvious that he will not gain much from it.

I felt nauseous and disgusted for a while, and then I was fine. I just let Yan An watch over me when I was going to make medicine in the future, and since my illness was caused by the medicine, I would not be caused by the resistance caused by the love with the woman. If you don't do it, then you are completely a normal man...

In order to lure himself into the suit, he also worked hard to get a complete neon dress and feather coat, and now that this thing is in his hands, Liu Qi has revealed the truth again, so he naturally doesn't have to think about why he wants the neon dress and feather coat To snatch back the people who have been snatched five times in a row, the neon clothes and feather clothes are like being offered by both hands.

Thinking about it this way, I feel that this person is extremely stupid to do this... As expected of a person from that kind of place, he can only come up with such a despicable method.

That being the case, it's not rude to come and go, since he dared to break ground on Tai Sui's head, he should naturally have the consciousness of being demolished!

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After Lian Er took Fan Zhong back to Jiangning, there was no one to help him take care of his business, so the things in Liuqi's place piled up all of a sudden.

He is good at weaving flower books, not only because of his talent, but also because he has put in more hard work than others. It takes others ten or twenty years to master this skill, but he has to complete it in just a few years.In order to master this skill more proficiently, he specially chose the extremely complicated patterns to practice. His fingers were cut countless times by silk threads and cotton threads, and sometimes blood seeped into the flower books along the silk threads.

Because he spent too much time practicing the skills of weaving flower books, he didn't have much time left to learn how to do business and how to manage accounts like Lian Er and the others.

Lian Yulou also seemed to know that he was willing to sign the deed of selling himself to stay by his side, not in exchange for a clean identity like Lian Er and the others, all his purpose was for Yan Yuque, he not only wanted Yan Yuque to be He had to pay the price for what he did back then, and he had to take back the lost things one by one for his current master, Lian Yulou, so Lian Yulou didn't force him to learn these things. Worry.

He could see that Lian Yulou felt that his move was too risky, and Lian Yulou didn't seem to have any plans to confront Yan Yuque head-on these years, or this plan didn't seem to be very important to him anymore.

I have seen Lian Yulou go crazy after being drunk, and I know how much damage and shadow Yan Yuque's actions have left in Lian Yulou's heart, so that he dreamed back at midnight, full of hatred that even he could not control, And he likes to abuse young people like himself back then because he regards them as Yan Yuque's substitutes, trying to vent his inner depression in that way.

But after being with that catcher, Lian Yulou became more friendly, and occasionally showed a child-like expression. Although he still has a strong hand in the business field, compared with before, Lian Yulou is no longer in the eyes of everyone. It's the vicious and indifferent Boss Lian.

He also heard the news that Yan Yuque suddenly fell ill after returning from here, but Liu Qi knew very well that Yan Yuque was not someone who could be defeated so easily, otherwise he wouldn't have to spend so much time. After spending so much time and doing so many ambushes, now that I and him have revealed the truth, it only angered him, and the consequences of angering Yan Yuque must not be of any benefit to myself.

Sure enough, a few days later, the clerk in the store came and told him that there were several shipments of silk and satin from Lin'an that were going to be sent to the capital, but for some reason they were all on board, but the boss of the ship refused, so those shipments were sent to the capital. They can all be unloaded and piled up on the pier, and the same thing happened in Jiangning.

The business of the Jinlin cloth village branch has been booming since its opening in the capital, and the business list is getting bigger and bigger. Although the genius is entering autumn, the dignitaries in the capital are already buying new winter clothes, and many people are getting married. The wedding clothes used for the wedding also came to their cloth shop.Because their fabrics are all shipped from Jiangning and Lin'an, the colors and patterns are fresh and rare, and when they are used by one family, others are also chasing after them. As a result, the stock they prepared when they opened soon ran out, and they had to let Lin'an and Lin'an Jiang Ning urgently transported some of them over, but now the fabrics could not get on the ship for unknown reasons.

Of course Liu Qi knew who was doing such tricks behind the scenes. In fact, he didn't care if the business of Jinlin Cloth Village was good or bad. My father had so many properties in various places, and the existence of this semicolon was also for his plan, but If things go on like this, it will inevitably affect the reputation and credibility of Lianyulou, and if this branch is forced to close, it will be difficult for him to gain a foothold in the capital and continue the rest of the business.

The sense of loss that had surfaced in my heart a few days ago quietly disappeared for some reason. Liu Qi knew that the account between herself and Yan Yuque was just beginning, and it might never be settled.

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Merchants in the capital spontaneously formed a chamber of commerce to urge each other to maintain order in the mall. There will be such a gathering every month, but after all, most of the merchants are full of scheming people. Who would reveal their old background in front of others come out?

Therefore, the once-a-month meeting becomes an opportunity for everyone to cling to the background and backers that are beneficial to them.

Although Yan Yuque is still in charge of his own business, but the Yan family has such a large property there, and because he is the supervisor of the Silk Brocade Academy, he rarely attends such gatherings full of mobs, but this One night, he arrived early.

He picked a corner and sat down leisurely. After a few days, his complexion improved a lot, but there were still traces of a serious injury to his vitality. He didn't want to spend too much time with other people while sitting there No words, but when they saw him coming, everyone gathered around him.

"Master Yan, it's been a long time, I don't know if I still remember..."

"I heard that Mr. Yan was unwell a few days ago. The inferior people are very worried, but I am afraid that going to visit will disturb Mr. Yan's peace..."

"Master Yan, recently..."

"Master Yan..."

Chirp quack quack, you say something, Yan Yuque frowned displeasedly, Yan An hurriedly came out to persuade everyone to leave, "Everyone's concern for our master is already understood, but our master has just recovered from a serious illness, and the doctor ordered it, it is not appropriate to Too much work, don't bother too much, today he just went out to relax and meet colleagues, if it's a business matter, we can discuss it the next day."

After Yan An's voice fell, Yan Yuque nodded at the right time, expressing his apology. Seeing this, the crowd couldn't say anything more, and after a few words of blessing, they dispersed.

Yan Yuque sat there drinking tea, listening to one or two business matters from time to time, but his eyes were always looking at the door, as if waiting for someone to appear.

Halfway through the meeting, some people had already left first. At this time, a figure appeared at the door, causing Yan Yuque's hand holding the teacup to shake slightly.

The person who came was Lian Wu, the treasurer of the Jingcheng branch of Jinlin Buzhuang.

Some people have seen Lian Er pretending to be Lian Wu before. Regarding the authenticity of the two, Liu Qi only said that she couldn't come when the cloth shop opened due to important business, so she first found someone to replace her. Although everyone didn't understand this, they didn't have too many objections.

After Liuqi entered the door and looked around, he went straight to the boss of the Cao Gang, bowed his hands and then went straight to the topic, "Please excuse my impoliteness, may I ask the boss, why did you refuse to lend me the boat that you agreed to lend me?" already?"

The boss of the Cao Gang smiled, "Even the fifth master, Lao Jiu, I have nothing to explain to you. I can't get out of this boat. If you want to ask the reason..." He raised his chin towards the corner, "Even the fifth master should first find a way to establish a good relationship with the government. Although some people's officials are not big, their future father-in-law has some background. Others don't want to fight with the government? I don't want to be the ninth child either."

Liu Qi turned around and saw Yan Yuque sitting in the corner, Yan Yuque was looking at him, the corner of his mouth slightly curved, as if he knew he would come here, and he came here just to ask the boss of the Cao Gang The ship thing.

Now his goods are all parked in Jiangning and Lin'an, but no one is willing to ship, wasting time in vain, and the orders here are getting tighter and tighter.Sure enough, someone spotted Liu Qi, and they all surrounded her.

"Fifth Lian, when will your shipment arrive? Could it be that they won't come?"

"Fifth Lian, you must be honest when doing business. We trust you so much that we paid the full price early. If you can't deliver the goods when the time comes, we will follow the rules and demand double the liquidated damages from you."

"Yeah, I thought Lian Wu Ye was a straightforward person, but I didn't expect you to be procrastinating now."

Liu Qi repeatedly apologized to everyone, then squeezed out from the crowd surrounding him, and walked in front of Yan Yuque, with a calm expression on his face, as if he was not the one who was repeatedly accused of recovering the goods.

"I heard that Mr. Yan was seriously ill in bed a few days ago, now it seems that there should be no serious problems..."

Yan Yuque shook the cup in his hand, and gently blew away the tea foam floating on it, "Thank you Lian Wuye for your concern, Yan was indeed made ill by some Xiaomoi, but Xiaomoi can't make a big deal , now it's their turn to ask for blessings... Lian Wuye seems to be in a little trouble in business, do you need Yan to help?"

Liu Qi replied with a smile, "I would also like to thank Mr. Yan for your concern, but you may not know it. In fact, as early as a few years ago, because of the busy business, our grandfather often couldn't transfer the ship during the peak shipping season, which caused delays in delivery. , so I ordered a few piers. Those ships were used to help other branches to deliver goods. This time, I really can’t transfer the ships. Our master has already asked other branches to sell ten ships to solve the urgent need. This batch of goods , will arrive in the capital soon.”

Yan Yuque narrowed his eyes slightly. He didn't expect that Lian Yulou's wealth was so great that he could do water transportation by himself at the dock, but even so, it would not be so easy to fulfill his wish, "That's good, otherwise even Fifth Master has so many orders, once the debts are collected, I am afraid that ten Jinlin Cloth Houses will not be enough to pay, so we must be careful in the future, so that such problems do not happen again."

Liu Qi arched her hands, "Master Yan taught me that I am just a small shopkeeper, if such a big mistake happened, I really don't know how to face our master."

Those who surrounded Liu Qi just heard his words and surrounded him again.

"Hey, Mr. Lian, didn't you just say that the goods didn't arrive, why are there ten more ships? I don't care, my goods will be delivered first."

"Boss Li, that's not right. My order was placed last month. No matter how you say it, give it to me first."

Liu Qi let them argue endlessly, turned his head sideways, and shot his eyes from the gap in the human wall. Yan Yuque was meeting his eyes, only to feel that apart from the cold alienation, there seemed to be some indescribable complexity and Ambiguous in it.

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At first, Yan Yuque thought that what Liu Qi said about the boat on the day of the rally might be just nonsense, to strengthen his momentum, but a few days later, he did hear that a fleet of boats had arrived at the pier, and all the ships transported The cloth came from Lin'an and Jiangning, but the government had detained those boats on the charge of carrying illegal salt on board according to Yan Yuque's orders.

Hearing Yan An finished speaking, Yan Yuque calmly asked Yan An to wait for him to change his clothes, prepare the sedan chair and prepare to go to the pier, but Yan An said: "Master, it's gloomy today, it looks like it's going to rain , you just can’t catch the cold.”

Yan Yuque waved his hand, "I'd like to see if this day is cloudy, or that person's face is more cloudy."

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As soon as he got off the sedan chair at the pier, a gust of river wind blew up and lifted people's robes. It was a bit chilly. Yan Yuque raised his head and looked at the sky. Thick clouds piled up on top of his head. A few drops of water fell and hit the face, dispelling a chill.

Liu Qi was explaining to the officials, but it seemed to be of no avail. Illegal salt is a capital crime, and it is also the easiest way to deal with a person. Earlier, Yan Yuque asked Yan Tiesi to lead a search on the grounds that Jinlin cloth house contained illegal salt. In order to get the cloth from him with the same pattern as the neon clothes and feather clothes, he still uses this method now, this time to make Jinlin cloth shop completely disappear from the capital.

"How can you do this?! You say we have illegal salt on board, you can go up and search for it, and if you find a grain of salt, I'll cut off your head!"

"Of course we will search. If you continue to stop them, you will all be detained for interrogation on the grounds of obstructing the official handling of the case!"

"You are detaining our boat without any evidence. You are creating an unjust, false and wrong case!"

"No matter how much nonsense you talk about, we won't be polite."

The boatman and the official got into a dispute. Seeing that the official was about to attack the boatman, Liu Qi went up to stand in front of the boatman and apologized to the other party first, "My lords, don't get angry. These subordinates are also anxious about these goods. Seeing that the sky is going to kill them." It’s raining, so it’s not a solution to keep this product on the boat all the time. If it’s soaked in rainwater, it’s useless...” “We don’t care if you soak it in water or not? Now some people say that you have private salt on board, and you can’t unload these things. Come down!" After speaking, he pushed Liu Qi aside, "Go, go, don't stand here and get in the way!"

Liu Qi's body is thin, and he fell directly to the ground with such a push." ​​A young servant who looked like a servant quickly helped him up, complaining in his mouth, "Master, these people are so unreasonable! The matter hasn’t been investigated yet, so it’s all like this, like Li Butou and the others, they never make things difficult for us common people..."

Liu Qi patted his hand, signaling him to stop making noise, "It's not them who are going to embarrass us, but..." Turning her head, she looked at Yan Yuque, and after the servant helped him up, Liu Qi walked slowly towards Yan Yuque.

Although he knew that the method this time was indeed a little ugly, but compared with the things he had done before, it was nothing at all.A person who is willing to spend several years laying out a deception, full of lies without a word of truth, if he is really this powerful, he shouldn't worry about this little trick.Since you are the ones who are going to reach out to your own territory, you should have thought about it if you would be treated like this. It is only my fault that I was so focused on the matter of the neon clothes and feather clothes before, otherwise I would have done it early in the morning...

Yan Yuque watched Liu Qi walk up to him with a sullen face, thinking that he was going to reason with him, but he didn't expect that he didn't accuse Yan Yuque of such shameless behavior, but said: "Your Excellency, do you know that the ten boats of silk and satin are on board?" How many tireless labors of weavers and embroiderers have been entrusted?"

After Liu Qi asked this sentence, the raindrops falling from the sky began to grow bigger, and the workers on the dock began to look for shelter from the rain. Yan An opened an umbrella to help Yan Yuque from the rain, But Liu Qi just stood in the rain, and within a short while, the rain wetted his curly hair, turning into piles and sticking to his cheeks.

Yan Yuque didn't know how to answer his question.

He understood what Liu Qi meant by asking this question. The ship actually arrived at the pier yesterday, and the sun was shining brightly, which was a good day for unloading, but he asked Yan Tiesi to detain the ship and prevent them from doing anything. It started to rain now, although there were A sheltered place, but you can’t just leave it in the rain like this, and the officials still search here and there, a lot of fabrics are exposed out of the box, and the fabrics are most afraid of being soaked in rain. If the illegal salt is found, most of the cloth on these ships will probably be lost.

Seeing that Yan Yuque was silent, Liu Qi pointed to the cargo ship beside him, and asked, "If the fabrics on this ship are from the Silk Brocade Academy, if this ship is from the Yan family's goods...My lord will bear to look at those weavers. Is Xiuniang's hard work wasted in the rain like this?"

What Yan Yuque has seen the most is Liu Qi's gentle and friendly side, and he has also seen him seductive and charming on the bed. After regaining his identity as Lian Wu, he lost that kindness and became more silent and solemn. Yan, the whole body has a cold demeanor, a bit similar to that Lian Er, but not quite the same, but this time Yan Yuque clearly felt his anger.

He was angry, not because he had done something against him, but because he had ruined the efforts of the weavers and embroiderers by letting the boat's cloth suffer from rain.

Although Yan Yuque felt it was a pity, he didn't think it was his own fault, "It's just your own fault. If you hadn't touched my Nilin first, I wouldn't have used this method."

Liu Qi rushed forward and grabbed Yan Yuque's skirt, "But I only took revenge on you alone, and didn't implicate other innocent people! And what about you?! You tied him up because of the silk painting in our grandfather's hand. How innocent are the two of us to suffer the torture you inflicted?! And how innocent are the fabrics on board now, how innocent are the weavers and embroiderers who worked so hard to finish these brocades ?! You want to make their hard work go to waste?! Yan Yuque! Can you hold any grain of sand or pebble in your heart besides yourself?"

It's not that Liu Qi didn't know what kind of person the person in front of him was, and he didn't forget how he treated him back then, but he still underestimated this person. He wasn't worried that Yan Yuque would use all means to deal with him, but Yan Yuque What Que did now made him disgusted, and his anger was so uncontrollable.

Yan Yuque allowed Liu Qi to grab his skirt and act disrespectfully, and his words were full of condemnation and questioning. It is true that he sometimes used methods to hurt innocent people, but the blame is to blame these people for wanting to fight with him. Against him, if he hadn't annoyed himself, he wouldn't have driven people to a dead end.

Yan Yuque stretched out his hand and pinched Liu Qi's jaw, wanting to say something, but his lips trembled, but he couldn't say anything. Every word Liu Qi pokes into the depths of his heart, except for his own interests. I won't let anything go in my heart, he and that little guy named Liu Yu are indeed innocent, but who told you to hang out with Lian Yulou?The fabrics on board and the painstaking efforts of the weaver and embroiderer are indeed innocent, but who calls these things from Jinlin Cloth Village?

Liu Qi was forced to raise his head to look at Yan Yuque by pinching his jaw. He just stared at Yan Yuque so closely. He didn't know whether it was because of the cold or emotion, his body trembled slightly, and in those eyes, there was anger. Yi Jiongran.

When Yan Yuque met his eyes, what flashed across his mind was the image of the two of them getting along in the past. The eyes of that person were sometimes gentle, sometimes focused, sometimes deep in the mist, and sometimes star-drenched like water... Every flash After a scene, I felt a small tremor in my heart, and the "crack" and "crack" sounds of ice cracking that hadn't sounded for a long time, faintly sounded again.

What happened to me?

He calculated himself so much, why did he still keep thinking about the past?

Yan Yuque shook his hand resentfully, and let go at the same time. Liu Qi was pushed back two steps by that force. He was already soaked in the whole body. After he stood still, he looked up at the cargo ship beside him, with eyes Showing a bit of sadness and sadness, his thin body seemed to be blown down in the wind and rain.

Yan Yuque knew that he would never be moved by the things around him, but found that his heart was shaken several times because of this person in front of him.

Could it be that he really has some kind of spell that can not only lure his disliked man to have a relationship with him, but even affect his state of mind with every move?

Just when Yan Yuque was surprised, an official came down from the boat with a piece of cloth in his arms, walked up to Liu Qi, and threw the cloth on him, "Fifth Lian, please explain what is going on here. What's going on?"

The piece of fabric hit Liu Qi, Liu Qi reached out to catch it but only caught one end, and the rest of the gurgling rolled away, but it didn't spread out long, and there was a "click" and something was wrapped in oil paper, It fell into a pool of rainwater on the ground.

After falling on the ground, the oil paper bag also fell apart, and some white particles were scattered inside, which slowly melted after being soaked in water. Liu Qi was stunned for a moment, then squatted down, reached out and dipped some of the particles into his mouth. , As soon as he tasted it, his brows frowned, and he quickly checked the piece of cloth, and found the stamp of the Lian family on the cloth, he couldn't help being surprised again, and got up suddenly.

"Yan Yuque, you...?"

Before he could speak, the officer on the side interrupted him, "Come here, take him back to the Yamen!" After finishing speaking, two officers came, one on the left and the other on the right, to support Liu Qi.

Liu Qi shook her head in surprise, squinted her eyes slightly to look at the person standing in front of her, as if she never thought that Yan Yuque would really do such a cruel thing, when the officer was about to take him away, he suddenly seemed to be caught in a trap Howled like a trapped beast,

"Yan Yuque! You are despicable and shameless!!! Yan Yuque! You are framing!!!" "Lian Wuye, if you have anything to say, we will naturally ask you when we arrive at the Yamen." Without further explanation, he sent People took him away.

So the hoarse voice became farther and farther away, and was soon lost in the heavy rain.

Yan Yuque looked at the direction where Liu Qi was taken away, and for some reason, his shocked and injured eyes remained in his mind.

It turns out that people will show such expressions when they are hurt...

"Yan An, let's go back."

"Yes."

Yan Yuque believed that such an expression would never appear on his face.

absolutely not...

——End of the first volume——

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