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The two of them walked around the antique shop, and Tong Jiu bought some gadgets, but there was nothing that caught Ji Lan's eyes and made her want to buy it.Ji Lan stopped in her tracks until she saw a prayer bead, which was made of pearls, in a niche in an antique shop.

"Like this?" Tong Jiu, who was chatting with the shopkeeper, turned around and saw Ji Lan standing there, and walked back.Following her gaze, she also saw the string of prayer beads, and asked with a smile.It was rare for her to see that Ji Lan would be so interested in something and focus on it for so long.

"If you like it, let's buy it. How much is it from the shopkeeper?" Seeing Ji Lan nodding, Tong Jiu walked to the altar with a carefree hand, took the beads, turned around and hung them on the plate buckle on Ji Lan's lapel, tilted his head and looked at it and nodded. "Well, the robe matches this moonlight just right. It looks good!"

"You two!" The shopkeeper exclaimed to Tong Jiu, "Master, we don't sell this string of beads. This--" He reached out his hand in panic, and was about to pick off the beads from Ji Lan's body.

Immediately blocked by Tong Jiu, he said angrily, "What are you doing? Just tell me how much it is." He untied the purse on his waist and said, "Just tell me a price!"

"It's not about the amount of money." The shopkeeper anxiously said, "It's something passed down from our ancestors, and it's been enshrined all the time. What the older generation left behind is just a thought, and it can't be sold no matter how much it costs."

"Forget it, gentlemen don't take away people's love." Ji Lan took off the string of beads from the button, stroked them on his hands, and handed them to Tong Jiu, saying, "It's boring, give it back to others." Then she turned and walked towards the shop Standing, looking at other things.

Tong Jiu took the bead in his hand, wanting to see what is so special about it, isn't it just a pearl or something, Ji Lan likes to go back and look for her elsewhere.

"You can look at other things." The shopkeeper, like a treasure, carefully took the Buddhist beads from Tong Jiu's hand after discussing, and turned around respectfully to put them back into the altar.

"This bead is not bad!" The grown man who just came in from the door admired and asked, "What's the price, shopkeeper?"

"My lord, we don't sell these beads." The shopkeeper looked at the adult man who had just come in, and then at Tong Jiu, and tightly covered the beads in his hand, and refused to send them back to the altar.

"Is there anything not for sale in this store?" The man looked around at the furnishings in the store, and looked at the paintings on the wall with his hands behind his back.

The accompanying butler glanced at the shopkeeper, and said to the shopkeeper, "Do you know who our master is?"

"Forgive me for my poor eyesight, how dare I ask you?" When opening a business in the capital, there is no one who can't be offended, and the shopkeeper handles it carefully.

"Our master is the new Grand Master of the Zuodu Imperial Envoy, and your West City is within the scope of our master's patrol." The man's butler took a deep look at the shopkeeper, then at the beads in his hand, and said "Shopkeeper, make a price."

"Ah, it turned out to be Master Censor. I greet you, my little one." The shopkeeper quickly greeted the man, so that he could talk about it, and with a smile, he invited the envoy and the housekeeper to the inner room for tea.

"During the time I've been in Beijing, I've seen a lot of Zuodu censors. I've done enough before I've taken office." Tong Jiu pouted and said to Ji Lan, "It's okay, if you like it." , I’ll come back later.”

"Let's go." Seeing that she cared so much about what she liked, Ji Lan felt that it was beneficial, and curled the corners of her lips.Holding her in his arms, he walked outside, saying, "What is in life must be there."

The two returned to the house.

"Jiu Ye, Grandma just sent a message that you will go to her garden when you return home." Fu Chaqin took the brocade boxes in Tong Jiu's hand.

"Oh, then I'll go now." Tong Jiu looked at Ji Lan and said.

Ji Lan asked Fu Chaqin, "Can you tell me what happened?"

"It is said that the young master came to Beijing to report on his duties. He has already arrived at our house just now, so it should be for this reason." Fu Chaqin replied.

The three of them were talking, when the curtain on the door moved, Hua Jingfu bowed his head and came in from the outside.After coming in, he didn't say anything, just looked at Tong Jiu coldly.

"What's the matter?" Tong Jiu sniffed and asked, feeling chills from her cold eyes.

Hua Jingfu raised his hand, threw a bunch of keys into Tong Jiu's arms, turned and went out.

"Hey, Jing Fu—." Tong Jiu caught the key, picked it up and looked carefully, it should be the keys on his own doors and cabinets, so he lifted the curtain and followed out.

"What do you mean?" Tong Jiu picked up the key and asked her after Hua Jingfu entered the wing room.

"We're leaving the customs." Hua Jingfu said lightly.

"You?" Tong Jiu glanced at Hua Jingfu unexpectedly, and after understanding, she quickly walked into the inner room, and saw Hong Xiao was wrapping her luggage on the kang, Tong Jiu walked over and asked in disbelief, "Sister Hong, do you want to go with me?" She's out?"

"Why not?" Hong Xiao stopped what she was doing, tilted her head and questioned Tong Jiu.

Seeing that her eyes were swollen at the moment, Tong Jiu must have cried a lot just now, she sighed softly in her heart, sat on Kang Yan'er, fiddled with the keys in her hand and did not speak.

Hong Xiao turned around and continued to pack her things, saying, "Although I am a servant girl in your house, Madam promised me to leave the house on my own when I was sixteen. Now, I am the one who wants to leave , no one can stop me."

"That's what Er Niang promised you, but I have never heard of it. If you want to leave, you can show me a written document." Tong Jiu put on a show of force, stretched out his hand towards Hong Xiao shamelessly, and said, " Do you have it? If you have it, I will let you out."

Hearing what she said, Hong Xiao ruthlessly threw the folded clothes in her hands onto the kang.Tilting his head and sneering at her, he said, "Tong Laojiu, if you want to talk like that, then I have to ask, where is the deed to buy me? Without the deed of sale, I don't recognize you as the master!"

"Yes, yes, now that I have someone capable of making decisions for you, I can't afford to provoke her." Tong Jiu withdrew her hand, stood up and threw the key in her hand on the kang, and said embarrassingly, "Why do you still see me?" There will be my master!"

"Don't mess around with others about our affairs." Seeing her being so muddled, Hong Xiao angrily accelerated the speed of packing things in her hands.

At this time, Ji Lan brought Fu Chaqin in.Seeing the awkward appearance of the master and servant in the room, Ji Lan glared at Tong Jiu, smiled at Hong Xiao and said, "I heard that you are leaving the customs, I'll come over and see what you brought, it will be cold outside the customs .”

"Don't bother you." Hong Xiao replied.

"Yeah." Ji Lan sat on the kang, holding a hand stove, and chatted with Fu Chaqin next to him, "Now this solar term, many roads outside the customs are still covered with snow. All the birds and animals in the old forest on the mountain have also come down. I’m looking for food. However, I’m not afraid to have Master Hua around.”

"Master, you don't know, it doesn't matter if you are a bird or an animal. The most unsafe thing is to cross some river or water. Some places are frozen solid, and some places are not frozen solid. If you fall." Fu Chaqin As he spoke, he patted his chest and said, "Thinking about it makes me feel horrified."

Tong Jiu, who had been standing by the side, walked back and forth twice, went to Hong Xiao and grabbed the clothes she was tidying up in her hands, and muttered, "Sister Hong, don't be angry, it's all mine, isn't it okay. If you really want to go out, the weather will get warmer in a few days, so let's go together, so we can take care of you."

"Whoever wants to take care of you, let go!" Hong Xiao grabbed the clothes in her hands and stared at Tong Jiu with red eyes.

Ji Lan persuaded Hong Xiao with a smile, and said, "Okay, that's her nature, just let her go this time. Next time, I'll go with you and make her mess up again." Then she said to Tong Jiu, " If Sister Hong really leaves, I won't be able to find a suitable person to serve you. If you show someone something you don't want others to see—"

"Jiu Ye, grandma sent someone to remind me again." At this time, Fuchami's voice came from the outer room.

"Okay, I'll go." Tong Jiu let go of the clothes she was holding, and discussed with Hong Xiao, "I'll go out first, let's talk about anything when we come back." He winked at Ji Lan again, meaning to let her Persuading Hongxiao again, she hurried out.

Besides, when Tong Jiu arrived at Aunt Han's garden in Tong's mansion, she heard talking and laughing outside the door.

"Auntie, I got stuck in something just now in my room." After Tong Jiu went in, she saw the old censor whom she met in the antique shop who was about to take office. She raised her eyebrows in surprise, and still smiled at Grandma Han. Yi Yi.

"This is—?" I only heard the man puzzled.

"It's okay, I know you're busy." Grandma Han asked Tong Jiu to sit down, and said to the man next to her, "Isn't this the ninth brother Lu Qi of your third uncle's family? Didn't you meet him before when you went to Beijing to report on your work?" Well."

"Lu Qi?" Han Luming looked Tong Jiu up and down, smiled at Tong Jiu meaningfully and nodded, and said to his mother, "Oh, it's been a while since I saw you last time. Look, I don’t dare to admit it.”

Grandma Han smiled, and said earnestly, "Now our Han family is doing well. Lu Qi is a comprador for the imperial court, and Lu Ming has also entered Beijing. Our Han family will be glorious in the future, and we will rely on you two brothers." The so-called "brothers in battle, father and son in battle", although you two are cousins, you are also of the same ancestors and ancestors whose blood is thicker than water. From now on, brothers and friends should be respectful."

After sitting for a while, Tong Jiu was concerned about Hong Xiao's affairs, so she got up to leave, and Han Luming came out to see her off.

"Tell me, who are you?" After leaving the garden, Han Luming asked straight to the point.

"Han Luqi." Tong Jiu knew that he recognized that he was not Han Luqi, so he looked at him and said.

Han Luming looked around, but there was no one else, and said in a low voice, "Even if you don't tell me, I can still make a rough guess. I didn't expect that there are still people alive in Tong Jia's family."

Seeing the vigilance and hostility flashing in Tong Jiu's eyes, Han Luming confirmed his guess, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, since this is the third uncle's arrangement, I will naturally not report it. Besides, if you hadn't been in the capital to manage , Now I can't make up for the vacancy of Zuodu Yushi. Mother is right, we should be of one heart and one mind."

Since Han Luming passed the imperial examination, he has been released as a foreign post for eight years. He knows that it is too much for a Han official like him who has no backing to enter Beijing.Unless there are some outstanding political achievements that can be appreciated by the Holy Majesty, or someone spent a lot of money to manage him up and down.

Who else could be willing to spend money for himself and talk to those people, besides this Han Luqi?

Therefore, Han Luming expressed his friendliness to Tong Jiu and his complacency in wanting to elevate the lintel of the Han family. He knew the relationship between Ji Lan and Prince Yi's mansion, and he wanted to meet Prince Yi.

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