After being kicked out of the house, I was married back

From the next day, Qi Zhinian made lamps at home during the day, and went outside the city to sell lamps at night, keeping an eye on the way Qi Huai went.

Like this, for the past few days, he has not seen Qi Huai coming back. The little brother who helped him keep an eye on Qi Huai is also very responsible. He brings dry food every morning and sits on his donkey. In the car, make a gesture of picking up passengers, and stand near the gate of our city.

At the city gate, there are many such people, but he is not noticeable.

He has not caught sight of Qi Huai's figure.

Either Qi Huai really didn't come back, or they missed someone, after all, there is only one gate to return to the city!

Want to inquire about it, but there is nowhere to inquire.

Qi Zhinian is now the most ordinary ordinary people, how can he know Qi Huai's whereabouts?Whether it's the news from the palace or the news from the Princess' Mansion, he will no longer be able to get in touch with it.

Even some low-level officials, he can't touch it.

Qi Zhinian was quite depressed, he was very worried about Qi Huai.

Even if it's not a bad thing, it must be a big thing for those who celebrate the Chinese New Year to leave the city like this.

But the lantern business was doing well. Although Qi Zhinian was wearing a mask, he had a pleasant voice, a good attitude, beautiful handwriting, and exquisite lanterns. Later, he finally grabbed the stall next door to the Lin family, and the business naturally grew. It's getting better.

Business during the Chinese New Year is really easy to do. Nowadays, one tael of silver is equivalent to about one thousand taels of silver. In normal times, a lantern with a lantern going up to the sky would only sell for five hundred taels of silver, but during the year it can be sold for two taels of silver.

Qi Zhinian's craftsmanship is good, and he still uses good paper. Even if he doesn't guess riddles, some people are willing to buy the lamps he makes directly.

Over the past few days, he can only make a dozen of them every day, and he has earned a lot of money.

He already had experience, he would spend a few hundred renminbi the night before to hire someone to occupy a seat early in the morning, and then he would stay next to the Lin family's stall every day, and most of the time, he would also help out at the Lin family's side.

The Lin family's bean curd flower has indeed become famous, which Lin Widow and Lin Xiuxiu did not expect.

After all, the beancurd flower in Kyoto has always been salty. Suddenly there is a sweet one, and it is so delicious. There are many young masters and young ladies from rich and noble families who eat tofu flowers from their family.

Qi Zhinian was wearing his mask tightly anyway, so he wasn't afraid of being recognized.

There are also masks he made by himself hanging on his own light stand, and occasionally someone will come to buy one.

In fact, Qi Zhinian can't help too much. He doesn't know how to make tofu, doesn't know how to wash dishes, and doesn't wipe the table very well. Lin Xiuxiu remembers what her mother said. It is absolutely impossible, and I am reluctant to order Qi Zhinian to do this or that. Besides, the mother and daughter of the Lin family are skilled at work and cooperate with each other tacitly. Asking Qi Zhinian to intervene is actually causing trouble.

Qi Zhinian also helped them carry the trays and collect the money.

The tofu stand was always lively, and the diners were very polite. After all, it was Chinese New Year, and no one would easily utter bad words.

Unexpectedly, on this day, a few drunk young masters came, and they were normal at first, and ordered a few bowls of the salty and sweet tofu flowers, and they all tasted it.

At that time, someone came to guess the lantern riddles. Qi Zhinian was at his stall and had just said a few words when he suddenly heard the sound of a porcelain bowl being smashed next to him, which was very abrupt.

Qi Zhinian was taken aback, and quickly looked back, only to see Lin Xiuxiu hiding behind Widow Lin behind the booth, and in front of the booth, a man who was clearly drunk pointed at them and said, "You let her accompany you." Let me give you 200 taels of silver for one night!"

"I'll add another 100 taels!" The friend next to him shouted, and the others laughed "haha" wantonly.

These few men were dressed richly, they looked like they were from rich families, besides, they only spoke a few hundred taels.

Of course they were talking about Lin Xiuxiu.

To be honest, Lin Xiuxiu's appearance is not extremely beautiful, but she is very pretty, and she loves to laugh. No matter how you look at it, she is a very cute little lady. It is not that no guests have made jokes in the past, but she just went to the end, never like this Lin Xiuxiu was so angry and frightened that she had exposed herself and smashed the bowl. She hid behind Widow Lin, trembling a little.

"Hahaha!" The drunk man tore off a purse from his waist, raised his hand and threw it at Widow Lin.

Widow Lin was so frightened that she took Lin Xiuxiu to hide aside, and the purse full of money fell to the ground.

"Take my money, but it's mine! Brothers, give it to me! Hahahaha——" They were about to rush to the back of the stall to catch Lin Xiuxiu.

The other diners beside them couldn’t stand it any longer. Someone came up to stop them and scolded them: “How can you be like this! This is at the foot of the emperor. It’s the Chinese New Year. Robbing the daughters of the people? Is there any law for the king?!”

"Bah! I gave you money! We are yours!"

These words made people even more angry. Immediately, more people came to stop them, and the most powerful one sneered and said viciously: "Wang Fa? Do you know who I am?! Who dares to block my way tonight, tomorrow I will Send him to jail!!"

"..." The movements of the people were obviously stagnant.

They are all ordinary people, who is not afraid of going to jail?And these people seem to be the very powerful ones in the family.

When Qi Zhinian heard this, he rarely sneered in his heart.

In the past 16 years of his life, even though Qi Zhinian didn't like to socialize, he was truly innocent. Some of the little princes in the palace who were about his age were respectful to him. He knew that those people treated him like this. , just because of Qi Huai and the eldest princess behind him.

But having experienced all this, even if his vision doesn't want to become vicious, it's still difficult.

He may not be able to argue people's hearts lightly, but he knows exactly what a person's family is like.

Just a few of them, dare to yell at people to go to jail? !

Even the real rich and powerful children dare not say such things!

But the other diners were really frightened, even Lin Xiuxiu had a lot of tears in his eyes, and those few people proudly reached out to grab Lin Xiuxiu, Qi Zhinian took out a bamboo strip from his stall, which was originally used The one who came to make lamps just happened to beat these people now!

Qi Zhinian picked up the bamboo strips and rushed over. Before he could touch anyone, there was a scolding voice from the crowd: "Stop! What are you doing!"

Qi Zhinian followed everyone's gaze, she was a delicate and pretty little lady, wrapped in a fur cape, her palm-sized face was full of anger.

A few wine lunatics saw a prettier one coming, and were overjoyed, they turned around and said with a sinister smile: "You come to experience it, don't you know?"

"Come, come, let my brother teach you..."

After all, one of them had already rushed towards the little lady.

Seeing the person approaching the little lady soon, the little lady exclaimed in a low voice, and took a few steps back.

Qi Zhinian was even angrier, these people!He rushed up, stood in front of that person, and said sharply: "If you dare to take a step forward, be careful that I will slap you!"

"Boy, just get out of the way!"

Qi Zhinian blocked the bamboo strips in front of him and remained motionless.

"Hey! Brat! You also want to go to jail, don't you?!" The man stretched out his hand directly, trying to grab the little lady's face.

Qi Zhinian didn't even think about it, the bamboo stick was pulled up, the pain caused the man to withdraw his hand with a cry of "Aww", and pointed at Qi Zhinian: "Okay! You boy!"

Qi Zhinian's stubborn strength also came out, and he pulled the back of the man's hand forcefully, and said angrily: "You are worthy of pointing your finger at me!"

"Aw—" the man called again.

"Go away!"

"Brothers are all on it, show this brat a little more power!"

The few people said they were about to pounce, Qi Zhinian didn't panic, he wanted to see how powerful they could be!

at this time--

"Cousin!" Not far away, someone exclaimed in surprise.

"Cousin!" The little lady behind him also shouted loudly, "Cousin! I'm here! Come here! Someone is bullying me!"

"Hula" all of a sudden, another rich man ran over with a group of people, stood next to the little lady, stared at them, and asked fiercely, "Who are you? What do you want to do?!"

Qi Zhinian looked back, the group of people behind this young master could be seen as guards in casual clothes.

He used to go out, and sometimes he was not easy to show off, and so were the guards.

In Kyoto, those who can have guards must be meritorious and royal, and this is the real power.

Qi Zhinian accepted it as soon as he saw a deal, and when the savior came, he wanted to leave the field early. It would be bad to be recognized. He was about to move away and hand over the battlefield to this "cousin", but that cousin's attitude was very displeased. Well, staring at Qi Zhinian together, he asked angrily, "Why are you so close to my cousin?!"

The little lady immediately explained: "No! Cousin! This young man is here to help me! He—"

"Cousin, I said it earlier, you can't trust outsiders too much! You know what kind of heart he is! He is also a bad guy at first glance!"

Qi Zhinian didn't bother to talk to him, shook his head at the Lin family mother and daughter who were looking worriedly, and planned to leave first.

Unexpectedly, the wine lunatic earlier roared: "Let's go together! Give them some color!"

The later cousin, with a sneer, blocked his cousin behind him, and waved his hand: "Give it to me!"

The guards behind him rushed up immediately, it was really a scuffle...

Poor Qi Zhinian didn't even have time to dodge, he was tripped by someone, he fell to the ground with a "bang", fortunately he flew a little far, it would be bad if someone stepped on him again.

There was still snow on the ground, but it didn't hurt too much. Qi Zhinian got up with his hands on his hands. To hit him here.

He had no choice but to get up first, touch his face and go back to his stall, bent down and took out a new little rabbit mask from the bamboo basket to put on.

He was just about to straighten up and go to the intersection to look for a police officer in charge of street safety, but someone walked up to his stall and stood still, blocking the lights on the opposite side of the street.

Qi Zhinian looked up.

It's... an extremely handsome man who looks to be in his early twenties.

This kind of appearance and temperament must not be raised by ordinary people. If Qi Zhinian doesn't know him, it means that they haven't met him, so the other party must not know him either.

Qi Zhinian asked generously, "Do you want to buy a lamp? Or guess lantern riddles?"

The other party was silent, looked at him for a moment, and suddenly said, "You are, Qi Zhinian?"

"..."

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