Chapter 7 First Encounter in Jiangnan
In a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, fourteen-year-old Shui Qingrou curiously followed a few sisters rowing a boat. They were going to a place said to be the paradise on earth.
She was the youngest among the sisters. She had just returned from going out to do business with her father and was tacitly allowed to go out.
They traveled on the waterway for a long time before arriving at a remote and luxurious place. There were many buildings in the water, independent and overlapping.
"What is Qianye Pavilion?" Shui Qingrou, who came ashore, pointed to the middlemost pavilion in the water and asked.
"Oh, lady, if you have heard of Baihua Tower in Shangjing City, you should know about our Qianye Pavilion!" A charming man in green clothes came out of the pavilion and said.
"Qing Yi, don't scare us, the eldest lady of the Shui family, this is your first time here." Sang Min chuckled.
Shui Qingrou looked at this man carefully. He was wearing a green robe, he was very thin, he looked very delicate, but he had a charming and slender appearance.
He raised his long sleeves and said: "Sisters, please come inside. All the Tsing Yi students have come out."
When Shui Qingrou was still thinking about where the Baihua Tower in the capital was, she was pushed into Qianye Pavilion by Sang Min and the others.
In Qianye Pavilion, everywhere Shui Qingrou looked, there were all handsome and charming young people.
"A stage? No, that's not right!" Shui Qingrou found that the talents they displayed were all different, including those who played the piano, those who splashed ink, those who painted, those who danced, and two people who were naked on the stage competing for strength. These were the only ones.
The performers are all handsome men.
Shui Qingrou thought about it and felt something was wrong, so she tugged on Qing Yi who was welcoming them in and said, "I don't want to play anymore, can I go back?"
At this time, Yan Shuang winked at Sang Min, and Sang Min took Shui Qingrou's hand affectionately: "Sister, don't go back as soon as you come. It's too disrespectful to all the sisters."
Shui Qingrou thought for a moment and said, "It's too noisy here. I'll find a quiet place to wait for you."
Before they could reply, Shui Qingrou took out a luminous pearl from her arms and handed it to Qing Yi, telling her to find another quiet place to go.
Tsing Yi's eyes shone brightly in the night, and she immediately left the others and led Shui Qingrou elsewhere.
"Humph! The only one in Jiangnan who has money is the Shui family!" Yan Shuang said bitterly. Sang Min approached her with a flattering look on her face: "Miss Yan, the Yan family is also one of the four major families in Jiangnan. Why do you have to argue with the Shui family?
Woolen cloth?"
"The Yan family is also considered the Four Great Families in Jiangnan. I'm afraid they can only wipe the sweat from the backs of the Shui, Cheng, and Xiao families, right? If the Gu family, the richest man in Jiangnan, had not disappeared from the world overnight, how could the Four Great Families in Jiangnan be as good as your Yan family?
Huh?" Miss Cheng Zhenzhu of the Cheng family said with a smile.
"You..." Yan Shuang choked on her words and stared viciously at the direction where Shui Qingrou disappeared.
Women are strange animals. It was Cheng Zhenzhu who offended Yan Shuang, but Yan Shuang hated Shui Qingrou even more. Because although the Cheng family where Cheng Zhenzhu lived was richer than the Yan family, Cheng Zhenzhu was not as wealthy as her.
Looks beautiful!
But Shui Qingrou was different. He was the kind of person who made her jealous and hateful at the first sight! She waved to Sang Min and asked her to come over and whisper a few words to her.
Because that luminous pearl was really precious, Qingyi led Shui Qingrou to an extremely exquisite water tower pavilion. There were no other buildings around, so it was very quiet.
Shui Qingrou was very satisfied and asked for a pot of fine Biluochun, then she tasted the tea carefully under the moonlight in the pavilion.
When she came here, her sisters said they would stay for a day before returning, so she asked for this thermal pavilion. Although she was only fourteen and a half years old, she had been learning business from her father. The first time she went out to do business, she performed very well.
She was so mature and calm that even her father was impressed by her.
After a while, someone came in and gave her a pot of wine. The aroma of the wine overflowed and the whole Nuan Pavilion was drunk.
Shui Qing Judo: "I didn't ask for wine!"
The person who delivered the wine replied: "Sang Min and other sisters asked me to deliver it. They said if you don't want to drink it, you can throw it away. Anyway, the Shui family does not lack this kind of kindness from people like them."
Shui Qingrou sighed and said, "Just let it go."
The man responded and retreated.
Shui Qingrou sat down at the table and had a few drinks. The wine was indeed very good from the north. There were few such strong wines in the south of the Yangtze River. Sang Min and the others should know her taste well and know her favorites.
Drink this strong northern wine. After all, the people of the Jiangnan Shui family are the ones everyone in the court wants to curry favor with.
It was just that the wine had a strong stamina, and her whole body became hot and dizzy. When she lay down on the bed in the warm pavilion, she seemed to touch something warm. She didn't bother to open her eyes, so she fell asleep.
After the alcohol had worn off, Shui Qingrou suddenly felt her throat felt sore and wanted to get up and look for water to drink. When she was about to get up, she found that her clothes were thin and she was shocked.
She looked up and looked around, and found someone sitting outside the screen where she had been drinking. She looked like a man.
"Who are you?" Shui Qingrou asked.
"I am the most expensive Tsing Yi here." The man replied, his voice was calm and very quiet.
Shui Qingrou looked carefully through the screen and saw that the man was fiddling with something intently.
"If you wake up, just put on your clothes and come out. You still have to pay," the man said.
Shui Qingrou's heart tightened, her voice was trembling, but there was a burst of anger in her heart: "Did you take off my clothes? How dare you look down on me!"
"Miss, you just became immoral and frivolous while drunk," the man said unhurriedly.
"I won't." Shui Qingrou had a headache and was furious.
"Ms. Shui, one luminous pearl is enough to buy all the Tsing Yi in Qianye Pavilion, and the price I'm offering is exactly one luminous pearl." The man threw his hands and was busy.
Shui Qingrou was really annoyed. She put on her coat and walked out of the screen. She saw a man in white sitting quietly at the table. He was cold and cold, his eyes were fierce, but his appearance was stunning. She couldn't help being stunned for a moment and asked: "You know what I am?"
Your surname is Shui?"
"Yes, I found out yesterday, and nothing happened to us. Miss Shui's sisters just wanted to plot against you, so they put something in your wine and had me sent here when I was unconscious. But I was not
I was dizzy, so I heard what they said." The man in white said.
Shui Qingrou breathed a long sigh of relief, her mood suddenly relaxed a lot, and asked curiously: "What are you doing?"
She went to look at what the man in white was working on with his hands on the table. Because it was blocked by a wine bottle and a cup, she got closer and took a closer look.
After she saw the thing in the man's hand, she was so shocked that she took a few steps back and shouted with a slightly trembling voice: "Yes, it is... Yan Shuanghe, and... Sang Min"
The man was holding two faces in his hand. One of them had been prepared and placed on a plate of crushed ice. It was Yan Shuang, the daughter of the Yan family. The other face was Sang Min, who had taken her to stay in Qianye Pavilion yesterday.
"Did you kill them?" Shui Qingrou asked, still trembling.
"No, I just decided privately and changed faces for them!" The man in white raised his head and looked at her with a smile.
He is really beautiful, but his eyes are so cold that your heart trembles, and even his smile makes you feel cold.
However, Shui Qingrou felt her heart beat faster when he saw her, and she actually felt an inexplicable pity for the man in front of her.
Shui Qingrou turned her face away, avoiding his eyes and said, "That's good! It's just that you have offended Miss Yan's family and the county magistrate's daughter just by being introduced to Qingyi. Aren't you afraid that they will take the blame?"
The man in white smiled softly: "So, I want to ask the eldest lady of the Shui family for another night pearl to redeem myself, so that I can leave this Qianye Pavilion as soon as possible."
"Why should I help you?" Shui Qingrou has never done loss-making business.
"I punished these two young ladies just to help you. They wanted me to ruin the young lady's innocence. Moreover, they also reported it to the police. After daybreak, officers and soldiers will bring people from the four Jiangnan families here.
I’m looking for you, the eldest lady of the Shui family!”
Before the man in white finished speaking, Shui Qingrou felt a chill in her heart and said, "How are you going to deal with them?"
Chapter completed!