It is midsummer and the sun rises in the sky.

After leaving Baibaozhai, I wanted to go to the craftsman workshop that Liu Laosi was looking for. Just now, the shopkeeper Song, who had been waiting at the door, ran over attentively:

"Young Master, Miss Chen is here to find you."

"oh?"

Cao Hua was a little confused. He hadn't seen Chen Jingliu for a long time.

In the past, Chen Jingliu often ran to the Marquis of Wu'an, but he never encountered Lin Chong again. He had not yet found whereabouts of Lin Chong, so he was naturally embarrassed to come to disturb him.

Back in the inner room of the small shop, the woman in a thin shirt sat quietly by the workbench waiting. The landscape hairpin was still inserted on her head, with a bit of bookish spirit, but she looked not in good spirits.

"Miss Chen, is there anything wrong?"

Cao Hua used a fan to dispel the sultry heat and opened the back door of the shop to ventilate.

Chen Jingliu came to her senses, looked up at him, pursed her lips, and nodded slightly:

"It's okay... can't you come to see you?"

"Of course."

Cao Hua felt that the cottage was too boring and there was no air conditioning or anything else, so he invited her out for a walk and happened to take a look at the craftsman's shop.

Chen Jingliu did not refuse, but just followed two steps away, put his hands around his waist, and walked with his head down.

"Well... the spy has been patrolling Lin Chong's affairs and has also greeted the yamen in various places. There is no news yet."

"oh."

"I heard that you often bring friends here, thank you... Actually, there is no need. I don't earn money from one or two people in business, but you originally intended to bring friends here. Anyway, you are a member of the store, and you have a 30% discount for many years."

"Um."

"The weather has been quite hot recently. Can you go there again in the Poetry Society? It should be boring to stay alone in the house, right?"

"fine!"

......

After saying a few words, Cao Hua noticed something was wrong and stopped, but saw Chen Jingliu walking down and almost hit him on the back.

"Miss Chen has something to worry about? If you encounter trouble, you can speak up. I can still cover a few people."

Chen Jingliu stopped, looked up, lowered her head, and bowed slightly, bowed her blessedly and bowed: "I heard that the Supreme General Princess Yong'an betrothed to the young master, congratulations."

"Oh, this matter."

Cao Hua gently shook the folding fan and thought for a while: "Oh... Actually... forget it, it's actually quite unexpected. You know that I fooled the princess many times. If I find out that the shop was opened by me in the future, I'm afraid life will be difficult."

"You... actually knew it a long time ago, right?"

Chen Jingliu stood in the alley, unable to see the expression on her face, but her voice was quite calm.

Cao Hua thought for a while: "It should... I know."

The reason why he was uncertain was because he didn't know in advance, but as the person involved, Xue Jiuqian could not have given him the news in advance, and then said that he didn't know that no one believed him.

The alley is quiet, and the summer cicadas are hidden between the green willows.

Chen Jingliu's hands were intertwined around her waist, and she was silent for a long time before she said softly:

"Since you know, why do you still help me?"

Cao Hua was a little puzzled and chuckled: "Didn't you tell you last time? I'm a good person and I'll take care of it whenever I encounter something. I will do that with you or not. The only difference is that your father went from retiring and returning to his hometown to being sent to a remote area to being a magistrate, and he lost some reputation."

"oh..."

Chen Jingliu hesitated for a long time, but finally didn't say anything, just stood in the alley.

The sun is so vicious.

Cao Hua used a folding fan to block the sun. Seeing that she didn't want to leave, he raised his hand and helped her to stand in a cool place.

As soon as he raised his hand, Chen Jingliu twisted his shoulders and moved it slightly to the side.

"Woo..."

A soft sob sounded, Chen Jingliu buried her head deeper, and finally turned her back to Cao Hua.

"Why are you crying?"

Cao Hua blinked, didn’t he touch him?

He stepped forward and walked up to him, leaned over and looked at her face from below, but she turned around again and faced the walls of the alley.

"Since... I knew a long time ago... why are you bullying me?"

The shoulders trembled slightly, and the sound whispered.

Cao Hua frowned slightly, inexplicably: "Is there a connection between these two things? I, Tai Sui of Kyoto, still need a reason to bully people?"

Chen Jingliu was silent for a moment, turned her head and choked and said, "I, Chen Jingliu... I am not a shameless woman. I have been abiding by etiquette and law since I was a child and know honor and disgrace..."

Bang!

A crisp sound spread in the quiet alley.

The woman's voice stopped and her body stiffened for a long time.

Master Cao shook the folding fan lightly and said helplessly: "Miss Chen, can you speak well? The weather is so hot, let's bask in the sun. If you have any trouble, why don't we find a cooler place to chat slowly?"

"you..."

Chen Jingliu's body was stiff for a long time, but she was not as annoyed as before. Instead, she cried louder. She turned around and smashed her fist into his chest, and choked and said, "You...What do you mean... I kidnapped me back and let me go... I saved my father and bullied me... I, Chen Jingliu, are innocent, why do you insult me... Woo... I know that I will be granted marriage by the court, why do you bully me... Woo..."

Cao Hua raised his hand and froze in the air, his chest was hit and his mouth was pounding, and his words were intermittent: "And... no... yes... yes... yes... yes... yes... yes... yes... yes... yes... yes... yes... yes... yes..."

"You are so stupid...Woo... Since you don't marry me, why do you humiliate me like this..."

Chen Jingliu's eyes were red. Perhaps because he had been too long for resentment, he had to pull out his hairpin and stab him after a while.

Cao Hua took two steps back and suddenly realized: "I thought it was such a big deal, it was just a matter of adding a pair of chopsticks at home, why were you so angry?"

What about adding a pair of chopsticks at home?

Chen Jingliu's body was stiff and she was still holding her hairpin with a slender hand, and she was a little confused: "You...you have been granted marriage by the court..."

"In ancient times... can't we take many wives? I saw that Yuchi Hu had taken more than ten, and I was a Kyoto Tai Sui, and it should not be too much to marry a hundred or ten..."

"Pooh!"

Chen Jingliu was so angry that her face turned ashen, and she smashed the jade hairpin worth a thousand taels directly: "Semantic! Dingpa, who wants to marry you! You dream about it!"

If the jade hairpin is exquisite, it will inevitably be fragile. If it falls to the ground, it will probably throw out the small jade plate inside.

Cao Hua flew to catch the jade hairpin and said annoyedly: "What are you doing? I used the landscape hairpin for three nights to carve it..."

"What?"

Chen Jingliu's eyes were full of incredibleness and pointed at him and said tremblingly: "Three days...you dare to buy me fifty taels of things made in three days? I saved it for three years to save such a small possession..."

She always thought that this hairpin was made by Cao Hua for countless hard work, so she cherished it so much that she still wore it on her head even though she was exposed to rumors and kept introducing Wanbaolou to her friends.

How big is this jade, or the common Dushan jade, and she sold her fifty taels of silver?

Cao Hua also found it incredible. The handmade fee for the things he spent three days to work hard to grind was 300 taels. His previous value was really not cheap.

"You don't know that the price of this hairpin is a thousand taels..."

Chen Jingliu was willing to listen, and she breathed rapidly. She ran forward and stretched out her hand: "You exchange the money for me."

He was fierce and angry.

"This..." Boss Cao shook his head and said with his professional qualities: "If the goods are sold, no return or exchange will be given."

"Give me back!"

Chen Jingliu had a calm face. She was frugal since childhood and was frustrated by others. She was so angry that she wanted to pay money from Cao Hua's arms.

After all, Cao Hua brought a lot of silver notes to prepare for the team building at night, and his chest and collar were bulging.

Chen Jingliu also forgot about the great defense of men and women at this time, and put his hand in front of him directly into Cao Hua's clothes, trying to get back the money he had saved for a long time, and then ignore this slick-talking villain again.

But just as she touched a thick stack of things, she had not had time to pull out her hand, and her body suddenly lightened, and her back waist was wrapped around her arms. She lifted it up with force. She looked up in shock...

“Woo woo--!!”

In the quiet alley, the summer wind was faint, and the cicadas were chirping, and the woman was stunned and suffocating, and the "whimper" sounded.

The bearded person feels a little painful.

Chen Jingliu's eyes widened, and her toes hit the bluestone bricks on the ground. She moved her hands at a loss, and her hands on her waist were like iron hoops...

slightly...

"ah-"

Half an hour later.

Cao Daren bounced away like an electric shock, covering his bleeding lips and frowned: "Miss Chen, why do you bite people at any time? This is the third time... It hurts..."

"Pooh.."
To be continued...