He looked at me silently, his eyes so complicated that millions of emotions surged up at this moment, intertwined with each other, and even he himself didn't know what kind of mood he was in his heart in the end.

After a long time, he took a deep breath.

"good."

“…”

"I'll accompany you."

I smiled and slowly turned around.

There are many people around, who come and leave in a hurry, but everyone has their own life. They can't see it, nor do they care about what kind of mood they feel when I turn my back to him. When I turn around, what kind of expression is on his face that has always been indifferent and cold.

...

Next, we went to many places.

Perhaps it was because of my slap of money bag and his followers that I gradually began to get up.

Speaking of which, I have not been short of money for years, but I rarely spend money on the street like this. Perhaps women are born to like shopping and like to buy things. The more they go shopping, the more they become more energetic, and the more they buy, the happier they are. After a while, his hands, which were following me, were stuffed with bags of all sizes and brocade boxes.

Then, we entered a silk shop.

He was so tired that he walked in and asked the shop owner and sat aside to drink tea and wipe his sweat. But I looked at the brightly colored silk and the well-tailed ready-made clothes with a look. After looking at it for a while, I chose one and took it to him and asked him, "Is it good?"

He looked up and ignored it.

I also know that he probably never had such a time in his life, so he didn't make things difficult for him to help women see their clothes, so he turned around and tried it.

Put on my clothes and came out. I walked up to him, reached out and shook his hand in front of him. He raised his head and looked at me. I asked, "How is it?"

He glanced up and down at me, shook his head, and stopped talking.

Seeing him like this, the shop owner hurried up to smooth things over: "Madam, this set of clothes is good. It's unique in our store. Look at the material and the tailoring!"

He didn't say anything.

I turned around and chose another one.

After changing it, he walked up to him and asked, "What about this one? Is it good to look?"

He only took a look and reached out to dust the corner of his clothes.

The shop owner smiled embarrassedly from the side, "This husband has such a high-minded attitude. This dress is not what I am like as the boss. Even if I take it to Yangzhou City, few shops can make such fine clothes."

He still didn't speak.

I didn't complain, and turned around and continued to pick it up. After changing it, I walked up to him to ask for his opinion. I changed several sets of clothes in a row, and the clothes I changed were piled up on the shop. The boss smiled bitterly: "This husband, the clothes in the shop are famous far and wide. Do you not even look at any of them? Look at this lady, you have sweated all the time when you try it."

Liu Qinghan looked up at me, then looked at the pile of clothes, and then said, "The fourth piece."

"ah?"

The boss and I looked at each other, and then looked back at the piles of clothes, and were stunned. Who remembers the fourth one he tried?

He said silently: "Shi Qing's set."

The boss hurried over and pulled out one: "This?"

He nodded.

The boss seemed to be relieved. There was a rare thing he liked. He felt that the business was about to be completed. He hurriedly said, "My husband has a vision. Look at this clothes, this material, this cut..."

However, although the boss was so vague that I looked at the clothes, I didn't think it was very outstanding. Compared with the other sets, the colors of this clothes looked very simple, and the stone blue color was not too eye-catching. If he put them in a bunch of clothes, I wouldn't go and take a look at them again if he didn't say it.

I frowned slightly: "Why choose this?"

"Simple, generous, and strong." He glanced at me, lowered his head, but it seemed a little cramped: "You are white, and you look good in this color."

Looking at his squeaky look, I was silent for a while, a little smirking, then turned around and said to the owner, "Just wrap this set for me."

The boss agreed and hurriedly asked the friend to wrap the clothes for me. I took the paper bag and turned around and handed it to him. He had no complaints. After taking it, he picked up the previous bags and brocade boxes, and together with me, he made this silk shop again.

The two of them walked back and forth like this for a long time. By noon, there were too many things he could not take, but I refused to calm down. I went to a tooth shop that specialized in renting carriage servants. I hired a carriage and a very old-school coachman who looked honest and honest. I signed a contract for half a year and paid the previous money to ask them to wait for me at the entrance of Jixiang Village tomorrow.

After walking out of the shop, I breathed a sigh of relief.

Liu Qinghan followed me, but she was silent all the time, just watching me dealing with these things. At this time, I looked back at him: "Are you tired?"

He ignored it and said, "Why do you walk faster than me who wears new shoes when you wear old shoes?"

I laughed: "The old shoes fit."

He couldn't help but sigh and shook his head.

This time, I didn't make things difficult for him anymore. The two of them found a teahouse for tea and took a break. When they entered the private room, they felt a coolness. He finally got relieved and put everything beside him and sat there wiping his sweat.

I sat next to him, looked at him sweating profusely, smiled, took out his handkerchief and handed it to him, and said softly, "You might as well take that mask off, you'll sweat like this."

But before I finished speaking, he immediately stood up and retreated for a while.

Seeing that I was holding a handkerchief in my hand, instead of taking his mask, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. Just looking at my stiff face, he coughed lightly and said, "It's okay, I'm used to it."

“…”

I was silent for a moment, and didn't say anything, but still handed the handkerchief to him. He looked at it, took it, carefully wiped the sweat beads on his forehead, and then pinched the handkerchief in his hand.

I glanced at him, and didn't say anything. I just turned around and greeted the waiter and sent some refreshments in.

While drinking tea, the two of them sat and enjoyed the cool breeze blew in from the gaps of the bamboo curtains on the window. They could still hear the lively sounds on the street outside. It was very comfortable. After taking a few sips of tea, he finally took a breath, and then looked back at the mountains of brocade boxes and paper bags piled up by us. He couldn't help but shake his head and said, "You can really buy it."

I smiled and said, "After so many years, I almost forgot the feeling of spending money like soil."

He couldn't help laughing.

I continued, "But don't worry, these are just small money, but they are necessary on the road. Look, I haven't moved the money you gave me yet."

As he said that, he shook the purse around his waist.

After following me for so long, he was a careful and sharp-eyed person. Of course, he already knew that I also had a lot of money on me, including the bank tickets that Yunxiang gave me that I could not use for the time being. I only took one of the large stack of silver tickets that Uncle Ai gave me, but it was not used up yet.

This time, he finally asked, "What are you going to do if you take so much money?"

I smiled and said, "Present it."

"Put it out?"

I nodded, and then said, "Although I want to go to the capital and want to find Miaoyan, all this must not be at the price of me entering the palace again and staying with the emperor." I raised my head and looked at him, and said calmly: "I left him and paid my life - the biggest price, I will not, and I will not go back!"

His face slightly sank.

After a while of silence, he said, "But, if the emperor wants to find you-"

Before he could finish speaking, I continued, "I know he is the Lord of the Nine Five. If he wants to find a woman, he can do anything to force him."

“…”

"But if he wants to find Miss Yan, it will not be that simple."

“…”

He immediately seemed to understand something, his eyes lit up, and I said calmly: "So this time I entered Beijing, I will no longer be alone, a weak woman, and of course I will bully you as much as I did in the past. I will bully you as much as I want. I want to show off my skills, and there will be many servants who are hustling around. I will appear as the eldest lady of the Yan family."

He said, "Well, if you need a guard-"

"I'll go back to hire a militia, you don't have to worry."

He looked at me for a while, as if he was laughing, and as if he was a little amused: "How could he not worry?"

“…”

"How many things will happen on the road if you are on the road alone."

“…”

"Even if you have arranged everything on the way, what about after you arrive in the capital? How do you stay?"

I laughed and shook the heavy purse again: "That's why I asked you for money."

He looked at me: "Ah?"

"I plan to buy a house in the capital."

"ah."

"I have heard from Yao Lao and others that even if you can really practice the method of summoning souls, it will not be successful overnight. It will take a long time to recuperate. I go to the capital to wait for her to recover and find an opportunity to see her, or—" I pursed my lips and didn't finish this, but continued: "The time must be not short, so I plan to build a house in the capital."

“…”

"But you also know that from ancient times to the present, the land in the capital is the most expensive. The money to buy a large manor in these places is probably enough to buy a toilet in the capital."

He burst into laughter.

"so--"

He watched me shake his small wallet again, smiling, but was also worried: "Your money should be enough, but if that's the case, your next life-"

"I'll find a way."

But he didn't speak immediately, but was silent for a while and said, "Maybe, I can find a way for you."

I glanced at him: "What's the solution?"

"I have a house in the capital, a private house."

"..." I raised my eyebrows and looked at him with a complicated expression.

He met my eyes and smiled: "You don't have to look at me like this. Who can't have one or two such private houses?"

“Where is it?”

"Near the Tongquetai."

“How old?”

"Three in and three out."

My eyebrows raised higher.

Although it is very common for officials to be able to buy private houses, not all officials have the ability to buy houses in the area near Tongquetai, which is three in and three out of the houses. I have been in the palace for so many years, and have been in the Jixian Palace, and have been in the officialdom. I also know the origin of those things. I looked at him with a smile: "Your popularity seems to be good."

He smiled and said, "If I don't be a good person, I won't be a good official."

After hearing what he said, I was silent.

Indeed, when the water is clear, there will be no fish, especially when his position in the court. If he only knows how to do things in a straightforward manner, he will probably have made tens of thousands of enemies long ago, and there is no room for him to show his strength.

So I smiled and asked him to continue talking.

He thought for a while, and then said, "Although this house is my private house, I have never used it much, only a family is guarding me. The man in that family is called Lao Zhu, and he is also a honest elder. I will write a letter to him and take it over. After he read it, he will naturally know. But--"

"But what?"

"I hope that the house has not been found out yet."

I was stunned and immediately realized that he was now guilty, and everything before had turned into a bubble. I wonder if this house would be investigated and dealt with.

He called the waiter and asked for paper, pen and ink. He quickly wrote a letter and handed it over to me.

He said: "If you have good luck, maybe you can save this."

I took the letter and smiled faintly: "I hope too."

After drinking tea and having enough rest, we left the teahouse. He still helped me carry those things. The two of us walked forward all the way to the west of the market, a very lively area.

Here are some dentists who are introduced to wealthy families for servants. Outside their shops, there are also some little girls, each in ragged clothes and grass tags on their heads. They are from poor families and come to sell themselves as slaves.

Liu Qinghan asked, "You are--"

"The road is too far, I plan to buy two girls to stay by my side to serve."

"oh."

"Then please help me and choose a smarter one."

He didn't say anything, just nodded gently.

Most of the people who come here to sell their own slaves escaped from Jinling because they suffered a disaster this year, but the taxes are particularly heavy. Not only are the taxes heavy, but they are also heavy in military service. Many people are overwhelmed and can only escape from their homes. But once they leave their household registration, they will have nothing. In addition, Yangzhou has remeasures the land a while ago and has taken over many arable land occupied by the gentry and tyrants under the unified jurisdiction of the court. The wasteland that no one cultivates is almost difficult to find. These people have no land and have no household registration and cannot survive. They can only sell themselves as slaves.

Liu Qinghan sighed, while watching slowly in the crowd. I knew that he had been an official for so many years and was still very accurate in his view of people. After a while, he pointed to a trembling figure in the corner and said to me: "That, it looks good."
Chapter completed!