The location was still the building outside the building, and the time was after Fu Qu went on a tour and before returning to Beijing.
Several people gathered together. Shen Lianqing twirled the black chopsticks between the five fingers of her right hand and supported her chin with her left hand to watch their negotiation.
From the initial chatter to the verbal sparring, everyone knew who Fu Tingxiao was in private, but for some reason they couldn't say it openly, so he occupied an extremely advantageous position.
He was sitting next to Shen Lianqing. He was wearing a black robe. His face was not very outstanding but his temperament was outstanding. He raised his dark eyes and looked at the other two people present. His breath was calm and majestic, as if he was a big brother and Ji Mao. Fu Qu spoke slowly.
"Huaijin, you haven't been back home for long. Brother Ji will take the initiative and give you a toast today."
He raised his glass to Fu Qu. Fu Qu's eyebrows were cold. Although there was a smile on his lips, who among the people present couldn't tell that he was in a bad mood?
He did not refuse Fu Tinghao's toast. He picked up his own wine glass from the table, smiled and nodded, "It is better to obey orders than to be respectful."
After finishing the drink, he seemed to be quite dignified. Next came their highlight of the day. Ji Mao still had time to compete, but Fu Qu would definitely stay in the capital and serve as an official after he won the election. It would be most advantageous for him if Fu Tinghao didn't show up, but when Fu Tinghao showed up, everyone had to retreat.
Fu Qu didn't expect that a person like "Brother Ji" would suddenly appear. He had thought about it before and used Ji Dabao's study as an entry point to get close to Shen Lianqing. When the time came, he would marry her and take her away from the creek. Go to the place where he is an official.
Ji Mao is not a person to be afraid of. Could it be that if he took Shen Lianqing away from him, an organized gangster could catch up with him?
Everything is going well, but what's going on with this fake Brother Ji? Judging from their situation, Shen Lianqing didn't care about the truth and he couldn't tell if it was true or false, so he wouldn't say it. Ji Mao couldn't possibly not see it.
They can still maintain a harmonious relationship now, which shows that they either know each other or have reached an agreement. Now the situation has suddenly changed and it has suddenly become his disadvantage.
"I would also like to toast Brother Fu." After Fu Tinghao and Fu Qu finished their toasts, Ji Mao picked up the wine glass, and Fu Qu had to raise the wine glass again. They drank back and forth for several rounds, and Shen Lianqing watched. They drank, and Fu Qu's hands were shaking in the end. He was holding the wine glass, his face was red but his eyes were clear.
He looked at Fu Tinghao and Ji Mao, and finally drank it all in one gulp. He held up an empty wine glass and nodded lightly to them, "Thank you, eldest brother, second brother."
The title seemed to have a special meaning. Shen Lianqing watched them say nothing during several rounds of pushing and pulling the wine glasses, as if they had confirmed something, and called them Niubi. Could this be the wine glass culture passed down by the ancestors for thousands of years?
Fu Tinghao and Ji Mao also nodded in response. The banquet ended when Shen Lian was confused. They invited Fu Qu without talking about anything off-topic, as if they really just invited him to get together.
Shen Lianqing didn't believe it.
But she couldn't help but believe it or not. She hadn't seen Fu Qu for the next two or three years. Ji Dabao also made some progress under the "patient" guidance of his dear father and uncle. When he was twelve years old, At the end of the year, I was finally admitted to Tongsheng.
Fu Tinghao and Ji Mao breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. They didn't come back very often. Every time they came back, they exchanged information secretly. Ji Dabao's achievements like this didn't mean that they had lost their reputation.
Anyway, no matter what happened later, the old master who taught Ji Dabao looked away. Ji Dabao couldn't make progress in his studies. It was better to let him become a cook. Didn't he learn very well in the past few years?
With a big spoon in hand, he can cook everything, and he and his wife taste it every day, it’s not bad!
Don’t mention this beforehand.
A big event happened in Jianghu recently. I heard that the notorious "Rakshasa" organization was hanged by the imperial court. It was so huge that in a small place like Xishan, even people like Shen Lianqing who didn't pay attention to Jianghu's affairs knew about it. .
Khe Sanh has become more lively recently. You can hear people discussing everywhere when you go out. I stopped one person and asked him. The reason why they were so concerned about this matter was because the officials who led the team to kill the "Rakshasa" were from Khe Sanh. ——Fu Qu.
The little girls in the house were also discussing this matter. Shen Lianqing was passing by the garden and paused when he heard their adoring expressions. How could he hear about Fu Qu's incident everywhere recently?
Is this the case in the original plot?
She thought about it, it seemed that Fu Qu was mostly involved in emotional entanglements, right? As the male protagonist, he has a lot of admirers, but the most difficult one is the aloof princess. Fu Qu can't get rid of her no matter how hard she refuses. In the end, he frankly admits that he is "not good" in that aspect.
Well... although it sounded very unreliable, the princess believed it and was so frightened that she found someone to marry her overnight. From then on, Fu Qu had this bad rumor.
His opponents, no matter how low the level, would ridicule him several times when they saw him. Fu Qu also smiled and did not refute, but later used very spicy methods to retaliate against his opponents.
After the "Rakshasa" organization came to an end, Shen Lianqing also lived the life she wanted before, buying several large houses and traveling around. They finally settled in a small county with beautiful mountains and rivers.
Occasionally she went out to buy things all day long. People on the street gathered around both sides of the road, and a carriage pulled by a few black horses drove slowly in the middle of the road.
Shen Lianqing grabbed a lucky passerby and asked what was going on. The passerby was about to see the official's style and impatiently wanted to get rid of her. As soon as her voice came out, he looked sideways, his eyes lit up, and he started chatting with her. stand up.
"Madam, let me tell you, it is the prefect who came to us to drain water to see how the people are feeling! I heard that the prefect is a good governor who loves the people like his own son. He came to us to drain water just to see whether we are doing well, how the harvest is, and whether we have any excess. Miscellaneous taxes! He is here to beat the Lishui County Magistrate and think about us!"
Shen Lianqing was a little silent when she heard that. Why did someone inspect the inspection in such a big way? Was there something wrong with her brain or something was wrong with that prefect.
There were too many people, so she had no intention of buying her favorite sesame seed cakes, so she went home directly. When she got home, she was told by the housekeeper to invite her to get in the carriage and go to the magistrate's house for dinner.
Shen Lianqing was put into the carriage in a daze, and then was taken out of the carriage in a daze. Someone led her in. Once inside, the magistrate of Lishui County, Fu Tingping, Ji Mao, and... a man in official uniform sat in the middle.
When she saw this person, wasn't he Fu Qu whom she hadn't seen for several years? What are you doing here to drain water?
"Mrs. Ji is here? Please sit down quickly."
The county magistrate was very enthusiastic towards them, and it was only after she sat down that she realized what they were talking about.
Fu Qu admitted that he had been helped by Ji's family when he was down and out, but he didn't know where they moved after he became an official. This time he came to Lishui to see the folk customs.
