Qiaoniang woke up immediately when she heard the sound of water, and turned her head to see the wet Wanqi mirror.

"A Jing!...Shh! Xiao Zhou is sleeping."

While talking in a low voice, Qiao Niang skillfully grabbed the towel placed aside and wrapped Wan Chengjing around her body.

"I chatted with Xiao Zhou a lot. To be honest, if he is willing to come with you, then I have 12 likes for this kid—but..."

Wan Chengjing took the towel with a smile and began to ruffle her wet hair.

"He...he is such a charming spirit, unexpectedly even grandma can't resist."

Coincidentally, Zhou Jue woke up at this time.

"...Why did I hear someone arrange behind my back when I came together? Didn't my skin itch?"

When Wan Chengjing saw Zhou Jue's sleepy look, he threw the towel and ran over.

"What is it about arranging you? It's clearly a compliment!"

Zhou Jue yawned, with teardrops still hanging from the corners of his phoenix eyes, and his face was a little flushed - anyway, in Wan Chengjing's eyes, he was as beautiful as a fairy.

"Come on, praise me as a sycophant..."

"No, it's a charming spirit!" Wan Chengjing was eager to argue, and Zhou Jue turned his face slightly and pursed his lips in joy.

"Isn't that the same meaning?" He half-truthfully teased Wan Chengjing, watching Wan Chengjing's serious expression and anxiously trying to defend himself, holding back his laughter.

"No!... Oh, it's really not! Aunt, why are you laughing at me with him?"

Wan Chengjing's head was sweating anxiously, Zhou Jue and Qiao Niang looked at each other in blank dismay, and after a pause of two seconds, they all laughed "噗嗤".

"Hahahaha!" This was Zhou Jue's hearty smile.

Qiao Niang just hid her face, but her trembling shoulders betrayed her.

Wan Chengjing looked at the two at a loss, and it took a long time to realize that the two were joking about him, so he smiled to himself.

……

Wan Chengjing hugged Zhou Jue and said good night to Qiao Niang.

Behind the two, Qiao Niang smiled and waved goodbye to the couple.

fine……

It seems that Xiaojing's love - is not completely hopeless!

The two left from Qiaoniang's air chamber after Zhou Jue had done a good job of psychological construction, and then, just like in the morning, Zhou Jue returned to his own air chamber with his last breath.

"Wan Chengjing, I have a problem right now." Zhou Jue lay down on the table - because he was afraid that his clothes would be wet and the bed would be dirty and it would be inconvenient to rest.

"Tell me." Wan Chengjing went around behind him and handed him a change of clothes thoughtfully—then turned away under Zhou Jue's staring gaze, not watching him change.

Zhou Jue's muffled voice came from behind.

"We are both human faces. Why don't you feel as uncomfortable as I do? How did you bring me back? I was in Qiao Niang's house the moment I opened my eyes, but I didn't feel as miserable as I do today. Abyss?"

Wan Chengjing looked up at the sky boredly, and pointed at Zhou Jue's cheek.

"You and I don't know very well, but if you are a mermaid, take a closer look. Is there a shallow line here? We breathe underwater with hidden gills, not lungs," Wan Chengjing beckoned Zhou Jue to come forward , the latter parted Wan Chengjing's hair and looked carefully from behind. The two breaths were instantly entangled, which disturbed the Merman's thoughts—so he guessed in a panic, "...is it because of the water-repelling drops? ?”

Zhou Jue froze for a moment—then quickly backed away, continuing to change clothes without leaving a trace.

"what is that?"

Wan Chengjing wanted to turn back subconsciously, but was reminded by Zhou Jue's heavy cough—he continued to talk to the dry air in front of him while turning his back to the little beauty behind him.

"It's the Maid Girl from our clan—by the way, Grandma told you about it?" Wan Qijing stopped and waited for Zhou Jue's answer. Zhou Jue, who was arranging the obscene clothes, nodded subconsciously, and then thought of Wan Chengjing's identity. Turning his back to himself, he finally answered "yes" with a drawn-out voice.

What Zhou Jue didn't say was that when Qiao Niang narrated this cruel custom in a flat, emotionless voice, he immediately expressed his anger...

But in fact, Zhou Jue understands that the most angry thing is not the incident itself, but Qiao Niang—and even the countless women behind her—who are poisoning their lives with an indifferent and reasonable acceptance of fate!

But the reason why Zhou Jue is Zhou Jue, and he is the heir Zhou Jue who has been cultivated by the Zhou family for 20 years - he won't take care of things that don't benefit him at all...

Zhou Jue's thoughts turned several times during Wan Chengjing's enthusiastic narration...

"Okay, let's talk about it... that is, when Jiaoniang is taken underwater, the patriarch will distribute some water-repelling beads to everyone, and then use those water-repelling beads to put them in the nostrils of humans. I don’t know, but it’s the wisdom of the predecessors.”

Zhou Jue wondered in his heart how likely it was that he could get the tax avoidance beads through other clansmen—or Jiaoniang—by bypassing Wan Qijing, "Then can you get the water avoidance beads now?"

"No!" Wan Chengjing agreed firmly - Zhou Jue almost choked and didn't come back.

"You said you couldn't even try it?" Zhou Jue felt very baffled, and at the same time, angrily, he quickly wrapped his clothes around his body and went to Wancheng mirror to face him.

Wan Qijing indulged Zhou Jue in every possible way, without any concealment, and told the truth.

"Because I've already brought you underwater! So there's no need to apply!"

Zhou Jue felt very speechless.

"Then what if I go to other people's house again? You have the heart to let me be so half-dead every time?"

Wan Chengjing thought for a while, then nodded painfully.

"It really is."

"Why? This thing is expensive?" Zhou Jue's first thought was to add money to measure the preciousness of things, but Wan Chengjing shook his head.

He was even more puzzled.

With Wan Chengjing's character, even if it's something precious, as long as Zhou Jue says it, Wan Chengjing will try his best to get it—even if he can't get it, at least he will try.

But since these water-repelling beads are not expensive—and it sounds like they will be used every time they bring people down, it means that their clan should have reserves.

So what's the reason?

Wan Chengjing said sadly: "Because I just offended the patriarch..."

When Zhou Jue heard this answer, he felt that he was very angry...

Wan Chengjing thought that Zhou Jue had gradually softened, like the countless soft girls for thousands of years, and recognized——

However, Zhou Jue only wanted to escape secretly all the time.

At this juncture, all kinds of war news flew to the patriarch's table endlessly, as if deliberately training the physique of the clan's personal guards.A piece of slate is a piece of news, usually there may not be three or five pieces in a month, but now two or three baskets come almost every day.

The ground is not flat, the war has started, and the food supply is soaring.

Wan Qilin was very depressed.

At the same time, Jiangnan is thousands of miles away.

Bian Chaoge, who was supposed to be in command, was still fighting Qiu Ju.

Qiu Ju—that is, Chen Fang's personal experience can be said to be very legendary: he was actually trained from the royal family to monitor the Zhou family's dark guards, but after he arrived at the Zhou family, he did not want to make progress, neither wanted to be a spy nor to be in the Zhou family. The Zhou family received the food and salary honestly, doing nothing every day, just in case the former colleagues of the royal family received a secret order to kill him and everything would be fine.

Zhou Jue got it—or it was when Chen Fang approached his door shamelessly—Chen Fang was only 13 years old, but he was born with a clever look, and a pair of big eyes that rolled around on his face made his original The very glamorous appearance is covered up to seven points.

Therefore, Zhou Jue, who likes smart people, directly classified Chen Fang as his disciple.

Therefore, Chen Fang, who was in the year of dancing spoons, took advantage of the opportunity of a certain day when Bian Chaoge was drunk and Zhou Jue was not around, and finally climbed into the bed of Bian Xiangye, who had been planning for ten years and finally arrived... …

And then, the enraged Zhou Jue directly threw him—a young but well-rounded prodigy in both civil and martial arts—into the small hall, where he was escorted by thousands of people and beaten and scolded by thousands of people...

Although many years later, Zhou Jue was about to vomit out the gall of regret, but when he recalled that year——

Maybe I and Chen Fang would have become best friends for life if there was no Chao Ge...

Zhou Jue has been thinking about this question for countless nights——

However, I can't understand...

There was a "squeak" from the red-painted carved mahogany door.

Chen Fang glanced lazily at Bian Chaoge who entered the door with a livid face.

"Hey, isn't the war urgent? Why is Mr. Bian so free to come to my small house today?"

Chen Fang grabbed a soft cushion and stuffed it under his waist to lean on firmly, his tone was as unprincipled as ever.

Bian Chaoge looked gloomy at the young man in front of him.

There used to be such a white-powdered person who fell into a pool of blood without saying a word and clenched his silver teeth—if the housekeeper hadn't stopped him that day, Bian Chaoge really didn't know if he would have directly ruined him in Zuixian Tower.

But he never said where Zhou Jue was.

Bian Chaoge laughed at himself.

Chen Fang was originally from Da Nei—although he is only a young child, his eyesight is definitely not comparable to that of ordinary people... Bian Chaoge thinks that the little tricks they know are probably like a child's past in the eyes of this person in front of him. Every family is ridiculous.

So half a month earlier, Bian Chaoge ordered someone to fish out Chen Fang and place him in a courtyard under his name.

He was not worried, because Bian Chaoge had the absolute right to mobilize and control all properties under Zhou Jue's name.

Bian Chaoge thought, he reckoned that since the founding of the dynasty, he was the most righteous and powerful person who ate soft rice - the one above probably knew his relationship with Zhou Jue, so he didn't know much about this generation of Zhou family The second is to let yourself take on important responsibilities in the army at a young age.

There is no other, because although Bian Chaoge spent money for the court, he paid Zhou's money.

Most importantly, he didn't even have to give Zhou Jue an IOU while taking the money from Chao Ge - it was all free of charge!

In this way, Bian Chaoge and Zhou Jue often scolded the emperor and the ministers in the cabinet in secret - often accidentally even scolded Bian Chaoge's father.

……

Bian Chaoge just sat at the table, pouring pot after pot of tea.

Chen Fang was reserved at first—but when he saw Bian Chaoge who was thinking about him under the same roof as himself, his instinctive desire still pushed his reason to the soles of his feet.

"Master Bian, you went down for three pots of tea without stopping. What I know is that you have a fire in your heart, but those who don't know think that my Qiu Ju's chrysanthemum tea is very attractive~"

Bian Chaoge ignored Qiu Ju's provocative words, and just put down the cup in her hand—Qiu Ju secretly decided that not only would the cup not be washed in the future, but it must be kept carefully, so that it could only be used during festivals.

"Speak, your request."

Qiu Ju's smile faded slightly, but soon covered it up with a brighter smile.

"What are you talking about? Why can't the servants understand?"

Bian Chaoge frowned, but what he said was something irrelevant.

"I still miss the old Chen Fang, not the 'Qiu Ju' who had a good time in Zuixianlou."

The "Qiu Ju" in front of her completely put down her mask and became "Chen Fang".

"Bian Chaoge, since that's the case," he looked straight into Bian Chaoge's eyes, "then you will accompany me for a spring night. That's it, okay?"

Bian Chaoge was completely stunned.

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