Huaiyu is slightly cool

In front of the gate of the Ji Mansion in Qingmei County, Fuzhou, Zhumen is wide open, and there is an endless stream of cars and horses.Red silk hangs high in the mansion, and the character Shou is hung high in the main hall.The banquet is like a long dragon filling the hall, and the waiters are like flowing water.The silk and bamboo orchestra and the aroma of wine filled the air, and the host and guest had a good time.There was a lot of excitement between the toasts and cups.

But following the voice of the welcoming boy outside the door, he sang congratulations: "His Royal Highness is here, Miss Zhou is here."

The people in the courtyard, who had been bustling just now, gradually quieted down after hearing this. Many people were whispering about the sudden arrival of the two with their own thoughts, and many of them exchanged glances with indistinct expressions.

Ji Zhengde, the head of the Ji family who was celebrating his father Ji Hongming's [-]th birthday with a smile on his face, froze when he heard these two uninvited guests. He put down his wine glass, gave his son Ji Congli and the housekeeper a wink, and said The guests bowed their hands and apologized, and after saying excuse me, they took the whole family from the backyard and rushed to the gate to greet the distinguished guests.

According to the instructions, the steward of the Ji Mansion specially selected [-] maids and servants with outstanding abilities and good looks who were not stage-frightened from each courtyard and sent them to serve the distinguished guests. A few safe stewards went out of the house to invite some troupe dancers, and the kitchen to prepare some delicacies, then hurriedly took the keys and went to Mr. Ji's small warehouse to move things according to the list listed.

Ji Zhengde and his wife, Qin Shi, led the way in person. Zhou Huai straddled a long knife at his waist, and walked into Ji's mansion side by side with the eldest princess. At the end are the family members of Jifu and several stewards.

The eldest princess and Zhou Huai are very different in age and temperament.The older one is gentle and steady, while the younger one is as cold as jade.One is wearing a purple Panlonggun suit, and the other is wearing a black phoenix brocade skirt, which are very easy to distinguish.It's just that behind them, there are still two girls wearing veils and plain skirts, which makes people curious.

At this moment, after Zhou Huai and the others entered the mansion, all the bustle in the hall had already become a complete silence.The guests were silent and stood silently. At the same time, many people secretly looked at the two of them. The servants and maidservants of the Ji Mansion lined up and bowed their heads to greet them until they were seated. Everyone saluted them and sat down, but the atmosphere still seemed cautious. cautious.

The hall is wide, but the whole is in a "convex" shape, and the interior has three upper and lower floors. The stage in the middle of the word "convex" is the lowest, and there are two circles of desks around it, which can seat more than 50 people, and the whole hall is densely packed with more than a hundred desks.Only on the protruding part of the high platform, only Zhou Huai and the eldest princess were alone, which seemed extraordinarily empty.

Because Ji Hongming, the birthday star, was devoted to Taoism, he moved to live in the Taoist temple five or six years ago, and he did not come back to attend the birthday banquet at all this time.The eldest princess and Zhou Huai had already found out about the situation of the Ji Mansion, so they unceremoniously sat in the first place.

Two cases have already been placed on the first place.After Zhou Huai entered the hall, he saw two tables in the front seat. The one on the left was made of rosewood, and the one on the right was carved from a whole piece of sapphire.She smiled and made a gesture of invitation to the eldest princess.The eldest princess nodded and knelt down, and Zhou Huai sat behind the sapphire table on the right, and then a long green gauze curtain hung down, dividing the hall into two, blocking everyone's prying eyes.

The butler of the Ji Mansion wiped the sweat from his head, heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly greeted the silk and bamboo singing and dancing to continue, and asked the selected servants to serve dishes and serve nearby.

Ji Zhengde patted his goatee and sat beside the curtain, looking at the two people whose intentions were unknown, he felt uneasy, although Guo Zi didn't show any joy or anger on his face, he still signaled the butler with his eyes to lay down another layer of gauze, and then went to invite Miss Ji and At the same time, the noble lady Shuyuan came out to accompany the distinguished guests.

The butler of the Ji Mansion looked at the gauze curtain with a stiff smile, and asked all the servants to stand aside, even the two women wearing veils could only stand silently aside. Serving, I'm afraid it may not be able to catch the eyes of these two distinguished guests.

At this time, Zhou Huai was leaning on the sapphire case, resting his head with his hand, looking down at all the sentient beings, his eyes were still frosty, but he smiled evilly and wantonly.

Sitting upright behind the red sandalwood table, the eldest princess, with a straight posture, was quietly watching the crowd through the gauze curtain while she was drinking herself.

Ji Zhengde also saw the actions of the two behind the gauze curtain, his brows were slightly frowned, and he guessed the reason for their visit.All in all, he is a small businessman, even if he is the number one rich man in Fuzhou, he is still completely incomparable with Miss Zhou who dominates the Northwest.It was only because of the high mountains and far distance between Yunzhou and Yunzhou that his Ji family could live in peace.Even so, he tried his best to handle the affairs assigned by the Huai family to various places, and he always kept a low profile.This time Zhou Huai was asked to come to the door in person for some reason, but the person who came was not kind.

Night owls come in and come for nothing.And Zhou Huai once had a very famous nickname, "Night Owl", which represented inauspiciousness and cruelty, and was hated by people.Therefore, the people on the field only had two reactions when they saw Zhou Huai's arrival. They were confused and excited when they saw the legendary Zhou Huai who wanted to climb the dragon and become the phoenix.

Even if the housekeeper knew that Zhou Huai didn't drink any alcohol, after making the tea, he placed the wine on the side according to the specifications of the eldest princess, and it was strong wine, sake, fruit wine, with strong aroma, sauce aroma, and mixed aroma. All types are available.The housekeeper does not seek merit, but seeks no faults.But Ji Zhengde demanded to be careful, to be safe and to keep the family safe.

But these are all useless efforts. Facts have proved that as long as Zhou Huai wants to find fault, he will not be dismissed so easily.What she wanted to do, in this world, only the eldest princess can stop it, or Wu Mingtai can suppress it.

Zhou Huai gave Xiao Yu a look like a knife that made Xiao Yu's eyelids twitch. In the end, he couldn't do anything because of the knife-like look, so he stood up during the break of singing and dancing, and handed Miss Lu's letter to the prefect of Yazhou in public. The pleading paper was presented to the prefect of Fuzhou.

Zhifu He of Fuzhou scratched his white hair, his eyes skipped over the first two people and Ji Zhengde and his son, and finally he frowned and worried: Is it too late for me to write the letter of resignation now?

The eldest princess put down her wine glass and said with a serious expression: "This is a pleading paper I received on the way. The laws of Jingguo are strict, and the Northwest is famous for its law-abiding and good law and order. I didn't expect this kind of murder to happen. A terrible incident with nowhere to complain! In order to protect the lives of the people, and for the credibility of the government to be fair and strict, Bengong decided to investigate this matter with Miss Zhou in person. He Zhifu will show the pleadings to Patriarch Ji after reading it. If this matter is true, I will never sit idly by."

Ji Zhengde took the paper with a blue face, glanced at it roughly, and then glanced at his frightened son, got up and slapped the paper, cursing angrily: "Niezi, have you done this?"

When Ji Congli received his father's gaze, he immediately got up and went out to the eldest princess and Zhou Huai, knelt down and cried, "The villain is famous for his honesty in Fuzhou, and he dare not do bad things if he has the guts. There must be someone Deliberately wronging the villain, please His Royal Highness the eldest princess, please let Miss Zhou be the master of the villain."

Ji's father and son carefully looked at the two behind the curtain, Zhou Huai glanced at them casually, and under the persuasive gaze of the eldest princess, he leaned over to tease her: "Does it look like we are listening to politics behind the curtain?"

The eldest princess gave her an angry look: "He begs you to decide."

Zhou Huai rubbed his nose, and said to Ji Zhengde: "You can call all the parties involved and ask them face to face. Patriarch Ji can rest assured that the eldest princess will report to the public to handle it here, and she will never wrong a good person. Never let a bad guy go."

Seeing Zhou Huai's unclear attitude, Ms. Lu behind them became anxious immediately, and knelt down to ask Zhou Huai to call the shots. While crying and complaining that Ji Congli killed her fiancé, that is, Mr. Li still didn't admit it, she asked the magistrate to send an assistant to give it to her again. The fiancé opened the coffin for an autopsy to find out.

That Miss Lu was crying as she spoke, as if weeping and complaining.Zhou Huai just yawned, and glanced coldly at the crying pear blossom and raining Miss Lu, whom I still pitied, and then pointed to the maid behind Miss Lu and said, "Come and tell me the whole thing from beginning to end."

The servant girl trembled, and boldly gritted her teeth and stepped forward, but she still shivered under Ji Zhengde's deep and cold gaze, and dared not speak.

"Don't worry, they can't cover the sky with one hand! But I can!"

"..." The eldest princess, who was almost choked, put down her wine glass, looked up to count the pillars in the hall, looked down at the patterns on the table, but didn't look at Zhou Huai, as if she was not familiar with Zhou Huai and hadn't heard of Zhou Huai. What are you talking about.

Ji Zhengde glanced at the crowd watching silently around him, and saw that Zhifu He, who had sent people to invite Li, Lu and Wu Zuo, looked indifferent.Seeing that the incident was getting worse and worse, Ji Zhengde couldn't end it, so he just fainted.

Zhou Huai raised his brows, looked at Ji Zhengde who was dizzy, and Ji Congli who hurried forward to hug Ji Zhengde and cry heart-piercingly, looked at each other with the eldest princess and raised his eyebrows and asked, "What should I do?"

"Doctor, please let Ji's father and son go to the government office for interrogation when he wakes up."

Zhou Huai smiled disapprovingly and said, "Then I probably have to wait."

Sure enough, Ji Zhengde didn't wake up until three days later, and his expression was much haggard compared to three days ago.

His son Ji Congli was serving him with a medicine bowl, but Ji Zhengde had no intention of taking the medicine, so he said with a frowning face, "Tell me, why did they suddenly change their way to Zizhou?"

"Father, weren't they invited by the little girl of the Lu family just for the sake of the Li family?"

Ji Zhengde: "Just because the Li family and the Lu family can't invite these two people. Although the relationship between the prefects of Yizhou and Fuzhou is not good, but the two belong to the same party in Beijing, and the official ranks are also the same. It stands to reason that the pleadings should be sent back to Juzhou for local processing instead of reporting the pleadings to the eldest princess. What went wrong?"

"Father, could it be that the Chu family is playing tricks again? They have always been against my family, and I heard that Northwest College has newly transferred a group of backbones of the Department of Medicine. If Chu Wentao is not transferred, he may be promoted again." That's right, the Chu family is so bold that they want to suppress my Ji family."

Ji Zhengde: "Don't inquire about Northwest College in the future, there..." Ji Zhengde just said something to his son, but in the end he just sighed, looked at his son, and shook his head: "Then the Chu family will be fine. If you want to be the only family, and if you want to borrow a knife to kill people, you will not find these two people. Four years ago, Zhou Huai Hengkong was born, and he acted ruthlessly, leaving no future troubles. If it weren't for the cooperation between Ji and Chu, the business of Fuzhou would have been annexed by the Huai family. It's integrated. My Ji family is fine this time, so is his Chu family. If something happens to Ji's family, his Chu family should be next, and that old fox from the Chu family won't be so stupid."

"Then who will have trouble with my Ji family?"

Ji Zhengde said sadly: "I will investigate this later. The safest way now is to let the Ji family be included in the Huai clan and be used by her. But seeing that she has a very close relationship with the eldest princess... then Xiao Yu said that it can help us to be safe." Nothing, I don't know how much I can believe?"

Zhou Huai has a reputation for being cruel and ruthless.Ji Zhengde was afraid that after Zhou Huai took advantage of the fire and robbed him, he would sell the eldest princess a favor and destroy Ji's family.It's done straight away, clean and tidy, so that there is not even a scum left in Ji's family.

"My son thinks it's better to join the Huai family. Then Xiao Yu is just the long history of the eldest princess's mansion. In terms of power, how can he compare with Miss Zhou? Even if the eldest princess supports him, at most he will say hello secretly, but this is in the northwest. Those officials may not really sell the face of the eldest princess, but Miss Zhou is notoriously protecting her shortcomings. She once said that "heroes don't ask where they come from". She is a person who loves talents and cherishes talents. If you join the Huai family, you will protect Ji's family."

In fact, Zhou Huai also said another sentence that is very fanciful of the bandit boss: If you hang out with me, you will have meat to eat.Zhou Huai was indeed very protective of his weaknesses. For Zhou Huai, who had never changed his temperament as a bandit, it was nothing to meddle in political affairs for the sake of his subordinates, and he had already done murder of ministers.She doesn't even need to form a party for personal gain, and she can openly bend the law for personal gain.As long as you don't break the rules set by Zhou Huai in Huaiyuan, you will be fine.

However, this Zhou Huai didn't want to kill them all, but he also took the initiative to point out a clear way for the Ji family: Xiao Yu started this matter, kill him first, and then talk to the Li family's secret to force the Lu family to withdraw the lawsuit. The servant next to Ji Congli made the scapegoat, and the eldest princess left it to her to deal with it.

But Ji Zhengde is not willing to change the name of the Ji family property to the Huai family. Even if he knows that Zhou Huai will still let the Ji family manage shops, restaurants and other industries, he will give a lot of new technical guidance, but Zhou Huai will change the Ji family into the Huai family. And the storage warehouse, the Ji family can only take whatever they want, no more sovereignty, no future.What is the difference between this and giving in?

Ji Zhengde sent a letter to Zhou Huai saying that he wanted to follow the example of Kyoto and Northwest, one country, two systems, and divide Fuzhou into a "little Northwest" for the Northwest.After Zhou Huai read it, he only took a pen to reply with three words: Can you resist beating?