Poor Lady

At dusk, Yun Youzi came back swayingly humming a little song, still holding a wine gourd in his hand.

"Master." Qi Surong got up to greet him, but Feng Zhan didn't stand up.

Yun Youzi glanced at the two of them at random, and said lazily, "Are you here?"

"Master, 'Zhuofan' has come to greet you for the New Year. I wish you good health and a long life." Qi Surong bit the word "Zhuofan" very hard.

"I wish the old man a long life and a hundred years old, and you will be spared. The old man has already passed the hundred years old, so don't curse me." Yun Youzi came closer, Qi Surong was about to introduce Feng Zhan, but he was interrupted, "Okay, Nian You have also paid your respects, and you can go."

"Master, in addition to paying New Year's greetings, I also want to ask you a question." Qi Surong whispered.

"Ask a hexagram? This old man never does such a god-given thing."

"Master..." Qi Surong called out helplessly.

Feng Zhan, who was sitting on the side, was not happy anymore. This old man had never looked at him since he came back. He was disheveled and looked crazy. Where could he have the slightest demeanor?

He got up and said, "Zhuofan, since the old gentleman is unwilling, let's go back? Before it gets dark, there is still time to enter the city."

Qi Surong ignored Feng Zhan and continued to look at Yunyouzi eagerly.

Yun Youzi waved his hand: "Okay, don't look at this old man like this, your heart is about to be broken by you. You go to the back mangosteen and stay in the bamboo forest, and the old man will find you later."

Qi Surong's face was filled with joy, and after bowing, she went to the back mountain.

After she left, Yun Youzi looked at Feng Zhan again, Feng Zhan thought he wanted to say something to him alone, but the old man turned around and went back to the house, closing the door.

Feng Zhan was suffocated, sitting alone in the yard blowing the cold wind.

The sun was setting, and the sky was getting darker. Feng Zhan sat on an empty stomach for more than an hour, but Yun Youzi never came out. He didn't want to see him, but Zhuo Fan was still waiting for him in the bamboo forest.

Thinking of this, Feng Zhan walked to the door, knocked on the door and said, "Old gentleman, didn't you make an appointment with Zhuo Fan to meet in the bamboo forest? When are you going to meet?"

"See you, see you, I'm gone." Yun Youzi's voice came from inside the house.

Feng Zhan got angry when he heard it, and said angrily: "You let 'he' wait in the bamboo forest for so long, and you can't see it if you don't see it? How can you be someone's master?"

"Fuck you!"

Where has Feng Zhan been treated like this, he was about to break in, but after thinking that this person was Zhuo Fan's master after all, he didn't do anything after all, just walked away angrily and went to the bamboo forest to find Zhuo Fan.

In the bamboo forest, Zhuo Fan stood alone, wrapped in a cloak, motionless like a stone sculpture.

Feng Zhan stepped forward quickly and grabbed "him": "Let's go, your master can't tell."

"Not coming?" Qi Surong said hesitantly, "He said it himself?"

"Yeah." Feng Zhan scolded her as he pulled her out, "How could you take such a weird person as your teacher?"

Qi Surong broke his hand, smiled and said nothing.

Feng Zhan frowned and said, "Let's go to the village for a night, and then go back to the city tomorrow?"

"Go ahead, I still have something to ask the master." The master will not miss the appointment for no reason, there should be another meaning.

Feng Zhan had no choice but to follow "him" back to Yunyouzi's residence.

Qi Surong was about to knock on the door, but Yun Youzi had already opened the door, blowing his beard and staring, "Why?"

"Master, what I want to ask..."

Yunyouzi interrupted: "Didn't I already give you the answer?"

Qi Surong was stunned for a moment, her face full of doubts.

"If you don't understand, don't come again tomorrow." After that, he closed the door again with a "bang".

Qi Surong touched her nose, and it was strange that the master of the previous life was not so ill-tempered? Is it the right time to meet?

Later, she and Feng Zhan went to the village to stay overnight, and asked for a meal by the way. That night, Qi Surong was absent-minded and kept thinking about the meaning of the master's words. He said the answer has been given, so what is the answer? How did he give it?

The master made an appointment with her to meet in the bamboo forest, but he disappeared in the end. Is this a puzzle? Bamboo forest... Treating people... No one... Qi Surong's eyes lit up and she said happily, "I know, it's 'wait'!" One word secretly said: "Wait!" Is the master telling her to wait patiently for news? In other words, Jin Yun is still alive, but the time for their reunion has not yet come.

Qi Surong thought so, she stayed up all night, and the next morning, she immediately went to the master.

Yunyouzi saw her and said with a smile: "The sword is sharpened from the sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold. Girl, you and I do have a relationship between master and apprentice. The old man gave you this statement, and I hope you will come back soon."

A smile appeared on Qi Surong's face. For the first time in months, she felt relieved. With a word from the master, she was no longer afraid. No matter how long, she has the confidence to wait.

"Thank you, master." Qi Surong gave him a long salute.

At this moment, Feng Zhan rushed over and said to Qi Surong, "Zhuo Fan, I hired a car, shall we go back to the city together?"

"Master..." Qi Surong glanced at Feng Zhan and hesitated.

"Hehehe." Yunyouzi let out a weird laugh, "Go back."

As soon as Qi Surong saw the teacher's weird smile, he knew what the **** he was up to, so he said goodbye and left.

Feng Zhan breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to follow, when he was suddenly grabbed by the collar, he was caught off guard, and he fell backwards, turned his head and saw Yun Youzi's wrinkled face appeared behind him at some point.

"Boy, you are very sick."

"Nonsense, who's not clearly sick?" Feng Zhan was about to start, but he felt **** pinched the back of his neck, and his body immediately froze, unable to move.

"Come here, this old man will treat you well." Yun Youzi dragged him into the house.

"Let go! How dare you be so rude to me!"

"Long-winded." With a "bang", the door was closed.

"what--"

Qi Surong turned around and looked around, weeping tears of sympathy, and then walked away lightly.

Back in the city, Qi Surong cheered up and began to help Gu Yufeng deal with the Gu family's business seriously. The imperial court will soon usher in a big change, and the business in the capital will be greatly affected. Qi Surong intends to gradually shift the focus of business to Lincheng.

She explained the plan to Gu Yufeng, and Gu Yufeng naturally had no objection. He was also quite happy when he saw that the old sister-in-law, who had been depressed, suddenly regained her vigor.

"Sister-in-law, do whatever you want, Yufeng will definitely help."

"Thank you." Qi Surong smiled.

Years later, Qi Surong first distributed red envelopes to the servants of the Gu family and the shopkeeper's clerk, as well as money, grain and clothing. Then a new year's plan was made and a new reward system was added. Gu Yufeng is not good at doing business, but he is good at speaking, and with Qi Surong behind him, he gradually established his prestige among the shopkeepers.

Not long after, the expert tracing expert invited by Xu Chen brought back some good news. According to the clues provided by Qi Surong, he followed the road to search, and found the bodies of several nursing homes, all of them died under sharp weapons, and then were buried in the wilderness. But fortunately, the bodies of Gu Jinyun and Yanwei Ping'er were not found, and they are very likely to survive. But the clue was interrupted so far, and the catcher speculated that the two might have fallen into the Yinghe River. If they were alive, they would have been rushed to the Zhuocheng area.

Two months later, Qi Surong began to shift the focus of his business, and the first battle was Zhuocheng. Zhuocheng is already close to Jiangnan, and she plans to take the opportunity to find a few Jiangnan embroidery girls who specialize in double-sided embroidery. She has to sell two or three pieces of embroidery to Aroba every year, and she alone can't do enough.

Before leaving, she quietly met with Gu Chang, and told everything about Jin Yun's disappearance. Gu Chang was not as angry as he imagined, he said, "I already knew that."

Qi Surong said unexpectedly, "Dad already knew?"

Gu Chang snorted: "Yu Feng has some skills, I know very well, how could he manage the business so well?"

"Dad really has a sharp eye."

"Don't say nice things." Gu Chang said, "You and Jinyun will deal with your own affairs. I believe that my son, Fu Da, has a great fate and will be fine."

"Well, I believe it too."

Gu Chang looked at her and sighed, "He married a good wife, you go."

Qi Surong bowed and resigned, then went to see Gu Yufeng and told him to take care of Shuangshuang and her family.

After hesitating for a while, she said again: "Uncle, pay more attention to the nanny and Fanghe around Shuangshuang. I suspect that they are not interested in Shuangshuang. Too many things have happened during this period of time, and I didn't have time to deal with it. You Be careful, don't let Shuangshuang be wronged, she doesn't know how to defend herself, and she can't hold down those servants."

Gu Yufeng's face sank: "I just remembered one thing after hearing what you said. Didn't you send two new maids to Shuangshuang before? Fang He often picks on their faults, and I'm still hesitating whether to replace them. From this point of view, there may be some strangeness in it. I will pay attention, if Fang He and Nanny really bully Shuang Shuang, I will definitely not forgive them lightly!"

Qi Surong nodded, and after explaining, packed up and headed to Zhuocheng.

Looking at the road ahead, Qi Surong's face was calm, she would wait, no matter how long she would wait.

However, she did not know that this wait was two years.

For the past two years, she has been doing business as "Zhuofan", but she is known as Gu Yufeng to the outside world. Taking advantage of her business, she traveled to more than a dozen cities in search of Jinyun's traces. Under the generally sluggish business situation in the capital, the Gu family's business is under her management, and the business names spread all over the country and are booming.

In the past two years, the capital city has undergone earth-shaking changes. The emperor and the Eighth Prince officially broke up, fighting to the death and death, and many ministers in the court were implicated. Until the emperor fell seriously ill and became unable to manage his affairs, the battle for the throne finally intensified.

Everyone in the capital is in danger, the ministers are swaying, and the situation is full of murderous intentions. King Jing has his predecessor's imperial imperial decree, and he should have succeeded the throne logically, but now he has only received two imperial decrees, and those who hold the imperial decree are not powerful enough to compete with other princes. He must find out all the decree-holders and elevate them to the throne to make sure that he is safe.

At this time, King Jing got a list, which listed the names of all the secret decree holders, a total of seven, two of whom have died. Of the remaining five, only one is quite powerful in the court, and the other four have all been exiled and their whereabouts are unknown.

Qi Surong didn't know at this time that among the seven people, there was no name of her father and relative Shuo at all. The person who handed this list to King Jing was the former prime minister Wang Qinghe. He was not the holder of the secret order, but the only insider who followed the royal intentions of the late king.

Her actions of tampering with the secret decree at the beginning can be said to have gambled a wealthy future for the Qi family. The layout a few years ago is now the time to close the network. The people King Jing couldn't find were all on the list she made back then. She knew their whereabouts very well, and she brought them under her banner one by one.

When King Jing went to great lengths to collect imperial decrees, she secretly gave this generous gift. Of course, she didn't come forward in person, she just gave others the opportunity to contact King Jing and protect their safety. The so-called too late, she doesn't need to take all the credit, it will only attract suspicion.

Although the last few secret decree holders are powerless and powerless, as long as the secret decree is obtained, King Jing can exchange it for the support of any powerful minister.

In midsummer two years later, seven ministers read out the secret edict of the late king at the same time, supporting King Jing's ascension to the throne. The seven people were Zuo Mingtang, Minister of Officials, Gu Yin, a senior scholar in the cabinet, Qi Feng, a general of hussars, Junyi, the Grand Master, Qiu Jingyang, a privy envoy, Fuye, the Hou of Dongyuan, and Zuo Zhao, the Taichangqing.

The seven imperial decrees appeared in the world, and the government and the opposition shook up and down. The Eighth Prince was severely damaged in the battle with the former king, but now he is unable to return to the sky. King Jing's enthronement deserves his name.

King Jing ascended the throne, changed the country's name to "Fengjing", and the world was amnesty. The battle for the throne that lasted for several years has finally settled.

Many people were affected by this incident, including the Liu family of the Taiwei, the Luo family of the Minister of War, the Feng family of Jingzhao Yin, and the Fang family of the Sinong Temple Garden Supervisor, all of whom were banished because of the Eighth Prince. Correspondingly, all those who once held secret edicts were reinstated, but none of the Qi family was among them.

After everything was settled, Qi Surong returned to the capital, and before he could catch his breath, the new king sent an order to summon Qi Surong to the palace.

Qi Surong was slightly stunned, because her father-in-law was reading out the decree directly to her who had not yet removed the disguise.

"Mrs. Gu doesn't need to change her clothes. The emperor summoned both Mrs. Gu and the son Zhuo Fan." The father-in-law said so.

"If so, then there will be Eunuch Lao."

Qi Surong greeted her family and entered the palace with her father-in-law.

King Jing summoned her in the side hall. Apart from a few palace attendants, there were no other outsiders in the hall.

Qi Surong bowed respectfully to King Jing, in a neither humble nor arrogant manner.

King Jing stepped down from the main seat, stood a few meters away from Qi Surong, looked up and down for a moment, and said with a smile: "It's really better to see once a hundred times have heard, and women are not allowed to be men."

"The emperor is wrong, I don't know why the emperor summoned the women?"

"Qi, you surprise me again and again, as if you were expecting the enemy to take the lead. The reason why I succeeded in ascending the throne was almost entirely caused by you. Tell me, how should I reward you?"

"The emperor's reputation is too high, and what the women did was just to protect themselves, and I asked the emperor to forgive the sin of disrespect by the women." She was referring to the tampering of the secret decree.

"It's a good one for self-protection." King Jing smiled: "I have already checked everything you have done over the years. Mrs. Qi, do you know why I did not reward the Qi family alone?"

"The women don't know."

"Because I want to see you in person, it's up to you to ask for the credit. You can say what you want."

Qi Surong pondered for a moment, then knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, the women of the people have two wishes."

"you say."

"One is to rehabilitate the Qi family, and the other is to find the husband of the people."

"No other requirements? I can make you the official wife, I can make the Gu family an official businessman, and I can make your father an official promotion."

"Many thanks to the emperor for his love." Qi Surong said seriously, "What the women did is not enough to get such a generous reward. To be able to rehabilitate the Qi family and repeat it with the husband is the best reward the emperor can give to the women."

A glimmer of admiration flashed in King Jing's eyes, and he took an imperial decree from the **** and handed it to her: "Look at it."

Fengtian carried it, and the emperor ordered him to say: I only use words to rule the world, and I use martial arts to suppress chaos. The military commanders and generals are the pillars of the court and the backbone of the country. In the past, the general Qi Shuo, who fought for the country for several years, made a lot of contributions, but suffered an unjust injustice, so he was removed from his title and demoted to a commoner. Now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, I hereby rehabilitate the Qi family. He will be reinstated as an official from today, and he will be given the title of Marquis of Zhongyi, and he will return the wealth of his confiscated family in the past. The edict of Xi was ordered to play, temporarily Xi Wu Bian, plus Pi Ji, Qin Zai.

The decree said: The ministers have the code of honoring the duke, and they use their internal virtues to communicate with each other. Xi Er Gu Shang Jin Yun's wife Qi Shi, Kun Yi Yuxiu, intelligent and wise, meritorious to the society, the righteousness of the world, is suitable to give Er as his wife, Jia Er Guanrong, Yongxi Tianzhu.

The author has something to say: The imperial decree is adapted from Baidu.