Chapter 154: A Noble Guest Is Coming
Zhao Su was dumbfounded for a moment, “Do I know you?”
The visitor said, “I’m just a passerby, I saw that the girl was missing a piece of hardware, but I just had a favor to do.” Here she paused, “However, if I remember correctly, I should have met the girl once as well.”
Zhao Su looked at this person carefully, only to see that it was a young young woman, with a general air of elegance and kind brows, but with a hint of light sadness condensing between them. After looking at her for a moment, her eyes suddenly lit up, “I remember, you’ve sought treatment at Lady Doctor Chen!”
The last time she went to Dr. Chen’s place to ask for a safe pulse, there happened to be a young woman in the clinic who was desperate for a child, and when she looked closely, she saw that she was the one in front of her. This time, she also remembered that she seemed to be surnamed Wu!
“Exactly.” Wu nodded, “I didn’t expect to meet you here.” After saying this, she looked at Zhao Su again, “The teahouse at the entrance of the alley is run by my fellow Cangzhou villager, would you like to go over and clean it up?”
Zhao Su looked at her body and nodded, “Good.”
Wu then sent her maid to go to the teahouse to clean up, and then guided Zhao Su towards the teahouse.
When they arrived, the tea house’s shopkeeper and shopkeeper’s wife had already greeted them at the threshold, and even bent down when they saw Wu’s, and her imperial guard, who was still wearing a guard’s uniform, seemed to be at the back of the line.
The grandeur was so great, but Zhao Su was certain that he had not seen her in the capital’s powerful circles.
Into the upstairs private room, Wu’s side of the maid has already hit the water over, flowers want to help her wipe the clothes, and wash the face, sit down, tea has also been made.
Zhao Su did not touch it, sizing up Wu, “Madam is from Cangzhou?”
Wu nodded, “An authentic Cangzhou City native.”
“No wonder listening to madam’s accent, it’s somewhat like Yanjing people.”
Wu smiled slightly, “Cangzhou is not far from Yanjing, my mother’s family does business, when I was a child, I often traveled with my father and mother to the capital by boat, the boatmen and the errand boys on the docks were all from Yanjing, and lived in the capital as well, so I gradually learned to speak the official language as well.”
Zhao Su nodded in understanding. Turning to him, he said, “It seems that this teahouse, should also be the property of Madam’s family.”
Wu’s hands slightly paused, looked up and smiled, “It’s admirable that the girl has such eyesight.”
Zhao Su smiled for a moment. Then she said, “Thank you for your convenience, ma’am, I’ll take my leave first.”
Wu said, “At the risk of asking, is the girl the eldest miss of the Marquis of Qingyun?”
Zhao Su paused, “Your Ladyship seems to know a lot about officialdom in Yanjing.”
“The last time I saw the girl, the girl was also dressed in a guard’s uniform, there aren’t many female guards in the capital, coupled with the fact that the Marquis of Qingyun’s mansion is near the medical center, it’s inevitable that there will be some associations. Furthermore, just now, the girl was righteous and dared to directly accuse Old Shangshu He, I think that if the girl herself didn’t have a not-so-low status, she must not have had such a strong backbone.”
Zhao Su looked at her for a moment and resumed her seat on the chair, “What kind of business does the lady’s family do? It doesn’t look like an ordinary merchant family.”
This woman has an extraordinary aura, more dignified than the average merchant lady, and more generous than the average official lady, coupled with her intelligence, what satin store oil and paper store and other stores, certainly not raised.
Wu sat down opposite her and said with a smile: ”My husband’s family has money banks all over Daliang, Rongxin money bank is my husband’s family trading. My mother’s family, on the other hand, runs a shipyard in Dagu.”
“No wonder!” When Zhao Su heard this, she stood in awe, although her soul had only come over a short while ago, and the original owner hadn’t left much of a memory about this, but because the Rongxin Money Bank was really too famous, and there was one on almost every street in the capital, it would be hard for her to think she didn’t know about it! “So you are the young lady of the Rongxin money bank, disrespect!”
After saying that, she couldn’t help but recall that she went to Doctor Chen’s clinic to seek a child, this kind of privacy is by definition inconvenient for outsiders to know, but Wu was outspoken about where she came from, wasn’t he afraid that he would spread the word about this matter?
In this way, he could not help but be curious: “Could it be that madam Fang was purposely waiting for me there?”
Wu took a sip of tea and looked over, “It wasn’t a special wait. Our business family, unlike the official family, the young ladies need to abide by the rules, and are not allowed to show their faces too much.
“We have followed our parents around since we were young, and have seen many things like what just happened. Sometimes we also feel confused, why the same are all people, but in the eyes of many people, women are not as useful as men.
“Obviously are the same to support the family business, but there is no woman at the time of sacrifice, no woman at the time of the division of the family property, and they still take it for granted!
“It is also this taking for granted that we have grievances in our hearts, but we never dare to say anything to the public. Because we are afraid that what we will get in return is an overwhelming attack, or even a punishment that they will impose with the rules they have set for themselves.
“When I heard the words of the girl questioning Lord He in the alley just now, I was very touched in my heart and admired the girl’s courage. Those words were sharp and direct, and I want to know what you would have done if you were not a young lady of the Marquis House and encountered such a thing?”
Zhao Su was stumped by the question. If she wasn’t the young lady of the Marquis of Qingyun and didn’t have a father who was strong enough to resist or overwhelmingly support external forces, or if Empress Dowager Lu and the Emperor didn’t treat women in such a manner, she wouldn’t dare to say anything else, but she wouldn’t have dared to at least respond to He Zong to his face in such a manner.
She fell silent, “I was also too impulsive just now.”
“‘Impulsive’?” Wu smiled bitterly, “Do you know how many isolated women long for an ‘impulsive’ vocalization like the girl’s? Many of them have watched their kind fall into the quagmire, and then rolled around in the quagmire themselves.”
Zhao Su, at this bitter laugh of hers, suddenly thought of the words she had said to the Sister at his side after she had come out of the medical center.
“It is because I admire the girl’s noble birth and still have such a heart – the girl can be said to have subverted my impression of an official family’s young lady, so I have the intention to befriend her, if the girl does not give up, when we go to Cangzhou in the future, I, Wulanfeng, will do my best to fulfill the landlord’s friendship.”
Her words had a bit of Jianghu chivalry.
Zhao Su looked at her and inhaled slightly, “A frog at the bottom of a well like me is lucky to be able to make friends with a woman as insightful as Young Lady. If madam still has some days left in the capital, then some other day, I will be the host, and I will first be the host to invite madam for tea.”
The gravity on Wu’s face gradually melted away as she laughed, “The girl is indeed a refreshing person – also, Doctor Chen said that he still needs to prescribe three more prescriptions for me, so I still have at least half a month left in the capital, and I think the girl still has things to be busy with today, so let’s wait for another day when the girl is free, and then we’ll have the girl to have a good catch-up. ”
Zhao Su was indeed still rushing back to deal with the loose ends. Seeing that she is so well-informed and sensible, there is no nagging at the moment, “Then I will not be polite, and will have a long catch up with ma’am some other day.”
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