Chapter 243: Men are still cruel

Wang Shang said this with a playful look on his face, shocking Jiao Niang so much that she was stunned for a long time.

After a long while, she finally uttered a sigh: "As expected, you men are really cruel!"

Wang Shang chuckled a few times and said indifferently: "I'll just take it as a compliment."

Jiao Niang rolled her eyes at him.

shameless!
Wang Shang was even less concerned. He slowly poured himself another cup of tea and said in a calm voice, "But when it comes to the most suitable candidate, it's still the one in the palace!"

???

!!!

Jiao Niang looked at the man in shock and doubted her own ears.

Her voice changed a little: "Who?"

Who was this man talking about just now?
The one in the palace?

"You don't mean to say that the master is interested in taking Jiang Anning as his concubine, right?"

Jiao Niang screamed in shock: "How is this possible?"

Then he denied it again and again: "This is impossible, this is simply impossible!"

Who is Jiang Anning? He was born in a farming family and it's okay that he lost both his parents.

The key is that she is Sang Jingwan's daughter!!

How could the master want Nasan Jingwan's daughter to be his concubine?
Aren’t you afraid of having nightmares?
Aren’t you afraid that when you are sleeping with someone, fear will overwhelm you and you may accidentally strangle someone to death?

What's more, there is that person in the palace... Just look at that person's situation, how she seems to be in great glory all day long, and is the most favored person in the six palaces, but in fact she is trembling with fear. Just feel that her life is hanging by a thread, and you will know.

Jiao Niang was so surprised that she couldn't speak. Looking at the calm Wang Shang, she still doubted her life.

Wang Shang's confidence doesn't seem fake.

But, how is this possible?
But... the heart of a king is always hard to predict. Serving a king is like serving a tiger, and this is not just a saying.

What if it really...

Jiao Niang was silent for a long time and said nothing.

Wang Shang drank his tea calmly, and didn't seem to think that if this was true, there was nothing shocking about it.

However, he did not really think that the real purpose of the palace was to take Jiang An Ning as a concubine.

He just said a few random words that seemed to make sense but were not, just to attract the girl's attention.

Otherwise, he was afraid that it would be really difficult to dissuade the other party. He suspected that the lord suddenly issued such an imperial decree to remind them to find another ungrateful person for Jiang An Ning to marry.

Besides, is it really that easy to get Jiang Anning married now?
At this moment, Jiang Anning probably wouldn't believe the man at all.

She doesn't have any parents putting pressure on her, so who can force her to marry someone else?
I can't just find some unfounded relatives and elders...
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In the carriage.

Jiang Anning was resting with his eyes closed.

Duan Qingshan pursed his lips, hesitated for a while, and finally opened his mouth: "My Lord..."

His face was struggling, and he seemed to be hesitant to speak.

After waiting for a long time and hearing no more human voice, Jiang Anning opened his eyes and looked outside the car door.

"Is something wrong?"

He asked softly, neither happy nor angry.

Duan Qingshan grunted, bit his lower lip hard, took a deep breath, and exhaled slowly before saying, "We've caught Zhao Jiang."

"Ok?"

Jiang Anning looked at the man's back with some surprise: "Where is he?"

She thought that it was the gangsters gathered by Duan Qingshan, or the forces secretly maintained outside the city, who discovered the person.

He was hesitating at this moment because he was afraid that she would be angry about his behavior of accumulating power in private, so he did not dare to mention it.

Never expected...

"At Chaohuang Embroidery Workshop." Duan Qingshan pursed his lips and hesitated, his voice paused slightly.

Jiang Anning was even more surprised, her eyes widened a little: "What?"

Where did you find it?
Chaohuang Embroidery Workshop?

"Could it be that he sneaked into the backyard of the embroidery workshop and wanted to set fire and hurt people?"

Jiang Anning felt that this idea was a bit absurd, and it did not fit with her perception of Zhao Jiang as a timid person who only dared to play tricks behind people's backs.

But she really couldn't figure out what this man was trying to do by walking into a trap and running to Chaohuang Embroidery Workshop.

There was a buildup of anger between Duan Qingshan's eyebrows, and his voice became a little colder. It was obvious that he was angered by Zhao Jiang's behavior.

"He hid secretly in your room in the embroidery workshop!"

"Ok?"

Go into her room and set it on fire? Trying to burn her to death?

But she wasn't in the embroidery workshop at all!
Jiang Anning was stunned for a long time, unable to react for a moment. What did Zhao Jiang do in her room?

steal?

Duan Qingshan was silent.

Jiang Anning realized belatedly what Zhao Jiang might have come for and why Duan Qingshan found it so difficult to speak. He was surprised at first, then found it ridiculous, and finally filled with anger.

She slowly clenched her fists, making her finger bones crack, and gnashed her teeth in hatred.

"What does he take me for?"

"What do the Zhao family think of me?"

"A weak and vulnerable person?"

Jiang Anning had never been so angry and resentful before.

As she was angry, she started to laugh.

"How ridiculous! I'm afraid they can't think of any other ideas except this despicable and vulgar method?"

"You're just a piece of crap with a lustful mind!"

Duan Qingshan pursed his lips, suppressed his emotions, and said as calmly as possible: "When I found Zhao Jiang, he was lying naked on your bed, with his body covered by the quilt."

The meaning of this statement is already very clear.

This further proves that Jiang Anning's guess was correct, Zhao Jiang really did want to play with fire.

However, what I want to play with is a vulgar and evil fire.

Duan Qingshan was angry, but also felt guilty: "It was my negligence that I didn't notice when this bastard sneaked into the backyard of the embroidery workshop."

After Jiang Anning scolded, she had calmed down a lot.

She relaxed again and sat back. "Besides Zhao Jiang lying on my bed, what else happened?"

If he had just caught someone, Duan Qingshan probably wouldn't be so hesitant and full of guilt.

Seeing him look so ashamed and embarrassed at this moment, something else must have happened.

"The Lord is as good as a god!"

Duan Qingshan was surprised, but felt even more ashamed. He said in a low and dull voice: "At that time, in the embroidery workshop..."

"At that time, there were several women in the embroidery workshop, looking at the embroidery products. They said their daughter was getting married and they came to see the dowry."

"It's just that those few people looked at it a little strangely."

"She is obviously not dressed to impress. Her clothes are even baggy and ill-fitting, with threads sticking out. But the way she walks in and out shows her nobility. She is followed by seven or eight sturdy men who protect her every step of the way."

"I always feel that these people are really out of place." "Later, as expected..."

Duan Qingshan swallowed his saliva, feeling a little scared: "They used the excuse of going to Dengdong and asked me where they could go to relieve themselves nearby, so I asked them to go to the backyard."

As he spoke, he felt a surge of regret, regretting that he had not been vigilant enough at the time.

"When they went to the backyard, I didn't think much about it. Besides, they were all women, so I couldn't follow them."

"It wasn't until they had been gone for a long time and hadn't come back that I felt something was wrong, so I rushed to the backyard to investigate."

"I thought they were going to steal, so I went to check your room first."

Unexpectedly, Zhao Jiang was caught first by accident.

"I saw those people standing in the yard, looking into the house. Some of them even tried to make a noise to attract people from outside to come in. So I took the initiative to hold them all down."

Duan Qingshan's voice paused slightly, sounding somewhat unnatural, and his back became even stiffer.

"I was originally thinking that if a man was found in your room, no matter what the reason was, and was seen by these people, there might be a gossiper who would go out and make up rumors and say something unpleasant to you, which would hurt you. You would be wronged and unable to defend yourself, and you would not be able to clear your name even if you jumped into the Yellow River."

Duan Qingshan swallowed his saliva, and his stiff back relaxed a lot. "I didn't expect that these guys were such cowards. As soon as I had them pinned down, they couldn't wait to confess and told me everything."

Hearing this, Jiang Anning raised his eyebrows slightly, and said with a smile: "Let someone else?"

"I remember that after Sister Song got into trouble, you were the only one left in the embroidery workshop."

Duan Qingshan's back, which had originally relaxed, stiffened again.

His nervous hands could not stop exerting force, and he pulled the reins so hard that the horse was almost strangled to death.

The horse felt pain and whinnied a few times, then immediately raised its hooves and stood upright, almost overturning the carriage to the ground.

Duan Qingshan panicked and quickly let go of his hand. The horse immediately ran forward quickly, almost lifting the carriage up into the air.

He quickly came to his senses and nervously grabbed the reins again.

Fortunately, it is already late at night.

There were no pedestrians walking on the streets.

Otherwise, one or two people would definitely be injured.

By the time he had gained control of the carriage, Duan Qingshan was so frightened that a layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.

He fell off the cart, grabbed the reins tightly, knelt on the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "Master, are you okay?"

"nothing."

Jiang Anning's face was calm: "Let's keep going and go back to the embroidery workshop first."

"Yes."

Chaohuang embroidery workshop.

A rare bright light.

Lights were on from the front to the back of the house.

When Jiang Anning got off the car, she was stunned for a moment when she saw the bright lights in front and behind the embroidery workshop.

Duan Qingshan parked the carriage at the corner of the alley behind the embroidery workshop.

After Jiang Anning got off the carriage, she saw someone trotting to the back door of the embroidery workshop and knocking on it rhythmically.

It's like some secret code for contact.

The corners of her mouth twitched slightly.

Just as I was thinking about it, I heard Duan Qingshan covering his mouth with his hands and making "coo, coo, coo" sounds like a pigeon.

Jiang Anning:...

Doesn't she really have the head of some assassination organization by her side now?
It's just the reputation of a bandit leader, which may be a bit insulting.

Just as the thought flashed through his mind, the door to the backyard of the embroidery workshop opened and a furry head popped out. After seeing who was knocking on the door, its big grape-like eyes lit up with surprise.

Then he called out a name that made Jiang Anning's mouth twitch uncontrollably: "Second in Command!"

Jiang Anning:...

Well! Even the second in command has come out. It seems that he has really become the bandit leader.

As expected, [predestined destiny] cannot be changed.

How can this not be considered “different paths leading to the same destination”?

She suddenly felt a deep sorrow and a frenzy of helplessness... If the predetermined fate was ultimately inescapable, would she end up marrying a family of Zhongshan wolves, exhausting all her blood and energy to support a family of ungrateful, wicked, heartless, and ungrateful people, repeating the mistakes of her previous life? Then, was there any point in her killing the Zhao family now?

Indeed, she might choose not to marry for the rest of her life.

But passively choosing not to marry to avoid danger is different from actively choosing not to marry.

The latter is what she wants and what she is willing to do.

But the former was something she had no choice but to do.

Just as she was lost in thought, the boy who had just called her the Second In Command followed Duan Qingshan and walked up to her.

Then, before she could react, he knelt on the ground with a plop, kowtowed three times, and with tears in his eyes, he shouted sincerely, "Big Boss!"

Jiang Anning:...

She was about to break apart.

What is the boss?
damned!!

She became a bandit leader? ? ! ! !

The boy hadn't realized what was going on yet and was still full of gratitude.

"I have no way of repaying your kindness in giving me a new life. I am willing to serve you like a slave for the rest of my life, and I will go through fire and water without hesitation."

Jiang Anning:...

She glared at Duan Qingshan, then remembered that they were still outside, so she swallowed back the words she wanted to ask, "What on earth is going on?"

Anything else to ask?

If you use your toes to figure it out, you will know what is going on!!
She had a sullen face and walked into the embroidery workshop without looking back.

Duan Qingshan was immediately overwhelmed and kicked the brat who still had his head knocked to the ground and didn’t lift it up: “Get out of here quickly!”

He couldn't help but lower his voice and scolded: "I have already told you, repeatedly told you not to call me Big Boss, don't call me Big Boss, you bastard, you are turning a deaf ear to my words, right?"

Duan Qingshan was so angry that he kicked the man again.

"I've told you eight hundred times, when you see someone later, you must call her girl and don't talk nonsense."

He kicked the man several times again: "If you don't learn your lesson, I'll teach you a lesson!"

"Nonsense! Nonsense!"

Duan Qingshan took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and warned fiercely: "If you can't coax her later, I will smash your mouth!"

Lin Cheng shivered, timid and didn't dare to say a word.

"Put the carriage in good condition and get in quickly. Don't keep the girl waiting for too long."

After saying that, Duan Qingshan strode after Jiang Anning and entered the backyard of the embroidery workshop.

When he saw Jiang An Ning surrounded by several people with fierce looks on their faces and holding sticks, he suddenly felt a headache.

broken……

Forgot there were quite a few people in the backyard!!
Duan Qingshan hurried forward and was about to shout, "It's a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding, we're all one people," asking those people to put down their sticks.

Jiang Anning took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, repeating it for the third time, as if she was trying her best to suppress her anger. Then she just glanced at the people who were holding sticks and blocking her way.

(End of this chapter)

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