Mysteries of the Great Zhou Dynasty

Chapter 31 Two Rabbit Ears
"Cheng Xuan, you're so good! Is this your newly married young lady? A beautiful lady hidden in a golden house! I take back what I just said... You have good taste! She's a beauty! Innocent and lovely, pure and clear... Perfect, perfect!" Su Zhan acted like a playboy, staring at Rong Wanyin intently, with an unconcealable smile on his face. He nudged Yan Mingzhang with his elbow, "But, she still needs to be raised for a few more years. She's still a little thin now. You don't know, it's not easy to give birth like this..."

Yan Mingzhang couldn't bear it any longer, and patted the sleeve that Su Zhan had touched with disgust. He hit Su Zhan on the back of the head with his fan, and then blew on the fan, as if he was afraid of getting his fan dirty.

"Hey, you are too barbaric. Don't you know that I am a only-son family for three generations? What if he gets beaten stupid?" Su Zhan pretended to be angry and touched the back of his head.

"She's the advisor in the mansion." Yan Mingzhang chuckled and walked forward without looking back. "And are you sure she's innocent and cute? Pure and clear?"

"Master? She's really not your young lady?" Su Zhan smiled broadly, squinting his eyes as if he was enjoying the fun, "Then I will..."

Yan Mingzhang suddenly stopped and glared at him fiercely, full of murderous intent: "You dare!"

Su Zhan swallowed the second half of his words back into his stomach, not daring to say another word. In fact, his words were just a joke. Although he was a frequent brothel owner, he had never touched a decent woman, and had never done anything to bully men or women. He still had a bottom line.

Rong Wanyin stood on the steps of the government office, watching Yan Mingzhang return. She pouted and looked unhappy: "Sir, have you been to the brothel?"

Yan Mingzhang glanced meaningfully at Mo Yun behind Rong Wanyin and thought, why do they all talk so much?

Su Zhan also looked at Yan Mingzhang meaningfully, and said that she was not a young lady, and he was jealous.

Rong Wanyin said with regret, counting on her fingers, "Why didn't you take me with you? I heard that each family's tea and snacks have their own unique characteristics, and the young ladies are all skilled in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. You really don't have the loyalty to show for it."

Su Zhan suddenly realized that he wasn't jealous. He looked at Rong Wanyin with admiration and said to Yan Mingzhang, "Chengxuan, where did you find such a sweet talker? She's my soulmate!"

Rong Wanyin then noticed the young man behind Yan Mingzhang: "Sir, this is..."

Without waiting for Yan Mingzhang to introduce himself, Su Zhan began to introduce himself: "My surname is Su, my given name is Zhan, and my courtesy name is Jingjun. I am from the capital, twenty years old, and was born at midnight on the seventeenth day of the first lunar month. I am not married yet. Sisters can just call me Brother Su. I wonder what this sister's name is?"

Rong Wanyin smiled sweetly: "Hello, Brother Su, my name is Rong Wanyin, you can just call me Wanyin."

Yan Mingzhang felt a little unhappy for no reason. You call me Lord Yan, and call him Brother Su. He squeezed the jade flute hard and said coldly, "Call him Lord Su. He is the new county magistrate. You must respect him."

Rong Wanyin blinked in confusion, as if she didn't respect him much. However, she couldn't say anything, so she just bowed and politely called out, "Master Su."

"Sister Rong..." Su Zhan hadn't said anything yet, but when he saw Yan Mingzhang's murderous eyes shooting at him, he quickly changed his words, "Miss Rong, there's no need to be so polite."

"Sir Su, I have a question I want to know. Sir Su is so powerful, he must know the answer." Rong Wanyin pretended to admire him.

"What's the problem?" Su Zhan was very pleased.

"I don't know whether the food in Hualiuxiang or Yuexianglou is better." Rong Wanyin pretended to be confused.

"Yuexianglou? I haven't eaten there yet..." Su Zhan shook his head, "But..."

"Why don't you treat us to dinner tonight, then we'll know." Rong Wanyin's eyes lit up.

"Okay..." Su Zhan agreed readily, but he felt something was wrong. Why did he want to treat people to a meal for no apparent reason?
"Eh...wait a minute..." Su Zhan turned back to the future. Yan Mingzhang embraced Su Zhan, not giving him a chance to refuse: "Come to Moyun to help Master Su harness the carriage!"

After all, Yan Mingzhang never wanted to be absent when it came to tricking Su Zhan.

"Then I'm going to take the old man with me. He loves to eat the tender grass in Yuexianglou the most!" Rong Wanyin ran happily to the stable to find the old gray donkey.

"Hey... wait a minute... wait a minute..." Su Zhan was confused. It was fine to invite people to dinner, but why did he have to invite a donkey to eat grass?

This Jieyu flower is indeed a flower, but it is a flower that costs money.

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Yuexianglou was packed, with only three seats left by the windows on the second floor. Su Zhan invited Rong Wanyin to sit down, and just as he was about to sit next to her, he felt someone grab him by the back of his neck and throw him onto the seat opposite.

"You sit over there!" Yan Mingzhang said to Su Zhan, then turned to Rong Wanyin and gently warned, "Remember to stay away from him. He is not a good person."

"Yes, sir, I will remember it." Rong Wanyin smiled sweetly and seemed very well-behaved.

"Hey... Chengxuan, please don't lead Sister Rong... Miss Rong astray. How can I not be a good person?" Su Zhan curled his lips in dissatisfaction.

Rong Wanyin turned a deaf ear to him and packed her scallion pancakes. She wrapped the pancakes in brown paper and tied them with a thin hemp rope, muttering to herself, "One rabbit ear, two rabbit ears, the little rabbit went around the tree stump and into the hole."

Su Zhan looked at her and laughed, "Why are you acting like a child, tying a bow and reciting nursery rhymes? Hahaha!"

Rong Wanyin made a face at Su Zhan: "What do you care!"

At this moment, there was a sudden noise downstairs, as if someone was making a noise.

This seat has a perfect view and you can see the hustle and bustle downstairs clearly.

Su Zhan found that there was something exciting to watch, and with a look of schadenfreude on his face, he quickly called the waiter to come over and order more dishes.

"It's the most interesting thing to eat while watching!" Su Zhan held the railing, stretched his neck and looked down.

"Let me see, let me see!" Rong Wanyin also squeezed to the railing.

The noise downstairs became increasingly noisy. It turned out that it was not a fight, but a man dressed as a scholar was proposing to Xiuniang, the owner of Yuexianglou!
The man was about seven feet tall, thin and with a fairly handsome face. He was dressed like a scholar, wearing a jade hat and a long gown with wide sleeves. The gown was neither old nor new, not very clean, and there was some ink on the cuffs.

The scholar had drunk quite a bit of wine, his face flushed, his speech slurred. He kept trying to reach out and pull Xiuniang: "Xiuniang, I really like you. Don't worry, as long as you agree, I'll talk to my parents. Although you're an orphan, I don't despise you. After you get married, you can stay at home and enjoy your life. Don't open this restaurant, sell it. After all, it's not right for a woman to show up in public."

Rong Wanyin narrowed her eyes and tugged at Yan Mingzhang's sleeve: "Sir, why does this scholar look so familiar?"

(End of this chapter)