69novels Chapter 496 Miss Zhao
Chapter 496 Miss Zhao
Early the next morning, Zhuo Yichen dragged Zhao Yuanzhou to the Zhao family's neighborhood to inquire about the news.
I didn't get any news, but I ate a lot for breakfast and came back with a full belly after feeding Zhuo Yichen.
Bai Jiu, Ying Lei, Wen Xiao and Pei Sijing sat at the table, looking at Zhuo Yichen who kept burping. He was so embarrassed that he wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl into.
"It's all your fault! You forced me to burp so much! Now you feel better, right? Burp~"
Zhuo Yichen burped four or five times after every word he said. He grabbed the Yunguang Sword and attacked Zhao Yuanzhou.
Zhao Yuanzhou was beaten so hard that he jumped up and down. "I was wrong, I was wrong! I'm sorry, Xiao Zhuo! I thought they were delicious, so I bought them for you to try!"
"You were just trying to taste it! You wish you could buy all the goods! How come you have so much money that you can't spend it all? You, Master Zhao, have to pay for the whole street!" Zhuo Yichen looked at the pile of breakfast on the table and said with gritted teeth.
Bai Jiu, Ying Lei and Pei Siheng were like little squirrels looking for food. One of them picked up a piece to taste it, another one pulled off a piece to taste the saltiness, and they were so busy eating that they could not even lift their heads.
Wen Xiao and Pei Sijing were eating breakfast while watching Zhuo Yichen beating up the white monkey.
After a commotion, Bai Jiu and Ying Lei lay on the couch in the box, with their bulging bellies and burping continuously.
"No, no! I won't eat so much next time! It makes my stomach uncomfortable!"
"Xiao Jiu, didn't you bring any digestive pills? Give me two!"
Yinglei reached out and shook Bai Jiu who was lying beside him.
Bai Jiu tried hard for a long time but failed to turn over. "Brother Xiao Zhuo! Help! I can't get up!"
Zhuo Yichen walked over to Bai Jiu and offered his hand to help Bai Jiu stand up. "No matter how delicious it is, there should be a limit. Look at your full stomachs. Aren't you feeling uncomfortable?"
Zhao Yuanzhou got a peach from somewhere, "Xiao Jiu! You are indeed a young doctor! You are really good!"
Bai Jiu didn't understand the meaning of Zhao Yuanzhou's words and thought he was praising his medical skills. Just as he was about to say a few words, he heard what Zhao Yuanzhou said next.
"It's unheard of for a man to be pregnant! But Xiaojiu is such a conscientious doctor, he actually used himself to test the medicine! I just don't know how many months pregnant is Doctor Xiaojiu?"
Zhao Yuanzhou hid behind Zhuo Yichen, looking at the petrified Bai Jiu, and continued to provoke: "I don't know what kind of baby will be born? It won't be a meat bun wrapped in meat stuffing!"
Bai Jiu let out a roar and rushed towards Zhao Yuanzhou, completely lacking the fear that he usually had.
Bai Jiu chased Zhao Yuanzhou around in the box, but Bai Jiu was a doctor who couldn't lift or carry anything on weekdays, and he was exhausted after chasing for a while.
"Zhao, Zhao Yuanzhou! If you have the ability, don't do anything. Don't run away!"
Bai Jiu stretched out his weak legs and fell to his knees with a plop. Zhao Yuanzhou approached him and said, "It's already the New Year, and you just remembered to kowtow to me and wish me a happy new year!"
Zhao Yuanzhou pretended to dig into his pockets. "Although the New Year has passed, but considering that you kowtowed to me and wished me a happy new year, here you go! This is your belated New Year's gift!"
Bai Jiu looked at the thing wrapped in a bright red color that was handed to him. He hesitated and reached out to take it, but then he remembered that Zhao Yuanzhou usually loved to tease him, so he didn't dare to reach out to take it.
Wen Xiao had seen enough of the show and finally spoke up and coughed a few times, "Xiao Zhuo, take care of this white monkey!"
Zhao Yuanzhou seemed to have received something. He stuffed something into Bai Jiu's hand, then sat next to Zhuo Yichen, looked at Wen Xiao and said, "Hey! Little niece, why are you talking like that?"
"Aren't you the white monkey? You were jumping up and down in the box today, more active than a monkey."
Zhuo Yichen looked at the two people who were about to quarrel again and interrupted the quarrel between the two sides, "Okay! Don't forget the purpose of our coming here!"
"Today, Xiao Zhuo and I went to the Zhao family's neighborhood, but we didn't find out anything."
Bai Jiu seemed to have grasped something, "You said it in vain, didn't you? Then what did you do near Zhao's house today? Just to buy some breakfast?"
Zhao Yuanzhou took out a folding fan from his sleeve and knocked it on Bai Jiu's head. "You little foodie, marrying off a daughter is a big deal no matter which family it is. How come people living near the Zhao family don't know about what we all know?"
Wen Xiao immediately understood what Zhao Yuanzhou meant. "Zhao Yuanzhou, you're not saying that the Zhao family's daughter's marriage is fake? Are you really trying to lure us into the trap?"
Zhao Yuanzhou glanced at Wen Xiao with appreciation, "It's true that the Zhao family is marrying off their daughter, and it's also true that they are luring us into the trap!"
Ying Lei was confused by what Zhao Yuanzhou said, "Why did you want to lure us in? Since the Zhao family wants to marry off their daughter, why don't people near their home know about it?"
Zhuo Yichen was also very curious about what Zhao Yuanzhou said, "Zhao Yuanzhou, stop keeping us in suspense! Speak now!"
Zhao Yuanzhou tapped the table with his folding fan in his hand. "Xiao Zhuo and Pei Sijing live in Tiandu. Marrying a daughter in Tiandu is a very complicated matter. There are many noble ladies in Tiandu, but they are also the most loose. They talk to each other door to door and household to household."
Zhao Yuanzhou pointed with his folding fan and continued, "Not every wealthy family is like the official families in Tiandu City. Families like the Zhao family who suddenly became rich tend to use their daughters as bargaining chips, a pawn to climb up."
"Ms. Zhao is just like the Miss Shen we met before. She has a pair of parents who love her dearly, and a childhood sweetheart who loves her like a pearl."
Wen Xiao once followed her master, the previous goddess Bai Ze, to travel around the human world and knew a little about the dirty things going on in some places in the human world.
Zhuo Yichen and Bai Jiu were still confused, "Zhao Yuanzhou, you still don't understand?"
Zhao Yuanzhou raised his hand and gave Bai Jiu a slap. "To put it simply, Mr. Zhao used his daughter as a tool to climb up the social ladder. She has no name, only the three characters "Miss Zhao". Her name must have been given by the family that bought her."
"Selling my daughter? But doesn't the imperial law stipulate that..."
Pei Sijing suddenly said, "The court's laws cannot govern family affairs, especially since Miss Zhao is 'voluntary'."
Bai Jiu was even more confused. Her father was about to sell her out, so why would she volunteer?
Pei Sijing pointed to a line of words on the file, "Miss Zhao is not the wife of the Madam, but the concubine's daughter. The Madam has a legitimate son who committed a crime, and the man that Miss Zhao wants to marry is the one who has the final say."
"Marquis Yinan? A prince without real power? Didn't the Zhao family investigate before marrying off their daughter?"
Zhuo Yichen looked in the direction of Pei Sijing's finger.
"No matter what, we finally know who Miss Zhao is going to marry. We can just go find that person and ask him to postpone or cancel the marriage. In this way, Miss Zhao won't get into trouble on the day of her wedding, right?"
Yinglei has a lot of ideas.
Zhao Yuanzhou shook his head. "It's useless. Even if there is no Yinan Marquis, there will be Yibei Marquis, the Liu family, the Wang family, and so on. Only Miss Zhao is still in the Zhao family, and Master Zhao is still in the hands of her biological mother. She has no choice but to obey Master Zhao's arrangements."
Ying Lei suddenly lost his temper. "Then Miss Zhao will have no choice but to die, right?"