"I, Zhao Luoning, swear that I won't leave the Zhao family or abandon it until I find a suitable heir."
Grandpa had been dead for years, yet she, as his pawn, was still being controlled by him.
Thinking of this, Zhao Luoning sighed deeply.
Feixing knew why she sighed and tried to persuade her.
"Grandpa just used you without any real affection. Miss, you really don't need to be so loyal and hold onto this mess of the Zhao family."
"Feixing, you don't understand. Big brother and mother are still in the mansion. If the Zhao family falls, their lives will be affected. As for grandpa... he did use me, but he also promoted me."
The biggest flaw of the old master of the Zhao family was his excessive shrewdness. He calculated everything to perfection.
In his eyes, emotions and rules were nothing in the face of interests.
But this was also his greatest strength.
He didn't look down on Zhao Luoning just because she was a woman.
When he discovered that Zhao Luoning had impersonated Zhao Luojing, he still gave her a chance to show herself.
After realizing that his eldest granddaughter was a business genius, he even shared all his years of experiences traveling north and south with her.
In Zhao Luoning's heart, she was more grateful to the old master of the Zhao family.
Although she was the one being used, she didn't gain nothing.
"Grandpa discovered my talent. If it weren't for him, I would just be an ordinary woman waiting to get married."
Feixing fell silent again.
He wasn't a talkative person.
Although in Feixing's view, it was rather silly for Miss to hold onto the Zhao family and exhaust herself both physically and mentally.
But since Miss had her own plan, he just needed to follow her orders.
Zhao Luoning let out a long sigh and said,
"Anyway, finding an heir should really be put on the agenda."
Feixing coldly reminded her, "Miss, the eldest young master still has no offspring for now."
"Wait for big brother's child?" Just thinking of that unreliable big brother gave Zhao Luoning a headache. She quickly shook her head.
"Waiting for big brother's child to be born and then grow up and be trained, the cost is too high, and there are too many uncontrollable factors. It's not a good deal."
"Then what do you mean, Miss?"
"Don't we have a ready - made candidate?!"
Zhao Luoning looked at Feixing with a sly smile.
Feixing instantly understood.
The person Miss was thinking of... couldn't it be him?!
Zhao Luoning nodded with a smile, confirming his thought.
"Go and bring him here."
"Yes." Just as Feixing was about to take the order and leave, Zhao Luoning thought for a while and said, "You go with Caixue. That guy is very slippery. You can't handle him alone."
Feixing nodded in agreement.
At Tianxiang Tower, Zhao Luoming was in the private room, enjoying himself with women in his arms.
"Master Zhao, Miss Ruanyu is here."
The madam knocked on Zhao Luoming's door. Hearing that the new top courtesan of Tianxiang Tower was coming, Zhao Luoming pushed away the ordinary women in his arms and told someone to open the door.
The door opened, but it wasn't the top courtesan Ruanyu that Zhao Luoming wanted. Instead, it was Caixue dressed as a man.
Caixue put a silver ingot in the madam's hand and said thank you. Then the madam consciously took the girls out.
Seeing Caixue, Zhao Luoming's face immediately fell.
"The pleasure district is no place for a young lady like you!"
Every time Zhao Luoning wanted to find him, she would send Caixue to this pleasure lane. Caixue knew the situation here better than those pleasure - seeking guests.
"Third young master, I'm here on the order of the second young master. Please come with me."
Having been in the pleasure district often, Caixue was used to it. She said this without changing her expression, a sentence that Zhao Luoming was already tired of hearing.
Zhao Luoming rolled his eyes, overturned the table, and tried to escape in the chaos. Unexpectedly, he was stopped halfway and carried away like a sack.
Zhao Luoming sighed. He should have known this would happen. Since Caixue came to catch him, she would surely bring Feixing with her.
Feixing was picked up by his good eldest sister on the way.
Feixing had lost his memory, was taciturn, but had excellent martial arts skills. No one in the Zhao family could match him.
So Zhao Luoning gave him to Zhao Luojing to help manage the business.
This Feixing was also strange. He always had a cold face on weekdays and ignored others' words. But he was extremely respectful to Zhao Luoning and Zhao Luojing. No matter what they said, he would obey without question and never said much.
Since Zhao Luojing had Feixing, it was like adding wings to a tiger. His business had been booming.
However, Zhao Luoming guessed that in the eyes of his good second brother, the biggest use of Feixing was to help Caixue stop him from running away.
Caixue stepped forward, opened the window for Feixing, and said,
"Don't break the window again. The second young master specifically told us."
Feixing nodded, carried Zhao Luoming on his back, stepped on a stool, jumped from the second floor to the first floor, and directly threw Zhao Luoming into the carriage waiting downstairs. Then he locked the carriage door.
The whole action was done in one go, which amazed onlookers.
Anyone who often visited the brothels knew that whenever Feixing from Zhao Luojing's side came to this pleasure lane to find the third young master of the Zhao family, there would be a good show.
This show was much more exciting than the monotonous singing on the stage.
Caixue walked downstairs unhurriedly, got on the carriage, and sat in the front. After making sure she was seated firmly, Feixing whipped the horse and drove the carriage away.
The carriage drove all the way to the Zhao family's tea house. After throwing Zhao Luoming in the butler's study of the tea house, Feixing drove the carriage again to send Caixue back to the mountain.
The room was pitch - black. Zhao Luoming was the only one in it.
Zhao Luoming crouched by the window. When he heard the sound of the carriage fading away, he felt relieved and quietly opened the door.
Unexpectedly, there was a person standing outside.
As soon as Zhao Luoming saw that person's face, his legs went weak.
"S - second... second brother."
Zhao Luoning nodded, walked into the room, took out a fire starter, and lit the candle. The room instantly became brightly lit.
Zhao Luoming glanced at the bodyguards standing at the door. Knowing that he was doomed tonight, he gave up the idea of running away and forced a smile.
"Second brother, in the future, if you want to find me, just send a servant to inform me. You don't need to trouble Caixue and Feixing every time."
Zhao Luoming stood in front of Zhao Luoning with a playful smile. He propped one hand on the desk and put all his weight on the not - so - big desk.
"You've spent a whole year showing me how cunning you are. Do you think you can erase your 'one - year effort' with just a few words?"
Zhao Luoming wasn't angry. He just kept smiling. He walked crookedly like a boneless man to the mahogany chair not far from the desk and slumped into it.
"Second brother, did you call me here this time to persuade me to take over the Zhao family's business again?"
Zhao Luoning shook her head with a smile and said nothing.
She asked the butler to bring the account books and started calculating the accounts on her own.
Zhao Luoming was completely ignored by her.
Zhao Luoming wondered to himself.
What on earth was his second brother up to?