Ning Gu

Princess Qi's mansion is a mansion bestowed on Yuanhua long before Yuanhua went to the north.

It used to be the old house of Wang's family. Because Prime Minister Wang begged for the bones, Wang Shuo converted to Buddhism again. It was supposed to be left to Changle to deal with in the future, but Changle also followed her cousin's path and chose a clean place to pray for blessings. The house also fell into disrepair.

Later, this mansion became Princess Qi's mansion, and according to Changle's wishes, Concubine Zhen made a favor and dedicated this mansion, which also saved the effort of choosing a site for the mansion.Later, it was handed over to Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry to personally preside over the repair.

The Princess Mansion as a whole still follows the pattern of the old residence of the Wang family, with lakes and rocks stacked on top of each other, and the atmosphere remains the same as before.The interior of the house is more decorated than in the old days, with more gauze decorations, which are folded behind the windows and bamboo curtains, making the interior softer.

Qi Guo returned to Fufeng, and sent someone to hang up some calligraphy and paintings she had saved in the past.Go to the carving on the door, don't have a few new fragrances, in twos and threes, it has a special taste.

Xie Wuling got off the chariot and entered.

When Fang entered the mansion, he saw Yuan Hua dressed in red, with golden hairpins, luxurious and graceful.However, her steps were not as compact as Chongque Lijian's, and she was a little less dignified.

Xie Wuling knew that she was here to greet her, and when she saw that there were other people beside her, she looked flattered when she heard Yuan Hua's distant call, and immediately stopped and greeted Yuan Hua.

"Little gentleman is very polite." Yuan Hua raised his hand to stop his movement, and looked back past him again.

"What's the matter?" Xie Wuling hadn't retracted the smile from his mouth, and seeing Yuan Hua's eyes seemed to look behind him, he also turned around and asked.

"Brother Zuo didn't come?"

"I heard that Concubine Zhen is keeping it." Xie Wuling replied.

"Oh, that's good. What about Xianzhi, doesn't he always follow you?"

"I'll come later. I was punished by Zhao Zuo for copying books last night, um..." Xie Wuling paused for a while, but didn't give the specific reason why Xianzhi was punished. The morning meeting ended early today, and when I went to the garden, I saw that he was still soundly asleep, so I didn't wake him up."

"You miss him, our brothers, when we were punished by the Tai Tuo, how could we meet you with such a kind heart?" Yuan Hua joked, and led Xie Wuling to the depths of the courtyard.

"When I punished him, I didn't have a good heart, but Qi Guo never saw it."

"I don't know, little sir, if you try hard enough, how good will you be?" Yuan Hua smiled, and his steps quickened, "By the way, I just heard from Huan Nuer that today you brought something for Shen Changxie. Presents. What about the others?"

"Oh, I heard that he went to find my brother to study Buddhism." Xie Wuling said without changing his expression, "He only asked me to bring a gift for him, I didn't ask in detail."

"You, it's good to reciprocate with him." Yuan Hua turned his head and pointed out, "This person is not as simple as he looks. He can gain a firm foothold in Fufeng with only one Accord..."

Xie Wuling looked up and met Yuan Hua's eyes, Yuan Hua's eyes had other meanings, but Xie Wuling could only understand part of it.After a while, Xie Wuling nodded, and then probed: "Yes. Qiguo knew that Shen Changxie was not easy?"

Yuan Hua suddenly smiled brightly: "How can I know, it's just speculation." Yuan Hua took another step, and picked up the topic, not giving Xie Wuling a chance to test it.

In Fufeng, the most fearful thing is that people will be eaten through, especially in Chongque.

"Okay, let's not talk about this, I want to take you to meet someone today."

"Is it... Qi Guo's new friend?"

Yuan Hua didn't stop when she heard the words, she paused for a moment to think about it, and felt that Xie Wuling's position made sense, so she replied, "That's right. It's worth seeing you."

"It's really embarrassing. All the friends in Qi Kingdom are worthy of my visit." Xie Wuling blinked at Yuanhua.

Yuan Hua didn't like this, he just gave him a blank look, and commented: "Smart words."

Yuan Hua led Xie Wuling to a painting hall behind the banquet hall. It was originally for entertaining guests, but the guests all gathered by the flowing water near the banquet hall. An order was given to keep others away.

But no matter which of the above, the painting hall is as clean as it is now, Xie Wuling couldn't help turning his head, looked at the quiet path, and pursed his lips.

It is the purity behind the hustle and bustle.

Most of Fufeng's lovers seek together, but only this painting hall in Princess Qi's mansion has achieved it.

Yuan Hua raised her skirt to go up the steps, Xie Wuling slowed her to follow.Yuan Huafang pushed the door, and heard a burst of laughter from inside the room, replaced by a daughter's voice: "Sister Hua, who did you bring here?"

Xie Wuling heard the familiar female voice and smiled, then stepped into the room and said to the room, "Changle."

"It turned out to be Mr. Xie Xiao." Chang Le was adding tea to a new cup, raised his head to see someone approaching, handed the tea out, waved to him, and said familiarly, "You are here, come and help me for Miss Hua Picking flowers and branches."

"I saw you in the Lingjian Temple yesterday, and you still look pure and ascetic, and I heard a lot of people say that a goddess was born in the Lingjian Temple." Xie Wuling raised his hand and took the teacup, "Why don't you be that cloud man today? gone?"

"Aren't you happy that this goddess fell into the mortal world by mistake?" Chang Le deliberately took a look at Xie Wuling, "Mr. Xiao won't help if he doesn't help. How come he blamed me?"

"Don't dare to dare." Xie Wuling repeatedly said dare not, but there was no sign of knowing his mistake in his eyes, Chang Le didn't get angry with him, only snorted, pretending to be dissatisfied.

"Is there anything you dare not do?" But seeing a person jumping out from behind the bookshelf, he directly answered Chang Le's words.

When Xie Wuling saw the man with the phoenix head and the dragon figure, wearing the royal gold and jade crown, he knew he was a grandson.Xie Wuling's gaze flicked past that person, then he made a salute and said, "Juyang Lord."

"Don't don't, it's better to call me Aheng." Zhao Heng waved his hands again and again, stopping Xie Wuling's address, "I'm not used to the title of Juyang Lord."

"Sooner or later, I will get used to it." A strange male voice consoled.

Xie Wuling looked into the painting hall following the sound, and looked into his peach blossom eyes inadvertently.

Opposite the door in the painting hall is a terrace, standing on the terrace is a clear pool behind the hall.And the person who made the sound was dressed in brown clothes, not as eye-catching as Xie Wuling's green shirt, but his handsome appearance was the most attractive.

And that person was leaning against the railing of the terrace, holding a cup of tea, and looked at the man in green shirt in the hall.

As for the man in Qingshan inside the house, he also looked through the hollowed-out and carved moon-shaped entrance connecting the hall and the terrace.Then he raised his glass to that person from a distance, raised his brows, with a happy expression on his face.

"So you are outside." Yuan Hua took two steps forward, took the flower branch that Chang Le had chosen for her, and pinned it in the carved space in the entrance. A hexagonal bell hanging under the veil outside the porch reflects each other in the distance.

It was originally a taste of Xiaoya, but it also carried Duan Wenyu's soft fragrance.

The man seemed to be a man of taste, raised his hand and lightly touched the hexagonal bell, listened to the sound of the ring and the bell, looked at Yuan Hua who was beckoning to him in the hallway, and also looked at the new flowers waiting to be placed on the branch. eyes.

He squinted, put the teacup aside, entered the hall, took off the flower branch, pinched off the branch, kept the flower, and grabbed Yuan Hua's wrist, keeping her.

After Yuan Hua slightly raised his head to look at him, he raised his hand again and took out a golden step shaker that was fastened between her crow-colored temple hair, and put the new flower hairpin on her temple hair, and said: "It is suitable for this place."

Yuan Hua immediately felt like eating sweet apricots, and raised his eyebrows.But looking closely at the eyebrows and eyes, there was a little embarrassment in them.Not to mention Xie Wuling, even Changle, the princess who had a friendship with her in the pool, saw her like this for the first time.

The man calmly shook the golden step back into his sleeve, and looked away.Seeing that Yuan Hua didn't say anything else, Xie Wuling sipped tea without paying attention.

The man still had a smile on his lips, his eyes turned to Xie Wuling, but he asked Yuan Hua: "The person you want to bring me to meet today is Mr. Xie Xiao?"

"Well. You know?"

"Qiguo must have forgotten that Pingzhi once asked you to bring me jade antlers to Master Guzang?" Xie Wuling lowered his head and drank the tea in his cup nonchalantly.

"I know." The man was much more gentle and replied.

However, seeing that Xie Wuling did not shy away from talking about the Mountain Deer Antlers in front of the other two heirs, he naturally admitted it generously: "After all, he is going to divide the troops of the Mountain Deer Camp and half the battalion. Get acquainted."

"Look, Sister Hua, I said earlier that these first-class people in Fufeng City should know each other. Didn't Mr. Xie Xiao also know Shen Changxie earlier?" Zhao Heng said after the horse.

Yuan Hua gouged Zhao Heng at the sound, and at the same time Chang Le also gave Xie Wuling a wink.

Xie Wuling said: "However, I still have to thank Qi Guo for Pingzhi's fate, but I can thank General Lu today. I didn't know that General Lu also returned to Fufeng before, otherwise Pingzhi should have come to the mansion to thank him."

"Sir, you're being polite." Lu Shencheng looked at Xie Wuling, and quickly waved his hands.

Xie Wuling followed suit, "Tsk", "But I remember that when the court was dismissed last time, General Lu said that you should return to Fufeng in a few days. I also made an appointment with the old general to go to visit on that day." .”

"Actually, only a few people in this painting hall know that I'm here... The Lu family's master should be on his way back to Fufeng, but the Lu family doesn't know it yet. I live with Princess Qi, and I hope that after a few days, Mr. When you met me at Lu's house, don't let it slip."

Xie Wuling knew that it must be difficult for Lu Shencheng to appear here, but he didn't want Lu Shencheng's words to be the best explanation. What he thought was not simple was the simplest.

He could even boldly guess about the relationship between Lu Shencheng and Zhao Yuanhua, but he didn't say so, he just gave Yuanhua a questioning look and nodded again.

Yuan Hua looked away from Xie Wuling's eyes as if he hadn't seen him.She thought that Xie Wuling wanted to talk to Lu Shencheng, so she walked to Yuan Bao's place, took Chang Le's hand familiarly, and led her to go to the banquet hall to spread flowers.

Seeing that after the two of them went out, Xie Wuling had another plan in his heart, and sent Zhao Heng to meet Xianzhi outside the gate of the residence, so he invited Lu Shencheng to sit down with him.

"The antlers of the mountain, Xie Wuling should have returned to Zhao intact, but now it is still at the Duke of Qin's place."

"It's okay, it's just to repay the younger brother's affection. The younger brother was young and ignorant back then, and later I heard Yuanhua..." Lu Shencheng paused suddenly when he said this, and added another title, "Princess said, because of the younger brother's matter, , and also caused Mr. Xiao to be controlled by Duke Yong later."

Xie Wuling was also taken aback when he heard the words, but after a while, his expression returned to normal, and he heard Lu Shencheng continue: "If Mr. Xiao doesn't mind, it's good to keep the mountain antlers at Mr.'s place."

Xie Wuling raised his eyes to look at Lu Shencheng, and had a thorough understanding of Lu Shencheng's plan.The antlers of the mountain were left at Xie Wuling's place, what Lu Shencheng wanted was mutual benefit and ties to each other.Once Xie Wuling moved the antlers, he was in debt to the Lu family, but if he didn't move, the Lu family and he still had the antlers as a bond.

All the famous families of the three families and six clans in Fufeng did not want to take advantage of Zhaoxing, a place of counselors who are loyal to the royal family and will never lose.The Lu family is no exception.

Xie Wuling raised his hand and nodded slightly, then smiled and said: "So I guessed with Changle what kind of person this Qi Kingdom will need in the future to make her fall in love. Now that Pingzhi has met the Lu family's grand master, he knows that there is really such a thing in this world. It's just a pity that General Lu's talents have not been displayed in Fufeng."

"There are many talented people in Fufeng, and there is no shortage of Shencheng. Besides, there are not a few people like Shencheng who have no ambitions in the world. How can it be a pity?"

"But the general should be a minority in Fufeng City." Xie Wuling met Lu Shencheng's eyes.These eyes are like a deep pool, without waves or ripples.But it made Xie Wuling feel very familiar, very much like Huixuan's appearance when he talked about Fufeng.

It's exhaustion, it's boredom, and there's even a bit of contempt that I haven't even noticed.

"However, since the general is one of the few, Xie Wuling doesn't have to talk in circles anymore. Just ask, the love for Qi country is a certainty, is it true?"

"Xiao Mister looks more like Father Yuan Hua." Lu Shencheng said jokingly.

Xie Wuling had no intention of joking, and still acted righteously, which made Lu Shencheng feel bored.

Lu Shencheng coughed lightly, and said sternly, "Yes, but if she doesn't want to, mine is absolutely true, and there are thousands of mountains and rivers."

"But thousands of mountains and rivers should be the most happy to see in Fufeng City, at least her mother and concubine are most happy to see." Xie Wuling said meticulously.

"Mr. Xiao knows too much."

"Yeah, so I don't have a long life." Xie Wuling's tone suddenly became helpless, "I'm just talking. Qiguo is a person that Emperor Hui values, do you think Emperor Hui will put his favorite jewel in the fire pit? Or in other words, if he really offers a marriage in the future..."

Love is a thing that is sad in nine out of ten cases. There are moths flying into the flames, people with mantises as carts can be found everywhere, idiot men complain about women and never get tired of it, Xie Wuling is actually like this, and he knows it too.

He laughed at himself, but listened to Lu Shencheng.

"If he really grants the marriage, then the position of the Lu family will be in jeopardy. I know."

"Qiguo also knows." Xie Wuling said firmly.

"Yes."

There was a moment of shock in Xie Wuling's eyes, followed by respect and envy.

He can't be so free and easy, and he won't even mention the deep things of a single word in front of others.But it's not just him, Changle or Xuancheng, Sang Luo and Zhao Xiu, they are not so free and easy...

"Since this is the case, then I should wish you two that your heads will never be separated."