Startled Meng

Xufu

"Xu was lucky enough to get a few taels of green tea produced in Jiangling, and I would like to invite all adults to come to my house to try it." Xu Wen sat next to Wei Cheng and ordered the maid to serve tea.

Fan Qi, who was suspended due to the imperial examination case, was also there: "Jiangling green tea is a tribute. For some reason, the quantity has decreased a lot this year. The first cup of tea since the beginning of spring is drunk at Mr. Xu's place."

The rest of the people echoed: "Good tea is really rare."

Wei Cheng put down his teacup, looked at Yan Cijing sitting in the tail seat, and said, "What do you think, Mr. Yan?"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone looked at Yan Cijing one after another, with puzzled, muyan, and even jealousy in their eyes.No matter what Yan Cijing's current situation is, he will soon return to officialdom. This is what everyone present can perceive from Wei Cheng's attitude.

Yan Cijing took a sip and said, "The aroma is rich and lasting, the soup is golden and bright, good tea."

Some people who wanted to cling to Wei Cheng praised Yan Cijing, saying that he is elegant and a person who really understands tea.

Xu Wen said with a smile: "I only know a little bit about tea, it's just arty."

Wei Chengdao: "Since Fengya is mentioned, there is good tea, how can it be enough without the sound of the orchestra? Black Eagle, why don't you bring the person you arranged?"

Hei Ying snapped his fingers when he heard the words, and a maid lifted the curtain, and graceful actors and maikos entered one after another.Not long after, the hall resounded with shengge, maiko danced with flowers and branches, and the warm fragrance was overflowing all over the place, very fragrant.

Everyone was watching the dance, only Yan Cijing bowed his head to drink tea, it was indeed good tea, but he was used to drinking this tea at Yu Fangzhi's house, so it was not unusual, so he only took a couple of sips and put it down.

Fan Qi was talking to Xu Wen at the front, saying that he saw the princess's carriage when he came in. Xu Wen laughed and said that Princess Zhaohe and her daughter Xu Hui are good friends, and Princess Zhaohe often goes out of the palace to see Xu Hui.

Xu Wen glanced at Yan Cijing. The farce of the marriage contract between Princess Zhaohe and Yan Cijing was well known throughout the court. Although he didn't take Yan Cijing seriously, Yan Cijing was the one Wei Cheng wanted to promote, and he had to give it to him to some extent. To save face, he coughed twice and signaled Fan Qi to keep his voice down.

Unexpectedly, Wei Cheng also heard what the two of them said, and asked Yan Cijing over the dancer: "Master Yan is young and talented, with a character and temperament that is rare in Ye City, he must have been married long ago, right?"

Yan Cijing answered truthfully, "Not yet."

Wei Cheng smiled: "Look, Lord Yan is not married yet. If you have daughters who are eligible for marriage, you may wish to consider Lord Yan."

This move was a humiliation, but Yan Cijing's expression remained the same, and Black Eagle pretended to dissuade him: "Mr. Xiang is happy to drink, you adults don't have to worry about it."

Everyone laughed again.

Heiying rolled his eyes and suddenly said to Wei Cheng in a low voice: "Master Xiang is worried that Yan Cijing will be difficult to control. If he doesn't know the basics, he may be afraid of two minds. I have a plan, why not..."

Hei Ying just whispered, completely oblivious to the change in the expression of the dancing girl at the front.

Wei Cheng nodded after hearing this, and after Black Eagle got Wei Cheng's approval, he said what he had just said to Xu Wen again, but Xu Wen showed a tangled face, took a deep look at Yan Cijing, nodded slowly, and let Black Eagle Go down and arrange it.

After the song was over, the dancers left the stage to take a rest. The leading dancer deliberately waited until the end to leave. When passing by Yan Cijing, she pretended to be tripped, babbling and fell into Yan Cijing's arms, whispering:

"My lord, don't touch any food!"

Yan Cijing helped the dancing girl up: "Miss, be careful."

Others laughed and said, "Master Yan is very blessed!"

"My lord was joking." After Yan Cijing finished speaking, he shut up and thought carefully about what he had just said.

What is the meaning of Yousu's hint?

But he couldn't help but care, Yan Cijing picked up his own teacup and looked at it carefully, and found nothing wrong, and the tea was poured from the same teapot, if someone wanted to attack him, he would definitely not take the teacup. The lives of several people were buried with him.

At this time, Xu Wen in the seat clapped his hands and asked the maid to bring in pastries. Yan Cijing took advantage of the opportunity of the figure to walk around, and glanced wildly, and found that the black eagle that was standing beside Wei Cheng had disappeared.

With a jingle, Yan Cijing quickly retracted his gaze, and followed the sound to look at the small table next to him.

It turned out that the maid almost knocked over the plate.

"Atonement, my lord."

"It's okay, let's go down."

Could it be the dish of pastry that is the problem?Yan Cijing's attention was all on the goose golden silk pastry, and he didn't notice that the maid showed a shy smile when she stepped back.

The adult sitting next to him twisted a piece without any scruples, and was about to put it in his mouth when Yan Cijing stopped him.

"Master Yan, what's the matter?"

Yan Cijing regained his composure, and apologized: "The golden cake is crispy and easy to fall off, be careful, my lord."

The adult nodded, stuffed the whole piece into his mouth and chewed it, he couldn't help nodding his head because it was so beautiful, he smiled and told Xu Wen how rare and delicious the pastry was, and he wanted to eat it when he turned his head and saw Yan Cijing staring at the pastry Lost in ecstasy, I asked him, "Master Yan, don't you want to try it?"

Yan Cijing coughed twice: "I have recently contracted a cough, and I am afraid that the symptoms will worsen after eating shortbread. It is enough to feast my eyes."

"Master Yan!"

Hei Ying came back at some point, and walked towards him with a plate of pastries.

"Master Yan, don't worry, you can't eat golden silk crisps. The Ruyi cake made of loquat juice is refreshing and cough-relieving, sir, try it?" As he said, he put the plate under Yan Ci's eyes.

Heiying's move brought everyone's attention, Wei Cheng looked at it with interest, Xu Wen and other courtiers also looked at it.

Hei Ying persuaded: "Master Yan, why don't you try it? Master Xu specially prepared tea, don't be so kind."

Yan Cijing couldn't get off the tiger, so he could only pinch a piece and said to Heiying in a low voice: "Since that's the case, let's try whether this Ruyi Cake is really as good as Master Heiying said, and has such a good curative effect."

Hei Ying personally watched Yan Cijing swallow half of the pastry, and smiled: "Then just wait quietly, my lord."

There is an undercurrent in the reception hall, and the backyard is not calm.

Yousu had already glimpsed the scene where Yan Cijing was forced to eat by the black eagle, and was so anxious that she didn't even have time to change the dancing tulle skirt, and hurried to the stable at the side door of Xu's mansion.

There is no trustworthy person in the mansion, and the only thing she can do now is to find someone, Jun Song, the servant of Yan Cijing, is waiting at the stable, and must let Jun Song find someone immediately.

"girl--"

You Su didn't care about the scrutiny of the servants in the mansion, and yelled loudly when he was still some distance away from the stable: "Junipong——"

"Miss Yousu?"

Yousu's shouting stopped abruptly, her eyes were terrified, her dress was soaked with cold sweat on her back, she gritted her teeth and spat secretly, and the moment she turned around, she changed back to that charming and soft look.

"Master Heiying?" Yousu took the initiative to walk back with the black eagle on his arm, "My lord came just in time, Yousu wandered around in the mansion and got lost, and I was worried that no one would take him with me."

"Then Miss Yousu has found the right person." Hei Ying hooked Yousu's waist, "Xu's mansion is very big, you can only bump into me in the mansion if you can't meet me."

Juniper, who was feeding the horses at the stable, vaguely heard someone calling him, ran out and saw no one, turned back, and murmured alone: ​​"It seems that someone is calling me..."

The manu heard it, and didn't care much: "Perhaps you heard it wrong, right? The front hall is still some distance away from the stables. If your lord has something to do, he will send you a message. Just wait."

Along the way, Yousu got entangled with Heiying and ran into Princess Showa.

It's not that Princess Zhaohe hasn't seen the maids and guards in the palace. She won't make a fuss, but she won't show a good face. After they finish asking, she waved them away.

Yousu saw that Princess Zhaohe's heart was half cold, and felt that Yan Cijing would be hard to get out today. The damn Black Eagle even asked her to dance for Mr. Xu and his grandma, but she couldn't refuse, so she had to agree first and then find a chance to save her. people.

"Don't look at it, Your Highness!" The maid who followed Princess Zhaohe blushed.

Princess Zhaohe turned her head and came back: "This dancer seems to have something to say... Forget it, Huier said she was going to get pastries, why hasn't she come back for so long?"

Just as she was talking, Xu Hui trotted over from the end of the path with her skirt in hand, cursing as she ran:

"Lang hoof, her aunt is not a good guy, and her daughter is also a whore in the same line!"

Seeing that she was so angry that she spoke indiscriminately, Zhaohe waved the maid back and asked, "I didn't take the pastry, but I came back full of anger. What happened?"

Xu Hui's almond-shaped eyes widened: "Isn't it my shameful concubine sister Xu Yuan? My father is trying to marry her out these days, so as not to embarrass myself at home."

Zhaohe was puzzled: "According to the rules, your eldest sister is not married yet, so why is it her turn first?"

Xu Hui sneered: "She doesn't like to abide by the rules. She knows that she is from a humble background, and the son of an aristocratic family can't match her. Guess what happened to her? She secretly made a private life with the students who took the Beijing exam, and she hoped that the students would change in high school." Where is the flying phoenix?"

Showa had never heard of this kind of boudoir secrets in the palace, so he asked: "And then?"

Xu Hui sneered: "Then? Where is the then? The student didn't pass the exam and ran away early. My mother found out that Xu Yuan didn't have her menstruation in the past two months. That's when it came to light."

"If you don't follow the rules, you should be punished." Zhaohe asked again, "Then why were you angry just now?"

"I went to the dining room just now and overheard the dirty thing she was planning with her aunt. I said that I asked her to take the opportunity of delivering snacks to take a sneak peek at the youngest adult in the hall. When she was satisfied, she decided to make them match each other, and make them match again. ,I bother!"

Zhaohe asked, "What if the lord is unwilling?"

"That's why I said they are dirty, and even came up with such a despicable method as drugging to force things."

Zhaohe frowned: "That lord is really unlucky, why don't you tell your mother?"

Xu Hui shook her head: "That unlucky lord is not a good person, he is very good with Xu Yuan."

Showa was curious: "Who is that unlucky lord?"

Xu Hui knew about Showa and that Lord Yan. Although she had never met Lord Yan, but thinking that Showa's gentle temper could be forced to make a fuss, that Lord might not be a kind and good person. Therefore, I don't want to raise my lord strictly in front of Showa, for fear that she will get angry.

Just say, "I don't know."

After talking, Xu Yuan ran back to the dining room to get pastries, and Zhao He felt bored staying in the yard alone, so he wandered around along the path.

I didn't know where I was wandering, but I saw a secluded small courtyard, looked left and right and saw no one coming, felt strange, was about to walk into the courtyard, and heard movement on the other side.

It's not polite to wander around in other people's houses, so Showa found a big rock to hide.

I saw two servants carrying a man into the yard. The man seemed unconscious, with his head drooping and his legs dragging on the ground.

The two servants couldn't hold him steady, the drowsy man fell down all of a sudden, was hurriedly helped up again, and dragged him into a room.

The man looked very familiar, Showa covered his mouth to recall.

Oops!It's Lord Yan!

Showa ran back holding the hem of his skirt, and bumped into the chest of the person behind him with a "bang--" and fell down.

The author says:

I don't know if the next chapter will be locked, but Mr. Yan will definitely suffer...