Mysterious Tang Dynasty

Chapter 185 Gossip
It was getting late, it was still raining outside, and the weather was so cold, so Li Lijun stayed Lin Jiulang in Bieye for one night.

Lin Jiulang hesitated: "Is this not good? I can ride a horse to Qiaoling to find my fourth brother, but it's not too far."

It takes more than 100 miles to go from Sanyuan County to Fengxian County!Is this called not far away?If the weather is good, Lin Jiulang rides on the road, Li Lijun will never stop him.But now it's cold and rainy outside, let a thirteen or fourteen-year-old minor run so far alone?She can't do it!

So Li Lijun showed a sad expression: "Why? Do you hate me? You don't want to stay in my villa for one night?"

Lin Jiulang hurriedly said: "No, no, that's not what I mean! Si Niangzi, you live here alone without elders around you. I'm a foreigner, so it's not easy to stay overnight. Outsiders will gossip about you if they find out."

Li Lijun was stunned: "What gossip will outsiders say about me? How old am I! Besides, I don't live here alone. Although I don't have other relatives, I have so many guards and servants around me. People from Prince Zou’s Mansion are here. Even if you spend the night in Bieye, you don’t live in the same room as me, do you? What’s there to gossip about? Saga Mountain is so far away from Chang’an City, no one would be so boring, right?”

Lin Jiulang thought for a while: "Either... I go to a nearby forest farm? I heard that Si Niangzi also bought it there. My grandmother is a daughter of Dou's family. It makes sense for me to stay overnight."

Li Lijun waved his hand: "No need. It's a long way to go from Wutai to Sitai. It's not that there is no empty yard in this villa. Why bother? You and I have always been generous in our interactions. You When you came to look for me, you didn't think about gossip, why did you bring up this matter all of a sudden? Could it be that there are still people in Chang'an City staring at me, trying to make up gossip about me all day long?"

She stared at Lin Jiulang, as if she had made up her mind to get the answer from him.

Lin Jiulang hesitated for a moment, then sighed helplessly: "Okay, actually... I just heard Mr. Shen Erlang mentioned some rumors. He has already figured out a way to deal with this matter, and he didn't let you worry about it. Someone told you. Recently, some people in the capital have gossiped about you, Fourth Lady. It’s nothing more than leaving the house without authorization and making your biological father unrighteous. They said that you moved to Saga Mountain to keep your filial piety. There are not many people who say this, and there are many people in the clan defending you, and Princess Sui, she said in front of others, Si Niangzi, you have already had a hard time, and you moved out of the palace specially, not to hinder your father's reunion, and some people said you No, it's too much, let others stop criticizing the matter between you father and daughter."

Li Lijun raised his eyebrows: "I am a descendant of the Sui king, the daughter of the clan, who would dare to gossip about me? Other than the clan, the only people who would criticize me are nobles in the palace. I ask myself if I have never offended the palace. As a nobleman, in my capacity, I am not qualified to attract the attention of a saint. And the imperial concubine, who recently ordered to appease me because of A Niang's death, she should not do things that go against her will. The rest, such as the East Palace, Kings and lords, where is the time to care about me as a child? It can be inferred that the only ones who have time to criticize me are the clan? But most people in the clan know how my mother died, and they also know me What is your attitude towards me? Everyone knows about Aye's affair with Mrs. Guo Guo before! Grandma said that I just moved out so as not to hinder Aye's reunion. Who would come here again? Planted on my head?!"

Lin Jiulang said: "I heard from Mr. Shen Erlang that this matter may have something to do with the Yang family, but I don't know which room it came from."

"Yang's family?" Li Lijun pondered: "Is it Xiao Yang's family, or Mrs. Guo's sister?"

If it's Mrs. Guo Guo's sisters, their friendship with Mrs. Yang is not enough for that, right?Li Lijun had never dealt with these sisters at all, and Mrs. Guo Guo should have been tired of Li Dai, so why would she suppress his daughter?

On the contrary, Xiao Yang's natal family may be dissatisfied with her.This is not only because of her exposing Xiao Yang's crimes, which brought disgrace to their family, but also the slander she made in front of her father Li Dai not long ago.Li Lijun is very sure that Li Dai will no longer regard Yang Liuniang as a candidate for the successor wife, and is more likely to accept her as a concubine.This is not in the interest of the Yang family. They must find a way to change Li Dai's thinking. Wouldn't it be easy and trouble-free to step on Li Lijun to please the latter?

It was Yang Liuniang herself, even if she kept saying in front of Li Jianrang and Li Chujun that she was willing to be a concubine, if she had a chance to be a wife, she would definitely resent the person who revealed the news to Li Dai.

But Li Lijun doesn't feel regretful.Since Yang Liuniang was determined to use this bitter trick to impress Li Jianrang and Li Chujun, don't be upset because Li Dai learned about it.She asked for it herself, and Li Lijun was just telling the truth.She herself clamored to be a concubine, so what's wrong with asking for benevolence?
Li Lijun pondered and remained silent, while Lin Jiulang had his own speculation: "Maybe the root cause is in me... because the fourth lady saved me, but some children of the Pei family were ruined, and even Pei Hui had to come forward to apologize to me. Guoguo Madam may have turned her anger on Fourth Lady because of this?"

If this is the case, Li Lijun also does not feel wronged.Because Pei's son "burned" Qiaolingqian Avenue, she really did it... But Li Lijun is very sure that no one will find out that she set the fire that night.If Mrs. Guo Guo wants to take revenge just because she saved Lin Jiulang and lost Pei Hui's face, then it can only be said that the other party is too idle.

Li Lijun said to Lin Jiulang: "If it was really because of the incident at Qiaoling, Madam Guoguo should have hated you and the Pei family who hurt you first, instead of turning her anger on me and Uncle Shen. Besides, now It’s just that some people gossip about me, and it’s not about Uncle Shen yet, right? It’s not like we were in trouble because of saving you.” She thought for a while, “I think it should be Xiao Yang It may be that Xiao Yang's crimes were exposed and they lost face, so they resented me."

Li Lijun doesn't care about these things. There are many people in the clan who know who the Yang family is right and wrong with her. Concubine Dou will also speak for her, and the daughter of the Yang family killed her mother, so there is no way to occupy morality Highland, at best, is just spreading some gossip secretly.But what crime could they accuse her of?Because you left home to be filial to your mother, so you are not filial to your father?How many people would agree with this reason? !
A little gossip will not affect Li Lijun.Perhaps the Yang family would think that this kind of gossip would affect Li Lijun's marriage, but Li Lijun didn't plan to get married, so why should he care about it?

She said to Lin Jiulang: "You don't have to take these gossips to heart. Not all people in the world are stupid, they only know how to follow others' opinions. The murder of my aunt once aroused heated discussions in Chang'an City, and Jingzhao Yamen's trial involved It caused a sensation when I got out of the Yang family! How long has it been? People still remember this incident. Everyone in the world can criticize me, but the Yang family can't. This is what they owe me!
"You don't have to worry about those people's mouths, you don't care about your body, you insist on running out in this weather. You are not helping me, but causing me trouble! If you are caught in the rain Anyway, if your family blames me later, do I have to return the Liu Family Village to make up for my mistakes?!"

Lin Jiulang was dumbfounded when he heard this, but he still didn't have the courage to persevere, so he was obediently led by Shi Qing to the guest house to rest.

(End of this chapter)