A happy event in a fertile field: the black-bellied husband is as beautiful as a flower

Chapter 716 Invited
Li Guohuang was neatly dressed and said: "The letter has been delivered, why wait? When he comes, tell him, just go directly to Jingyuan."

Before Li Guohuang did not set the meeting place at Jingyuan, he deliberately avoided Shang Hou, anyway, Shang Hou is coming soon, so why avoid him.

The location of Jingyuan is very hidden, Li Guohuang was afraid that the Xia family would not know the location, so he sent his attendants to meet him.

When the time came, a carriage stopped at the side back door of the palace on time.

The nanny came to report to Mrs. Xia, saying: "A car came by the back door and said it was here to pick up Mrs. Xia."

Mrs. Xia set off to go to the back door, and the nanny said again: "Mrs. Xia is going out? Do you need to report to the princess? Do you want to bring a few more people?"

Xia Shi said: "I'll trouble you to tell Ah Nan later on, that there might be some clues about what happened last time, and I went to the same place last time. She will understand."

When I got to the back door, I saw that the driver was an unfamiliar face.

The Xia family thought that it would be Ah Shuo who was next to the Marquis of Shang.

Seeing her coming out, the old man hurriedly got out of the car and saluted Mrs. Xia respectfully.

Xia Shi paid attention to it, and asked bluntly, "Why isn't it Ah Shuo?"

The attendant replied: "Ma'am, please forgive me, Ah Shuo is with Lord Hou, and I have other things to do right now, so I can't come to pick him up in person."

Xia Shi asked, "Do you know who A Shuo is?"

The attendant knew everything and said: "I know, Ah Shuo is the personal attendant of the Marquis. It was picked up by the old lady of Qin Guohou's mansion and kept by her side. A Shuo's temperament follows the old lady, so the old lady assigned him to be close to him all the time. Followed by Lord Hou, always supervised and supervised. He likes to take care of things, so Lord Hou is very troublesome to him... When the old lady picked him up, he still had his birth date in his infancy, his birth date The horoscope is..."

Xia Shi: "..."

Xia Shi asked A Shuo originally to dispel his doubts, but the attendant talked so eloquently that he wished he could get rid of A Shuo's background, as if he was very familiar with him.

Xia raised the corner of her skirt and said, "Get in the car."

The attendant then stopped the topic and said, "Yes."

The carriage drove towards the back alley, and the afternoon sun leaked in from the shade of the trees, slipping away one after another.The cicadas on the tree sang intermittently.

A cool breeze blew in from the window, taking away two minutes of the heat.

In fact, thinking about it carefully, Xia family has nothing to worry about.

This time the Marquis of Shang came to the Yin country in private, so he should avoid people's eyes and ears.What's more, Jingyuan's place, she knew it was not an ordinary place, maybe even few people in Yin country knew that it was his place.

Although he is from Li country, he has no malice towards her; she can feel it from his every word, deed and every action.

Everything is in a trance and it just happened yesterday.

Xia shi was thinking about this in a mess, her hands were slightly grabbing the corners of her clothes without knowing it.

Since I am so at ease with him, and at Jingyuan, why is it that my heart has never been calm since I saw his name in the letter and now I am sitting in this carriage?
She didn't know what she was inexplicably nervous about, or she didn't dare to think about it.

Xia suppressed many thoughts and paid attention to the scenery outside the window.It's just that the carriage kept going back and forth between the alleys, just like last time, she was in a daze, and she had no clue.

I don't know how long it took, but when the attendant said something, the carriage stopped slowly.

Mrs. Xia got out of the car and saw an unremarkable tea house, with green vines climbing the walls under the eaves and lush trees in the courtyard. It was only a little more refreshing and summery than the last time I saw it.

The attendants led her into the quiet inner courtyard.

The courtyard is clean and tidy, the four doors are open, and the north and south are transparent and bright.

Xia looked up and could see that there were simple wooden utensils and furnishings inside, and the floor reflected the light from the outside without being stained by a speck of dust.

The Xia family did not see the figure of Marquis Shang.

The servant asked Mrs. Xia to sit inside, but he stopped by the door and said: "Madam, please wait a moment, my master will come right away."

After saying that, he was about to retreat, Xia Shi said: "Wait."

The attendant said respectfully: "Madam, please tell me."

Xia said: "There are paper and pens here, I will send a message back so that my daughter can rest assured."

She is at ease here, but she knows that Meng Yan may not be at ease.

The attendants went down to prepare, and soon delivered the pen and paper Xia requested.Xia Shi wrote a simple letter, dried the ink, stuffed it into an envelope, and handed it to the attendant to deliver it to her again.

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According to Xia Shi's order, the nanny went to the main courtyard and told Meng Yan what Xia Shi had said.

As soon as Meng Yan heard it, she knew what Xia was referring to.

Xia Shi wants to go out for an appointment, as long as the other party is someone Meng Yan can trust, then she, as a daughter, has no reason to stop her.She was just a little surprised that her mother didn't say anything beforehand, and only notified her after she left.

Is he afraid of being interrogated by her or is he afraid of her following him...

According to Mammy, someone specially drove to the back door to pick up Mrs. Xia.And that person is well-behaved, very respectful and courteous to Mrs. Xia.

Meng Yan asked, "Have you seen him?"

She thought, if it was A Shuo, she should have known her when she and Shanghou came to the palace as guests last time.

But Mammy said: "I haven't seen him, Madam Xia hasn't seen him either."

Meng Yan frowned.

Listening to the mother said again: "Mrs. Xia also asked why it wasn't Ah Shuo who came, he said that Ah Shuo had other things to do."

Meng Yan said: "Then my mother left with him?"

The nanny said: "Madam Xia asked him again if he knew A Shuo, but he dug out all of A Shuo's roots. Then Madam Xia followed him. The servants watched from the side, he didn't seem like a worthy Malicious."

Meng Yan didn't see it with her own eyes, so she couldn't be sure what was going on for a while.

If the Marquis of Shang really came to Yin in secret, for the sake of prudence, he would not show his face easily, and maybe he would not let his personal attendants show his face easily, which is not difficult to understand.

It's not that Meng Yan doesn't trust the Marquis of Shang, it's just that he sent a stranger here, how can he reassure others?

Afterwards, Meng Yan asked Chongyi to go to Chongxian to ask if he could find out the news that the Marquis of Shang had come to Beijing.

About half an hour later, Chongyi came to report that there was no definite news from the Marquis of Shang.

There are also many spies under the Marquis of Shang. If he doesn't want people to find out his whereabouts, it will not be easy for Chongxian to find him in a while.

At this moment, Xia's letter was delivered to Meng Yan.

Meng Yan opened it and saw that the handwriting was calm, and it was indeed her mother's handwriting, saying that it was safely at the agreed place.

Meng Yan couldn't help but look up at the sun slanting to the west. The golden-red radiance filled the entire eaves, making the sky above her head extraordinarily pure and blue, cloudless and without any impurities.

She let out a sigh of relief, and said: "It will be dark in about an hour. Wait for another two hours, and look for it if you don't come back."

(End of this chapter)