Spring Banquet

Well, there was a resounding voice outside the door.

Huaiyu was stunned, watching her push the door in, a little surprised: "Why are you here?"

Lingxiu's eyes were full of melancholy, and she walked up to her and smiled reluctantly: "Just now, the people around Ziyang Jun came to look for slaves and asked them to come and serve you."

When entering Jiang Mansion, Lingxiu and Zhaocai were waiting in the carriage outside the door. Jiang Xuanjin was careful and knew to call her maid over.

Patting on the bed string asked her to come over and sit down. Huaiyu looked at it with a brilliant expression and asked curiously, "What happened?"

Lingxiu hesitated and said in a low voice, "While the slave and maidservant were in the car, she happened to ran into the master and the second lady leaving Jiang Mansion and heard a few words from them. The meaning of those words was... the Jiang family was going to give the second lady The bride price is down."

Jiang Xuanjin had said this before, and Li Huaiyu was not surprised. He stretched out his hand and patted her back to comfort him and said, "If you lose your horse, you know you are not good."

Before the incident of her own lady going out to find clothes and jewelry in the middle of the night, Lingxiu was not so obsessed with this marriage, but it was inevitable that she was a little sorry: "The young master of the Jiang family is such a good husband-in-law, but it is hard to find elsewhere."

"It's okay," Huaiyu said relievedly, "There is no fragrant grass on the horizon."

"..." Lingxiu looked at her dubiously, "Miss, this is your husband-in-law is gone, not a slave husband-in-law is gone!"

"Ah. Really?" She waved her hand indifferently. "It's all the same."

It's too open-minded! Lingxiu couldn't help being happy. She smiled and shook her head. After a while, she was relieved.

It’s good for the young lady to see it openly, maybe you will meet better people in the future?

Huaiyu half-truth explained to her why she was in Ziyangjun's yard. Lingxiu found it incredible, and she even sighed that her own lady was really ill-fated, and she was injured again.

It didn't take long for the two of them to murmur before it was time for dinner. Huaiyu asked Lingxiu to call Chengxu, originally wanting to order more meat, but when Chengxu came over, he brought the dinner with Jiang Xuanjin.

The table full of delicacies and a handsome Ziyang gentleman at the table made her stunned.

"Do you miss me?" Huaiyu blinked at him, "I even have dinner with me?"

"No." Jiang Xuanjin said quietly, "I want to not be disturbed before I finish eating."

What does it mean? Huaiyu wondered, who would bother him while eating?

This question was answered halfway through the dinner.

"Is the third brother?" Someone came in at the door and asked loudly, and then followed Yufeng to the main building to wait.

Huaiyu heard the sound, but the person next to him did not hear it. He slowly finished the bowl and cleaned his hands with the veil before Shi Shiran got up and walked outside.

Looking at his back curiously, Huaiyu didn't say a word, took the crutches next to him, and followed.

Chengxu looked at her without stopping, and let Lingxiu look at her.

Jiang Chong sat anxiously in the main building when he saw Jiang Xuanjin coming in. So he got up to meet him: "Third brother, have you seen Yan'er?"

Jiang Xuanjin looked inexplicable: "Yan'er? I saw it in the vestibule in the afternoon."

"What did he say?"

After thinking for a while, Jiang Xuanjin said, "He said he would let me save my life, saying that Miss Bai Er was too domineering."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Chong grumbled and sighed again: "This child is spoiled by me, and he is very willful. There is no room for his father to decide the marriage. He is not satisfied. Even ran away from home!"

"Run away from home?" Jiang Xuanjin paused and asked, "When did it happen?"

"I don't know either." Jiang Chong shook his head, "I couldn't find anyone during dinner. I searched around and found this letter in his room. Look."

After receiving the letter paper, Jiang Xuanjin looked at it and gathered it up and said: "There are only a few places around him to go, so let's send someone to find it first."

"I have sent someone to look for it. I can't make up my mind now. I don't know if I should tell my father or not." Jiang Chong was embarrassed. "Let him know that he must not sleep well, but if there is no one to be found tomorrow morning, The elders will know, too, and I won’t be blamed for deceiving."

This is a bit difficult, Jiang Xuanjin thought for a while, and whispered: "Let's find it. If you haven't found it tomorrow morning, just pretend you just found the letter and give it to your father."

Li Huaiyu, who listened to the corner outside, bends his eyes when he heard the words, and whispered to the person behind him: "Your master was taken by me and he will teach people to lie!"

Chengxu touched the tip of his nose and didn't say a word. Not only did his master teach others to lie, he was also lying now, okay? It was because of the uprightness of the eldest son, without any doubt.

Those who are close to the ink are black, the old sayings are all reasonable!

Jiang Xuanjin in the room calmly dealt with Jiang Chong and saw Li Huaiyu jumping out of the corner with a cane.

"Hehehe." She teased him with a smile.

The inexplicable ears are red, Jiang Xuanjin don't open his eyes: "What?"

"Nothing, I think you are very cute." Huaiyu rubbed his chin and squinted, "I want to trick you into hiding."

"Nonsense again!" Jiang Xuanjin waved her sleeves angrily, turned and walked back to the main building.

Huaiyu looked at him from behind and sighed to the side by Cheng Xu: "Your master is good everywhere, but the words are lacking, either'nonsense' or'presumptuous', otherwise it is'ridiculous' and'shut up', he will still Any other words?"

Chengxu suffocated a smile and bowed his hands to her: "It's the fourth lady who is too good."

"Thank you." Li Huaiyu yawned without humility. "I'll go back and rest, too. It seems that tomorrow will be a good show."

Bai Xuanji finally got the marriage affair, and before it became hot, the bridegroom official ran away. If you can't find Jiang Yan tomorrow, that would be a big joke.

Jiang Chong also understood this truth. In order to prevent Jiang Yan from being condemned by the old man, he sent many people. It even alarmed the Kyoto government office, almost turning over the entire Kyoto.

However, Jiang Yan seems to have evaporated from the world, and he has never been seen.

When the day broke, Jiang Chong knelt in front of the door of the old man Jiang.

Jiang Mansion in the early morning was another violent storm.

When Li Huaiyu woke up with a yawn, Jiang Xuanjin was sitting at the table in her room, glanced at her, and said quietly: "Change clothes, eat."

Smiled, Huaiyu stretched out his hand towards him: "I'm entangled in the quilt, I need a hug by Ziyang Jun to get up!"

The voice was soft and waxy, with an unconscious nasal sound, hoarse and lazy.

If it is another person, she must be dry. However, Jiang Xuanjin didn't eat this set at all, and said coldly: "No more nonsense, don't eat breakfast."

Upon hearing this, Huaiyu got up with a carp. It was just that the movement was too great and she accidentally pulled her injured foot. She screamed, clutching her ankle and wailing for a long time, and then got out of bed with her shoes aggrieved.

Lingxiu next to her quickly lowered the curtain on the partition and helped her to change clothes behind the screen. The clothes I wore yesterday burned out. Fortunately, Mr. Ziyang was considerate and found a new set. The materials are all good. Can support the scene today.

After getting dressed, washing and tidying up, Li Huaiyu looked dignified and generous again. She went to sit next to Jiang Xuanjin on the crutches. She took her chopsticks and looked at him and said, "I thought about it all night yesterday. I always felt that Young Master Jiang ran away suddenly and couldn't get rid of you."

Jiang Xuanjin picked up the chopsticks, picked up the vegetables and chewed slowly, ignoring her.

Huaiyu then said: "Look at what General Jiang Chong was in anxious yesterday. You, as the uncle who loves Jiang Yan the most, don't say anything in a hurry. You even ate well and slept well. unusual."

"But I can't figure it out, why are you doing this? Jiang Yan and Bai Xuanji's marriage are set, what good will he do for you if he runs away from home?"

"Could it be that you have an opinion on Bai Xuanji?"

...

After eating a bowl of rice, Jiang Xuanjin wiped her mouth and stood up and said, "Follow me."

"What?" Huaiyu stared, "I haven't eaten breakfast yet!"

"There are so many words, so I am definitely not hungry."

"..." Huaiyu couldn't laugh or cry when he was choked by these words. Seeing that he really didn't mean to wait for him, he quickly got up, grabbed two snacks and stuffed him into his sleeves, and ran after him with a cane.

Old lady Jiang was furious in the front hall.

"Look, look, what kind of **** words he wrote? What's "Yanxin has a family and a country but no family, so I may mistake the girl for life, so I use it as a basis to dissolve the marriage contract." , Is he able to release it?!"

Jiang Chong knelt down and said nothing.

When Jiang Xuanjin entered, the old lady had already torn up the letter left by Jiang Yan, and just throwing it away in the hall was a piece of paper snow that fell towards him one after another.

"Father calm down." He said, "I have already arranged people at various gates when I leave Beijing. Once I find Yan'er, I will definitely bring it back."

Seeing him coming, the old lady turned his head and said angrily: "Look at the good nephew you taught. He has learned how to learn how to be unwilling to marry a wife! Does the incense of my Jiang family have to be cut? In your hands?"

Jiang Xuanjin looked down: "You take care of yourself."

"Take care of what?" The old lady squeezed the lead stick and slammed on the ground, "I will go to the Bai Mansion to hire tomorrow. The news is released, and the Bai Family is ready. Jiang Yan's run, what shall we take? Explain to the White House!"

"My son should go to plead guilty." Jiang Chong continued.

"Please?" The old lady said angrily, "This is something that you can end by asking? The friendship between Jiang Bai's family for generations must not be destroyed in your hands? What do outsiders say about our Jiang family? What will the White House do? Look at our Jiang family?"

Jiang Chong bowed his head embarrassedly: "This..."

Jiang Xuanjin stood quietly and waited until the old lady's anger was almost over, then asked softly: "Is the bride price to be sent to the White House, is it already ready?"

Speaking of this, Mrs. Jiang was even more angry: "Is it still ready? I prepared it a few years ago! But if you have such a shameful grandson, I am afraid that you will have to put it aside for several years!"

"It's not necessary to put it aside." Jiang Xuanjin said, "Give it to me."

"..."

The old lady stopped yelling, stopped anger, and instantly became quiet.

"You...what did you say?" After a long while, he looked at Jiang Xuanjin in a daze, "The bride price is for you? How do you use it?"

Jiang Chong was also so scared that he almost didn't kneel down, turning his head and looking at him in shock.

Against the scorching eyes of everyone, Jiang Xuanjin calmly said, "How else can I use it? Naturally, I need to hire another wife and come back."

Come back with another lady...change with...madam... come back?

There was a shudder, and Grandpa Jiang felt that he might be old, his ears were not working well, and such ridiculous auditory hallucinations appeared. He grabbed his beard and tugged, feeling the pain, and asked blankly, "Are you serious?"

"Isn't this the only way to preserve the relationship between Jiang Bai's family and the Jiang family's face?"

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Jiang was really moved, and even started to feel a little grateful that Jiang Yan had escaped from marriage. Escaped a small one, caught a big one! Jiang Xuanjin's marriage caused him more headaches than Jiang Yan, Jiang Yan was still young, Xuan Jin should have been married long ago!

After thinking about it, he asked: "You go to marry that second Miss Bai?"

As soon as she asked, she frowned again: "That girl looked clever, and Yan'er is still suitable, but what you say..."

Jiang Chong was still there, and the old lady didn't speak too bluntly, but he was arrogant. Bai Xuanji's pairing with Yan'er is already considered high, so how can He De be Xuan Jin's wife? Even if he arbitrarily pulls the individual to live his life, his old man will inevitably feel a little regretful.

When she was struggling, Jiang Xuanjin in front of her suddenly said: "Come here today, there are other things to explain to her father."

"Oh?" The old lady sat up straight, "you said."

"I met some mobs on the street a few days ago and was almost assassinated. At the critical moment, a girl rushed out and saved my life." Taking a deep breath, Jiang Xuanjin bit her scalp and lied, "That girl is kind, save me. I didn’t ask for anything in return, and didn’t leave a given name, so I failed to repay."

"Unexpectedly, at the banquet yesterday, I met the girl again, and by coincidence, she injured her foot. So yesterday, I helped her back to Moju for a doctor’s treatment, but I didn’t want to be seen by the servants at home, causing her Misunderstandings almost ruined their reputation."

Hearing this, the old lady's eyes lit up: "Are you talking about the girl you hid in the room?"

"It's not hidden in the room." Jiang Xuanjin explained patiently, "because she was injured, so temporarily..."

"I understand for my father." The old lady smiled and waved, "It's the girl you hid in the room because of her injury."

Jiang Xuanjin: "..."

Jiang Chong was also excited: "Such a good girl, don't you bring her father to see you?"

"She's out there." Jiang Xuanjin took a look at the old lady, thought for a while, and asked, "Have you taken the medicine today?"

The butler next to him smiled and replied, "No, it's warm on the stove."

"Come first."

"Yes."

"What medicine do you care about?" The old lady said kindly, "Let people come in first!"

As he said, he waved to Jiang Chong who was still kneeling: "You also get up first."

Jiang Chong breathed a sigh of relief, got up and sat down in a chair next to him, rubbing his knees silently. Jiang Xuanjin nodded to Cheng Xu when the steward brought the medicine.

Li Huaiyu outside the door received a message to let her in. He pulled out the crutch under his arm and stuffed it into Lingxiu's hand.

"Miss!" Lingxiu called her worriedly, "Don't your feet hurt?"

"It hurts." Huaiyu nodded honestly, and said in a low voice, "but bear with it for a while, your lady will be able to rise to the top, so it hurts!"

As he said, with an expression of seeing death as home, he dignifiedly crossed the threshold of the front hall.

Old Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Chong both stared at the door with wide eyes. Before a while, they saw a graceful lady approaching the wind, with good looks and graceful posture. Step forward three steps for blessing, courtesy and thoughtful, extremely posture.

"Greetings to the old lady and the generals."

The sound is impeccable.

The old lady was amused. Although her face was still holding a shelf, her eyes were shining. She looked up and down the girl, nodding in satisfaction: "The girl is polite."

At first glance, Jiang Chong thought this girl was good, but when he walked a few steps closer, he felt that something was not right.

Why do you look at... a bit familiar?

"Dare to ask this girl, where does she live and her surname?" The old lady asked herself without realizing that something was wrong with Jiang Chong.

Li Huaiyu smiled and glanced at Jiang Xuanjin. Ask with your eyes: Speaking straight?

Jiang Xuanjin paused and said to the old lady: "Father, drink the medicine first, and let it cool down later."

"Don't worry, don't worry." The old lady waved his hand, and all thoughts were on the girl in front of him. He felt that if her family background was suitable, he would not need to drink this medicine, and his body would last for several months at least!

After hesitating for a moment, Huaiyu bent her knees and said, "The little girl lives next to the official road in Chang'an. Her name is Bai and her name is Zhuji."

Hearing Chang'an Official Road, Mrs. Jiang was also happy, thinking that he must be from a rich family, worthy, worthy! However, after hearing the second half, he was silent.

Long silence.

"Father?" Jiang Xuanjin called him suspiciously.

The old lady held the faucet stick motionless, but Jiang Chong who was next to him stood up in fright: "No wonder it's Miss Bai Si!"

Huaiyu smiled and saluted him again.

Jiang Chong looked at her, feeling very complicated, and turned to his father and said, "Look, I said that Miss Bai Si knows the rules very well, and the manners are also generous, you still don't believe it. But I really didn't expect it. The person who saved my life was Miss Bai Si!"

As he said, he glanced at the calm look of the old lady, and couldn't help but admire: "Father really deserves to have seen the world. I am not surprised when I meet these things."

He was frightened.

Old Mrs. Jiang fixedly looked at Li Huaiyu for a long time, and finally coughed, opened his mouth, and said something.

The housekeeper listened to his ears, thinking that he had some private instructions, who knows that when he got closer, he heard: "Bring...bring me the medicine!"

He quickly put the medicine bowl into his hand, and the butler went in for him in a panic: "You drink slowly!"

The old man grunted a few mouthfuls of the medicine, and finally was able to catch his breath. He coughed and looked at the girl in front of him, then looked at Jiang Xuanjin: "You want to marry, is Miss Bai Si?"

"Father Mingjian." Jiang Xuanjin said, "I want to marry someone who has a life-saving grace for me, and this person happens to be Miss Bai Si."

In other words, he didn't intend to get into the muddy waters of the Bai family, this is all fate!

"In that case, why did you try your best to facilitate the marriage between Miss Bai Si and Yan'er yesterday?" The old lady was anxiously pushing his cane, "Isn't this absurd!"

"There is a misunderstanding about this matter." Jiang Xuanjin looked down and began to make up again.

"The reason why the marriage was promoted before was really for my sister-in-law's last wish, and at the time I didn't know she was the fourth miss of the Bai family. It wasn't until the elders decided the marriage was later that I went back and sighed and she remembered telling me her identity. ."

Upon hearing this, the old lady immediately pointed the finger at Li Huaiyu: "He doesn't know your identity, can you still know whether his identity is or not? You clearly have a marriage contract with Yan'er, so why bother with Xuan Jin again?"

Li Huaiyu gritted his teeth secretly, thinking that Jun Ziyang is not kind. She even left herself clean, and let her carry it all!

Isn't it better than lying? She taught him all this ability, but can he still be afraid that he will fail?

She sucked her nose and her eyes flushed, and she said in a dumb voice, "Grandma Mingjian! The little girl was idiotic for three years. She just recovered a few days ago, and she can't remember many things. When I first met Ziyang Jun, I really didn't recognize him. Yesterday's Mansion When I met again, I didn’t want to be entangled any more. Who knew that the king would hold on to the little girl, and said affectionately that he wanted to repay the little girl’s life-saving grace. I wanted to make it clear right away, but the king was entangled in affairs and hurriedly I'm gone. The little girl has no choice but to wait for him to be free before telling the truth."

As he said, I felt wronged: "What kind of status does the little girl dare to climb to the top? Before coming, the little girl didn't know that the king had the intention of marrying the little girl. Now that I know it, I naturally dare not respond!"

When she said this, the old lady's brows loosened, and when she looked at this sincere and sad expression, her heart also loosened.

The fourth daughter of the Bai family has always been unwelcome. Her mother died young, and her life in the Bai Mansion must have been difficult. Now the marriage was seized by her second sister, and she was injured again. She was lonely and pitiful.

Think about it. He looked at Jiang Xuanjin again: "You too, how can you not ask in advance?"

Jiang Xuanjin: "..."

Sure enough, Jiang was still old and hot, his little student who just knew how to lie was completely no match for her old originator in the world of lies.

"Don't blame the Lord." The man next to him was getting more and more energetic, holding the kerchief and rubbing the corner of his eyes, "He has a high authority and is busy with his affairs. What about the heartfelt words of the little girl? I just said that I want to marry the little **** a whim. I want to give him an explanation for his behavior last night."

As he said, he turned his head again, his face was angry and shy, and his lips were half-opened: "The Lord doesn't have to explain to the little girl. What happened last night was an accident. The little girl will not be entangled."

last night? accident?

Upon hearing these words, the old man's breath was choked again, and he tremblingly stretched out his hand to the housekeeper: "Give me another bowl of medicine!"