The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 260: A Wonderful Plan (One More)

"The servants meet Princess Ning." Eunuch Huang bowed and saluted.

The little palace maid also hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "This servant has seen Princess Ning."

Xiao Liulang bowed his hands to Princess Ning and saluted, with a calm bearing and a magnanimous expression.

Xiao Liulang was wearing the uniform of the champion, which was very easy to identify. It's just that Princess Ning has never met the young marquis of Zhaodu, and recently, in order to give her peace of mind, Concubine Zhuang didn't tell her about the outside world, so she doesn't know the rumors about this new champion for the time being.

Concubine Ning nodded politely, it was an outsider, she was inconvenienced to have too much contact with him, her eyes fell back to the little palace maid who was kneeling on the ground: "I remember you are the maid next to His Highness Chen Guoliu, yes Has something happened to your highness?"

The little palace maid said in a choked voice: "In the words of Princess Huining, His Royal Highness is ill, and there has never been an imperial doctor to treat him. The servant is worried that if this continues, His Highness will become ill..."

Concubine Ning's hand gently touched her belly, and a trace of complexity flashed across her eyes, and said, "Go back first, I will report this matter to Concubine Mingming."

It's good that this kind of thing didn't happen. If it happened, it wouldn't make sense. Besides, the right should be to accumulate virtue for the child in the womb.

"Yes! Yes! Many thanks to Princess Ning!" The little palace maid kowtowed a few times, then got up and went back.

Princess Ning also went out of the imperial garden accompanied by the palace maid.

"Respectfully send off Princess Ning." Eunuch Huang bowed, until Princess Ning disappeared at the end of the path, he straightened up, smiled at Xiao Liulang, and said, "Xiao Zhuangyuan, please come here."

Xiao Liulang nodded and continued to go in the direction of the East Palace with Eunuch Huang.

Xiao Liulang noticed that when passing by the tall banyan tree, Eunuch Huang glanced at the tree, as if he was looking for something, but there was nothing on the tree.

Xiao Liulang retracted his gaze. For some reason, he always had the illusion that he had escaped the catastrophe, which was very strange.

After Princess Ning returned to the palace, she reported to Concubine Zhuang Gui that she had run into Chen Guo’s little palace maid. Concubine Zhuang hated Chen Guo’s proton because their sons of the Zhuang family had once entered the Chen country as hostages and suffered a lot in Chen country. I can't wait to let Chen Guo's proton experience the pain that Anjun King once suffered.

But she just thought about it in her heart, she is not so stupid if she really wants to do it.

Concubine Zhuang went to the imperial study and told the emperor that Chen Guo's proton was seriously ill. The emperor instructed Eunuch Wei to arrange for an imperial doctor to go there.

Liu's house.

The sun is shining alone, Liu Yisheng is sitting on the small bench in the front yard and rubbing hemp rope, while Anu and the old woman are weaving baskets. This is the main source of income for the family. One basket can be sold for ten copper plates, and one hemp rope can be sold. a copper plate.

If you are lucky,

They can weave four baskets and twist ten hemp ropes a day, which is fifty copper plates. However, because Liu Yisheng is often bullied, he cannot guarantee that he can work every day.

There were two people sitting opposite Liu Yisheng, one was Gu Jiao who was playing with a white cat, and the other was a young man in a blue robe.

The man's brows and eyes were a bit like Liu Yisheng's, and he couldn't tell if he didn't take a closer look.

The man's appearance is handsome, a little less delicate than Liu Yisheng, but he can be regarded as an elegant and suave beautiful man.

His clothes were luxurious and out of tune with the dilapidated yard, and he did not look like a fellow Liu Yisheng at all.

But it happened to be such a person, sitting on a rattan chair, playing with the fan in his hand, and chatting leisurely with Liu Yisheng.

"You finally agreed to contact me." He said with a smile.

Liu Yisheng was sweating profusely as he twisted the hemp rope. He didn't know if he didn't have the time to pay attention to him, or he was too lazy to pay attention to him.

The young man was not angry, he opened the folding fan, slapped it smartly, closed it with a snap, looked at Gu Jiao and said, "Who is she?"

"Doctor." Liu Yisheng finally spoke, his eyes fixed on the hemp rope in his hand, he didn't look at the person he was talking to, but he just guessed that he was asking Gu Jiao.

The young man clapped his palm with a folding fan and said meaningfully, "There are still doctors willing to take care of you these days? Isn't it an ordinary doctor?"

Reading between the lines, he seemed to know Liu Yisheng's situation like the back of his hand.

Gu Jiao licked her cat happily, and when she heard this, she turned her head and glanced at the young man lightly: "Of course I'm not an ordinary doctor, I'm a genius doctor."

Young man: "..."

Do all the women in your Zhao country like to put gold on their faces so much?

"Do you know who he is?" The young man asked Gu Jiao this time.

"Liu Yisheng." Gu Jiao continued to play with the cat.

The young man smiled and pointed at Liu Yisheng with a folding fan: "He is my cousin."

"Huh?" Gu Jiao blinked.

This young man is none other than the sixth prince of the Chen country who just pretended to be sick in the palace.

Gu Jiao planned to sneak into the palace by herself, but Liu Yisheng said she couldn't get in, but her news could be sent in.

Not long afterward, the man who claimed to be the sixth prince of the Chen Kingdom came to Liu Yisheng with the white cat he caught.

Gu Jiao looked at Liu Yisheng: "Chen Guoren?"

Well, is it really okay to tell her about such an important thing?

Gu Jiao's reaction was calmer than the sixth prince imagined, but she was not too surprised when he thought of his self-reporting identity, and the sixth prince was relieved.

Just a calm little girl.

Gu Jiao continued to play cats and cats.

"You're not leaving yet?" Liu Yisheng said to the sixth prince.

The sixth prince smiled and said, "It's rare for you to contact me once. What if I don't come and sit for a while? I almost thought you would never contact me in your life."

He said, turned to look at Gu Jiao, and did not shy away from his relationship with Liu Yisheng at all, "I came to Zhao Kingdom to be a proton just for him to convince him to go back with me. He doesn't listen to me, so you might as well persuade me. persuade him."

Gu Jiao: I really don't want to know so much...

"Anu, see off the guest!" Liu Yisheng ordered the eviction without raising his eyes.

Anu put down the half-woven basket, got up and came to the sixth prince, gave him a salute and motioned him to go out.

The sixth prince who could be chased out of such a broken place: "..."

The sixth prince patted the rattan chair helplessly and left with a sigh.

The white cat is so cute, chubby, soft and shiny, and Gu Jiao is very satisfied.

The white cat was also very comfortable, lying on Gu Jiao's lap with all four feet up, exposing the most vulnerable belly to Gu Jiao.

Liu Yisheng didn't order Gu Jiao to evict guests, he rubbed the hemp rope for a while, and suddenly said, "My mother is from Chen country."

"Huh?" Gu Jiao licked the cat for a while, then turned to look at him.

Liu Yisheng bowed his head and rubbed the hemp rope, which was originally a pair of slender and beautiful hands, but was worn out by life with calluses and blood: "He Yuantang's mother and concubine are sisters."

Oh, it turns out that the prince of the Chen Kingdom is called Yuan Tang.

Gu Jiao understood that the two sisters, one entered the palace as a concubine, and the other went to the enemy country to do meticulous work, and it was not easy to cultivate a family of sisters.

"Does the emperor know?" Gu Jiao asked.

Liu Yisheng shook his head: "I don't know if he knows."

When the Liu family was convicted, Liu Yisheng was still too young, and no one told him what happened to the Liu family. He watched the Liu family being raided, decapitated, and exiled. In the end, he was the only child left, and he was not strong enough. 's mother.

Anu picked it up halfway.

Liu Yisheng thought for a while, and then said, "I shouldn't know, but it doesn't matter anymore, I'm already a bereaved dog."

"Why didn't you leave?" Gu Jiao asked.

Liu Yisheng laughed at himself: "Where are you going? Chen country? In Zhao country, I was a lost dog, and it was the same when I went to Chen country."

Half of Zhao's blood was flowing in his body, and in Chen Guo's eyes, he was not clean.

Gu Jiao didn't persuade anymore.

Everyone has their own life and their own choices. Gu Jiao put down the white cat and got up to leave: "I'm leaving."

Liu Yisheng looked at the confused white cat on the ground and asked her, "Aren't you going to take the cat?"

"Let's keep it." Gu Jiao said, and before he could say that I don't have the money to keep a cat, she took out a money bag and put it on the table, "Its food expenses."

After all, she stepped out of the yard.

Liu Yisheng didn't understand. After playing with the cat for an hour, he clearly liked it too much, so why should he keep it with him? Can such a big hospital still have a cat?

Of course, he just wondered in his heart, and wouldn't ask Gu Jiao, he didn't even ask why Gu Jiao went to the palace to catch a cat, so why would he ask this?

Some people, even though they don't have a deep relationship, can trust each other.

The white cat was petted all afternoon, and suddenly no one was petting it. It was very lonely and jumped on Liu Yisheng's leg, begging the tiger to touch it.

Liu Yisheng didn't have time to play the cat, so he ignored it and continued to twist the hemp rope.

"You know what will happen if you don't catch the cat in time?"

It was Yuan Tang's voice.

Liu Yisheng looked back, Yuan Tang actually came out of the main room, and it seemed that he came in through the back door.

Liu Yisheng frowned: "You haven't left yet?"

"I said that you finally came to me, so I have to stay for a while." Yuan Tang lay down on the rattan chair where he had been lying before, playing with the folding fan with one hand and resting the other on the back of his head, and continued. Fang Cai's topic said, "If the cat is not caught in time, the new champion will be hit by the cat. The cat will startle the champion, and the champion will also startle the cat. In the end, the frightened cat will knock down Princess Ning who is passing by. Princess Ning is pregnant, and most of this child cannot be kept. The new champion, Princess Ning, and the cat owner, killing three birds with one stone, what a beautiful strategy."

Gu Jiao was going to catch the cat, but Liu Yisheng was really just catching the cat. He looked at Yuan Tang in confusion: "How do you know?"

Yuan Tang waved at the white cat.

The white cat jumped to the ground in disgust, and jumped on Yuan Tang's legs reluctantly.

Yuan Tang licked it and said, "Because this is my cat, someone tricked my cat away with dried fish."

He said, picked up the white cat, and said coolly, "You stupid thing, you almost implicated me. Next time you are kidnapped so easily, don't blame me for stewing you into a pot of cat meat!"

Gu Jiao's dream was only related to Xiao Liulang, and she did not see the fate of the white cat and its owner.

"Meow~" the white cat called out in a guilty conscience.

Yuan Tang poked the white cat's belly, the cat was guilty, and poked obediently: "Rather than you being curious about how I knew, shouldn't you be more curious about how the girl knew? I guessed it later based on the situation at the scene. Yes, that girl seems to have expected it early in the morning."

Liu Yisheng didn't know what to think, and suddenly fell silent.

Yuan Tang smiled mysteriously: "Do you want me to check that girl?"

Liu Yisheng said sternly, "You better not."

Yuan Tang asked, "What? Are you angry?"

Liu Yisheng lowered his eyes and rubbed the rope: "I have nothing to do with her, why am I angry? But you go to check on her. If it is exposed, it will cause her trouble. She helped you by accident."

Yuan Tang thought for a while, then nodded: "That's true." He looked at the sky, "It's getting late, I should leave now, this is for you."

Yuan Tang took out a few banknotes and put them on the table.

Liu Yisheng said without hesitation, "Take it."

Yuan Tang had a toothache, he took a deep breath and looked at him puzzled: "You want what little girl gives you, and I give you something, but you don't want it? I'd rather live a life of not having enough to eat, and never accept it. My relief, just don't want to have anything to do with Chen Guo?"

"You really want to give it to me?" Liu Yisheng looked at him and said.

"Yeah!" Yuan Tang nodded with wide eyes.

Liu Yisheng said, "Leave that cat, and take the other away."

Yuan Tang: "..."

Yuan Tang finally took the silver note away, because he knew that Liu Yisheng said no, so he really would rather throw it than take it.

He left the white cat.

After everyone walked away, Liu Yisheng put the cat on the table, and at the same time, his eyes fell on the money bag.

He hesitated, picked up the purse, opened it, and found that it contained not only a few ingots of silver, but also three hairpin flowers.

East Palace.

Xiao Liulang met the prince.

The prince looked at the young man dressed in Fei Luojin's official residence in front of him, stunned, and did not speak for a long time.

He stood up, walked in front of Xiao Liulang, walked around him, and looked at every strand of his hair up and down.

I don't know how long he looked at it, he finally found his voice: "You, you are the champion of the new division? That candidate surnamed Xiao?"

"Yes." Xiao Liulang said without looking sideways.

Compared to the prince's restlessness, he seemed much calmer. After all, it was not the first day he entered the capital. Sooner or later, some things had to be faced. He had imagined it many times, and he had already learned to be calm.

The prince returned to the main seat in disbelief, stared at the face so similar to the memory, opened his mouth, and said, "What's your name?"

"Xiao Liulang."

"Why is it called such a simple name?"

Xiao Liulang said: "The elders in the family are not literate. When I was born in the sixth grade, I was called Liulang."

The prince asked suspiciously, "You said your birthday is the sixth day of the first lunar month? In what month?"

Xiao Liulang said: "November."

"Cousin is New Year's Eve..." The prince murmured, pinching his fingers, and his eyes fell on his crutches and legs, "What's the matter with your legs?"

Xiao Liulang: "I was injured a little bit a year or two ago."

Prince: "Is it okay?"

Xiao Liulang: "I don't know."

Being a lame man is actually not so perfect. The prince cleared his throat and said, "What's your relationship with the Xuanping Marquis' Mansion?"

"It doesn't matter." Xiao Liulang said lightly.

Not like a cousin, not at all.

My cousin is not so indifferent. My cousin respects him very much. I always look very happy when I see him. My cousin smiles warmly, unlike this guy who is cold all over.

This face is really too similar, seeing him as if his cousin came to life, the only thing missing is the tear mole under his right eye.

The prince's face turned pale.

Eunuch Huang whispered: "Your Highness, are you alright? Or... the servant will take Xiao Zhuangyuan down first? You will pass him on for questioning another day."

The prince waved his hand, motioned for Eunuch Huang to step down, looked at Xiao Liulang again and said, "Do you like to eat chestnuts?"

"I like it." Xiao Liulang said.

Cousin doesn't like it.

The prince said again: "Do you eat spicy food?"

Xiao Liulang said: "Eat."

The prince made a gesture to the palace servant, and the palace servant brought a bowl of spicy pork jerky.

Xiao Liulang glanced at the spiced pork jerky without raising his eyelids. He picked up a small piece with his slender fingertips and ate it slowly.

The prince looked at him for a moment, not letting go of any of his reactions.

My cousin can't eat spicy food. A little bit of spiciness will make my tongue stick out. This level of dried meat must make my face turn red.

However, Xiao Liulang ate very easily.

The prince couldn't tell why he was relieved.

Xiao Liulang left the palace.

The twilight is boundless, and the imperial city is shrouded in a warm orange sunset.

Liu Quan's carriage was parked near the palace, and Xiao Liulang walked over with a cane. He just got into the carriage and found Gu Jiao sitting in the car waiting for him.

Gu Jiao leaned against the wall of the car, closed her eyes slightly, as if she was asleep, a little quiet, a little well-behaved.

Xiao Liulang's eyes swept across her soft lips intentionally or unintentionally, his Adam's apple rolled, and he hurriedly looked away and got on the carriage.

The carriage shook slightly, and Gu Jiao woke up. She opened her eyes and saw him, her eyes suddenly lit up: "You are here."

"Well." Xiao Liulang sat down on the bench opposite her.

Liu Quan waved his whip, and the wheel of the car turned.

When Lao Jijiu first bought this carriage, he didn't think that it would be used by a second person, so there was not much space. The two sat in the carriage, and their breath quickly permeated and entangled together.

It was a hot day in late April.

Xiao Liulang thought to himself.

"Last night... I drank too much," he said.

"Yeah." Gu Jiao didn't care.

Xiao Liulang settled down: "I won't do it in the future."

"Huh?" Gu Jiao looked at him puzzled.

Xiao Liulang didn't look into her eyes, he just clenched his fist on his lap and said sternly, "I won't drink too much... I will treat you like that."

"Oh." Gu Jiao was lost.

Looking at the trace of loss in her eyes, for some reason, Xiao Liulang's forehead became hot: "It will be when he is awake."

Gu Jiao: "Huh?"

Xiao Liulang was stunned after saying that, he swears that he didn't mean to say that! He was going to tell her that he would not do anything frivolous to her if he was sober, but the words were already on his lips, so how could it become another sentence?

will be awake.

Is this what people say?

It's too frustrating, what a waste of reading sage books!

Xiao Liulang's face suddenly flushed red, and he could not wait to find a crack to get in.

"I...I didn't mean that, I...I didn't mean to..." Xiao Liulang really had a hard time saying those two words.

Gu Jiao said for him, "Don't you want to kiss?"

Xiao Liulang was embarrassed: "Well."

Gu Jiao thought for a while, then pointed at her finger: "Is that going to sleep?"

"Hmm..." Xiao Liulang shook his head, shaking his head sharply, "No!"