Chapter 102: Peach Blossom Wine
"Sub...... Ziyu, you ......" Zhao Xi's face was full of red clouds and a bewildered expression, and he put down the teapot with a twinkle in his eyes and called someone to come in and clean up.
Cheng Song hooked the corner of his mouth and picked up the teacup, this time he didn't drink it, but gently blew the tea. The water ripples, just like someone's mood.
The guy came in and wiped down the table, replaced the small snacks wet with the tea, and cleaned up carefully before retreating.
The guy left, and Zhao Xi also returned to normal.
"Ziyu, why would you say such a thing?" Zhao Xi lowered his head and poured himself a cup of tea, raising his eyes to look at Cheng Song, who was sitting opposite, "Or are you ...... Something was seen. ”
Cheng Song chuckled, looked at Zhao Xi with a straight face, and said: "On the boat that day, although the fourth master felt uncomfortable eating the dim sum containing crab roe by mistake, he was not completely unconscious, right? ”
Zhao Xi's fingers on the teacup trembled slightly, and his eyes met Cheng Song's dark eyes.
The two looked at each other in silence for a moment, and neither of them avoided it first!
In the end, Zhao Xi smiled bitterly and lowered his eyes and admitted defeat.
"I thought I was ...... It was well disguised, but I didn't expect it to be seen by Ziyu. Zhao Xi raised his head and said sincerely, "I grew up with the Xie brothers and sisters since childhood, and they have always treated me very well, until the dispute between my father and the crown prince came to the table. It's true that I have a crush on Cousin Fuya, but I have absolutely no other delusions. Ziyu can laugh at my delusional thoughts, but I can't misunderstand my cousin's virtues. ”
Listening to Zhao Xi's words, Cheng Song shook his head and chuckled.
"I have never looked down on anyone, the county lord of Jingyi is not an ordinary housewife, I know this. Cheng Song said, "I'm just worried about whether you will be able to deal with Princess Anyang and the Xie family in the future." ”
Zhao Xi pursed his lips and said in a deep voice: "I...... Nature can!"
Cheng Song's dark eyes flashed, and he smiled evilly: "If the fourth master can, why do you speak for Xie Fuya in the matter of Zhong'an Temple? Just because I said that I wanted to get rid of her, you were so angry that you stood up." The prince wants to send someone to deal with Xie Zhuo's affairs, and you also reminded me privately of the fourth master. If it weren't for the fourth master, how could I have rushed to rescue Xie Zhuo in time, and also got rid of the Pei Supervisor who was arranged by the prince? What happened on the cruise ship should also be that the Xie brothers and sisters wanted to calculate you, but you still had to defend them. Fourth master, if you continue like this, I am afraid that there will soon be a flaw in the prince and the prince, and you will ...... when the time comes."
Cheng Song didn't say anything later, but Zhao Xi's face was as white as paper.
Did he do any of these things, so obvious that people could see it?
"I ...... I just ......" Zhao Xi took the tea to his lips and took a sip, then put down the teacup dejectedly, "Why is Cousin Zhuo a Five Ghost Star?" Could Mr. Ying have miscalculated?"
Cheng Song took the teapot on the small stove and added tea to himself, "But Fourth Master, you said that Mr. Ying is a god-like existence, and you won't be wrong." ”
Zhao Xi was silent.
Cheng Song didn't come to force Zhao Xi to make a choice, but he felt that among the people in King Liang's faction, only Zhao Xi was still in love with him. However, the teenager is more than smart and inexperienced, and it is difficult to hide his true emotions and emotions.
Not only Zhao Xi, but also King Liang and his son Zhao You were both people with a small pattern in Cheng Song's eyes! They were full of desire and ambition for that position, and the tactics they used were often similar to those of the women in the house...... Good at calculating, framing, murdering.
Cheng Song once said to his father Lu Guogong that King Liang may not be stronger than the crown prince! King Liang is not necessarily a Ming monarch when he is called emperor!
After hearing this, Lu Guogong scolded Cheng Song for not talking nonsense, they supported King Liang in order to repay the kindness of the medicine at the beginning, and don't think about other things and ask more!
After being reprimanded a few times, Cheng Song didn't bother to say more. He even thought that if King Liang was defeated at the hands of the crown prince, would their Lu State Mansion also be finished? He didn't understand why his father had to make such a choice, could it be that if King Liang saved his grandmother's life, their Cheng family would have to pay back with the lives of the whole clan?
Cheng Song has always been contradictory to Zhao Xi, and when he found out that Zhao Xi was also contradictory, he really got close to him.
"That's it, what are you talking about!" Cheng Song spilled the tea in the teacup on the ground, then threw the cup lightly on the table, and said to Zhao Xi with a smile, "This tea doesn't taste good, why don't you go and drink a few glasses of wine?"
Zhao Xi is sixteen years old this year, and he does not drink alcohol on weekdays, except for a drink or two during the New Year's holidays in the palace or at home reunions. Therefore, Cheng Song came out to taste tea in a teahouse, but Cheng Song grew up in the army, and his first sip of wine at the age of ten was to burn knives! No wonder he said that drinking tea has no taste.
"Okay! I won't drink tea today, and I'll drink a few cups of peach blossoms with Ziyu!" Zhao Xi readily agreed to Cheng Song's proposal.
Cheng Song raised his eyebrows! Peach blossoms? What is so delicious about the wine that only women drink!
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"What? Princess Anyang handed over the post, and she will come to our house tomorrow?"
The old Chen, who was drinking the medicine, heard the fifth wife say that Princess Anyang was coming tomorrow, so he sat up from the bed, so frightened that the girl who was serving and drinking the medicine next to him almost knocked over the medicine bowl!
"What is she going to do in our house?" asked Old Chen with a wink of small eyes.
Since learning that no one could help rescue his grandson, the old Chen family fell seriously ill, but fortunately, with the supply of good medicine and supplements, he got better quickly.
Recently, there has been no movement on Cai Chengchuan's side, and Cheng Yibo asked the eldest lady to reveal the news that things have taken a turn for the better, and Lao Chen's illness has been cured by more than half.
The letter went straight to the second room. The fifth lady lowered her voice and said, "The second lady took the letter and went to the big room to sit for half an hour before leaving. Then the eldest lady ordered her subordinates to clean up, saying that the princess of Anyang would come to the house tomorrow, but it couldn't be messed up. ”
The fifth lady has some nostalgia in her heart! In the end, the big house and the second room are the same family, and if there is anything to ventilate the fifth room! Tomorrow, Princess Anyang will come to the house, if the people in the fifth room make any jokes because they don't know, will their faces in the second room of the big room be bright!
With jealousy and grievances, Mrs. Fifth ran to the sick old Chen to fan the flames.
"Old lady, you said, it's okay if you don't tell me about such a big thing, why don't you even send a letter here?" The fifth lady provoked, "In case Princess Anyang wants to come to visit you who are sick, will you let the princess see the mess in this courtyard?"
Old Chen was also thinking so, and when he heard Mrs. Fifth point it out, her face, which had become black and yellow due to illness and taking medicine, sank even more!
"Hmph! You want to be greedy for benefits behind my back!" Old Chen snorted coldly, "Go, call the eldest wife and the second wife to me!"
The eldest wife and daughter-in-law Wen were busy assigning errands to the servants, while the second wife was in her yard picking out clothes to wear when she saw the princess of Anyang tomorrow. As soon as the mother-in-law sent by the old Chen family passed the word, the excitement on the faces of the two wives disappeared suddenly.
"Madam, the old lady suddenly called you over, didn't she want to talk about the third brother again?"
The eldest lady threw the booklet in her hand on the table, and snorted with a cold face: "If you don't let everyone work around her own grandson for a day, she will feel uncomfortable!"
In private, the eldest lady never concealed her disgust and disrespect for the old Chen family in front of her daughter-in-law! Before the Wen family got married, her mother's mother and sister-in-law also told her about the complexity of Chengyibo's mansion, and let her just learn from her mother-in-law, but as a junior, she couldn't go too far.
Wen's temperament is soft, even if her mother's family said that she should learn from her mother-in-law, she didn't dare to say that the old lady was not.
Although the eldest lady was reluctant, she still went to Yanshou Ju because of the pressure of "filial piety".
The second wife is also annoying to the old Chen, but she has to act according to orders.
In the bedroom of the old Chen family in Yanshou Ju, the eldest wife and the second wife were choked by the smell of medicine and other peculiar smells inside as soon as they entered the door, and they raised their hands to cover their mouths and noses.
"The eldest lady and the second wife are here. The girl reported inside.
The girl who served inside walked out and blessed the two wives, "The old lady said that her body was not good and the smell of medicine in the house was choking, so she didn't invite the two wives to sit in." Let the slave come out and ask the two wives a few words. ”
As soon as the eldest lady heard Fuhong's words, her face immediately became a little angry! This old pious woman is really more and more capable of tossing people! She even asked a girl to come out and talk to them, isn't it obvious that she and the second wife are humiliated!
"If the old lady has anything to ask, just ask, if the eldest lady and I knew, we would know everything, and we would have said everything. The second lady said calmly.
Fu Hong was blessed again, and said, "The old lady heard that the princess of Anyang will come to our mansion tomorrow, I don't know why the princess came this time?"
The eldest lady had a cold face and did not squeak. The letter was sent to the second room, and although she had read the letter, she was not qualified to answer.
Seeing that the eldest lady didn't speak, the second wife had to cough and said: "The letter sent by Princess Anyang only said that she would come tomorrow, but she didn't write anything about it. ”
Fu Hong asked again: "Then where are the two wives going to entertain Princess Anyang tomorrow?"
"Princess Anyang said in the letter that she wanted to see the second wife, naturally in the courtyard of the second room. The eldest lady replied coldly.
The latter words were a little difficult to say, and Fu Hong paused before saying: "The old lady wants to say, tomorrow Princess Anyang will come to the mansion, can you invite you to Yanshouju to talk about things." ”
The eldest lady sneered silently, she had already guessed that the old Chen family was fighting this idea! But this was a matter of the second room, and she didn't want to care!
The reason why I let my subordinates clean up is because this is Uncle Chengyi's mansion! Whether it is the second room or the fifth room, they are not the masters of the house! The eldest lady does not want to leave Princess Anyang with the impression that the housewife is lazy and the uncle's mansion is ruined!
The second wife showed a look of embarrassment on her face, "This ...... I'm afraid it's not appropriate, right? Princess Anyang's letter indicated that she was here to talk about something related to the second room, so she ......"
Suddenly there was a clanging sound in the inner room, and I don't know what was rolling to the ground with a loud noise.
The eldest lady and the second lady exchanged a look, not knowing what the old Chen was doing inside.
After a while, a little girl ran out of the inner room, first blessed the two wives, and then shouted to Fuhong, "Sister, go in, the old lady suddenly feels discomfort in her chest, and I don't know where to put the pills prescribed by the doctor, so I told you to go in and find it!"
Fu Hong didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly turned around and entered the inner room.
In the outer room, the eldest lady and the second wife stood in a daze, and there was no place to sit.
"It seems that the old lady is not dead yet. The eldest lady lowered her voice and reminded the second wife, "If Princess Anyang is invited here tomorrow to talk about things, I am afraid that I will not be able to say anything, so I can only listen to the old lady and Xiao Chen crying and begging the princess to save that loser." ”
The second lady also whispered: "How is this good? The smell of medicine in the room is always difficult for the princess to smell." What's more, the princess is a daughter, and it is understandable to visit the old lady first, but if she talks here, I am afraid it will be inconvenient. ”
Of course it's inconvenient! They also have a lot of things to ask Princess Anyang!
The eldest lady and the second lady waited anxiously for Fuhong to come out to speak for the old lady, but they wanted to enter the inner room but were stopped by the girl, saying that the old lady was afraid that the wives would be sick, and ordered not to let the old lady, the wife, the grandfather, the grandmother, and the brothers and sisters in the house go in to visit.
The eldest lady listened to it, and so did the second wife.
After waiting for about two cups of tea, Fu Hong came out of it, and her eyes were slightly red as if she had cried.
"Fuhong, how is the old lady?" asked the eldest lady as she pretended to be concerned.
Suddenly, Fu Hong Pu Tom knelt down!
"The eldest lady and the second wife, please follow the old lady's wishes......! One day is not as good as one day, and for many days, I have only made such a request, please two wives...... Follow the old lady's wishes!"
As he spoke, Fu Hong knocked his head twice, startling the eldest wife and the second empress dowager to take a step back, and hurriedly stepped forward to help people.
"Fuhong, what are you doing here?" the second lady grabbed Fuhong's back collar to stop her from kowtowing again, "Get up and talk!"
"Please follow the old lady's wishes!" Fu Hong struggled and wanted to kowtow, looking like a loyal servant.
At this point, the eldest lady couldn't say anything, she turned her head to look at the second wife.
The second wife was sick to death, but she didn't want to have a reputation of "unfilial", so she had to nod and agree: "Okay! Princess Anyang will be directly invited into Yanshou Ju when she comes, this is always okay, right?"
Fu Hong broke into laughter and kowtowed again before getting up.
"Second wife, don't worry, the slave maid will immediately take someone to clean up the longevity house, and then smoke incense. Fuhong wiped her tears and said.
The second wife waved her hand, unable to speak anymore.
In the inner room, the fifth lady sat on the pestle on the edge of the couch and covered her mouth and snickered silently, and the old Chen was proudly chewing the ginseng slices.
Coming out of Yanshouju, the second wife asked the eldest lady with a sad face, "Sister-in-law, how should this be good?
Their big room and second room have a lot of things to ask Princess Anyang for favor, if they come to Yanshou Ju, the plan is not all soaked in soup!