Chapter 116: Follow the Path
"Fang'er, what are you doing?" Zhao Min couldn't help but call as soon as he stepped into the Falling Moon Pavilion, "I came to see you, did you miss me?"
Gu Yuanfang hurriedly led Yahuan out to greet him, and led Zhaomin to the big kang near the window in the east wing, and asked the Yahuan to take the best tea, and made tea and served it to Zhaomin personally.
Zhao Min looked at the dignified and demure Miss Gu Er in front of him with great satisfaction, how to look at it and feel pleasing to the eye, this is the proper style of everyone's ladies, and there will be no mistakes in the world in the future. It's like another person in this house, who is a little more clever and less dignified and graceful.
"What has Fang'er been doing lately?" Zhao Min asked casually as she put down the teacup. At a glance, he saw a half-painted scroll on the bookcase of sandalwood and marble not far away, so he got up and walked over to look at it.
Under this look, I couldn't help but praise: "During this period of time, Fang'er's painting skills have really improved a lot, and she has become more and more charmed by Wu Huazi." ”
Recently, Gu Yuanfang, the second Miss Gu, is worshipping the contemporary calligraphy and painting master Wu Huazi as a teacher.
Gu Yuanfang said modestly: "The princess smiled, it was the master who taught her well." ”
Zhao Min Zhengse said: "This chess, qin, calligraphy and painting, spend some effort, and your husband's family will be able to value you more in the future, which is a good thing, but you can't spend too much time and energy on this." ”
Gu Yuanfang nodded: "The princess is very right, recently, in addition to practicing painting skills, Fang'er's mother also let me learn to manage accounts. ”
Zhao Min was dissatisfied: "What else?"
Gu Yuanfang said blankly: "What else?"
Zhao Min couldn't help but nod her forehead: "What the hell is going on with you girl, I'm really worried about you in vain." ”
Only then did Gu Yuanfang understand what Zhao Min was referring to. couldn't help blushing, twisting a little, Fang asked in a low voice, "I just heard the rumors." Since returning from the banquet of the noble concubine, the prince ...... The prince is not feeling well, has he ever been better?"
Zhao Min grabbed and said, "Why don't you go to see the prince in person?"
Gu Yuanfang was taken aback, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, absolutely not!"
Zhao Min sighed slightly: "Fang'er, I really can't guess your thoughts, do you like the prince or not? The old lady often takes you to the inner garden of the palace to play with me, and sometimes the prince is also there, don't you have a good time together? Instead, they're drifting apart?"
Gu Yuanfang said in a low voice: "That's different. ”
How can it be the same as when I was a child? Not to mention that I was not sensible when I was a child, children play together, and there are not so many considerations of dignity and inferiority, but now I am older. If you don't think about that. People will think you don't know the rules. Moreover, since the prince's enlightenment, they have not played together. After so many years, the prince's temperament is very different from when he was a child, and even she can't figure out the prince's thoughts.
Although Zhao Min is a princess, she is also an anxious child, and she saw her head down. He was silent, and couldn't help but say, "You're really anxious to kill me." Why do you look like this every time I ask you? How can I help you?"
Gu Yuanfang raised his head and said worriedly: "Princess, I just think that the crown prince is no longer the prince I knew before, wasn't there a rumor some time ago that the prince was angry with a palace maid and made her die?"
Zhao Min said disapprerovingly: "It was the palace maid who was disobedient and angered the prince, and she deserved it." Don't keep thinking about it, most of the rumors in the palace are exaggerated, and the trivial matter of sesame mung beans is exaggerated, maybe these rumors are spread by those who secretly maliciously slander the prince. ”
Gu Yuanfang was silent, although hearing is false and seeing is believing, but at the recent group meeting, she really understood the prince's joy and anger. Such a prince, she felt scared from the bottom of her heart.
Zhao Min was a person from the past, and he could see Gu Yuanfang's thoughts at a glance. She couldn't help but sigh secretly in her heart, presumably this girl has too many things in her heart, and she can't eliminate them for a while, it seems that this matter can't be rushed, so she can only be slowly dialed up.
So Zhaomin changed the subject and said: "Fang'er, do you remember, once when I was a child, I went to my father's imperial study with you to play, and smashed a blue and white porcelain double fish pattern jar on the bookshelf, and all the koi fish in it jumped to the ground. It was my father's favorite thing, and we were all scared, and in the end, it was the prince who took the righteousness and admitted that he had broken it. As a result, the crown prince was whipped by his father. ”
Seeing Gu Yuanfang nodded, Zhao Min laughed, patted her hand and said, "So, don't look at the current prince's indifference and ruthlessness, in fact, he is very kind in his heart, you just need to remember this." ”
Gu Yuanfang nodded, still looking preoccupied.
Zhao Min couldn't help but be a little discouraged, and said in a muffled voice: "Fang'er, if you don't pay attention again, the position of the crown princess will be snatched away." ”
Gu Yuanfang was stunned for a moment, not too shocked, but subconsciously asked, "Who is it?"
Zhao Min thought that Gu Yuanfang was starting to be nervous about the prince, so he said seriously: "Fang'er, I didn't say you, although you are the first of the four famous ladies in the capital today, you seem to care less about the prince." People's hearts are made of meat, what woman in the world doesn't care about her future husband? Now that the prince is sick, even if it is because of the time when he was a child, you should go to see him, right? Not to mention that now the entire Yuanning Marquis Mansion is preparing for your promotion to the throne of the crown princess, and the hope of the whole mansion is on you alone, you can't let the old lady down. ”
Gu Yuanfang raised his head in panic and looked at Zhao Min. This is also what she is most worried about, to be honest, in the past, she will definitely follow the old lady's instructions, and she will marry whoever she wants. But since the eldest sister was unhappily married, she had her own ideas. Not long ago, Gu Xiaowu told her that when a woman marries, she must marry someone who is in love with her and will be good to her all her life, so her mind began to waver. Her previous thoughts and thoughts were all overthrown, and even she didn't quite understand what she was trying to do to win the title of the first lady in the capital.
Zhao Min continued: "I'll tell you the truth, in recent years, I have also heard some news that Wen Xiang intends to give her granddaughter Wen Yan to the crown prince. I've always had a good relationship with Wen Yan, but this fat doesn't flow into outsiders' fields, doesn't it? I have to take care of my relatives, right?"
Speaking of this, Princess Zhaomin looked outside, lowered her voice and said, "Even in your mansion, I heard that there are other people who are also obsessed with the position of the crown princess, don't you compare it." ”
Gu Yuanfang didn't know that the fourth lady Gu Yuanqin also coveted the throne of the crown princess, and after thinking about it, she actually thought of Gu Zhirong, and thought that Gu Zhirong had been engaged to the eldest prince of Lu, of course she couldn't marry the prince again, so she hurriedly waved her hand and said, "No, she definitely can't marry the prince." ”
When Zhao Min heard this, he mistakenly thought that Gu Yuanfang was nervous about the prince and didn't want him to be taken away by other women. Seeing that Gu Yuanfang, who had always been calm and calm, would mess up for the prince, Zhao Min couldn't help laughing: "To say that you don't like the prince is simply duplicity." Okay, now that I know your thoughts, then the matter of you becoming the crown princess will be covered with me. After I go back, I will definitely go to the palace more often, and mention you more in front of my father, saying that you are gentle and elegant, benevolent, dignified and generous. My father likes a virtuous woman as a daughter-in-law, and if I say this, my father will definitely like you. ”
Gu Yuanfang was stunned for a moment, immediately understood, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Princess, it's not like this." ”
Zhao Min smiled: "What is this, this matter is so decided, I want to go back to do something, what progress will I make when I go back, and I will talk to you again." ”
As she spoke, she stood up with a smile, ignoring Gu Yuanfang's anxious stamping of her feet, calling her maid and going out together. (To be continued......)