42.Chapter 42
The early autumn noon sun still sprinkled on his skin with some summer heat, but Wang Shuyun felt a chill spread from his body. She had just cleaned up her mood and walked out of the private room with her personal maid, but she didn't want to run into the third prince, King Zhou. Facing his cold eyes, she suddenly felt that all her thoughts were understood, which made her a little wolf, and she could only barely maintain her composure, and turned away as usual.
"Cousin." The warm and sweet female voice sounded, breaking Wang Shuyun's chaotic mood, she looked sideways, and sure enough, she saw Su Rong looking at herself with a gentle smile. She subconsciously looked back, King Zhou's gaze fell on Su Rong, that gaze was deep and focused, Wang Shuyun's heart was inevitably sour, she raised a dignified smile, "Qi Niang, what a coincidence." ”
Liu Wenxuan didn't like Wang Shuyun very much, and she was not very enthusiastic when facing her, and after saying hello lightly, she chatted with Su Yan. In Su Yan's opinion, Su Rong and Wang Shuyun's current expressions are slightly fake, each smiling more dignified and gentle than the other, and speaking slowly and delicately, in a roundabout way. Su Yan frowned when he heard it, can they talk well, it's very interesting to turn eight corners in one sentence?
Liu Wenxuan quietly pulled Su Yan's sleeve, lowered her voice and smiled: "Shi Niang hasn't seen it, the two of them have met in private since they were children. "It is precisely because the two of them are not right, and they are different, and there is less time to get together, Su Yan is really the first time to see each other.
"Tenth sister, cousin Xuan, let's go."
Liu Wenxuan was surprised, "How fast are you arriving today?" ”
Su Rong raised his chin with a smile, "Cousin Yun is in a hurry to return home, so it's not good to talk much." But we see each other a lot, and we don't see each other for a while. Her eyes were very sharp, and she had already seen King Zhou standing on the second floor in the tea shop. Su Rong didn't want to have anything to do with him in this life, so he naturally wanted to leave early. What made her strange was that Wang Shuyun actually had an idea with her. Hehe, didn't she stammer Princess Zhou to death, how could she see King Zhou and avoid suspicion? Do the math, the current princess of Zhou doesn't have long to live, Wang Shuyun really wants to enter the palace of King Zhou, but you have to hurry up, Su Rong thought a little gloating.
It's still early, Liu Wenxuan doesn't want to go home, her wedding date is approaching, and after getting married, it will definitely not work if she wants to come out to play so freely. Therefore, she cherishes every opportunity to go shopping now. "Qi Niang, Shi Niang, it's just right for the West Market Flower Market now, how about we go and see?"
Su Rong wanted to agree, but he didn't know what he thought of, so he changed his mind, "I'm a little annoyed, let's go home." ”
Liu Wenxuan said: "Then Qi Niang and Shi Niang go home, I'll go and see for myself." She plans to choose a few pots of chrysanthemums for her sister who is pregnant with a baby, and her sister likes chrysanthemums the most, and will buy a few pots at this time of year.
Su Rong saw that Liu Wenxuan wanted to go by herself, and refused to agree, "How good can the flowers in the flower market be, if you like it, there are a few good pots in my courtyard, you just have to move away." ”
Liu Wenxuan said with a smile: "You don't know this, the people have their own masters, and my sister can buy a lot of high-grade chrysanthemums every year." ”
Su Yan is also curious, there is also a flower market in Wu County, and there are all year round, among which there are no treasures. She smiled and said, "If the seventh sister is tired, go home first, find a wine shop to rest, and I'll accompany Cousin Xuan." ”
Two of the three wanted to go, and Su Rong could only follow, and said in his heart: Go and go, if you really meet that girl, just stop your cousin and don't let her save people.
In the golden autumn season, the early chrysanthemum is in full bloom, which makes the air in the West Market fill the air with a faint cold fragrance. Su Yan took a deep breath and smiled happily: "It's all the fragrance of chrysanthemums here." ”
The West Market Flower Market has a long history, and it is all in a fixed place in the workshop, on both sides of the street, there are many flower shops, and there are many flower farmers pushing carts. Unlike other markets, there is almost no clamor of selling, or brocade robes, or coarse cotton skirts, customers shuttling through various flower shops and small workshops full of flowers, you can always find what you like, and after bargaining with the boss, you can move away satisfied.
"No wonder Cousin Zhi likes to come here to choose flowers, and they are really more energetic than the ones we raise at home." Su Yan is a lover of flowers, and when he came here, he felt that his eyes were not enough, and he liked it too, and that was not bad, so he wanted to move home.
"Purple Building! Cousin Xuan, come and see. She greeted Liu Wenxuan in surprise, she didn't expect to see the treasures of chrysanthemum here.
Liu Wenxuan walked a few steps quickly to the car, and before she looked at the flowers, she greeted the little lady who bought the flowers first, "Qianniang, why are you here to sell flowers, your mother?" ”
Su Yan looked up when he heard the sound and saw a girl in a coarse cloth dress standing next to the cart with more than a dozen pots of chrysanthemums. The girl is only twelve or thirteen years old, but she has rare clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, which is very pleasing to the eye.
"Cousin Xuan, do you recognize her?"
"Well, my sister buys a few pots of flowers at her house every year, and her mother's skills in raising chrysanthemums are quite high." Liu Wenxuan didn't ask casually, and then her eyes fell on the pot of purple heavy building, "This pot is good, can Shi Niang give it to me?" ”
"Hmm." Su Yan casually pointed to a pot of white chrysanthemums next to him, "I want this pot of jade hibiscus." ”
Liu Wenxuan glanced at it, it didn't seem that the purple building had bloomed, and the jade hibiscus had just made a flower bone, she looked at it carefully for a moment before she smiled: "Shi Niang's eyes are really sharp, the two best pots in this car have been picked out by you." ”
Qianniang's face was happy when she heard this, she knew that Liu Wenxuan was from an extraordinary background, and the little lady who came with her seemed to be a famous lady, and the price they gave would definitely not be less, and the family's expenses for a year were settled, and it was not in vain that she had carefully served these pots of flowers in the past few months.
Liu Wenxuan and her sister often buy flowers from Qianniang's mother, and when they saw her wearing, they knew that there would be something wrong in her family, and they had the heart to help her, so they asked with a smile: "You only fancy this pot?" I'll take the rest. ”
Su Yan had to tell Qingyun to pay the bill, and the accident happened suddenly. A woman in her thirties, dressed as extraordinarily enchanting, led a group of thugs and rushed straight to this side.
Su Yan and a few people went out, not to mention the close maids, there were about twenty guards alone. Seeing that the people were violent, they immediately gathered over and surrounded their little lady in the middle.
The Yasukuni Mansion and the Yongning Marquis Mansion both started as military generals, and the guards raised by the family were all severely trained, all of them had big shoulders and round waists, stretched out their arms to stop them, and shouted with a straight face: "Stop." ”
The woman in the lead has also seen the world, and when she saw these guards, she knew that she couldn't be provoked, so she hurriedly came over and knelt down to accompany the crime, and didn't even dare to raise her head, "Lang Jun is really sorry, the slave will leave immediately." With that, he led the people away quickly.
This was just a small twist and turn for Su Yan and the others, seeing that the people were dispersed, the two of them paid the money, and continued to shop satisfied.
Helplessly, although there are many flowers in the flower market, not all of them can be moved home, Su Yan walked around for a while, and felt that his legs were sore, "Cousin Xuan, let's go back, and come back when we have time." ”
Liu Wenxuan was also tired, "Well, it's time to go home." Only then did she turn back consciously, "Qi Niang is so silent?" ”
Su Rong smiled faintly, "I'm patronizing the flowers." ”
Su Yan glanced at Su Rong strangely, Liu Wenxuan didn't pay attention to it, just held the maid's hand and sighed: "I don't want to leave again, Shi Niang, let someone bring the carriage over." "She and Su Rong both came out on horseback today, but she doesn't have the strength to ride anymore now.
"Let people go a long time ago." Su Yan looked around, trying to find a place to sit, there was a wine shop nearby, but it didn't look very clean, and the people who came and went were also very messy, she frowned and didn't speak.
Fortunately, the carriage arrived quickly, and the three of them got into the car, and they heard a commotion not far away. Soon, a cry with a little childish spirit came into my ears, "Girl, Miss Liu, please save the slave." ”
There was despair and sadness in that voice, which made Liu Wenxuan and Su Yan's hearts froze. Su Rong didn't stop for a while, and Liu Wenxuan opened the curtain. The little girl who sold flowers just now knelt in front of the guard, her hair was scattered, and the wolf was unbearable. When he looked up, his cheeks were red and swollen, and his lips were bloodshot.
"What's going on?" Su Yan opened her mouth and asked, it was the Su family's guards who stopped people, so naturally she was the one who spoke.
As soon as the little girl saw the curtain opened, she quickly got up, kowtowed again and again, and sobbed: "Please save the slave, my aunt is going to sell me." ”
"Auntie? What about your parents? ”
"The slave's father died early, and the mother was gone last year, leaving only me and my younger brother at home." The little girl was very articulate, and she explained it clearly in a few words, "I don't want my uncle and aunt to bully me and take up our family, but I also want to sell me and pay off my cousin's gambling debts." ”
Liu Wenxuan's face changed at that time, and just as she was about to speak, she was pinched by Su Rong, she looked over suspiciously, and saw Su Rong raising her thin eyebrows lightly, and said lightly, "This is your family matter, it's useless to beg us." In her last life, she and Liu Wenxuan showed kindness and saved her back. And how did she repay her kindness by climbing into her husband's bed! Hehe, this white-eyed wolf shouldn't have saved her.
Su Yan disagreed, "If it is really as she said, it is her uncle and aunt who bullied the orphan girl, and it is fate that we met, why not be the master for her?" ”
Su Rong could barely hold back the sneer that overflowed to his lips, "Tenth Sister is really a bodhisattva!" How are you going to help her? Paid off her cousin's gambling debts? Or just buy her and take it home? ”
This sounds really familiar, and she just said this about the cousin of the Wang family. If it weren't for the current scene, Su Yan would almost be laughing. She naturally knows that it is unreliable to repay gambling debts directly, and after paying it back this time, this girl will still have to be sold next time. If you buy it directly and go home, can you get it? But she also has a younger brother, she was bought, and her brother is afraid that he will not be able to escape the poison.
Su Yan was a little embarrassed for a while, and Qianniang's aunt came over boldly, "Girl, this is my niece, can the slave take her away?" ”
"Take it."
"Nope."
Su Rong and Su Yan spoke at the same time, so that the guards didn't know what to do.
Su Rong sneered: "Tenth sister, is this insisting on being nosy? I hope you don't regret it. "Anyway, she knows who this girl is, Su Yan is willing to raise a white-eyed wolf, let her raise it, what does it matter to her.
Su Yan tilted his head, "Bring that little lady over." ”
Su Rong sat aside and stopped making a sound, indicating that everything would be left to Su Yan to deal with. When the guard saw it, he said to Qianniang: "Come with so." ”
Qianniang hurriedly got up, patted the soil on her body, straightened her braided hair, followed the guard to the side of the car, and was about to kneel again, but she heard the fairy-like girl say: "Don't kneel, how do you want me to save you?" ”
......Hearing this, Qianniang opened her mouth and stammered, and her mind was blank for a while. She had just been trying to ask for help naked, not letting her aunt sell her to that kind of place, and she didn't think about the rest.
Su Yan saw Qianniang's dazed face, and she was not in a hurry, and said softly, "Think about it." ”
Qianniang is young and has little knowledge, but she knows that her decision is related to her and her younger brother's life. She looked back at her aunt who pretended to be virtuous, thought of her thin brother at home, gritted her teeth, fell to the ground on her knees with a "poof", and solemnly kowtowed: "Please buy me and my brother." She didn't want her brother to buy a slave too, and her father also wanted her brother to study for scientific examinations. But with uncles and aunts here, he and his younger brother are in a precarious situation, and it is better to sell themselves than to let them sell themselves and their younger brother to a place that is not clean. At least, the girl in front of her looks like a good person.
"Have you thought about it?" Su Yan asked again.
"Yes."
"Okay." Su Yan nodded and lowered the curtain casually. Naturally, there are guards to handle the rest of the matter, so she doesn't have to worry about it anymore.
Su Yan bought two people, and his mood was neither good nor bad, so Su Rong didn't say anything along the way. Liu Wenxuan looked at Su Rong, and then at Su Yan, it was not easy to speak. At that time, she felt that Su Yan had done the right thing, and Su Rong's words just now were a little too ruthless. It's just that Su Rong is her cousin, so it's hard to say more.
"Shi Niang, although she bought someone, she doesn't know the details and character, don't let her get too close to you." Before Liu Wenxuan got out of the car, she gave a warning.
Su Yan smiled and thanked: "I know, thank you Cousin Xuan." ”
After Liu Wenxuan got out of the car, the two sisters didn't say anything all the way, and when they arrived at the Yasukuni Mansion, they also went their separate ways. Su Yan didn't understand, she just saved a little lady, is it worth Su Rongsheng to be so angry?
She went back to the room to change her clothes, and ran to Qingyuan to complain to her mother, "I don't know what it is today, the seventh sister and the second cousin are angry with me." Su Yan pouted, his face full of unhappiness.
Lu already knew, she smiled and pinched her daughter's little face, "Your seventh sister is also doing well, aren't you also angry." ”
"Hmph, Seventh Sister probably thinks that little lady is a spy sent by someone's family." Su Yan pursed his lips and deliberately sarcastic.
Lu hugged his daughter comfortingly and coaxed her: "What's wrong with Yun Niang?" Are you headstrong again? ”
Su Yan turned around dissatisfiedly, "People are kind." She learned what had happened and asked, "Ah Niang, is what I said wrong?" ”
Lu said: "Don't tell others about this. ”
"People know."
Lu patted his daughter, "You also played for a day, go back and rest, I'll go see your grandmother." Regardless of whether Wang Shuyun really likes the scholar or not, since she knows, she should also sue her mother-in-law.
I don't know how Lu told Wang, the next day, Wang recruited his niece and daughter-in-law, that is, Wang Shuyun's mother-in-law, and then she was grounded. Wang Shuyun was so angry that he secretly scolded Su Yan I don't know how many times. Finally, when a flower-viewing banquet was held in the palace, she saw Su Yan again.
Wang Shuyun smiled decently, strolled to Su Yan's side, and said with a smile: "Shi Niang, I have something to tell you." ”
Su Yan is talking to his future sister-in-law Gu Yuan, Gu's father Gu You and Su Zhoucheng are friends of the general horn, and the two went to Jiangnan as officials one after another, and they married their children. Gu Yuan's grandmother is today's aunt, the only eldest princess who is still alive, after Gu Yuan was born, she was named the county monarch, and she almost grew up next to the eldest princess. She and Su Yan met in Wu County, and it was only about half a year before Su Yan returned to the imperial capital with her parents. Gu Yuan accompanied his parents to stay in Wu County for another half a year before he came back, but he was just in time for the flower viewing banquet in the palace and met Su Yan at the banquet.
Gu Yuan also grew up in Shangdu, and he was still familiar with Wang Shuyun, so he smiled when he heard this: "Shi Niang, let's go, I'll go over there." She pointed casually, it was the position of Huyang, Changle and other princesses.
"Okay." Su Yan nodded, and followed Wang Shuyun to the flowers.
When he arrived in a place where there were few people, Wang Shuyun had a cold face and asked in a low voice: "Shi Niang, what did you tell your aunt and grandmother?" ”
Su Yan felt that he should explain, "Second cousin ......"
"I can't afford to be your cousin." Wang Shuyun sneered twice, "If I offended Shi Niang before, I will give you a gift today, and I hope that Shi Niang will accumulate virtue in the future, and don't make something out of nothing and slander others." After speaking, without waiting for Su Yan to finish speaking, he turned around and left.
Su Yan was so angry that his face turned white, what is this? Wang Shuyun took the wrong medicine!
"Senior sister...... The prince turned out from behind the flower, carefully looked at Su Yan's face, and called carefully.
"Your Highness." Su Yan was not in a good mood, so naturally he couldn't lift much energy, he was so distressed to see that the prince was so distressed, he really wanted to arrest the woman just now and beat her up, my ten mothers are also what you can say!
Just when the prince was thinking about how to make his sweetheart laugh, the little cockatoo thief flew over, landed beside Su Yan, tilted his head to look at her, and shouted in his mouth: "Ga, beauty...... Big Beauty...... Ga! ”
Su Yan: ......
She turned her head to look at the prince, and said that the pet was like the master, and she didn't know if it was true?
The prince ate the parrot alive and swore hatefully that he would pluck out all the feathers of the parrot at night and see if it was still flying around! He forgot at this time that the parrot was let go by him, just to make Su Yan smile.
"That, the fifth brother has raised it for a while." The prince stumbled to explain.
Su Yan smiled and said secretly: Actually, it's no problem for you to raise it, and she won't say anything.
Seeing that Su Yan didn't believe it, the prince almost raised his hand and swore an oath, "Really." ”
Su Yan nodded perfunctorily, "Well, I see." Your Highness, is there anything else? "She wants to be quiet now, don't ask her who Jingjing is.
The sweetheart didn't want to pay attention to him, and the prince was a little sad. When he came over just now, there were obviously a lot of little ladies who came to him, and even Zhu Erniang, who was recognized as a model of a lady, who had been praised by his father several times, all took the opportunity to say a few words to him, how could they all change when they came to Shi Niang?
Su Yan walked out, and the prince followed her pitifully, wanting to open his mouth to keep her, but he was afraid of leaving a bad impression on her.
"Your Highness?" Hearing the footsteps behind him, Su Yan turned back helplessly.
The prince smiled, "Senior sister, I recently got a new green qiqin. I heard that my sister is excellent at the piano, but I don't know if I can teach her? "Little ladies like to be famous in front of people, I heard that Shi Niang's piano skills are outstanding, she will definitely like this mention.
Su Yan was in a bad mood, where was she willing to play the piano, she had a small face and decisively refused, "The piano is for pleasure, not for entertainment." ”
Shi Niang, who has a straight face, is also another kind of beauty, the prince quietly blushed his ears, and he didn't take her refusal seriously at all. When someone was unhappy, the prince of Changning County came looking for the prince, and she didn't want to see the scene in front of her, her eyes were red, and she smiled and sarcastically said: "Shi Niang is worthy of being the granddaughter of the Taifu, and she dares to disobey even His Royal Highness's words." ”
The prince waved his hand nonchalantly, "What Senior Sister said is right, but she is wrong." ”
Changning Junjun: ...... Prince, where's your temper?
"My sister is cute and listens to the pipa, and there is a girl in the East Palace, and the pipa can be played to the ear." The prince asked earnestly. He was wrong just now, Shi Niang's piano should only be played for him, not for others to hear.
Changning Junjun smiled and asked, "Your Highness is talking about Ah Luan?" She introduced Su Yan in a particularly familiar tone: "Your Highness has just spoken in Humility, and Ah Luan's pipa is really a must in the palace." She glanced at the prince coquettishly, and said with a little resentment: "It's a pity that His Royal Highness is very fond of Ah Luan, and she is very individual, and she refuses to play." Even if His Royal Highness wants to hear it, he has to do it when Luan is in a good mood. ”
The prince only felt that Changning Junjun was so annoying, why was she everywhere, so he asked impatiently: "Changning, are you okay to do?" "If it's okay, get out of the way.
"I ......" was unexpectedly asked by the prince, Changning Junjun smiled very reluctantly, and before he opened his mouth to speak, he was interrupted by the prince, "No matter what you have to do, stay away from Lonely." The disgusted tone fully expressed his feelings of not wanting to see Changning Junjun.
was treated like this by the crown prince in front of Su Yan, and the temper of the county monarch of Changning also came up, "Your Highness, I am your cousin, the county monarch of the saint himself." This is a cherry blossom viewing feast set up by a saint, and I like to be wherever I want. It's Miss Su......" She raised her chin and said arrogantly: "Did you salute when you saw me just now?" ”
Before Su Yan could speak, the prince came out, he put his hand behind his back, his posture was higher, and he condescendingly looked at Changning Junjun, "Have you seen the lonely salute?" What about your rules? Ang lee! "Just now, in order to see his sweetheart, the prince threw all the eunuchs he was carrying aside, and he wanted to personally face Changning Junjun, which was really lifting her up.
"Your Highness, the old slave is here."
"Throw her out of here." The prince glanced at Changning Junjun and commanded willfully.
Li An didn't dare to throw Changning Junjun out, but just stretched out his hand, and said in a weird manner: "Junjun, please, don't let our family do it." ”
The monarch of Changning County was so angry that he almost gritted his silver teeth, but against the prince of the previous country, he could only be defeated, and left behind Li An in a gloomy manner, but before leaving, he glared at Su Yan with a cold gaze.
Su Yan didn't take her seriously at all, and became a little interested in the prince's mention. When you're in a bad mood, you have to have some fun with yourself.