090 Tossing and turning
The movement outside alarmed the people inside, and Ding'an Hou heard the maids shouting that the four girls had fainted, didn't they know that Su Yingying was dissatisfied with her orders, and this was like dying or living, and for a while, her face was slightly gloomy, and she glared at Su Dinggong, who was standing below, and said: "Some of the ambitions of the daughter's family are good, but if the heart is too big, it will cause trouble." ”
Su Dinggong was also a little irritable in his heart, this kind of thing happened, and he would be laughed at by his colleagues when he went out in the future, but now the fold is also in vain, and it is a joke in vain, in short, today's Ding'an Hou Mansion has become the laughing stock of the people in the capital. Now that Su Yingying is fainting again, Su Dinggong has less pity in his heart, more of a boredom and resentment.
Ding'an Hou saw Su Dinggong bowing and listening, and didn't dare to say much, so he looked at the old lady again, and said: "It's inconvenient to participate in the front court, but it's not good to do nothing, let people laugh at our Hou Mansion is weak and bullying, you Ming'er handed the sign into the palace, and only invited the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother should have been the main punishment for making trouble." ”
Although the Marquis of Ding'an does not have much ability, he has always been a bad temper, although he was playful when he was young, he was not absurd in women, and he also took a fancy to Ma's wife, otherwise the Hou Mansion would not only have two masters and one concubine. Therefore, Ding'an Hou was still very dignified in front of Ma, and he ordered, although Ma was uncomfortable, he didn't dare to argue, and nodded in response.
Only then did Ding'an Hou shake his hand and get up and said, "Okay, I'll go out of the house now, I don't have to send it, let's be busy with my own work." ”
After that, he actually strode out, looking at this, he actually thought that the Hou Mansion was noisy and troublesome, and he didn't spend the Double Ninth Festival in the mansion, so he wanted to go back to Xuanqing Temple in a hurry.
Su Dingwen bowed down with Su Dinggong and the second master to see Ding'anhou out, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, just now Su Dinggong wanted to unite with his in-laws to impeach King Xin, but he didn't approve of it.
Knowing the result, he is still tossing around like this, he will only make others make fun of the Ding'an Hou Mansion jumping up and down and finally not making a result, which will only make the joke of the Ding'an Hou Mansion bigger and longer. It's better to make less fuss, and when something new happens in the capital, the joke of the Ding'an Hou Mansion will be outdated and forgotten.
When Ma saw Ding'anhou go out, he also felt that he had lost his energy, waved his hand to order the Su Dinggong brothers to go out, and leaned on the big pillow and rubbed his aching forehead, only to feel that his chest was stuffy and he didn't even have dinner and rested.
On this day, the long room was unhappy because of Su Yingying, the Liu family in the second room was beaten, and the fourth room was also a chicken flying and a dog jumping, and the masters of the Ding'an Hou Mansion failed to eat a hearty dinner.
Qiushui Courtyard, Yingluo asked the maid to set the meal early, she went out today and was tossed repeatedly, and she climbed the wall and was frightened to be hungry with her chest and back, Meimei used two bowls of japonica rice porridge, and then got up and walked twice in the yard.
Hearing about the matter of Fulu Courtyard, Yingluo was not surprised, as the old saying goes, the family and everything is prosperous, the four rooms of the Ding'an Hou Mansion have their own thoughts, and they look like they are separated, so it is no wonder that the Ding'an Hou Mansion will fall. Yingluo is more concerned about what Mrs. Dingyuan Bo and Mrs. Pingyi Marquis are looking for the old lady today.
Yingluo knew that the two of them must have come to support the Song family, but the two of them did not go to meet the Song family, which was strange. If the two of them were worried about the Song family, they should beg the old lady to let them see the Song family, and the old lady faced her sister-in-law's sister and niece, presumably if they opened their mouths, the old lady would not refute the face of the two.
That is to say, the two did not mention the request to see the Song family at all, if this is the case, there is only one possibility, that is, the two of them already have some countermeasures to rescue the Song family, and they are confident, so they are not in a hurry.
And this countermeasure is naturally related to herself, a concubine who is against the Song family, which makes Yingluo feel a little stared at by poisonous snakes.
She went to Ding'an Hou Mansion to send a group of her own people, and the old lady of Fulu Courtyard also entered two maids in the courtyard, and today she informed Yingluo's little maid Qiu'er in advance of the news of the arrival of Mrs. Dingyuan.
It's just that these two maids have just entered the mansion, and they can't serve in close proximity at all, and today the two Mrs. Pingyi Hou and Ma also retreated when they talked, so they couldn't inquire about anything, only said that the two Mrs. Pingyi Hou looked pretty good when they left, and they wanted to come to discuss with Ma.
Yingluo lay in bed at night and thought about the possible plans of the two Mrs. Pingyi Marquis, thinking about it, she didn't have a clue for a while, and fell asleep in a daze.
In the dream, she seemed to be back in the glacier of Niujiao Mountain that day, ups and downs, dizzy, she struggled to call for help, but the cold water poured into her mouth and nose, and the breathing became more and more difficult, and her body sank, and an iron arm with the power of a thousand jun rushed out of the river with her again.
He placed her on a boulder by the river, and when she looked up, she saw that the sun was shining on the man's thick and handsome back, and that all around him was a golden light, but in front of him was obscured by a speckled shadow, and his face could not be seen clearly.
She was inexplicably a little flustered and short of breath, her mouth was dry, and before she could retreat, he suddenly threw down the whole person and pressed on her body, she became more and more short of breath, only to feel that her chest seemed to be crushed by a thousand pounds of boulders, and finally saw his face clearly.
The appropriate shade of sword eyebrows flew obliquely into the temples, a pair of dark and deep peach blossom eyes, like the sparkling light of the river, a straight nose and thin lips, a graceful arc without losing a straight chin, he looked at her and smiled, it was as dazzling as the frozen thousands of miles and the warm sun shining.
In a trance, he leaned over and pressed his handsome face against her chest, her eyes widened in shock, and in the blink of an eye, the handsome man in front of her suddenly disappeared, and instead a dark gray wolf stared at her with dark green eyes, revealing sharp fangs and pounced on her chest.
Yingluo was so frightened that she suddenly opened her eyes, breathing a little quickly, and looked at the blue and blue gauze embroidered with white magnolia flowers on the top of her head, and only came to a trance after half a sound, it was a bizarre dream.
Suddenly, for a while, she really felt that her chest was stuffy and hard, as if she was being choked by something, Yingluo lifted the quilt and looked at it and was stunned, only to see that the hard object on her chest was not beside her, it was the mask of Qin Yan who was brought back by her before.
At first, she brought this thing back and never found a place to hide it, for fear of being discovered by the maid, and then she couldn't tell it clearly, so she simply kept this thing in her sleeve, and when she went to sleep, she saw that Brother Miao had spread out the quilt, so she took advantage of no one to pay attention and stuffed the mask in the quilt.
Later, I forgot about it when I went to sleep, but now I was woken up by this thing, Yingluo took out the mask and held it in her hand to take a closer look at the cold moonlight outside.
But I saw that this mask was very exquisite, the arcs were carefully made to fit the lines of people's faces, and I don't know what kind of material it was, it was a little pressing, and the surface was glowing with a cold luster in the moonlight.
Yingluo held the mask while rubbing the edge with her fingers, while looking closely, her eyes fell on the eyelets of the mask but she was slightly stunned, only to see that the eyes of the mask were dark and dull night, just like its owner's usual deep eyes, and the arc of the mask was also outlined according to the facial lines of the person, so it looked as if the person was in front of him.
The warm touch of the mask came from her fingertips, and Yingluo touched the mask and stroked not a dead thing, but the man's absurdity, and for a moment her fingers seemed to be burned, and she couldn't help but hurriedly throw away the mask.
As soon as the mask rolled into the brocade quilt, Yingluo felt that she was really sick, just a mask, but it could make people like this, it was really funny.
She sat up again, lifted up her mask, took it in her hand and struck it twice with her fingers, then threw it on the pillow, rolled over and closed her eyes.
The east courtyard of King Jing's Mansion was originally the princess mansion of Princess Min Ying, when Princess Min Ying married King Jing, King Jing was still the prince, and the princess and his wife had been living in the princess's mansion at that time.
The princess's mansion and the Jingwang mansion are adjacent to each other, so a corner gate was opened in the west to connect the two mansions, and the two mansions were connected to occupy two long streets. It can be regarded as the first place in the capital mansion in addition to the palace.
Originally, the princess's mansion, the princess was killed by the court and was going to be recovered, but because the eldest princess Min Ying was the queen mother's concubine, she had always been noble, and after she went, the queen mother was sad, and the emperor remembered that the queen mother was extra kind to keep the eldest princess's mansion.
Just because there is no princess in the princess's mansion, it has been sealed for many years, and only to Qin Yan moved back to Jingwang's mansion from the Empress Dowager's Ciyun Palace, because he also has a wolf by his side all the year round, which caused panic in the mansion, and because of Qin Yan's withdrawn personality, it is incompatible with Jingwang's mansion.
Later, the princess's mansion was simply opened, and only Qin Yan lived in it, and it was renamed the East Courtyard of Jingwang's Mansion.
The princess's mansion covers a wide area, Qin Yan lived in it and renovated it as a whole, because Qin Yan was a master, naturally he couldn't live in the huge princess's mansion, and the entire mansion was still blocked, only the three courtyards on the west road were opened, and Qin Yan lived and entertained guests on weekdays, and a huge martial arts racecourse was built later.
Qin Yan has a cold temperament, and he is not used to being served by servants, and his relationship with the masters of King Jing's Mansion is not close, and there is a wolf living in the East Courtyard, and there are many rumors about Qin Yan, which makes the people of King Jing's Mansion extremely afraid of this prince.
Although the East Courtyard and King Jing's Mansion are also considered to be a mansion, the people of King Jing's Mansion do not come here. On weekdays, this side is deserted as if it is uninhabited, but now after nightfall, it is even more lonely, quiet and empty, but Qin Yan's residence is holding a lantern in the Fuyun Courtyard, which slightly dispelles the coldness of the mansion.
Qin Yan had a displeasure with Yingluo in the alley today, and then went back to Fuyun Courtyard directly, changed his clothes and went into the study.
He was irritable, so he simply rode out of the city and went to the camp of the Golden Wing Guard on the outskirts of Beijing. The Golden Wing Guard was the Emperor's Guard, which was formed by the imperial court the year before last, and was subordinate to a branch of the Praetorian Guard. Most of them are the children of noble travelers with extraordinary martial arts selected from the families of the noble princes in the capital.
Originally, they wanted to form a strange army to protect the safety of the emperor at a critical time, but although this group of people were all from extraordinary backgrounds, they practiced martial arts since childhood, and their martial arts were also extraordinary, but they were all disobedient to discipline and arrogant.
Qin Yan returned to Beijing this time, because the war in the north was stable, and the emperor had no intention of letting him leave Beijing in the short term, so he lost this Golden Wing Guard to Qin Yan and asked him to assist the Golden Wing Guard in training troops in his spare time.
Jin Yiwei has his own commander to practice on weekdays, Qin Yan took this errand but ran to the camp, he was not interested in training this arrogant child of the capital, he turned around and never went again, but today he was anxious and bored in his heart and rode out of the city, looking around and feeling nowhere to go, so he ran to the Jin Yiwei camp.
When he arrived, it was evening practice in the camp, and all the soldiers and guards were practicing fighting in groups of three or five on the school field, Qin Yan went directly down to the school field, and completely eliminated the sharpness of the first battalion of hairy boys with the stubbornness of one enemy and one hundred, and watched a group of soldiers wear heavy armor and run around the small lotus peak where the camp is located, and the camp was turned over, and a group of tigers and tigers were lying on the ground and couldn't get up, so he got on the horse and walked away, and returned to the city.
It was already night when I entered the Fuyun Courtyard, and dozens of palace lamps had been lit on the two hand-copying verandahs, and the lights and shadows swayed to illuminate the verandah bright and yellow, dispelling the night and adding warmth.
Even so, Qin Yan walked on the verandah, he still felt that the courtyard was empty and lonely, there were two big red lanterns hanging under the corridor, and the bluestone floor tiles were red, Qin Yan saw that there was not even a figure in the courtyard when he arrived at the corridor, and he didn't care, so he opened the curtain and entered the house.
He casually took off his dusty coat and threw it on the back of the chair, strode on the circle chair at the top and sat down, picked up the celadon official kiln teapot on Table Mountain and poured a cup of tea. ”
Qin Yan is not accustomed to servant maids, in the past, when he was in the palace of the Queen Mother, he was surrounded by mostly attendants, but now that he has returned to the Jingwang Mansion, he is not there all the year round, and the people around him are not customized, only eight guards are responsible for his diet and daily life, and he also serves as a personal guard entourage. The eight men were on duty in turn, and there was no distinction between the close servants and the rough ones.
These eight people were originally brought back by Qin Yan from the barracks, and it is conceivable what it is like to serve them on weekdays, plus Qin Yan is not sure when he will return home, and it is not unheard of that he can't find anyone when he comes back, or he doesn't have hot water.
On weekdays, Qin Yan didn't think anything of it, and he also came over like this when he was in the barracks, and he was used to it. Today, he suddenly felt aggrieved and uncomfortable, and he couldn't get up, and when he shouted, he saw that no one answered, and the whole person couldn't help but get angry, picked up a table of herbal tea on the table, and threw it out with the teacup.
The tea cup hit the splendid door curtain of the high flowing water of Qinglian Xiushan and fell apart under the porch outside, like thunder resounding in the quiet night.
Shen Chuangnai, one of Qin Yan's eight personal guards, was hurrying out of the pantry in the back cover room when he arrived, and was almost hit by the tea cup before he could enter the house, he couldn't help but be startled, looked at the tea cup that was broken by the fall on the ground, and was a little at a loss for a while.
Ying Qi followed, and when he saw Shen Chuang standing outside the house with a blank expression, he hurriedly took two steps and instructed Shen Chuang: "Hurry up and make a pot of new tea, carry water and wait for bathing." I'm afraid that I haven't had dinner yet, so I'm going to prepare. ”
Seeing Shen Chuang walking away quickly, he picked up the curtain and entered the house with bated breath, Qin Yan didn't like them to follow him during the day, so Ying Qi didn't know what happened during the day, and he only felt that Qin Yan was a little impetuous when he came back in the evening.
And when he came back in the evening, the mask on his face was gone, and his handsome face was so dark that it could drip water. He was still shocked, he only thought that the prince had encountered something like assassination, but after a closer look, he saw that there were no traces of a fight on his body, and Qin Yan didn't say much, he only took a spare mask and put it on his face, and Ying Qi didn't dare to ask more.
Now that he saw Qin Yan go out, he didn't lose his anger when he saw it, but he became more and more irritable, and Ying Qi had a bottom in his heart.
Over the years, this master has become more and more emotional, and his mind is indisputable, so that the master's love can fluctuate so much, I'm afraid it's just one thing. Presumably it was related to the aunt and grandmother of Su Mansion, Ying Qi smiled bitterly, entered the house and stood aside, thought about it, and said tentatively: "Xiaoyue doesn't know where to get a roe deer back today, just Su Zhe roasted it in the back of the outside and tender inside, it is hot, do you want to use some cushions to pad your stomach first?" ”
Ying Qi's words reminded Qin Yan of the incident of sharing roe deer with Yingluo in the cave that day, especially remembering that at that time, she stared at the barbecue with a pair of gluttonous eyes, thinking about the scene in the cave that day, her calm face softened a little.
Immediately, I remembered the appearance of her lowering her eyes and being silent today, and her eyes were rolling wildly.
At that time, he chose to leave without waiting for her to speak, and there was a lot of fear and panic in his heart, for fear that her answer was something he didn't want to hear, and for fear that she would really tell her that she intended to marry the eldest young master of the Chi family.
Now that I think about it, today's scene can be said to be a desert and fled, thinking that he has grown up to this day, don't say that when he is a man, when he is a wolf, he has never retreated without a fight, and he has never been so panicked.
This feeling of being bottomless in my heart is really not comfortable.
Thinking about it, Qin Yan's face that had just relaxed became tense again, Ying Qi chuckled in his heart, and was racking his brains to think about that Miss Su, and wanted to say something else, but when he heard Qin Yan, he suddenly said: "Go and check the eldest young master of the Chi family in Chu Yi Pavilion, tomorrow morning, the master will get the detailed file of the eldest young master Chi." ”
Ying Qi was stunned for a moment, and was busy, Shen Chuang had already made a pot of new tea and brought it in, Qin Yan ate a cup of tea, and the bath water over there was ready to stop, he bathed out and had dinner and entered the study.
Ying Qi waited outside, listened attentively, and saw that there was movement in the house from time to time, obviously the master inside still couldn't calm down and deal with business, Ying Qi looked at the palace lamp swaying in the wind in the distance and sighed.
I thought in my heart, if this has been making the master so unhappy, don't talk about today, I'm afraid that everyone will not have a good life in the near future, look at this tossing energy, I can't say that I don't want to sleep tonight.
That's not going to work.
Ying Qi turned around, took a pot of hot water and quietly stepped into the study, added some hot water to the teapot, and then looked at Qin Yan who was holding the pen and said: "Master, I don't know where the mask was left, Master and his subordinates pointed to a place, and his subordinates went to find it back?" ”
Qin Yan didn't do anything serious in the first place, although he was holding the document in his hand, he kept looking at it impetuously, and he couldn't understand all the words on the paper, and he couldn't understand it for a long time when he connected it into a sentence. What can be done in a moment on weekdays, today I have been grinding for an hour, like sitting on pins and needles, and nothing has been done. Hearing Ying Qi come in, he picked up his pen and pretended to scratch a few times.
At this moment, hearing Ying Qi's words, the pen moving in his hand suddenly stopped, his eyes couldn't help flashing slightly, and he raised his eyes and said, "Find the mask?" ”
Ying Qiyuan also speculated randomly, feeling that Qin Yan's mask was mostly related to the girl of the Su family if he didn't bring it back, except for which aunt and grandmother, no one dared to approach his own father's body, and he was bold enough to take away his master's mask. That's why he asked this question, seeing that even if Qin Yandang responded, his face was even more slightly moved, Ying Qi immediately knew that he had poked the vital point, and when he was busy, he said: "Yes, although the master still has a replacement use, but the previous one is a little inappropriate to fall outside like this, not to mention that the thing is the master's personal thing, it is not good to fall into the hands of others, so it can't be just thrown away for safety, if someone takes this thing and pretends to be the master to do nonsense, wouldn't it be a big mistake." ”
Ying Qi was full of nonsense, Qin Yan listened carefully and seriously, and when he finished speaking, he nodded and said, "What you said is extremely true, but you don't have to worry about this matter, and the master will go to find it in person." ”
He threw away the pen in his hand, got up, and strode out, Ying Qi breathed a long sigh of relief, and followed him to the courtyard with great confidence, and said without stumbling, "Master, if anyone picks up that mask, Master will not embarrass others, talk to others well, pay more smiles, presumably people will return the original." Also, is it better to leave that mask on the master's face in the house? ”
Before Shadow Qi's voice fell, a glimmer of light swept across the night sky and threw it over, and Shadow Seven hurriedly raised his hand to take it, it was Qin Yan's mask.
Seeing that there was no one in the courtyard, Ying Qi shook his head and smiled at the mask in his hand, and muttered: "Ying Qi, Ying Qi, I didn't expect you to have the potential to be a matchmaker, tsk." ”――
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