Chapter 658: Heartthrob is Jealousy
Gu Yun really made up his mind to ignore Tong Mingli, and accepted Bai Kojian's yƬ, and changed to the stable every day, on the grounds that it was convenient to ride a horse, and the family also followed him, such a big boy, there was no need to be in charge of his head and feet like a child.
But Gu Yun's slight changes are only known to the long room, the second room is not in charge of the house, the news is naturally not well-informed, Tong Mingli also thought that Gu Yun had a regular daily routine to go to and from school, so he went out for a walk in the evening, wanting to have a chance encounter with Gu Yun.
As long as Miss Tong stepped out of the two-room compound, she knew everything she did, no need for her to deliberately inquire, and no need to arrange eyeliner, every person in the house was her ear, and all kinds of gossip took the initiative to enter her ears.
Since discovering that Tong Mingli would only come out to guard Gu Yun at a fixed time every afternoon, Gu Yun firmly only went in and out of the stables, and when he had spare time, he either stayed at home, or went to Xile Fang with Bai Ko to urge his men to abide by the rules of the workshop.
was already busy, coupled with the intention of avoiding it, Tong Mingli didn't see Gu Yun once, and even when the husband and wife of the king of Mencheng County invited friends to get together at home, she didn't catch up with Gu Yun once.
These daughters have always told their aunt about Tong Mingli, and even Gu Chan, who gets along day and night, didn't notice it, after all, the sister-in-law of Xu in the family is about to give birth, and the focus of the whole family is on the pregnant woman, and getting along with her mother-in-law is tired enough, she is naturally somewhat negligent to Tong Mingli, she doesn't make trouble for her aunt's family, and when she is upset, she crosses the street to find Ning Peilan, Ning Peilan also happens to have a companion to talk to, but she is very welcome.
Tong Mingli also thought that Ning Peilan was an innocent girl before marriage, and she would tell her whenever she talked in private, and even asked Ning Peilan to help her think of an idea, so that she could have more contact with Gu Yun.
"Lan Lan, you said that I have been here for so many days, and I haven't even seen Gu Yun's face, is he so busy?"
"He has to study and do business, twelve hours a day, except for eating and sleeping, it's no wonder that he is not busy."
"Isn't the business taken care of by Bai Ko?"
"You are so confused, Gu Yun is the owner, Bai Ko is equivalent to a big shopkeeper at best, no matter how capable the shopkeeper is, he has to do things in the frame drawn by the owner, if Bai Ko can really do everything alone, she is the owner."
"Don't worry, I don't know how to do business, I'm not as skilled as you, you can talk about it."
"Didn't I tell you about it? How busy Gu Yun is, just look at Bai Ko, you can't see Gu Yun in the mansion, but Bai Ko can always see it, right? ā
"I haven't seen Bai Ko a few times, she has a lot of things to do in the house, and I heard that sometimes she has to give the eldest lady a hand."
"Mrs. Gu's own right-hand men are all old, Bai Ko happens to be a young and capable person, who else can she use without her. However, you've lived in the Gu Mansion for so many days, and that's all you see? ā
"Or else? What else? ā
"Yeguo Mansion is a first-class family, Gu Yun is the prince, or the future patriarch, your family has a simple population, that is, you have to worry about some things to be sent during the New Year's holidays, how much housework can you really do at home? Bai Ko is different, what she does every day is the housework that Gu Yun's young lady will do every day in the future, and the young lady does more than Bai Ko, because the young lady wants to take over the whole family, Bai Ko only needs to take care of Zhong Ming Courtyard. Ask yourself, can you handle it? ā
Tong Mingli shook her head with an ugly face, "I can't handle it." ā
"So, just look at Bai Ko and know Gu Yun, this Gu Shizi is not the kind of gentleman who only knows how to carry cage birds when he eats all day long, don't complain that he is too busy to see people, if he is idle and has long hair on his body, it is really worrying, but if he is such a person, he is not worthy of the girls in the capital who are obsessed with him."
"I didn't want him to stay at home every day, I just wanted to find a chance to be close to him, but when he can really be at home, it's only at night, how can I go to him at night when I'm a girl."
"Then there's really no way, the legs are long on Gu Yun's body, who can still hold him back and not let him go?"
"You are familiar with Bai Ko, can you ask her if she wants Gu Yun to go to the factory, where I will meet him?"
"How much do you like Gu Yun? Still going to Joy Place?! It's a mess over there, there are a lot of construction sites under construction, and it's dusty, can you stand it? ā
"How do you know there's a mess over there? Have you been? ā
"I haven't been there, Bai Ko said, the merchants saw that Xile Fang was making money, and they rushed there, but it turned out that it was Xiafang, but the land price was moving closer to Zhongfang, and now the court is waiting for the end of the year to collect taxes."
"This is Gu Yun's ability." Tong Mingli smiled beautifully, with a shy look on his face.
Ning Peilan saw it in her eyes, and regretted again and again in her heart, the two were really not suitable, Gu Yun still had to marry a wife who could take charge of the family, at least he couldn't be tired to death after he got married.
"Otherwise, it's very difficult to meet Gu Yun by chance, why don't you go and talk to Bai Ko and let her find a chance to arrange for the two of you to meet?"
"I'm going to talk to White?! I'm sorry to call people! ā
"Hey, what the hell are you going to do? Is it satisfying to secretly like you so quietly? In that case, what did you come to talk to me? ā
"I, I don't know what to do, I just ...... I'm ......"
"Oh, you're so stupid, you're good at cooking, why don't you just have a platter feast? also let everyone see that you are fine, completely out of the way, and you can discuss marriage again. Ning Peilan smiled slightly, as if she had been waiting for Tong Mingli's words for a long time.
Tong Mingli's eyes lit up, and she nodded vigorously, "Yes, yes, platter banquet, thank you Lan Lan, I'll go back and tell my aunt, you will come when the date is set." ā
"If it's not convenient for your aunt, come to me to get it, I'm quiet here, the kitchen is ready-made, and I don't have to rob someone's big kitchen in the Yeguo Mansion."
"Okay, thank you Lan Lan, I'll go back and discuss."
Tong Mingli was full of energy, and immediately went back to the house to find her aunt, as soon as Mrs. Gu heard that Princess Cheng was willing to provide a venue, she asked her niece to go there to hold a platter banquet without saying a word, a group of young ladies were cooking in the house, and only the east kitchen was available, which would affect many people.
After listening to her aunt's words, Tong Mingli also felt that it was better not to trouble Mrs. Gu, so she went to discuss with Ning Peilan and set a date to send an invitation.
When friends saw that Tong Mingli was going to hold a platter banquet, they all thought that she had really come out of the mental blow, and they were invited to come one after another.
Gong Changji arranged a guest house for everyone to play, that is the place he specially arranged to entertain friends for small gatherings and stays, the platter banquet This kind of mixed gathering of men and women can also come in handy, the platter banquet is a lot of people, Gu Yun even called Shi Tianmin's brothers and sisters, but they also came with their uncle and cousin, Gong Lingyun sisters.
Tong Mingli, as the host of the banquet, naturally wanted to greet the guests, she keenly discovered Shi Tianqi and her cousins' intentions towards Gu Yun, the eyes and behavior of **lo, there was no intention to hide it at all, and Gu Yun talked and laughed with them.
This sudden discovery made Tong Mingli almost lose her temper on the spot, and after finally calming down, she took all kinds of food to Gu Yun's side in a different way, and after walking a few times, the three Shi Tianqi sisters noticed Tong Mingli's somewhat overly enthusiastic attitude, and the sisters looked at each other a few times, and they all understood.
Shi Tianqi looked at the expressions of the two cousins coldly, and there were a hundred bitter and bitter tastes in her heart, the gap between her and Gu Yun was not in her family background, but in her generation, which made her cry behind her back and didn't know how many tears she shed, and she was even jealous of her cousins who didn't know anything about it, but she didn't expect that how many days had passed, and another rival in love surfaced.
This Gu Yun is really a heartthrob, how many times better than that Liang Zhongshan doesn't know, such a man is a good man worthy of being entrusted for life.
Tong Mingli went back and forth several times, even Shi Tianqi and her sisters remembered every piece of small jewelry in their hearts, the pendants on their ears were exquisite, the craftsmanship of the royal craftsmen perfectly reflected the identity background of the clan daughter, Tong Mingli is just a daughter of Xiao Hanlin, Qinggui is Qinggui, when standing with these noble women, people's eyes are naturally on others.
Under the impact of such a reality, Tong Mingli sadly realized that the family background of the clan girl was compatible with Gu Yun.
Sister Gong Lingyun felt that Tong Mingli was too much of an eyesore standing here, and she had to retreat from the difficulty, and the daughter of a small Hanlin family deserved to compete with them? I don't want to think about their sisters' clothes, she only makes half a piece of clothing every month in a year.
The two sisters tacitly stood left and right beside Gu Yun, sandwiched Gu Yun between the two, and kissed him affectionately, only keeping a half-arm's physical distance, and the other guests on the side were dumbfounded by the bold behavior of the two county lords, and their personal girls didn't know whether to come over and pull away or pretend not to see.
Ning Peilan and Gong Changji, who saw this scene, also silently turned their heads and greeted the guests around them, regardless of Gu Yun's affairs.
Gu Yun is not stupid, he feels unspeakable embarrassment after finding that he seems to have fallen into some kind of predicament, and he is very eager for Bai Ko to come out to save the scene, but she is doing things for the eldest lady in the mansion, and she doesn't know when she will be free.
In the end, it was Ning Peilan who rescued Gu Yun, she first called Tong Mingli away, and then invited the girls to go to the kitchen to prepare to cook, and the palace chief stayed in the guest house to greet the male guests.
"Okay, you, Akiyuki, how does it feel to be surrounded by girls?" Shi Tianmin laughed and raised his hand to pat Gu Yun on the shoulder.
"Okay, don't make fun of me, if you are envious, go back and try what it feels like to be yourself, you don't know where to put your hands, for fear that you will touch someone with a little movement." Gu Yun looked aggrieved.
"Hey, brothers, look at it, there's a cheap and well-behaved guy here, we have so many big people sitting, why don't you see the girls talking around us?"
The teenagers laughed, and Gu Yun's brothers didn't give him half of the face, and laughed very loudly.
When the feast began, the girls' craftsmanship was presented to the table one by one, and everyone was very happy, after all, the girls who dared to participate in the platter banquet were fully confident in their cooking skills.
This time Gu Yun is still the focus of the girls, and in addition to his own sisters, other girls gathered around, scrambling to introduce their dishes to him, and the boys who were left out in the cold either bowed their heads and ate by themselves, or talked to the palace chief, pretending not to care about what the girls were doing, in fact, they were all kinds of envy and jealousy in their hearts, and they all agreed to give Gu Yun a sack and beat him up one day.
At this time, Bai Ko came to visit the door after lunch, and the people of the palace led her into the courtyard, she quietly looked at it, and saw that her young master was surrounded by the girls, and secretly laughed and made a grimace, slipped to Ning Peilan's side, and brought her a toothpick beef made at noon.
Ning Peilan gave Bai Ko a wine glass, and gave her husband half of the beef, and then the two of them drank wine and ate meat together, watching Gu Yun's jokes.
After a point of beef, everyone finally found out that Bai Qiao was coming, and the daughters who were surrounding Gu Yun seemed to have just reacted that there were outsiders at the scene, and they immediately returned to their seats shyly, lowered their heads to eat, and didn't squeak anymore.
Bai Ko looked innocent and dazed, and didn't seem to understand why she came, and the daughters who surrounded her young master dispersed, and her expression made many people chuckle.
Across the aisle between the men's and women's tables, Gu Yun glared at Bai Ko, he felt as if something was wrong at this time, and he seemed to be placed by Bai Ko again.
Today's platter banquet is destined to become a rumor in the circle, and after everyone shared the toothpick beef brought by Bai Ko, the banquet finally ended.
Gu Yun didn't rush to leave, anyway, the two families are now neighbors to each other, it doesn't matter if he stays here until dark in the palace chief, the two of them sit in the four corners of the courtyard, and Bai Qiao serves them to drink tea and relieve the sprinkling, and Ning Peilan directs the girls to clean up the entire courtyard little by little.
Tong Mingli was the convener of this platter banquet, so she also stayed until the end to help clean up, and after a busy circle, she suddenly found that Gu Yun was still sitting in this courtyard, and suddenly her heart was like a deer crashing, a red glow flew out of her face, and she couldn't move her eyes and couldn't take a step when she looked at Gu Yun.
Gong Changji couldn't hold it back, picked up the teacup and hid his face behind him and laughed, his hands trembled so much that the tea spilled out, and he had to clean it up.
"Shizi, don't keep a straight face, Miss Tong is our second lady's niece and nephew, smile at others." Bai Ko reminded while bowing his head and wiping the water stains on the table with a tea towel.
"Yes, yes, Tong Mingli doesn't owe you millions of dollars, laugh one, laugh one." The palace chief immediately coaxed.
"My face cramped, I can't laugh." Gu Yun had a straight face, but he had a teacup in his hand, and his expression seemed to be quite soft and not so murderous.
"Laugh at one, leave a good memory for others, and you won't feel resentful when you think of you in the future, and you will only blame your family for not being worthy." Bai Ko wiped the water on the table, folded the tea towel, and always smiled on his face.
"What if I laugh a little and she thinks I'm interested in her?"
"If you don't laugh, how do you know how Miss Tong will react? Laugh at it. ā
"Yes, yes, Bai Ko has a point." Gong Changji nodded in help.
"Makes sense, a ghost!"
Gu Yun took advantage of the cover of the teacup, Chong Gong Changji and Bai Ko each rolled their eyes, and then turned their heads, as if they had just seen Tong Mingli standing in the courtyard, raised the teacup in his hand, and gave her a warm smile like a spring breeze.
(Author's note: It's 4k again, it's a plus, and it's updated with 8,000 words today.) Happy Spring Festival, everyone, ?~?~da~~~)