Chapter 165: The price is too high
In May and a half, everyone waited for a full month to finally wait for Shi Xiang to play, and the Zhengyu Building was still full that night. Obviously, none of them noticed that Shi Xiang was not dancing in this Zhengyulou, and no one knew that Shi Xiang was no longer in Zhengyulou.
"Xiao Ling'er, you go." , Mo Lou looked at the full crowd in the lobby and raised his eyebrows and said.
Gong Ling raised his eyes expressionlessly to look at Lord Mo, and decisively refused: "Don't go." β
Lord Mo slowly sketched a smile with a gentle face, obviously he was almost thirty years old, but the smile was still bright and enchanting.
"Xiao Ling'er, when you were surprised by the rain and flying flowers, do you remember?"
A hint of strangeness flashed in Gong Ling's eyes, but then she lowered her eyelids to cover the emotions in her eyes.
How could she not remember, it was the first time she had seen Mo Ruyu. At that time, Mo Ruyu approached step by step with Shi Xiang, who was dressed in white, and she knew for the first time that the cold smile of the original person could smile so well. He brought Shi Xiang to apprentice, her master didn't say yes or no, just asked herself to choose a random dance to dance, she nodded and danced, falling rain and flying flowers, that is her favorite dance, even if there is no vocal music, she can dance exactly the same. It's just that Mo Ruyu picked up the flute that came out of nowhere and caught up with her dance steps, and that time was the happiest one she danced.
Yes, the Shi Xiang that Meng Chenjing sent to check was actually Gong Ling, and when Shi Xiang performed the dance of Gong Ling completely, she followed Mo Ruyu away. Shi Xiang flowed down. She followed Mo Ruyu for five years, but never danced again. This was the agreement between Mo Ruyu and her at the beginning. But now Mo Ruyu actually let her danceβfor the sake of those guests below.
Mo Ruyu is the name of the owner of the Mo Building, because it is feminine and easy to be misunderstood. It had been a long time since he had told anyone his name, and Gong Ling was probably the first person he had known his name as Mo Ruyu since he was thirteen years old.
"Xiao Ling'er, don't you want to dance anymore?" Mo Ruyu asked slowly in a soft voice. At the beginning, he made an agreement with Gong Ling for Shi Xiang, but when he saw Gong Ling looking at Shi Xiang on the glass platform without blinking, he suddenly didn't want to abide by that agreement.
Gong Ling was silent for a moment, and then raised his head to look at Mo Ruyu's eyes even colder.
"Mo Ruyu, do you remember how you agreed with me at the beginning?" Xiao Ling'er. Do you hate it? I'll take you away, but you can't dance again.
She had left the place that made her miserable and infinitely happy. She hated his master, because the master died suddenly because she was about to complete a dance music. At that time, she hugged her master and cried, but his master was still recording the music score and dance steps one by one. From that moment on, she hated dancing. But this is the last wish of the master, a dance that must be completed in death. She couldn't help but work hard. Can't help but jump. And when one day, a girl as talented as her came, she was strangely relieved, and then Mo Ruyu asked her so, and she agreed.
Mo Ruyu smiled, this kind of smile Gong Ling had never seen before, a little bitter, and a little distressed: "Xiao Ling'er." You've come out, that glass platform. It should have been yours five years ago. β
Yes, five years ago it should have belonged to Gong Ling. That extremely talented generation of people who have cultivated her own disciple since childhood, just because he selfishly abandoned her favorite dance, he is really a bad person.
"She belongs to Shi Xiang now." Five years have passed, Mo Ruyu, since the beginning of the agreement, everything has been different.
"But Xiao Ling'er, I want to see it." Mo Ruyu's voice was a little floating, looking at Gong Ling's eyes, the tails of his eyes were lifted, revealing a smile of fascination and nostalgia: "I was a little surprised when I first saw you, I knew the reason why you danced since elementary school, but I found that you were not as lively and active as I imagined, so you just watched me and Shi Xiang come in with a strained face, and you didn't even blink your eyelashes during the whole process, but when you danced, it was like a different person, just like you seemed to be dancing not a dance, but life." You may not have noticed that you were smiling when you danced, but the smile fell off at the end, and I really wanted to see it again. β
So when he had to make that agreement with Gong Ling, he was actually very guilty in his heart. But Shi Xiang is like her sister, he saw Shi Xiang, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl who broke her bones and soaked her in a medicine barrel, and watched the skin on Shi Xiang's body fade down layer by layer and covered in blood, and watched Shi Xiangsheng shrink several inches into the appearance of a thirteen-year-old child, until five years have passed. The body is not as good as a day by day.
Shi Xiang's price was too great, and Mo Ruyu couldn't let any accidents happen in this matter, so there was an agreement at that time. After all, if Gong Ling is young and has excellent martial arts, he is likely to be noticed, and if he checks it, he will know everything, and then Shi Xiang's sin will be in vain.
Of course, Gong Ling knew that Mo Ruyu later explained to her about Shi Xiang, and she was relieved at the time, although she still felt sorry that she couldn't dance, but she was also grateful to have such a person who could fulfill her master's wishes and accompany her master. It's just that now Mo Ruyu suddenly said it, which caught her off guard. Even though she envied Shi Xiang, she never thought that she would set foot on the glass platform one day. Dance is already a stranger to her.
"I haven't danced for five years, and I've forgotten all the dance steps." Gong Ling said that he was about to leave, "I'll go and announce the news of Shi Xiang's departure." β
Mo Ruyu suddenly grabbed her, stared at her eyes and said slowly, "Ling'er, I want to see it." β
Meng Chenyu followed the emperor's intentions, although he didn't say it explicitly, but he was obviously telling the ministers that the prince was still the prince, and he shouldn't make any trouble because the prince was not there. And Meng Chenhuan was also brainwashed by Meng Shaoguang to try to win over Meng Chenyu, and there was harmony in the court.
The position of the head of the household department was given by the emperor five years ago to the palace test hall Yuan Cheng Changke. It is said that this Cheng Changke went from the township test to the autumn test and then the spring test and then the palace test, every article was extremely stylish, and the limelight was unparalleled for a while, and the emperor was left in the Hanlin Academy on the day of the palace test. Now in five years, he has not made any contributions, and the emperor of Hubu Shangshu has a headache for a long time, and seeing that although Cheng Changke is doing nothing in the Hanlin Academy, he also thought that it may be other reasons, so he gave him this position. After all, the articles he wrote before were definitely good policies for governing the country, and the emperor didn't want him to be buried like this.
Speaking of this Cheng Changke, it really makes the people of the capital talk about it, and the splendid articles he wrote back then and many literati in the capital flock to it, but since he was named Hanlin in Dianyuan, he seems to have changed as a person. It is said that literati like to learn from each other elegantly, and often get together to talk about poetry and painting, but this Cheng Changke is different. I never went to a place where there were many literati, never talked to others, and never talked about poetry and painting. Some people invited them to reply that they couldn't go because of something. The attitude is excellent. After a long time, the literati and scholars in the capital stopped looking for him.
To be honest, a Hanlin is really nothing in the capital, although it is the champion of the golden branch, but the most important thing in the capital is the nobles. That's it. It's just that the people who are looking for Cheng Changke must admire his literary brilliance, and they will definitely not do anything out of the ordinary, even if Cheng Changke refuses, they just feel sorry. It doesn't really mean that you have to compare others with yourself or anything. Although the literati are sour and rotten, they can't do such a thing.
And when everyone thought that he would shine in the Hanlin Academy, he was stunned that he had not done anything important in the past five years, and even the annual Mid-Autumn Festival Chinese New Year's Eve banquet was very low-key. If the emperor had to let him compose poetry or something, he could do it. It's just that this poem can only be said to be good, and there is nothing brilliant about it, and over time, the emperor will get bored.
It's just that this time the emperor of the household department has a headache for a long time, and this is a big pie that falls directly on his head, which makes everyone think of who this Cheng Changke is, how amazing and brilliant he was back then, and how ordinary he is now, just sitting in the position of the household department, his life will naturally undergo a major change.
"He's lucky." Meng Shaoguang listened to what Meng Chenjing said and commented on it blandly.
Meng Chenjing also smiled, indeed, this Cheng Changke is indeed very lucky.
"My father probably fell in love with him so calmly. Is it really possible for a person who is just amazing and brilliant to become so ordinary? Meng Chenjing was a little suspicious, when a person reached that age, the literary and ink were all engraved in his bones, how could he say that it would be gone if he didn't. Meng Chenyu had seen Cheng Changke's article that Meng Chenjing brought back, so it was really hard for him to imagine that such a literary and elegant person would become like this.
When he said this, Meng Shaoguang was interested. Indeed, such a situation is almost like the mind has been emptied or even a different soul. Thinking of this, Meng Shaoguang's eyes lit up. I can encounter such a thing, but I can't keep it in order, so can others. Anyway, if you're idle, you're idle, so it's better to meet this amazing champion for a while.
"I heard that Li Zhi of the Luguo Mansion is serving in the hunting guard." Meng Shaoguang thought about it and felt that since Meng Chenjing, the main master, was not there, she would tease the people of the Luguo Mansion to have fun, and let Youhuai stir up the marriage of Li Chi, the second son of the family, I really felt embarrassed, why don't you compensate him?
Meng Chenyu knew that Meng Shaoguang was going to make a move on the Luguo Mansion, compared to Meng Chenjing, the emperor didn't care much about this, after all, the power of the relatives was a big taboo for those in power, if it was relatively able to weaken the power of the relatives, the emperor would be happy to see it.
"Well, I was promoted to the rank of Captain of the Thirteenth Guards this year. His father valued him very much. β
Of course he will value him, this is cultivating cronies for his eldest son, how can he not value it.
Each generation of emperors will have their own guards, and the guards of each generation of emperors are cronies who can be entrusted with their names, a total of twenty-one guards, plus the captain of the guard, eleven people per guard. The reason why the emperor would choose people from the Luguo Mansion was naturally to plan for Meng Chenjing to take power in the future. If nothing else, when the emperor abdicates and Meng Chenjing comes to power, Li Zhi will be the next chief of the hunting guard.
"Li Zhi is a person with outstanding ability, intelligence and forbearance, and he is extremely difficult to deal with."
Meng Shaoguang nodded, Li Zhi She knows, the most promising person in the Luguo Mansion now, the successor of the Luguo Mansion in the future, was valued by the emperor at a young age to serve as a hunting guard, and in just three years, he sat in the position of deputy chief of guard, and it took five years to sit in the position of the current chief of guard, which shows that his means are absolutely extraordinary.
"I heard that Li Zhi still hasn't married a wife yet?" This is very strange, twenty-three in ancient times did not marry a wife is a minority, and this rich and handsome person in ancient times did not marry a wife? I can't tell you what other people don't know.
Meng Chenyu was also a little strange, "It's true that the people in the Luguo Mansion are in a hurry, and they don't require him to marry the right person, as long as he marries, he can do it, but if he doesn't marry, who can force him." β
The smile on Meng Shaoguang's face was a little bad, and he thought it was very interesting.
"Do you think he doesn't like women?" Meng Shaoguang asked with some gossip.
Meng Chenyu: "...... No, I haven't heard of him getting entangled with any man, no, no, not even a woman. It is said that when the Duchess of Luguo took off a beautiful woman and sent it to his bed, he threw it out with an expressionless face. β
Meng Chenyu said this, but his eyes were also full of curiosity, and he really wanted to know why Li Zhi hadn't married yet!
Meng Chenyu, a poor baby with a red root, was abducted and crooked by Meng Shaoguang like this.
"Poof-" Meng Shaoguang suddenly thought of something and squirted out a mouthful of tea, wiped his mouth with a silk cloth, and said a little weirdly: "Li Zhi is not that, and Li Chi is half dead, so doesn't the Luguo Mansion want that?" "Do you still want to expect another one from the Duke of Luguo?
Meng Chenyu froze on the chair with a confused expression, saying so, but the young general, are you really a girl? Isn't it true that a man is dressed as a woman? Suddenly thinking of the possibility that Meng Shaoguang was dressed as a man and a woman, Meng Chenyu's face collapsed, he felt that his brain seemed to be poisoned recently, and his brain hole was always very big.
"Ask someone to check Li Zhi carefully, his every move must be clear, especially who he is more intimate with, this intimacy does not distinguish between men and women, you know." Meng Shaoguang was really interested.
"Okay." Meng Chenyu nodded reluctantly, of course he wouldn't think that Meng Shaoguang wanted to check Li Zhi just because he wanted to know whether he liked men or women, and what he must be going to do. Meng Shaoguang is now his ally, and of course he will do his best to help her.
Meng Shaoguang saw that Meng Chenyu agreed so simply, showing a teachable expression, looked at him and praised: "That's why Meng Chenhuan will lose to you." β
Meng Chenyu unceremoniously accepted all the orders, although he praised him, but what he said was not true.
Your Highness, you were really distorted by Meng Shaoguang. (To be continued.) )