Chapter Sixty-Eight: Encounter with Waterloo
Others didn't care, but Danqing's reaction made her cowardly.
"Xiaomeng, this ...... This cloak isn't yours, is it? I don't remember you having such a wide coat, huh? Danqing said, looking up and down at the coat, as if he could know where it came from. Chu Xiaomeng snatched it with her hand, and at the end Chu Xiaomeng realized how stupid her action was, didn't it make people feel that she was weak-hearted!
Danqing leaned over and asked her young lady with a quiet smile: "Xiaomeng, this dress shouldn't be the prince's, right?" ”
Danqing's face smiled thief, and Chu Xiaomeng was so flustered that she almost asked this girl not to laugh.
However, Chu Xiaomeng didn't intend to hide it, and it was also out of a subconscious reaction to take it over, maybe it was the dream this morning that made her feel a little weak, or maybe it was because there was the breath of her and that person on this external cause, which made others always feel weird in their hearts.
Chu Xiaomeng took this coat and was worried, "Yes, it was too late when I came back with the prince last night, and the clothes I was wearing were too thin, the prince was probably worried that I would freeze and no one would clean up the yard for him today, so he put this coat on me." I thought about washing it and returning it to the prince, but I didn't think about how to explain the garment. ”
Danqing looked at her young lady with a smile, and she didn't listen to what she said except for the beginning sentence that admitted that it was the clothes of the wild goose prince.
When Miss and Prince Yan went out last night, she heard from the girls in the courtyard that their prince had never taken other female dependents out except for Mama Huang, so many girls secretly guessed that the relationship between the prince and her young lady was not ordinary, even if there was no other progress, but there must be sparks. Danqing only dared to secretly think in her heart, but she didn't dare to really think that the wild lady and her young lady could come together, after all, her young lady had an opportunity to be with the wild goose and could be abandoned casually, she estimated that her young lady should not like the wild goose, but this did not prevent the wild goose from liking her young lady.
Miss is so good-looking, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, since she left the Chu Mansion, these hands that read and write have worked like her, and her heart is not distressed is fake. But this is the young lady's choice, she must have her reasons for making this choice, Danqing just follow her. But in her heart, she still hopes that her young lady can live a better life.
"Danqing! What are you thinking about, and you almost write two words on your face, "gossip", I'll talk to you about business, do you have a way? Chu Xiaomeng really didn't want to return it like this, thinking about the heavy cleanliness physique of the wild goose prince, maybe how to dislike her.
The clothes of the entire palace are basically washed in the courtyard, and after drying, the girl will personally send them to each courtyard, Danqing and Chu Xiaomeng have also been here for nearly a month, and they are almost clear about this process, the problem is how to quietly mix the clothes into these clothes.
Chu Xiaomeng listened to Danqing's words, and waited near the courtyard of the wild goose prince early in the morning, waiting for the girl who took the clothes to take the clothes out, and then she kindly took them over to help bring them back to the Yongqin Courtyard, and on the way she was able to mix in the clothes hidden under the small tree, this plan is not clever, it is really helpless.
After shaking for about a quarter of an hour, Chu Xiaomeng felt like a fool, especially when the sunlight gradually became stronger, when she wandered around this corner with the sunlight in her heart, she despised herself fiercely in her heart, despised this plan, but she had to accept it.
Chu Xiaomeng was tired of standing, so she simply squatted down on the spot, pulled a dog tail flower, and held the tail end in her mouth, and let her take off the flower part of the flower, and pull it one by one, and it didn't take long to pull a dog tail flower bald.
After about six dog tail flowers, Chu Xiaomeng finally saw the girl who took the clothes carrying a small wooden bucket into the courtyard of the wild goose prince, Chu Xiaomeng stood up with excitement, followed a few steps and waited at the gate of the courtyard, waiting for the girl to come out.
From a distance, the wild goose saw Chu Xiaomeng pacing back and forth outside his courtyard, and the little brain melon seed still looked towards his courtyard from time to time, as if he was waiting for someone.
"In addition to the pattern in the palace of the wild goose is different from ordinary people, it turns out that even the subordinates are different from ordinary people hahahaha......" Several young students who followed behind the wild goose laughed and joked, all of them were dressed in the clothes of this literati and ink writer, each holding an ink painting fan in his hand, half-open and shaking from time to time, showing off his literary talents.
"Exactly, Lord Yan works hard for Daliang, and spends most of his time on state affairs, so I guess I haven't even seen a few girls in the house." The man in blue asked with a smile, complimenting the wild goose in a mocking tone.
Behind the wild goose is the scholar who was promoted in the imperial examination this year, and has not yet officially entered the court to meet the emperor, in previous years, when the wild goose was in the capital, the wild goose was contacted first, and this year the wild goose happened to be in the capital, so this trip they are bound to go.
The status of the Yan prince in the court is not inferior to that of other civil and military generals, and the emperor is almost assured of the ability of the Yan prince, so some points that the new official must pay attention to when entering the court have been handed over to the Yan prince to explain, and there are many objections to this in the court. If there is any political controversy in the future, these newcomers who are personally approached by the wild goose will not dare to offend the big Buddha of the wild goose.
Presumably someone reminded a few of them, and their efforts to talk in front of the wild goose made it even more ignorant and deliberately flattering and self-defeating, which made people feel embarrassed.
"It is the duty of the courtiers to share the worries of the emperor, and when you enter the court, you should also think more about how to share the worries of the emperor, and it is always not wrong to say less and do more." As soon as the wild goose said a few words, he couldn't tell whether the words were in his words, or just an ordinary warning, anyway, the people present felt that the thorns were in their backs and couldn't guess his intentions.
"That's what the prince said! As a courtier, he shares worries for the king in the court, and solves problems for the people outside, so that he can become a virtuous minister. Another scholar in a coat with a scripture in his hand said.
Several scholars who came were about to enter the court as officials, for their own careers, who should not be offended, they knew very well, everyone said that the wild goose was a popular man in front of the emperor, if he could get his blessing, the future career will be brilliant. But if you offend the wild goose at this time, it is obviously to add to the blockage for yourself, and how to speak is naturally extremely important.
Lord Yan seemed to have guessed what these scholars would say, and he filtered out the words cut out of the books, after all, they had just gotten rid of the restrictions of books, and they had never really entered the officialdom, so there was really nothing to say except for picking out some words in the books.
His eyes never left from the moment he saw Chu Xiaomeng, seeing her wandering back and forth at the gate of the courtyard, looking into the courtyard from time to time, and he didn't know who she was waiting for or what she was doing?
The sunlight became more and more intense, but the man didn't hide it at all, just stood straight under the sun, a pair of round eyes narrowed into a thin slit, probably because the sun was uncomfortable shining on the eyes, so he stretched out a hand to block it, and it was because of the block that he couldn't see that the wild goose and others were approaching her.
"What are you doing?" The prince of Yan suddenly spoke out, which really startled Chu Xiaomeng, and the prince of Yan saw the horror and bewilderment on Chu Xiaomeng's face thoroughly. It seemed like a random question, but Chu Xiaomeng couldn't answer it for a while.
It's so bad, how can you still meet it head-on? Why didn't the girl who waited to get the clothes wait for the wild goose to come back? Didn't Lord Yan come back after a while?
"Lord Wang, you're back!" Chu Xiaomeng tried hard to pretend to be calm, squinted his eyes and greeted Lord Yan with a smile, in order to show his enthusiasm, his tone was a little more flattering.
She hoped that the wild goose wouldn't ask anything, just as if she happened to pass by accidentally, don't see her sneaky appearance just now.
Lord Yan was in an inexplicably good mood when he heard her tone, and looking at her deliberate flattery, he must have been angry about what happened last night. And the prince who is as sensitive as a goose naturally saw Chu Xiaomeng's strange appearance, and he didn't plan to let her go like this.
"Yes! Although the king has just returned, you don't have to wait until the king comes back if you want to enter the courtyard. Why, Cheng Quan didn't give you the key? Or did you lose the key? No, the king's courtyard has never been locked. After the wild goose got closer, the tall voice covered Chu Xiaomeng's whole person, without the sun's rays, those round eyes were now staring at him for a moment, and all the emotions he saw in his eyes.
She understands so well that everything is written on her face, and if you look at her eyes, it is as if you can peek into her heart. In the depths of officialdom, the wild goose has seen too many hypocritical illusions, and naturally he has seen the beauty of the world, but he didn't know that there were such pure eyes without a trace of impurities.
If there is anything that makes him stay on her body more, it must be these round eyes. These eyes are amazing, they can make people happy if they smile, and they can make people pity if they cry. Chu Xiaomeng, who was partial, didn't understand the mystery of this, just staring at him with a pair of eyes, and even wanted to hide from the world.
Lord Yan's words were undoubtedly a critical hit, and Chu Xiaomeng had to suspect that this guy was definitely intentional, he must have deliberately made her embarrassed and made her unable to answer. It's just that she had an indescribable dream last night, and now she sees that she is feeling weak in her heart, and now she is secretly planning big things, he asked like this, and it really made the clever and eloquent Chu Xiaomeng meet Waterloo.