At the end of the street outside the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of War, a fast horse galloped in outside the gate, and someone dressed as an official came, and flew down at the door of the Shangshu Mansion of the Military Department, and asked, "Is the honorable driver a senior executive?" ”

Gao Bai nodded and asked what the person was doing.

The man said, "Xia Guan is the head of the palace guard of Wangchun Palace, and he came here on the order of Lord Yang, the palace supervisor. The six ladies of your mansion came to Wangchun Palace today, and the purple bamboo shoot tea tasted was still recognized, and Lord Yang said that the tea in Wangchun Palace was not the best, but it was barely drinkable, so he asked the lower officials to send two catties over, and asked the ladies to talk about moistening their throats. ”

As he spoke, he took a small bag from the saddle and bowed down to give it away.

At this time, Yao Congming and Wang Qi had not yet walked away, and when they saw this scene, they said in their hearts, it seems that the sixth lady has really been to Guangyuntan today.

But people don't admit it, I'm afraid it's just for a quiet mind.

In Chang'an City, how many people are qualified to go to Wangchun Palace to ask for a sip of tea?

When did Lord Yang, the palace supervisor of Wangchun Palace, who was at the bottom of the sixth grade, send someone to deliver tea just by relying on a polite compliment?

Tea is available to everyone, and there are a lot of ordinary villagers who drink tea.

But how many people can afford to drink a top-notch good tea like "purple bamboo shoots", one or two teas and one or two gold?

Gao Bai hurriedly took it, "Lord Yang is really careful, the famous tea of the Tang Dynasty is the first to recommend "Mengding", followed by the "purple bamboo shoots" in Lake and Changerzhou, and the others have a small group of Shenquan...... Qujiang flakes and so on, when I return to Lord Gao and Mrs. Liu, I will always have to thank Lord Yang for his kindness. ”

The visitor said, "No," and flew on his horse and left.

After leaving Gaofu, Yao Congming said to Wang Qi, "You are a king eight!" From today until the horse race, the sixth lady or the two ladies of the executive's family are very likely to go to Guangyuntan, you open your eyes wide for me, squeak well, and if anything goes wrong, I will ask for your head! ”

Anyway, today's events are finally in danger, Wang Qi said yes again and again, and he couldn't stop praising the sixth lady for her generosity behind Yao Zhutou.

Yao Congming said, "There is a way to be small and easy to win, but if you can get by, how can the dignified military department Shangshu Mansion deal with a little person like you and me!" ”

He said to Wang Qi, "It just so happened that you didn't catch up with the matter of the senior executive's family last time because of the matter of the fifth lady, otherwise you would have beaten you like a king." The jade red note has Yao Congli County Order as the backstage, and Wang Susu also serves the eldest grandson Chong of the Zhao State Mansion, but Gao Bai, a housekeeper of the Gao Mansion, dared to lead people to smash the jade red note in broad daylight, and the two adults of Yao County Ling and Changsun Chong did not even show their faces, think about it. ”

The two of them said, walking away slowly.

……

Liu Yuru, Fan Ying, Cui Yan and Li Wanqing had lunch at noon, Xie Jinlian and Siqing came back on horseback, and then in the evening, Su Yin, Lirong, and Lilan sisters also returned.

There are a few people who are concerned about how well the martial artist in the prince's palace is riding, and Lilan said, I'm afraid this talented person is enough to participate in the competition at the end of August.

People were busy asking the reason, and Su Yin said that the martial artist had fallen off his horse.

"I don't know if the fall is heavy?" Someone asked.

Su Yin said, "Lirong and the others are riding horses at the mouth of the valley, and I am busy with the official business of building the Meridian Valley, and it is not too close, so I don't see it too clearly." ”

Someone else asked, "Sister Su, you are a busy person, but Lirong and Lilan can always see clearly, right?" ”

Su Yin said, "Lao Jiu is busy enclosing the land, how can he have the time to see the excitement!" ”

Then everyone was busy asking where and where Lilanquan was.

Lilanshen said mysteriously, it was Master Su who said it a lot, and this matter has not been skimmed yet, but if this matter is successful, our family will be able to make a lot of money, don't ask first, let's talk about the fall of the martial artist first, Lirong, you were not outside the valley at that time, you come.

Lirong was reluctant to speak at first, and was repeatedly questioned before she said, "At noon, the martial artist fell off the horse, and the people carried her back to the palace, and she never came out again in the afternoon." ”

That's a bad fall.

Lirong concealed some details, because the martial arts fell from the horse was related to her, and she didn't dare to say it at home in front of Gao Jun and the sisters.

Originally, Lirong and her sister Lilan were also riding horses outside the Meridian Valley, but then Lilan didn't know where to go, leaving Lirong and her personal maid ring, and two family members there.

Later, this martial artist also came out of the palace and learned that Lirong was the seventh lady of the tall man of the Ministry of War, and the talented person was very affectionate to her, and she also brought a palace man named Yang Lizhen and another from the Warden Department named Wu Weiliang to Lirong.

Wucai is a five-grade person, although he comes from the palace on the surface and has a noble status, he is a person with no status in the palace and even marginalized.

Although Lirong is a side room, it is the side room of the current court officials, and she is a county monarch of the fourth rank in terms of title, so Lirong feels that there is not much difference between the two in terms of identity.

Even in fact, she is superior to the other party, and the two will soon compete together in the second group, and this martial artist seems to want to be with her, so Lirong does not shy away.

The two practiced riding and talking outside the Meridian Valley, and by noon, the martial artists had already addressed Lirong as sisters. also said that if the Seventh Lady did not dislike it, she would be willing to marry Lirong.

Because the matter of worshipping involved people in the palace, Lirong didn't dare to nod clearly, but according to the age of the two, they called Cairen "sister".

The martial artists also agreed, and they were very interested in the people in the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of War, and occasionally asked Lord Shangshu and several other ladies, "Sister, you are so beautiful, it really makes my sister unreachable, I want to come to the mansion and everyone is so peerless!" ”

Lirong has always been an unwilling character, and since she saw a martial artist, she looked at each other from time to time. The talented person is only one year older than her, twenty-four this year, and her physical appearance is comparable to Siqing, Cui Yan or Wanqing, but her praise of herself is a little flattering. But Lirong enjoyed it.

She is from Tiandi City, Tingzhou, from the daughter of the most ordinary residents of a small town, to the family of a powerful person in Chang'an City, this is fate! What's so strange about being noticed by a talented person?

When someone from the prince's palace came out and invited the martial arts to go back to dinner, Lirong clearly saw that both Yang Lizhen and the short and strong Wu Weiliang had the intention of leaving, but they still proposed to the martial talents: "Sister, why don't we have a competition with the three of us?" ”

Wu Cairen readily agreed, so Wu Weiliang first rode a horse to choose the route, and reminded Wucai people of a few precautions, and the three women stood on the starting line with their horses.

Wu Weiliang gave an order, and the three women galloped at the same time.

This time the competition was proposed on a casual basis, and it was not formal, from the starting point to a small slope with a very gentle terrain three hundred paces away, and then turned back, and the competition was over, and the first to return wins.

Lirong could see that Wu Weiliang deliberately signaled that Wu Cairen was on the left side of the three of them, so that she could be in the inner circle when she turned the slope at the end, which could take advantage of it.

Therefore, Lirong added a whip at the beginning, and rushed out almost at the same time as Wu Meiniang, and the two of them walked together, and Yang Lizhen pulled Yang Lizhen out of the position of the three horses.

In Lirong's impression, the riding skills of the martial artists are good, and she also wants to verify how well she has practiced these days, and when she hears the sound of the horses' hooves of the martial arts people on her side, she can't care less about looking back.

In the blink of an eye, the two galloped to the corner, and Lirong judged that she had opened some distance from Wu Cairen, so she turned her head from the inside and turned on Wu Meiniang's horse path.

But then she heard Wu Meiniang and Yang Lizhen screaming, and someone fell from their horses.

Lirong immediately reined in the horse and looked back, it was the martial artist who fell from the horse.

Wu Weiliang ran from the starting point with a pale face, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and Lirong was also shocked, seeing Wu Cairen lying on the grass, her horse stopped a few steps away.

Only then did he hold his waist and tried a few times to think about it, but he was comforting Lirong, "I'm fine, sister, you don't have to worry about me." ”

Wu Weiliang was not sure that Wu Meiniang's fall was because the road was occupied by another horse, and it was because it was frightened and violently biased.

The talented person can't move on the ground, for Wu Weiliang, who teaches talented people to ride horses, this responsibility can't be shirked, but he is still working hard, and he doesn't dare to shirk too obviously.

Lirong couldn't care about Wu Weiliang, but together with Yang Lizhen, she tried to help Wu Meiniang stand up, but she cried out in pain when she moved slightly, and Lirong had to ask Wu Weiliang to rush back to the prince's palace to call someone over.

Lirong was afraid that the martial artist would hurt his waist during the fall from his horse, if that was the case, this matter would not be hidden.

From Wu Weiliang's words, she guessed that in case of misfortune and any disability of a martial artist, he, Wu Weiliang, would not hide anything for himself.

Martial artists enter and leave the prince's palace every day, and the fall from the horse will definitely be noticed by the prince. Her horseback riding instruction was also arranged by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince himself, and Lirong was a little afraid, so she didn't take the initiative to say anything about it after returning home.

She thinks that if Sister Su or Lilan put it forward first, Sister Liu will definitely ask herself, and then she will look at the situation and put it forward, and her burden will be smaller.

The Seventh Lady cautiously recounted the subject, hid the part of the game, and began to regret her victory. Fortunately, no one asked deeply, and the topic changed to the blue circle after dinner.

Lirong lazily went back to her room and lay down under the quilt, worried about Wu Meiniang's situation at this time, so that she couldn't sleep.

Liu Yuru is the most annoying sister to cause trouble outside, if this matter develops to the most unfavorable result, Lirong believes that Sister Liu will not save any more face for herself, then first of all, she will have no face with her sister Lilan.

Also, what is the attitude of the prince's palace? Will His Royal Highness the Crown Prince be angry? Will it have any effect on Gao Jun? For example, the control is not strict.

In case the charming and amorous woman of the martial artist is paralyzed by this, and the reason is that she is fighting for victory, then the edge of the rumors will be concentrated on her.

What can I do? Only then did she realize that she was actually vulnerable.

If she doesn't get it, she's going to go back to Xizhou!

Lirong even envied Wanqing, she also heard about the matter in the house at noon, the two catchers of Wannian County came to the door, kowtowed like garlic to make amends, and Lord Yang of Wangchun Palace sent tea, the reason was that the sixth lady Li Wanqing did not go to compete with others for the position of training horses by Guangyun Pond.

Undoubtedly, the sixth lady is more decent than the seventh lady, and Lirong was extremely annoyed and hid in the quilt to wipe her tears. At this moment she heard that the snuggling ring that was sleeping outside the bedroom had risen, and she had pulled the bolt behind the door.

Lirong heard that Gao Jun had come to her house, and she was worried that Gao Jun had known and came to blame her, so she didn't light the lamp, lifted the quilt neatly, and stood barefoot on the carpet waiting for him.

It was a quiet and bright autumn night in Qinchuan for eight hundred miles, and Gao Jun brought in a slightly chilly breath from outside the door, but it made her spirit extremely sober.

The two stood on the carpet and hugged each other, he used his arms and chest in the dark, admiring the graceful and delicate figure of Lirong's tight little clothes, and said to her: "Your sister Liu said that you are not normal, you have to let me come over to inquire about ......"

Lirong was a little moved for a moment, so she no longer hid her worries, she sobbed and confessed to Gao Jun in a low voice.

Gao Jun was obviously also shocked by this incident, and didn't say anything for a moment.

Then asked Lirong about the situation at the time, including the approximate location of Wu Meiniang when she turned, how far her horse stopped at the place where it fell, "What is the face of the talented person?" Is there any sweat on your forehead? Did she call when the palace people carried her away? ”

Lirong answered them one by one, expectantly waiting for him to judge.

But Gao Jun was always worried, hugged Lirong and lay back on her bed, Lirong couldn't help asking, "You say, is there anything wrong with talent?" Is there anything wrong with the prince? I...... Are you okay? ”

But Gao Jun just didn't say it, he looked like he didn't know what was going on, and he didn't hide his worries, "It's not a good thing to say, if people say that I'm Gao, and I can't even control my wife, will I doubt my ability to command the military department?" ”

But Lirong couldn't hear the imminent crisis from his tone, but sensed that Gao Jun's body had reacted, she believed that the crisis was not too serious, and there would be no big deal for the eighty percent martial artists.

"Who dares to talk nonsense like that? At least I've always listened to you! Lirong said.

"Shhhhh

Lirong knew that the "she" Gao Jun was talking about must be Sister Liu, and she could hear that this was the main point of tonight's conversation, so she quickly relaxed......

Tossed all night, Lirong didn't want to move in the morning, the others went out to practice horses after breakfast, Gao Jun also went to the yamen of the military department, Lirong lay down until the beginning of the day, and found that she was the only one left in the family except for his wife Cui Ying.

Lirong's personal maid came to tell her that someone in the house was visiting. Lirong said, "I'm not in charge, at least I should talk to my mother." ”

Yahuan said, "That man said he wanted to see the Seventh Lady you." ”

Lirong followed her out of the inner house, through the round gate, the garden, and the pavilion, and went to the front hall to see, and the person who came was that Wu Weiliang.

He seemed to be a dead father, and told the Seventh Lady with a sad face that he had been dismissed by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and he was almost not beaten.

Lirong asked in surprise, "Could it be that the talented person really broke it?" ”

Wu Weiliang said that the talented man was still unable to move and was still in bed, but he shook his head as he spoke, showing his confusion in this matter. He begged the Seventh Lady and said, "It's the fault of the villain that a talented person falls off the horse, I just ask the Seventh Lady to think of a way to reinstate my official." ”

Lirong was always a little unhappy in this matter, but she couldn't understand why Wu Weiliang asked for her, especially when she heard Wu Weiliang mention that Wucai was his sister, Lirong was even more puzzled, "Master Wu, how can you come to beg me!" Won't your sister intercede for you? ”

Wu Weiliang knelt down for Lirong with a "poof", and said with a bitter face,