Chapter 009: Great Dedication
Xinghua rarely went down the mountain, and when he came to the city, he felt very curious about what he saw, and he shuttled through the streets and alleys all day long to find fun.
He felt that the storyteller in the restaurant was very powerful, and he knew everything about the secrets of the palace or the grievances of the rivers and lakes. The storyteller has a lotus tongue and witty words, depicting those heroes and emperors vividly.
He ordered a plate of peanuts and sat with Erlang's legs crossed and listened with relish. Just as he was fascinated by the sound, a hand put on his shoulder, and he turned around to see that it was Liu Rong.
I saw Liu Rong smile and said, "What a coincidence." ”
Thinking of his frivolous face in Liu's Mansion before, Xinghua didn't have much affection for him, "I thought that Liu Gongzi should like to play songs, sing, and chant poems with those girls in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion, but I didn't expect to come to this kind of place?" ”
"Those vulgar fans will do everything to please others, so I still feel more comfortable here. I booked a private room upstairs, if Xinghua Gongzi doesn't dislike it, can he enjoy his face and move the car? ”
Xinghua said: "We don't seem to know each other very well. ”
Liu Rong was not discouraged at all, "If you don't want to go up, I won't be reluctant, but it's a pity that I prepared those high-quality snacks." ”
Liu Rong made sufficient preparations for this day, he not only inquired about Xinghua's usual preferences, but also paid attention to his usual whereabouts.
As soon as Xinghua heard that there was something delicious, his eyes immediately lit up, "Is there really a delicious snack?" ”
Liu Rong nodded, "Seriously." ”
Xinghua saw that the table was indeed full of all kinds of dim sum, which were dazzling in color, "I didn't expect these dim sum to be so delicate and beautiful." ”
Liu Rong smiled slightly: "You don't know this, I heard that the chef here has served by the queen's side before, and the food in this palace is of course more exquisite than what we usually see." Liu Rong stretched out his finger and pointed to these dim sum and introduced them to Xinghua one by one, "These are crystal cold cakes, sugar steamed cheese, mandarin duck crisp, donkey rolling ......"
Xinghua listened to the drool, "Then can I eat all of these?" ”
"Of course, today I am the east, you can eat as much as you want."
Before Liu Rong could finish speaking, Xinghua had already started work left and right with both hands, stuffing these pastries into his mouth.
The servants on the side were dumbfounded, and the reincarnation of the starving ghost was nothing more than that.
Liu Rong looked at it and felt that Xinghua was very cute, and he was secretly proud in his heart, but he didn't expect that this was too easy to serve.
"Eat slowly, don't choke. If you like, I'll ask them to make something for you to take home and eat slowly. ”
"Thank you so much Liu Gongzi."
Liu Rong said: "Since the two of us have such a good conversation, you don't have to talk about Liu Gongzi, just call me by my name." ”
Xinghua nodded, "Hmm." ”
"Then can I call you Ah Xing?"
Xinghua nodded, "Yes, we are both so familiar anyway." ”
Liu Rong immediately instructed the little servant on the side: "Liu An, you go down and let Chef Wang make some more pastries for Ah Xing to take back." ”
When Xinghua left, Liu Rong stuffed a lot of pastries into a large bag for him to take back, and Xinghua was not polite at all to take them one by one.
When it was time for dinner, he couldn't wait for Xinghua, so Gu Qian asked Qinghe to go to Xinghua's room to invite.
As soon as he heard the sound, Xinghua, who was still eating pastries, hurriedly hid these pastries in the quilt.
"Ah Xing, my son-in-law has been waiting for you for dinner, and he has been waiting for a long time."
"Now I'm not hungry, I'm resting, you eat, you don't have to wait for me."
Qinghe was still wondering in his heart, Xinghua, who had always eaten on time when he had a meal in the past few days, actually said that he was not hungry today, which was really unprecedented.
After Gu Qian learned about it, he thought that Xinghua was uncomfortable, so he hurried over to visit.
"Ah Xing, why did you rest so early today, isn't there something uncomfortable?"
Xinghua hurriedly said: "No, no, it's just that my stomach is a little panicked." ”
Gu Qian was a little nervous, "Then I have to go to a doctor to take a look, this stomach discomfort is not a small problem." ”
Qinghe smiled on the side: "According to his overeating, it is strange that there is no problem with his stomach." ”
'Uh, uh, uh' Xinghua suddenly hiccuped and quickly got out of bed and poured water into the kettle to drink.
Gu Qian glanced at and found that there was a pastry under the quilt, and as soon as he lifted the quilt, everyone present was dumbfounded, and there were more than a dozen packs of snacks wrapped in oiled paper under the quilt.
When Qinghe was just about to speak, Gu Qian motioned for him not to speak, and covered it with the quilt again.
After drinking a few sips of water, Xinghua felt a lot more comfortable.
"Is there better?"
"Well, it's much better."
"Since it's okay, it's good, you have a good rest."
When he walked out of Xinghua's house, Qinghe asked, "Childe, I don't think those dim sum can be bought casually, why don't you ask him where he got them?" ”
"Since he doesn't want us to know, you think you can tell the truth if you ask him?"
Qinghe pouted, "That's true, nine out of ten of his sentences are lies, and it's useless to ask." ”
"Angju, you help me keep an eye on him these days to see who he has been dealing with."
From the beginning, Gu Qian knew that Xinghua was not a person who liked to tell the truth.
He saw it very well on the horse that day, Xinghua originally wanted to steal the buns, but he didn't expect to bump into himself by mistake. Then he also saw that Xinghua was deliberately planning to blackmail himself, so he brought him back.
He didn't know the details of Xinghua at all, and he didn't dare to put him by his side rashly, he always felt like a powder keg, which would ignite and explode at any time.
Xinghua has a thin foundation in martial arts, and he doesn't know that Angju has been quietly following him in the past few days. Angju reported the situation he had been tracking in the past few days to Gu Qian.
Gu Qian looked suspicious, "You said that he stayed in the restaurant with the son of the Liu Mansion to listen to books in the past few days, and did not contact others?" ”
"Yes, those dim sum were made by a cook from the palace."
Gu Qian nodded, "I know, then I don't have to follow him anymore." ”
Ang Ju looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, "Childe, I also found out that this Liu Rong has always liked to go to these fireworks and willow alleys to have fun before, but it seems that since we came, he has been sticking to Ah Xing, I'm afraid ......"
Gu Qian's eyes were sharp, and he raised his head and asked, "What are you afraid of?" ”
"It's nothing, Childe, I'll go down first."
Gu Qian knew that the reason why he left Xinghua was nothing more than because he looked like Xue Heng, and it had always been a regret in his heart that he couldn't rescue him back then. Now he is better to Xinghua, he just hopes that his heart can feel better, as long as Xinghua doesn't cause trouble for him, he will never drive him away.
In the past few days since Gu Qian took office, things in the yamen have been going on in an orderly manner, and Gu Qian has also been able to take time to come to the street to inspect the people's situation. As soon as he looked up, he inadvertently found that Xinghua and Liu Rong were talking and laughing on the opposite side, and he just wanted to avoid it, but he was unexpectedly discovered by Liu Rong.
Liu Rong greeted him and made a gesture: "Master Gu, what a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet you here." ”
Gu Qian Gu calmed down, "It's really a coincidence, I don't know how Liu Gongzi got so close to Ah Xing?" ”
Liu Rong smiled, "Oh, I hit it off with Xinghua at first sight, so I'll take him around the city in the past few days." ”
Xinghua handed over the sugar gourd he had just bought in his hand, "Gu Qian, let's eat one." ”
Gu Qian shook his hand, "I have had a toothache recently, so it's inconvenient to eat these sour things." ”
"Then Liu Rong, you eat."
As he spoke, he handed the sugar gourd to Liu Rong, who took one down with a smile, "Well, it's really sweet, not sour at all." ”
Gu Qian didn't know why he didn't have a taste in his heart, and his face suddenly turned gloomy, "We still have something to do, so let's go first." ”
Liu Rong saw Gu Qian's expression, and vaguely felt something in his heart.
After the two came to the restaurant, Liu Rong took out a bottle of wine and introduced it to Xinghua: "Xing'er, this osmanthus brew is one of the three treasures of our Yunzhou. Let's try it today and see how it tastes. ”
Xinghua had never drunk wine before, so he didn't know what wine tasted like, so he took a sip lightly, only to feel that this wine was fragrant and sweet, "It's delicious." With that, he gulped down the whole glass of wine as if it were tea.
"If you like to drink, drink more, and when you come to me in the future, you just let you drink enough."
Through getting along in the past few days, Xinghua felt that Liu Rong was quite good, and he immediately had a lot of good feelings.
"I didn't expect you to be so enthusiastic and generous, Liu Gongzi, I still had some prejudices against you before."
Liu Rong was curious, "Oh? I don't remember any offense against you, but tell me about it, and if it's really my problem, I'll change it. ”
Xinghua said: "Actually, it's not a big deal, it's just that I saw you for the first time in Liu's Mansion that day, and after listening to what you said, I felt that you were a little frivolous." ”
Liu Rong thought about it carefully, and then he had an epiphany: "It turns out that you mean this, I swear, the praise for you at that time was all my heartfelt words, and there is nothing false at all." ”
Although this osmanthus brew is sweet in the mouth, it is full of stamina, and Xinghua's face has begun to sweat slightly at this time, "Liu Rong, your appearance is not bad." ”
Liu Rong was immediately happy when he heard it, "Do you really think I'm good-looking?" ”
"Seriously! Don't be stunned, come and drink some, I'm really embarrassed to drink it all by myself. ”
The two of them talked without saying a word,
"Ah Xing, what is the relationship between you and Master Gu?"
Xinghua thought about it, and he didn't know what the relationship between the two was, but he was embarrassed to say that he had lied to him.
It took a long time for a sentence to pop up, "It's just a friend." ”
"Are they just friends?"
Xinghua raised his voice, "That's natural, otherwise what do you think I have with him?" ”
"Lord Gu looks at you, I'm afraid it's not so simple."
Xinghua had heard Ang Ju and Qinghe say before that Gu Qian's relationship with the emperor and grandson when he was a child was extraordinary, and it must be that he relied on this face to make Gu Qian usually take more care of himself.
After a few glasses of wine, Xinghua felt a little dizzy, "Then in your opinion, what's not simple?" ”
"I heard that there is a prevalent male style in this capital, and this Lord Gu is from the capital, but I don't know if he is ......"