Chapter 18: Tonight
When Gu Yilan thought about it, she felt pitifully stupid. She was stupid enough to think that Zheng Chongjing felt guilty about her, so she didn't want to see her, and she was at ease if she didn't see her.
It's stupid. The last time I saw Zheng Chongjing, although the person's attitude was still as gentle as ever, it was because this person had always been like this in front of people, he actually didn't hide his true feelings in front of her, and his eyes were exposed. Where there is any guilt, where there is any old feelings, it is clearly impatient and bored.
In fact, to put it carefully, she didn't understand Zheng Chongjing's attitude at the beginning. Since the age of fifteen, she only has this person in her heart, and she naturally understands him, but she doesn't want to believe it and deceives herself.
The past is like smoke, and the past things, Zheng Chongjing's human face and beast heart, naturally unforgivable. But Gu Yilan herself knows that she herself is indulged in Zheng Chongjing's gentle net, blindfolded, and does not know people, and she is not completely innocent. Ignoring her grandmother's opposition, she was determined to marry Zheng Chongjing, saying that she was not wronged if she did it herself. Fortunately, God had mercy on her and gave her a chance to live again, and she naturally didn't want to be a fool like back then.
She still remembers that in the first two years of marrying Zheng Chongjing, that person was really good to her, when her grandfather was quite trusted by the emperor, and her uncle had just been promoted to an important position, Zheng Chongjing not only favored her, but also respected her very much, and never avoided her when it came to some words related to court politics.
She hadn't thought about it carefully before, but now that she thinks about it, Zheng Chongjing is a side branch of the clan, and an idle county king who leads a piece of county king Lumi, and is not very favored by the emperor.
The only special thing is that Zheng Chongjing is the same age as several princes of the emperor, when he entered the inner garden to study, several princes happened to be in school, Zheng Chongjing and the princes studied in the inner garden for ten years, and he was regarded as the prince's companion.
But this is actually not a big deal, and he is not a designated attendant for any prince. The prince's attendants are all the sons of the ministers of the humerus, and it is not his turn to be the king of the county. He will not be like a real prince to accompany him, after studying in the inner garden, he can directly enter the prince's mansion to do long history or Zhan affairs.
Theoretically, the affairs of the court and China have nothing to do with Zheng Chongjing, no matter how the government and the opposition change, he is still an idle county king with a fixed salary, and he is not qualified to participate in court discussions, nor does he have the right to express his opinion on any political affairs. But Zheng Chongjing was very concerned about the affairs of the DPRK and China, and the county prince's mansion also raised a lot of staff.
It is not uncommon for the county king's mansion to raise staff, the world is like this, and ordinary officials have to raise a few doormen at home, but most of the official doormen are hopeless in their careers, and they are attached to the wealthy to eat and drink together, and they are just for people to talk and have fun, and there are not many people who really have the ability.
But Gu Yilan knew that Zheng Chongjing's staff were at least not all of them eating and drinking. When she was newly married, she had a good relationship with Zheng Chongjing, and naturally she also did the matter of stewing soup and sending it to the study, she heard Zheng Chongjing talking with the doorman more than once, and the topics were very serious and serious, most of which were analyzing the court situation.
She had heard these words at the time, but for her, who only had Zheng Chongjing in her eyes and was full of thoughts about how to serve her husband and live a good life, these complicated political affairs were naturally useless.
But time has passed, and she has lived again, and these words she once heard from Zheng Chongjing's mouth and from Zheng Chongjing's doormen have become extremely important to her. Now, for example, the things she said could keep her shrewd grandfather silent for a while.
"Song Cheng?" Gu Zhengze, who has been an official for many years, naturally doesn't need Gu Yilan to explain every sentence: "Are you sure that Fifth Master Lin's second daughter is booked to the Zhao family in Songcheng?" ”
"Yes!" Gu Yilan nodded: "I heard that the Lin family doesn't want to make a noise, but the eleventh miss of the Lin family is young after all, and her words are not cautious, and when her granddaughter chatted with her, she inadvertently leaked it." It's just that the granddaughter wants to ask for details, but she refuses to say it anyway. ”
Of course, it wasn't Miss Lin Shiyi who said it. Gu Yilan will know this, because Lin Wuye's second daughter, who married into the Zhao family in Songcheng in the previous life, and Lin Xiangzhi came out of the pavilion after Lin Xiangzhishi, this matter was told to her by Zheng Chongjing herself, and she remembered it clearly.
"I don't want to make a ......noise" Gu Zhengze's eyes narrowed slightly, but he didn't ask anything more, but turned around and continued to teach Gu Yilan with a straight face: "You think you are very smart, but you are just pretending to be smart." The Lin family talked nonsense about the details of the Lin family and said that Lin Xiang wanted to be a leader, who taught you to talk so nonsense about the current situation? Moreover, even if Lin Xiangzhishi has nothing to do with the Anguo Mansion from the military, this is not a reason for you to be bold. ”
"Grandfather," Gu Yilan raised her eyes, not in a hurry or panic, her face was very sincere: "The granddaughter is a woman in the house, so naturally she has no knowledge. The granddaughter originally thought that if Lin Xiangruo was a scholar, the first assistant position would be vacant, and the pressure on her grandfather, a scholar of the Duanming Palace, would not be greater. Xie Xiang is a relative of the Fifth Prince, and Miss Meiqing of the Wen family is a student of Li Xiang, and he is now in the position of the fourth grade. The granddaughter was anxious to share her grandfather's worries, so she naturally lost her sense of proportion. ”
Two sentences, point to point, officialdom old fritter Gu Zhengze naturally understands. But he was still very unhappy: "Want to share my worries? Give a gift to Anping Mansion to help me share my worries? It's a shame that you think about it. ”
Gu Yilan nodded, making an innocent appearance that a fourteen-year-old girl should have, and the words she said were also innocent: "I gave Sister Mu a gift, and my grandfather helped me ask An Guogong when he went to court, if Sister Mu likes it or not, is this always okay?" The granddaughter thought, if you talk more, you will naturally become more familiar, right? Didn't you say that although Duke An never took the initiative to discuss politics, if the emperor asked, he would answer, and the emperor trusted him very much. Therefore, the granddaughter thinks that the Anguo family has been a general for generations, not to mention the side, the emperor is about to ask him about the affairs of the military department. ”
As soon as Gu Yilan's words came out, Gu Zhengze suddenly frowned, staring at Gu Yilan with a bit of scrutiny, but after a while, he smiled: "I can't see whether this ninth sister is understood or confused." These things are also easy for her to speculate about as a backhouse woman? ”
At this time, Mrs. Gu, who had been listening to Gu Zhengze and Gu Yilan talking, had not spoken for a long time. She shook her head with a smile and replied, "Of course the ninth sister is confused, after all, she is a child and is not sensible. So I asked her to double the gift of the Anguo Mansion, and allowed her to give a gift to Miss Mu, but it was still for the sake of the side. ”