The triennial exam is just around the corner, and Su Wenhai and Lu Zhou have gradually reduced their participation in gatherings such as poetry clubs and reading clubs and began to study in retreat. However, Su Xi began to be busy with tea parties and flower-viewing banquets among various noble ladies, and occasionally received Lu Lantian and Situ Ling, the seventh prince, who came to eat and drink.

These two people have been frequent visitors to Jiaoliu Lane recently, and the Seventh Prince is better, after all, he still has to go to school, Lu Lantian has to come to report almost every day, and he is more diligent than him going to the Yamen office, and he has nothing to do when he comes, so he pulls Lu Youzhen to sit there and drink tea, and he is not bored.

However, Lu Lantian's arrival still has a little benefit. Lu Youze came to Lu Youzhen twice, and he thought that he was also a lobbyist for the prince, but seeing that Lu Lantian was not leaving, he couldn't find a chance to say it, which saved Lu Youzhen a lot of tongues.

On this day, Lu Lantian came to the door with a pack of Li Ji's snowflake cakes, and insisted on stopping Lu Youzhen, who wanted to accompany Su Xi out shopping, and finally the three of them sat in the courtyard with big eyes and drank tea and ate snacks.

I was bored, so I heard someone report that a lady from Sifang City wanted to see Su Xi.

Su Xi listened to it for a while, she didn't receive the news that anyone was coming to the capital, could it be that her mother was going to surprise her? She was overjoyed, lifted her skirt and ran out, but when she got to the door, it turned out that it was not her mother, it was Su Rong.

Su Xi was a little disappointed for a while, but soon became happy again, pulled Su Rong and asked her, "When did the third sister come to the capital?" Don't say a word in advance, I'll pick you up outside the city gate. ”

"I arrived the evening before yesterday," Su Rong hadn't seen Su Xi for a long time, and she was really a little excited at this time, holding hands affectionately and talking: "What else do our sisters have to be polite, they are all from their own family, and they don't like those false courtesies." ”

"That's what my sister said," Su Xi replied with a grin.

The two walked to the courtyard, Su Rong visited her brother-in-law, and saw that there was a handsome son next to her, and she was embarrassed for a while. Su Xi introduced: "This is the prince of Ningguo," Su Rong was stunned and saluted, and then followed Su Xi into the inner room to gossip.

As soon as she entered the room, Su Rong saw that the house was full of high-quality mahogany furniture, the partition was framed with golden silk nanmu, most of the ornaments in the Duobao Pavilion were printed with the imprint of the official kiln, and even the teacups used on the table were also high-quality porcelain produced by the Imperial Treasure Pavilion, and her heart couldn't help but feel sour.

"It's only been a long time, and the gap between our sisters is getting bigger and bigger," Su Rong said with a sad face, "In order to find a wishful man, I almost didn't even want face, but now I know a random person who is also a golden and noble person, and he makes people." ”

Su Xi didn't want to entangle with her, so he turned his head and asked, "Why did the third sister come to the capital?" What about brother-in-law? ”

"Don't mention it, it's not for my cousin this time, he's the ...... I said that I would come to you here today, but I disappeared early in the morning, and I waited for half a ring and no one was seen, so I had to come by myself. ”

That being said, Su Rong knew that Su Xi didn't want to see Wang Xuyang, and Wang Xuyang was not too embarrassed to see the Su family because of the Wang family's affairs, and he didn't dare to go to the Su family to borrow it in this year's hospital examination, so Su Rong couldn't force it, so she could only live in the middle.

Wang Xuyang is down again this year, this time he didn't even understand the exam questions, and he didn't know what he was expressing when he wrote the whole article. He knew that he had no hope of being on the list, and he really didn't have the heart to read: this year, the newlywed Yan'er, spent all day grinding with his little wife's ears and temples, and wrote sour poems more and more brilliantly, but the sage book has long been lost to where it has gone.

He didn't wait for the trial release of the list, so he took Su Rong into Beijing under the arrangement of his family, thinking that it would be better to find some ways to donate a petty official to do it.

Su Xi was noncommittal, she looked down on Wang Xuyang, so naturally she couldn't look down on him no matter what he did. Out of concern for Su Rong, she asked again: "Do you have a place to stay in the capital?" Do you need me to ask Lu Youzhen to help you find a place to live? ”

"No, we live with one of my cousin's cousins, who now works at Honglu Temple." Speaking of the uncle of the Wang family, Su Rong was faintly showing off, probably thinking that being an official in the capital was a beautiful thing.

Su Xi's eyes were a little sympathetic when he looked at her.

"So, is the third sister planning to stay in the capital?" Su Xi asked.

"This is natural, that uncle has been an official in Honglu Temple for many years, and it is very simple to arrange an errand for my cousin, and then I entered the officialdom, and I don't have to worry about getting a name for myself with my cousin's ability, so we naturally want to stay in the capital and live forever."

Su Rong was taught by the Wang family in the end, and in her heart, she didn't care what an official was, as long as she was an official, she was better than ordinary people. Originally, there was no hope, but as soon as she heard her in-laws say that an uncle of her own family in Beijing could find Wang Xuyang an errand, she followed Wang Xuyang to the capital without saying a word.

Even if she is such an unpopular petty official, she will not hesitate to spend most of her dowry.

Of course, Su Rong naturally wouldn't tell Su Xi about this kind of thing, after all, no matter how good a sister is, she is always more willing to show her superiority, or it is precisely because she is a sister that she has to show that she is better than the other party.

Su Xi naturally didn't understand Su Rong's thoughts, and when she saw that she was so confident, she believed her words and sincerely blessed her.

The two gossiped for a while, Su Xi left Su Rong to have dinner together, she wanted to call Jinxiu, who was on duty today, to ask the kitchen to add two of Su Rong's favorite dishes, but when she saw that it was vanilla that came in and replied, Su Xi asked her casually after she finished telling the matter: "Where did Jinxiu go?" I just saw the tea she came to add. ”

Vanilla replied: "Back to Miss, the Seventh Prince came, talking to my uncle and the prince in the front yard, the Seventh Prince said that the fish made by Jinxiu was particularly delicious, and my uncle told Jinxiu to make fish for the Seven Princes." ”

"Fish?"

Su Xi felt strange, seeing that Vanilla looked like she wanted to speak and stopped, and was about to ask carefully, but Su Rong grabbed her hand and shouted: "The Seventh Prince? How did you still know the prince? ”

Su Rong inexplicably felt very shocked, she was obviously a sister in the family, her husband was also from a big family, and Lu You was really just a concubine of a wealthy family, how long has the gap been so big? Did the Lu family offend the emperor and be demoted to Sifang City?

Until dinner, Su Rong was still in a state of surprise, and she didn't even eat her favorite crispy chicken on weekdays.

Because of the difference between men and women, dinner was used by Su Xi alone with Su Rong, and just after dinner, Wang Xuyang came to pick up Su Rong. Although Su Xi didn't like Wang Xuyang, for the sake of Su Rong's face, he still smiled and exchanged a few words with him before sending the two away.

Seeing Wang Xuyang thoughtfully helping Su Rong into the carriage and taking care of Su Rong everywhere, Su Xi felt that this person didn't seem to be so annoying.