Mei Xiaoren kissed him lightly on the side of his face, tilted his head, leaned on his shoulder, and the slightly cool tip of his nose was against his neck, half-asleep and half-awake.

Gu Chuyu hugged her, looked at the purse she gave her, and asked lightly, "Xiao Xiao, can you give your heart to others?" ”

Mei Xiaoren rubbed in his arms, stretched out his hand to wrap his neck, and muttered and replied: "I even have a heart for you, who can I give it to?" She looked at the purse around his waist in a daze, and said with a smile, "Don't you know that this thing was given to the person by the girl's family?" ”

"Of course I do." Gu Chuyu replied slowly and quietly......

Early in the morning, the Duke of Wei's mansion.

Today is the first day of the new year, and early in the morning in front of Wei Guogong to pay New Year's greetings, in addition to the young lady of the Guogong Mansion, there are also Ye Zhi, who is not surnamed Ji, and Wu Xian, who has no half-dime relationship with Wei Guogong.

Wu Xian is so invisible, the people of the Ji family have become accustomed to it.

They remembered that Wu Xian went out on an errand last year, and only came back after a long time, and after coming back, he circled around the Guogong for three days, coming and going, and had become a frequent visitor to the Guogong Mansion.

The sharp-eyed subordinates could see that the reason why Lord Wu came to the door frequently, and the reason why he was so angry with the grandfather of the country was actually aimed at their eldest lady.

Even if Grandpa Guo is not in the house, Lord Wu often goes to buy the pastries that the young lady loves to eat and send them to him, and he runs errands so diligently.

Ji Nanrou is the eldest daughter of Ji Mansion, and the only child born in the main room, her status in the mansion is self-evident, at this time, she is the first to sit next to the hall, but sitting opposite her is Ye Zhi, who has no blood relationship with Ji Mansion.

Ji Nanrou neither liked nor hated Ye Zhi.

Her impression of Ye Zhi is still that he is Mei Xiaoren's follower, even if her father is quite serious about him now, and has invited many famous teachers to teach Ye Zhi martial arts, the art of war and cavalry archery, and still keeps him to live in the mansion, she is not familiar with this person.

What's more, the senior brother cares about Mei Xiaoren so much, then he must be disgusted with this person who has betrayed Mei Xiaoren, so she doesn't need to care, anyway, there is not much more person in the family.

As for Wu Xian who was sitting by the door, she had a lot of dealings with him, all because Wu Xian's aunt Concubine Wu had helped her.

She was willing to pay attention to Wu Xian in the past, and she was willing to help him graduate from the academy, all for the sake of Concubine Wu's face, if she put aside Concubine Wu's favors, then he was nothing.

"Seeing that you are all so filial, I am very happy for my father, now that you have grown up, you don't need to worry about your father for you, but you are still hanging on to your father's heart, especially ......" Wei Guogong turned his eyes to look at Ji Nanrou and sighed slowly, "Especially Rou'er, your marriage, how many girls in the capital who are not married at your age can be found?" ”

When Ji Nanrou heard this, she tightened her heart, lowered her eyes, and frowned.

Several sons present were silent, even if some of them were brothers, but how high this sister's heart was and how difficult it was to provoke, they all knew that if Ji Nan was obedient, how could he still be in the boudoir at this age.

Ji Nanrou lowered her eyes and said: "Dad, my daughter doesn't want to get married, and my daughter still wants to stay by her father's side and continue to be filial to her father." ”

"Nonsense, if Dad keeps you around, it will hurt you." Wei Guogong solemnly reprimanded.

When Wei Guogong and Ji Nanrou were talking, their eyes wandered in the hall and also passed over Wu Xian's body.

Wu Xian saw it in his eyes, and he was overjoyed in his heart, which showed that Lord Guogong intended to give Miss Nanrou to his staff, and would not let his daughter cheapen outsiders, especially the prime minister that Miss Nanrou liked.

Wei Guogong's gaze finally stayed on the seat at the head of the row, and he sighed meaningfully: "Ye Zhi, although the father-in-law has accepted you as a son-in-law, but the father-in-law is too important to you, and you have attracted a lot of rumors, so the father-in-law plans to kiss and kiss and promise Rou'er to you, from now on we will be a real family, see who else in the court dares to gossip!" ”

Ye Zhiben was drinking tea, holding the lid of the cup and splitting the foam in his hand, he raised his eyes to look at Wei Guogong, and he saw that Ji Nanrou was already worried.

He hurriedly put down the teacup and arched his hand: "Ye Zhi thanks his father-in-law for his love, but Ye Zhi has not helped his father-in-law achieve his wishes, so he has no intention of marrying a wife for the time being." ”

Ji Nanrou also said anxiously: "Dad, you have accepted Ye Zhi as your righteous son, but now you want your daughter to marry him, Dad, what do you let people outside think of your daughter!" ”

Although Wu Xian's face was expressionless, his heart was filled with resentment. He tried his best to saddle the horse for Lord Guogong, but in the end, he still couldn't compare to Ye Zhi who was born in a common people, why, why did Lord Guogong only have this Ye Zhi in his eyes!

Wei Guogong's face was worried: "Ye Zhi, my father-in-law doesn't want you to delay your life's major events for the sake of your father-in-law's long-cherished wish." ”

"Ye Zhi has only one major event, that is, to help his father-in-law eradicate traitors, return to the government, and help the country." Ye Zhi solemnly bowed his hand.

Wei Guogong was helpless and had to say: "Alas, if you have a heart, then this matter will be slow, but this is the intention of my father-in-law, and I hope you will think about it again." ”

"Yes." Ye Zhiying said.

Ji Nanrou breathed a sigh of relief, did it properly, his expression was like frost, his cold gaze swept over the person opposite, and he snorted in his heart.

Ye Zhi also took advantage of Wei Guogong's surprise and glanced at the young lady whose heart was higher than the sky.

As soon as the hall was quiet, the family hurriedly came to report: "Master, there is an accident on the side of the Zhenguo General's Mansion, I heard that the heavy snow has collapsed the shed, and many of the hard workers who repaired the General's Mansion have been stoned to death. ”

"How could such a thing happen during the Chinese New Year?" Wei Guogong frowned, stroked his beard, and commanded in a blink of an eye, "Ye Zhi, then you can go and have a look on behalf of your father-in-law." ”

Ye Zhi was ordered to leave.

Wu Xian hurriedly got up and asked for his life: "I am willing to go with Lord Ye." ”

Wei Guogong nodded and allowed him to accompany him.

Prime Minister's Mansion, Mei Xiaoren drank too much last night, and didn't wake up until dawn, she just freshened up and changed clothes and went out, when she met an official from the yamen who came to look for her.

It's the New Year's Festival, if something hadn't happened, her subordinates would never have come to see her at this time, and they came to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

After the official reported it, she learned that something had happened to the Zhenguo General's Mansion.

Mei Xiaoren hurriedly changed into his official uniform and rushed to the south of the city with his subordinates.

On the way, she asked the ins and outs, and learned that the Zhenguo General's Mansion has not stopped work recently, and the workers arranged by the Ministry of Industry are still working overtime to repair the General's Mansion during the New Year, and they can't go home to celebrate the New Year with their families, but today is the first day of the new year, and the Ministry of Industry allows them to rest for half a day.

It is said that the laborers got together last night to drink a little wine, and this morning most of them slept in the shacks, which were crushed by the heavy snow, resulting in heavy casualties.

On the first day of the new year, such a major event with bloodshed and casualties among the people was enough to alarm the entire Shangjing City, and I am afraid that the news would reach His Majesty's ears.