Chapter 100: Gambling
Zhou E's medicine is indeed very effective, in the morning Xiaoyun unwrapped the muslin cloth wrapped in Li Ran's hands, Zhou E saw that the palms of his hands had contracted and tightened, and he saw that he was about to scab, so he ordered to wash it and loosen it with a muslin cloth, and there was no need to apply the medicine again.
Li Ran's hands were inconvenient, and her mood was not very good, so she sat under the porch and read books for recreation on the shelf that Mama Fu didn't know where to find it.
Zhou E came in to deliver the message, saying that Shi Nan was outside, and when she was invited to go out, Li Ran had just finished lunch and was a little sleepy when she was reading a book.
Li Ran hurriedly stood up, looked down at her dress, it was not dirty or wrinkled, it was very suitable, and hurriedly walked out.
Zhou E hesitated for a moment, gritted her teeth and followed Li Ran.
She always felt that General Xie heard more than one or two sentences of those drunken words yesterday, and at this time, she really didn't want to see General Xie, let alone let him see her.
But, alas, she still had to follow.
She was with this little girl, and she met General Xie alone with this little girl, but it was different.
Shi Nan stood behind the shadow wall, saw Li Ran coming out, and greeted him with a smile, "Girl, the general is behind the Daqing Palace, and he ordered the little one to come and invite the girl to come over and say a few words." ”
"Hmm." Li Ran responded, went out of the side door, her car was already waiting outside the side door, Li Ran got into the car, Zhou E jumped in front of the car and sat down, the car followed behind the Shi Nan horse, and went to the Daqing Palace.
Xie Ze stood under the big tree where Li Ran met him for the first time, watched Li Ran get out of the car, ran over him in a few steps, showed a smile, and waited for Li Ran to run to his side, turned around, and stood side by side with Li Ran, through the dilapidated Daqing Palace, and walked slowly along the lake.
"Your hands are better?" Xie Ze looked down at Li Ran's muslin hand.
"Okay, I opened it in the morning and looked at it, General Zhou said that it was a scab, and there was no need to apply medicine, and I was afraid of accidentally touching it." Li Ran raised her hand and explained in great detail.
"Don't ignore it like this in the future, learn to take care of yourself." Xie Ze's words paused. "Uncle Zhong Yong has cut himself."
"Well, I heard what General Zhou said. The word "Loyal and Brave Uncle's Mansion" is gone. Li Ran sighed.
"There is still hereditary, but there is no replacement, and after Sun Erqing, there will be two generations to attack." Xie Ze corrected.
"Hmm." Li Ran snorted.
This hereditary reckon, when Zhou E said it, Mama Fu had already corrected it once, and by the way, she explained to her the exquisiteness of this title.
However, she would love to hear him and her again.
Xie Ze stopped talking, the two walked forward in silence, and after a long walk, Xie Ze suddenly asked, "What are your plans?" ”
"Huh? What is the plan? Li Ran didn't understand, what could she do?
"You're eighteen years old." Xie Ze stood under an old willow tree, his hands behind his back, and looked at the lake.
Li Ran sighed slowly, what is his plan, it turned out to be such a plan.
"I'm not going to get married."
Li Ran was half a step behind, looking at the white jade belt around Xie Ze's waist and the placket of his clothes that moved slightly in the wind.
"Hmm." After a while, Xie Ze hummed and walked forward.
Li Ran followed Xie Ze and walked out of a long period, and the doubts and uneasiness in his heart accumulated more and more.
Why did he suddenly remember to ask her if she was married? Could it be that Zhou E and Tao Nong were talking nonsense yesterday, and he heard it?
She must explain to him that things are not what he heard.
"Why do you ask this? I mean getting married. Li Ran took a step forward, side by side with Xie Ze, and looked up at him.
"The emperor said that yesterday in Daxiangguo Temple, it was an obstacle to your innocence, but I am afraid that no one will come to ask for marriage in the future."
Xie Ze didn't look at Li Ran, he didn't know where he looked in the distance.
"Huh?"
Xie Ze's words were completely beyond Li Ran's expectations.
Li Ran was stunned, stunned for a while before he reacted, rushed forward a few steps, stopped in front of Xie Ze, and reached out to grab Xie Ze's sleeve.
"And then? What if no one asks for a marriage? ”
Xie Ze reached out and pinched Li Ran's wrist before Li Ran grabbed his sleeve, "Are you okay?" It doesn't hurt anymore? ”
"It doesn't hurt now, it doesn't hurt at all, and then what? What happens after no one asks for a marriage? ”
Li Ran really didn't feel any pain in her hands.
"You don't plan to get married, it doesn't matter if anyone asks to marry."
Xie Ze squeezed Li Ran's hand, pushed it back, and let go.
"What if I'm going to get married? I didn't plan on it just now, but I plan now. ”
Li Ran stopped in front of Xie Ze, Xie Ze turned to look at the lake, and she also turned around sharply, tilting her head with an eager expression.
Xie Ze looked down at her and didn't speak.
"I got it wrong just now, or if you ask it again, I'll answer it again?"
Li Ran saw that Xie Ze still only looked at her and didn't speak, and was a little anxious.
Xie Ze's eyebrows raised.
"It's okay if you don't ask, so I'll answer again, okay? I didn't make it clear, I mean, I didn't plan to marry someone else......"
"I'll ask someone to find Chang'an Hou to propose marriage."
Xie Ze interrupted Li Ran's words a little hurriedly, and looked past Li Ran and looked at the lake.
If he didn't interrupt her words any longer, and look at her eager face a few more times, he would raise his hand to cover his face.
Alas, her eagerness......
Li Ran was stunned for a moment, her smile blooming, like spring flowers and spring water.
Xie Ze glanced at Li Ran's smile, and when he saw her reach out again, he hurriedly pinched Li Ran's wrist again, "Don't move, why did you forget it again?" ”
"It's okay, it doesn't hurt, it's fine, it doesn't hurt at all."
Li Ran curled her fingers to show that it really didn't hurt.
Xie Ze pinched the fingers of Li Ran's wrist forward and pressed them on Li Ran's palm, and Li Ran gasped in pain.
"Humph!"
Xie Ze let go of Li Ran's hand and snorted at her diagonally.
"Stand still, I have something to tell you."
"Good!" Li Ran and Xie Ze stood side by side, smiling like flowers, and looked up at him from time to time.
"Before yesterday, I had no intention of starting a family."
Xie Ze put his hands behind his back and looked at the reeds in the distance.
"I never thought about how husband and wife get along, how to be a head of a family, I thought about it yesterday, and I had no clue about this one. I don't know anything, it's one. ”
The last sentence is one, Xie Ze raised his voice and motioned for Li Ran to wait for him to finish speaking before speaking.
"The second piece, since ten years ago, the Xie family has been handed over to me.
This is first the meaning of the emperor and the crown prince, and secondly, it is also something that the Xie family is very willing to do.
But I've never really been a big parent, and I've never even heard about the Xie family's family affairs, no matter how big or small.
I never intended to actually take over the Xie family.
I thought about this yesterday as well.
Before today, I could be like this and do nothing, but after today, especially after you and I get married, I will definitely not be like this now.
Since I was eight years old, I have been alone, and in the years since, I have no plans to start a family, and I have never paid attention to how to be a big parent and the Xie family.
I don't know how to be a big parent, and I know very little about the Xie family, how I will take care of the Xie family in the future, and how to face the Xie family, I have no idea.
You married in to be the wife of the Xie family, I don't know if I can help you, and even, I'm not sure if I can protect you.
You don't know anything, do you? ”
Xie Ze looked at Li Ran.
"Whether you marry me or not, whether you marry someone or not, who you marry, I will treat you in the future, and now, it will be the same as before. You don't have to marry me. ”
"When I came to the capital from Shanxian, I didn't even know who I was.
With you, after facing it, facing the Xie family, there are other things I don't know, can it be more difficult than that? ”
Li Ran looked up at Xie Ze and asked.
Xie Ze was stunned for a moment, smiled, and shook his head while laughing, "Yes, it won't be more difficult, you have me by your side." ”
"Since ......"
Li Ran's words paused, thought about it carefully, and were a little surprised.
"It seems that since the first time I saw you, I felt that there were only two kinds of life for me in the future: to be with you and not to be with you.
As long as I can be with you, in the future, it will be a long joy, mixed with a little trouble and difficulty, it is nothing. Isn't it? ”
Xie Ze looked down at her, for a moment, smiled, and raised his hand to straighten the slightly crooked peony hairpin on Li Ran's head.
"Go back, I'll ask someone to come to the door in the next two days. Don't scratch your hands! ”
Seeing that Li Ran was about to raise her hand again, Xie Ze pressed his finger on her shoulder and gave her a warning.
"Okay." Li Ran immediately lowered his hand.
Xie Ze beckoned, and the big car behind him came from afar, Xie Ze watched Li Ran get into the car, watched her poke her head out of the car door, smiled like a flower, and kept waving at him, with a hint of helplessness in his smile, he raised his hand and waved at Li Ran.
Zhou E sat in front of the car, looking back from time to time at Li Ran, who was sitting in the car with two hands and a smile, until she saw the car enter the second door, and looked at Li Ran still holding her two hands and entering Cuiweiju with a smile.
Mama Fu greeted the door of the main house, followed Li Ran into the house, first pointed to Li Ran's hand and smiled: "It's time to untie it and take a look, it's just right, it's a little dirty." ”
"Hmm." Li Ran obediently stretched out her hand and let Mama Fu untie it.
Zhou E followed to the end of the wing, watched Li Ran enter the main house, stopped, hesitated for a moment, and followed into the main house.
Seeing that Mama Fu untied a hand, Zhou E stretched out her head and looked at it, "It's not bad, it's young in the end, just say it's good." ”
Li Ran ignored her, and Mama Fu dipped a muslin cloth in the potion and carefully washed Li Ran's hand.
"You've been smiling like this since you got in the car, what's the good thing?" Zhou E looked at the smile on Li Ran's face, and couldn't help it.
"Hmm." Li Ran hummed with extreme certainty.
"What's the good thing? You just went to see General Xie, what good can you do? Zhou E stretched her neck and looked at Li Ran's face carefully.
Mama Fu also looked up at Li Ran.
Li Ran only smiled and did not speak.
"Look at your smile, is General Xie going to marry you?" The corners of Zhou E's mouth pulled down, straightened her upper body, and glanced at Li Ran from a glance.
"Hmm." Li Ran hummed again with great affirmation.
"Huh?" Zhou E was stunned for a moment, her two eyes widened all of a sudden, and she said loudly, "You forced him to marry you?" With these two hands? ”
"How do you speak!" Mama Fu was screamed by Zhou E, and she almost wanted to smack her face.
Li Ran leaned at Zhou E and ignored her.
"Then when is the courtship? It won't be that fast, right? He has to ask for a kiss, right? I haven't heard of a woman's courtship, so it's ...... on the surface."
Zhou E immediately began to think about the practice, and as soon as she started, she was interrupted by Mama Fu.
"This one is definitely going to be married, General Xie and the Xie family...... The girl is like this again.
I am afraid that this will will come down very quickly.
You come and wash the girl's hands and wrap them up, and I have to hurry to get the things that take place, and I never thought about it. ”
Mama Fu stuffed the silver bowl and silver tweezers containing the potion into Zhou E's hand, and hurriedly went out to prepare things.
"Is he really going to marry you?" Zhou E held the silver bowl and sat sideways next to Li Ran, her brows tightened.
"Hmm." Li Ran squinted at Zhou E.
"He will be twenty-nine in the New Year, and thirty in another year, you tell me about you, if it were two years late!"
Zhou E's face was distressed.
Li Ran was stunned, what do you mean by this? What is a good two years late?
"I bet on General Xie not to marry, and I lost a lot of money!"
Facing Li Ran's stunned surprise and puzzlement, Zhou E almost beat her chest.
"Huh? What do you mean? What do you mean that you bet General Xie not to marry? Li Ran couldn't understand it anymore.
"Since ten years ago, the major handicaps have begun to bet on whether the general will marry or not, and the beginning is to bet on the ...... of the year"
Seeing that Li Ran's surprised mouth was open, Zhou E glanced at her obliquely and explained:
"Ten years ago, eleven or twelve years ago, when General Xie was only a teenager, the emperor asked General Xie to say a daughter-in-law, that scene, not only all over the capital, but also all over the world, can be picked by him, the result is ......
The result is with you.
Emperor Zhang Luo to the second year, there is a handicap to open the year when General Xie can set a family matter, I remember that the odds in the first year are one to one, buy a family is one to one, and if you can't buy it, it is also one to one.
In the second year, the odds are that the year is not fixed, one pays two, no one opens the family, they all feel that the opening of the family designates to lose, this year's various handicaps, every family loses, more than the loss is less.
In the third year, the fixed relatives are opened, or one loses one, and in the fourth and fifth years, the major handicaps have their own odds, and there is a mess of everything.
Later, it was opened every year, and the odds of getting married were getting higher and higher, and the higher it was, the more no one bought it, and no one bought it at all in the past two years.
People who are almost thirty years old, are either black or white all day long, and they can't laugh, they don't look like people anymore, who dares to buy them?
The major handicaps also opened whether General Xie would never marry in his life, the first pass, set at the age of thirty, did not get married before the age of thirty, one to one, thirty years ago to marry, one to ten.
Alas! ”
Zhou E sighed bitterly.
"Are you married?" Li Ran leaned at Zhou E.
"I've got the inside story! I can't buy a family every year, although the odds are not high, but fortunately, I earn it every year, this is good, a handful, all the losses are in! Alas. ”
Zhou E sighed bitterly again.
"Forget it, it's always a good thing, silver doesn't matter, alas.
Tao Nong bought a lot of General Xie to get married, and when Ming'er's will came down, she didn't have to sing a little song anymore, and she estimated that after paying off the bill, she could rest for half a year.
I knew I would have bought some too.
The first time you drilled into the dark alley, I should have gone and bought some one-for-ten marriage! ”
Zhou E really regretted it, she didn't even think about it at the time!
"You are betting on General Xie, does General Xie know?" Li Ran was speechless.
"First, it's not us, it's the major markets of various tiles, as well as the official camps. Second, who is full of food and asks General Xie this?
Guess it, you should know that the emperor buys it every year, and Chang'an Hou buys it for him every year. ”
Zhou E thought about her silver and sighed again.
"What did you buy?" Li Ran couldn't help but ask.
"I can't kiss it, I didn't tell you, I have an inside story!" Zhou E glanced at Li Ran, "Stretch out your hand, alas, at the beginning of the year, I drew a lot, saying that I had bad luck this year, it's true!" ”
"It's too late for you to buy it now, right?"
Li Ran looked at Zhou E and reminded him.
"That's right!" Zhou E was stunned and slapped the silver bowl on the collapse. "I'll buy some, buy as much as I can!"
Rushing out a few steps, Zhou E turned around sharply, looked at Li Ran and asked, "Do you want to buy some too?" 10 to 10! ”
Seeing Li Ran nodding and not needing her to speak, Zhou E rushed into the house, simply picked up the box where Li Ran put the gold page, and rushed out in a few steps.
This time, she really has an insider!