Chapter 8: A dilemma
Ye Qian found an excuse for a headache and brain fever and rejected Li Linfu's elegant collection, but bought a few hairpins that were fashionable in Chang'an City, put them in a brocade box, and went to Gu Mansion to find Gu Panpan.
Gu Xixi took Ma Yueniang out again, Ye Qian listened to the Gu family's reply, and gritted his teeth.
"Dog thing, run out and pick up girls when you use you." After evening out his breath, Ye Qian showed a flattering smile to Gu Panpan, who had been spoiled at the tip of his heart like a sister since he was a child.
At one point, the two of them took off their shoes and entered the house. Set the table and pour tea, put fresh fruit and pastries, and the etiquette of hospitality, Gu Panpan is very thoughtful.
Ye Qian watched Gu Panpan's behavior become more and more formal, and he felt that the two were becoming more and more estranged. He stood in front of the banquet, a little at a loss, so he could only hold the brocade box in front of Gu Panpan and said: "I won't pick the hairpins that other people's little ladies like, so I bought them all." ”
"Ye Langzhong understands the preferences of other people's little ladies very well." Gu Panpan chuckled inexplicably, but he still couldn't bear Ye Qian holding the brocade box, so he reached out to take it, and called the kite sideways to collect it.
Ye Qian felt that he couldn't say the grievances he was full of, and it was the jewelry shopkeeper who told him that these were the favorite styles of the little ladies in Chang'an.
"Thank you, but you don't need to spend money like this, who doesn't have to live? I'm afraid that your family has a lot more dignity to take care of than my family. Gu Panpan said.
Ye Qian felt that this kind of Gu Panpan was a little unfamiliar, Gu Panpan did understand right and wrong, but she had a delicate and cheerful temperament since she was a child, so it was unusual to see Ye Qian dare not enter the table for a long time.
"Sit down." Gu Panpan stirred the spoon for cooking tea, and put two washed green plums into it. The plum mixed with the fragrance of tea should have been a good taste, but Gu Panpan was stunned and smelled a sour taste.
Gu Panpan poured a spoonful of steaming tea into the tea bowl in front of Ye Qian, and she said, "I understand Qianlang's intentions for me, just as you have long known my intentions. ”
"Don't worry, Panniang. I will convince my uncle. Ye Qian said.
"If you can convince Shibo, you won't reluctantly marry Heniang's mother that day." As soon as Gu Panpan's voice fell, Ye Qian was speechless.
Gu Panpan's newly washed hair was loose, and the air was filled with the fragrance of osmanthus oil. She put a red silk flower on her sideburns, lined with snow-white skin, without powder, the whole person looks clear and delicate, it is indeed not suitable for the jewelry that Ye Qian sent today.
"Let's not be reluctant. Parents and elders in the province are in a dilemma. As soon as the words came out, even if they were thoughtful, Gu Panpan couldn't help but feel that his nose was sour, and his eyes were a little hazy.
Ye Qian held the tea bowl and rubbed the hot feeling with his fingertips, so that he could suppress the loss and trance in his heart. Gu Panpan is right, the two of them are not children anymore, and they are not qualified to toss the two families for their own personal feelings.
"Hmm." Ye Qian's response was a little ambiguous.
"Qianlang promised me today, and he will spoil me in the future! If I can marry a scholar in the future, the Gu family's future can be counted on a little more. Gu Panpan suddenly raised his head, and his dexterous smile crashed into Ye Qian's heart again.
Ignoring Gu Su's kindness of leaving him to eat, Ye Qian came out of Gu's house, although it was not a lost soul, he inevitably lowered his head and rubbed his palms, and sighed.
Suddenly hearing someone shouting behind him Ye Langzhong, Ye Qian subconsciously turned around and looked, it was Dali Si Zhi Yuanzai.
Yuan Zai should have been invited by Li Linfu, but looking at this appearance of being free of illness and still wandering on the street, I am afraid that he was also waiting for an opportunity to escape.
couldn't stand the repeated invitations, Ye Qian finally came to a wine shop with Yuan Zai and sat down. As soon as the two catties of good wine were put on the table, Yuan Zai personally poured the wine for Ye Qian and asked: "There is also a fate to meet, looking at Brother Ye's face, is it really uncomfortable?" Ye Qian was a little cautious, he said: "If it weren't for the invitation of Li Gong, no one would dare to refuse if he wanted to come to Beijing, right?" Yuan Zai listened to Ye Qian's words and knew what he meant, as if he had been caught, he was a little cramped, he said: "Since you refuse, there is naturally a reason to refuse." Ye Qian couldn't help but be a little curious, but he didn't ask.
Li Gong said that it was an elegant collection, and naturally he used poetry and wine for fun. I have met Duke Wei, and I have been fortunate to meet the King of Guangping, and I privately think that the poetry and wine in the East Palace are better than Li Gong. As Yuan Zai spoke, he paused slightly, and then said: "Good birds choose trees to perch." Yuan Zai is a person who wants to climb up in the officialdom, he has long inquired about these new bureaucrats in recent years, Ye Qian not only has both talent and morality, but also won the appreciation of King Guangping at the banquet of Yuzhenguan, today
"Chance encounter" is actually what Yuan Zai has been planning for a long time. One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and it was time to choose the future, Yuan Zai made up his mind to climb to the side of King Guangping, for fear that he would be too eye-catching by himself, and he wanted to pull a cushion.
Sleek as Yuan Zai, he expected that Ye Qian was the person Li Li wanted, and dragged Ye Qian to Li Li together, the best of both worlds.
"With the grace of the saint and the deeds of loyalty to the country, everyone is a courtier, who doesn't rely on the towering tree of the Tang Dynasty to bathe in His Majesty's holy grace?" Ye Qian said.
In the past, Zhang Gong could see the hidden dangers of the Tang Dynasty, but today's Li Gong turned a deaf ear. Brother Ye, trying to be safe is not the way to serve the country loyally. When Yuan Zai said this, he finally caused Ye Qian to look up and look at him deeply.
Yuan Zai's words are very clear, make a choice between the East Palace and the prime minister, and take advantage of the east wind of this battle to gamble on himself.
"Duke Li is the prime minister of the dynasty, but the East Palace is the prince. King Guangping is the grandson of the emperor, isn't the future of King Guangping the future of the Tang Dynasty? The favor of the county king for Brother Ye has long spread throughout Beijing. Yuan Jae said.
Ye Qian was a little unhappy with Yuan Zai's meticulous observation of him.
"Since ancient times, no emperor would like to form a party between the DPRK and China. The younger brother's family has both parents in the hall, and there is a little girl who has not yet reached the hanging hair, so she can't afford to take this risk. Ye Qian said.
He drank a glass of wine, got up and took his leave,
"My mother asked me to come back early, but I lost my company." Yuan Zai got up and tidied up his clothes, and Chong Ye Qian stretched out his arms and made a gesture of please.
Ye Qian waved at him, then lifted the curtain and stepped out of the wine shop. For Yuan Zai's words, Ye Qian didn't listen to them completely, but for a while, he felt that he had a heavy shackle on his body, and thinking about this, he only felt that his steps were becoming heavier and weaker.
Ye Qian sniffed, feeling that it was obviously an early summer wind, and it was still uncomfortable to blow on his body. Gu Panpan had packed up properly today, and Ye Qian's sudden visit disrupted her thoughts that she was originally thinking about makeup.
came and went, delayed for an hour, until the carriage of the Cui Mansion was waiting outside the gate, and Gu Panpan hurriedly put on makeup and combed her bun and changed into a bright dress.
It was Cui Qingyang's invitation. Probably because of the instigation of the concubine to the saint, the lychees were sent to the East Palace, and Li Jiao took a whole basket of lychees from Li Qi's men and personally carried them to Cui's mansion.
The aggrieved Saburo looked at his brother like this, and secretly decided to endure it first, and this account will be slowly settled after his sister-in-law passes the door in the future.
"I'm not happy to keep him, let's talk to each other." Cui Qingyang said. Cui Mansion is the place of wealth and nobility, pavilions and pavilions, carved beams and paintings, just like a new noble family, only a few ancient trees are lush, showing the origin and foundation of the master's family.
Gu Panpan peeled the lychee shell a little slowly, Cui Qingyang could see at a glance that she had something in her heart, and asked again and again, and Gu Panpan said what was in her heart.
"Sister Cui? I'm sad, but I'm not so desperate to live, do you think I don't like Qianlang that much? Gu Panpan was rarely a little twisted.
"Ye Langzhong is so good to you, you also like him, the two are happy, according to your temper, can you really give up?" Cui Qingyang scooped a spoonful of wine from the wine jar, and before she could pour it into the ear cup, Gu Panpan waved her hand again and again, and she said, "Sister Cui, I don't drink it." Cui Qingyang understood, and lightly called the waiter to step forward and withdraw the wine.
She sat at the same table with Gu Panpan, held Gu Panpan in her arms, and whispered in her ear: "Panniang has any grievances, just say it." Gu Panpan stretched out her hand to hug Cui Qingyang, rested her chin in her shoulder socket and rubbed it, muttered for a while, and did not brew any tears of grievance, she said: "Sister Cui, I just don't feel happy in my heart, maybe with our family's family background, I am not qualified to complain about the Ye family, but I just don't want to give in." In that case, I don't want him to forget it. Gu Panpan's words are probably extremely willful and stupid in the eyes of others, but Cui Qingyang admires Gu Panpan's temperament.
Cui Qingyang stretched out his hand to hold Gu Panpan's pretty little face, and the two of them looked very similar in their eyes.
Cui Qingyang smiled and said: "Silly lady, there are many good men in the world. ”
"I want to marry a family that is better than the Ye family." Gu Panpan snorted lightly and said seriously.
"It's not important to be a door, it's good if you're really good to you." Cui Qingyang smiled and helped Gu Panpan fix her hair bun.
Gu Panpan is just a little girl, and the men she has come into contact with in her daily life are none other than Gu Xixi and Ye Qian, and their love for children is actually very hazy.
"It's a pity that as a woman, she can't be an official and gain fame. Even when the Great Sage Empress of Zetian sat in the Hanyuan Palace, the court was full of men. Gu Panpan propped his elbows on his cheeks, and said, "When will the dog thing be a little out of breath." It's good to have a good life like Piety. Cui Qingyang shook the fan gently, and there was suddenly something strange in his eyes, and he wanted to speak and stopped.
However, soon, she regained her smiling appearance, gently pushed a stack of yokan in front of Gu Panpan, and said, "Brother Ling is still young, man, if you want to come and become a family, you will be sensible." ”
"Sister Cui, let me tell you, my brother has recently fallen in love with a woman, and they are ......" Gu Panpan's voice became farther and farther away, and Cui Qingyang's palm holding the fan was stunned with light sweat.
There was an idea that had been haunting her until she met Gu Panpan, and today, this idea began to emerge again.
This may be a shocking event, and it is even more likely to push himself and Gu Panpan, even the Cui and Yang families, and even the East Palace, into the abyss.
If it is because of my selfish thoughts, isn't Panniang innocent? And she may not be able to say yes. Cui Qingyang's distraction fell into Gu Panpan's eyes.
"Sister Cui? What happened to you? ”