Chapter 13 White Jade and Red Hairpin
After the dispersal of the dynasty, Nalan resigned from the Ministry of Military Aircraft, and recently wrote in the excerpt that the Hu people were about to move at the border, so Nalan Ci was afraid that something would happen at the border, so after consulting with the Minister of Military Aircraft, he transferred 30,000 troops to the border from the vicinity.
As soon as he talked about political affairs with the ministers, Nalan Ci forgot the time, and when everything was finished, Nalan Ci happened to meet Gu Yan when he left the palace.
Gu Yan was in Prince Rong's mansion because his son was in the mansion, so he stopped Nalan Ci, who was alone. Thinking that Gu Yan was going to say something to himself, Nalan Ci stopped, but he thought that Gu Yan took out two hairpins from his arms.
It is a hairpin carved from two sheep fat white jade, this hairpin is pinched in the hand, starting from the tip of the hairpin, the center of the hairpin begins to slowly show red, and you can see the preciousness of the hairpin. Nalan Ci took the hairpin and glanced at it, and looked up at Gu Yan with some puzzlement:
"What does this mean, Taishi?"
"Don't get me wrong, the old minister and his wife returned to their hometown, there is no gift to take out in that realm, and by chance I saw these two high-grade mutton fat jade hairpins in the jade, just because the heat is enough, so the middle will slowly turn red and look good. I remembered that Nishiki used to love red the most, so I bought these two. I originally wanted to give it to the prince and Jinzhi, but the prince probably didn't look down on this lowly thing, so he asked the prince to hand it over to Jinzhi, so that he could play with it without anything and relieve the pain of missing his family. ”
There are words in Gu Yan's words, Nalan Ci can hear it, if it was placed in the past, Gu Yan tried it so well, Nalan Ci would take Gu Jinzhi back to the Taishi Mansion anyway, but now the situation is too special, Nalan Ci will not bring things that hurt his head because the second elder misses his son.
Nalan nodded and promised to hand over the hairpin to Gu Jinzhi safely, and left the palace without looking back.
After Nalan resigned and returned home, he went back to his yard, because there were a lot of government affairs, so he couldn't take care of others, handed over one of the hairpins to Wu Yao, and told him to give it to Gu Jin.
Wu Yao was halfway to Jinlan Pavilion, looking at the jade hairpin that Nalan Ci handed over to him, the hairpin was wrapped in a handkerchief embroidered with gold silk, and he knew that it was an extremely valuable thing without someone to identify it.
Wu Yao had never seen such a good thing, so he saw that there was no one around, so he opened the handkerchief and found that it was actually a mutton fat white jade hairpin, so he walked to the lotus pond, and by the reflection in the pool, Wu Yao was afraid that the hairpin would leave his own handprint, so he used a handkerchief to insert the hairpin hair in his hair, and sure enough, the person who put the thing on and dragged it was extremely beautiful.
Wu Yao knew that Nalan Ci liked men since he was a child, so he worked hard, and finally entered the palace, and after being smart, he climbed to the housekeeper of Nalan Ci's courtyard, although he was young, but he was not ambiguous in handling things, and finally he was trusted by Nalan Ci and became half of his confidant.
But Wu Qian has always admired Nalan Ci in his heart, if he also has a good father like Taishi, he will definitely be more favored than Gu Jinzhi in the mansion. Wu Yao looked at his hand and listened to the reflection, and was very unconvinced, thinking that he had a good appearance, why couldn't he get into Nalan Ci's eyes.
I only looked at Wu Yao's eyes and slowly became gloomy, and pulled the hairpin out of the hairpin, but I thought that because I was in a daze or my hand was slipping, the hairpin fell into the lotus pond.
Wu Yao's first reaction was to reach out and fish, but there was nothing but sludge. Wu Yao panicked in his heart, he didn't know how Nalan Ci would treat him if he messed up the things he confessed, so he looked around, fortunately, there was no one around, Wu Yao stood up, strongly covered his uneasiness, and continued to walk towards Jinlan Pavilion.
On the way to Jinlan Pavilion, Wu Yao thought that the hairpin had fallen into the pool by mistake, but he couldn't let Nalan Ci know about it. Since that Gu Jinzhi disappeared and came back, Wu Yao always felt that he was like a different person.
In the past, Gu Jinzhi saw himself, because he was a subordinate, he could be said to look down on himself, but this time Gu Jinzhi came back, but he also respected himself very much, and every time they met, he would call Wu Zhangshi.
At first, Wu Yao thought that Gu Jinzhi was pretending to show Nalan Ci, but after a long time, no one could pretend to be able to do so, but Gu Jinzhi was still like this, so with Gu Jinzhi's ability to manipulate this, Wu Yao had a plan. I saw him stop and run towards the place where he lived.
Half an hour later, Wu Yao took the hairpin wrapped in a handkerchief and came to Jinlan Pavilion. Because of the good weather today, Gu Jinzhi was near the rockery in the courtyard, feeding the peacocks that Nalan Ci ordered to be sent in the palace this morning.
Gu Jinzhi saw the peacock for the first time, so he liked it very much, and he had nothing to do in Jinlan Pavilion on weekdays, plus Nalan Ci promised to remove the poison from his body, so Gu Jinzhi was in a very good mood.
Hearing footsteps approaching, Gu Jinzhi looked up and saw Wu Yao holding something and walking into the courtyard.
"Wu Zhangshi, why are you here, isn't it that the prince has something to call me?" As he spoke, Gu Jinzhi handed the peacock food in his hand to Zijia, and got up to greet him.
"The slave has seen the son, it's not that the prince is looking for you to have something, but the prince has come back with good things, and he specially asked the slave to send it to you."
"I just sent two peacocks a few hours ago, how can I let you send things over, you can take them back to the prince, I don't have to worry about food and clothing in Jinlan Pavilion all day long, and I don't need anything else."
"This can't be done, the prince personally ordered it to be given to you, you better read it, and thank the prince yourself."
"......"
"Childe, the prince has a heart, you can accept it." Zijia didn't wait for Gu Jinzhi to refuse again, so she persuaded her, Gu Jinzhi looked back at Zijia, nodded and stretched out his hand.
Wu Yao smiled secretly in his heart, afraid that he would have to persuade him a few more words if he didn't accept him, but fortunately, Aunt Zijia understood things and persuaded her. Wu Yao raised his hand and put the hairpin in Gu Jinzhi's hand, and when Wu Yao withdrew his hand, the thing that was originally placed in Gu Jinzhi's hand fell to the ground somehow.
With a "snap", the jade hairpin wrapped in the handkerchief shattered into several pieces, and Gu Jinzhi's eyes widened, completely unaware of what was going on. The thing wrapped in the handkerchief just now fell heavily on the palm of his hand, and he didn't even move, why did he fall down.
Wu Yao reacted very quickly, and when he saw that the hairpin was broken into pieces, he immediately knelt on the ground and shouted:
"Oh my God, even if you don't like it anymore, you don't dare to throw away the things given by the prince, this is given by the prince himself, you dropped this hairpin in front of the slave, how can the slave explain to the prince?"
"I didn't, I didn't fall." Gu Jinzhi defended himself, he really didn't know anything, let alone why that thing fell by itself.
Wu Yao raised his head and glared at Gu Jinzhi angrily, only to see Gu Jinzhi squatting down, picking up the handkerchief that had fallen on the ground, and picking up the broken hairpin one by one, suddenly Gu Jinzhi frowned, and when everyone didn't notice it, he frowned again.
The attention of the people in the courtyard was on the broken hairpin, but Zijia's eyes stayed on Wu Yao's body and did not move away, and sure enough, she found something terrible.
Gu Jinzhi stood up and looked at the broken hairpin in his hand and didn't know what to do, but fortunately, Zijia opened his mouth:
"The things given by the prince are broken, whether it is Gongzi or Wu owes you, go to see the prince together, the prince is thoughtful and will definitely give a solution."
Zijia put the food fed to the peacock on the rockery, nodded at Gu Jinzhi, and walked out of the Jinlan Pavilion, and Wu Yao looked proud, this hairpin has been broken like this now, presumably the matter will not be blamed on himself.
The three of them came to the courtyard of Nalan Ci, Nalan Ci was reading the excerpts, and suddenly Su Jiu came in to spread the word, saying that Zijia, Wu Qian and Gu Jinzhi were coming. Nalan Ci put down the fold in his hand and wondered in his heart, when Wu Yao went just now, he seemed to say, I don't need Gu Jinzhi to come over to thank you, why did we come back together this time.
"Let them in."
"Yes."
Su Jiu brought the three of them to Nalan Ci, and he walked out in a real way. Nalan Ci raised his eyes and looked at Wu Yao and Zijia who were kneeling in front of him, and Gu Jinzhi who was standing there with his hands behind his back and looking down to see his face clearly.
"Zijia, what's wrong?"
Zijia made the ins and outs of the matter clear, and Nalan Ci only then knew what happened, during which Wu Qian also asked for it to be Gu Jinzhi who broke the hairpin himself, but when Nalan Ci looked at Gu Jinzhi, Gu Jin didn't defend himself at all, and still stood there stupidly.
After listening to Zijia's statement, Nalan Ci coughed lightly, and the frightened Wu Yao and Zijia both knelt and lowered their heads.
"Jinzhi, tell me why the hairpin is broken?"
"I didn't fall, I don't know." Gu Jinzhi's answer almost choked Nalan to death.
Wu Yao lowered his head and snickered, Gu Jinzhi dared to talk to Nalan Ci like this, even if he was like that, Nalan Ci would be angry, and Zijia secretly pinched a cold sweat for Gu Jinzhi.
"That's it, it's just a hairpin, you bring the hairpin to this king, and after a while, this king will let Su Jiu send it to the palace to see if the decoration room can be repaired as it is." Nalan Ci beckoned to Gu Jinzhi, Gu Jinzhi obediently stepped forward and put the wrapped hairpin in front of Nalan Ci's eyes.
Just as Gu Jinzhi withdrew his hand, Nalan Ci, who had excellent eyesight, suddenly saw Gu Jinzhi's injured middle finger that was bleeding, Nalan Ci reached out and grabbed Gu Jinzhi, this move frightened Gu Jinzhi.
"Lord Wang." Gu Jinzhi exclaimed.
I saw Nalan Ci stand up and walk to the table, and pulled Gu Jinzhi to the door, taking advantage of the sunlight outside, Nalan Ci saw the jade hairpin slag that was inserted in Gu Jin's middle fingertips.
"Such a big person, I don't know if I was stabbed, what is important, I have to wait until the wound is treated, Su Jiu, go and call Huanqiu into the house, give Jinzhi a good look, if this painting hand is broken, it is a pity."