Chapter 19: You Beast
From beginning to end, Song Yuxi sat quietly embroidering under the porch, and when he heard this, he looked up at Li Chenghuan unexpectedly. Li Chenghuan only thinks that she has some disdain for her laipi behavior. Thinking of Gu Lanting's gentle temper and great self-cultivation, he can endure the apprenticeship banquet, so he might as well start a little heavier this time.
So, Li Chenghuan nodded and said, "Yes, yes!" No, please be careful! The point is that your second brother likes me too! Otherwise, how could they take me home to meet my elders? ”
Hearing this, Gu Lanting's sleeve that he wanted to pull out paused in the air.
He said, "What did you say?" ”
Li Chenghuan said: "Say you like me too!" ”
He said, "The last sentence." ”
Li Chenghuan said: "Take me to see the elders? ”
Who knows, as if he promised such an ordinary request as "you want to invite me to dinner", he nodded lightly, extremely gently, and very politely: "Okay." ”
Li Chenghuan: "...... Yes??? ”
The emperor of this dynasty ascended the throne as the emperor at the age of thirteen, and his grandfather Gu Xianqing was the minister of Gu Ming, and this assistant was twenty years. is really worthy of the sentence "But the king of the world, win the name before and after his death".
Now that Gu Xianqing is nearly seventy years old, the emperor respects him so much that he deliberately gave the best piece of land at the foot of the imperial city to the old man. The old man naturally refused to accept it, but it was difficult to be long, the area of the house was too large, and it seemed extravagant to be built exquisitely, and it was perfunctory to be built simply, and the old lady who had lived on the emperor's side for a long time knew the mystery, so he ordered people to build four gardens in the house, and planted Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum respectively, which did not waste the emperor's mind and did not corrupt the court atmosphere.
Li Chenghuan walked through the court and sighed secretly: "Powerful!" ”
The Gu family strictly abides by etiquette, and Li Chenghuan naturally can't meet the old lady directly. Gu Lanting took her into the flower hall in the east, ordered someone to serve her tea and fruits, and dropped a sentence: "Wait for the little girl to pass the word." So I went to say hello first.
Regarding the matter of seeing the old man, Li Chenghuan had no extra feelings except for being shocked that Gu Lanting suddenly made this decision.
Anyway, as soon as she has a "smear mission" on her body, and secondly, she has to find out Song Yuxi's identity, and she has a chance of winning in Gu Mansion for one more day, but this behavior of "serving wolves with her body" is not very cost-effective. But then again, a person like Gu Lanting is at most a deer - kind, gentle, and non-lethal.
Therefore, Li Chenghuan sat in the hall without any pressure, and happily enjoyed the food in front of him.
Remove the core of the red dates, stuff glutinous rice into them, wrap them in lotus root flour and fry them until they are crisp yellow, use brown sugar to melt and pour them on top, and finally sprinkle them with osmanthus flowers, add ice cubes to cool them quickly, and put them in a small bowl of azure, which is both beautiful and delicious. Li Chenghuan ate so much that there was no sugar residue left at the bottom of the bowl in one go, and sighed from the bottom of his heart: "Wealthy nobles!" ”
A maid came in and said, "The old lady invites the girl to sit in the inner hall." ”
There were a lot of people sitting in the hall today, and after Li Chenghuan sat down, he secretly glanced to the side out of the corner of his eye, and immediately frightened the tea cup and almost missed.
What the!!
She actually met the crown prince Yang Yi here!!
The atmosphere in the hall was extremely secretive, only the sound of the tea bowl opening and closing gently remained, and everyone fixed their eyes on Li Chenghuan.
Li Chenghuan secretly glanced at Gu Lanting next to him, he was holding a cup of tea in his hand, sitting upright and not squinting, as if all this had nothing to do with him. Li Chenghuan was crazy in his heart, and after secretly scolding the bastard countless times, he also did the same, and took a shallow sip of tea.
The eyes around him changed again and again, no one spoke nonsense, but his heart was crazy with curiosity.
"How did Xinyang-kun know her?"
"Looks like a good match."
"Oh my God, the third son of our family actually made friends with women in private!"
"I wonder if it's a famous family?"
"It doesn't look like she's a big family."
"Oh, that's a bad thing."
And so on, these inner secrets of everyone are vividly reflected in their eyes.
After half a cup of tea, the old lady asked: "I heard that the girl and Lanting met because of official business, and the girl secretly promised that she wanted to marry into my Gu family, is that so?" ”
Every word of these words is the care of the elders for the juniors, but Li Chenghuan heard a feeling of "did you kill this person". Naturally, she didn't dare to be careless about this kind of old fox's words, and said thoughtfully: "Back to the old lady's words-"
Before she could speak, Gu Lanting, who was drinking tea on the side, interrupted softly: "That's the case." ”
Gu Lanting, you beast!! Li Chenghuan's hand drinking tea paused slightly, and he raised his right foot and stepped on his instep fiercely. scolded secretly: Okay, you kid dares to pit me! With a smile on his face, he said, "What Xinyangjun said is true." ”
You can endure it for the sake of life!
The old lady raised his eyes and looked at the two of them, and said, "I heard that the girl took the initiative to pursue the Lan Ting, right?" ”
Pursue your uncle!! Li Chenghuan almost lifted the table and got up, and his right foot crushed his instep again, maybe this time the force was too strong, Gu Lanting choked, but when he looked at her sideways, he didn't make any waves, and he didn't even frown: "That's the case." ”
The old lady was quite dissatisfied with her grandson's initiative to answer, and turned her head and glared: "I didn't ask you again!" Then he looked at Li Chenghuan and changed to a loving tone: "Lanting, this kid has always been well-behaved and sensible, and he has never let the old man worry about anything." The girl fell in love with him and dared to take the initiative to pursue it, which is the greatest blessing in life. ”
"Grandpa was right." Gu Lanting's face did not change color.
Oh big head on you! Li Chenghuan's strength on his feet increased a little more, and he glanced at him hatefully: You want to act, right? Who's afraid of whom! She put on just the right gesture of filial piety, and said to the old lady: "You only know one but you don't know the other." Lan Tinghe ...... He ......" said with a blushing cheek, and raised his sleeve to cover half of his face.
"Huh?" The old man was hung up and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with him?" Did he bully you? ”
Gu Lanting immediately had a premonition that something was wrong.
He frowned, and saw the man wink at him quickly, and then said coquettishly: "He, he, he, he and others have made a private agreement for life!" ”
"......" Gu Lanting almost squirted out with a sip of tea. Out of nineteen years of upbringing, I swallowed it stiffly.
Gu Chengzhang slapped his palm on the case: "What kind of system!" ”
The old lady was obviously frightened as well, and looked at the two of them with her mouth slightly open. Li Chenghuan struck while the iron was hot and continued to speak: "Xinyangjun even took the child's words, called...... Oops, look at my memory! She patted her head and said to Gu Lanting, "What's it called?" ”
"......" Gu Lanting felt that one day, he would have to seal this woman's mouth!
Gu Chengzhang's face changed greatly, and he said bitterly: "You! How can you do such a thing that is contrary to etiquette! ”
The old lady gently stroked her meticulously groomed beard, as if she wanted to smooth out this earth-shattering news little by little, in the end, it was the person who had served the emperor, and the patriarch who was accustomed to seeing strong winds and waves quickly accepted this "fact" and looked at Gu Lanting: "Tell grandpa, what words did you use?" ”