Chapter 82: Lantern Festival
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The second prince faintly felt that something was wrong, and the little maid at the door came to say, "Your Highness, Uncle Guo is here." ”
When the second prince heard this, he threw down his thoughts, strode out of the study, and went to the front hall.
The two men hired by Sun Yingying had disappeared since that day, and it took three days for the Sun family and the second prince to finally find them in the river thirty miles away, and they had drowned, leaving only two bodies that could not speak.
The only clue that can find the person who framed them behind them is also broken, although there is an object of suspicion in his heart, but no evidence can be found, and the Sun family and the second prince can only hold back their bellies and eat this dumb loss.
Soon it was the Lantern Festival, the queen was still sick, the palace banquet was canceled, in the Guogong Mansion, everyone gathered together to eat the Lantern Festival, and Ji Yunting pestered the old lady to go out to the street to visit the lantern festival. The old lady couldn't resist it, so she allowed him, and Zhou listened to it, and didn't stop it, but only privately told Ji Yunyuan to bring more people out and let him protect his sisters.
When he went out to the street, it was already a lively scene full of lights, Ji Yunyun got out of the carriage with Ji Yunshu, walked in the noisy crowd for a while, and inadvertently looked back and saw Qi Cheng in the crowd behind him.
Qi Cheng also saw her, turned around and walked into the alley next to her. While Ji Yunshu stopped in front of a rouge shop to choose, Ji Yunyun quietly left and chased after Qi Cheng.
chased to the entrance of the alley, but there was no figure, Ji Yunyun looked around and didn't find anyone, thought for a moment, lifted his feet and walked into the alley.
Compared with the hustle and bustle of the street in front, the entrance of the alley is much quieter, there are few people, there are a few lanterns hanging in the alley at a distance, the lights are dim, and only faintly enough to see the road under your feet.
Ji Yunyun took two steps inside and regretted it, turned around to go out, but she didn't know when a figure stood behind her, stretching out her hand towards her.
Ji Yunyun was taken aback, and the screams reached his throat, but the figure spoke, "It's me." ”
Hearing the familiar voice, Ji Yunyun swallowed the scream back into his stomach, clutched his chest and said, "Can you not be so scary every time you appear." ”
Qi Cheng was very innocent, he just went to buy a bag of fried chestnuts with sugar, and when he came back, he saw her in the alley, and he was about to call her, but she turned around first and startled herself.
"Here you go." Qi Cheng raised his hand and handed her the sugar-fried chestnuts in his hand.
Ji Yunyun stretched out her hand to take it, the sugar-fried chestnuts were fragrant, and they were a little hot wrapped in oiled paper, and she happened to warm her hands.
"The incident between my third sister and Chunzhi, was it done by Sun Yingying? The person she wants to tie up is me, right? She asked, looking left and right at no one in the alley. She chased after her, just to ask about it.
Qi Cheng neither shook his head nor nodded, but said, "They're all right." ”
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Ji Yunyun took out the portrait from his sleeve and said, "Sun Yingying gave the portrait and asked them to tie people, but they tied the wrong person, this is a portrait from those two people, you dropped the bag, right?" ”
"If you don't say it, I'll send this portrait to Sun Yingying and let her check it." She was about to leave, but Qi Cheng reached out and grabbed her arm.
He said: "The Sun family wants to ask the emperor to give us two marriages, but it happens that the queen mother is seriously ill, so we can only postpone it." The Sun family couldn't wait, and on the third day of the new year, Uncle Sun Guo went to the palace to discuss the marriage between the two families with my father, but my father and I shirked it on the grounds that the queen was seriously ill. I was worried that Sun Yingying would do bad things in the future, so I sent someone to keep an eye on her, and this portrait was indeed a bag that I let people drop. ”
He took the initiative to shirk his marriage with the Sun family? Is it because of her? Ji Yunyun's heart tightened, she was in a trance for a moment, and then she remembered and asked, "What is she going to do when she ties me up?" What happened to Luomei Villa, what is going on, is also related to you? ”
Qi Cheng pursed his lips, he had already reached this point, and he simply said: "Luomei Villa was originally Sun Yingying's plan to deal with you, but I just planned it." ”
was originally dealing with her, Ji Yunyun's face turned pale, Sun Yingying was even more vicious than in the previous life, if it wasn't for tying up the wrong person, then she would be the one who was seen and reluctantly with a man in Luomei Villa, and now her face and reputation are discredited!
Seeing that she was frightened, Qi Cheng reached out to hold her shoulder, and said in a slow voice: "It's okay, I won't let her hurt you." ”
It was he who recruited Sun Yingying, and he was the one who saved her several times, Ji Yunyun's heart was complicated and unspeakable, thinking that he had shirked his relationship with the Sun family, he was fluttering and a little happy.
"But although the marriage between Sun Yingying and the second prince is already a sure thing, I am worried that Sun Yingying will still be unfavorable to you, you still have to be careful when you go out and bring more people." Under the dim lantern light, Qi Cheng looked down at her bright and moving eyes, and silently added in his heart, soon, it will be completely safe soon, and the Sun family and the second prince will no longer be a threat.
"Wait until I marry you." He suddenly hugged Ji Yunyun into his arms and whispered in her ear.
Ji Yunyun shook her head, and reacted, the person in front of her was gone, "Second sister." Ji Yunyuan's shout came from the entrance of the alley.
"What are you doing here alone? Not seeing you just now scares the hell out of me. Ji Yunyuan hurriedly walked in and said with a sigh of relief.
"Come here and buy a bag of fried chestnuts with sugar." Ji Yunyun shook the oiled paper bag in his hand and prevaricated with a smile.
"What do you want to buy next time, tell me, don't run away quietly again, let's go, Shu'er, they are all waiting." Ji Yunyuan told her, and the two of them walked down the street.
went back to the Splendid Courtyard, and lay down on the bed after washing, Ji Yunyun couldn't sleep with her eyes open, she just wanted to find a wishful husband to marry in this life, and never thought that she would have so much intersection with Qi Cheng, he would give up his relationship with the Sun family for himself.
Didn't he want to help the crown prince ascend to the throne, he wanted to sneak into the Sun family, collect evidence of the Sun family and the second prince accepting bribes, and murdering officials in the court, and now that he has given up his family affairs with the Sun family, it will not be easy to collect criminal evidence in the future.
"Girl, haven't you slept yet?" Tonight, Chun Tao kept vigil and heard the movement inside, she asked outside.
"Well, it's coming." Ji Yunyun replied vaguely, dispelled the mixed thoughts in his mind, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
After the Lantern Festival, Yan Shuangshuang came to the Guogong Mansion a few times, Zhou talked to her a few times, and liked her very much, as long as she came, Ji Yunyuan would stay in the mansion, and after a few times, the people in the mansion saw the clues.
"I heard that Miss Yan's needlework is very good, and when she marries her brother, I must let her teach me." In Ji Yunshu's house, several sisters sat around doing embroidery work, Ji Yunshu looked at his embroidery, looked left and right and was not satisfied, frowned.
"I'll see." Ji Yunyun looked at her, then at Ji Yunlan's, and said, "It's not bad, it's better than the third sister." ”
Although Ji Yunlan doesn't like to do embroidery work on weekdays, she can't hear that she is not good, she raised her eyebrows when she heard this, glared at Ji Yunyun, and said unconvinced: "How can I speak, I don't do badly." ”
"It's not bad, I just wanted to ask you, what is this embroidery?" Ji Yunyun pointed to Ji Yunlan's embroidery and asked.
Ji Yunlan replied confidently: "Peony flower, I can't recognize it." ”
With a snort, Ji Yunyun smiled, "This is a peony flower?" This embroidery is a mess, I thought it was a dark cloud. ”
Ji Yunshu and Ji Yunrou next to him also laughed, and Ji Yunshu said with a smile: "Third sister, when Miss Yan marries into our house, you can also learn needlework with her with me." After the province got married, he was disgusted to embroider a handkerchief for his husband. ”
Ji Yunlan looked at the embroidery in her hand and muttered, "Is it so different." ”
After speaking, he threw the embroidery on the small table, and said angrily: "Don't embroider, don't embroider, I want to marry someone to be a wife in the future, just let the maid do the needlework." ”
Ji Yunyun smiled again when she heard this, and Ji Yunrou changed the topic and said softly: "Speaking of the eldest brother and Miss Yan, even if the eldest uncle and eldest aunt agree, will the grandmother agree?" ”
Ji Yunshu sighed, "Don't talk about grandmother, Lord Yan doesn't know if he will agree." ”
As he spoke, the three of them all turned their heads to look at Ji Yunyun.
Ji Yunyun said helplessly: "My uncle doesn't like our house, and you know it." It was no easier than his grandmother's to get past him. ”
Ji Yunshu and Ji Yunrou both thought that Ji Yunyun's mother was not liked by the old lady back then, and everyone in the house knew that the Yan family did not want to see the Guogong Mansion because of this, and after returning to the capital for so long, Lord Yan didn't go around with their mansion, and it was Ji Yunyun and Ji Yunting who went to Yan's mansion.
Ji Yunlan flattened her mouth, "My mother is still waiting for my eldest brother to get married soon, so that it will be my brother's turn to marry a daughter-in-law and come back." In the past, the big brother was a girl he didn't like, but now there is, but the relationship between the two families is like this. It seems that the eldest brother's family affairs are still tossed. ”
Several of them discussed together, and the old lady in Rongshan Hall was also angrily questioning Zhou.
"You want Yuan'er to marry a girl from the Yan family?" The old lady asked Zhou angrily.
Zhou said with a smile: "You dissipate your anger first, it's not that I want Yuan'er to marry a girl from the Yan family, it's that Yuan'er likes the girl from the Yan family." You also know that in the past few years, he has looked down on many girls from other people's families, and now he finally fell in love with one, and the girl also has a rare family background, good appearance and conduct, and Yuan'er is also a good match. I'm a mother, I can't let him choose another one. ”
"What's wrong with choosing another one?" The old lady was furious, "Yuan'er is the eldest young master of my country's mansion, and her family background and character are outstanding, but you are afraid that you won't be able to marry a daughter-in-law?" ”
Zhou smiled: "Naturally, you are not afraid, but you also know that Yuan'er is very picky, if you miss Miss Yan, let him choose the one he likes, I don't know when it will be." Yuan'er is now eighteen, you don't want to hold your great-grandson sooner? Even if you are not in a hurry, my lord and I are not in a hurry, but my brother and sister are in a hurry. We're willing to wait, and our siblings aren't willing to wait. ”
The old lady tightened her face, Hong'er was not as steady and sensible as Yuan'er, and the second child came to tell her several times that she wanted to marry Hong'er's daughter-in-law earlier and come back to collect her heart. If Yuan'er's favorite girl is from any family in the capital, she will have no opinion, but why is it from the Yan family.