Chapter 22: Be My Handmaiden, Shall You?
In "Curling and Offering Jade", Jiang Yashuang and Qiu Yulan didn't suspect Jiang Yadan, and thought hard about how to get out: "Or if I hide, you go and break the door?" When you're done, you go first, and I'll go again? β
Jiang Yashuang immediately shook her head: "This private room is clear at a glance, where can you hide?" And it's too loud to break down the door - the person who locks the door is likely to be outside, and if they find out that we are trying to leave, they will definitely try to attract people to come and check ......"
His eyes lit up and he said, "I've thought of a solution!" I just have to wronged you. β
Qiu Yulan cautiously asked: "What kind of grievance law?" β
"I think since the person who locked the door is here for my starling, he will definitely bring someone to open the door later." Jiang Yashuang said in a low voice, "But my starling brother is not here, so as long as people come in and take a look, they will know that they are innocent by mistake - I don't think they may know you, so how about asking you to pretend to be my maidservant?" β
"That's a good idea!" Qiu Yulan breathed a sigh of relief and said briskly, "Isn't it just to stand for a while?" What kind of grievance is this? "It's so much better than being talked about all over the city!
Especially after this kind of rumors spread, how could she explain to Cousin Ruan, who is now on the other side of the lake in the "Jinbao Pavilion"?! Thinking of Ruan Qingyan's elongated face, Qiu Yulan felt happy from the bottom of his heart.
"Now that no one is coming, the county lord doesn't need to be so polite." With a perfunctory approach, both of them were relieved, Jiang Yashuang returned to his seat and sat down, seeing that Qiu Yulan was about to stand behind him, he hurriedly said, "I will hear the movement later, let's play a master and a servant again." β
Qiu Yulan thought about it, she didn't have a hobby of serving people, so she sat on the original Jiang Ya Dan banquet - the two of them were inevitably embarrassed to sit like this - after being silent for a while, Jiang Yashuang had nothing to say and asked, "Is the county lord coming out to relax today?" β
"There is a bonsai at the Begonia Word Meeting, which is said to have been given to my grandmother by my father in my early years." Qiu Yulan said, "Her Royal Highness Princess Chunfu told me, so I'll take a look." β
Jiang Yashuang didn't expect to ask about his deceased father casually, so he quickly coughed dryly and changed the topic: "Fang is Ruan Gongzi looking for you downstairs?" β
"No, it's not." Qiu Yulan's face showed a puzzled look, "It was a message from Sister Ling's subordinate just now, and I didn't say it in detail, hmm...... I went down to take a look, but before I went downstairs, Su He was squeezed out. Then I couldn't find her, and I couldn't find anyone looking for me, so I came up. β
Speaking of this, she frowned slightly, as if to say to herself, "Cousin didn't know that I was here, who else would come to me?" β
Jiang Yashuang asked suspiciously: "Since my sister invited you here today, why didn't anyone accompany you when you went down?" β
"They were very busy at the time, and it was just a few steps away, and I didn't know them." Qiu Yulan said lightly, Jiang Yashuang had already sensed that there must be an inside story, and this inside story was something that Qiu Yulan didn't want to say, or it was inconvenient to say.
He groaned for a while before he said: "Today's word meeting, I only know that it is my eighteenth sister, and there is also the sister of the He family who takes the lead, as for which other sisters I don't know?" β
Qiu Yulan said casually: "Actually, I didn't recognize it all - Miss Jiang Seventeen, Miss Tao Si are all there, and there is a Miss Zhuang...... I haven't had time to talk to anyone else because I'm downstairs. β
"None of these guys are difficult to get along with." Jiang Yashuang secretly thought, "Sister Eighteen has always been thoughtful and considerate, and my sister is especially exquisite...... It is said that both of them are here, how could they let the county lord of Ning Yi go downstairs alone? However, although the county lord of Ning Yi is spicy, he is not a person who will find trouble. In this case, why did they disagree when they entered the private room for so little? β
He didn't know Tao Peibin's thoughts, so naturally he couldn't guess what the problem was-
In fact, Qiu Yulan herself was confused: "I just praised the bead flower on Miss Tao's head for being chic and beautiful, and she replied to me, 'I just wear a fresh flower, this flower is actually a waste for me', and that's it, what is Miss Jiang Seventeen crazy about, she actually immediately said, 'I know that Ningyi County Lord is born beautiful, but you are so turning to provoke trouble', tsk!" β
So she didn't pay much attention to who called her downstairs, and Fang Cai's confusion was just pretending to be for Jiang Yashuang: "Jiang Qisheng is obviously making a fuss about nothing, Princess Chunfu and the eldest lady are afraid of the embarrassing scene, so they will call me out under the pretext that someone is looking for me...... I'm going to be in the wrong room, I'm stuck here, and they can't wait for me when I turn around, so they probably think I'm angry and go back......"
To be honest, although after Jiang Qisheng said that, Princess Chunfu and He Shuijin coincidentally stopped her, and apologized to Qiu Yulan on her behalf - but thinking that the other party did not call Jiang Qisheng away, but supported himself - and when the next person came up to invite him downstairs, Jiang Qisheng and Tao Peibin grabbed Princess Chunfu and He Shuijin one by one, and let themselves go out alone as if they were kicked out......
Even though he knew that Jiang Qisheng was Jiang Qizheng's cousin, it was impossible for Jiang Qizheng not to look at his own family, Qiu Yulan was still indignant in his heart: "If it weren't for the fact that Princess Chunfu would be my future cousin-in-law, I wouldn't have bothered to bother with you perfunctory!" β
There was silence in the private room for a while, and the atmosphere was gradually becoming awkward, but fortunately, there was a sound of gongs and drums on the lake in the distanceβthe Oiran race had begun!
The two of them who felt that they had nothing to say hurriedly looked at it seriously.
I saw the sound of gongs and drums, in the willow smoke along the circle of Jinghu Lake, and suddenly slid out of the flower boats decorated with flowers, and for a time the gongs, drums, silk strings, and firecrackers were noisy!
"Once every three years, it's really lively." Qiu Yulan looked at the crowd downstairs like a surging tide, pouted, and said.
Jiang Yashuang didn't know that she remembered the large-scale corpse tide, and seeing that although she said this, her expression was not surprised at first sight, and she smiled unconsciously and said, "The county lord hasn't seen this Oiran before, right?" β
"yes." Qiu Yulan said, "Last time I played the Oiran, my mother was still there!" β
β¦β¦ Jiang Yashuang's smile froze: Why is it not talking about someone's dead father or mother?
He coughed dryly again: "By the way, Gongzi Ruan seems to be on the other side?" β
"But it's just Ling Xiaohou pestering." After Qiu Yulan went downstairs alone just now, his impression of the Jiang family's young ladies was discounted.
In addition, Ruan Qingyan told her that Xue Chang also had the intention of recruiting him as a son-in-law - although he still had the intention of brushing up his cousin's impression at the moment, it was not too strong against the quasi-cousin she thought was herself, so she only said lightly, "My cousin has never been a good woman, otherwise how could he be a Jinshi at a young age?" β
When Jiang Yashuang heard her answer like this, her heart moved, and she suddenly said, "Now you have seen several of my sisters." β
Qiu Yulan said: "Yes, what's wrong?" β
"Then do you know which sister I told you last time?" Jiang Yashuang asked with a smile.
Qiu Yulan was stunned: "Isn't it Princess Chunfu?!" β
Ruan Qingyan had doubted this question before, but Qiu Yulan still felt that Princess Chunfu was the most likely - besides, among the daughters of the Jiang family, Princess Chunfu was the most active and enthusiastic to talk to her...... Wait a minute!
"Could it be Miss Jiang Seventeen?!" I couldn't understand why Jiang Qisheng was hostile to herself, but as soon as Jiang Yashuang said this, Qiu Yulan suddenly thought about it, "I mistakenly took Princess Chunfu as a quasi-cousin before...... Didn't you offend her like this? β
Thinking about it like this, she was a little angry, she still wanted to get along with Ruan Qingyan's wife, and of course she would be extra tolerant of her prospective cousin-in-law.
"If that's the case, it's a problem." Qiu Yulan thought with a headache, "This Miss Jiang Seventeen, shouldn't I misunderstand that I don't want her to be my cousin-in-law?" β
She was thinking about how to solve this misunderstanding, but she heard Jiang Yashuang laugh and said, "How can it be my eighteenth sister?" My fifteenth sister and seventeenth sister didn't allow anyone! β
Qiu Yulan wiped a cold sweat: "Which daughter of the house is that?" She regretted it as soon as she asked the words, once Jiang Yashuang said the candidate, Ruan Qingyan would lose the face of the Jiang family if she didn't come to the door to propose her relatives!
It wouldn't hurt if it was Jiang Qizheng she was most familiar with, but she didn't know much about the other ladies of the Jiang family, if she wasn't a good master, wouldn't she be a trick for Ruan Qingyan?
So without waiting for Jiang Yashuang to answer, Qiu Yulan quickly changed the topic: "By the way, you say, who will be the person who is most likely to lock us here?" β
When these words came out, Qiu Yulan suddenly felt that it was necessary to discuss, "I'll tell you the truth, with the current power of your family, even if your brother asks someone who shouldn't be here, it is said that no one will dare to do this, right?" β
Jiang Yadan can even be the emperor's favorite concubine as a plaything, let alone the daughters of other families? Even if you catch. The traitor is not afraid of being ridiculed for being a cuckold, so he has to think about Jiang Yadan's revenge after he becomes angry, right?
"......" Jiang Yashuang was embarrassed for a moment before saying, "I don't know very well." β
It can be seen that he may not be very clear, but it is difficult to say - Qiu Yulan's heart moved: "Could it be a grudge from a wealthy family?" β
Today, if Jiang Yadan and his daughter were caught in this private room, it would definitely be full of wind and rain! In this way, how can Qin Guogong and the others not be angry? Then moved to the four rooms of the Nujiang family......
While the two were chatting, the flower boats on Mirror Lake had all gathered in the middle of the lake. Because the decoration of the flower boat is mostly red, from the cloud tower, it looks like a big mandala blooming in the lake.
The mandala composed of flower boats did not bloom for long, and began to swim in the lake - this is the first ring of the Oiran race, and the flower boats are arranged according to the ranking of the last Oiran race, and go around the lake to show the training results of the past three years - that is, let a few Qingqi people who have not shown up in the previous session pose to stand on the bow of the boat, this posture is not in vain, and in the process of circling the lake, supporters will throw money and silk and other things on the boat.
Yes, the victory or defeat of the first ring is to see who has the most wealth on the boat after swimming around the lake.
Seeing a large number of Hao slaves pouring out of Yunyi Tower and several nearby pavilions, all of them carrying various forbidden gold and silver silks on their shoulders, and even pushing away the crowd and running towards the lake, Qiu Yulan hurriedly asked Jiang Yashuang: "What about yours?" Isn't yours impossible to deliver? β
Jiang Yashuang said indifferently: "I was afraid that there would be too many people and my sisters would come here." The implication is that he is not ready to reward the flower boat at all.
"Alas, I don't know how much silver my cousin will be knocked off by Ling Zui this time......" Listening to his thrifty words, Qiu Yulan suddenly felt pain for Ruan Qingyan - especially when a gust of lake wind blew and lifted the cloth covering the basket carried by the two wealthy slaves, revealing a basket full of gold that was enough to brighten the eyes of the onlookers, Qiu Yulan's face changed, "Do these local tyrants want to spend so much money?!" β
Everyone plays like this, shouldn't Ruan Qingyan go bankrupt?!