The day after tomorrow is here in a blink of an eye.

Early in the morning, Song Yixiao freshened up and dressed up and went out - she was on the way to Princess Changxing's mansion, and she was worried that she would be embarrassed if she went too early. Who knew that when I arrived at the place, I saw that there were already several people sitting in the flower hall where the guests were entertained.

Among these people, the county lord of Qingjiang was impressively present, and when he saw Song Yixiao coming in, he hurriedly beckoned her to come over, and asked in a low voice, "What's going on?" ”

"I don't know!" Song Yixiao glanced around, and found that everyone was looking at him curiously, and the corners of her mouth twitched, "The eldest sister didn't ask the third sister-in-law?" ”

The county lord of Qingjiang flicked the jade bracelet on his wrist and frowned: "Do you see her here?" ”

He also said, "I just asked, and the next person said that she was holding a banquet for the meeting, and she couldn't get out, so let's have tea here first." ”

In other words, although several guests have come, Princess Changxing has not yet appeared?

Song Yixiao felt that this was normal - it was impossible for this princess to be willing to take a concubine for the concubine, no matter what method the queen and others used to make her nod, but the princess's mood at this moment can be imagined!

If you come out early to greet the guests, and are tempted by everyone's words, maybe you can't hold it back?

Sure enough, after a while, the people who received the posts arrived one after another, and the huge flower hall was full, and Princess Changxing still "couldn't get out".

It wasn't until there was drum music in front of me that Aunt Shen's sedan chair had entered the door, and the people came to invite everyone to watch the ceremony in the side hall, and everyone saw Princess Changxing - she was wearing a princess Zhai dress, a hairpin and a hairpin, dressed luxuriously and exquisitely, but there was no expression on her face, and she sat upright like a puppet.

Jian Yiyu, the colt who sat a few miles away from her, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and seemed to be in a good mood.

After a while, Shen Qimo, who was wearing a pink skirt and a pink embroidered handkerchief on her head, was helped in by two bridesmaids, one left and one right-if she was marrying a wife, she would naturally worship after entering the door, but the concubine room was not so formal, but she stepped forward to give a big salute to the princess and her husband respectively, and after serving tea, she was surrounded and went to the courtyard behind her.

The female guests who came over after receiving the post today are all in the main room, and they will refuse to surrender their identities and go to the place where the concubine stays to watch the excitement.

But looking at Princess Changxing's face, no matter how narrow the person is, he didn't dare to come forward to say hello, and looked at each other for a moment, Princess Changxing was pushed several times by the palace maid behind her, and then looked at the floor tiles not far away, and said in a stiff tone: "Everyone has gone through this today, and there is some thin wine in the house, if you don't dislike it, stay and have a drink?" ”

After speaking, he didn't wait for everyone to answer, he stood up and brushed his sleeves away!

Obviously, she said that she would let everyone stay and drink, but she still didn't plan to accompany her - after she left, Jian Yiyu didn't continue to stay, said a few words of the round, and also confessed and left, as for whether to coax Princess Changxing or accompany Shen Qimo, everyone knows what will happen!

"That's a surprise!" Xie Yiren took a branch of spring flowers from the flowers in the vase, pretended to laugh and play with Song Yi, and took the opportunity to hide it to his lips and whispered, "I invited someone to eat and drink in a serious post, but when it came to the end, the male and female hosts did not show their faces, and only sent people out to greet - is there such a banquet?" ”

Song Yixiao raised his sleeves to cover his mouth and chuckled: "The princess's mansion is indeed snubbing us by doing this, but will you be willing to leave?" ”

Then you have to go!

Xie Yiren chuckled: "I've only seen half of the excitement, and the confusion in the clouds and fog has not yet been solved, isn't it a trip for nothing?" ”

It's a pity that although everyone has been grinding in the princess's mansion for most of the day, until the sun and the shadow are reluctantly reluctant, they still haven't found anything - Song Yixiao analyzed it and found that what these people know together is not as much as they know!

After she returned to the Yanguo Mansion, she told Jian Xubai, who had come back from Sanya, about the banquet, and Jian Xubai muttered: "There is no impermeable wall in the world, I can't figure it out now, maybe I will be able to see the clues in a few days." ”

He obviously planned to put this matter aside for the time being—there was also a reason for this, "The news this afternoon, Gu Gong has arrived in Gyeonggi, if there is no accident, he will enter the city at noon the day after tomorrow!" ”

Song Yi smiled and asked, "Are you going to greet you?" ”

"Nature." Jian Xubai said, "The prince plans to let the king of Zhongling go out of the city to greet him in person, but the king of the county is young, so let the king of Liang and me accompany him." ”

It is a proper meaning for the king of Zhongling County to personally greet him, which means that the emperor and grandson respect the teacher, but the emperor and grandson have not officially apprenticed; Second, the emperor's grandson is only eight years old, and if he is not accompanied by his elders, it seems that the family is rude.

And the crown prince is the prince after all, even if he very much wants to win over Gu Shao, it is impossible to be too low-minded - so he will not go in person, and send a prince's brother, as well as a cousin of the prince, to accompany the emperor's eldest grandson to greet a courtier who has been a minister for many years, which is enough to be a corporal of Lixian.

Song Yixiao was only worried: "This Gu Gong takes a lot of care of my mother's father, I don't know if I will be angry with you because I am not loved by my mother's family?" ”

"No, it won't." Jian Xubai smiled when he heard this, "If Gu Gong is narrow-minded to this point, then it won't be your turn to drag me down." Don't forget that my grandfather was his number one political enemy back then, and the two elders fought fiercely in both the government and the opposition! Especially when Gu Gong was in his prime, it was caused by my grandfather! ”

In contrast, even if Song Yixiao is at odds with her father Song Yuan, it is her grandfather Song Ying's bloodline, isn't it?

Song Yi smiled and thought about it—but she still looked at her husband deeply.

"Are you afraid that after Gu Gong sees me, old grievances will come to my heart, which will be unfavorable to me?" Although she didn't say it explicitly, she knew it in a vain manner, and couldn't help laughing, "The battle in the court is not the same as the battle in the backyard!" Gu Gongru is old, and he went out of the mountain again, not to take revenge! What's more, what does he want to do in the imperial capital with revenge? My grandfather isn't here now! ”

"Did he come purely to wade through the muddy waters of the reserve?" When these words came to her lips, Song Yixiao remembered that her husband had told her not to care too much about the government and politics, so she didn't ask after thinking about it, but said, "What are you going to wear when the time comes?" Do you want to take it out and have it ready now? ”

In the next two days, the husband and wife studied the dress very carefully - but what Song Yixiao never expected was that after Gu Shao arrived in the imperial capital, he neither went to live in the property he had placed in the imperial capital in his early years, nor did he go to the other courtyard prepared for him by the prince, but went directly to the Song Mansion to live!

This is not the point - the point is that he went to the Song Mansion to live for three days, and on the first day he said that he was very old, and he needed to rest and freshen up after the journey, and after entering the door, he sent away the King of Zhongling, King Liang, and Jian Xubai who greeted him;

The next day, he entered the palace to face the saint, visited Emperor Xianjia, and agreed to be a teacher for the king of Zhongling County;

Day 3 - He proposed to see Song Yixiao.

When Song Yixiao heard someone from the Song family say this, she didn't speak for a long time: This Gu Gong, where is he taking care of Song Yuan? This is simply taking Song Yuan as his own son!

Otherwise, with his identity, he was only on the third day of coming to the imperial capital, and what was he going to do to see him, the married daughter of the Song family?

must want to interfere in her father-daughter relationship with Song Yuan!

To be honest, Song Yixiao was quite tired of Gu Shao doing this, after all, the damage that the Song family did to her earlier was not something that could be compensated for by showing kindness now—especially since the Song family had bought Liu Zhijin to Pang Zi's side before?

Such a bad mother's family, Song Yixiao didn't want to pay attention to it from the bottom of her heart.

Helplessly, Gu Shao's identity and seniority are all there, so it is reasonable, and Song Yixiao can't shirk it.

She changed into the dress she wore to go out, and reluctantly arrived at the Song family - speaking of which, this was the first time she had stepped into this mansion in seven years.

"I used to say that my grandmother was not easy to enter the door, but now Gu Gong gave an order, and everyone forgot about it." Song Yixiao walked under the familiar and unfamiliar corridor, and secretly sneered in her heart, "My mother used to say that the lintel of the Wei family was too low, so my grandmother dared to bully her all the time - although this is not true, it is not completely wronged by grandmother!" ”

What is aggrieved is that Pang Zi wants to let Gu Shao, and she has to let it too.

Half an hour later, she arrived at the guest house that the Song family had specially packed out for Gu Shao to live in.

After waiting at the door for a short time, there was a summons from inside.

Song Yixiao reined in his mind and entered steadily-

Turning around a red sandalwood carved landscape mica screen, the person sitting on the desk above the Ming Hall must be Gu Shao.

This political giant, who has not been underestimated so far, should have passed the age of sixtieth year, and I don't know if it is because of the nourishment of Youyou Linxia over the years, he looks far younger than his actual age - on his fair skin, thick eyebrows and handsome eyes, straight nose and square mouth, three strands of beautiful hair under his chin, and his demeanor is magnificent.

Although Emperor Xianjia had already conferred on him an official position yesterday, he was still wearing regular clothes, a shirt with a green background and a lotus pattern, wearing a soft scarf, with a kind expression and graceful demeanor.

Song Yuan can also be regarded as a rare beauty among men, standing on the side at the moment, although he is better than Gu Shao in terms of appearance, he looks gloomy and dull, and there is a clear gap in bearing.

"Jianmen Song Clan, may Gu Gong be blessed!" Although Song Yixiao was full of displeasure, this will come, and he will not be rude, and after taking a few steps forward, he bowed down in a proper manner, and said, "May my father be blessed!" ”

Gu Shao said when he heard this, "My nephew and granddaughter don't need to be polite", raised her hand to let her get up, and looked at her quietly-Song Yixiao was wearing a garnet red double-winding skirt today, and the placket and cuffs were inlaid with a two-inch-wide black brocade, embroidered with curved patterns, but under her knees there was a Luo skirt with a duck egg blue bottom secretly embroidered with a lotus flower.

Garnet red is a very bright red, and it is easy for young girls to wear it with arrogance.

But she will stand with her sleeves folded, only one of them will hang her head and gaze, but she will make this flame-like enthusiasm into a bright and generous that is neither humble nor arrogant.

At Gu Shao's age and situation, it doesn't matter if he looks at people beautifully or ugly, it is Song Yi's smiling flower and moon appearance, he only swept by, and he didn't pay attention to it at all, but secretly thought: "I heard that there is a lot of estrangement between this child and Yuan'er, and when I entered the door today, I called myself 'Jianmen Song', and reminded her that she was already a Jane housewife; ”

Thinking so, he showed a kind smile on his face: "Although your grandfather and I have never been married, we are like brothers. It's a shy call to you, 'Niece and granddaughter'! ”

"Gu Gong is well-known at home, highly respected, and being able to regard a concubine as a junior is a blessing for a concubine." Song Yi smiled and saluted again, and said respectfully, "If the humble husband knows, he will definitely be honored and honored!" ”

- Sure enough, he never left his husband's house!

Gu Shao showed a smile in his eyes, stroked his long beard, and said, "Yuan'er has always regarded me as an uncle, since you are a child who is also willing to recognize me as an elder." So—I'll say a few words to your father and daughter, I wonder if you'd like to hear it?" ”

He went straight into it single-handedly, and Song Yixiao didn't want to go around in circles: "Uncle is kind, how dare the concubine not know how to lift?" It's just that my uncle came from afar, and he is entangled in everything, if he still has to worry about the trivial matter of the Song family, isn't it that our father and daughter are not filial? ”

Although she is not good at the calculation of the temple, and she doesn't know Gu Shao, even if Gu Shao treats Song Ying's bloodline as her own flesh and blood - he is an old man, and he rushed to the imperial capital to mix in such a major event as seizing the prince, and also served as the teacher of the king of Zhongling County, this apprenticeship ceremony has not been officially held, but he first worries about the harmless private matter of the Song family's father and daughter discord - how can it be possible to say that he has other intentions? !