Chapter 21: Alone in a Room
So on the ninth day of the fourth month, Jiang Yashuang arrived at Yunyi Tower by horse at the request of Jiang Ya Dan, and entered the "curling jade" next door to the "White Crane Lying Snow" Ya Ya ordered by Shui Jin.
Because it was still early, the two brothers only let their subordinates make a pot of tea, and chatted endlessly about a few characteristic snacks in Yunyi Building - originally Yunyi Building was built on the shore of Mirror Lake, and the seats in the upstairs private rooms were set up near the window, so that guests could enjoy the scenery on the lake.
Today is the beginning of the triennial Oiran race, and Yunyi Tower has dressed up the private rooms as a luxurious observatory with an excellent view...... So the two brothers were drinking tea and drinking tea, and Jiang Yashuang suddenly saw a familiar figure in the carriage downstairs that surprised him, and couldn't help but sigh lightly.
Jiang Yadan had been paying attention to him, and had already followed his line of sight to see Qiu Yulan wearing a hat, and deliberately asked quietly, "What's wrong?" β
"Nothing." Jiang Yashuang knew that her brother had always been unreliable in terms of women, and felt that if she told him about Qiu Yulan, she would definitely not hear any good words - it was not polite for two men to talk about a girl who was not related to him, so he said vaguely.
Jiang Yadan didn't ask, just silently counted Chenguang...... It was not until Qiu Yulan had already entered the "White Crane Lying Snow" that he frowned and asked Jiang Yashuang: "You don't go out?" β
Jiang Yashuang looked inexplicable: "What am I going out for?" β
Do what? You're a concubine. Head...... Oh no, you watched your sweetheart walk into the building and didn't make excuses to go outside the door for a chance encounter! Even if there are people around, it's inconvenient to say anything love, just give her a loving look! Will you seduce a girl or not!
Jiang Yadan grimaced, feeling that his younger brother was simply too wasteful!
I'm ready to hand you a ladder to the cloister to rest even if you say the moon is too hot hereβbut you don't even mean to go out?!
He was so depressed here that he was going to die, and Jiang Yashuang actually asked: "Could it be that the starling brother is coming with someone, so let me go out?" It's so easy for the fourth aunt to calm down the incident in the palace for you, don't cause trouble again! Carefully the fourth aunt knows......"
"Nope." Jiang Yadan gritted his teeth and cut off his words, "I didn't have an appointment with anyone today!" β
Jiang Yashuang bowed: "Since we are here today to take care of our sisters, we should not make another appointment." β
How about Lao Tzu coming for you today! You don't have a long heart!
Jiang Yadan frowned for a while, and suddenly had another plan, and said to Jiang Yashuang: "You are here, I want to start the matter for a while." β
"Starling, tell me honestly, who did you date today?" Jiang Yashuang was suspicious of him, "Could it be the Zhang family's favorite concubine again?" β
"It's not!" Jiang Yadan said angrily, before he could say his next words, Jiang Yashuang asked again: "Is that the widow of the Zhao family?" β
"How is that possible!"
"Miss Xu?"
"Not either!"
"Aunt Liu's wife?"
"I told you ......"
"The two ladies of the Yin family? The bride of the Xu family? A young daughter? Or is it the person in the tick? Jiang Yashuang put what he knew, Jiang Ya Dan outside the hook. The women who took the ride all asked, and Jiang Yadan's face turned pale: "It's not even what you said, where do you get so much nonsense?!" I'll be up in a minute! β
After speaking, he didn't bother to pay attention to him, and just flicked his sleeves and left.
Jiang Yashuang looked at his back thoughtfully, and shouted to Jiang Tan: "Follow up and take a look, see if the starling has provoked someone again!" "Although it is said that Queen Jiang has always defended her family, Jiang Yadan is too in terms of women, and she has put her hand into the harem three times and twice - this is the face of Queen Jiang again and again! After all, the palace is now nominally managed by the queen!
Even if Empress Jiang herself was busy fighting for power in the previous dynasty, the actual palace power was handed over to her confidant female officials...... But if something happens, it's always the queen herself who loses face!
Jiang Yadan didn't listen to his persuasion before, and insisted on associating with Concubine Shu, but a few days ago, he was hit by Empress Dowager Gu's people in the imperial garden!
Fortunately, there was more cheating and rich experience in being arrested, at that time, Jiang Yadan saw that the Queen Mother's people were about to search the rockery, so he decisively knocked out Concubine Shu and threw her into the imperial pool, and she immediately jumped down and insisted that she was saving people, in the end, she found an explanation for the messy clothes of the two and the traces on Concubine Shu's neck - this is also fortunate that he has a good aunt, and he refuses to give in because of the quarrel with the Queen Mother Gu, which is a big thing and a small matter......
However, everyone knows the truth of the matter, so Empress Jiang had to make concessions to Empress Dowager Gu for this reason: the title of King Xihe was returned to Qiu Mengmin, not to mention, the Empress Dowager was originally prepared by the Empress Dowager and insinuated that Empress Dowager Gu disrespected Empress Dowager Ye, so she had to give up.
For this reason, Empress Jiang finished negotiating the conditions with Empress Dowager Gu on the front foot, and summoned Jiang Yadan to her on the back foot and scolded him to death!
If it weren't for Jiang Tianqiao and his wife interceding, Qin Guogong would have to beat this grandson in person...... It's only been a few days since this storm, is this starling restless again?
Jiang Yashuang sighed in her heart.
He looked down with a heavy heart on the growing crowd on the lakeside below.
After a while, I heard the sound of the door of the private room opening and closing quickly, and noticed that only one person had come in, thinking that Jiang Tan had come back to tell him, he pushed the tea bowl and asked without looking back: "Who did the starling go to?" β
"Ahh I didn't want him to say anything, and the people who came also whispered in surprise!
Jiang Yashuang sensed that something was wrong, and turned her head suddenly, but saw Qiu Yulan, who was wearing an ultramarine cross-collared wide-sleeved undergarment, a tooth ribbon, and a water-colored fairy skirt, looking at herself in a daze!
Today, because it is a word meeting, Qiu Yulan is not good at wearing filial piety, so he freshened up a little. Although he didn't wear makeup, he also chose a dress that could go out, and he wore two snails, two white jade bead flowers and silver hairpins. The light clothes are plain, but the face is so gorgeous that the begonia flower forest outside the building is discolored, especially the residual panic in the peach blossom eyes, which makes people can't help but have the idea of care.
Jiang Yashuang couldn't help but stand up: "You?!" β
"I'm on the wrong side - it's not a white crane lying in the snow!" Qiu Yulan bit her lip, "I'm sorry! β
"What's out there? Scares you? Jiang Yashuang observed her expression and asked with some surprise. In my impression, this little county lord is so spicy that she is fierce, how can she be afraid under this blue sky and white sun?
Qiu Yulan wanted to cry without tears and said: "I don't know which god killed it, but he actually brought the mastiff into the building!" I don't know what the two mastiffs are crazy about, so they chase me and don't let go......"
Jiang Yashuang was stunned: "There is still such a thing? I thought it was strange again, "I see that you have arrived a long time ago, why haven't you come up all this time?" β
"It's coming up!" Qiu Yulan said aggrievedly, "But just now someone was looking for me below, so I went down." As a result, there were so many people below that Su He was separated from me! I just want to come up first to see if Su He is back, right? As a result, two mastiffs taller than me pounced...... I thought this was a 'white crane lying in the snow'! I quickly opened the door and came in! β
In fact, she was not very afraid of the two mastiffs, because she had killed too many strange creatures in the last days. She could feel that the two mastiffs didn't actually have murderous intent...... The problem is, she is now a delicate and tender little princess, isn't she a female killer in the last days!
Especially since she has a glorious and great task today, which is to whitewash Ruan Qingyan, who was mixed into the competition Oiran, into a loyal and good husband - in order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to make Jiang Qizheng and others trust her - she has thought about it, and under the pretext of being afraid of the mastiff, she rushed back to the private room and threw herself into Jiang Qizheng's arms for comfort......
Then the friendly big sister and prospective cousin-in-law came out for the cute soft girl and future sister-in-law...... Then no matter what the outcome of the matter is, the sister-in-law relationship will go further, and the prospective cousin-in-law will of course trust herself more...... What a harmonious and friendly script!
She thanked the two mastiffs and their owners in her heart, and even the frightened and disgraced expression on her face when she rushed into the private room - but who would tell her why she had opened the wrong door?!
Fortunately, Jiang Yashuang sat in the seat farthest from the door, otherwise she would have plunged into his arms, this beautiful young man full of discipline should not be frightened and scream for help - at that time, Jiang Qizheng and others heard the news and saw that she was insulting her younger brother, so Cousin Ruan's future would be in her hands......
Jiang Yashuang's smiling voice interrupted her thoughts: "These private rooms in Yunyi Building all look the same from the outside, only the names are different, no wonder you went wrong the first time you came." He proposed, "I'll send you out, no one should dare to commit murder here, it is estimated that the subordinates in charge of taking care of them were negligent and let them escape by accident." β
Qiu Yulan said gratefully: "Thank you so much." In order to prove that she is a genuine delicate little county lord, she is by no means a female man, she pays great attention to the details and gives way to the position of the door and lets Jiang Yashuang open it.
But......
Jiangya frost came over, once it was opened, it was not opened, it was opened again, and it was still not opened!
Seeing this, Qiu Yulan hurriedly declared: "I just covered it up casually!" I really didn't break it! β
"It's not that the door is broken." Jiang Yashuang pressed the door, and after knocking a few times, his face quickly became gloomy, "Someone locked the door from the outside!" β
"What?!" Autumn is shocked!
"We may have been affected by my starling." Because he knew that Qiu Yulan heard Jiang Ya Dan's personality in Ganli Palace last time, Jiang Yashuang did not shy away from saying, "I was here with my starling today, and he was just going out, so I didn't worry, so I sent Jiang Tan to take a look...... I guess this was originally for him, but the two of us bumped into each other by mistake. β
Hearing the meaning of his words, someone wanted to catch Jiang Yadan's traitor, but locked himself and Jiang Yashuang alone-Qiu Yulan's face suddenly became ugly: "What now?" β
Jiang Yashuang's face was also pale: "This door is very thick, and the soft sword in my sleeve can cut through it, but then the movement will be big." Usually, you can jump out of the window and leave, but today's ...... "I can't wait for people under the window today!" If you jump down, you will definitely not fall on the ground!
Looking at both sides of the private room, there are thick walls that are tight enough for sound insulation!
The two people who had no way to enter the sky and no door to the ground looked at each other and couldn't make a sound!
At this time, outside the door, Jiang Yadan was talking to Ling Drunk's entourage: "Thank you Cousin Ling on my behalf." β
"Jiang Bagongzi is polite, my son-in-law said, just two mastiffs, you can use it." The attendant who was in charge of Ling Zui's mastiff smiled and said.
"Okay, you don't need them anymore, you can take them...... Remember, nothing happened today! Jiang Yadan bowed his head slightly and commanded.
The entourage was in a hurry, and he swore that he would never reveal the slightest - after sending the entourage, Jiang Yadan glanced at the doors of the two private rooms not far away, and frowned: "Idiot! Why don't you change the name of the private room? In case it will be seen by others and spread to the ears of Nineteen, with his intelligence, he doesn't know it just by thinking about it?! β
Jiang Tan, who was pressed aside by Jiang Yadan, had a bitter face and begged in a low voice: "Eighth prince, nineteenth prince, he really doesn't have any thoughts about Lord Ningyi...... If you do this, the Nineteenth Son will be very embarrassed......"
"I'm trying to make him alone with Little Beauty, what's so difficult about him?" Jiang Yadan said disapprerovingly, "Even if he didn't have much thought about that little county lord before...... It's never too late to think about it! After speaking, he ignored Jiang Tan and ordered someone to drag him to another private room that he had already booked, and thought proudly: "Look at my grandfather and fourth aunt, how will they take the nineteenth clean body to reprimand me in the future. Pool! β