Chapter XI
Chapter XI
Halfway through the hour, the carriage of the Guogong Mansion stopped at the gate of the Yongning Marquis Mansion, Zhaoyang got off the carriage, and the person guarding the door led her to the courtyard of the old lady, everyone knew that the county lord of Zhaoyang was at odds with his third lady, and the old lady heard that the county lord of Zhaoyang was visiting, and he was also a little uneasy in his heart, afraid that his granddaughter would provoke her again when he was not at the peach blossom banquet, right?
When Zhaoyang came to listen to Fengyuan, he asked the old lady to say goodbye, and after chatting a few words, the old lady asked, "The county lord came here today..."
Zhaoyang said with a smile, "On the day of the Peach Blossom Banquet, I made an appointment with Xue'er to swim in the lake, and I already handed over the post yesterday." β
Oh..., yes, she is old and doesn't have a good memory, her granddaughter also told her yesterday, and I don't know when the two of them played together, they used to throw the whip when they met, and now they can still travel together, but this is a good thing, the high-ranking granddaughter of the Guogong Mansion and the Zhaoyang County Lord are also good for the Hou Mansion, so they sent someone to urge Zhou Yunxue not to let the county lord wait.
When Zhou Yunxue came over, he saw that the old lady was laughed by Zhaoyang, so he said, "What else is it to make my grandmother so happy." β
Zhaoyang looked back at her and smiled, and said, "I won't tell you, the county lord's shelf is really big, and the county lord will personally pick you up, and it will make people wait for a while." β
"What, you're not happy?" As he spoke, he lifted his skirt and pretended to turn around, saying, "Then I can go back and continue sleeping." β
"Hey, hey~" Zhaoyang hurriedly got up and pulled her, and said, "I'll wait, then you'll be really embarrassed to go back." β
The old lady looked at the two of them and smiled, "Go quickly, the sun will be high in a while." β
The two said goodbye to the old lady and went out, today Zhou Yunxue wore a jade dress, a hosta on her head, got into the carriage Zhaoyang looked up and down, and said, "Why do you wear so plain clothes when you go to play today." β
Zhou Yunxue glanced at Zhaoyang, she had more hairpins on her head than herself, and two more jade bracelets on her hands, so she said, "Aren't you also plain." β
"I said Zhou Yunxue, you have really changed, it's completely different from before, from the inside out, if it weren't for the habit of choking with me, I wouldn't dare to recognize you."
Zhou Yunxue just smiled and said, "People will always become, what's so strange about this, you should tell me how many people you have made an appointment today." β
"You, the fourth prince, the fifth prince, add me to the four of you, you also know that I can't get along with those young ladies with my temperament, but I don't know if the fourth prince and the fifth prince will bring people here."
The Great Zhou Dynasty is nothing for men and women to swim together, and when they came to the lake, they got off and saw several painting boats swimming in the lake, fortunately, Liuming Lake did not feel crowded, there was a three-story beautiful painting boat parked by the lake, and the people on the second floor of the painting boat saw the two and waved at them and shouted, "Zhaoyang Zhaoyang." β
Looking at the four princes, there were the five princes standing next to him, as well as Yan Chengjun, Du Haoming, Wu Changjun and his second uncle with a silver mask.
The two of them went up to the second floor of the painting boat, and the four princes and the fifth prince greeted them, Zhou Yunxue and Zhaoyang had to give a salute and ask for peace, everyone was familiar with their faces in Kyoto, so they were exempt from introducing anything, and the four princes smiled and said to Zhaoyang, "Zhaoyang, your painting boat is really beautiful." β
"Needless to say, you can play casually today, this painting boat also has a kitchen, we will eat in the center of this lake for lunch, and we don't need to get off the boat to go to the lake building."
"I also asked my father for a few jars of good wine, and you sons and brothers can drink it at will."
The fifth prince gave her a thumbs up and said, "It's still Zhaoyang generous, and we have a few mouthfuls today." "Who doesn't know that Grandpa Guo loves wine, and the collection at home is all good wine.
Everyone is together, and the boatman slowly drove the boat into the lake, surrounded by willow trees that have budded and dewed leaves, several people chatted while watching the scene, Zhaoyang was surrounded by the four princes and the five princes, Zhou Yunxue fell behind, just with his second uncle, and smiled at her, "No wonder the second uncle let me go earlier yesterday, it turned out to be to swim in the lake." β
Zhou Qingzhi said with a smile: "This kind of boring play, it is better to make tea at home with the third niece." β
Who made tea with you, obviously she boiled him to drink, Zhou Yunxue glanced at him.
Wu Changjun, who was following behind the two, said loudly: "Sister Xue'er can also make tea?" β
Zhou Yunxue was slightly flustered, turned back to him and smiled lightly, "Yes, but it is more appropriate for Wu Gongzi to call me the county lord." β
Wu Changjun's face stiffened slightly, and then he smiled forcefully, "I am your eldest sister's fiancΓ©, and I am also half a brother-in-law, so there is nothing wrong with calling your sister." β
"Wu Gongzi laughed, everyone in the house knows that I am at odds with my sister now, and I don't want this brother-in-law."
"Xue'er..."Wu Changjun had a bitter look on his face
Zhou Yunxue was unmoved: "Wu Gongzi, please call my county lord." β
Wu Changjun was embarrassed, although that kind of thing happened, but according to Zhou Yunxue's previous liking for her, he thought that Zhou Yunxue still had a friendship with him, but he didn't want to directly save his face.
Except for the three Zhaoyang people who walked in front, several other people heard their conversation, Wu Changjun cast his eyes at Zhou Qingzhi to hope that he could say something for him, but Zhou Qingzhi only hooked the corners of his lips and mocked slightly.
Du Haoming turned his head and said in surprise, "It turned out to be the tea made by the county lord." β
Seeing Zhou Yunxue looking at herself suspiciously, she smiled at her and said, "Yesterday I went to look for Qingzhi, and I saw a small half pot of tea on the coffee table, so I wanted to quench my thirst, and poured a cup to drink, but I didn't want to enter the Longjing tea sweet, fragrant, but unfortunately it was cold, and I asked who Qingzhi was making tea, but Qingzhi didn't say anything, and Du Mou, who didn't see the person who made tea, still felt a little regretful, but I didn't expect it to be the county lord." β
He is a person who likes tea, and although the Longjing he drank yesterday was cold, it was the first time he had seen someone who could completely soak the fragrance of Longjing to the extreme.
After that, he raised his hand and hammered Zhou Qing's fist, and said, "No wonder you don't say it." β
Zhou Qingzhi glanced at him and said, "She is my niece, tell you what to do." β
Yan Chengjun also interjected and said, "It turned out to be the county lord, and Hao Ming has been obsessed with Qingzhi since he saw him this morning." β
Zhou Yunxue's eyebrows were crooked, and she said with a smile, "Yunxue is just a casual bubble, it is rare for Du Gongzi to like it, if you come next time, let the second uncle call someone to find Yunxue, and Yunxue will personally soak Du Gongzi." β
"Very good, then Du Mou will thank the county lord first." Du Haoming bowed to her happily
"Du Gongzi doesn't have to be polite."
A few people were talking, blowing a warm lake breeze, only Wu Changjun was silent, he only saw clearly now that Zhou Yunxue was no longer the previous Zhou Yunxue, the previous Zhou Yunxue's behavior was slightly vulgar and impatient, and the current Zhou Yunxue showed everyone's demeanor between gestures, but it had nothing to do with him.
Zhou Yunxue was not in a good mood to pay attention to that person, she only had hatred for him in this life and this life, and she would never die.
The painting boat slowly wandered in the lake, the five princes and Du Haoming were playing, Wu Changjun was watching, Yan Chengjun didn't know where to find a piano to caress lightly, the sound of the piano was melodious and like the ripples in the lake water gently echoed, Zhaoyang took the four princes to scurry around the painting boat, while Zhou Qingzhi lazily leaned on the chair, with a pair of phoenix eyes closed.
Zhou Yunxue tilted her head and glanced at him, then raised her hand to call the little girl on the side, whispered a few words, the little girl took the order, and after a while, she brought a coffee table and a few laughing embroidery stools and put them in front of her, and the water on the small stove had been boiled.
Zhou Qingzhi opened a pair of phoenix eyes, smiled lightly, and said, "Niece, you want to make me tea?" β
Zhou Yunxue tapped her head sideways at him, and said, "Seeing that the second uncle was bored, and the niece only had one hand in tea art, she dared to ask the second uncle to taste tea." β
Zhou Qingzhi got up and made a small embroidery stool in front of her, supported his chin with one hand and looked at her, quite cynical, and said, "It's hard for the little niece to be so hearted, and the uncle should accompany her." β
Zhou Yunxue raised her eyes and glanced at him, thinking that although she was twelve, she was actually twenty-one when she died in her life, and now she was calling the fifteen-year-old young uncle in front of her...
"I heard that my little niece has been looking for someone for the past two days?" Zhou Qingzhi, since he drank her tea that night, he sent someone to squat on the wall of her yard, so the things in her courtyard were generally clear.
She only told Mama Sun yesterday that the second uncle will know now, and it is impossible for Mama Sun to communicate with him, "The second uncle's news is really well-informed." β
"It's okay, it's okay." Zhou Qingzhi did not hide it
Zhou Yunxue's eyes flashed slightly: "Presumably, there must be a lot of capable people around the second uncle." β
"What, you want to borrow?"
Zhou Qingzhi saw the light in her eyes clearly opposite her, he hadn't noticed this little girl before, until he saw her in the pavilion that night, obviously two maidservants were standing behind her, but he still saw a loneliness in her eyes, obviously it was the concubine of the Hou Mansion, although it could not be said that it was a collection of thousands of favors, but it would not appear that such a look would appear, plus he knew that Wu Changjun's dirty affair with his sister was caused by her order, so he aroused the curiosity in his heart.
Zhou Yunxue raised her head and smiled at him, her eyebrows and eyes curved, "Can the second uncle cut his love?" β
Zhou Qingzhi paused for a moment before he said, "If you cook tea for me from time to time, you can consider it." β
Zhou Yunxue was stunned in her hands, she is really in urgent need of someone who knows martial arts now, Aunt Jing's courtyard is well controlled, she wanted to arrange some people to go in, but she couldn't do it, and the person who is looking for martial arts can keep her in the future, she hasn't forgotten that Aunt Jing was the daughter of the most favored concubine of the mighty general, and there was a mighty general's mansion who could have married a good person but ran for her father as a concubine, if there was no one around her who could protect her, what kind of revenge would she talk about.
A fragrance gradually spread, Zhou Yunxue raised her hand lightly, poured a cup of the brewed red robe, handed it to him with both hands, and said, "Why not." β
Zhou Qingzhi slowly hooked the corners of his lips, raised his hand to take a sip, and said, "Deal." β
Zhou Yunxue didn't know at this time that her casual cup of tea was exchanged for a fierce lion.
"Wow, it smells so good!"
As the fragrance of tea spread, everyone looked sideways, Du Haoming threw off the chess pieces in his hand, ran over, looked at Zhou Yunxue, and said with a flattering face, "Can the county lord reward Du with a certain cup?" β
Zhou Yunxue smiled and took a scalded cup and poured him a cup, Du Haoming carefully picked it up and sniffed it lightly, his face was intoxicated, his lips were lightly pursed, and then he laughed out loud and said, "Good tea, good tea." β
A few people who were still sitting also got up and came over to ask for tea, the four princes and Zhaoyang came over to find incense, a small pot of tea was just one cup per person, and the rich tea fragrance at the entrance made everyone praise, Zhou Yunxue just smiled lightly, and did not have any pride.
Zhaoyang stared at her with wide eyes, and said, "Xue'er, when did you learn this tea art, which is a little more refreshing and rich than what I have done in the palace." β
The fourth prince and the fifth prince also nodded, and Zhou Yunxue said with a smile, "It's just that I have nothing to do at home on weekdays, and it's hard to be elegant." β
The fifth prince said: "The county lord is humble. β
"It's the people who have won the prize." Zhou Yunxue said with a smile
One cup per person is really not enjoyable, Zhaoyang begged her to make a pot again, Zhou Yunxue did not refuse, and under the eyes of everyone, she slowly brewed a pot and shared it with everyone.