Chapter 380: The Night of Chunxu Lane
Cao Yilan, who has been married for two years, is no longer the willful and completely brainless little girl she was at the beginning, and when she saw Princess Fukang's style, she immediately understood that her appearance was not welcome, and it was even more inappropriate to greet her.
However, the words have already been exported, and they cannot be recovered.
She smiled awkwardly, saluting last time.
"Celestial Princess Yu'an."
Zhao Runian's mind was not on Cao Yilan, and when she saw her coldly, her fingers in the sedan chair clenched slightly, "Why is my cousin here?" โ
Princess Fukang is very favored, but she is not a completely arrogant girl, and she also calls Queen Cao's niece a cousin, which is very decent.
Cao Yilan pointed to the nearby mansion and smiled bitterly.
"I heard that my husband has placed an outer room here, so I'll take a look."
The matter between her and Cai Qi is not news, Fukang knows it clearly in the Forbidden Palace, and it is the same girl's family, Princess Fukang can't help but show some sympathy for her.
"Cai Xiaohou is really, when I have the opportunity, I will let my father say a few words to him, the dignified opening of the Marquis Mansion, is it really not necessary to have any dignity......"
Cao Yilan pursed her lips slightly and smiled reluctantly.
"Thank you, Celestia, but ...... Don't bother. โ
After that, she didn't wait for Princess Fukang to persuade her again, and bowed again, so she took her leave and left.
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Zhao Runian sat on the sedan chair for a while, watching Cao Yilan's figure turn past the long blue brick courtyard wall, and then breathed a sigh of relief and signaled to the girl.
The porter opened the door, and when he saw that it was Princess Fukang, she nodded and bowed, so nervous that she didn't know how to place her hands and feet.
The official family has no son, and this Princess Fukang is the only daughter of the official family, which is the same status as the crown prince of the dynasty.
"Your Royal Highness Princess, our third master has not returned to the house yet. Please, please go back to the palace. โ
This is the second time that Zhao Runian has come to the door, and the porter doesn't know why his master wants to avoid such a delicate little princess, but he is just a subordinate, and he can do whatever the master tells him......
However, this time Zhao Runian refused to be sent by him.
"I know he's at home." Zhao Runian glanced at the concierge with a little dissatisfaction, and lowered his voice a little, "You go and tell Zhang Lang that if he refuses to see me today, I won't leave until he is willing to come out." โ
The porter looked at her in embarrassment.
"This ......"
"You just have to report it."
"Yes."
Clouds roll across the sky, varying in their postures, gradually sinking into the dark night sky.
In the Zhang family's house under the canopy, the closed door opened and slowly closed again.
Chunxu Lane sank into the night again.
In the courtyard next door, Cao Yilan was sitting in the flower hall waiting for Cai Qi to come back.
Since Cao Yilan returned to her parents' house, Cai Qi has never returned to the Hou Mansion. said to the outside world that she couldn't stand the persuasion and nagging of her parents, so she moved out to be clean, but Cao Yilan didn't think so.
At this moment, Cai Qi's childhood sweetheart Shaoyue Niang was sitting opposite Cao Yilan, waiting for the upcoming storm with restraint and anxiety.
But the strange thing is that Cao Yilan sat with the girl for a long time, except for looking at the sky from time to time, there was no other movement, and she didn't even say a word about her.
Guo Shaoyue was suspicious and awkward.
From time to time, she let the girl serve tea and snacks, put herself in the position of the concubine, and her words and deeds were full of flattery.
Cao Yilan didn't use refreshments and didn't pay attention to her, just sat and waited solemnly.
After all, it was a girl from Da Cao's Mansion, and she put up a shelf, which made Guo Shaoyue a little overwhelmed.
Guo Shaoyue came from the family of the official eunuch, but her father only managed to write from the seventh grade before committing the crime, which is very different from the family background of Miss Cao.
For some reason, Guo Shaoyue is used to being careless in front of Cai Qi, gentle as water, far from Cao Yilan's arrogant posture.
Guo Shaoyue had to meet Cai Lang at first, but she didn't dare to have extra thoughts, but later learned that Cai Qi and the young lady were not on good terms, and they quarreled and fought every day, so they gradually grew ambitions......
She is familiar with Cao Yilan's affairs.
This Cao eldest girl is notoriously brainless in Bianjing Mansion, and when she was still a girl in her mother's family, she did a lot of embarrassing things in order to marry Fu Jiuqu, and she heard that the reason why Cai Qi married Cao Yilan was to cover up her ugliness, and the two of them had a head and end in private, and under the pressure of the Cao family, Cai Qi had to marry ......
The truth, Guo Shaoyue asked Cai Qi around the corner.
But this little Marquis Cai came to Fanlou to drink and have fun, and took care of her many times, but he always had to go back to the house at the right time, as if he was very afraid of himself, and he never mentioned anything about him and Cao Yilan......
The little ninety-nine in Guo Shaoyue's heart never opened.
She was eager to go further with Cai Qi, but she was always unable to do it, and it was not good to go too far, pushing Ruyi Langjun farther and farther.
It was Fan Lou's corpse shredding case that gave Guo Shaoyue a chance.
A helpless girl, her parents died, God is pitiful, Cai Qi looks handsome, but in fact she is very righteous, it is impossible to sit idly by and ignore her, so she immediately let her pack up and move to another courtyard.
Guo Shaoyue believes that this is the opportunity given to her by God, and the two get along day and night, and the love is naturally deep.
What's more, Cao Yilan has lived in her mother's house for a long time, and the two of them are very estranged. A man, with such a jealous and hypocritical wife, where would he refuse to be gentle and petty?
Guo Shaoyue thought about it a lot, but she didn't expect that on the first day she moved in, she didn't wait for Cai Qi to return, but waited for Cao Yilan.
At this time, facing Cao Yilan, Guo Shaoyue's heart was very complicated.
This Cao Da girl is full of qualities that she despises, but she has everything she wants, so that she doesn't know whether to scorn, mock, or envy and hate......
"Young lady, you can use some snacks." Guo Shaoyue said softly, "The desk of the Imperial City Division is piled up, and now there is a case of Fan Lou, the little marquis has ten thousand opportunities in a day, I don't want to go home so soon, don't be hungry yourself." โ
Cao Yilan's gaze turned around and fell on her.
He looked at it for a moment, didn't know what to think, and sneered.
"Are you talking to me?"
Guo Shaoyue lowered her eyes, "The concubine is brave and talkative." โ
"No, you don't." Cao Yilan laughed mockingly, "I'm full when I see you." โ
After that, she didn't seem to have much patience anymore, so she called Pelle.
"Go get pen and ink."
Pei'er glanced at her master's face and answered.
Guo Shaoyue didn't know what Cao Yilan was going to do, so she didn't dare to leave, and she didn't dare to approach, so she could only sit far away, clasping her hands, and watching Pei'er bring paper, ink, pen and inkstone and spread them on the case.
Cao Yilan rolled up her sleeves and wrote.
The ink is fragrant.
The silence in the room was shattered by the sound of rapid footsteps.
Cai Qiren hasn't arrived yet, and the voice arrives first.
"Cao Yilan, what are you going to do?"
The voice is full of boredom and suppressed anger, which is the kind of mutual dislike that only ordinary couples have.
Cao Yilan took a moment to write, and when she raised her eyes, she saw Cai Qi's slender figure rushing in from outside the flower hall, dusty and dusty, with a face like a crown of jade, as always, graceful and suave, and the red and pink are incomparable......
Unlike her, she was haggard and thin, and all of last year's clothes were gone.
"Huh!"
Cao Yilan laughed mockingly, lowered her head and continued to write.
Cai Qi looked at her strangely, and when he entered the door, he first looked at Guo Shaoyue who was sitting in the corner, and looked up and down, as if he was afraid that she would bully his sweetheart......
"What the hell are you going to do?"
This look made Cao Yilan's heart tense.
"I'm here to visit you and your sweetheart and see how your life is going?"
Cai Qi frowned, "Don't open your mouth and talk nonsense...... Moreover, this matter has nothing to do with Shaoyue. She just borrowed it in the courtyard for a few days, and when the matter of Fan Lou was over, she would go back. โ
Cao Yilan's eyes blinked slightly, "Aren't you going to redeem her?" โ
This ridiculous and playful tone is very similar to Cao Yilan's casual appearance when the two of them were buddies in the past.
For a long time before getting married, Cai Qi and Cao Yilan had a very close relationship, without the love between men and women, but they were more harmonious and happy than the love between men and women......
It's just that a long time has passed, and everyone seems to have forgotten the beginning.
Cai Qi was stunned for a moment.
After Guo Shaoyue heard this, she subconsciously looked at Cai Qi, and the grievances and expectations in her eyes made Cai Qi's back feel like thorns, and she didn't know how to answer for a while.
Before Cao Yilan asked, he didn't think about redeeming Guo Shaoyue......
When a man redeems himself for a woman, he is responsible for the rest of her life......
For Cai Qi, taking care of Guo Shaoyue was because of her love when she was a teenager, but Cai Qi did not make up her mind whether to accept her back to her home......