Chapter 202: Dowry (2nd Watch)
Although Feng Ling is not there, Su Rong still has the ability to protect herself, and her secret guard has also entered the Chengguo Mansion to protect her, and it is not easy to harm her. What's more, she has several mansions to protect her, which is a well-known thing, and it is not good for the Chengguo Mansion to cause death.
So, Su Rong wasn't worried!
Lu Mingran also smiled when he saw Su Rong say this, and took Su Rong with him, twisting and turning, as if he deliberately avoided people, and came to a courtyard.
At the gate of the courtyard, there stood a young man, with a superior appearance and a calm and restrained temperament, Lu Mingran apologized in a low voice, "I'm sorry Miss Su Qi, I lied to you, it's not my grandmother who wants to see you, it's my eldest brother."
Su Rong had already guessed that if the old lady of the Chengguo Mansion wanted to see her, there was no need to avoid people and walk around the road to get here, she stopped, looked at the young man in front of her, and asked tentatively, "Lu Shizi?"
Lu Weiran, the prince of Chengguo Mansion, she heard Duanhua mention that there are many descendants of Chengguo Mansion, and there are a lot of sons and daughters, but the most outstanding of them is Lu Weiran, the son of Chengguo Mansion.
This man is indeed much more outstanding than the two sons who greet the guests at the door today.
Lu Weiran seemed to be relieved when he saw that his sister had invited someone, and bowed to Su Rong, "Miss Su Qi, Haihan, is in Xia Lu Weiran."
Su Rong nodded, "Lu Shizi has gone to great lengths to find me here now, but is there something important?"
Lu Weiran nodded, "Miss Seven, please."
Su Rong didn't say much, and calmly followed him inside.
Lu Mingran hurriedly followed.
Walking to the door, Lu Weiran stopped and stopped Lu Mingran behind him, "Miss Seven, go in by yourself, someone wants to see you." I'm just being entrusted by others to be a guide."
Su Rong had already expected it, but she didn't expect that she had just entered the Chengguo Mansion, and everyone here couldn't wait to see her, she smiled, nodded, pushed open the door, and entered the house.
As the door closed, Lu Mingran looked at Lu Weiran and stopped talking.
Lu Weiran lowered his voice and said, "Let's go, let's go to the courtyard and keep guard, no one is allowed to come in here today." I'm tired of my sister."
Lu Mingran understood, followed Lu Weiran out, walked straight to the door, and then whispered, "Big brother, the person who wants to see Miss Su Qi inside, is it the night cousin?"
Lu Weiran didn't answer, and touched Lu Mingran's head, "It's better to know less about things that shouldn't be known."
In the room, there sat a very young man, who did not look like he had ever been crowned.
The man was wearing an azure-colored brocade, with a jade belt around his waist, and his eyebrows and eyes were beautiful, fresh and beautiful, which was very eye-catching.
Su Rong remembered that that day, Feng Ling came back from the investigation, and mentioned to her and Duanhua that the night returned to the snow, saying that if compared with Zhou Xiaogongzi, it would be difficult for the two of them to distinguish one from the other, if Zhou Xiaogongzi was the kind of spring flower like the sun shining brightly, the second son of the night was the sea of red plum clouds that bloomed all over the mountains in the winter snow, and they were all good colors that were dazzling at first sight.
Today, when Su Rong saw the snow returning to the night, he knew that Feng Ling's words were not mixed with water at all.
is so fresh and beautiful, it really deserves to be a sea of red plum clouds full of mountains, but on the contrary, his whole temperament is a little light and cold, isn't it the red plum that blooms in the winter snow?
Su Rong is watching the snow at night, and the snow is also looking at Su Rong.
On that long street, he first entered the capital, sitting in the carriage, suddenly realized, picked up the curtain, and saw the girl in the distance at a glance, at that time, the girl walked slowly on the street, step by step, scattered carelessly, the morning sun that first rose, at that moment, although she could not see her silhouette clearly, but saw her full body of the morning sun sprinkled, very bright.
Later, when he entered the Chengguo Mansion, he asked his subordinates to investigate, saying that the little girl's name was Su Rong, and when he met her, she was going to the Protector's Mansion to withdraw from her relatives, and in the short time he sent someone to investigate, she had already withdrawn in less than an hour.
He thought that he had come just in time.
"Miss Su Qi, return to the snow at night in Xia Nan Chu." When the snow returned to the night, he sat slowly, bowed his hands, and his voice was extremely good, like snowflakes falling on the branches in winter.
"Second Master of the Night, I'm Su Rong." Su Rong smiled lightly and did not salute
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"Miss Seven, please take a seat." Ye Guixue made a gesture of please.
Su Rong saw that there was a tea set on the table, and Ye Guixue seemed to be making tea with her own hands before she came, she walked over and sat opposite him.
Ye Guixue did not rush to speak, but continued the tea art in her hand, obviously before she came, she had completed the process of scalding the pot, placing tea, warming the cup, high flushing, and low brewing, and now only the tea was different. He rolled up his sleeves, his movements were elegant, and after dividing the tea, he brushed his sleeves with one hand and pushed the tea cup in front of Su Rong with the other, "Miss Seven, please."
Su Rong said "Thank you", thinking that this is an elegant person, she has not had this patience since she was a child, either scooping a bowl of cold water and pouring it directly into her stomach, or grabbing a handful of tea leaves and throwing them into the pot casually, and then pouring hot water and boiling it to finish.
The eldest lady often scolded her for drinking peonies, but Uncle Xie laughed and said, "It's all a way to drink."
Su Rong slowly tasted the tea, and felt that drinking tea like this was very fragrant, but she couldn't say how to make incense, during the period of living in the East Palace and the Princess's Mansion, the tea was made by the maidservant, and the best tea was made, I don't know how it was made, but it was really good to drink, and it was the first time she had seen someone make tea in person.
This is about the highest treatment that Guixue saw her in the Chengguo Mansion and gave her.
Su Rong finished drinking a cup of tea, put down the teacup, and looked at Ye Guixue, "If I disappear for too long, I'm afraid people will be worried, so the second son of the night has something to say!"
Ye Guixue nodded, reached into her arms, took out a token, and respectfully handed it to Su Rong, "This is a token handed over to the princess on the order of my king, please take it away."
Su Rong didn't answer it immediately, but raised his eyebrows, "What does this token represent?"
"On behalf of the identity of the princess." Ye Guixue said: "You have received this token, and from now on, you will be my royal daughter of Southern Chu."
"Is there any benefit?" Su Rong's tone was lazy, "After all, the birth grace is in my mother, the support is in the Su family, and the king of Southern Chu suddenly came to pick peaches when I grew up, if it is not beneficial, how can I recognize it?"
Ye Guixue was silent for a moment, "Naturally, it is beneficial, the throne of Southern Chu. And what conditions do the Su family want, just mention it."
Su Rong chuckled, "In the eyes of the King of Southern Chu, is the throne of Southern Chu the benefit he promised me? It's the funniest joke I've ever heard in my life."
She raised her eyebrows lightly and asked Ye Guixue, "Does the King of Nanchu think that Nanchu is the one who has the final say?" If he gives me this throne, I can hold it as if I was picking up a cabbage? Or will he clear the way for me? And then give me that position?"
Ye Guixue pursed her lips, "You are the princess, the only heir of the king, even if there are many obstacles in the Southern Chu Dynasty, the Ye family is loyal to the royal family, and will definitely support the king's decision and support the princess to ascend the throne."
Su Rong propped his chin and looked at Ye Guixue, "Queen Nanchu has been sending people to kill me, and she has been persevering for many years, do you kings know?"
Ye Guixue nodded half a beat slowly, "The king knows."
"Oh? When did you start knowing?" Su Rong asked.
"Five years ago."
Su Rong suddenly smiled, "It turned out to be so early, let me think about it, I was ten years old at the time, and the queen of Nanchu should have sent someone to assassinate me for three years, but your king has been pretending not to know after he knows about it, it's quite bearable!"
This surprised her, she thought that her father was a fool, a fool, who had never known about his existence, and that his queen had sent someone to kill her.
Ye Guixue paused for a moment, "When Wang learned that the lord of Zhenmin County was dead, he vomited blood and fell into a coma, and he was ill for three months, and then because he was too grief-stricken, he was quite confused and neglected government affairs, which caused the old load of the Southern Chu Dynasty Bureau to not be eradicated, but intensified, until five years ago, when Wang learned of your existence, he began to cherish his body, and he pulled out the old illness in the court, but since it is a Chen disease, how can it be easy? Therefore, after the princess returns to Nanchu, it will naturally take a lot of hard work, but you can rest assured that with the king and the night family, it will not make the princess too hard."
"I heard that the Ye family is going to marry the Nangong family?"
"It's just a temporary subordination." Ye Guixue reiterated again, "The Ye family of Nanchu is loyal to the royal family." , He handed the token to Su Rong again, "Lady Wang, please accept it!"
Su Rong still didn't answer, looked at Ye Guixue, and looked directly into his eyes, "Nan
What benefits did the King of Chu promise to the Ye family? Don't tell me about loyalty, loyalty is a thing that has to be good enough to show its weight. The Ye family is loyal to the King of Southern Chu, and they have to give the Ye family something from the King of Southern Chu to be able to unite the monarch and ministers, isn't it?"
Ye Guixue held the token in her hand and maintained a flat movement, but she didn't seem to dare to look directly into Su Rong's eyes for a moment, lowered her eyes, and paused for a while before she spoke: "Guixue is still the master, I am willing to be the princess's daughter-in-law."
"Hah!" Su Rong laughed.
The tips of the ears gradually turned red.
Su Rong looked at the person in front of him with lowered eyes and bowed his head, moved his body, and asked with a casual smile, "King Nanchu should know that I have a fiancé that my mother betrothed to me before she died, right?"
"Yes." The blush on the tips of Ye Guixue's ears faded, and he raised his head, his eyes were clear, "The king expected that you would withdraw from the marriage."
Su Rong tugged at the corners of his mouth, "You King of Southern Chu are so powerful, you are in Southern Chu, but you know my mind well?"
Ye Guixue shook her head, "Over the years, the king has not dared to act rashly, first, he knows that if he takes you back to Nanchu, he is afraid that he will not be able to protect you thoroughly, but will expose you too early, so he endures it. The second is that the Southern Chu Dynasty is staring at the throne and is about to move, you are not a person who is weak and can be bullied, if you don't want to be a knife and I am a fish, you can only choose to go back and take over the throne. And the Protectorate Mansion is no longer what it used to be, what Zhou Xiaogongzi was born and raised, what he taught, and what he wanted, all of which are contrary to you, and the Tao is different, and they do not conspire with each other. That's a good thing to deduce."
Su Rong nodded, stretched out his hand to take the token he had stretched out for a long time, the token was very heavy, made of dark iron, and the special process was carved with a dragon pattern, and the three small characters on the order were "Wang Nu Ling", and the lower corner was the Rui beast pattern on the flag of Southern Chu.
Su Rong put it in her hand and put it on the table casually, seeing Ye Guixue looking at her, she pointed to her teacup and motioned for him to pour water.
Ye Guixue immediately stretched out her hand, and gracefully poured her empty teacup again.
Su Rong took the tea and drank it, took a sip, and asked him, "Do you have a favorite cousin or a childhood sweetheart sister of the world friend?"
Ye Guixue was stunned, and immediately understood what Su Rong was asking, and shook his head, "No."
"Didn't you?"
Ye Guixue shook her head affirmatively, "No, the Ye family is upright, and they don't like to give and receive privately, five years ago, the king found me, when I was thirteen. From the day I promised the lord of Wang Shang, Guixue is even more self-conscious, clean and self-conscious, not only there is no such thing as the princess said, there is no maid in the house, and there is no concubine in the room, the princess can rest assured."
"Five years ago, so early." Su Rong sighed lightly and looked at Ye Guixue, "You should have come early."
Ye Guixue was stunned, suddenly understood something, his face turned slightly pale, and he whispered, "Originally, I should have come to Daliang three months ago, but at that time, there was a tricky matter in the royal court, which was related to the army, so I came three months late."
Su Rong stopped talking.
In the last three months, her mother wrote a letter to the old protector, who would have thought that the old protector would send Zhou Guqin to Jiangning County?
At that time, she didn't know her identity and didn't want to get out of the marriage, so her feelings were a little bit involved.
Ye Guixue pursed her lips, took out another thing from her sleeve, and handed it to Su Rong, "Just for this, Guixue came three months late, can you use this weight to beg the princess for forgiveness."
Su Rong looked at the thing in his hand and asked, "What is this?"
"Southern Chu Xijing rebelled, returned to Xueping Rebellion, this is Xijing's 100,000 soldiers sloppy talisman." Ye Guixue whispered: "The king said, it is my work to quell the chaos, and I gave the tiger talisman to Guixue, and Guixue would like to use this thing as a dowry, is it good to hire the princess? Guixue is willing to conspire with the princess and the daughter of the Southern Chu Society, remove the female cadres, and rejuvenate the people."
Su Rong paused, "A tiger talisman of 100,000 soldiers and horses!"
She smiled, "How many soldiers and horses does Nan Chu have now?"
"Three hundred thousand."
"In whose hands?"
"There are 100,000 soldiers and horses in Jinglu, in the hands of the king, the 100,000 soldiers and horses in Xijing were originally in the hands of the general Sun Xiaoyuan, but Sun Xiaoyuan suddenly died violently, and the deputy general rebelled, after the Xijing rebellion, Guixue was ordered by the king to go to Xijing, and it took three months, and after the rebellion, the soldiers and horses of Xijing fell into the hands of Guixue." Returning to the snow at night did not mention the passage of the chaos, but only said briefly:
"The remaining 100,000 soldiers and horses, 50,000 in the hands of the Nangong family, and another 50,000, scattered all over the place."
Su Rong nodded, the tiger talisman of 100,000 soldiers and horses, although Ye Guixue didn't say it, but she also knew that it was not easy to come by, if she received this tiger talisman today, it would be agreed to Ye Guixue's dowry, and the marriage contract would be completed.
But is there a reason why she doesn't take it?
Su Rong felt that she didn't, it was a foregone conclusion that she would go to Nanchu to seize the throne, and 100,000 soldiers and horses were exactly what she needed.
Compared with him, Zhou Gu is still a piece of jade!
Even if she came to look for her three months late, what does it matter? With such a little affection, she had already fed the dog.
She immediately smiled and reached out to take the tiger talisman, "I promise you!"
Ye Guixue raised her head suddenly, as if she didn't expect her to be so happy and crisp, and she was stunned for a while.
Su Rong touched his body, didn't wear any tokens, simply plucked a hairpin from his head, and handed it to Ye Guixue, "Let's make a token for the time being, and I'll exchange it for you another day."
Ye Guixue hurriedly stretched out his hand to take it, as if he was a little at a loss, and his face was slightly red, and his clear eyes seemed to be a little dazed, although he was prepared and prepared, but he didn't expect her to cooperate so much, he also thought that it would take more time to talk and tongue, or take more effort, just like subduing the 100,000 soldiers and horses, it would take time and effort to almost lose his life.
"What? What is your expression?" Su Rong looked at him interestingly.
Ye Guixue clenched the hairpin in his hand, and it was difficult to settle down for a while, but fortunately, after years of training, he was still able to hold it steady, and said calmly, "I thought that the princess should be carefully considered."
"There's nothing to think about, the second son of the night is famous all over the world, you are willing to be my Qingyun Ladder, and I am also willing to accept your dowry and share Nanchu Sheji with you." Su Rong bent her lips and smiled, picked up the token and tiger talisman, stuffed it into her arms, got up and wanted to leave, seeing Ye Guixue looking at her in a daze, she turned around again, bent over, approached him, reached out and patted him on the shoulder, lazy and free, "I'm leaving, your tea is excellent, I'll drink it another day."
Monthly pass, Momoda! See you tomorrow!