Chapter 9: The Appearance of Jiang Kan

After returning from the palace that night, I completely realized how could I and Gong Nan Du be people of the same level, he will always be a high prince, we are not a world and will never be a world person, it just so happens that we have nothing to do with each other and will not have any ideas, isn't this exactly the result I want? So I gradually avoided him a little, and I was secretly a little happy that I actually had nothing to do with him, and now I often sit alone and do my own thing, Gong Nan Twilight seems to feel my change in him, and will always take the initiative to get closer to my field, sometimes I avoid him and stand alone in front of the window looking out of the window, or stand in front of the farthest shelf and look at the books indifferently, Gong Nan Twilight will always come over with me from time to time, and occasionally I stand in the yard with some evasion, Gong Nan Twilight would also pretend not to care and come to me to talk, and then play with some flowers and plants with me boringly. I deliberately pretended not to notice anything, but she would still come over from time to time to read or spend time with me, and I was used to preparing tea and fruit for her. On this day, Gong Nandui suddenly came over to me and asked, "Chiwan, do you want to eat that little snail cake?" I thought hesitantly, because I didn't really want to eat, but when I saw Gong Nan Du looking at me expectantly, I couldn't bear to refuse, "Eat." "Okay, then I'll let Adudo buy it back." Looking at him, I also happily forgot the gap between us.

Adu soon ran back happily with a dozen small snails, but there were more Shi Yingran and Shu Yan behind him. "Participate in the construction of the prince, the princess." "Get up, why are you here?" Gong Nan asked in a warm voice, "Lord Wang, I just happened to meet Adu, and I learned that the prince ordered him to bring back delicious food, so I wanted to come and have a good time." Shu Yan said with a smile, "Lord, you have good things, you can't give them all to the princess alone." Shi Yingran quipped weakly. When Gong Nan Du heard this, he had to agree, "Come in, since you're here, let's use some together." "Thank you, thank you, thank you, princess." They walked in happily, and I thought to myself, "Don't thank me, I didn't say anything." Gong Nan Du picked up a shortbread and handed it to me, I looked at him and smirked and took it,

Shu Yan and Shi Yingran also tasted each other, I haven't eaten this kind of thing for a long time, it is so delicious, I finished eating one, and I picked up another one and signaled to Gong Nandui, "It's delicious." "I haven't eaten this thing for a long time, but I really think it's extra delicious." Shi Yingran echoed with a smile, because he originally planned to buy food for the two of us, Adu didn't buy too much, and a dozen small snail cakes were quickly consumed by us, but I didn't have a good time looking at the last piece in Nandui's hand, Gong Nandui raised his eyes and looked at the three of us expectantly, and handed the shortbread to me without thinking, "Seeing how hard you work every day, I'll reward you." I looked up at him with an innocent smile. It turns out that he still thinks I'm hard, is he feeling sorry for me? He was exploring sweetly and quickly in his heart, only to hear Shu Yan say a little strongly, "Lord, you can't be like this, you can't be like this, you can't break the rules." I glanced at the loss and jealousy that couldn't be hidden in the eyes of the two of them, and I just smiled at Gong Nan and pushed the shortbread to him. Gong Nan Du glanced at it and finally didn't say anything.

At around the end of the afternoon, Gong Nan ordered someone to prepare the carriage and suddenly said, "Let's go, take you to the jade shop mentioned last time." I silently followed. I can't hide my excitement, I can finally be born, I feel like I'm going to hold back to mold, the carriage is not going very fast, it slowly stopped in less than a quarter of an hour, I got off the carriage with Gong Nandu, followed him into the shop quickly, and a shopkeeper in his mid-fifties immediately came over to greet Gong Nandu, "Lord, are you here?" Come in. Gong Nan Du smiled politely and followed him inside, and the old shopkeeper was stunned when he saw me behind him, and asked, "Who is this?" It doesn't look very old. Gong Nan Du looked back at me and said with a smile, "Well, it's not big, it's still small." I smiled embarrassedly at the old shopkeeper, Gong Nan Du stood there and said something to the Hu shopkeeper, I stood aside and began to look at the jade shop carefully, Gong Nan Du suddenly turned his head and said, "You can go inside and go around." I smiled at him and ran away, pacing back and forth to take in the jade and treasures that hung or were displayed on the surface.

Then he slowly walked up to the attic, "Wow, it's really not small, and these jade, gold and silver jewelry, hairpin jewelry are really beautiful and unique." The color is full, the style is delicate and chic, and it can be seen that all the high-grade new colors are sliding, and the jade is warm and greasy on the fingertips, and the coral agate is crystal clear, red and gorgeous, and the eyes are full of dazzling colors for a while. It's a pity that the whole look is dull and dull, and it is submerged in the whole messy furnishings, and it can't bloom any characteristics at all. "I carefully observed the whole shop again before slowly walking to Nandu's side." Is there only one jade shop around? I asked seriously, "There are several other restaurants around here that are considered good." Gong Nan Du looked at me with a serious face and said calmly. Then I'll take a look around first. "I didn't wait for Gong Nan Dusk to reply, and hurriedly walked out, I first came to a shop opposite us and walked in.

"Girl, look inside and see what you need, our jewelry here is excellent." The housekeeper greeted him with a smile, "Boss, I'll take a look first, you're busy first, I chose to call you." I said politely and gently. Okay, inside please. I slowly paced and pretended to choose jewelry seriously, quietly observing and paying attention to this shop, first of all, the place is smaller than Gong Nan Dui, and secondly, although these jewelry have some high-quality colors, but they are slightly inferior to the color of Gong Nan Dusk's shop, and there is not so much space, and the style and type are not as good as it, a few nearby turned around, as Gong Nan Du said, everyone is about the same, the difference is not big, and all their displays are the same, stacked in a row, greatly reducing the visual impact and not easy to choose. How can it arouse the attraction of those people, I stood at the intersection and was thinking with a misty look in my eyes, and suddenly saw a very familiar back on the oblique side, I quickly turned around and looked at it in a little panic, but the back had disappeared at the end, I stared down and looked there with a melancholy face, "That back is really like that person." "What's wrong with her, why does she look so sad." Gong Nan Dusk looked at Leng Chiwan's side face quietly from a distance, unwilling to disturb.

I felt a gaze locked on my figure, and when I looked at it sideways, it was Gong Nandu, "Have you seen it?" What do you think? "As you say, we're the biggest." "I'll take you to see it when the biggest jade shop opens another day." "Okay." I smiled happily. "Miyanami, do you think about what would be your first impression if you were a customer now?" I asked as I walked back with him, and my mind faded away from that back. "What?" Gong Nan asked in surprise, I turned my head to look at him in confusion, looked at him blankly, looked at him with a look of obvious incomprehension and confusion, and was stunned for a few seconds before I realized that I seemed to have said something wrong, I cleared my throat in embarrassment and continued, "If you are here to buy things objectively, what kind of thoughts will you have." He looked at me and said seriously, "Well, the jewelry in each house is very similar, and there is nothing to choose." "Yes, the first moment you enter the door, the colors are messy and featureless, which gives people a very strong subjective consciousness.

Such cookie-cutter furnishings and placements hide their unique delicacy and do not show their true colors well. I looked at it and continued, "Actually, our shops are the best in comparison, and we still have a strong competitiveness compared to them. Just now I went from downstairs to the attic to look carefully, and picked, our jewelry, jade is very attractive, but it takes a long time to find it, so it takes a lot of energy objectively, and it will be very time-consuming for some anxious people. After I finished speaking, I looked at Gong Nan Du seriously, he looked at me with a surprised look and asked with a smile, "You analyzed it so thoroughly." Ever studied business? I looked at him and said solemnly, "I won't." Gong Nandui looked at me and became serious, and I continued, "Since everyone is almost the same, it is better to struggle a dead horse and become a live horse doctor, and it won't be bad." "Then you can hear it."

"Several shops are exactly the same, then let's start here, change the way the shops are placed, the unique pattern will always be eye-catching, we need to pick out some unique and new jewelry, and then follow those colors and luster, according to the color of the goods listed in order. Then there are old models from previous years or some small items that are difficult to sell, and I will re-sort them first, and then I will personally modify the furnishings here. I said lightly, "Okay, I'll take care of it in two days, and I'll bring you back." I nodded slightly, "Then let's go." Nan Twilight said gently,

I got into the carriage with him before I continued, "I'm not done yet. He looked back at me, and I looked out of the curtain and continued, "I need some pure white mink fur, like the one under the inner padding of the carriage last time, some long boxes made of glass, some bonsai red coral trees, preferably coral reefs, and some green sandalwood with a faint fragrance, can I just do that?" "It's all easy to do, but it's not easy to guarantee coral reefs." "Okay, then let's do it." I calmly continued, "Actually, have you ever thought that these jade treasures don't have to be confined here, and if they can't be displayed properly, they won't be effective, don't we have a good restaurant?" I think there must be no shortage of dancing girls and singers in the restaurant under your name, they are the people who have the most objective contact, so it is best to let them wear some expensive jewelry in the store, so that more people can see it. Those left trinkets or old models with pressed bottoms, just find a way to modify them a little to decorate the cloth and clothes, which will be more chic, and the cloth business will also improve a lot. After speaking, seeing Gong Nan with a smile in his eyes, he looked at me with interest and didn't speak. I glanced at him and looked away.

The carriage soon stopped at the gate of the palace, "Send you back." "Okay" I have never learned to refuse what Gong Nan Du proposed, even such polite words will be accepted like an order, we just walked a few steps, and saw Adu running over from a distance, "Participate in the construction of the princess, princess, princess, you are finally back, the side concubine has been waiting for you for a long time." Say there's something to find you" "Got it, I'll go over." You stand down first" "Yes, my lord. After Adu retreated, Gong Nandui said softly, "I could have sent you a piece over, but I won't send you if I have to go to Luotong." "It's okay, I'll just go back by myself." "Alright, I'll go first." "yes, okay." Gong Nan rushed forward in a hurry, nothing to do, I was relieved and slowly swayed on the way back, about to reach the fork in the road, I saw the first snow in the distance like a willow fluttering in the wind, the waist of the water snake twisted flexibly with the pace, I began to slow down and prepare to wait for her to turn the fork in the road and then move forward, but she happened to look at me and stopped at the fork in the road, as if deliberately waiting for me. I could only bite the bullet and slowly move forward.

Chu Xue looked at the cold late night when Shanshan came, and the scenes of that night were unconsciously reflected in front of him, and the waves of anger accumulated in his chest swelled up leisurely, his eyes flashed with hideous light, and his face was unconsciously ruthless. Thinking back to the night when she entered the palace, when everyone was worshipping the emperor, Chu Xue wanted to teach Leng Chiwan a lesson, wanted to see her make a fool of herself in front of everyone, watched her being punished by the emperor, and watched her being disliked and thrown away by the prince, just at the moment when everyone was still, Chu Xue had quietly stretched out her hand and was ready to push her, but she didn't expect to be noticed by her cousin and lose the opportunity. Thinking of my cousin's cold and warning eyes, I remembered that my cousin on the carriage asked me indifferently, "Chu Xue, last time you and Shu Yan joined forces to transfer, I only pretended not to know, this time you want to frame you from behind, what do you want to do next time?" "Cousin, you misunderstood, everyone just sat together and chatted about gossip, how could you transfer anyone?" "You want to postpone the banquet, are you going to kill her? Don't you know the rules of the palace? ”

"Cousin is not what you think, how can Chu Xue be the kind of person who is ruthless?" "It's better not, I won't pursue you anymore." Chu Xue looked at her cousin's cold gaze and nodded with some fear, her cousin is the side concubine in the house, and she is also the prince's favorite person, she takes care of all the affairs in the house, and usually takes care of herself more, even with the prince, although she knows that her cousin is not a person who loves to be mean, but she is by no means a person who can be ignored at will. Leng Chiwan's face exuding purity and charm was getting closer and closer, and her cousin's warning of "You'd better not be in the future" was getting heavier and heavier. "I've seen the princess." Chu Xue leaned over me and said softly. I only smiled faintly at her and nodded slightly, and then prepared to leave, "Why is the princess in such a hurry to leave, the prince is not waiting for you in Liao Lengge." Chu Xue raised her eyebrows and said coquettishly, "If you go back quickly, maybe the prince will be waiting for you in your bedroom." I said with some pleasure.

Chu Xue really had a dark face, and her round eyes glared at me angrily, "There is no one else here, who else do you want to pretend to see." Even if you were the princess, do you think I would be afraid of you? The prince didn't love you before, and he won't have to think about it in the future, now it's just that you still have a little use, what do you have to be proud of? "Chu Xue" I opened my mouth and just wanted to speak, but was interrupted by her evil voice, "The prince will only love his cousin alone, are you so confident, although we are not favored by the prince, we are all right, and we also take care of this layer clearly, I am afraid that people like you, princess, will not be able to see clearly, and in the end it will only be more miserable than us." I looked at her speechlessly, and said calmly, "Maybe you can read more books", "What are you talking about, do you think you are noble and full of poetry?" So what, since ancient times, a woman's lack of talent is virtue, you have offended, are you still worthy of pride? Even if you read the Book of Poetry to your heart, what's the use, I didn't see you capture the heart of the prince. Chu Xue sneered at me with a look of disdain. I didn't want to argue any more meaninglessly, so I didn't care about passing her side and leaving quickly. Only an indignant gaze was left behind him....

The next morning, Gong Nandui didn't appear in the study because of something in the court, and I was lazy and leaned over the bookcase and half fell asleep. About Shen, I heard the voice, raised my head, and saw Gong Nan Du walking in, sitting silently in front of the bookcase, I jumped over one step at a time, and saw the wood carvings of a row of large and small ducks placed on his bookcase, my happy eyes lit up, and I walked over quickly, picked up a half-sized duck in my arms, and couldn't help but go up and kiss it, and glanced at Gong Nan Du with a bright smile, and said excitedly, "Wow, it's so cute, did you buy it?" He looked at me with a smile in his eyes and said, "That's cute?" "Aren't you cute looking at them?" I asked him back in surprise, and he chuckled and confessed with a hint of incomprehension, "It's not cute." I automatically ignored him, hugged the duckling, kissed happily and contentedly, and whispered, "I look very cute." I picked out three ducklings of different sizes and put them on my desk, and dropped two larger ones on his desk, while Gong Nan Twilight just looked at me with a doting face, and suddenly he seemed to remember something and asked, "Chi Wan, do you remember my portrait of a group of deer fighting?" Is it the one that hangs on the other side of the shelf? ”

"I know that painting, last time you didn't take it down and revise a few strokes, I put it back up for you." I walked over and looked for it, and replied, "I know, I saw it later, why can't I find it?" Gong Nandui also looked at it and asked suspiciously, I flipped back and forth and didn't find it, and said helplessly, "You, every time I clean it up for you, you don't know where to throw it away." "I, how can I have." Gong Nan Du smiled and said softly embarrassedly. Looking at his reaction, I suddenly realized that my tone seemed to be ambiguously resentful. was thinking, "Lord Wang, that, Lord Wang, are you looking for something?" Adu came in to report but saw that we were all in a hurry to find something, so he tilted his head in confusion and asked, I suddenly came to be interested and laughed, Adu said, "Hey, his deer is lost, his favorite deer is lost." "Yes, where is my deer, where is my deer?" Gong Nan Du pretended to cooperate with a look of pity, I stood aside and smiled happily, Adu looked at us inexplicably, "What's the matter?" Gong Nandui remembered and turned around and asked, "Lord Wang, Gongzi Jiang is here." "Got it, I'll go over right away." Gong Nan Twilight glanced at me and stepped out of the threshold, I looked at his back and slightly curled the corners of my mouth.

"Late, pour me two cups of tea." It didn't take long for Gong Nandu's voice to come from afar at the door, "Okay." I stood up with his approaching footsteps and prepared to pour tea, as soon as I raised my eyes and walked to the bookcase, I was struck there like a lightning strike, my locked fist stiffly touched a stack of books on the side of the bookcase, and scattered heavily at my feet, I only glanced at the person behind Gong Nandui, and quickly dodged my gaze, the uncontrollable tightness of the whole body and even a slight tremor, the fingers were locked and locked, the eyes were no longer focused, things became blurred, and there seemed to be something under the eyes that was surging wantonly, In an instant, something the size of a dripping bean kept sliding downward, silently and rapidly, and my brain stood blank, leaving only the chest cavity full of tearing pain, crouching after realizing it, and a faintly trembling body. I wanted to flee but couldn't move, my tears were still unconscious and kept going down, as if everything was fake, otherwise how could I have no feeling, how could I not control it at all and be poured like rain. "He's Jiang Kan, isn't this my dead Jiang Kan? That's right, it's him. It's him. "I clasped myself with my fingernails to stay awake,

Gong Nan stood there in shock and stared at Leng Chiwan for a moment, "What's wrong with her, she has never been like this, does she actually know Jiang Kan?" "Who is this?" Jiang Kan asked Gong Nan Du with an unnatural expression, "This is my maid." Gong Nandui still stared at Chi Wan and said expressionlessly. Hearing Gong Nandui's words, I only raised my eyelids slightly, "Do you know you?" Hearing Jiang Kan's warm and warm voice, I still didn't have the courage to look at him head-on, just this sentence made me collapse again, my chest rose and fell violently, and the pain of being blocked in my throat was that I couldn't breathe, as if I had been drained of all my confidence and couldn't stop sobbing in front of the bookcase. I gritted my teeth and resisted the urge to cry. "Adu, go find the last one and take her back to rest first." Gong Nan Du commanded in a stiff tone. "Yes, lord." Adu didn't dare to look at it and immediately ran out.

"Slaves and maids see the prince." The last one knelt on the ground trembling slightly. "Take her down to rest first." "Yes." The last one stepped forward and didn't dare to say anything more and helped my body, and I still trembled and leaned softly on her strength, "Wait a minute." I said softly and hoarsely, and the last one looked at me in a daze, and I took a deep breath and finally said, "Wait until I have the courage to stand up." I urged myself over and over again in my heart, and finally took a difficult step, I couldn't tell whether it was the last one who was holding me, or I was holding her hard, I just ran away quickly, trying to cross out in one step, I felt Dao Jiang Kan's gaze move with my movements, I tried my best to lower my head sideways, and covered all my panic with my hair hanging down. Finally out of the door, I walked forward with a breath and a silent breath, blowing away all emotions with a cold breath all the way, and the scattered power penetrated into my body from under my feet. I gradually regained my former calmness and indifference. And the end walked back step by step heavily. I like the darkness of the night at this time of day, it is like a strong barrier that wraps me tightly in its internal organs, no one can disturb me, and I don't have to face everything outside. I stared at such a black hole with my eyes wide open, so that I could inexplicably feel down-to-earth and reassured, "Jiang Kan, I thought I had forgotten you if I wasn't in the same world." Why is this happening? "I kept asking myself if I wanted to go to sleep, I was afraid that the night would pass away without me seeing.

But after all, the sky will still be bright, and everything that happened will not be erased, I am looking forward to it and afraid, at this moment my mind is full of Gong Nan Du and no longer Jiang Kan, I found that from this moment of soberness, what I was worried about was how to explain to Gong Nan Dui, hesitant and contradictory into the study, he came earlier today than before, I lowered my head and stared at a face, Gong Nan Du also sat there indifferently to deal with affairs, I was more rigorous, and I didn't dare to breathe by his side to serve, I was afraid of him to speak, and at the same time I was vaguely expecting him to ask something, and my heart was full of mixed feelings. We all tacitly agreed not to talk about yesterday's events, and he also had an attitude of completely acting like nothing had happened, "Probably Gong Nan Du won't care about this at all, in his eyes, I'm just sick, there's nothing worth exploring, and it's not worth him to ask a word to care about, in his heart, I'm not even a friend just a maid, how can he take it to heart?" ”

I studied the ink and thought in a daze, I sat back in front of the bookcase silently after I was busy with everything, everything didn't happen as I imagined, we were still doing the same thing calmly as usual, Gong Nan Twilight would still talk and laugh with me about some problems, and I also cooperated with him to hide my unnatural and slightly embarrassed, "Why should I dodge, I didn't do anything unseemly." And no one will care about this" Thinking about it like this, I instantly straightened up and sat there thinking about Jiang Kan's face with confidence, but I could always overlap the figure of Gong Nandui, I actually wanted to open my mouth to ask him some things about Jiang Kan, but seeing that he wanted to open his mouth several times but held back stiffly, and silently told myself in my heart that there was always a chance, and I would find a suitable time to ask another day.

In this way, I was so worried that the twilight came. I said calmly, "Gong Nandu, I'll go back first." He raised his head and looked at me and only hummed gently, I didn't think much about it and got up to leave, "Chiwan, do you know Jiang Kan?" Gong Nan asked coldly, blurting out so casually that I was not at all guarded. Yesterday's scene exploded in my mind, and it turned out that when he really asked, I wasn't so happy to look forward to it, but I didn't want to say more, my eyes were erratic and I didn't move, as if I saw a picture under the microscope that was suddenly magnified thousands of times, I avoided Gong Nandui's eyes and stared at the other place, and said in a slightly astringent voice, "I don't want to say it, can I?" I don't know how to explain this yet. Gong Nan Du maintained a frozen smile on his face, and stopped talking or looking at me. My afterglow flickered over him and I turned and walked out.