Chapter 10: Two Hearts That Can't Be Seen Clearly
I haven't been to the palace since Jiang Kan suddenly appeared last time, and I haven't opened my mouth to explain to Gong Nan Du and I haven't asked anything about Jiang Kan, Gong Nan Dui's attitude towards me is still the same as always, this day Gong Nan Du told me that the jade shop has sorted out all the things according to my instructions, and the required furnishings are almost ready, and I want to go with him to see, he has prepared a carriage at the door, he and I were about to leave the house but met Shi Yingran and Chu Xue coming over, I'm not surprised how the two of them came together, "I've seen the prince, the princess." "Get up, what's the matter?" Gong Nandui asked, "The concubines also want to accompany the prince to have a look, and the concubines are thinking about picking out a piece of jewelry for their cousin." Just as a birthday gift for my cousin," I just stood quietly and listened to their conversation, "Okay, let's go and have a look." Gong Nan was silent for a while before relenting. For some reason, Gong Nan Twilight didn't arrange other carriages,
For the first time, the four of them sat in a carriage together, fortunately, the carriage was spacious enough, I looked out of the curtain with empty eyes, and was silent, only to hear Shi Yingran's soft voice sounding, "Lord, why are you wearing such thin clothes?" "The king thinks it very well." There was no emotion in Gong Nandu's voice. "Lord Wang, you are busy with affairs every day, how can you not take care of your body, several of our sisters in the palace are not well taken care of, and they are all concubines." Shi Yingran said reproachfully, "After a while, at the beginning of next month, there will be another newcomer in the palace." Gong Nan Du didn't answer but quickly stated another thing, I listened to him mixed with a faint release, irritable tone, like a hasty decision to break, I still maintained the posture of looking out of the sedan curtain did not change, sitting there indifferently without even frowning, I half-lowered my eyes and thought quietly in my heart, "Hearing this news is faint, how can I not feel anything." "Really? Why didn't you mention it so suddenly? Chu Xue's words stammered with obvious surprise and some unnaturalness, I sat up slightly and looked over with a faint smile, he just looked at the unknown place intently and said, "I planned it when I visited my mother in the palace last time. After Gong Nandui finished speaking, she also used her afterglow to examine Chi Wan's expression, but she finally wore a detached smile.
"Lord Wang, was it a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival last time when you brought your sister into the palace to celebrate your mother's birthday?" Shi Yingran asked cautiously, "The mother concubine likes Luotong very much, but like the royal brothers and sisters, they all hope that this king can accept a few more newcomers to prolong the heirs." "I don't know if I think too much, I always have a sense of loneliness when I listen to his tone, is it my delusion?" Is it? The concubines are here to congratulate the prince first. "Chu Xue's enchanting face was covered with a layer of desolate pain that she didn't even notice herself, and those delicate and agile eyes became desolate like dead ashes, and she only tried to squeeze out a smile at the corner of her mouth, and I gradually couldn't tell whether it was my own original sadness or looking at them and I was sad for them, and there was an unusual silence in the carriage." Is it to see my reaction when she says so eagerly? Last time his mother's birthday? So did he ask me to accompany him to the palace to meet his mother? Do you want to see if his mother will like me too? But is he so bored? I must have been thinking too much about it myself. "We came to the shop with our own ideas.
Chu Xue and Shadow Dye have walked over to pick out the jewelry they need, I quietly looked at their panicked and lost eyes, absentmindedly caressing those small and delicate hairpins, the bright and bright color satirizes their inner helplessness and bitterness, I silently walked beside Nan Dui and went up to the attic, Hu shopkeeper immediately greeted me, I didn't think much about it and went directly to the topic, took the accounts in Hu shopkeeper's hand and the archive records of these jewelry, while carefully looking at it, suppressed all emotions and calmly said to Gong Nan Dui" Let's take a look at the inventory. "Hmm" he replied lightly, I walked side by side with Gong Nandu, the shopkeeper Hu led us on one side, and introduced the origin of these jades, treasures and jewelry, the value and so on, I listened silently and carefully checked the records, and when the shopkeeper Hu finished talking one by one, I have classified and divided them in order according to their respective colors and values.
Then rearrange it to create a clear notebook. "Gong Nandu, those materials can be sent over." "Okay, I'll give orders." Gong Nan Twilight is worthy of being a prince, and the officials are really different, I thought to myself in my heart, looking at the red coral trees, glass boxes, green sandalwood and pure white mink that were sent in turn, my pupils continued to enlarge, looking at the clear and transparent glass, mixed with an indescribable sense of white mist, like a clear spring gushing outward, caressing it is a smooth and penetrating cold feeling, and the fingertips tap on the glass to make a moving metallic sound. Reflecting the sunlight and exuding a charming luster, I gently picked up the soft mink and laid it inside, and the white of Katsuyuki blended with its clarity, and the effect itself was just right, "It's very good." Gong Nan Du covered the bright light in his eyes and praised with a smile, I looked at him quietly and smiled, and then instructed his subordinates to take those classified coral jewelry and Hetian mutton fat white jade jewelry,
I carefully picked them up and put them in turn, the delicate and soft mutton fat white jade, the flesh red and transparent coral beads, the white almost fused together, the red like a touch of blood floating in the snow, was set off more charming and smart. The great contrast is ingeniously blended, because in this era, everything is pure and natural, and it seems to be particularly beautiful. Then I hung some necklaces, earrings, and rings on the branches of the red coral branches that were transparent and transparent, and ordered them to be placed on a higher shelf, and lifted them to the angle where the beams could be sprinkled with half of the red coral trees, and I carefully adjusted the height of their drooping from each other. It's hard to take your eyes off.
Under the refraction of the sun, half of the light and half of the shadow are uncertain, hidden in the back is the red coral necklace, earrings, and others, facing the sun is made of white jade jewelry, red and white reflect each other, indirectly through the sun, projection of each other, white jade instantly like through the flow of red blood, like a smooth blood jade. In the midst of people's movements, the light beams are cut into wisps of mutilated or sporadic mottled shapes, and there seems to be silhouettes without projection, making the whole red coral more three-dimensional. After fiddling with this, I ordered the rest of the larger red coral trees of the family to be carried to the attic and to the farthest corner. "Gong Nan Dusk, help me get some white dye for painting." I stood in the attic and looked down at him. "Okay." He responded heartily, I took the dye and sniffed it lightly, and a faint fragrance filled it, and I instantly smiled happily, "What are you laughing at?" "It's a little fragrant." As I spoke, I picked up a rather thick brush and brushed it.
"Are you going to put it on this?" Gong Nan asked in surprise, I couldn't reply to his words intently, and only nodded slightly, "How to get it, I'll take a look." Gong Nan also leaned over and picked up the brush and applied it gently, "You don't have to apply it so evenly, just use it at will, so that the thickness is commensurate, like this is more easy-going and natural, and the effect will be better." I explained to him seriously and commanded him, "Lord Wang, the concubine is a little uncomfortable and wants to go back with her sister first." Suddenly, Chuxue's somewhat pale and hollow voice sounded, "Then hurry up and go back to rest first, and I'll let Adu go to the Imperial Doctor to take a look." Gong Nandui said gently, "The prince doesn't have to bother, just go back and rest a little." "Well, Adu sent the concubine and the lady back." Miyanami commanded.
Watching them leave Nan Twilight turned around and continued to cooperate with me happily, accidentally holding the brush on my hand, but he didn't realize that he was still brushing quickly, I raised my face and stared at him in surprise, Gong Nan Twilight noticed that she smiled at me with a little weakness, I smiled helplessly and lowered my head and continued to be busy, quickly smearing three-quarters of the red coral, only revealing a quarter that stretched out diagonally, and then hanging a small part of the red jade and silverware on the overhead branches, The remaining three-quarters are hung with shiny silver jewelry, so that you can see it from the door, and when you look up, you can see the necklace hanging in the air, which is stunning and chic. Next are those high-quality jade necklaces, bracelets, as well as agate, turquoise, dense jade, etc., are also placed on the green sandalwood in a similar way, and the eye is a dazzling green, clear and transparent, which makes people feel refreshed. On the side wall of the entrance are also placed several delicate hairpins, step rocks and hairpins. After putting everything in order, I looked at the whole shop again, as if it had a new look. "It's good" Gong Nan Dui praised me sincerely, hearing his recognition of me, I just smiled at him and said nothing, I slowly paced close to the red coral, and at this moment I was free to suddenly find how sad this red reflected in the eyeballs was, I was fascinated, and I couldn't help but fantasize that touch of red like cinnabar in my heart. I was stunned and thought in my heart, "Why are you still here, Jiang Kan, do you want me to continue to feel guilty and feel indebted to you?" Gong Nandui silently looked at the thin back standing there, and strongly exuded a strong sadness around, and his heart was gradually covered with cold loneliness.
"Participate in the construction of the little prince." A gentle and humble voice pierced the silence. I quickly turned around and looked at the source of the voice, this time it was unusually calm, "It turned out to be Jiang Gongzi, you and I don't have to be so polite." Gong Nan Du continued to say lightly with a hint of a nonchalant smile, "I don't know what Gongzi Jiang has come to find this king today, please inside." "The prince doesn't have to be polite, I didn't come to see the prince on purpose today, but I happened to see it from here, so I came up to say hello." Jiang Kan's appearance has not changed at all, his thin face with sharp edges and corners has just the right curvature, and his thick but shallow sword eyebrows. The biggest difference from others is that the gentle and agile Danfeng eyes, with clear warmth, shine into the eyes like the refreshing wind of the mountain stream, like the warm light of the ancient city.
There is always a settling smile at the corners of the thick and well-proportioned mouth. Gong Nan and I only stood a little apart from each other, but my ears didn't hear their words, and my world was instantly quiet and only the person who was a few steps away from me and no longer recognized me. I hid there and looked at him stupidly, until he glanced at it casually, I felt that the nerve cells in various parts of my body immediately revived and jubilated, and the heart in my chest was pounding, "The emperor deserves to value you the most, the prince always has something special in handling things, and this shop is really unique and excellent." Jiang Kan looked at Gong Nan sincerely and said indifferently, but the afterglow passed through his body and fell on the petite figure behind him, "Just now I passed by here and happened to see the little girl who burst into tears when I saw myself that day, I stopped and looked at it for a while, but I found that this woman's thinking is unique and different from others, and it is surprising to see that she is so serious and fiddling with the facilities in the shop, a maid is so smart, is this why the little prince spoils her, Otherwise, would the dignified Gong Nan Twilight take a little maid with him wherever he goes?
also brought her into contact with business matters, or did you think of her as more than a girl in your heart, little prince? Jiang Kan secretly speculated in his heart, looking at Jiang Kan's face, I felt that his afterglow was obviously covering my body, and various complicated colors such as pity, nostalgia, and guilt quietly welled up in my eyes, "Jiang Kan, I'm the end of the year, I haven't seen you for a long time" I thought silently in my heart. "These are all late ideas, and she has transformed them single-handedly." Gong Nandui looked at Jiang Kan's thin tone, like ethereal air. "Chi Wan, who is Jiang Kan, how can there be any involvement between you and him?" Gong Nan thought about it and didn't want to look at Jiang Kan's eyes that had already passed through him, "Is this the little girl behind the prince?" Jiang Kan asked, "Chi Wan, this is Jiang Kan Jiang's son, the richest businessman in my calendar, and this is Leng Chiwan." Gong Nan Twilight took a step back and introduced us to each other at a level with me, I turned my face a little stiffly and looked at Gong Nan Twilight only to feel that the world was so ridiculous, standing in front of each other's most familiar people, one remembered the past, the other was a stranger, and the official meeting again was still under the picture of others recommending.
"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, cold girl is good." Jiang Kan clenched his fists slightly and said respectfully, I looked at him with a blank look and nodded slightly, "Miss Leng, you." "Call me late." Without waiting for Jiang Kan to continue, I resolutely interrupted. Ignoring Gong Nandu's gaze, he just stared at Jiang Kan stubbornly. "Miss Chiwan, I've never seen these furnishings before, it's really new and strange, I don't know how the girl came up with it." "I don't want you to add a girl to my name one day, so unfamiliar." I laughed self-deprecatingly in my heart, and said lightly, "I thought of it on my own whim." "That late girl's idea is really extraordinary, the people around you are really not to be underestimated, Lord Wang." Jiang Kan said, with a clean and warm smile on his face. Gong Nandui's eyes swept over me slightly, and he smiled faintly at Jiang Kan, "Can the prince allow Miss Chi Wan to take her around to watch?" Jiang Kan proposed, "Of course you can, please." Gong Nan said humbly, "What do you want to see?" Come with me. I smiled at Jiang Kan, and his slow steps towards me made me unable to tell whether it was reality or a dream.
We walked side by side inside, so close but so far apart, "Miss Chiwan, why did you think of mixing these white jade in pure white mink skin, so that it is not easy to distinguish." "Next to the coral, the most eye-catching red and this snow white will form a high contrast, it is easier to attract objective eyeballs, and then you will find the white jade on the side, and this good mink is about to be integrated, but the whole is transparent, the luster is delicate, so that it can show the value of white jade, more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people." I looked at the white jade seriously, smiled slightly, and explained to him gently. "It's a unique idea, but it does work well." Jiang Kan smiled and exclaimed gently, "Yes, I'm also fiddling with it." I was embarrassed to turn my head and smile at him. With gentle eyes, he and Jiang Kan discussed these jade jewelry on display, sometimes looking down, sometimes looking at each other and smiling, and sometimes gesturing with both hands. Still as familiar as before, the moment he raised his eyes, he inadvertently bumped into Gong Nandu's eyes, he was standing far away on the side with a cold smile on the corner of his mouth, there was no temperature mixed with disdain in his eyes, staring at me playfully, I immediately lowered my eyes and covered a little unnatural, one hand scratched the back of my head, and Jiang Kan continued to discuss with his words not very fluently. However, Jiang Kan keenly observed Leng Chiwan's subtle changes, quietly took in everything, and pretended not to notice anything on his face, only smiling secretly in his heart.
After watching it, we walked towards Gong Nandu, "Lord, I see that the time is not early, and there are still things to do, so I will leave first, thank you Miss Chiwan today." Jiang Kan said gently, "Since you have something, this king won't keep you much." "Gong Nan Du politely replied." The prince stayed and left first. Saying that, Jiang Kan smiled at me and left with him. It's almost time for us to go home. "Okay, if there's any problem, we'll come back another day." Shopkeeper Li escorted us into the carriage before walking back to the shop, in the carriage, Gong Nandui looked at the street outside, and suddenly said to me in a good mood: "Look at that old woman, you see her expression, she must be secretly scolding the young man next to her." "How do you know, you're so boring." I smiled and leaned over to look at the old woman, but I was a little surprised by the change in Gong Nandu. "Didn't you still look unhappy just now, and you will change when you say it." "This kind of simple-minded person with obvious thoughts can be seen by looking at her eyes." Gong Nan Du said confidently with a smile on his face, I only smiled lightly and stopped talking, "Why do you walk so slowly?" After a while, Gong Nandui suddenly said with a little eagerness,
Hearing his words made me suddenly think of a time when I walked side by side with Gong Nandu, I still remember that when I jokingly asked him why he walked so slowly today, he still asked me reluctantly in a slightly lonely tone, "It's too slow, do you want to be fast?" Hurry up. And now he is the one who wants to get to his destination quickly, "Do you feel slow because you don't want to be alone with me, but he never noticed that he was walking slowly." I looked at him with a guess, and he still had a smile on his face that didn't care about anything. I looked at the unusually Gong Nandu, turned around a little sneeringly, looked away expressionlessly, and said lightly, "Maybe there are too many people on the street." He didn't answer me again, and I was silent alone, but there was a faint unspeakable discomfort in my heart. Gong Nandui noticed Chi Wan's face, but he still had no expression, and he couldn't see any unusual emotions, so he looked away even more upset and disappointed.
When I saw Gong Nan Twilight again the next day, he was sitting in front of the bookcase with a gloomy face and dealing with things, and I gently walked over to help, "What's the matter, it's still this expression." I rolled my eyes silently in my mind, "Hand that over." He pointed to an official document and suddenly said anxiously, listening to his tone, I knew that his irritable heart at the moment was pressed by a silent heart, I immediately put away my emotions and helped him sort out everything seriously. At this time, I saw him push away a few official documents and wanted to take the letter on the side, I quickly went up to help, but I was hit on my ring finger by the ruler he threw and it happened to be stuck in the gap with the edge of the table, I only calmly pulled out my fingers and was silent, Gong Nan Twilight glanced at it and didn't say anything, just turned his face away coldly and continued to be busy with the things in his hand, looking at his anxious and impatient looks, I just stood innocently on one side and rubbed my fingers without leaking traces, and looked back and forth at a loss, Seeing him glancing at my face from time to time but still not caring and looking away,
Indifferently pretending not to see it, I suddenly thought sadly, "It turns out that he hurt me after all, and he still hurt me in the end." I said to myself over and over again in my heart, and I didn't understand why I had such thoughts, there was a faint layer of tears in my eyes, and my other hand was holding my ring finger. Gong Nandui looked back at Chi Wan again, and finally couldn't help but ask a little gently, "Are you okay with your hand?" "It's fine." I said quietly. The resentment in my heart disappeared in this instant. Then he looked at Gong Nandui's figure with some concern. A cold breath blew through the doorway, and Gong Nan Twilight calmed down a little, secretly thinking, "What's wrong with me?" Why should I be angry when I see her and Jiang Kan together, haven't I long been used to her emotions that never show out? Why are you still so bored and want to test her? I don't like it, why should she care about her reactions, I care about who she is closer to, I just don't get used to focusing on others in the evening. ”
After dinner, I told Sueichi about what had happened in the past two days, "Sueichi, do you say that Miyanami really wants to recruit newcomers?" "Miss, how could the prince tell a lie? What's more, I said it in front of the concubine. Suichi said seriously, "But I feel that he was a little abnormal that day." "Miss, what do you think when you hear that the prince wants to recruit a newcomer?" Moichi suddenly asked curiously. "I didn't feel much at the time." "Miss, to be honest, I think the prince cares about you very much. It doesn't seem to be the same as anyone else" "What do you think, how can Miyanami Twilight care about me." "Then how can the prince only show his true side in front of you? Miss, think about it. As soon as he said that, he ran out. I was left alone to ponder in my heart, "If you really care, why don't you speak for a long time, and if you don't say it, it proves that you don't care about it at all, so what about Luotong, he also cares very much?" Then I'd rather not be tied up like this, hey, Gong Nan Dusk, I never saw you clearly. ”