Shen Lingxi listened to Liu Meiren's words, dressed up in disguise, and then left the East Palace and went to the Yiyang Marquis Mansion to see the excitement.

Although the Li family of the Marquis of Yiyang is not a prominent family, it is also a big family that has stood tall since the previous dynasty.

The Hou Mansion is in Jin'anfang, which is closest to Xuande Gate.

From the East Palace to Jin'anfang, it is only a quarter of an hour's journey.

Shen Lingxi arrived in a carriage, and saw a lot of people gathered in front of the Yiyang Marquis Mansion from a distance.

Seeing this, Liu Meiren's eyes fluttered towards the nearest place excitedly.

Shen Lingxi also got out of the carriage, and as soon as he approached, he saw Yun Chong, who was dressed in disguise, being forked out of the door by two Li Mansion subordinates and thrown out of the mansion gate.

was thrown out together, as well as the matchmaker brought by Yun Chong, and the little maid carrying the gift.

In the end, he was thrown out of the door, along with the Nacai gift he had brought with him.

The bride price is sprinkled all over the ground, and there is no shortage of three animals and four fruits, candy and seafood, tea and rice cakes, dragon and phoenix bracelets, gold decorations and golden gold ingots.

To say the least, it is worth a thousand taels of silver.

These bride prices, put in the homes of ordinary officials and eunuchs, are more than enough as formal marriage proposals.

And now, it's just a first-time greeting gift, and it has such weight.

It can be seen that the person who asks for marriage is ten out of ten sincere.

A person who looked like a housekeeper of the Hou Mansion walked out of the door and spat at Yun Chong.

"Phew! It's just a incense seller, and I dare to think about our aunt and grandmother, if you dare to come to the door again, you will definitely break your dog's leg! ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone on the lookers was shocked.

"Wow! The first time I came to the door to propose, it was such a heavy ceremony, I thought it was the daughter of the Li family who had not left the cabinet, but I didn't expect it to be the aunt and grandmother who had just been abandoned by the Zhenguo family. ”

"What is so special about a cousin who has made a mistake in her husband's family that she can pick up such a good relative so quickly for nothing?"

"Harm, what's so good, I didn't see that the Hou Mansion didn't look down on it, and the gifts were thrown out."

"Huh...... This Lang Jun, who came to propose marriage, looks dignified, can be seen from the clothes and gestures, the family background must be very solid, after all, the Li family is a cousin who has made mistakes, such a good family matter, the Li family can't look down on it, Yiyang Hou wants his sister to marry into a high family again......"

For a while, everyone was talking.

Standing in the crowd and looking at the lively Shen Lingxi, he also raised his eyebrows.

She originally thought that the matter of hiring someone was privately discussed between Yun Chong and the Li family, but it was just a formality.

Unexpectedly, Yun Chong actually came to touch a nail.

Shen Lingxi originally thought that with Yun's arrogant temperament, how could he stand this kind of insult.

Unexpectedly, Yun Chong just stood up with a smile, patted the dust on his clothes, and waved his hand at the housekeeper: "The courtyard is angry, the so-called fair lady, the gentleman is good." On the way to Beijing a few days ago, I was destined to be a fellow traveler with Mrs. Li, admiring Mrs. Li's demeanor and not letting her eyebrows, and specially came to ask for marriage. ”

"I also asked the court to tell me on my behalf, I will live in Heming Tower, and the Hou Ye will not allow this family business for a day, and I will come every day until Mrs. Li comes forward in person and refuses to be here."

After that, he bowed again with a lot of style, and no longer pestered, turned around and walked out of the workshop.

The little guy who was carrying the gift burden before seemed to have been instructed by him in advance, and also bowed his head and followed him out.

The three masters and servants did not even want the bride price on the ground.

The matchmaker got up from the ground and shouted at Yun Chong's back in a hurry: "Wailang, you have to bring these gifts back, isn't Ming'er still coming......"

Yun Chong didn't look back, just waved his hand, and said loudly: "I came here to marry Mrs. Li, if Mrs. Li doesn't accept these things, she must not like them very much, and the things that Mrs. Li doesn't like are not very interesting to me, so don't want it." ”

With that, he boarded the carriage and left without looking back.

The matchmaker had never seen such an idiot in her life, and secretly scolded "fool", and hurriedly squatted down to pick up the most valuable gold.

Liu Meiren floated beside Shen Lingxi, looked at Yun Chong's back, and sighed, "I thought he was just a straw bag, but I didn't expect that his ability to coax women was the same as his dead uncle Yun Hongshan." When he played such a play, the Li family knew that he must be more and more desperate for him. ”

Shen Lingxi had probably guessed what Yun Chong wanted to do, and with a touch of sneer on the corner of his lips, he said in a low voice: "The men of the Yun family have always been blue in the matter of pitting women...... It seems that Yun Chong has already figured out a way to get out, so let's watch the show. ”

Liu Meiren raised her eyebrows, and was about to ask her what she meant by this-

Suddenly, a shout came from the crowd, "What are you doing in a daze, what the Lord doesn't want, naturally the seeers have a share, hurry up and grab it!" Don't let that matchmaker take all the good stuff. ”

The people who were watching, not to mention the hundreds, immediately reacted when they heard this.

Under the lure of heavy money, the scene instantly began to riot, and people rushed forward as if they were not dying.

The matchmaker was also pushed to the ground, and the gold ingots and gold jewelry in her arms were scattered all over the ground again.

"It's mine, mine!"

"you, whoever picks it up is theirs!"

"Gold ingots, this is real gold! Oops hey! This single ingot, enough for me to eat and drink for several years! What a day of great luck! ”

"Don't worry, don't worry, I can't grab it today, I still have it tomorrow!"

"My God, is this foreigner an infatuated species, or a wronged man! Did you hear that, he said he was still coming! ”

"Bah, what kind of infatuation, can you speak! This grandfather, in the future, will be our food and clothing parents! ”

A group of people grabbed and quarreled, and a few of them fought for the golden cakes, shouting, cursing, and crying, which shook people's eardrums.

Shen Lingxi didn't expect this kind of change, she was originally mixed in the crowd, but now that the crowd is suddenly chaotic, she can only be passively pushed and pushed around in the crowd.

"Go this way, there are few people here." Liu Meiren floated in mid-air, anxiously showing her the way.

Shen Lingxi repeatedly failed to break through, her eyes sank, and she was about to make a move, folding a few arms that pushed her, and taking the opportunity to break through the opening and go out-

"Oh my God."

Liu Meiren seemed to notice something, and suddenly screamed and hurriedly retreated.

Seeing this, Shen Lingxi was puzzled in her heart, and she was cold, she only felt that she was being gently pulled.

Before he could react, the whole person was wrapped into a strong warm embrace.

A wisp of familiar scent of soaphorn rushed into the tip of Shen Lingxi's nose, causing her tense nerves to relax suddenly.

It's Chu Yan.

She loosened her arms around his waist and let him protect herself, squeezing out of the pushing crowd.

After about two cups of tea, the two finally squeezed out of the crowd.

At the same time, the servants of the government and the family members of the Yiyang Marquis Mansion also rushed to open the rioting crowd.

In just a moment, the front of the Hou Mansion was already a mess, and the bride price that was originally sprinkled on the ground had already been snatched up.

There were many people who were pushed to the ground in the riots, trampled by the crowd one after another, and lay on the ground screaming in pain.

And the matchmaker, who had been picking up things at the front at the beginning, was already lying on the ground, with blood gushing from her head and fainting.

Chunjun was already driving the carriage and waiting at the street corner.

Chu Yan took Shen Lingxi, got into the carriage, looked at her from head to toe with concern, and asked urgently, "How are you?" Are there any injuries? ”

"I'm fine." Shen Lingxi knew that he had always been nervous, raised his head, and tried to smile at him-

It wasn't until this moment that she realized that today he had changed his appearance for the first time, and changed to the way he had been dressed as a guard before.

The two of them coincidentally changed their faces.

"Why did Your Highness pretend to be like this and appear here?" Shen Lingxi asked suspiciously.

Chu Yan's thin lips pursed slightly, her eyelashes drooped slightly, and she looked at her with a deep gaze.

"I just saw you out of the palace, and there was nothing to do, so I came out with you to take a look...... Why didn't you call me? Are you afraid that I will hold you back? ”

Although the tone was as cold as ever, the last few words could be heard, almost through gritted teeth.

It can be seen that the last time he "dragged his feet" left an indelible shadow in his heart.

Shen Lingxi smiled, "This time it's really not, I'm just out to see the fun." ”

After saying this, she felt that something was wrong, and raised her apricot eyes to look at him suspiciously, "Didn't Chunjun say that you are going to enter the palace today?" How can it be so idle? ”

Chu Yan coughed and avoided her gaze, "He remembered wrongly. ”

Chunjun, who was driving the carriage outside, pursed his lips when he heard this.

Obviously, he was halfway through, and when he heard that the crown princess was out of the palace, he found a reason to release the emperor's pigeon, and hurriedly turned back, disguised and followed.

I'm embarrassed to say.

Chunjun shook his head.

Harm, man, it's not a shame to be clingy.

Chu Yan naturally couldn't hear the slander in Chunjun's heart, and seeing that Shen Lingxi was suspicious, he hurriedly changed the topic, "Yun Chong deliberately made this scene today, what do you want to do?" He plans to make the Li family and Li Xiangyang stiffen, dog eats dog? But Li didn't look like he knew too much of the inside story. ”

When Shen Lingxi heard this, he said meaningfully, "Dog eats dog is one of them, his purpose, I'm afraid it is not more than that, since His Royal Highness pretended to go out of the palace like this, we might as well continue to watch the excitement." ”

As she spoke, she said to Chunjun outside the carriage, "Go to Heming Tower." ”

*

As Shen Lingxi expected, Yun Chong told the housekeeper of the Li Mansion in public that he lived in the Heming Tower, and the "liveliness" of the Heming Tower was only a lot more than the one in front of the Li Mansion.

As soon as Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan entered the Heming Tower, they saw that the hall was full of people.

The shopkeeper of Heming Tower personally stood on the platform in the middle of the hall, and ordered someone to take a tray full of gold ingots to come out, and said to everyone: "This is Zhao Yuanwai from Suzhou, offering a reward of one hundred taels of gold, and recruiting a marriage gift that can move the hearts of women. ”

As soon as these words came out, the crowd immediately boiled.

"One hundred taels of gold, just to buy an idea that can succeed in marrying, what kind of immortal is it worth such a bloody capital for this person?"

When someone in the crowd asks questions, there are naturally people who do good things to answer.

So, just a cup of tea, the news that this "Zhao Yuanwai" came to the door to ask to marry the sister of the Marquis of Yiyang, Li, but was kicked out of the house, immediately spread in the crowd.

The world is most interested in this kind of lace rumors between men and women.

A dignified member of the house, spending a lot of money to marry a cousin who made a mistake.

Even though the woman is the daughter of the Houmen, the man is just a merchant with a huge disparity.

But in this case, it is also a family affair that can be called a "graceful" match in everyone's mouth.

Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan looked at the people in the hall across the beaded curtain in the private room, scratched their ears and cheeks for the one hundred taels of gold, made suggestions for Yun Chong, wrote a gift list, and participated in the reward.

It is rare for Heming Tower to have this liveliness, and the shopkeeper specially ordered someone to read out the gift list one by one.

Yun Chong sat in the private room opposite them, and he was not idle from beginning to end, and kept sending people to order people to take down the gift list he was interested in and go out to buy.

The huge hall of the Crane Ming Building, in less than half a day, is densely packed with all kinds of strange dowries.

At the same time, the news that this "Zhao Yuanwai" "only asked for a kiss, and did not take away the bride price, and let others rob it" did not spread widely.

So, the people who came to watch the excitement surrounded the crane tower tightly on the three floors inside and the three layers outside.

Until the night fell, Shen Lingxi and Chu Yan wanted to leave the Heming Tower, they had to take advantage of the night to perform light skills and fly the wall before leaving.

The streets and alleys of the capital are all discussed, for a mere cousin, scattered the infatuation of "Zhao Yuanwai".

And Li Xiaoqing, who was originally not famous even if she was suspended, became completely famous in the capital because of this incident.

People will discuss why she was abandoned by her husband's family.

But what's even more curious is-

How stunning she is, she has attracted a man to be so desperate and infatuated with her.

So much so that early the next morning, Yun Chong invited a new matchmaker to carry those bride prices to the door.

The entire Jin'anfang was densely surrounded by tens of thousands of people.

Of course, there were those among them who verified their plans for the hundred taels of gold.

More people are waiting for "Zhao Yuanwai" to ask for marriage and grab the bride price.

This matter is too big, and there is a "lesson from the past" yesterday.

The prefect came to the door overnight to persuade Li Xiangyang, the Marquis of Yiyang, to calm down the matter, but Li Xiangyang was blasted out of the Hou Mansion.

In desperation, the prefect had to send a messenger to maintain order.

Yun Chong made the matchmaker step forward and knocked on the door, "Please report to the court, Changzhou Zhaolong Zhao Yuanwai, ask to marry your Li Niangzi......"

The matchmaker shouted twice, but the door of the house did not move.

Presumably, the Yiyang Marquis Mansion was determined to pretend to be dead, and the door was closed, with a posture of "you come and let you come, my door will never be opened".

The people who were so anxious to watch spontaneously shouted in unison on her behalf, "Please report to the court public, Changzhou Zhao Long, Zhao Yuanwai, ask to marry Li Niangzi of your mansion......"

The sound was deafening, and even the rubble on the eaves of the Yiyang Marquis Mansion was shaken to the ground.

The matchmaker called the door, and the Yiyang Hou Mansion could ignore it.

But so many people called the door in unison, but Yiyang Hou couldn't continue to pretend to be dead.

After a dozen or so sounds—

"Squeak", the door of the mansion suddenly opened from the inside, and the steward of the Li Mansion, who drove Yun Chong out of the mansion yesterday, walked out of the door......

(End of chapter)