Cheng Yong took the crystal incense pool brought back by Yuan Yue, was stunned, and looked at Yuan Yue in surprise: "Where did this come from?"

"What? do you recognize?"

"It's not that I recognize it, I just think that this material is some years old, presumably the owner of this ornament is not official and expensive, why do you want to take out such a valuable thing and pawn it?" Cheng Yong returned the incense pool to Yuan Yue's hand and shook his head: "Second sister, we can't accept such a thing, you asked Wang He to prepare fifty taels of gold and send it to the owner, just say that everyone has a narrow time, Xi Yintang can't take it out more, and it can help a little bit, that's all." ”

Cheng Yong said that, and buried his head in his books again.

Yuan Yue turned the incense pool and sat down with her mouth pouting: "I thought you knew." ”

"What do you know?" asked Cheng Yong without raising his head.

"I thought you knew who gave this thing. ”

Cheng Yong raised his eyebrows and turned the page of the book: "Who?"

"Guess what?" Yuan Yue leaned in: "It was sent by a very important person." ”

"Lan Yu?" Cheng Yong blurted out, then he was a little embarrassed, and waved his hand: "When I didn't say it." ”

Yuan Yue's eyes dimmed, it turned out that the important person in Cheng Yong's heart was actually Lan Yu? Seeing that Yuan Yue didn't speak, Cheng Yong replied and asked, "Don't sell Guanzi." ”

"It's Princess Miyaka. ”

Cheng Yong hesitated for a while, and Yuan Yue said: "Big brother, what do you mean in your heart? Now that the third sister has become the crown princess, the prince will definitely promote the eldest brother in the future, and then your wife in the main house must be a princess woman." If the princess is interested in you, you will be a colt in the future. ”

Cheng Yong looked at Yuan Yue indifferently: "Sister, others don't know about this matter, haven't you counted it in your heart? Even if the princess is interested, I won't take the initiative to the princess." ”

Yuan Yue lowered her eyelids and muttered in a low voice: "I know that the eldest brother likes Lan Yu, but now that Lord Lan is drifting away from our family, he is not even going to the door, I heard that the fourth prince has returned to Beijing, and Lord Lan wants to try his best to match Miss Lan and the fourth master." Big brother, although you and Miss Lan Yu are sympathetic, but Lord Lan is the life of your parents. If Lord Lan doesn't agree, you won't be able to do it. ”

Cheng Yong took a pen from the shelf and pulled out a little fine hair on the tip of the pen: "At the beginning, the queen didn't want to see the third sister, and later didn't she also recognize her status as the crown princess?"

I know that the eldest brother wants to take a meritorious test, and then he can justifiably propose to the Lan Mansion, but you don't want to think about it, if Lord Lan really agrees with your family affairs, he would have agreed a long time ago, and he would still be guilty of you going to the meritorious test? ”

Although he said this, Cheng Yong didn't listen to it at all, no matter how unreasonable Lan Chengjie was, he should also cherish her daughter, right? Lan Yu was the pearl in his palm, how could he be reluctant to secretly invest in the pearl? The fourth prince is a rude man, this is well known to passers-by, who wants his daughter to marry such a person? As long as he has a reputation, he may not be worse than the prince when he is an official in the future, how can Lan Chengjie not waver?

Seeing that he didn't eat oil and salt, Yuan Yue turned her face angrily: "I see that Lord Lan can't wait to tie Lan Yu to a sedan chair and send it to the Lijun Palace, then it is called satisfactory." The princess likes you, this is a great opportunity, if I agree, I will marry the princess in the future, and I will be thousands of times more noble than his Lan Chengjie's daughter, and I will be angry with him. ”

Cheng Yong glanced at the incense pool, how to send this thing?

Incense pool, incense pool. He pondered it and understood the meaning. This incense pond is a thing of incense, isn't it the meaning of a thing of incense? The princess gave this thing, didn't he always remember this thing?

Cheng Yong then took a brand-new inkstone on the table: "Second sister, you return this to the princess, and by the way, hand over this inkstone to the princess." Princess Bingxue is smart, I guess I mean, she knows a little. ”

Yuan Yue's eyes stared at the somewhat clumsy inkstone carved in the square, the outside was square, the inside was also square, and even the carvings on the edges were boxy paper patterns. Yuan Yue was puzzled and asked: "Second brother, do you want to send a daughter who can be used at home, and the princess doesn't like to write and read, what's the use of sending an inkstone?"

Cheng Yong smiled slightly, lowered his head and studied his book again.

Yuan Yue held the inkstone, feeling inexplicable, but Cheng Yong finally gave an attitude this time, which is really rare. The princess was still waiting to hear the news, and Yuan Yue hurriedly set up a car and rushed to the prince's mansion.

"Third sister, what do you mean by looking at the eldest brother?" Yuan Yue shouted as soon as she entered Yuan Xi's small courtyard.

Yuan Xi had just woken up from a nap, looking at Yuan Yue with sleepy eyes, holding a black thing in his hand like a brick.

"What is it?" Won-hee sat down in the pavilion and poured a cup of bitter tea to wake up.

"Inkstone. Yuan Yue put the thing on the table: "The eldest brother wants me to return the crystal incense pool to the princess, and also transfer a piece of inkstone to the princess, what do you mean by him?"

Yuan Xi stretched out his hand to touch the material: "Duan Yan, simple workmanship, is the attitude of the literati to seek truth, it is a good thing." ”

Yuan Yue Yixi: "So he agreed?"

"Promise what?"

"Alas, the princess likes him, and he gives the princess gifts, isn't this what it means to exchange hearts?"

Yuan Xi woke up at this time, and it turned out to be for the princess. She rubbed her eyebrows, she slept too much, and her head was confused. Yuan Xi played with the inkstone for a while before asking, "Big brother just asked you to hand it over to the princess, and didn't say anything else?"

Yuan Yue nodded: "He said that the princess can understand when she sees it." ”

Yuan Xi frowned, what can a boxy inkstone mean? Yuan Yue also came up, Duan Yan, what is upright, dignified and so on.

Mother Zhong brought two bowls of sweet soup to the table: "Niangniang, second miss, this is the new wolfberry white fungus and pear soup made by the slave, you two will study it after drinking the soup, right?"

Yuan Yue took the bowl and scooped two spoonfuls, the soup was sweet, but not greasy, and the taste was just right. Yuan Yue said with a smile: "Mother Zhong's craftsmanship is getting better and better, I'm afraid I have to come often to eat Mother Zhong's craftsmanship." ”

"If you like it, I'll ask Mother Zhong to send it to you every day. ”

Mother Zhong said with a smile: "The second lady is cheering, and the slave maid's face is also bright!"

Won-hee took a sip of soup, his face changed suddenly, and he looked down at the bowl in his hand. Mother Zhong was startled: "Niangniang, what's wrong?"

Yuan Xi shook his head: "No, Mother Zhong, it's none of your business, you go and rest first." ”

Mother Zhong returned to the room suspiciously, Yuan Xi held up the celadon bowl with one hand, and said slowly: "Second sister, what shape do you say this is?"

"Round. What's wrong?" asked Yuan Yue as she drank the soup and was unnoticed.

"Then you look at the inkstone again. ”

Yuan Yue lowered his head and put the bowl and inkstone together, and then realized the meaning. The inkstone is boxy, there is no curve, Cheng Yong means "no circle" (no fate)? Yuan Yue opened her mouth in shock: "This ......"

"The eldest brother still likes Lanyu in his heart. Yuan Xi put down the bowl and sighed: "This is troublesome." ”

Yuanyue was not in the mood to drink sweet soup, sitting at the table and worried, Princess Chenxiang was still happily waiting for her to reply, but how to tell the princess such a thing? Yuan Yue flicked the two lotus seeds in the bowl, and knew that she would not take this errand.

"The princess is young and thin-skinned. I'm afraid she won't be able to accept this. Won-hee let out a long sigh of relief.

"I'm not worried about whether the princess can accept it now, I'm worried about the queen's mother. Yuan Yue held Yuan Xi's hand and pinched it: "Third sister, you just lost your child, although the queen mother takes care of you, but after all, it is her own grandson, can she not have a pimple in her heart? If our family offends the princess again, even if there are a lot of princesses, what will the queen think in her heart? Our family is already on the cusp of the storm, it is not easy to stabilize the body, and if we encounter the wind and waves again, our family really can't withstand it!"

Yuan Xi stroked the flat inkstone, I don't know what the queen means, she praised Cheng Yong that day, but I don't know if the young talent in her mouth can be worthy of her daughter.

"No matter what the princess and Cheng Yong do, it's just a child's stumbling, and it's not a big deal. I'm afraid that the queen will think that she is mediocre and unworthy of the princess. In this case, whether Cheng Yong agrees or not, he is a sinner. If you think about it, if you are not worthy of the princess but ask to marry the princess, you are a villain who is bent on climbing high branches, and if you are not worthy of the princess but refuse the princess, you are an arrogant and ignorant fanatic. The queen lady treats Chen Xiang as her own, how can she bear that breath?"

Yuan Yue shuddered, if it was really what Yuan Xi said, their family would have been targeted by the public from the beginning, Yuan Yue frowned: "Then why didn't you say it before?"

"What did you say before? Chen Xiang is so elated, if we refute her face in public, it will also be a troublesome matter. ”

Yuan Yue sighed, accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, the people of the royal family, each one is easy to entangle.

"Then what should I do? Should this thing be given or not?If not, how should we tell the princess?"

Before Yuan Xi could answer, Mother Zhong came to report: "Niangniang, the concubine room in the fourth master's mansion has given us an invitation, Niangniang, shall we go?"

"This fourth master really deserves to be Xiao Rongshen's good brother, and even his temperament is so similar. Yuan Yue snorted disdainfully.

Yuan Xi sneered: "I just lost five hundred taels of silver to Lu Shenglin, and I want to marry a concubine, I see what he will do for the second half of the year." As soon as the words came out, he suddenly thought about it, and Yuan Xi hooked the corners of his lips: "Second sister, I know how to tell Chenxiang." ”

Yuan Yue was puzzled, Yuan Xi turned his head to Mother Zhong and said, "Mother Zhong, you go to the account room to pay 1,000 taels of silver to the fourth master, and then take these two things as a congratulatory gift and transfer them to the fourth master together." ”

Yuan Yue saw that she was going to send the incense pond and inkstone, and was stunned: "Alas, are you crazy?"