Attack Jade (攻玉) - Chapter 128

[Chapter 95]

Lin Chengyou scolded Wu Yuanluo in his heart, and when he was about to answer the call, he couldn’t help but pause again, strange, Wu Yuanluo was talking nonsense, why did no one question tonight.

From the night of his birthday to tonight, it had only been twelve days, during which he had only mentioned Teng Yuyi to his master and aunt, and even the emperor and the prince were kept in the dark.

How long had it been, and why did these people seem to know that he could be touched by the little lady?

Not quite.

Shi Gong could never publicize this matter, and his aunt did not even dare to reveal her concern for Teng Yuyi in front of people.

So someone else passed it on?

These rumors of the royal family will fly all over the city like the willows of spring, fermenting these days, and I don’t know how many people’s mouths and ears have passed, so tonight when I hear that he is devoted to a certain little lady, no one will question it.

There are only two places that can leak the sound of the wind: Qingyun Temple and Palace.

Qingyun Guan only had Shi Gong and Xiao Shi Disciple, so it could only be in the palace.

Lin Chengyou quietly took a sip of tea, remembering that Teng Yuyi had borrowed Xiao Ya’s mouth to say that someone would be unfavorable to him in the future, he did not think so before, now it seems that the person may not be in the so-called “military camp in three years”, but has always been by his side.

Did he pretend not to know when the other party would reveal more horses’ feet, or did he immediately pull the man out after following the clues?

If you really want to investigate, rumors such things have always been extremely difficult to trace back to, these days have passed, and it is not easy to find the source again, and the other party should also have expected this, so it is so unscrupulous.

What was even more interesting was Wu Yuanluo’s reaction.

Wu Yuanluo has the name of a prodigy since childhood, whether he fights with people or fights poetry, claims to have never met an opponent, and pulls his second sister together with him, just to fight with him?

The grandfather of the Wu brothers and sisters was Wu Rujun (武如筠), Yushi Zhongcheng (御史中丞), Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi (同中書門下平章事), a heavy minister of the kingdom, and one of the only prime ministers in the dynasty who could compete with The Servant Deng Zhiyao and Zheng Shuzhao.

These old foxes often fight in the court, and they have not stopped in all these years.

If he remembered correctly, when discussing the list of princesses a few days ago, the attendant Deng Zhiyao took the lead in pushing his granddaughter in front of his uncle.

Wu Rujun did not want to show weakness, and immediately boasted of his second daughter to the heavens and the earth.

In the end, the uncle naturally adhered to the consistent policy of equality and added the names of the two families.

Wu Yuanluo came to this show tonight, and he was not afraid of his sister’s candidacy for the crown princess?

Oh yes.

Wu Yuanluo also has a big sister, Wu Zhen.

Wu Ji had been betrothed to Zheng Yanrang, the eldest prince of Zheng Shuzhi, since he was a child, and at that time, Wu Zhongcheng was only a servant of the bureaucracy. A while ago, the two families were going to officially pass the dowry, but Zheng Yanrang had an affair with Duan Qingying, the daughter of the Duan family, and Duan Qingying was pregnant and refused to have an abortion, and Zheng Yanran naturally did not dare to marry Wu Zhen again.

For this, Zheng Shu and Wu Zhongcheng almost tore their faces.

So the samurai family is planning to change to Wu Ji to run for the crown princess?

I heard that this Wuda lady’s talent and appearance are better than her sister, only because she has relatives since she was a child, the Wu family had no choice but to push out the second daughter, and now because of the Fault of the Zheng Family, the Wu family will naturally reconsider the Wu Family Lady in order to stabilize the victory.

Once Wu Ji was selected, and Zheng Shu shot the father and son to be beaten in the face for the first time, then the martial family could also export their evil qi fiercely.

And if Wu Rujun really did the future national battle, his prestige in the dprk would slowly be able to overpower Zheng Shuhui and the Zheng family’s protégés in the dprk.

It is just that there is no precedent for two sisters to run for the crown princess at the same time in this dynasty, and the eldest daughter has a foothold, and the samurai family may choose a similar family affair for the younger daughter in order to compensate the younger daughter.

It seemed that the martial family was planning to tie Wu Zhen with him.

Oh, it is worthy of Wu Yuanluo, it is estimated that he knows the family’s plan, and actually simply uses the previous one to oppose him.

Dare to provoke him with this kind of thing, this boy is probably tired and crooked.

“Look at him.” The prince took the initiative to speak, “Lately, I have been shaking at every turn, every time I say something to him, don’t expect him to respond immediately, is this called acacia disease?”

Gu Xian: “You don’t really look at Second Lady Wu, do you?”

Lin Chengyou made up his mind in his heart, and sighed: “I have not disappeared the seal, who can see whose wife, I am kind enough to help, but Wu Yuanluo has such a big misunderstanding.” King

Chun’an looked at Lin Chengyou meaningfully and did not say a word.

“Really?” The crown prince expressed disbelief, got up and looked behind Lin Chengyou, stunned, and regrettably sat back in his place, “My uncle and I heard this news and were very happy. Ah Da, don’t worry, this time Shi Gong is back, maybe there is a way to think. Lin Chengyou knew that the prince was

loyal, how could he bear to worry about himself, busy making a look at the prince, and said: Ah Qi, turn around and explain to you.

Gu Xian said curiously, “Can’t you be emotional when you don’t understand the poison, Shizi, have you never had a slight difference with a certain little lady?” For example, when you see her, your heart will shake, if you don’t see her for a few days, you will be worried, and when you see her and other Lang Jun, you will feel jealous and think about what she is doing every day.

In quanzhong, Lin Chengyou said in his heart, and suddenly smiled: “I don’t know these things.” However, it seems that Prince Gu finally has a crush, how, is Nanzhao Guo going to marry the crown princess?

Gu Xian paused, smiled lightly and diverged from the topic: “I heard that tomorrow there will be hunting and horse fighting, do your heads still hurt?” Can you come? Without you, it wouldn’t be so fun. “Come

.” Lin Chengyou Yan could not hear gu Xian deliberately changing the topic, it was difficult for Gu Xian to really have a crush, he was going to deal with Wu Yuanluo, so he could not admit for the time being that Gu Xian had any good concerns.

King Chun’an Seemed to remember something: “By the way, two months ago, Ah Zhi quietly asked me about one thing, asked me if there were any doormen from Yangzhou in my house, and asked me to send these doormen back to your hometown to help you inquire about your little benefactor.” I guess the child wanted to secretly surprise my brother and promised her. This time, these doormen of mine came back one after another, and I transcribed all the news they had heard, and I had not yet shown it to Ah Zhi, so you should first see if there was a right number.

Lin Chengyou was shy, because Chang’an had many demons in the past two months, he was about to put this matter aside, if it wasn’t for the little girl to save him, he would have had an accident a long time ago, he was worried about this life-saving grace, and he had never given up on inquiring about the whereabouts of the person over the years.

The prince looked at the clear and neat handwriting on the record book, smiled and nodded: “The matter of Ah Zhi and Ah Da, the emperor has always been the most concerned.”

Lin Chengyou took the booklet and smiled, “I won’t say thank you to Uncle Huang.” Chun’an

Junwang said calmly, “I’m not trying to do you a favor, I just promised Ah Zhi that I couldn’t do it.” “Yes

, Uncle Huang is nothing more than teaching me and Ah Shuang to recognize the rhythm of music and teach Ah Zhi to write and write, so that he doesn’t bother to pay attention to the affairs of us juniors.”

The prince smiled and explained to Gu Xian: “You don’t have to feel strange, this pair of uncles and nephews fight with their mouths, but their feelings are very good, the emperor’s ability to recognize music is the first in the world, and the piano skills and flute skills of the big brothers and sisters are all taught by the emperor himself.” ”

Gu Xian raised a glass: “Speaking of the rhythm, when I first came to Chang’an that year, I had the privilege of hearing His Highness the King of the County and His Highness Shizi play a song “Si Gui Yin”, the central plains rhythm is broad and profound, so is the first time to understand, but since then also left a bad problem, in the future to listen to others piano and flute together, there is a feeling of difficult to enter the ear, and I do not know when I will be lucky enough to listen to the two ensembles again.

Lin Chengyou said, “The prize has passed.” A while ago it was busy, tonight is on the mountain, to listen to this is not simple, I just have a jade flute on me, if the emperor is also convenient, please ask someone to bring the emperor’s piano. King

Chun’an put down the tea cup, turned his head and ordered the palace people: “Go and get it.”

Gu Xianzi was surprised and happy, waiting for the gap between the palace people to bring the piano, Lin Chengyou turned over the record book, which recorded a total of more than thirty Yangzhou ladies who had come to Chang’an in the early years, but looking at them one by one, the age was either too big or too small, basically not right.

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Early the next morning, the palace people went to Xiangluan Pavilion to deliver the message.

It is said that the empress is going to summon all the little ladies in the Jinglan Pavilion in the back mountain, and a total of forty seats have been prepared in the cabinet, and the young ladies are invited to enter the table in order of first-come, first-served, and the queen will arrive around the hour of the queen’s birthday, and the little ladies should not be late.

As soon as this will was passed down, Xiangluan Pavilion suddenly boiled up, and one by one was busy dressing up and changing clothes, lest it be too late to make the empress unhappy.

Teng Yuyi and Du Tinglan picked up and came out, and happened to meet Li Huaigu and others on the porch, Li Huaigu was as bright as a peach blossom, and his appearance was much better than the previous two days, and he saw Teng Yuyi’s appearance full of heart, and his smile became more and more beautiful.

Even Peng Da Niang and Peng Er Niang could see this: “Li Sanniang, have you heard anything interesting, let us listen to it.”

“Yes, it looks much better than in those days at the Great Hidden Temple.”

Li Huaigu was surprised: “Is there one?” Xu was because he slept soundly last night. The air in Lishan Is fresh and beautiful, and after I went up the mountain, my whole person was very idyllic.

Wu Qi quietly pulled Teng Yuyi: “Yesterday’s thing was that I was not right, my brother said that he wanted to know you, I thought that everyone around me, even if I met, there would be no impropriety, I just – I promised to cooperate with him, after going back I regretted most of the night, Ayu, you don’t get angry, I am confused for a while, next time I will never help my brother to do such a thing.”

Her face was full of shame, as if she was eager to drill into the cracks in the ground.

Teng Yuyi had a smile on his face, and his eyes lit up clearly.

“Just tell me to understand, I don’t care.” If I had a brother, I might have agreed to help. Only this time, the next time I will be annoyed.

Wu Qi looked slightly, hugged Teng Yuyi, and made sure that Teng Yuyi was not sullen, so he apologized: “I promise, there will never be another time.”

Someone looked back and quipped to Wu Qi, “I heard that you broke your foot yesterday, and King Cheng Shizi personally went to ask Yu Fengyu in a hurry?”

Teng Yuyi and Du Tinglan were stunned, they were also present yesterday, but it seemed that this was not the case.

Wu Qi was stunned: “Nonsense. Last night, Cheng Wang Shizi just happened to pass by, looking at the face of my brother, he invited the imperial doctor, he left without saying a word, you don’t talk nonsense, and then you forgot, Cheng Wang Shizi is absolutely passionate, who can say who looks up to whom.

She said as she hugged Zheng Shuangyin beside her, and whispered, “Look at these people, even such words dare to spread randomly, don’t say that yesterday’s incident was just a misunderstanding, even if it is true, I can’t marry these royal children, in the future I must find a Lang Jun who listens to me everywhere.” Jinglan

Pavilion is on the back mountainside, and in the middle there are several palaces and gardens, and the palace people are leading the way in front, just through a bamboo forest, and face to face the female relatives of several foreign officials.

Someone was surprised: “Ah Gu? The

crowd looked at a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, dressed in a chiro, with a somewhat delicate look.

The palace people whispered, “This is the daughter of General Wang of Jiangnan Dongdao.”

Li Huaigu also seemed to be a little surprised, Wan’er: “Wang Siniang.”

Wang Siniang took Li Huaigu’s hand: “Since beating Hangzhou, we have not seen each other for five or six years, Ah Gu, your appearance has not changed much, and you are still as beautiful as when you were a child.”

Li Huaigu looked around and looked as if he was a little embarrassed.

The maid next to Wang Siniang gently reminded her own mother: “Fourth Niang, you forgot, the third lady of the Li family does not like to call her nickname outside.”

Fourth Lady Wang laughed sheepishly, “Yes, almost forgot.”

Li Huaigu grabbed Wang Siniang’s hand and said calmly, “My little name is weird, or don’t be known, you have also come to Chang’an?” Great, how come I didn’t see you in the first few days, and came back to our house to play. The

leading palace man coughed at the side: “Lady Li, the empress is still waiting to summon you.”

Li Huaigu then did not dare to greet him again, and nodded at Wang Siniang with a red face, and continued to move forward with the palace people.

Through the bamboo forest, around a stream, the surrounding area is getting quieter and quieter, and there are fewer and fewer figures.

The palace people said, “There will be a flower field in front of you, there are some peasant women and gardeners in the field, basically local orphans and widows, the queen pities them for being lonely and lonely, and specially allows them to work here, but these peasant women are rude after all, and all the ladies should be careful not to be rushed, and when they pass by, they will go faster with the slaves.”

After a while, a large flower field appeared in front of them, and the strange flowers bloomed in it, which was dazzling, and along the road, only a few peasant women buried their heads in the flower field to work with a hoe, and when they heard someone passing by, they did not dare to look around.

Seeing that he was about to pass through the flower field, there was a sudden cry of a child on the side, Teng Yuyi followed the prestige, and at a glance saw a thirty-year-old peasant woman in the ditch under the field, the woman’s feet were covered in blood, and when she looked at it, she knew that she had been injured by the flower hoe.

There was a two- or three-year-old little girl standing on the mound, as if frightened, two fat arms stretched out at the woman in confusion, only to know that wow wow crying, the woman was frightened and handed her hand to the child: “Baby don’t cry, it will alarm the ladies later, quick, pull Ah Niang up.”

Du Tinglan and Zheng Shuangyin saw this and stopped at the same time.

When the little lady next to her saw this scene, she also showed an unbearable color, knowing that this woman was mostly dead husband, and the mother and daughter were dependent on each other. The child is so small, Ah Niang can’t help if she falls.

The palace people urged in front of them: “It’s almost time for tatsumi, and the ladies are going a little faster.” The

women’s hearts jumped, and they had to speed up their pace again.

Forty seats are not ranked, and the sooner who arrives, the closer they will be to the queen, and the closer they are to the queen, the more the queen may leave a deeper impression on herself, so that there are countless benefits for herself and for her father and brother.

Although Du Tinglan went forward, he couldn’t help but turn back frequently, although Teng Yuyi did not look back, he was paying attention to the little girl’s crying, that cry reminded her of herself who had just lost A Niang when she was a child, she hesitated, Du Tinglan immediately made up her mind, pulled Teng Yuyi, and pulled back without saying a word.

“Pull them a little bit, it won’t be long.”

He said as he walked over to the edge of the field and wrapped his hands in a towel and grabbed the woman’s arm: “Come.” The

woman was overjoyed and said in a loud voice, “Thank you little lady.”

Teng Yuyi supported the woman’s shoulder and the other arm, and the sisters worked together to pull the woman up.

“All right.” Du Tinglan was relieved.

The child had tears in his eyes and looked at this scene in a daze.

The woman thanked her in a loud voice, the hour was too late, Teng Yuyi pulled Sister Ah to leave, looked at the blood on the woman’s skirt, and took out a small package of the usual Golden Creation Medicine from her sleeve: “This can stop the bleeding, take it.” The

woman was even more grateful, the little girl doll wrapped her arms around Ah Niang’s neck to help Ah Niang “exhale pain”, saw the situation and thought that she had a bag of sugar, she couldn’t help but laugh, clapping her fat hands and giggling.

The sisters walked for a while, and met Zheng Shuangyin who returned, and it turned out that Zheng Shuangyin was not at ease and finally found it back. The sisters told them what had happened before, and the three of them rushed back together.

When they arrived at the Jinglan Pavilion, there were only three seats furthest away from the empress in the palace, which were set up in the corner, and there were still columns in front of them, and if they did not attend, the queen would not see them at all.

Li Huaigu and the others sat in the front seat, and the few questions asked by the empress were answered best by Li Huaigu and Wu Zhiwuqi, and after the seat was dispersed, the empress left Li Huaigu and the Wu sisters to ask questions alone.

The palace people said to the rest of the people: “There are many strange flowers and plants in this place, and it is not yet time for dinner, so the ladies may wish to go to the neighborhood to enjoy the scenery.” At this time,

several men suddenly said and smiled as they passed by the court, it was the prince and Lin Chengyou and others.

The palace people bowed down and saluted several people, and Hula knelt on the ground.

The girls were also busy hanging their heads.

The prince’s smile was warm and clear, he turned his head, and his gaze stayed in Du Tinglan for a moment, as if he was a little curious, and he seemed to have some appreciation, and then he looked at Teng Yuyi on Du Tinglan’s side, and then he withdrew his gaze.

Teng Yuyi looked down at Lin Chengyou for a moment, but he couldn’t help but quietly raise his eyes to look at Lin Chengyou’s back.

Think about last night, Lin Chengyou almost turned his face to her on the spot because he didn’t take out her words, and then he didn’t talk to her, and he didn’t even give her an eye wind.

She guessed that he had decided to trouble her, and she wondered what he would do next.

All night long she was like a flapjack on the bed, one moment pondering the matter of the joint five ways to find the ruler, the next worrying that Lin Chengyou was checking too quickly to prevent her from saving enough merit, so she thought about it until the second half of the night.

Looking at Fang Cai Lin Chengyou’s cold posture, he almost didn’t plan to pay attention to her, the friendship was still not deep enough, he said that he would turn his face, and the purple jade saddle that made him extremely satisfied could not stop him from checking her.

Just at this moment, Li Huaigu and others also withdrew, and the women were both envious and curious, and they all surrounded them.

Li Huaigu shook his head modestly, but his eyes looked at Lin Chengyou and Teng Yuyi over there, seeing that the faces of the two of them were more and more cold, and yingying couldn’t help but smile: “I am very stupid, the empress only asked me one question, I didn’t answer well, the empress was asking Wu Da Niang the rest.”

Teng Yuyi sullenly left the vestibule with Du Tinglan, Du Tinglan: “Since last night to now, I haven’t seen you smile, what are you worried about?” Wasn’t that monster beaten away? What

else could she worry about, the matter of borrowing her life was almost impossible to hide, she only wanted to save up her merit before Lin Chengyou found out the truth, and now when she thought about it, her heart was anxious. If she couldn’t go down the mountain now, she would have liked to insert her wings and fly to the East Ming Temple, and then take out the contract to force Wudao to accompany her to find the ruler.

The sisters walked along the flower path for a long time, and when they looked up, they found that the palace people were not wrong, the mountains were full of all kinds of flowers, and what surprised Teng Yuyi was that there were actually rose bushes among them, and the flower buds were strangely delicate and full, better than the roses she had seen before, she was suddenly hungry, and she was busy saying to Sister A: “There are roses over there, let’s go and enjoy the flowers.”

To the near front, Teng Yuyi the more he looks at the more he loves, such good petals, whether it is taken to incense or make cakes are the best product, the pear blossoms have been thanked at the moment, fortunately, there are roses, the mold in the house is about to be beaten, take it back just to make flower cakes.

She aimed ahead, the palace people were extremely far away, and the queen did not stipulate that flowers could not be picked. Just with sister A’s nature, she would never pick flowers with her, she pretended to look at the flowers in the back, took out the veil from her sleeve as soon as she turned, and then bent down to quickly pick a flower into the paw.

After repeating this several times, I also successfully picked up more than a dozen flowers.

Soon the veil could not be taken down, these petals were only enough to make a box of flower cakes, Teng Yuyi looked down and took out another spare veil from his sleeve, and suddenly heard someone say lightly: “What are you doing here?” Teng Yuyi’s

hand shook in fright, and the veil immediately fell to the skirt, and the delicate roses rolled to the ground.

Teng Yuyi glanced at Lin Chengyou, he was wearing an elegant blue brocade robe, the clear color was more and more lined with his eyes, there was no smile on his face, but he was not annoyed.

This was already a stinky face for Lin Chengyou, and she said softly, “Pick flowers.”

Lin Chengyou was indeed “not a good person”, and proudly said, “Don’t you have any flowers in your Tengfu?”

Teng Yuyi hummed softly, found a stone next to him and sat down, bent down and put the flowers into the paw: “We don’t have this in the house.” Although Shizi turned his face to me, I was a person who made a heavy promise, and promised to send flower cakes to the two kodo chiefs and Shizi, of course, to pick the best petals.

Lin Chengyou felt a slight ripple in her heart, and couldn’t help but look sideways at her, her eyebrows were faint, and today she didn’t seem to have shown a smile, the object of the flower cake was automatically added to the absolute saint and renunciation, but this matter turned out that she had always paid attention to it, so she also lifted her robe and sat down on another stone in front of the flowers: “Coincidentally, I am also a person who cherishes promises, and I said that I will help you find out the evil person, I don’t want to give up halfway.” ”

[End of This Chapter]