Xie Lin drank with Zhou Gu the night before. After returning home, he couldn't stand it anymore and had a splitting headache, so he asked the imperial doctor.
After seeing it, the imperial doctor prescribed some medicine, and he was able to sleep peacefully. However, the sequelae were so severe that he had to lie in bed for a whole day.
Therefore, when the servants in the mansion gathered under the window and gossiped about the eldest prince's mansion, he seemed to have heard Su Rong's name and immediately called them into the house and asked what was going on.
The servant's face turned pale with fright, and he cowardly recounted the gossip about the First Prince's Mansion that was rumored outside. Then he knelt down and begged Xie Lin for forgiveness. Xie Lin was not annoyed that the servant disturbed his rest, but sat up from the bed in shock.
Standing up, "Is this true or false?"
The servant quickly said, "It's been said so outside, and I don't know if it's true or not, but it's said in a decent way, and it's probably true."
Xie Lin waved his hand, "Go out and call the housekeeper."
The servant felt relieved and quickly got up from the ground and ran out of the door.
The housekeeper came quickly. Hearing Xie Lin's inquiry, he nodded and said, "Back to the young prince, it's true. In addition to Princess Duanhua, Miss Su Qi and her brother Fengling, the people who are going to the eldest prince's mansion today are guests.
There are also the second princess and the guards of Princess Qingping's palace who come in and out of the eldest prince's palace to carry the chrysanthemums they picked. Many people witnessed it with their own eyes. Even if the eldest princess wanted to hide the news from the palace, she couldn't."
Xie Lin was shocked, "It turns out it's all true!"
The butler nodded.
Xie Lin sighed, "Awesome, who in the capital doesn't know that the eldest princess loves flowers? The rare chrysanthemums in her garden are like treasures. At the beginning of the month, she even invited my mother to come over and enjoy them. This month
In the middle of September, only halfway through September, the garden was cut off by Duanhua..."
His tooth ached just thinking about it, "Isn't the eldest princess' heart bleeding?"
The housekeeper nodded, "It must be so. At the beginning of the month, after our princess came back from the eldest prince's palace to enjoy the flowers, she also said that the chrysanthemums in the eldest prince's garden were growing well."
Who would have thought that in just a few days, Miss Su Qi would be brutally destroyed by Princess Duanhua just because she said something about making tea.
Xie Lin smiled "hey", got off the bed neatly, and said while getting dressed: "I won't have dinner at the house anymore."
Before the housekeeper could leave, he immediately asked: "My young prince, you are not resting in the mansion. You want to go out so late? Where are you going?"
"Go to Shen Mansion to find Brother Su." Xie Lin quickly put on his clothes and walked out.
The housekeeper followed him out of the room, "Are you looking for Su Xingze?"
"Yeah." Xie Lin waved his hand.
Just when the butler was about to say something else, someone came to him and said that the princess invited him over. The butler could only stop talking and went to see the princess again. He thought that the princess had probably heard the news outside and asked him about the rumors like the young prince.
Is it true?
Xie Lin rode out of the mansion and soon arrived at Shen's mansion.
This is not the first time that he has come uninvited. He has been here two or three times since Su Xingze moved into Shen Mansion. The gatekeeper already recognized him and told Su that the eldest son was in the mansion and invited him.
Got in.
Xie Lin didn't need anyone to guide him and went directly to Su Xingze's residence to find her.
Su Xingze was preparing to have a meal. When he saw Xie Lin coming, he invited him in and asked, "Brother Xie, why are you here?"
"Come and have a meal." Xie Lin sat down at the table unceremoniously.
Su Xingze smiled and ordered another pair of bowls and chopsticks.
Xie Lin looked at the seven or eight kinds of food on the table. This was Su Xingze's dinner alone. He was envious, "Hey, is the life in Shen's house so good? Every time I come back and catch up with the meal, I look at it. The dishes on your table are very appetizing. They are both delicious and delicious, which shows that Mr. Shen and Mrs. Shen are people who are good at life."
Su Xingze didn't believe that he was just here for a meal, but he still agreed with him, "Aunt Shen said that I worked hard in the exams and lost weight after coming to Beijing. Now I have no time to spare after the exams, so she ordered the kitchen to give me more food every day." Make some nutritious meals.”
Xie Lin nodded, "There are meat and vegetables, porridge and soup. This combination is really nutritious."
A maid brought bowls and chopsticks and a pot of wine. When she was about to pour the wine, Xie Lin stopped her and said, "I had a headache from drinking yesterday. I just recovered from it today and I won't drink anymore."
Su Xingze was not used to being served by others. Hearing this, he waved his hand and said warmly: "Get off!"
The maid must have taken the jug and retreated.
Xie Lin complained to Su Xingze, "Yesterday Zhou Gu took me to drink. Guess what? He took me to the guest house, took out all the money in my hand, and ordered twelve jars of wine. It is said that one person has six jars. You know that I can drink so much that I can drink three jars to death, but he gave me hangover pills and told me to drink them, but I couldn't do it without drinking. Because I was unreasonable, I had no choice but to risk my life to accompany the gentleman. Yesterday, I was so tormented I just went to bed in the middle of the night, and it was really killing me. I have been lying in bed all day, and I just got up from the bed before coming to see you."
Su Xingze knew that Su Rong went to the Protector's Mansion to break off the engagement yesterday, so he grabbed the key point and asked him, "Why are you in the wrong?"
Xie Lin calmed down, but still said the words he casually said to curse Zhou Gu when he was in Jiangning County. After saying it, he expressed his position unjustly, "I just said it casually at that time. Who knew that your seventh sister was really like Zhou Gu?" Gu broke off the engagement, it’s really not my fault.”
If his mouth is so efficacious, then all the wishes he made when he accompanied his mother to worship Buddha and his father to pay homage to his ancestors should all come true, but so far, none of them have come true.
Su Xingze also fell silent after listening.
Xie Lin sighed, "Brother Su, can I ask? Why did Miss Seven break off the engagement? Isn't Zhou Gu good?"
It's not that he wanted to say good things about Zhou Gu, but he couldn't understand how harmoniously the two got along with each other in Jiangning County. Anyone with eyes could see it. And with Zhou Gu's identity and appearance, Su Rong Why?
He estimated that many people had this doubt.
Maybe others would think that Su Rong was ashamed of himself, did not dare to climb high, and was self-aware, but he knew Su Rong and had lived in the Su family. Everyone in the Su family was not that kind of person who was ashamed of himself, especially Su Rong himself.
Su Xingze shook his head, "This is my sister's own business, and I can't say anything about it. In short, the engagement has been canceled, so there is no use in talking about it."
Seeing that he couldn't get any information from Su Xingze, Xie Lin could only give up, "Okay, you're right. That's it. It's none of my business, and it's none of my business, but It's none of my business, that's okay, after all, I couldn't hold back my bad words and cursed him."
Su Xingze smiled lightly, "Zhou Gu is not a narrow-minded person. Brother Xie, don't worry, he won't hold you back."
Xie Lin also understood, and sighed, "I know, he just wanted to take revenge on me, spend all the money my mother gave me, and then fill me up with wine and make me feel uncomfortable for a few days. That's all. It’s over. But didn’t I see that he was in a bad mood?”
He asked again tentatively, "When Miss Seven broke off the engagement, she told him that she fell in love with someone else. Well, Brother Su, I'm also curious, who is that someone else? Is he better than Zhou Gu?"
Su Xingze was startled, but it didn't show on his face at all. He shook his head and said, "Brother Xie, I have no comment."
Xie Lin gave up completely this time, "Okay, okay, Brother Su, if you can't say it, you can't say it." She immediately changed the topic, "Have you heard about the fact that your sister and Duan Hua went to the princess mansion today?
?”
Su Xingze nodded, "I heard about it."
Xie Lin sighed, "Your sister is so powerful. With just one word, the eldest princess lost her chrysanthemum garden. Duan Hua is really fierce. With just one sentence of filial piety to the emperor's precious uncle, the eldest princess was speechless. And yet.
There's that Fengling, he's Miss Seven's brother? Isn't that your family? Why haven't you heard of him before? Where did he come from?"
"Fengling is Mr. Xie's student. My sister has been taught by Mr. Xie since she was a child, so we call her sister and sister." Su Xingze explained simply.
Xie Lin suddenly realized, "So that's it. That Fengling is really interesting. He is indeed Mr. Xie's student. I will also meet him someday. He must be very interesting."
He said and became happy, "Ning Ze from the Nanping Marquis Mansion is also a very shrewd person. In recent years, in the Nanping Marquis Mansion, he relied on his mother and sister, as well as the favor of the Nanping Marquis. It is said that he has done a lot
I was a stumbling block for the crown prince Ningchi. I didn’t expect that when I came to the capital, the tiger’s paws turned into soft cats. It was said that Feng Ling had been trapped in the big kitchen of the eldest prince’s mansion for half a day. His face was so angry that he couldn’t have an attack.
people."
Su Xingze was also a little amused, "Fengling and my sister have similar temperaments and temperaments. If the two of them get together, it will be really hard to resist them if they get into mischief."
"This is more than overwhelming. They are now famous in the capital. They are even more famous than you, Su Xingze. Originally, the storm of breaking up the engagement did not dissipate, but this happened again the next day. Your sister's
I'm afraid your name is already a household name." Xie Lin clicked his tongue, "Do you know who has only received this kind of treatment in the past? A general who returned to the court after winning a victory, a great talent who was famous for his verbal battles with the Confucian scholars, oh, and Zhou and I.
Gu, let’s have that fight.”
What Su Xingze was thinking was that since his sister and Fengling did this deliberately, they might have some plans. Her reputation was well known to everyone in the capital, so spreading the word would also tell people in Nanchu that she was in the capital.
, if you want to find it, just find it.
He said warmly: "Let's eat!"
Xie Lin nodded. On this day, he had an empty stomach and did not dare to eat big fish or meat. He only drank porridge, thinking that the capital would be really lively in the future.
