In the hot summer, cicadas chirped, making people irritated for no reason. Wen Xi walked quickly, and only saw Yu Ludai laughing and laughing in the distance. She was wearing a riding and shooting outfit. She seemed to have just gotten off the horse and said with a smile: "You have it." I actually beat this princess in this matter!"
Cao Yong's temperament was not humble to begin with, not to mention that he was young and inevitably had an arrogant temper. He raised his face and said: "I am a man, so naturally I cannot lose to a woman!"
Yu Ludai curled his lips disdainfully, "My mother-in-law said that only those who are married are considered men! You haven't grown hair on your mouth yet, you are at most a half-grown boy!"
Cao Yong touched his chin and said: "I started growing a beard last year! It's just that men don't grow beards until they are thirty, so I shaved it off! If you don't believe it, I won't shave it off until it grows out. I told you to take a look!"
Yu Ludai couldn't help but pursed his lips and giggled. Only then did Cao Yong realize that he was being laughed at. He immediately sternly raised his face, stretched out his hand and said: "Where is my winnings! If you lose, give me something you carry with you. !”
Yu Ludai pursed his lips, pulled off the double-luan ring pendant from his waist, lowered his head to untie the knot on it, and said: "I can give you the jade pendant, but this auspicious knot was made by my mother-in-law herself. Can’t give it to you!”
The more Yu Ludai said this, Cao Yong grabbed it and said plausibly: "It's just an auspicious knot! The craftsmanship is not very good. My mother can tie three knots in a quarter of an hour! And it's much better than this. !”
There was a missing piece of Cao Yong's mouth, and he didn't know that he had offended someone. Wen Xi was listening from behind, and there were blue veins bulging on his forehead. His teeth were clenching, and he wanted to go up and teach the boy a lesson immediately. Zhu'er carefully Supporting Wen Xi, Zhu'er whispered: "Master, don't be angry. Besides, Mr. Cao is telling the truth..." At the end of the sentence, Zhu'er's tone became weaker and weaker.
"When did I get angry?" Wen Xi glanced sideways at Zhu'er.
"Uh..." A drop of cold sweat dropped from Zhu'er's forehead, and he hurriedly lowered his head and said no more words.
Wen Xi continued to listen to the corner.
"You're such a disgusting kid!" Yu Ludai pursed his lips and said, "But your mother is very nice, and I always feel a sense of intimacy. It's like I've known her a long time ago!"
There was a proud look on Cao Yong's face, "My mother is naturally a very good person!" As he said this, he took off the sachet he wore on his body and showed it as a symbol of longevity. The rooster crows and crows, which means " "Longevity", there are many ears of grain next to the chicken. It is called "hundred years old", which is homophonic to "hundred years old".
"This is the sachet that my mother embroidered for me with her own hands!" Cao Yong held it in his hand and was extremely proud of it.
Yu Ludai looked at the sachet intently and murmured: "My mother-in-law can't embroider such a beautiful sachet..." It was very difficult to embroider it, but Yu Ludai thought it truthfully and believed it truthfully. As she said this, she had no idea that she had also offended someone.
Wen Xi's forehead was convex, and she wanted to go up and grab this damn girl's ears. From a distance, she saw Cao Yong stuffing the longevity sachet into Yu Ludai's hand. Wen Xi was rubbing her temples, which seemed to be the opposite. ...Obviously, a man should give a jade pendant to a woman, and a woman should give a sachet to a man—Ci'ao, where did I go?! It must be stopped immediately, and you can't let your daughter be seduced!
Wen Xi made up her mind, then held Zhu'er's hand and stepped forward.
"Ah!" Yu Ludai heard the footsteps. He immediately stuffed the sachet into his sleeve and hurriedly said, "Eniang, why are you here at the school grounds?!"
Wen Xi raised her eyebrows, why couldn't I come?! If it had been a few days later, there's no telling what might have happened!
"This servant pays my respects to the imperial concubine!" Cao Yong even turned his hand while he was kneeling and stuffed the jade pendant into his horse hoof sleeve.
Wen Xi stepped on her three-inch-high flower pot-soled shoes and slowly walked up to Cao Yong step by step. She said with a smile: "Qian'er, your mother came to pay my respects to me. She was talking about planning to marry you as soon as possible!"
Cao Yong's face changed a thousand times, but he lowered his head and said: "It's just that the emperor will return to Beijing in the near future, so naturally it will be too late."
Wen Xi hesitated and said, "It's too late. Although marriage is important, it is not as important as the future." Wen Xi glanced at Yu Ludai with deep meaning, but it was a pity that this girl was young and could not understand Wen Xi. The meaning behind Xi's words was that he lowered his head and pursed his lips, as if he was a little depressed.
"But -" Wen Xi's tone was drawn out, "I can't ask you to go to the capital alone. Didn't your mother tell you? She plans to take your cousin Li as your concubine first! In two years, Marry Ma again and get started."
Cao Yong suddenly turned pale. He secretly glanced at Yu Ludai and said, "I don't know this!"
Wen Xi nodded and said with a smile: "Do you know what your parents ordered the matchmaker to do now?"
Cao Yong was not stupid, so he naturally understood the meaning of Wen Xi's words. He could only bury his head deeply, as if he had exhausted all his strength, and then said in a low voice: "Slave... I understand."
Since her daughter was stupid, Wen Xi had no choice but to point out Cao Yong, a "smart man". She raised her hand and said, "Get up."
Cao Yong then stood up, bowed his head and stood to one side without saying a word.
The sun was a bit fierce today. Wen Xi wiped the fragrant sweat from her forehead with a silk, and said slowly: "The emperor has favored the Cao family for many years, so he also values you very much. It's just that because of what happened a month ago, the emperor will inevitably have some thoughts." I’m dissatisfied, I think you know it.”
Cao Yong lowered his head and said, "Grandma is old, please forgive me!"
Wen Xi smiled and said gently: "Of course I won't blame Grandma Sun. You just need to be careful not to make the emperor unhappy any more." As he said that, he pulled Yu Ludai next to him, "Daughter Every family, you have no appearance! You are even crazier than my elder brother, I really don’t know who you are like?!" Although Wen Xi blamed him, she was fond of him and used silk to wipe the sweat on Yulu Dai's face.
Cao Yong's sweat slid down from his forehead and fell on the flat ground of the school ground. The ground was dry and hot, and soon there were no traces of water stains. Cao Yong naturally understood the meaning of the imperial concubine's words. No matter how favored the emperor was to the Cao family, he would not He will marry the princess off. If he gets close to the princess, if he falls into the ears of the emperor, then... Cao Yong sweats like beans thinking about this. The Cao family can no longer displease the emperor!! In Jiangning , In Suzhou, Hangzhou, and even Jiangnan, the Cao family is a quite prominent family, but it only survives on the emperor's favor. If it loses the emperor's trust and favor, the Cao family will have no foundation. Big trees will be destroyed sooner or later!!
The weather is getting hotter, and Wen Xi is wearing clothes made of apricot-yellow ground four-in-one Ruyi cloud-patterned Tianhua brocade newly supplied by Jiangning Weaving. When it is cut, it is hemmed with a melon pattern and embroidered on it The neckline and cuffs are embroidered with continuous pine green vines and countless melons of different sizes and interspersed butterflies, which symbolize the prosperity of future generations. It is also extremely beautiful, but it feels a little hot wearing it. Her gentle hands are shaking the fan constantly, pulling the jade Lu Dai said with his hand: "We just got some cool thin silk today. You and I can go with my mother to choose some tailoring clothes."
Yu Ludai glanced at Cao Yong and saw that his clothes were soaked with sweat, so he said, "You, you should go back too!"
Cao Yong bowed and said respectfully, "Yes." Yulu Dai didn't have time to think about it before he was pulled away by Wen Xi.
Because of Wen Xi's reminder, Cao Yong never showed up at the palace grounds again. Yu Ludai had been a little depressed for the past few days, and wanted to ask but couldn't. Wen Xi was eating chilled lychees, and there were plenty of them in the hall. Ice basin, the sun is blazing outside, but it is cool and pleasant inside.
Seeing Yu Ludai pacing back and forth in the room, warm and leisurely, he said casually: "I'm going back to Beijing later. You should have had enough fun. It's very hot these days, so don't go out, lest you I got the heat."
"Eniang..." Yu Ludai opened his mouth, lowered his head and said, "I want to go to the school grounds."
Wen Xi shouted a lost lychee and said: "It's such a hot day and there's no one on the campus. Where are you going and what are you doing?!"
"No one?!" Yu Ludai opened his eyes wide, "Then he also -" Before he could speak, he hurriedly covered his mouth.
Wenxi couldn't see Yu Ludai's idea, so she said: "Today, Cao Yin's wife, Li, has made the decision to take her niece, a concubine from her mother's family, as a concubine to her son. She promised that if she can have a child, Then he moved it into a side room."
After hearing this, Yu Ludai was so angry that he stamped his feet and said indiscriminately: "How can he take a concubine?!"
Wen Xi looked straight at Yu Ludai and asked, "Why can't he take a concubine?!"
"I..." Yu Ludai was speechless for a while, then blushed with anger, "I want him to be my forehead, so he is not allowed to take concubines!!!" After saying that, she turned around and ran out.
Wen Xi immediately grabbed Yu Ludai's sleeve and said sternly: "Don't go!!"
"Eniang!!" Yu Ludai looked back with tears rolling down her face, and her words contained a plea: "Can you let me go?"
"What will happen if you go?" Wen Xi was cold-hearted, and her tone was also full of anger, "My parents ordered me to be a matchmaker, what did you go to do?! What does it have to do with you if he takes a concubine?!"
"I -" Yu Ludai bit his lips until they turned white, but he was unable to argue with Wen Xi.
Wen Xi broke her illusion mercilessly, "Since he is willing to take a concubine, his intentions are obvious! This Li is Cao Yong's cousin. Although she is a concubine, she is beautiful, gentle and gentle. Naturally, Cao Yong liked her and took her as his concubine! They are in pairs, what are you doing to interfere?!"
Yu Ludai didn't speak, there was a sob in his throat, and tears fell down.
"Don't cry!!" Wen Xi yelled, there is no future, why cry for a man, especially when this man wants another woman!
"He, how can he take a concubine?" Yu Ludai murmured this sentence again, as if he couldn't believe it. "That day at the school grounds, he clearly said he didn't know anything about it. That was not what he meant..."
Seeing her daughter's dazed look, Wen Xi felt distressed and angry at the same time. She wanted to comfort her, but also wanted to give her a slap in the face. With all kinds of mixed feelings, she just let out a long sigh.
At this moment, Xiaoluzi opened the curtain and reported: "Master, Mr. Cao wants to see you!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation, monthly vote, your support is my greatest motivation .)
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