Ge Yong's words attracted everyone's attention, especially when the elegant Qingyu appeared. Most of the men present had their eyes on her.
One of the first things she has to offer is that she is naturally beautiful, but now she wears no makeup and is dressed in plain clothes and has a hairpin, which makes her even more stunning than her gorgeous clothes and beautiful accessories.
Zhang Shou only listened to a few lines and knew that this was a flashback to the scene where Kou Baimen raised gold and broke off with Zhu Guobi, the protector of the country who wanted to restore the old relationship. Of course, Kou Baimen was still Kou Baimen, but Zhu Guobi was replaced.
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He did all the foreground stories and character biographies. He has also watched many TV series or plays about Qinhuai Bayan's acting skills, which are good or bad. He knows that Qingyu's acting skills may not be as good as those of later generations of popular celebrities, so
After watching for a moment, he quietly walked around behind Zhu Ying while everyone else was focusing on Qingyu's lines and plot.
Sure enough, Zhu Ying, who was not focused on watching the show, immediately noticed him. As soon as her eyes lit up, she grabbed his hand and then quietly pulled him out of the side door.
Maybe it's because Twelve Rains' reputation is so great. Not to mention that Wu was invited by Ge Yong to set up a screen to watch the fun. The little guys brought by Zhang Shou also slipped over. Even the servants in the Ge Mansion
Those who were deaf and mute, and the rest also went to ask for jobs serving tea and water so that they could watch the excitement, so the yard was actually empty.
Zhu Ying who slipped out forgot to put on her cloak and couldn't help but stamp her feet in the cold. Zhang Shou only noticed it after he came out. He immediately smiled and pulled the young lady and slipped directly to Ge Yong's study. After entering, he was familiar with the door.
Shu Lu borrowed the teacher's kitchen utensils, added smokeless red conch charcoal to the small copper stove, and concentrated on boiling water and making tea.
Zhu Ying stared at Zhang Shou's face focused on making tea for a long time, and then couldn't help but said: "Ah Shou, didn't you say you're not good at tea ceremony and can't taste the quality of tea?"
Zhang Shou immediately paused and smiled bitterly in his heart, saying that at that time, he wanted to keep you at arm's length, so he made random remarks, but he couldn't say that yet, so he could only say seriously: "So, I'm just being arty!"
Zhu Ying was stunned for a moment, and then she couldn't help laughing: "But you are so arty, you are more handsome and handsome than those gentlemen who claim to be really elegant! Ah Shou, what kind of tea are you making?"
Zhang Shou then turned his head and glanced at Zhu Ying, and then said meaningfully: "Brown sugar ginger tea." Seeing Zhu Ying dumbfounded, he shrugged and said, "We blew a lot without even wearing cloaks.
If the wind is cold, of course you should drink some ginger tea first to keep out the cold. Otherwise, if you want to be polite rather than warm, you will end up harming your body. I don’t want to get sick during the Chinese New Year!”
Seeing Zhang Shou using a silver pick to move a few pieces of brown sugar into a small teapot as he spoke, Zhu Ying smiled happily again this time: "Ah Shou, take the teapot that Grandpa Ge uses to make tea, and make brown sugar ginger tea.
There is a sweet and ginger smell in the back, so how can you make tea? Don't you worry that Grandpa Ge will blow his beard and stare at you to death!"
"Just scold me. At worst, I will leave a few questions for the teacher to change his mind." At this point, Zhang Shou would not say that this teapot was made by Teacher Ge. He picked up the teapot and poured a bowl of ginger tea to Zhu Ying.
In front of him, he immediately poured it for himself. When he held the hot tea bowl in his hand, he saw Zhu Ying take a slight sip, and then she gritted her teeth. He smiled at her.
"Yingying, when you came here just now, you seemed to be forced to smile. Is something wrong?"
Zhu Ying didn't expect that Zhang Shou could notice that she had pretended to be nonchalant. Although she wanted to find Zhang Shou immediately when she was in Shuntian Mansion and tell him this unbelievable thing, when she just arrived at Ge Mansion
But she changed her mind. At this moment, facing Zhang Shou's question, she couldn't help but hesitate for a moment, but in the end, she decided to tell him the truth.
"Ah Shou, today I followed my grandmother, mother and eldest brother into the palace to pay New Year's greetings to the Queen Mother. Later I went to the Emperor's place. Just after the dynasty, the Emperor asked the cabinet to draft a decree for Wang Dayin to be appointed Governor of Xuanda. I thought about Deng
Xiaodai also wanted to go with him, so he simply went out of the palace with Eunuch Lu who had sent the order to Shuntian Mansion Office to find him. But I didn’t expect that someone would come to Shuntian Mansion Office to accuse my family of cheating in marriage!"
When she said this, her face was full of anger, and she was almost furious: "The post said that our family has long been interested in your talent and appearance, and knowing that you are a close disciple of Grandpa Ge, they tricked me into going to Rongshui Village.
After I fell in love with you, I forced you to come to Beijing and lured you, a rare talent, into my Zhu family!"
Zhang Shou was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help laughing. His smile made Zhu Ying, who tried hard to be serious and serious, immediately furious. She put down the tureen in her hand, strode to Zhang Shou, and asked loudly: "
I'm talking about serious business, why are you laughing?"
Zhang Shou, who almost stopped laughing, ignored Zhu Ying's anger and laughed for a while. Then he finally straightened up and used his other hand to wipe away the tears from his uncontrollable laughter.
He looked up at her nonchalantly: "It's because you said such a thing in such a serious tone that I laughed. I didn't expect that twenty years would be to the east of the river and twenty years to the west of the river."
Zhu Ying was almost furious at Zhang Shou's senseless words: "Twenty years to Hedong and twenty years to Hexi. What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Why wasn't it twenty years in Hedong and twenty years in Hexi? At the beginning, weren't people saying that I, a poor boy who deceived the world and stole my reputation, deceived you, a rich lady from a well-born family? When I first entered the capital, how much did you see?
People think I'm lucky? I didn't expect that less than half a year later, the story was actually reversed, and it was actually said that Duke Zhao's government defrauded me, a poor boy, into marrying me!"
"I'll tell you the truth, it's all because you're so good to me that you let those idle people have such an illusion!"
The smile on Zhang Shou's face deepened. Seeing that Zhu Ying's angry face was so charming because of her slight shyness, he asked lightly: "By the way, who cares about this kind of thing that you and I agree on?"
What reason did the nosy guy use to report us? Could it be that he said we didn’t have a marriage certificate?"
Zhu Ying's eyes suddenly widened: "Ah Shou, how do you know? I sent the notice to Wang Dayin, and he immediately sent someone to the house to check whether there was a marriage certificate filed by my father. When I heard that there was no marriage certificate, I simply couldn't believe it.
Dare to believe it.”
Zhang Shou suddenly laughed: "The files of every household in Shuntian Prefecture are piled up like a mountain, and today is the first day of the first lunar month. Who do you think can confirm whether there is a marriage certificate in such a short time?"
Zhu Ying, whose eyebrows were raised, suddenly became angry: "Are you saying that the people in Shuntian House are deceiving Wang Dayin? In fact, they didn't investigate at all? It's so audacious... That's not right. When Eunuch Lu and I left, the one who originally sent the notice was
, and later the clerk who went to the house to check the marriage certificate personally sent us out. He said he was Deng Xiaodai's uncle! He wouldn't lie to me, would he? "
Seeing Zhu Ying turn from anger to shock, Zhang Shou couldn't help but wink at her meaningfully: "Of course Xiaodai's uncle will not lie to you. But the reason why he can give the answer so quickly is very simple. I had already
I asked Xiaodai to help me check the marriage certificate of Duke Zhao. And if Xiaodai wants to verify this kind of thing, of course he has to ask for his help, so of course he, an insider, knows the answer."
"Ah!" Zhu Ying stared at Zhang Shou dumbfounded, and after a long while she stammered, "You mean... you mean..."
"So, it's not that the Zhu family knew that there was no marriage certificate at all, but still wanted to deceive me into marrying a poor family. It's that I knew that there might not be a marriage certificate at all, but yet I kept going in and out claiming to be your fiancé! I said this, Yingying, you understand
Yet?"
"I...I...I don't know." Zhu Ying stuttered for the first time. When she said the word "I don't know," she felt very happy in her heart. There was no marriage certificate, but both her grandmother and mother said there was one.
The marriage contract, maybe it was just because the marriage contract was just a verbal agreement. But Zhang Shou knew it clearly but never said anything. At this time, he readily revealed this layer of paper to her...
Did he want to say that he really liked her too? It must be true, otherwise he wouldn't have said that he couldn't help himself after he held her in his arms... But he never said it himself, only when she was bold
When she told him to marry her as soon as possible, he joked about who else she could marry if she didn't marry him...
Just when she thought that her heart was in turmoil, she suddenly felt a pair of big hands holding her tightly. Feeling the warm breath close at hand and the clearly audible heartbeat, she heard Zhang Shou's voice again
.
"Since you don't know, let me speak more clearly. When we first met, maybe you liked my appearance and conversation, but at that time I was wary of you and even stayed away from you. Because in my opinion
, I, a young man who grew up in the countryside, will never have any engagement with you, the eldest daughter of Duke Zhao’s palace, there must be a conspiracy."
"I asked Xiaodai to check the status of my family very early, and later I asked him to check the archives of the marriage certificate of Duke Zhao. Unlike Wang Dayin's order today, usually this kind of thing is not so easy to check, so
Xiao Dai actually spent a long time using it, and then he realized that there is no such marriage certificate at all."
Zhang Shou paused for a moment, then gently let go of his hand. Seeing Zhu Ying tidying up her hair, and then looking up at him in surprise, he smiled and said, "But on those days when Xiaodai went to investigate quietly,
, but I found that you are different from what I imagined."
"You can treat the poor villagers in Rongshui Village with a normal attitude."
"You are really willing to help those country urchins who others think will never have any future."
"You are willing to use your own eyes to see the lives of the people in the village, and to talk to those whose status is far lower than yours. All these allow me to see you clearly. And your publicity and arrogance cannot cover it up at all.
You are bright and sincere. Therefore, even someone like Princess Yongping, who is your sworn enemy, will say in front of me, let me not let you down."
Zhu Ying's face turned red little by little. Some people praised her beauty, and some praised her publicity, but that was more because of her family background and background, and those who actually really liked her temperament
, in addition to her relatives, there were only a few people including the emperor and the queen mother, and Grandpa Ge who was helpless to her.
She bit her lip gently, and then said word by word: "Ah Shou, I have always thought you are very good, so you think I am very good too?"
"Yes, I think you are very good. You are the best among all the girls I have ever met."
Although this was an extremely beautiful love story, Zhu Ying listened to it and felt sweet in her heart, but she still couldn't help but ask: "How many girls have you just met, and you really think I am the best? You won't do it in the future either."
regret?"
"As long as you are still like this, I will not regret it." Zhang Shou smiled slightly and stretched out his hand to hug Zhu Ying gently again, "I like you who laugh loudly, I like you who talk freely, and I like you who make connections.
, I also like you who are carefree, and I like you who like me even more... Maybe, your future life will make you less carefree and more restrained, but..."
"Gold will never turn into gravel. Real pearls will fade, but they will never turn into dead fish eyes."
Zhu Ying felt that her heart was about to explode with joy. She just wished that Zhang Shou said those words again, and wished that he would hug her tighter. She said she didn't care about the words that her eldest brother said to her in private.
, but once she thought about it, she was inevitably a little worried. Especially when she heard that there was no marriage certificate today, she felt an imminent impatience.
What if it was always wishful thinking on her part? What if Zhang Shou only followed her because of the engagement?
But now, it turns out that all her worries were unfounded. It turns out that Zhang Shou also likes her, it turns out that he likes her who likes him!
Zhu Ying subconsciously reached out and hugged Zhang Shou's back, which was not thick but rather thin. She tried her best to make her words smoother, but in the end, the only words she said out loud were those repeated words.
"I'm so happy... Ah Shou, I'm so happy!"
Zhang Shou couldn't help but wanted to thank the post that exposed Zhao Guogong's marriage fraud. If it wasn't something like this, maybe it was like that just now, he wouldn't have been able to say it. He has always been a person who does more than he talks. At this time, Wen Xiang Nephrite was here
Huai, he couldn't help but use a little strength to push Zhu Ying away a little, and then moved closer again under her puzzled eyes.
He gently kissed the soft and smooth forehead. After moving away, he saw that Zhu Ying was completely stunned. He smiled slightly and said: "Yingying, actually I want to get closer to you, but since
If there is no marriage certificate, then just wait a little longer. When the marriage certificate between our two families is finalized, everything will be fine."
At that time, I should be able to kiss you legitimately, because at that time, you are my real fiancée.
Zhu Ying stretched out her hand to rub her eyebrows, which seemed to still have the hot temperature just now, and her eyes finally revealed a smile of infinite joy. She suddenly rushed forward, suddenly threw her arms around Zhang Shou's neck, and pecked him gently on the cheek.
After a moment, he hurriedly stepped back, stroking his pretty red lips with some shame.
Immediately afterwards, she raised her head and smiled: "Now, we are even!"