Su Heng's gaze went from top to bottom, and finally settled on the sachet on Lu Yan's waist.
"Lord Lu's sachet looks special. I don't know which store did you buy it from?" Su Heng said in a stern voice.
"Gift from my sister." Lu Yan glanced down and said without changing his face, "Is there anything wrong with General Su?"
The atmosphere between the two became more and more tense. The summer wind was still blowing, but it was no longer warm.
Su Heng's eyes were cold, and he glanced at him with a half-smile, "It's nothing, it's just a coincidence. The person Su is looking for uses the same fragrance as Mr. Lu."
"Really?" Lu Yan said.
At this moment, a waiter bent over and ran over and said, "Master Lu, hurry in, the saint is still waiting."
The two said goodbye.
After Lu Yan came out of the palace, his face was ashen, and he sneered twice before bending over to get on the carriage.
Thinking back on Su Heng's actions today, his heart was filled with blood.
Recently, he and Shen Zhen are sleeping in the same bed every day, and it is inevitable that some of her strange fragrance will be on his body, because today he went to court, and he deliberately hung a sandalwood-scented sachet on his body to cover it up. Such a bland smell is really I can't think of Su Heng's special words...
When Yang Zong saw his master's expression was wrong, he immediately said, "Master, it's getting late, where are we going?" That's Chengyuan.
"No."
Yang Zong said again: "Is that the mansion of returning to the country?"
Lu Yan rubbed his brows and said after a while, "Go to Xuanping Hou's Mansion."
The guards of the Xuanping Marquis Mansion all knew the carriage of the Duke of Zhenguo Mansion. Seeing that it was Lu Yan, Butler Zhang immediately greeted them and opened the door.
Butler Zhang led Lu Yan inside, and then turned around and instructed the maid to prepare tea quickly, and then send it to the study as soon as possible.
Walking to the study, Butler Zhang bowed and said, "Master Lu, please come in."
Pushing the door open, a table of huanghuali wood comes into view. On the left is a yellow scroll, which is stacked on top of each other, and on the right is the Four Treasures of the Study. above.
With a stack of case slips in his hand, Sui Yu walked around from behind the bookshelf and looked at Lu Yan and said, "I heard that Jingzhao Mansion has been very busy recently, why do you have time to come here today?"
Lu Yan said lightly: "When is Jingzhao Mansion free? I just passed by your mansion and wanted to play chess with you."
Sui Yu looked helpless. Helpless, Lu Yan didn't even bother to find a decent excuse. The Marquis of Xuanping was only one street away from the Duke's Mansion. If he was passing by, he was afraid that he would pass by every day.
Sui Yu put down the case in his hand and said, "Sure, it just so happens that I'm almost there, let's go to the next game."
The two sat around the chess table, and the maid outside walked in with freshly brewed tea. After putting it down, she raised her arms, poured two cups of tea respectfully, and then stepped back.
Sui Yu picked it up, took a sip, and dropped a white child.
The two played silently for half an hour, and Sui Yu saw that Lu Yan frowned, and said casually, "Do you have something on your mind?"
Lu Yan rubbed the sunspot on his hand with his thumb, and said, "Have you finished drinking your hundreds of jars of good wine?"
Sui Yu was stunned for a moment, and then he understood the meaning of Lu Yan's words. It turned out that he came to beg for drinks today.
Sui Yu got up, threw the pieces in his hand back to the chess basket, and said, "The wine is in the old place outside, let's go."
They bypassed the rockery and walked to the water pavilion of the main hall.
The waterside pavilion in the Marquis of Xuanping is uniquely built. There are windows on all sides, and the corridors are connected to the left and right.
Really a good place to drink.
After being seated, Sui Yu took out a set of exquisite wine utensils and two jars of good wine.
He poured a cup for Lu Yan and said with a smile: "This is my treasure, if there are more, just these two jars, you can try it."
Lu Yan took it and drank it.
Looking at the only two jars of wine left, he couldn't help recalling the past, when Shen Yao had just been married by the saint, the wine in the Marquis of Xuanping's mansion would definitely be higher than the city walls of Chang'an.
"I didn't expect you to be short of wine here." Lu Yan said.
"I haven't had a drink since I got married." Sui Yu raised a glass with a smile and measured it, "I can only drink this if I accompany you."
Sui Yu doesn't drink, it's not that his wife doesn't let him drink it, but that he doesn't dare to tell the truth after drinking. If he pronounces someone else's name, it will be unfair to anyone.
Lu Yan nodded knowingly.
For some reason today, he looked at Sui Yu with an inexplicable hint of sympathy.
Lu Yan kept his head down and drank one cup after another, stopping occasionally to say two irrelevant words.
When a jar of wine bottomed out, Sui Yu pointed to the top of his head and said casually: "Lu Shiyan, if you don't talk about it, it will be dark..."
Lu Yan frowned slightly, it wasn't that he didn't want to talk about it, but that he and Shen Zhen really didn't know where to start.
"Tsk." Sui Yu smiled and said first: "If you want me to say, the title of the third sister Chang'an's number one beauty is really not false."
Lu Yan paused, and the corner of his lips twitched, "What did Chu Xun tell you?"
Sui Yu nodded and said nonchalantly: "The tea you just drank was sent from Yangzhou at the beginning of this month, together with the letter. I didn't expect that you would send Shen Hong to Yangzhou."
Lu Yan sneered coldly, "His mouth, Chu Ziye, is really more broken than that of a prostitute."
Sui Yu raised her eyebrows, opened a jar of wine for him, and said narrowly: "The third sister's temper is good enough, Lu Shiyan, don't blame me for not reminding you, the one who sat with me and drank for her. , but you're not the only one."
"Don't bully her."
Lu Yan replied without thinking, "Who do you call Third Sister?"
Sui Yu said unhurriedly: "Two years ago, Su Heng, the Marquis of Changping who just entered the capital, also asked me for a jar of wine to drink. By coincidence, he was sitting in the same seat as you."
Lu Yan's eyes narrowed.
Sui Yuquan didn't see it, and continued: "Three years ago, the third sister just arrived, and there were countless people in Manjing who wanted to go to Yunyang Houfu to propose marriage, but the surrounding area of Dajin was not peaceful. Marquis Ping received the imperial decree that the leading soldiers should be stationed in the frontier. Su Heng had been hesitating whether to go to the Shen family to propose marriage in advance. He thought about it for a long time, but he finally endured it. He went to the frontier to suffer, and secondly, the third sister was still young, and it was also made to wait for two years to discuss marriage."
Three sisters, three sisters...
Lu Yan's face darkened instantly.
"Hey, what's wrong with you and me? Shen Zhen climbed a tree with me when I was a child. She called me brother Yu first."
Lu Yan took another drink.
"With your temper, you must have bullied her a lot..." Sui Yu frowned at him.
To be honest, at the beginning of this month, at the moment when Chu Xun's letter was received, Sui Yu's eyes were really dark, and he threw the cup in his hand to the ground...
He couldn't believe that Lu Yan and Shen Zhen would have such a relationship.
When the accident happened to the Shen family, Sui Yu didn't think about paying back the money for the Shen family, but Mrs. Xuanping Hou not only burned his famous paintings, smashed the porcelain, but also made his name The land deeds and money were all taken away.
Even, also staged the drama of compulsion to death.
For a long time, the east and west courtyards of Xuanping Hou's mansion did not have any contact.
In desperation, he could only communicate with Shen Jiao, and forged a household registration for Shen Zhen and Shen Hong in the Ministry of Housing that was enough to be fake.
Who knows, since then, Shen Zhen and Shen Hong have disappeared.
He has guessed countless people, the prince, Ruth, and Lord Sun of the Ministry of War...
He never thought that Shen Zhen had been in the capital all the time, and was hidden by Lu Yan.
When he heard the news, although he breathed a sigh of relief, he was also sweating.
Lu Yan grew up with him, what kind of temper was that, he knew all too well that the Shen family had no relationship with the Lu family, and no matter what the reason for Shen Zhen's falling into his hands, at first, there must have been a lot of tears.
That night, Sui Yu sat in the waterside pavilion, looked at the direction of the Uighur, and thought for a long time.
Only then did I understand why Lu Yan secretly seemed to be helping the prince.
His thoughts returned, Sui Yu looked at the man who was drinking in front of him, and smiled again: "Seriously, Lu Shiyan, as the saying goes, the clothes are not as good as the newcomers, but the childhood sweethearts are back, are you panic?"
"Suiyu, you did it on purpose!"
With a "bang", Lu Yan slammed the cup on the table, and said with the corners of his mouth, "It's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years. I only said a few words to you back then. How do you remember it now?"
"Lu Yan, you pat your conscience and speak again, but two sentences? Are you two sentences?"
Suiyu is in love with the second girl of the Shen family, and no one in the capital knows it. After Shen Yao left Beijing, Suiyu's whole soul seemed to be taken away, and the friends around her were all persuading them with good words, but they couldn't persuade them. , also expressed pain and understanding...
Lu Yan alone, with a pair of eyes that can see through the world, cold and inhuman, he said condescendingly: "Suiyu, what's the matter?"
"Did Shen Yao trick you, or gave you ecstasy soup?"
Lu Yan was silent, raised his hand and pressed his eyes.
He hadn't paid attention to the matter of the Shen family before.
childhood sweethearts, proposed marriage...
After a while, Lu Yan looked at the empty cup in his hand, and suddenly felt that he had tasted the disadvantages of drinking.