Although Zhao Taozhuang and Zhao Taomei didn't think that Xu Baomo was joking with them before, for the sake of their cousin, they still reluctantly said: "Since it is a misunderstanding, let's forget it. The prince still Please go back early so that the Lord of Jiaxiang County will not be in a hurry!"
Xu Baomo looked at Zhao Taomei very reluctantly before saying goodbye to Rong Suihe.
However, Rong Suihe asked with a smile: "Brother Wen Duan, Ying Jiang is sitting with your father in the hall? What about the Sheng family?"
"We didn't go with the Sheng family today." Because Xu Baomo was covetous of Zhao Taomei's beauty, he was happy to stop and chat with him for a few more words. He took advantage of the situation and took a few more glances at the beauty. Hearing this, he said, "Originally, my grandfather sent someone to follow him in advance. The Sheng family agreed to come together, but the old man of the Sheng family said that the two families would not sit together anyway and would separate when they came in. It would be better for them to go their own ways to save trouble. Because Da Qiao and the others have been in and out of the palace frequently recently, I Grandfather thought that it would be okay for the Sheng family to come to the banquet alone, so he didn’t insist."
Rong Suihe said "hmm" and said, "Brother Wen Duan, please help yourself. I'll go find Guainannan and the others."
Hearing this, Xu Baomo asked curiously: "Brother Hengshu, is there something wrong?"
The Zhao sisters instantly turned pale, even though Princess Gaomi and Aunt Zhao had told them that Mr. Sheng had agreed not to tell Rong Suihe about the misunderstanding that had occurred when they visited Sheng Weiqiao.
But the sisters don't know the Sheng family very well. Who knows whether Mrs. Sheng's promise is trustworthy
What's more, there are so many people talking, and now Rong Suihe is going to find Sheng Weiqiao and others. If someone in the group accidentally slips up... how are they going to explain to Rong Suihe
"On the way to Chang'an before, I promised my sister Weiwu that after I finish taking the imperial examination, I would take them out to have fun and eat well, and buy a bunch of Chang'an's fashionable items." Rong Suihe looked around and thought about meeting Sheng Weiqiao early. , did not notice the abnormality of the two cousins, and casually found an excuse to excuse Xu Baomo and said, "In the end, I have never been able to fulfill my promise. I saw some bright hairpin rings at the princess's place two days ago, so I asked for a few, planning to give them to Each of them will have a portion as compensation."
He didn't know that Sheng Weiqiao and Gongsun Yingjiang were being left behind by Queen Meng at the moment. He thought Sheng Weiqiao was with the rest of the Sheng family. He thought that Old Mrs. Sheng already knew what he was thinking. What kind of excuse is that? I must be on guard and refuse to give myself a chance to stay longer.
He secretly thought that it would be better to drag Xu Baomo along with him, and then use him as a shield so that Mr. Sheng could not drive him away quickly
Thinking like this, Rong Suihe said, "Brother Wen Duan, why don't we go there together?"
"No, no, no, no, no, no!" Xu Baomo immediately said resolutely, "Brother Hengshu, you can do it alone. I don't have anything prepared to give to Da Qiao and the others! I'm with you now. Wouldn’t it be embarrassing in the past? So, please forgive me for not being able to accompany you!!!”
Are you kidding me
The aunt and nephew of the Sheng family, the aunt is a tigress and the niece is a little witch, ever since he met, he has been in tears!
He wished he could stay with Gongsun Yingjiang until death. How could he take the initiative to find his fiancée? !
"Brother Wen Duan, this is wrong of you." However, Rong Suihe liked him as a foil and was not willing to let him go. He immediately acted sternly and said, "The Xu and Sheng families are family friends. The old man of the Sheng family I have always treated you, Brother Wen Duan, as your own grandson, not an outsider! You haven’t prepared anything, so what are you worried about? You don’t know about the tutoring of the old man of the Sheng family? How can they blame you for this, good girl? Can’t do it?”
Xu Baomo burst into tears in his heart. Da Qiao, that tigress, really wouldn't ask for anything from my son. As soon as she opened her mouth, she rushed to take his life!
"But Yao... But Ying Jiang must be with Da Qiao!" Xu Baomo tried hard to find an excuse, "We just got engaged. If we meet in person now, we will inevitably feel embarrassed, so I'd better not go, right?"
Rong Suihe said with a bright smile: "There are so many people in the Sheng family, and you two are not meeting alone, what's the awkwardness? The worst thing is that brother Wen Duan doesn't talk to Ying Jiang then, and just chats with the old man of the Sheng family. Okay. Otherwise, you are also the old man's prospective great-grandson-in-law. Now that you have been walking around a lot, you don't go to greet the old man of the Sheng family. It really doesn't make sense. If the old marquis knows about it later, he probably won't do it. Agreed, right?”
What I want is that you don’t want to see Gongsun Yingjiang. When you arrive, you can only talk to Mr. Sheng!
"Brother Heng Shu, what does this mean?" Xu Baomo didn't know his intentions. Hearing the last sentence, he suddenly trembled and thought to himself, "This is telling me that I don't dare to accompany him to the Sheng family to order something." Mao, are you going to complain to my grandfather later?!"
Based on his impression of Rong Suihe, his brother Heng Shu could not be so bad!
So Xu Baomo continued to evade: "Brother Yu still has something to do. How about Brother Xian, please go ahead first, and Brother Yu can go to see the old man of the Sheng family later?"
"Third cousin, the banquet hasn't started yet!" Originally Rong Suihe would not agree to such an excuse that was obviously just thought of, but the Zhao sisters were worried that Sheng Weiqiao and others would take the opportunity to complain. After thinking about it, he went to the side and whispered his ear for a while. At this time, he walked over and interjected, "You go to talk to the Sheng family now. When the banquet starts, you have to go back to your seat. Isn't it troublesome?"
"In our opinion, it's better to wait until after three drinks, everyone can move around freely, and then talk to the Sheng family!" Zhao Taomei said softly, "We can talk more then, right?"
What they were thinking was that the banquet hadn't even started yet. If Rong Suihe went to see Sheng Weiqiao and found out about the things the palace had concealed about him, and got angry, it would definitely attract a lot of attention and even cause trouble to the Queen Mother and the Emperor. , the Queen and others.
But after three rounds of drinking, all the guests are enjoying themselves, and if any trouble occurs, it will not be so easy to attract people to watch.
The Zhao sisters were worried that they did not trust the Sheng family to keep their promise, so they had no choice but to implement this delaying strategy when they could not stop Rong Suihe from going to Sheng Weiqiao.
But Rong Suihe didn't know what was going on. Hearing this, he thought: "This makes sense! Even if I drag Xu Baomo over there, the old man of the Sheng family won't be able to drive me away for a while. When the banquet is held later, he won't Are you able to expel people confidently? Maybe there will be a "You have already come to see us, please don't come again later, so as not to delay your closeness with your family."
So it's better to follow the Zhao sisters' suggestion and not go there now. After you go back, you won't be able to leave!
Therefore, he nodded slightly and stopped coercing Xu Baomo to go with him to find Sheng Weiqiao and others: "That's what the two cousins said. In that case, Brother Wen Duan, please do what you want!"
Seeing this, Xu Baomo secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He glanced gratefully at the Jiyu Zhao sisters, who were both beautiful and beautiful, and thought that they had escaped death!
Then he happily returned to the table where the Ningwei Hou family was sitting, and happened to see Mr. Xu and Mr. Sheng sitting side by side, talking with great joy. When he noticed the return of his grandson, Mr. He frowned and glanced over hard: "What are you still standing there for? You have no eyesight! Quickly check Ying Jiang's seat to see if there is anything missing. If it is missing, quickly tell the palace people around you. ! Otherwise, I’ll turn back to Ying Jiang from the Empress, and if you don’t do anything right, I’ll see if I can beat you to death!”
"Hey, Lao Xu, in front of a big crowd, let's save some face for the child!" Mrs. Sheng, as usual, smoothed over the situation between his grandfather and grandson. He said kindly, "The child is so old, and his boss and colleagues will be here today... Hug." Mo, go and have a look. Ying Jiang is also officially engaged to you. Today our two families are sitting together again. Ying Jiang and Qiaoer are not here at this moment. It is the first time for Deer and the others to attend such a banquet. , it’s inevitable that you’ll be confused, so I can’t help but let you worry more!”
Xu Baomo shuddered when his grandfather, grandmother, father and mother looked at him and said, "I'll kill you if I say another word." The old man in the family has so many grandchildren, but he is still so kind and amiable, and he is so gentle and considerate to his unrelated descendants.
As the only grandson of the Xu family, I actually live in dire straits all day long. It makes me feel sad just thinking about it!
Gongsun Yingjiang didn't feel her fiancé's sorrow at all. After careful consideration, she decided to sleep with Cao Zhu today!
This was not because Cao Zhu was the most uncontrollable to her, but firstly, compared to the respected Bo Meng Guiyu and Yichun Hou Li Shengxu, Gongsun Yingjiang felt that Sheng Weiqiao and himself had the least chance of contact with Cao Zhu; Based on Gongsun Yingjiang's understanding of the children of the nobles in Chang'an, their future is often like this:
Those who are talented can take the exams on their own, which is the most confident way out; those who are not talented can be divided into two types. One is the self-motivated person who becomes an official, relying on the way of being an official that he has been exposed to since childhood and the guidance and guidance of his elders step by step. One way to get promoted is to rely on having a backer to become a happy dandy.
Meng Guiyu, Li Shengxu and Cao Zhu are all descendants of nobles, but for the first two, Meng Guiyu has been working in the center for a long time and will obviously not leave Chang'an easily; Li Shengxu was not in good health in his early years and did not hold any specific official positions. Even if he is in good health now and will become an official in a few days, it is impossible for Princess Wuyang to leave Chang'an because of her management in Chang'an's aristocratic circle.
As for Cao Zhu, the grandson of Duke Lu, because Duke Lu had nothing to do with the Sheng family, Gongsun Yingjiang was not sure whether one day this man would suddenly find an outside job with the help of his family. Just leave
By then, she may not be able to pursue him and sleep with him elsewhere!
So in order to prevent any beautiful young man who caught his eye from slipping away from his palm, Gongsun Yingjiang regretfully decided to sleep with Cao Zhu before thinking about sleeping with Meng Guiyu and Li Shengxu.
Of course, before that, she had to find her uncle Rong Suihe. Otherwise, this would not be a flower-viewing banquet, but only a group of selected young men and women. This kind of place where all the rich and noble families in Chang'an would come out in full force, would still be In the Shanglin Garden that spans more than 300 miles... Without the help of Rong Shuihe, the Mi Zhen Prince, Gongsun Yingjiang might not be able to find Cao Zhu, let alone sleep with him.
Thinking of this, Gongsun Yingjiang suddenly couldn't sit still. He looked at the space and said to Sheng Weiqiao, "Auntie, I want to go out for a walk."
"Don't go!" Sheng Weiqiao refused without thinking. After the niece was in a daze for a long time, she suddenly wanted to act alone. She could guess what she had planned without using her brain!
But the aunt and nephew did not deliberately whisper what they said. Queen Meng and others also heard it. The queen and others only said that Gongsun Yingjiang reluctantly appeared in front of everyone. He couldn't bear it after holding on for so long, so he wanted to go out for a walk. Seeing Sheng Weiqiao's refusal, she couldn't help but feel pity. Empress Meng winked at Meng Shuangli and said with a smile: "Jiaxiang, it's your first time here. I'm afraid you're not familiar with the route. How about letting Shuangli accompany you for a walk? She happened to be there. I can never sit still."
"Your Majesty, you dislike me so quickly!" Meng Shuangliu said with a pitiful look, "You always give up! But it's just right. I really think it's boring to sit here and chat all the time. Jiaxiang County Lord, if you don’t dislike me, why don’t we go out to play together?”
Seeing that Sheng Weiqiao seemed to want to refuse on Gongsun Yingjiang's behalf, she pretended to wipe away her tears, "The empress doesn't want me, and the county master doesn't want me either! Sure enough, I am a poor person who no one loves!"
"Jiaxiang, look at this living treasure!" Queen Meng looked helpless but actually said to Gongsun Yingjiang with approval, "Just be a helper and take her with you? Otherwise, she can stay here pretending to be crazy for a long time, and when the banquet is over, Queen Mother and the others won’t stop even if they come!”
Everyone else knew that the queen was worried about Gongsun Yingjiang leaving alone, and specifically asked Meng Shuangliu to follow. At this moment, they all expressed their support: "That's right, it's the first time the Lord of Jiaxiang County has seen Shuangliu. He didn't know that she is the most troublesome!" If there is a commotion now, if she doesn’t go along with it, it will be the end of her!”
Gongsun Yingjiang just wanted to leave Sheng Weiqiao and didn't care about taking Meng Shuangli with him. After all, it would be too easy for her to get rid of such a delicate little girl!
Especially as Queen Meng said, it was the first time she came to Shanglin Garden and she didn't know the way at all. After going out, she went to find Rong Suihe alone and her eyesight was dark. She didn't know which direction to go
At this moment, Queen Meng took the initiative to send her a guide out of fear that she would be "unable to think clearly" again, which she really wanted!
So he ignored Sheng Weiqiao's angry glare and said happily: "It's great that Miss Shuangliao can accompany me for a walk!"
In full view of the public, Sheng Weiqiao didn't want to disobey the queen too much, so he could only watch her leave, secretly praying that she would never succeed again... Even if she succeeded, she would have to hide it and not cause a scene like the last flower viewing party. Everyone knows it! ! !
Empress Meng and others were completely unaware of Gongsun Yingjiang's true nature. After Gongsun Yingjiang and Meng Shuangliu left, they all tried to persuade Sheng Weiqiao: "I know you care about your niece, and you won't worry if you don't take her with you. But the weather is bad today. Well, Shanglin Garden is famous for its beautiful scenery. If she wants to go out for a walk, just let her go. Why do you have to stop her? Look at you just now. If we didn't all know who you are, we would think you are deliberately harsh. Where is she!"