After drinking and eating, Qin Mubai was happy to take a walk in the yard with Princess Gaoyang. But when I think of Mei Niang being at home, it will always be a little embarrassing if the two of them bump into each other. Although Wu Meiniang has made it clear, Princess Gaoyang has never formally mentioned this matter to her. It would be bad if the two princesses of Gaoyang got angry and caused some unpleasantness.
With a plan in mind, Qin Mubai said: "Ling'er, do you want to visit my house?"
"Your home?" Princess Gao Yang blinked, "Isn't this your home?"
"Last time the emperor gave me a big house, didn't you know?" Qin Mubai said.
"Really?" Princess Gao Yang suddenly became excited, "Then what are you waiting for? Go quickly! Take me to your house to see you!"
"There's no hurry. Where is His Highness King Wu?"
"He is drinking tea and chatting with your father. Come on, let's leave him alone, hehe!" After that, Princess Gaoyang dragged Qin Mubai to leave.
So the two of them left the Qin Mansion and went to Qin Mubai's residence.
The distance between the two houses is not far, and the walk only takes as long as burning incense, and they will be there in a short time.
"Hey, this is your home? It's very beautiful, I like it!" Princess Gao Yang smiled before she even entered.
"You said you like it without even looking at it? Is it possible that this place is better than the palace?" Qin Mubai said with a smile.
"Can you care? I just like it, hum!" Princess Gao Yang abandoned Qin Mubai and rushed into the house alone.
Usually, Qin Mubai's house is empty and unoccupied, with only a few servants left to take care of it. Qin Shuang'er sometimes comes over to say hello, just like the housekeeper here.
After Princess Gaoyang rushed into the house, she looked around with interest and thought happily: Hehe, okay, okay. It turns out that Mu Bai has his own home. In this way, I can live with him in the future and no longer have to crowd into the same courtyard with Duke Yi and the others. What a wonderful world for two, hehe!
"Mu Bai, this house is nice! It's so clean and tidy, I like it very much!" Princess Gao Yang danced happily in the avenue, like an excited little peacock.
Qin Mubai followed slowly and couldn't help but smile: "My mansion is smaller and shabby than Qin's mansion, but you still like it."
"Hey! This will be our home from now on, how could I not like it? I like everywhere you are! I also want to visit my hometown in Jiangzhou. That place feels so good to me! "
Jumping and shouting happily, Princess Gao Yang suddenly flashed several figures out of the corner of her eyes. Surprised, he stopped and turned his head to look. It turned out that there were three women standing there in the tree-lined green garden, looking at her in surprise.
Princess Gao Yang didn't react for a moment, staring at the three people in a daze, and hurriedly waved to Qin Mubai: "Mubai, come quickly! Who are these three women? Why are they at your home?"
Qin Mubai was shocked and walked over quickly to take a look. He couldn't help crying in his heart: miserable!
Why did I and Shuang'er bring Mei Niang here
This is really not as good as God, but we still ran into it!
"Ahem... That's my mother and my sister Shuang'er." Qin Mubai said.
"Wow, your mother, isn't that mine..." Halfway through her words, Princess Gaoyang hurriedly reached out to cover her mouth, and then hurriedly straightened her posture and expression, because the three women had already walked over.
Mrs. Liu, Qin Shuang'er, and Wu Meiniang all had different looks in their eyes. After coming over, they all saluted Princess Gaoyang together: "I have met Her Royal Highness."
"Yeah!... No more gifts, no more gifts!" Princess Gao Yang waved her hand anxiously, thinking to herself: It's really terrible. I met Mu Bai's mother here without any preparation. My behavior of jumping around and screaming just now is not going to make her think that my behavior is indecent and unseemly, right? … Wow, that’s so annoying!
"Hehe, are you Her Royal Highness Princess Gaoyang?" Qin Shuang'er didn't have any scruples. She looked up and down at Princess Gaoyang with a smile, walked to Qin Mubai and said with a smile, "Third brother, you are so bad, you secretly brought the princess here. Come for a tryst!”
"Stinky girl, don't pick up any pot!" Qin Mubai pinched her secretly in annoyance. At this time, he saw Wu Meiniang standing aside with a smile on her face, neither saying a word nor saying anything. Her expression and eyes had a hint of joking, but also a hint of unhappiness and pretentious calmness.
The atmosphere became a little awkward, Mrs. Liu hurriedly came out to smooth things over and said, "Mu Bai, Shuang'er, since the princess is here, how can you be rude? Please invite the princess to sit down in the main hall and serve tea!"
"No, no, no!" Princess Gao Yang waved her hands hurriedly, "I've just eaten and drank enough in the Qin Mansion, and my stomach is bloated, so I just want to... walk around, walk around! Ho, ho, ho!"
"You're laughing so stupidly!" Qin Mubai wanted to curse immediately in his heart, but he held back because of the crowd.
At this time, Princess Gaoyang stared at Wu Meiniang and looked her up and down several times. She couldn't help but widen her eyes. She was quite surprised. There was also a faint jealousy in her heart. She asked Qin Mubai softly: "Mubai, what's this?" One...how do you call him?"
The neat expressions of Mrs. Liu and Qin Shuang'er were stagnant, and Qin Mubai was also confused. He couldn't help but think: Anyway, the matter is inevitable, and it will be a matter of time for the two of them to meet each other. It’s better to choose a day than to hit it!
Before Qin Mubai could speak, Wu Meiniang took a step forward with a sweet smile, gave a curtsey and said, "I am in Chang'an Wu Zhao, and I have met Her Royal Highness the Princess."
"Wu Zhao? Wu Meiniang?" Princess Gao Yang's eyes widened even more.
"That's right." Wu Meiniang remained calm and smiling.
"Wow! Then you are Mu Bai's... unmarried daughter-in-law?" Princess Gao Yang said this without hesitation, and then stretched out her hand to cover her mouth in a hurry, her face turned red.
Now she was a little confused. The sudden encounter with Qin Mubai's mother made her a little restrained and nervous. Now... Wu Meiniang suddenly jumped out. Everyone knows that Wu Meiniang is Qin Mubai's unmarried daughter-in-law who was given a marriage by the emperor. Didn't she hear what she just yelled
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Why am I so unlucky? I'm so embarrassed!!" Princess Gao Yang cried out heartbrokenly. She really wanted to hide her face and run away, her face was red to the root of her neck.
Seeing her naive embarrassment, even Wu Meiniang couldn't help but laugh. Mrs. Liu hurriedly said: "Is this the first time for Your Highness the Princess to visit Mubai's home? Now that you are here, you can't leave without getting your lips wet. Please come to the main hall for tea!"
"Oh, okay, okay!" Princess Gao Yang wished she could dig a hole in the ground and slip in. At this moment, she was really like a big man. She hurriedly grabbed Qin Mubai secretly and walked forward hurriedly.
Qin Mubai giggled twice at Wu Meiniang, then raised his feet and followed Princess Gao Yang.
"You idiot! Why did you let me make a fool of myself in front of them? You're embarrassing me!" Princess Gao Yang complained in a low voice.
"I didn't know they came to my house!" Qin Mubai said.
"I don't care, I just blame you, I just blame you!" Princess Gao Yang wanted to jump up and tear her apart. When she looked back, she saw that Mrs. Liu, Wu Meiniang and others were following behind her, so she had to restrain herself.
"Haha, I didn't expect that your majestic princess, who has always been fearless, would be frightened now?" Qin Mubai said with a smile.
"I, I don't have it! I'm just embarrassed!" Princess Gaoyang couldn't help but look back and whispered, "It turns out that Wu Meiniang is so beautiful, no wonder you didn't look down on me before... No matter who sees it, She'll like it too."
"Are you jealous?"
"No!" Princess Gao Yang frowned and frowned, complaining in a low voice, "It's just that you didn't even give me any mental preparation, and you let me see your mother, and Wu Meiniang... I felt really embarrassed!"
"An ugly daughter-in-law will eventually meet her parents-in-law. Why are you embarrassed?" Qin Mubai laughed happily.
"Don't laugh! Bad guy! See if I'm done with you today! I'll deal with you later!" Princess Gaoyang stomped her feet in hatred.
The group entered the main hall of Qin Mubai's home and didn't know how to sit down. Originally, everyone wanted to ask Princess Gaoyang to seat her, but she refused due to Liu's presence. Mrs. Liu has always kept a low profile about her duties. Although she is Qin Mubai's mother, she doesn't even eat at the same table with him. In the end, they had to separate the seats for the guests and the hosts. Qin Mubai took the first seat, and the other four women sat down on their sides.
Princess Gao Yang and Qin Shuang'er were sitting on one side, holding a cup of tea. They were really sitting on pins and needles, no matter how awkward they were, they were looking forward to finishing the cup of tea quickly and running away. At this moment, Wu Meiniang stood up and left, saying that the No. 1 Liquor in the World still had matters to deal with. Qin Mubai and Mrs. Liu couldn't stay together, so they had to let her go.
Before leaving the house, Wu Meiniang turned back to Qin Mubai, smiled strangely, and disappeared. This smile made Qin Mubai feel confused, wondering what she meant. But Qin Shuang'er was smart and jumped up and chased her out: "I'll see Sister Mei off!"
Mrs. Liu also excused herself from the table, and finally only Princess Gaoyang and Qin Mubai were left in the hall.
"Huh..." Princess Gao Yang let out a long breath of relief, frowned and curled her lips, and said with a grimace: "Mu Bai, how could this happen? I'm so embarrassed!"
"What's there to be embarrassed about? You will all be my closest relatives from now on." Qin Mubai laughed.
"Look at you smiling so heartlessly, you don't care about other people's feelings at all..." Princess Gao Yang complained angrily and turned her face away.
Qin Mubai stood up and walked to her side, smiled and said, "You will get used to it gradually in the future."
For a moment, Princess Gao Yang knew what to say. She tried to speak several times but opened her mouth, but nothing came out.
"Are you still jealous?" Qin Mubai couldn't help laughing.
"Why should I be jealous!" Princess Gao Yang whispered, "Wu Mei Niang, I promised you first, how could I dare to snatch her love and keep you to myself?... Originally I thought she would be very hostile to me. I hate it, and I'm not afraid of getting into a fight with her because of jealousy. But just now, she was obviously very generous and tolerant, and her behavior was quite appropriate, the more nervous I became! "
"Why?" Qin Mubai couldn't help but asked with a smile.
"Because, because..." Princess Gao Yang rolled her eyes and murmured, "Because she was preconceived and I stepped in. I always feel a little short of breath and guilty in front of her. Although I am a princess, if it is really She married into your Qin family, and she is just the little daughter-in-law of the Qin family. She is so beautiful and capable, and so sensible and decent. What if you only like her and not me... oh oh oh, then What should I do!”
"Haha!" Qin Mubai couldn't help laughing. I thought happily in my heart: Not bad, not bad! Although Princess Gaoyang is a bit unruly and willful, she is not the kind of petty and jealous woman. She was only thinking about how to compete with Wu Meiniang for my favor, and never thought about driving her away from me and monopolizing me alone.
"You're still laughing!" Princess Gao Yang angrily hit Qin Mubai twice with her little pink fist, and said angrily, "Tell me, what should I do?"
"What should I do?" Qin Mubai couldn't help but laugh, "Think of a way to drive Wu Meiniang away from me!"
"Huh?!..." Princess Gao Yang was startled at first, and then she scolded angrily, "Bad guy, you are ridiculing me!"
"How can this be sarcasm?" Qin Mubai still smiled, "You are a princess. Can't you just ask your father to issue a decree to terminate my engagement with Wu Meiniang?"
"Hey... don't be sarcastic to me." Princess Gaoyang curled her lips and said sarcastically, "My name is Princess now, but I am actually a poor child who was kicked out of the palace and abandoned by his father. . Besides, even if I were still the same Princess Gaoyang, I would never do such an immoral thing!"
"Haha, I knew you wouldn't." Qin Mubai smiled happily.
"Of course!" Princess Gaoyang said with some sourness, "You were in love with her before you met me. How could I separate you so arrogantly? Didn't my father want to separate us? This kind of It feels too hard. I don’t want to try again, and I don’t want to impose it on others. Especially if one of them is you. Even if I can drive him away and keep you, I won’t be able to keep your heart. You may never be happy, you will always hate me in your heart, and you will never treat me sincerely."
"Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you. You are very smart, Ling'er." Qin Mubai said with a smile.
"Actually, I have thought about Wu Meiniang's problem from the beginning..." Princess Gao Yang murmured softly, "I don't know how to face her, and I have never figured out this problem. I have also been guessing what Wu Meiniang looks like. So, what kind of person is he, will he hate me, will he want to drive me away..."
"Don't worry, she doesn't hate you, let alone drive you away." Qin Mubai laughed and said, "I have explained our affairs to her openly and honestly. She doesn't mind."
"Really? Is there really such a broad-minded woman in the world?" Princess Gao Yang couldn't help but asked in surprise.
"To say that you really don't care is a lie." Qin Mubai said, "It's just like, although you say you don't want to drive Wu Meiniang away, you still want you to be the only one by my side, right?"
Princess Gao Yang was stunned for a moment, bit her lip, and nodded.
"Everyone will do this, it's human nature." Qin Mubai said, "But Wu Meiniang is very smart. She neither wants to leave me nor can she prevent your arrival, so she chose to accept it happily."
"You mean to persuade me to be like her, right?" Princess Gao Yang said.
"Uh..." Qin Mubai was speechless for a moment, and could only nodded with a dry smile, "I just hope that the family will be harmonious and not make a fuss all day long and never have peace."
"But, but..." Princess Gaoyang shook her head in embarrassment, "But sharing your man with another woman makes you feel really unhappy! As soon as I think of you leaving me, I will go to her and be intimate with her. I feel very sad, really!”
"How about splitting me in half and giving each of you a share?" Qin Mubai said with a smile.
"No!!!" Princess Gao Yang shouted immediately, "If you split it open, you will die! Even if I can't get you, I don't want you to die!"
"Silly... just kidding!" Qin Mubai chuckled and thought to himself: In comparison, Princess Gao Yang's ambition is more childish than Wu Mei Niang's. Her feelings are also more direct and simple. She is not stupid and knows that she cannot separate me from Wu Meiniang. If she wants to be with me, she must accept the fact that I have another Wu Meiniang. But in her heart, she couldn't accept this fact for a while.
So, she was confused.
"It doesn't matter, take your time, time will change everything and she will adapt. Princess Gaoyang, I can't bear to abandon her; Wu Meiniang, I will never give up. Who let the current environment and customs determine it? Men in the Tang Dynasty generally There won't be only one woman? Just follow the customs when entering the country!" Qin Mubai thought in his mind.
"What should we do now!..." Princess Gao Yang asked coquettishly with a grimace on her face and her lips curled up.
"Now, let's go back to the Qin Mansion first." Qin Mubai said, "Perhaps King Wu has been waiting for you for a long time. Why did you suddenly come to the Qin Mansion today without giving any notice in advance? Take a look. How embarrassing!"
"I'm not blaming you! You took me out of the palace and didn't come to see me. I was bored to death in Prince Wu's Mansion alone, so I had to force my third brother to bring me to your house to see me!" Princess Gao Yang said.
"Are you here to see your future parents-in-law?"
"It's annoying, no!"
…
The two returned to the Qin Mansion. Li Ke was still drinking tea with Qin Shubao in the main hall. In fact, he was already impatient to wait. As soon as Princess Gao Yang came back, he resigned and left. When Qin Mu and Bai Xiang were sent out, he asked: "You are really good at taking care of me, a free person. See if I have nothing to do, and give me a big trouble. Tomorrow, I will go to my house to serve this little ancestor. I won't I’ve done it for you!”
Qin Mubai laughed loudly: "Who makes you her brother? Well, I will visit your house tomorrow, and I also have something to discuss with you."
"Then wait for you to come."
Li Ke and Princess Gaoyang boarded the car and left, and Qin Mubai breathed a long sigh of relief.
Today is really frustrating. Fortunately, there was no real-person PK between Princess Gaoyang and Wu Meiniang. Having said that, of these two women, one is from the royal family and the other is from a wealthy family. In the words of the 21st century, they are both people with a little "higher education" and good qualities. They are not the kind of shrews in the market. Shrew. As for the issue of how the two of them get along, we will deal with it slowly later.
Without further ado, it’s time to get down to business—visit Li Jing!