On the day when Shen Ruyun and Zhou Yanbang were overjoyed, Jiang Yuanbai sent the people who were looking for Jiang Youyao and returned disappointed. In the Ningyuan Hou Mansion and the vicinity of Ningyuan Hou Mansion, no one who looked like Miss Jiang San was seen. From then on, Jiang Yuanbai looked even more melancholy. Even the people she wanted to see were unwilling to see, either Jiang Youyao was no longer in Yanjing City, or Jiang Youyao was still in Yanjing City, but couldn't move around freely.
Either way, it seems that it is not a good thing. For Jiang Yuanbai, the second type obviously made him more distressed. After a long time, his dissatisfaction and disappointment with Jiang Youyao have almost disappeared, and the instinctive fear of being a father has prevailed.
On the contrary, Mrs. Jiang was uncharacteristically tough. Saying that since I can't find it, I don't have to look for it again in the future.
None of this matters to Jiang Li. In addition to visiting Xue Huaiyuan every day, she waited for when Situ Jiuyue would prepare the fake pregnancy medicine so that she could carry out her second step plan.
But unexpectedly, on this day, Jiang Mansion was waiting for a peculiar post.
Jade came to Fangfeiyuan to look for ginger pear. When he saw Jiangli, he said, "Second lady, the old lady wants you to go to Wanfengtang."
Tong'er asked: "Sister Jade, the old lady is suddenly looking for a girl, but what's the matter?"
Jade smiled: "The slave and maidservant are not very clear about what is going on. It seems that the old lady called the slave to invite the second lady after receiving a post." She looked at Jiang Li. It's Jiang Li who speaks more usefully. Jadeite is also willing to sell it well.
"It's okay, I'll know when I go and see." Jiang Li smiled. I couldn't help feeling suspicious, and I went to greet Mrs. Jiang early in the morning. If it was a trivial matter, Mrs. Jiang wouldn't ask someone to invite herself to the night phoenix hall. But what is the matter
When he walked to Wanfengtang, Jiang Li's heart couldn't help but beat fiercely.
Mrs. Jiang was sitting in the seat, but Jiang Yuanbai was in the next seat. Jiang Yuanbai said that he hadn't been in court for a while, so he avoided the attack on Jiang's family by his colleagues during this period, to hide himself. On weekdays, in addition to sending people to inquire about Jiang Youyao's whereabouts, he writes and reads in the study, which is very leisurely. At this moment, he also came to the night phoenix hall, and was reading the post in his hand.
Jiang Li frowned slightly, too far away, she couldn't see the origin of the post. I just know that it must not be a trivial matter.
She whispered: "Father, grandmother."
Only then did Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Yuanbo see Jiang Li coming in. Mrs. Jiang said: "Second girl, sit down."
Jiang Li sat down on the seat below, Pearl poured a cup of tea, Jiang Li picked up the tea and drank it. She could feel that Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Yuanbai had been looking at themselves with gazes, perhaps they were still a bit complicated in their gazes. She still calmly blew the foam on the tea water and took a sip.
"Second girl." When Jiang Li swallowed the hot tea, Mrs. Jiang's voice also sounded, and she said, "Someone sent you a post."
Jiang Li raised her head, showing just the right amount of surprise, and asked, "Are you alone with me?"
"Yes."
"That's... Miss catkins from Chengde Lang's Mansion? Or my uncle? A post from Ye Mansion?" If you can invite her alone, it can be seen that it is her friend. But it is a pity that in Yanjing City, the friend of Miss Jiang Er can count it with half of his hand.
"No." It was Jiang Yuanbai who was talking this time. He stared into Jiang Li's eyes and said: "It's a post under Su Guo Gong's mansion."
Jiang Li was stunned for a moment.
This time, her surprised expression didn't seem to be pretending, Jiang Yuanbai's expression also eased a bit when she saw this. If Jiang Li looked like he had expected, this would make him suspicious.
"Government Suguo... why did you invite me? Is it just me?" Jiang Li was a little bit incoherent in shock.
Jiang Yuanbo said: "It's the birthday of the old general. I heard that you are outstanding in six arts. Letting you go to the Suguo Mansion for a banquet is the birthday banquet of Old General Ji."
"Birthday Banquet?" Jiang Li was puzzled. "That shouldn't just call me. Didn't my father and grandmother receive the post? Is there anyone else at the birthday banquet?"
She looked like she really didn't know anything about it. Jiang Yuanbo said: "There are no others. Among the people invited by General Ji, you are the only one. I came here to ask you, what kind of friendship do you have with General Ji, or how do you have friendship with Su Guo Gong Ji Heng? "
He still looks like a gentleman, but his eyes are like foxes smelling of prey, green and green.
Jiang Li smiled silently in his heart. On the surface, Jiang Yuanbai was an official in the court, and his political achievements were modest, not very good, but sleek. But in his bones, he was no worse than those jackal hyenas. He felt that this was wrong, and deliberately deceived himself.
Jiang Li said in surprise: "I met Su Guo Gong at a palace banquet. When we met again, it was outside the hall during the court meeting. The friendship with General Ji is even more difficult to talk about. I have never I have seen Old General Ji."
This is half true and false. It is true that Jiang Yuanbai knew about Ji Heng these two times, and he could not avoid it. Many people saw him. If Jiang Li said that he had never seen Ji Heng before, it would be very disturbing. Doubt. As for General Ji, every time Jiang Li meets with him, he goes to the Guogong Mansion in private, and it is impossible for outsiders to know.
When Jiang Yuanbai heard the words, seeing Jiang Li's sincere words, and the news he knew, he believed most of it in his heart. In fact, in the case of the Xue family, Ji Heng helped Jiang Li speak and confronted him as a king. It was also spread in the court, but it was not widely spread, but a small part of it. When Jiang Yuanbai heard it at first, he didn't care. After all, Lord Su hadn't had any friendship with him for many years, and Jiang Li didn't even talk about any contacts with Ji Heng. Perhaps the rumors have gone too far and have distorted the facts.
But today, Mrs. Jiang's people hurriedly came to him and showed him this strange post, Jiang Yuanbai was also a little undecided in his heart.
Maybe he missed something? There are some friendships between Jiang Li and Ji Heng that he doesn't know.
But at least from the performance of Jiang Li, Jiang Li and Ji Heng are not very mature either.
"Father," Jiang Li hesitated and asked, "Do I have to go to General Ji's birthday?"
When Jiang Yuanbai heard this, he also found it difficult to handle it. In fact, General Ji is still a good person, bold and loyal, upright and generous, and will never go any way of crooked ways. When General Ji hadn't completely abdicated back then, he even pointed at Jiang Yuanbai and scolded the fox to death. Jiang Yuanbai didn't take it seriously. He had been an official in the court for so many years, and he knew what was loyalty and what was a traitor. Although the old general always speaks surprisingly sometimes, as if he is an old naughty boy, there is no problem with his character.
The blame lies on his grandson, now the Grand Lord Su Guo Ji Heng. At a young age, everyone in North Korea is already jealous. Not to mention that his moody temperament makes it hard to guess, but Jiang Yuanbai, who is how old Ji Heng is, always feels dangerous and troublesome when he sees Ji Heng.
Jiang Yuanbai is a person who is unwilling to take risks, and he always stays away from such a dangerous person. Fortunately, Ji Heng did not support becoming a king, and his relationship with the Rightist was very indifferent. He would not be an enemy and was fairly friendly.
Now this post, on the surface, is the post of Old General Ji, who knows if there is any meaning of Ji Heng in it. If it was Ji Heng's intention, the Jiang family categorically refused, would it cause revenge? But what if it was just the old General Ji on a whim? It was also written in this post that other people were invited, but they were not officials from the Central Government, which made Jiang Yuanbai even more confused.
He could not categorically reject this post, nor did he dare to let Jiang Li go to a banquet rashly, intending to cross-examine Jiang Li if there is any source that he didn't know, Jiang Li also failed to give a suitable answer.
Jiang Yuanbai was caught in a dilemma.
Old Mrs. Jiang said: "Why... I'd better quit this post. Er Yatou and a little girl are going to a banquet. This is unreasonable."
Jiang Yuanbai smiled bitterly, he naturally thought, but now the Jiang family is in troubled times. If you offend Su Guoguo again, Ji Heng will fall into trouble again, the Jiang family can't be sure that it will really be destroyed. When the time comes, the people from the right-hand Li family will definitely not let go of this opportunity, and the whole Jiang family will suffer. The officialdom is like this, you watch many people climb up unscrupulously, just because once he stops, maybe his entire family will be thrown into the abyss.
I really dare not stop.
Jiang Li looked at the tangled color on Jiang Yuanbo’s face and sighed softly. She said: "I heard that Su Guo Gong Ji Heng is moody. If he categorically rejects his grandfather’s post in this way, maybe he will think we Jiang The family doesn't know how to promote it, but it causes unnecessary trouble for the Jiang family. Today's Jiang family can't stand a blow."
Both Mrs. Jiang and Yuanbo Jiang looked at her.
Jiang Li's voice was calm: "It's just a birthday banquet, I'll go."
"Ali." Jiang Yuanbo yelled to her anxiously, but after yelling, he didn't know what to say. He looked at the girl's soft eyebrows, and wondered in a daze that this child's temperament is not like him, not like Ye Zhenzhen, but he doesn't know who it is like.
"Is there a better way for father?"
Jiang Yuanbo was speechless. He really didn't know what else could be done. It would be better to have no intersection with someone like Su Guo Gong for a lifetime. But why is it so unlucky that I just ran into it.
"If there is no other way, so be it." Jiang Li smiled, "I heard that the old general has always been upright. After all, I am also the daughter of the Shoufu family, so there should be nothing wrong with it. If something goes wrong, they A government office can’t get rid of its relationship. Besides, if they really don’t have good intentions, they wouldn’t be guilty of stubbornly attacking me like this. How difficult is it to end? Didn’t it save a lot of trouble? From this point of view, General Ji’s birthday banquet was not a feast for the grand sect. It was just the old general’s pleasure and some nonsense gameplay."
What she said was calm and gentle, which surprised both Mrs. Jiang and Yuanbo Jiang. In particular, Jiang Li said, "Do it when no one knows", and there is a kind of palpitating peace. But after thinking about it, what Jiang Li said is reasonable, that is, there is really any attempt, why bother to make a lot of fanfare and leave evidence such as a post.
Jiang Yuanbai looked at Jiang Li and said, "You go out first, and I will think about it again."
Jiang Li didn't say much, and after paying respects with Jiang Yuanbai and Mrs. Jiang, he left Wanfengtang.
She came quickly and went quickly. For a while, Jiang Yuanbai and Mrs. Jiang were the only ones facing each other in the night Fengtang.
Mrs. Jiang sighed, and said, "Look, I'll just say that the second girl has an idea."
"I don't know who she looks like." Jiang Yuanbai smiled bitterly, "I don't even know what she is thinking now." Thinking about what his father did was really bad, a daughter was killed by his wife. , A daughter ran away from home and his whereabouts are unknown, and another daughter was wronged by him and left a foreign country for eight years. Of the three daughters, none of them kiss now.
Mrs. Jiang glanced at him, she seemed to know what he was thinking, she didn't say much, she just said: "Yuan Bai, I thought before, the second girl is now age, it's time to see others. It's just that. At these times there is an accident at home, so it’s hard to talk about it at this time. Besides, people may not dare to come after seeing it. Today... you said, "Her voice is uncertain and trembling," you said, solemnly. Will the Guo Gong be in love with the second girl?"
"Impossible!" Jiang Yuanbai stood up as soon as he said this. Mrs. Jiang didn't expect him to react so much. Jiang Yuanbai frowned and said, "What kind of beauty hasn't seen a person like Su Guoguo? Why would you like A Li? Also, he is murderous. , With deep thoughts, Ali can never marry such a person!"
"I'm just talking, why are you so agitated?" Mrs. Jiang told him to sit down, "I just asked. Because I really don't understand why he wants to post with the second girl. There is no real friendship. , There are so many girls in Yanjing City, why just hire the second girl, I'm afraid that General Ji has other plans, and has taken a look at the second girl..."
"Mother, don't talk nonsense." Jiang Yuanbai was upset by what she said, and said: "This kind of thing is absolutely unacceptable. I will send someone to look up and find out what is going on!"
He strode out of the night phoenix hall.
Jiang Li was also thinking carefully on the way back to Fangfeiyuan.
What is the reason for the sudden release of this post? If you know what is really going on, you can ask Zhao Ke to tell himself that he will go to the Guogong Mansion at night... Jiang Li is holding her forehead with a headache. What's wrong with her? Instead, sneaking out of the house at night to go to someone else's house is a thing of habit. This is a terrifying event.
But having said that, this post is really hard for Jiang Li to understand. Obviously, if this happens, Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Yuanbai will be unreasonably suspicious, but they still post, and they are so blatant. Are you really letting yourself go to the birthday banquet
Isn't this a nonsense
But Jiang Li had to go. If this was Ji Heng's move, there was any special significance in it. If she didn't go, wouldn't it have disrupted other people's plans. Therefore, Jiang Li will say what she is willing to go to in the night of Fengtang.
She knew that Jiang Yuanbo must be suspicious, and she had to send someone to investigate. Of course, it would definitely be fruitless. Ji Heng's people are not vegetarian, but everything can be found out by others. In all likelihood, he deliberately lets others see what he wants others to see.
Tonger asked: "Girl, what shall we do in the yard now?"
"Think about birthday gifts." Jiang Li said.
"Huh?" Tonger was surprised.
Jiang Li smiled, General Ji would not use birthday as a guise, so the post said it was his birthday, it must be his birthday. To meet in the name of a birthday party, you can't go empty-handed. She still had to think about what a gift that would not be too costly and would not lose face.
All this is on the premise that Jiang Yuanbai promised her to accept the post, but Jiang Li believes that this will happen sooner or later.
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At night, Jiang Yuanbo and Mrs. Jiang still didn't show whether or not Jiang Li would accept this post. Jiang Li had already begun to ask Bai Xue to take out all the silver, calculating how much there was left, and should buy multiple thank-you gifts for General Ji.
Tong'er asked: "Girl, I'm not sure to go, how can I start thinking about it when I was born?"
"Sooner or later, I have to go." Jiang Li smiled slightly, "Father and the old lady have not made a decision until now, so they have already acquiesced." She counted the silver bills in her hand, and Ye Mingyu gave her some, Jiang Li The old lady and Jiang Yuanbai compensated that there was still a lot left. Apart from taking care of the others and buying some supplements for Xue Huaiyuan, she didn't spend much time on her own. The jewellery and clothes that girls love, ginger pear is enough, so there is a lot of silver left. She weighed it and thought it was enough to give Old General Ji a good gift, so she asked Tonger to put away the box containing the silver bills and said: "Let's go to the street tomorrow morning."
Tonger nodded.
On the second day, Jiang Li and Tonger Baixue went to the street to select birthday gifts.
She hadn't been out of the house for a long time, but the Jiang family's guards followed a lot. Jiang Li thought about going, but she really didn't have a clue as to what gift to give to General Ji. Ordinarily, giving gifts to the elderly is about giving precious supplements such as ginseng and antler, but these government offices are not lacking. General Ji is a military commander, should he send a good weapon? But the old General Ji's weapons must have been seen a lot. Besides, he really wants to give him a very good weapon, and he can't go to the battlefield right now. The hero is late, what if it makes him sad
After shopping for a whole morning, I didn't see anything particularly pleasing. Seeing that he was about to walk to the East City, Jiang Li stopped the carriage and walked off by himself.
Tonger asked: "Girl, you are not going to the East Market, are you?"
"I think so too."
"But, but..."
"It's nothing," Jiang Li interrupted him, "Let's go in."
Tonger had to keep up.
East City is a dark city located in the east of Yanjing City. Here, fish and dragons are mixed. There may be robbers who murder and set fires. , The sellers who come here, spread out their mats everywhere, and they can do business. Of course, there are scammers here too, buying real things and buying fake things depends on their own eyesight. After the transaction is completed, it is discovered that the thing is fake. If the transaction is lost, you have to admit that you are unlucky.
Therefore, most people who come to the East Market to buy things are those who specialize in these things and have some vision.
When Jiang Li and his party walked in, many people looked at him. First, although Jiang Li is wearing a hat, she is dressed as a woman. Few women come to Dongshi to buy and sell things. Then came the guards who followed Jiang Li, which was really conspicuous. After just thinking about it, you can guess that it's a lady from a big family who came here to open your eyes.
Therefore, the sellers who were sitting everywhere greeted them eagerly, blowing their stuff to the top. Thinking of being the eldest lady who doesn't cannibalize, it's easy to be fooled.
Tong'er and Baixue are both nervous and curious, but these places are a bit messy and messy. I'm afraid Jiang Li is not used to walking here, but when I look up, although I can't see Jiang Li's expression, Jiang Li's steps are calm. Very steady.
She seemed to be very familiar with it, and she didn't have the slightest discomfort.
How come you have been. Tonger murmured from the bottom of her heart.
In fact, Jiang Li has not really been to Dongshi, at most, he passed by the gate of Dongshi when he was making Xue Fangfei. It's just that these people with the atmosphere of the rivers and lakes are not unfamiliar to her, and she is not afraid. Xue Zhao had taken her to see similar places. Besides, everyone said that the gap between the superior and the inferior is absolutely impossible to bridge. But the top class will not always be the top class, and the inferior class will not always be the bottom class. In the eyes of these people, she is the top class, but Jiang Li knows that from the bottom of her heart, she still came out of Tongxiang. The little official's daughter is no different from these people here.
Her gaze traversed the nearby stalls, but she didn't see anything of interest, so she felt a little disappointed. To know that ordinary things are difficult to enter the eyes of Old General Ji, she wants to see if she can find some rare things here, but at the moment, it seems that there is nothing interesting.
At this moment, not far away, there was a whimper of a cub suddenly, and Jiang Li followed his reputation. I saw a long seat with a solid wooden pillar standing beside the long seat. There are a few ropes tied to the pillar, and on the other side of the rope are a few horses.
The horse should be born not too long, and can't even stand firmly. There are all kinds of colors, but they are covered with a thick layer of mud, and they can't see their true colors.
Jiang Li walked to the owner of the foal. The owner of the foal was a middle-aged man. Seeing Jiang Li coming, he quickly got up and greeted him: "They are all newly harvested foals. Miss, right? Miles."
Bai Xue and Tong'er looked at each other. There are stables in Jiang's Mansion, and the mares in the stables often produce foals, so why bother to buy them here. But Jiang Li actually bent down with the skirt, picking and choosing from the group of horses, pointing to one of the horses and saying, "I want this one."
Everyone looked at the horse she had picked. It was a small horse, not as high as Jiang Li’s knees, and her eyes were very bright. Standing in a group of horses, she looked very small, with mud scabs all over her body. , Dirty.
Tonger whispered: "This one is too dirty, girl, why don't you choose the maroon one?"
Jiang Li shook his head: "I want this one."
The middle-aged man was also stunned. The girls choose the pony, which is about cute, but this horse looks very aggressive, even the eyes are a bit fierce, and it’s dirty. I didn’t expect Jiang Li to actually Choosing this horse is really different from ordinary people's vision.
"How much money?" Jiang Li asked.
The middle-aged man saw her with a refreshing appearance, thinking about the eldest lady who is really not cannibalistic, and said: "I think she has a fate with a girl. This horse is a good seedling. It is cheaper for the girl today. , Five hundred taels of silver!"
"Five hundred taels of silver?" Tonger exclaimed, glaring at the middle-aged man, "Do you think that our silver is brought by the wind, or do you really think we don't know how much the horses sell for?"
"Tonger, give it to the silver." Jiang Li said.
When the middle-aged man heard this, he immediately squinted his eyes and said, "This young lady knows the goods. She is a refreshing person!"
Tonger was indignant, and with so much money to buy a horse, he would laugh out loud when he spread it out. On the surface, this person was flattering his own lady, but he couldn't figure out how to ridicule her as a fool. But when Jiang Li spoke, Tong Er had to agree, and counted five silver notes from the box and handed them over.
The middle-aged man took the banknote away with shining eyes, and when Tong'er saw this, his heart became even more sulking.
There are many people coming and going in the East Market, and Jiang Li is a group of people who are very conspicuous, and they have long been seen in their eyes. As for her process of buying the foal, it also caused many people to watch. Seeing Jiang Li spent so much money on buying an inexplicable horse, many people showed mocking smiles on their faces.
Jiang Li turned a blind eye to all this. She asked Bai Xue to lead the horse and leave the East Market, which made people look forward to the horse before he got on the carriage.
Tonger finally couldn't help saying: "Girl, why do you spend so much money on this horse? There are so many in our mansion. Now most of the money is missing, and the rest is a birthday gift for General Ji. It's not enough."
"No need." Jiang Li said: "The old general's gift is already available."
"What?" Tong'er was taken aback, "when did you buy it."
"It's the horse."
Tonger was stunned and said, "But that's just an ordinary horse. You told the old general that the horse cost five hundred taels of silver. It is just a horse that can be seen everywhere." Tonger quietly read the four words dirty in his heart without saying it.
"Oh? Do you think it is an ordinary horse?" Jiang Li asked with a smile.
"Isn't it?" Looking at Jiang Li's smile, Tong'er moved in his heart and asked Bai Xue: "Bai Xue, what can you see?"
Bai Xue answered honestly, "No, I just think that horse is a bit dirtier than the horse I usually see."
Tonger: "..."
"That's not an ordinary horse." Jiang Li smiled slightly, "It's a sweaty BMW."
"Huh?" Tong'er and Bai Xue were both surprised, staring at Jiang Li incredulously.
"Although I don't know how the sweaty BMW got mixed in that group of horses, and their owner didn't notice it, but I obviously made this deal, let alone five hundred taels of silver, which is ten thousand taels of gold. It's worth it."
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