Zhao Zhen reluctantly withdrew his gaze, and said in a quiet tone: "Even if I want to promote her to the lady of the country, then I have to wait for you to be promoted to the country?"
Kou Ji was taken aback, but he didn't expect Zhao Zhen to say such deep words.
Zhao Zhen lowered his head and said in a low voice: "I am going back to the palace..."
Kou Ji was puzzled: "You are not..."
"I have seen it..."
"Don't talk to her?"
"I shouldn't show up."
"..."
Kou Ji nodded slowly and stopped talking.
Zhao Zhen had difficulties with Zhao Zhen. Although he didn't know how the empress dowager Liu E and Concubine Li would react after meeting Zhang's daughter, he could guess how the censors would react.
The censors of the censors will definitely catch this matter, play him fiercely, and curse him indefinitely.
Will also play Zhang's daughter and her family by the way.
He was played, but he didn't care, but the Zhang family was implicated because of this, but he didn't want to see it.
When Kou Ji was silent, Zhao Zhen suddenly stepped forward and gave Kou Ji a fierce bear hug, and then left the pavilion happily.
Finally disappeared silently in the Orchid Garden.
Liu Heng and Cao Yu stared at Zhao Zhen's figure and disappeared in the Lanhua Garden, looking at Kou Ji with doubts.
They didn't understand why Zhao Zhen would leave suddenly.
Kou Ji sighed and whispered: "This is the suffering that the emperor should bear..."
Liu Heng and Cao Tong looked blank.
Kou Ji didn't explain much, and said calmly: "You will understand later."
Liu Heng and Cao Tong glanced at each other, still blank.
"Let's go! Go and meet someone, they have already seen us."
Kou Ji said casually, and walked out.
Liu Heng and Cao Tong were stunned, and when they looked across the fish pond, they saw that the second sister of Xiangjia was constantly making faces at them.
The other women were laughing and covering their mouths.
Liu Heng and the two hurriedly followed Kou Ji's footsteps to the other side of the fish pond.
"Brother Kou is polite..."
"Brother Cao is polite..."
"Brother Liu's is polite..."
When the women met the three of Kou Ji, they did not show shyness, but generously saluted the three of them.
Kou Ji arched his hands, "Sisters are polite..."
Liu Heng and Cao Tong saw the ceremony one after another.
After seeing each other.
As the proprietor, Xiang Yan introduced each other to them.
The purpose is also to take care of Kou Ji.
She knows that Kou Ji rarely participates in banquets and poetry parties, for fear that Kou Ji does not know one of them.
When Xiang Yan introduced Zhang Yurou, the daughter of Zhang's family, Kou Ji took a special look.
Zhang Yurou is not very old, but she is indeed a rare beauty. His figure and facial features are far more refined than other women.
But compared to Xiang Yan, it's much inferior.
Maybe it's because she didn't have a long opening. When she grows up, when she grows up, she should be able to compete with Xiang Yan.
No wonder Zhao Zhen thought about her.
In addition to Zhang Yurou, the daughter of Zhang's family, Kou Ji couldn't help but look at another woman.
That is Cao Yun, the daughter of the Cao family.
The appearance is a bit inferior to Zhang's daughter, but she wins in alive and clever.
When I was with Zhunv, it was more eye-catching than Zhang's daughter.
The reason why Kou Ji noticed her was because she held Cao Tong's arm and called to her brother.
In the age of strict ethics in ancient times, only brothers and sisters dared to do so.
Since she is Cao Yu's biological sister, she is the fifth eldest daughter of the Cao family who has been appointed as Zhao Zhen's concubine.
It is undoubtedly the Queen Cao who is called the Queen of Xian in the history books.
Kou Ji chatted with the girls for a while, accompanied them to comment on the orchids in the Orchid Garden, and then stopped talking.
Shake behind the women like a piece of wood**.
However, Liu Heng and Cao Yu seemed to be used to this kind of occasion. They chatted with the women very happily, and ran into a clearing together to throw pots.
Kou Ji felt that he might not be suitable for this kind of occasion, so he found an excuse and slipped into the quiet path of the Orchid Garden, strolling slowly to pass the time.
Not long after leaving, a faint footstep sounded behind Kou Ji.
When Kou Ji went to look for reputation, he saw a familiar face.
"How did you come?"
Xiang Yan raised her skirt, walked to Kou Ji's side, walked along the winding path with Kou Ji, and laughed softly: "Why can't I come?"
Kou Ji laughed in a low voice: "Today's garden party, you are the host, and the host is gone, the guests will feel negligent."
Xiang Yan cut the haircut and chuckled softly, "I didn't even think about inviting them..."
"Where is the second sister?"
"Second Sister and Sister Cao's are in Cuju..."
"..."
The two said nothing.
Go to the depths of the winding path.
The two spoke at the same time.
"Wait a minute..."
"what's happenin?"
Xiang Yan asked with a low laugh.
Kou Ji stared at her and smiled: "You say first..."
"You have a leaf on your head..."
"you too… "
The two smiled at each other, stretched out their hands to help each other take away the leaves above their heads.
Continue to move forward.
At the end of the winding path, there is a moon gate.
Xiang Yan pointed to the moon door and said, "When I was wronged when I was a child, I would come here.
There is a small yard behind this.
There is a stone of Buddha's fate in the yard.
That was the grandmother invited from the White Horse Temple.
Not to be touched on weekdays. "
"Go and see..."
"Ok… "
The two went through the moon gate, and within a few steps, they saw the piece of Buddha's fate stone.
It was a huge stone, like a naturally formed Buddha head.
On the front of the boulder, there is an inscribed Buddha character.
Xiang Yan saw the Buddha's Destiny Stone, ran over, climbed the Buddha's Destiny Stone, sat on the Buddha's Destiny Stone, and beckoned to Kou Ji.
Kou Ji followed up on the Buddha's Fate Stone.
Xiang Yan laughed in a low voice: "When I was young, my grandmother didn't let people touch this Buddha-favorite stone, but I like to sit on this Buddha-favorite stone."
Kou Ji pondered for a moment, and commented: "It may be because of rebellion."
"Rebellious?"
"Sit here a little, and I will tell you."
"..."
Xiang Yan chuckled, but did not sit down.
Seeing that his trickery failed, Kou Ji stretched his waist and lay on the Buddha's Fringe Stone with the sun.
Xiang Yan lowered her head, staring at Kou Ji and asked, "You don't seem to be used to too busy scenes?"
"It's not..."
"Ok?"
"Too lively scene, affect the girl I see who can shine?"
Xiang Yan looked puzzled, Kou Ji's words were wrong, and she couldn't understand the meaning for a while.
She asked suspiciously: "There are other girls who will shine?"
Kou Ji stared at her and smiled faintly: "Of course..."
Xiang Yan followed Kou Ji's gaze, looked at herself once or twice, and blinked.
Following Kou Ji's appearance, she lay down on the other side of the Buddha's marginal stone and stretched out her arms.
When she saw a faint halo on her arm in the sun, she glared at Kou Ji and said angrily: "When did you learn to be glib?"
"I don't have..."
Kou Ji said lazily, basking in the sun, "I'm more honest, I can say whatever I see."
"I don't believe you..."
"..."
The two were just lying on the Buddha's fate stone and chatting.
Talked for a long time.
Until the time when the shout to the second sister of the family rang outside the moon door.
Xiang Yancai got up from the Buddha's Fate Stone, "It's time to go back..."
Kou Ji didn't rush to get up, but asked, "Are you and your second sister born to the same mother?"
Xiang Yan was taken aback and asked in doubt, "Why are you asking this suddenly?"
"Curious..."
"No, what's the matter?"
"Then why does she keep following you."
"She didn't follow me very much before, but the younger sister spent more time with me.
Since I showed her the stories you wrote to me, she has pestered me all day long.
She said she was following me, but she wanted to deceive me from the story you wrote to me. "
Kou Ji nodded when he heard the words.
Xiang Yan smiled and said, "Speaking of which, you haven't finished writing the story about Master Xuanzhuang going west.
That girl asked me several times, but I didn't have anything to give her.
She also said that after seeing you, she should take care of you.
I saw you today, but nothing happened. "
Kou Ji suddenly sat up and sighed, "She has already retaliated..."
Xiang Yan asked suspiciously: "Why didn't I see? How did she get revenge on you?"
Kou Ji stared at Xiang Yan and said quietly: "When I went out today, she told me to stare at us, lest I secretly eat your rouge..."
When Xiang Yan heard this, she was taken aback for a moment, then her cheeks slowly turned red.
She covered her face, hurriedly jumped off the Buddha's Destiny Stone, and murmured, "This girl is getting more and more unruly. She dares to say anything."
Kou Ji stared at Xiang Yan's back and asked, "Will you come to visit the garden tomorrow?"
"If you don't speak, I will take it as you agreed."
"..."
Xiang Yan has never appeared since she ran away.
Kou Ji lay on the Buddha's Fate Stone for a while, then jumped off the Buddha's Fate Stone and exited the Moon Gate.
When I arrived at the pavilion in the middle of the Orchid Garden, I saw Liu Heng and Cao Yu drinking with their hip flasks.
All the daughters of Xiang Yan disappeared.
Kou Ji leaned forward and said to him: "I'm back..."
"What do you do when you return to the house? The house is messy."
Cao Tong took a sip of wine and said lightly.
Liu Heng nodded in agreement.
Kou Ji suspiciously asked: "Is there a problem in the house?"
Cao Tong sighed: "Isn't it because of the abolition of the Xiang army? My uncles and uncles are all in a quarrel."
Kou Ji pondered: "Your Cao family is not short of money, so you can't give up that bit of blood?"
Cao Tong opened his mouth, sighed, and said, "My Cao family has a lot of business, and there are some things that no one can decide.
Moreover, the issue of the abolition of the Xiang army has a wide range of implications. Even if my Cao family agreed, but the others did not, it would not help.
My aunts and sisters will definitely run back to the house to make trouble..."
Kou Ji nodded thoughtfully.
He looked at Liu Heng and asked, "He is unwilling to return to the mansion because of the abolition of the Xiang army. Why are you not willing to return to the mansion?"
Liu Heng took a sip of wine and said faintly: "Recently, many courtiers have been impeaching my father, saying that Li Zhaoliang was assassinated in the northwest because of my father, and wanted my father to bow his head and confess his guilt.
My aunt is now imprisoned in the palace, and my father feels a little unsure.
In the past two days, I spent the rest of my life with wine to ease my sorrow.
I looked upset and didn't want to go back. "
Kou Ji heard the words and said, "Then follow me to Kou's Mansion."
Liu Heng and Cao Tong nodded when they heard this, and followed Kou Ji to leave the Orchid Garden.
Kou Ji took the two of them back to Kou's Mansion, found a yard for them to rest, let the kitchen prepare some wine and vegetables, and drank with them for a while.
In the evening.
Kou Zhun returned to the house and recruited Kou Ji.
Kou Ji rushed to Kou Zhun's study, and Kou Zhun said straightforwardly: "Who did the official meet today?"
Kou Ji wondered: "Why did my grandfather ask this question?"
Kou Zhun did not answer Kou Ji's words, but continued to ask: "Did you meet a woman?"
Kou Ji was taken aback.
Kou Zhun sighed, "Sure enough..."
Kou Ji asked in a deep voice, "The official has revealed a flaw?"
Kou Zhun said with emotion: "It was brave when facing the Queen Mother and the Toffee. No matter how they scolded them, they didn't say a word.
When I returned to Shishitang and followed the old man's view of politics, the old man saw the clue if he held a "Book of Songs" and didn't let go. "
Kou Zhun stared at Kou Ji and said, "The old man will not ask you who the official family has met, nor do you want to know who the official family has met.
The old man just wants to remind you that you must never let the official see that woman again in the future. "
"Why?"
"For the good of the official, and for the good of the woman."
"..."
Kou Ji questioned: "Couldn't the officials be with Xinyi's woman?"
Kou Zhun was stunned, and said, "Yes... But he must first learn to hide his mind, otherwise he will only harm others and himself."
"Don't mention the official family! The old man will tell you about the government in recent days.
In a few days you are going to report to the Ministry of officials, and you should also understand clearly the trend of the government. "
Kou Ji asked, "What happened in the last few days?"
Kou Zhun picked up his beard and said: "It's still the issue of abolishing the Xiang army. The civil and military officials are in trouble. Even worse, some officials even put aside their official duties and participated in the struggle.
The old man gets a headache every day by their quarrels.
At the court today, a Yushi moved out of the Taizu system, intending to force the official family to help the civilian officials to speak.
If it hadn't been for the old man to take the official family out of the palace in advance, I'm afraid they would have succeeded.
The old man can see clearly, the problem of Xiang Jun is a puppet that has a medicine, if it is ignited, it has to be bombed, and it will kill people.
Fortunately, the old man listened to you and didn't express his position in advance, otherwise the old man would be trapped in 80% now. "
After a pause, Kou Zhun said again: "The old man probably won't be able to delay it for too long. If you let them continue, the court will be messed up."
Kou Ji frowned and said, "The civil and military officials haven't reached a result yet
Is there no one that has the upper hand? "
Kou Zhun shook his head and said, "The old man didn't speak. Xiang Minzhong, Wang Zeng and others didn't speak either. At present, the competition between civil and martial arts is 50-50."
Kou Ji pondered: "The decision is in our hands, we don't have to worry, we must wait for them to fight for a result.
It is best for the writer to win. "
Kou Zhun didn't pay attention to Kou Ji's last words, he sighed: "Now I can't wait any longer. Let them fight again, the court will be messed up."
Kou Ji said solemnly: "This matter is easy to solve..."
"How to deal with it?"