It was different from Qiu Yilan's expectation that Ruan Qingyan would come to his door within three days to train him as soon as he came back. General Ruan was buried beside the imperial mausoleum. After returning to the capital, he didn't take care of Qiu for half a month. Yilan.
The reason is simple, busy!
To express gratitude, to deal with the guests who expressed their congratulations and express their annoyance - especially those old friends of General Ruan who had not been in contact for a long time - to care about the outcome of the Ding-Yang dispute: This outcome was a relief for Xue Chang, as he expected, because he insisted on Favoring General Ruan's posthumous affairs caused the Queen Mother Gu's party to wonder if he was trying to make a fuss about General Ruan's defeat, so they distracted their attention from the Ding Yang dispute and began to be concerned and vigilant about the Queen Mother's party. The more important military power of Zhenxi Army...
The final result of the dispute between Ding and Yang was that Ding Yiming, the head of the Hanlin Academy, was implicated by his nephew, and the third-rank bachelor accepted the decree and was replaced by the third-rank Shangzhou governor. Ding Qingyan himself was exiled to Lingnan for a year. The Ding family continued to hire people from the Yang family, marrying Yang Yishui's tablet - which meant that Ding Qingyan's future wives would all be step-brothers, which was not very satisfactory to Ding Qingyan. Marrying a wife must be influential.
However, the Yang family is not much better. Yang Yoshi committed adultery with Ding Qingyan, rather than being forced by Ding Qingyan. Therefore, there is no place to blame Yang Tao for his lax education of his daughter. Of course, he cannot continue to work as a capital official and can only be transferred to other places - from being a minister of the Ministry of Personnel of the fourth rank to a county magistrate of the sixth rank. This is still the Queen Mother Party. For his sake.
Otherwise, according to Dou Jijiu of the Imperial Academy, how can a person like this who cannot even educate his daughter be qualified to continue to be an official? You should fight it to the end! Um? You mean the Ding family? Ding Yiming is only an uncle, not a father. As we all know, Ding Qingyan was raised by his grandmother, Mrs. Xue. The old lady is already over sixty and can be exempted from this type of punishment, okay!
... The dispute between Ding and Yang, which had dragged on for many days, was resolved so quickly simply because the funeral affairs of General Ruan touched the sensitive nerves of the Queen Mother Party regarding the suppression of the Western Army. As the heir and grandson of General Ruan, the former commander of the Zhenxi Army, Ruan Qingyan could not completely stay out of the matter even if he was in Xiaozhong.
How to take advantage of this situation, at least to ensure that he is not involved... You can imagine the amount of energy Ruan Qingyan has to expend! Of course he couldn't take care of his troublesome cousin for the time being - but he had to find time to take care of Ruan Ciyi!
Qiu Yilan was very surprised when she inquired about it: "Eldest cousin?! Haven't you already broken up with the Fang family? Why do you have to pay special attention to your cousin?" Ruan Ciyi is currently in the General's Mansion - oh, now it can only be called Ruan Mansion. —But now that I have returned to the life of a young lady before I left the cabinet, I was like a star-studded young lady!
Of course, it doesn't mean that Ruan Qingyan doesn't need to take care of her after giving her such treatment, but... According to what Chun Ran asked Qiu Ran and Dong Ran when he went to deliver things, Ruan Qingyan spent almost a day exploring this sister, and often dismissed servants. After having a heart-to-heart talk with her, she still looked worried... What kind of rhythm is this
"In fact, most of the injuries on eldest sister's body were not caused by Fang Nongyan, but by Su Xin she ordered." This question remained until more than half a month later, when Qiu Yilan couldn't help but ran over to cross-examine her face to face, and Ruan Qingyan told Ruan Qingyan She said, "It's because after the two daughters and one son she gave birth to were murdered by the Hua family and the Yan family, Fang Nongyan believed the slander and blamed her for not taking good care of her. You also know that the eldest sister was extremely favored by her grandfather at home. Naturally, Unwilling to give up, he took the dowry and wanted to forcibly interrogate Hua and Yan. Unexpectedly, the news leaked out, and he was beaten violently by Fang Nongyan... Even his close servants were forcibly sold away by Fang Nongyan. "
At this point, he sighed and said, "At that time, the eldest sister had no relatives and could not fight against him. If it weren't for the fact that there was no one in the Ruan family at the time, and the dowry was made cheaper by Hua and others after her death, the eldest sister would not have been able to survive at that time. Perhaps it was because she felt too uncomfortable and felt that she was not careful enough which led to the death of her child, so she started beating herself to relieve her guilt... As time went by... After they came back, Suxin found an opportunity to tell me - this is also The reason why I hope she and Fang Nongyan are separated."
Qiu Yilan said in surprise: "Then why was the eldest sister unwilling to separate from Fang Nongyan at first?"
"She is still unwilling." Ruan Qingyan said calmly, "In my opinion, she has a love-hate relationship with Fang Nongyan - they are a married couple after all. I heard that they were very affectionate before. So after seeing me, I hope I can take advantage of the fact that my mother's family has someone to make Fang Nongyan change her mind and take care of Hua Shi and others, so that I can feel proud and proud!"
"This is really..." Qiu Yilan opened her mouth and thought: If you want revenge, don't involve yourself! What's the point of hanging out with that kind of scum? Why not rely on your mother's heir to marry a good man and piss him off to death? Of course, there is no need to be angry now, Fang Nongyan is about to die anyway, the Hua family has already sunk into the river, and the Yan family and Fang Zijun have no supporter of Fang Nongyan. Even if the Ruan family does not continue to deal with them, the end can be imagined - so Ruan Ciyi should take good care of her body now and prepare to get married again!
As a result, she was wondering whether she would be reprimanded by Ruan Qingyan for saying these words. Ruan Qingyan suddenly switched to the serious mode and said: "So you have seen your sister's example? I think my grandfather didn't treat Fang Nongyan because of his eldest sister. Bo! He received benefits from his grandfather and was later implicated by him. What’s more, even though his eldest sister was bitter and jealous during the more than ten years he was married, she gave him children and took care of the housework. , most of the dossier has been posted for the Fang family to use... Has Fang Nongyan ever read half of it? "
"That Jiang Yashuang..."
Qiu Yilan groaned and threw herself on the ground weakly: "I really never looked for him again!!!" The two times he came to look for me, I ignored him, okay? Of course, this sentence must never be said...
Ruan Qingyan ignored her objections at all, and still gave her a loving lesson on "On the Nine Hundred and Ninety-nine Tragic Ends of Those Entrusted to Inhumans". It was not until Qiu Yilan wanted to bang her head against the wall that she let go with satisfaction. She left: "Okay, you go back, be careful on the road." She regretted, "My eldest sister is still not well now, so I can't trust you to come and live with her. When she gets better, you sisters will live in the backyard together, and I will too. I feel relieved.”
Even if you beat me to death, I won’t even come here! Qiu Yilan thought with tears streaming down her face: "You are so wordy when I come here once in a while. If I really come here for a long time again, will I still be able to live my life?"
Back at Xihe Palace, Qiu Yilan breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that he was finally safer.
But at night she realized that she was too naive!
Because she woke up in the middle of the night and heard some movement at the back window - she thought it was Jiang Yashuang. Thinking about the shameful face she had been trained by Ruan Qingyan during the day, she felt all sorts of unhappy, so she simply lifted the quilt and walked barefoot. After arriving behind the screen - only then did I realize that the movement was not inside the house, but outside.
Without thinking, she opened the window and shouted: "I told you not to come, not to come, but you still keep running away every three days! My cousin must know that I have to... I have to..." Before she could finish her angry words, Qiu Yilan stared blankly at the autumn wind lying on the persimmon tree not far away, carrying a wine jar and drinking every sip. Her whole body felt bad, "You... how could you be you?!"
Judging from the appearance of Qiu Feng, he should have been drinking towards the moon. Hearing this, he put down the wine jar and smiled at her: "Brother Ling is afraid that people will disturb you in the middle of the night, so I sent Qiu to guard you."
Qiu Yilan almost wanted to vomit blood, so she asked in fear: "What about what I just said...?"
"Being entrusted by others is a matter of loyalty." Qiu Feng smiled brightly and calmly, but in Qiu Yilan's eyes, it was extremely hateful: "What you do is tantamount to harming heaven and earth, okay? My cousin will definitely beat me to death!"
Qiu Feng took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "Brother Ruan loves you very much, otherwise he wouldn't let Qiu keep an eye on you." The implication is that you can rest assured, he will definitely not beat you to death.
Qiu Yilan thought: "Are you from 'Tianya' too?"
"'Tianya'?" Qiu Feng, who had always seemed free and uninhibited, felt a layer of gloom on his face when he heard the name. He silently took a dozen sips of wine in one go, and then said with a sigh, "No, it's not. ." He paused and said solemnly, "Qiu will never be!"
Sure enough, heroes are all people with stories!
Qiu Yilan asked curiously: "Then why do you listen to my cousin? Do you also accept employment?"
Then tell me the price of the hush fee! I am also a rich man now!
Facts have proved that she underestimated Qiu Feng's integrity and IQ. Qiu Feng laughed and immediately shook his head: "Although Qiu has come here to receive some monetary benefits, it is mainly to repay brother Ruan's favor. Princess, please don't bother. Since Qiu I have been entrusted by Brother Ruan first, and I will definitely tell him everything I see and hear.”
"Don't force me!" Qiu Yilan was furious, waving her pink fist at him and shouting, "You dare to force me into a desperate situation, I'm not done with you!"
Qiu Feng obviously didn't take her threat seriously, and just said with a smile: "The princess is young, there is always no harm in listening to Brother Ruan."
To Qiu Yilan, these words sounded similar to "Xiao Lanlan, you have to be good and listen to your cousin so that you can have sweets." She was furious: "You look down on me?! Do you look down on my young age? ! Do you dare to compete with me?"
Qiu Feng took a sip of wine and guessed right: "If you win Qiu, why don't you tell Brother Ruan what you just heard?"
Sure enough, no one who can become famous in the world has a fuel-efficient lamp!
The provocation failed, Qiu Yilan quickly entered into the strategy of using softness to overcome strength - there were tears in her bright peach blossom eyes, and she was so pitiful if she couldn't shed them. She held on to the window lattice and looked at the autumn wind sadly, as if she was watching someone who had deceived her. Like a life-long heartless person, it seemed that he could burst into tears the next moment - but what he said was: "If you don't agree to give me a chance to save myself, I will tell my cousin that you covet my beauty... "
Qiu Feng interrupted her with a smile: "Brother Ruan asked me to come here because he trusts me and will never do anything to offend the princess."
"Really?" Qiu Yilan transformed from a cute and pitiful little lolita into a sinister and sinister little witch in one second, sneering with her hands on her hips, "Then I'll tell my cousin that I'm attracted to you! I must marry you! Then! I'll screw you for the rest of your life!"
"Cough cough cough cough cough cough...!!!" The autumn wind, which was always calm and unmoved, fell from the tree with the person and the wine jar!
He climbed up in embarrassment, stared at Qiu Yilan with strange eyes for a long time, and then twitched the corners of his mouth and said: "Princess, please don't talk nonsense-"
"You think I can't do it?!" Qiu Yilan patted the window lattice and sneered, "It's not the first time I've been with Jiang Yashuang in the middle of the night, and it's not the first time or two that my cousin has to think about me for the rest of his life. - He doesn't like Jiang Yashuang, but he trusts you so much. If you tell him that he wants to marry you, will he agree? "
Qiu Feng murmured: "How could he agree..."
Qiu Yilan didn't believe it: "Really?! Then I will..."
"But I promise you." Qiu Feng wiped his cold sweat and sighed, "But there is only one chance. And don't think about cheating again, such as competing with embroidered women..."
"I don't know how to do that!" Qiu Yilan simply admitted that she was an unqualified lady. She first ran back to the bed and put on her shoes, then turned out the back window and walked slowly not far away from Qiu Feng, smiling strangely. , "In order to convince you, I decided to compete with one you must be good at!"
Slender fingers tapped the wine jar in his hand, "Wine!"
"You want to compete with Qiu in terms of drinking capacity?" Qiu Feng looked at the little girl who was not even taller than his shoulders and laughed. However, before he could say his rejection, a light cough came from not far away - Jiang, who was wearing a green robe. Yashuang walked up from the bottom of the tree gracefully, with a smile on her face: "It's just a competition of drinking capacity, but I'll compete with you!"