"I deposited money here?" Ling Zui was startled for a moment, and then he realized that this was a nice way for Qiu Yilan to give money to prevent him from being unable to step down.
If Ruan Qingyan offered it, he would have accepted it easily; but he always felt weak when he saw a beauty, especially when a beauty of national beauty like Qiu Yilan was in front of her. accept? Then he smiled softly and said, "Sister Ning Yi, did you remember it wrong? I don't remember letting go of money in the Ruan family." Taking advantage of this time, he shamelessly changed the title to affectionate.
But when he refused, Qiu Yilan became upset: "What on earth does this person want to do when he comes here today? Don't want to drag my cousin to support Penglai Yue Yingzhouyue again, right?"
Because she had never dealt with Ling Zui before and didn't know his temper, Qiu Yilan pondered over her words and didn't know how to speak for a while.
Ling Zui, on the other hand, loved chatting with beauties the most. Seeing that Qiu Yilan was silent now, he came over and asked proactively: "How old is sister Ning Yi this year? I think she is about the same age as one of my cousins - my cousin is thirteen this year."
"Me too." Qiu Yilan said casually, and then she remembered that in this world, it seems that it is inconvenient for girls to tell strangers their ages. However, Ling Zui, who has been around for a long time, told his cousin's age first. As expected, Qiu Yilan didn't tell anyone her age. I was careful to get tricked by him - God knows if he has such a cousin
Sure enough, Ling Zui's eyes showed a hint of pride and said, "Sister Ning Yi is so young!"
You are so young! Lolicon!
Qiu Yilan murmured in her heart and said calmly: "The young prince is still in his prime."
"I see that there is no girl in the Ruan family who is about the same age as sister Ning Yi. What kind of pastime does sister usually do?" Ling Zui saw that she was not very enthusiastic. After thinking about it, he changed the topic, "It is fashionable to raise noble girls in Beijing these days. Lion cat, do you want me to bring one for you next time?”
Qiu Yilan asked in surprise: "Lion cat?" She immediately remembered Jiang Yashuang's "Nianxue".
Ling Zui nodded and said: "Nowadays, every noble girl will raise one, and it seems that the Tao family raises the best. I have frequent contacts with his young master. If there are any newborn kittens, I can choose them at will... I don't know what appearance Ning Yi likes." Dragging a gun in the snow? Whipping the hydrangea? "
Hearing the word "Tao family", Qiu Yilan immediately remembered what she overheard in Ganlin Palace last time, and asked tentatively: "I heard that the Tao family is the natal family of the Duke of Qin's wife?"
"Exactly." When Ling Zui saw her asking, he immediately perked up and said with a smile, "The Tao family is a veteran of three dynasties. Although they have had the honor of having seven Jinshis in one family, and three prime ministers, father and son, they have also produced many unscrupulous children. Cat training, dog fighting, cock fighting and horse racing, relying on the family background, they play many tricks and become famous far and wide! If sister Ning Yi is interested in this kind of things, it is definitely right to find their home. "
Qiu Yilan thought to herself that no wonder Master Jiang Ba wanted to marry the Duke of Qin to the Tao family in order to win over the Tao family. It turned out that the Tao family was so prosperous in the past. But in recent years, the decline has been severe. She has only heard of Jiang Jiayin's nickname Jiang Banchao. She did not expect that the Tao family, which she had never heard of, was once so prominent that there were three prime ministers in the family. You must know that only one member of the Jiang family is now in the family. The pavilion is just for the prime minister!
...Speaking of which, Mrs. Tao indirectly saved Qiu Yilan. She was admiring plum blossoms next door to the Xihe Palace. She thought Qiu Yuqing and others made too much noise by beating Qiu Yilan, so she sent Jiang Yashuang to come to question him. , and asked Qiu Mengmin to personally urge Qiu Yuqing and others to settle the matter temporarily, so that Qiu Yilan could avoid being beaten to death.
"Thank you for informing me, little Marquis, but now that my grandfather is ill and my cousin is about to die, I am too busy to keep pets anymore." Qiu Yilan pondered for a moment and said.
Hearing the intention of expelling guests in her words, Ling Zui felt a little resentful, but when Qiu Yilan's bright peach blossom eyes glanced at him, he felt that he was in a better mood again, and said with a smile: "That's what sister Ning Yi said... but neither is the lion cat." If it's something difficult to maintain, I'll send it over later, and you can just send a more careful maid to raise it. It doesn't matter if you raise it to death, there are plenty of them in the Tao family anyway."
Qiu Yilan didn't want to accept Ruan Qingyan's things without asking him, so she said, "But..."
"That's it!" Ling Zui stood up and said sternly, "Brother Ruan and I became close friends at first sight! His cousin is just like my cousin! I gave each of my cousins a gift two days ago. How can a lion cat treat you badly? If you don’t accept it, you won’t give me face!”
"Then thank you very much!" Qiu Yilan saw that he was a drunkard who didn't care about drinking, but Lingzui even said "don't give him face". A playboy like him needs to be faceless. If he refuses, he will be embarrassed. Well, besides - with the amount of money Ruan Qingyan spent on this young prince, he should get some gifts from time to time!
Ling Zui then turned his anger into joy and asked again: "What kind of appearance does sister Ning Yi like? Oh, the so-called dragging a gun in the snow means that the whole body is snow-white and the tail is black..."
"You can just give him a white one." Qiu Yilan was eager to send him away, but of course she didn't bother to listen anymore, so she interrupted.
Unexpectedly, Ling Zui was stunned for a moment and murmured: "Pure white?"
"If it doesn't work, you can just pick whatever you want." Qiu Yilan said hurriedly.
"Of course, I remember that the Tao family happened to have one like this... I'll bring it to you later!" Ling Zui said immediately after hearing this.
... After sending Ling Zui away, Qiu Yilan asked where Kang Lizhang was being held, and was about to go there for questioning, but unexpectedly, a servant came to report that Deng Yi was back.
Qiu Yilan was a little dumbfounded. She looked at the sky and said, "Isn't he going home? He came back just a few hours ago?"
"Master Deng said that he has brought the things he brought home." The servant coughed dryly.
It seems that the reason why Deng Yi came back is that he just went home to get something...
Qiu Yilan said: "Keep an eye on him! Don't let him get close to my grandfather and cousin - besides, the meat and fish are all cooked for my grandfather."
The servant responded, but did not leave, saying: "Master Deng said he wanted to see you."
"No!" Qiu Yilan said simply, "Let him continue squatting on the horse! A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. If the horse cannot even squat, why should he practice martial arts?! Who does he think he is?! Whatever Can I meet the thousand-year-old ginseng and ten-thousand-year-old polygonum multiflorum that can increase my power for three hundred years?”
Ruan An on the side was surprised and said: "A thousand-year-old ginseng and ten-thousand-year-old polygonum multiflorum are so effective?"
"... I'm just kidding." Qiu Yilan secretly wiped her cold sweat and changed the subject with a forced smile, "Is grandpa awake now? I'll go stay with him."
He went to the main room to talk to General Ruan who had woken up for a while. Seeing that he was tired again, Qiu Yilan left.
Before leaving, he tiptoed to the study next door to take a peek. He saw Ruan Qingyan leaning on the back of the chair and closing his eyes to rest. He didn't know if he was really asleep or just pretending to be asleep. She was afraid that he would find her. Qiu Yilan gestured and called out Dong Ran. Ruan Qingyan was not disturbed today, so he left with peace of mind.
Back at Green Rose Garden, Su He started sewing excitedly.
Qiu Yilan was very surprised when she saw that she was sewing some rags: "What are you going to do?"
"The kitten needs a place to live when it comes!" Su He said while flying needles and threads, "My maid, let's make a small nest for it!"
"... What if the young marquis said it casually?" Qiu Yilan reminded her silently.
Su He was startled and said: "He is the young Marquis! How can he keep his words and keep his words?"
Qiu Yilan thought that lying was probably an innate skill for a playboy like Ling Zui... But seeing the disappointment in Su He's eyes, she still touched her head and comforted her: "I'm afraid he will forget, but if you like cats, , If he doesn’t give it to us later, we can just buy it ourselves—didn’t he say that the Tao family has it?”
Speaking of this, Qiu Yilan's mind stirred, and she suddenly thought: "When I came to live in the Ruan family from the Prince's Palace in Xihe, there was no such thing as raising lions and cats in Beijing?"
Ling Zui said that almost every noble lady in the capital now has a lion cat - Princess Ningtai Qiu Jinzhu is also one of the noble ladies. Kang Lizhang is not a noble lady in terms of status, but in fact her enjoyment is higher than Qiu Jinzhu's! According to memory, these two people are very strong, and Jingli Fengxing never fails!
If noble ladies in the capital start raising lion cats, why would they be an exception
"Is this what happened in the past half month? But in this world, it is not as easy for a thing or trend to become popular as it was in the previous life..." Qiu Yilan thought suspiciously, "Could it be related to the Tao family?"
According to the Jiang family secrets she overheard on New Year's Eve, Mr. Jiang, a grandson, didn't have much respect for his step-grandmother Tao - but the gossip was behind the scenes, and Mr. Jiang was still afraid of Tao.
In other words, even though Tao was married by the Duke of Qin in order to win over the once glorious Tao family, his status in the Jiang family is not weak. It was enough for Mr. Jiang Ba, a legitimate grandson who dared to commit adultery with the emperor's uncle's beloved concubine, to only dare to say a few powerful words in private.
"Isn't it because the Tao family is planning to rise?" Qiu Yilan murmured, "But having come from the family of three prime ministers, father and son, and rising by selling lion cats... This is too fantasy..."
She had a headache for a while, then suddenly realized: "Even if there is a problem with the Fengxing Lion Cat in Beijing, what does it have to do with me? The Xihe Palace hasn't solved it yet!"
In this way, he put aside the matter of the lion cat and thought about how to have a "heart-to-heart" with Kang Lizhang.
However, Ling Zui kept his word and actually sent someone to deliver a snow-white little lion cat with one blue and one yellow mandarin duck eyes the next day.
The palm-sized lion cat was carefully held up by the brocade mat. It was a small ball of fur and pink paw pads. It looked around curiously with its pair of mandarin duck eyes. It was so cute that it made people die and come back to life. Suddenly even Qiu Yilan was attracted by it. I was left out, sitting alone in the hall, with no one to make tea...
Qiu Yilan ran to make a pot of tea with a gloomy face, sat back and waited...waited, waited, waited...Finally, Su He ran over with his skirt in hand and shouted: "Princess!"
Hum! Do you know you're wrong? It’s just a cat, so compare me to that! You heartless guys! Why don't you hurry up and say that I am the most important one!
As a result, Su He continued: "The lion cat doesn't have a name yet, can you give it one?"
"..." Qiu Yilan said expressionlessly, "You want me to do such a simple thing?! It's so white, just call it Dabai!"
Su He said blankly: "But General Jiang's lion cat is also pure white. I heard that one is called 'Nian Xue'!"
They are both white cats, one is called "Dabai" and the other is called "Nianxue", are they so different
Qiu Yilan continued to be expressionless: "Don't you know how to give me a cheap name so that you can make a living? If you are white, you will be able to grow up. What else can you call me if you don't call me Dabai?"
Su He thought for a while and was convinced: "That's right... Sister Chun Ran, Sister Xia Ran! The princess has named the lion cat, Dabai!"
Then, she happily ran back to the house where the lion cat was housed, leaving Qiu Yilan alone again, sitting alone in the hall, looking sadly and angrily at a pot of tea that had lost its heat...