In "Cing Ke Xian Jade", Jiang Yashuang and Qiu Yilan were not suspicious of Jiang Yadan, and they were thinking hard about how to escape: "Or I hide, and you break down the door? After that, you leave first, and then I leave." ?”
Jiang Yashuang immediately shook her head: "This elegant room is clear at a glance. Where can you hide? And breaking out of the door makes too much noise - the person who locked the door is likely to be outside. Once they find that we are trying to leave, they will definitely try to attract everyone. Come check it out…”
When he said this, his eyes lit up and he said, "I thought of a way! I just have to wrong you."
Qiu Yilan asked cautiously: "What method of grievance?"
"I think since the person who locked the door is here for my Eighth Brother, he will definitely bring someone over to open the door later." Jiang Yashuang whispered, "But my Eighth Brother is not here, so the visitor only needs to come in and take a look. I know they locked up innocent people by mistake - I don’t think they know you, so how about you pretend to be my maid?”
"This is a good idea!" Qiu Yilan breathed a sigh of relief and said cheerfully, "Why don't you just stand for a while? What kind of grievance is this?" This is much better than being talked about all over the city!
Especially after this rumor spreads, how can she explain it to her cousin Ruan who is currently in "Jinpa Pavilion" on the other side of the lake? ! Thinking of Ruan Qingyan's elongated face, Qiu Yilan felt happy from the bottom of her heart.
"Now that no one is coming, the princess doesn't need to be so polite." Having found a way to deal with it, both of them were relieved. Jiang Yashuang returned to his seat and sat down. When he saw Qiu Yilan coming to stand behind him, he hurriedly He said, "When we hear the news later, it won't be too late for us to play the role of master and servant again."
Qiu Yilan thought about it. She didn't have the hobby of serving others, so she sat down at Jiang Yadan's table. It would be awkward for the two of them to sit like this. After a while of silence, Jiang Yashuang had nothing to say. asked: "Princess, are you going out to relax today?"
"There is a bonsai at the Begonia Ci Festival. It is said that my father gave it to my grandmother in the early years to increase her longevity." Qiu Yilan said, "Her Royal Highness Princess Chunfu told me, so I came to take a look."
Jiang Yashuang didn't expect that her casual question would actually involve her late father. She quickly coughed and changed the subject: "Is Mr. Ruan looking for you downstairs just now?"
"No." Qiu Yilan had a look of confusion on her face, "It was just a message from your sister's servant, and I didn't go into details. Well... I just went down to take a look, but as soon as I went downstairs, Su He was squeezed. Gone. Then I couldn’t find her or the person who was looking for me, so I came up.”
At this point, she frowned slightly and seemed to mutter to herself, "My cousin doesn't even know I'm here. Who else would come to see me?"
Jiang Yashuang asked suspiciously: "Since my sister invited you here today, how come no one is accompanying you when you go down?"
"They were very busy at the time, and they were only a few steps away. It's not like I didn't recognize them." Qiu Yilan said lightly. Jiang Yashuang had already realized that there must be an inside story, and it was something that Qiu Yilan didn't want to tell, or it was inconvenient. Said.
He pondered for a moment and then said: "Today's ci party, I only know that my eighteenth sister and my sister from the He family are taking the lead. As for the other sisters, I don't know?"
Qiu Yilan said nonchalantly: "Actually, I didn't admit it either - Miss Jiang Qiqi and Miss Tao Si are here, and there is also Miss Zhuang... Because I went downstairs, I didn't have time to talk."
"None of these people are difficult to get along with." Jiang Yashuang thought to herself, "Sister Eighteen has always been considerate and considerate, and she and my sister are especially well-rounded... Ordinarily, they are both here, so why would Princess Ningyi go downstairs alone? What? However, although Princess Ning Yi is fierce, she is not someone who is always looking for trouble. In this case, why are they so unhappy when they enter the private room? "
He didn't know Tao Peibin's thoughts, so naturally he couldn't guess what the problem was -
In fact, Qiu Yilan herself was at a loss: "I just complimented Miss Tao on the unique and beautiful beaded flowers on her head. She replied to me, 'I just wear them for freshness, but these flowers are actually a waste for me to wear.'" That's all, why is Miss Jiang Shiqi so crazy? She immediately said, "I know Princess Ningyi is beautiful, but why do you go out of your way to stir up trouble like this?" Tsk!"
So she didn't pay much attention to who called her downstairs. The confusion just now was just for Jiang Yashuang to see: "Jiang Qisheng is obviously making trouble out of nothing. Princess Chunfu made a date with Miss He because she was afraid of embarrassing the situation. Someone is looking for an excuse to call me out... Now I enter the private room and am trapped here. They can't wait for me when I turn around. They probably think I went back angry... "
To be honest, although after Jiang Qisheng said those words, Princess Chunfu and He Shuijin stopped her and apologized to Qiu Yilan on her behalf - but they thought that the other party would not call Jiang Qisheng away, but send her away. -And when the servants came up to invite him to go downstairs, Jiang Qisheng and Tao Peibin grabbed Princess Chunfu and He Shuijin one by one, leaving him to go out alone as if he was being kicked out...
Even though she knew that Jiang Qisheng was Jiang Qizheng's cousin, and it was impossible for Jiang Qizheng not to care about her family, Qiu Yilan still felt resentful in her heart: "If I hadn't seen that Princess Chunfu would be my future cousin-in-law, I wouldn't have bothered to waste time and effort on dealing with it. what about you!"
There was silence in the private room for a while, and the atmosphere was gradually becoming awkward. Fortunately, there was a sound of gongs and drums on the lake in the distance - the Oiran Competition has begun!
The two of them, who felt they had nothing to say, started to read carefully.
Amidst the sound of gongs and drums, and in the willow smoke surrounding Jinghu Lake, flower boats decorated with flowers suddenly slid out. For a while, gongs, drums, strings, firecrackers and people filled the sky with noise!
"Every three years, it's really lively." Qiu Yilan looked at the crowds of people downstairs like a surging tide, curled her lips and said.
Jiang Yashuang didn't know that she was thinking of a large-scale corpse tide. Seeing that even though she said so, her expression didn't show any surprise at first sight, so she smiled and said, "Have you never seen this oiran before, right?"
"Yes." Qiu Yilan said, "The last time I competed in the oiran competition, my mother-in-law was still there!"
... Jiang Yashuang's smile froze: Why are we not talking about someone's deceased father or someone's deceased mother today
He coughed dryly again: "By the way, Mr. Ruan seems to be right across the street?"
"But it's just that Mr. Ling Xiaohou is entangled." After Qiu Yilan went downstairs alone just now, her impression of the young ladies of the Jiang family was compromised.
In addition, Ruan Qingyan told her that Xue Chang also wanted to recruit him as his son-in-law. Although she still had the idea of impressing her cousin's impression points, it was not too strong for her, but it was not for the prospective cousin-in-law she thought. He said calmly, "My cousin has never been a womanizer. Otherwise, how could he have won the Jinshi at such a young age?"
Hearing her answer, Jiang Yashuang suddenly thought, "Now you have met some of my sisters."
Qiu Yilan said, "Yes, what's wrong?"
"Then do you know what sister I told you last time?" Jiang Yashuang asked with a smile.
Qiu Yilan was stunned: "Isn't she Princess Chunfu?!"
Ruan Qingyan had doubted this issue before, but Qiu Yilan still felt that Princess Chunfu was the most likely - besides, among the female family members of the Jiang family, Princess Chunfu was the most proactive and enthusiastic in talking to her... Wait a minute!
"Is it Miss Jiang Qiqi?!" She couldn't figure out why Jiang Qisheng was hostile to her. When Jiang Yashuang said this, Qiu Yilan suddenly got confused, "I mistakenly thought that Princess Chunfu was an accurate cousin. Sister-in-law... Could it be that this offended her?"
Thinking about this, she felt a little less angry. She still hoped to get along well with Ruan Qingyan's wife, and of course she would be particularly tolerant of her prospective cousin-in-law.
"It would be troublesome if this were the case." Qiu Yilan thought with a headache, "Ms. Jiang Shiqi, will she misunderstand that I don't want her to be my cousin-in-law?"
She was just thinking about how to solve this misunderstanding, but she heard Jiang Yashuang laugh and say: "How can it be my eighteenth sister? My fifteenth sister and my seventeenth sister are not allowed to be married!"
Qiu Yilan wiped her cold sweat: "Which daughter in the family is that?" She regretted asking the question. Once Jiang Yashuang named the candidate, Ruan Qingyan would lose the Jiang family's face if he didn't come to propose marriage!
It wouldn't matter if it was Jiang Qizheng whom she was most familiar with, but she didn't know much about the other young ladies of the Jiang family. If she wasn't an easy-to-serve master, wouldn't she have tricked Ruan Qingyan
So before Jiang Yashuang could answer, Qiu Yilan quickly changed the subject: "By the way, tell me, who is the most likely person to lock us here?"
After asking this question, Qiu Yilan suddenly felt that it was necessary to continue the discussion, "To be honest, with the current power of your family, even if your brother dated someone he shouldn't date here, no one would dare to do so. Bar?"
Jiang Yadan can even treat the emperor's favorite concubine as a plaything, let alone the female relatives of other families? Even if the person who caught the adulterer is not afraid of being laughed at for being a cuckold, he still has to consider Jiang Yadan’s revenge after becoming angry out of humiliation, right
"..." Jiang Yashuang was embarrassed for a moment and then said, "I'm not sure either."
It seems that he may not be very clear, but it's hard to tell - Qiu Yilan thought: "Could it be a grudge between wealthy families?"
If Jiang Yadan and someone else's female family members were caught in this elegant room today, the city would definitely be in trouble! How can the Duke of Qin and others not be angry like this? Then moved to the fourth room of Nujiang's house...
While the two were chatting, the flower boats on Jing Lake had already gathered in the middle of the lake. Because the flower boats are mostly decorated in red, from the Yunyi Tower, it looks like a big mandala is blooming in the lake.
However, the mandala composed of flower boats did not bloom for long, and they started to swim around the lake - this is the first stage of the Oiran competition. Each flower boat is arranged according to the ranking of the last Oiran competition, and goes around the lake to show off these three The results of the training over the past year - that is, a few stewards who had not appeared in the previous session were asked to stand on the bow of the boat. This posture was not for nothing. During the circle around the lake, supporters would throw money and silk on the boat. etc.
Yes, the winner of the first round is to see who has the most money on the boat after swimming around the lake.
Seeing a large number of wealthy slaves pouring out of Yunyi Tower and several nearby pavilions, each holding various forbidden gold and silver fine silks on their shoulders, beating and scolding them, pushing away the crowd and running towards the lake, Qiu Yilan hurriedly asked Jiang Yashuang: "What about yours? Can't you give it away?"
Jiang Yashuang said nonchalantly: "I came here because I was afraid that the crowd would crowd my sisters." The implication was that he had no intention of giving a reward to the flower boat.
"Oh, I don't know how much money my cousin will lose to Ling Zui this time..." Listening to his thrifty words, Qiu Yilan immediately felt a pain for Ruan Qingyan - especially when a gust of lake wind blew by, blowing the two away. After the cloth covering the basket carried by the slaves was lifted, revealing a basket full of gold that could blind the eyes of the onlookers, Qiu Yilan's expression changed, "Do these rich people want to spend so much money?!"
If everyone plays like this, wouldn’t Ruan Qingyan lose his fortune? !