In the room, when Su Wanniang saw Ji Wenzhao enter the door, she hurriedly saluted, and then said in a low voice, "My master said that if the crown prince doesn't come to recruit you after you solve the situation this time, you can return home and marry Mrs. Yan." Just, don't go to Beijing easily!"
Ji Wenzhao also lowered his voice and said, "Okay, thank you, Master, if I have nothing to do, I will do my best if I have something to offer in the future."
Su Wanniang said: "My master also said that Mr. Ji has the ability to govern the country, and he must not be sacrificed in the battle for the throne. It will not be too late to come out when the new king succeeds in the future."
Ji Wenzhao was too frightened to answer—this tone was too loud! The prince is the crown prince, how old is the emperor? This seems to say that the prince will not become the new king, otherwise it will not prevent him from joining the prince's camp...
At this moment, there was a light cough outside the door, and both Ji Wenzhao and Su Wanniang's expressions changed, and Su Wanniang immediately raised her voice and said: "... I originally reserved a side hall here for the second son Shen of Zhenbeihou's mansion. I asked you to play a game of chess, but Mr. Ji, the grandson of Mr. Yan Jing, the old official’s grandson, Mr. Yan, has already played chess with Mr. Shen. Both games were tied, which Mr. Shen admires very much. Mr. Yan seems to be fifteen or sixteen years old At the age of two, the second son of Shen felt deeply that there were people outside the world, so he didn't dare to... "
Ji Wenzhao frowned and asked, "Mr. Yan, fifteen or sixteen years old? From my benefactor's residence?"
Su Wanniang blinked suspiciously: "It should be the son of Yan Jing's second wife..."
Ji Wenzhao was even more puzzled: "Why don't I remember that there was a son of this age in that room...
Someone outside the door exclaimed in a low voice: "What?!"
Only then did Ji Wenzhao turn around and open the door. He saw a woman wearing a veiled hat outside the door. Just as he was identifying it, the woman lowered her head and saluted in a low voice, "I've seen Senior Brother Ji."
Ji Wenzhao recognized who it was, and asked in surprise: "...you... why are you here?" He quickly opened the door and let her in.
The fourth prince immediately took the opportunity to help Ding Neishi and walked into the house. Just as Ji Wenzhao was about to say something, the fourth prince pointed at Su Wanniang. Seeing that it was the Fourth Prince, Su Wanniang smiled and nodded.
Ji Wenzhao went back to stare at the woman again, and asked, "What are you doing here? Is there something wrong at home?"
The woman shook her head and said, "I'm fine at home, I just want to come... to watch my brother play chess."
Ji Wenzhao frowned: "Absurd! You come here alone, what if something happens?!"
The woman explained in a low voice: "Someone...someone... came with me."
Ji Wenzhao asked sternly, "Who accompanied you here?"
The woman lowered her head: "Yes... Yan Wu..."
Ji Wenzhao stared: "That lunatic! How could you listen to her?! How did you come here?!"
The woman began to cry: "She said, you may not be able to come back, so she brought the third uncle and the third sister-in-law to the capital together, and said that something happened so that you could be snatched back. We followed the third uncle and the others to Beijing, but we only arrived in the capital. , Third Uncle and the others didn’t want to watch chess, they went to the wine shop, and said that today you finished playing chess, they came here to pick you up, let me tell you not to leave here. We separated... I just... want to see you... play chess... " Start pumping.
Ji Wenzhao sighed: "You, when we go back... After the ceremony, I can take you everywhere, what is it like now?"
The woman cried and said: "What Yan Wu said is so scary, I'm afraid... I won't see you..."
Ji Wenzhao groped in his sleeves, and comforted him: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, she said that most likely to coax you out, so she can come out to play with her. Look, am I okay?" Handed over the towel from inside.
The fourth prince felt relieved: Su Wanniang has nothing to do with Ji Wenzhao, look, Ji Wenzhao has someone else. But then I started to feel jealous in my heart: They actually love each other openly like this! Handkerchiefs are also available! There is really no law!
The woman took it over, pointed at Su Wanniang shyly and asked, "Who is this little lady?"
The fourth prince almost said: She is mine.
Su Wanniang saluted and said, "It's the person who booked this time to invite Mr. Ji to play chess."
The woman stopped crying and murmured softly, "Why are you so evasive?"
Su Wanniang smiled, "It's my young master who wants to invite Ji Guoshu to play alone, fearing that Ji Guoqi will refuse in public, it will not look good..."
After hearing Su Wanniang's excuse just now, Ji Wenzhao now guessed that Su Wanniang might be related to the Zhenbeihou Mansion, and he was shocked: If the person behind that was from the Zhenbeihou Mansion, the prince might really be able to change. Don't get too close, and apologize to Su Wanniang, "I don't play chess privately with the high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital. If you want to play chess, you can play chess in the hall."
When the fourth prince heard this, he hurriedly said: "Then I can make an appointment with Young Master Ji? It's in the hall."
Ji Wenzhao is now full of lawsuits, and he doesn't think there is anything unusual, so he said: "Today is late, how about tomorrow's time?"
The fourth prince quickly saluted and said, "Thank you, Mr. Ji."
Ji Wenzhao waved his hand and said, "No thanks, no thanks." He asked Su Wanniang, "Where is that... Mr. Yan?"
Su Wanniang said, "It's in the Ding Si hall."
Ji Wenzhao sighed and shook his head, bowed and said goodbye to Su Wanniang and the fourth prince, and motioned to the woman: "Let's go find that lunatic, if something happened, how can I explain to my teacher!"
They went out, Su Wanniang frowned and thought, the fourth prince didn't dare to disturb her, and took the opportunity to look at her generously.
Su Wanniang said to herself: "There is no young master of this age..." Suddenly she laughed—that is Miss!
She remembered the words that "Mr. Yan" proposed to the second son in a disguised form and Ji Wenzhao called her a "lunatic", and she understood everything. She laughed harder and harder, even tears came out, and finally wiped the tears with the back of her hand.
The fourth prince has always cried when seeing Su Wanniang since seeing her, this is the first time he saw her laugh. Su Wanniang laughed so heartily that tears flowed down her face, which wiped off her blackened face and turned into a cat face...
Suddenly, the fourth prince saw thousands of flowers blooming, and the world was full of spring. The afterglow of the setting sun in the hall is as luxurious as gold and jade, and even the worn-out tables and chairs in the room glow with graceful curves and luster. Standing in the middle, Su Wanniang was like the goddess depicted in the book, graceful and graceful, she raised her hand and let him laugh that touched his heart...
There is such a feeling of joy and happiness in the world, he has never experienced it before, and he doesn't even know his own lack. The fourth prince almost choked up: Without this moment, wouldn't it be the same as if he had never lived? Such a dead life, such a waiting with no future... Fortunately, it all disappeared at this moment today.
From then on, even if he was trapped in the deserted tomb, he already had the memory of this moment. This brilliant sun will illuminate the surrounding darkness. From then on, he was like a traveler with countless delicacies in his arms, he could go through thousands of mountains and rivers, and he would never die of lonely hunger and thirst again. No matter what happens to him again, the love in his heart at this moment will accompany him forever...
Su Wanniang had laughed enough, wiped away her tears, looked at the dumbfounded fourth prince, and said with a smile: "Forgive me for being silly, but I remembered something very interesting..." After finishing speaking, she wanted to laugh again, that Yan Wu, It's really crazy to say to the second son, "I think you're pretty good"!
The fourth prince slowly stretched out his hand to Su Wanniang, and spread out his palm. On it was a small and exquisite jade pendant, Su Wanniang was taken aback.
The Fourth Prince opened his mouth like a fish caught on shore, but no words came out.
Su Wanniang looked at the fourth prince with doubts.
Dean started to sweat. He knows the fourth prince's temper, unless he gives a clear indication, he absolutely can't stand up for him in this kind of thing! But this Highness is too clumsy! He was so anxious!
The two met each other for a long time, and the fourth prince finally gathered enough oxygen and said, "This is...for you."
Su Wanniang immediately said, "I can't have it!"
This was rejected too quickly! The fourth prince felt that he was about to cry, so while his eyes were wet, he quickly looked into Su Wanniang's eyes and said, "Yes...my mother's, I want to give it to you."
Su Wanniang hastily declined: "This is too expensive, I can't take it anymore!"
The fourth prince said in a begging tone: "Take it, if you don't have enough money sometimes, you can be it."
Su Wanniang hurriedly said, "I'm not short of money, my lady treats me very well."
The fourth prince stubbornly stretched out his hand and did not take it back, and Su Wanniang did not extend his hand, the two sides were in a stalemate.
Waiter Ding's sweat was almost running out of his eyes, he almost said to Su Wanniang: Please, take it! Our Highness found it after a tossing around midnight, and it has been held for several days, and it should still be warm now... Your Highness, please stop talking! Don't do that! Stand! Can you come up with a few poems or something, or find an allusion to explain...
Perhaps Ding's stream of consciousness had an influence on the fourth prince, and the fourth prince moved—raised his other hand and rubbed his nose resentfully.
Su Wanniang finally smiled - the way the fourth prince rubbed his nose was the same as Su Chuanya.
She sighed, took the jade pendant from the Fourth Prince's hand, and said, "I'll keep it for you. When you want it, I'll give it to you."
It was the first time that the fourth prince was rejected when he gave a gift, and he felt very depressed, and said unhappily: "I don't want it, it's for you."
Su Wanniang said with a smile: "You are like a child. Be obedient. In the future, you can't just give someone something so expensive. If someone picks it up, you feel uneasy. If you give me a snack or something, I will eat it on the spot. Next time I come back I can also give you a snack as a gift. If you give the jade pendant like this, what can I give you back? Is it possible that I have to find my mother’s things to give you? When my mother and I were kicked out of the house, we had no money. The hairpins on my head have been pawned, and I can't pay them back at all..." She was used to educating people, and she was talking to the fourth prince like a little brother.
The fourth prince was sweet and sad, and whispered, "I didn't ask you to pay it back."
Su Wanniang shook her head and said: "You will not be rewarded for your merits, and I would feel uncomfortable taking other people's things for nothing. I will hold this jade pendant for you. If you have any happy event in the future, I will return it to you as a gift, okay?"
The fourth prince was still depressed at first, but after listening, his eyes lit up, he looked at Su Wanniang and said: "Then we have agreed, when I have a happy event, you will come..."
Su Wanniang was a little awkward hearing this, but she nodded and said: "Okay, I will definitely return this jade pendant to you."
The fourth prince nodded happily, and the scene came to his mind: he was putting up lanterns and festoons somewhere, and Su Wanniang went to return his jade pendant, and he would hold Su Wanniang's arm and say—
Su Wanniang saluted and said: "My lord, take care, I will take my leave now."
Well, the road is long and long, the fourth prince secretly sighed and bowed farewell. Su Wanniang wiped her face, left with a smile, and stood guard in another corner outside the hall, wanting to wait for Ji Wenzhao to leave before entering.
The Fourth Prince left Guanyi Pavilion with his head downcast. When the carriage drove him back to the palace, he wanted to say "back to Guanyi Pavilion" over and over again - there, he felt warm and happy, and there were people he wanted to see... But he was afraid That would attract other people's attention and cause trouble for Su Wanniang, so she had no choice but to let the carriage drive him all the way back to the tall palace walls.
When Ji Wenzhao and the woman wearing a veiled hat walked into a side hall opposite the hall, the third game between Yan Shi and Shen Jian had just started. Yan raised his eyes to see Ji Wenzhao and the woman, and immediately said with a smile on his face: "Senior Brother Ji! You came just in time! I just made an appointment with this Second Young Master Shen about my sister Yan Wu, and when he returns, he will let his parents Come to the door." The implication: the deal is done, don't even think about doing anything.
Ji Wenzhao turned pale, and pointed at Yan Wu: "How dare you do this?! How did you get engaged to... by coming to me?! What would your teacher say?!"
Yan rolled her eyes: "That old man doesn't know what to say! Isn't he? Cousin? It's too late for him to love Brother Ji, so why would he care about my... sister's affairs?"
The woman seemed to have received the signal, and said softly to Ji Wenzhao, "Just speak kindly to my grandfather."
Ji Wenzhao shook his head at the woman beside him: "Don't just protect her! She is only one year younger than you, and she is no longer a child! Even if her mentor doesn't say anything, her parents will definitely be unhappy!"
Yan immediately said: "Not necessarily, my parents will thank me! They hope that I... my sister's marriage will be settled. On the way here, my third aunt also said that in this year, if I see a woman with both sex and art Man, you must not miss it!"
Shen Jian said ah, and Yan turned around and explained: "Yi means martial arts."
Shen Wen couldn't bear it any longer, and asked, "What about that color?"
The others were a little embarrassed, but Yan said solemnly: "It means handsome, like your second brother! People like it immediately when they see it, and they can't forget it."
Shen Jian blushed. Shen Wen whispered: "I don't think my second brother is so good-looking, my eldest brother is even more handsome."
Yan looked at Shen Wen reproachfully: "You really don't know your blessings in the midst of blessings! You didn't grow up in a civil servant's house, and everyone, from the outside to the hall, had hunchbacks, shoulders, and legs, all crooked. Few of them can stand up straight. With a few strands of beard in the future, there is no one in their twenties, and they will be in their seventies and eighties... "
Ji Wenzhao stomped his feet: "Is there anyone like you? Is there someone like you?!" The woman beside him covered her mouth and laughed uncontrollably.
Yan waved to Ji Wenzhao and said: "You are a different kind, my cousin is blessed." She then said to Shen Wen: "Sister, listen to me, it can be regarded as the teaching of the seniors to you (Shen Wen: What kind of senior are you? ?!), in the future, if you want to look for someone like your brother, stand like a pine, sit like a bell, and when you meet, don't hesitate, go straight to the point, don't miss it! We are in the court, there are thousands of civil servants, how many generals are there? Good-looking ones, young ones, and not many of them! In the blink of an eye, they are engaged, and you have no place at all!... "
Ji Wenzhao pushed away Shen Jian who was sitting there listening dizzily, sat on his seat and said, "I'll play against you!"
Yan yelled: "You are a national player, it's not fair!"
Ji Wenzhao had already given birth, and Yan called again: "It's my turn!"
Ji Wenzhao gritted his teeth and said, "I'll make your fourth son!"
Yan picked up the chess pieces, and played seven or eight chess pieces in one breath. Ji Wenzhao didn't give her any more time, so he made a quick move. Yan's moves were also extremely fast, and the two rushed to put the pieces on the board. Suddenly, the room was crackling, and the pieces fell like rain.
Not long after, Ji Wenzhao dropped a piece and said, "You lost! Twenty and a half pieces! Not counting the eight pieces I let you!"
Yan's expression was dejected, with no arrogance at all.
The woman in the veiled hat smiled and said, "Okay, senior brother is getting angry, Third Uncle and the others are coming soon. Let's go out and wait."
They went out first, and Yan complained to Shen Jian in a low voice: "He's too powerful, and he's playing so fast, isn't that bullying? I can't beat him." There was a sense of grievance in his words.
Shen Jian's heart was filled with sympathy, and he said: "We didn't finish the game just now, we can play again."
Yan's face was suddenly full of smiles, and he said to Shen Jian: "Then it's settled. I can't let Third Uncle and the others wait until we... when the two families get married, finish it."
Shen Jian nodded with a smile, Shen Wen's heart moved, and he asked, "What are your third uncles doing in the capital?"
Yan replied: "My third uncle and sister-in-law are from a winemaking family, and my third uncle also likes wine tasting. They have a wine cellar, and they will often go out and taste wine from various places."
Shen Wen nodded silently, and Yan Shi once again urged Shen Jian: "You have to tell your parents."
Shen Jian smiled and said, "I will talk about it just to play chess with you, uncle."
Yan Shi smiled charmingly, with a provocative aura overflowing from the corners of his hanging eyes, Shen Jian was taken aback for a moment, Yan Shi probably didn't know what was wrong, so he quickly restrained his smile, and said goodbye: "I have to go see my third uncle and the others."
Shen Jian returned the gift, and Yan came to Shen Wen, imitated Shen Jian, touched Shen Wen's head and said: "Little sister, help me when the time comes...Sister, say something nice."
Shen Wen gritted his teeth and nodded: I can't tear you apart if I don't say good things. Forget it, in order to ask your third uncle and third aunt for help in the future, I will not speak ill of you.
Su Wanniang waited for everyone to leave before entering the door, Shen Jian said that it was time to go back home, and brought them out. I went outside to find Shen Zhuo, and the long-winded man said that the third son Shen and the eldest son Zhang were walking together, and that he wanted to take a walk outside the east city.
Shen Jian frowned, led the horse outside the door, sent Shen Wen and Su Wanniang to the carriage, and said to Shen Wen: "Third brother may not be able to beat Mr. Zhang, I have to go and see."
Shen Wen asked: "How do you know they are going to fight?"
Shen Jian smiled: "Going out for a walk is of course to fight, is it just for a walk?"
Shen Wen deliberately asked: "Third brother knows martial arts, Mr. Zhang is always shaking his fan, will third brother not be able to beat him?"
Shen Jian smiled and said, "You can't see it. Mr. Zhang, hehe..." He stopped talking.
Shen Wen pretended to be curious again and said, "Why are they fighting?"
Shen Jian said vaguely: "Those two people have never dealt with each other." Shen Wen knew that Shen Jian had also seen Shen Zhuo's thoughts, and it seemed that he was not careless.
What Shen Jian was thinking in his heart was that Zhang Yunming knew that Shen Zhuo had bad intentions for his sister, so he just made things difficult for her. But the young man just now also acted as a matchmaker for his sister, so it can be seen that he likes him. If they get married, they will be uncle Lang, and the two of them will get along better than Shen Zhuo and Zhang Yunming in the future. I just don't know if his younger sister will be so funny... If his younger sister is really as he said, as straightforward and funny as he is, and can play chess, the two of them will live a lifetime talking and laughing, and they will be considered gods Friends... In a trance, he asked: "Do you think his sister will be very similar to him?"
Su Wanniang snorted, Shen Wen knew exactly how his mind turned to this question, and said seriously: "Second brother, don't worry, his sister is exactly the same as him!"
Shen Jian chuckled: "What do you know? Go back to the mansion!" He got on his horse and went out of the city. He rode for a long time before he came to his senses: How could Shen Wen understand the meaning of the nonsensical question he asked, and why did her answer sound weird? Thinking about looking for Shen Zhuo outside the East City, he waved away these thoughts: Anyway, it's something that has already been decided, so it's useless to think too much.
On the way back home, Su Wanniang whispered about her meeting with Ji Wenzhao, and asked, "Why did Fifth Miss Yan say that Ji Wenzhao might not be able to go back?"
Shen Wen also whispered: "That's because she didn't understand the prince's temperament, and thought that the prince would look for Ji Wenzhao again this time, and even forcibly keep him."
Su Wanniang said with a smile: "It seems that she is really smart."
Shen Wen sighed: "My poor second brother!"
Su Wanniang also smiled: "It's fine if she really likes it."
Shen Wen thinks about it, yes, Yan's mouth is so open, she will probably be called a pervert in future generations. But in her previous life, she committed suicide without hesitation and maintained the reputation of the female relatives of the Zhenbeihou Mansion. How could she not have sincere love for her second brother
Well, I don't care what she says anymore, Shen Wen said to herself.
Su Wanniang showed Shen Wen the jade pendant given by the fourth prince, Shen Wen took it over and looked at it carefully, and sighed: "It's really a good piece of jade."
Su Wanniang hurriedly said: "I told him that when he has a happy event in the future, it will be considered as a gift and returned to him."
Shen Wen looked at Su Wanniang's indifferent face, sighed secretly for the fourth prince, handed the jade pendant back to Su Wanniang, and said: "You put it away, he will definitely remember it."
Su Wanniang agreed, and said in a low voice: "The eldest lady is about to give birth, the eldest son is in the mansion every day, and the young lady can often go to him."
Shen Wen shook his head and said: "It's not the time, he is full of the child to be born now, and probably has no patience with anyone. When the sister-in-law gives birth, he will calm down, and I will have a good talk with him."
But she knew that this was actually her excuse. This matter was too important and she was procrastinating. She didn't dare to think, what if Shen Yi didn't believe her? If Shen Yi didn't believe him, his father wouldn't believe it either. Without Shen Yi's help, the Shen family's army would not be able to start preparing for the battle, so she would have to wait for Shen Jian to go to the border... Then these two years would be wasted... These thoughts made her dare not act hastily, and she always competed with herself.
The two returned to the mansion and told Yang Shi the whereabouts of Shen Jian and Shen Zhuo. Yang scolded the two inexperienced people, they were both so old, and they made an appointment to go out of the city to fight.
At dinner time, Shen Jian and Shen Zhuo came back, and Shen Zhuo was beaten until one side of his face was swollen. When Yang Shi asked, Shen Jian said that he arrived at the right time, and pulled them away, Shen Zhuo was not beaten too hard.
Yang didn't care about injustice, first hit Shen Zhuo's hand ten times with a ruler, told him not to go out to fight with others, and then gave Shen Jian two more hits, saying it was because he didn't stop Shen Zhuo.
Shen Jian smiled and took the palm. Shen Wen knew that it was because he asked Yang Shi that he had such a good temper.
The next day, the fourth prince arrived at the Guanyi Pavilion on time to play chess with Ji Wenzhao. Under the crowd watching, they played two rounds, and the four princes lost miserably. But he looked satisfied and asked Ji Wenzhao to make an appointment with him again, which was comparable to that of Baoguan.
Ji Wenzhao said that he was about to leave Beijing the next day, and he really couldn't play chess anymore, but he received a fan from the fourth prince, and said that when they meet in the future, they can play chess again.
Two days later, Shen Yi told Yang about Shen Jian. After discussing with the old lady, Yang sent someone to Yan's second room to ask about Miss Yan Fifth. A month later, I heard back that Miss Yan Wu was staying in her boudoir, and her parents were very satisfied with the Zhenbeihou Mansion. The Yang family and the old lady started to hire a matchmaker to make a marriage proposal for Shen Jian.
At the end of February, Mrs. Liu gave birth to a son, and the old lady became a great-grandmother. She said that she laughed in her dreams. Shen Wen was depressed. She knew that Shen Yi was going to the border soon, and before that, she had to convince him to take her suggestion.