After Li Rong finished her orders, she looked not far away. Su Rongqing seemed to have finished counting her orders. She said hello to Su Ronghua who ordered from another porridge, and Su Ronghua went back first. Li Rong looked at the sky and saw that it was still early, so she had to wait for the Yuelao Temple to become lively at night, and there were still some hours left.
So she simply took the carriage a few steps forward, changed into a commoner in the carriage, and walked down.
Su Rongqing didn't know where she went, maybe she went home after finishing work, and she walked around the porridge stall to have a look.
Compared with their family, Su's porridge shop looks much shabby. Other family porridges for disaster relief use milled rice, which is full of grains and is well received. Their Su family's porridge uses the worst brown rice, and there is some grit in the middle, which makes people have no appetite.
She remembered that this was not the case in the previous life. In the previous life, the Su family's rice was very good, but because of this, many people who were not disaster victims also came to cheat to eat and drink.
This change made her feel a little more emotional. Although she had already affirmed Su Rongqing's origin in her heart, she always felt a little embarrassed every time she realized it.
What are you doing back here
Li Rong cried and laughed, she and Pei Wenxuan came back, and they could continue their relationship, he came back...
What is the picture again
While Li Rong was looking at the porridge shed, Cui Yulang went to the palace to teach King Su according to Concubine Rou's request.
He was led by the palace servants and went to the place where King Su was taking classes. As soon as he entered, he saw King Su, Li Cheng, sitting upright above him. A screen was set up behind him, and the silhouette of a woman could be vaguely seen behind the screen. Cui Yulang probably had a bottom line in his heart and knew that this was Concubine Rou.
He pretended not to know anything and knelt down respectfully: "Wei Chen has seen His Highness."
"Get up." Li Cheng sat cross-legged with his hands on his knees, looking extremely imposing.
Cui Yulang stood up, and the maid came forward, set up a futon for him, knelt down and sat opposite Li Cheng, and then the maid quickly backed away, leaving only him and Li Cheng in the room.
"My mother-in-law said he wanted to see you." Li Cheng opened his mouth and said his intentions directly. After speaking, Li Cheng supported himself from the ground and sat to the side. And Concubine Rou also came out from behind the screen, and Tingting sat in Li Cheng's original position.
"I have seen Concubine Rou."
Cui Yulang hurriedly bowed to Concubine Rou, Concubine Rou smiled: "Master Cui doesn't need to be too polite."
After speaking, Concubine Rou gave Li Cheng a wink, Li Cheng pouted, and reluctantly stood up and poured tea for Cui Yulang and Concubine Rou.
Cui Yulang glanced at Li Cheng's expression. He knew that Li Cheng didn't voluntarily pour tea for him, so he hurriedly said: "No need to come down, Wei Chen will come by himself."
"Cheng'er." Li Cheng was happy to let go, and Concubine Rou glared at him. Li Cheng's face suddenly collapsed again, and he only said, "Master Cui, don't be restrained, this king will pour tea for you."
Cui Yulang smiled dryly and could only nod his head in thanks.
After Li Cheng poured tea for Cui Yulang, Concubine Rou looked at Cui Yulang up and down, and said, "I heard from this palace that Lord Cui played His Highness the Prince today and was fined a monthly salary."
When Cui Yulang heard this, his face showed anger and anger, Concubine Rou observed him and said slowly: "There is nothing wrong with what Mr. Cui did, His Royal Highness made a mistake in offering sacrifices last year, even if it was an unintentional mistake, it also caused The reason for this year's disaster, His Majesty punishing you, is really helpless."
"It's still Empress who can see clearly," Cui Yulang sighed, "Now the court is all colluding with aristocratic families, and for a humble family like Weichen, it is wrong to say anything casually."
"Has your lord ever thought about it," Concubine Rou hinted, "to find an ally and find a way out for the poor family?"
Cui Yulang didn't answer, he slowly raised his head and looked at Concubine Rou, Concubine Rou smiled and met their eyes, after a long time, Cui Yulang said slowly: "The way that the maiden wants to go is too dangerous, if the maiden wants to use me, I will There is a request."
"Oh?" Concubine Rou brought the tea and said slowly, "What request does Master Cui have?"
"Wei Chen wants his mother, and he absolutely trusts Wei Chen."
Hearing this, Concubine Rou paused. She raised her head and stared at Cui Yulang. After a while, she chuckled softly: "Master Cui, you and I are not familiar with you yet. The so-called absolute trust will take time. But I can guarantee," Concubine Rou raised her hand and put it on her chest, "Since I have used Lord Cui, I will not be suspicious. As long as Lord Cui lives up to my expectations, I will absolutely trust Lord Cui."
"It's just," Concubine Rou turned her head sideways, "How does Master Cui plan to make this palace trust me?"
Cui Yulang stood up straight, showing a bit of confidence on his face.
"Dare to ask Concubine Rou, the inspector," Cui Yulang lowered his voice, "Do you want it?"
Concubine Rou's eyes suddenly turned cold, Cui Yulang waved his fan and stared at Concubine Rou with a smile: "Concubine Rou has countless advisors, and Wei Chen naturally knows that it is extremely difficult to gain the trust of Concubine Rou, so this time, Wei Chen also It didn't come empty-handed."
"Participating in the performance of the prince is the stepping stone of Wei Chen."
Concubine Rou raised her eyes with seriousness in her eyes.
If the purpose of participating in the performance of the prince is to attract her, then this person's mind is indeed not just a poor family who can be recruited, but a talent that must be recruited.
"And the Superintendent," Cui Yulang leaned slightly, "it's my door-to-door gift to the empress."
"I don't know if the maiden wants this gift, or not?"
When Cui Yulang left the palace, Li Rong looked at several porridge sheds, and finally met another scholar.
The scholar also seemed to have come over after a long journey. He seemed to be busy. He took a letter and found a servant of the Su family. After some chat, the servant led the scholar away.
Li Rong hurriedly followed, followed by the servant and the scholar. After they entered the alley, they arrived at a house not long after walking. Li Rong hid in the corner and heard the servant knock on the door. After the door opened, the servant leading the way. Said: "This son also came to Huajing to participate in the imperial examination. You can take him to take care of him."
"Sir, please."
The person inside invited the scholar to enter, and after waiting for a while, he heard the person inside: "Is it all here today for the exam?"
"Yes." The person leading the way seemed a little distressed.
"That's a pity." The person inside sighed, "No one came to complain today..."
"Your Highness."
Li Rong was about to listen closer when she heard a steady voice from behind her. Li Rong was so frightened that she almost jumped up, but she instinctively restrained all body movements. After being stiff for a while, she recovered herself and smiled. Looking back, she saw Su Rongqing standing not far behind her.
With his hands in his sleeves, his expression was neither sad nor happy, as calm as a god and Buddha without the slightest emotion.
"Master Su," Li Rong said with a smile, pretending that nothing had happened, "What are you doing here?"
"This is the property under the name of the Su Mansion. It is used to house the inn that has no money recently." Su Rongqing didn't ask Li Rong what he was doing here, but said, "Your Highness is lost, do you need a minister to lead the way?"
"Yeah," Su Rongqing gave the steps, and Li Rong of course went down the stairs, only said, "I'll trouble Master Su then."
Su Rongqing nodded and asked Li Rong to pass first.
Li Rong walked forward in the direction he pointed, and Su Rongqing followed.
Not far, not half a step away, just like in the last life, he was still her servant.
After Li Rong walked a few steps, she felt a little uncomfortable. She stopped, turned to look at Su Rongqing, and pointed at the front with a small fan, and said, "Don't you want to lead the way, Master Su? Come forward."
When Su Rongqing heard this, he definitely looked at Li Rong.
His hands in his sleeves clenched into fists, but his face remained calm.
Li Rong chuckled and turned her head, only to ask, "Master Su?"
"Wei Chen," Su Rongqing's voice was a little hoarse, "I don't dare to violate the rules."
"Your Excellency is just leading the way, why do you overstep the rules?" Li Rong smiled gently, "Now Your Excellency is the direct son of the Su family, the right servant of the Punishment Department, and not a servant, so you don't need to be too cautious."
Su Rongqing listened to Li Rong's words, his face turned pale inch by inch, every word and every word of Li Rong seemed to be scratched on his heart.
Li Rong watched the change in his expression. She waited for him calmly. After a long time, Su Rongqing seemed to want to understand something. He gave a low smile and stepped forward: "Your Highness, please."
With that said, Su Rongqing walked not far ahead, Li Rong was half a step behind him, and he led him forward.
She originally wanted to ask something, find out some news, but when she saw Su Rongqing, she suddenly lost interest.
She had an inexplicable feeling that if she asked, Su Rongqing would answer.
But if he really answered, she didn't know how to deal with it.
She couldn't do what Shangguanya did, knowing that the other party was going to a banquet, she could also set up a situation with her backhand. She can win this person with conspiracy and conspiracy, but she can't win like this alone.
The two of them were silent for a while, but Su Rongqing asked first, "Don't you ask anything, Your Highness?"
"What is there to ask?"
Li Rong walked out of the alley with him and said, "I want to know, I will check it out. It's not hard to guess what you are going to do."
"Your Highness has always been magnanimous."
Su Rongqing answered calmly, and Li Rong smiled: "If I ask you anything, there will only be one time left."
Su Rongqing looked back at her, Li Rong put her hands behind her: "Either I die or you lose."
After the two of them spoke, they walked out of the alley, out of the narrow alley, and Li Rong waved her hand: "Don't bother to send me off, I'll go by myself."
As she said that, Li Rong turned to leave, when Su Rongqing suddenly called her, "Your Highness."
Li Rong stopped and turned around, only to see Su Rongqing standing in the crowd watching her quietly.
This place is not far from the Yuelao Temple. The lanterns were just on, and people came and went. The lights reflected a warm feeling on Su Rongqing's body. Su Rongqing stretched out her hand and performed the salute she had done when she was a guest in her previous life, only to say: "Go well. ."
Li Rong watched his movements and didn't speak, when a young man shaking a rattle suddenly bumped into her.
As soon as Li Rong raised her head, she met the opponent's eyes.
The other party wore a mask with a fox face and a water-blue silver-patterned gown. There was a bit of warning in his exposed eyes, and he said in a low voice the moment he passed by, "I'm still watching."
Li Rong wanted to laugh for a moment, but she knew that Su Rongqing was still watching, she held back her laughter, nodded at Su Rongqing, turned around, and followed Pei Wenxuan's footsteps into the crowd.
Pei Wenxuan and her seemed to be strangers. He held a rattle behind him with one hand and walked in front of him with a rattle in the other. The beads on both sides of the rattle smashed lightly on the drum surface, making a rattling sound, making him seem completely bored. 's son.
He was very tall, and he was half a head in the crowd. Li Rong didn't need to look for him, he could see him at a glance. She followed him for a while, and saw the dark guard standing at the door of a restaurant. Li Rong turned around and entered the restaurant. She quickly changed her clothes and hair accessories in the restaurant. When she came out, there was a peach blossom mask on her face.
On the street near Yuelao Temple, many men and women wore masks. Li Rong came out wearing a mask, but it was not conspicuous. She looked around in the crowd and saw Pei Wenxuan bargaining with people at the side of the stall.
Li Rong walked behind him and coughed lightly. Pei Wenxuan didn't move, but said to the stall owner, "A little less."
Li Rong didn't look at him, and walked down the street with her hands behind her back. After walking for a while, she felt that there was another person beside her.
She didn't look back, she knew who was coming, and said with a smile: "How much money did you save?"
"Do you care about these two articles?" With a flick of Pei Wenxuan's hand, Li Rong heard the "swoosh" of the fan. She turned her head and glanced at it, only to realize that Pei Wenxuan also brought a fan today, pretending to be elegant. The appearance is somewhat Cui Yulang's appearance.
Li Rong couldn't help laughing: "Are you looking for Cui Yulang to learn from the scriptures?"
"For this trivial matter, do you still need to ask him to learn from him? You look down on me too much."
Pei Wenxuan spoke with disdain, and Li Rong looked him up and down and said, "Does your mask fit you well today? You are a sly and cunning man."
"Your mask is not bad," Pei Wenxuan said in a cool tone, "People are not like peach blossoms, but there are many peach blossoms in their lives."
"You mean I'm not good-looking?"
Li Rong made a preemptive strike, but Pei Wenxuan didn't dare to meet the enemy head-on, so he moved the battlefield: "I mean you have a lot of rotten peach blossoms."
"Then you should be happy." Li Rong joked with a smile, "You are the best of many rotten peach blossoms, you should be proud."
Pei Wenxuan sneered and said nothing. Neither of them mentioned any serious business, and just walked on the street aimlessly, like an ordinary couple.
They were very close, shoulder to shoulder, their clothes were tangled, and they moved forward silently in the crowd.
After a while, Li Rong gently stretched out her hand and hooked Pei Wenxuan's little finger with her little finger under the sleeve that no one else could see. Pei Wenxuan turned his head and saw Li Rong blinking, a little smile in his sly eyes, as if he was certain that he would not be angry.
Pei Wenxuan restrained his smile, turned his head with his hands, and shook her face in one go. Li Rong's expression changed suddenly, and just as she was about to scold him, she felt that Pei Wenxuan was holding her again. This time he not only held her, but also stuffed something into her hand.
The thing was very smooth, the shape of a crescent moon, bigger than a fingernail, and when he was holding it in her palm, he heard him whisper, "Send it to you."
His voice was soft, as if he was a little embarrassed. Li Rong didn't know why, but he was also a little bit infected by him. She lowered her eyes and walked down the street hand in hand with him, whispering, "What is it?"
"A pair of crescents."
Pei Wenxuan explained: "I brought one, and the other is for you."
"You just bought it at the stall?"
Li Rong laughed, and Pei Wenxuan was a little embarrassed for a while, and Li Rong said, "I was fooled again."
Pei Wenxuan: "..."
He pulled the crescent moon and wanted to retrieve it, his voice was slightly lower: "Don't forget it."
But before he could pull out the crescent moon pendant, Li Rong grabbed the pendant, grabbed it in her hand, and raised her hand flatly.
The red line of the crescent moon pendant was still on Li Rong's finger, she opened her palm, and the pendant hung in the air. Li Rong walked upside down, letting Pei Wenxuan look at the crescent moon, and said with a smile, "What is in my hand? , do you want to take it back?"
As she said that, Li Rong raised her hand and put it on her neck. She raised her head proudly, "No..."
Before the word "door" was finished, Pei Wenxuan stepped forward, pulled her into his arms, and hugged her around her waist.
Then Li Rong heard someone hurriedly apologize: "I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention."
"It's okay."
Li Rong knew that she had caused the trouble by walking backwards, so she turned her head from Pei Wenxuan's arms and comforted the middle-aged man with the child: "It's also me who was not careful."
The man asked the child to apologize to her. Seeing that the child was cute, Li Rong gave her the rattle that Pei Wenxuan was playing with. After the child left, Li Rong turned around and saw Pei Wenxuan standing behind her, with a particularly gentle look in his eyes under the fox mask.
She was a little embarrassed to be seen, and couldn't help but say, "What do you see me doing?"
"You haven't been so patient in the past." Pei Wenxuan said bluntly, "I just saw you coaxing the child, I think you look good."
Li Rong smiled lowly, without saying much, she also knew what Pei Wenxuan meant.
In her last life, she was full of anger. Seeing how impatient children were, she was easily irritable when encountering troubles. How could she have such patience
She didn't talk about these changes, and finally talked about the business: "I saw Su Rongqing taking in the scholars who came to Huajing to participate in the imperial examination today. I followed them and listened to their meaning. He was not only looking for people who came to participate in the imperial examination. Still looking for someone to complain."
Li Rong frowned, feeling rather uneasy: "I can't guess what he meant. If he is a scholar who was admitted to participate in the imperial examination, I can guess that he is trying to win people's hearts, but he is still looking for someone to complain..."
"What happened to Cui Yulang?" Pei Wenxuan suddenly asked such a question, Li Rong was stunned, she heard that Pei Wenxuan had changed the subject forcefully, and she fixedly looked at him.
Pei Wenxuan said with a smile that nothing happened, "How did you discuss it with him, and you actually participated in the performance of the prince today?"
"If he plays the prince, Concubine Rou will find him."
Li Rong followed Pei Wenxuan's words and said with a smile: "I will accompany him in a few more scenes, and I have won the trust of Concubine Rou. He is from the Han family, and he is the opposite of Su Rongqing. With him, Concubine Rou and Su Rongqing are here. alliance, it will not be possible.”
"Your Highness has done a very smart job." Pei Wenxuan praised, "Without Su Rongqing, Concubine Rou is nothing to be afraid of. Concubine Rou and Prince Su have collapsed. With only one Su Rongqing, unless he plans to rebel, he can't win no matter what. Your Royal Highness."
"That's what I plan to do."
As the two talked, they walked to the end of the stone bridge in Yuelao Temple. Li Rong saw that the road had come to an end, and said with a smile, "I've finished talking about the matter, so I'll go back first."
Pei Wenxuan responded, and Li Rong waved, "Let's go."
Saying that, Li Rong stepped up to the stone bridge.
There are very few people around, and the water under the stone bridge reflects the bright moon, and the water is gurgling. As soon as Li Rong stepped on the stone bridge, she heard Pei Wenxuan stop her: "Rongrong."
Li Rong turned around and looked at Pei Wenxuan. Pei Wenxuan looked at her quietly. After a long time, he raised his hand, pointed at himself, drew a circle on his chest, and then raised his finger and pointed at Li Rong.
Li Rong can see clearly, this is what he said in sign language, I like you.
Li Rong was silent for a while, then smiled lightly: "I know."
Pei Wenxuan laughed slowly, and watched Li Rong cross the stone bridge as lightly as a bird, and then trotted and disappeared from his sight.
Li Rong had just left Pei Wenxuan when the dark guard jumped off the surrounding wall and followed behind Li Rong.
Li Rong lost a smile on her face and only said: "People who have people staring at Pei Wenxuan and Su Rongqing, please tell me immediately if there is any change."
The dark guard replied, Li Rong went back to the restaurant, changed into her clothes, went downstairs and got on the carriage as if she had had a meal in the restaurant, and went back to the princess' mansion. Li Rong leaned on the carriage alone. After a long time, she He breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Rong's people responded quickly, and Zhao Chongjiu handed over the news: "Master Pei is also checking Su Rongqing."
"What happened to Su Rongqing's people?"
Li Rong frowned and opened the news that Zhao Chongjiu had brought back. Zhao Chongjiu knelt on the ground and said, "Refused to investigate, Su Rongqing has been taking care of the students who came to Beijing to take the test since the beginning of this year, providing food, clothing, housing and transportation. Ordinary The scholars who lived in His Royal Highness have seen those courtyards. But if there are grievances, they will live in another courtyard alone."
Li Rong listened quietly, and Zhou raised her brows: "What is he doing with these people?"
"I don't know yet, but it's interesting."
"Um?"
"Lord Pei's people mixed into this group of people."
Li Rong didn't say anything, she laughed at Zhao Chongjiu's words.
Su Rongqing was collecting complaints, but Pei Wenxuan not only ignored them, but also told her to ignore them, and even dispatched people to mix mud in it.
Then this group of people is gathered together, it is very likely that it will not be a trivial matter.
Li Rong thought for a while quietly, and probably had a plan in her heart.
Zhao Chongjiu waited for her, and after a long time, she finally wanted to understand.
"Quick," Li Rong said quickly, "call Cui Yulang back to me!"