On New Year's Eve, the night is thousands of miles away, and amid the deafening sound of firecrackers, there is laughter inside and outside the Prince Lan's Mansion.
As in previous years, everyone who should go home for the New Year has gone home, such as Meng Chen, Lu Heng and Tang Qingfeng, but the palace is several times more lively than last year. Ye Huailing and Pei Yuanshu set off fireworks in the front yard, Chu Jinglan and Ye Huaixin was sitting in the main hall talking about political affairs, while Ye Huaiyang took up the responsibility of the mistress and ordered the people to go about their business in an orderly manner.
At the beginning of the Xu period, the candles were burning high, and the wine feast was in full swing.
"In the end, it's my brother-in-law who has made a lot of money. It's ten years of Ruilu wine. The taste is really extraordinary. My brother will do it first as a respect!"
Ye Huaixin drank his head in one go, and Chu Jinglan also raised his glass from a distance. After drinking, before putting down the glass, he saw a water-red sleeve quietly flashing by the side. The broken hand pulled back.
"Not honest?"
Ye Huaiyang, who wanted to take advantage of the chaos, suddenly lost his face and said pitifully, "I want to eat chicken slices with black bean and pepper..."
Chu Jinglan ignored her, turned to Crescent Moon and said, "Put those spicy dishes further away."
Crescent Moon is as good as she is. She rolled up her sleeves and moved forward to move the boiled beef, fish head with chopped peppers, and winter bamboo shoots with fermented bean curd to the other side of the round table. As the other people feasted, their saliva almost flowed to the ground.
"Xin'er..."
She changed the target at the right time, thinking that her younger brother would open a small stove for her or say good things to her, but Ye Huaixin just glanced at her coldly, without any intention to lend a helping hand, He added: "Sister, your voice is not good, so don't speak, don't be so ignorant."
Ye Huailing covered her mouth and giggled.
"It's against you!" Ye Huaiyang became angry.
"I think you're the opposite." Chu Jinglan twisted her body and scooped a spoonful of almond Chuanbei lean meat soup to her lips, "Be obedient, drink the soup first."
Someone who was angry at the courageous side just now stopped talking, and when he saw the playful eyes of several people on the table, his face gradually turned red.
How could he feed her in front of so many people? I really want to teach her to be embarrassed!
But Chu Jinglan had a calm expression, her black eyes fixed on her, as bright as a cold star in the sky, she indulged in it and finished drinking before she knew it.
Ye Huailing smiled slyly and said, "What kind of soup is this for moistening the lungs and relieving cough. From what I see, it's definitely a soup. Look at Seventh Sister, I'm so fascinated by my brother-in-law that my pupils won't turn, haha!"
"A table of dishes can't stop your mouth." Ye Huaiyang gave her an angry look, then turned to look at Pei Yuanshu, and asked directly, "I'll add twenty boxes of dowry, and I'll give you eight large sedan chairs, when will you be? Marry this little annoying spirit back?"
Pei Yuanshu was very happy to hear their family chatting, but he was suddenly brought up on him, and it was such a blatant topic that he blushed suddenly, and said: "I, I haven't been up, I'm up. Yefu proposes a marriage…”
Speaking of which, after returning from Jingzhou, Pei Yuanshu became enlightened, and the two of them became more and more in love. Especially recently, Ye Huaixin went to pick up Huai Ling from get out of class several times and saw them stick together like glue. Unbearable. Under such circumstances, according to Pei Yuanshu's temperament, Ye Huailing would not be slandered by gossip, so he should have gone to propose marriage, but after so long, several people present understood the reason.
Last time Pei Yuanshu was ineffective, Chu Sanghuai wanted to kill, but because Yue Ting was responsible for him, and he did not obviously rely on Chu Jinglan, so Chu Sanghuai let him go, but even so , He is now almost a marginal figure in the Ministry of Personnel. He can't get involved in political affairs or handle internal affairs. He is completely reduced to a teacher. With such an embarrassing situation, how could he be so embarrassed to propose marriage to the Ye family, one of the four great families
Ye Huaiyang has always been kind and considerate, so he comforted him at the moment: "Although our Ye family is a noble family, we don't have a first-class opinion and treat everyone equally. You can rest assured, as long as you are sincere. The truth is good for Linger, and uncle and aunt are naturally happy to see it happen, but…”
Ye Huailing listened to the side with joy and worry, her face changed a few times, and now seeing her hanging the second half of a sentence without saying a word, she became more and more anxious.
"Just what? Seventh sister, hurry up and say it!"
Ye Huaiyang ignored her, only stared deeply at Pei Yuanshu, her voice was slightly heavy: "You know my position, the Ye family will certainly be the same in the future, if you want to marry Huai Ling, you must be mentally prepared. ."
This has been said very clearly, Pei Yuanshu's face was gloomy, and he didn't say anything for a while.
In fact, he thought a lot during this time, from the tyranny of Chu Sanghuai to the smoky court, these facts once made him extremely depressed. He studied hard and entered the golden list not for wealth, honor and glory, but for the justice and justice he insisted in his heart, so that the people could live a better life, and the great Chu would be more prosperous, but his loyalty can only make him in the wrong country. The road is gone forever, this is not what he wants, so he has already made a decision before coming to Lan Wangfu.
In the warm flower hall, the atmosphere was stagnant. Pei Yuanshu suddenly raised his clothes and knelt on the ground. He solemnly kowtowed and said, "Wei Chen is willing to serve the prince, overthrow the tyranny of the present, and return the people to a peaceful and prosperous world!"
Chu Jinglan turned to look at him, his eyes were full of waves, calm as usual, but it was extraordinarily unfathomable. The elite light was pressing on Pei Yuanshu's shoulders, as heavier than Mount Tai, and it took him a long time to hear it. A very simple answer.
"Get up, tonight is a family banquet, no political affairs."
What does it mean? rejected him
Pei Yuanshu was still stunned, Ye Huaixin had already stood up to pull him, with a bright smile on his face, "Future brother-in-law, are you still up?"
He was forcibly pulled up and pressed back to his seat. Chu Jinglan used the word family banquet! So, he is no longer regarded as an outsider
Looking over there again, Ye Huaiyang also looked at him with a smile, as if he had swallowed a needle of Ding Hai Shen, his heart suddenly settled down.
"Okay, let's eat vegetables, it'll be cold later."
Everyone moved their chopsticks again. Surrounded by the fragrant wind and warm light, the various delicacies made their index fingers move. During the banquet, everyone laughed and laughed, and they were very happy.
Last year, Ye Huaixin gave a congratulatory message when he had a New Year's Eve dinner at the Yefu next door. This year, when he changed to Prince Lan's residence, everything was business as usual. I saw that he came over with a phoenix beak jug and filled Chu Jinglan with the jade liquid nectar. With a smile, he gave a big gift and said, "The new year is coming, Huai Xin wishes my brother-in-law to be proud of the mountains and rivers in the coming year, and the purple energy will come from the east!"
Chu Jinglan looked at him, and a very shallow smile crossed the corner of his mouth, "Could it be that you are still imagining the day of the big wedding, using various excuses to drink me?"
Ye Huaixin laughed: "How dare I? My sister is as fierce as a tiger, she must eat me!"
Usually Ye Huaiyang would laugh at him and scold him when he heard this, but today I don't know what happened, and there was no sound for a long time, Chu Jinglan immediately turned her head and found that she was still eating quietly, so she tried He called out, "Yang'er?"
"Um?"
Ye Huaiyang turned away slightly from his small face, and his watery eyes rolled straight on him, looking as bright as ever, but the brows at the corners of his eyes were clearly a light crimson, like Concubine Yang Gui who painted peach blossom makeup on the stage. , reflecting the shadow of the mid-night moon, silver shavings dyed the temples, roses on the cheeks, revealing three parts of beauty and seven parts of intoxication.
This is... Drunk
Chu Jinglan looked up and saw that she was still holding a water-patterned ice cup in her left hand. The light cherry-colored wine inside had bottomed out. She didn't know how many cups it was. The fragrant wine smelled, and the palms of his hands were a little hot, and he couldn't help but be surprised - he had already exchanged fruit wine for her, how could he still drink like this
He picked up her face and asked again, "Yang'er, how many cups have you had?"
Ye Huaiyang slowly stretched out three fingers, but after a while, he felt that something was wrong, and added another hand.
Get drunk with eight glasses of fruit wine
Chu Jinglan was a bit dumbfounded, remembering that last time she was injured and drunk by Bai Zhixuan, and she was like this when she came out of the palace, she knew it, so she pulled her up to go back to the room. She stood up swayingly, as if she didn't understand what Chu Jinglan wanted to do, so she blurted out in front of everyone.
"Uncle Wang, where are we going?"
Chu Jinglan's face instantly turned green.
I don't know what she has been up to recently. This title is used very frequently, especially between the beds. Whenever she is in a mess, she will cry and call him Uncle Wang, her body trembles, sometimes tense, always It brought him a kind of obscure and tight pleasure, and then it was a crazy turn of clouds and rain, until she was completely paralyzed in his arms, and she forgot to continue to tease him with words. Afterwards, he pretended to be angry, and she smiled softly. Overshadowed, and since then it has become a secret love between husband and wife.
But who would have expected her to shout like that? Those who are good will understand after a little thought!
Without waiting for Ye Huaiyang to reveal more secrets, Chu Jinglan took her by the waist and dragged her out of the flower hall. Back to the bedroom quickly.
"Crescent Moon, go get a basin of water."
Chu Jinglan made Ye Huaiyang lean against the head of the bed, and untied the buckle on her collar to make her breathing easier. Crescent Moon brought hot water at the same time, and Chu Jinglan twisted a towel. Wipe Ye Huaiyang's face, but she didn't wake up much, just tilted her head to look at him, he couldn't help laughing.
"You've been yelling for me to stay up late with you for a few days to keep your year old, that's good, what else do you keep?"
Ye Huaiyang was a little confused, and it didn't take long before she habitually crawled over and shrunk into his arms. Instead of her usual arrogance, she became more and more like a child.
"Sleep when you're sleepy," he whispered.
Ye Huaiyang hummed again, but his eyes were still wide open, staring directly at the curved lines on his neck.
Chu Jinglan sighed and said to himself, "I don't know if that thing should be shown to you now..."
After thinking about it for a long time, he still got up and went to the drawer to get it. A flat ebony box with hollow metal patterns embedded in the four corners. When he opened it, he saw that it was blue and dripping. It was two sapphire pendants. The second carving, one of which was made into a pendant, and one of which was still used as an ornament.
Chu Jinglan twisted the pendant, put the purple silk sash tied on it around Ye Huaiyang's neck, and then hung the other piece around his waist, Ye Huaiyang stroked the familiar lotus leaves and carp. , the ignorant face suddenly lit up.
"this is mine… "
"It's the sapphire pendant you gave me on New Year's Eve last year." Chu Jinglan stroked her hair and said warmly, "I asked them to find the best craftsmen in the capital, and they said they couldn't repair it, so I asked him to do it. It's two pieces, you take half of it and I'll take it, okay?"
Ye Huaiyang held the jade pendant and murmured, "But we are separated..."
Chu Jinglan suddenly lowered her head and grabbed her lips, gently sucking the two soft pieces, before letting go of her after a long time, and uttered a word in a low voice.
"Fenyu will not be separated, Yang'er, we will never be separated."
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