NOVEL WEB Chapter 276
Chapter 276: Dowry (Two More)
Chapter 276 Dowry (two more)
“It’s easy to say.” Chu Yi said lightly, smiling lightly.
He took up the jug again, filled both his and Gu Yanfei’s wine glasses with wine, and changed the conversation: “The Yu family has a villa in Peng County, Yuzhou, and in the mountain behind this villa, there is a woman buried.”
“This woman was sent to this villa sixteen years ago, and later gave birth to a daughter.”
Chu Yi bites every word clearly, and his tone is always gentle and gentle.
Xia Houqing’s phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, and the jade cup he was spinning in his hand stopped abruptly.
Chu Yi drank the wine slowly.
The inside of the pavilion became silent, except for the sounds of cats and peacocks outside the pavilion.
After a moment of silence, Chu Yi just continued: “This villa is the retreat that the Yu family had left for the family. It is recorded in the name of a loyal servant and is rarely known. Zhuangzi has hidden gold and silver jewelry, land deeds and house deeds. , ancient books, as well as several bloodlines of this branch… It is also the last family of the Yu family.”
Xia Houqing still didn’t speak, and slowly turned the jade cup with half a glass of wine in his hand.
The sun shines through the jade cup as thin as cicada wings, and the rippling wine in the cup can also be seen from the side, as crystal clear as amber, beautiful.
“Jingshan.” Xia Houqing suddenly called out with a hoarse voice, and raised his hand to make a gesture.
The black-clothed youth named Jing Shan understood it, took a palm-sized box and put it in front of Xia Houqing.
Xiahouqing stretched out a finger and pushed the box towards Chu Yi, “This is a return gift.”
Chu Yi put down the empty wine glass and opened the box to see that there was a neatly folded silk paper inside.
“This seat never takes advantage of others.”
Xiahouqing spoke these words very slowly, and his voice was very pleasant. These words were spoken by him, and the ending was picked up. It was indescribably seductive and strange, like a fox in the mountains and forests entering the world.
As he spoke, a slight smile slowly appeared on the corner of his lips.
His smile is always enchanting and weird, which makes people feel chills in the bottom of their hearts, and makes people feel malicious.
Chu Yi slowly unfolded the piece of silk paper, and looked up with half-drooping eyes.
“Your Highness is really intentional in returning the gift.” Chu Yi smiled lowly, and under the reflection of the wine in the glass, his black pupils seemed to be covered with the brilliance of a bright moon.
Two people are sitting opposite each other, one is like a demon, the other is like a fairy, and the painting style is eerie.
“Meow meow meow!”
The cat’s excited voice was even more excited, and it successfully sat on the peacock’s back again.
Gu Yanfei looked at the arrogant and cunning cat, listened to the two men’s sharpness, and muttered: “There are so many hearts.”
These one or two, so many hearts!
Two people with many hearts, you come and go, and it will be a while before the two sides raise their glasses to drink.
Xia Houqing left after half an hour, and it was not until dusk that Chu Yi sent Gu Yanfei and the cat back to Gu Mansion in the capital.
The setting sun is halfway down, the sky at dusk is getting darker and darker, and the red glow occupies half of the sky.
At the gate of Gu Mansion, Gu Yuan had long been waiting in the courtyard behind the door, looking at Gu Yanfei smilingly saying goodbye to Chu Yi outside the mansion through the open corner door with a depressed expression, and then he slowly rode his horse into the mansion. .
“Big Brother,” Gu Yanfei rode his horse to Gu Yuan, turned over and dismounted, while rubbing Hongyu’s slender and beautiful neck, he smiled, “You came back so early today.”
It’s not even the application time.
Before Gu Yanfei came back, Gu Yuan had a lot of things to say in his heart. When facing his sister at this moment, those thousands of words turned into a dry sentence: “I’m going to rest today…”
The eldest prince temporarily gave him a day off this morning. Originally, he was very happy. On the way back from the palace in the morning, he was thinking that he could take his sister out of the city for an outing today, but when he came back, he realized that her sister had been kidnapped out to play.
The eldest prince clearly did not take him on purpose!
Gu Yuan twitched the corners of his eyes, recalling how his younger sister and the eldest prince were chatting and chatting happily, his mood became more complicated, and there was a kind of sadness that his younger sister was about to be taken away.
Gu Yuan couldn’t help but took two steps forward and gently touched the top of Gu Yanfei’s soft hair.
As he got closer, he saw that the three-haired cat was sleeping in a ball of fur under the hood of Gu Yanfei’s cloak. She is also going to marry her sister.
Dowry?
When these two words came to mind, Gu Yuan’s expression changed slightly, his thin lips pursed tightly.
His expression on his face was a little fierce and a little cold, and the little servant Wutong next to him froze, worried that the eldest young master was angry.
Gu Yuan didn’t pay attention to Wutong at all, and he was worried about his sister’s dowry.
He still remembers hearing a friend mention that his sister’s dowry has been prepared for ten years, and his mother still thinks it is not good enough.
He is ten years later than others. Shouldn’t he hurry up and save his sister’s dowry?
Although the capital is prosperous, there are still many good things that have to be bought in other places. Tea is good in Yangzhou, silk is good in Yueguo, porcelain is good in Yuzhou… These places take time to come and go!
Gu Yuan thought more and more anxiously, and hurriedly said: “Sister, I’ll go out and be back soon.”
“Wait!” Gu Yanfei suddenly walked over and patted Gu Yuan’s shoulder gently, “It’s bad luck.”
Gu Yanfei looked at Gu Yuan again and smiled with satisfaction, “Okay!”
“Then I’m leaving.” Gu Yuan didn’t ask much, and hurriedly walked towards the east corner gate, but after taking a step, he remembered something, turned his direction, and headed towards the stables.
Gu Yanfei gave Wutong a wink with big eyes, meaning, what’s wrong with big brother?
Industrial: “…”
Indus also couldn’t see the mind of his young master, and only vaguely guessed that the eldest young master was not angry, as if there was something urgent.
“Second girl, go take a look at the little one.” Wutong quickly followed Gu Yuan to the stable.
Only Gu Yanfei and Hong Yu were left to look at each other, and the red horse called out twice, “Hui Hui”.
Gu Yuan is a resolute person. He does what he says. He immediately went to Fan’s house a few blocks away. After talking to his friends, he left.
An hour later, the other party arrived at Lanshan Pavilion, one of the four most famous restaurants in the capital, to meet with Gu Yuan.
“Gu Yuan, this is my fifth sister’s dowry list.” A young man in his twenties, wearing apricot red straight sleeves, took out a few pieces of silk paper that were randomly folded together and put them on the table.
Fan Beiran’s red-gold crown on top of his head is shining brightly, and his whole person is like a lantern in the dark.
“Am I loyal enough?” As soon as he sat down, he triumphantly begged Gu Yuan for his reward, “I secretly copied this behind my mother’s back, so I bribed my seventh brother to entangle my mother. .”
Gu Yuan picked up the dowry list, his stern face showed a slight smile when facing his friend, and said, “I’ll have this drink today.”
“That’s not enough!” Fan Beiran raised his head and drank all the wine in the glass in one gulp, put the empty glass on the table heavily, and said with a smile, “Recently, there are a few people who play pipa and sing ditty songs from the Lanshan Pavilion. It’s like Huang Ying, and it’s no worse than the Hua Dan and Tsing Yi of Tianyin Pavilion.”
Without waiting for Gu Yuan to agree, Fan Beiran called his servant in, and ordered with a hilarious smile, “Go and call Mo Liu, Yue San, and Duan Wu, and say that Gu Yuan invited them to drink and listen to Xiaoqu. ”
His little boy ran away happily.
“You’re a busy person right now. You’re so busy on errands all day that you don’t even have time to accompany us on horseback riding.” Fan Beiran pouted and shrugged, “Today, you have to stay drunk with us!”
Gu Yuan’s response was that he raised his head and drank all the wine in the glass, then he called Xiao Er over and ordered ten jars of fine wine.
Fan Bei was delighted, patted the table and said, “Gu Dayuan, if you can’t finish drinking this wine today, no one is allowed to leave!”
Ten jars of fine wine moved into the lounge one by one, and even the lounge seemed crowded, the younger brother smiled and put down the last jar of wine happily.
“Wait a moment for the two young masters, the girls singing songs will be here soon.” The little Er came over to pour wine for the two of them, and smiled, when he heard a commotion from the street outside the window.
Gu Yuan and Fan Beiran both looked down at random, and saw that Lanshan Pavilion went to the cloth shop opposite, crowded with a lot of people, coming and going, the staff of the cloth shop took the rolls of cloth out of the shop, Packed into a blue hooded carriage.
There were also people on the street attracted by the liveliness here. They stopped curiously and inquired about other passers-by. The door of Buzhuang became more and more lively.
Xiao Er stretched his neck and glanced at the street from the window, and said gossip with a smile: “I heard that it was from the Kang Wangfu who came across to buy.”
“Speaking of which, King Kang is about to get married soon, and the young ones will definitely have to go to join in the fun, to see how elaborate the weddings of these noble families are.”
“Little I heard that there will be a reward of silver from Prince Kang’s mansion. The last time the prince of Prince Rui’s family got married, he sprinkled several baskets of copper coins and silver coins. There were several children in the younger cousin’s family who robbed them. Arrived at the silver scorpion.”
Xiao Er said more and more vigorously, his eyes lit up.
Fan Beiran and Gu Yuan grew up wearing a pair of trousers. Even if Gu Yuan didn’t say it outright today, Fan Beiran would have guessed that Gu Yuan asked himself for this dowry list for Gu Yanfei’s sake.
He patted Gu Yuan on the shoulder and said, “I can help you with anything, just say it, your sister is my sister too!”
(end of this chapter)