The streets are lively during the day, and the lights are still brightly lit at night, and the excitement is as lively as the Jinshi Parade during the day.
Red lanterns are hung on the upper floors along the street. The rows of lanterns reflect the rosy faces of the vendors selling goods along the street and the people wearing spring clothes out for fun.
In the bustle, a square, flat-topped carriage with black walls slowly passed by. The driver was also dressed in black and had a big hat on his head, covering his appearance. He looked like a person walking out in the dark. There was no one following the carriage. of servants and maids.
The carriage is so low-key that it is difficult to notice.
Finally, the carriage slowly stopped at the side entrance of Prince Ning's Mansion.
, .w♂anso The driver jumped out of the carriage and opened the curtain.
A girl in white with a veil on her face bent over and stepped out of the carriage.
After standing still, she looked up at the plaque on the door, with a bit of disdain in her eyes. When her eyes turned to the coachman, she turned gentle and elegant.
The coachman whispered: "As soon as my wife enters, someone will take you there. I will take my leave first."
The woman quickly saluted and thanked: "Thank you husband for sending me all the way."
The two of them said no more, one drove away in a carriage, and the other stepped into Prince Ning's Mansion.
Sure enough, as soon as the woman entered, she saw the maid waiting for her. The maid didn't say much to her and only held a lantern to guide the way.
The woman followed silently.
Prince Ning's mansion was very large, so the maid took the road less crowded, so she walked for a long time and finally arrived at a courtyard with three entrances.
The maid led him into the main room and then closed the door and left. After standing still, the woman lowered her head and saluted: "I have met the Lord Jiaren County."
The Lord of Jiaren County has been waiting for a long time, and the person finally arrived. Then he said: "Take off the veil."
The woman took off the veil covering her face as instructed and looked at Lord Jiaren County with a pair of big almond eyes.
Even though the head of Jiaren County was confident about his appearance, he had to secretly praise her as "what a beauty."
"I know everything about you and Xu Liuniang. Coming to you this time is also to give you a chance to fight back, and it can be regarded as completing my goal." The principal of Jiaren County had her usual hypocritical smile on her face, full of confidence. He looked at the woman in front of him.
Although Xu Siniang was a concubine, she was also the only daughter of Xu Gucheng and the Lu family. She was loved and loved by the Xu family, but her original life changed because of Xu Liuniang's sudden appearance.
And this change reached its extreme last summer. Xu Siniang changed from a doted only daughter to an abandoned concubine.
The people sent by County Lord Jiaren clearly investigated the conflict between the two. She knew what a person who lost his father's trust would do, so she believed Xu Qian would come back to Bianjing. I also believe that Xu Qian will obey her arrangements.
The information obtained this time made County Master Jiaren very satisfied. She had never thought that Xu Nuo would have such a bad reputation when she was in Suzhou, but this was a great good thing for her.
Xu Liuniang, how dare you provoke me.
in this way. I'm going to make you taste the pain
After Xu Qian heard County Lord Jiaren's plan, she agreed without any hesitation. Although she knew that Lord Jiaren had bad intentions, she was willing to do this in order to drag Xu Xu into trouble.
What's more, she will need to rely on Lord Jiaren County to help her in the future.
After meeting the Lord Jiaren County, Xu Qian followed the maid out of the back door, got into a small carriage and left.
On this day after the Jinshi Parade, Xu Gucheng took a break. He still got up early to box, and after breakfast, he told Xu Nuo about Lao Tzu in his study.
I once told an article by Lao Tzu. When preparing to practice painting, Suye suddenly appeared outside the study.
The study door is open. Seeing sweat stains on Suye's forehead, Xu Gucheng pursed his lips and said in a deep voice: "What's wrong?"
Su Ye came in, bowed her hands to the two of them, and immediately said, "The fourth lady is here."
Xu Nuo was originally holding a pen and sketching on the rice paper, but when he heard what he said, he immediately raised his head.
It doesn't matter that Xu Qian came, what matters is what she did.
With this thought in her mind, she heard Suye say: "I don't know when the Fourth Lady signed up for the tea ceremony competition. Someone just told my subordinates that the Fourth Lady went to the Sui Princess's mansion, so the subordinates went to take a look. Sure enough, the contestants There are four ladies among them.”
This year, the tea ceremony competition was held in the palace of the eldest princess of the Sui Dynasty. Anyone who went to the eldest princess's palace today was either a participant or a judge.
But as Xu Qian, she would definitely not be able to meet the standards of the judges.
Therefore, when Suye heard someone say that Xu Qian went to the eldest princess's mansion, he guessed that she had signed up to participate in the tea ceremony competition.
When Xu Nuo heard this, he put down the pen dipped in ink in his hand and glanced at Xu Gucheng.
The expression on Xu Gucheng's face remained unchanged, and he asked: "Do you know who brought her to Beijing?"
No news came from Suzhou. It seems that someone from the Xu family arranged for Siniang to come to Bianjing.
Suye shook his head and said at the same time: "My subordinates have sent people to investigate."
Xu Gucheng nodded and said, "Okay, you go down first and find out what's going on."
Xu Qian was different from Xu Nuo. Xu Gucheng had told her about the tea-person competition when she was in Suzhou. She had known what the tea-person competition was all about, and she also knew that the Xu family did not want to get involved in this matter, but why did it suddenly happen? Appeared and participated in this competition
The difference between the Tea Man Competition and other competitions is that it does not distinguish the age and gender of the contestants, but only looks at the understanding of the tea ceremony, the skill of ordering tea, and the identity of the contestants.
The identity of the contestants has a great influence on the final judgment of the tea master competition. If there is no accident, the winners are all the legitimate sons and daughters of the royal family and the tea ceremony family.
Unless someone’s tea ceremony understanding and tea-ordering skills are recognized and praised by all judges, the other contestants are just foils.
Because of this, Xu Gucheng did not let Xunuo know about or participate in the tea competition. He did not want his daughter to get close to such unfair and opaque things.
It was also because of this reason that Lu categorically rejected the invitation to the tea ceremony competition sent by the head of Jiaren County.
Xu Gucheng knew Xu Qian's tea-ordering skills fairly well. Compared with girls of the same age in Suzhou, she was naturally far ahead, but in a place like the capital, her tea-ordering skills were really hard to put on the table.
What's more, her current state of mind is not as good as before, and ordering tea is the most test of one's state of mind.
Once you lose your mind, everything will be in vain and you will lose miserably.
People who fail miserably in the tea person competition will most likely be embarrassed to order tea in public in the future, and will even stay away from the word tea person.
Now that we have been involved in this matter, instead of failing miserably, it is better to
Xu Gucheng was thinking this, and then he heard Xu Nuo beside him saying: "Dad, can you register for the tea competition on the same day?"
You may have noticed that the author almost didn't say anything at the end of the article after resuming the update. The first is that the update is not good enough and I don't know what to say to make up for it. The second is that the author feels really busy. I was really busy last month. This month I have a good time, but I don’t know what to do in a day, and it always wastes time. I saw everyone’s messages in the comment area. The author will spend all his free time coding. Thank you for staying. To be continued
