At the dinner, Jian Yu ate quite unpleasantly. She listened carefully to the conversation between the men on her grandfather's side, hoping to see if she could get some useful information.
However, Rong Xiao was very taciturn, and he was the one who ended the conversation. In the end, the second master and the third master stopped talking to each other, and instead brought up some unimportant matters in the court.
The overall atmosphere was quite warm.
Among the juniors in the Jian family, only Jian Yu is at the dinner table. The others are studying at the White Horse Academy in Shengjing. They have been on a study tour in the past few days and will have to come back in a few days.
The ladies focused their attention on Jian Yu, asking how she was doing, whether the food was delicious, and whether there was any place she wanted to visit in Shengjing.
Such concern is not because they like Jian Yu very much, but to show their affection for Jian Yu in front of the Taifu.
Jian Yu can handle this kind of thing completely, but there is an assassin here today, and she always feels like the assassin is observing her.
Of course, the more mysterious she was in front of the assassin, the better, so Jian Yu pretended to be in low spirits and left the meeting early.
In the room, Jian Yu was pacing back and forth. When she heard a movement at the door, she hurriedly stepped forward to greet her. She saw Hongmei coming over and whispered: "Miss, the banquet has been dismissed in the front hall. The servants have heard that Young Master Rong lives in Guiran Courtyard. "
Although Hongmei doesn't understand why the young lady wants to know Mr. Rong's residence, she has always had her own reasons for doing things since she was a child. She is too stupid to figure it out, so she just needs to do it and not hold the young lady back!
Guiran Courtyard... Jian Yu recited these three words, thinking about the road map from her own courtyard to there.
The female family members all live in the inner courtyard, while Rong Xiao lives in the outer courtyard. There is a garden and a long corridor pavilion in between. It takes at least half a quarter of an hour to walk there. There are servants patrolling the Taifu Mansion at night, so I don’t have any martial arts skills. It's not easy to avoid them.
Jian Yu wondered whether the message written on the piece of paper about coming at night meant that the other party was coming, or whether she wanted to go find him at night...
Doesn’t the other party think that she is the second young lady of Tai Tu’s house, so she can go back and forth as she pleases? Even for the old lady, it was not suitable for her to go to the courtyard of a foreigner in the middle of the night, let alone her.
In the past, Jian Yu was afraid of avoiding the assassin, but now she was eager to see him. They had already agreed on an alliance, so it wasn't too much to ask him what he wanted to do when they met, right?
Finally Jian Yu thought of a way.
She asked Hongmei to tell the kitchen to make a pot of soup, and after bringing it back to her, she called for a boy to deliver it to Guiran Courtyard.
"Our young lady is grateful to Mr. Rong for rescuing Taifu. When we have soup in the evening, we want to give him a bowl. Alas, if I hadn't stopped him, the young lady would have given him a box of gold. The Rong family is not short of money. This will only make Rong Rong more happy. The young master doesn’t like it…”
"In the end, the lady feels that the most important thing is the heart. This soup is just right for digestion and sobering up. There is no need to say that the lady gave it to me, so as to save the other party from overthinking..."
Hongmei muttered this while passing the soup. The steward passed by and lamented that the second lady was still a child at heart, but her concern for the master was even more sincere.
This incident reached the ears of Mrs. Jian. He laughed and said that An An is a filial piety and a good person. The old lady responded, but retorted in her heart, "Why can't you see my son thanking you again and again for drinking at the dinner table!"
Sick Yangzi is even more scheming when he comes back from Jiangnan. What kind of soup is given to him? It's clear that he is deliberately taking advantage of it! The old lady was so angry that her teeth itched.
It can be seen that Jian Yu's "secret attack on Chen Cang" is quite clever. Who would have thought that she was using the soup to spread the news!
Not to mention everyone else in the house, even Zhou Jinyan didn't expect it. No, he didn't find it.
He knew that the second young lady of the Jian family would try her best to contact him after discovering his identity, so when he received the soup, he looked carefully at the bottom of the plate and under the can. He was sure there would be a note, but he hesitated.
How could there be nothing? The second young lady of the Jian family is not stupid, and there is no way she will not take any action.
For the sake of image and character, Zhou Jinyan did not refuse the toast and drank a lot. Since there was sobering soup and he couldn't find the note, he simply drank it leisurely.
He's not in a hurry about notes or anything like that, anyway...wait, what is this?
Zhou Jinyan's eyes narrowed, and he saw a piece of paper stuck on the inside of the soup can, with two words written on it: Come on.
Because I drank a bowl of soup, the water level in the soup can dropped and I could see the note.
Before delivering it, Jian Yu wetted the note and stuck it on the edge of the earthen pot, then poured the soup into it. She used special ink so that the font would not melt.
When the assassin who transformed into Mr. Rong faced the gift of soup from his host, he would take out a spoon and fill a bowl with it even if he didn't want to drink it. He would put it aside to show that he was moved, so it was not rude.
You can see the note whether you drink or not.
Zhou Jinyan, who had already drank more than half of the bowl of soup, was smacking his mouth. Should he say that Miss Jian Er acted cautiously, or was she deliberately trying to mess with him? No wonder the more you drink it, the more you feel the smell of ink.
With such a delicate mind, would he die for love and follow his sweetheart? She acted very scared to death that night.
Thinking of the growing rumors that Miss Jian Er is a lover, Zhou Jinyan's eyes darkened. It was really audacious to use him as a raft!
He raised his hand to pull out the note from the jar, and gently twisted it back and forth between his thumb and index finger. The wet note immediately turned into powder.
On the other side, Hongmei, who was guarding the intersection of the kitchen, saw the boy who delivered the soup coming back and deliberately approached him to talk. After noticing that the note in the jar was not there, he quickly went back to report it to Jian Yu.
Jian Yu knew that the other party must have seen the note, and she had a tough battle to fight tonight.
Just like that, Jian Yu didn't sleep all night again. As the sun rose and the first ray of sunlight shone into the house again, Jian Yu laughed angrily.
Good, very good! Dog Dengxi didn’t come again!
How should I put it, in two lifetimes, this was the first time that a man kept Jian Yu awake for two nights.
On the other hand, Zhou Jinyan of Guiran Hospital, who was lying on the soft bed, had a good night's rest. He had rushed all the way from Bianbei to Shengjing and conducted various investigations after arriving in Shengjing. He hadn't had a good sleep for a long time.
There are rumors among the people that Prince Jing is the God of War of the Great Zhou Dynasty, with a majestic scenery and the appearance of an immortal, but these are all illusions! No one in Shengjing's officials knew that Prince Jing had a vengeful temper, and anyone who offended him would be in trouble!
Very vindictive!
Of course, Jian Yu is not a vegetarian. If the mountain doesn't come to see me, I will go to the mountain.
Zhou Jinyan was sitting at the dining table and was about to have breakfast when he heard a noise coming from outside.
"Hey, little ancestor, you look like you didn't have a good night's rest last night? We can say thank you anytime. Just be careful with yourself."
"Second Miss, please walk slowly, can I carry you on my back? There is a pothole there, so be careful where you step!"
"Second Miss, you haven't had breakfast yet. What should you do if you're starving? Can you go and eat first?"
…
Zhou Jinyan, who has excellent ears, raised his eyebrows slightly, put down his chopsticks and looked towards the door.
I saw Jian Yu walking over, wearing a colorful dark floral brocade dress, a golden hairdo and combed fairy hair.
Her complexion was pale, but her eyes were piercing, burning like the sunset burning clouds.
——Gou Dengxi, my aunt came to visit in person!
