Xie Lin drank with Zhou Gu the night before. After returning home, he couldn't stand it anymore and had a splitting headache, so he asked the imperial doctor.
After seeing it, the imperial doctor prescribed some medicine, and he was able to sleep peacefully. However, the sequelae were so severe that he stayed in bed for a whole day.
Therefore, when the servants in the mansion gathered under the window and gossiped about the eldest prince's mansion, he seemed to hear Su Rong's name and immediately called them into the house to ask what was going on.
The servant's face turned pale with fright, and he cowardly recounted the gossip about the First Prince's Mansion that was rumored outside. Then he knelt down and begged Xie Lin for forgiveness. Xie Lin was not annoyed that the servant disturbed his rest, but sat up from the bed in shock. Standing up, "Is this true or false?"
The servant hurriedly said, "It's been spread outside, and I don't know if it's true or not, but it seems to be true, so it's probably true."
Xie Lin waved his hand, "Go out and call the housekeeper."
The servant felt relieved, quickly climbed up from the ground, and hurried out of the room.
The housekeeper came quickly. After listening to Zhou Gu's inquiry, he nodded, "Back to the young prince, it's true. Apart from Princess Duanhua, Miss Su Qi and her brother Fengling, the people who are going to the eldest prince's mansion today are guests. There are also the second princess and the guards of Princess Qingping’s palace who come in and out of the eldest prince’s palace to carry the chrysanthemums they picked. Many people witnessed it with their own eyes. Even if the eldest princess wanted to hide the news from the palace, she couldn’t.”
Xie Lin was shocked, "It turns out it's all true!"
The butler nodded.
Xie Lin exclaimed, "Awesome, who in the capital doesn't know that the eldest princess loves flowers? The rare chrysanthemums in her garden are like treasures. At the beginning of the month, she even invited my mother to come over and enjoy them. It was just a month ago. In the middle of September, only halfway through September, the garden was cut off by Duanhua..."
His tooth ached just thinking about it, "Is the eldest princess's heart bleeding?"
The housekeeper nodded, "It must be so. At the beginning of the month, after our princess came back from the eldest prince's palace to enjoy the flowers, she also said that the chrysanthemums in the eldest prince's garden were growing well."
Who would have thought that in just a few days, Miss Su Qi would be brutally destroyed by Princess Duanhua just because she said something about making tea.
Xie Lin smiled "Hey" and got off the bed neatly. While getting dressed, he said, "I won't have dinner at the house anymore."
Before the housekeeper left, he immediately asked: "My young prince, you are not resting in the mansion. You want to go out so late? Where are you going?"
"Go to Shen Mansion to find Brother Su." Xie Lin quickly put on his clothes and walked out.
The housekeeper followed him out of the room, "Are you looking for Su Xingze?"
"Yeah." Xie Lin waved his hand.
Just as the butler was about to say something else, someone came to him and said that the princess invited him over. The butler could only stop talking and went to see the princess again. He thought that the princess had probably heard the news outside and asked him about the rumors like the young prince. Is it true.
Xie Lin rode out of the mansion and soon arrived at Shen's mansion.
This was not the first time that he came uninvited. He had come here two or three times since Su Xingze moved into the Shen Mansion. The gatekeeper had already recognized him and told him that the eldest son was in the mansion and invited him. Got in.
Xie Lin didn't need anyone to guide him and went directly to Su Xingze's residence to find her.
Su Xingze was preparing to have a meal when he saw Xie Lin coming and invited him in. "Brother Xie, why are you here?"
"Come and have some food." Xie Lin sat down at the table unceremoniously.
Su Xingze smiled and ordered another pair of bowls and chopsticks.
Xie Lin looked at the seven or eight kinds of food on the table. This was Su Xingze's dinner alone. He was envious, "Hey, is the life in Shen's house so good? Every time I come back and catch up with the meal, I see The dishes on your table are very appetizing. They are both delicious and delicious, which shows that Mr. Shen and Mrs. Shen are people who are good at life."
Su Xingze didn't believe that he was just here for a meal, but he still agreed with him, "Aunt Shen said that I worked hard in the exams and lost weight after coming to Beijing. Now after the exams, I have no time to spare, so she ordered the kitchen to give me more food every day." Make some nutritious meals."
Xie Lin nodded, "There are meat and vegetables, porridge and soup. This combination is really nutritious."
A maid brought bowls and chopsticks and a pot of wine. When she was about to pour the wine, Xie Lin stopped her and said, "I had a headache from drinking yesterday. I just recovered now and I won't drink anymore."
Su Xingze was not used to being served by others. Hearing this, he waved his hands and said warmly: "Get off!"
The maid responded, took the wine bottle and retreated.
Xie Lin complained to Su Xingze, "Yesterday Zhou Gu took me to drink. Guess what? He took me to the guest house, took out all the money in my hand, and ordered twelve jars of wine. It's said that one person has six jars. You know my drinking capacity, I can drink three jars to death, but he gave me hangover pills and told me to drink, but I couldn't do it. Because I was unreasonable, I had no choice but to risk my life to accompany the gentleman. Yesterday, I was so tormented I just fell asleep at the third watch, and it was really killing me. I lay down all day today, and I just got up from the bed before I came to see you."
Su Xingze knew that Su Rong went to the Protector's Mansion to break off the engagement yesterday, so he grabbed the key point and asked him, "Why are you in the wrong?"
Xie Lin calmed down, but still said the words he casually said to curse Zhou Gu when he was in Jiangning County. After saying it, he expressed his position unjustly, "I just said it casually at that time. Who knew that your seventh sister was really like Zhou Gu?" Gu broke off the engagement, it’s really not my fault.”
If his mouth is so efficacious, then all the wishes he made when he accompanied his mother to worship Buddha and his father to pay homage to his ancestors should all come true, but so far, none of them have come true.
Su Xingze also fell silent after listening.
Xie Lin sighed, "Brother Su, can I ask? Why did Miss Seven break off the engagement? Isn't Zhou Gu good?"
It's not that he wants to say good things about Zhou Gu, but he really can't understand how harmoniously the two got along with each other in Jiangning County. Anyone with eyes can see it. And given Zhou Gu's status, why is Su Rong?
He estimated that many people had this doubt.
Maybe others would think that Su Rong was ashamed of himself, did not dare to climb high, and was self-aware, but he knew Su Rong and had lived in the Su family. Everyone in the Su family was not that kind of person who was ashamed of himself, especially Su Rong himself.
Su Xingze shook his head, "This is my sister's own business, and I can't say anything about it. In short, the engagement has been canceled, so there is no use in talking about it."
Seeing that he couldn't get any information from Su Xingze, Xie Lin could only give up, "Okay, you're right. That's it. It's none of my business and none of my business, but It's none of my business, that's a bit, after all, who made me curse him because I couldn't hold back my bad words."
Su Xingze smiled lightly, "Zhou Gu is not a narrow-minded person. Brother Xie, don't worry, he won't hold you back."
Xie Lin also understood, and sighed, "I know, he just wanted to take revenge on me, spend all the money my mother gave me, and then drink me full of wine, making me feel uncomfortable for a few days. That's all. It’s over. But didn’t I see that he was in a bad mood?”
He asked again tentatively, "When Miss Seven broke off the engagement, she told him that she fell in love with someone else. Well, Brother Su, I'm also curious, who is that someone else? Is he better than Zhou Gu?"
Su Xingze was startled, but it didn't show on his face at all. He shook his head and said, "Brother Xie, I have no comment."
Xie Lin gave up completely this time, "Okay, okay, Brother Su, if you can't say it, you can't say it." She immediately changed the subject, "Have you heard about your sister and Duan Hua's visit to the princess mansion today? ?」
Su Xingze nodded, "I heard about it."
Xie Lin sighed, "Your sister is so powerful. With just one word, the eldest princess lost her chrysanthemum garden. Duan Hua is really fierce. With just one word of filial piety to the emperor's uncle and precious concubine, the eldest princess was speechless. Still. There's that Fengling, he's Miss Seven's brother? Isn't that your family? Why haven't you heard of it before? Where did it come from?"
"Fengling is Mr. Xie's student. My younger sister has been taught by him since she was a child, so we call her sister and sister." Su Xingze explained simply.
Xie Lin suddenly realized, "So that's it. That Fengling is really interesting. He is indeed Mr. Xie's student. I will meet him someday. He must be very interesting."
He said, and became happy, "Ning Ze from the Nanping Marquis Mansion is also a very shrewd person. In recent years, in the Nanping Marquis Mansion, he relied on his mother and sister, as well as the favor of the Nanping Marquis. It is said that he has done a lot He was a stumbling block for the crown prince Ning Chi. He didn’t expect to come to the capital. The tiger’s paws turned into little soft cats. It was said that Feng Ling had been trapped in the big kitchen of the eldest prince’s mansion for half a day. His face was so angry that he couldn’t have a fit. people."
Su Xingze was also a little amused, "Fengling and my sister have the same temperament and temperament.
At the same time, if it starts to mess up, it will be really difficult to resist. "
"This is more than overwhelming. They are now famous in the capital. Even more famous than you, Su Xingze. Originally, the storm of breaking up the engagement had not dissipated, but this happened again the next day. Your sister's I'm afraid your name is already a household name." Xie Lin clicked his tongue, "Do you know who has received this kind of treatment in the past? A general who returned to the court after winning a victory, a great talent who was famous for his verbal battles with the Confucian scholars, oh, and me and Zhou Gu, let’s have a fight.”
What Su Xingze was thinking about was that since his sister and Fengling did this deliberately, they might have some plans. Her reputation was well known in the capital, so spreading the word would also tell people in Nanchu that she was in the capital. , if you want to find it, just find it.
He said warmly: "Let's eat!"
Xie Lin nodded. On this day, he had an empty stomach and did not dare to eat big fish or meat. He only drank porridge, thinking that the capital would be really lively in the future.
