Value peace

Chapter 184 Same name but different ([-])

That day, it was raining all the time. After Zhenniang and Fang Shaoqin met the ceremony, everyone sat down and chatted for a while. Only then did the two find out that they had both studied in Jiangnan Hongxiu Academy. When Zhenniang heard about it, there was an expression on her face. The excitement of meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign country, on the contrary, Fang Shaoqin's expression was a little cold.

They both received the same education, talking about poetry and painting, although the scene was not very enthusiastic, but it would not appear deserted and had nothing to say, and the two of them coincidentally did not want Gu Xiyan to feel left out, from time to time They deliberately created opportunities to draw Gu Xiyan into the conversation circle, which was warm and intimate.

This reminded Gu Xiyan of the previous colleagues gathering.

At noon, Qi Maosheng sent a message from Siping that something happened and he would not come back for lunch, so Gu Xiyan took the opportunity to keep them in Liyuan for lunch.

After lunch, Zhenniang left on the grounds that Hongluan needed someone to take care of her, while Gu Xiyan and Fang Shaoqin took a nap on the big kang leaning against the window on the left and right, and when they woke up from the nap, they got together again. I went to see Mrs. Xu.

Mrs. Xu was quite surprised to see the two of them coming hand in hand.

Fang Shaoqin smiled and said, "It's raining heavily today, and my aunt specially left me to rest with her..."

Mrs. Xu showed a gratified smile: "Family and everything are prosperous, I see you like this, and I feel comfortable."

The two of them talked with Mrs. Xu for a while, but the nanny who was in charge at the Peanut Alley came and said that it was Qi Yuzhi who asked someone to bring a rain gear to take Fang Shaoqin back.

Mrs. Xu looked at Fang Shaoqin happily.

Gu Xiyan also smiled and said: "Go back quickly! Grandma has me here!"

Fang Shaoqin smiled calmly, bowed his knees to salute the two elders, thanked Gu Xiyan for the hospitality, and left with the nuns and maidservants.

Gu Xiyan looked at her receding back, and suddenly felt a little lonely.

She stayed with Mrs. Xu until dusk.During this period, Mrs. Xu made a lot of demands, and Gu Xiyan kept admonishing herself in her heart: Just act as if you met a savage female boss who has reached menopause!

It was so easy to serve Mrs. Xu and return to the Liyuan after dinner, but Mo Ju told her: "The fourth brother came here just now and said that the master has something to do, so please don't wait and eat first."

Gu Xiyan was a little surprised, since the two got married, this was the first time that Qi Maosheng did not come back for dinner.

Is all "never" broken step by step like this!
She sighed and said, "Miss Duan is back yet?"

Mo Ju said: "I entered the door before my wife, and I heard that my wife has not come back, so I went back to the room to wash up...I'll call my aunt to come over!"

Gu Xiyan nodded: "I'm alone today, after Miss Duan finishes washing, let her have dinner with me!"

Mo Ju responded and left.

Gu Xiyan washed herself up, and when she came out, Duan Niang stood respectfully in the room with her hands down.Gu Xiyan asked Mo Ju to set the meal, and then invited Duan Niang to sit on the kang and talk.

Duanniang waited for the red jades to bring up the kang table, and sent out all the maids serving beside her, and then she told the story of Ding Cuiniang's appearance in the back forest of Guangming Temple in detail.

Gu Xiyan sighed: "It's really unlucky! Why didn't you show up early, didn't show up late, but it happened at that time. A skilled woman appeared alone in the back forest where Qi Maosheng and I were walking. No wonder the followers didn't say hello. Hit, if you strike, you will kill her!"

Duanniang said worriedly: "Girl, how can this be good! Twelfth grandma is kind and righteous...Let me bring a message to the girl, saying that the girl doesn't have to worry about it, and everything is up to the girl!"

Gu Xiyan was startled: "Everything is up to me... If I don't come forward to prevent Qi Maosheng from killing them, will they accept it?"

Duanniang nodded sadly: "Grandma Twelfth said, keep the green hills, so you don't have to worry about running out of firewood. Let the girl not make my grandfather unhappy because of this... I just hope that the girl is safe, and let the girl do the rest. Don't worry about it!"

Gu Xiyan felt her forehead sweating.

She is just an ordinary person who knows that although there are many injustices in the world, most of the time she would bury her head in the sand like an ostrich to whitewash the peace, but if someone really lost her life because she turned a blind eye, conscience Will jump out and accuse myself of being despicable...

Duanniang hesitated and said: "Girl, if it is possible, can I ask the Lord, no matter what, they are always relatives, and Panxi still counts on them to take care of..."

At this point, both of them wanted to go together.

Gu Xiyan felt in a dilemma.

"I know this too... It's just that Maosheng is a person with ideas. There are some things that I can't go into too deeply..."

Duanniang said in a daze, "Master is always obedient to you..."

Gu Xiyan smiled wryly: "Those are innocuous and trivial matters, they should not be compared with this matter."

Duanniang murmured, "I don't see anything that can't be compared!"

Gu Xiyan explained to her: "Once he is released, the Qi and Liu families will be bound together to share benefits and risks. But the Liu family belongs to Xizhao after all, and their wealth is in the south of the Yangtze River. At that time, if something goes wrong, the Liu family may not take care of the Qi family... Also, those local wealthy families in Yandi. The appearance of the Liu family will definitely break the current situation. At that time, a storm will inevitably occur. It's a trivial matter, but what matters is that if Maosheng acquiesces in doing business in Yandi, will the Liu family have the ability to repay Maosheng's concession, can this situation be opened up, and whether the Qi family will benefit more than before...Maosheng, First, it was Qi Hao, Duke of Yan, and then Qi Maosheng, my husband, Gu Xiyan!" After talking about it, Gu Xiyan herself felt a little embarrassed.

Duanniang grew up in the family, so she naturally knew about these twists and turns, but when she came to Gong's house today, Liang Zhangzhu made a deep impression on her, so she came up with the idea of ​​helping her.

"I'm just pity... such a good woman..."

Gu Xiyan also felt some consciousness, and said helplessly: "A piece of grass has a drop of dew, let alone people, no matter what, they always have to try..."

But until Qi Maosheng returned to Liyuan, Gu Xiyan didn't think about how to speak to him.

When it was Qi Maosheng, his face was slightly blushed and his spirits were high.

Gu Xiyan smiled and said: "What happened, so happy?"

Qi Maosheng approached, with a faint smell of alcohol on his body.

"If you don't go home for dinner, where did you go to drink?" Gu Xiyan got off the kang, took the robe that Qi Maosheng had taken off, and handed it to Xing Yu who was serving at the side.

Qi Maosheng took Xia Qing's handkerchief and wiped his face, then got on the kang, took a sip of the tea that Gu Xiyan handed over, and then said with a smile: "Guess!"

Gu Xi saw that he was very interested, and said with a smile: "Could it be that you went to drink flower wine with fourth uncle?"

Qi Maosheng laughed loudly, and pinched Gu Xiyan's nose across the kang: "I've been thinking about these things all day long..."

"If you don't come back, of course I'll think about it all by myself!" Gu Xiyan said angrily.

Qi Maosheng laughed again: "Fang Shaoqin has been with you all day, but you still feel lonely!"

"Can Fang Shaoqin be with you?" Gu Xiyan flirted with Qi Maosheng with a cheeky smile, "She looks at me carefully... It's not a problem for me to avoid it, so I simply opened my heart and let her see enough. However, I didn't let She goes into the West Room, you sometimes receive Mr. Ding there, afraid that something I don't know caught her eyes..."

After hearing this, Qi Maosheng nodded again and again, and warned her: "In the future, you should avoid dealing with Fang Shaoqin... We have different positions, we are not the same person... so as not to be sad and difficult to make a decision..."

Gu Xiyan didn't take it seriously: "That should be in the future. Life is short, like the morning dew. We don't know the future, cherish the present, laugh when it's time to laugh, and be sad when it's time to be sad... that's all." Live up to the good times of this fateful reunion!"

Qi Maosheng was startled: "Why do you have such an idea?"

How do you have such an idea?Gu Xiyan was startled.

After 25 years of trembling and trembling, he finally encountered crossing; acted cautiously, but almost lost his life because of diarrhea; planned with sincerity and fear, but was brought to Qi Maosheng in the end... The things in the world, the long-term must be divided, the long-term must be united, today When I was with Qi Maosheng, maybe a few years later, everything would be a sweet memory, or it would be an annoyance... who knows?
She smiled lightly and changed the subject: "Who did you have dinner with today?"

Qi Maosheng looked warm: "Liu Youcheng came to visit me today, and I treated him to dinner!"

"Liu, Liu Youcheng..." Gu Xiyan was a little tongue-tied, "Is it him? Why..."

"Well, it's him." Qi Maosheng's face was full of smiles, and there was a bit of seriousness, "He came to the door on his own initiative. He didn't ask for anything. He only said that he wanted to move his family to Yongzhou. I hope I can agree."

Gu Xiyan's eyes opened like copper bells.

Qi Maosheng couldn't help but smiled and patted Gu Xiyan's head: "I agree."

"You agreed!" Gu Xiyan was stunned, "Then, did you say anything after that?"

Appreciation flashed across Qi Maosheng's eyes: "Tell me to introduce Qi Xiao to him!"

"Qi Xiao!" Gu Xiyan said puzzledly, "Why did you introduce Qi Xiao, wouldn't it be better to know you?"

"Me?" Qi Maosheng laughed, "If he continues to buy Gaochang's ginseng fruit and furs, can I say hello to him? Of course he's looking for Qi Xiao!"

That's right, even if Qi Maosheng agrees that they use Yandi to smuggle Gaochang's ginseng fruits and furs, Qi Maosheng will pretend not to know...

"He is a character!" Qi Maosheng said with satisfaction, "If he really moves his family to Yongzhou, I will not only recommend him to Qi Xiao, but also recommend him to Wei Shijian... As for whether he can stand up, it depends on him own!"

This Liu Youcheng, he wanted to kill himself, and even took the whole family with him... Gu Xiyan cursed secretly, and the expression on her face became a little unnatural: "Maosheng, even if something really happened, you can't give him... ...I don't want to be awakened by nightmares in the middle of the night..."

Qi Maosheng smiled nonchalantly: "Don't worry, what a person like him lacks is only opportunities..."

Hearing Qi Maosheng praise Liu Youcheng so much, Gu Xiyan felt uncomfortable like a hard bone.

Isn't this Liu Youcheng taking a risk? Qi Maosheng is not a vegetarian...

In the next two days, it seemed that Qi Maosheng was really planning something for Liu Youcheng. Wei Shijian once visited the Duke of Yan's mansion.Of course, Gu Xiyan didn't see him, but heard someone say that Wei Shijian went to Huaiyuan to pay Mrs. Wei a greeting.

On the second day of Wei Shijian's visit, Qi Maosheng left for Gaochang.

(End of this chapter)