female catcher

Chapter 146
On this day, the Chiang Mansion was extremely lively.Hussar general Jiang Zhutang, who was over seventy years old, led his family to kneel at the gate of ceremony to welcome the envoy and listen to the inheritance.

This is the first big gift of the emperor's big wedding, and after accepting it, it means that the big wedding is half done.So far, Jiang Yongwei, the youngest girl of the third generation of the Jiang family, has pushed the glory of the Jiang family to a new height.

After the system was handed down, the Jiang's Mansion held a banquet, and the princes, princes, and officials above the second rank in the court all attended the banquet according to the order.Xia Chu leaned on the window of the tea house and watched the high-ranking officials arrive with gifts, and thought in his heart: This was in ancient times, how risky would it be in modern times?One bomb goes in and the country is paralyzed.

After there was nothing to see, Xia Chu and Chang Qing ordered a few side dishes on the spot to finish their dinner.Across a street, several walls, and several tables, Jiang Xiyuan was also finishing dinner, but he didn't enjoy it as much as Xia Chu.

It is impossible to enjoy this kind of feast.

Not to mention the coping on those occasions, just say that as a famous older single young man in Xijing, a dignified third-rank man in the court, and the emperor's most trusted partner, he is only the father of those "my family has a girl who has just grown up" , is about to stare Jiang Xiyuan out of the hole.

His mouth was dull, and his smile froze. Faced with all kinds of direct and indirect inquiries, he was too lazy to find any excuses. He just drank and stopped talking.

The officials didn't get any explanation from him, so they went to fight his father Jiang Min again, making Jiang Min stare at him whenever he had free time, making him feel unfilial and annoying to his father.

The banquet lasted until it was dark, and the guests were not dispersed.Jiang Xiyuan drank a little too much, his mind was dazed, and he was still laughing after everyone left. He smiled politely and perfunctorily, and he didn't know who it was for.

Mrs. Jiang came over and pulled him up from the seat, and pulled him back to her room, where she asked the servant girl to warm up the hangover soup.Jiang Xiyuan also smiled at Mrs. Jiang, without saying a word.

"This child..." Mrs. Jiang grabbed his face, "How much did you drink?"

Jiang Xiyuan held his head and remained silent.

The servant girl brought in the soup, Madam Jiang took it, stirred it with a spoon, blew it cold and fed it to Jiang Xiyuan, Jiang Xiyuan opened his mouth to drink it obediently, and frowned again, "It's so hard to drink."

"The wine is delicious!" Mrs. Jiang said angrily, and fed him another spoonful, "Yuan'er, tell mother, what do you think?"

"Huh?" Jiang Xiyuan scratched his head, "What am I thinking?"

"What do you think?" Mrs. Jiang put down the soup cup and said, "The ladies who have paid attention to you recently are all good. You are so old, you can't always have a certain number." She sighed, "Everyone I got used to it for you. Your father also told me that we will marry you later..."

"No!" Jiang Xiyuan said firmly.

"If you can't do it, you have to do it!" Mrs. Jiang raised her face in feigned anger, "What exactly do you want to do? You've been thinking about it all day long. I've asked you so many young girls over the past few years, and you don't like this one. No, you said you have to find someone you like, where is he?"

"I found it." Jiang Xiyuan said sullenly.

"Looked for it?" Mrs. Jiang's eyes lit up, she stood up and walked to Jiang Xiyuan's side, "Which family's girl?"

"It's not a girl from any family."

Jiang Xiyuan's "not" refers to "girl", but in Madam Jiang's ears, this "not" refers to "which one".

Mrs. Jiang said anxiously: "Yuan'er! Now we are also married to the emperor. Whether you like it or not is one thing. Anyway, this family has to be talked about. Don't look for those idle flowers and weeds." !"

Jiang Xiyuan was silent and did not speak. After a while, he smiled inexplicably, "I didn't say I want to marry."

"That's fine." Mrs. Jiang was relieved, "If you really like it, you can take it in after you get married."

Jiang Xiyuan was suddenly extremely irritable when he heard this, and couldn't help frowning, "I didn't say I wanted to get married either."

"Nonsense! Your brothers and children are all running around, and Yong Wei is getting married too. I've allowed you to mess around all these years, but haven't you had enough? You..."

"Mother..." Jiang Xiyuan suddenly stretched out his hand to hold Mrs. Jiang, and looked up at her with a somewhat pitiful expression, as if he made a mistake when he was a child and asked his mother to comfort him.Mrs. Jiang's speech froze, and he felt distressed when he saw it, and softened her voice with concern: "What's wrong?"

Jiang Xiyuan looked at her for a while, but said nothing.Mrs. Jiang anxiously asked a few questions, but Jiang Xiyuan only said nothing.

Although Mrs. Jiang is a woman in the inner court, she is not unreasonable.Ever since Jiang Xiyuan grew up, this kid always smiled when he saw people. Now that he looks like this, it's impossible for him to be okay.

After thinking about it, she roughly guessed that Jiang Xiyuan had encountered a heart that he couldn't get over, so she sighed, stretched out her hand and stroked his hair slowly, "Yuan'er, mother doesn't know who you really fancy, don't you?" Said, mother won't ask you anymore. I know you are a person who knows the importance and measure, some things you can't get over, if you can't get over it, just take a step back. If you take a step back, there's nothing hard to get through."

Jiang Xiyuan couldn't express the pain in his heart.If Xia Chu was a woman, he wouldn't care about his family status, he would marry her no matter what.But Xia Chu is not, not only not a woman, but also doesn't like him.It's useless for him to have a falling out about this matter.

Why doesn't he want to take a step back, but where does he go?He didn't take a step at all.

"I know." Jiang Xiyuan said with a sigh.Mrs. Jiang wanted to say something more, but after a lot of talking, she didn't know what to say, so she nodded silently.

Jiang Xiyuan left Madam Jiang, still a little dizzy.He wanted to visit Yongwei and tell her something, but he stopped at the gate of Yongwei's courtyard.

What did he say?Tell her to abide by the etiquette of the middle palace, to respect and kiss Su Zhen, but not to love.He said this, and he said it with certainty, but he couldn't overcome Yongwei's obsession.

Now he can't speak.If another person came to tell him that for Xia Chu, he could be a friend and a confidant, but not to love, what would he do?

It turned out to be unbearable.

What Yongwei has to face is not Jiang Xiyuan's troubles?If he could know, then this is not a trouble for Xia Chu and Su Zhen.It is easy to say that others are difficult to say, who is much smarter than whom?It's all just uncontrollable.

Jiang Xiyuan left the General's Mansion, not knowing where to go, wandering casually through several rooms alone, and saw a courtyard gate lit up by the roadside from a distance, and the faint sound of a zither came out .

He thought he had reached Shengpingfang, but he looked around but it was not.Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he saw someone walking towards the courtyard gate. At the gate, a young man greeted him, put his hand on the man's shoulder, and pulled him in with a smile.

Jiang Xiyuan trembled all over, turned his head and walked away, stopped on the road after walking a few steps, and turned his head slowly.

Zhiyi Building.Of course Jiang Xiyuan knew about this place, but he had never been tempted to go there, not even a little bit of curiosity.But now he is curious, not for Zhiyilou, but for himself.

He turned around, walked over step by step, passed the gate of Zhiyi Building in a very slow manner, stopped after walking for a while, and walked back step by step.

A young man standing and talking inside the door saw it, bent his lips into a smile, came out and stood in front of Jiang Xiyuan, blocking his way, "Master, you have walked back and forth, do you want to go?"

This young man is quite handsome, a little feminine, with a little coquettish unintentionally at the corners of his brows and eyes, but it's not artificial, it's not annoying to look at.

Seeing that Jiang Xiyuan didn't speak, the young man gently moved closer to him and sniffed, "Have you been drinking? I'll ask someone to make some sober tea and serve some snacks. How about you take a break before you leave, my lord?"

After finishing speaking, he saw that Jiang Xiyuan had no intention of refusing, so he put his arms around his shoulders and led him into the Zhiyi Building.

Zhiyi Building is not like those brothels in Shengpingfang, there is no open hall when entering, it is directly surrounded by corridors.In a small garden in the middle of the veranda, a man in white with wide sleeves was sitting loosely, with his head bowed and plucking the strings, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him.

The green smoke in the incense burner beside the piano table is faint, exuding a green tea-like aroma, not like the warm incense in the brothel.This Zhiyi Building looked more like an elegant teahouse than a glamorous place, which made Jiang Xiyuan relax a little, and let the young man lead the way for him.

Arriving at the door of a room, Xiao Guan pushed the door open and led Jiang Xiyuan in.The layout of the room is quite elegant, there is nothing to arouse daydream or desire, like a study and tea house.

"My lord, take a break. I'll send someone to make tea." The young man turned around to leave, but Jiang Xiyuan called him back, cleared his throat and asked, "What's your name?"

"My lord, just call me Zisu, where is your lord?"

"Surname... Liu." Jiang Xiyuan said.

Zisu smiled, as if she knew about his concealment but didn't care, "Sit down, Mr. Liu." After speaking, she went out.Jiang Xiyuan felt that the name Zisu was a bit familiar, but he couldn't remember where he heard it.He kneaded the center of his brows, feeling that it was absurd for him to be so, and it seemed to be a coincidence.

Isn't it just a coincidence?Jiang Xiyuan laughed at himself, and after walking around the room, he pulled up a chair and sat in front of the table.After sitting for a while, I felt that I was dizzy from the alcohol, so I just lay down on the table.

After a while, Zisu came back, holding a tea tray, and smiled when she saw Jiang Xiyuan lying on her stomach when she entered the door. She gently put the tea tray on the table, put her hand on Jiang Xiyuan's shoulder, leaned over to stick to his ear, and said, "Liu Young master, if you feel uncomfortable, lie down for a while."

Jiang Xiyuan sat up straight and shook his head, "No need."

"To sober up, drinking anything doesn't work, and taking a short rest will dissipate most of the alcohol." Zisu said, reaching out to pull out the hairpin from Jiang Xiyuan's bun, and the hair poured down.He pushed back Jiang Xiyuan's hair, and looked at it quietly for a while, "Young master is very good-looking. Fortunately, I didn't meet him earlier, otherwise I'm afraid I don't want to see others again."

Jiang Xiyuan looked at him silently, and Zisu also remained silent.The aroma of tea wafted in the room, and Jiang Xiyuan could smell the stomach-warming aroma of ginger black tea, with a hint of pungent taste.

After staring at each other for a while, Zisu bent her lips and smiled, leaned over to get closer, paused to see Jiang Xiyuan's reaction, then moved a little closer, her lips almost touching Jiang Xiyuan's cheek.

Jiang Xiyuan didn't hide either, but looked down at Zisu who was close at hand, and just when Zisu's arms were about to wrap around his neck, he suddenly smiled.

(End of this chapter)