female catcher

Chapter 187

The sun outside was extremely bright and hot, Su Zhen and Jiang Xiyuan walked side by side along the verandah and walked through the Liangyi Gate.Passing through the Liangyi Gate is where the harem is located. Normally, Jiang Xiyuan shouldn't have come in, but it's also empty now, so there's no need to be too taboo.

After stopping in front of Fengyi Palace, Su Zhen asked An Liang to clean up the palace people inside, and led Jiang Xiyuan inside.

Fengyi Palace is where the middle palace is located, which is where Jiang Yongwei will live after her wedding.Su Zhen laughed and asked him to see if he had treated his sister badly.Jiang Xiyuan responded cautiously, but his mind was elsewhere. He only thought about how he should answer when Su Zhen asked him about the marriage.

"Xiyuan, I'm going to get married." Su Zhen said as he stepped out of the main hall, with a slight sigh at the end of the sentence.When Jiang Xiyuan heard it, he thought he was just feeling this important event in life, and without thinking too much, he said, "Congratulations to the emperor, this is the glory of my Jiang family. Yongwei is cheerful, knowledgeable, and will definitely be able to assist the emperor well. "

"I know." He looked up at the blue sky, with a smile on his lips, but Jiang Xiyuan felt that his smile seemed to be full of loneliness, and his heart sank.

Suddenly connected with the soft sigh just now, he frowned a little before he knew it, and wondered if he had misunderstood or thought too much.When he wanted to make a detailed distinction again, Su Zhen had already withdrawn his eyes, and said to him in his usual manner, "You are older than me, why haven't you made any progress until now? The old general is in a panic. .”

"I'm not in a hurry."

Su Zhen smiled slightly: "When I was a child, I joked with you. If you get married, I will go officiate. Now that I am not a prince or prince, I may not be able to officiate, but bestowing a marriage is fine."

"Yes, I remember." Jiang Xiyuan smiled wryly, "I still remember that I said at that time that if you want to marry a woman you really love, if you randomly fill in a woman according to your family, you will not follow her. Therefore..."

"It's just a joke when I was young." Su Zhen interrupted him with a wave of his hand, "If you don't get married, you will always be unstable. You are also twenty. It is rare to see people who are not married at this age in Xijing City." He turned his head and looked Looking at Jiang Xiyuan, the smile in his eyes was a little hard to see through, and he said softly: "Why bother to provoke speculation for nothing. What do you think?"

Jiang Xiyuan was startled suddenly, "Did the emperor hear those nonsense?"

"Although it's nonsense, it's because of the damage to your reputation. It's true that you have reached the age of starting a family early, so why bother with...Xia Chu." Su Zhen said slowly, thinking of the name was still sore in his heart, and after finishing speaking Then he turned around and walked slowly along the corridor to the back of the main hall.

Jiang Xiyuan was stunned for a moment before following him, walking silently behind him.He wondered if Su Zhen had already mentioned Xia Chu, should he take this opportunity to tell about Xia Chu being a woman.

If you say it, you can ask Su Zhen for grace, and from then on, you won't be afraid of the family urging him to get married.But will Xia Chu be angry if he tied Xia Chu to him so hard?He once said that he wanted to marry the one he loves, if he refused to marry him, would Xia Chu have the same idea?
After thinking about it, I don't think so. After all, it is a marriage gift, and if you don't obey, you will lose your head.

But even if he thought about it again, with Xia Chu's stubborn temper, if he just refused, how could he watch her lose her life because of it.I have to ask for grace again to understand the marriage decree.

At that point, aside from jokes, he and Xia Chu are completely hopeless.It's rare that she cared a little about herself at the beginning, and she couldn't just fall short like this.Besides, he really didn't want to force her, he thought he would save the marriage offer until Xia Chu was willing to marry him and the family objected.

"What are you thinking?" Su Zhen turned around and asked him.

Jiang Xiyuan was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Su Zhen had spoken to him just now, so he said with a little guilt: "It's nothing, I just lost my mind."

Su Zhen groaned, looked at him silently for a moment, and then picked up the words just now: "Yesterday, the old general and I have already mentioned that Liu Teng's eldest daughter and Shen Pingluan's first daughter are both good. You If you don't have a woman you like, you might as well consider the marriage from another angle. Both the Liu and Chen families are from the Qing Dynasty, so marrying the Jiang family is not without benefits."

He paused, and looked sideways at Jiang Xiyuan: "It's good to marry someone you really love, but I said another sentence at that time, I don't know if you remember it?"

Jiang Xiyuan was a little dazed at first, but remembered before he frowned.

It was also the day when he was a child, the day when he told Su Zhen that marrying a wife would definitely marry the one he loved. After hearing his words about the Qiao family, Su Zhen just smiled lightly and said, "I am the Lian Qiao family. I don't even have a chance, so I might as well not meet the one I love in this life."

"Wouldn't that be a pity." At that time, Jiang Xiyuan shook his head disapprovingly.

"What about regrets? Reality is always reality." Su Zhen said that at the time.

Now that he said this to Jiang Xiyuan again, the meaning was quite clear - let him face the reality and get married quickly.

Speaking of this, Jiang Xiyuan knew that this matter could no longer allow him to ambiguously, so he simply lifted his robe and knelt down, and said in a clear voice: "The emperor and his family are bothered by the matter of the minister's marriage. It's not. However, I already have a favorite woman in my heart, and I don't want to marry her. I also hope that the emperor will be infatuated with my ministers."

"Oh?" Su Zhen became interested when he heard this, reached out to help him up from the ground, and said with a smile: "You are keeping it a secret, why have you never mentioned it before? Get up and talk."

Jiang Xiyuan stood up holding Su Zhen's hand, and was about to answer when his gaze swept over Su Zhen's wrist, but he froze for a moment.

Su Zhen's hand rested on his arm, and half a purple jade pendant slipped out of the bright yellow sleeve. A bunch of glistening grapes were carved on the pendant, with lingering branches and leaves, decorated with tassels made of two-color green silk thread.The only difference from before is that eighteen purple jade beads are added to this pendant.

Jiang Xiyuan thought he was dazzled, and stared at the pendant without blinking, making his eyes sore.But yes, he even saw the crack.

Others may not recognize it, but he knows it all too well.In mid-April, Guan Yangcheng, Tiangongfang, with a slightly sour mood that day, he accompanied Xia Chu to buy a wedding gift for that young master Huang - a purple jade grape pendant.

It's just that this grape pendant is actually hanging on Su Zhen's wrist? !
"I'm asking you, why are you distracted?" Su Zhen pushed his arm lightly and retracted his hand. The pendant slid out, and he held it in his palm and rubbed it gently, as if it had been a thousand years. Have done this a hundred times.

Seeing this familiar posture, Jiang Xiyuan felt startled.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Su Zhen couldn't help laughing and said, "Since we've already said it, why don't you just say it. Which family is the girl from? Why doesn't your family know about it? You are so anxious to ask me to ask you what you mean."

Jiang Xiyuan pulled his mind back abruptly, and prevaricated indiscriminately: "That girl..., that girl... is just an ordinary girl. I want to wait..., and ask for marriage when she really likes me." As he spoke, he buried his head a little lower again, afraid that Su Zhen would see his pale face at this moment, and the astonishment that he couldn't hide no matter what.

"I really care about you?" Su Zhen was slightly surprised: "There are still girls who don't want to marry you? Xiyuan, you have today!" He laughed as he spoke.

Jiang Xiyuan closed his eyes, tried his best to regulate his breathing, and said, "Yes..., so I haven't explained this matter to my family yet."

"That's good." Su Zhen smiled, and completely dispelled his doubts about the rumors about Xia Chu and Jiang Xiyuan, "Since this is the case, there is no need to rush. I am waiting for good news for you. I am slightly convinced that I will find a beautiful woman in the future." Go to ask for a cup of wedding wine, and see what is so special about that girl that can make you Jiang Xiyuan so tempted."

Turning lightly, Su Zhen pulled out the fan from the fan cover, shook it gently and walked forward without asking any more questions.

In the scorching weather, Jiang Xiyuan broke out in a cold sweat, looked up at Su Zhen's back, feeling a mess in his heart.

Huang Zhen.The emperor, Su Zhen.

Why didn't he figure out the meaning of the name?Why didn't he think about it in the palace when he found out that there was no Huang Zhen in Xijing?Xia Chu said that Mr. Huang was going to get married, why didn't he think that Su Zhen was also going to get married?

It just so happened that he also bought a wedding gift that day, but he never expected that the things they bought were for the same person!However, his congratulatory gift was placed in the main hall of Fengyi Palace, but Xia Chu's congratulatory gift was hung on Su Zhen's wrist.

The information about Mr. Huang that Xia Chu mentioned to him, now that he thinks about it, he really knows everything.

The painting pasted on the wall in early Xia, the early Xia in the painting was written by Su Zhen!He didn't recognize it.That subtle sense of familiarity was really not his illusion, he really knew the so-called Young Master Huang!

Why didn't he think of it earlier?But how could he think of it!Su Zhen lived in the deep palace, how could he run out and meet Xia Chu?How come there is such a deep friendship?

Friendship..., maybe more than just friendship.Xia Chu's red eyes from crying, how could friendship be so simple?What is going on between them?What the hell happened?
Jiang Xiyuan felt that he was a little out of breath, and he followed Su Zhen numbly, his mind was filled with countless thoughts, but it felt blank.

Walking to the small garden behind Fengyi Palace, Su Zhen stopped to take a look, frowned slightly and turned back, saying to Jiang Xiyuan: "I'm going back first, if you want to see it, then you can take a look. Come out earlier Go to the palace, the old general must be waiting for your reply." After that, he patted his shoulder again, "Although the childhood words are jokes, they are not completely unreasonable. If the two are in love, I will be happy to help you Bundle."

Jiang Xiyuan felt as if someone had punched him hard in his heart, he bowed his head and said, "I... thank you, Your Majesty."

Su Zhen nodded lightly to him, and beckoned An Liang to come up and say something to him, and then walked away.After he walked away, Jiang Xiyuan turned back to look at the small garden of Fengyi Palace.A pergola was set up in the garden, with vigorous vines climbing on it, the green leaves were swaying, and clusters of small young fruits were sitting on it.

Take that grape in the garden.

Su Zhen said so.He could hear very clearly.

(End of this chapter)