Foster son and husband

Chapter 139 Engagement
Coming out of Ziyun Hall, Meiniang looked back at the three girls, and asked Cuisi: "Mom went to visit the garden again this morning?"

Cuisi nodded: "Yes, I went again, bringing Cheng'er and a few wives with me."

Mei Niang asked Cuixi again: "Last time I asked Bai Zhan to find out that Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Yu and the others were leading the way for us, can we go to the west courtyard now?"

Cuixi replied: "Master Hou only asked them to investigate, but didn't touch them. Maybe we were allowed to come and go as we wanted. I thought grandma wouldn't go around to the west courtyard, and I still let Mrs. Yu take care of the courtyards over there. It should be possible to go, but Lin Amao has already gone to Cyclamen, and there is no one to drive the car!"

"That's right, no one is driving the car anymore!" Meiniang mused, "I'm going out today, but I don't want to use the people and cars from the Houfu, so I won't let Bai Zhan know, what should I do?"

Cuixi said: "If you go out through the back door, let people go out of the back alley and turn to the street to rent a car, it's okay, but it's time-consuming."

"How long will it take?"

"It should take half an hour!"

Mei Niang made a decision: "Go and do this! Mrs. Zhang is in charge of the back door, right? There is a flat alley outside the back door, and there is another door in the flat alley. Once you reach the back alley, you can turn directly out of the street. Mrs. Fang who is at the back door of Ping Lane is a straightforward person. She only looks at the sign to do things, so you go with the sign! I will take Cui Si and Cui Lian back to the courtyard, change clothes, put on a mask, and we will not be able to eat in time until we go to the back door , your car is here too, go directly to Cyclamen for dinner!"

It was so good that Ms. Wang didn't return to Tsinghua University. Before her old man's house, Mei Niang went into the upper room to tidy up, leaving Cui Lian to take care of the house, and brought Cui Si. In the name of inspecting the decoration of Jing Yuan, she briskly walked to the back door. went.

Cuixi's carriage was waiting at the back door, and it was driven by an honest coachman. The carriage was old and clean, and Cuixi took a few cushions from Jingyuan and put them in it, and she didn't feel anything when she sat on it. .The journey was smooth, and we soon arrived at Cyclamen, still entering from the backyard. Old man Zou, who was guarding the courtyard gate, heard Cuixi's voice, opened the gate to let him go, and stopped in the courtyard. The master and servant got out of the car and paid the fare. , sent the coachman away, Lu Xiangfeng came out after hearing the news, Mei Niang said: "We haven't eaten yet, it's noon now, there should be a lot of people in the front hall, go to the rest room, bring some food up, let's talk about it after lunch!"

Lu Xiangfeng leaned over and said, "Please girl go upstairs and wait a while, I'll make arrangements right away, and the hot meals and dishes will be delivered right away!"

Cuixi said: "The shopkeeper Lu has something to do, so I'll go to the kitchen. It's better for me to choose the girl's food."

Lu Xiangfeng took a look at Cuixi: "Then I'm sorry, sister!"

A faint blush appeared on Cuixi's face, he hesitated to speak, Mei Niang was amused by it, and said with a smile: "Master Lu is a few years older than our Cuixi, you don't need to call me sister, just my name!"

Lu Xiangfeng lowered his head when he heard the words, and Cui Si smiled mischievously: "Call it! Sister Cuixi, Sister Cuisi, I sound good!"

Lu Xiangfeng blushed to the base of his ears, but he didn't dare to raise his head. Meiniang held back her smile and pointed at Cuisi: "Try to make fun of shopkeeper Lu, shopkeeper Lu has a good temper and doesn't care about you. Don't do that in front of other people in the store!"

After finishing speaking, she turned and went upstairs, Cuisi stuck out her tongue lightly, and left with Meiniang, leaving Cuixi and Lu Xiangfeng in the aisle, you let me, I let you, but no one could make it through, in the end Cuixi bowed her head and left first .

Several fresh and exquisite dishes were brought up. Cuixi had just filled half a bowl of fragrant white rice and delivered it to Meiniang.
"His Royal Highness Qi came to eat in the restaurant! Knowing that the girl is here, His Royal Highness, he, he wants to follow..."

Mei Niang was stunned for a moment, and Cui Xi said: "When Prince Qi came down, the girl hadn't even had a bite of food. Shopkeeper Lu...you won't say that the girl is not here? At least stop her!"

"Who dares to stop me?"

King Qi's clear voice sounded from the door, Cuixi was so frightened that her hands shook, Meiniang patted her hurriedly, stood up, left the table and walked to the open space to greet King Qi.

"I have seen His Royal Highness King Qi!"

King Qi is wearing a sapphire blue python satin embroidered robe, a jade crown, a rhinoceros leather belt inlaid with gemstones, and thick-soled boots of the same color. In the severe coldness, Daxiu went to the table and sat down, looked at the masters and servants who were kneeling by the side, and said:
"It's not that I haven't seen it before, even a sparrow doesn't come here, who will show these empty gifts? Get up!"

Meiniang led Cuixi Cuisi to stand up, King Qi raised his finger to Cuixi, and said to Meiniang: "Your personal girl? You dare to teach shopkeeper Lu to deceive the king, but you still have to stop her from coming up! It's really up to you!" There must be servants, not even a girl takes this king seriously, hum!"

Cui Xi was already frightened, but now her face turned even paler, she quickly knelt down on her knees, and kowtowed: "It's the servant who offended His Highness, it's none of the master's business, Your Highness please punish the slave!"

Mei Niang said: "Master and servant live and die together, and we are closely related. Is it not common for servants to protect the master? The people around His Highness treat His Highness just like Cuixi!"

King Qi looked at her: "You, compare your people with mine?"

Mei Niang lowered her eyes: "Don't dare! It's just an analogy!"

King Qi snorted, glanced at her and said, "I just said I can't go to your Cen's house. The yard looks uncomfortable to me, but I can't say I can't come to the cyclamen! You are so cute, you never go through the front door. My people saw Lu The shopkeeper went back to meet you, and if I don't follow, you won't go to the front hall to see me, will you?"

Facing King Qi who was still arrogant on the outside, Meiniang secretly sighed in her heart, looked at him seriously and said: "No, I will go to the front hall to meet His Highness!"

King Qi's eyes flickered, he turned to Cuixi and said, "Okay, get up! How dare you girl..."

Pointing to the food on the table: "Good food, good food, why don't you eat it while it's hot? I'm hungry! Come and sit down, let's eat together!"

Mei Niang had no choice but to go, she couldn't sit across from him, so she took a seat across from him and sat on the lower right side of him. Cuixi Cuisi came up to serve, King Qi picked up the chopsticks, looked left and right:
"This is also a cyclamen dish, why have I never seen it before?"

Mei Niang said: "This is a dish on the usual menu. Your Highness usually orders the best delicacies from mountains and seas. Don't eat these!"

"It's unreasonable!" Qi Wang held a green fern, "I won't let me eat such a fresh dish, what's the point of always eating those big fish and meat? What's the name of this dish?"

Mei Niang looked at Cuixi, and Cuixi announced the name of the dish: "Report to Your Highness: This is stir-fried green fern, and the whole dish is called The Wizard of Oz!"

King Qi said, "Where is the fairy trail?"

"Eat it, there are tender white and sweet spring bamboo shoots, that's it!"

King Qi smiled and pointed to another disc: "What about that?"

"That's called the 'Three Musketeers in the Pastoral'!"

"You!" Qi Wang stared at her: "It's already eaten by people, what kind of swordsman is it! Who named it?"

Cuixi lowered her head, and Mei Niang said: "Your Highness, don't worry, it's just a dish name, I came up with it, I chose it to be novel and interesting, I didn't think of other meanings. Cuixi read some poems and books since she was a child, and the words she wrote She is upright and beautiful, so I asked her to write the recipe, and His Highness asked her to report the name of the dish."

The two were eating, King Qi looked at Cuixi again, and suddenly said to Mei Niang: "This girl is not bad, you have trained her well, give her to me!"

Cuixi was just about to switch between the two dishes, but she was shocked when she heard this, and looked at Meiniang in horror, and Meiniang was also stunned, looking at King Qi:

"I only have these two close-fitting girls. They have been with me since I was a child. They take care of many things for me. What should I do if I gave them to you?"

The king of Qi said: "The messenger, how much do you want? I'll give you another, this, and that!"

He pointed at Cui Si, who turned pale and was about to cry. King Qi went on to say, "The people around you are all courageous. My subordinates did something that I like, and I was thinking of rewarding him." What, just these two girls, let him be his concubine!"

Not to mention how miserable Cuixi and Cuisi's faces were, Meiniang was about to faint. As soon as she put down her chopsticks, she glared at King Qi's face, showing a fierce look:
"There are so many beauties in your palace, how many beauties can you just reward him? Why should my people be concubines for your subordinates?"

King Qi was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Look at you! How fierce is it? She is my most capable confidant, a fourth-rank general, and there are as many beauties as there are in general, but the girl next to you is different..."

"What's the difference? They're all women!"

King Qi was silent for a while, and said: "I say it's different if it's different! Then as long as there is one, you can give these two to whoever you want!"

"Not one!"

King Qi stared: "Cen Meimei!"

Mei Niang did not back down: "Zhao Bao, I tell you: my girl will not be a concubine!"

King Qi was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Well, how about being a noble concubine or a flat wife?"

"No way! My girl is going to be the main wife, the head of the family! And the person who marries her is not allowed to have a concubine, a couple for a lifetime, and grow old together!"

King Qi looked at her, and said after a long time: "Forget it, you can't let people divorce their wives and marry another one? Keep it, I have a lot of unmarried marriages under my command, and give her a better place to go!"

Meiniang looked at Cuixi, Cuixi looked at her pitifully with tears in her eyes, Meiniang thought for a while, and said to the king, "Don't bother Your Highness, my girl has already been engaged, and she hasn't been released yet." That's all!"

"Tell me, who did you order?"

"It's also someone close to me. I'm not married, so I don't want to talk about it!"

"There is no such thing! Engagement is still hidden from people? If you say it, it is comparable to the people around me!"

Mei Niang took a look at Lu Xiangfeng, who was standing far away by the door with his head down, looking like a transparent person, and said through gritted teeth:

"It's Shopkeeper Lu! Although he's not as good at fighting as those around you, he's good at doing business, he's talented, and he doesn't lose to them!"

"Come to fool me again!" Qi Wang slapped the table angrily: "The girl is not married, how can she make an appointment with a servant?"

Cuixi and Cuisi's faces suddenly turned pale again, Meiniang lowered her head, closed her eyes, and went all out: "I already have someone!"

Lu Xiangfeng by the door looked up in surprise, and saw King Qi staring at Meiniang in a daze, pointing at her: "You, you, don't do this, coax me again and again, I will really I'm angry!"

　One more, two more nights
　　
　
(End of this chapter)