276 Dowry
"It's easy to say." Chu Yi said lightly, smiling lightly.
He held the wine pot again, filled the wine glasses of himself and Gu Yanfei, and changed the subject: "The Yu family has a villa in Peng County, Yuzhou, and there is a woman buried in the back mountain of this village."
"This woman was sent to this villa sixteen years ago and later gave birth to another daughter."
Chu Yi bit each word clearly, and his tone always has a silent gentleness.
Xiahou Qing narrowed his phoenix eyes slightly, and the jade cup that was turning in his hand suddenly stopped. The wine in the cup was swaying and almost overflowing from the edge of the cup.
Chu Yi was drinking slowly.
The pavilion became silent, and only the sound of cats and peacocks outside the pavilion came one after another.
After a moment of silence, Chu Yi continued: "This villa is the retreat left by the Yu family for his family. It is recorded in the name of a loyal servant and is rarely known. The Zhuangzi privately hid gold, silver and jewelry, land and house deeds, ancient books, and several bloodlines of the branch... It is also the last family of the Yu family."
Xiahou Qing still didn't say anything, slowly turning the jade cup in his hand that contained half a glass of wine.
Straws of sunlight penetrate the jade cup as thin as a cicada's wings. From the side, you can also see the rippling wine in the cup, as crystal clear as amber and beautiful as it is.
"Jingshan." Xiahou Qing suddenly called out, with a hint of hoarseness in his voice, and he raised his hand and made a gesture.
The boy in black named Jingshan understood it and took a box the size of a palm and placed it in front of Xiahouqing.
Xiahou Qing stretched out a finger and pushed the box towards Chu Yi, "This is a gift to return."
Chu Yi put down his empty wine glass, opened the box and saw a neatly folded piece of silk paper inside.
"I never take advantage of others."
Xiahou Qing said this very slowly, and his voice was extremely pleasant. These words were spoken by him, and the ending sound was pronounced. The indescribable seductive and strangeness were like the charm of the foxes in the mountains and forests that walked into the world.
As he spoke, a smile slowly appeared on the corner of his lips.
His smile is always stunning and weird, making people feel cold in their hearts and making people feel bad.
Chu Yi slowly unfolded the silk paper and looked half-drooped.
"The Lord, this gift is really heartless." Chu Yi smiled softly, and under the reflection of the wine in the glass, his black eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of bright light from the bright moon.
The two sat opposite each other, one was like a demon and the other was like a fairy, and the painting style was strange.
"Meow Meow Meow!"
The cat's excited voice became even more excited. It successfully sat on the peacock's back again with the sound.
Gu Yanfei looked at the arrogant and cunning cat, listened to the two of them, and muttered: "I have so many hearts."
These one or two have a lot of thoughts!
Two people with a lot of heart, come and go, and when both sides raise their glasses and drink, it is already almost time.
Xiahou Qing left half an hour later, and it was not until dusk that Chu Yi sent Gu Yanfei and Mao back to the Gu Mansion in the capital.
The sunset was halfway down, and the sky was getting darker and darker at dusk, and the red glow occupied half of the sky.
At the gate of the Gu Mansion, Gu Yuan had been waiting in the courtyard behind the door, looking depressedly through the open corner door as Gu Yanfei smiled and said goodbye to Chu Yi outside the mansion, and then slowly rode his horse into the mansion.
"Brother," Gu Yanfei rode his horse to Gu Yuan, turned over and got off the horse, touched Hongyu's slender and beautiful neck, and smiled, "You came back so early today."
This is not yet Shenshi.
Before Gu Yanfei came back, Gu Yuan had a lot of things to say in his heart. At this moment, when facing his sister, the thousands of words turned into a dry sentence: "I'll take a break today..."
The eldest prince gave him a day off this morning. He was very happy, but on the way out of the palace and home in the morning, he was thinking that he could take his sister out of the city for an outing today, but when he came back, he realized that his sister had been abducted and had already been playing.
The eldest prince clearly did not take him on purpose!
Gu Yuan's eyes twitched for a moment, and recalling the way his sister and the eldest prince were smiling and having a happy conversation just now, his mood became even more complicated, and he felt sad that his sister was about to be snatched away.
Gu Yuan couldn't help but take two steps forward, and gently touched Gu Yanfei's soft hair.
As soon as he got closer, he saw the three-haired cat hiding in Gu Yanfei's hood, sleeping into a ball of hair. His heart softened and a sudden thought came out: This cat is so slim to his sister, so he must be dowry with her sister.
Dowry?
When these two words emerged in my heart, Gu Yuan's expression changed slightly, and his thin lips were pursed.
He looked a little fierce and a little cold with a stern face. Wutong, the servant next to him, felt a little sad, worried that the eldest young master would be angry.
Gu Yuan didn't pay attention to Wutong at all, and he was worried about his sister's dowry.
He still remembered that he heard a friend accidentally mention it, saying that his sister's dowry had been prepared for a full ten years, but his mother still felt that it was not good enough. Recently, he sent people to travel thousands of miles to Yue and the Western Regions to purchase it.
He is ten years behind others. Should he save his dowry for his sister?
Although the capital is prosperous, there are still many good things to buy from other places. Tea is better than Yangzhou, silk is better than Yueguo, and porcelain is better than Yuzhou... These places take time to go back and forth!
The more Gu Yuan thought about it, the more anxious he became, and hurriedly said, "Sister, I'll go out and I'll be back soon."
Before he finished speaking, he had already walked towards the east corner gate with great strides, making Gu Yanfei confused.
Gu Yuan had just taken a step, remembered something, turned around and headed towards the stable.
Gu Yanfei tilted his little face and blinked his eyes to Wutong, meaning, what's wrong with the eldest brother?
Wutong: "…"
Wutong also couldn't see what his young master was thinking, so she vaguely guessed that the eldest young master was not angry, as if there was something urgent.
"Miss Two, go and have a look." Wutong chased Gu Yuan and headed towards the stable.
Only Gu Yanfei and Hongyu were left to look at each other, and the Hongma shouted "Huihui" twice heartlessly.
Gu Yuan was a decisive person who did it at will. He immediately went to the Fan Mansion a few streets away, and after talking to his friends for a few words, he left.
One hour later, the other party went to Lanshan Pavilion, one of the four most famous restaurants in the capital, and met Gu Yuan.
"Gu Yuan, this is the dowry list for my fifth sister." A young man in his twenties, wearing apricot red straight hair took out a few pieces of silk paper folded together from his arms and put it on the table.
The red gold flower-bursted hair crown above Fan Beiran's head was shining, and his whole body was swaying like a lantern in the darkness.
"Am I loyal enough?" As soon as he sat down, he prideedly asked Gu Yuan for reward. "I secretly copied it with my mother on my back. For this reason, I bribed my seventh brother and asked him to entangle my mother."
Gu Yuan picked up the dowry list, and his cold face smiled when facing his friends, saying, "I'll treat you to this wine today."
"That's not enough!" Fan Beiran looked up and drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, put the empty wine glass heavily on the table, and said with a smile, "Recently, a few people who played the pipa and sang small songs came to Lanshan Pavilion. His voice was like a yellow oriole, and he was no worse than the actresses and Qingyi in Tianyin Pavilion."
Without waiting for Gu Yuan to agree, Fan Beiran called his servant in and ordered with a smile, "Go and call Mo Liu, Yue San, Duan Wu and others, and then Gu Yuan invites them to drink and listen to the song."
His servant ran away happily.
"You are very busy now, busy working on a job all day, and don't even have time to accompany us to run a horse." Fan Beiran curled his lips sourly and shrugged, "I have to be drunk with us today!"
Gu Yuan's response was to look up and drink all the wine in his glass. Then he took the waiter over and ordered ten jars of fine wine.
Fan Beiran was happy and slapped the table and said, "Gu Dayuan, if you can't finish all this wine today, no one is allowed to leave!"
Ten jars of fine wine were moved into the Yashiba one after another, and even the Yashiba seemed much crowded. The little brother couldn't stop smiling and happily put down the last jar of wine.
"Two young men wait, the girls who sang the song will come soon." The waiter came over to pour wine for the two of them, and smiled, and heard a noise coming from the street outside the window.
Gu Yuan and Fan Beiran both looked down casually, and saw Lanshan Pavilion reaching the opposite cloth shop, squeezing a lot of people. When they came and went, the cloth shop's shop's shop carried rolls of cloth out of the shop and put them into a green carriage.
Some people on the street were attracted by the excitement here, and stopped curiously and inquired about other passers-by. The entrance of the cloth shop became more and more lively.
The waiter stretched his neck and glanced at the street from the window, and smiled and said gossip: "I heard that it was from Prince Kang's mansion coming to buy it from the opposite side."
"So, King Kang is about to get married. At that time, the younger ones will definitely have to join in the fun. Let's see how particular the weddings of nobles in the family are these days."
"I heard that the rewards of the Prince Kang's mansion will be given by then. Last time, the prince of Prince Rui's family got married, and he sprinkled several baskets of copper coins and silver cows. The younger cousin's family had several children snatched silver cows."
The waiter became more and more excited as he spoke, his eyes lit up.
Fan Beiran and Gu Yuan grew up wearing pairs of pants. Even if Gu Yuan didn't say it directly today, Fan Beiran guessed that Gu Yuan asked him for this dowry list for Gu Yanfei.
Chapter completed!