Chapter 157

On the day when Shen Ruyun and Zhou Yanbang were very happy, Jiang Yuanbai sent people to look for Jiang Youyao and returned disappointed. In Ningyuan Marquis mansion and near Ningyuan Marquis mansion, I didn't see people who looked like Miss Jiang San. Since then, Jiang Yuanbai has become more melancholy. Even those who are thinking about it don't want to comment. Either Jiang Youyao is no longer in Yanjing City, or Jiang Youyao is still in Yanjing City, but she can't walk freely.

Either way, it doesn't seem to be a good thing. For Jiang Yuanbai, the second obviously made him more distressed. Over time, his unhappiness and disappointment with Jiang Youyao had almost dissipated, and his instinctive fear as a father had prevailed.

On the contrary, Mrs. Jiang became unusually tough. Since I can't find it, I don't have to find it in the future.

It doesn't matter to Jiang Li. In addition to seeing Xue Huaiyuan every day, she waited for situ to make the fake pregnancy drug in September, so as to implement her second step plan.

But I didn't expect that on this day, Jiang family waited for a strange post.

Feicui came to Fangfei garden to look for Jiang Li. When she saw Jiang Li, she said, "second lady, the old lady wants you to go to Wanfeng hall."

Tong'er asked, "sister feicui, the old lady suddenly looked for a girl, but what's important?"

Feicui smiled: "the slave and maid are not very clear about what it is. It seems that the old lady asked the slave and maid to invite the second young lady after receiving a post." She looked at Jiang Li. Now in the miss of Jiang mansion, it was Jiang Li who was in charge of talking. Jadeite is also willing to sell well.

"Nothing, I'll just go and have a look." Jiang Li laughed. I couldn't help but feel suspicious. It was clear that I went to ask Mrs. Jiang an in the morning. If it was a trivial matter, Mrs. Jiang wouldn't specially ask someone to invite her to Wanfeng hall. But what is it?

When she reached the evening Phoenix hall, Jiang Li's heart couldn't help beating hard.

Old lady Jiang sat on the seat, but on the side seat was Jiang Yuanbai. Jiang Yuanbai said he was ill and did not go to court for a period of time. It was nothing more than to avoid the treacherous attack of his colleagues on the Jiang family during this period of time and to hide in peace. On weekdays, in addition to sending someone to inquire about Jiang Youyao's whereabouts, he writes and reads in his study. He is very free. At the moment, I also came to Wanfeng hall and was reading the post in my hand.

Jiang Li frowned slightly, too far apart, and she couldn't see the origin of the post clearly. I only know that it must not be a trivial matter.

She whispered, "father, grandmother."

Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Yuanbai saw Jiang Li come in. Jiang Laofu said humanely, "second girl, sit down."

Jiang Li sat down on the seat below. Pearl poured a cup of tea, and Jiang Li took the tea and drank it. She could feel that Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Yuanbai had been looking at themselves with a look. Maybe there was something complicated in their eyes. She still calmly blew the foam on the surface of the tea and took a sip gently.

"Second girl." When Jiang Li swallowed the hot tea, Mrs. Jiang's voice also sounded, and she said, "someone sent you a post."

Jiang Li raised her head, showing a proper surprise, and asked, "are you alone with me?"

"Yes."

"Is that... Willow catkins from chengdelang's family? Or is it a post from my Uncle Ye Fu?" If you can only invite her, it can be seen that it is her friend. But it's a pity that in Yanjing City, the friends of Miss Jiang Er can count with half a hand.

"No." This time, Jiang Yuanbai was talking. He stared into Jiang Li's eyes and said, "it's a post under the Suguo mansion."

Jiang Li was stunned for a moment.

This time, her surprised look really didn't seem to be pretending. Seeing this, Jiang Yuanbai's face softened a little. If Jiang Li looked like he had expected, it would make him suspicious.

"Suguo mansion... Why did you invite me? Was it just me?" Jiang Li was a little incoherent with surprise.

Jiang Yuanbai said, "it's the birthday of the old general. I heard that your six skills are outstanding. Let you go to the Suguo mansion for a banquet. It's the birthday banquet of the old general Ji."

"Birthday banquet?" Jiang Li wondered, "I shouldn't be called alone. Didn't my father and grandmother receive the post? Who else is there at the birthday party?"

She looked as if she really knew nothing about it. Jiang Yuanbai said, "there are no others. You are the only one invited by general Ji. I came to ask you, what kind of friendship do you have with general Ji, or do you have with Ji Heng, the Duke of Su?"

He was still a literati, but his eyes were like a fox smelling the taste of prey, green.

Jiang Li smiled silently in her heart. Jiang Yuanbai was an official in the Dynasty on the surface, and his political achievements were mediocre. He was not very good, but smooth. But in his bones, he was no worse than those jackals and hyenas. He felt that it was wrong and deliberately lied to himself.

Jiang Li said in surprise, "I met with Duke Su at the Palace Banquet. When we met again, we were outside the hall at the time of Tingyi. There was no way to talk about our friendship with general Ji. I had never seen general Ji."

This is a mixture of truth and falsehood. It's true that Jiang Yuanbai knew and avoided Ji Heng these two times. He saw a lot of people. If Jiang Li said he had never seen Ji Heng, it would be suspicious. And general Ji, every time Jiang Li meets him, he goes to the government secretly, and outsiders cannot know.

Jiang Yuanbai heard the words and saw that Jiang Li's words were sincere, which was exactly the same as the news he knew. He had believed most of it in his heart. In fact, at the beginning of the Xue family case, Ji Heng helped Jiang Li speak and confronted Cheng Wang, which was also spread in the court, but it was not widely spread, a small part. Jiang Yuanbai didn't care when he first heard it. After all, Duke Su had no friendship with him for many years, and Jiang Li had nothing to do with Ji Heng. Perhaps the rumors are too much, distorting the facts.

But today, Mrs. Jiang's people came to him in a hurry and let him read this strange post. Jiang Yuanbai's heart was also a little uncertain.

Maybe he missed something? There are some friendship between Jiang Li and Ji Heng that he doesn't know.

But at least from the current performance of Jiang Li, Jiang Li and Ji Heng are not very familiar.

"Father," Jiang Li hesitated and asked, "do I have to go to general Ji's birthday?"

Jiang Yuanbai felt it difficult to deal with the speech. In fact, general Ji is a good man. He is loyal, honest and generous. He will never follow any crooked path. When general Ji had not completely abdicated, he pointed to Jiang Yuanbai and scolded the dead fox. Jiang Yuanbai didn't take it to heart. After being an official in the dynasty for so many years, he knew what loyalty was and what treachery was. Although the old general sometimes speaks surprisingly, like an old urchin, there is no problem with his character.

The blame lies with his grandson, Ji Xuan, now the Duke of the state of Su. At a young age, Chaozhong is already feared by everyone. Not to mention that his moody temperament makes it difficult to speculate. As Jiang Yuanbai, who is how many years older than Ji Heng, he often feels dangerous and thorny when he sees Ji Heng.

Jiang Yuanbai is a person who is unwilling to take risks. He always keeps a distance from such a dangerous person. Fortunately, Ji Heng did not support Cheng Wang, and his relationship with Youxiang was also very indifferent. He was not an enemy, and he was still friendly.

Now this post, on the surface, is the post of old general Ji. Who knows if there is any meaning of Ji Heng in it. If Ji Heng's intention, the Jiang family flatly refused, would it lead to revenge? But if it's just general Ji's whim? It was also written in this post that other people were invited, but it was not the family members of the central government officials, which made Jiang Yuanbai even more confused.

He can't refuse this post outright, nor dare he let Jiang Li go to the banquet rashly. He plans to cross examine Jiang Li about whether there is any origin he doesn't know, and Jiang Li can't give a suitable answer.

Jiang Yuanbai is in a dilemma.

Jiang Laofu Humanitarianism: "or... I'd better quit this post. It's unreasonable for two girls to go to the banquet."

Jiang Yuanbai smiled bitterly, and naturally he also wanted to, but now the yuan family is in an eventful autumn. If he offended the Duke of Su again, and Ji Heng fell into the well again, the yuan family can't be sure that it will really be destroyed. At that time, the people of the right Xiang Li family will definitely not miss this opportunity, and the whole yuan family will suffer. Officialdom is like this. You see many people climb up by all means, just because once he stops, maybe his whole family will be thrown into the abyss.

I really dare not stop.

Jiang Li looked at the tangled color on Jiang Yuanbai's face, and sighed gently. She said, "I heard that Ji Xuan, the Duke of the state of Su, was moody. If he categorically rejected his grandfather's post like this, maybe he would think that our yuan family didn't appreciate it, but caused unnecessary annoyance to the yuan family. Today's yuan family really can't stand any blow."

Old lady Jiang and Yuanbai Jiang looked at her.

Jiang Li's voice was very calm: "it's just a birthday party. I'll go."

"Ah Li." Jiang Yuanbai hurriedly shouted at her. After she shouted, she didn't know what to say. He looked at the girl's soft eyebrows and thought in a trance that the child's temperament was not like him or Ye Zhenzhen, but he didn't know who he was like.

"Is there a better way for father?"

Jiang Yuanbai was speechless. He really didn't know what else to do. It's better to have no intersection with a family like Su Guogong all his life. But how could I be so unlucky that I just ran into it.

"If there's no other way, let's do it." Jiang Li smiled, "I heard that the old general is always honest. I'm also the daughter of the Shoufu family after all. There should be no trouble. If something goes wrong, they can't get rid of the relationship between the government. Besides, if they really have bad intentions, they don't need to attack me so openly and honestly. How hard it is to end? If they have any thoughts, they'd better do it when no one knows, wouldn't it save a lot of trouble? From this, old Ji The general's birthday banquet is not a grand feast, but a playful way for the veteran general to enjoy it. "

She said that the clouds were light and the wind was light, which surprised old lady Jiang and Yuanbai Jiang. In particular, Jiang Li said, "do it when no one knows", which is a kind of palpitating calm. But on second thought, what Jiang Li said is also reasonable, that is, there is really any intention, why make a big fuss, and leave such evidence as a post.

Jiang Yuanbai looked at Jiang Li and said, "go out first, and I'll think about it again."

Jiang Li didn't say much. After saluting with Jiang Yuanbai and old lady Jiang, she left the Wanfeng hall.

She came and went quickly. For a moment, there was only Jiang Yuanbai and old lady Jiang in the evening Phoenix hall.

Old lady Jiang sighed and said, "look, I said that the second girl has an idea."

"I don't know who she looks like." Jiang Yuanbai smiled bitterly, "I don't even know what she's thinking now." Thinking about what his father did, it was really bad. A daughter was killed by her stephusband, a daughter ran away from home and her whereabouts were unknown, and a daughter was wronged by him and had been away from home for eight years. Three daughters, but now they don't kiss any.

Mrs. Jiang glanced at him, as if she knew what he was thinking. She didn't say much, but said, "Yuan Bai, I thought before that the second girl is now old enough to see someone else. It's just that something happened at home these days. It's not good to talk about it at this time, and people may not dare to come. Today... You say," her voice contains a trace of uncertainty, trembling, "Do you think the Suguo guild took a fancy to the second girl?"

"Impossible!" As soon as he said this, Jiang Yuanbai suddenly stood up. Old lady Jiang didn't expect him to have such a big reaction. Jiang Yuanbai frowned and said, "what kind of beauty have you never seen, such as Duke Su? Why do you like ah Li? Also, he is so murderous and thoughtful that ah Li can't marry such a person!"

"I'm just saying, why are you so excited?" Mrs. Jiang told him to sit down, "I'm just asking. Because I really don't understand why he wants to post with the second girl. It's really no friendship. There are so many girls in Yanjing City, why did he just invite the second girl? What I'm afraid is that general Ji has other plans, and he has a crush on the second girl..."

"Mom, don't talk nonsense." Jiang Yuanbai was upset by what she said, and said, "this kind of thing is absolutely impossible. I'll send someone to check again to find out what's going on!"

He strode out of the evening Phoenix hall.

On the way back to Fangfei garden, Jiang Li was also thinking carefully.

What is the reason why the government suddenly posted this post? To know what really happened, you can let Zhao Ke tell yourself that he will go to the government house at night... Jiang Li has a headache holding her forehead. What's the matter with her? It's customary to sneak out of the house at night and go to others' houses. This is a shocking event.

But then again, this post is really incomprehensible to Jiang Li. Obviously, this will cause old lady Jiang and Yuanbai Jiang to be suspicious for no reason, but they still posted a post, which is so blatant. Really let yourself go to the birthday party?

Isn't this nonsense?

But Jiang Li can't help but go. If this is a move taken by Ji Heng, what special significance does it have? If she doesn't go, won't she disturb others' plans. Therefore, in the evening Phoenix hall, Jiang Li will say what she is willing to go.

She knew that Jiang Yuanbai must be suspicious, and that he would send someone to investigate. Of course, he would certainly get nothing. Ji Chen's people are not vegetarian, but everything can be found out by others. Nine times out of ten, he deliberately let others see what he wants others to see.

Tong'er asked, "girl, what are we going to do back to the yard now?"

"Think about the birthday gift." Jiang Li Dao.

"Ah?" Tong'er was surprised.

Jiang Li smiled. General Ji would not use his birthday as a pretext, so the Post said it was his birthday, which must be his birthday. To meet in the name of going to the birthday party, you can't go empty handed. She had to think about what a gift would not cost too much and lose face.

All this was on the premise that Jiang Yuanbai promised her to take over the post, but Jiang Li thought it would happen sooner or later.

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At night, Jiang Yuanbai and old lady Jiang still didn't show whether they wanted Jiang Li to pick up this post. Jiang Li has already started to ask Bai Xue to take out all the silver and calculate how much is left. She should buy multiple thank-you gifts for general Ji.

Tong'er asked, "girl, I'm not sure I'm going yet. How can I start planning?"

"I will go sooner or later." Jiang Li smiled, "my father and the old lady have not decided yet, so they have acquiesced." She counted the silver tickets in her hand, and ye Mingyu gave her some. Old lady Jiang and Jiang Yuanbai compensated her, and there were still many left. On weekdays, she didn't spend much money on herself except taking care of others and buying some supplements for Xue Huaiyuan. Girls' favorite jewelry and clothes, ginger and pear are also enough, so there is a lot of silver left. She thought it over and thought it was enough to give general Ji a good gift, so she asked tong'er to put away the box containing the silver ticket and said, "go to the street tomorrow morning and have a look."

Tong'er nodded.

The next day, Jiang Li and tong'er Bai Xue went to the street to choose birthday gifts.

She hadn't been out of the house for a long time, but the guards of the yuan family followed a lot. Jiang Lishi thought about going. She really didn't have a clue what gift to give general Ji Lao. Usually, sending gifts to the elderly is about giving precious supplements such as ginseng and deer antler, but these governments want to come. General Ji is a general. Do you want to give him a good weapon? But old general Ji must have seen a lot of weapons. Besides, I really want to give him a good weapon. Now I can't go to the battlefield. The hero is dying. What if I make him sad?

I walked all morning and didn't see anything particularly satisfying. Seeing that she was about to reach Dongshi, Jiang Li stopped the carriage and walked down by herself.

Tong'er asked, "girl, aren't you going to Dongshi?"

"That's what I mean."

"But, but..."

"Nothing but," Jiang Li interrupted, "let's go in."

Tong'er had to keep up.

Dongshi is a dark Market located in the east of Yanjing city. Here, there are a mixture of good and evil people. Maybe there are murderers and arsonists, maybe there are tomb robbers who have just rolled all over the mud from the cemetery, and there are also rich children who have no way out. In short, sellers who come here can do business by spreading seats everywhere. Of course, there are also swindlers here. It's all up to your own eyes to buy real things and fake things. After the transaction is completed, it is found that the thing is fake. If the transaction loses money, you have to admit bad luck.

Therefore, people who come to Dongshi to buy things are mostly those who are specialized in dealing with these and have some eyesight.

When Jiang Li and his party walked in, many people looked sideways. First, although Jiang Li wears a hat, she is dressed as a woman. Few women come to Dongshi to buy and sell things. Jiang Li was followed by a group of guards, which was really conspicuous. After a little thought, we can guess that the young lady of a rich family came here to broaden her horizons.

Therefore, those sellers who sit everywhere are warmly greeted, blowing their things up. It's easy to be fooled if you think you're a young lady who doesn't eat human suffering.

Tong'er and Bai Xue are both nervous and curious, but these places are a little messy in the end. I'm afraid Jiang Li is not used to walking here, but I can lift my eyes and see that although I can't see Jiang Li's expression, Jiang Li's steps are calm and steady.

She seemed to be very familiar with it and didn't feel any discomfort at all.

It's like I've been here. Tong'er muttered at the bottom of her heart.

In fact, Jiang Li didn't really come to Dongshi. At most, she passed by the gate of Dongshi when she was xuefangfei. But these people with the flavor of the Jianghu inside, she is not strange, and she is not afraid. Xue Zhao once showed her similar places. Besides, everyone said that the gap between the upper class and the lower class was absolutely insurmountable. But the upper class will not always be the upper class, and the lower class will not always be the lower class. In the eyes of these people, she is the upper class, but Jiang Li knows that in her bones, she is still the daughter of a petty official who came out of Tongxiang, which is no different from these people here.

Her eyes wandered around the nearby stall, and she didn't see anything of interest, and she didn't feel a little disappointed. You know, ordinary things are difficult to get into the eyes of general Ji. She wants to see if she can find some rare things here, but at present, it's not interesting.

At this time, not far away, there was a sudden whimper of the cub, and Jiang Li followed the prestige. He saw a long seat with a solid wooden post standing beside it. There are several ropes tied to the post, and on the other side of the rope are several ponies.

The foal should not have been born for a long time, and it can't even stand steadily. There are all kinds of foals, but they are covered with a thick layer of mud and ashes, and they can't see their true colors.

Jiang Li walked to the owner of the pony. The owner of the pony was a middle-aged man. Seeing Jiang Li coming, he hurriedly got up and said, "they are all new ponies. Can you choose one to keep, miss? It's very good."

Bai Xue and tong'er looked at each other. There were stables in the Jiang mansion, and the mares in the stables often gave birth to ponies. Why come here to buy them. But Jiang Li actually bent down with her skirt, picked among the ponies, pointed to a pony and said, "I want this one."

Everyone looked at the pony she picked. It was a pony, not as high as Jiang Li's knee. Its eyes were very bright. Standing in a group of horses, it looked particularly short, and its body was covered with mud scabs and dirty.

Tong'er whispered, "this one is too dirty. Girl, why don't you choose the jujube red one?"

Jiang Li shook her head, "I'll take this one."

The middle-aged man was also stunned. The girls chose the pony, about to choose the cute one, but the horse looked very fierce, even its eyes were a little fierce, and it was also dirty. Unexpectedly, Jiang Li chose this one, which was really different from ordinary people.

"How much silver?" Jiang Li asked.

Seeing her cheerful appearance, the middle-aged man thought that she was really a big miss who didn't eat human suffering, and said, "I think she was destined for the girl. This pony is a good seedling. Today, it's cheaper for the girl, 500 liang of silver!"

"Five hundred liang of silver?" Tong'er exclaimed and glared at the middle-aged man, "don't you think our silver came from the wind, or do you really think we don't know how much the pony sells?"

"Tong'er, give me the silver." Jiang Li Dao.

When the middle-aged man heard this, he immediately narrowed his eyes with a smile and said, "this young lady still knows goods. She is a happy person!"

Tong'er was so angry that he bought a pony with so much money that he would laugh off his teeth when it came out. This man flattered his young lady on the surface, but he couldn't figure out how to sneer at her as a fool. But Jiang Li said, tong'er also had to agree, counting five silver tickets from the box and handing them over.

The middle-aged man took the silver ticket with glowing eyes. Seeing this, tong'er was even more sulky in his heart.

There are many people coming and going in Dongshi. Jiang Li and his party are very conspicuous and have long been seen in the eyes of others. As for the process of her buying a pony, it also attracted many onlookers. Watching Jiang Li spend so much money on an inexplicable pony, many people showed some sneering smiles on their faces.

Jiang Li turned a blind eye to all this. She asked Bai Xue to hold the pony, left Dongshi, let people watch the pony, and then got on the carriage.

Tong'er finally couldn't help saying, "girl, why do you spend so much money on this pony? Our house has a lot of money. Now most of the money is less, and the rest is not enough to buy birthday gifts for general Ji."

"No need." Jiang Li said, "the old general's gift has been bought."

"What?" Tong'er was stunned. "When did you buy it?"

"That's the pony."

Tong'er was stunned and said, "but it's just an ordinary pony. You told the old general that the horse cost 500 liang of silver, and it's just a horse that can be seen everywhere." Still so dirty four words, tong'er quietly read it in her heart, but didn't say it.

"Oh? Do you think it's an ordinary horse?" Jiang Li asked with a smile.

"Isn't it?" Tong'er looked at Jiang Li's smile, moved in her heart, and asked Bai Xue, "Bai Xue, what do you see?"

Snow White answered honestly, "no, I just think that horse is dirtier than the horse I usually see."

Tong Er: "...."

"That's not an ordinary horse." Jiang Li smiled, "it's a bloody BMW."

"What?" Tong'er and Bai Xue were surprised and stared at Jiang Li incredulously.

"Although I don't know how the bloody BMW got mixed up in that group of ponies, and their owner didn't find it, it's obvious that I made this deal, not to mention 500 liang of silver, even 10000 liang of gold, which is also worth it."

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Ali: are you surprised? Surprised or not? Is it irritating?