Tianhuang nobleman

Qi Xiao changed his clothes and asked Jiang Deqing to invite Bai Ren to the study.

Bai Ren didn't have much hope this time, he was blocked after coming several times, but Jiang Deqing was very polite and thoughtful every time, Bai Ren himself was a little confused, but for the sake of For Rou Jia's matter, he was willing to go no matter how many times he went. This time, after hearing Jiang Deqing say that Qi Xiao was willing to see him, Bai Ren's heart finally fell, and he paused and said, "Prince...is he in the study now?"

Although Bai Ren has been here several times, this is the first time he has met Qi Xiao. In this case, the host usually treats guests in the hall. Bai Ren thinks that he is not familiar with Qi Xiao enough to go directly to the study. At this point, Jiang Deqing smiled when he saw Bai Ren was slightly hesitant: "The crown prince said, the son is not an outsider, so there is no need to stick to etiquette, and it is easy to talk in the study."

Bai Ren did not doubt that he was there, nodded and followed Jiang Deqing out of the main hall, turned around the winding corridor, and entered Qi Xiao's study all the way.

Qi Xiao was sitting in front of the couch enjoying the tea set brought by Bairen, when he saw someone coming, he stood up and smiled: "I'm busy with business, I let the prince run away these few times, it's lonely, isn't it, the prince should not be offended."

Bai Ren was still thinking about his indifference to Qi Xiao in the palace. Seeing that Qi Xiao was as gentle as before regardless of past suspicions, he felt relieved, and smiled: "The crown prince is serious. I am usually too leisurely. The crown prince doesn't mind me bothering me. good."

"Where is it?" Qi Xiao turned his head and smiled at Jiang Deqing, "Prepare some boiling water, it just so happens that the prince is here, and I will borrow flowers to present Buddha, and use this good tea set to entertain."

Hearing the words, Jiang Deqing quickly brought over a tea bag with boiling water, how could Bairen let Qi Xiao really do it himself, and said with a smile: "Don't dare, Bairen has a little knowledge of the tea ceremony, if the prince doesn't mind it, let Bairen brew it for the prince. A glass."

Qi Xiao smiled: "That's very good."

The two sat facing each other, Bai Ren knelt in front of the tea table, rolled up his cuffs, took the tea slingers and ironed the tea sets one by one, the movements were skillful and elegant, Qi Xiao looked at it with a smile, and said with a light smile: "I have heard that His Royal Highness is benevolent. With double cultivation of arts, it is better to see once than to hear a hundred times, as expected.”

"The crown prince is absurd." Bairen put away the hot Qianquan jade pot, took two spoonfuls of tea leaves, leaned over and took the tea hanger and filled half of the teapot with boiling water, shook it slightly, poured the boiling water, The gossip is commonplace, "Speaking of which, I learned these things from my younger sister. I'm not bragging. I can't bear the words of double cultivation of virtue and art. My younger sister deserves it."

Bai Renfu poured boiling water in again, put the teapot in front of the desk, took a silk handkerchief to wipe his hands, and watched Qi Xiao's expression carefully, Qi Xiao saw that Bai Ren was looking at him secretly, he was amused, and wanted to tease him again He, but still couldn't help following his meaning and pretending to be interested and asked: "What the prince said, but the second daughter of King Lingnan, Princess Kangtai?"

"Exactly." Bairen was nervous, squeezed his cuffs without any trace, and said slowly, "Father Wang often said that among the girls of our generation, only Kangtai can still be a 'great lady' four Words, hehe...the prince laughed."

Bairen picked up the jade pot and shook it lightly, looking at Qi Xiao's expression from the corner of his eye, Qi Xiao's face remained motionless, but he liked Bairen more and more in his heart. He thought Bairen was so anxious that he probably came up Wanting to mention his sister's matter, unexpectedly, he could bear it. Instead of mentioning his own sister, he first praised the concubine's younger sister, and then pointed out that the concubine's younger sister was very favored. See blood.

Qi Xiao smiled faintly: "Where, since the King of Lingnan praised him so much, I think the princess must be a beautiful and wise man, and I don't know who is lucky enough to marry him in the future."

With a three-point confidence in Bai Ren's mind, he settled down and continued talking with a smile: "Speaking of this... Bai Ren heard by chance recently that this time the grain transport officer is going to bring a good news to Lingnan. I boldly ask, I don't know if it is True or false?"

It was funny in Qi Xiao's heart, he was still too young, so he couldn't hold his breath anymore, Qi Xiao seemed to think of something suddenly, smiled and said: "Oh, yes, I thought about it before, and I said a few words to the prince, it's almost lonely. Forgot, it is this matter of escorting food and grass that needs to be discussed with the prince...Jiang Deqing."

Bai Ren only thought that Qi Xiao was finally going to have a showdown, so he couldn't help but sit up slightly, but saw Jiang Deqing turned and entered the room, came out with a stack of documents in his hand, and bowed to Qi Xiao, Qi Xiao was gentle With a smile: "In the past few years, the court has not traveled much with Lingnan, and there are not many people who are familiar with the distance. There is no way, so I asked them to call a few Lingnan people, but they are not good at doing things, and some of them are from the family. Yes, Gu only saw it when the dispatch documents came down, there is no other way but to wrong the crown prince, if the servants in the house are short-lived, the crown prince can just tell Gu, and the Gu king will send the most useful servant from the Ministry of Internal Affairs immediately."

Ever since he came to the imperial city, the emperor has often transferred people from his side, and then changed people to watch over him. This trick has been taught by Bai Ren a lot, so he didn't take it seriously. He shook his head and smiled: "No, there are still people serving in the mansion."

Qi Xiao smiled: "That's good, this is a dispatch document, please trouble your son to take it back..."

"Yes." Bai Ren's mind was not here at all, he took over the document and started talking again, "Prince, then... Chao Ge?!"

There was a trace of cruelty in Qi Xiao's eyes, afraid that Bai Ren would not see it, and the name of Cen Chaoge was written on the first copy of the document.

Bai Ren looked at Qi Xiao suddenly, Qi Xiao paused for a moment and said in confusion: "What's the matter? Oh, Cen Chaoge... Isn't this the son's companion?"

Bai Ren nodded blankly: "Yes... I accompanied him, he... why is he also on the accompanying list?"

Qi Xiao was stunned: "Isn't that what you meant? To tell you the truth, the king also thought of this person when he first saw him. Since he is your companion, how could he send it back easily? He immediately called the supervisor to take care of him." Fortunately, he was a timid person, and he was recruited after a few questions from the lonely king, saying that he had received 3000 taels of silver from the son of Lingnan, and asked him to assign Cen Chaoge to accompany him. Among them, Gu Yi heard that it was your intention, so he ignored it... By the way, that person was timid, and sent those banknotes to Gu."

Qi Xiao turned his head, and Jiang Deqing immediately brought up a stack of bank notes. Qi Xiao smiled softly, leaned over and put the bank notes in front of Bai Ren: "You are here alone, and you probably don't have much money on you. Companion to waste so much? Put it away by yourself, next time you have something like this, just come to the Gu Wang directly, and if you can do it, I will be there."

Bai Ren took the bank note numbly, his voice hoarse: "But I don't know... the person who took the bribe is..."

Qi Xiao smiled cruelly: "Director of the House of Internal Affairs, Xixiang."

Bai Ren closed his eyes and understood everything.

Cen Chaoge asked himself for money again and again, but it was for...to go back to Lingnan, he was also stupid, and he obviously felt strange, but he was just asking about some things, where he could use this much money, but he never thought about asking too much one sentence...

Bai Ren's eyes suddenly turned red, he turned his head to the side and took a deep breath, clenched his fists uncontrollably, trying his best to suppress the pain in his heart, unwilling to lose his composure in front of others, Qi Xiao saw it, and he didn't know why Suddenly there was some soreness, but when he was about to say something, Bai Ren wiped the corners of his eyes without any trace, leaned over to pick up the jade pot, boiled the tea cup, poured a cup for Qi Xiao, offered it with both hands, and forced a smile Said: "Where did I just say, oh yes... Bai Ren is just curious. Is the good news in the rumors true or false?"

Qi Xiao looked at Bai Ren fascinatedly, but in a split second, he managed to pack up his demeanor. Qi Xiao always thought that no one could surpass him in forbearance, but this time he had to bow down. Qi Xiao took the teacup, He blew lightly, chuckled in his heart, he was right, Bai Ren was the same kind of person as him.

Qi Xiao became more and more determined, for Roujia, Bai Ren could endure anything.

According to Qi Xiao's original plan, Bai Ren will make it clear today that whether the marriage is true or not depends entirely on Bai Ren's opinion. It's fine to keep his sister, but he has to use himself to pay for it. If Bai Ren knows the truth, Maybe you can take advantage of it today...

But for some reason, looking at Bai Ren like this, Qi Xiao suddenly softened his heart. Bai Ren just knew about Cen Chaoge, but now he is holding on in front of him, not knowing what kind of turmoil it is, if he makes up for it again...

Qi Xiao sighed in his heart, that's all, he pushed people too hard, if something goes wrong, wouldn't he be the one who suffers?

"To be honest, my son, the lonely king has heard a little bit of the good news mentioned by my son, but he really didn't know it." Qi Xiao smiled calmly, "It's not that I'm just pretending to be stupid. When it comes to marriage, the lonely king can only obey his parents' orders." According to the matchmaker, the father, the queen, and the queen never mentioned this matter to Gu, and the Gu king only heard a few words from the eldest princess, so he didn't know exactly what happened, but since the son asked, Gu will ask tomorrow, if he knows When the truth is revealed, it will naturally be told to Shizi."

Qi Xiao's words were sincere, and Bai Ren didn't know whether he knew or not. After exchanging a few pleasantries without itching, he left.

Qi Xiao sent Bairen to Yimen, and waited until he got into the sedan chair before turning back to the mansion. Jiang Deqing followed him all the time, and couldn't help asking: "Your Highness...why don't you just leave the son behind today? He goes back, in case that eloquent surname Cen turns the prince's mind around..."

"No." Qi Xiao was still reminiscing about the scene just now, "Bai Ren is not stupid, the evidence in black and white is there, is Cen Chaoge clear? Unless he killed him and said it was all framed by me, fight hard I don't want to go back to Lingnan to prove my innocence, but...hehe, do you think he is willing?"

"Instead of waiting for Cen Chaoge to come up with a set of high-sounding rhetoric to explain, it's better for me to clarify the matter first and let them distinguish it for themselves. I will not do anything until the grievances are completely broken..."

Qi Xiao smiled faintly: "Why are you in a hurry, is he afraid that he won't be able to tame all the tricks in his body?"