Chapter 124: The Appearance of Zhou Yuanmo
Her face gradually changed from surprise to solemnity. What role did Ning Jiu play in Ye Kongge? His people in Linhe County appeared in the Mansion of Guannei Marquis and seriously injured him. Now Zhou Yuanmo also appears here, even pretending to be Chen Xu to help Ning Nanyou. But she knew that although Ning Jiu had reached an agreement with Ning Nanyou on the surface, he was a person who refused to join the royal family and worked hard for others. How could he help Ning Nanyou to this extent?
Jiang Chengjia frowned tightly and followed Lu Xun quietly. He found a place where no one was, climbing over the wall of the courtyard. He quickly found an empty room inside and disguised himself as a servant in the courtyard.
When she was lurking in the past few days to inquire about the situation, she had completely remembered the shift changes of all the servants and maids in the village. She had long been eyeing one of the servants in the front hall. At this time, she took advantage of her solo, and quickly knocked her out and dragged her into the weeds in the courtyard. She tied her hands and feet into the room, and then she mixed into the courtyard with her maid's skin.
Lu Xun took Zhou Yuanmo to the south wing where Ning Nanyou was. The maid played by Jiang Chengjia happened to be one of the people assigned to the south wing to deliver tea. The leading small manager took four or five maids to walk down the corridor with tea, and walked around for a while before reaching Ning Nanyou's door.
The manager knocked carefully, and after hearing a "come in" sound from inside, he dared to push open the door and walk in.
At this moment, Ning Nanyou, who was sitting on the master's seat, was drinking tea, and Lu Xun and Zhou Yuanmo were sitting on both sides. Following the steps of the manager, she took the saucer and tea bowl in her hand, and came to Lu Xun's small table, and slowly knelt down to grind tea for him. Until the servants and maids poured tea for the master and the guest, and walked out of the house under the supervisor's greeting, the hall was silent. When Jiang Chengjia turned around and lowered his eyebrows and walked out of the maids in front of him, he suddenly felt a sharp gaze behind her staring at her, which made her frown unconsciously.
Behind him, Ning Nanyou's eyes followed the maid in front of him who was walking out of the house with his back to her, and he felt familiar. But he didn't care too much. When all the maids and maids left the room, he naturally withdrew his gaze. Lu Xun noticed his expression and said happily: "Master, are you interested in the maid just now? That maid is indeed very beautiful. Although her appearance is not as good as a girl from Jiang, she is much gentler than her. She was specially found by Yuanmo from Jiangnan... Before entering the pavilion to be a maid, this woman was once a famous singer on the Shuixi Pavilion."
As soon as he heard this, he knew that he had not said it directly through his brain. Zhou Yuanmo immediately stepped down as he listened on the side. Yu Guang secretly looked at the person on the master's seat. He saw that his face was dark and seemed to be unhappy. His heart naturally skipped a beat: "Chengzhong! What are you talking about? When will this maid be better than the lady? When will the lord say he is interested in that maid?"
When Lu Xun heard this, he immediately said stubbornly: "Who said it was not..."
"Cough cough..." Ning Nanyou lowered his eyes, held the tea cup in his hand, stared at the tea foam rising inside, and suddenly placed it on the desk with a little force, interrupting Lu Xun's words.
Lu Xun was shocked when he heard the sound and hurriedly looked at the master. Seeing that Junhou looked bad, he realized that he had said something wrong. So he immediately bowed his hand and lowered his head and said, "The lord is atonement, and his subordinates have no restraint and offended the lord."
He buried his face and closed his eyes with some annoyance. Ning Nanyou was most annoyed about the Jiang girl recently, but he was prejudice against the Jiang girl. After finally seeing Ning Nanyou's eyes stayed on other women for a few more seconds, he hurriedly wanted to reduce the Jiang girl's favor in Ning Nanyou's heart. However, this behavior happened to hit the iron wall.
Ning Nanyou ignored it and said nothing. The atmosphere became particularly strange.
Zhou Yuanmo looked back and forth at them, showing embarrassment, so he hurriedly said: "The incense stick time that the lord and the king of Wuhu is about to come. Lu Xun, let's go through it quickly, so as not to make any mistakes in a while."
Lu Xun held his breath and glanced at the main seat. Seeing that his expression was slightly relieved, he dared to reply to Zhou Yuanmo: "Of course I remember."
"What should you do if King Wuhu sees Gu An coming?" Zhou Yuanmo couldn't rest assured and asked.
"First stop Meng Jian, and then tell him that this is the lord's plan, which shows that this is a special setting for Gu An to cooperate with the acting."
"What's next?" Zhou Yuanmo asked again.
"I don't need to do anything next, just leave it to you."
"No," Seeing that Lu Xun still remembered these, Zhou Yuanmo nodded with satisfaction and continued, "Don't talk to Meng Huai for too long tonight. He is a very powerful character, and his mind is very cautious. If you say more, you will only have more flaws."
Lu Xun nodded, and the two of them lost their words again.
Ning Nanyou lowered his head and savored the tea quietly. For some reason, he tasted an extremely familiar smell from the tea foam. He frowned and felt that this was strange. He was so excited that he didn't pay attention to what Lu Xun and the others were saying.
When the room suddenly became silent, he turned his mind a little, looked up at the two of them who looked at him, and said calmly: "Why don't you continue talking?"
Zhou Yuanmo muttered in his heart: There is nothing to say about this book. I am purely a mediation atmosphere. How could I ever think you were still a waste of money?
His eyes turned, and he saw that Ning Nanyou kept holding the teacup and always had to sip the tea foam in small sips, and he felt very strange. So he picked up the tea and tasted it, feeling that the taste of the tea was nothing special except a different kind of strong fragrance. But I think that such a unique fragrance could be cooked by anyone who is proficient in tea ceremony. But even so, why can the lord care so much?
He rarely sees Ning Nanyou like this, so out of curiosity, he asked: "Lord... seems to be very interested in this second cup of tea?"
Ning Nanyou completely came to his senses, not knowing what he was thinking, the deep in his eyes became a little colder, and there was a faint chill on his body.
Zhou Yuanmo felt even more strange and was about to continue asking.
Unexpectedly, Ning Nanyou asked Lu Xun and said, "You seem to be very familiar with the last maid who went out?"
Lu Xun was suddenly asked, and only then reacted for a long time and hurriedly replied: "I just occasionally saw her dancing on the Shuixie Song Station. Later, the song station encountered an accident. Yuanmo saw that she was pitiful, so he let her enter the pavilion. This time, he also heard from Lord Ji that this Wuhu King Mengcao was very happy with the woman in Jiangnan, so he brought her here."
"So, tonight's guest banquet...will this woman offer a dance for Meng Jian?" Ning Nanyou asked thoughtfully.
Lu Xun nodded slowly, wondering why Ning Nanyou suddenly asked about this.
Zhou Yuanmo, who was standing by, found things a little interesting. In recent years, besides Ning Nanyou's women who could be close to him, besides Yan Chunniang and the Jiang girl who is now his wife, the only daughter of Li Xiangjun, the daughter of Dongqin Gong of Xia Pi. Ning Nanyou is not close to women. All the rumors about his greed and lustfulness outside were also news that he deliberately ordered people to release it, just to pretend to be useless in front of the King of Huai.
Now he is interested in a little singer in Jiangnan? Zhou Yuanmo saw Ning Nanyou's deep eyes turn and knew that things were not that simple.
Could that little singer be an acquaintance of the lord?
No matter which possibility it was, he felt it was unreasonable, and he thought it was extremely depressed for a moment.
Although Ning Nanyou mentioned the singer, Lu Xun did not dare to continue asking more questions, for fear of continuing to receive the blades of his lord's eyes.
A stick of incense burned out in a blink of an eye. Ning Nanyou was a good time, so he called his maids to the guest room and asked Meng Jian to go to the front hall to discuss matters.
Lu Xun stood up and took a deep breath and said, "Yuanmo, are you ready? The good show tonight is about to begin."
Zhou Yuanmo raised his eyebrows and touched the fake beard stuck to his chin with some excitement and said, "I can't wait."
Ning Nanyou walked out of the wing room. In a blink of an eye, he saw the five or six maids and the little manager who had just arrived in the east wing were standing in the yard waiting.
His eyes accidentally flew over the little maid hiding at the back, and turned to the front hall as if nothing had happened.
Lu Xun and Zhou Yuanmo hurriedly followed.
In the front hall, wait for the three of them to sit down. Meng Jian followed the steps of his servants and maids to walk towards the hall.
As soon as Meng Jian entered the hall, he did not have to lead the servant on the side, so he took the initiative to go to the right front side of the seat.
Ning Nanyou's lips kept raising gently, as if he didn't care about his actions, but Zhou Yuanmo looked at Lu Xun silently, as if he was a little unhappy.
"Huaiyin Hou is on time. It's not too late for one stick of incense?" Meng Jian picked up the teacup placed on the small table in front of him, and drank it all in disdain.
The hot tea made him feel the pain of the tea after drinking it, and then he realized that it was often bitter and bitter, and he immediately frowned.
He couldn't taste tea at all, and he didn't hear any exact useful news after he came. After going to the guest room to rest, he learned that Ning Nanyou had all the more than a dozen people he brought to the foot of the mountain. At this moment, he went to the front hall and was not drinking his favorite wine. He was angry for a moment. He glanced at Ning Nanyou coldly. "This hospitality method of Lengquan Village really surprised Gu? Has the Marquis of Huaiyin come before he came? Gu's hospitality ceremony did not like tea? Now he still treats guests with such hot tea. Is it really a big deal?"
Lu Xun was a little angry when he heard this. His lord had already brought the best tea cakes in the courtyard, and the water for making tea was also the dew that he ordered people to collect in the tea garden before dawn. He had just poured the fresh and hot tea and tasted it slowly, but how could Meng Huan be so ungrateful? He opened his mouth to refute, but Ning Nanyou raised his palm at him and signaled him not to talk too much.
"It was my marquis who was hospitalized by Buzhou. The King of Wuhu atoned his sins. But the Great Wei has always regarded tea as a guest... My marquis was also confused for a moment. He forgot the custom of serving guests with good wine, and didn't know that you like to drink cold water tea." Ning Nan apologized in a humble manner, then clapped his hands and ordered people to put the boiled teapot in cold water for a while, and then poured a cup for Meng Jian again until the tea cooled down.
Chapter completed!