Chapter 325: Tonight is Qixi Festival, seeing blood is unlucky
The room was suddenly filled with the smell of jealousy, and everyone spoke with a sour tone.
Qi Cheng's face darkened a little. He looked at the people talking coldly and immediately got angry: "I think you want someone to control you and you don't even have the energy to make progress."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean what I say. Everyone knows that Lord Cao loves Aqing. It's hard for others to get such love. If you envy me, just say it. The sour words of a grown man can be smelled from eight hundred miles away."
The faces of those people changed. One of them who hadn't spoken saw that the atmosphere was not right and hurried to smooth things over.
"Okay, okay, we're all friends. We were just joking around, why are you getting so angry?"
"Brother Fu is gone, why are you still talking about him? He might have to work hard when he goes back. How can he live as freely as us? Come, have a drink."
Qi Cheng sneered and put the cup down with a bang: "Drink your fart!"
I'm so angry!
He stood up, kicked the table leg, and walked out with a dark face.
The faces of the few people who were originally smiling in the room now looked ugly.
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After Fu Laiqing left the restaurant, he couldn't help but sigh.
Most of the people who had been drinking together just now were people he had played with before, but Fu Laiqing could clearly feel that there was a "gap" between him and them.
Ever since he entered the court, this kind of estrangement suddenly emerged. Even though they still talked and laughed when they met on weekdays, and the relationship between them seemed to be the same as before, he had never looked down on anyone because of his change of status, but his former good friends still treated him differently.
Even when joking, there was a bit of caution, and there was even some temptation mixed in the conversation occasionally, testing him, testing his uncle and the Cao family, and even some things in the court. Although most of them did not do it very obviously, Fu Laiqing, who had experienced his uncle's "cruel" advice, could still feel it.
After this happened once or twice, Fu Laiqing didn't want to associate with them anymore. If it weren't for Qi Cheng today, he wouldn't have come here at all.
"Ah Qing!"
Just as I thought of Qi Cheng, his voice came from behind me.
Fu Laiqing turned his head and saw Qi Cheng running towards him quickly.
"Why did you come out too?" Fu Laiqing asked in confusion.
Qi Cheng sneered, "If I don't come out, will I stay and be ridiculed to death by them?"
Seeing Fu Laiqing looking at him, he pursed his lips and apologized: "I'm sorry, I just thought they wanted to get together, and since we haven't had a drink together for a long time, I called you over, but I didn't expect them to be like this. If I had known this, I wouldn't have asked you to come."
The original intention was to relax people, but ended up making them angry.
Fu Laiqing saw his angry look and said, "It has nothing to do with you. It's because my uncle offended someone in the court. There are always some people who can't find trouble with him, so they want to make me cause some trouble."
The relationship between the Cao family and the Fu family was already a bit delicate. If his uncle had been so kind to him in an ordinary family, the Cao family would have been dissatisfied long ago. Fortunately, several cousins and brothers were very kind to him and never cared about these things. However, people from outside always wanted to use this matter to sow discord between him and the Cao family.
Qi Cheng frowned: "Are you saying they did it on purpose?"
"Whether it's intentional or just out of pure jealousy, there's no good intention behind it."
Qi Cheng's face darkened when he heard this: "Those bastards, I'll beat them to death!"
Fu Laiqing stopped Qi Cheng who wanted to go back and pulled him back: "What are you going to do? We are all in Beijing, and their fathers are almost all officials in the court. We see each other every day. If we really fight, there is no need to tear each other apart. Just don't have any contact in the future."
Qi Cheng had a good relationship with Fu Laiqing, and he cursed a few times when he heard this.
Fu Laiqing pulled his arm and walked forward: "Okay, this is not the first time. I'm not angry, why are you so angry?"
Qi Cheng glared at him: "I'm speaking up for you!"
Fu Laiqing laughed out loud: "Yes, yes, thank you, Mr. Qi, but tonight is Qixi Festival, and seeing blood is unlucky."
Qi Cheng: "...When did you become so good-tempered?"
He and Fu Laiqing grew up together, and Fu Laiqing's temper was not much better than his. If they had encountered the same thing as today in the past, even if he didn't take action, Fu Laiqing would have scolded those bastards from beginning to end.
Fu Laiqing thought for a moment after hearing this and said, "Perhaps, every failure is a learning experience."
"Ah?" Qi Cheng was puzzled.
Fu Laiqing smiled. He had suffered a lot since he entered the court. Even after being scolded by his uncle several times, he still learned to use his brain. Moreover, he could not forget how the little peacock of the Qian family looked at him after he was plotted against by Song Jinxiu. At that time, he said in a sarcastic tone that he was helping Song Jinxiu to whitewash himself. Although he did not scold him openly, the look in his eyes was just short of pointing at his nose and calling him stupid.
He couldn't help wanting to laugh when he thought of the indescribable look on the young lady's face from the Qian family. He raised his head and glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, but suddenly stopped laughing.
Qi Cheng was still thinking about asking about the saying "every failure makes you wiser" when he turned around and saw Fu Laiqing staring at something not far away. He looked over there and after a moment he exclaimed, "Why are they here?"
Fu Laiqing turned around: "Who?"
"The daughter of the Qian family."
"Do you know him?" Fu Laiqing narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Of course I don't know her." Qi Cheng looked at Qian Qiyue and was at a loss for words. "Qian Baokun's daughter, the apple of the Qian family's eye. She even fought with me when we were little. Oh, and that Yiyang County Lady is the granddaughter of Master Rong."
"She bumped into me like a calf and knocked me over, and Qian Qiyue followed suit and attacked me from behind. The two of them almost disfigured me over a crab lantern."
Fu Laiqing was stunned: "What did you say?"
Qi Cheng said, "You don't believe it? Qian Qiyue had bad legs and feet when she was little, and she looked so pitiful. But Song Tangning is really fierce."
Seeing that Fu Laiqing seemed unconvinced, he glared at him and said, "I'm a grandson if I lied to you. I hurt my face during the Lantern Festival and stayed at home for three months to recover. My father said I fought with a little girl and lost, so he beat me up and refused to avenge me. When I got out, I secretly went to look for them, but they were gone."
I heard that Qian Qiyue was sent back to Lingnan by the Qian family to treat her leg, and Song Tangning was kept in the Rong Taifu Mansion and rarely went out. Later, before he could "avenge", his father was ordered to go to the southern border to guard it, and he followed him. It was several years later when his father came back, and the incident when he was a child was naturally left unresolved.
Qi Cheng looked at the extremely gorgeous girl over there and said, "My mother was trying to find a husband for me a while ago, and the one she had her eyes on was the Qian family girl. I secretly went to take a look at her, and she's changed a bit since she was a child, but her eyebrows and eyes can still somewhat tell how she used to tickle me when she was a child. I'm sure she's even prettier now."
Fu Laiqing was originally shocked that Tang Ning, who was so gentle as she was, would actually fight with others when she was a child. He wondered why she and Qian Qiyue had known each other for a long time, but they looked so unfamiliar before.
But after hearing this, he suddenly looked up and asked, "Are you going to propose marriage to the Qian family?"
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