Chapter 79 What did you talk about?
After Jiang Cheng returned from court, he learned from the housekeeper that Du had come to visit. Worried that it was related to Zhang, he asked the housekeeper to call Jiang Lan over. He then learned from her that Du wanted her cousin to live in the house to keep her company.
"My aunt said that she had discussed this with my mother before, but she was afraid that my cousin, an unmarried girl, would gossip about living in the mansion, and she couldn't make the decision, so she said that she would wait for my father to come back and make the decision. Then my aunt took my cousin away."
Jiang Cheng was both surprised and amused by what he heard. How could he let his daughter live in someone else's house? He had plenty of room to live at home...
Seeing that her father hadn't thought of that yet, Jiang Lan said something else, "My aunt heard that my eldest brother came back from the Prince's Mansion yesterday, so when I came here today, I asked if he was at the mansion. I wanted to see him."
The words were so clear that if her father still couldn't think of her, he would have to speak in plain words.
Jiang Cheng understood it as soon as he thought about it. The plan was to target Jiang Shen. Then he thought of what Jiang Lan had just said. It was something they had agreed on with Zhang before.
Zhang hadn't revealed a single thing to him. Was she trying to hide it from him and kill him first and ask for his consent later? Thinking about how Zhang had framed him before, forcing him to marry her, if she used the same method to frame Jiang Shen again...
The more Jiang Cheng thought about it, the more frightened he became. At the same time, he felt extremely fortunate that he did not show any weakness in his heart. If he had allowed Zhang to stay in the mansion any longer, who knows how much trouble she would have caused.
Thinking about Zhang being sent to the inner prison, Jiang Cheng thought about the pharmacist again. It was like Qi Wuhan had a handle on him. If he offended the other party in the future and revealed this matter to the emperor, it would be a serious crime of confiscating the property and exterminating the clan...
Whenever he thought of this, he felt uneasy. Although Qi Wuhan was now on good terms with the Shangshu Mansion, the other party had such a strange temper, was unorthodox, and had such unpredictable moods that he might suddenly turn against him one day.
The safest way is to tie everyone together on the same rope, so that everyone prospers together and suffers together.
Jiang Cheng looked at Jiang Lan, wanting to say something but stopping himself. After thinking for a while, he let her go back first.
After lunch, Guier found the black-armored guard who was guarding the courtyard and asked him to prepare the carriage. Then Jiang Lan took Guier and quietly went out.
After the carriage stopped outside the Huajian Cottage, like last time, the black-armored guard went over and knocked three times on the door. A little boy in white came over to open the door and led Jiang Lan to the pavilion they had been to before.
Seeing someone in the pavilion, she was a little surprised and wondered if he had been waiting for the whole morning.
Qi Wuhan leaned his head on the table with one hand, his eyes closed, as if he was asleep.
When Jiang Lan came over, she saw that he had his eyes closed, so she walked into the pavilion lightly. She first stretched out her hand and waved it in front of him. Seeing that he didn't respond, as if he was really asleep, she boldly observed his face, starting from his forehead, then moving on to his eyebrows, eyelashes, nose, mouth...
The more I look at him, the more he looks like a male vixen who can seduce people even with his eyes closed.
She unconsciously raised her hand, her fingertips drawn to his raven-feather-black eyelashes. They touched, almost imperceptibly, and a faint tingling sensation spread from her fingertips, like an ambiguous tease. She blushed with embarrassment, wondering what she was doing, like a pervert taking advantage of someone...
Just as she withdrew her hand, Qi Wuhan suddenly opened his eyes, which scared Jiang Lan. It was as if he had come back to life. Before she could recover, he put his arm around her slender waist and held her in his arms. When he bent down to kiss her, she blocked his way with her hand. She first asked him what happened at the banquet yesterday?
Seeing her nervous look, Qi Wuhan couldn't help but want to tease her, but then he thought that there was still a lot of time to go, so he restrained the playful look in his peach blossom eyes and said seriously that he just had a private chat with her elder brother.
"What were you talking about?" Jiang Lan was afraid that the two of them would not be able to communicate and would have a conflict.
Qi Wuhan curled his lips and smiled, as if deliberately teasing her appetite. When Jiang Lan frowned, he told the truth, "I told him that I want to marry you."
Jiang Lan was stunned. She would never have thought that he would speak so bluntly. His bluntness was like taking the wrong medicine.
That means something like: I'm just informing you that I'm going to marry your sister, whether you agree or not.
At least lay the groundwork, be a little more subtle...
Before she could recover from her shock, his next words made her head slam and she was stunned.
"I will come to propose marriage formally in two days."
Which two days are they, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow...
While Jiang Lan was in a daze, Qi Wuhan calmly drank a glass of wine. He put one arm around her and picked up the wine pot with the other hand to pour another glass of wine. He told her that this was the osmanthus wine that had just been dug out today and asked her if she wanted to try it. Jiang Lan looked up at him mechanically with an indescribable expression on her face, as if to say, "It's already this time and you still have the mind to drink..."
"I heard the osmanthus flowers on the hills outside the city are in bloom. Do you want to go and see them?"
“…”
Qi Wuhan brought the glass of wine over, and Jiang Lan smelled a faint and delicate fragrance, which was the scent of osmanthus, and it smelled like it was delicious.
"Would you like to try it?"
Those peach blossom eyes smiled sweetly, as if casting a spell on someone.
“…”
She felt like she was possessed.
Everyone says they are addicted to women, but they don't know that men are more harmful to people.
Seeing that she wanted to drink but was too embarrassed to say it out loud, Qi Wuhan fed her a small sip, then raised the wine glass and lightly pressed his thin lips against the rim of the glass, deliberately slowing down his movements as if he was seducing her.
Jiang Lan blushed when she saw this, and then he used the same wine glass with her, how shameless...
"My eldest brother has a very strong character. Once he has made up his mind, he will not change it easily." She lowered her eyelashes, and a faint sadness lingered in her heart again.
Qi Wuhan twirled his wine glass, looking confident. "It's precisely because your eldest brother is straightforward that you don't need to beat around the bush when talking to him." He looked down at her and smiled gently. "Besides, you and I love each other, so there's no need to hide anything."
"...." Jiang Lan blushed again, and after thinking for a while, she said, "About proposing marriage..." She paused, and softened her voice. Her clear eyes became more and more obedient, like a soft and sticky little white rabbit. "How about waiting until after Big Brother's Spring Examination..."
As soon as she said this, he suddenly smiled, with an evil charm in his eyes, looking a bit like... a pervert, and an elegant pervert.
"Xiao Lan'er," he stroked her face gently, like dark wings kissing the white moonlight, his voice so gentle that it seemed inhuman, "I can't wait that long."
"It's not that long..." Jiang Lan wanted to hold on a little longer, but Qi Wuhan said "Hmm?" and his smile became more and more gentle, unnatural, and her momentum weakened.
"Xiao Lan'er,"
“…”
"Let me kiss you."
“.…..”
…
In the evening, Yuanbao flew over again and brought her a branch of osmanthus.
There was a note tied to the branch.
It reads:
One day without seeing you
Like a long time ago
"So corny." Jiang Lan blushed as she folded the note and put it in the box.
Inside was the gold token and some small items that Yuanbao had given me, including straw-woven grasshoppers and butterflies, as well as wooden puppies and rabbits... Each one was lifelike and looked just like the real thing.
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