"The rosewood sencha tea at Prime Minister Baili's house has a unique flavor." Ji Ying took a sip and felt the fragrance on his lips and teeth, with a particularly long aftertaste.

Baili Peinan glanced at him and said in a warm and gentle voice without much emotion: "This tea was sent by Taifu Chen. If you want to ask for it, just go to Taifu's house and try it."

Ji Ying paused, put down the pottery-colored gold teacup, and focused his eyes on the green and yellow tea water. He smiled half-heartedly and said, "She knows how to please you. She will prepare a copy of all the rare things for you.

Sure enough, your relationship... is not as unfamiliar as it seems on the surface."

As soon as I mentioned that the tea was sent by Chen Rui, it immediately lost its aroma.

Baili Panan had a lot of things to do at hand, so he had no time to chat with him: "What do you mean you came here today?"

He raised his eyebrows, and there was a dark vortex in his eyes that pulled the person downward, and said softly: "It's not an urgent matter, I was just thinking that Mr. Chen is going to get married soon. You

I have always been thoughtful and considerate of etiquette, so I would like to come and discuss with you what gifts to give her when she gets married to express our friendship as colleagues."

Baili Peinan froze suddenly, as if he was in a daze and didn't hear clearly.

"marriage?"

"You don't know?" Ji Ying looked exaggeratedly surprised. It was because he knew that there was no news in his house that he made a special trip: "This matter has caused quite a stir, and even the soldiers guarding the city gate have heard about it.

, I wonder why you haven’t received any letters at all.”

Baili Peinan said nothing.

He had indeed never heard of it. The main reason was that it was not easy for outside gossip to spread into the solemn and solemn Zuoxiang Mansion. No serious person would like to spread such rumors.

"…with whom?" he asked.

"I don't know."

Baili Peinan frowned: "I don't know?"

He spread his hands: "Of course, I don't know who I am marrying, but the marriage is decided."

"Absurd!" Baili Peinan stood up with a cold face. His wide sleeves accidentally touched the tea cup on the table. When he knocked it down, he made a crisp clang sound. The tea water formed a line along the table and then dripped.

to the ground.

He lost his sight when he heard the sound, and was stunned.

"Why is this ridiculous?" Ji Ying laughed hoarsely and sighed: "She is of the right age to get married at this age. Besides, this is a great joy. I just don't know why the left prime minister had such a big reaction?

"

Baili Peinan didn't know why. He calmed down, bent down, and straightened the tea cup that he had accidentally knocked over. Recently, "Chen Rui" and Na Tian Wen had privately supported the business alliance and worked on several trial shops.

New gadgets that are newly put on the shelves are always delivered one after another, as well as a bunch of bits and pieces of daily necessities.

For example, this five-piece set with purple sand and gold tea cups, four cups and one pot. He felt that the material and style were new and unique, so he replaced the set he was accustomed to before.

But sometimes he would ask himself, he is not a person who abandons the old and seeks for the new. Sometimes old things are more popular with him. Why can't he bear the things she gave him to be put away in a high cabinet and covered with dust?

The answer is - no solution.

He was silent for a while before speaking: "It is indeed a happy event, I need to think about it."

I don’t know if I want Chen Rui to get married or if I want to give him a gift.

——

Ji Ying didn't say a few words of business before he was "bombed" out of Zuo Xiang's Mansion very politely. He stood in front of the gate, with armored guards guarding the chariot. He walked up to the steward and said earnestly: "Sir,

Going back home?"

Ji Ying's face was expressionless at the moment. He was no longer as relaxed as when he was joking with Baili Penan before. He even had a look of evil in his eyes: "Let's go visit Fenghuaju."

The steward was stunned.

Visiting Huaju?

Isn't that the biggest pub on South Street?

Go drinking in broad daylight?

This is not something they adults would do on a daily basis.

"Sir, are you in a bad mood?"

Ji Ying glanced at him and raised the corner of his mouth: "How could that be? I'm in a very, very good mood."

So good that now I want to rush into the Taifu's house, tie up "Chen Rui", and ask her hard to find out what's wrong with her. She actually wants to marry as a wife like those ignorant young ladies in the world, and she is willing to fall into trouble!

——

Night fell quietly, the shadows of the trees danced, the moonlight shone on the flowers and the forest looked like sleet, and in the light of the fire in the house, Chen Baiqi was working on a pile of simple desks. She was concentrating until a silent shadow cast behind her.

"Where did the day go?"

She didn't even raise her head, but asked in a familiar manner.

Normally, he might have teased and laughed at her, but tonight he was in no mood.

"Don't you have anything to say to me?"

Chen Baiqi paused with the hand holding the pen and turned his head.

Under the matte curtains, he was dressed in a dark red robe that swept the floor. His dark hair flowed down his shoulders and back like water, and his slender figure was outlined by light and shadow. He looked like a ghost who haunted a mountain temple in the middle of the night to seduce a down-and-out scholar.

Chen Baiqi thought for a moment and sighed calmly: "Si Jiang, I'm getting married."

His narrow, glazed eyes stared at her without blinking. She knew what he wanted to hear, and she didn't hide it from him. She was frank and frank.

He suddenly laughed, in a demonic manner.

"Yes, congratulations."

It's just that this sentence of congratulations and ridicule is too strong.

"Are you angry?"

"How come? I'm happy."

"..."

Chen Baiqi had actually been waiting for him, ever since he had a big quarrel with Wu Changting and left in anger.

It's just that she didn't expect that she would wait until this moment.

She felt a slight headache: "Don't talk in such a weird way."

He approached her, brushed away the piled bamboo slips on the desk and scattered them all over the floor with his palm, put his arms close to her face, breathed on her, and complained: "Bai Qi, why is it him?"

Chen Baiqi was silent for a moment, and then said with strict words: "I can only say that it was the right time, the right identity and the right reason."

Sijiang didn't understand what she was planning, just as he didn't understand how her so-called "appropriateness" had anything to do with her marriage.

"deep"?

His eyes were as blazing as fire, his fingers curled up a strand of her hair, and he asked seductively: "Do you understand what I mean? I have been guarding you for so long."

Chen Baiqi didn't dodge at all. She looked at the bright fire in his eyes and said calmly: "Si Jiang, you should know that everything I do has a goal. Before it is achieved, everything is just a matter of separation.

It’s about whether you need it or not, not whether you want it or not.”

"Same as marrying him?"

"yes."

He seemed to take a breath a second before he suffocated, and moved closer for a few minutes. Now the distance between the two has exceeded the normal social range: "Then after you achieve your goal, will you make peace with him?"

"...No, although I am not sincere, I will not do anything treacherous." She tilted her head without leaving any trace.

Si Jiang gritted her teeth and asked, "What's the difference between that and real marriage?"

"I didn't say there was a difference."

Si Jiang: "..."

So it's just this damn sense of responsibility that's causing trouble? She won't shirk away from the duties and responsibilities she should fulfill, right?

He looked at the pretty little face that was a little cold in the candlelight, and gradually lost consciousness. How could she be so attractive to him, and make him forget even his innate aristocratic morality and arrogance and self-esteem.

"Kiss me." He suddenly said.

There was a trace of prayer in that voice that even he himself could not detect.

Chen Baiqi was stunned: "What?"

"As long as you are willing to take the initiative to kiss me, I won't care about anything and will always be by your side as before." His hot breath sprayed on her skin, his breath was like orchid, and he touched carefully, like

Dragonfly stays on the lake.

Chen Baiqi seemed to be troubled by this request and did not move for a long time.

I didn't push him away or agree to him.

Sijiang knew that she was within his reach. As long as he took one more step forward and took the initiative again, he could grab her at will, but...he felt desolate and lonely in his heart, like heavy rain pouring down.

He is really not greedy. As long as she has a place for him in her heart, even a small one, he will be satisfied.

He can wait for her, even for a lifetime.

He had already thought about it, she didn't know love, and she wasn't obsessed with anyone. He could spend his whole life waiting for her, and as long as it was her, there would be no regrets.
To be continued...