LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 49
Chapter 49: Abandoned
Chapter 49
Gu Yanfei glanced back and continued to walk out.
She was really busy. After leaving Jiahuiyuan, she ordered the driver to take her to Qiongfangzhai.
Qiongfangzhai is located in Zhenhua Street, the busiest and most prosperous street in the south of the city. There are many shops on both sides of the street, including restaurants, cloth houses, rouge shops, and food records… Almost every shop is a famous old shop in Beijing.
On the streets, pedestrians, vehicles and horses are constantly coming and going, bustling and noisy.
Qiongfangzhai is at the end of the street. It is a two-story restaurant. Now there are not many drinkers in the restaurant. There are only two or three tables in the lobby on the first floor.
As soon as the shopkeeper saw the token Gu Yanfei showed, he greeted her warmly and personally went up to the second floor, all the way to Tu Su, the elegant seat at the end of the corridor.
“Girl, please.” The shopkeeper knocked twice on the door of the private seat, and then graciously pushed the door open for Gu Yanfei.
In the elegant seat, there is a faint scent of wine, and sitting by the window is a thin boy in white, Fengshen Yuxue, like the snow lotus in the Tianshan Mountains is pure and flawless.
After Gu Yan flew in, the shopkeeper slammed the door shut again.
Only Gu Yanfei and Chu Yi were left in the elegant seat, and the hustle and bustle outside the street made this place especially quiet.
“Please.” Chu Yi raised his arm gracefully and asked Gu Yanfei to sit down, his delicate eyebrows and eyes seemed to be carefully drawn with each stroke.
Gu Yanfei sat down opposite him, glanced at his left cuff subconsciously, remembering the previous incident when Qingguang was grinding his claws on his cuff.
His new snow-white cuffs were embroidered with delicate moiré patterns with silver thread, and there was no flaw in the thread of the cat’s claws. It was obviously not the clothes he was wearing before.
She laughed out loud, and then covertly glanced at the Torreya wood chessboard next to it. On the chessboard, the black and white chess pieces dotted all over the place were equal to each other.
Gu Yanfei just glanced at him casually, but he couldn’t help but be stunned.
The chess game in front of her was very familiar, it was clearly the unfinished game she and he had in Danyang City.
The last move was Baizi.
Gu Yanfei raised his eyebrows, picked up a black stone from the chess box, and simply dropped a stone.
Chu Yi smiled lightly and poured her a glass of wine himself: “Try this Tusu wine.”
The aroma of wine in the air is stronger, mixed with a hint of medicine.
Gu Yanfei picked up the white porcelain wine glass and took a sip of the wine, savoring the sweet, sweet and medicinal aroma of the wine in his mouth, and squinting his eyes with satisfaction, he saw Chu Yi on the opposite side casually lift up the wine that was hanging over the window. The bamboo curtain above, silently motioned her to look out with his eyes.
The street outside was noisy and lively. A luxurious black-painted flat-top carriage was parked in front of another restaurant across the street. Two young men with different appearances and temperaments walked out of the restaurant side by side. Years old, another year is weak.
The weak crown youth is dressed in a purple dark eight immortal engraved silk brocade robe, full of heroic spirit, arrogant and noble, it is King Kang Chuyou.
Gu Yanfei glanced at the black lacquered carriage from Kang Wang and the others to the door of the restaurant, and found a gold-painted orchid mark engraved on the roof.
Gu Yanfei thought for a while, recognized the orchid mark, raised his eyebrows and asked, “The Yuan family?”
This orchid imprint is the family crest of the Yuan family in Yangzhou, and the Yuan family is the natal family of the current empress dowager.
Gu Yanfei actually didn’t know much about those aristocratic clans, and he only knew that the four major clans, Wang, Xie, Yuan, and Xiao, were the heads of the aristocratic clans.
“Yes.” Chu Yi picked up the white porcelain wine glass, and slender fingers turned the wine glass at will, and sighed meaningfully, “There are no poor families in the top grades, and no noble families in the inferior grades.”
What he said was the 9th grade Zhongzheng system.
Before the establishment of the Dajing Dynasty, the Han, Jin, Wei and other dynasties implemented a recommendation system based on the “Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System”. Officials held a group for the sake of wealth, and gradually formed some families of ministers for generations.
These aristocratic families occupy a large amount of land in the local area, and they are in high positions. Manipulate.
After the establishment of the Dajing Dynasty, Emperor Taizu also deliberately weakened these noble families, and tried to implement the imperial examination system in the court, which showed the determination of the court to be based on merit. Just around the corner, Emperor Taizu couldn’t make a move for a while, so he could only put it on hold for the time being.
Chu Yi looked down through the window, and his eyes fell on the man next to King Kang, who was a medium-sized, elegant-looking man in a brocade robe.
“This is Yuan Zhe, the next head of the Yuan family, the cousin of King Kang.” Chu Yi introduced.
The Empress Dowager Yuan is the younger sister of the current head of the Yuan family, that is, Yuan Zhe’s aunt.
In those days, when Emperor Taizu chose Yuan Empress for the late emperor, he did not choose a daughter from an aristocratic family, but chose Liu Clan, who came from a poor family, because he wanted to suppress the family.
But after the death of Liu Shixian, the late emperor continued to marry Yuan Shi, the daughter of an aristocratic family.
This is undoubtedly a signal that the late emperor showed his favor to the noble family.
“At present, a quarter of the courtiers in the court were elected by noble families, including the descendants of the Yuan family.” Chu Yi curled the corners of his lower lips with a faint smile, his eyes were clear and cold.
These noble clans of nobles and nobles have united in the court for their own interests, and even the dignified emperor is restricted by them.
After he returned to Beijing this time, his father intended to let him go to court, but he was jointly opposed by these noble courtiers…
Chu Yi didn’t say much until he clicked, the white stone in his hand landed on the chessboard lightly, and the sound of the falling stone was clear and neat.
As clever as Gu Yanfei, he understood Chu Yi’s current situation from these few words, and the words “distressed” are not enough to describe it.
but……
Thinking of all kinds of Danyang City, Gu Yanfei smiled slightly, obviously Chu Yi was not good at it.
Gu Yanfei stared at Chu Yi’s face with great interest.
The golden light outside the window was lightly and softly dyed between his brows. His facial features were softer and more beautiful than usual. The dark red moles made his complexion sparkle like jade, like a finely carved jade. picture.
Chu Yi: “…”
Chu Yi also looked back at her quietly. It was a pair of water-cut pupils that were so clear that they were almost straight, like a clear spring, which seemed to reflect everything in the world, and it seemed that even his soul was seen through by the other party.
Under this kind of gaze, Chu Yi’s expression remained unchanged, and he didn’t even move the corners of his eyes and brows.
The seat was quiet.
Gu Yanfei stared at him for a while, then suddenly laughed with interest, and whispered silently: Sure enough.
Chu Yi raised his right eyebrow slightly and looked at her suspiciously.
Gu Yanfei didn’t say a word, he picked up a sunspot and dropped it, he was always decisive when he dropped it.
Sure enough, he was not very popular with Heaven.
Just like yourself!
(end of this chapter)