Chapter 20 Li Dongyang
Author: Jinling Mengbuwawa
Hua Yang stopped instinctively. He was about to get nervous but realized that this was not Sima Jiao's voice.
And he doesn't know her nickname either.
She turned around and saw the bright young man in front of her, wearing a green robe embroidered with dark bamboo patterns. His whole body exuded the scholarly atmosphere of reading poetry and books.
He is the eldest son of his grandfather's protégé, Mr. Li, the current chief assistant, Li Dongyang.
Because of her grandfather's relationship, the Li family often came to Hua's house. She also played with Li Dongyang when she was a child, but became more distant when she grew up.
"Brother Dongyang, is there something wrong?" Huayang always smiles generously when facing people who are full of kindness to him.
Her smile was still so beautiful, and Li Dongyang felt a rush of heat in his heart. Looking at the already slim girl in front of him, he remembered that when he was a child, he had two little ones always chasing him, shouting "Brother Dongyang, Hug, Brother Dongyang"
hug.
He has reached a weak age, and he has been putting off getting married, not sure about it. Why, his parents don't understand, but he himself knows.
He was waiting for the little girl who called him Brother Dongyang to grow up. The flower he had been waiting for for ten years finally grew up. Now that she was about to have haircuts, it was time for him to pick them off.
"Why don't you go to see animals, Xixi, but you find it boring?" Li Dongyang asked gently.
"No, the little animals are all cute, but Xixi is a little tired and wants to go back to the hall to rest." Hua Yang said with a smile.
Unlike that common man, Brother Dongyang always made her feel very safe, trustworthy and reliable.
Before getting married, brother Dongyang followed the Hua family and called her Xixi. After entering the palace, as her subordinate, he naturally no longer had the right to call her by her nickname.
"I saw a leopard over there, and I thought Xixi must have never seen it before. Do you want me to accompany Xixi and take a look?"
Li Dongyang spoke gently, but unfortunately the tenderness in his eyes was not sensed by Hua Yang.
Hua Yang didn't want to see a leopard. Let alone leopards, she had seen tigers when she was the Queen Regent. It was not unusual. She was thinking of how to politely refuse.
She just wanted to leave this place with her uncles and nephews from the Sima family as soon as possible.
I don't want to have anything to do with them anymore.
It was then that she heard the sound she was most afraid of and least willing to hear.
"Can I, the king, also listen to what Mr. Li and Miss Hua are talking about?"
Who else could make such an arrogant and rude voice, such a disrespectful act except that domineering common man?
Huayang lowered his head, not wanting to turn around to look at this person.
Sima Jiao strolled over with his hands behind his back and stood unceremoniously between the two of them, his dark and deep eyes full of dangerous dark light.
This woman is so brave. She even dares to whisper with this stinky Li Li. She also calls him Brother Dongyang. She thinks he is dead because of Sima Jiao!
Huayang lowered his head to his chest and pretended to be a quail.
"It turns out it's His Royal Highness the King of Qin. I'm just saying hello to Miss Hua. I want to ask how your health is doing, Master Taishi."
When Li Dongyang saw Hua Yang bowing his head and saying nothing, he thought it was because his daughter was shy when meeting her foreign husband, but he didn't suspect anything.
But why do you feel that His Highness King Qin is looking at you with hostility?
I don't remember when I offended His Highness King Qin, maybe I saw it wrong.
"Since I'm just saying hello, then leave quickly. It's not the virtue of a talented man like you to drag your daughter, who has not left the court, to chat with her all the time."
The words were full of gunpowder, and this time Li Dongyang could not deceive himself and say that His Highness King Qin was not hostile to him.
"I have a close relationship with the Li family and the Hua family. I have watched Xixi grow up, so I don't have to worry about the King of Qin's moral conduct."
Li Dongyang pushed back forcefully. He was the Tanhualang last year and he was proud of himself. How could he be scared away by King Qin with just a few words?
Furthermore, it was impossible for him to keep Huayang and leave by himself. King Qin's attitude seemed strange. Could it be that he came for Huayang?
At this moment, Quail Huayang rolled his eyes helplessly, wondering why this scene looked so familiar.
This was something that happened every once in a while in the court in her previous life. After the Hua family had no one, in order to stabilize the civil servants, she promoted Li Dongyang to the position of Second Assistant in the Cabinet.
From then on, the two men were often seen quarreling in the court, and the disputes between them were constant. Almost all Li Dongyang's opinions were dismissed by Sima Jiao, and Sima Jiao's decrees were also embarrassed by the cabinet in many ways.
But no matter what, these two mortal enemies have one thing in common.
At that time, Li Dongyang entered the cabinet at the youngest age and became the youngest cabinet minister in history.
For a time, the story of the Li family that "one family has two masters, and both father and son are Jinshi" spread throughout the country, and the matchmakers who came to the Li family in advance almost crossed the threshold of the Li family.
But Li Dongyang refused them all. No matter whether they were peerless beauties or noble ladies, they were not in his eyes. Even at the age of thirty, they were still unmarried.
This is exactly the same as his rival Sima Jiao, and the same is true for Sima Jiao. I really don’t know what these two people are thinking.
At first, rumors circulated in the court that the two were in love with each other, saying that the tit-for-tat confrontation between the two in the court every day was staged to confuse the public. In fact, the two were a sympathetic couple.
When she heard this rumor, she spit out a mouthful of tea. Are all the bearded, serious and dignified ministers in the court so open-minded in private?
She didn't know whether Li Dongyang had a broken sleeve, but Sima Jiao certainly didn't.
Why did these two people face each other so early in this life? Is it because they were born enemies?
Thinking of this, Hua Yang could no longer play coy. She knew Sima Jiao's personality and would never give up until he achieved his goal, and he was not very patient.
In order not to attract more people's attention, she could only persuade: "Don't be angry..."
But before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted by two men who spoke in unison.
"Xi Xi, please stand aside. The matter between me and King Qin has nothing to do with you."
"Shut up and stand aside. What are you talking about?"
Hua Yang obediently shut up and stepped aside. He stuck out his tongue at Sima Jiao in his heart, still so vulgar and incomparable with the gentleness of Brother Dongyang.
Li Dongyang felt that he had never been so angry since he was educated in Mongolia, and he had never seen such a rude person.
It is said in the outside world that King Qin was a courteous, virtuous, and humble gentleman, and that he was a rare prince.
It’s just nonsense!
The rumors are unbelievable. There is no trace of a modest gentleman in the man in front of him. How could he open his mouth and tell her to shut up in front of the eldest lady of the Taishi Mansion? Such arrogance.
There was a surge of energy in my chest, and I wanted to argue with this arrogant King of Qin today.
Sima Jiao got excited when he saw this filthy article. He was so shameless. How could he be brave enough to call Xi Xi? He couldn't call Xi Xi.
I didn't cut off his tongue because Mr. Li showed some kindness to me.
The two of them were very passionate, and they were easy to get along with each other. Hua Yang stayed far away, but she didn't have the ability to calm down the two stubborn donkeys.
In her previous life, she tried it without any self-awareness. As a result, she was burned all over. Then she calmed down. Every time it was a battle between two others.
Chapter completed!