He looked back and saw his fiancée.

Xie Xiuzhu put her hands on her hips and glared at him angrily: "Don't be so complacent, I'm telling you, I'd rather die than marry you!"

Meng Huaichuan refused to give in: "You think I care? Even if I die, I won't marry you!"

"You still dare to look down on me?"

"You were the one who looked down on me first!"

The two were about to start quarreling when they suddenly heard the voices of servants talking at the door of the living room.

"Have you seen my young marquis?"

"No, have you seen my fifth daughter?"

The two of them looked bad.

Meng Huaichuan immediately tried to jump up a tree to hide, but he was pulled back just as he was about to tiptoe.

"Take me with you!" Xie Xiuzhu asked anxiously.

Being dragged back here, not only will you be scolded, but you will also have to sit there for an hour. Who can stand this?

Meng Huaichuan's ears flushed red: "Then don't touch my belt!"

"ah?"

Meng Huaichuan pried her hands apart, and when he saw that the servants had found them, he immediately grabbed her arm and flew up the tree with her.

The old locust tree was very tall and dense. Once they climbed up and sat on the branches, they disappeared into the tree and could no longer be seen.

The servants searched everywhere for him without even looking up.

Xie Xiuzhu sat on a branch and shook her feet excitedly: "So it can be done this way."

Meng Huaichuan snorted softly and lazily picked up a leaf in his mouth: "You are ignorant. I am a grown-up."

"You are just good at boxing and kicking, right?" Xie Xiuzhu snorted coldly.

Meng Huaichuan swallowed his anger and gritted his teeth in hatred: "Don't worry, I won't marry you. The wedding is still a year away. After a year, I will have already started wandering around the world. I won't be waiting in the capital to get married!"

Xie Xiuzhu raised her chin: "That's great, I won't even bother to care about you even if you beg for food."

“…”

"You are the beggar!" Meng Huaichuan exploded again.

Xie Xiuzhu was rather curious: "Then why do you want to travel around the world?"

He then snorted, bent one knee and stepped on the branch, swaying on one foot, and said in a scoundrel-like tone: "My father has forced me to learn martial arts and military books since I was a child. Whenever I don't like it, he beats me. But the more he beats me, the more I refuse to accept it. Why should I obey his orders? I won't let him have his way!"

"He always wants me to inherit the family business. He's a general, so I have to be a general too. I don't want to be a general. I just want to be a knight wandering around the world, free and unfettered, with no one to bother me."

Xie Xiuzhu's eyes lit up, and she looked at him longingly: "If I marry you, can you take me with you when you travel around the world?"

Meng Huaichuan suddenly met her sparkling eyes, was stunned for a moment, and his heart skipped a beat.

He stumbled and nearly fell from the tree.

He quickly grabbed the tree trunk to steady himself, and said angrily: "I don't want to take you with me!"

In the hall.

Wanruo was still accompanying the eldest lady to entertain guests when she saw a little maid come in and say, "The eldest lady is here. She said the imperial physician came to take the young lady's pulse."

The eldest lady nodded and said to Wanruo, "You go back first."

"Yes." Wanruo was just bored sitting there and couldn't find a reason to leave.

When she walked out, she saw Xie Xianyu standing outside waiting. He was wearing a moon-white brocade robe, a jade crown on his hair, and standing with his hands behind his back. The warm sun shone on him, making him look as smooth as jade.

Wanruo paused and suddenly swallowed.

I have to say that Xie Xianyu really deserves the poem "The man on the street is as beautiful as jade, and the man is unparalleled in the world."

He turned to look at her and frowned: "Come over here."

“…”

Wanruo walked past the hall, and he took her hand and pulled her out of the hall: "You are also looking for trouble. Why don't you just come here when the banquet starts? You come here so early and sit here, and you don't feel tired."

"Didn't you say the imperial physician is here?"

"Why did you come out without telling me that the imperial physician was here?"

Wanruo blinked. It turned out that he was here to pick her up.

He slowed down his pace and looked at her: "Are you tired?"

"Not tired, just a little bored."

He noticed that the cloak on her shoulders was not tied properly and was a little loose, probably because she had left in a hurry.

He simply stopped, untied her belt, and tied the bow.

He lowered his eyes, his slender fingers wrapped around the ribbon, his movements patient and careful.

But he lectured her, "I thought you really enjoyed staying here. If I had known I wouldn't have come to pick you up and made you sit there for an hour with a smile on your face, you would have behaved well."

Wanruo automatically blocked out his voice and looked at his drooping brows, her heart moving.

"What are you looking at?" He suddenly raised his eyes.

She looked at him without blinking: "Today Xiuzhu asked me if it would be good to grow up."

"Um?"

“I think growing up has its advantages and disadvantages.”

He narrowed his eyes, not understanding what she meant: "What is good?"

She looked at him with clear eyes: "I met someone I like."