Guan Er Girl

With a "tsk" sound, Yan Chan reluctantly accepted the loss.

The servant was about to speak up to remind him when he saw Lin Shuo suddenly pat Yan Chan's shoulder.

As soon as Yan Chan turned around, she saw Lin Shuo looking at her like a monkey, and then bursting into laughter.

Yan Chan subconsciously covered her forehead.

"What's with that red mark on your forehead? Did you hit your head while sleeping in the carriage?" Lin Shuo put his elbow on Yan Chan's shoulder in a familiar manner, pinching his chin and saying with a smile.

"Take it away." Yan Chan shrugged, shook his arm down, and said unhappily.

"Huh!?" Seeing her like this, Lin Shuo became even more curious about this matter. Seeing that Yan Chan didn't say anything, he asked the servant beside her.

"This..." The servant glanced at Yan Chan and scratched his head hesitantly.

Seeing that he was afraid to speak due to the "threat" of Yan Chan's eyes, Lin Shuo pulled him to his side and "interrogated" him personally.

The servant looked at this and then that, and suddenly felt overwhelmed. He couldn't afford to offend any of them.

But after all, Yan Chan was his real master, so the servant chose to keep silent.

Yan Chan tutted again and unhappily began to explain: "I was hit by the veil of a little girl in pink fir."

Yan Chan looked again at the place where Guan Zheng left, but she was no longer there.

Thinking of that stunning glimpse, Yan Chan's face darkened again.

"Little Miss Fenshan..." Lin Shuo muttered, "Could it be the Guan family..."

"?" Yan Chan was very close to him, so she heard what he whispered and asked curiously: "Do you know him?"

Lin Shuo paused for a moment, and replied with a somewhat unnatural look: "It's not like we know each other."

"It's inevitable for people on the same boat to exchange a few words," he said slowly.

"The head of the family is Mr. Guan, who was recently transferred to the Ministry of Rites. He was a Jinshi (Jinshi) and was later transferred to a local official. Now he happens to be working under my father." As he spoke, he suddenly sneezed, and even the falling snowflakes were blown away by him.

The servant beside him quickly shook out the fur-edged cloak and put it on Lin Shuo, leading him towards the carriage.

Yan Chan followed beside him and listened to him talk about the Guan family.

The servant lifted the curtain of the carriage and led the two masters in.

Suddenly entering a warm and comfortable place, Lin Shuo couldn't help but let out a sigh of satisfaction.

He sat down, rubbed his hands together, and covered his face, which had been frozen for a long time.

Yan Chan was still leaning on the small table with her head half propped up, just like when she came, but there was a little more interest in her eyes.

"Actually, I don't know much, just the basics." Lin Shuo tightened his cloak and said to Yan Chan.

"No problem, I'll just listen."

Seeing that Yan Chan didn't seem to care much, Lin Shuo continued to tell her.

But he lowered his voice, not wanting others to hear. After all, it was someone else's property. "I heard that Master Guan's favorite is Concubine Luo in the mansion..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Chan looked at him in surprise, "You know all this!?"

Yan Chan no longer leaned there, and the hand that was supporting her temples was placed flat on the small table. She straightened her body and leaned towards Lin Shuo, looking very focused.

Lin Shuo coughed lightly and scratched his face with his fingers, indicating that he was not the kind of gossipy person, he just happened to hear it, just a coincidence.

Yan Chan looked as if she didn't believe him and told him to continue.

"Since Lord Guan passed the imperial examination and returned home to pay respects to his ancestors, he was immediately demoted to an eighth-rank official. He did not take his wife with him during the year he took office."

"Why is this? Could it be that his wife is pregnant?" Yan Chan leaned back and crossed his arms over his chest to make himself more comfortable.

Lin Shuo snapped his fingers, indicating that Yan Chan had guessed correctly, and continued, "Although he didn't take the wife away, he took his childhood sweetheart, Concubine Luo."

Upon hearing this, Yan Chan frowned, and his impression of Lord Guan became even worse. He was indeed a man who favored his concubine over his wife.

"By the way, the girl Fenshan you met is the eldest daughter of the Guan family, the second child in the family. Just like your family, boys and girls are arranged separately."

Yan Chan curled her lips, looking unhappy, and said unhappily: "Who asked you about her..."

"......?" Lin Shuo was speechless. He just mentioned it casually. Did you eat firecrackers today?

"What's wrong with you today? Why are you so angry? It's just that you were hit by the veil. It's not serious, right?" Lin Shuo touched the tip of his nose and shrugged.

Yan Chan suddenly realized that his reaction was a bit too much, so he calmed down, took a few deep breaths, and told himself to calm down.

"Then let me continue." Lin Shuo glanced at Yan Chan's expression and saw that she had returned to her usual nonchalant look. "The eldest daughter and eldest son of the Guan family were both born to Concubine Luo. At that time, everyone in the local area knew that Master Guan was extremely fond of these two firstborns."

"On the contrary, they don't pay much attention to the second daughter who is born out of wedlock. Even the second daughter's biological mother, the Guan family's legitimate mother, doesn't care much about the second daughter."

"Why is this so???" Yan Chan picked up the teacup and took a sip, moistening his lips that were dry from the wind and snow, and looked up for an answer.

"How could I know so much...after all, it's someone else's property."

"You know a lot, you almost revealed their entire family fortune." Yan Chan muttered to herself, putting down the teacup in her hand. "How come the Guan family is leaking information like a sieve?"

Lin Shuo suddenly moved to Yan Chan mysteriously, hooked his hands around her neck, winked at her, and looked like he had something to say.

Yan Chan was hooked by him and bent forward, and leaned sideways speechlessly, wanting to hear what "secret" he was about to say. Why did he need to get so close to her?

"You haven't seen it, the second young lady is as beautiful as a fairy from heaven. I really don't know what the master and mistress of this family think." He lowered his voice, even revealing a little excitement, and then there was some resentment in his voice.

Lin Shuo really felt that Lord Guan had absolutely no vision.

When Yan Chan heard him say such words, she pushed him away in annoyance and put some distance between them, wondering who said she hadn't seen it before.

It doesn't look like that.

But he said: "Don't make irresponsible comments on a woman's appearance."

Lin Shuo tutted and muttered to himself, I knew you would say something like this.

"However, I think this second Miss Guan has a better temper than her sisters and is kind to others." He chuckled foolishly.

"Then go and marry her." The moment Yan Chan said this, she realized what she had just said and bit her lower lip in annoyance.

Upon hearing this, Lin Shuo smiled at first and then looked embarrassed.

"It would be fine if I only married her, but for people like us, marriage is a marriage between two families... If we end up with a Yue family like the Guan family..." He was really upset. He didn't say the rest of the sentence, but Yan Chan understood what he meant.

She also agreed with this.

I'm afraid that the second girl Guan's marriage will be affected by her family.

But what does it have to do with her?

Yan Chan snorted coldly, lifted a corner of the curtain and looked outside.

The snow was falling heavier than before, and a lot of snowflakes had accumulated on some eaves, like a thick quilt.

The carriage was heading towards the Lin family's house. Nothing unexpected happened on the way back. Perhaps God couldn't bear to see the Lin family members catch a cold.

Look, Lin Shuo sneezed again.

"Someone must have scolded me!!" Lin Shuo wiped his nose with tears in his eyes, wishing he could drink a bowl of hot ginger soup immediately.

Yan Chan waved his hands to indicate that it was not him.

She didn't scold Lin Shuo, she just said a few words of "care" to him, who knew it would be such a coincidence.

"Who told you to wear so little? Luckily your mother prepared a thick cloak and asked me to bring it to you."

"......" Lin Shuo shook his head. When she mentioned this, he remembered something, "I was wearing thick clothes, but I accidentally got them wet."

Yan Chan hummed in confusion.

"I was about to go out when someone splashed water on me. It happened to fall on Miss Guan Er. Luckily I stepped forward to block it for her. Otherwise, Miss Guan Er would have been soaked to the skin. But she wasn't much better off..."

"Oh, so you got off the boat so late just to change clothes, and kept me waiting for a while."

"So he's the hero saving the beauty~" Yan Chan sarcastically said.

Lin Shuo touched his nose awkwardly, indicating that he did not play a big role, as Miss Guan Er was very smart.

"No wonder I sneezed as soon as I got off the boat." Yan Chan narrowed his eyes.

"Oh, I forgot to ask you, why didn't my mother and third sister come?!"

"Xunyan caught a cold, and your mother is taking care of her." Yan Chan yawned, tears welling up in the corners of her eyes.

"It's over, it's over. If I go there soon, our whole family will have to lie down." He buried himself completely in the cloak, and the fur on his neck was blown down by his breath.

"I think I'm the one who should be most worried right now." Yan Chan put on a look of disgust and sat as far away from Lin Shuo as possible.

"Yan Huaiqi, you are so unfair!!" Lin Shuo was furious and sneezed again. He was now very sure that he must have caught a cold.

Yan Chan ignored him and asked the coachman to go faster.

Not long after, the carriage of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery stopped at the gate of the Lin residence.

Yan Chan watched him enter the door and then returned to the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery's Mansion.

She sat in the carriage and kept thinking about what Lin Shuo said.

The fingers wrapped around his arms clenched tighter and tighter.

What's going on? Why am I like a possessed person today? I'm totally different from her.

Why did she get angry when she heard Lin Shuo mention the Second Miss Guan?

Yan Chan bit his knuckles, his brows never relaxed.

I tried hard to force myself not to think about these things, but my mind kept replaying the stunning glimpse of beauty under the veil.

Yan Chan clearly remembered that a small snowflake passed through the veil and landed on Miss Guan Er's face. She blinked because of the cold.

There was also the faint fragrance wafting from her body.

Yan Chan shrank his nose and sniffed again in the carriage, as if the fragrance had not completely dissipated.

What fairy? She looks more like a goblin.