Chapter 179 Extra 3 If we get engaged in childhood, the if line has nothing to do with the main text. If you don't like it, don't subscribe. If we get engaged in childhood, the if line has nothing to do with the main text. If you don't like it, don't subscribe.

In the eighth year of Yuande, Jiang Rao was two years old.

Jiang Xingzhou became famous because of a painting of mountains and rivers. People in Jinling said that if they met him, they had to praise his daughter and make him happy, and maybe they could get some calligraphy from him.

Jiang Xingzhou had heard a lot of praise for his daughter these days. When he heard Emperor Zhaowu praising Jiang Rao, he stroked his chin and replied shamelessly, "My daughter and I are very similar, so naturally we are both good in every way."

After he finished speaking, he realized that the person in front of him was the emperor, and he hurriedly bowed, "I'm sorry for the intrusion."

Emperor Zhaowu slowly shook his head, indicating that it was all right, and said, "My ninth son is about the same age as your daughter. The Imperial Astronomical Observatory has calculated that their horoscopes match well, and they are a perfect match."

Is this... a kiss? Jiang Xingzhou was so frightened that cold sweat broke out on his back. "I will think about it carefully when I get back."

*

Jiang Xingzhou was very unhappy that the emperor wanted to become his relative, and he was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat.

After returning home and discussing the matter with his wife, Jiang Xingzhou couldn't even say a few words.

When he was called to the palace to paint again by Emperor Zhaowu, Emperor Zhaowu asked him to bring Jiang Rao with him. Jiang Xingzhou had to bring Jiang Rao with him as he could not disobey the emperor's order.

Jiang Xingzhou was afraid that Emperor Zhaowu would call out Rong Ting as well. He heard from people in the palace that the little prince looked very much like his biological mother.

Like, that is, beautiful.

How could he not know what kind of person his daughter is? At the one-year-old drawing lot party, she drew whatever was brightly colored on the table. She was born to like beautiful things. Even though the little prince was just a child and might not be considered pretty in his daughter's eyes, what if?

Jiang Xingzhou was wary of Jiang Rao and Rong Ting's meeting as if he were a thief, and he finally felt relieved after he had a long talk with Emperor Zhaowu.

When leaving the palace, I passed by a eunuch.

The little girl lying on Jiang Xingzhou's shoulder followed him with fixed eyes.

Jiang Xingzhou took a look and saw that the person the eunuch was leading was Rong Ting, so he immediately turned Jiang Rao's head over.

"Don't look at it." Jiang Xingzhou felt a headache.

Jiang Rao refused and tried hard to turn her head away, insisting on looking at Rong Ting.

nice.

"want!"

The little girl could not say much, just one word, and then she got anxious and grabbed her father's hair.

Jiang Xingzhou was caught and cried out, "Here you go, here you go."

Jiang Qinshi heard about this later and said with a smile, "Why not just settle this marriage?"

Jiang Xingzhou did not refute.

Just get engaged. When the children grow up and are no longer happy with the marriage, you can just think of a way to call it off.

*

In the twelfth year of Yuande, Jiang Rao was six years old.

Lantern Festival.

She groaned in pain when the traffickers threw her into the hut.

When I looked up, I saw Rong Ting, who was curled up alone on one side, out of tune with the other children.

He doesn't look like the oldest one, but he is the calmest one.

She ran to stay beside him, Rong Ting hid aside, and Jiang Rao followed.

She wanted him to stay with her so she would feel at ease.

Rong Ting opened his eyes impatiently and looked at her. He had just rolled out of the hunting ground, his body was covered with wounds, and his eyelids hurt when he blinked.

Even though the sobbing little girl's face was covered with mud, her original beauty could still be seen.

Rong Ting asked: "Whose family are you from?"

"Ning'an Earl's Mansion."

Rong Ting's expression changed slightly.

He was engaged to the fourth daughter of the Ning'an Marquis's family, and the Jiang family took good care of him.

But that little bit of care is not enough to deal with the Xu family.

"What's the line?"

Jiang Rao pursed her lips. This little brother was so fierce. She held up four fingers and said, "Fourth, I am the fourth daughter born of the legitimate wife."

Rong Ting withdrew his gaze.

It's his fiancée.

He turned away, not wanting to pay any more attention to her.

Jiang Rao felt so aggrieved. She answered everything he asked, so why was he ignoring her?

She quickly moved in front of him and asked, "Whose child are you from?"

"What's the line?"

Rong Ting never answered.

If he ignored her, she would definitely leave soon.

Sure enough, he left.

Rong Ting opened his eyes a little and watched Jiang Rao fiddling with the wall for a while, his eyes full of mockery.

If there was a way to escape, he would have found it long ago.

Jiang Rao tried for a while, but couldn't escape. She lay at the small window and looked at the lights outside, which were dim and golden beans were falling.

After dropping the golden beans for a while, he came over to Rong Ting and sat next to him.

She moved closer to him, but not too close, and told Rong Ting, "Don't touch me, I have a husband to marry, and it's not okay for men and women to touch each other."

Rong Ting responded by turning over, with his back facing her, looking like he didn't want to pay any attention to her.

Jiang Rao pursed her lips, lay down and fell asleep.

Rong Ting suddenly opened his eyes, turned over, and looked at the little girl who had fallen asleep beside him.

He stretched out his hand, poked her face quietly, then quickly withdrew his hand and looked down at his fingertips.

Just touch.

*

In the eighteenth year of Yuande, Jiang Rao was twelve.

When he was kidnapped at the age of six, after Rong Ting killed the trafficker, Jiang Rao held on to his clothes tightly and refused to let go until the adults came.

Later I found out that Rong Ting was sleeping.

Jiang Xingzhou originally wanted to take this opportunity to leave Jinling and travel around, but Jiang Rao remembered the injuries on her brother's body and refused to leave Jinling.

In the past few years, Jiang Xingzhou was reluctant to let his daughter enter the palace, for fear that she would run into Rong Ting and be bewitched by that exquisite-looking boy. No matter how careful he was, he still couldn't prevent him. This time, Rong Ting was injured while saving his daughter, and he couldn't find any reason to stop the two children from meeting.

In other words, Jiang Rao went to find Rong Ting unilaterally.

Rong Ting's attitude remained lukewarm.

But even if he had a cold face, Jiang Rao still liked to come to him, if not for anything else, but just looking at his increasingly handsome face made her feel very happy.

Jiang Rao came a little late today.

Rong Ting was reading a book. He used to be very focused when reading, but today he kept looking out the window.

Under the window, the palace maids and eunuchs were discussing, "The Ninth Prince really doesn't know what's good for him. Miss Jiang came to see him out of kindness, but look at how reluctant he is."

"If he hadn't been engaged since childhood, how could he have gotten such a good marriage?"

"Look, Miss Jiang doesn't like to come this time."

Rong Ting's figure appeared under the corridor, and the palace maids and eunuchs who had gathered around him immediately dispersed.

His eyes were as cold as a deep pool. He walked out quickly. When he turned the corner of the corridor, he heard footsteps from the other end. Although he knew there was someone there, he did not stop.

On the other side, Jiang Rao ran here in a hurry, unaware that there was someone on the other side of the corner and bumped into him.

Ming Shao was left far behind by her. She ran over and saw Rong Ting, and lowered her eyes humbly, "Your Highness the Ninth Prince."

Jiang Rao felt dizzy from the collision. When she heard Ming Shao calling "Ninth Prince", she immediately knew who she had bumped into.

Since it was Rong Ting, she felt much better.

Jiang Rao is spoiled by the people around her and is very pampered.

“Ouch.” She rubbed her head and raised her eyes slightly to peek at Rong Ting’s expression. Seeing that he didn’t seem to care about her, she felt a little angry. She squinted her eyes and pretended to be in pain, shouting twice, “Ouch, ouch.”

Rong Ting had his hands behind his back. When he heard her cry out in pain, he stretched out his fingers, pressed her forehead, and said in a calm voice, "You are so reckless."

Jiang Rao's eyes were bright with a smile, and she smiled charmingly and charmingly. She asked him, "Why did you come out? Did you come out to see me?"

Rong Ting did not answer her, but just moved his finger away and said, "Why did you come so late today?"

Jiang Rao followed him and stuck out her tongue.

Everyone knows that he has good hearing. He must have recognized that it was her footsteps a long time ago.

She said, "I just met the Fourth Prince, and he asked me to help him bring his article to Uncle Yan."

Rong Ting's face turned fierce, and he felt an inexplicable pain in his heart.

*

In the same year, Lantern Festival.

The Fourth Prince heard from somewhere that Jiang Xingzhou had no intention of marrying Jiang Rao to Rong Ting, and was thinking of reasons to cancel the marriage, and was looking for all kinds of opportunities to get close to Jiang Rao.

The Lantern Festival is undoubtedly a good opportunity.

He walked out of the palace while listening to the eunuch's report.

"Master Jiang Si is indeed somewhat dissatisfied with his daughter's marriage."

"However, his dissatisfaction is not directed only at the Ninth Prince. He does not seem to want his daughter to marry into the royal family."

"Your Highness, do you know Pei Shaoqing from the Dali Temple? He is a distant relative of the Jiang family. The Fourth Master treats him very well. People in Jinling say that if the Fourth Master has another daughter, he will definitely take Pei Shaoqing as his son-in-law."

The fourth prince sneered, "He's just a poor scholar from the countryside. If Rong Ting can't compare to him, how can I not compare to him?"

He was completely unaware that someone was listening in the dark.

After the Fourth Prince left, Rong Ting slowly walked out from the corner.

His face was gloomy.

The streets are bustling along the Qinhuai River.

Jiang Rao was looking for rabbits all over the street.

She had just bought a little rabbit from a vendor, but the rabbit was very well behaved in the rabbit breeder's hands. Not long after it was in her arms, it ran away as if it was having fun.

Jiang Rao searched the entire street but couldn't find it.

Just when I was about to give up, a little rabbit suddenly appeared in front of me.

Jiang Rao was so anxious that she didn't even think about why the little rabbit appeared right in front of her sight. She reached out to grab it, but the rabbit was lifted up and flew farther and farther away from her.

Jiang Rao followed the rabbit that was rising higher and higher, raised her head, and then saw Rong Ting.

He stood behind her, his arm over her head, holding the little rabbit and holding it in front of her eyes.

Jiang Rao looked up at the sky and looked at Rong Ting.

The distance between them was very close, so close that Jiang Rao felt that if she leaned back, she could lean into his arms.

Rong Ting also lowered his eyes and looked at Jiang Rao.

Jiang Rao had been looking at Rong Ting's face for many years. At this moment, the lights behind him were flickering, and the face he reflected was not the color of the mortal world. Jiang Rao was stunned for a moment, and was disturbed by the movement of the rabbit kicking its feet in the air. After coming to his senses, he waved his hand and said, "This is my rabbit."

Rong Ting threw the rabbit to her and said, "You've gotten lost before. If no one is watching you, I'm afraid you'll get lost."

Jiang Rao was so angry at what he said that her eyes were bigger than the rabbit in her arms. "I fell into someone else's trap that time. I didn't get lost on my own."

There were many people on the street, and she was bumped by someone. Rong Ting suddenly reached out and held her shoulders tightly, "Follow me closely."

He put a mask on Jiang Rao's face.

Wearing a mask, you don’t have to worry about people gossiping even if you come into contact with others like this.

Jiang Rao held the rabbit in her arms, her heart pounding and her face reddening.

When Rong Ting brought her to the river and took off her mask, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why is your face so red?"

Jiang Rao said vaguely: "The rabbit...always kicks its legs in my arms."

Rong Ting held the rabbit in his arms.

The rabbit is gone, but Jiang Rao's heart is still beating fast.

She asked him, "Why did you leave the palace?"

Rong Ting stood by the river, the river wind blowing his hair, "I heard some rumors, so I came here to clarify."

"Does your father...want you to break off the engagement with me?"

Jiang Rao shook her head.

Rong Ting smiled faintly, "Maybe he just hasn't mentioned it to you yet."

"Although I don't want to get engaged to you, I always wish you the best. If you really want to do this, I will have no complaints."

Jiang Rao continued to shake her head and frowned, "Where did you hear this?"

"It seems bad to talk about others behind their backs..."

Jiang Rao looked at Rong Ting.

Rong Ting showed an expression as if Jiang Rao was forcing him to say it and he had no choice but to say it, but his tone was very clear, "My fourth brother."

"He also said he wanted to marry you."

Jiang Rao felt a chill in her spine, "The Fourth Prince clearly already has a concubine."

Rong Ting seemed to be unintentional and continued to talk about it, "Although Fourth Brother has great ambitions, his methods are often criticized. In addition, he is not serious enough in relationships between men and women, so..."

Jiang Rao trusted his words too much, thinking that he might not say that his brother was too harsh, so she concluded for him, "He is not a good man."

She rubbed the little rabbit in her arms, "Don't worry, the marriage will not be cancelled, and I will not have anything to do with your fourth brother."

Thinking of what Rong Ting said, Jiang Rao still shuddered, "Next time if I see him, I will hide away from him."

"You are so confused that you may not even notice someone when they are right in front of you."

Jiang Rao was about to retort, but then she remembered that when Rong Ting held the rabbit up to her, she didn't immediately notice that it was him standing behind her. She choked up and said, "Then I can let the maid watch it."

She muttered, "When I go back today, I will ask Ming Shao to pass on the message that if you see the Fourth Prince, you must avoid him."

This is the answer Rong Ting wanted.

At this time, the rabbit jumped out of Jiang Rao's arms again, jumped four or five feet away, and jumped to the distant river bank. Jiang Rao hurriedly chased the rabbit, holding up her skirt and ran towards the river bank.

Rong Ting turned around, with a warm and innocent look on his face and a faint smile, and followed Jiang Rao's footsteps and walked towards the shore.

He now knows more and more what kind of person the little girl likes.

He will become that person.

She could only be his.