Bai Wanyi wiped her tears and secretly observed Lu Yan's expression. Her sobs became more gentle and sad. "I just want a little face. Look at all the people who came today. Which one of them is sincerely congratulating me? Aren't they all waiting to see me make a fool of myself? A woman's face is given by her man. Only because you value me will they dare not look down on me."
Lu Yan was pent up in anger, wanting to vent but unable to. She was right, and thinking about it softened his heart a little: "Then what do you say we should do?"
Bai Wanyi paused in her tears, then tilted her head to the side, staring at Lu Yan with a seductive gaze: "I can do whatever I want."
Lu Yan nodded helplessly: "My dear aunt, as long as you don't cry, anything is fine. You're crying so hard that it really breaks my heart."
Bai Wanyi tried hard to suppress the corners of his mouth and said, "This is the only way for today's engagement party, but I want a grand wedding, a big one, with at least a hundred tables."
For today's engagement banquet, Lu Yan had only prepared ten tables in the inner and outer courtyards combined. The wedding was basically attended by these people, so at most there would be five tables. But Bai Wanyi actually asked for a hundred tables!
Lu Yan took a deep breath. "We're only preparing ten tables because we can only invite ten tables of people, and that's the number of people from the inner and outer courtyards combined. If we set up a hundred tables, not to mention whether we have enough money, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing if no one showed up?"
Bai Wanyi pouted, feeling aggrieved. "The Qin family's celebration banquet for a prince wasn't even prepared, and they already had a hundred tables. Why can't we have a hundred tables for our marriage, which was granted by His Majesty? Am I the one who is embarrassed, or is Ping'er the one who is embarrassed? Or is it that His Majesty's decree lacks appeal?"
"What does the number of people coming have to do with His Majesty's imperial decree granting marriage?" Lu Yan was annoyed by her unreasonable demands. Why didn't he realize how unruly she was before?
He patiently explained, "The Qin family is a century-old family with deep roots and flourishing leaves. Of those one hundred tables at the banquet, seventy to eighty percent would be members of the Qin family, or relatives of the Qin family. There would be very few people who actually came to congratulate them. Are you sure you want to compete with them?"
Bai Wanyi's eyes were filled with tears as she looked at Lu Yan stubbornly: "I'm not trying to compete with them. I just want to vent my anger for you and show them that even without Qin Wan, the Pingyang Marquis's Mansion is still doing just as well!"
Lu Yan suddenly recalled what Qin Wan said that day: "I never liked him." That arrogant and disdainful look hurt him deeply.
A surge of anger inexplicably surged in his heart: "Okay! I'll do as you say."
Bai Wanyi's eyes flickered, and she took the opportunity to say, "I don't want a sedan chair, I want a flower carriage with glazed windows on both sides. I want to watch the scenery of the entire capital as I am married in a flower carriage parade. As for the wedding dress, you know I can't embroider, so I want the best embroiderer in the embroidery shop to embroider it for me."
"When I was at the border, I heard people say that marriage is the most important event in a woman's life, and therefore the only time one can transgress. That's why I want the most luxurious wedding dress."
Bai Wanyi handed the pattern she had prepared to Lu Yan: "I want the embroiderer to embroider this."
The wedding date has not been set yet, and such a complex embroidery pattern will take at least a year and a half to complete...
"Okay, I'll find a few more embroiderers, and it should be done in three months. The wedding date is exactly three months later." Lu Yan glanced at the embroidery pattern and agreed immediately.
Bai Wanyi was stunned on the spot, his smile almost falling off: "So, so fast."
"Yes, I'll arrange the date of marriage together with the betrothal gifts I've sent today." Lu Yan held Bai Wanyi's hand and said affectionately, "You have no family, so I will be your family from now on. I won't let you down."
"Okay." Bai Wanyi could only agree. Having lived in this era for more than eight years, she knew too well what rights meant. Moreover, even if she wanted to escape, she could not go anywhere without a household registration permit.
Bai Wanyi had no choice but to accept his fate.
Lu Yan agreed to all of Bai Wanyi's requests. He also personally helped Bai Wanyi touch up her makeup, and the two of them appeared in public hand in hand.
"Is the ceremony over? Am I late?"
A hearty voice came from outside the door. Lu Yan and Bai Wanyi looked closely and saw that it was the eldest prince!
"Big brother is here, how can I be left out?" The third prince came and looked at the eldest prince calmly.
"Brothers, am I late?" The Sixth Prince was holding a candy man, grabbing the Fifth Prince's sleeve, and eating the candy man as he walked.
The fifth prince had a helpless look on his face. He heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the eldest prince. He quickly walked over and tore the sixth prince, who was almost hanging on him, off.
As if it was pre-arranged, all the older princes except the Crown Prince and the Fourth Prince were present.
Lu Yan was overjoyed and quickly stepped forward to greet them: "Your Highness, I pay my respects to the First Prince, the Third Prince, the Fifth Prince, and the Sixth Prince."
Bai Wanyi was seeing these princes for the first time and was immediately dazzled. She quickly collected her thoughts and stepped forward to greet them: "I pay my respects to your highnesses."
All the guests followed suit.
The eldest prince laughed heartily and said, "No need for formalities, we just came here today to ask for a glass of wedding wine."
He patted Lu Yan's shoulder again and said, "Today is not a wedding day. You have to give us an invitation to the wedding banquet. It would be rude to make me wait and come uninvited again."
Lu Yan was even more delighted to be able to win over the princes. He said repeatedly, "Of course, of course. I will write a letter when I get back and personally deliver it to the princes' residences."
Even if that incident had just happened, no one would dare say anything now that the princes had come to congratulate them. Besides, if they didn't take the opportunity to get close to the princes and become familiar with them now, then when would they? They could gossip back home.
At night, fireworks were set off in the garden of the villa. Bai Wanyi took the ladies to watch the fireworks on the second floor, while Lu Yan and the princes drank and chatted with each other on the third floor where the view was better.
Qin Wan and Qin Yan were on the second floor of Yipin Pavilion, watching the fireworks explode in the distance. The brilliant fireworks flashed by, and then countless fireworks gradually rose up, and a line of words appeared in the sky:
"Hold your hand and grow old with you."
Qin Yan's eyes widened: "Is this a firework?"
"Yes." Qin Wan had seen it in her previous life, but that time it was the fireworks that Bai Wanyi made to celebrate his birthday, which made her very famous.
After the confession fireworks, there were more gorgeous fireworks in various shapes. The fireworks lasted for half an hour and ended with the confession fireworks. It was still "holding your hand and growing old with you".
Qin Yan couldn't help but sigh, "Marquis Pingyang is truly generous. No one else in the city would make such a confession. Oh, and with such generosity, he should have the money to pay you back, right?"
"No rush." Qin Wan smiled slyly. She had her own plans and now only wanted to see the joke. "Bai wants more than just this one line of words. She has prepared a lot. I can see that she will definitely make a fuss later."
Qin Yan's eyes rolled: "Shall we go and watch the fun?"
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