Chapter 128 What do you think of Lingyi?
Under the high platform.
Sitting with his back to the light, Pei Zhao appeared his usual calm self, but a cloud of turmoil had already begun to swirl within him. Beneath the heavy sleeves of his robe, his nails dug deep into his palms, pinching and re-pinching.
It's not that he doesn't understand the situation in the court, but all fate in the world is determined by heaven. If you miss it, you miss it. Lingyi is already his fiancée, not an item that can be dispensable or given away at will.
What's more, he had personally requested this marriage, so how could he give up so easily?
Pei Ling raised her eyes and saw her brother's absent-mindedness. Her eyelashes were half-closed, as if she was thinking about something.
Sitting opposite each other.
The two little cousins kept chattering and asking questions to their cousin who came home late, and Song Lingyi responded patiently until Lu Ling found the twined hairpin she had hidden in her sleeve.
"Hey, where did you get this hairpin, cousin? It's quite beautiful."
Song Lingyi blinked very slowly, then said with a guilty smile, "The palace maid gave it to me. She said it would go well with this dress, but I thought the hair ornaments were too messy, so I didn't wear them."
Lu Qian tilted his head, his gaze casually passing over the twined hairpin, his eyes darkening slightly.
Grand palace banquets like these were bound to have minor incidents, so the side halls would always have one or two sets of clothing ready for attendees to change into. Besides clothing, I'd never heard of a pearl hairpin being prepared, especially since this one didn't look valuable and didn't seem like something you'd find in the palace.
Thinking of this, Lu Qian shifted his gaze to the person sitting opposite him. Seeing that Pei Zhao remained expressionless, a hint of interest appeared at the corner of his lips.
As the palace banquet was coming to an end, the sudden snowfall showed no signs of stopping.
Ministers and their wives left Xuanhe Hall one after another, holding umbrellas. The series of footprints left in the snow were soon covered by new snow.
The group of people from the Duke's Mansion stood under the corridor, looking at the falling snow, feeling very worried. They were young and strong and of course they were not afraid of falling, but the old lady was old and any bump could cause problems.
Just as she was struggling with this, a young eunuch came hurriedly over and claimed that Queen Shen had ordered them to prepare a sedan chair and asked Old Madam Lu to get in.
Song Lingyi looked past the young eunuch and looked at the sedan chair parked not far away. The eunuchs carrying the sedan chair looked familiar, as if she had seen them in the East Palace.
After Mrs. Lu got into the sedan chair, the Duke and his wife and the second wife followed with umbrellas, leaving the four younger generations behind to discuss how to "form a team."
Lu Yu and Lu Ling both wanted to share an umbrella with their cousin and were arguing fiercely, but when they turned around, they found that Lu Qian had got there first.
Suddenly, an umbrella appeared above her head. Song Lingyi raised her eyes and followed the clean and cold jaw to meet the extremely familiar light-colored auspicious phoenix eyes. The distance was too close, and her nostrils were filled with the light woody fragrance of Lu Qian.
The cold wind mixed with fragrance blew into her nostrils. She looked at the angular profile and was stunned for a moment.
"you……"
"What are you staring at? I'm holding an umbrella for you, why don't you leave?" He spoke in his usual nonchalant tone.
Song Lingyi pulled her lips together speechlessly: "Then I really trouble you, old man."
Lu Qian's eyebrows moved slightly, and he slowly narrowed his eyes: "You're welcome, I'm happy to serve you, young lady."
The two walked together in the snow, along the narrow palace road towards the palace gate.
Suddenly, a sharp cold wind blew, and Song Lingyi couldn't help but sneeze. Lu Qian, who was beside her, raised his hand and lifted the edge of his thick cloak, covering her with the thick black cloak in an intimate manner.
Song Lingyi looked up in shock, her eyes as if she had seen a ghost.
"What are you doing?"
"Aren't you cold? I'll lend you my thick cloak." Lu Qian said in a relaxed tone, as if in his eyes, this was not a big deal.
"Where can you borrow money like this?"
According to the routine in movies and TV dramas, isn't it always the boys who take off their clothes and put them on the girls?
No, it went off track.
None of this matters. What matters is that their relationship doesn't seem to be that close yet.
"So what else do you want?"
Lu Qian pretended to be surprised, a meaningful smile on his lips. He said "Oh" and stretched out his tone: "You want me to take off my clothes for you?"
The low voice seemed to carry endless tenderness, and also revealed a bit of the casual playfulness that is common among young people.
Song Lingyi's eyes widened: "I didn't say that. Haven't you heard that men and women shouldn't touch each other?"
"So what?" Lu Qian answered casually.
After tonight, Pei Zhao might come to the mansion tomorrow to ask for a breakup of the engagement. As the one who is close to the water gets the moon first, what can the prince do? He still has to stand aside.
Seeing him so confident, Song Lingyi thought that he felt there was no need to be taboo between siblings. She rolled her eyes secretly and crawled out from under his cloak, not looking at his face as dark as the bottom of a pot.
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The streets were covered with three feet of snow, and the carriage slowly stopped at the gate of the Duke's Mansion.
As the group entered the mansion, Wang looked at her son who was always following her niece, and she became more and more uneasy. As soon as she passed the second door, she reached out and grabbed her son's arm.
"Mother?" Lu Qian looked back in confusion.
Wang said calmly, "Follow me," and turned to head towards the flower hall. Lu Qian frowned and followed.
The flower hall was quiet. Wang dismissed the maids and only left Qingyue to guard the closed door.
The atmosphere was inexplicably solemn. Lu Qian, who was sitting in a chair at the side, quietly looked at his mother sitting at the top of the table, drank a sip of hot tea, and then put the teacup down hard on the table, staring at him with an extremely sharp look.
Perhaps because the question she was about to ask was too absurd, Wang hesitated for a moment and took a deep breath. "Ah Qian, mother wants to ask you something."
“…”
Lu Qian's eyebrows twitched twice, and he thought to himself that maybe the thing he had asked the palace servant to do today had been leaked.
Just as she was feeling anxious, she heard Wang tactfully ask, "Lingyi has been here for so long. You two were quite noisy before, always arguing, but now your relationship has improved a lot. Mother wants to hear...what do you think of Lingyi?"
It turned out that she wasn't asking about the maid's orders. Lu Qian secretly breathed a sigh of relief and smiled casually: "Why did mother suddenly ask me this?"
Seeing that he was still smiling, Wang became more depressed and said seriously, "Mother feels that your attitude towards Lingyi has suddenly changed a lot."
"You, my father, and the old lady are all supporting her. I don't have the authority of a young master in the mansion anymore. Do I dare to provoke her?" Lu Qian snorted and laughed.
"That's not what I'm talking about." Wang pursed her lips and said in a more serious tone, "I'm asking if you have any other thoughts about Lingyi!"
The flower hall suddenly became quiet.
Their eyes met.
Perhaps realizing that his mother knew something, Lu Qian no longer planned to hide it and gradually stopped smiling.
"What else can I think? I want to marry her."
These words, though light and carefree, were like thunderbolts to Wang. She looked at Lu Qian with a complicated expression for a long moment, suppressing her shock. She said sternly, "You're confused! Lingyi is already engaged, and the Pei family and ours are family acquaintances. How could you harbor such feelings towards her?!"
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