Chapter 81: Going to look for her with great fanfare, just to reminisce about the past?
Hearing that there would be a fireworks show, the guests in the main hall and the inner hall left one after another, and the corridor in the front yard was crowded with people.
Several young masters who were familiar with Lu Qian came to find him and asked him to discuss the wedding night prank. Lu Qian impatiently sent them away. When he turned around, the dead girl was gone.
The girl slipped out of the main hall, took a breath of cool air, and her mind became a little clearer. The guests were all waiting in the front yard to watch the fireworks show. She was afraid of meeting Xiao Mingyi, so she instinctively ran to a corner.
Walking slowly along the stone path, we arrived at the pond behind the rockery.
The moonlight was clear and the girl lay on the big boulder by the pool. The cool touch dissipated the heat on her face.
Suddenly, she seemed to hear footsteps echoing in the rockery. She slowly turned her head. The crescent moon shone on the ripples of the pond at night, reflecting the girl's cool and beautiful face like a beautiful jade.
The man stood at the entrance of the rockery cave, facing the moonlight, his figure too tall. Song Lingyi's brain froze for a moment, then she reacted and suddenly rose from the boulder. She was so frightened that she even forgot to scream.
Xiao Mingyi's gaze swept over the girl coldly, and his eyes darkened a little as he saw her helpless look.
"Fifth...Fifth Master." The girl called softly.
Facing the girl's frightened gaze, he took two steps forward, his eyes cold and his voice low: "Long time no see, Ah Li."
“…”
The sound of "Ali" made the girl fall into a trance for a moment, as if she had returned to the time before she came to Beijing.
She had clearly left the city, but she showed up at the wedding banquet. It was obvious that Xiao Mingyi was deliberately luring her out of the house in order to catch her in a trap.
What does he want?
Cut off her hands and feet, or make her commitment public?
Song Lingyi raised her eyes in panic, but happened to stumble into a thousand-foot-deep pool. The coldness in his eyes made her spine shiver.
"Why is Master Wu here?"
As soon as she finished asking, the girl wanted to bite her tongue to commit suicide. This was simply asking a question she knew the answer to, and her brain wasn't working well after drinking.
Feeling her slight trembling, Xiao Mingyi laughed with an ambiguous smile: "Of course I'm looking for you. You left Hexian Tower without a word, and it turns out you were going to the city to stay with your relatives. It's been difficult for me to find you these past few months."
The girl frowned and her eyelashes trembled.
It was really funny. Didn't he leave Hexianlou without a word and go to the capital to become the crown prince? Could it be that she had to wait in Hexianlou all the time, until he had many wives and concubines, and she was still waiting in the brothel for his favor without any status.
While she was thinking, the man in front of her walked slowly towards her, and his heavy shadow covered the moonlight, tightly enveloping the girl.
She was confused and stepped back.
"What do you want to do..."
"I am now the cousin of the Duke's Mansion. My grandmother and uncle love me very much. If you dare——"
In a panic, her ankle hit the large decorative stone by the pool, and her body fell backwards. Just when the girl thought her head was going to explode, her slender waist was pulled by a force, and the imagined pain did not come for a long time.
The girl slowly opened her eyes. That familiar handsome face was right in front of her. As she stared in horror, Xiao Mingyi raised his hand towards her face and said in a terrifyingly calm tone, "What are you afraid of? Do you think I'll kill you?"
The big hands pinched the girl's cheeks, squeezing her cheeks so that her mouth pouted.
When the girl heard the word "kill", her heart skipped a beat and she shook her head repeatedly.
As if finding her reaction ridiculous, Xiao Mingyi chuckled softly, "If I insist on taking your life, do you think the people from the Duke of Jin's Mansion can stop me?"
It shouldn't be possible to stop...
But she had finally come to Kyoto, where her elders were kind, her sisters were harmonious, and she had a good marriage. Was she going to die here tonight?
When people drink, their thinking becomes like a one-way channel and they can't think straight.
The girl was about to cry: "I only said that I would follow you to the capital, but I didn't say that I would stay by your side forever. You are the prince, you can have any woman you want, why do you have to look for me? If you think I have betrayed you by running away, I can just say goodbye to you——"
A hint of sinisterness flashed across those deep phoenix eyes, and Xiao Mingyi's fingertips suddenly tightened, and he directly turned off her microphone.
"What are you arguing about? They've called people here and seen you and me like this. I'm the Crown Prince, so they don't dare to say anything. But you're different. You're an unmarried girl from the Duke's Mansion. If you were to have a secret meeting with a man from outside the family, what would others think of you?"
“…”
What kind of secret meeting? It's clearly the King of Hell coming to claim your life.
But he was right, he was the prince, and if someone really caught him, the only one who would be controversial would be her.
The girl's face turned pale, and her neck choked: "You can kill me or chop me up, it's up to you."
Xiao Mingyi lowered his dark eyes and stared at the person in his arms. The interweaving shadows of light and dark made the smile on his lips seem a little colder for no reason. "We're just catching up on the past, why are you so nervous?"
Reminisce?
The girl looked suspicious. He went to look for her in such a big way, just to reminisce about the past?
Taking a deep breath, she raised her elbows to her chest, putting some distance between them. "What...what do you want to say?"
The man's warm breath brushed against her cheek, and she felt her nose filled with the familiar woody scent.
The surrounding environment is quiet.
They were silent for two breaths. Xiao Mingyi opened his thin lips and suddenly heard a noise coming from the other side of the pond. His eyes turned cold and he took the girl to hide in the fake cave.
Song Lingyi wanted to refuse, but in front of the tall man who had practiced martial arts for many years, her strength was insignificant.
The light in the cave was dim, with a ray of moonlight casting a shadow from the top.
Xiao Mingyi trapped the girl in his arms. The atmosphere was like scalding water about to boil, stuffy and urgent.
Perhaps because the environment was too dark, her other senses became particularly sensitive. Song Lingyi seemed to hear a very strong heartbeat, but she didn't know whether it was her own or Xiao Mingyi's.
The air was heavy and the dizziness from the alcohol came over her again. She felt uncomfortable and her lips trembled twice. Before she could speak, she heard a shout from afar.
"Pei Jianzhi!"
Song Lingyi's eyes suddenly widened.
Across the pond, willow branches hang down on the bank and lights are dim.
The tall, moon-white figure turned back at the sound, his expression calm, "I wonder what the princess wants from me?"
Princess Changyang pursed her lips, stepped forward and said, "I heard that you and the younger sister of the Song family are getting engaged?"
When she first heard the news, she felt her heart break. In previous years, her mother and brother had been away from the capital, and her father had been so devoted to Concubine Shu and her son that no one had asked about her marriage. She, too, was concerned about her noble status as a princess and refused to take the initiative.
Unexpectedly, this delay allowed Song Lingyi to take the lead!
Pei Zhao drooped his eyelids slightly and said lightly: "Thank you for your concern, Princess. The Pei family has already proposed to the Duke's Mansion and is choosing an auspicious day to hold the engagement banquet." He was filled with the faint aroma of wine, but there was no sense of decadence, but rather elegance.
Princess Changyang's eyes were filled with tears as she said in disbelief, "What's so good about her? The Song family is just a poor family, how can they be worthy of you..."
"Princess, please be careful with your words." Pei Zhao interrupted coldly.
Seeing the coldness in the other person's eyes, Princess Changyang was stunned, as if there was something stuck in her throat.
Pei Jianzhi is calm and reserved in front of others, and is always gentle in dealing with people. It is extremely rare to see him showing displeasure like this.
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