Qu Shuangyue said to Lin Yunzhi, "Find an opportunity to get some information out of him."
Lin Yunzhi nodded: "I've noticed he's usually very tight-lipped. I'll find an opportunity to get him drunk, since people tend to speak the truth when they're drunk."
Qu Shuangyue looked at him with some disdain: "Are you even capable of drinking? Don't end up getting yourself drunk before you get him drunk."
Lin Yunzhi: "...Don't look down on people!"
After saying that he was still a little unsure of himself, he added, "If I get drunk, you can just fill in for me."
Qu Shuangyue thought for a moment and said, "That's true."
Wu Dao followed Lin Xiuyan around like a curious child, bombarding her with endless questions and driving her crazy.
After asking a bunch of trivial questions, he decided to get to the point and asked, "Miss Lin, what do you like to eat?"
He decided to get some information from Lin Xiuyan before telling Ye Junfei, and he felt that he was being incredibly wise.
Lin Xiuyan casually replied, "I like to eat."
Wu Dao then asked, "What kind of man do you like? Gentle or domineering?"
Lin Xiuyan was annoyed, but she looked at him with a smile and said, "I like you just the way you are."
No Knife: "..."
He wouldn't dare to steal a woman from his son!
He quickly replied, "I already have a girl I like, I won't like you!"
Lin Xiuyan teased him: "What should we do then? I fell in love with you at first sight the day I saw you."
"For you, I even broke off my engagement with Zhou Chenyang. What will I do if you don't like me?"
No Knife: "..."
He instinctively reached up and scratched his head: "This...uh, this..."
He felt a little uneasy when he saw Lin Xiuyan looking at him, but he still said, "I'm not someone you can like."
"I think you and Young Master Ye are a perfect match. He is more suitable for you than I am."
Lin Xiuyan smiled and said, "But I just don't like him. I only like you."
After she finished speaking, she grabbed his hand and said, "The girl you like, call her over and have a match with me. If she can beat me, you can go with her."
"If she loses to me, you can stay in the Lin family and marry into my family."
No Knife: "..."
He thought she was too bold, taking his hand and asking him to marry into her family!
He finally remembered that he was still impersonating Ye Junfei, and he shouted, "How dare you! I am a dignified heir, how could I marry into another family!"
Lin Xiuyan reached out and touched his face: "I heard that there are many young masters in the Pingnan Prince's Mansion. You have a hard time being the heir, so why don't you compete with them?"
"You'll stay at the Lin residence and live a carefree life with me... Hey, don't run away!"
Wu Dao dared not let her touch his face; if she did, his young master would punish him with fifty strokes of the military rod when they returned home.
Adding to his previous debts, he felt that those military batons could beat him into a boneless pancake!
After he ran away, he turned around and glanced at her. She stood with her hands on her hips, looking at him with a half-smile.
Even if he were stupid, he would know that she had probably already guessed that he was not the heir of the Prince of Pingnan, and that she was just making fun of him!
Even though he knew about this, he didn't dare go back to cause her trouble.
Not only would causing trouble for her result in punishment from the Crown Prince, but she might also humiliate you, and it wouldn't be as simple as just being punished.
Wu Dao felt quite pathetic. Playing the role of the young master in the Lin family mansion was far less enjoyable than playing the role of the young master in the city lord's mansion; there were too many restrictions here.
Lin Xiuyan dismissed Wudao and breathed a long sigh of relief. If this guy kept nagging beside her, she was afraid she wouldn't be able to resist drawing her sword.
Soon it was time for Ye Junfei and Xu Qianting to compete. Xu Qianting made forty-five parts, while Ye Junfei made fifty-three parts.
Lin Xiuyan took out a ruler and measured the dimensions.
Apart from the initial few parts that had slightly larger dimensional errors, the parts made by Ye Junfei were almost imperceptible in terms of measurement.
While Xu Qianting's parts weren't significantly off, they were still far inferior to Ye Junfei's.
In this round, Ye Junfei won completely, both in terms of quantity and quality.
Although Xu Qianting felt humiliated, he accepted his defeat wholeheartedly.
He cupped his hands in a gesture of respect to Ye Junfei and said, "Young Master Ye's blacksmithing skills are truly breathtaking; I am ashamed to admit my inferiority."
Ye Junfei ignored him, picked up the hairpin on the table and played with it, then turned to Lin Xiuyan and asked, "When are you free to go to the hot springs?"
He had just finished forging iron, and as she approached, she could smell a faint scent of sweat mixed with his pine-like and cypress-like aura, which was captivating.
Lin Xiuyan coughed lightly and said, "I..."
"It'll be no fun if just the two of you go," Xu Qianting interrupted her. "We should go together; it's more fun with more people!"
Lin Xiuyan immediately nodded: "Qian Ting is right!"
She was actually quite wronged. They made a bet, but she was used as the wager. This was just ridiculous!
But because Ye Junfei was involved, she dared not refuse.
Ye Junfei glanced at her and said very gently, "I'll listen to you."
Lin Xiuyan felt a chill run down her spine and immediately said, "If you're willing to gamble, you have to accept the consequences. If Qian Ting loses, it's not appropriate for him to go with you."
Xu Qianting felt a chill run down his spine at the thought of Lin Xiuyan going to soak in a hot spring alone with Ye Junfei.
The key point is that she went with Ye Junfei voluntarily. He originally thought she must like him, but now he's not so confident anymore.
But since he was the one who brought it up, he couldn't say much. In an instant, he regretted it so much he felt like his guts were turning green!
He tugged at Lin Xiuyan's sleeve and said, "Yanyan, take me with you!"
Lin Xiuyan was annoyed by his troublemaking today and glared at him, saying, "No, you can go cool off somewhere else."
Xu Qianting was about to say something more when Lin Xiuyan stepped on his foot and said, "If you keep babbling, I'll hit you!"
Xu Qianting: "..."
Although Ye Junfei secretly only wanted to soak in the hot springs alone with Lin Xiuyan, she was now terrified of him, and if they went together, she was afraid she would be unhappy.
He then said, "Since Xiao Xu wants to go, let's go together!"
Wu Dao, standing nearby, immediately said, "I want to go too!"
Fan Xilou coughed lightly and said, "Since everyone is going, I'll go too."
Ye Junfei said calmly, "Since everyone wants to go, let's go together."
Lin Xiuyan: "..."
She felt that the course of this matter had become very strange.
When did Ye Junfei become so easy to talk to?
She couldn't help but glance at Ye Junfei. He was wiping the sweat from his brow with a handkerchief. When he saw her looking over, he smiled faintly.
His smile was completely different from his usual fake and gentle smile; it was a genuine smile from the heart. Her heart skipped a beat.
She cursed inwardly, "Has this vixen gone mad today? Trying to seduce me like this!"
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