Duan Rong picked her up again and held her on his lap, "Little girl, is your focus so biased?"
Jiuer comforted him, "Duan Rong, you are not bad looking either, don't always be jealous of others."
Before, he had to compete with Su Jingxing, and now he has to compete with the Regent of Dajing.
How can a man be so petty?
Duan Rong smiled instead of getting angry, his eyes surging with intoxicating tenderness, "Do you really think I'm not bad looking?"
Jiuer was bewitched and nodded.
Duan Rong's smile became more and more gentle, but Jiuer's hair stood on end. Finally, she punched Duan Rong in the chest and jumped back several steps.
Inexplicably, her face got hot and she yelled, "Don't get so close to me all the time!"
Duan Rong's chest vibrated and he laughed softly.
Jiuer couldn't feel relieved even after baring her teeth at him.
She went to another corner with the book in her arms to read, and ignored Duan Rong no matter how he teased her.
This day passed by reading books again.
Seeing that the palace banquet was only three days away, Jiuer felt that she must meet Su Jingxing before the banquet.
On the third day, Jiuer made up her mind to go out and see Su Jingxing.
Books and the like won’t run away. I can just read them when I see Su Jingxing and come back.
But who knew that what Duan Rong gave her today was not a book, but some scattered information about Dajing.
The news was neither very important nor completely unimportant. But once Jiuer saw it, she couldn't get rid of it.
And just like that, two more days passed.
On the fifth day, Jiuer could no longer sit still when she thought about the palace banquet the next day.
After packing up, he ran out like a whirlwind.
Duan Rong stood on the second floor, looking at Jiu'er who was in the yard wishing she could grow wings and fly away, and asked lightly, "Do you really want to find Su Jingxing?"
Jiuer turned around and looked at the man at the railing. "Although the books are good, you can't use them to lock me up in this bookstore forever."
Don't think she doesn't know that he has been trying his best to deliberately use things that interest her these days just to keep her from going out.
She said seriously, "I know you are good to me, but I am not a child, you can't tie me to you."
After saying this, Jiuer did not stop and went to find Su Jingxing with determination.
Duan Rong turned around and leaned against the railing, holding the wine jug, tilted his head back and drank the fine wine, wetting the bitterness hidden on his lips.
The shadow guard who just came to report the matter felt his scalp tingling. Why did he encounter such a moment again?
"explain."
Duan Rong didn't even turn his head back, and said a few words lightly. The shadow guard was startled and quickly reported, "My lord, that person in the palace will indeed make unusual moves at the palace banquet..."
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After Jiuer ran out of the bookstore, she stopped and paused, but never looked back.
He called a carriage and went straight to Su's house.
The streets are even busier than before.
Even in the carriage, Jiuer could vaguely hear from time to time that the young master of so-and-so's family and the young lady of so-and-so's family had received imperial orders to attend the palace banquet.
Although speculating on the emperor's intentions is a taboo in any country, Cangyu holds such a palace banquet every year, and the main purpose of the palace banquet is to grant marriages.
That's a good thing.
Putting aside the checks and balances of interests involved, there is no harm in just guessing who will be paired with whom.
"You guys heard, the 'troublemaker' from the Zhenbei General's Mansion is also among the invited guests this year..."
"Are you talking about that Duan Rong?"
"Yes. Speaking of this Duan Rong, the Zhenbei General's Mansion is really, I don't know what sins he committed in his previous life."
"You said that the two generations of generals in the Zhenbei General's Mansion were all loyal, brave, upright and dignified people. How could they give birth to such a ridiculous child who brought disgrace to the family..."
"I say, this happened many years ago. Duan Rong was a frivolous kid. He became the most dissolute young man in Kyoto at such a young age. He was a hopeless case. But more than ten years have passed. He has almost disappeared in these years. Who knows, maybe he has changed for the better."
"It's hard to say. It's hard to change one's nature."
"Yes, it's hard to change one's nature. If he really changed for the better, the old General Zhenbei has been in a coma and paralyzed in bed for these years. No matter how poor he is, he can come back to the mansion to take care of him, right? But he is fine. He has never been seen for a whole year."
"Didn't the old General Zhenbei get so angry that he kicked him out of the house and severed all ties with him? How could he come back..."
"Who knows? I just feel sorry for which young lady is so unlucky to be married to that dandy boy. Tsk tsk..."
As the carriage passed through the long street, Jiuer made a slight sound.
Ugh!
Duan Rong is not as bad as they say.
Foolish people of the world.
About half an hour later, the carriage stopped at the gate of Su's house.
Jiuer jumped off the carriage, gave the driver some money, and walked towards the two doormen at the other door.
She smiled and said, "We meet again."
"Who is this girl?"
Jiuer glared, "No way, I came here a few days ago, and you were on duty twice."
The two doormen looked at their noses with their eyes and their hearts with their noses.
Jiuer blinked, "You really don't know me?"
"I don't know him."
"Oh." Jiuer nodded, turned around, and smiled when she turned around again, "Hello, let me introduce myself. My name is Duan Jiu. Okay, now we know each other. I'll go in to find your master."
The corners of their mouths twitched.
"Young lady, our master is not in the mansion."
"It's okay, I'll just wait for him to come back."
The two gatekeepers made themselves look serious and stopped her dutifully, "Don't blame me, young lady. Without the master's order, we are not allowed to let anyone into the mansion."
Jiuer glanced at them and said, "Okay."
He turned around and went around to the back of Su's house.
She walked around to the place where she used to sing, and took out a small porcelain bottle from her body. After opening the small porcelain bottle, she dipped her handkerchief in the powder and began to smear it on the wall.
After applying the powder, she waited for a while, then picked up a small stone on the side of the road and began to hit the place where the powder had been applied.
The shadow guards in the Su Mansion looked on in amazement as she easily and casually smashed off large chunks of the extremely solid courtyard wall.
In just a moment, a hole as big as a bucket was smashed out!
Jiuer touched the hole with satisfaction, and said to the shadow guard in the dark, "You didn't see it~"
Shadow Guard: “…”
They watched Jiuer crawl out of the hole and into the mansion.
——Stop it?
——I’ve watched them dig the wall, there’s no way I can stop them!
The secret guards looked at each other for a moment, pretending to look up at the sky, pretending they didn't see anything.
This was Jiuer’s first time entering the Su Mansion.
When the maids and servants in the mansion saw her, they quickly looked away and pretended not to see her.
Not to mention the guards coming and going, they all looked straight at her and treated her as air.
Jiuer felt a little regretful.
If she had known that Su Jingxing allowed her to come to see him, she should have come earlier!
Jiuer observed her surroundings and soon discovered that the guards who always looked straight ahead would "inadvertently" look in a certain direction.
Jiuer thought about it and went in that direction.
When Jiuer sneaked around as if there was no one around and reached the end of that direction, she saw Su Jingxing's study.
In the study, there was a figure in white sitting by the window.
Jiuer's heart suddenly started beating faster.
Pressing her chest, Jiuer bent down and quietly reached over.
Inside the house, Su Jingxing's calm black eyes moved slightly.
Suddenly, "Su Jingxing~!"
The girl suddenly jumped out from under the windowsill with curved eyes.
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