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Jing Yao felt a chill on his back, but with the idea of taking the initiative, he still prepared to go over and meet Yue Ningning.
In her previous life, she had not met Yue Ningning many times. She had only seen her from afar at a few palace banquets, and most of her understanding of her came from the discussions of the palace people.
It is said that Yue Ningning is a woman of unparalleled talent, possessing a knack for composing poetry and couplets, a knack for building ships and houses, and the ability to create countless gadgets never before seen.
Si Jue brought her into the palace and kept her by the Queen Mother's side. The Queen Mother also named her Princess Qingyang and agreed to her marriage to Prince Lin Si Jue.
In his previous life, Si Jue had been able to take advantage of Si Pei's inattention and unknowingly build up strength to launch a rebellion. Jing Yao believed that he couldn't do it on his own. Perhaps the breakthrough point lies in this suspicious "celestial" girl.
The carriage stopped outside a bustling bookstore. Jing Yao took a deep breath, lifted the veil of his hat and saw the plaque hanging on the bookstore: Yushan Bookstore.
I guess the power of Prince Lin Sijue is behind this bookstore.
Huo Zhuxin and the other two were unaware of Jing Yao's worries, and as soon as they got off the car, they excitedly walked into the bookstore.
"Ling Yi, come quickly!"
Jiang Jing came back and together with Huo Zhuxin, they pulled Jing Yao inside.
Jing Yao's hands were grabbed, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I know."
As soon as you enter the bookstore, you will see the simple and elegant decoration. There are no fancy decorations, only endless bookshelves.
"Isn't this where the young master fell down?"
Jing Yao was surprised. How many bookshelves would be knocked down by this?
No wonder Jiang Min said that he "crawled" out of the pile of books. It was good enough that he was not crushed to death by so many books.
There are also many tables and chairs here for customers to rest and read.
“I’ve never seen that before.”
Jiang Wen raised her chin: "I was saying this bookstore is different. Others don't do business this way. This is the most considerate."
Jing Yao randomly picked up a few storybooks and found that the plots were indeed novel and exciting, but the main stories were still about women taking revenge on unfaithful men and vicious family members, just with different plots.
The story is compact and full of twists and turns, which made Jing Yao feel very satisfied.
Until Jing Yao picked one of the books and saw that the story inside was about a heroine who was born in a mountain bandit village, and after meeting the hero who was a down-and-out prince, she decided to help him seize the prince's throne.
Jing Yao slammed the book shut. She couldn't believe what she had just seen.
The plots about the royal brothers are surprisingly similar to Si Pei and Si Jue.
However, the book focuses on the fact that the emperor values the elder brother and neglects the younger brother, and only wants the elder brother to be the crown prince, making the hard-working younger brother seem so pitiful.
Jing Yao felt a chill run down his spine. Si Jue had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth, a legitimate son, a distinguished position, and everything else. The Emperor certainly didn't value him in government, but that was because Si Jue didn't have the ability to do so. Even if he stayed away from Si Pei, who outperformed him in every aspect, he wouldn't have any significant achievements to show for himself in his fiefdom.
It was reasonable and emotional for the emperor to give Si Jue the treatment he deserved as a prince, even giving him the best fiefdom... not to mention that he also had the blatant favoritism of Queen Dowager Xuan and Queen Yue.
But he still felt that he should have everything in this world.
This self-righteous look is really disgusting.
If these two characters really reflect Si Pei and Si Jue, then the girl born in a bandit's den is...
Jing Yao flipped to the end and found that the story just stopped at the part where the heroine and the hero met and decided to work together to overthrow the prince, and there was no plan for the next step.
Jing Yao wanted to look for the second copy, but found that it didn't exist. Even the copy he had was newly printed two days ago.
She subconsciously wanted to ask the waiter about the situation, but suddenly remembered that the owner of this store was Yue Ningning.
She calmly put the book back on the bookshelf, picked up a book at random and returned to Huo Zhuxin.
The Jiang sisters were sitting on the soft chairs on the other side reading books. They were reading an exciting plot when a shadow suddenly fell in front of them.
"Xiao Wen!"
The fresh and cheerful voice of a young boy filled the small space. Jing Yao and Huo Zhu, as if in tacit understanding, used books to cover their faces and secretly observed the two nervous and cramped young people.
Jing Yao looked at the young man standing with Jiang Min. He was quite tall, though he didn't look very muscular. However, he was still young and hadn't grown up yet, so it was hard to say what his future would be like. He was also quite handsome, with a faint dimple on his face when he smiled, and he seemed to have a good temper.
I heard that the Wen family has many cold-faced generals, but this young master seems to be an exception.
Jiang Jing pushed her sister directly in front of Wen Renyou, and then she picked up the book and started reading seriously.
Jiang Min blushed, and Wen Renyou's ears were also red enough to look like blood.
"I found a really good storybook over there... It's about catching monsters..." He said cautiously, full of anticipation. "Do you want to read it?"
Jiang Min lowered his head and nodded: "Okay."
Looking at the boy and girl walking away hand in hand, Jing Yao suddenly felt itchy in his heart.
It's definitely not about missing someone.
As Jing Yao was thinking this, his hand very appropriately turned the page to the page where the heroine secretly kissed the hero while he was asleep.
The scene was so realistic, as if she was really slowly moving closer to his lips...
With a "snap", the book was slammed shut.
Huo Zhu was startled: "Ling Yi, what did you see?"
"Nothing." She shook her head calmly, "There's a ghost story in it."
"Oh, let's change it."
Jing Yao nodded and put the book back on the bookshelf. As she walked towards the inner bookshelf, a figure in red flashed before her eyes.
"Hey, hey, hey, these books shouldn't be here!"
The girl instructed her workers to place the newly printed books on the corresponding shelves: "Don't put them in the wrong place!"
Her voice was bright but not harsh, and rather endearing. Her lively demeanor was evident from her bouncing figure. Jing Yao stared at her for a long moment, and suddenly the red figure paused.
Yue Ningning turned around and found that there was no one behind her.
It was strange, she clearly heard the prompt in her brain that the heroine of the original world had just appeared nearby.
She was confused. Logically, the script didn't say Jing Yao would appear here. She should have been locked up in the East Palace and fighting Si Pei to the death.
Yue Ningning shook her head, perhaps there was something wrong with the system just now.
So he continued to direct the workers: "That's right, put these books on the second floor..."
Just before Yue Ningning was about to turn around, Jing Yao happened to turn around and go behind the bookshelf on the other side with the book.
Jing Yao didn't want to wait any longer. She had already met Yue Ningning, but running into her now probably wouldn't be a good thing. Furthermore, Yue Ningning's book was very strange, so she had to find a way to find the back of the book.
Jing Yao wanted to tell Huo Zhuxin and the others that he had to go back first and get together again next time, but before he could say anything, his attention was attracted by a familiar scream.
The three of them were shocked: It’s Jiang Min!
Following the sound, I rushed to the bookshelf on the other side and found that Wen Renyou was being thrown against the wall by a burly man. Wen Renyou was smaller than him and could only hold up his hands in front of him. The two seemed to be about to fight.
The panicked Jiang Min huddled aside, not knowing what was happening, and there were many people surrounding him.
"Xiao Wen! Don't be afraid, your sister is here..."
Jiang Jing hugged her sister to comfort her. It seemed that Jiang Min was frightened by the fight between the two men and was still shouting at them to stop fighting.
But the man turned a deaf ear and raised his hand to hit Wen Renyou in the face.
"Stop it!"
No matter how much Jing Yao was a master who had been in the palace for many years, his opening words shocked everyone around him so much that they were stunned and dared not move.
Seeing the man slow down his attack, Jing Yao continued his cold scolding, "You two are fighting in broad daylight in front of everyone in the bookstore, and there's a little girl next to you who was frightened by you. Do you have any sense of shame?"
The man was a little annoyed by her calling him a shameless person. He turned around and faced the girl who was a head shorter than him. "What does it have to do with you if I discipline my brother?"
The man's oppressive figure seemed nothing in front of Jing Yao, but she was not afraid at all.
Bo Yue wanted to call the servants but was stopped. Jing Yao waved his hand and turned to the man with a sneer:
"If I need to discipline you, I'll go home and lock you up, or do you treat this bookstore as your home?"
The man's stern expression made him laugh: "Whose family are you from? You have such a bad temper."
"Why don't you tell me your own home address before asking me? I don't know you either."
The man was not angry when he heard this. Instead, he felt that the girl's temper was comparable to his, or even better.
So he softened his tone a little: "Wenren is wrong."
Jing Yao nodded. Sure enough, it was the eldest of the five young masters of the Wen family—a major general in Xijing with distinguished military achievements. But he had a terrible temper, and it was said that he was very strict with his younger brothers.
"So it's Major General Wenren. I didn't expect that our Xijing generals are not only brave on the battlefield, but also use their strength to beat and scold their own juniors."
"I said, I'm disciplining my brother, it has nothing to do with you."
Jing Yao sneered, "Your brother must be at least sixteen or seventeen. What kind of violation did he commit by coming here to read a few storybooks that would warrant such a fuss? Or is it that the young general is so ignorant that he doesn't even know what a storybook is?"
Wen Rencuo hesitated to speak, Jing Yao continued:
"Or perhaps, seeing him with a girl, you think he's bringing disgrace to the family? This isn't a place for a tryst. They were just reading together, so what were they doing that was inappropriate? Your young master comes from a distinguished family, and our Jiang Wen is also the daughter of a Shangshu family. At their age, even if they truly fell in love with each other, it would be perfectly reasonable. Or... has the young general already chosen a good match for your brother?"
"No!" Wen Renyou was beaten black and blue but still managed to force himself to refute, "There is no one else, there is only Xiao Wen in my heart! She is the only one who is right for me!"
Wen Renyou's sudden confession left Jiang Wen at a loss. Wen Renyou misheard and twisted his brother's ear: "Didn't you say you were here to read with Miss Jiang!?"
"Did you give me a chance to speak?"
Wen Renyou looked aggrieved. Wen Rencuo heaved a sigh of relief and apologized to the frightened Jiang Wen: "I'm sorry, I just received a report from my men that Ah You secretly came to the bookstore to have a tryst with a girl... I misunderstood it..."
Jiang Min waved his hand and said it was okay, and Wen Rencuo then turned around and faced Jing Yao again.
"I'm sorry for my poor attitude just now." Wen Rencuo, a tall man, bowed his head in apology, which was a bit funny. He looked at Jing Yao through the blue veil, "My wife hasn't answered my question just now."
"You don't have to know me."
"I was wrong to argue with my wife just now. I will definitely apologize to everyone one by one someday."
At this point, Jing Yao was also tired, she had to go back to the palace. So she leaned close to him and sneered: "If you want to visit me, inform the East Palace first."
After Jing Yao finished speaking, he turned and left, and his three sisters followed him.
Only Wenrencuo was stunned where he stood. Donggong... Could this girl be...
Jing Yao was about to say goodbye and return to the palace. Huo Zhu was a little worried: "Aren't you afraid that the young general will really find the East Palace?"
"Let him find whatever he wants."
Jing Yao laughed, if only Si Pei could let him come to see her.
Jing Yao had already stepped onto the carriage's footrest and was about to move up when he heard a clear young girl's voice from behind him: "Madam, please stay!"
Her heart suddenly stopped and she turned around slowly.
Through the veil and gauze curtain, Jing Yao met her eyes.
The girl in red raised a bright smile and walked towards her, but Jing Yao looked at her with a frightened look——
"Hello, my name is Yue Ningning."
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