Chapter 90 She Met Two Men in One Day
In the flower hall, Wei Mingzhen was sitting in the guest seat, and the tea in the teacup beside him had already gone cold.
Seeing Jiang Fei come in, he immediately stood up, "Miss Jiang."
"You're welcome, Third Young Master." Jiang Fei sat down. "You must have been waiting for a long time."
Wei Mingzhen pinched the fabric on his legs and said, "Not long. I have nothing to do today, so it's okay for you to wait a while."
Jiang Fei certainly knew why Wei Mingzhen came.
In the book, he is a thorough gentleman who does things in a rigid manner and does not know how to adapt.
He did not go to save Jiang Fei that day, and he felt guilty and uneasy. What's more, he couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart. He must come to apologize today.
Jiang Fei deliberately didn't respond, but just slowly fiddled with the teacup lid, waiting for him to speak first.
Wei Mingzhen could no longer sit still. He coughed lightly and said, "Second Miss Jiang, what happened that day..."
"Which day?" Jiang Fei pretended not to know.
Wei Mingzhen frowned slightly, "Jiu Tao came to see me that day, but I was not thoughtful enough to consider the young lady."
Jiang Fei stared at the ground without blinking until her eyes felt sore. Then she looked at Wei Mingzhen, "Master Wei, don't worry. Miss Wei is your blood relative, and I haven't married yet. I understand the difference between close relatives and distant relatives."
After Jiang Fei said this, her eyes turned red just right, but she turned her face away stubbornly.
Wei Mingzhen felt stung by her appearance, his fingers unconsciously clenching his robes. "It's Mingzhen's fault. Don't be sad. I promise you, I will protect you from now on."
While he was looking down, Jiang Fei dipped some tea in her eyes and said sincerely, "I believe you, sir!"
Wei Mingzhen felt even more guilty when he saw tears still hanging on her eyelashes.
He hesitated for a moment, then pulled out a brocade box from his sleeve. "I heard you like pearls, so I picked some from the storeroom at home and had them made into a hairpin. It's perfect to match your pearl earrings."
When he said this, his ears turned slightly red.
Jiang Fei suddenly realized that the last time the Dingyuan Marquis' family came to propose marriage, she was wearing a pair of pearl earrings that day, but she didn't expect that Wei Mingzhen actually remembered it.
Jiang Fei took the brocade box and opened it. Inside was a pearl hairpin. The hairpin was made of two golden threads intertwined like willow branches. Two round pearls were embedded at the head of the hairpin, and a few small beads were hanging on the chain hanging from one side.
Such a complicated process cannot be completed in two days. Did he start preparing after getting engaged?
"System, system," Jiang Fei shouted in her head, "Emergency call system."
The system said: "What's wrong?"
"Quickly check Wei Mingzhen's favorability towards me."
There were two beeps in my head, followed by the system's voice: "Favorability 52."
Jiang Fei was shocked. "Isn't it difficult to make someone like you? Why did it suddenly increase so quickly?"
The system lazily replied, "Just now, those two fake tears of yours increased your score by five points. And when you solemnly said, 'I believe you, sir,' it increased by another five points."
Who would have thought that Wei Mingzhen would be so easy to coax? It seems that the straitlaced gentleman in the book is actually a person who is soft-hearted and not hard-hearted.
Seeing Jiang Fei holding the hairpin for a long time without any reaction, Wei Mingzhen asked in confusion: "What's wrong? Is this hairpin not to your liking?"
"Close, close, close." Jiang Fei said: "Close."
Wei Mingzhen was stunned for a moment, "What are you laughing at?"
"..." Jiang Fei: "Uh, I mean it's exactly what I want."
She inserted the pearl hairpin into her bun and asked, "Does it look good?"
Wei Mingzhen's cheeks flushed, and she said softly, "Whatever you wear will be wonderful."
Jiang Fei didn't know how to respond to this, but she had a lot of questions to ask, all about Wei Ciying.
She changed the subject and said, "Ciying looks great in pearls too."
Wei Mingzhen smiled and said, "She doesn't like dignified and elegant things, she only likes those that are lively and vivid."
"She was frightened that day. Is she feeling better now?" Jiang Fei asked indirectly.
"Much better. He even said he'd invite you out to play in a few days."
Jiang Fei's eyes turned slightly, and her fingertips gently fiddled with the edge of the teacup. "Why don't we go to Tingquan Mountain? It's cool in the mountains, just right to avoid the summer heat."
Wei Mingzhen nodded and listened to Jiang Fei say, "Back at Jinglian Temple, I heard Ciying say that she had lived in Jiangnan for some time."
Wei Mingzhen's expression suddenly froze, and his fingers unconsciously rubbed his sleeves. "My maternal grandparents' home is in Jiangnan, and she did live there for a while when she was young."
Jiang Fei's heart skipped a beat. Wei Mingzhen's reaction was a bit strange.
"At that time, King Zhaoning asked Ciying if there was anyone she couldn't forget. Ciying said there was one unforgettable person."
Wei Mingzhen's eyes wandered as he said, "She and I were both very young back then, and I don't remember many things clearly."
"Is that so?" Jiang Fei didn't dare to make her intentions too obvious, and only said: "I have never been to Jiangnan. I heard that Jiangnan is picturesque. I still want to go and see it if I have the chance."
She clearly noticed that Wei Mingzhen breathed a sigh of relief. After she sent Wei Mingzhen out the door, she called out the system.
"Wei Mingzhen's reaction was so strange."
"Yes." The system said: "When you asked about Jiangnan just now, his energy field fluctuated."
Jiang Fei nodded thoughtfully, then suddenly widened her eyes. "You mean his energy field fluctuated when we talked about Wei Ciying and Jiangnan?"
The system was baffled: "Is my Mandarin not pronounced correctly enough? Listen—"
"Wait!" Jiang Fei interrupted directly, "To test whether Wei Ciying has been reborn, wouldn't it be enough to just pay attention to her energy fluctuations when testing her?"
Jiang Fei was so excited that she almost jumped up, "System, you are a genius!"
System: "You finally discovered my value."
"Great." Jiang Fei paced back and forth in the room. "Next time you see Wei Ciying, you must monitor her energy fluctuations throughout the entire process."
The system said: "However, host, this kind of precise monitoring consumes a lot of energy. My battery may not last more than half a day."
Jiang Fei suddenly stopped and asked, "Wait, do you still need to charge?"
The system complained: "What else? I'm not a perpetual motion machine."
Jiang Fei held her forehead with her hand: "So what happens if your battery runs out?"
“It will go offline and then recharge.”
…
Inside the Zhaoning Prince's Palace.
The bowl containing the medicine shattered onto the ground with a "bang".
"You mean she saw two men in one day?"
The secret guard knelt on the ground and raised his head slightly, first looking at Duan Jiu's face, and said with a stiff face: "Miss Jiang Er went out, and the subordinates followed behind to protect her for fear that she would encounter danger. Miss Jiang Er first went to the restaurant and met the Prime Minister's son Zhao Xingbang at Yicui Tower, and then..."
"Wait." Pei Jing raised his hand to interrupt, "What did you say the name of that restaurant was?"
The secret guard was confused, "It's called Yicuilou."
"You go—" Pei Jing coughed several times before recovering and saying, "Go and take down the plaque of that restaurant for me!"
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