Chapter 192 Xu Ying is injured

"My name is Xu Ying, and my brother is this year's new top scholar, Xu Heng."

Xu Ying greeted carefully. The name Miss Duan from the Anping Marquis's Mansion was on the list her brother gave her, and she just heard other people greeting her.

"Tanhua? I don't know. What do you want to talk to me about?" Duan Wanxin was tied to her two elder brothers. They couldn't finish reading a historical record. She didn't care about Tanhua or Zhuangyuan, or anything related to studying.

Compared with her previous behavior, Duan Wanxin's attitude was already very polite. After all, under her second sister-in-law's "virtue" to win people over, she had to be impolite.

But Xu Ying was still a little disappointed. Her brother asked her to make friends with others, but how could she do that in this situation?

"No, I'm fine. I just wanted to tell you that your skirt is very beautiful."

"Oh, thank you."

Duan Wanxin was a person who couldn't sit still. When she saw her second sister-in-law was talking to someone and had no time to pay attention to her, she wanted to go out and play.

In fact, at a banquet, people would not sit in the pavilion and talk all the time. If anyone wanted to go out to play, there would be maids to lead them, so there was no need to worry about going to places where they should not go.

Seeing that Princess Kang Le was no longer talking to Shen Yuan, Duan Wanxin ran to Shen Yuan's side again, "Yuan Yuan, do you want to go out and play? It's so boring sitting here."

Shen Yuan was listening to Lu Shuyan talking and didn't want to go out, so he refused Duan Wanxin, "I'm sorry, Miss Duan, Shuyan and I have something to talk about, so I won't go out."

"Okay then." Duan Wanxin sounded quite regretful, but she didn't bother to argue and planned to go out by herself. Her second brother told her that if a woman says she doesn't want to, then she really does want to, and then her second brother was beaten by her second sister-in-law. From then on, she knew that when someone refuses, she shouldn't say it again.

At this time, Xu Ying stepped forward and said, "Miss Duan, let me go out with you."

Duan Wanxin nodded nonchalantly, "Okay."

Lu Shuyan saw Shen Yuan looking at the little girl following Duan Wanxin, so she asked her, "What's wrong? Do you know her?"

"I've met her, but I wouldn't say I know her. She's the younger sister of this year's top scholar."

The girl whom I first saw at the gate of Gongyuan seemed quite arrogant, but when I saw her today, she had changed quite a bit.

After Shen Yuan finished speaking, he suggested, "Let's go talk somewhere else. There are too many people here."

Although everyone was not sitting close to each other and could not hear each other even if they spoke softly, it was still inconvenient to talk. Lu Shuyan also agreed to Shen Yuan's proposal, and the two of them stood up together and prepared to go out to talk.

"Sister-in-law, Shuyan and I are going out for a walk."

He Ying didn't say much, just smiled and said, "Okay."

After Lu Shuyan told her mother, the two of them left the pavilion together.

Inside the house, a lady said to He Ying, "Your sister-in-law is very friendly to you."

Another lady teased, "Madam Zhong may have forgotten that our Madam Shen and her husband are childhood sweethearts. Isn't this sister-in-law a younger sister?"

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"There's a gazebo nearby. Let's go there."

There was no one in the pavilion and it was surrounded by water on three sides, making it a great place to talk.

Shen Yuan sat down and asked, "What did you want to tell me just now?"

Lu Shuyan paused, and didn't know how to start. She originally thought that Shen Yuan and young Master Xie loved each other and were engaged. If she was asked about matters of the heart, she might have some opinions. But when the words came to her lips, she didn't know where to start.

Seeing Lu Shuyan's expression, Shen Yuan was happy, "I see, you want to tell me about Lord Yuwen, right?"

In the past, Lu Shuyan always looked confident in everything she did. This was the first time Shen Yuan saw her looking confused and hesitant to speak.

Seeing that Shen Yuan had guessed it, Lu Shuyan also said, "I originally thought that I couldn't make things clear to him, but from the look on his face, it seems that he doesn't intend to give up."

"Do you find Lord Yuwen's persistence annoying?"

Lu Shuyan shook her head, "Not really."

"Well, that means at least you don't dislike him."

Lu Shuyan really didn't dislike him. Yuwen Mu had always been very sensible. Even though he spoke bluntly, he had never done anything beyond the line.

"Honestly, I'd rather marry a stranger so I don't have to worry about that."

In Lu Shuyan's previous understanding, marriage was a transaction between two families, and the most taboo thing about a transaction is mixing emotions.

"Although many families now only consider character and family background when arranging marriages for their children, there are more possibilities for marriage. Maybe you can give it a try and like someone. It doesn't have to be Lord Yuwen, but someone else."

Although mutual affection is only the icing on the cake, it is still a flower after all.

Lu Shuyan felt that she might be a little slow-witted as she had never experienced that kind of feeling.

Shen Yuan joked again: "But I heard that Lord Yuwen is still very good, why don't you consider him?"

Lu Shuyan said uncertainly: "How about...I give it a try?"

She couldn't tell her parents about these questions. After all, judging from their marriage, they probably didn't understand them.

"Yuanyuan!"

Shen Yuan looked in the direction of the voice and saw Duan Wanxin with a distressed look on her face. A maid was supporting Xu Ying, who was covering her head, towards them.

"What happened to her?"

"I accidentally hit my head on a rock."

"Have you asked someone to call a doctor?"

Duan Wanxin nodded and said, "The maid from the palace has already gone to invite them." She didn't dare to bring anyone to the warm pavilion. If her second sister-in-law saw them, she would definitely think that she was causing trouble again.

"You...you hope nothing happens to you!" Duan Wanxin was almost scared to death when she saw Xu Ying's pale face.

Just now she and Xu Ying were outside. She saw the strange rockery and wanted to play with it, but she didn't pay attention to her feet and tripped. Xu Ying pulled her, but she didn't control her strength and her head hit the rockery backwards.

Duan Wan was extremely anxious. Xu Ying kept covering her head and didn't say anything. She was worried that the person had been knocked stupid by this collision.

After a while, the maid brought the doctor from the palace, and also the nanny beside Princess Ming. Someone was injured in the palace, and the matter could be serious or minor, so the maid went to report it to the nanny.

The doctor looked at the wound on the back of the head and took the pulse. "The girl's injury was not serious. The wound is just slightly red and swollen. It will heal after applying ointment twice."

Hearing that everything was fine, everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief when they heard the doctor say, "But..."

Duan Wanxin asked nervously, "But what?"

"This girl seems to have been injured in the same place before?"

Now everyone looked at Xu Ying, who seemed to have calmed down by now, put down her hand, and said slowly: "I dropped it once before because I was playing around."

"How does Miss Xu feel? We have prepared a room for her in the mansion. If you feel uncomfortable, you can go and have a rest."

"Thank you, Ma'am, but please allow me to go home first."

"Okay, since you are not feeling well, you may as well go home and rest. I will ask someone to tell your brother. Lian Ye, ask someone to prepare a carriage to take Miss Xu back home."

Duan Wanxin asked worriedly, "Are you really okay? You look so ugly."

"Nothing, just go home and rest."