Chapter 199 Moonlight Boat (3)
Mingyuelin tried hard to pull his hand back, but failed.
She tried to push again, but Ji Rangzhou was afraid of hurting her, so he let go and raised his hand to block behind her shoulder, just in time to catch the person who was leaning back.
Ming Yuelin stumbled for a moment before being supported. She stood firm, pushed his hand away, and kicked the snow at him. "You're annoying! What do you mean? If I want to continue, I will continue. If I don't want to continue, I won't. Don't you think this engagement is dispensable to you?"
"Being engaged to me is no different from being engaged to anybody else, isn't that what you mean?"
She is not someone else.
Ji Rangzhou lowered his eyes and glanced at the corner of her clothes, then lifted his eyelids to look at her.
Ming Yuelin turned his head away in dissatisfaction, "What are you looking at? Since everything is acceptable, I don't want to do it now. After the New Year, I will ask my mother to go to your house to cancel the engagement so as not to delay you. Otherwise, if it is delayed for another two years, you will become old."
Hearing her insincere words, Ji Rangzhou suddenly felt a little funny and called her, "Xiao Lin."
Mingyuelin glanced at him.
"What do you see me as? A brother or a fiancé?"
She didn't say anything, her toes crunching the snow on the ground, her head lowered in thought.
Everyone said he was a genius, having won the top spot in the imperial examination at the age of sixteen and been promoted three times in six years. She always heard people praising him, and after her status changed, she naturally paid more attention to his news. She felt awkward about it, but then she became concerned about him, and then she wanted him to pay more attention to her.
But he was too busy. The current court had experienced a long period of dictatorship by relatives of the emperor, and years of backlogs of wrongful convictions and unjust cases had accumulated. The old officials did not have his courage and caution, so the emperor made many exceptions for him. Sometimes he could not even have time to relax during the New Year, and when they met, he would just nod and leave.
His current attitude of "anything goes" made her feel very lost.
"Look up at me."
The voice still sounded very faint. Ming Yuelin pursed her lips and looked at him unhappily.
Ji Rangzhou sighed softly: "They all say that I am boring. You have always been lively. When you were young, you didn't like to stay with me. Perhaps a young man is more suitable for you."
"I respect your opinion, so if you don't want to continue this engagement, I will agree to it."
"To be honest, I still treat you as my sister. Whether you treat me as your brother or your fiancé will determine how I will treat you in the future."
"You can explain the reasoning clearly and sound very considerate. Look at my attitude? We've been engaged for so many years, don't you have your own ideas? Just follow my advice." Ming Yuelin still didn't sound satisfied. He turned around and walked away quickly, not giving him a chance to stop him. "Go shopping by yourself. I'm going to find someone else to play with."
Judging from her attitude, he didn't understand. What kind of genius is this? She's so stupid!
Or maybe he thinks she is young and childish and doesn't care about her at all.
As she walked, she became angrier and angrier, and she stopped and turned around: "Ji Gudong, I hate you!"
Ji Rangzhou stood there somewhat at a loss, a hint of confusion appearing in his usually cold eyes.
Ming Zhouqing and Ming Zhouhe came out of the inner courtyard and saw her rushing towards the East Palace angrily. After staring at each other for a moment, Ming Zhouqing asked, "Are you angry because you didn't defeat them?"
"No, I'm the kind of person who can't afford to play." After a while of the cold wind, Ming Yuelin was no longer so angry. "Since that guy surnamed Ji is here, I can't play anymore."
She didn't want to admit in front of him that she cared about him, as that would put her at a disadvantage.
Ming Zhou understood clearly: "The one with the surname Ji, so it was Brother Ji who made you angry?"
"Don't mention him, where is Sister Li?" Mingyue asked Mingzhouhe.
"I guess she's in her own yard. She doesn't like to go out when it's cold."
Ming Yuelin turned around again and said, "I'm going to play with Sister Li."
When they arrived at Shi Jianli's yard, Ming Yuelin was no longer angry. He sat next to Shi Jianli, warming himself by the fire and reading a book.
It wasn't Sister Li who made her angry, so she wouldn't bother Sister Li with her emotions towards others.
Just give Ji Gudong some time to think about it.
She told Ji Rangzhou to have his own ideas, and after Ji Rangzhou went back, he actually thought about it seriously.
The little girl's mind was indeed fickle, and no one knew when she changed. She was angry now simply because he still treated her as a sister and wronged the emotional imbalance between them.
But he still had no answer. When he heard her say that she hated him, the uneasiness that suddenly surged in his heart was not yet sure whether it was because his sister hated him or his fiancée hated him.
Ji Rangzhou has never been a procrastinator. He knocked on the table and said, "Xing Zhao."
"Sir, do you have any instructions?" There was enough charcoal in the room. Xing Zhao, who was sitting in a corner of the desk with his arms folded and drowsy, instantly regained his spirits.
"Go ask my mother when to send New Year gifts to the Duke of Anguo's Mansion." Ji Rangzhou opened the sealed letter on the desk.
Mingzhao also wrote a letter to the Anguo Mansion every six months, and also wrote a letter to him and Yu Heming, which were sent to the capital along with family letters and military intelligence. Ming Zhouqing gave him the letter yesterday when he went to the Anguo Mansion.
When Mingyuelin was about to go out to play, the postman just delivered a letter from home. It was originally given to him by Mingyuelin, but he had angered her yesterday, so she threw the letter to Mingzhouqing.
I opened the letter, which was only half a page long, saying that there would be a war at the end of the year, which would end the chaos that would last for years.
"yes."
On the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, the person who went to the Anguo Mansion to deliver the New Year gift from the Fuguo Mansion was changed from the Fuguo Duke's wife to Ji Rangzhou.
Seeing that it was him, Yuan Yuhe chatted with him for a few words and then asked, "Why are you here today? Is your mother busy with something recently?"
Ji Rangzhou said frankly: "My mother is busy with the clan ceremony, I came here to see Xiaolin."
Yuan Yuhe understood and asked the servants to find Ming Yuelin. Then she chatted with him aside: "Your mother told me that you have been busy until late at night in recent years. Should you be able to relax a little next year?"
She had also heard from the servants that the two children seemed to have had a quarrel a few days ago, but since Lin'er hadn't told her, she had pretended not to know. After all, this was a matter between the two children, so it would be better to let them resolve it themselves.
Yuan Yuhe had never expected that his daughter would quarrel with him. Ji Rangzhou was too calm and didn't seem like the kind of person who would quarrel with others.
"All the backlog of cases from previous years has been investigated, so next year will be easier."
The maid came back not long after and started to lie: "Madam, the second young lady said she is busy and has no time."
The second girl was watching Miss Li painting and had a lot of free time, so she was asked to find some conversation to deal with it.
"In that case, I will come again another day and not disturb my aunt." Ji Rangzhou said goodbye.
"good."
In Tangli Courtyard, the last stroke was completed. Shi Jianli fanned the painting with a fan to make it dry faster, and then hung it up.
Then he turned around and asked Ming Yuelin, who was lying in a rocking chair, leisurely peeling chestnuts and eating, "Why don't you go see Prince Ji?"
"What's there to see him for? There's nothing much to talk about with Bingtuozi."
Shi Jianli didn't ask any more questions after hearing this. "You're pressing down on my books. Doesn't it hurt your waist to lie like this?"
"I'm wearing thick clothes, so I don't feel it."
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, it was the turn of the Duke of Anguo's Mansion to visit the Duke of Fuguo's Mansion to pay New Year's greetings. Mingyuelin followed the mansion to the Duke of Fuguo's Mansion, and with a smile on her face and sweet words, she wished the Duke of Fuguo and his wife a happy new year.
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