Chapter 29 Haitang is not as pretty as her
She should always plan more for herself.
Mingzhao nodded, his expression gentle again, "Thank you, cousin. But don't be so impulsive in the future and don't express your feelings directly to men."
If she meets someone with bad character, she will spread her words right away.
"I'm not acting on impulse." Yuan Wan glared at him. "If you weren't the cousin my mother and brother praise so highly, I wouldn't be saying this. I may not have any special abilities, but I do have an eye for people."
I also want to have a result after I have tried and worked hard for this sudden love, so that she won't feel regretful and unable to let go when she thinks about it in the future.
"It's getting dark. If I don't go back now, I won't be able to see the road. I'll go back and rest first. I have to set off back to Runan tomorrow." She turned and walked out of the garden.
Mingzhao walked a few steps forward and turned around to see two women hiding in the gap between two bushes of flowers.
In the dim light of the sky, he could clearly see the glass-like pupils in the clear eyes of the person he cared about tremble slightly.
It seemed to scare her.
Shi Jianli looked at him awkwardly, and Xianyue wanted to bury his head in his knees.
She pursed her lips and found her voice, "We didn't mean to eavesdrop."
"I know you're afraid you'll be embarrassed if you see my cousin." Mingzhao even stepped aside and said, "Come out first. The mosquitoes will come out at night."
Shi Jianli and Xianyue walked out quietly, and Xianyue even patted the grass leaves stuck to the corners of Shi Jianli's clothes.
"How do you get here?"
Shi Jianli's eyes drifted towards the nearby crabapple blossoms swaying in the wind. "I had dinner in Sister Lin's yard. I thought the evening sunlight was beautiful, and I thought the crabapple blossoms in the garden would look even better at this time, so I took a detour to come here."
Mingzhao followed her gaze, then looked back at her and chuckled, "I'm not interrogating the prisoner."
No crabapple is as pretty as her.
Shi Jianli looked at him, blinked, and regained her composure.
"So don't be so nervous."
She nodded, "Yeah."
"Go back, it's cold at night."
Upon hearing this, Shi Jianli took Xianyue through the flower corridor and disappeared around the corner.
Xianyue walked closer to her, "Miss, when did the prince discover us?"
Shi Jianli thought for a moment and said, "We didn't make any noise after we stopped, so they must have noticed us from the beginning."
When they were almost at Tangli Courtyard, they saw Lanxing waiting in front of the gate with a lantern in hand. Shi Jianli had a slight smile on her lips.
Yuan Wan returned to Madam Yuan's courtyard. Madam Yuan saw her and asked, "Why are you here at this time?"
"Mother, where did you and my aunt go today?"
Madam Yuan saw her red eyes by the candlelight and was startled: "Oh, who made you cry?"
"I went to see my eldest cousin and told him that I was interested in him, but he rejected me."
Madam Yuan patted her on the back and said, "You are so brave! I don't know where you got the courage from."
"My cousin isn't engaged, so why can't I ask him about it? He said my aunt never asked him to marry me, so you lied and said my cousin didn't like me?"
"Yes, your aunt told me that there would be risks in strengthening the relationship between our two families." Madam Yuan explained the matter to her. "Plus, your aunt and I went to the farm today and saw the family your second cousin mentioned from afar."
"The couple didn't have the heart to care and kept the three children, but their neighbors kept their distance. The family received a lot of strange looks. We asked the servants to leave some money and left."
"If I had known you were such a stubborn person, I wouldn't have lied to you and told you that your cousin rejected you."
Yuan Wan lowered her head and said, "It would be much more helpful if you told me this than if I told her that my eldest cousin rejected me."
"Well, I was wrong." Madam Yuan poked her head. "Go back to your courtyard. You can cry for an hour. But you must go back tomorrow morning. I have to choose a new husband for you."
"oh……"
The next morning, Mrs. Yuan took her two children to say goodbye to the old lady early.
Yuan Yuhe also took her children to see her sister-in-law and nephews and nieces out of the house.
Since he had a good relationship with Yuan Wan, it would be unreasonable for him not to send her pears when he saw them, so he got up early on his days off.
When walking towards the main gate, I met Ming Zhouhe who had returned home yesterday.
Shi Jianli looked at him and said with a smile: "Cousin, your face is a little darker and you seem to have lost some weight."
"Your aunt also said that I've become darker and thinner." Ming Zhouhe said with his hands behind his back, "Are you going to see the Yuan family off?"
"Well, it's only right that we go and see him off."
"Yesterday, my second cousin from the Yuan family insisted that I must go and see him off today." Ming Zhouhe glanced at her. "I just got back yesterday and went to your courtyard to look for you. Lan Xing said you went out to play with Princess Kangning. Did you have a great time?"
Shi Jianli nodded, then remembered something and said, "Cousin, I think Xie Xuezhi from the Xie family of Zuodu Yushi Mansion has a strange attitude towards me."
Her cousin is a very considerate person and always takes care of her emotions. Shi Jianli doesn't want to hide anything from him that may be detrimental to her.
"How strange?"
"She was very warm to me when we first met, but I felt her smile wasn't genuine. She didn't look at me with hostility, but I felt like she was plotting something against me. I don't know what she could have noticed about me," Tokimiri recalled. "When she looked at me, I always felt a chill at the back of my head."
Ming Zhouhe listened and pondered for a moment, "I will pay attention and ask around."
"Thank you, cousin, for taking my words to heart." Shi Jianli smiled.
He did not regard his words as fantasy.
Ming Zhouhe curled his lips, "When did I not take your words to heart?"
"No."
The two walked towards the gate of the mansion. At this moment, the mother and daughter of the Yuan family had not come out yet, but Ming Zhaohuan, Ming Zhouqing and Yuan Qingchen were already standing at the door.
"First cousin, second cousin, second cousin Yuan." Shi Jianli greeted them one by one, and then stood beside Ming Zhouhe.
Yuan Qingchen looked at them reluctantly and said, "When you are free, please come to Runan to visit me."
Yuan Qingchen lived in Beijing until he was nine years old and had some acquaintances there. Later, when his cousins from the Ming family went to the military camp for training, he could only visit his grandfather's old friends.
"Then you have to welcome us in person at the Ten-Li Pavilion." Ming Zhouqing touched his shoulder with his fist.
"Of course." Yuan Qingchen looked at their faces one by one, and finally stopped his gaze on Shi Jianli. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Cousin Li, you are also welcome to go with your cousins. Wan'er will be very happy."
Shi Jianli took this as a polite remark, so she responded simply: "Okay."
Mingzhao also saw the change in Yuan Qingchen's expression. He pressed his index finger back and clasped it in his palm. The next moment, he stood in front of him calmly to block Shi Jianli.
Yuan Qingchen looked at him with some resentment, and thought for a moment, "How about, cousin, you guys take me in for a while in Beijing, and then I'll go back on my own?"
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