Madam Jing's young lover can still be seen from time to time? Oh my god, he must be someone in the capital. I wonder if he is an official, general, prime minister, or minister? Hahahaha, the elders' past is also very interesting!
Xu Yixing was about to ask more when he heard someone walk in from outside the hall. It turned out to be the ceremonial officer: "Madam Jing, Second Miss Xu, the auspicious time has arrived. You may now enter the banquet."
"Okay, let's go." Mrs. Jing replied gracefully, without any trace of sadness on her face.
"Let's go, Yi Yan." He stepped forward and took Xu Yixing's hand. The old man and the young man followed the ceremonial officer and gradually joined the group.
Palace banquets are always boring. All the procedures can be summed up in four words: listen to the emperor!
Whether it was singing and dancing to liven up the atmosphere, appreciating the moon and reciting poetry, or eating crabs and drinking rice wine, no one could do as they pleased. They had to pay attention to the movements of the person above them at all times. Even if they were drunk, they had to keep an ear open to hear if the emperor was calling them.
Xu Yixing's seat was near the back of the ladies' room, a relatively free area. The only difference this year was that the Empress had specifically asked several young ladies to come forward and toast, including her.
It was called a toast, but in reality it was just a meeting. Girls like her, whose marriages were already confirmed, mainly came out to show their faces, while the other women chosen to toast were all girls of marriageable age from official families, and they were going to meet those royal family members who had not yet been arranged to be married.
After the toast, Xu Yixing took advantage of an opportunity to slip out of the hall and headed to the back of the mountain where there were fewer people.
She was not worried about safety issues. After all, in such a public place, no one would show up and attack her with a club.
"Second Miss!"
Just as he reached Xiao Tan, Xu Yixing heard that familiar voice again. Why did Lu Anyuan follow him?
"Why are you running out here instead of staying at the banquet?"
"Didn't you run out anyway? I followed you here." Lu Anyuan said shamelessly. Let's not say anything to each other.
Xu Yixing had no choice but to hold Siqin's hand and use his handkerchief to hit the osmanthus tree beside the pond.
"You've met so many people with my aunt today. Are you exhausted?"
"That's okay. Madam Jing is the one answering for me anyway. I just sit there and act like a vase."
"Hehe, how's your father doing? Did you explain it clearly?"
"No, there are too many people here. I'll talk about it after I get back."
Lu Anyuan didn't realize at all that Xu Yixing didn't really want to chat with him, and kept trying to find topics to ask.
"Have you heard about what happened to Granny He before? You didn't do this, did you?"
Siqin was right next to them and was greatly surprised when she heard this: Granny He was the mother-in-law who delivered Aunt Liu. Could she have done something wrong back then?
Xu Yixing looked at Siqin's face and felt a little embarrassed, so he instinctively denied it: "Without evidence, I won't admit it even if someone asks me again."
Lu Anyuan felt a warm current flowing through his heart. Yixing wouldn't tell others about such a private matter, but she told him when he asked her. It turned out that we were one family!
"I understand, I understand!"
Xu Yixing looked at Lu Anyuan with a complicated look and said, "What do you understand? I told you to shut up, do you understand?"
To prevent Lu Anyuan from delving further into the issue, Xu Yixing took over and began to ask, "Mrs. Jing said that you and the Fourth Prince talked for a long time this morning. What did you talk about?"
"It's just some personal matters between brothers, nothing serious."
"Okay." Xu Yixing glanced at Siqin again and said, "You go back first. If the Queen calls me later, I'll say I'm drunk and came out for a walk."
"yes."
Lu Anyuan watched Siqin leave and asked jokingly, "How come you can't even trust your own maid and have to avoid her?"
"Didn't you bring Ah Da here too?"
"I was afraid you had something to say, but it would be inconvenient for you to say it here."
Humph, everyone is like you, doing shameful things every day.
Xu Yixing looked up at the sky. The moon was hanging on the branches of the osmanthus tree. There were no clouds tonight, so it was a good day to enjoy the moon.
"Hey, let me ask you, if I were really kidnapped by bandits and didn't come home for a night, would you still marry me?"
The distance between Xu Yixing and Lu Yuan was not too close. She was standing on a rock beside the pond, and Lu Anyuan was standing on the gravel road leading to the small pond, about two or three people's length apart.
Looking back at him from such a high position, I noticed that there were small osmanthus flowers falling on his head.
"I'm afraid I won't let that happen."
Without saying whether to marry her or not, Lu Anyuan simply firmly denied Xu Yixing's hypothesis.
"How can you be so sure?"
"I have proved it once with my actions, you can trust me."
Xu Yixing was speechless. If it weren't for the Fourth Prince's plan, he might have hanged himself without you even noticing.
But she really couldn't say anything to refute it. There was no need to make meaningless assumptions.
"Well, thank you."
"Between you and me, there's no need to thank me."
It was a very familiar conversation, Xu Yixing remembered. It seemed that he had said the same thing when he had just died and was reborn.
"Seventh Prince, why me? Yi Yan is actually very good, don't you think you have any feelings for her?"
This should be the third time Xu Yixing asked, and in her heart it was also the last time.
"Why are you asking such a question again? Didn't I answer it last time?" Lu Anyuan looked at Xu Yixing's serious expression. It seemed that what he said before was not straightforward enough.
"You've always been the one I've loved, even before you and Sun Ziyou got engaged, even before your sister saved me. When the Emperor asked me if I had a crush on a woman, I really regretted not telling him about you. Otherwise, maybe you wouldn't have married Sun Ziyou and gone through all this."
This was the first time Xu Yixing heard that the emperor had previously asked Lu Anyuan if he had a woman he liked.
"If you didn't talk about me, who did you talk about?"
Eh? Is that the point? Lu Anyuan was embarrassed and pursed his lips: "I didn't tell anyone, so my father asked my aunt to take care of it for me."
"Really? Then you're already twenty and waiting to get married. Doesn't that mean Madam Jing hasn't paid enough attention to you?"
"No! My aunt did tell me about a few young ladies, but I rejected them all!"
"Oh! So that's it." Xu Yixing gave an inexplicable smile, turned sideways, and looked down at the moon in the water.
Lu Anyuan had no idea what she was thinking. He took two steps forward and asked in a low voice, "So you know what I mean, what do you think?"
"I see with my eyes." Xu Yixing didn't answer his question. Haha, you want to ask me how I feel about you, right? I'll tell you when I'm in a good mood!
"Hahahaha!" Lu Anyuan watched Xu Yixing stride away and suddenly burst into a hearty laugh. Yixing, you are such a troublemaker!
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