Chapter 100 Blind Man

After the court session, Duan Mingchong walked hurriedly towards the East Palace. Before he arrived, he saw Duan Ruwang standing by the hanging flower gate at the entrance of the East Palace. A palace maid beside him was bowing and mumbling, and no one knew what she was saying.

Duan Mingchong instinctively felt annoyed and disgusted when he saw Duan Ruwang. He calmed down, walked forward and nodded: "Why are you waiting here, Second Brother? Is there something important?"

Duan Ruwang did not go to court this morning. Without him to stir up trouble, Duan Mingchong felt much more relaxed. After finishing his work, he hurried back from the East Palace. Unexpectedly, he ran into him directly.

Duan Ruwang didn't know how long he had been standing outside the door. A layer of crystal white frost had actually fallen on his black hair and the hem of his clothes. He looked at Duan Mingchong coldly, without the cold smile he usually forced himself to show.

He asked, "Where did you go last night?"

These words were said bluntly, unlike Duan Ruwang's usual weird tone.

Duan Mingchong frowned, unable to speak out against Duan Ruwang's insolence, and said coldly, "This doesn't seem to be related to Second Brother."

Duan Ruwang looked at him coldly, turned around and left without saying a word.

The attendants behind him hurriedly followed.

Duan Mingchong looked at his back, somewhat puzzled as to why he was so angry so early in the morning.

The palace maid beside him said hesitantly, "Your Highness, the Second Prince has been waiting here all night."

Duan Mingchong frowned even more tightly: "What is he waiting to do here? Did the emperor punish him?"

The palace maid said: "No, it's..."

Duan Mingchong didn't understand what was going on until he entered the East Palace.

In the front hall of the East Palace, Duan Lushu was sleeping soundly on a small table.

Duan Mingchong was startled, and stepped forward and gently pushed her: "Hedge? Hedge..."

She waited until late at night with the fence, and she couldn't bear it any longer and fell asleep on the table. The palace maids from the East Palace had tried to persuade her for a long time, but she was still determined to wait. When they saw that she was asleep, they didn't dare to wake her up. They could only bring a charcoal basin and put it on her, and also covered her with a mink fur coat for fear that she would catch a cold.

Duan Lushu was pushed awake. He rubbed his sleepy face and said vaguely, "Brother, you're back."

Duan Mingchong gently tidied up her hair that had swirled in her sleep, and said softly, "Why are you sleeping here? What if you get sick?"

Duan Lushu was half asleep. She opened her arms and hugged Duan Mingchong's waist. She rubbed against him coquettishly and said softly, "Lushu is waiting for my brother to come back."

Duan Mingchong's face unconsciously showed tenderness, but he was still scolding: "Nonsense, what is the matter that requires you to come here in the middle of the night? If my mother knew about this, I would definitely be scolded."

Duan Lushu smiled sweetly: "I miss my brother, can't you come over?"

Duan Mingchong patted her head gently and said with a helpless smile: "You."

He asked people to prepare hot water and clothes, and pushed the sheath to wash.

Duan Lushu waited for a whole night, and after she calmed down completely, she didn't know how to tell Duan Mingchong. She looked at Duan Mingchong for a long time before turning around and going behind the screen to wash and dress.

"Brother, I have something important to tell you later, so please don't leave."

Duan Mingchong had been in a hurry since leaving the court. Just as he was about to leave, he heard Duan Lushu's words. He smiled and said, "Okay, brother will wait for you."

Duan Lushu nodded: "Yes."

Hearing the sound of water inside, Duan Mingchong walked out of the bedroom lightly and whispered to the palace servant beside him, "Go to the small kitchen and ask the cook to make two baskets of steamed buns for snacks. Be quick and the more exquisite the better."

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince does not like sweet food, so whenever he asks the chef to make snacks, they will definitely be sent to Sui'an Marquis's Mansion.

The servants were already used to it, and when they heard Duan Mingchong urging them, they quickly responded and ran away like rabbits.

Seeing him walk away, Duan Mingchong seemed to have unloaded a heavy burden, and the anxious look on his face completely disappeared.

"elder brother?"

Duan Mingchong immediately turned back: "I'm here."

Duan Lushu changed her clothes and walked out from behind the screen. Her little face was wet and bruises could be vaguely seen under her eyes.

Duan Mingchong took a towel and wiped her face dry. He said, "Just now I saw the second brother waiting outside. Did you come together?"

Duan Lushu was a little surprised: "Is the second brother still outside?"

Duan Mingchong paused, then shook his head and said, "He left just now."

He put the dry towel aside, sat down next to the harness, and said, "Tell me, what happened last night that made you wait here all night without sleeping?"

Duan Lushu was still worried about Duan Ruwang. When he heard this, he froze for a moment before lowering his head.

She twisted her slender fingers nervously and said hesitantly, "I... I don't know how to say it."

It's always hard to guess what a little girl is thinking. Duan Mingchong asked tentatively, "Is it related to me?"

Duan Lushu raised his head to look at him, then quickly lowered his eyes, feeling a little anxious and not knowing how to start the conversation.

Duan Mingchong did not rush him and waited for him with great patience.

"Don't worry, take your time."

Duan Lushu hesitated for a moment before taking a deep breath. As if she had made up her mind, she looked up at Duan Mingchong's amber eyes and said in a trembling voice, "I left the palace last night and met Sui Yan."

Duan Mingchong frowned. Last night, apart from the fact that there were too many people at the street corner and Duan Mingchong didn't want Sui Yan to go with him to buy lanterns alone because of the crowd, they were inseparable. The two of them should have met at that time.

Sui Yan acted as if nothing had happened at the time and didn't even mention it to him.

Duan Mingchong thought about it carefully and felt that there seemed no need to mention it.

He asked, "And then? What did you say?"

Duan Lushu's heart ached with pain. For the first time, she hated her brother's nerve so much. With red eyes, she stepped on Duan Mingchong's foot under the table and cried, "What do you think? What can we say?"

Duan Mingchong was confused about what was happening, but seeing that Duan Lushu was about to cry, he did not dare to refute and said hurriedly: "Okay, whatever Lushu said is what it is. It's my fault."

According to Duan Mingchong's previous experience in coaxing his sister, everything would be fine as long as he admitted his mistake at this time.

But just as he finished speaking, the foot that was holding the harness stepped even harder.

"It's your fault!"

Duan Mingchong: “…”

Duan Mingchong looked confused and asked tentatively, "I'm sorry?"

Duan Lushu was so angry that he almost died.

She was originally filled with anxiety, fearing that this matter would cause discord between her and her closest brother, but she did not expect Duan Mingchong to be so heartless about the matter.

Her voice was hoarse: "The news that I admire Sui Yan has spread throughout the palace, why don't you know about it? Or are you pretending not to know and deliberately trying to piss me off?"

Duan Mingchong: “…”

"ah?"

He handled government affairs in the palace every day, and in his spare time he would go to the Marquis' Mansion to visit Sui Yan. Moreover, people in the East Palace would never gossip in his ears. Duan Mingchong had no opportunity and no time to listen to such rumors.

He looked blankly at Duan Lushu, who was so angry that he was about to cry, and said hesitantly: "You... love Sui Yan?"

Duan Lushu saw him like this and kicked him hard again, saying angrily: "Duan Mingchong, I hate you so much!"

Duan Mingchong tried hard to sort out his chaotic thoughts. He took a deep breath and retracted his almost swollen foot. He pretended to be calm and said, "Shut up, Sui Yan is not a good man for you..."

Duan Lushu looked at him coldly and said, "Feet."

Duan Mingchong had no choice but to put his foot back.

Duan Lushu stepped on it and said with gritted teeth: "He is not a good man to me, but he is to you."

Duan Mingchong's eyes narrowed before he smiled softly: "You know?"

Duan Lushu said in disbelief: "You're still laughing? Aren't you afraid that I will never talk to you again because of this?"

Duan Lushu thought for a moment and said in a vicious tone, "I might turn into a bad woman and sow discord between the two of you, so that you will not have a good ending!"

Duan Mingchong reached out and touched Duan Lushu's head, and said helplessly: "If you really were like this, you wouldn't have waited here all night just to tell me this. Lushu, you are a good child, and your brother has always known it."

Duan Lu Shu was stunned.

Duan Mingchong smiled and said, "A good child will not do bad things for his own selfish desires, so..."

He said with difficulty: "...Can I pull my foot back? It hurts a bit."

Duan Lingshu: "..."

Duan Lushu was originally filled with anger, but suddenly he was at a loss whether to laugh or cry after hearing Duan Mingchong's words.

Duan Ming Chong believes that those who keep company with vermilion will be red, and those who keep company with ink will be black. After being with Sui Yan for such a long time, he finally learned some skills that made people laugh and cry.

Although it was just a superficial move, it was very effective. Duan Lushu glared at him angrily, but soon she couldn't help but burst out laughing and retracted her foot.

But as she was laughing, two lines of tears suddenly fell without any warning. She was already beautiful, and the sight of her shedding tears like a pear blossom in the rain almost made people feel so distressed that they wanted to pluck the stars and the moon from the sky just to make her smile.

She laughed and cried at the same time, wiping the tears from her face with her hands, and choked up and said, "Brother, am I so bad?"

This question was really too childish. Duan Mingchong looked at her tenderly and said softly, "My harness is naturally the best in the world."

Duan Mingchong thought she would ask "I'm so good, why doesn't Sui Yan like me?", but Duan Lushu suddenly wiped away tears, sniffed softly, and said: "Sui Yan looks down on me, he is blind, it has nothing to do with me."

Duan Mingchong: “…”

Duan Mingchong was at a loss for words and said, "Is it...right?"

I hope you can look at it in a positive way.

Sui Yan was accused of being blind without knowing anything, so he can be said to be completely innocent.

Duan Lushu wiped the tears from his eyes and said, "I will find someone better than him in the future. On the wedding day, I will go to the street of the Marquis' Mansion and walk around it twice to make him angry to death."

Duan Mingchong: “…”

Duan Mingchong thought to himself, is it so embarrassing? You may not be able to piss off Sui Yan, but you will probably piss me off to death.

But now Duan Lushu was having a good time and was consoling himself, so he didn't want to make himself uncomfortable and just agreed with him.

After Duan Lushu had comforted herself, she remembered the purpose of her visit. She told Duan Mingchong about the emperor's marriage proposal last night, and finally worried, "Will the blind man be in danger?"

Duan Mingchong: “…”

Duan Mingchong vaguely remembered that Duan Lushu had called him "Brother Wangui" in a very affectionate way before, but now he just called him "that blind man".

Duan Mingchong said: "Don't worry, he will be fine."

.

In the Marquis's Mansion.

Because the marriage between the Marquis' Mansion and the Jiang Family was approaching, after the Lantern Festival, all the affairs of the Mansion began to be handled.

Although Sui Xun usually looked cold and stern, he was very adept at handling this kind of thing. He was busy with all sorts of things for the whole morning without showing any impatience and seemed to be in a very good mood.

He specially found the most skilled craftsmen in the capital to renovate the main courtyard of the mansion. He spent several days working late into the night to revise the design drawings.

The craftsman frowned and looked at the drawing, and said bluntly: "I don't understand. Sir, just tell me where to change it. There's no need to make a draft."

Sui Xun held his breath and took the paper back, thinking that this was not a draft, but the final version that he had copied eight times.

——In fact, he was already very satisfied after reciting it for the seventh time, but he changed his mind and recited it again.

Eight, auspicious.

But he was just a military man, how could he paint? Even the most skilled craftsman could not understand the scribbles he drew.

Sui Xun had no choice but to tell them with a cold face what needed to be changed.

Near noon, Sui Xun was in the front yard checking whether the martial arts arena needed renovation when he suddenly saw Hai Tang running from the door to the side yard carrying a lunch box.

Sui Xun frowned: "Stop."

Haitang was startled and turned around quickly: "Second Young Master."

Sui Xun asked, "What are you holding in your hand?"

Haitang said hesitantly, "These are cakes sent by the East Palace to the young master. They asked me to deliver them while they are still hot."

When Sui Xun heard the word Dong Gong, her face turned green, probably because she remembered Duan Ming Chong's blatant provocation this morning.

He looked pale and said, "Don't give it away, throw it out."

It makes me upset just looking at it.

Sui Xun couldn't throw Duan Mingchong away, so he could only throw things at him to vent his anger.

Haitang was embarrassed: "But, Master has been waiting for a long time..."

Sui Xun opened the food box impatiently and looked at it, saying, "Can't our chef make this? Do we have to eat the food from the Eastern Palace? Ask the kitchen to make it exactly as it is and send it to Wang Gui."

Haitang still refused.

Sui Xun gave him a cold look, and Haitang was immediately frightened and burst into tears, and walked away feeling aggrieved.

Sui Xun felt completely relieved after venting his emotions, and went back to his martial arts training ground.

The author has something to say: Sui Yan [Achoo]: Who said I was handsome behind my back? ? ?

[Knocking on the table impatiently] Has the steamed bun arrived yet? You are so passive right after eating it! Men are always deceiving with their words.