Chapter 42: Damn! Isn’t it a must-have item for the banquet? !

Qin Yue now wants to know how Liu Shi managed to get married. Since Sister Xia showed up at the Qingping Banquet, she must not be engaged yet.

How could she get married without being engaged?

Could it be that she did it without Sister Xia’s knowledge?

Qin Yue didn’t understand, so she asked: [Sister, what did Liu Shi do later? I saw Sister Xia came to the banquet, she should not know that she was engaged. And the engagement must not be hidden from Lord Xia.]

Xia Yuanshuang was very sure that if her father knew, he would definitely not agree with her stepmother to do this.

Although her father usually made his own decisions on many things, he never made his own decisions when it came to her.

So if he wanted to arrange her marriage, her father would have told her in advance and would not have arranged it without considering her opinion.

What happened in the meantime that allowed her stepmother to arrange her marriage directly?

Xu was also very sure that Yuan Shuang's father must not know about it.

A few days ago, Lord Xia specially asked someone to ask her to bring Yuan Shuang to the Qingping Banquet, so if Lord Xia knew about the engagement, he would never come to her again.

System: [Stepmother Liu secretly exchanged engagement letters with her sister-in-law without Lord Xia's knowledge, which is equivalent to a private engagement. The Liu family is already preparing the betrothal gifts.]

Qin Yue: [Did Lord Liu and Lord Xia not discuss this matter every day when they went to court? Don't they know about it?]

System: [Of course Lord Liu knows about the engagement! 】

【It's just that his son Liu Jin said that he and Miss Xia Yuanshuang had secretly decided to spend their lives together, but Lord Xia didn't agree yet, so they had to take it slow, and now was not the right time to tell Lord Xia. 】

【Therefore, Lord Liu had been hesitant to speak when he met Lord Xia recently. He wanted to speak but didn't dare to, fearing that speaking would ruin his son's marriage. 】

【So until now, the only ones who were kept in the dark about the engagement were Lord Xia, Miss Xia Yuanshuang, and the people of the Xu Mansion. 】

Everyone: No! What's wrong with Lord Liu! Would you believe such a lame excuse?

Princess Jinyang had some impression of Lord Liu.

Once before, when she went on an autumn hunt with her brother, her brother joked that the officials who participated had to walk there as an appetizer to the hunting activity.

All the civil and military officials in the court knew that this was a joke, but Lord Liu took it seriously.

She remembered that everyone had arrived at the autumn hunting site, and a round of hunting was over, but Lord Liu was late, and his clothes were cut by the thorns in the woods, looking particularly shabby.

So if others would not believe Liu Jin's reason, but Lord Liu would definitely believe it!

Qin Yue still didn't understand, [Sister, even if they don't know now, when the engagement is really made, those who should know will still know! Then wouldn't their tricks be exposed immediately? ]

System: [Host, Liu and Liu Jin have made other preparations, and they will be at the Qingping Banquet! 】

Hearing this, everyone at the banquet began to look around, fearing that the "other preparations" mentioned by the elder sister were around them.

If they were accidentally involved, it would cause trouble for the family.

After all, the whole thing involved the Minister of War, the Vice Minister of War, and the Vice Minister of Works, all of whom were high-ranking officials in the court, and it would be bad to offend any of them.

Xia Yuanshuang couldn't help but approach Xu with some fear, her eyes were stained red, and she was about to cry.

Although Xia Yuanshuang looked very cold and she had learned some leg skills, she was actually only thirteen or fourteen years old and had never experienced these things.

If something really happened to her, she might be scared before she could use her martial arts.

Xu patted Xia Yuanshuang on the back gently and said softly: "Don't worry, with your aunt here, no one can bully you. You must not leave your aunt's sight at the banquet today, understand?"

Xia Yuanshuang nodded obediently.

Qin Yue heard what the system said, and tried to raise his head to observe carefully, but found nothing except handsome men and beautiful women.

Suddenly, Qin Yue seemed to have thought of a possibility, and immediately burst out a national quintessence.

[Fuck! It can't be a must-have item for the banquet, right? 】

Everyone: Huh? What must-have item for the banquet?

What is the must-have item for the Qingping Banquet?

Performance program?

When the women of the Qin family heard what Qin Yue said, they immediately remembered that Sister Yue had said that banquets were accident-prone.

So this must-have item is falling into the lake? Sleeping together?

Fuck!

Could it be that Liu and her evil nephew want to make it a done deal?!

The women of the Qin family couldn't sit still when they thought of this possibility.

Several people looked at Xia Yuanshuang anxiously, wanting to say something to remind her, but they were afraid of exposing the fact that they could hear Yue Jie'er's thoughts because of Yue Jie'er's presence. They were so anxious that they were fuming.

The smart ladies at the banquet also suddenly realized what the young official meant by the necessary items for the banquet.

They couldn't help but hold on to the ladies beside them, and whispered to the maids and servants to follow the young lady closely, for fear that they would run away the next moment and accidentally fall into someone else's calculations.

This kind of thing has happened before. They were obviously planning to plot against other people, but ended up involving irrelevant people.

So they must keep an eye on people. Their daughters were all spoiled by them when they were growing up, and they must not suffer such grievances.

Xu naturally came to her senses.

She didn't expect that Liu was much braver now than when she was a daughter. In the past, she would only say bad things about people behind their backs, but she didn't dare to do anything.

This time, Liu was probably confident because of her nephew's help, so she really dared to do something!

Then let her see what tricks they are trying to play!

She is not as soft-tempered as her sister!

System: [The host guessed right again! It just so happens that they are about to take action. Look, the maid who is about to come in from the side door is the one they hired. 】

Everyone glanced at the side door.

Qin Yue also tried hard to look at the side door, but the side door happened to be facing away from her, so she twisted her body backwards.

Seeing this, Cui Xi, who was holding Qin Yue, pretended to adjust her position without leaving any trace, and turned sideways so that Qin Yue was facing the side door.

A maid walked in from the side door, with her head lowered, holding a tray with fresh pastries on it.

Because the maid lowered her head, she didn't notice that everyone was looking at her intentionally or unintentionally.

When everyone was guessing what the maid would do next, the maid suddenly raised her head and looked around cautiously in the banquet.

Everyone immediately withdrew their gaze, feeling guilty like a thief.

Phew...

Fortunately, they turned around quickly, otherwise the maid might have noticed something was wrong.

When the maid saw Xia Yuanshuang, her eyes suddenly lit up, and then she lowered her head and walked straight towards Xia Yuanshuang.