Wei Jiaoniang nodded her chin in a certain direction and tried to wink at her.
Gu Yanfei looked in the direction Wei Jiaoniang pointed, and saw several girls in gorgeous clothes walking towards Chu Yi.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince." They stopped a few feet away, and knelt down to salute Chu Yi at a moderate distance. Their postures were elegant and dignified, as if they had practiced every move countless times.
Chu Yi turned slightly and looked at them, with his left hand behind his back. This posture made his figure look even more upright, like a clump of green bamboo.
In the cold wind, his robe fluttered, and a few strands of hair at his temples were blown into disarray, gently caressing his graceful chin, making him look thin and frail.
Chu Yi didn't say anything, but just raised his right hand, indicating that they didn't need to be polite.
"Thank you, Your Highness." The girls straightened up gracefully again.
One of the girls took half a step forward and was about to speak, but she heard a low cry from a woman on the second floor of the houseboat, and a big red silk flower fell from the window on the second floor and landed on Chu Yi's head.
But a gust of north wind blew, and the fluttering silk flowers were blown away...
"My silk flowers!" The woman's voice was heard again from the second floor, but this time, it was filled with regret and unwillingness.
"Pfft." Gu Yanfei and Wei Jiaoniang laughed together, their smiles as beautiful as flowers.
When looking at Chu Yi again, Gu Yanfei felt that he was extremely pitiful.
Let's give him a hand, Gu Yanfei thought sympathetically. They are both not favored by the heavens, so they should support each other!
After laughing for a while with his shoulders shaking, Gu Yanfei waved his hand and said to Wei Jiaoniang, "Then I'll go find someone else to play with."
Wei Jiaoniang also waved happily.
Lu Qin and others in the back were laughing so hard that they were shaking with laughter, and they called Wei Jiaoniang to go back and continue playing the game of tossing pots.
Gu Yanfei walked towards Chu Yi lightly, tiptoed slightly, casually patted one of his shoulders, and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "How pitiful, do you want me to help you?"
She leaned so close that her breath almost touched his ears when she spoke.
Chu Yi's half-closed eyelashes trembled twice, and the jade-white earlobe was slightly flushed with rouge-like red. He nodded and said, "Yes."
He nodded and slightly tilted his face, and his raven-feather-like black hair fluttered in the air, with a few strands covering his ears and a few just brushing Gu Yanfei's cheek.
"Don't worry, I'm here!" Gu Yanfei patted Chu Yi's shoulder again, and glanced at the girls from wealthy families who were standing stiffly on the spot. Their eyes were shooting at her like knives.
Poor Chu Yi.
Gu Yanfei couldn't help wanting to laugh again, but he felt like he was gloating. He tried hard to hold back his laughter, but his eyebrows couldn't help but curve into an arc of joy.
"Come for a walk?" Chu Yi raised his hand to ask for a visit, his sword-like eyebrows raised, and when his eyes met Gu Yanfei's, there was a touch of liveliness between his elegant and picturesque eyebrows, as if a painting suddenly came alive. Gu Yanfei lightly waved his sleeves and nodded.
The two of them walked forward shoulder to shoulder along the railing at the edge of the pleasure boat, with several burning gazes from behind cast on their backs.
The cold wind blew in her face, carrying a few dead leaves blown from the shore, and almost blew into Gu Yanfei's eyes, but Chu Yi raised his hand and pinched them before she did.
The slender jade-like fingers formed a sharp contrast with the broken and dull willow leaf.
The wind grew stronger, not only making the weeping willows on the shore sway in dance, but also causing the pleasure boat parked on the shore to sway slightly in the wind, creating ripples on the lake and the pleasure boat swayed even more violently.
It is difficult to tell whether the boat is moving the water or the water is moving the boat.
Chu Yi seemed to be feeling emotional, and said quietly: "Taizu often said that water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. You are the boat, and you are the water."
"When Taizu was alive, he wanted to suppress the noble families and support the children of the poor. But my grandfather did not agree with Taizu's political views. During his reign, he supported the noble families. As a result, the court is now in a three-way competition among the noble families, the nobles, and the poor families, among which the poor families are the weakest."
In the past twenty years, the late emperor destroyed half a lifetime of efforts of Emperor Taizu.
Chu Yi casually stretched his left hand holding the broken leaf out of the guardrail, then loosened his fingers, and the broken leaf was blown away by the wind and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Gu Yanfei listened attentively without saying a word.
For the cultivators, these facts in the court were really too troublesome. Although Gu Yanfei understood them, he was too lazy to think about them.
Chu Yi suddenly stopped. There were only the two of them around, and the others were at least 20 to 30 feet away from them. The voices of the people were blown away by the cold wind, as if they were in another world.
It's bustling over there, but quiet and peaceful over here.
Chu Yi turned around, looking at the direction of Queen Mother Yuan and Chu You and his son with a deep gaze, and said calmly: "Now even my marriage has become a bargaining chip."
Gu Yanfei also heard the conversation between the emperor and Empress Dowager Yuan just now.
Apart from anything else, just the Empress Dowager Yuan's style of forcing people to buy and sell things made Gu Yanfei dislike aristocratic families.
"So..." Gu Yanfei looked up at Chu Yi and asked, "What do you think?"
This is his own marriage matter, and ultimately it depends on his own thoughts.
Her eyes were clearly black and white, as clear and bright as a mountain spring, and you could see the bottom at a glance.
No embarrassment, no shyness, just straightforward and frank.
Chu Yi stared deeply at her palm-sized face, sighed slightly in his heart, and felt an indescribable feeling...
He thought about her embarrassed but comfortable look outside Danyang City, her confident and ostentatious smile outside the Danyang Prefecture Office, the tests between them in Prince Jing's Mansion... and also, he gave her a jade hairpin in Tianyin Pavilion, which she had been wearing.
His eyes were fixed on the white jade plum blossom hairpin in her hair.
The "Qingmei Hairpin" he gave her.
They had clearly only known each other for a short time, but he often felt as if they had known each other for a very long time.
He can trust her, and she trusts him!
Thinking of this, Chu Yi's eyes became softer and softer, as if filled with honey, his eyes curved into a charming arc, and he thought to himself: No rush.
He is the most patient man ever.
Seeing that he remained silent for a long time, Gu Yanfei blinked again, and her long eyelashes curled and lifted, fluttering across his heart like butterfly wings.
Chu Yi just opened his mouth when he saw Gu Yanfei suddenly raised his hand and snapped his fingers: "Do you have a crush on someone?"
So, he seemed to be hesitant to speak? "Yes, I have a lover." Chu Yi smiled happily.
His smile came from the heart, as gentle as the breeze on his face, and as bright as the morning sun, making his eyes and eyebrows shine and look as beautiful as a painting.
Several plum and willow trees on the shore were dancing gracefully, and countless plum petals were blown down by the wind, like a rain of flowers, occasionally a few petals fell on the hair and shoulders of the two people.
(End of this chapter)
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