Chapter 179 Extra: Zhou Yi x Nangong Muyan (Part 3)

Nangong Muyan followed Li Jiu and Jin Hui back to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and went to the main courtyard to have dinner with Luo Siyi as usual.

But today, as soon as she stepped into the courtyard, a figure "whoosh" came over, shouting "Yan'er" in surprise, and then laughed "haha", and hugged Nangong Muyan in his arms.

It seems that this person is Nangong Chenfeng.

Nangong Muyan nestled in the man's arms and thought obediently.

"Hey, Chenfeng, Yan'er, if you have anything to say, go inside and talk, don't stand outside like an idiot."

Luo Siyi also came out, looking at the brother and sister hugging each other, and smiled gently.

Nangong Muyan broke away from Nangong Chenfeng's arms and agreed with a smile: "Brother, come in."

"Okay!"

Nangong Chenfeng smiled brightly, took Nangong Muyan's wrist and walked into the house. Passing by Luo Siyi, he stretched out his hand and hugged her forward.

Nangong Ya, who was pouring wine in the house, watched his son walk in with his sister in one hand and his mother in the other. His eyes suddenly warmed up. Their family of four finally gathered together after three years.

"Chenfeng, come and sit next to Dad. Today, we father and son will have a good drink!" Nangong Ya put the wine glass on the table with a "pop".

"Hahaha... Dad, you can't drink more than me!"

Nangong Chenfeng lifted his robe and sat next to Nangong Ya. Before he could say anything, he took the wine glass and drank it all: "Dad, Mom, I have been away from home for three years and have not been able to fulfill my filial piety to my parents. This glass of wine is my apology to you!"

"Silly child, why are you saying that?"

Luo Siyi's eyes were filled with tears when she heard this. Looking at her son who had been tempered at the border for three years, his once fair face was weathered and became firm. Heartache, relief and pride burst out from the bottom of her heart.

Nangong Muyan ate quietly and didn't say anything. She didn't have a role to play today, so she just ate.

"How long will you be back this time?" Nangong Ya asked.

"I will go back ten days or half a month after Yan'er's wedding."

Nangong Ya nodded: "That is about three months away."

"You were still in Xiyuguan a few days ago. You should have arrived the day after tomorrow. Why did you come back two days in advance?"

"The day after tomorrow is Yan'er's eighteenth birthday. I just wanted to come back earlier. I traveled day and night, galloping without any rest."

Nangong Muyan raised his head from the bowl when he heard it, glanced at Nangong Chenfeng, looked at the dark circles under his eyes and the bloodshot in his eyes, and knew that what this man said was true.

A chicken leg was put into Nangong Chenfeng's bowl. He turned his head and saw Nangong Muyan smiling and saying, "Brother, you've worked hard all the way. Have a good sleep after dinner."

Nangong Chenfeng was moved. He stretched out his hand and pinched Nangong Muyan's face. He said with unspeakable emotion, "Hey, Yan'er has grown into a big girl. She is getting more and more sensible."

"More than a big girl, she's going to be a mother." Luo Siyi glanced at Nangong Muyan with a reproachful look. Thinking of the ridiculous things she had done, she couldn't help but sigh.

"Hahaha... Then I'm going to be an uncle. That's great!"

Nangong Chenfeng had already known about this in Nangong Ya's letter. He didn't have any thoughts, but was very happy.

"It's a pity that I can't see my nephew being born." Nangong Chenfeng said with regret.

"There will always be a chance to meet," Nangong Muyan replied with a smile, and then calmly turned the topic to Nangong Chenfeng: "Brother, you are not young anymore, when will you find me a sister-in-law?"

Nangong Chenfeng's face changed, and three eyes fell on him at the same time.

"Yan'er is right, Chenfeng, you are not young anymore, it's time to consider finding a suitable girl." Luo Siyi said earnestly.

Nangong Ya followed closely and echoed: "When I was your age, I had been married to your mother for three years..."

Nangong Muyan watched this drama of urging marriage with relish, ate the rice in the bowl, said "I want to go to bed", and left with a smile, leaving Nangong Chenfeng to deal with it himself.

After washing up and lying on the bed, Nangong Muyan thought of his birthday.

A long time ago, she heard Luo Siyi mention that her birthday would be held in the mansion, and no outsiders would come. Apart from the people from the Prime Minister's Mansion, only the relatives of the Luo family would come.

Nangong Muyan looked at the bed curtain above her head and smiled silently. There was still one person she had to invite in person, and she had to be thick-skinned to ask for a birthday gift.

"Zhou Yi," in the cashier's room of Junyue Wine House, Nangong Muyan leaned forward slightly while leaning on the desk, with an expectation in her eyes that she didn't even know about: "Tomorrow is my birthday, will you come to the mansion?"

"No," Zhou Yi replied without raising his head: "In the etiquette of Daliang, three months before the marriage, the man should not enter the woman's house, so as not to ruin the woman's reputation."

"Is there still innocence between you and me?" Nangong Muyan was very surprised.

Zhou Yi paused for a moment while fiddling with his abacus, then continued his movements with a normal expression: "The rules should be followed, otherwise it will damage the reputation of your Prime Minister's Office if it gets out."

There was a brief silence in the room. Nangong Muyan quickly thought about whether to use force or a gentle policy. After a moment, she chose the latter.

"Zhou Yi, come on..."

A hand touched Zhou Yi's face, and at the same time a soft and gentle voice sounded in his ears. Zhou Yi raised his eyes in shock, and what he saw was Nangong Muyan's eyes with a little pleading.

Those watery eyes stared at him without blinking, as if the world could no longer accommodate anyone else except him.

"Zhou Yi, come on, it's okay, my parents won't mind, our whole family will be very happy..."

The hand on his face seemed to be caressing a rare treasure, the soft and warm fingertips rubbed on his cheeks, the affectionate eyes in front of him seemed to be able to speak, coupled with the voice with a hint of sorrow in his ears, Zhou Yi felt that he was bewitched at this moment, and nodded and said "yes" somehow.

Almost at the moment when his voice fell, the pair of watery eyes exploded with overwhelming joy, and if you look closely, there is a bit of a smile of success.

This person really responds to soft tactics but not hard tactics.

Eh, no, you can also use hard tactics! It's just that you are easily scolded as a "son of a bitch", and the effect is not as good as soft tactics.

Nangong Muyan was thinking about all sorts of things in her mind, with a smile on her face: "You promised it yourself."

Although she felt cheated, she had already said it, so it was useless to think about it. Zhou Yi nodded and agreed: "Don't worry, I'll come."

"Then will you give me a birthday present?" Nangong Muyan asked in a pushy manner.

"Yes, yes," Zhou Yi nodded in agreement, smiling brightly when he saw someone happy, and pointed to the bed behind her: "Go to sleep, I'll call you for dinner later."

"Okay!" Nangong Muyan climbed onto the bed contentedly, unable to suppress the smile on her face.

Zhou Yi glanced over there and sighed in his heart.

Because of this bed, he was almost regarded as a dissolute playboy by the old couple yesterday, but fortunately it was explained clearly later.

It was just that his father slapped him a little too hard, and his mother kicked him, leaving bruises on his legs.

Sigh...

Zhou Yi thought while looking at the account, he and Nangong Muyan must have conflicting horoscopes, but he didn't know why, when his mother took their horoscopes to a master to match, the master actually said that he and Nangong Muyan were a perfect match, made in heaven.

It was obvious that he was lying for that little bit of money!

The day passed by in a flash, because the goal was achieved, Nangong Muyan was in a good mood, and didn't have the slightest thought of making trouble. In order to give Zhou Yi time to prepare her gift, she even left after lunch without waiting for Li Jiu and Jin Hui to pick her up.

Although it was broad daylight and under the emperor's feet, Zhou Yi was worried, so he arranged for two stronger waiters to take her home.

Seeing Nangong Muyan coming back, Luo Siyi and Nangong Chenfeng were a little surprised.

"Yan'er, why did you come back so early today? Did you have a quarrel with Zhou Yi?"

Luo Siyi asked worriedly. Now this was the thing that worried her the most.

"No, no," Nangong Muyan said quickly, fearing that the two would misunderstand and exaggerate: "We love each other so much, how could we have a quarrel?"

Luo Siyi's face froze, and she glanced at Nangong Muyan faintly, obviously not believing it.

Nangong Chenfeng didn't know so many inside stories, and he laughed when he heard it: "I feel relieved to see that you two are getting along so well. Yan'er, I was just telling mother that I would pick you up at Junyue Restaurant on behalf of Li Jiu and Jin Hui, and visit my brother-in-law by the way. I didn't expect you to come back by yourself, hahaha..."

Nangong Muyan just happened to follow the conversation and said: "Brother, don't worry, I have asked him to come tomorrow."

"Yan'er?" Luo Siyi frowned when she heard this: "This doesn't seem very polite..."

"Mom~" Nangong Muyan dragged out her tone and acted coquettishly: "Then it's not polite for me to go to see him every day."

"If no one from the Luo family comes tomorrow, and Zhou Yi comes to see you, mother will be happy to see it, and will not have any objection. But your grandmother and two uncles are people who value etiquette and dogma, mother is worried..."

It turned out to be because of the Luo family.

Nangong Muyan's eyes flashed with disdain, and then she comforted Luo Siyi: "Mom, this is the Prime Minister's residence, this is the Nangong family, the Luo family is guests, if they are so shameless and dare to say irresponsible things in front of me, then I will throw them out one by one."

"But..."

"Mom, I think what Yan'er said makes sense," Nangong Chenfeng chimed in, "Except for grandmother, who really wants to come and see her granddaughter, you know the meaning of the others in the Luo family coming to the Prime Minister's Mansion. Why bother about the opinions of insignificant people?"

Luo Siyi thought of her two brothers, and how they sent dancers to Nangong Ya in order to seek promotion in their official positions, and even her eldest brother wanted to marry his daughter to Nangong Chenfeng. Disappointment and disgust flashed across her face. If it weren't for her mother's preference for her son, she wouldn't want to have anything to do with those two brothers.

"You are right," Luo Siyi also figured it out, holding Nangong Muyan's hand and smiling, "Zhou Yi is my son-in-law, and it's my daughter's birthday, so of course he has to come. Whoever dares to say no tomorrow, Chenfeng, you will catch him and throw him out!"

"That's right!" Nangong Chenfeng clapped his hands and smiled.

Nangong Muyan never had any aspirations for "birthdays" because no one remembered it before, no one cared, and even she would forget it.

This was the first time she had a proper birthday in her two lives.

The house had been cleaned up since yesterday. The maids and servants were busy pruning plum branches, pulling weeds, sweeping fallen leaves, wiping furniture... The servants in the kitchen got up early in the morning to prepare ingredients, wash and cut vegetables, stew soup, knead dough...

Nangong Muyan found Lao Zhong who was directing people to work, and earnestly reminded him: "Butler Zhong, if Zhou Yi comes, you must remember to send someone to notify me as soon as possible."

"Okay!"

"Even if he comes with the Luo family, you have to greet him first, understand?" Nangong Muyan added.

"Don't worry, Miss, I've made a note of it, and I will never neglect the aunt in the slightest!" Lao Zhong promised solemnly.

After Nangong Muyan walked away, Li Jiu, who had heard the whole conversation between the two, came up and looked at her from behind, saying in amazement: "Our young lady is really obsessed with Aunt!"

Old Zhong couldn't stand idle people now, so as soon as Li Jiu jumped out, he immediately assigned him a task: "Stop talking nonsense and go wipe the plaque on the gate."

"Oh." Li Jiu took the task and walked away, while Old Zhong called a servant to stand outside the gate to keep an eye on him.

Zhou Yi arrived at the Prime Minister's Mansion at about noon, and as soon as he approached, a servant came up to him from a distance and respectfully called him "Aunt."

Zhou Yi nodded, and the servant ran into the gate again. Then the butler of the Prime Minister's Mansion came out with a smile on his face: "Auntie, you are here, please come in."

Zhou Yi was a little flattered. At this time, two wide carriages stopped in front of the door. The word "Luo" was framed on the wall of the carriage with red rosewood strips, which made people know the identity of the people in the carriage at a glance.

"Butler Zhong, you go to entertain others, don't worry about me."

Zhou Yi knew that the Luo family was the surname of Nangong Muyan's grandfather, and they were also officials. They should be received by the butler, Old Zhong.

But he was just a businessman, so he didn't have to be so particular. He just found someone to lead the way.

Unexpectedly, Old Zhong waved to the servants at the door, followed Zhou Yi closely, and took the opportunity to convey Nangong Muyan's feelings: "Auntie, the young lady specifically said that you are the most honorable among all the guests."

Zhou Yi was stunned when he heard it.

Old Zhong continued to say cheerfully: "I have sent someone to inform the young lady, she should come out to greet you in person."

He caught a glimpse of a figure running over, stroked his beard and smiled, and bowed to Zhou Yi: "The beauty has arrived, I will take my leave first."

"Zhou Yi!"

A crisp shout came from behind.

Zhou Yi turned around and saw Nangong Muyan running towards him with her skirt in hand, with a bright smile on her face, just like the rising sun in the warm spring day.

"Slow down!"

Zhou Yi looked at her fearfully, and walked quickly towards the newcomer. He heaved a sigh of relief when Nangong Muyan stood still in front of him.

"Why are you running so fast?" Zhou Yi's tone was somewhat reproachful. How could a pregnant woman be so carefree like her?

Nangong Muyan said without hesitation: "I want to see you soon."