The two were so tired that they woke up in the early morning of the next day. They slept too long and were hungry when they woke up. After Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan woke up and washed up, they immediately ordered food.

Li Rong was familiar with most of the people in the princess's mansion, and Pei Wenxuan had also known them in his previous life. However, now that he had a new life, even if he knew them clearly in his heart, he had to pretend that it was the first time they met.

So after dinner, the two of them spent another morning getting familiar with the people and things in the princess's mansion, and only then did they have some time to themselves.

Pei Wenxuan's wedding leave lasted nine days, and he would go to court again after nine days. They had already met everyone they were supposed to meet, so they had time left. Li Rong thought about it and said to Pei Wenxuan, "Shall we go find Shangguan Ya first?"

What Li Rong was most concerned about at the moment was Li Chuan's marriage. Pei Wenxuan did not object when he heard the words. He directly called someone, prepared a carriage, and went to the Shangguan Mansion with Li Rong.

Pei Wenxuan was writing a post on the way, and as he wrote he couldn't help but ask, "How did you know she was coming?"

"Before the wedding, people kept asking about her," Li Rong said lazily, sitting aside and reading a book. "She arrived before the wedding, but we were busy at that time and didn't have time to take care of her."

As she spoke, she looked up at Pei Wenxuan and said, "Have you finished writing the post? If you have, let me take a look."

Pei Wenxuan laughed: "What's so good about a visiting card?"

"Aya is a very particular person. If your post is not well written, she might not even bother to read it."

"You can rest assured about this," Pei Wenxuan handed over the written note, "She dares not to see me, but she dares not to see you."

Li Rong was delighted to hear this, but she still read Pei Wenxuan's post. Pei Wenxuan's post was very beautiful, even if only the words were considered. Li Rong couldn't help but praise him: "You are beautiful on the outside but rotten on the inside. You are very beautiful, and your words are also very beautiful."

"You said this," Pei Wenxuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Are you hurting me or yourself?"

"How did I hurt myself?" Li Rong looked up in surprise. Pei Wenxuan took the post back from her hand, stepped away, and said with a smile, "After all, your handwriting is not good either."

Li Rong heard this and tapped her palm with her fan: "Don't you think this carriage is too big and can't provide you with any protection?"

"But," Pei Wenxuan changed the subject and said immediately, "Your Highness's people are beautiful inside and out, perfect."

Li Rong burst out laughing, and Pei Wenxuan didn't continue to argue. Pei Wenxuan thought about it and said with some worry: "If we go directly there, what if Miss Shangguan is not here?"

"If she's not at home, she must be at some teahouse or poetry gathering. She only went to a few places before she entered the palace. We have plenty of time, so it's easy to find her."

Li Rong spoke confidently, and Pei Wenxuan nodded, not worrying anymore.

The two of them went all the way to Shangguan Mansion and presented the visiting card. The doorman delivered the card to Shangguan Mansion. After a while, the housekeeper of Shangguan Family came out in person and said respectfully, "Your Highness, I am sorry. Today, my young lady was invited by the Jiwen Poetry Society to attend a tea party. You see, why don't you go back to the princess's mansion first and wait for my young lady to come back. I will ask my young lady to go to the princess's mansion in person to apologize, okay?"

"We were the ones who came here presumptuously," Li Rong laughed, "How can we blame the young lady? Since she is at the Jiwen Poetry Society, I will just go over there."

It was popular among the noble children in Huajing to set up poetry societies. They would meet in teahouses on weekdays to hold tea parties, compose poetry and have conversations. This was considered an elegant social activity in Huajing.

However, such activities not only have a high status threshold, but also require extremely high academic qualifications of the participants. Shangguan Ya was able to get an invitation from the Jiwen Poetry Society within just a few days after arriving in Beijing, which shows that she has extraordinary abilities.

Li Rong was not surprised. She smiled and said to Pei Wenxuan while sitting in the carriage, "I said she was either at home or in the poetry club. Do you believe me?"

Pei Wenxuan nodded: "You do understand her."

"After all, we have known each other for so many years." Li Rong was thinking about meeting Shangguan Ya soon, and she couldn't help but feel happy. The fan was spinning in her hand, and she couldn't help but recall the time when she first met Shangguan Ya. "Speaking of which, it's a pity that I didn't get to know her so early. Although she is a woman, she is still elegant and graceful. Talking with her is dignified, polite and humorous, which makes people extremely happy. The only pity," Li Rong sighed, "is that the governor is too polite."

Pei Wenxuan listened quietly without saying a word. He lowered his head to drink tea and did not make any further comments.

Li Rong chatted casually about some interesting things that happened with Shangguan Ya in the past, and then arrived at the Jiwen Poetry Society.

The Jiwen Poetry Society is the most famous and wealthy poetry society in the capital. It has opened a separate Jiwen Teahouse, where its daily tea parties are held.

Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan got off the carriage, reported Pei Wenxuan's name, and walked in. As soon as they entered the teahouse, a servant came forward to greet them and asked who invited them. Li Rong smiled and said directly to the receptionist: "I heard that Miss Shangguan Ya is here today. I wonder if you can let her know?"

"Miss Shangguan?" The man from the poetry club was a little confused after hearing this, "Miss Shangguan is not here today."

Hearing this, Li Rong paused, turned her head, and asked in surprise, "She didn't come?"

"No."

The receptionist laughed and said, "Miss Shangguan came to Huajing some time ago and only came here once."

Li Rong knew something was wrong when she heard this. Pei Wenxuan, who was standing by, coughed lightly, and smiled as he looked at Li Rong and said, "I said she must have gone to another place, but you still didn't believe me, young man." Pei Wenxuan turned to look at the attendant, "Do you know where Miss Shangguan usually goes?"

"I can..."

Before he finished speaking, the attendant saw Pei Wenxuan flashing a silver ingot from his sleeve. The young man looked up at Pei Wenxuan, who nodded. The young man hesitated for a moment and finally said, "We don't know where Miss Shangguan is. However, I heard that someone saw Miss Shangguan with a pass to the Jucai Pavilion. Why don't you go there to look for her?"

Hearing this, Li Rong was shocked, but Pei Wenxuan was not surprised. He gave the silver to the servant boy and pulled Li Rong, who was full of disbelief, out.

After he went out, he told his servants to find a good friend to borrow the token of Jucai Pavilion, then took Li Rong to the carriage and headed to Jucai Pavilion.

Li Rong took a long time to come back to her senses in the carriage, and immediately said, "You really want to go to Jucai Pavilion?!"

Jucaiguan is the most famous casino in Huajing. Li Rong came to her senses and felt that it was unreliable. She immediately said, "That person is absolutely talking nonsense. Don't waste your time in such a place."

"Now that we're here," Pei Wenxuan brought the tea, raised his eyes with a smile, glanced at Li Rong and said, "It wouldn't hurt to go there. Maybe there will be some surprises there."

"Impossible." Li Rong saw that Pei Wenxuan was smiling with a look of anticipation, and she suddenly became unhappy. She sneered, "Don't waste your time. I know you have opinions about Aya..."

"Stop, stop, stop," Pei Wenxuan raised his hand to stop Li Rong from speaking, "I have no opinion on Miss Shangguan at all, stop talking nonsense."

"When I praised her before, you were embarrassed," Li Rong sneered, "What do you call that?"

"I really don't have any opinion about her," Pei Wenxuan took a sip of tea and pointed the lid of the teacup in the direction of Li Rong. "I do have an opinion about you."

Li Rong: “…”

For a moment, I actually felt that there seemed to be some truth in it.

"I'm just curious," Pei Wenxuan laughed, "If I live my life again, will I be able to see some different scenery?"

"It may be different," Li Rong vowed, "but it is definitely not this."

"Then Your Highness, would you like to make a bet with me?" Pei Wenxuan raised his hand to the window and said with a smile, "If Miss Shangguan is in Jucai Pavilion today, what do you think?"

"If Aya were in Jucai Hall," Li Rong said generously, "I would buy you a carriage right away."

"Your Highness," Pei Wenxuan waved his fan, "I have now entered the princess's mansion. Do you think I still care about a carriage? Do you look down on me, or do you look down on yourself?"

Pei Wenxuan's words sounded pleasant to the ear. Li Rong nodded and said, "You make a lot of sense. So what do you want to do?"

Pei Wenxuan thought about it, but for a moment he didn't know what to ask for.

It's not like he had never made a bet with Li Rong before. When they were young and just got together, if he lost the bet, he would let Li Rong kiss him. Now, he absolutely cannot make such a bet.

Pei Wenxuan thought about it for a while, and then said, "I can't think of it for now, so why not take a bigger gamble and ask the princess to promise me to do something. This matter is only about the princess herself, and has nothing to do with the court. It does not violate the princess's morals, such as washing clothes, cooking, fetching water and dressing." Pei Wenxuan said, and couldn't help laughing for a moment, "It's not bad to be a little maid serving me."

"You dare to think so." Li Rong sneered, "What if she's not here?"

"Well," Pei Wenxuan thought for a moment, "What do you think, Your Highness?"

"Once you have built your secret guard, give me the Eagle Squadron as my guard."

Li Rong opened his mouth like a lion, and Pei Wenxuan was helpless for a moment, thinking that this person was really boring.

His secret guards were divided into four teams: Eagle, Tiger, Wolf, and Fox. Li Rong asked for a whole elite team. Pei Wenxuan sighed. Li Rong thought Pei Wenxuan was unwilling to take the risk, and was about to mock him when he heard Pei Wenxuan raise two fingers: "Twenty people in the Eagle Team, how about that?"

"A member of the Tianzi Team?"

"Okay." Pei Wenxuan nodded, and Li Rong immediately smiled, as if she had gained some advantage: "Then I would like to thank Master Pei in advance."

Pei Wenxuan twirled the folding fan in his hand and smiled without saying a word.

The carriage soon arrived at the gate of Jucai Pavilion. When the two got off the carriage, they saw the guard who had gone to borrow the pass was already waiting at the gate. The man came up with the pass and handed it to Pei Wenxuan. Pei Wenxuan nodded and led Li Rong into Jucai Pavilion.

The two did not want to show off too much, so they asked the guards to wait at the door and walked towards the Jucai Pavilion together. There was a doorman standing at the door of the Jucai Pavilion. As soon as the two arrived at the door, the doorman shouted loudly: "The Jucai Gate opens to the east. Come in with or without money. Do you two have money or not?"

Pei Wenxuan heard the code, handed over the pass, and said with a smile, "I have money."

The doorman took the pass, looked at it carefully, and then turned around and said, "Dear guest, please..."

After the doorman called out, a middle-aged man came in and invited Li Rong and Pei Wenxuan to come in. The middle-aged man introduced the Jucai Pavilion to the two people, but the two listened absent-mindedly. After entering the hall, Pei Wenxuan nodded and said, "Don't worry about us, we'll have fun by ourselves."

The middle-aged man smiled and agreed, then turned and left.

The two of them were strolling in the crowd. It was a very lively place with people coming and going. Both men and women seemed extremely excited.

Pei Wenxuan was afraid that someone would bump into Li Rong, so he had to raise his hand to protect Li Rong in the middle and clear the way for her. While protecting her and walking forward, he said, "I'm helping you, don't think too much."

Li Rong glanced at Pei Wenxuan calmly: "The more you talk, the more you think."

Pei Wenxuan: “…”

There is some truth in that.

The two of them walked around in the crowd, and Li Rong gradually felt relieved. She couldn't help but say, "I said, how could Aya come to such a place, Master Pei..."

Before they finished speaking, they vaguely heard a familiar voice coming from the crowd, shouting excitedly: "Big! Big! Big!"

The moment Li Rong heard the voice, she felt as if she was struck by lightning. They turned around together and saw a figure who looked very much like Shangguan Ya in the crowd. She was lying in front of the gambling table, desperately knocking the word "big" on the table, her eyes fixed on the sieve that was about to open, and her eyes seemed to be glowing.

But the man was wearing men's clothing and his face could not be seen clearly. Li Rong was not sure whether she had misheard the voice or...

Before she could react, the sieve was opened at that table. Amid cheers and sighs, the short girl shouted "Thank you, thank you" and held the money in front of her as she spoke.

But when she was halfway through collecting the money, she seemed to realize something, stood up, said a few words to the person next to her, and walked towards the small door at the side.

Li Rong reacted immediately and said, "Catch up with her."

She must find out whether this is Shangguan Ya.

If it wasn't Shangguan Ya, it would be fine. If it was Shangguan Ya...

In that previous life, Shangguan Ya had been pretending for her all her life? !

Li Rong was filled with shock. She hurriedly ran in the direction the girl had run. Pei Wenxuan quickly followed her and squeezed out of the crowd together.

The other party was very smart. She obviously realized that Li Rong had caught up with her, so she sped up and ran all the way outside.

Li Rong didn't care about her appearance for the moment and ran after the girl, urging Pei Wenxuan as she ran: "Chase her! Can't you even outrun a girl?!"

Pei Wenxuan had no choice but to speed up and chase after the girl.

Shangguan Ya, who was running in front, noticed Pei Wenxuan approaching. She knew she would be caught if she continued running, so she looked around and suddenly raised her hand to the window next to her, then jumped over from the small round window.

The window was too small for Pei Wenxuan to get through, and he froze in place for a moment. Li Rong saw him from a distance and cursed, "Is this a monkey spirit?"

Then he walked right past Pei Wenxuan, supporting himself a little clumsily, and jumped through the round window.

Pei Wenxuan's eyes widened, as if he had seen a ghost. Then he heard Li Rong shout, "Go after him in a roundabout way, you idiot!"

Pei Wenxuan reacted and realized that Li Rong was really unwilling to give up on catching up with Shangguan Ya. He could only take a quick look at the route, quickly go around the wall to the side yard, and continue to rush over with the two of them.

Li Rong chased Shangguan Ya all the way. Although she was some distance away from Shangguan Ya and could not catch her at all, she was very resilient and when it came to chasing someone, as long as she could still see a shadow, she would chase after them.

In order to get rid of her, Shangguan Ya simply went up to a small building in the backyard that was used for rest. Li Rong quickly followed her. When Pei Wenxuan entered the yard, he saw two girls going upstairs one after another. After thinking for a moment, he simply went straight through the first floor. Shangguan Ya couldn't have been wandering around upstairs all the time. She would definitely find a way to get out of the upstairs and run out of the Jucai Pavilion.

Shangguan Ya did think so. As soon as she went up, she found a way out from the second floor. There was a relatively low window on the second floor of this small building. After jumping down, she climbed a tree and climbed over a wall, and she could leave the Jucai Pavilion. As long as she was not caught in the act, she would have room to argue.

Shangguan Ya had a good plan, but Li Rong was chasing her closely. She quickly left Li Rong behind and rushed to the window. She had planned to climb down slowly, but before she reached the window, she heard Li Rong yell, "Shangguan Ya, stop right there!"

Shangguan Ya was so frightened that her feet slipped, and she shuddered and fell directly out of the window.

The headscarf she used to tie up her hair had long since fallen apart, and when it fell, it was caught by a nearby branch, and her long black hair instantly spread out.

Shangguan Ya let out a soft "ah" and the feeling of weightlessness made her panic.

At that moment, the young man who was taking a nap against a tree downstairs opened his eyes and saw a girl falling from the sky. The young man subconsciously raised his hand and held the girl in his arms.

The summer sun shone on the young man, making him look radiant. He had a handsome face and smiled slightly: "I was just taking a short rest, but I didn't expect a beautiful woman to fall in love with me."

Shangguan Ya reacted instantly, slapped the other person in the face, then jumped out of the young man's arms, turned around and wanted to run.

The young man was stunned for a moment, then he immediately reacted and grabbed her.

Shangguan Ya shouted angrily: "Let go!"

The young man smiled and said, "Hiding from people? I'll help you."

Shangguan Ya was stunned for a moment, and then the other party pushed her into the pile of grass next to them and turned a bamboo basket upside down on her head.

As soon as the young man finished emptying the bamboo basket, Li Rong ran to the window and saw the young man standing downstairs.

She was slightly startled, and then said in surprise: "Master Su?"

Su Ronghua smiled and turned around. He was a little surprised when he saw Li Rong. He quickly glanced at the bamboo basket beside him, then quickly retracted his gaze and said with a smile, "Why is Your Highness here?"

"Sir, have you seen a girl dressed in men's clothing?"

"I saw it," Su Ronghua pointed his fan outside the courtyard, "he ran away."

Li Rong pursed her lips, looked at the distance between the window and the ground, and made a quick decision: "Young Master, could you help me?"

"Your Highness, please speak."

"I'm jumping down now, you pick me up."

Su Ronghua was stunned for a moment before responding, "Oh, OK."

Su Ronghua stretched out her hand, and Li Rong pulled up her skirt and stepped on the window. Before she could move, she heard Pei Wenxuan shouting from the side: "Li Rong!"

Li Rong was so scared that she fell down. Before Su Ronghua could do anything, someone rushed over and caught Li Rong, who had suddenly fallen, into his arms.

Pei Wenxuan came too quickly and too quickly, and Li Rong was completely confused.

He was obviously angry. Li Rong lay in his arms, staring blankly at Pei Wenxuan who was inexplicably angry.

Pei Wenxuan didn't say anything. He put her on the ground and asked, "Are you okay?"

"No..." Li Rong rarely saw such a scene, and felt a little guilty for a moment: "Nothing."

Pei Wenxuan nodded and didn't say anything more to her. Su Ronghua didn't know what happened yet. She stood behind Pei Wenxuan and said with a smile: "The girl just now..."

Before he could finish his words, Pei Wenxuan turned around and slapped him in the face. The slap stunned Su Ronghua.

Su Ronghua covered his face in shock and turned back to look at Pei Wenxuan and asked, "Why did you hit me?"

After a moment, he thought of another question: "If you hit me, you hit me, why do you still slap me?"

Angry that the rape was late, Su Ronghua raised her voice: "Are you a woman?!"