Chapter 14: Embarrassment
“Aaaaa——!!”
Wen Yao screamed in fright and stood up suddenly.
Because she moved too quickly and too vigorously, she pulled the tablecloth and all the food on her table was swept to the floor.
Liu and Wen Haitian, who were sitting here, were all spilled, making a mess.
The harmonious atmosphere at the table was broken the last second, and everyone was startled by Wen Yao.
Wen Tingyun shouted angrily: "Wen Yao, what are you doing?!"
Wen Yao pointed at the maid behind Gu Qijun and said tremblingly: "Ghost, there is a ghost, that maid is a ghost!"
Everyone followed Wen Yao's gaze and looked at the maid.
She was a maid with a very ordinary appearance, and she was from Wen Tingyun's courtyard.
Everyone's eyes were focused on the maid, and she was so scared that she fell to her knees with a plop.
She didn't know what she had done wrong, so she could only kowtow hard: "I am not a ghost, I am not a ghost! I am a second-class maid in the master's yard!"
Seeing that there was indeed nothing wrong with the maid, everyone once again shifted their puzzled gazes to the out-of-control Wen Yao.
Wen Yao had already hidden behind Liu. She pointed at the maid, her voice becoming shrill and harsh out of fear: "She's a ghost, her tongue has fallen out, can't you see it?!"
Wen Yao was really about to collapse. Could it be that what she saw was different from what others saw?
Liu was also confused. She could only pat Wen Yao's back to comfort her: "Yao'er, calm down. There are so many of us here, and it's broad daylight. How could there be a ghost?"
Gu Qijun also looked worried: "Sister Yao'er, are you hallucinating because you got up too early to make peach blossom pastry and you were too tired and didn't get enough rest?"
Even if everyone felt strange, they were mainly concerned about Wen Yao at this time.
Wen Yao looked again and found that the maid's appearance had changed. She was indeed a normal-looking maid.
It was as if everything just now was her imagination.
She could only force herself to calm down. She absolutely could not mess up such an important occasion.
She blamed herself and apologized: "I'm sorry, maybe I was too excited to sleep well these two days because of the King of Qi's visit, so I had hallucinations..."
She and Liu went to change their clothes, and the mess on the table was quickly cleaned up by the servants.
The family dinner continues.
When she went downstairs to change her clothes, Liu lowered her voice and asked Wen Yao, "What did you see just now?"
Wen Yao's face turned pale: "Gao Zhi, I thought that maid was the hanged Gao Zhi, and she even smiled at me..."
Liu glared at her and said, "I think you were scared by that little bitch Wen Ling and thought too much. You are so brave!"
Wen Yao was silent. Now that she thought about it, she might have been really scared.
Liu comforted him again: "It's okay, we have the things given by the master, even if Gao Zhi really comes back, he can't hurt us."
The mother and daughter talked for a while before returning to the dining table.
As soon as Wen Yao came back, she glared at Wen Ling fiercely.
And Wen Ling... smiled at her, and the corners of her mouth that were deliberately raised high were actually a bit like Gao Zhi's smile.
Wen Yao instantly got goose bumps on her back. She kept telling herself that it was okay, even if Gao Zhi really came, he couldn't hurt her.
Although he thought so in his heart, he didn't dare to look up at Wen Ling again.
Gu Chenran, who witnessed everything from beginning to end, also smiled.
It seems that his princess is not the type to suffer any loss.
The family dinner that followed went smoothly, and both Wen Tingyun and Wen Haitian, father and son, spoke to King Qi with their hands on his face.
As expected of officials, both of them had high emotional intelligence and spoke very skillfully, which made Gu Qijun very happy.
They were chatting very happily, but they completely ignored Gu Chenran who was standing next to them.
Gu Chenran was also a prince, so being treated differently like this was naturally another kind of humiliation, but he couldn't get angry because he couldn't point out where he was wrong.
This is the "soft violence" commonly used in official circles.
Unfortunately, Gu Chenran seemed not to care about any of this. He didn't say a word the whole time and focused on helping Wen Ling serve the dishes.
He discovered that Wen Ling liked to eat small river fish, and that plate of small fish was almost always in front of him.
Every fat little fish was caught by him accurately.
He found that Wen Ling would not spit out the bones when eating fish, so he used chopsticks and tweezers to pick out every bone in the fish and put them into Wen Ling's bowl.
Gu Qijun and the Wen family looked at him several times, but he seemed not to notice and was very focused.
The Prince of Chen is indeed abnormal.
This was the only thought of everyone at the dinner table except Wen Ling.
After three rounds of drinks at a family dinner, it finally came to an end.
In order to deliberately appear friendly with the Wen family and ignore Gu Chenran, Gu Qijun accidentally got drunk.
Liu immediately gave Wen Yao a look.
Wen Yao understood, and took the initiative to hold Gu Qijun's arm when she went out, and said softly: "Prince Qi, be careful on the steps."
The Wen family deliberately lagged behind by a few steps, pretending not to keep up, but in fact to give them space.
"Sister Yao'er is thoughtful." Gu Qijun felt very comforted: "Regarding the matter between you and me, I will ask my mother to ask the emperor for permission as soon as possible."
Wen Yao blushed: "Yao'er, wait a minute..."
As she spoke, she looked up shyly at the right moment, wanting to exchange glances with Gu Qijun, and the rest of her words got stuck in her throat.
She actually saw that Gu Qijun, whom she was supporting, turned into Gao Zhi.
Looking at it from such a close distance, one can more clearly see Gao Zhi's pale and lifeless face, his bulging eyeballs, full of resentment, and his bloody tongue sticking out.
Gao Zhi even deliberately stretched out his tongue and stretched it towards her face...
“Aaaaaa——!!”
Wen Yao's defense was broken. She screamed and pushed Gu Qijun away.
Gu Qijun was caught off guard and was pushed down the stairs by Wen Yao.
With a "crack", Gu Qijun's elbow hit the ground, and he gasped in pain: "My arm, it seems to be broken!!"
The Wen family members hurried forward.
Wen Yao hid behind Wen Haitian who ran over first, and shouted in a panic: "Gao Zhi, Gao Zhi is really back to take my life!"
Wen Haitian wanted to see what was going on, but when he heard Gao Zhi's name, he frowned: "Where is Gao Zhi? Didn't you tell me that Gao Zhi came back to her hometown to get married?"
He had a weird feeling.
Wen Yao immediately shut up and changed her words to: "There is a ghost, there really is a ghost!"
Liu came up and pulled Wen Yao aside.
Wen Tingyun couldn't stand it anymore, he scolded Wen Yao: "What on earth are you doing today? What kind of madness are you going through? Where is the ghost?!"
Gu Qijun fell to the ground and was helped up.
His face looked very bad at this time. He felt severe pain in his elbow. If it wasn't broken, it must have been a broken bone.
He was originally quite satisfied with Wen Yao, but now after seeing Wen Yao lose her composure twice in a row, he felt really bored and dull.
Wen Tingyun hurriedly stepped forward to apologize and wanted to call a doctor for him, but was refused.
Gu Qijun waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I will go back and find the imperial physician myself."
After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and left.
Now he couldn't help but doubt, everyone said that the eldest daughter of the Wen family was born mentally retarded, so could the second daughter also be born insane?
As soon as Gu Qijun left, the Wen family felt a pang in their hearts and had a bad feeling.
Wen Yao and King Qi’s marriage… won’t have any problems because of this, right?
Wen Yao also reacted. She subconsciously looked at Wen Ling and found that Wen Ling was smiling at her again, with that weird smile.
The more Wen Yao thought about it, the more she felt that she was evil. She screamed and threw herself at Wen Ling: "It's all your fault! It's all your fault!! It must be you who did this!"
Just when Wen Yao was about to pounce, Wen Ling calmly hid behind Gu Chenran's wheelchair, using Gu Chenran as a shield.
Gu Chenran: “…”
The Wen family just watched coldly, they also felt that Wen Ling was unlucky.
How come Yao'er is usually fine, but something happened today?
What's wrong with letting Wen Ling vent her anger by being beaten a few times by Wen Yao?
But I didn't expect Wen Ling to be so shameless as to hide behind Prince Chen.
When Wen Yao pounced on him with bared fangs and claws, Prince Chen covered his chest and said the most frightening words in the calmest tone.
"Ah, this crazy woman is scary. I'm scared. My madness may even flare up."
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