Chapter 288, Flower Festival
"Big sister!"
"Cousin Zixuan!"
After looking at the betrothal gifts for a while, Daohua and Li Zixin walked into Li Zixuan's room hand in hand. They just saw Li Zixuan holding a gold-inlaid ruby and pearl hairpin, smiling shyly with her head down.
Seeing her like this, Daohua and Li Zixin looked at each other and both covered their mouths and laughed softly.
Li Zixuan quickly put down her hairpin and glared at her two sisters coquettishly: "What are you laughing at?" After she said that, she saw that the two were still staring at her, and she felt shy and had to pick up the handkerchief to cover her face. Then she felt that this was not good, so she took the handkerchief away.
Daohua walked forward with a smile and took the hairpin. "What a beautiful hairpin! Who gave it to you?"
Li Zixin came over and said in agreement, "Of course he's my future brother-in-law."
Seeing the two of them like this, Li Zixuan couldn't help it, stood up and pretended to hit them.
Daohua and Li Zixuan ran away quickly, joking as they ran, which made Li Zixuan's face blush with embarrassment.
After playing for a while, the three of them stopped because they were all out of breath.
Daohua put down her hairpin, sat down beside Li Zixuan, took her hand and asked, "Cousin Zixuan, you really like Fang Liangji, don't you?"
Li Zixuan immediately spat at the rice flowers: "What nonsense are you talking about? What do you mean by like or dislike? Stop saying such nonsense."
Seeing her shy look, Daohua smiled silently, and it seemed that she liked it.
Yes, before understanding a person’s personality and values, preferences are based on appearance.
Fang Liangji is handsome and easily attracts girls.
Seeing that cousin Zixuan was extremely embarrassed, Daohua smiled and changed the subject: "I heard that many people from the Fang family came today, and the betrothal gifts were generous. It is obvious that the Fang family values cousin very much."
Li Zixuan smiled and tapped Daohua's forehead: "You mischievous little thing, there's no need to make fun of me here. In two years, it will be your turn."
Daohua shuddered and quickly moved aside: "It's still too early for me. My mother said that she wants me to stay at home for a few more years."
Li Zixuan smiled and said, "Even if I stay for a few more years, I still have to get married in the end."
Daohua didn't want to continue this topic and said quickly, "Zixuan, please stop talking. I'm leaving after the Flower Festival. Please let me have fun for a few more days."
The Flower Festival in Zhongzhou is on February 25th. The day before yesterday, Dong Yuanyao sent her an invitation, inviting her to attend the temple fair at the Flower God Temple on the Flower Festival.
Originally, she planned to go to Ningmen Mansion tomorrow, but Dong Yuanyao posted a notice, which meant that she could stay for three more days, so she agreed.
Li Zixin interrupted: "Sister, let's go together that day."
Daohua nodded immediately: "Exactly, I've been here for more than half a month, and I haven't seen you leave the house yet."
Li Zixuan was also a little tempted: "I have to ask my mother and aunt for permission."
Li Zixin smiled: "Mom and the others are going on an outing that day too."
The Temple of the Flower God is built on the outskirts of the provincial capital.
On the day of the Flower Festival, Fan and Daohua went out early in the morning, but they did not arrive at the Flower God Temple until 10:00 am.
Dong Yuanyao had already arrived. As soon as Daohua and his group entered the temple, she came over. After greeting Fan and Jiang, she asked, "Why are you here so late?"
Daohua: "Don't mention it. There are too many people going out for an outing today. We are stuck in traffic."
Dong Yuanyao: "You must have left home too late. We didn't get stuck when we left the city." As he spoke, he raised the five-colored paper in his hand and said, "Let's go and post the colored paper."
Daohua looked at Fan, and after Fan nodded, she took Li Zixuan and her sister and followed Dong Yuanyao to the garden.
In the garden, hundreds of flowers are in full bloom, and young ladies from various families are flying among the flowers like butterflies. In the pavilion in the corner in the distance, there are handsome young men who are brewing tea, drinking tea, and reciting poems.
After pasting the colored paper, the four of them strolled in the garden, chatting and enjoying the flowers.
On the way, Li Zixin was not paying attention and ran too fast, spraining her ankle. Daohua and the other two had no choice but to send her back to Fan and Jiang.
"You guys go play, I'll just stay here with Zi Xin."
Knowing that her cousin and Miss Dong both loved to play, Li Zixuan smiled and took the initiative to speak.
Li Zixin followed up and said, "Yes, you guys go enjoy the flowers. Big sister, you should go too. You finally get to come out here, don't let me spoil your fun."
Li Zixuan shook her head: "I'm a little tired after walking around for a long time, so I won't go anymore."
After hearing what the two said, Daohua smiled and left with Dong Yuanyao.
"I just heard that the peonies in the east corner of the garden are in bloom. Shall we go over and take a look?"
"OK!"
The two girls walked towards the east corner of the garden, laughing and joking.
"Look, there really are peonies!"
As soon as he turned the corner, Dong Yuanyao saw pots of blooming peonies in the distance, and was about to go over while pulling Daohua.
Unexpectedly, the pull didn't move.
When I turned around, I saw Daohua frowning and looking at the pavilion not far away.
Dong Yuanyao followed Daohua's gaze and looked over, immediately showing surprise: "Isn't that the young master of the Fang family who your cousin Zixuan just got engaged to?" After saying this, he paused and frowned.
In a corner pavilion not far away, Fang Liangji and three or four young men in brocade clothes were sitting together chatting, with a few girls beside them.
One of the girls in pink was giving cakes to Fang Liangji.
Instead of handing it to him, he fed the pastry directly into Fang Liangji's mouth.
Although Fang Liangji looked somewhat reluctant, he did not refuse harshly.
Looking at this scene, Daohua's brows were twisted into a knot.
Dong Yuanyao snorted coldly, "This is how a merchant family is. There are no etiquette or rules at all." The girl in pink was almost sticking to Fang Liangji.
In the corner pavilion.
"Brother Fang, please have another piece. I made this myself yesterday." Sun Jiayue said as she fed a piece of glutinous rice cake into Fang Liangji's mouth.
Fang Liangji looked a little impatient and wanted to refuse, but he was afraid of embarrassing his good friend Sun Yongyi, so he had to bite the bullet and eat the cake.
Fang Hao stood at the edge of the pavilion with his hands behind his back. He saw this scene out of the corner of his eye and his face turned a little ugly: "Liangji, if you don't want to eat, don't force yourself to eat, otherwise you will get an upset stomach."
Fang Liangji's expression changed. He wanted to spit out the cake, but he felt it was indecent, so he swallowed it. Before he could reply, one of his companions exclaimed in surprise.
"They say people are more beautiful than flowers. I never believed it before, but this time I finally saw the real person. There are such wonderful people in the world."
Seeing him staring blankly behind them, everyone turned around and suddenly, two pretty figures, one in red and one in blue, came into their sight.
Seeing that there was no sound in the pavilion, Fang Hao couldn't help but look back, and his eyes instantly became deep.
"Ahem~"
Suddenly, a violent coughing sound was heard in the pavilion.
It was none other than Fang Liangji.
The glutinous rice cake is quite sticky and I choked if I wasn’t careful.
Sun Jiayue immediately stepped forward and wanted to pat him on the back, but unfortunately, this time, Fang Liangji dodged quickly like a frightened rabbit.
"Why are you standing here?"
Suddenly there was a sound behind them. Daohua and Dong Yuanyao turned around quickly and found that it was Xiao Yeyang and others.
Daohua glanced sideways in the direction of the corner pavilion and snorted coldly, "It was a good show."
Yan Wenkai immediately asked, "What's the show? Where is it? I want to take a look too."
Daohua rolled her eyes at him and said, "Fourth brother, I'm afraid you won't be able to sing opera in this lifetime."
Xiao Yeyang looked at the rice flowers in surprise.
The atmosphere was tense. Who had angered her? Thinking of this, he looked up at Jiaoting.
At this time, Fang Hao in the corner pavilion was already walking towards this side, and Fang Liangji followed behind with his head down.
"Ji Guang Fang Hao greets the young prince."
(End of this chapter)
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