Chapter 386, Avoid
On the second day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xiao Yeyang, Yan Wenkai and others were about to return to the military camp.
Xiao Yeyang originally wanted to take the opportunity to pay his respects to Old Madam Yan to take another look at the rice flowers, but unexpectedly, the other three girls from the Yan family had already arrived, and he didn't see that guy coming over.
In this way, Xiao Yeyang could only leave with Yan Wenkai and others with a feeling of disappointment.
Rice Flower Pavilion.
Dong Yuanyao and Su Shiyu sat on the couch, watching Daohua combing her hair slowly, both speechless.
"Hurry up, if you're any later, the old lady will be having dinner." Dong Yuanyao couldn't help but remind him.
Daohua didn't speed up and continued to put on her makeup leisurely: "My grandmother is a very nice person. She won't say anything even if we are late."
Su Shiyu said, "It's one thing that the old lady didn't blame us, but it's another thing that we were late for our greetings. We can't lose our manners just because the old lady is kind."
Daohua nodded in agreement: "Sister Su, you are absolutely right. I will definitely go to pay my respects on time in the future." Although she said so, her actions did not speed up at all.
Seeing this, Dong Yuanyao and Su Shiyu looked at each other helplessly.
Dong Yuanyao walked to the dressing table, intending to urge Daohua to hurry up, but unexpectedly discovered that Daohua was not in the best spirits today. She asked in surprise, "Why are your eyes blue? Did you not sleep well last night?"
Daohua nodded randomly: "The moonlight was so beautiful last night that I didn't pay attention and slept late."
Dong Yuanyao showed disbelief. If Su Shiyu stayed up late because of the moonlight, she would believe it, but Daohua had no such sentiment to express her feelings to the moon.
Daohua stood up and said, "Okay, okay, I'm done. Let's go pay our respects to my grandmother." Then she pulled the two of them out of the yard.
On the way, Daohua also walked very slowly. She either pulled Dong Yuanyao and the other two to stop to appreciate the flowers, or deliberately slowed down her pace. After all this trouble, when the three of them arrived at Songheyuan, Old Lady Yan had already taken Yan Yihan and the other two to have breakfast.
"Why are you so late today? Your third and fourth brothers are gone!"
When Old Lady Yan saw Daohua and the other two coming, she hurriedly asked the maid to set the table again.
Daohua smiled and sat down: "Just leave, we'll see you next time they come back."
Old Lady Yan shook her head: "Your third and fourth brothers are family, so it's okay. But Yang kid and the others are leaving today, so I should come and see them off."
Hearing this, Dong Yuanyao and Su Shiyu glanced at each other quickly.
Yi Yi came so late on purpose, could it be that she was trying to avoid the little prince?
Seeing the two of them gossiping, Daohua was speechless and reminded them, "You two, please pay attention to your appearance. You are ladies from wealthy families. Don't show off your gossipy faces like ordinary women who enjoy watching the fun."
Dong Yuanyao immediately laughed and said, "That also requires some gossip to read. Have you provided us with some gossip?"
Daohua rubbed her hands together and said, "Dong Yuanyao, is your skin itchy? Let me loosen it for you."
Old Madam Yan quickly stopped Daohua: "It's early in the morning, eat well."
Dong Yuanyao smiled proudly at Daohua, but when he saw Old Lady Yan looking at him, he immediately lowered his head and ate breakfast obediently.
Seeing her like this, Old Lady Yan smiled and shook her head.
Halfway through the meal, Su Shiyu said, "Old lady, Yiyi, we've been out for several days. It's time to go back."
Daohua looked up: "Aren't you staying a few more days?"
Dong Yuanyao shook her head. "No, when I left, my grandmother and mother gave me an order that I must return after the Mid-Autumn Festival at the latest. Otherwise, I won't be able to go out again next time."
Su Shiyu also nodded, indicating that her family also asked her to do the same.
Seeing that both of them said this, Daohua didn't want to try to persuade them to stay any longer: "After breakfast, I will go talk to my mother and ask her to prepare a boat for you to go back."
Su Shiyu smiled and said, "No need. My family has property in Ningmen Mansion. When I came, the housekeeper had already arranged the return trip."
Old Madam Yan nodded and said, "Since your family has prepared a boat, then we don't need to prepare one here. However, you two are still young girls after all, so it's not good for you to go back alone. I'll ask Daohua's second uncle to take you back later."
Knowing that this was the old lady's good intention, Dong Yuanyao and Su Shiyu agreed with a smile.
After seeing off Dong Yuanyao and Su Shiyu, Daohua had some free time. In order to stop herself from having wild thoughts, she had to force herself to be busy. She even put out the piano that she usually didn't bother to play.
However, Wang Maner and the others still found that their daughter had been distracted more often recently.
At the same time, Ningmenguan military camp.
After a day of training, Xiao Yeyang returned to his tent sweating profusely. Seeing that Defu had already prepared a bathtub, he took off his clothes and got in. He soaked for a quarter of an hour before getting out.
While getting dressed, a handkerchief fell off the hanger.
Xiao Yeyang quickly bent down to pick it up. Looking at the handkerchief in his hand, he couldn't help but think of Daohua's innocent face lying on the boat on the Mid-Autumn Festival. His heart suddenly moved, and he shouted, "Defu, prepare a paintbrush for me. I want to paint."
Defu reminded him, "Governor Guo will be testing the soldiers' martial arts in the parade grounds later. Master, don't you want to go and watch?"
Xiao Yeyang said directly: "Prepare the brush for me first, I will go after I finish painting."
Hearing this, Defu had no choice but to turn around and prepare paintbrushes and paper.
After the drawing paper was laid out and the paints were ready, Xiao Yeyang began to paint.
Defu stood aside, stretching his neck to watch. After a while, he saw his master smoothly outlining Miss Yan's appearance, and suddenly he looked enlightened.
Usually, the master’s favorite thing is to watch Governor Guo test the soldiers. This time he didn’t go because he wanted to paint for Miss Yan.
Defu wanted to continue watching, but Xiao Yeyang raised his head and said, "Go guard outside the tent and don't let anyone in."
Only after everyone left did Xiao Yeyang continue painting.
He didn't want anyone to see Daohua's sleeping face.
An hour later, the image of rice flowers sleeping soundly deep among the lotus flowers appeared.
Xiao Yeyang stared at the person in the painting infatuatedly, and felt regretful again that he was unable to say goodbye to Daohua when he left Yan Mansion a few days ago.
After staring at the portrait silently for a while, Xiao Yeyang waited until the ink had dried before carefully rolling it up and putting it in the brocade box. After thinking for a while, he found a golden lock and locked the brocade box.
After putting away the brocade box, he got up and went to the training ground.
As soon as we approached the training ground, we could hear the soldiers' excited voices.
"This Yan Wentao is really good. He's already taken down five or six people today."
"Yan Wenkai is not bad either. I sparred with him yesterday, and he threw me off the stage before even ten moves."
Xiao Yeyang smiled as he watched Yan Wentao fighting on the martial arts stage. It turned out that the Yan brothers were really good at martial arts.
"Young Master, why did you come just now?"
Yan Wenkai pulled Su Hongxin over.
Xiao Yeyang looked at the two of them and smiled, "Something delayed me." He paused and said, "Wenkai, your brother's provincial examination is over, right? Did he say when he would be back?"
Yan Wenkai was stunned for a moment: "I'm not sure about this."
Su Hongxin was speechless: "You don't even know such an important thing?"
Yan Wenkai: "I don't need to worry about these things."
Su Hongxin shook his head speechlessly.
Xiao Yeyang smiled and said, "How about this, tomorrow we will go back to the capital with you to ask, so that we don't have to know if your brother has passed the imperial examination."
Su Hongxin nodded repeatedly: "This is a good idea. The food in your house is really good. We can have a good meal when we go there."
(End of this chapter)
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