Chapter 54 (Overhaul) Mutual Love
Jiang Yanyi stood with her back to the path leading to the pavilion. She was about to go back to Lu Linyuan when she found that Lu Linyuan's face suddenly changed. Jiang
Yanyi turned around and saw Feng Shuo walking towards her with big strides.
She secretly thought it was a bad idea. The generals in the barracks were getting married, and Feng Shuo, as their top boss, naturally had to come over to drink a glass of wedding wine.
Facing Feng Shuo's cold and gloomy gaze, Jiang Yanyi subconsciously felt a chill on her neck, as if she was a scumbag who secretly dated her ex-boyfriend behind her current boyfriend's back.
Bah bah bah!
Jiang Yanyi quickly stopped the strange thoughts in her head. She didn't mean to refuse to deliver medicine to Feng Mansion. Why should she be afraid of meeting Feng Shuo? Therefore, when Feng Shuo came to her, her expression had become very frank.
"Prince." Lu Linyuan bowed his hands, and his face was full of obvious respect.
Seeing Feng Shuo's ugly face, he couldn't help but feel uneasy. He insisted that he didn't know Jiang Yanyi before, but later Chu Changping came to Xizhou and everything was revealed. Feng Shuo's face
was gloomy at the moment, maybe he was angry that he had deceived him. Lu Linyuan felt guilty and regretful. He wanted to explain but didn't know how to explain.
Feng Shuo didn't notice Lu Linyuan's expression changing several times in an instant. He looked at Jiang Yanyi, who was standing beside him with his back straight, looking at him very frankly without feeling guilty at all, and he felt the depression in his heart became heavier.
He asked in a deep voice, "Why are you here?"
Jiang Yanyi's neck shrank in fear of his cold gaze. Just as she was about to reply, she heard Lu Linyuan's voice from behind:
"I'm sorry. I was sleepy and took a short nap in the pavilion. When I woke up and was about to leave, I happened to run into... Miss Jiang came in to rest." After
Lu Linyuan greeted her, he kept his head half-lowered in a bowing posture
because Feng Shuo didn't say "no need to greet" after he greeted her. Naturally, he didn't notice that Feng Shuo was looking at Jiang Yanyi when he asked her questions, and thought Feng Shuo was asking him. In a few words, he explained why he and Jiang Yanyi were in the pavilion.
Feng Shuo glanced at Lu Linyuan and said, "Just now in the front hall, Lord Song seemed to be looking for nephew Lu Xian."
Lord Song was Lu Linyuan's boss, and Lu Linyuan did not suspect anything. He said goodbye to Feng Shuo and left in a hurry.
The housekeeper of the Han Mansion saw that the situation was not good and wanted to say a few words of advice, but was sent away by Xing Yao. Xing Yao glanced at the pavilion from a distance and left tactfully. After Lu Linyuan was sent away
, only Jiang Yanyi and Feng Shuo were left in the pavilion. Although there were winds coming from all directions, Jiang Yanyi felt that the air around him was a little thin because of such a person standing in front of him.
The weather was getting colder, and her lips were dry from the wind, even with a crack in the middle. She licked her lips subconsciously and said, "Your Majesty, it's better to keep your injuries away from the wind."
Feng Shuo stared at her, with a strong sense of oppression in his eyes: "Why are you here? Didn't you say that you have an injury on your foot and need to rest, and you can't walk well?"
Jiang Yanyi heard that he was going to call her to task, and knew that he might have misunderstood, so she said, "I had to walk a few days ago. She was tired and felt better today. Master Li had a backache and couldn't come to the Han Mansion to host the banquet. They asked me to come here to host the banquet. Auspicious days are important. I can't refuse!"
After listening to her explanation, Feng Shuo's jealousy was mostly gone, but his face was still a little sour: "Why did you hold the banquet in the pavilion instead of in the kitchen?"
Jiang Yanyi was about to continue explaining, but suddenly stopped talking and looked at him suspiciously: "Prince...are you jealous?"
"What a joke! How can I be jealous!" Feng Shuo put on a cold face.
Jiang Yanyi knew that he had known her true identity and must have known that she had been engaged to Lu Linyuan.
She and Lu Linyuan would even want to draw a line between them if they met on the street now, and she didn't want to have any grudges with Feng Shuo because of what happened today,
so she said: "There is a person lying on the bench in this pavilion, and there are plants and trees growing around it, how can I see it from outside?" "The king didn't ask you these, why are you asking so much?" Feng Shuo said this, and the corners of his lips, which had been tightly pursed, had turned up.
Jiang Yanyi: "..."
She silently told herself not to be angry, he just liked to talk nonsense from time to time. It
was also at this moment that she suddenly realized that her previous worries about her identity being exposed did not exist at all with Feng Shuo.
As if he had never minded her lies, the distance between her and him seemed to be the same as before, and seemed to be a little closer.
Jiang Yanyi felt a corner of her heart collapse, and she looked at his slightly raised mouth.
"What are you laughing at?" Feng Shuo asked her.
Jiang Yanyi did not answer.
The lake breeze blew over, and the corners of their clothes seemed to touch each other in the wind. For a moment, Feng Shuo seemed to know why she was laughing. When their eyes met, his eyes softened a lot, but he quickly turned away uncomfortably, and his ears turned red. The
lake breeze blew for a long time, and Feng Shuo couldn't help but covered his lips and coughed twice.
Jiang Yanyi said: "Don't stand here and blow the wind, find a place to sit down out of the wind."
Feng Shuo stretched out a hand, and it seemed that he was ready to let Jiang Yanyi help him.
Look how expensive he is.
The palpitations of the last second disappeared.
Jiang Yanyi resisted the urge to roll her eyes and reminded him: "My Lord, my feet hurt."
Feng Shuo glanced at her and
said: "I want you to hold my hand to help you walk." Jiang Yanyi: "..."
Feng Shuo said faintly: "If you don't mind, I can carry you."
This time it was Jiang Yanyi's turn to ignore him.
After the two left the pavilion one after the other, Xing Yao walked out from behind the rockery with a confused look. When he
saw the master's expression before, he thought he would be furious. How come the two of them said a few words in the pavilion, and then the master chased after Miss Jiang with a smile on his face?
Thanks to Feng Shuo, he sent someone to inquire and finally found out that Zhao Tou'er was helping to write the gift book in the gift room.
Jiang Yanyi took the herbs he had bought in the morning and brought them to Zhao Tou'er. It was probably because it was dinner time, and many people came to hang gifts. Jiang Yanyi saw that Zhao Tou'er was busy, so he didn't push forward.
There were several tables in the gift room, only one was used to write the gift list, and the rest were prepared for guests to play mahjong and mahjong. The banquet was set up in the front yard, and there was no table here. When it was dinner time, the guests all rushed to eat, so there was a seat left vacant.
Jiang Yanyi found a random seat in a corner and sat down, wanting to wait for Zhao Tou'er to finish his work before going to find him.
The tray on the table was filled with salt-baked peanuts and melon seeds, and there was a pile of melon seed shells and peanut shells on the ground.
Jiang Yanyi started to peel melon seeds and eat them when she had nothing to do. The kitchen had to wait until all the guests had finished eating before they could start eating with the servants of the Han Mansion. Jiang Yanyi didn't really care about this meal, but she waited because she wanted to ask Zhao Tou'er to bring the tonic for Chef Li, otherwise she would have gone back to her own shop long ago.
Sitting next to Jiang Yanyi was an old woman with gray hair, wearing a jacket with a happy pattern of fortune, wealth and longevity. Seeing Jiang Yanyi eating melon seeds, she smiled at her with a kind and gentle look.
"Old lady, why don't you go to the front to eat?" Jiang Yanyi asked, feeling embarrassed by her gaze.
The old lady was probably hard of hearing due to her age, and couldn't hear what Jiang Yanyi said. Seeing Jiang Yanyi looking at her with his mouth opening and closing, she pointed at her ears and waved her hands.
Jiang Yanyi guessed that this should be the old lady Quanfu invited by the Han Mansion. She didn't know why the old lady kept looking at her. She wondered if the tray was placed too far away and it was inconvenient for the old lady to take it?
She grabbed a handful of melon seeds and wanted to hand them to the old lady. The old lady smiled and waved her hands, opened her mouth again, and pointed to her gums where all her teeth had fallen out.
Jiang Yanyi realized later, could it be that the old lady herself had no teeth and couldn't chew these, and she kept staring at her because she saw that she was eating happily? Thinking of this, her old face couldn't help but blush, and she put the unpeeled melon seeds in her hand back into the tray.
Feng Shuo basically didn't move his chopsticks at the table. He just drank a glass of wine offered by General Han and left.
No matter how noisy the other generals were, they didn't dare to persuade Feng Shuo to drink. After Feng Shuo left, the whole banquet became lively.
He calculated the time and saw that Jiang Yanyi had gone out to deliver something and hadn't come back for such a long time, so he wanted to go and see him.
Most of the people who knew Feng Shuo were soldiers in the army. The servants of the Han Mansion and some other guests had never seen Feng Shuo. Some of them with good eyesight could guess what he was from his attire, while those with poor eyesight just regarded him as an ordinary distinguished guest, but they didn't dare to neglect him.
Feng Shuo walked to the reception room and immediately saw Jiang Yanyi sitting in the corner.
The old lady next to her seemed to be saying something to her. She listened attentively, but her eyebrows twisted several times, and she occasionally answered a sentence or two in a rather tangled manner.
On the wall behind her was a big red wedding character and red silk hanging. The festive atmosphere matched her quiet expression, and Feng Shuo suddenly felt a bit of peace and quiet.
He stared at it absentmindedly for a while, and when Jiang Yanyi noticed his gaze and glanced over here, he walked over slowly, lowered his eyelids, and his eyelashes swept a beautiful arc on his eyelids: "Did you give it to me?"
His voice was softer than usual, and it seemed to be tainted with some worldly fireworks in the bustle.
Jiang Yanyi shook his head and didn't bother to ask why Feng Shuo came here, and said: "Boss Zhao is busy."
Although one of them was standing and the other was sitting, they both looked very outstanding. Even those who didn't know Feng Shuo's identity couldn't help but glance at them a few more times.
"He's been busy, so why are you just waiting here like an idiot?"
The season of late autumn and early winter seemed to be particularly windy, and Feng Shuo's voice was blown away by the wind: "Give me the things, I'll pass them on for you."
"No, it will scare Zhao Tou'er." Jiang Yanyi shook her head.
Her true identity was still a secret to Zhao Tou'er and the others. If they knew that she and Feng Shuo were having an affair, Zhao Tou'er would be scared to death on the spot.
Fortunately, Feng Shuo was quite reasonable at this time and didn't say anything.
The old lady next to Jiang Yanyi saw that her attitude towards talking to Feng Shuo seemed quite familiar, and smiled and handed her a red envelope.
At other people's wedding banquets, getting a red envelope from Mrs. Quanfu was a very good omen for marriage.
A woman nearby thought Jiang Yanyi didn't know about this custom, so she said with a smile: "Young lady, take it. This is the last red envelope for the whole blessing. Old Madam An has many children and grandchildren. If you take the red envelope from her, young lady, I'm afraid you will get married soon."
Feng Shuo was standing nearby. Jiang Yanyi's ears suddenly became hot when she heard this. She didn't think that far ahead.
However, before she could say anything, Feng Shuo, relying on his long arms, had already taken the red envelope handed to Jiang Yanyi by the old lady. At the end, he glanced at Jiang Yanyi and said: "You have no place to put it on your body, so it's the same if you put it here."
Jiang Yanyi: "..."
She finally realized what it meant to lie with open eyes.
Zhao Tou'er finally finished his work. After Jiang Yanyi gave Zhao Tou'er the tonic, he asked a few more questions about Chef Li's health before saying goodbye.
Jiang Yanyi left, and Feng Shuo followed. Zhao Tou'er was busy and didn't notice them before, but this scene alone made his eyelids tremble. He has seen all kinds of storms in his life, but this guess in his mind at this moment is still a bit too much for him.