Watching Su Muxue leave quickly, Mu Jin couldn't help but stand up and want to follow. However, as she took a step, she couldn't help but glance at Zhao Yefan and the woman and smile.
"Since we've already eaten, I won't bother you any longer. If I don't leave soon, Prince Zhao will blame me for being insensitive. I'll be going now. Take your time, and see you next time."
Su Yi didn't say anything and followed Mu Jin away. But before leaving, the look he gave Zhao Yefan made even the woman sitting next to Zhao Yefan shudder.
When Mu Jin rushed out of Shi Ding Lou, it was already dark outside. The streets were bustling with people coming and going, but Su Muxue was nowhere to be seen. She took a few steps forward, and Su Yi, who had caught up from behind, called out to her: "A Jin."
Mu Jin turned around, a few steps away, and frowned as she looked at Su Yi: "Mu Xue, she~"
Su Yi replied, "I have someone follow her, so there will be no problem. I estimate she has returned to the palace, so there's no need to worry."
Mu Jin felt that something must have happened between Su Muxue and Zhao Yefan. Anyone with eyes could see that Zhao Yefan was deliberately trying to anger Su Muxue, and as it turned out, Su Muxue was indeed angered by him.
Looking at Mu Jin's puzzled expression, Su Yi said calmly, "The two of them had a fight in my residence a few days ago. I suppose Mu Xue was in the wrong first, otherwise Zhao Yefan wouldn't have done something so absurd."
After Su Yi finished speaking, he smiled at Mu Jin and said, "It's a pity that all the effort that A Jin put into hosting the banquet today has been wasted."
In a private room at Shuyu Tower, the graceful woman was serving Zhao Yefan. She held a cup in her delicate hand and gently placed it to Zhao Yefan's lips, her voice full of tenderness as she said, "Young Master Zhao, they have all left. Let me drink with you."
Zhao Yefan grabbed her hand that was holding the cup and pulled her into his arms. The woman didn't notice and couldn't help but exclaim coquettishly, laughing and scolding, "Your Highness is so naughty! Look, this wine has stained my dress. You have to make it up to me."
Looking at the lively and adorable smiling face before him, Zhao Yefan couldn't help but tug at her hair and ask, "If I were to ask you to stay and serve me tonight, would you be willing?"
When the slender woman heard Zhao Yefan say this, she was so embarrassed that she buried her face in Zhao Yefan's chest and said after a long time, "If Young Master Zhao needs me to stay, then I am Young Master Zhao."
Zhao Yefan looked into her eyes and asked, "You don't sell your art, but not your body?"
The woman named Miaomiao was a top courtesan at the Chunri Pavilion. She used the gimmick of selling her art but not her body to attract wealthy and powerful men who would give her a fortune.
When my daughter heard Zhao Yefan say that, her face turned pale.
Zhao Yefan suddenly seemed to lose interest. He released the woman and said, "Go back. I don't like women who play hard to get."
Nanmen Street is one of the busiest streets in the capital. Su Yi and Mu Jin walked side by side without any particular destination.
Su Yi glanced at Mu Jin from time to time, noticing her keen interest in the trinkets sold on the street, occasionally buying one or two and handing them to Qing'er or Eleven behind her.
In the past few days, every time Su Yi invited Mu Jin to watch a play or enjoy the scenery, Mu Jin declined, saying that she was currently researching medicine.
Su Yi asked, "What medicine has Ah Jin been developing these past few days? I have tried to see you several times, but you have refused."
Mu Jin casually said, "In my brother's last letter, he inadvertently revealed Father's back injury. Although my brother said it was nothing serious, they have been training, riding horses, and fighting on the border for many years, and they are injured from time to time. If this continues, the back injury will only get worse and worse. So I wanted to try to see if I could find some medicine to treat the back injury and send it to Father."
"Why make you work so hard? I have a very skilled doctor in my manor. I will send him to the border to treat General Mu's back injury when I get back."
Mu Jin glanced at Su Yi and scoffed, "Do you think my medical skills are lacking?"
Su Yi quickly waved his hand and explained, "That's not what I meant. You were able to cure the plague, so you can definitely handle this back injury as well. I was just thinking that since there are already doctors available, why do you have to work so hard and not even have time to watch the play with me?"
"Do you think watching a play can compare to my father's back injury?" Mu Jin rolled her eyes at Su Yi, then walked a few steps ahead of him, not wanting to talk to him.
Su Yi hurriedly said, "That's not what I meant. I just wanted to see you. Once you develop the medicine, it will be difficult for me to see you even for a day."
"Why do you keep clinging to me? Do you think I'm your only friend?"
Su Yi hurriedly grinned shamelessly and said, "I have many friends, but the only friend I want to rely on is A Jin."
Mu Jin kept a sullen face, not wanting to say more to Su Yi, but Su Yi knew when to stop.
"Very well, I will not disturb you while you are making medicine, but could you please tell me how much longer it will take?"
Mu Jin thought for a moment: "It will take at least half a month, and at the fastest it will take ten days."
Su Yi said in a mournful voice, "There are still ten days left. Can I, then, go to the General's Mansion to dine with you when it's time to eat?"
"No, when I'm making medicine, I eat and sleep in the medicine room, and no one can disturb me."
Seeing that Mu Jin had no room for negotiation, Su Yi decided not to continue pestering her. Knowing Mu Jin as he did, he knew that if he angered her, she would turn her back on him. Not to mention ten days, he was afraid that he would not even be able to see her again in the future.
"Then Ah Jin, don't take the carriage back to the General's Mansion tonight. Shall I walk back with you?"
Mu Jin asked doubtfully, "Walking back would take at least an hour. Are you crazy or am I crazy?"
"I promised not to visit you at the General's Mansion for the next ten days. How about you accompany me for an hour?"
After thinking it over, Mu Jin realized that it was already difficult enough to get Su Yi to stop coming to the General's Mansion to see her every day, so she readily agreed and stopped arguing with Su Yi.
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