Jiang Yanyi was standing with her back to the path leading to the pavilion. She was about to reply to Lu Linyuan's words when she found that Lu Linyuan's expression suddenly changed.
When Jiang Yanyi turned around, he saw Feng Shuo walking towards him with big strides.
She secretly thought it was a bad idea. The general in the military camp was getting married, and Feng Shuo, as their immediate superior, naturally had to honor him by coming 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 was secretly dating 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 deliberately refuse to go to Feng Mansion to deliver medicine. There was nothing to be afraid of when meeting Feng Shuo. Therefore, when Feng Shuo came to her, her expression had become extremely frank.
"Your Highness." Lu Linyuan bowed, his face showing obvious reverence.
Seeing Feng Shuo's ugly face, he couldn't help feeling uneasy. He had insisted before that he didn't know Jiang Yanyi, but later when Chu Changping came to Xizhou, all the truth came to light.
Feng Shuo's face was gloomy at the moment, perhaps he was angry that he had lied to him. Lu Linyuan felt guilty and regretful, and wanted to explain but didn't know how to start.
Lu Linyuan's expression changed several times in an instant, but Feng Shuo didn't see it at all. 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 got heavier.
He asked in a deep voice: "Why are you here?"
Jiang Yanyi shrank his neck at his cold gaze, and was about to reply when Lu Linyuan's voice came from behind him:
"I'm ashamed. I was too 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 coming in to rest."
After Lu Linyuan greeted the emperor, he kept his head half bowing with the greeting in a bowing posture because Feng Shuo didn't say "no thanks" to him. Naturally, he didn't notice that Feng Shuo was looking at Jiang Yanyi when he asked questions, and he 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."
Lord Song was Lu Linyuan's immediate superior, so Lu Linyuan did not suspect anything and bid farewell to Feng Shuo and left in a hurry.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the housekeeper of the Han Mansion wanted to persuade them with some words, but was sent away by Xing Yao. Xing Yao glanced at the pavilion from a distance and tactfully withdrew.
After Lu Linyuan left, 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 this person standing in front of him.
The weather was getting colder, and her lips were a little dry from the wind, even with a small crack in the middle. She licked her lips subconsciously and said, "Your Majesty, it's better to keep your wounds out of the wind."
Feng Shuo stared at her, his gaze was full of oppression: "Why are you here? Didn't you say that you have an injury on your foot and need to rest, and can't walk well?"
Jiang Yanyi heard that he was going to call for an accusation in his words, and knew that he might have misunderstood, so he said, "I needed someone to support me when I walked a few days ago, but I am feeling better today. Master Li has a backache and cannot come to the Han Mansion to host the banquet, so they asked me to come and host the banquet. Auspicious days are important, so 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 are you preparing 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: "Your Majesty... are you jealous?"
"What a joke! Why would I be jealous?" Feng Shuo put on a cold face.
Jiang Yanyi knew that he already knew her true identity, and he must also be aware that she and Lu Linyuan had been engaged.
She wanted to draw a line between her and Lu Linyuan if they met on the street, and she didn't want to have any grudges with Feng Shuo because of what happened today. She said, "There's a person lying on the bench in the pavilion, and there are plants growing around it. How can I see him from outside?"
"I didn't ask you these questions, why are you talking so much?" Feng Shuo said this, and the corners of his lips, which had been tightly pursed, 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.
It was as if he had never minded her lies. The distance between her and him seemed to be the same as before, yet a little closer.
Jiang Yanyi felt a corner of his heart collapse, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised as he looked at him.
"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 gaze softened a lot, but he quickly turned his eyes away uncomfortably, his ears flushed.
The lake breeze blew for a long time, and Feng Shuo couldn't help but cough twice with his hands covering his lips.
Jiang Yanyi said: "Don't stand here in the wind, find a place to sit out of the wind."
Feng Shuo stretched out a hand, apparently ready to let Jiang Yanyi help him.
Look how precious he is.
The palpitations from the last second were gone.
Jiang Yanyi resisted the urge to roll his eyes and reminded him: "My Lord, my feet hurt."
Feng Shuo glanced at her and said, "I want you to hold my hand and use it to gain leverage."
Jiang Yanyi: “…”
Feng Shuo said quietly, "If you don't mind, I can carry you away."
This time it was Jiang Yanyi's turn to ignore him.
After the two left the pavilion one after another, Xing Yao walked out from behind the rockery with a confused look on his face.
When he saw the master's expression before, he thought he would be furious. How come after the two of them exchanged a few words at the pavilion, the master started chasing after Miss Jiang with a smile on his face
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Thanks to Feng Shuo, he sent someone to make inquiries and finally found out that Zhao Touer was helping to write the gift book in the gift room.
Jiang Yanyi took the medicinal herbs he had bought early in the morning and gave them to Zhao Tou'er. It was probably because it was lunchtime, and many people came to give gifts. Jiang Yanyi thought that Zhao Tou'er was busy, so he didn't squeeze forward.
There were several tables in the gift room, only one of which was used to write the gift list, and the rest were prepared for the guests to play mahjong and mahjong. The banquet was set up in the front yard, and no seats were set up here. When it was time for dinner, the guests all rushed to eat, so there were some empty seats.
Jiang Yanyi found a seat in a corner and sat down, wanting to wait until Zhao Touer was done with his busy schedule before going to find him.
There were salt-baked peanuts and melon seeds on the tray on the table, and a pile of melon seed shells and peanut shells on the ground.
Jiang Yanyi was free and started to peel melon seeds to eat. The kitchen staff had to wait until all the guests had finished eating before they could start eating with the Han family's servants. Jiang Yanyi didn't 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 returned to her own shop long ago.
Sitting next to Jiang Yanyi was an old woman with gray hair, wearing a jacket with a pattern of fortune, wealth, longevity and happiness. Seeing Jiang Yanyi eating melon seeds, she looked at her with a smile, her eyes kind and gentle.
"Old man, why don't you go to the front to eat?" Jiang Yanyi felt embarrassed by her look and asked.
The old woman was probably hard of hearing due to her old age and couldn't hear what Jiang Yanyi was saying. Seeing Jiang Yanyi looking at her with his mouth opening and closing, she pointed at her ears and waved her hand.
Jiang Yanyi guessed that this should be the old lady Quanfu invited by the Han Mansion. She didn't know why the old woman 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 was about to hand them to the old woman, but the old woman smiled and waved her hand, then opened her mouth and pointed to her gums where all her teeth had fallen out.
Jiang Yanyi realized it later. Could it be that the old man himself had no teeth and couldn't chew them, and he was staring at her because he saw that she was eating so happily? Thinking of this, she couldn't help but blush and put the unpeeled melon seeds back into the tray.
Feng Shuo hardly moved his chopsticks at the table. He just drank the glass of wine offered by General Han and left.
No matter how noisy the other generals were, they didn't dare to urge Feng Shuo to drink. Only when Feng Shuo left did the whole banquet become lively again.
He calculated the time and saw that Jiang Yanyi had gone out to give something and had not come back for such a long time, so he thought of going over to check on him.
Most of the people who knew Feng Shuo were officers and soldiers in the army. The servants of the Han Mansion and some other guests had never seen Feng Shuo. Those with good eyesight could guess his identity from his attire, while those with less good eyesight just took him as an ordinary distinguished guest, but they did not dare to neglect him.
Feng Shuo walked to the gift room and 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 were twisted several times, and she occasionally answered a sentence or two in a rather tangled tone.
On the wall behind her there was a big red wedding character and red silk hanging. The festive look set off her demure expression, and Feng Shuo suddenly felt a sense of peace and tranquility.
He stared at her 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 me the things?"
His voice was softer than usual, and seemed to have a touch of worldly flavor amid the hustle and bustle.
Jiang Yanyi shook his head, not bothering to ask why Feng Shuo came here, and said, "Boss Zhao is busy."
Although one of them was standing and the other was sitting, both of them looked extremely outstanding. Even those who didn't know Feng Shuo's identity couldn't help but glance over there a few more times.
"He's been busy, and you've just been 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 take them to pass on to you."
"No, it will scare Boss Zhao." Jiang Yanyi shook his head.
Her true identity was still a secret to Zhao Tou'er and the others. If they knew that she was having an affair with Feng Shuo, Zhao Tou'er would be so scared that he would faint on the spot.
Fortunately, Feng Shuo was still quite reasonable at these times and didn't say anything.
The old lady next to Jiang Yanyi saw that she seemed to be quite familiar with Feng Shuo when talking to him, so she handed her a red envelope with a smile.
At someone else's wedding banquet, receiving a red envelope from Mrs. Quanfu is 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 complete happiness. Old Madam An has many children and grandchildren. If you take the red envelope from her, young lady, I'm afraid good things will happen soon."
Feng Shuo was standing nearby. When Jiang Yanyi heard this, her ears suddenly felt hot for no reason. She hadn't thought that far yet.
However, before she could say anything, Feng Shuo, relying on his long arms, had already taken the red envelope that the old woman handed to Jiang Yanyi. At the end, he glanced at Jiang Yanyi and said, "You have no place to put it, so it's the same if you put it here with me."
Jiang Yanyi: “…”
She finally saw what it meant to lie with open eyes.
Tou'er Zhao finally finished his work. After Jiang Yanyi gave the tonic to Tou'er Zhao, he asked a few more questions about Chef Li's health before saying goodbye.
As soon as Jiang Yanyi left, Feng Shuo followed. Zhao Touer was too busy to notice them before, but this scene alone made his eyelids tremble. He had seen all kinds of storms in his life, but this speculation in his mind at this moment was still a bit too much for him.
The author has something to say: The author is really not good at writing romance. Alas, I just hope that it will unfold naturally and let their feelings develop naturally. I will follow the original outline and will not force the romance. qaq
If you feel the pace is slow, you can save up a while before watching it. Maybe when you finish watching it in one go, you won’t feel the plot progresses slowly.
(I have tried to fast forward the plot, but I feel that my writing skills are not good enough and it will break down. For now, I will stick to the original outline)