It turned out that the cause was the latter.
Xu Yourong looked up at Chen Changsheng, and asked, "Why don't you eat?"
"Oh, eat." Due to the influence of Tang Thirty-Six in the past two years, Chen Changsheng's words have become a lot more, but in front of her, he seems to have turned back into the honest young Taoist priest in Xining Town, speaking extremely Simple, the mind is extraordinarily pure, and I can't hide any emotions.
For example, he was a little distracted at this time, so when he held the chopsticks, he almost lost his grip. He reached out his hand like the wind to catch the chopsticks in the air, but pushed the open yellow paper umbrella aside. As a result, the ongoing quarrel at the Kang table in front reached their ears again.
"Last spring, when Dean Xiao Chen first entered the capital, he was humiliated in the God General's Mansion, and was suppressed even more afterwards. He was obviously very talented and had excellent grades in the exam, but he was forcibly removed from the admission list of the various colleges. Your Majesty, if not for His Majesty the Pope's covert protection, I'm afraid he wouldn't even be able to enter the dilapidated Orthodox Academy. You all said that his rescission of the engagement was heartless, but have you ever thought that if the Xu family didn't do things too shamelessly, How did this marriage become what it is now?"
"What does this have to do with Ms. Yourong? At the Ivy Banquet, Baihe returned to the north. In that letter, she had already acknowledged the engagement. Otherwise, how could Chen Changsheng hold the marriage certificate and let the southern mission Nothing to say? Even if Chen Changsheng hated the Divine General's Mansion, there is no reason for Miss Yourong to be humiliated like this!"
"Hmph, Xu Shiji was always refusing to admit to this marriage at the beginning. The people in Dong Yu Shen Jiang's Mansion disliked the poor and loved the rich, but the little dean Chen is not what he used to be, and he wanted to hug his thigh when he turned his head? How shameless! You say that Dean Xiao Chen’s resignation is a humiliation? In my opinion, it’s nothing more than a humiliation by the East Imperial Palace!”
"But this matter has nothing to do with the Holy Maiden after all, why should she bear these gossip?"
"It can only be said that the saint is unlucky to be born in such a mansion and meet such parents!"
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The Kang table in the corner became very quiet, and the gravy in the iron pan was gurgling.
Chen Changsheng and Xu Yourong sat on both sides of the kang table, and the atmosphere became a little heavy again.
It has been almost two years since he came to the capital, and the marriage contract has already spread throughout the continent. The humiliation and suppression given to him by the East Royal God General's Mansion, and the change in his attitude later, he transformed from a young Taoist priest in the countryside into an inheritor of the state religion. , These are the topics that everyone loves to talk about.
The battle at Naihe Bridge this morning seemed to be the final ending or verdict of this story, but it did not really end everything. Instead, it pushed people's interest in this story to the peak. I believe it is the same as the diners at that table. This matter must have been discussed at the family banquets in countless mansions in Kyoto at that time.
He has never forgotten the humiliation inflicted by the Divine General's Mansion, and he has had a lot of emotions towards her who is far away in the south, but as the previous guest said, in fact, she has no real feelings in this matter. She has hurt him so much, but now she needs to bear the ridicule and blame received by the Divine General's Mansion.
This may not be fair.
Chen Changsheng didn't know what to say.
"It's my parents after all."
Xu Yourong's expression was very calm, as if he was not affected by those discussions, but the conversation changed suddenly.
"I want to drink some wine."
"good."
Chen Changsheng asked the boss to take two small cans of the best wine, unsealed one of the cans, and poured the wine bowl to seventy percent for her.
Xu Yourong thanked him softly, took another jar of wine and opened it, filled the wine bowl for him, then looked at him: "Tell me."
Chen Changsheng still didn't know what to say. After thinking about it, he looked at her beautiful face and asked a little hesitantly, "Face?"
"Some kind of skill of Nanxi Zhai."
"oh."
After a simple two-sentence dialogue, the Kang table was quiet again.
Xu Yourong picked up the wine bowl, took a sip of the wine, and after just one sip, her face turned slightly red.
"Don't tell others, we met in Zhouyuan."
"Why?"
After Chen Changsheng heard her request on the Naihe Bridge, he didn't think about it. Now that he confirmed that she really didn't want others to know the whole thing, he was even more puzzled.
Xu Yourong didn't answer his question directly, but said softly: "Isn't the engagement already broken?"
This was a gossip that had been circulating in the capital for a long time, and it had never been recognized by the Orthodox Academy and the East Imperial General's Mansion, but as a party to the marriage contract, she naturally knew that rumors were not rumors, but something that had already happened.
Chen Changsheng did not speak for a long time.
When the white gauze was blown off by the snowy wind on the bridge and seeing her eyes, that was the happiest moment in his sixteen years. I am happier than memorizing the last volume of the Daoist scriptures in the old temple, finding the star of fate in the Orthodox Academy, getting the first place in the first ranking of the Dachao Examination, and finding Wang Zhice's notes in Lingyan Pavilion...
It turns out that she is still alive, she is her, and she is his fiancée. Is there a more bizarre encounter or better thing in the world
When he was bathing in the small building of the Orthodox Academy, he had already made up his mind to go to the Li Palace and ask His Majesty the Pope to repair the marriage certificate again. After that, he would take Tang Sanshiliu and others directly to the palace to find her. If she agrees, he will directly propose marriage to her.
He has never experienced love affairs, but as long as he is sure that something is what he wants to do, he will definitely do it very seriously and focus, seizing the day and night.
At this time, she said that this matter cannot be told to others, so how could he persuade His Majesty the Pope to withdraw the intention to dissolve the marriage certificate
A month ago, he worked very hard to finally break off the engagement.
Now, he found himself needing this marriage contract badly.
Tang Thirty-Six was right.
"I thought you were dead. I promised you in Zhouyuan that I would dissolve this engagement, so..."
He looked at Xu Yourong, and said helplessly, "Since you knew it was me, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Xu Yourong's expression was slightly cold, and he said: "In Zhou Yuanli, you lied to me. I discovered the truth myself, so why should I tell you?"
Chen Changsheng felt very innocent, and asked, "When did I lie to you?"
"Is your name Xu Sheng?"
"You're not the girl you met for the first time."
"Why don't you admit that you are Chen Changsheng?"
"Why didn't you say that you were Xu Yourong at the time?"
They looked into each other's eyes and asked the question almost in unison.
Then they remembered that in the Snow Temple next to the White Grass Road, when they reported their names for the first time, they also reported two fake names with one voice...
I don't know what they were thinking at the time.
Chen Changsheng recalled how he felt at that time. The main reason why he didn't want the other party to know his identity was because he didn't want the other party to know that he had a world-famous fiancée. Or maybe Xu Yourong thought the same way at the time, and didn't want to let himself know that she had a fiancé that was known all over the world
"Is it a shame to have a fiancé like me?"
He looked at Xu Yourong and asked, with a very serious expression.
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