Marry a Villain ( 嫁反派 ) - Chapter 19
[Chapter 19 Chapter 19]
The Spring Banquet is set in the Royal Garden, with separate seats for men and women, separated by a wall.
After separating from Yu Huanchen, Yu Lingxi went to the female family and found an inconspicuous corner to sit.
At the same time, Prince Ning Tan climbed up the Qiongyu Tower with his hands behind him, followed by a young eunuch in ochre clothes and jade belts.
“The charred corpse of the young man found in the Colosseum did indeed have a scar from a dagger stab on its chest. I think it was the seventh prince.”
The eunuch’s face was white and beardless, with a kind of femininity that transcends age and gender, and he said slowly, “No one in the world can threaten your highness, so why worry about it?”
Hearing this, Ning Tan snorted: “It’s better. If I find out that bastard is still alive, your eunuch’s head should also fall to the ground.”
Hearing the word “eunuch”, the young eunuch squinted his slender eyes, but his smile did not change: “Don’t dare.”
After a pause, he said again: “Also, the Empress asked her to tell Her Highness that all the unmarried ladies in Beijing today are at the Spring Banquet, and Your Highness can take this opportunity to choose a new Crown Princess. The direct daughter of the general’s family is very suitable…”
“It’s impossible for anyone to establish a woman in the Yu family, let the mother rest from this heart.”
Ning Tan climbed to the top floor of Qiongyu Building, stood by the window, had a panoramic view of the seats for the female guests of the Spring Banquet, and looked at the group of women with heavy makeup and gorgeous makeup with no interest.
His face was irritated: “I’ve seen that Yu Xinyi before, and his appearance is only medium-to-high, and he’s not at all feminine.” https://m.biqiudu.com Pen Qu Ge
“The Yu family holds the military power, or they can be eliminated. Otherwise, it will always be a threat if they can’t enter His Highness’s command.”
Saying that, the eunuch’s eyes turned to a corner and squinted: “I heard that the Yu family has a young daughter.”
Ning Tan followed his line of sight and said disdainfully, “How can the eldest daughter be as good as the younger one? A woman raised by a reckless man in the military camp is as vulgar as she wants to…”
Complaining came to an abrupt end, his eyes fell on the westernmost corner of the banquet, his pupils slightly opened, and he looked sluggish.
Through the gaps between the flowers, one could vaguely see the figure of a young girl with a slender waist. At first glance, her makeup was simple and unremarkable.
If it wasn’t for the reminder from the eunuch Cui An, he would have almost ignored it.
Now, if I look closely, I can see that the breeze is blowing, the shadows of the flowers are sparse, and the outline of the girl’s jaw that is vaguely revealed is already exquisite and unparalleled.
The hand resting on the table was even more slender and white like ice and snow.
The beauty is in the bones but not in the skin, and from the countless eyes of Ning Tan, such a woman must be the most beautiful in the world.
The eunuch took Ning Tan’s obsession into his eyes, and said without a trace: “That is the woman raised by the reckless man in the military camp that His Highness said.”
Ning Tan’s throat suddenly became dry, and he gave the eunuch a look.
The young eunuch immediately understood, bowed and said, “My minister will go down and make arrangements.”
Yu Lingxi didn’t know anything about the things upstairs in Qiongyu, and only quietly served as the background for all the Yingyan female guests.
In the middle of the journey, the queen and an old concubine showed their faces, representing the heavenly family with all the wives and noblewomen.
During this period, the queen’s eyes searched, and she swept towards Yu Lingxi at the farthest corner.
Yu Lingxi hurriedly lowered her head and pretended to drink, avoiding her sight.
After seeing the ceremony, the queen helped the concubine to leave, the female guest quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and the banquet resumed its original ease and excitement.
“Sui Sui, why are you hiding here? Let me find it for a while.”
Tang Buli applied makeup for the first time in the world, wearing a lilac-colored skirt like a haze, with a silk cloth wrapped around his arms at will, looked Yu Lingxi up and down and said, “Why are you dressed like this?”
“Is that bad?”
Yu Lingxi held her cheeks and chuckled, “Is it possible to dress like you as a concubine and a fairy, and catch a prince and grandson to be a golden tortoise-in-law?”
“You’re making fun of Suishui, who has no conscience! My grandmother forced me to dress like this. It’s so cumbersome that I can’t stretch my arms and legs.”
With that said, Tang Buli sat down next to Yu Lingxi, smiled and leaned over to bite his ears, “Let’s talk about your golden turtle son-in-law, I just passed by.
Biyuanzi, Xue Erlang is looking for you everywhere. ”
This girl is good at everything, but she just can’t keep her mouth shut and likes to mess around.
Yu Lingxi was helpless: “I can’t drink enough, so let’s go first.”
“Let’s go together.” Tang Buli just got bored, so he and Yu Lingxi got up and left the table.
Yu Lingxi waited for a while on the painting bridge, not for Yu Huanchen, but for Xue Cen.
Xue Cen was dressed in a moon-white brocade robe today, with a white jade crown and hair tied together. At a glance, he looked as clear as jade, with the relics of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, which was quite eye-catching.
“Qingping Township Lord.”
He first bowed politely and respectfully to Tang, then looked at Yu Lingxi, with a faint and reserved smile in his eyes, and said warmly, “His Royal Highness the Prince just ordered to see Achen, I’m afraid it won’t be over for a while, let me send two My sister is going home.”
Tang Buli’s eyes rolled around between the two, and he smiled and said, “You guys are chatting, I’ll go first.”
After saying that, ignoring Yu Lingxi’s eyes, he ran away.
Yu Lingxi had no choice, so he nodded and said, “Then, there is brother Lao Cen.”
Xue Cen rode in front of Yu Lingxi’s carriage, looking back from time to time.
He was waiting by the bridge on purpose.
Ever since I heard from Tang Buli, Yu Lingxi made a pair of boots for him with deerskins that were hunted in the spring, and he was so excited throughout the banquet that he wished he could penetrate the palace wall and fly to Yu Lingxi’s side next door.
Xue Cen felt that there was no better woman in this world than Yu Lingxi, and there was nothing more fortunate than conscience.
The carriage stopped at the gate of Yu Mansion, and Yu Lingxi stepped on the footstool and got out of the car, and said casually, “Brother Cen, if you’re welcome, please come to the door and have a sip of rough tea.”
Xue Cen guessed that she was probably looking for an opportunity to give away boots, so she invited each other and said, “Okay.”
Yu Lingxi was a little surprised.
Originally it was just a polite remark, but I didn’t expect Xue Cen to be so refreshing. But the visitor is a guest. Since he wants to drink tea, it is not easy to drive him out.
The front door was open, and a few ornately decorated horses were parked outside the door.
Yu Lingxi only thought that there were distinguished guests coming, and didn’t care too much. Who would have guessed that he led Xue Cen into the door and saw two rows of palace attendants standing in front of the vestibule steps. Jade, coral and other objects, jewels, luxurious and extremely luxurious.
These rewards came too suddenly, Yu Lingxi stopped, and an ominous premonition suddenly surged.
In the hall, both parents showed reluctant smiles and politely sent an old eunuch in brocade clothes out.
Seeing Yu Lingxi, the old eunuch immediately put on a wrinkled smile, and cupped his hands again and again: “As expected of a person who can make His Highness the Prince’s heart, he is really talented and handsome. Miss Yu, our family is here to congratulate you. !”
Yu Lingxi and Xue Cen both froze in place, as if the sky was thundering.
Yu Huanchen came back on horseback.
Before the horse could stop, he turned over and dismounted and strode toward the hall.
When the banquet was halfway through, the prince and the queen summoned him to the Wenhua Palace to ask him about his younger sister’s age and marriage. Immediately, he noticed something was wrong and hurried back, still a step too late.
The East Palace moved quickly, and the gold, silver and jade ornaments for courtship were already piled up in the hall.
Father and Xue Cen stood in the hall with solemn expressions. On the side, A-Niang quietly pressed the corner of her eye with a handkerchief, her eyes were already red.
The atmosphere was unbearably depressing, and the only one who was calm and calm was Yu Lingxi.
She dresses extremely inconspicuously today, and she has never been in the limelight at the banquet, so there are only two possibilities for her to be selected by the prince:
One was that someone deliberately introduced her, so that the prince noticed her; the other was that the Yu family held military power, and whether or not she attended the banquet, the prince would beg her to marry her in order to consolidate his power.
Either way, the Yu family was forced into the party whirlpool.
“What are Suishui’s thoughts on the current scene?” In the end, General Yu was the first to break the silence.
Xue Cen and Yu Huanchen immediately looked over, especially Xue Cen, with forbearance in their eyes.
“Father, I don’t want to.”
Yu Lingxi’s eyes were calm, and she said with a small smile, “But if there is only one way, I would like to…”
“no!”
“No.”
The voices of Yu Huanchen and Xue Cen sounded at the same time.
Yu Huanchen took a deep breath, walked over and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: “Sui Sui, do you know why Dad still doesn’t want to be a partisan in the East Palace? The four concubines are in deep crisis, how can you handle yourself when you marry with such a temper?”
“As long as a good girl is unwilling, no one can force you to marry someone you don’t want to marry.”
General Yu sat in the chair with his robes up, and gave off the awe-inspiring demeanor of a general. He said solemnly, “Now it’s just the prince’s favorite. We still have a chance before the imperial decree to grant marriage comes down.”
“But, you can’t let Suishui fake death, right?”
Mrs. Yu looked around at the gifts in the house, her heart was heavy and uneasy: the future emperor wants to marry her daughter, how can he easily shirk?
If she feigned death, her daughter would have to hide in a remote place and spend her life incognito.
How could she be willing to be a mother?
“General Yu, Madam Yu.”
Xue Cen said, “If you want to refuse marriage and not fall into the ground, there is actually another way, but you have to aggrieve the second sister…”
“What’s the way?” Madam Yu asked immediately.
Yu Huanchen’s brain was smart, and he quickly took over the conversation: “You mean to get married to my little sister before the imperial decree?”
engagement?
Yu Lingxi suddenly raised her head, what is this development?
Mrs. Yu felt that this plan was feasible, and was about to nod her head and frowned again: “But, where can we find a gentleman who knows the truth, also known as a good-hearted gentleman…”
Before the words were finished, General Yu and Yu Huanchen’s eyes fell on Xue Cen.
With two heavy gazes, Xue Cen stood up slowly as if he had made an important decision.
Knowing that this is a bit of taking advantage of people’s dangers, it is not a gentleman’s actions, but it is still difficult to hide what he wants.
If he doesn’t stand up this time, he will regret it for the rest of his life.
Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated, took a step back, and knelt down under Yu Lingxi’s surprised and complicated gaze.
With his back straight, he solemnly said to the second elder: “Xue Cen Xinyue’s second sister, I would like to marry her as a wife and protect her in this life! Please make General Yu complete!”
…
The apricot flowers outside the Jinyun Temple are in full bloom.
Ning Yin stopped, thought for a while, and broke off a branch, sniffing at the tip of his nose like a curiosity.
Yes, this smell is very similar to the light fragrance of Yu Lingxi’s sleeves and robes.
Back at Yu Mansion, he followed the rice-purchasing team into the corner gate, without making the guard named Qing Xiao suspicious.
Ning Yin glanced at the carriage that was parked outside the door, Yu Lingxi’s special carriage, and the corner of his mouth curled inadvertently.
She has come back.
He looked down at the deer leather boots under his feet, turned his steps, and walked towards the middle of the hall.
The servant slave knew that he was a popular man in front of the master, but he only regarded him as being safe in the inspection house and did not stop him.
Turning around the corridor, I heard two sweeping servants whispering something behind the rockery.
“You said, is our second lady really going to marry Xue Erlang?” someone asked.
“Mostly yes. Someone came to the palace today and sent a bunch of things, and the expressions of the general and his wife were not quite right at that time.”
Another person replied, “In my opinion, it must be some prince and master in the palace who fell in love with our young lady. The general and his wife were reluctant to send their daughter to the place where people eat, so they hurried to marry the second young lady. Anyway, Xue The family has a marriage contract with our Yu Mansion.”
The first person agreed: “That’s right, anyway, Xue Erlang and our second young lady are childhood sweethearts, and they are in love with each other, so this layer of window paper is missing.”
The smile in Ning Yin’s eyes sank and he stopped.
In the front yard, Yu Lingxi and Xue Cen walked out side by side through the shadow of peach branches.
They didn’t know what they said, Xue Cen’s pale face was flushed, and Yu Lingxi frowned and shook his head, as if he was worried.
Xue Cen took a step forward eagerly, his words were serious and sincere, Yu Lingxi showed helplessness and sighed.
In the spring sunshine, the gentleman and the clear beauty are so dazzling…
It was so dazzling that it hurt Ning Yin’s eyes.
He squinted his eyes, and there was an unknown haze looming and surging in his indifferent eyes.
It turned out that the warm light that once cut through the immortals of the Desire Realm did not only illuminate him.
Also, it’s not just him.
There was a branch of apricot blossom between his fingers, and he suddenly burst into a mocking sneer, then turned around and left.
The wind blows the bamboo curtains under the corridor, bringing a shady chill.
Turning the corner, his hurried steps gradually slowed down, and then slowed down, and finally stopped in the shadow cut off from the sun.
With a small click, he clasped his fingers together and pinched the apricot branch in his hand, as if pinching a fragile neck bone.
“Xue Cen?”
Ning Yin’s brows and eyes were hidden in the shadow of the bamboo curtain, her pale thin lips parted lightly, and she said softly, “I’m in the way.”
Then let all the things that get in the way disappear from the world.
[End of This Chapter]
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