"Sister Six, are you sure you want to go to the Murong Mansion with us? Don't push yourself. After all, what happened to you has spread among the noble ladies. The Murong Mansion is full of guests at this moment. If you go, they will surely gossip. Can you really bear it?" From the carriage next to hers, Li Xinrong suddenly popped her head out and shouted to Li Xinyue gloatingly.
What happened to her?
Oh—
It was about her confessing to Murong Xiu and being rejected.
Li Xinyue lifted the curtain of the carriage, gave a provocative smile, picked up a pastry and put it in her mouth. "Why can't I bear it? It was Young Master Murong who invited me cordially. I'm not being pushy. If you can bear it, why can't I?"
"You!" Li Xinrong's face burned with embarrassment. She glanced at Murong Xiu's carriage running parallel to Li Xinyue's.
Fortunately, Murong Xiu didn't lift the curtain to look out. Only then did she quickly put down the curtain and duck back into the carriage.
"Sister Jia'er, let me tell you..."
After the carriages left the palace, the young marquis chased after them, but it was too late.
Lu'er comforted him, "My lord, if it really doesn't work, you can just keep those two boxes of gold and silver jewelry for yourself. Anyway, the queen said it was for you to squander. Why do you have to force it on Princess Yuanyang? I see that she is dressed so elegantly. She probably doesn't even care about these little things." Moreover, for such a trivial matter, she probably wouldn't even take it to heart.
"No! I must give it to her! I won't allow myself to break my promise!"
Mainly, if he didn't give it to her, he would have trouble sleeping at night and would be in a bad mood all day.
Lu'er, "..."
What a strange quirk!
"Mr. Chu!" When Lu'er spotted Chu Junyi, he was already standing behind them, staring intently into the distance with a deep look in his eyes.
Hearing this, the young marquis also called out to Chu Junyi, "Mr. Chu."
Chu Junyi nodded. His gaze shifted from the front and landed on the young marquis.
The young marquis told him the origin of the box of jewelry. It was sent by the queen, who said that since he rarely came to the capital, if he couldn't have a good time, it would be her fault. The old master was so angry that he beat him again. The stick even broke. If it weren't for the people from the Supreme Court who came later, he would have been buried today, and the grass on his grave would be three feet high by this time next year.
Hearing this, an idea flashed through Chu Junyi's mind. The tangled and awkward emotions in his heart suddenly cleared up. He straightened his back and started talking nonsense seriously.
"The young marquis is right. A gentleman should keep his promises. I support you in chasing after Princess Yuanyang and making her fulfill her promise to you before going to the banquet."
The young marquis opened his mouth.
He wasn't sure if it was his imagination, but he felt that there was a hint of cunning in Chu Junyi's words.
Chu Junyi pursed his lips, coughed lightly to appear calm, and deceived him, "Actually, the queen is testing you. After all, no mother of a nation would encourage those around her to gamble so..." wickedly. "So, she is testing you to see how you will use that box of treasure. If you really use it to gamble, then in the eyes of the queen and even the emperor, the young marquis is not a smart person. If you don't use it, it goes against the will of the queen and even the emperor. That would be disobeying the imperial edict. So giving it to Princess Yuanyang to repay her for saving your life is reasonable and serves two purposes."
The young marquis was shocked.
Chu Junyi looked down at him with a very determined look in his eyes, as if there were words on his face saying "Trust me and you'll be blessed with eternal life"!
The young marquis was impressed without fully understanding. "It makes sense. It really makes sense! Sir, as expected of a top scholar, you can think so deeply. I was being shallow."
So the young marquis pointed at Lu'er from afar and exaggeratedly and pretentiously told him to go after them quickly!
Lu'er was also successfully deceived!
He never thought that this was actually a matter related to the survival of the Changping Marquis Mansion. He really couldn't afford to be careless.
Chu Junyi watched as the master and servant ran away quickly. The smile he had been holding back for a long time finally burst out.
Thinking of Li Xinyue's face that would soon turn livid with anger, he felt refreshed and as if he had avenged a great hatred. At this moment, he definitely felt as powerful as a hero who could lift mountains!
...
"Sister Six, what did you mean by your words just now? Do you think I'm being pushy by going to the Murong Mansion on my own? Let me tell you, I was invited by Sister Jia'er. Sister Jia'er and I had already made an appointment to discuss our studies together after school." Li Xinrong, who had returned to the carriage, got angrier the more she thought about it. She popped her head out again and angrily argued with Li Xinyue, even dragging Murong Jia into it.
Murong Jia pursed her lips, hesitating whether to respond or not. Finally, she decided not to. The more she said, the more mistakes she might make; the less she said, the fewer mistakes.
Li Xinyue had been sitting in the carriage with her eyes closed, resting. Hearing this, the corner of her mouth lifted, her eyelids fluttered open, and her bright eyes were filled with fighting spirit. She reached out and pulled open the curtain of the carriage.
"Does Sister Fourteen mean that you want Young Master Murong to tutor you after class? That's strange. Our Mr. Chu, a top scholar, isn't good enough to teach you? You still have to pull Young Master Murong to tutor you? If a top scholar can't teach you, can a second-place scholar? So, does Sister Fourteen have a prejudice against the top scholar or a preference for the second-place scholar?"
After Li Xinyue finished speaking, she stretched lazily, not minding at all that her words had offended Murong Xiu.
Anyway, they already had a feud.
Moreover, she was a princess. If they didn't like it, they could just keep it to themselves!
Li Xinyue lifted the curtain on the other side. Murong Xiu's carriage, running parallel to hers, still had its curtains tightly closed. At first glance, it seemed as if the commotion on this side had nothing to do with that side.
Li Xinyue then turned back and looked at Li Xinrong on this side.
Li Xinrong was exposed and her face turned red with shame. She was at a loss and it took her a long time to squeeze out a sentence, "You're just trying to sow discord. I never thought that way!"
Li Xinyue quickly retorted, "Then why don't you go to Mr. Chu for tutoring? If you're too shy to ask, I, Sister Six, can help you."
"Why should I go to him for tutoring? I'm not even familiar with him! But you, is there some secret between you two? Otherwise, why did you quarrel on the day of the imperial feast?"
"What secret could there be between us? If you have the ability, Sister Fourteen, show me the evidence and convince me!"
"..."
So, for the next half an hour or so, Li Xinrong and Li Xinyue quarreled non-stop in the carriages.
On the other side, Lu'er whipped the reins and drove the carriage as fast as he could.
But due to the heavy traffic in the capital, the carriage would stop as often as it moved, and it stopped more times than it moved.
The young marquis in the carriage was extremely anxious.
"Lu'er, think of a way!"
"My lord, if I were that smart, I would have become a top scholar by now."
The top scholar hiding in the dark gritted his teeth in frustration.
After gaining the upper hand, Li Xinyue suddenly didn't want to argue anymore. She was tired and her mouth was dry from arguing.
She simply pulled up the curtain and continued to rest with her eyes closed.
Li Xinrong, who had lost many times, was so angry that she wanted to jump out of the carriage and beat her up.
If she refused to argue with her, then when would she have a chance to win?
No!
Li Xinrong tried to find a way to force Li Xinyue to speak. In her eagerness, she couldn't help but bring up the matter of Li Xinyue confessing to Murong Xiu and being rejected to mock her.
Murong Jia saw that the situation was getting out of hand and quickly grabbed her sleeve, but it was already too late to stop her.
Murong Xiu, who had been silent all this time, finally couldn't bear it anymore and told his servant to stop the carriage. He decided to settle this matter before returning to the mansion.