Miantang hesitates. She has never accompanied Cui Xingzhou to this kind of socializing banquet before. Besides, they have not held a ceremony yet. She’s afraid it would be inappropriate to rush to such an occasion without the company of elders.
So she smiled and said to Cui Xingzhou, “Are you not comfortable going to drink with the marquis? If you let me go with you, it will make your friends feel uncomfortable. I will cook you a refreshing wine soup and wait for you to come back to drink…”
Cui Xingzhou also knew what Miantang was thinking about, so he no longer insisted. However, in his heart, he slightly regretted that the residence had not been repaired.
Fortunately, today the foreman reported that the damaged walls of the outer and inner courtyards of the royal residence were about to be repaired. After the walls were repaired, she and her mother could go back. As for other places, it was only necessary to continue to repair.
The date of his marriage has also been fixed. There is an auspicious day at the end of June in the lunar calendar. Otherwise, it will not be suitable for the ceremony in July because of the Ghost Festival, and it will be delayed for another month.
When he went to the banquet this time, he actually delivered the invitation personally. After all, friends who are too familiar with each other should send the invitation in person.
So he told Miantang to have a good meal and rest in the Marquis’s Residence. In the evening, he would come back as soon as possible and wait for her to live in the house in Lingquan Town.
After all, this is the marquis’s residence. If he doesn’t want to stay with Miantang unmarried in front of outsiders, he will just return to Lingquan Town.
For many days, he didn’t have Miantang’s temples scattered on the bed and called him husband. Prince Huaiyang missed her very much.
After Cui Xingzhou and Zhao Quan went together, Miantang didn’t have to go to deliver food again, but since she changed her clothes, he decided to go back to the residence by herself to check the repair project of the residence.
When passing West Street in the State of Zhen, she stopped to buy soft fried cakes on the roadside.
Bicao muttered, “County mayor, you ate half a leg of lamb at noon. If you eat this kind of indigestible food again, be careful to get a stomachache.”
Miantang looked longingly at the ups and downs of fried cakes in the hot oil pan, and swallowed her saliva, “I feel hungry when I smell it. If I don’t eat it, my entire self will feel flustered… Let him sprinkle more sugar later.”
When the hot fried cake was delivered by the person who wrapped it in yellow paper, Miantang didn’t care whether it was on the street. She just blew and swallowed it in her stomach, and her entire self calmed down.
“It’s the big boss…” Before she took the third bite, someone shouted.
Miantang turned around and saw the four brothers with loyal cravings standing by the road, staring at her.
No wonder the four brothers looked straight. They had never seen their big leader dressed up like this before. They used to see a woman who was wearing men’s clothes, but now she is wearing a light and elegant skirt, with a bun pulled high, and a snow-necked bone. This kind of long-sleeved stretch skirt is not very convenient for work, and it is not often worn by folk girls who love beauty.
However, Miantang wore such a luxurious skirt, but she had a graceful and beautiful temperament as if she was born to be a transparent pearl raised from the rich.
The four brothers are used to seeing their boss dressing up as men and being able to drink and eat meat with them brother. Now such peerless beauty was standing in front of them. They called her out, but they were also a little timid.
When Miantang saw them, she quickly raised her eyes and looked around. She said with a serious face, “Don’t call me that way, so as not to be tongue-tied…”
Lu Yi was silent for a moment, and said, “County Mayor, please don’t blame us for being abrupt…”
Miantang took another bite of the fried cake, then handed it to Bicao on the side, waved to the four brothers, and asked them to go to the corner of the lane on the side to talk. She asked the four brothers, “Didn’t I arrange for you to go to the porcelain shop in Lingquan Town? Why did you come to the State of Zhen again?”
Lu Yi bowed his head and clasped his fists and said, “The county mayor has properly arranged, but we are not used to the comfortable life of such children, and… We don’t trust you around Cui thief thus, we must follow you to rest assured…”
She felt a pain in her brain, and she hasn’t been able to avoid the pain in her heart too!
“Didn’t I tell you that Prince Huaiyang treated me very well? You don’t have to worry…”
Lu Yi’s gentle face was tight. He shouted in a low voice, “If you had recovered your memory at this time, you would never think so. Cui thief offered a huge reward to catch you, and he would not let you off dead or alive. Your hatred of him cannot be ended in two or three days… He did not know your real identity at this time and naturally coveted your beauty. But if he knew, would he let the person next to him be the former mountain thief, who almost killed him several times?”
In fact, miantang understood what Lu Yi said, even if she did not recover her memory. She has been probing Cui Xingzhou’s mouth these days. His disgust at Lu Wen has completely destroyed Miantang’s courage to confess to him.
Miantang felt that she was in a difficult position at this time.
If she was being frank, the old love will fall apart and change its flavor in an instant. Maybe it will also implicate these old tribes of the Mountain of Yang, and make Cui Xingzhou kill them all and eliminate the root, to prevent future disasters.
Else, can she hide Cui Xingzhou for a lifetime?
After weighing two things, reason told Liu Miantang that the best way is to find a reason and break the engagement with Cui Xingzhou. By that, she can properly hide her identity secret without fear rather than relying on lies every day.
She once resented Cui Xingzhou for lying and cheating herself, but she didn’t know that she was a bigger lie. But the reason makes sense, and they all know how it will be turned out. But when the matter comes to an end, Miantang has only one word left in her heart, reluctant!
So everything drifted with the tide. Now, Miantang is a monk, who only passively shrinks her head and doesn’t like to think about it. She just let Cui Xingzhou push forward.
However, the four brothers did not allow her to shrink, and they had to remind her that she should have been incompatible with Cui Xingzhou and that the old enemy was deeply against her.
If she can, Miantang even wants to find a deserted corner, cry happily, or bump into her head, and then forget that she was Lu Wen.
At that moment, the bodyguard behind her came over, looked at the four brothers with vigilance, and asked, “County Mayor, what’s wrong?”
Miantang rubbed her head and said, “Nothing. The guy from the porcelain shop asked me something. Please step back.”
When the bodyguard left, she said, “Since you know I can’t remember the past, why bother me with the past? Can you still expect me to take you up the mountain again and become a bandit? I was young and ignorant at that time and acted wildly. It was my responsibility to take you on errands before you guys go on the wrong path. But you should not always mention the past. That Ziyu is now the emperor, and the past of the Mountain of Yang is not worth mentioning.”
When the brothers heard this, they all had tears of grievance in their eyes. Lu Quan was honest, He said what he thought in his mind, “You are the big boss, you are blinded by the male sex, and you are also frightened by his rhetoric. How can you entrust your life happiness to this kind of royals and nobles? When you are old and pale, he will take a concubine again, how will you live by then? If you like the handsome man, we can collect some for you. You don’t have to worry about gold and silver, and you can hide in the other courtyard in the mountains, you can totally feel at ease!”
Miantang thought it would be foolish to talk too much to these brothers. She just rolled her eyes and said, “Go back and I’ll see you later. Each of you is not young now. You should learn your skills with the shopkeeper. Don’t fight and kill again!”
After that, she turned and got on the carriage, and let it drive to the Huaiyang Residence.
Several brothers watched their leader’s departure. Lu Yi took the lead in turning his head and glared at the fourth brother, “What are you saying just now?”
Lu Quan thought about it and thought he was right, “The big boss is lecherous. Didn’t she flirt with you at the beginning, saying that you are beautiful, which is can be the second beauty of the Mountain of Yang…”
Seeing Lu Yi glaring at him as if he was about to beat him up, Lu Quan then shut up.
The leader is indeed lecherous, but now the level of appreciation is still better than before. Cui Xingzhou alone has crushed the former childe Ziyu. His second brother can’t compare with the demeanor of a banished fairy anymore.
His words just now are a little exaggerated. It’s a little difficult to find a beautiful man who can be compared to Cui Xingzhou.
Besides, Liu Miantang returned to the residence in a confused way. After getting off the carriage, a foreman reported to her one after another.
In fact, the construction period of the royal residence has been very fast. The courtyard wall was almost built before, and only the surface needed to be covered, and the former courtyard of Prince Huaiyang was the focus of renovation. Not only has it been expanded, but a study was specially opened for Miantang to be used as an accounting room.
In addition, there is a room with a floor dragon, paved with red teak from the South, and the corners are also wrapped with cork. It is said that it is the baby room that Prince Huaiyang ordered the craftsman to build. When winter comes, if they have a baby, the baby can climb all over the ground in open-crotch pants.
Miantang looked at the furnishings in the room. Everything was ingenious.
If she was not Lu Wen, she can look forward to the days after the marriage to Cui Xingzhou. How sweet it would be!
When she came back from the royal residence, Miantang found that the people were coming in and out of the royal residence. After asking carefully, she found out that the Lian family had returned to the State of Zhen. Hearing this, Old Princess Consort Chu hurriedly called for someone to visit her sister who was said to be injured.
But Miantang did not follow. She was tired of Lian-Chu and the gossip of Cousin Lian. Since that was the case, she was less hypocritical and polite. The Lian family was the closest relative of Old Princess Consort Chu, but not her. It didn’t matter if she was absent from the party.
When Cui Xingzhou came back from the banquet, Miantang learned from him how the Lian family could be repatriated.
It turned out that after paying a few *”ransoms”*, Prince Sui finally waited for Cui Xingzhou to release the people, but the battle for releasing the people was a little bigger. When Princess Consort Sui got off downtown, her hair was scattered and her clothes were untidy, which made people imagine.
Because Prince Sui and Prince Huaiyang agreed to release people together. They are heroes who have the same ideas and are trying to discredit each other.
The Lian family was also thrown directly from the carriage by the people of Prince Sui downtown.
The men were all wounded on their faces, and the women’s skirts were also torn, especially Lian Binglan, who was in a trance, dressed in untidy clothes, and laughed foolishly when she got up from the ground. When she caught someone, she called cousin Cui and shouted that she was the fiancee of Prince Huaiyang.
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