Xu Chengle stood alone and secretly felt sad, and in the lively and noisy voices, he seemed even more lonely and lonely.

But even if he is very good at doing things for people in his life, at this time, no one has time to take care of him-

Those sons of the family were busy fighting for the emperor's color and looking at the young women on the other side of the river.

Although not all of them are willing to come to this spring banquet today, it is also very important to be able to show their faces in front of the emperor and establish a good reputation for themselves.

And his eldest brother Xu Chenglin, as a general in the southeast, the prince of Weiguo's mansion, the righteous brother of the queen's mother, and the meritorious minister of the new emperor's accession to the throne, even if he only accompanied him today, he is surrounded by people and flattered at this moment.

Compared with the bustle around Xu Chenglin and the desertion on his side, there is a world of difference.

Xu Chengle looked at Xu Chenglin silently, but he didn't know that among the women on the other side of the river, there was also a person staring at him silently.

Zhang's thousands of instructions in Shi Wanrou's ear, asking her to see the opportunity to go up and stroke the qin.

"If you want me to say, your piano skills are much better than Empress Xiaoyuan, as long as you go up to play the piano today, it will definitely be impressive! If you really don't want to play the piano, you can also write poems!"

Shi Wanrou just looked at the other side of the river and didn't say a word.

In the past, people loved to compare her with Xu Chenghuan, but because Xu Chenghuan had Xiao Shaoyun's favor, those people compared to each other, she was always inferior to Xu Chenghuan.

Now that Xu Chenghuan is dead, she still has to be pulled out by her mother to compare with Xu Chenghuan, and Shi Wanrou is even more disgusted.

She stood up and tugged at her skirt, and said to Zhang in a loud voice:

"The mother will sit for a while, and the daughter will go for a walk. ”

Shi Wanrou's voice was so loud that everyone who was sitting close to them looked at her, and the rest of Zhang's words were all blocked in her throat, and she couldn't say any more.

She could only hold back her anger and put on a loving smile to excuse her daughter's behavior:

"Well, you children, you must be bored to sit like this, you go around and come back early. ”

Shi Wanrou didn't embarrass the Zhang family anymore, saluted in a proper manner, and walked away with the maid.

On the side, a lady looked at Shi Wanrou's tall figure, and talked to Zhang's with a smile, with a hint of inquiry.

Shi Wanrou is outstanding, born in the Zhongyi Uncle's Mansion, even if the Zhongyi Uncle's Mansion will be demoted to the next generation, this does not prevent her from having an aunt who is the queen's mother-in-law.

What's more, the Zhang family has always had a good reputation, and many people still value her only baby daughter.

If in the past, when she met someone who inquired like this, Zhang would have heard the song and knew the elegance, and answered back and forth with people, but now her mind is all on the supreme royal glory, and no matter who she says, she is not interested, but only a few perfunctory words.

The ladies who came to the spring banquet were not stupid, and when they saw Zhang's attitude, they didn't say anything, and the thoughts in their hearts were dispelled several points at once.

After Shi Wanrou walked out of the place where the banquet was held, she walked slowly along the river, with more and more forks in the road and fewer and fewer voices.

Her personal maid looked around and said cautiously:

"Miss, let's go back, this place is a bit remote and desolate. ”

Shi Wanrou didn't care:

"What are you afraid of, this is a royal banquet, where you can't see, there are countless royal forest troops, and there will be nothing wrong. ”

The maid had no choice but to shut up and follow her on.

The flowers and trees along the shore were dense and lush, and the master and servant divided the flowers and willows, and walked about a mile before Shi Wanrou stopped.

The maid followed the young lady on weekdays, and she was also pampered, and suddenly walked such a way on the hard stone road, and the thin embroidered shoes under her feet were a little unstoppable, and her feet ached faintly.

But Shi Wanrou, who was also wearing embroidered shoes, seemed to have no pain in her feet at all, and went back and forth on the grass on the bank of the river several times.

"There should have been a small stone bridge here, where did it go?"

Shi Wanrou looked left and right, but she didn't see the small stone bridge in her memory, and couldn't help muttering.

When the maid heard this, she was so frightened:

"You...... You're going to the other side?

The reason why the spring banquet is arranged in this way, so that the male and female guests face each other across the river, is for the great defense of men and women, and to avoid gossip that may occur in the future.

But if the eldest lady runs to the other side of the river without permission and is bumped into by someone, will she still have a reputation?

Shi Wanrou glared at her maid sharply:

"I'm not afraid, what are you afraid of? If you only have this guts, don't follow me in the future!"

After saying that, he left the maid and walked forward for a while, but he still didn't see the shadow of the stone bridge, so he had to stop.

The maid who trotted up was also silently relieved, as long as the young lady couldn't find the bridge, she couldn't cross it, she couldn't cross it, and she wouldn't be afraid of anything.

Shi Wanrou walked back with a calm face, and the maid tried her best to hide the joy in her heart, and followed closely.

But after walking a few steps, Shi Wanrou's footsteps stopped again, she looked up at the other side of the river steadily, over there, she could see from afar that the men's six arts competition had come to an end, and a group of sons of the family were following behind a man wearing a dark blue national prince's regular clothes, and a group of people were giggling and saying something.

That man is Bai Chenghuan's own brother, and now Bai Xianghuan, the son of Cheng'en Gong.

At this time, he was dressed in a blue regular clothes and had fair skin, described as handsome and gentle, with warm eyebrows and eyes, and with a modest attitude, he tried to slow down his pace and talk to the princes of the family behind him, but no matter how slow his pace was, those people would be half a step behind him.

Since his sister became the queen, as long as he appeared in front of people, this kind of thing would happen repeatedly.

At first, he was a little restrained and overwhelmed, but after a few shirks, he found that those who approached him insisted on doing so, and he stopped accommodating, and gradually learned to deal with it calmly.

Even if he didn't like to be polite and humble to his identity, he couldn't always be the same as before, and shame his sister.

Bai Xianghuan really didn't want to come today, but under the persecution of his mother and sister, he could only dress up with his mother and come to Jingchun Garden.

However, he didn't know what those women thought of him, and these sons of the family were very enthusiastic about him.

Bai Xianghuan glanced at it slightly, and the people who were laughing behind him were not only those who could be friends in the past, but also sisters who had not yet been married.

This is all too obvious.

Bai Xianghuan had a plan in his heart, and when he talked to these people, he was also cautious and cautious.

A few times when someone brought the topic to family affairs, Bai Xianghuan gently bypassed it, which made those people embarrassed to open their mouths.

Shi Wanrou's maid saw her eldest lady staring at the group of people, and she didn't know which one she was looking at.

Just as he was suspicious, he heard the voices of two women behind him talking closer.

"Isn't that the prince of Cheng'en? I remember that when he came to the capital the year before, no one paid attention to it, but now he is so lively around him, and the power of the queen mother cannot be underestimated. ”

"Whether it is the power of the queen mother, or the exploits of Chengen Gong in the northwest, you just need to know that the prince of Chengen is definitely not what it used to be. ”

Shi Wanrou turned her head to look at the past when she heard this, it was the two young ladies of the Anguo family who had not yet been married.

Oh, it's them.

Shi Wanrou and her maid together exuded some contempt from the bottom of their hearts.

The two young ladies were talking happily, and suddenly raised their heads to Shangshi Wanrou with a sneering look, and immediately stopped, and then involuntarily wanted to bend their knees.

Although they are the young ladies of the Anguo Mansion, it stands to reason that Shi Wanrou, the young lady of the Loyal and Righteous Mansion, should salute them first.

But the embarrassing status of the Anguo Mansion in the capital determines the humility engraved in their bones, and they almost forget for a while that their origins are not unremarkable.

Fortunately, one of them suddenly came to his senses halfway through the salute, and pulled the other one tightly, and the two of them stood up straight together, and the woman who reacted first looked at Shi Wanrou with a smile on her face:

"What a coincidence, you can meet Miss Shi when you walk here. ”

"Really?"

Shi Wanrou was originally waiting for them to salute, but when she saw that they had no intention of saluting at all, she couldn't help but feel unspeakable anger in her heart.

After only saying these two words softly, he turned around and complained to his maid:

"I didn't know that the queen mother's spring banquet can be brought in by anyone, and you can see people you don't want to see wherever you go, it's really disappointing!"

Although the maid also looked down on the two young ladies of Anguo Mansion in her heart, she was just a slave in the end, and she never dared to show her name, so she only hung her head and didn't dare to answer.

The smiles on the faces of the two young ladies of the Anguo Mansion disappeared without a trace, and the one who couldn't hold his breath said angrily:

"Dare to ask Miss Zhongyi who is talking about this?"

Shi Wanrou played with the handkerchief in her hand, full of malice:

"Naturally, whoever talks to you will be talking about whom. ”

"Shi Wanrou, you ......"

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Miss An, who was more calm, hurriedly grabbed her sister and stepped forward to Shi Wan and said:

"Since Miss Shi herself doesn't know who she is talking about, it's better not to say it nonsense, after all, whether it's our sisters or other girls, they all came in with the queen's post openly. ”

"If Miss Shi's words are heard, it will make people feel disrespectful to the queen!"

What she said was reasonable, and Shi Wanrou was actually choked and speechless.

At this moment, someone on the opposite side suddenly clapped his hands and laughed:

"Yes, this young lady is so eloquent! she speaks in an orderly manner, has a clear mind, and is not like some people who are self-righteous, but in fact she is very disrespectful to the queen!"

The four people here were taken aback, and they all raised their eyes to see that it was the group of people led by Bai Xianghuan who walked to the opposite bank of them.

Separated by a shallow clear stream, what is said here, the other side naturally hears it clearly.

The handsome young man who clapped his hands, the two young ladies in the Anguo Mansion who didn't go out much, didn't recognize it, but Shi Wanrou knew it, and her eyes widened in an instant-

That young man is Qi Mingchuan, the eldest son of Qi Mengjue, the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites!

Qi Mengjue is now the hottest upstart minister in front of the new emperor, and his eldest son's status among the nobles in the capital is self-evident.

But this golden and noble young man is speaking for a woman from a family like Anguo Mansion at this moment!

It's so hateful!

Even if she had no intention of falling in love, Shi Wanrou still felt a great humiliation in an instant!

I'm afraid this person doesn't know who these two people are next to her, right?

Shi Wanrou was sarcastic in her heart, and then said with a smile:

"But I just said it casually, but I didn't expect to attract the two young ladies of Anguo Mansion and Qi Gongzi Qi Qi to speculate about me, people who don't know, still think that Qi Gongzi is interested in which Miss An!"

After these words were clearly spoken, the other side of the river was silent for a few breaths.

The people who originally planned to speak out in support of Qi Mingchuan were all stunned in place-who?

Aren't the people in Anguo Mansion all a joke?

If this has something to do with them, it will definitely outweigh the losses!

Many people who originally wanted to echo suddenly changed their faces:

"That's it, Miss Shi does have some truth when she says this!

For the man, this is just a joke to adjust the atmosphere, but for the two Miss An who were standing on the spot, this is enough to ruin all the reputation!

The faces of the two of them were flushed, but because they had never had any arguments with anyone, they didn't know how to refute this, so they were so anxious that tears were about to fall.

Qi Mingchuan was still young, and he didn't expect that he could attract these gossips just by praising him from the bottom of his heart.

I wanted to defend a few words, but I was afraid that the more I depicted it, it would really ruin the reputation of the two young ladies, so I glared back angrily at those who were coaxing.

Bai Xianghuan, who had been standing silently next to him, glanced at the people who were coaxing, and suddenly said loudly:

"Miss Shi is a woman, she has a long tongue, and she just talks nonsense, and a few brothers, as men, have to get along with people for no reason, and ruin people's reputation like this?"

Bai Xianghuan's words were not only an allusion to Shi Wanrou's casual nonsense like a long-tongued woman, but also a cross-examination of the people around her.

After all, rumors are like knives, don't these people know how much pain they will bring to others just to be happy for a while?

When those coaxing people heard this, they immediately felt that their faces were hot, and they were a little faintly worried that this new uncle would be dissatisfied with them because of this.

They all stopped talking and sneered:

Brothers, we are used to joking on weekdays, but today we almost got into a big accident when we said that we had a bald mouth, so we apologize to Miss An!"

As those people spoke, they actually bowed to the other side of the river in a serious manner:

"What we just said was nonsense, please forgive me two Miss An!"

Regardless of whether these words are sincere or not, there is sincerity, and the anger on the faces of the two Miss An, who were in embarrassment, faded slightly.

The two hurriedly returned the salute, even if they didn't pursue it anymore, then turned around and walked away quickly, not caring about what others were talking about behind them.

Only Shi Wanrou was left standing in place, her face blue and white-

Is Bai Xianghuan crazy? Doesn't he know which side he should stand on?!