Chapter 39: Controversy
"......" Faced with Lin Xiran's ridicule, Xia Shuanghan decided to ignore it to the end, so she changed the topic and said, "Now let's talk about the hidden mission." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info What are your plans? β
"It's pretending to run away from marriage." Lu Shaoyun said and cautiously looked at Xia Shuanghan's face, and saw that she did not show any signs of dissatisfaction or anger, so he continued: "Our current plan is to play a play of 'Guogongfu forcibly marries the daughter of the Xia family, and the Xia girl is dissatisfied and runs away from the marriage'. β
"......" Xia Shuanghan was speechless for a moment, and without talking about personal feelings, she said after going through this plan in her mind: "Objectively speaking, the idea is good, but there is a problem. If I use this reason to enter Naming Village, then I can only bring one more person into the village at most, except for the person pretending to be my sweetheart. You ......," Xia Shuanghan hesitated, "that means you two are walking with me, right?" β
"Yes." Lu Shaoyun added: "Of course, in order to successfully complete the plan and to reassure Xia Hanlin, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will inform my grandfather and your father of the plan in the next few days. Other than that, I hope Miss Xia will keep this mission a secret from everyone else. β
"I see." Xia Shuanghan nodded thoughtfully, and said, "Then in other words, the specific matter of escaping marriage can be discussed after Lu Guogong has made up his mind, right?" β
"That's right."
"So," Xia Shuanghan said and turned to Lin Xiran and said, "Lin Gongzi, I have a few words I want to say to Lu Gongzi alone, if you don't have anything important to discuss with him now, can you leave me a little space?" β
"No problem." Lin Xiran, who answered quite briskly, stood up and walked out as soon as his voice fell.
If Lin Xiran's departure marks the end of official affairs, then Xia Shuanghan's next questions indicate the beginning of private affairs.
In order to sneak into Naming Village better and faster, there was nothing wrong with Lu Shaoyun proposing the method of "fake escape", after all, Xia Shuanghan's mission was just to help Lu Shaoyun and them lurk in Naming Village for as long as possible without revealing their identities, and there was no need for her to do anything dangerous during this period. Therefore, the plan proposed by Lu Shaoyun can be said to be completely within the scope of Xia Shuanghan's ability.
But what Xia Shuanghan cares about most about this plan is precisely that: why did Lu Shaoyun think of mixing her in? To be honest, if you want to lurk in Naming Village, Xia Shuanghan is not an indispensable character, even if there is no "fake escape", Lu Shaoyun in his previous life still completed this task. Therefore, Xia Shuanghan wanted to know what kind of purpose Lu Shaoyun insisted on involving her.
"Master Lu, I have a question for you, I hope you can answer me honestly." Looking directly into Lu Shaoyun's eyes, Xia Shuanghan suddenly didn't want to hear Lu Shaoyun's answer. "Did you offer to involve me in the undercover mission because you thought the plan was the best thing to do, or because you had some other reason?"
"I admit that the reason why I proposed the 'fake runaway' plan is indeed because I personally think it is the easiest and feasible solution." Lu Shaoyun paused when he said this, took a deep breath and said, "On the other hand, the reason is because, Miss Xia, I like you." β
Is this really the reason for the "......"? Xia Shuanghan felt deep helplessness. More than half a month ago, Lu Shaoyun's behavior of touching her boudoir after being drugged by the Xu family had already made Xia Shuanghan suspicious at that time, but now that he heard Lu Shaoyun admit it himself, Xia Shuanghan still felt that he was unacceptable. "Master Lu, I told you, my sweetheart is not you!"
"I know." The third time he was rejected by Xia Shuanghan on this ground, Lu Shaoyun no longer felt unwilling or sad, and now he can completely talk to Xia Shuanghan about Liu Zirun with a smile. "Miss Xia's love for Liu Juren, I know, the reason why you two can't get together is that you also told me in Xiaoxiang Garden more than two months ago. Therefore, I am not naΓ―ve enough to think that just the few times you have met Miss Xia can replace Liu Juren's position in your mind. I just hope that Miss Xia can give you one, and at the same time give me a chance to be together. β
Lu Shaoyun said with a slightly self-deprecating and bitter smile and said: "I believe Miss Xia should remember that not long after the Lantern Festival, you once agreed with my grandfather that we would limit ourselves to one year, and if you still want to break the marriage contract after one year, then I will readily agree to your request." It's just that I don't really want to let you go. To tell you the truth, this hidden mission arranged for me by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will take as little as one and a half years or more than three or two years, and if I leave the capital now without doing anything, then I believe that as soon as the marriage contract is dissolved in a year, I will probably never have the opportunity to marry you again Miss Xia. So, Miss Xia, no, it should be...... Frost Cold, I hope you can spend the next ten months forgetting about Yoo Zi Yun and trying to be with me. β
"Frost"? A gentle call woke up Xia Shuanghan's deep burial in her heart, her attachment and reluctance to her previous life, but she still didn't want to turn back. "Lu Tingxuan, I don't know if you have ever thought that the biggest problem why I am unwilling to marry you is not Zirun. I didn't want to marry into the Dingguo Mansion for the sole reason that I would never be able to live the life I was pursuing. β
"What do you mean?" Lu Shaoyun was puzzled.
"Lu Gongzi, would you like to hear a story from me?" Since Zirun's shield can no longer play a role, then I will use reality to tell you why we are not suitable! Xia Shuanghan, who thought like this, changed her name, changed time and space, and told Lu Shaoyun about her past life with him.
Xia Shuanghan in his previous life was not impressed by Lu Shaoyun when he was young. Before he knew that he and Lu Shaoyun had a marriage contract, Lu Shaoyun in Xia Shuanghan's mind was just "this little brother is so good-looking"; After knowing that he and Lu Shaoyun had a marriage contract, Xia Shuanghan's impression of Lu Shaoyun became: "Even if that brother is good-looking, I don't want to marry him." My mother said, as long as I grow up and find a young man from the Rong tribe who is happy with each other, let that ridiculous marriage contract go to hell! β
It's a pity that Xia Shuanghan, who has grown all the way to nearly seventeen years old, has never been able to meet the man who made her happy, so she has never been able to find a reliable reason to dissolve the marriage contract between her and Lu Shaoyun. But as the so-called "the world is unpredictable, creation makes people", Xia Shuanghan would never have thought that the person who really made her understand what it meant to be "the beginning of love" was precisely the Lu Shaoyun who had not seen anyone for eight years and had always wanted to get rid of.
On that day, it was the day when Lu Shaoyun made military achievements at the border pass and triumphed in the capital with all the soldiers. On that day, both sides of Suzaku Street were crowded with welcoming crowds, and Xia Shuanghan, who took his younger brother to pay homage to the warriors of Great Xia, was touched by the heroic posture of Lu Shaoyun on the war horse, like many unmarried girls of appropriate age. "Is he the good-looking little brother who has been married to me since childhood?"
It's a pity that Xia Shuanghan, who was just beginning to fall in love, had not had time to fully unfold his fantasy of love, and the Xia family suffered a catastrophe. The sudden death of her father Xia Jingzhi and younger brother Xia Chaoyang made Xia Shuanghan completely change from a young lady of the Hanlin family to a flat-headed commoner, and the huge identity and family gap also made her firmly retreat from the marriage between the two families of Lu Xia: "Lu Shaoyun is the most ideal son-in-law in the eyes of the head of the family of many princesses, so many young ladies of the family, how could he like me?" It's not a happy marriage, I don't need it! β
So, although Lu Xiaoqing, the Duke of Dingguo, as soon as he learned the news of "Xia Jingzhi's death", he appointed his eldest grandson-in-law Zhang and Lu Shaoyun to go to Xia's house to help Xia Shuanghan take care of the funeral, but Xia Shuanghan still sternly refused.
In the cold wind of Layue, Xia Shuanghan, who was already infected with wind cold and high fever, dragged her sick body alone to support the funeral of her father and younger brother, and after the coffin was buried, she finally fell ill because of the grief and the wind and cold into the lungs. After lingering on the sickbed for two months and still not improving, Lu Xiaoqing couldn't bear to watch Xia Shuanghan get weaker and haggard again, so he proposed the idea of letting Xia Shuanghan and Lu Shaoyun get married within 100 days in front of Xia Shuanghan's sickbed, after all, as long as he married into the Guogong Mansion, Xia Shuanghan could be better cared for and treated.
But Xia Shuanghan refused again: "Shuanghan is not worthy of the fifth son of Lu, and I ask Grandpa Guo to think twice about this marriage." Xia Shuanghan's persistence and stubbornness made Lu Xiaoqing completely lose her mind, but in the end, her decision was changed by Lu Shaoyun.