After a few days, there were many fewer guests from Prince Xi's mansion, and the old man in Washington asked Hua Aotian to send an invitation, inviting Prince Xi and Qi Shangyi to sit in the mansion.

Zifeng Xiqi thought that Qi Shangyi had disturbed the mansion for several days before, so he responded, and on the second day, he asked people to prepare a carriage and go to Washington.

Qi Shangyi has now become the county lord, and everyone treats her differently than before, using honorifics everywhere, to the point that only Hua Mu understands Qi Shangyi's character and does not have anything to do with her.

"If you had said earlier that you went to the West Prince's Mansion just to recognize your relatives, I would have taken you to make it clear to the prince, why bother going around such a big circle." Hua Mu still thinks that Qi Shangyi begged her to take her to Prince Xi's Zhuangzi to recognize her relatives, and she can't help but complain that Qi Shangyi didn't tell the truth.

Qi Shangyi smiled and glanced at Jiang Tong, who was sitting opposite, and the two of them smiled understandingly, neither of them intended to tell the truth.

"I wasn't sure at the time, it wouldn't be good if I implicated you." Qi Shangyi said with a smile.

"And your personality is so babbling that you told you in advance that you might be known to everyone." Jiang Tong looked at Hua Mu's eyes a little doting when he spoke, it seems that Qi Shangyi guessed correctly, Jiang Tong just didn't know how to get along with Hua Mu, so he became more and more angry under Hua Mu's strength, and now Hua Mu took the initiative to regress, Jiang Tong will soon be able to grasp the relationship between the two.

Hua Mu pursed his mouth when he heard Jiang Tong's words, made a grimace at him, and turned his head to look at Qi Shangyi proudly, the two glanced at each other, and laughed together.

"I'll tell you something interesting," Hua Mu suddenly thought of another thing, and hurriedly sat up straight with a smile, moved his hand, and motioned for Qi Shangyi and Jiang Tong to come over, "That day, the news came out in the palace, and when my second aunt and third brother heard that Miss Qi turned out to be the younger sister of Prince Xi, and was also named the county lord, their faces turned green with regret, and my grandmother even sneered at his mother, and my second aunt scolded the third brother in a hurry." ”

Jiang Tong was very happy to hear it, and regretted staying in the West Prince's Mansion that night and didn't see this scene, while Qi Shangyi just smiled faintly, and then said with a smile: "Fortunately, your third brother didn't look down on me at the time, otherwise if the old lady really asked, I really don't know what reason to make up." ”

"Hey, say Cao Cao Cao arrived." Hua Mu looked at the outside of the pavilion and gently pushed Qi Shangyi's arm twice with his hand, and whispered with a handkerchief, "He has a lot of eyes, you have to guard against him." ”

Qi Shangyi nodded, and didn't turn around to look, just didn't know that Hua Aojie was coming.

Hua Aojie entered the pavilion, and did not forget the etiquette, first saluted the lord of Xiyue County, and then raised his head and said to Hua Mu: "Little sister, my mother said that she was looking for something for you, and asked you to go over with Brother Jiang." ”

Hua Mu couldn't help laughing, guessing that it must be his mother's plan, and secretly glanced at Qi Shangyi.

Qi Shangyi nodded faintly, Hua Mu got up with a smile and tugged at Jiang Tong's clothes, "Let's go, the second aunt is looking for us, maybe there is something important." After speaking, he glanced at Hua Aojie meaningfully, "Then we will go over, please trouble the third brother to help us entertain the county lord." ”

Hua Aojie nodded repeatedly.

"Third son, sit down." Qi Shangyi saw the two of them walk out, pointed to the side, and motioned for Hua Aojie to sit.

"Thank you, Lord County." Hua Aojie thanked him, and sat down next to Qi Shangyi, "I didn't know that you were the county lord before, so I was so negligent, please forgive me." ”

Qi Shangyi smiled faintly, "It's okay, a man should focus on his career, and the third son has to take care of the business is the right thing, and I don't dare to bother the third son to take me around." ”

"It's relieved that the county lord can think like this." Hua Aojie smiled, took out a box from his sleeve, pushed it in front of Qi Shangyi, and asked the county lord to accept it.

Qi Shangyi glanced at him and gently opened the box, inside was a hosta, Qi Shangyi's parents also had some research on jade, so Qi Shangyi knew that this was a high-grade hosta, there were no seams, and it was carved whole.

"It's not good," Hua Mu and Jiang Tong did not walk away, but hid not far away to watch, and when they saw the hosta that Qi Shangyi picked up, Hua Mu hurriedly shouted.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Tong squatted beside him and asked in surprise.

"This is the second aunt's dowry, she often says that it is for her daughter-in-law in the future, if the county lord accepts it without knowing it, I am afraid that the second aunt will take this as a pretext, saying that the county lord and the third brother have made a private agreement for life, even if the county lord and the prince of the west do not agree, but the county lord's reputation will be ruined." That hosta, the second aunt used to take it out and brag about it, so Hua Mu recognized it at a glance.

"Then let's go over and tell Miss Qi." Jiang Tong hurriedly said that he was used to calling her, and Qi Shangyi said that he didn't need to call the county lord, but kept calling her Miss Qi.

"No way!" Hua Mu grabbed Jiang Tong stubbornly, "Now that the hairpin is in the hands of the county lord, we can only be a witness for him in the past, you keep an eye on the surroundings, don't let people come, especially my second aunt, I will use a flying needle to crush the hosta." ”

"Oh." Jiang Tong nodded, hurriedly looked around, and sure enough, he saw the second lady looking not far away, so he hurriedly walked over.

"Second lady, are you looking for me?" Jiang said as above.

"Oh, oh, hehe...... Oh, yes. The second lady looked a little nervous, "Hua Mu didn't come with you?" ”

"Just now, she said that she wanted to go back to the house and take off the veil, so let me ask the second lady what is the matter." Jiang Tong followed the words of the second lady and tripped her.

Qi Shangyi stared at the hosta in his hand for a long time, and smiled faintly, "This hosta jade is of good quality, and it is not newly carved, it has been some years, but it is well maintained, I think it is often wiped, this kind of thing The third son should not be so careful, it must be the second lady's, so attentive, it should be a dowry, but the dowry is not given to the daughter to marry, it seems that it is intended to be left to the daughter-in-law in the future." ”

Qi Shangyi analyzed sentence by sentence, so frightened that Hua Aojie's hands trembled a little, "County Lord, you ...... What do you say? I bought this one on the street, and it's not as serious as you say. ”

Hua Aojie's expression had betrayed him, so Qi Shangyi was even more sure of her guess, she took the hosta in her hand and played with it, "The third prince wants to give me this hairpin without my knowledge, and then tell others that we have already made a private agreement for life, so I have to marry you." ”

Hua Aojie's hands and feet trembled even more, but she didn't expect her to just look at it and say all the instructions she had planned, but he didn't give up, and said: "Since the county lord is so smart, he shouldn't have picked up the hosta, and now that the hairpin is in your hands, it's my business." ”

"Then you can try." Qi Shangyi was not worried about him, and said with a smile with his head down. (To be continued.) )