Chapter 106: Prime Minister Yuyuan
"Tell me, where did you know that?" Changsun Yi asked again.
Yu Yuan avoided answering, "I hope the prince doesn't mind." β
After a long time, I saw Changsun Yi smiling helplessly and waving his hand, and said to Yuyuan like an old friend: "It seems that my Xiangwang Mansion is really weak now." That's it, let's not talk about that. It's rare that you have time to come to the palace, so let's have a meal together, and it will be almost noon when you come. He waved his hand, and after saying this, even his posture seemed to be much more relaxed.
Hearing this, Yu Yuan smiled and nodded, "Okay." β
When the eldest grandson Hong rushed to the jade dye courtyard with his sword, he was just in time for the jade dye to drink tea leisurely in the house, and Qin Xi and Wan Ran were there, both of them looking extremely relaxed. The eldest grandson Hong looked at himself and was sweating profusely, which made him feel a little aggrieved.
"What's wrong with you?" Yuran had just finished drinking the tea in the cup, she put down the teacup and looked at the sweaty eldest grandson Hong with a smile.
"It's not that my father told me to practice swordsmanship, and he also wants to transfer his subordinates to watch me practice, but I haven't rested all morning, you guys are too idle, it's not fair." The eldest grandson Hong glared, and jumped to his feet in anger.
"Brother, father, this should also be for your good." The eldest grandson replied in a decent manner.
"Where's the matter?" Changsun Hong grabbed a handful of hair, and his face was full of doubts.
Yu Ran chuckled, she laughed very crisply, her eyebrows and eyes crooked, until she felt the burning gaze of Changsun Hong moving towards her, she coughed lightly, raised her eyebrows and said, "Isn't it good to see that your spirit after practicing the sword is better than usual?" β
"Are you praising me, or are you belittling me?" The eldest grandson asked rhetorically.
Yuran's expression was extremely indifferent, she just raised her finger and pointed to her empty cup, and said with a smile: "Since you still have the strength, then it's just right, come and help me pour a cup of tea." β
"Pour tea? Are you asking Ben Shizi to pour you a cup of tea? Changsun Hong raised his eyebrows and asked jokingly.
Yu Ran nodded, and said matter-of-factly: "Yes, is it possible that there are other people?" β
"Okay, good, pour tea. I see, the only person in this world who dares to call me so casually is Nanyu, right? Eldest Sun Hong teased Yu Ran as he walked to the table.
As soon as Changsun Hong's voice fell, as if to confirm that Changsun Hong's words were wrong, Qin Xi opened his lips warmly the next moment: "Pour me a cup too." β
"Qin Xi, what are you doing with Nan Yu too?" The eldest grandson Honggang lifted the teapot, listened to Qin Xi's words, and almost dropped the teapot with a shake of his hand. He turned his head sharply, glared at Qin Xi and said loudly.
"Be careful, the tea is going to spill." Yu Ran held his chin with one hand, and a pair of beautiful eyes swept over Changsun Hong's hand, and then smiled.
Qin Xi raised his eyes and reminded with a gentle expression: "Nanyu doesn't like people spilling water on the table, you better be careful." β
Changsun Hong was speechless, "What is this?" You two can't be playing with me, right? β
"Who's messing with you? Am I not serious in this tone? Yuran's eyebrows raised slightly, looking at Changsun Hong's sullen expression, and he chuckled lightly.
And Qin Xi stood up directly, took the kettle from the hand of Changsun Hong, and then stood sideways on the edge of the jade dye, leaned over slightly, the mouth of the pot was facing the cup of the jade dye, and the action skillfully lifted the jade dye and added tea.
The water surface of the tea is three points away from the rim of the cup, which is just right.
Qin Xi's ink hair slid in front of him along with his leaning movements, and his side face looked even more gentle, making the eldest grandson Wanran couldn't help but look sideways, but he saw Qin Xi laughing at Yu Ran after pouring the tea, which made the eldest grandson Wanran's expression a little darker.
"The tea in the pot is new just now, and it's still warm. It's cold enough on this day, and you don't have to wait for the tea to cool before drinking. Qin Xi thought that Yu Ran preferred to wait for the tea to cool before drinking it, so he mentioned it.
Yu Ran has actually been thinking about how familiar she must be with Qin Xi in order for Qin Xi to understand this to her. Or is Qin Xi's explanation to everyone true? She was born in the mountains, without a father or mother, and Qin Xi was rescued by her, so Qin Xi is taking care of her?
But no matter how you think about it, Yu Ran feels that something is not right. As for where it was, Yu Ran couldn't say it all at once.
"I see." Yu Ran responded to Qin Xi's voice, and then took a sip of the rim of the cup against his lips, and frowned slightly.
Seeing Yuran's expression, Changsun Hong couldn't help laughing, causing Yuran to glare at him directly, and Changsun Hong immediately closed his voice.
Speaking of which, there were three more people in this small room of Yuran at once, and it did feel a lot more crowded, but it was also very lively, as if the cold of winter could be completely driven away.
It's just that there is not much time for such a leisurely time, and soon, there was another knock on the door.
"Shizi." The voice outside the door was Takera's.
The eldest grandson Honglang said loudly: "Come in." β
Zhuliang pushed the door in, closed the door again, walked all the way to the table where the four people were sitting and stopped, and said to the eldest grandson: "Shizi, the prime minister is having dinner with the prince in the front hall, and the prince called me to shout." β
"Oh, Prime Minister, that's okay, I'll just go over with Wanran now." When the eldest grandson Hong heard this, although he felt a little disappointed, he still nodded and said.
When Zhu Liang heard this, he hesitated slightly, and then said: "Shizi, the prince didn't just let you and the young lady go over. And also...... Qin Gongzi and Nanyu girl. Zhu Liang said, his gaze carefully swept over Qin Xi and Nanyu.
"Qin Xi and Nanyu?" The eldest grandson stood up suddenly, his face full of surprise.
"Me and Qin Xi?" Yu Ran was also stunned, and then got up as well, and after thinking about it, he said, "It doesn't matter if I used to be, but Qin Xi ...... Why don't you let Qin Xi stay here first, and I'll go over with you to see what's going on, right? β
Just as Tamazan was about to pick up the cloak that was hanging aside, she felt one of her wrists clasped by someone. Yu Ran looked back and found that it was Qin Xi.
"What's wrong?" Yu Ran asked.
Qin Xi's eyes were deep, his thin lips pursed slightly, his brows, which had always been stretched on weekdays, were locked at the moment, and his expression staring at Yu Ran looked extremely worried, and the act of hurriedly grabbing Yu Ran's wrist like this could be said to be almost impossible in the past.
Qin Xi's performance towards Yuran has always been too decent, his conversation is so steady that it is completely different from Qin Xi, who was serious with Changsun Hong and Changsun Wanran five years ago, almost what Yuran said, Qin Xi will do something, even if Yuran is joking, Qin Xi will really do it, which makes Yuran also puzzled.
Why is Qin Xi's attitude towards jade dyeing so close and alienated?
So today, Qin Xi's momentary panic made Yu Ran puzzled.
Qin Xi also knew that his actions were strange, he stiffly withdrew his hand, then narrowed his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "I'll go with you." β
"Stay with me? No, didn't you say it all, if the prime minister recognized you, it wouldn't be good. You're just going to stay here, okay? Yu Ran blinked and looked at Qin Xi with a smile.
"Nope."
Yuran thought that he had heard it wrong, and the eldest grandson Hong and the eldest grandson Wanran also thought that they had heard it wrong.
"What did you say?" Yuran asked again.
"I saidβno." Qin Xi emphasized it again, this time, his expression was more solemn than before, and it could be said that he directly refuted Yu Ran's words.
The eldest grandson Wanran also asked puzzledly: "Brother Qin, why is this?" I also think Nanyu has a point. Prime Minister, he recognizes you, you passed, he found out that you are still alive, so what should I do? β
"Qin Xi, it's rare to see you so stubborn." Changsun Hong sighed, and also showed disapproval.
The atmosphere in the room froze suddenly, no one refused to take that step, and Zhu Liang stood aside, his heart was also chaotic enough, he really didn't expect that the prince would let him call Qin Xi and Nanyu together, this is really good.
"Shizi, since it was the prince who said that he wanted to let Gongzi Qin and Miss Nanyu go over together, then the prince must have his considerations. Why don't you go over and have a look first? Zhuliang grabbed his hair and said helplessly.
When the four of them arrived in the front hall, the dishes on the table were almost all ready, and they were waiting for the rest of the people to come.
Changsun Hong was going to ask Qin Xi to go in later, so he took a look at the situation at the door first, but he saw that Qin Xi was actually the first to walk in, which made Changsun Hong stunned at first, and then quickly ran in front of Qin Xi, as if he deliberately wanted to block Qin Xi behind.
The eldest grandson Hong also wrinkled his eyebrows, he really didn't know what his father meant. No matter how good the relationship between Qin Taifu, King Xiang and the Prime Minister was, at this time, how could they push Qin Xi to the faΓ§ade at will.
Yu Ran was the last to walk into the front hall, and after she entered, her eyes swept over Sun Yi, the eldest king of Xiang, who was sitting at the table, and then looked at another person, that other person should be Prime Minister Yuyuan, right?
At the moment when Yu Ran's gaze fell on Yu Yuan, she suddenly saw Yu Yuan also looking at her in turn, and the eyes of the two just collided together, which made Yu Ran look away after a pause, and she paced to Qin Xi's side.
"Haven't seen the prime minister yet?" Eldest Sun Yi raised his eyes and said.
"I've seen the prime minister." Changsun Hong still said casually as before, but his eyes were still full of defense.
"It's like seeing the prime minister." The eldest grandson blessed Yuyuan in a regular manner.
And when it came to Qin Xi and Yu Ran, the former was looking at Yu Yuan with a deep look, his expression was obviously not good, and the latter was also looking at Yu Yuan, but his expression was slightly confused, as if it was just because there was a sense of familiarity in his heart.
The next moment, Yu Yuan got up, and then smiled, he didn't say a word, took a step ahead of Yu Ran, flicked his sleeves, and waved slightly towards Yu Ran.