"Why are you so unlucky!"

At night, Li Hongyu lay on the bed tossing and turning, and Zhu Wanting's invitation made him feel upset and in a terrible mood.

If Li Hongyu didn't guess wrong, Zhu Wanting, who was willing to use artificial respiration to save him, must have liked him, and if he was someone else, he would definitely like to get the favor of the county lord, but for Li Hongyu, this is a trouble.

You must know that the women of the royal family are not so easy to marry, especially the women of the level of the county lord, once Li Hongyu becomes Zhu Wanting's guest of honor, then his career will be very restricted, even if he can step into the official career, he should not be reused, which is related to Emperor Hongwu's restriction on the emperor's relatives and relatives to interfere in politics.

What is particularly important is that Zhu Shengchang has sent someone to warn him euphemistically after the township test, telling him to stay away from Zhu Wanting, he doesn't want to offend Zhu Shengchang.

Although Zhu Shengchang's fief is in Wuchang Mansion, he has clansmen in the capital, and those clansmen can't be in politics but have been treated favorably by successive emperors and enjoy very great privileges.

Although Li Hongyu is in a bad mood, this does not mean that he hates Zhu Wanting, on the contrary, he likes Zhu Wanting very much, and he is not worried about the huge gap between the two family backgrounds.

The only thing that makes Li Hongyu feel jealous is that once he gets involved with Zhu Wanting, then his career will be greatly affected, and King Xiang's favor for Zhu Wanting will make Li Hongyu settle in Xiangyang City, so that his plan will come to naught.

For Zhu Wanting's life-saving grace, Li Hongyu can only keep it in mind now, and repay it if he has the opportunity in the future.

This is the reason why he took Qin Yue to the appointment, hoping to use this to apportionment to Zhu Wanting, which broke Zhu Wanting's thoughts about him, after all, Zhu Wanting is the county lord, and it is impossible for him to become his concubine no matter what.

At this time, Li Hongyu couldn't help but miss Zhao Xin a little, Zhao Xin followed Zhao Deyi to visit the merchants of Hankou and Hanyang a few days ago, and now he is not in Wuchang City.

In Li Hongyu's opinion, Zhao Xin is steady and capable, and the city government is deep, if he is by his side at this time, he will definitely be able to give him ideas, so that he will not be in a hurry like ants on a hot pot.

At the same time, Qin Yue, like Li Hongyu, couldn't fall asleep tossing and turning in bed, secretly thinking about Zhu Wanting's affairs in her heart.

Qin Yue is a smart girl, so she doesn't believe that Zhu Wanting will break into Wuchangwei to save Li Hongyu for a mere 100,000 taels of gambling silver, even if Zhu Wanting feels sorry for the 100,000 taels, she can send her subordinates to do this matter, there is no need to go in person.

Moreover, Qin Yue had a strong premonition that something unknown must have happened to Li Hongyu and Zhu Wanting when they were drinking in Xiangyang City, because Li Hongyu had not met Zhu Wanting since he came back from Xiangyang City, so Li Hongyu must have something to hide.

Qin Yue naturally wouldn't have thought that Li Hongyu and Zhu Wanting would get drunk because of the fight, and she was not in the mood to think too much about it, the top priority was the appointment two days later, it was obvious that Zhu Wanting would not know that she would go with Li Yuntian, and she might cause some big trouble at that time.

In fact, there is another person who can't sleep tonight, and that is Zhao Xin in Hankou.

Zhao Deyi has officially proposed to Zhao Xin today, hoping that she will return to Shanxi after the results of the township test are announced, and go to accompany her elderly grandmother, who has missed her since she came to Baihe Town.

This made Zhao Xin fall into distress, on the one hand, she wanted to continue to accompany Li Hongyu, but on the other hand, she had a deep relationship with her grandmother and wanted to be happy.

Originally, Zhao Deyi wanted Zhao Xin to leave Wuchang City and return to Shanxi after the test, but in his opinion, the relationship between Zhao Xin and Li Hongyu was already very dangerous, and it was time to cut through the mess quickly.

However, because the results of the township examination did not come out, Zhao Xin, like the other candidates, could not leave Wuchang City, in case of the middle examination, he would have to participate in the Luming banquet presided over by the governor Li Yu, which was also part of the imperial examination, and if he was absent without reason, he would be regarded as disrespectful and would be held responsible.

Zhao Deyi didn't want to cause any trouble because of this matter, if it was revealed that Zhao Xin was his daughter, then things would be bad, so he could only wait patiently for the results of the township test to come out.

To be honest, Zhao Deyi didn't know what Zhao Xin's township test results were, but he hoped that Zhao Xin would fail the list, so that there would be a lot less trouble.

After some careful consideration, Zhao Deyi decided to "beat the mandarin duck" to let Zhao Xin leave Li Hongyu, in addition to the family affairs between the two, he couldn't say, and more importantly, Zhao Deyi didn't want Zhao Xin to live that kind of scared life in the future.

If Li Hongyu is a mediocre person, it would be easy to say, but now it seems that Li Hongyu is a smart person and has great ambitions, otherwise he would not have been dormant in Baihe Town for such a long time, during which he would rather endure ****.

This makes Zhao Deyi unable to let Zhao Xin stay by Li Hongyu's side, it is obvious that if Li Hongyu steps into the officialdom, he will definitely not "keep to himself", and will definitely cause many incidents, the officialdom is sinister, and he is not willing to let Zhao Xin be implicated.

Now Li Hongyu just participated in the imperial examination and has not yet stepped into the officialdom, he has caused trouble in the children's examination and the township examination one after another, and Wuchangcheng is still a big trouble, so Zhao Deyi must let Li Hongyu disappear from her life for Zhao Xin's future happiness.

However, will things really happen in the direction Zhao intended? I'm afraid that Zhao Deyi doesn't have a little bottom in his heart, and he can't guess what Zhao Xin, who has a strong personality, will do.

Two days later, in the morning, Li Hongyu and Qin Yue's carriage left Wuchang City and went to the riverside wharf of a small town outside the city, where Zhu Wanting's painting boat was parked.

Qin Yue attached great importance to this appointment, and got up early in the morning to dress up carefully under Xiaolan's service, wearing a white long skirt to set off the endless elegance and purity, looking particularly young and beautiful.

However, Li Hongyu was not in the mood to admire the beautiful and delicious beauties in front of him, so he sat there along the way and closed his eyes to recuperate, secretly thinking about the countermeasures that might be found on the painting boat.

Qin Yue saw Li Hongyu frowning slightly, knowing that he must be thinking about something, because she didn't bother him, but turned her head to look out the window, looking a little worried, after all, Zhu Wanting is the county lord, in case Li Hongyu annoys her, the consequences will be unimaginable.

At this moment, Qin Yue had already guessed Li Hongyu's intention to let her come, presumably Li Hongyu wanted to use this to refuse Zhu Wanting's kindness, she was both happy and worried, God knows if Zhu Wanting would turn her face because of this.

On the wharf by the river in the town, a luxurious and luxurious boat is quietly parked there, and a beautiful woman in a red dress and elegant appearance is sitting in the cabin leisurely stroking the piano, the melodious sound of the piano makes the people on the pier stretch their necks to look at the painting boat, and guess the identity of the characters in the painting boat one after another.

There is no doubt that this beautiful woman in the red dress is Zhu Wanting, although she often shows people in men's clothes, but after all, she is a woman, anyway, Li Hongyu already knows that she is her daughter and died, and there is no need for her to dress as a man.

Soon after, the carriage that Li Hongyu and Qin Yue were riding arrived at the dock, and the guards who were already waiting on the dock welcomed the two into the painting boat, and the painting boat immediately sailed away from the shore.

When Li Hongyu and Qin Yue walked into the cabin one after the other, Zhu Wanting, who was caressing the qin, was suddenly slightly stunned, the sound of the piano stopped abruptly, and looked at Qin Yue very unexpectedly, never expecting that Li Hongyu would bring Qin Yue here.

Although Qin Yue had never seen Zhu Wanting before, Zhu Wanting had seen her in private, so she recognized Qin Yue's identity at a glance.

"Li Hongyu, a member of Xiangyang Mansion, has seen the county lord." Seeing this, Li Hongyu bowed to Zhu Wanting and bowed respectfully.

"The people's daughter Qin Yue has seen the county lord." Qin Yue then knelt down and saluted Zhu Wanting, she was a civilian, so she naturally wanted to kneel.

"No courtesy." After the initial stunned, Zhu Wanting quickly came back to her senses and said quietly.

"Lord Xie." Li Hongyu and Qin Yue thanked each other in unison when they heard this, and then he leaned over and intimately helped Qin Yue, who was kneeling beside him.

After seeing this scene, Zhu Wanting's willow eyebrows suddenly frowned slightly, and she didn't speak after biting her lip, but just stared at Li Hongyu coldly, a little chill appeared on her exquisite cheeks, obviously she didn't let Li Hongyu bring Qin Yue here.

"County Lord, this is a gift I prepared with Miss Qin, I hope the County Lord can like it."

Li Hongyu naturally noticed the anger in Zhu Wanting's eyes when he looked at him, but he pretended not to see it, held a beautifully packaged gift box in his hand, and said to Zhu Wanting quietly.

"Case Chief Li has a heart!" Zhu Wanting glanced at the gift box, and ordered in a cold voice, "Come on, accept this gift." ”

Li Hongyu suddenly smiled bitterly in his heart when he heard this, he heard it, Zhu Wanting not only had a cold tone, but also accentuated the pronunciation of the word "heart", obviously expressing dissatisfaction.

But Li Hongyu has no choice now, instead of disrupting his future plans, it is better to make Zhu Wanting jealous of him at this time, this is also for Zhu Wanting's good, and he will definitely repay Zhu Wanting for saving his life if he has the opportunity in the future.

"Miss Qin can play the piano?" Seeing that Li Hongyu didn't react to his dissatisfaction in the slightest, and stood there with a respectful face, the anger in Qin Yue's heart suddenly jumped up, and after raising her eyebrows, she asked Qin Yue, she wanted to see what Qin Yue was capable of.

"I know a little bit about it." Qin Yue smiled slightly when she heard this and nodded, she has been learning piano skills since she was a child, and she has a very high attainment in piano art because of her talent and intelligence.

However, from the sound of the piano just now, she knew that Zhu Wanting's piano skills were above her, after all, the pianist who taught Zhu Wanting was a master of Jiangnan piano art, and Zhu Wanting's talent was not inferior to her, which made the difference between the two in the teaching of the piano teacher obvious.

Of course, Qin Yue could guess Zhu Wanting's intentions in doing this, but she was not worried, because she had a killer feature, which was enough to compete with Zhu Wanting in piano skills.

"Oops!" Li Hongyu also saw what Zhu Wanting wanted to do, and noticed the confident smile on the corner of Qin Yue's mouth, and suddenly chuckled in his heart, as if he smelled a strong smell of gunpowder.