Soon it was the end of the year, because Yan Ran had a good relationship with Zhen Yu, and won the love of Concubine Yun, Master Yan needed to prepare a lot more New Year's gifts than in previous years, and they were also a lot more expensive.

The silver was spent like flowing water, but he was not distressed at all, but he was happy because he had met many dignitaries and nobles, and he looked up to Yan Ran even more.

In previous years, Yan Ran was treated harshly, so she could only eat a good meal on Chinese New Year's Eve, and she had no chance to go out as a visitor.

This year is different, Master Yan specially told that the Wen family is to save face, and he has to take more care of Yan Ran.

Yan Yao didn't understand why Yan Ran offended the prince of the Xuanping Marquis Mansion, but instead of being disgusted and punished by Master Yan, he had to pay more attention to it.

Yan Ran knew very well that the contradiction between her and Song Jinghui gave Master Yan the opportunity to fight his political enemies, of course he couldn't ask for it, so how could he blame her?

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Master Yan took Wen's family, his two daughters and one son to the Dingguo Mansion to pay New Year's greetings to the eldest princess of Minyang.

Master Yan and Yan Qiyou were invited to the front hall by Wen Chengyan, while the ladies stayed in the back hall to gossip.

After a while, I heard a report from someone that Lord Jinluan and Cui Jingshi had visited.

Yan Ran couldn't help but be a little strange, these two people were girls in the boudoir, and if they were not invited, they should not come to visit alone.

Yan Ran was right, these two people were invited by Minyang to be guests.

Because of the last time he was in the school, Minyang calculated Yan Ran, but Wen Chengyan broke the plan.

Minyang threw a mouse bogey, although she hated Yan Ran very much, but she didn't dare to make a move easily.

But she didn't want Yan Ran to have a good time, and when she learned that she would visit with the Wen family today, she invited the county lord of Jinluan and Cui Jingshi.

The county lord of Jinluan has a heart of admiration for Wen Chengyan, Cui Jingshi is the best among the nobles, and Minyang invited these two to come just to let Yan Ran know his catties.

Compared with the girls of the real noble family, her background is not worth mentioning at all, and she is not qualified to climb Wen Chengyan, who already has a knighthood.

Minyang felt that with Yan Ran's scheming, he would definitely be able to understand her intentions.

If Yan Ran was smarter, Xiao learned about the difficulties and retreated, and no longer seduced Wen Chengyan, it would be even better.

Yan Yao was most tired of Cui Jingshi, and when she saw Minyang talking happily with her, she was jealous in her heart, and deliberately gathered around Minyang to say something flattering to attract her attention.

Yan Yao wanted to call Minyang to her aunt, but Minyang was still very tolerant of her.

However, although Minyang is good friends with the Wen family, one is because Yan Yao is related to Wen Chengyan, the second is that she doesn't like Yan Yao's temperament very much, and the third is that Master Yan is an upstart and has a deep foundation, and Yan Yao's background is not very competitive.

Therefore, she never included Yan Yao in her daughter-in-law candidate.

And although the county lord of Jinluan is deeply valued by the queen mother and the emperor at the moment, she is an orphan girl and has no maternal support, and there will always be a new emperor to succeed to the throne in the future.

Minyang secretly made a judgment in his heart, his eyes wandered for a week, and finally fell on Cui Jingshi's body, with a somewhat satisfied look in his eyes.

Cui Jingshi's grandfather, Cui Gelao, was the head of the hundred officials, and his power leaned towards the government and the opposition, and his father and brother were also prominent, and he was deeply relied on by the emperor, and his mother was strong.

And she is top-notch among the nobles regardless of her appearance, upbringing, and knowledge, which is Minyang's favorite choice for daughter-in-law.

Yan Ran can also get a glimpse of Minyang's thoughts, but it's a pity that she didn't think about it so much.

She already hated Wen Chengyan and avoided it, and Minyang's so-called affection between the two was just wishful thinking on her part.

Yan Rancai is not rare Wen Chengyan, and he doesn't care who Minyang values.

One day, Wen Chengyan knelt down and begged her, and she wouldn't look at him more, maybe she would step on him a few times.

If Minyang knew what Yan Ran was thinking, he might vomit blood in anger.

At ten o'clock at lunch, Lord Jin Luan and Cui Jingshi were left by Minyang to eat.

In order to bring Cui Jingshi and Wen Chengyan closer, Minyang asked the male and female guests to dine together, and also arranged the two to sit next to each other.

Wen and Minyang are sisters-in-law, the two families are naturally relatives, the county lord of Jinluan was born in the queen mother's family, and it can be regarded as a family, but Cui Jingshi is a real outsider.

And she is a girl's family, without the company of the female relatives of the family, eating with a foreign man, after all, there is something inappropriate.

However, Minyang is the eldest princess, and she arranged it like this, so naturally no one dared to raise objections.

Cui Jingshi was a little embarrassed, but it was not easy to refuse, so she said, "Princess Xie gives food", but when she walked to the seat, she hesitated.

The county lord of Jinluan already complained about Cui Jingshi's use of her to suppress Yan Ran, and taught her a lesson, which made her lose her demeanor in front of Wen Chengyan.

Unexpectedly, Cui Jingshi actually entered the eyes of the eldest princess again, and she could still sit next to Wen Chengyan, and the county lord of Jinluan suddenly became angry.

Yan Yao was the same, envious, jealous and resentful, and used her eyes to gouge Cui Jingshi.

Yan Ran was indifferent, looking at the delicious delicacies in front of her, and bent her eyebrows slightly in a happy mood.

But in Minyang's eyes, he felt that Yan Ran's scheming was deep, and he was so calm, and he couldn't help but feel depressed again.

How could Cui Jingshi not feel the eye knives scraped from all directions, and her feet became even heavier.

If she just felt that she was very compatible with Minyang just now, then now, if she doesn't understand what Minyang is thinking, she will bear the name of a talented woman in vain.

Cui Jingshi did not sit at the table after all, and pleaded with Minyang: "Eldest princess, the courtiers are friendly with the county lord of Jinluan, I don't know if you can sit with the county lord?" ”

Cui Jingshi has no intention of Wen Chengyan, and naturally she is not afraid of offending Minyang, she doesn't want to be adjacent to a man, and it is polite, so people can't find faults.

And she can foresee that if she hadn't proposed to change seats first, Wen Chengyan would have changed seats after she sat down, and wouldn't it be even more embarrassing at that time.

Minyang didn't think much about it, he just thought that the girl's family was shy, and secretly blamed himself for being too eager, so he agreed happily and didn't blame it.

Cui Jingshi took the initiative to change her seat, so that Yan Yao was able to sit next to Wen Chengyan, and she couldn't help but feel overjoyed.

Yan Yao is Wen Chengyan's cousin, and the county lord of Jinluan has never regarded Yan Yao as an opponent, so he has a lot of relief.

There was no longer tension at the banquet, and everyone finished the "family banquet" with laughter and laughter.

Although it was a family banquet, from beginning to end, Yan Ran never saw Wen Rongan, which showed that Minyang didn't take him seriously at all.

After lunch, Master Yan took Yan Qiyou to the study with Wen Chengyan.

Wen Chengyan is going to take the imperial examination next year, so he asks for teaching questions and experience from Master Yan, although Yan Qiyou is still young, he has to be forced to observe.

Minyang took the ladies to the garden with great interest, and Yan Ran stayed in the warm pavilion under the pretext that the wind and cold had not healed.

After everyone left, Yan Ran quietly slipped out with Qingxuan.

Yan Ran had previously pretended to be a servant and followed Mu Changfeng to the Dingguo Mansion, and found the courtyard where Wen Rong'an lived.

Wen Rong'an's courtyard was deserted, and only Wen Qi was the servant, and there was no one to guard the door, so Yan Ran swaggered in.

She walked to the window and heard Wen Qi's voice faintly coming from inside: "Childe, the things have been delivered, Second Prince Song said......"

"Who?"

only heard a snap, it seemed that something hit the window lattice, and then the window sash opened, and Yan Ran's face appeared in Wen Rong'an's sight.

Wen Rongan was startled, stood up suddenly, and walked out in a few steps: "Why are you here?" Come on in! ”

Wen Rongan pulled Yan Ran into the room, saw that the tip of her nose was cold and red, dragged her to the brazier and sat down, and asked again, "Why are you here?" ”

Yan Ran obediently sat on the small pestle, stretched out her hand to bake the fire, and replied: "Today, I came to Dingguo Mansion with my father to pay New Year's greetings, just after lunch, they went for a walk in the garden, I felt bored, so I came to you!" ”

Wen Rongan was about to speak, but he caught a glimpse of Qingxuan taking off his clothes, and couldn't help but exclaim, "What are you doing again?" ”

Qingxuan wore several cotton clothes today, and she looked bloated, and even the movements of the wide clothes were very clumsy.

Yan Ran sneered, walked over to help Qingxuan take off the outermost layer of cotton clothes, and took out a bag of medicinal herbs from it.

Qingxuan wore a thick dress to hide this bag of medicinal herbs, in case it was seen that she was hiding something and smelling it.

Wen Qi had already had the vision to go out to guard the door, Qingxuan put down her things, put on her cotton clothes, and walked to the door.

Yan Ranfu walked to Wen Rong'an and sat down, opened the paper bag, and offered him a treasure: "This is Cordyceps, given to me by Concubine Yun, this medicine is warm, and it is most suitable for you to replenish your body." ”

Wen Rongan looked at the bag of medicine, and then looked at Yan Ran's face full of expectation, with an inexplicable expression: "You came to me just to send me medicine?" ”

Yan Ran vetoed very simply: "Of course not!" ”

As she spoke, she leaned closer to Wen Rong'an's side, and said in an ambiguous tone, "I want to see you!" ”

Wen Rong'an couldn't stand Yan Ran's teasing words from time to time, and immediately withdrew his gaze, staring at the brazier tightly, not daring to glance at half a minute: "Do you know that this mansion is full of Minyang's eyeliner, if she finds out......"

"That's not right!"

Yan Ran simply hugged Wen Rongan's arm and rested her head on his shoulder.

She couldn't wait to be broken by someone to have a private meeting with Wen Rong'an, so she quickly decided the marriage between the two, and she could meet him openly!

Wen Rong'an couldn't say anything about the cheeky Yan Ran, so he had to shut up, but his eyes were full of softness.

The two sat next to each other, enjoying a warm and quiet time.

Yan Ran estimated the time for Minyang and the others to walk, and said goodbye to Wen Rong'an reluctantly.

Yan Ran walked out of the yard, and before she could go far, she collided with Wen Chengyan who was coming on.

"Cousin, where did you go?"

Wen Chengyan's voice was gentle, but his eyes were full of cold glances behind Yan Ran.

This is the end of the house, there is only this one road, and beyond that is Wen Rong'an's residence.