Reborn as a concubine's sister, the eldest lady went crazy

Madam Jing's young man can still meet from time to time? My God, he must be someone in the capital. I wonder which official, general, prime minister or minister? Hahahaha, the past stories of the elders are also very interesting!

Xu Yixing wanted to ask more, but he heard someone walk in from outside the hall. It turned out to be the ceremonial officer: "Madam Jing, Second Miss Xu, the auspicious time has arrived, you may join the banquet."

"Okay, we'll go then." Mrs. Jing replied gracefully, without any trace of sadness on her face.

"Let's go, Yi Yan." He stepped forward and took Xu Yixing's hand. The old and the young followed the ceremonial officer and gradually joined the group.

Palace banquets are always boring. All the procedures can be summed up in four words: listen to the emperor!

Whether it was singing and dancing to liven up the party, appreciating the moon and reciting poems, or eating crabs and drinking rice wine, everyone was not allowed to do as they pleased. They had to pay attention to the movements of the person above them at all times. Even if they were drunk, they had to keep an ear open to hear if the emperor was calling them.

Xu Yixing's seat was behind the female guests, which was a relatively free place. The only difference this year was that the Queen asked several young ladies to come forward to toast, including her.

It was called a toast, but in reality it was just a look. Girls like her who had already been engaged came out mainly to show their faces, while the other girls chosen to toast were all girls of official families of marriageable age, and they were going to marry the royal family members who had not yet been arranged to be married.

After the toast, Xu Yixing took advantage of an opportunity to slip out of the hall and headed behind the mountain where there were fewer people.

She was not worried about safety issues. After all, no one would show up and hit her with a club in such a public place.

"Second miss!"

Just as he reached Xiao Tan, Xu Yixing heard that familiar voice again. Why did Lu Anyuan follow him?

"Why are you running out here instead of staying at the banquet?"

"Didn't you run out just the same? I followed you here." Lu Anyuan said shamelessly. Let's not say anything to each other.

Xu Yixing had no choice but to hold Siqin's hand and use a handkerchief to hit the osmanthus tree by the pond.

"You've met so many people with my aunt today. Are you exhausted?"

"It's OK. Madam Jing is the one answering for me anyway. I just sit there and act like a vase."

"Hehe, how is your father doing? Did you explain it clearly?"

"No, there are too many people here, I'll talk about it after I get back."

Lu Anyuan didn't realize at all that Xu Yixing didn't really want to chat with him, and he kept trying to find topics to ask.

"Have you heard about what happened to Granny He before? You didn't do this, did you?"

Siqin was right beside them and was greatly surprised when she heard this: Granny He was the mother-in-law who delivered Aunt Liu. Did she do something wrong?

Xu Yixing looked at Siqin's face and felt a little embarrassed, so he instinctively denied it: "Without evidence, I won't admit it even if someone asks me again."

Lu Anyuan felt as if a warm current flowed through his heart. Yixing wouldn't tell others about such private matters, but she told me when I asked her. We are indeed one!

"I see!"

Xu Yixing looked at Lu Anyuan with a complicated look and said, "What do you understand? I'm asking you to shut up, do you understand?"

In order to prevent Lu Anyuan from delving further into the issue, Xu Yixing took over the conversation and began to ask: "Mrs. Jing said that you talked with the Fourth Prince for a long time this morning. What did you talk about?"

"It's just some personal matters between brothers, nothing more."

"Okay." Xu Yixing glanced at Siqin again and said, "You go back first. If the queen calls me later, I'll say I'm drunk and came out for a walk."

"Yes."

Lu Anyuan watched Siqin leave and asked jokingly, "Why can't you even trust your maid? You have to avoid her."

"Didn't you bring Ah Da here too?"

"I was afraid that you might have something to say, but it would be inconvenient for you to say it here."

Humph, everyone is like you, doing shameful things every day.

Xu Yixing looked up at the sky. The moon was hanging on the branches of the osmanthus tree. There were no clouds tonight, so it was a good day to enjoy the moon.

"Hey, let me ask you, if I was really kidnapped by bandits and didn't come back home for a night, would you still marry me?"

Xu Yixing and Lu Yuan were not standing too close to each other. She was standing on a rock beside the pond, and Lu Anyuan was standing on the gravel road leading to the pond, about two or three people's length apart.

Looking back at him from such a high position, I noticed the small osmanthus flowers falling on his head.

"I'm afraid I won't let that happen."

Without saying whether to marry her or not, Lu Anyuan just firmly denied Xu Yixing's hypothesis.

"Why are you so sure?"

"I have proved it once with my actions, you can trust me."

Xu Yixing was speechless. If it weren't for the Fourth Prince's plan this time, he might have been hanged to death without you noticing.

But she really couldn't say anything to refute it, and there was no need to make meaningless assumptions.

"Well, thank you."

"Between you and me, there is no need to say thank you."

It was a very familiar conversation. Xu Yixing remembered that he seemed to have said the same thing when he had just died and was reborn.

"Seventh Prince, why me? Yi Yan is actually very good, don't you have feelings for her?"

This should be the third time Xu Yixing asked, and in her heart it was also the last time.

"Why are you asking such a question again? Didn't I answer it last time?" Lu Anyuan glanced at Xu Yixing's serious expression. It seemed that what he said before was not straightforward enough.

"You have always been the person I have liked, long before you and Sun Ziyou got engaged, long before your sister saved me, and even when my father asked me if I had a favorite girl, I regretted not telling him about you, otherwise maybe you wouldn't have married Sun Ziyou and gone through all this."

This was the first time Xu Yixing heard that the emperor had previously asked Lu Anyuan if he had a woman he liked.

"You didn't say me, who did you say?"

Eh? Is this the point? Lu Anyuan was embarrassed and pursed his lips: "I didn't tell anyone, so my father asked my aunt to take care of it for me."

"Really? Then you're already twenty and you're just getting married. Doesn't that mean Madam Jing didn't pay enough attention to you?"

"No! My aunt did tell me about a few young ladies, but I rejected them all!"

"Oh! So that's it." Xu Yixing gave an inexplicable smile, turned sideways, and looked down at the moon in the water.

Lu Anyuan had no idea what she was thinking. He took two steps forward and asked in a low voice, "So you know what I mean, what do you think?"

"I see with my eyes." Xu Yixing did not answer his question. Haha, you want to ask me what my attitude towards you is, right? I'll tell you when I'm in a good mood!

"Hahahaha!" Lu Anyuan looked at Xu Yixing walking away and suddenly burst into laughter. Yixing, you are such a troublemaker!