Seeing Xie Zhichan wearing the hairpin, Princess Yongtai said, "There is a separate peony garden in my mansion. Now is the season when all flowers are in full bloom. Ladies and young ladies who like peonies can go and have a look. If you see it today, you will have to wait until next year."

The female relatives all agreed. Some of them came for the first time this year and wanted to see something new, so they followed the servants who were leading the way.

Later, some people who wanted to bring honor to the Princess's Mansion also followed one after another.

Xie Zhichan had never seen such a grand scene in his previous life. He had only seen it on the screen. It was not vivid enough through the screen, so he thought about going to see it.

Pei Yi was originally going to go with her, but he suddenly had to go to the bathroom urgently, so he had to let Dan Feng push him there. When they returned to the flower hall, Xie Zhichan and Pei Jingyu had already been taken to the peony garden by a group of female relatives.

Most of the male guests in the flower hall went to the nearby horse ranch to practice horse riding and archery. Pei Yi couldn't squeeze into the group of female guests, and under the current circumstances he couldn't go riding and archery, so he had to wander around the garden outside.

After walking around for a while, I felt bored. However, the scenery everywhere was artificially trimmed. How could it compare to the magnificence of the vast alpine snowfields in the northern border?

Out of boredom, he let Danfeng push him to stop under a banyan tree and close his eyes to rest.

"Prince——"

Suddenly, he heard a clear female voice calling him. Pei Yi opened his eyes and saw a sixteen-year-old girl in green standing in front of him. She was wearing a pine green soft smoke silk long skirt. The hem of the skirt was embroidered with a white crane pattern, and the white crane that was about to spread its wings and fly made the girl look even more lively.

It was Concubine De’s sister He Ying.

Pei Yi was stunned for a moment. He remembered that He Ying was not wearing this outfit just now. She changed her clothes in a short while, which made him think that he had recognized the wrong person.

His momentary daze caused He Ying to misunderstand, and she thought that Pei Yi was fascinated by what he saw, and she felt very proud of herself.

The material of the dress she was wearing was given by the Imperial Concubine in the palace. Although she was young and did not have the charm of Imperial Concubine De, she was more delicate and charming. Putting on this soft smoke silk long dress embroidered with white cranes, she suddenly became unique among all the noble ladies today.

From the moment Pei Yi left the flower hall, she had been paying attention to the direction he left, and hurriedly went to the carriage to change into this dress before coming here.

She was going to wear this dress this morning, but her mother said it was too gorgeous and she should not steal the limelight from the host at the flower-viewing banquet at the Princess's Residence, so she only allowed her to take it on the carriage as a spare dress.

At this moment, she didn't care about so many things. Women dress up to please themselves. She just wanted to wear the most beautiful clothes and show them to the person she liked.

She even turned around in front of Pei Yi and asked with a smile: "Brother Nandu, does it look good?"

Pei Yi frowned. What was wrong with He Er? Wasn't his attitude bad enough this morning? She was actually getting close to him!

How dare you call him by his given name? Even the little fox has never called him by his given name!

He said coldly, "Miss He, please respect yourself. I have never had much contact with Miss He, and I have no personal relationship with the He family. Miss He, please call me the prince."

He Ying pursed her lips, tears welling up in her eyes. She felt wronged and said, "Brother Nandu, I know it was the Emperor's brother-in-law who forced you to marry Xie Zhichan. She is just a vulgar girl who grew up in the countryside. How can she be worthy of you? Don't worry, when there is a chance, I will ask my sister to plead with the Emperor and ask the Emperor's brother-in-law to write you another imperial decree of divorce!"

Pei Yi felt that the word "divorce" was extremely harsh, and his tone became even colder: "Second Miss He, please stop talking nonsense and destroying the relationship between me and the Crown Prince's wife. Ayuan played the River Map and Luoshu and won against His Royal Highness the Crown Prince today. None of the noble ladies in the capital dared to challenge her. She is a rare and intelligent woman. Even Her Royal Highness the Princess praised Ayuan for her great talent. She is the leader among the noble ladies in Kyoto today, and she is not unworthy of me. She married me to bring good luck, which is too high for Pei. I, Pei Yi, will only have Ayuan as my wife in this life, and I will never take a concubine. Second Miss He, please be careful with your words!"

When He Ying heard Pei Yi's last words, she felt that her dream of love was completely shattered. She couldn't believe it and said, "Brother Nandu really likes a woman like Xie Zhichan? She can only play some magic games, but she can't knit or embroider, and she knows nothing about playing the piano, chess, calligraphy, or painting. She has never learned any female virtues or cultivation. What's so good about her?"

Pei Yi said coldly: "In Pei's heart, she is better than Miss He Er. Pei Yi reminds Miss He Er again that I am not familiar with you, so please call me Prince Pei."

He Ying had never been looked down upon like this before. The cold tone chilled her heart. She became so angry that her face turned red and she ran away crying.

Pei Yi looked at He Ying running away sinisterly, thinking of the "divorce decree" she mentioned, and thinking of the contract he had made with Xie Zhichan, he felt irritated and thought to himself: Divorce? He would never divorce the little fox in his life!

He closed his eyes and cleared his mind of distracting thoughts. After just a moment of silence, he heard the voice of the uninvited guest again.

"Tsk tsk tsk, the prince really doesn't know how to be gentle with women. My aunt is a delicate flower after all, and she has deep feelings for Prince Pei, but the prince is willing to make her cry."

The man walked a few steps to Pei Yi. It was the second prince, Prince of Qin, Li Jiao.

Pei Yi just felt that the He family was too annoying. As soon as one left, another came, like flies.

He sneered and said to the King of Qin: "I am not as sentimental as the King of Qin and I do not love to help the poor, so I only take one scoop out of the three thousand rivers."

Li Jiao choked at this, and suddenly felt that Pei Yi's mouth was really annoying! Can we continue chatting today?

Although he had not married a wife after he established his mansion, he already had six concubines. This matter was even impeached by the censor of the prince's party in the court.

Concubine De used the excuse that "Jiao'er was just a little too sentimental and took pity on those poor and lonely women, so he brought them into the palace to take care of them," and thus Emperor Jingde fought back against the impeaching censor.

This matter caused quite a stir in the court.

Pei Yi deliberately brought this up at this time, which was an embarrassment to the King of Qin.

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