Zheng Xiao Mistake: The Mistake of Rebirth Provoked the Cold Master

Zhu Zheng was also stunned and looked at Fang Xichen as if he was looking at a ghost.

"No, no, no, we don't need to get married, just get engaged." Fang Xichen continued, "I thought about it, and the ceremony will take three months."

"In the next three months, you just need to pretend to be eager to discuss marriage. I will go to your house to pay my respects first, and you can come and visit from time to time, and we can slowly discuss a wedding date in the distant future..."

Zhu Zheng interrupted his fantasy and said, "Master Fang, do you think engagement is too simple?"

Fang Xichen thought she was talking about the complicated etiquette, so she agreed, "Etiquette is a bit troublesome, but getting engaged to someone else is a big trouble!"

Whether it was troublesome or not, it was the Fang family's problem. Zhu Zheng was just joking and had no intention of really bringing good luck to others.

Fang Xichen thought it was feasible, and begged Zhu Zheng, "How is it? How is it? What do you think?"

To be honest, Zhu Zheng didn't think it was that good.

Even if she really wanted to get married for good luck, it would be better to get engaged to her second uncle than Fang Xichen. After all, her second uncle really didn't have many years left to live, while Fang Xichen looked like he could live for a long time. If they really got engaged, there would be endless troubles. There was no reason for her to rush into this mess.

Zhu Zheng evaded the question, "Well, I'll think about it."

Fang Xichen: "Think about it, take your time."

The two of them sat by the Broken Mirror Pond and chatted about other things for a while. Fang Xichen was mostly the one talking. He talked about his uncle, then his father, then his father, then his brother, then his brother, then Sanhong, and he went on and on about the entire mansion.

Zhu Zheng became distracted as she listened. The Book of Rites says, "If the mind is absent, one sees without seeing, hears without hearing, and eats without knowing the taste." She has been experiencing this every day recently.

It was all someone's fault, as he spent all day studying how to "please her". Thanks to him, now when she sees her favorite food or toys, she will think of his face first, and how he brought them to her with a gentle smile.

The more I think about it, the more upset I feel and I don’t want to do anything.

So he lived in an increasingly confused state, and all the sins were due to the bad karma he created.

As the sun was setting in the west, the fish in the Broken Mirror Pond gathered in a group to grab the flower petals, and occasionally a fish would jump out and spit out a few bubbles.

When Zhu Zheng was startled and came back to her senses, there was no one around her. Then she vaguely remembered that Fang Xichen seemed to have said that he wanted to go see the wild geese, and she seemed to have responded, but she couldn't remember what he said.

The autumn sun is not as bright as the summer sun, and it is especially cool in the shade. Grandmother only cared about appearance, so she prepared a summer dress for Zhu Zheng. She sneezed, stood up holding up her thin skirt, and prepared to move to a sunny place to bask in the sun.

After walking a few steps out of the rockery, the sun just started to shine on her body. Zhu Zheng looked up and sneezed again out of the blue.

The sneeze was half from cold and half from fright.

There is a small flower bed outside the rockery, with only a narrow bluestone path for entry and exit. A figure is standing on this path, wearing an official robe with silver rust and crimson purple. He has clear eyes and a straight figure, and is as tall and solitary as a green pine.

At this time of year, purple echinacea was planted in the flowerbed. The light purple color spread all over the ground, which matched his official robe very well.

The person who had just been criticizing her behind her back suddenly appeared, and Zhu Zheng subconsciously frowned.

She didn't frown and criticize him behind his back, she would even criticize him to his face.

Zhu Zheng secretly complained about him for not repenting. When she met him today, she became suspicious. This was the first time she had been out of the house in a month, and she ran into Rong Yan as soon as she came out. If she said it was a coincidence, no one would believe it.

Zhu Zheng felt a little embarrassed after frowning. She didn't know whether to greet him in a cold manner or just pretend not to see him.

There is a third option, which is for her to turn around and jump into the Broken Mirror Pond, swimming away gracefully.

Before Zhu Zheng could make a decision, Rong Yan had already taken two steps closer, his heavy gaze fixed on her face, which stayed on her face for quite a while.

"It's time to go back," he said.

Rong Yan's tone was very natural, so natural that it made Zhu Zheng a little dazed.

I even felt as if nothing had happened. It was just that we had come out from Tingxiaoyuan to enjoy the autumn scenery, and it was getting late, so he said, "It's time to go back."

Zhu Zheng was in a trance, and when she came to, she was a little angry and embarrassed, "I came here to see a man, and I'm in the mood, I don't want to go back."

Rong Yan said calmly, "Don't pick here."

Zhu Zheng was now very annoyed by his calm appearance and could not help asking, "Why? Where do I choose a husband and which family do I marry? Could it be that it is also up to the Grand Tutor to decide?"

"Yeah." Rong Yan lowered his eyes and looked at her, "It's under my control."

Zhu Zheng thought she had heard it wrong.

After a moment, she thought of how idle he was at the moment, and how he had followed her from afar, determined to take care of her. She also became very smart, and thought that the fact that no one in the Zhu residence had proposed marriage recently, might have been his doing.

Well, well, well, this big fox is no longer hiding his tail. It turns out that his previous appearance of not fighting or competing was just an illusion. Now he doesn’t hide things from people anymore.

Zhu Zheng raised her foot to leave, but Rong Yan blocked her way and refused to move, standing stubbornly on the path, like a long spike shining with cold light.

"Go away." Zhu Zheng pushed him angrily.

Rong Yan didn't move and let her push him twice. He raised his face and glared at him in anger, but he still blocked Zhu Zheng like a stone wall.

His eyes were clear, reflecting Zhu Zheng's angry face, and he suddenly said, "The wind is blowing."

This was almost nonsense. While they were talking, the ginkgo tree above their heads kept dropping leaves, which fell all over their shoulders.

Rong Yan seldom talked nonsense. Before Zhu Zheng could figure out what he meant, she sneezed again. When she lowered her head, she noticed that he had a lake blue cloak folded in his arms.

Rong Yan shook out his cloak and saw that Zhu Zheng seemed to be in a daze, so he said another sentence.

"You landed in Tingxiao Garden."

Of course Zhu Zheng remembered this cloak. It was made of brocade with a pattern of white cranes holding flowers. The shoulder tassels were decorated with butterfly shell mica, and they were carved with butterflies and small kites. The hood was rolled with a circle of fluffy white fox fur. She loved it at first sight.

The day Rong Yan brought it back was around the beginning of July, and it was very hot. Even though she liked it tight, she broke into a sweat just after trying it on.

At that time, Zhu Zheng looked forward to the cooler weather every day. To express her love for it, she even said, "I will wear it every day in the fall, even when I sleep and take a bath."

"I don't want it." Zhu Zheng didn't mean to take it. "You bought it anyway, so keep it for yourself."

Rong Yan was silent for a while, "Okay."

Zhu Zheng watched him fold the cloak neatly on the front and put it into his arms.

Now that I know his dark quirk, he always collects things related to her, and I don't know what he does with them in private.

"Give it back to me!" Zhu Zheng frowned and said, "I want it again."

Rong Yan raised his eyes and tilted his chin to indicate, "Put it on."

He shook the cloak open again, and Zhu Zheng did not hesitate any more. She turned her back and put it on obediently. The weather was really cold, and if she caught a cold just to save face, she would be the only one to suffer.

She put it on quickly. When Rong Yan wanted to tie the laces, Zhu Zheng blocked his way with her hands and lowered her head to fend for herself.

Rong Yan's hand paused in mid-air for a moment, and seemed to touch her hair.

After just a brief touch, before Zhu Zheng could react, he had already withdrawn his hand and backed away to an appropriate distance.

It was also at this moment that Zhu Zheng saw clearly that the burn on the back of his hand had not healed yet and had formed a red scab.

Before Zhu Zheng could say anything else, Rong Yan turned around and left.

He came just to give me some clothes...

Zhu Zheng looked at Rong Yan's back in confusion...Only then did she realize that there seemed to be a small blue flower pinned to the side of the ribbon behind his hair crown.

Before I could see clearly, he had already walked away.

She stood there for quite a while, until Rong Yan's figure completely disappeared. Zhu Zheng came back to her senses and suddenly forgot what she was going to do when she wanted to leave the flower garden...

But she didn't want to stand there stupidly, so she simply walked in the opposite direction of Rong Yan.

As the autumn wind started to blow, Zhu Zheng didn't want to stay any longer and prepared to go find Fang Xichen to say goodbye.

Qiyan Garden is very big, and it took half a day to find it.

Zhu Zheng felt a headache coming over her, perhaps because of the wind blowing by the lake.

So she put on the hood of her cloak, and when she covered her head with it, something rolled out of the hood and got caught in her hair.

She reached out and took it off.

It's a moon orchid.

With curled yellow stamens and light blue petals, it is a moon orchid that looks just like the one in Rong Yan’s hair crown.

It's small and doesn't seem to be prepared to be discovered.

"He is a piece of wood without a mouth. He deserves to be alone!"

Zhu Zheng was startled by the voice behind her.

Zhu Zheng turned around and was startled again, "Master Fang, where have you been? How did you become like this?"

"My brother did a good thing." Fang Xichen's clothes were half wet. He wrung out the hem that was still dripping with water and continued, "Just now when I was sitting there with you, I saw a person on the other side of the lake. He looked a lot like Fang Shouqian."

"In the morning he was still stubborn and said he would never come, but now he heard from somewhere that the girl was coming, and after looking around but couldn't find her, he went back."

"What girl?" Zhu Zheng was a little confused. "Who is your brother looking for?"

"Hehe." Fang Xichen laughed evilly. "I tricked him out when he was drunk. He was not as skilled as others in the horse farm before, and was knocked off the horse by a girl in red. He has been thinking about her ever since. He has been coveting her for many years, but he didn't even dare to say a word. Recently, I heard that she just broke off the engagement, and I was anxious like an ant on a hot pot."

"I was wondering who he was waiting for after all these years. I couldn't help but scold him for being a dumb mouth..."

"I hit his sore spot, which made him so angry that he pushed me into the Broken Mirror Pond, hahahaha."

Zhu Zheng exclaimed "Ah?" She only had an elder sister who was always kind and gentle to her, and she had never seen such a bold and decisive brotherhood.

Fang Xichen seemed very happy, but then suddenly changed his expression and asked in a serious tone, "A Zheng, where is my Peony?"

Zhu Zheng: “Hmm?”

She subconsciously touched her hair and found that there was nothing between her temples. The peony flower that Fang Xichen had inserted in her hair was gone.

"Maybe... it fell off?"

"Did it just fall into the Broken Mirror Pond?" Fang Xichen took out a big wet red flower from his arms and shook it in front of Zhu Zheng.

"I saw it just as I fell into the water. This is my peony. How did it fall into the Broken Mirror Pond? Tell the truth now!"

Zhu Zheng pursed her lips and said simply and clearly, "I didn't throw it away."

"Really?" Fang Xichen was skeptical. He noticed the flower Zhu Zheng was holding and asked, "Whose Yuejianlan is this?"

Zhu Zheng was startled, "This was... picked up."

Fang Xichen was puzzled, "Why are you picking up other people's flowers?"

Zhu Zheng was speechless when asked. At this moment, she had roughly understood the situation. Her mind drifted to someone unconsciously. She lowered her head and stared at the orchid in her hand, muttering, "Yeah, what to do..."

"A Zheng, you really didn't throw my flowers?" Fang Xichen was still struggling, "What do you think of my previous proposal? It's okay if you don't agree. We still have to be friends. Don't be embarrassed to tell me."

Zhu Zheng lowered her head. After meeting Rong Yan, she now felt that this proposal was actually a good idea.

Rong Yan was not someone who gave up easily. But if the marriage was already concluded, given his personality, he would definitely not bother to continue to linger about the unknown.

Three months is enough time for people to figure out many things, and maybe they will feel relieved.

Zhu Zheng blurted out, "Okay."

Fang Xichen: “Ah?”

Putting Yue Jianlan into his sleeve, Zhu Zheng raised his head and said, "Okay, I've thought about it."

"We're engaged." She said calmly, "Only for three months. After three months, no matter who is most anxious, no one can propose marriage again."

"Really?" Fang Xichen didn't expect the situation to take such a sudden turn. He happily turned around on the spot and imitated the mooing of a cow and the bray of a horse.

"Okay! Ah Zheng, you are so loyal! If you need anything in the future, just ask me for help. Even if I have to work like a slave, I will do it without hesitation! Let's form an alliance for three months, and become... uh... sworn brothers. Once the three months are up, I will definitely not bother you anymore!"