"What happened?"
"Jin Niang, Ming Yue?"
Qi Rongxuan was on the male guest's side. He hurried over after receiving the news. He didn't even look at the group of people blocking the entrance to the courtyard. He carefully asked people to get out of the way, squeezed in quickly, and hurried inside.
Before he even got close to the door, Xu Manjin, who was sitting on the chair, suddenly stood up.
"Qi Mingyue!"
Xu Manjin gritted her teeth and walked towards Qi Mingyue angrily. With everyone watching, she slapped Qi Mingyue on the face and cursed mercilessly,
"You bitch! You plotted against me!"
"Are you still not human?!"
She was so angry that she exerted all her strength and slapped Qi Mingyue so hard that the corners of her lips were broken.
Qi Mingyue's eyes filled with tears, her eyes widened and she spoke in shock,
"You, what did you say?"
"Sister Xu, what do you mean?"
"How did you..."
She looked helpless, confused, painful and aggrieved, as if she didn't understand what Xu Manjin was talking about.
Xu Manjin was so stimulated by her behavior that she raised her hand to slap her again. Qi Rongxuan, who had not yet recovered, stepped forward and grabbed her wrist, "Jin Niang!"
"let go!"
Xu Manjin was originally just angry, but the moment she saw Qi Rongxuan, she almost collapsed.
She raised her other hand, slapped Qi Rongxuan without hesitation, and pushed him hard: "Qi Rongxuan, you beast, your family, your family doesn't want me to come in, so to speak, I Xu Manjin was also taught by the court at a young age and has behaved himself for twenty years. What did I do wrong that made you ruin my innocence like this?"
"Jin Niang, Jin Niang, please calm down. It can't be Ming Yue. Everyone in the capital knows that she and Prince Chen are in love. There is no way she can do such a thing. Don't worry, I will give you justice. It's okay. Jin Niang, it's okay, trust me, I won't cancel our engagement because of this incident. I've been waiting for you for so many years, don't worry, I will never let you down..." For fear that Xu Manjin couldn't bear it, Qi Rongxuan also Regardless of whether the occasion was appropriate or not, or even what others thought, he hurriedly took her into his arms and tried to comfort her.
Xu Manjin beat him hard and refused to let him get close: "Let me go, let me go..."
"Miss! Miss, what's wrong with you?!" Behind them, the maid cried out in surprise. It turned out that Qi Mingyue couldn't stand the stimulation and fainted.
The eldest princess of Xiangyang looked at this scene, and Lian Jinchen, who was standing silently at the door with a gloomy face, felt a sharp pain in her head. If she had known that this kind of thing would happen today, she would have lost even a little bit of face. If I don’t stay, I will never send a message to Qi Guogong’s Mansion.
It's a pity that there is no regret medicine.
This incident happened in her house or at her birthday banquet. If she didn't deal with it reasonably and spread the word, wouldn't it mean that she bullied an orphan?
"Where's the doctor? Diagnose her pulse." Princess Xiangyang called out and glanced at several people.
"Since something has happened, no one should leave until we make it clear."
"Come here, wait for the masters to clean up."
After saying that, she turned around with the help of Grandma Zhou, and when she saw the group of spectators, she almost fainted.
She glared at Yin Mu Shang fiercely, was she really going to find trouble for her? Why are you running here with a group of people like this? I really can’t cover up this matter today even if I want to.
What's all this?
The eldest princess of Xiangyang was so angry that her chest was tight, but she had to greet the smiling Qing Hui with a smile on her face, "I'm going to make the imperial concubine laugh. The imperial concubine is here today, so why don't we come together to bear witness." Xu The mourning period has just passed, I cannot let anyone bully the Xu family girl under any circumstances."
"Okay, I'm also happy to help."
Qing Huan smiled brightly and raised her eyes to look at Lian Jinchen with the corners of her lips curled up.
When he met Lian Jinchen's gaze, Qing Hui's eyes quickly flashed with mockery, then he turned around and left with Princess Xiangyang.
Lian Jinchen looked at the direction Qing Hui turned and did not move.
He didn't miss her mocking look.
His heart was burning.
It seems that he has never been so embarrassed.
He recalled that day in the Garden of Strange Beasts, when he stood in front of her, and then when he raised his head, he saw her saving him.
He comes from a good family, has been smart since childhood, and has good looks, so he has always been a little conceited.
Be confident that you are doing the right thing, be confident that you can handle everything, be confident that you are capable and ambitious, and you will be able to secure the country and even dominate the world in the future.
He thinks he can do it.
But he didn't know when he started to realize that he seemed somewhat useless.
Very useless.
He is always being saved by others, by people who he considers to be weak, or who he doesn't like at all.
Then he fell into the scheme inexplicably, watching Qi Mingyue faint from sadness and pain, and seeing other people's good marriages ruined.
No one could blame him.
Even Qi Mingyue was so sad that she questioned Xu Manjin.
I won't ask him why he would do such a thing.
It seemed that he was definitely not the one who was wrong.
Is it really not him?
In the past, he would have been furious if something like this happened. He would have hated those who dared to plot and manipulate him behind his back, and he would have wanted to immediately pull them out, skin them and remove their bones.
But now, he suddenly began to question, was he so useless that this kind of thing happened?
Just like back then, how could he be so gullible and so gullible as to the ridiculous method of exchanging hearts for hearts?
She even wanted Qi Wan to give her heart as if she was possessed.
Why?
What was he thinking at the time? He felt that Qi Wan had to pay the price for the past sixteen years of upbringing. Even if Qi Wan really had to pay the price for this, it shouldn't be him. He shouldn't be the one to ask her. this way.
What happened to him?
Obviously when he was young, his mother-in-law happily said that she had found a good wife for him, and asked him to quietly take a look at Qi Wan and ask him if he agreed to marry Qi Wan, and he agreed.
He also felt that a generous and bright woman like Qi Wan was suitable to be a princess, and even suitable to accompany him to a higher position and a farther future.
When did it change?
It was during that battle that he was injured and disappeared. When he thought he was destined to die, he met Qi Mingyue and was rescued by her. He thought he had met a fairy, but the fairy left him without hesitation.
He has never forgotten it since then.
But so what?
He knew from an early age that he was chosen as one of the heirs. If he wanted to compete with other brothers and become the heir in the future, he must understand the responsibilities he shouldered.
It was obviously his responsibility to marry Qi Wan.
Why should he blame Qi Wan?
Just because Qi Wan and Qi Mingyue were in love, was the person he was supposed to marry the fairy he couldn't forget?
But even so, why should Qi Wan repay his life-saving grace?
It was he who owed Qi Mingyue his life, not Qi Wan.
So why did he become obsessed step by step and finally reach that ending?
Lian Jinchen was in a daze, so dazed that for some reason after such a ridiculous thing happened, he remembered that past event.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty?" The maid's shout interrupted Lian Jinchen's thoughts.
"Huh?" Lian Jinchen looked over.
The maid said cautiously: "The princess ordered me to take the prince to freshen up."
Lian Jinchen looked down at the messy folds on his clothes, feeling very embarrassed.
But not one ten thousandth as good as his heart.
He followed the maid away in silence, without looking back at the house again.
…
By the time the eldest princess of Xiangyang sent the guests to have lunch and returned to the flower hall where she was preparing to deal with things, it was already half an hour later.
The mistress of the Xu family was in poor health and was bedridden all year round. The person who came was Xu Manjin's younger brother Xu Chengyu, who was only fourteen years old this year.
The eldest sister was bullied outside. Even though Xu Chengyu was still a teenager and everyone present was more powerful than him, he still looked extremely protective, like a cub about to bite, standing in a protective posture. At Xu Manjin's side.
Qi Rongxuan looked worried, but Xu Manjin refused to see him since he went to change clothes.
It seemed that no matter what he said, she didn't want to listen anymore.
Qi Rongxuan had no choice but to see his sister who was still unconscious.
There was an imperial doctor at the eldest princess's house. Qi Mingyue was so angry that she fainted, but quickly woke up under the medical treatment.
But she seemed to be greatly stimulated, her eyes were always red, and her whole body was weak.
Qi Rongxuan couldn't even ask her what was going on.
The room was deathly silent.
Until the servants report,
"The eldest princess of Xiangyang has arrived, and the noble concubine has arrived——"
Everyone stood up and waited for the eldest princess of Xiangyang and Qing Hui to sit at the top of the table, as well as Lian Jinchen and Mrs. Dou of Fengguo Duke's mansion who had arrived late.
Mrs. Dou is Lian Jinchen's grandmother. She is nearly seventy years old and no longer goes out to visit guests.
Presumably Lian Jinchen personally sent someone to pick him up just now.
The eldest princess of Xiangyang also breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her old man coming.
Everyone sat down, but Mrs. Dou stared at Qing Hui for a moment before looking away.
Qi Rongxuan, who had just finished his salute and sat down, raised his head. When he touched Qing Hui's face, he stood up excitedly and looked at her blankly. But the next second, when Qing Hui glanced over, his eyes flashed. Feeling a secret pain, he apologized to everyone with a pale face, and then sat back down again.
Just the fingers tightly clasping the seat revealed the extreme unrest in his heart at this time.
He knew that it wouldn't be Qi Wan, it wouldn't be his "sister",
"Okay, since everyone is here, let's talk about what happened first." Princess Xiangyang knew that the process of the matter was no longer important, but there must be an explanation.
She looked at Lian Jinchen and said, "Prince Chen, please tell me."
"I would like to apologize to Miss Xu first. This is my fault, and I am responsible for it." Lian Jinchen stood up and saluted Xu Manjin, and then said: "I received a message from the maid, and clearly... Qi The girl asked me to meet, so I went there. When I arrived, I felt something was wrong with the smell in the house. I was worried that something had happened, so I went in to take a look, and then I was drugged, and what happened next. "
In fact, he knew that he and Xu Manjin would not have any substantial relationship in the future, but it was a fact that he was dismissive of Xu Manjin, and he could not shirk it.
The eldest princess of Xiangyang asked Xu Manjin again, "Miss Xu, what do you think?"
Xu Manjin has probably calmed down. Although his face is still pale, he is much calmer.
There was no fluctuation in her voice, and she calmly told what happened.
"I accompanied that one...I accompanied Qi Mingyue to change clothes. When we got to the wing, she said she felt a little uncomfortable and wanted to rest for a while, so I stayed with her."
"After a while, she said she had chest tightness and wanted to go out for some air. I said I wanted to accompany her. She said that King Chen made an appointment with her and asked me to stay and wait for her for a while. I passed out while waiting."
There seemed to be nothing wrong with what these two people said. Princess Xiangyang finally asked Qi Mingyue,
"What about you? Miss Qi."
Qi Mingyue's cheeks were still a little swollen after being beaten by Xu Manjin, and her eyes were red. She looked very pitiful, "I know Brother Chen... I knew that King Chen was coming, so I asked the maid to find him and wanted to meet him. When the maid came back, He told me that King Chen thought it was inappropriate to meet in the wing and asked me to wait for him in the garden, so I took the maid to the garden. I waited for a long time but didn't see anyone. I thought he was delayed by something, which was not good. I asked Sister Xu to wait for me and then went back, who knows..."
