Ningyuan.
The night was already dark, and the Chengyang Hou Mansion was silent.
Ningyuan was a little lively at the moment.
Hong Mei and Qing Xing were guarding the door outside the yard. They had eaten just now and their stomachs were a little bloated. The two sisters were laughing and eating in the yard, and laughter could be heard from time to time.
In the room, Xu Wanning and Pei Heng exchanged cups.
Unknowingly, not only two jars of pear blossoms were drunk, but all five jars were drunk.
The wine was not strong, but it was still wine, and the two of them were a little dizzy.
When people are dizzy, they talk a lot.
Xu Wanning held up the cup and looked at the face with red lips and white teeth against the candlelight. She thought about how many young ladies this face had fascinated, "Back then, at the Haitang Poetry Club, no matter where I went, everything I heard in my ears was It’s the voice of those noble daughters talking about you.”
He was as bright as the bright moon, and she was like an unknown wild flower on the ground. If something hadn't happened behind Pei Heng, she would never have had the chance to sit with him and exchange cups.
No, even if nothing happened to him, thinking about her past life, she would have nothing to do with him until her death.
What went wrong that made two people who had never known each other become...
Xu Wanning said: "I didn't expect to become drinking friends with you."
Drinking friends are referred to as drinking buddies.
Drinking buddies are also friends.
Pei Heng drank a glass and filled it with Xu Wanning: "Did you also discuss me back then?"
Xu Wanning shook her head: "How is it possible? I am just an ordinary businessman's daughter. At that Haitang Poetry Party, I don't know who was blind and wanted to invite me to..."
boom!
It was like a thunder exploding in Xu Wanning's mind.
Xu Wanning suddenly remembered that Pei Heng said last time that the Haitang Poetry Club was a trap set for her.
The wine glass in his hand fell on the table, and the wine inside was spilled.
Pei Heng looked at her solemn expression and knew that she had figured it out, "Have you figured it out?"
"The person who took me to the Haitang Poetry Club at that time was Wei Wei, the second young lady of Duke Wei's mansion." Xu Wanning murmured.
Mrs. Wan, the mistress of Duke Wei's palace, is Wei Wei's grandmother and Du's aunt.
She and Wei Wei met by chance half a month before the Haitang Poetry Festival. Later, Wei Wei invited her out many times to drink tea and enjoy flowers. Yes, Xu Wanning did not doubt that he was there and came as promised.
So much happened.
Wei Wei has not shown her face since then.
It was as if the two people had never known each other before.
Looking back now, Wei Wei's date with her was full of calculations.
Xu Wanning smiled sadly: "You are indeed right, I am stupid."
Pei Heng stretched out his hand, patted the back of Xu Wanning's hand gently, and comforted: "You are not stupid, it's because they are too bad."
Qingxing came in hurriedly, "Miss, it's not good."
Pei Heng immediately retracted his hand, and this scene happened to fall in Qing Xing's eyes.
"What's wrong?"
Xu Wanning wiped the corners of her eyes.
Qingxing's mind was filled with images of Pei Heng's hand on the back of the lady's hand, until Xu Wanning called her again: "Qingxing."
"Miss." Qing Xing came back to her senses and pointed outside and said, "Mrs. Side is here and said she wanted to come in to see you."
"Let her go." Xu Wanning didn't want to see Chen Mianmian.
"Sister is outside to stop her, but Mrs. Xi insists on coming in, and she can't stop her." Qing Xing said anxiously.
Hongmei's voice came over: "Mrs. Side, the young lady is still eating."
The sound of messy footsteps came from far to near.
Pei Heng immediately stood up, turned sideways, and hid in the inner room.
Xu Wanning: "..." That's where she sleeps.
Qingxing hurriedly arranged the dishes and wiped the table clean.
Chen Mianmian came in.
Xu Wanning sat at the table, drank the wine in the glass, and looked at her coldly: "Mrs. Side is so elegant, will you come to have dinner with me?"
Chen Mianmian looked around, as if looking for someone. Xu Wanning looked at her eyes and immediately guessed her purpose.
Except for Xu Wanning, there was no one else in the room.
Chen Mianmian immediately smiled, "Yeah, I have a bad appetite recently and can't eat. Xiliu brought me a bowl of sour soup from the kitchen. I ate more than half of the bowl of rice, and then I realized that the sour soup was pickled fish. The soup, no, I put down my bowls and chopsticks and came over to eat. Well, this is the taste. An Ning, I'm not polite."
Chen Mianmian sat down, right opposite Xu Wanning, where Pei Heng had sat before.
Qingxing looked at Xu Wanning, Xu Wanning nodded, and Qingxing immediately brought a set of clean dishes and chopsticks.
"Do you want to drink?" Xu Wanning raised the wine bottle and asked Chen Mianmian.
Chen Mianmian pushed the cup over, "With such good food, of course I have to drink."
Xu Wanning poured Chen Mianmian a drink.
Chen Mianmian looked at the empty jars at her feet and said, "Aning has a really good drinking capacity. He drank so much alone. If you weren't the only one in the room, I would have thought it was two people drinking."
Xu Wanning put down the wine glass: "I drink the wine I bought. I drink more or less. Madam Side, do you have any objections?"
In other words, do your shit.
Chen Mianmian: "..." She smiled coquettishly: "No objection, I'm afraid that if you drink too much, it will hurt your health!"
"Thank you for your concern, Mrs. Side, but I suggest you pay more attention to yourself. The problem of poor appetite can be big or small, but don't drag it on, otherwise it will cause some serious illness."
Chen Mianmian: "...A Ning is really good at joking."
After drinking a sip of wine, his stomach was churning again. He always wanted to vomit, but couldn't vomit it out. Chen Mianmian suddenly lost his mood, "Aning, you eat slowly, I will go back first."
Before leaving, Chen Mianmian still kept her eyes on the inner room for a long time. When she walked to the door, Xiliu reminded her to be careful of the steps, and Chen Mianmian withdrew her gaze.
Qingxing patted her chest: "I finally left. Fortunately I didn't find him."
Xu Wanning took a sip of wine.
Not found?
No, Chen Mianmian discovered it.
It could be seen from the expression on her face when she sat down.
Pei Heng had been sitting for a long time. Before Chen Mianmian sat down, Pei Heng had just stood up. The stool should still be warm.
Chen Mianmian's later words were also testing Xu Wanning. She already suspected that there was a fourth person hiding in the house.
Xu Wanning entered the inner room.
Pei Heng was already lying on her bed and fell asleep with her head tilted.
Xu Wanning was speechless: "..."
This man is really rude, should he regard her as a brother or a sister. She was hanging out with people outside, while he was inside dreaming about Duke Zhou.
Hongmei followed in and saw this scene, "Miss..."
"Clean up the west wing. I'll sleep there for the night." Xu Wanning turned around and left.
I really just slept in the west wing for one night.
Chen Mianmian came out of Ningyuan and looked back.
The stool she had been sitting on was still warm.
The red plums and green apricots were all outside, but after entering the house, Xu Wanning was the only one, which meant that that person had been drinking with Xu Wanning.
Hearing her enter, the man ran away.
If you don't feel guilty, why run?
Running away proved that Xu Wanning and that person had something secret in their minds.
A smile gradually appeared on Chen Mianmian's lips, and Xi Liu looked a little scared: "Madam, what's wrong with you?" He came in a hurry, came back in a hurry, took a sip of wine, and Mrs. Fang didn't eat any fish.
Chen Mianmian smiled: "It's nothing. My father and my mother have been back for a while, right? I miss them a little. Let them come and see me."
