The Xianyun Review will be held in the afternoon tomorrow and will last until late at night, so today will be relatively leisurely.

Literati and poets would visit their close friends on this day, reciting poems and writing poems to compliment each other. Needless to say, distinguished guests with official status and titles were much more reserved. They stayed in the elegant pavilions prepared in the manor and used the rare quiet time to communicate.

Emotions. Because of the reputation and status of the Fourth Prince, these people do not need to worry about the crows in Taige. It is undoubtedly safer and more private than in Beijing.

Pei Yue seemed to have no desires and desires. After having a light and delicious lunch in the courtyard, he took Pei Ning and the two maids to visit the manor.

After witnessing the knife attack with his own eyes, Pei Ning completely let go of his guard, his mature and elegant temperament gained a bit of agility, and he couldn't help but have a calm smile on his face.

The spring is bright, the scenery is beautiful, and the mountains and rivers are picturesque everywhere you look.

Taohua and Liangyan followed behind and whispered. The two were similar in age and status. Although they had different temperaments, they were both kind and simple people at heart, so they became closer.

Walking on the lakeside path, Pei Yue looked back and asked with a smile: "Sister, I will accompany you when you leave the court in the future, right?"

This is very common among aristocratic families. It is generally called a companion, and there is often more than one person. With Pei Ning's status, there will be at least four to six companions. Only with these loyal maids who have been with them since childhood

, she can control the inner house in her husband's house, otherwise it is easy to fall into an isolated and helpless situation.

The importance of room companionship is evident.

If it were in the past, Pei Ning would definitely not consider these issues. After Pei Yue broke up the forced marriage, she even made plans not to marry in this life, so as not to embarrass her third brother. Now that she understands Pei Yue's intentions, she does not

He would deliberately be pretentious and smile when he heard this and said: "She has been following me for so long, so it's up to her to see what she thinks."

Pei Yue nodded slightly. After all, his thoughts carry some marks from his previous life, which are slightly different from those of the powerful people born and raised in this world. Take the incident of Geng Yi as an example. Most powerful people will treat soldiers who made such mistakes.

If you drive them away, you will definitely not give them a house or a shop.

The two chatted about light topics and enjoyed the scenery along the way. Time passed quickly.

When the sun set in the west, everyone returned to the small courtyard, and not long after, Shen Danmo also returned.

During dinner, Pei Yue talked about King Yan's invitation to challenge Princess Pingyang. After hearing this, Shen Danmo frowned and said, "Pingyang is too arrogant."

Pei Yue said calmly: "Your Majesty and the concubine are extremely doting on her. The princes treat her like stars. It's not surprising that she has developed such a temperament. In fact, she is calmer than I thought. I thought she had killed her guard.

Behind the head, this unruly princess will ask people to call the imperial army to capture a bold person like me."

Shen Danmo looked at Pei Ning's concerned eyes and couldn't help but rolled his eyes at Pei Yue, and said helplessly: "You are the Marquis of Pei with a heavy army, and you are not a powerless pawn. Even if Pingyang can't swallow this, King Yan

I will also try to persuade her. But what I find a little strange is that King Yan’s attitude is unpredictable. Since he wants to get involved in your manor business, how could he show that flaw in front of you? "

Taohua and Liangyan were confused, and even Pei Ning didn't quite understand.

Pei Yue naturally understood the implication of her words. The so-called flaw of King Yan was probably that he did not calm the situation immediately after entering this small courtyard, but instead allowed him to kill Princess Pingyang's guards.

Putting aside whether King Yan had the ability to stop Pei Yue, at least he did not take any relevant actions, which meant that he hoped that the relationship between Pei Yue, Princess Pingyang and even the eldest prince would be completely broken.

It is said that because of Qibao Pavilion and the late Princess Lu, Pei Yue and King Lu were in a state of hostility. Even though he stated in front of Emperor Kaiping that he would not regret King Lu's move of sending people to Lingzhou to assassinate him, But both parties knew that this was just verbal submission, and there must be grudges in their hearts.

King Yan's move seemed redundant and inconsistent with the indifferent mentality he had shown over the years. He even revealed in front of Pei Yue his intention to intervene in the battle for the crown prince. Judging from his words and deeds, the fourth prince did not seem to be that kind of person. For a superficial and impulsive person, it would not be unfair to evaluate him by making decisions and then acting.

unless……

Pei Yue and Shen Danmo looked at each other and said softly: "What does the one in the palace want to do?"

Shen Danmo said with emotion: "Your Majesty is really unusual for the eldest prince."

Pei Yue thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "It's too natural."

Shen Danmo asked curiously: "Do you dare to shut out King Lu?"

Pei Yue smiled and said nonchalantly: "If he comes to visit me, I will certainly serve him well with wine and food. Other than that, he will get nothing, not even a promise."

The two of them were just playing riddles, leaving everyone else at the table confused.

The peach blossoms were ready to move, but Pei Ning hadn't spoken yet, so she naturally didn't dare to go past this eldest lady. Although this maid had a sweet and naive temperament, she was actually very smart and knew Pei Ning's position in Pei Yue's heart very well.

Pei Yue looked around at everyone, then took the initiative to smile and explained: "Your Majesty probably wants the eldest prince to take the initiative to make friends with me, the deputy commander of the Beijing camp. Compared with the old foxes in the court, I am younger and the city is not deep, and I rely heavily on your majesty's holy family. , so even if there were some grudges in the past, he would not dare to treat the eldest prince coldly. The fourth prince should know this, so he used today's opportunity to completely turn against Princess Pingyang, which would directly destroy me and the eldest prince. The possibility of making good friends.”

Shen Danmo added: "This matter was initiated by Pingyang on his own initiative. It had nothing to do with King Yan, and he didn't make any provocation. He just reacted a little slower when Pei Yue came back. This method only needs to be slightly concealed. , even His Majesty cannot find fault with him."

Pei Ning suddenly realized it. She looked at Pei Yue and Shen Danmo who sang and harmonized so well. She couldn't help but pursed her lips and chuckled, and then sighed: "That's it."

Pei Yue and Shen Danmo looked at each other in confusion. The two people quickly reacted and understood the profound meaning of the eldest daughter of the Pei family in just four words, and invariably looked away.

Pei Yue greeted everyone to eat vegetables, while Shen Danmo lowered his head and looked at the rice grains in the white jade bowl.

Pei Ning saw this and did not continue teasing. She looked at Pei Yue and asked, "Third brother, are you going to attend the cultural gathering tomorrow?"

Pei Yue suppressed the embarrassment in his heart and forced a smile: "Sister, do you want to go?"

Pei Ning nodded and said, "Then let's go together. Let's all go to support the talented lady Shen."

The reputation of the most talented woman in Kyoto has long been known to him, and of course he can't miss this opportunity now. However, Shen Danmo looked at Taohua who was sitting cautiously opposite and said with a smile: "Pei Yue, don't talk nonsense. Those two poems are from the spirit." After the state was passed back to Kyoto, the reputation of this talented woman from Lao Shizi has long been given to you, this maid."

Facing the eyes that suddenly focused on her, Taohua nervously swallowed the rice in her mouth, but forgot that there were two grains of rice on her lips, and just stared at them blankly.

Everyone laughed.
Chapter completed!