On the long street, a man was riding a horse, gradually approaching.
Lu Wenze walked to a few steps away from Pei Jinting, sighed softly, pulled the reins, and glanced across Pei Jinting's body to look at his empty back.
After a moment, he got off the horse and nodded to Pei Jinting,
"Captain Pei, what a coincidence."
Uncharacteristically, Pei Jinting did not give Lu Wenze a cold face, smiled, and nodded to Lu Wenze,
"It turns out to be Mr. Hou. Mr. Hou is not on duty at the Infantry Division, so what are you doing here?"
In the past few days, there have been rumors in Beijing about the marriage between the third son of the Pei family and the eldest daughter of the Gu family.
Pei Jinting, one of the main characters, went to work at the Yamen without any hesitation after his marriage leave.
I was not affected by that incident or the various rumors at all.
Lu Wenze secretly looked at Pei Jinting, not concealing the objectivity in his words.
"I wonder what kind of major case happened in the Princess Mansion, and you actually bothered Governor Pei to take action personally?"
"I dare not take it seriously." Pei Jinting noticed Lu Wenze's gaze and his smile became deeper and deeper,
"I am just doing some small things like patrolling the streets. I am not as important as Lord Lu. I have other important matters and I don't have time to waste them. I wonder if Lord Lu has anything else to do?"
Lu Wenze narrowed his eyes and instinctively told him that Pei Jinting was weird.
This man never has anything nice to say, and if he gets the chance, he will be ridiculed.
Today, his attitude was so gentle, as if he was in a hurry.
He knew that Princess Rongyang held a banquet today to calm down Ayuan's shock due to the incident at the Imperial Mansion last time.
There were no female relatives in the Jingyi Hou Mansion to attend the banquet. He came here just because he wanted to see A Yuan.
Did something happen to the princess's mansion?
"I recently got some fine wine and would like to invite Governor Pei to taste it. I wonder what the Governor is busy with recently?"
Pei Jinting put on a perfect smile and said, "The Marquis should know what I am busy with."
He raised his eyes to look at the distant and dull sky, then turned his head and looked at Lu Wenze calmly, with just the right amount of innocence in his tone,
"Oh. I'm sorry. I forgot that the Marquis has not yet married a wife. I don't know what a newly married groom should be busy with."
Lu Wenze pursed his thin lips tightly and squeezed the reins in his hands, wanting to pull it over and smash Pei Jinting's smiling face.
Pei Jinting ridiculed his opponent and was in a good mood, but he felt it was not enough and said sincerely,
"Speaking of which, even His Majesty is looking forward to having a glass of Marquis's wedding wine. I wonder when my brother-in-law will welcome the second sister of the Gu family into the house?"
"Brother-in-law can't wait to get a glass of your wedding wine."
As Pei Jinting spoke, there was an inexplicable smile on his lips.
Lu Wenze noticed that Pei Jinting looked at him and smiled again.
Pei Jinting will never do anything good if he smiles.
Lu Wenze was horrified by this sight, and a feeling of offended anger surged through his heart.
With a sullen face and gritted teeth, he said,
"Pei Jinting, don't be too proud."
Pei Jinting smiled, turned half sideways, and met Lu Wenze's gaze innocently and fearlessly.
"The success of life is little Dengke. How can this governor be dissatisfied?"
Pei Jinting's tone of "What can you do to me?" completely made Lu Wenze angry.
His eardrum felt like it had been pricked by a needle.
Seeing the tiny smile in Pei Jinting's eyes, he felt inexplicably dazzling. He touched his lower lip coldly and said,
"Captain Pei, please don't be too proud. I heard that Duke Cheng'en is very dissatisfied with the Governor's marriage."
"Don't let A-Yuan get in trouble when the time comes."
Lu Wenze felt complicated when he thought about the news he had received, and couldn't help but use it to stab Pei Jinting.
Pei Jinting's eyes were as dark as the deep sea, and he smiled politely,
"Master Hou, you should worry about yourself. Don't always look at things you shouldn't look at, or your eyes will get rotten."
The irony inside is obvious.
The sting made Lu Wenze turn over on his horse with a cold face,
"Since the Governor has important matters to attend to, Lu will take his leave."
With Pei Jinting here, he had no chance to see Ayuan, let alone talk to her and remind her to be careful around Pei Jinting.
How about finding another chance.
Pei Jinting didn't care at all about Lu Wenze's rudeness and watched him leave with a smile on his lips.
Then, he lowered his eyes, and his long eyelashes covered the dark light under his eyes, making it difficult to see his true expression clearly.
Pei Jinting narrowed his eyes, turned around and told He Zheng calmly,
"Have people keep an eye on Lu Wenze. Also, take back all the people who keep dogs in the Princess Mansion."
At Cheng'en Palace, Gu Qingyuan was led directly to the courtyard where Pei Jinting used to live in the palace.
Mrs. Cheng'en was worried that Pei Jinting would cause a big mess in Princess Rongyang's mansion regardless of her actions, so she absentmindedly called the doctor over, and then hurriedly left the outer courtyard to find Duke Cheng'en.
Gu Qingyuan glanced around at the unfamiliar furnishings around her, but did not move.
Instead, he found a bright place to sit down and waited for the doctor to come over and bandage the wound.
The doctor came over very quickly, moving lightly and quickly, and finished bandaging Gu Qingyuan from time to time.
The sun was setting early, the sky was glowing, and Gu Qingyuan also saw someone unexpected.
"Ayuan."
"Is your injury okay?"
Gu Qingyuan looked at the visitor with clear eyes and thanked her with a smile.
"It's okay to make my cousin worry."
Chen Zhao said, "Ayuan, you're welcome. Long time no see. You look great."
In her eyes, Gu Qingyuan's face was like a peach blossom, her eyebrows were like spring, and she didn't look like a frightened or injured person at all.
Gu Qingyuan smiled politely and said, "Thank you, cousin."
She should be surprised that Chen Zhao would come to visit her.
I heard that her health has not been very good and she rarely goes out.
Unexpectedly, she came twice and saw her twice.
Chen Zhao seemed to know Gu Qingyuan's curiosity,
"My aunt has something to do and has no time to take care of you. Please let me come over and stay with you."
So that’s it.
Chen Zhao smiled and said,
"In the past, I still thought about what kind of wife Jing Heng would marry. He is so lucky to have a bride like you."
Her voice was very steady when she said this, and she deliberately lowered her posture to compliment her. She quietly watched Gu Qingyuan's expression and continued appropriately,
"Jingheng was a bit reckless in the past, I hope Ayuan won't care about it."
"Ever since I got married, Jingheng has been alienated from me."
"Hey. He was not satisfied with my marriage at first, but I couldn't help it."
She met Gu Qingyuan's clear eyes, and a moving smile appeared on her pale face.
"But it's okay. I come back to my mansion to stay for a while every spring and summer. From now on, you can also live in my mansion."
"The mansion is much closer to the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division."
Gu Qingyuan was slightly startled, thinking she heard wrongly.
Chen Zhao's posture seemed to be speaking for Pei Jinting wholeheartedly, but it also showed her intimacy with Pei Jinting at all times.
There's something strange about her.
However, in Chen Zhao's expression, she inexplicably thought of Pei Jinting's favorite person.
She smiled lightly, half-closed her eyes, and said softly,
"Where you live depends on your husband's arrangements."