After leaving the gate of Ming's house, Yan Mingzhu found that Qi Jue was still holding her wrist.
"Your Highness, thank you for rescuing me just now. I'm fine now. Could you please release your hand, Your Highness?"
But Qi Jue didn't let go and just said: "Get in the car."
Parked at the door was a carved carriage with the word "Dingbei" engraved on it. It was Qi Jue's carriage.
"Your Highness, I really don't have any leisure and elegance today. I have to take my mother's coffin back to the Marquis Mansion and bury it in the Yuan family's ancestral grave so that she can rest in peace."
Qi Jue looked down at her, "In your eyes, I am a person who is too idle and unreasonable to make trouble?"
Just as Yan Mingzhu was about to answer, Feiyu came over and said, "Your Highness, Mrs. Yuan's coffin has been placed in the carriage at the back. There will be no chance of anything going wrong."
Qi Jue hummed lightly and emphasized again: "Get in the car."
Before Yan Mingzhu could speak, he added: "I will send you there."
"Your Highness, we are neither relatives nor friends. You have helped me a lot before. I really don't want to trouble you anymore. I can spend money to hire people to move the tomb. I don't dare to trouble Your Highness anymore."
This girl is really capable of making him angry with just a few words and an understatement.
But, no matter how angry he was, he couldn't get angry in front of her.
"If you don't want to go up by yourself, maybe you want me to carry you up?"
Feiyu: “!!!”
It's amazing, God knows what brave words he heard. Is this something that a little guard like him can hear without paying?
Yan Mingzhu noticed that Qi Jue couldn't listen at all and insisted on meddling in her affairs.
In the end, Yan Mingzhu got on the carriage by herself. Since someone insisted on being a free coolie, she was not stupid, so why should she refuse?
"Let's talk first. I didn't force Your Highness to help me move the grave. You had to intervene yourself. I won't pay for it."
Qi Jue was really going to laugh out loud at her, "If you are in trouble, why don't you come to me?"
"Your Highness is not like me, so how can I go to you for help whenever I encounter trouble? Besides, I have hands and feet, so I can solve it myself."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qi Jue suddenly leaned forward and closed the distance between the two.
Although the space inside the carriage was spacious, Qi Jue was too close, and the distance exceeded the normal range of friendship. Yan Mingzhu instinctively wanted to move back.
But before she could make a move, Qi Jue reached out and held her face.
"If you make yourself like this, do you think you can solve it by yourself?"
While speaking, he freed up a hand and gently touched the back of his head, "Does it hurt?"
The voice was low, with an undisguised softness, and it conveyed a sophistication that made Yan Mingzhu forget to avoid it for a moment.
"It's a small injury, and the doctor has already taken care of it. It no longer hurts."
Yan Mingzhu came back to her senses and stepped back to avoid Qi Jue's hand, but she couldn't help but think in her heart, no wonder so many girls in the imperial capital were crazy about this man.
Such a critical attack on beauty at such a close range is not something the average person's heart can withstand.
Yan Mingzhu couldn't help but think that although Concubine Zhuang was also a rare beauty, Qi Jue's appearance was far better than hers. Logically speaking, the child's appearance should be based on his parents' appearance.
But Qi Jue's height is a little too tall, and it's not like what could be born from the union of Emperor Zhao and Concubine Zhuang.
"Who was hurt?"
Yan Mingzhu came back to her senses, smiled, and said half-jokingly: "Your Highness is so aggressive, does he want to avenge me? But there is no need to bother Your Highness, Ming Xiang has already given them the fate they deserve."
Qi Jue frowned unhappily, "If you agree, I can prevent them from seeing the sun tomorrow."
It's just a poor Earl's Mansion. Qi Jue can find any reason to destroy the entire Pingchang Earl's Mansion in an instant.
If he can say it, he can do it.
Yan Mingzhu chuckled, "No need really, I can handle it myself. Your Highness, you should know my temper. I don't like others to interfere in my affairs."
"So, in your eyes, the Ming family is not someone else's?"
Of course it's not someone else, that's the person she loves most in this world, how can she compare with others!
But the truth couldn't be told, so Yan Mingzhu said tactfully: "Ming Xiang just helped me casually, with no other intention."
"You don't have any other intention, but you turned around and asked Ming Xingjian to marry you?"
How could she explain this? After all, the development of the situation at that time exceeded her expectations.
But before she could answer, Qi Jue said again: "Ming Xing Jian is not worthy."
Yan Mingzhu was amused by him and asked casually: "According to His Highness, even the eldest son of the Ming family is not worthy of me, who else can be worthy of me?"
Qi Jue subconsciously replied: "My king..."
Yan Mingzhu was stunned for a moment, and Qi Jue also regained his composure at this moment. He was afraid that he was going crazy. What was he doing!
Qi Jue stroked his forehead and said, "What I mean is that marriage is a major matter and should not be rushed."
Yan Mingzhu didn't care about this, because she had never thought about getting married. She didn't want to live dependent on any man. Although many people admired her in her previous life, no one really dared to marry her.
"You are still angry with me."
Yan Mingzhu didn't remember what happened yesterday at all, but the man mentioned it himself.
She was about to deny it when she saw Qi Jue take out a sandalwood box with carved birds from under the low table.
Under Yan Mingzhu's confused gaze, Qi Jue moved forward and said, "Excuse me."
"I've stopped being angry a long time ago, so there's no need to apologize..."
Before she could finish her words, the box was directly thrust into her hand, "What I sent out, I never took it back."
Okay, you'd be a fool not to accept a gift.
Yan Mingzhu opened it in front of him, only to find that what lay inside was a jade carving.
To be precise, it was a human-shaped jade sculpture. Yan Mingzhu picked it up and looked at it from side to side.
The whole body of the jade carving is crystal clear and white, with long hair reaching to the waist, and the corners of the skirt are carved into flying shapes. It is not very exquisite, and it does not look like the kind of carving by a famous artist, and this appearance...
"This jade carving couldn't be carving me, right?"
Qi Jue did not deny it, "It doesn't look like it?"
"It seems quite similar, but I rarely wear my hair loose, so this jade sculpture doesn't capture my essence."
Qi Jue replied calmly: "The first time I met you on the Royal Street, you were dressed like this."
At that time, Yan Mingzhu castrated Pei Zhuoran at Pei's house, and he was in the stage of escaping. Naturally, his clothes and grooming were not very tidy.
However, Yan Mingzhu did not expect that Qi Jue would still remember the scene that day.
She turned her eyes and suddenly thought of something, "Could this jade sculpture be carved by your own hands, Your Highness?"
Qi Jue clenched his fist and coughed dryly, "This is my first time, if you don't like it..."
If Feiyu hadn't said that the gift was not about the price but the thoughtfulness, and dignified His Royal Highness the North King, how could he have deigned to carve a jade statue himself?