With a delicate smile, the rough guy bows down for the beauty

Chapter 3 Poetry
Adding unmarried men and women to poetry is equal to a blind date!

Su Junning, who was still immersed in thoughts of fear of marriage just now, immediately showed a bit of reluctance on her charming face.

Before she could refuse, Cui patted her hand and coaxed her softly.

"Ning'er listen to what mother said, you will reach the age of Ji soon, and you are also at the age where you can talk about marriage. If you can meet the one you like early, you will save yourself many nights and dreams."

This long night with many dreams naturally refers to the marriage bestowed by Emperor Jianning.

Reasonable and well-founded, Su Junning could only nod in response.

Erqing felt that something was wrong again, so he asked, "The emperor intends to bestow a marriage, and all the sons of the Duke's mansion are settled, why do you still hold this poetry meeting?"

"The Duke of Rui's family name is Xu, and he has two sons and one daughter. The eldest son Xu Yuanhong is married, the second son is Xu Yuanche, and there is a younger daughter who is 16 years old and named Xu Sini. The wife of the Duke should be concerned about her daughter." Mrs. Cui explained.

After explaining this, Su Junning understood.

The mother and daughter talked for a while before Cui left from the Cangyu Pavilion.

After Mrs. Cui left, Su Junning took off her make-up, put on a light casual clothes, and went to the small couch by the window with her soft pillow in her arms.

Seeing the tiredness in her eyes, Nan Xu made tea and brought it over.

"Miss, if you really don't want to go, or pretend to be sick, or beg madam, you can avoid it." Nan Xu comforted softly.

But Su Junning shook her head, "Mother is right. I have to plan ahead. I have to go and see this poem. But I haven't been back to Beijing for a long time. I'm afraid I don't know many things. You can inquire about it later. Anyone will be in attendance."

Know yourself and the enemy, a hundred battles will never end.

After receiving the order, Nan Xu nodded and went to do it immediately.

Two days later.

The spring is still shallow, and the cool breeze is blowing slowly, carrying a chill.

In front of the majestic house with high walls and red tiles, the four characters of Ruiguo Gongfu are written on the wooden plaque with bronzing lacquer.

The flying dragons and phoenixes are majestic.

Two elegant and exquisite carriages stopped slowly in front of the mansion gate, but just looking at the frame of the carriages, one knew that the characters sitting inside must be extraordinary.

Today is the day when my wife holds a poetry meeting, there are all distinguished guests coming and going at the gate of the mansion, the guard at the gate dare not neglect, so he hastily greeted them with a smile.

Su Zhiyi supported the hand of the personal maid, Chu Yun, stepped on the stool, and slowly got off the carriage.

Wearing an ice-blue silver-patterned flower-painted fairy dress, paired with suet jade head and face, it is elegant yet luxurious, and it just matches her delicate and cool facial features.

But the look in those phoenix eyes was too distant and indifferent, making people dare not approach her.

The servant swallowed nervously, and hurriedly cupped his hands, "Miss Su."

Su Zhiyi nodded lightly, but did not hurry away, and looked sideways at the carriage following behind.

From the carriage at the back, a delicate maid with an oval face descended first, and lifted the curtain respectfully.

Immediately afterwards, I saw a woman in a begonia-colored long dress with golden ruyi and a hundred butterflies pattern, her waist was lightly swaying, and she got out of the car gracefully in lotus steps.

Su Junning's willow eyebrows are like black, and her red lips are like fire. Compared with Su Zhiyi's coldness, her facial features are more delicate and bright.

The little servant was a little dumbfounded, but he quickly reacted, and hurriedly lowered his head and cupped his hands.

I remembered that there was news in Bianjing two days ago that the youngest daughter of Su Yushi's family had been brought back. Don't think about it, it was naturally the beauty in front of me.

He turned sideways to make an invitation, "You two ladies, please come in. The banquet will be held in the back garden, and there will be maids to guide you when you enter the mansion."

Sisters Su Zhiyi and Su Junning nodded slightly, and then entered Ruiguo's mansion one after the other.

Following behind the servant girl of the Duke's Mansion, Su Junning looked at the furnishings in the mansion calmly.

She knew that this house was originally an empty general's mansion, but she did not expect that it was given to her brother-in-law by Emperor Jianning to live in it.

Every plant and tree in the courtyard is well taken care of, the scenery is beautiful, every step is a scene, and the servants who come and go behave well and politely. It can be seen that Xie, the mistress of the Duke's Mansion, is a capable woman who is very good at inner house affairs.

Not long after, at the gate of the garden where the banquet was held, the maid who led the way withdrew.

Many people had already arrived in the arena, but the two sisters agreed tacitly not to go in directly, but first looked around at the entrance, sizing up the people from all walks of life who came to participate in the poetry meeting.

Su Junning glanced around, but was really not interested.

I wanted to plan for a rainy day, but I didn't have a good target.

He slandered in his heart, and was about to say something, when Su Zhiyi beside him spoke first.

"Go for a walk by yourself, I'll talk to Mrs. Qin Wu."

The stumbling in Su Zhiyi's words made Su Junning subconsciously follow her gaze.

Among the crowd was Qin Wan's figure.

She is already married and will call her husband's surname to outsiders.

Su Junning regretted for a while, then nodded, "Yes."

Just as he was about to leave, Su Zhiyi paused again, then turned his head, "Restrain your temper, don't argue with others casually."

After saying this sentence, without waiting for Su Junning to answer, she left with her maid.

Nan Xu looked at Su Zhiyi's back, leaned over and whispered, "Second Miss still cares about you."

"What kind of brains." Su Junning poked the girl's head lightly, "It's just that she's out of the house, everything is good and everything is bad."

Anyway, she didn't feel any real concern.

Nan Xu rubbed her forehead and then fell silent.

Su Junning looked around for a while, and then she spotted an empty pavilion to the west.

"Let's go, let's sit over there, so as not to get mixed up with them, even if we want to be quiet."

Thinking back to her glorious achievements in the verbal battle against the Confucian scholars back then, the high-ranking ladies in Bianjing basically called her all over the place, and I am afraid that few of them would like to see her now.

Cui Shi also told her to be careful before she came, so today she should be obedient and restrained.

Nan Xu nodded without objection, and also saw that her young lady was not in the mood today, so she protected her from the crowd and went to the pavilion over there.

This place is really a good and secluded location. There is a rockery blocking half of the front, and the other three sides are planted with trees, so no one should come over.

Not surprisingly, she is going to stay here today to get rid of the poetry meeting.

But when you can't think of an accident, you often don't get what you want.

Just as Su Junning sat down, she suddenly heard the sound of a tree branch snapping behind her, followed by a muffled plop.

It seemed that something heavy had broken the branch and it fell from the tree.

The master and servant were startled, and hurriedly turned their heads to look at the thick elm tree not far behind the gazebo.

I saw a man in black clothes and a silver crown half-kneeling on the ground in a bit of embarrassment, with one hand on the ground and the other on his knee.

"Damn it, treat it like a donkey's liver and lungs with good intentions, and someday take your old nest along with it!"

The man recovered from the discomfort of falling from a high altitude, and opened his mouth with a swear word.

Su Junning, who was startled by him, also leaned back, in a defensive posture, and was stunned for a while.

Seeing that the man raised his head, as if he was scolding something on the tree, she also subconsciously looked at the tree.

But from this angle, she couldn't see anything.

(End of this chapter)