Raiders of the Duke and Duchess

Chapter 96

In the end, Xi Yu had no choice but to call Xi An back, and packed up by herself, and went to Dali Temple to report.

Before leaving, he suddenly thought of a gossip he had heard before, and when he was about to tell Ning Xiuyuan, he paused, thought about it, forget it, or... don't say it?Maybe it's fake?He didn't admit at all that he wanted to watch the excitement back then.

Master Qingyou of Dali Temple is the husband of Princess Wuyang. The two had a daughter, You Lingxi. His Majesty ordered her to be Princess Lingxi. She loved her very much and wanted to marry Ning Xiuyuan several times.

However, for one thing, Ning Xiuyuan never revealed the slightest possibility, even in public, he also bluntly stated that he had no intention of getting married in the past few years, but in fact, he had never seen Ning Xiuyuan with anyone A girl got close.

Secondly, at the beginning of last year, Princess Wuyang's body was not very healthy, and Princess Lingxi accompanied her to the temple to pay respects to the Buddha, but she never returned. Obviously, he did not take His Majesty's "joke" at that time seriously.

Instead, it expressed the attitude of the Ning family in a particularly ingenious way.

That's how it ended.

It's just that Ning Xiuyuan, who stayed behind closed doors yesterday, didn't notice that a carriage entered the city very low-key last night.

……

Even though everyone insinuated Ji Wuyan's position in Ning Xiuyuan's heart many times, Ning Xiuyuan really felt that it was because of the entrustment of the old lady of the Bai family, his own guard against Ji Wuyan, and out of wishful thinking. The purpose of investigating the secrets of the Ji family is why he paid so much attention to this girl.

That's why yesterday's sudden heartbeat made people confused.

But Ning Xiuyuan was never in the mood to escape. When he realized that he had completely different emotions and intentions towards this girl, he locked himself in the room and spent a whole night thinking about everything.

Once those things are figured out, it will be a moment of enlightenment, and the will will be bright, so that looking at the sun and the sky now, it is not the same mood.

When the old lady came looking for him, she saw him holding a painting scroll, frowning and shaking his head for a while, and smiling slightly with the corners of his mouth curled up for a while. She was startled, then delighted, and stepped forward to check it out. There was a big change in an instant, "What do you think she is doing?!"

The late Crown Princess, Shangguan Yuan.

Ning Xiuyuan slowly rolled up the scroll in his hand, handed it to Xi An behind him, and ordered, "Burn it."

Turning to look at my mother, pointing to the empty chair, "It's nothing. I got a little interested in painting this morning, but maybe it's because I've been unfamiliar with it for too long, and I don't know how to start painting for a while. Thinking about what the old man of the Lu family said before. The painting is very good, so I wanted to see if I could find some inspiration. You are also too sensitive...you are not a scourge."

The old lady breathed a sigh of relief, "You didn't even look at the portraits of the girl's family that I gave you before, but now you finally hold them, and it happens to be a deceased one, so I'm not afraid? I heard that Jiangdu County King Riri Getting drunk, Concubine Xian burst into tears when she talked about it with me. I thought something was wrong with this day, and after thinking about it, I probably understood... So I could only persuade. The matter of left and right did not fall on me. If you can say some comforting words, if it falls on me, I can't persuade myself."

Ning Xiuyuan smiled lightly, "You think too much. Not to mention that I don't have such thoughts, if I did, it would be Li Yuqi's turn."

The old lady snorted, "It's nice to say, let me ask you, why do you still collect money when a girl buys your house? How much money do you lack? Also, didn't you go out with someone yesterday? Let's go, what's the matter with you, you turned your head and let people go back, what's the fuss, shut yourself up without eating or drinking? How about becoming an immortal?"

"Just thinking about something," he said, understatement.

"It's those important family and country affairs again? I have always said that this country would be dead without you two, right? One by one... He is okay, at least he has a future, how about you? When are you going to give me a big fat boy so that I can look good in front of those old women?"

It seems to be stimulated somewhere.Ning Xiuyuan knew it well, poured a cup of tea and handed it over, "Didn't my brother give birth to you? If your sister-in-law and second sister-in-law heard what you said, they might have to bury you. Why, they couldn't give birth to you? "

"No!" The old lady scolded in a low voice, "That's the You family! The old lady of the You family has been sneering at me since the beginning of this year. No, Princess Wuyang came back last night, ah, she owes me that face." She was like tens of thousands of taels of gold, and asked me, does your third master have a daughter-in-law? This vision should not be too high, the girl in Yanjing City can't pick it up, I'm afraid I have to go outside the city to pick it up... "

Ning Xiuyuan lowered his head and laughed, then asked his mother, "You can't lose in the bickering, can you?"

"Naturally! Can I lose to her? A joke!" The old madam was in high spirits, and after humming, she scolded Ning Xiuyuan, "Is the question about winning or losing?! The question is, Wuyang is back, and so is Lingxi! At that time, you declined repeatedly. , let their family lose face, now if Lingxi gets married before you, our family's face will be gone!"

"Can you be angry?" Ning Xiuyuan shook his head. He really didn't understand these two old women. They are good sisters who have been quarreling all their lives, but they have been comparing each other for most of their lives. No one wants to lose. Go half a minute.

"Why not?!"

"Then how did you answer her?"

"Hmph! Answer?" The old lady raised her eyebrows slightly, "I waved the Nuanyu Ruyi in front of her, and told her not to worry about me, it was given to me by my future third daughter-in-law! Hmph! Did you Seeing her face, my eyes are straight!"

It turned out that he came to the door by himself.

Ning Xiuyuan took the teacup and sipped it, the corners of his mouth slightly curled up, imagining that this old kid found You's family early this morning, just to show off his Yu Ruyi appearance.

It's just a child's heart.

"You..." After finishing speaking, the old lady was sizing up Ning Xiuyuan's reaction. The first time he saw him smiling... well, if I had to use one word to describe it, it would be inexplicably... lingering.

Seeing her son with this expression for the first time, her heart moved slightly, and she tentatively said, "Yao'er. You just said that if you have that kind of thought, no one else will have anything to do with you. Is that what you mean?"

They're all smart people, so to speak.

Ning Xiuyuan looked sideways, raised his eyebrows, and nodded dangerously like a hunter who saw his prey.

He said, "Yes. So, since you like it, keep that Ruyi handle well."

(End of this chapter)