"It's so unfamiliar. I've never seen it before." The woman's maid said beside her.

"Madam, would you like me to invite that girl over so that you can get to know her?" the maid then asked.

The woman shook her head, "No need, she should be Master Mu's friend. Naturally, they have their business to come here, so why should we bother her?"

The maid nodded and said, "Madam is absolutely right."

The woman asked the maid again, "Are you ready for the poetry meeting?"

The maid said: "Madam, don't worry, everything has been prepared. The ladies who have received the invitations have all arrived in the private rooms on the fifth floor."

"We will serve the food and wine later and greet everyone. Once we have eaten and drank enough, we are in a good mood. Then, madam, you can go over and give them questions."

After hearing these reports from the maid, the woman nodded slightly.

"You ask the people we arranged in advance to pay more attention to see which of these girls are truly consistent with their words and deeds, and which are just fake."

"Character, talent, virtue, knowledge, and conversation must be written down carefully, understand?" she warned the maid again.

The maid nodded again.

The poetry meeting held every few years is just a form, or a bridge.

Competitions of talent and so on, to put it bluntly, are just drunkards who are not interested in drinking.

The real purpose is to select the best women and record them on the list for the reference of the royal family and the married princes in selecting concubines.

"Madam, please don't worry about these things now. It's still early. Let me massage your forehead first." The maid said.

The lady nodded, "It's okay, I don't know what's going on these days, but I have this headache again."

"You put some essential oil on me and push it first. After it calms down a bit, I will go to the poetry club. Now that I have gone, they are also restrained. Let them play by themselves first."

The woman lay down on the imperial concubine's bed.

Outside, Yang Ruoqing followed Mu Zichuan and passed by.

She found that the further upstairs she went, the better the environment became.

Well, there are layers of bamboo curtains over there, and there are people walking around inside. It's really artistic.

"Zichuan, where is our place to eat? I feel like we are not here to eat, but to see the scenery." Yang Ruoqing caught up with Mu Zichuan and joked with him.

Mu Zichuan said: "It's on the fifth floor. It's almost over."

The two of them went up to the fifth floor. After coming up, when they passed the door of a private room, they heard the sound of warblers and swallows coming from inside.

Neither of them paid much attention to it. It was normal for ladies in the capital to gather together.

"We're here." Muzichuan said to Yang Ruoqing.

Yang Ruoqing stopped and looked at the door that was pushed open in front of her, her eyes widening in surprise.

She let her feet lead her inside and her eyes swept over everything inside. Even though she was well-informed, she felt that her eyes were not enough at this moment.

"Oh my God, is this really a restaurant for dining? I really can't believe it." Yang Ruoqing said.

This kind of arrangement and decoration reminded her of the bamboo forest behind Zuojiazhuang last time.

At this moment, she and Mu Zichuan were sitting on the floor. The floor was obviously covered with soft carpets with special patterns.

However, this pattern and this touch feel like sitting on the ground covered with thick bamboo leaves in a bamboo forest.

The table in front of me is shaped like the territory of a big tree. The roots underneath the table legs are entangled and extending towards the small pool over there.

There are colorful fish in the small pool and there are pebbles on the bottom.

Then the top of the head has also been worked hard. There is no birdcage hanging, but occasionally you can hear a few birds chirping.

"How about it, doesn't it feel like eating here?" Mu Zichuan's voice reached her ears, and Yang Ruoqing came back to her senses.

Her eyes finally fell on him opposite.

"Eating here is such an emotional experience. It's wonderful! I like it!" she praised.

At the end, he added: "When Tang Yazi comes back from the hunting ground, I will definitely take him here to have dinner, so that he can feel this picnic-like feeling!"

Mu Zichuan was filled with joy when he heard the previous words.

But the last sentence made him feel a little uncomfortable.

How did this girl get there, do what she did, what she ate, and everything she saw, all thinking about Luo Fengtang?

Do you want to take him to experience it too?

This... is the kind of 'sharing' with someone you like?

He understands.

Because he did the same to her, but she gave her heart to Luo Fengtang.

Mu Zichuan smiled faintly, grabbed the bamboo leaf tea in the teacup in front of him and took a sip.

The bitter taste slipped from between the lips and teeth, all the way to the stomach, and spread in the bottom of my heart.

He is a person who is not even qualified to be bitter or resentful.

Soon, the food he ordered was delivered.

When Yang Ruoqing took a look, she liked them all. She moved her index finger and praised the restaurant and Mu Zichuan again.

Then, grab your chopsticks and start enjoying.

And the other side.

"Zi'er, have you really seen clearly?" Han Ruyi grabbed the maid Mei'er from the corner of the door of the elegant room and asked in a low voice.

Li'er nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "It's absolutely true, it's Mu Zichuan and Yang Ruoqing. The two of them entered the elegant room called 'Xiaoqiaoliushui' over there together."

"Small bridge and flowing water"?

Han Ruyi glanced at Yajian here, the anger in her eyes burning.

If I remember correctly, this place, including the elegant room called "Xiaoqiaoliushui", was recommended to Muzichuan by her.

During the Lantern Festival, she made a reservation here and wanted to invite Mu Zichuan to come here for dinner alone and then get in touch.

Knowing that he was a scholar and of noble character, she specially searched here, looking for elegant rooms one by one.

Finally, I fell in love with "Little Bridge and Flowing Water".

She felt that he should like the atmosphere in that elegant room very much, and she did so many things to please him.

How could he shirk it at that time?

One hundred favors, one thousand reasons.

What now?

I actually took another woman there to eat. After the meal, do I want to have a good time there for a while?

Jealousy burned Han Ruyi's reason to the point of collapse. She raised her feet and walked over there, but was grabbed by the maid Mei'er.

"Miss, what do you want to do?" Qi'er asked nervously.

Han Ruyi's face turned red, and she gritted her teeth and said: "A man and a woman alone, one of them is a married woman, I want to see how they can defend themselves!"

Are you going to make a fuss?

Qi'er became even more nervous and quickly grabbed Han Ruyi's arm.

"Miss, you absolutely must not do this," she said,
Chapter completed!