Those words come from a person like Pei Xingyuan who doesn’t understand style.
Mi Xiayao did not intend to pay attention to this man this time, but returned to Yuelai Building to find the shopkeeper and said: "If Dong Gu comes here later, just tell her that I am coming to Yuelai Building today, and there will be something in the study."
I prepared the order and asked her to prepare it in advance."
"yes."
When Mi Xiayao finally finished getting ready in Yuelai Building, she walked out of Yuelai Building and walked on the street with Pei Xingyuan.
"When we get to the wing later, if the Dali Temple Master says anything, just smile and don't talk."
Pei Xingyuan thought for a while and told her this in advance.
Mi Xiayao's mouth was well-known in Beijing for being able to offend people. He was not afraid that Mi Xiayao would offend the minister of Dali Temple, but what he was afraid of was that Mi Xiayao would offend another person in vain.
"I look like a person without emotional intelligence?"
When she heard this, she endured it for three seconds, and finally couldn't help it anymore.
The two of them just walked to the hotel box they had agreed upon, just quarreling and blocking each other.
As soon as the door was pushed open by Pei Xingyuan, the three figures in the room made them speechless.
"Come on Xiao Pei, we have been waiting for you for a long time. Miss Mi, hurry up and take a seat."
The Minister of Dali Temple sitting in the main seat is a middle-aged man, but he is slightly fatter and has a kind-hearted look on his face.
He waved warmly.
There are three people in this room, two of them are Dali Temple Qing and his wife, and there is another person...
"This is a girl from my wife's sister's family, her name is Chen Xi. She happens to be nearby today, so I asked her to come over and have a meal with me."
He Ke, the minister of Dali Temple, touched his beard on his chin and explained with a smile.
The smile on Pei Xingyuan's lips faded a lot. When he and Mi Xiayao sat down, he rarely had the forethought to leave the seat close to the woman to Mi Xiayao.
And he sat closely with Mi Xiayao.
Others may not think anything of this subtle seating layout, but He Ke's smile has also faded a lot.
When Mi Xiayao heard the name introduced by the minister of Dali Temple, she had to take another look at Chen Xi.
The contents of the last chat at Jubaoyuan Waterside Pavilion were still fresh in her mind.
"I have long admired Miss Chen's name." Mi Xiayao smiled slightly, but she did not show any inappropriate expression.
Chen Xi is not very pretty, and she seems a bit ordinary when thrown into the crowd.
When she saw Mi Xiayao greeting her openly, her reaction was not awkward.
"I have always wanted to meet Miss Mi before, but I didn't expect that the first meeting would be like this." Chen Xi raised the teacup at hand and toasted in her direction.
Pei Xingyuan had heard Mi Xiayao mention it before about the working environment of the Shangfu Bureau, and he did not expect that today, at this seemingly simple small dining table, he could still see Si Yi, the previous Shangfu Bureau.
It's hard not to think about it.
The man raised his eyes and looked at He Ke, the minister of Dali Temple opposite.
He Ke's wife saw that the relationship between the two women was not as confrontational as she had imagined, and her expression became confused for a moment.
The original purpose of this dinner was that He Ke, the minister of Dali Temple, wanted to introduce a girl to Pei Xingyuan.
The purpose is quite simple, it is to arrange one of my own people next to Pei Xingyuan, let my own people blow the wind, and draw Pei Xingyuan into my camp.
But he didn't expect that this boy Pei Xingyuan would actually pull out a woman and say that he only loved her.
Upon inquiry, he learned that the woman Pei Xingyuan was talking about was Mi Xiayao, who had been very popular recently. Out of curiosity and appreciation, he asked Pei Xingyuan to take her out for a meal.
The purpose of this change is mainly to see what the capabilities of this woman who can be personally rewarded by His Majesty with official positions are.
But before the meal was approaching, He Ke's wife told him with a mysterious face that she wanted to bring someone to the banquet.
In fact, at first, He Ke was thinking about what kind of woman his wife could bring.
But when he arrived at the banquet, he discovered that this woman was none other than... Mi Xiayao's predecessor in the current official position.
He suddenly had one head and two heads.
He doesn't want to offend Mi Xiayao at the moment, but he has Chen Xi's identity.
Although there is no clear conflict between her and Mi Xiayao, if you think about it carefully, this relationship is still quite awkward.
Therefore, this meal was quite helpless for He Ke.
For Pei Xingyuan, he didn't understand. He clearly said that he had a sweetheart. How could the Dali Temple Minister not understand his hidden meaning?
As for Mi Xiayao, she didn't have much idea.
What she heard from others may not be true, plus she had just experienced the preparations for Her Royal Highness the Queen's birthday.
In fact, she quite admired Chen Xi.
To be able to work for Wang Shangfu, who likes to be picky, there must be something special about him.
At this dinner party, everyone had their own concerns and chatted about other things, and finally got over this topic.
Mi Xiayao and Pei Xingyuan said they had something else to do first.
In fact, she didn't go anywhere, she was just waiting for Chen Xi to come downstairs in the hotel.
"He Ke...isn't going to change his mind. Is he still thinking about recommending someone to me?"
As Pei Xingyuan spoke, he carefully looked at Mi Xiayao's face and expression.
The other party was quite calm, but his bright eyes were staring at the hotel door from beginning to end.
"If you have doubts, just talk to the Minister of Dali Temple more and see what he means. Just by guessing like this, you can deduce later whether the Minister of Dali Temple is attracted to you."
Pei Xingyuan choked at her rather ridiculous words, "Ahem."
Before he finished coughing, the woman next to him suddenly brightened up and walked up.
"Miss Chen!" Mi Xiayao walked up in a brisk tone.
When Chen Xi saw that Mi Xiayao hadn't left, she was a little surprised, "Didn't Miss Mi just say something was wrong?"
"There are some things, but it's not convenient to talk about them here... Mainly, I want to ask Miss Chen if she is free for a while. Can we have some tea and snacks?"
Mi Xiayao looked at Chen Xi with crooked eyebrows.
In fact, after the gathering at Jubaoyuan that day, she went out of her way to investigate Chen Xi's background.
Only then did I learn that the other party was really having a hard time in the Chen family.
Chen Xi's mother was Mr. Chen's first wife, but she died of illness. Not long after, Mr. Chen said that his daughter could not live without a mother to discipline him, so he remarried to the first wife.
Without a biological mother, it is equivalent to having a stepfather. After the stepmother gave birth to a daughter, she was worried that Chen Xi would steal her daughter's good dowry, so she tried her best to get Chen Xi married as soon as possible.
But her stepmother never expected that Chen Xi, who had been working as a low-level servant at home for many years, had acquired a good craftsmanship, and when he entered the palace, he was favored by someone from the Shangfu Bureau and became a female official.