Seeing his mother getting so angry, Ye Chengkui gradually realized the seriousness of the situation.
Logically speaking, he should have no contact with the Hua family from now on, but Hua Rujin is also a victim, and he has become increasingly unable to let go of her recently.
Even though she has all kinds of faults, I have completely pretended to be her in my heart.
After thinking for a moment, he suddenly had an idea and persuaded with a warm smile: "Didn't my mother just say that this kind of thing depends on our own destiny, so why bother with it."
He originally wanted to rescue Hua Rujin, but he aroused Qin Wanrou's dissatisfaction.
"You kid, now I'm the one who cares about everything."
Seeing his indifferent expression, Qin Guanrou felt more and more something was wrong, and hurriedly asked: "Cheng Wei, tell me honestly, do you still have concerns about Rujin's child?"
She was a little worried, and suddenly realized that her son was biased against that girl, and even wanted to retaliate deliberately, so she quickly scolded: "Although our family is not a prominent family, it is still a scholarly family. If you don't care about Rujin,
, you shouldn’t cause everyone to misunderstand, the reputation of the girl’s family is the most important.”
She had suffered a loss in this regard back then, and she did not want her son to be resentful because of some old incident and deliberately do something to ruin someone's innocence.
The more she thought about this aspect, the more she felt that this was the case, and she did not allow her son to explain any more, which would lead to long nights and many dreams, so she said categorically:
"Since our two families are currently in the provincial capital, after the Chinese New Year, I will find a matchmaker to go to the flower house in person to finalize the marriage. Otherwise, you will not see each other all day long. The second lady of her family
How can it be inappropriate to spread the word about the elder brother-in-law and the younger brother-in-law?"
Ye Chengguan saw that his mother changed her mind so quickly. Even if her mother had some prejudice against him, he was willing to bear the grievance.
He didn't believe that Hua Rujin was just teasing him intentionally that night, so he decided to follow his mother's wishes and prepare to go to Hua's house to propose marriage.
He endured the joy in his heart until the Yuan Festival. Early that morning, he personally prepared a generous gift and prepared to meet Na Nizi before his mother went to Hua's house to propose marriage.
Accompanied by Hua's family, Hua Rujin felt the warmth she had never felt before for the first time during this New Year.
She was very satisfied with this.
The only fly in the ointment is that since the quarrel with Ye Chengguan on New Year's Eve, he seemed to have disappeared for half a month.
Even though the two families were not far apart, he never took the initiative to visit them.
But early in the morning on the Lantern Festival, Prince Ning Zhu Zhiye came to his home.
Zhu Zhiye prepared gifts for the whole family, and after chatting with Hua Junnian, Cai Baiwei, his wife, and Mr. Wei, he happily invited Hua Rujin to watch the lantern festival outside the city.
Knowing that Wu Mu Ning had returned to Beijing, Hua Rujin couldn't resist his warm invitation, so she had no choice but to take a few little ones out with him.
Sitting quietly in the carriage, Hua Rujin remained silent from beginning to end, quietly watching Prince Ning amusing himself with some small diced beans.
Zhu Zhiye noticed that she seemed a little unhappy, and then he came back to his senses and asked cautiously: "Xiao Hua'er, you are only half a month old. Why are you depressed? You are taciturn, but what happened to you makes you unhappy?
thing?"
"Nothing."
Hua Rujin responded casually, thinking that he was still staying in Jiangxia City, and asked with a confused look: "Why didn't His Highness return to Beijing with Miss Wu and stayed alone in Jiangxia City?"
Zhu Zhiye smiled playfully: "Of course I can't worry about you. I followed Wu Suantou to the gate of Jinling City, but thinking that you were still in Jiangxia City, I turned back."
After a pause, the smile on his face gradually turned bitter: "It's Ye Chenggui who thought more thoughtfully than me and actually brought your family to the provincial capital."
"Your Highness has been out for a while. It's time to return to Beijing early so that the imperial concubine will not worry about you."
Hua Rujin felt extremely frightened by his kindness.
"I have said that I will take you back to Beijing with me."
Zhu Zhiye smiled and said, "Did you forget what we agreed last year?"
"this"
Hua Rujin had a bitter look on her face.
It was just a casual comment at the time, and I never thought he would take it seriously.
Hua Youen fearfully approached her and signaled in a low voice: "Sister, sister, we can't go to the capital."
She was afraid of being snatched away by Luo Chuhuai.
Zhu Zhiye looked puzzled: "Why can't you go to the capital?"
The two sisters looked at each other, remained silent, and did not answer.
Ye Chengguan took Ting An to the Hua family's house and learned that Hua Rujin had gone with King Ning to watch the lantern festival outside the city. He was filled with disappointment for a while.
After asking Ting An to hand over the prepared gifts to Hua Junnian, he went straight back to the mansion.
When she saw Qin Wanrou in the yard hurriedly ordering people to count the gifts that would be collected tomorrow, she felt angry.
Not wanting to make his mother sad, he silently walked around the boys and went directly back to his room.
Qin Wanrou saw something was wrong and followed her cautiously.
Seeing her son packing up official documents and files in front of his desk, Qin Wanrou asked cautiously: "What's going on? I just heard from Ting An that you were going to Hua's house. Why are you back so soon?"
"There are some official matters that need to be dealt with urgently."
Ye Chengguan casually found an excuse to excuse himself and prepared to go out.
"Why are you so anxious about official matters? Tomorrow I have to go to Hua's house to propose marriage. Is there anything more important than this?"
Qin Wanrou felt that her son was deliberately prevaricating her, and she suddenly had a bad premonition in her heart. She asked solemnly: "Cheng Gu, before the Chinese New Year, my mother asked you, but you never talked to me.
Tell the truth, tell me honestly today, are you still jealous of what happened back then, so you have been deliberately teasing Rujin, wanting to take revenge on her?"
Ye Chengkuan couldn't bear to close his eyes: "Yes, she is indeed not worthy of entering my Ye family. The reason why I keep her by my side is just to sympathize with her."
As soon as he finished speaking, he walked away with a long stride.
Qin Wanrou felt increasingly unhappy.
The engagement was annulled back then, which was indeed an annoying thing, and she herself didn't even get out of that shadow for a long time.
It's just that now both mother and son understand the cause and effect of this incident, and they should no longer transfer their hatred to the victims of this incident.
She would never believe that the son she had raised would be so petty and vicious.
If nothing else, if this matter spreads, it will have a great impact on his official reputation.
She couldn't just watch her son do stupid things.
By the time she chased him out the door anxiously, Ye Chengguan had already disappeared without a trace.
"What should I do?"
Qin Wanrou looked at the betrothal gifts that had been carefully counted in the yard, and stared at the outside of the government office, seemingly at a loss.
The assassins hidden in various places in the government office felt secretly happy when they saw Ye Chengkui going out alone. After making some gestures, they followed him in the direction he left and chased after him.