The summons was arranged quickly. Auntie Gu's steward made a special trip to the Li family to deliver the message.
Wan Qing sent the steward away with a gift in three steps, and rushed back with a hurried look on her face: "Hurry, hurry, hurry!"
Li Xiaonan and Yu Ting stared at the bewildered Wan Qing.
Awu felt that she was not suitable as a man to stay in the inner courtyard, at least not when outsiders came. He had just avoided it, and had just come in one step ahead of Wanqing. He didn't know what was going on. Looking at Wanqing's appearance, his reaction was very...
Quick, he shouted:
"What are you going to do? Run away quickly? The government is coming to get you?"
"Don't cause trouble!" Yuting pushed Awu away and pulled Wanqing to rub her back, "Breathe hard! Take another breath."
"What happened?" Awu stretched his head and asked Li Xiaonan.
"Princess Wei asked me to go see her."
"Huh? She said soon? Too late? I'll take you there on horseback! I'll lead the horse, and you come out quickly! Don't worry, it's not too late!" Awu was about to rush out, but Yuting raised his leg to stop him, "Sit down! I'll let you
Don’t cause trouble!”
"You can't go!" Wan Qing took a breath, lit Awu first, and arranged the first thing.
"Why..."
"Shut up!" Yu Ting interrupted A Wu's dissatisfaction.
"You have to prepare quickly!" Wan Qing patted her head, her heart in a mess.
Li Xiaonan held her chin up and looked at Wan Qing.
"You have to be well prepared!" Wan Qing clapped a few times with her right hand, then switched to her left hand.
"Just tell me, let's prepare how you say, right? A-nan? Bah! That's my mouth! Right, girl?" Yuting patted her mouth.
"Have you met Princess Wei?" Li Xiaonan asked Wan Qing.
Wan Qing frowned, thought carefully, and shook her head.
"How about I go look for pomegranates? Pomegranates can't do it. She waits outside the second door all year round. My third cousin's mother-in-law's family and the Pili family have a somewhat indirect relationship. How about I go back and ask my third cousin to take me to look for them?
Pili." Wan Qing frowned and considered.
"Ask Shi Gun, he will definitely know." Yu Ting gave an idea.
"Shi Gun is serving the prince, how could he know?" Wan Qing rolled her eyes at Yu Ting.
"The prince must know!" Yu Ting clapped his hands.
"The whole house is looking at the prince's face, including the prince and the princess! You don't understand. You have to ask Pili about this. I'll go change my clothes!" Wan Qing was pulled by Li Xiaonan when she passed by.
"Even if you meet Pili and you ask the princess about this and that, will Pili tell the princess?" Li Xiaonan asked.
"That's for sure! Alas!" Wan Qing sighed, "What should we do? It's such a big thing."
"It is indeed a big event. It is almost the last step for you to marry into the prince's palace." Yu Ting sat next to Li Xiaonan.
"This is the last level? What's the point of the previous one? Why do I feel like she didn't do anything?" Awu squatted next to Yuting.
"It's all my fault!" Wan Qing sat on the other side of Li Xiaonan, feeling very annoyed, "When I first learned about this, I should have thought about asking about the princess's temperament and taboos, what she likes and doesn't like, and there are several old ministers in the industry who do it.
The old man who has been serving the princess for many years!"
"Let me tell you, you are careless and careless, and you still don't admit it!" Awu seized the opportunity and quickly taught Wan Qing a lesson. She had been trained so hard by Wan Qing this time.
"I didn't expect that she could really..." Wan Qing swallowed it in mid-argument.
"I didn't expect that either." Yuting poked Wanqing and suppressed his voice.
Li Xiaonan glanced at Yuting from Wanqing.
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The meeting place was arranged by Aunt Gu at the Xiuman Clothing Shop where the Gu family's female relatives often go.
Li Xiaonan's car stopped at the side door of Xiuman Clothing Shop, which is dedicated to entertaining distinguished guests. The housekeeper who delivered a message to Li's house stepped forward and opened the car curtain herself.
Li Xiaonan got out of the car, smiled and nodded to the steward, and Wan Qing nervously curtsied.
Yuting and Wanqing followed Li Xiaonan into the side door, but Awu was stopped.
There is a corridor inside the side door, and there are attics of large and small houses on both sides. The steward took Li Xiaonan into a very small courtyard closest to the side door.
Yuting was stopped at the entrance of the courtyard.
The small courtyard has three female walls, and on the other side is a spacious five-cornered greenhouse with either doors or floor-to-ceiling windows on all five sides. The greenhouse is extremely bright.
Princess Wei was sitting in the armchair where she lived, with a serious look on her face.
Aunt Gu stood next to Princess Wei, looking out and fidgeting with the embroidered clothes piled on the long table next to her.
Li Xiaonan stood at the door, hesitating whether to say hello before entering the house, or to say hello after entering the house. Aunt Gu threw down the embroidery in her hand, smiled at Li Xiaonan and said: "Miss Li also came to see the clothes, it's really
skillful."
Li Xiaonan was stunned by Aunt Gu's words and quickly suppressed her smile and curtsied.
"Miss Li, come in and talk." Aunt Gu stepped aside to let Xiaonan Li in.
Li Xiaonan entered the room and bowed down to Princess Wei.
Princess Wei looked Li Xiaonan over and asked directly: "Before you came here, the prince gave you an explanation? How?"
"I never told you."
"Is there no explanation, or is there nothing to explain?" Princess Wei then asked.
"I didn't tell you." Li Xiaonan paused and then said, "The prince probably doesn't know that you want to see me."
Princess Wei snorted vaguely, "If he knew, what would he tell you?"
"Tell me not to worry, it's okay, he is here." Li Xiaonan thought for a while and told the truth.
"No wonder you feel so at ease." Princess Wei's expression was not so good.
"I feel relieved because he doesn't know."
As soon as Li Xiaonan finished speaking, a somewhat panicked announcement came from outside: "The prince is here!"
Gu Yan strode straight in.
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Gu Yan did not know about this meeting arranged by Aunt Gu.
For breakfast, there was a plate of water chestnuts they had picked newly from Houhu, which was very sweet. Gu Yan asked Shi Gun to bring some to Li Xiaonan.
When Shi Gun arrived at Li's house, Li Xiaonan and the others had just gone out. Shi Gun put down the water chestnuts and returned to the imperial city to reply to Gu Yan. Gu Yan heard that Li Xiaonan had gone to Xiuman Clothing Shop, and immediately thought of meeting his eldest sister when he went out in the morning. He asked casually
After that, the eldest sister said that she would accompany her to Xiuman Clothing Store to pick out some clothes!
Gu Yan immediately rushed out of the imperial city and went straight to Xiuman Yifang.
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Princess Wei stared at Gu Yan who rushed in.
Aunt Gu met Gu Yan and raised her eyebrows: "What are you doing here!"
"I don't have much work today, so I have nothing to do. I'll pick out clothes for you and my mother-in-law." Gu Yan said with a smile, "Miss Li is also here, what a coincidence."
"Are you worried about me or Miss Li?" Princess Wei asked with a cold face.
"How can there be..." Gu Yan rolled his tongue and slurred what he said next, "It's eldest sister. I promised to give eldest sister a lot of replies. I happened to be free today, so I hurried over to pick out clothes with eldest sister.
"Why are you standing here? Let's sit down and talk."
The old lady hurriedly moved the chairs and stools over.
"I arrived early and have already picked out my clothes, so I'm going to leave first." Li Xiaonan lowered her head and eyes, not looking at which one was which, and said goodbye in a circle.
"Shigun! Send Miss Li back." Gu Yan shouted.
The stone rolled outside the courtyard gate.
Seeing Li Xiaonan leave the courtyard, Aunt Gu asked Gu Yan angrily: "What are you doing here?"
"Did you arrange this?" Gu Yan asked.
"Go back and make a noise!" Princess Wei stood up.
"Humph!" Aunt Gu rolled her eyes at Gu Yan, stepped forward and helped Princess Wei out.
Gu Yan followed closely behind, "Has Mom picked out some clothes? Where is eldest sister?"
