Xu Jingxi rushed after him: "Your Majesty, please stay! Please allow me to explain!"
Huo Yuxin said directly: "No need!"
In desperation, Xu Jingxi stepped forward and grabbed his shoulder: "Prince! You..."
Huo Yuxin turned around and kicked him.
The two of them started fighting at the gate of the garden.
Although Xu Jingxi also participated in the martial arts examination, he was by no means Huo Yuxin's opponent. Besides, he did not dare to fight back. He only retreated step by step and said: "There is a misunderstanding about this matter. I want to see the princess. Prince, please
You ask me to see the princess!"
Huo Yuxin ignored him, and after beating him neatly, he took back his hand and straightened his sleeves: "Get out of here!"
He didn't strike hard, but he didn't strike lightly either. Xu Jingxi gritted his teeth and said, "I want to see the princess."
Huo Yuxin looked at him coldly, Xu Jingxi forced himself to take a step forward, "Your Majesty, please let me see her!"
The two exchanged words silently, and after a long while, Huo Yuxin said, "Come in with me."
He took him directly to the nearest courtyard. The hall door was open, and Huo Yuchu was kneeling on the blanket in the hall, making tea with slow movements.
Xu Jingxi was overjoyed and took a step forward: "Princess!"
Huo Yuxin sat aside and said coldly: "You have a quarter of an hour."
Xu Jingxi opened his mouth.
But he also understood that it was impossible for Huo Yuxin to leave like this, so he gritted his teeth and said, "That was indeed what I said, but I have never said it in front of others..."
He explained the situation at that time and his subsequent changes in mood.
Huo Yuchu only raised his eyes to look at him when he heard what happened that day, and then lowered his head to make tea again.
Xu Jingxi finally finished speaking with difficulty and looked at her anxiously.
Huo Yuchu handed his brother a cup of tea, then stood up, walked to him, and said slowly: "I asked you to come in because I want to prove that my family is not blind... but the divorce is a foregone conclusion."
Xu Jingxi suddenly raised his head.
She looked calm: "It doesn't matter what you think. What matters is that now everyone knows that you don't like me, so this marriage must be withdrawn. I am the majestic princess, and behind me stands the Supreme Emperor.
The Queen, the Emperor, the Prince Rong, the Princess... If I marry someone who everyone knows looks down on me, how will their face be saved?"
She paused: "So, do you understand?"
Xu Jingxi's lips trembled, but he could not speak.
She raised her hand: "That's all I have to say, Mr. Xu family, please come back."
When Xu Jingxi exited, he was devastated.
He seemed to have seen another side of her, calm and calm, and decisive. However, he also saw that she chose him just because it was suitable. She... didn't like him. At least now, she didn't like him.
.
But even if the two of them are in love now, won't she break off the engagement?
Won't.
She will only feel more uncomfortable than she is now. But even if she feels uncomfortable, she will only hide it in her heart, and her appearance will still be perfect.
She was taught by the Supreme Empress, and she knows her identity and what she represents.
Indeed, this is not a trivial matter. If she does not break off the engagement, everyone will only laugh at her for having such a noble status but not being liked by her husband. Then, where will the teachings of the Supreme Empress be placed?
He sat in the dark for a long time.
When I returned to Xu Mansion, it was almost midnight.
Xu's father was still waiting for him in the study. Xu Jingxi whispered: "There is no way to change the relationship."
Father Xu nodded silently.
After a long while, he said: "The matter has come to this, and there is no other way. Prince Rong's palace is different from other places. If I punish Qilang, they will not feel relieved, so I will punish you..."
"Father!" Xu Jingxi interrupted: "But I still have a chance."
He raised his red eyes and looked at him pleadingly: "According to the princess's temperament, she has canceled the engagement and will not engage in another engagement for at least half a year. I still have a chance! As long as I am in this half year,
If I can win back her heart and everyone's impression, I can still marry her, father!"
Father Xu was slightly stunned.
After a while he asked him: "Are you happy Princess Changle?"
"Yes." Xu Jingxi nodded heavily: "My son likes her very much now. Please give me half a year!"
Xu's father was silent for a long time: "If you think about it, go ahead! As a father, I won't interfere."
The next day, Xu Jingxi went to find Huo Qijing.
He said it very directly. He wanted to save it, so he wanted to ask him to help him find the most complicated and difficult thing to do.
Xu Jingxi is the prodigy of Jinke. If he goes through the qualifications in the Hanlin Academy step by step, it will definitely be difficult to improve within half a year. However, if he uses the status of martial arts to get ahead, then it is not impossible to make meritorious deeds.
It must be said that his approach was in line with Huo Qijing's temperament.
After Yan Shiyue heard this, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
But Huo Qijing did not give him an answer on the spot. Not long after Xu Jingxi returned home, Xu Qi hurriedly came to him: "Brother! It's not good, that Cheng Qi is pestering my sister-in-law again! I heard people say that he pulled
I picked up a whole cart full of all kinds of flowers and went to the garden!"
Xu Jingxi's face darkened.
He is the popular "Yuan Shangyuan" and is considered a leader among the younger generation in the capital, but he is not the only Yuan Shangyuan.
Cheng Qi is one. The difference is that he is the top scholar in the trade department, the second-class Jinshi in the Jinshi department, and the twentieth in the martial arts examination.
It may not be as "orthodox" as him, the top scholar in the Jinshi Department, but Yan Shiyue is in the Ministry of Commerce, so the weight of the number one scholar in the Trade Department in Prince Rong's Palace will definitely not be inferior to that of the Jinshi Department!
Moreover, Cheng Qi was also the second prince's reading companion, and the group in the study loved to go to Prince Rong's Mansion. Therefore, he and Huo Yuchu had known each other since childhood, and it would be no exaggeration to say that they were childhood sweethearts!
The only thing he is better than Cheng Qi is that the Xu family is a scholarly family, and their ancestors have been great scholars for several generations. This should make him very popular with the Queen.
Xu Jingxi's face looked extremely ugly.
He never felt that he was inferior to others, but Cheng Qi had been trying to please Huo Yuchu a few years ago. He always liked Huo Yuchu without hiding it, and he wrote countless love poems. Even he never doubted his sincerity.
After what happened to him... Cheng Qi took advantage of the opportunity and walked in. Will Huo Yuchu be tempted?
Xu Qi comforted him: "Brother, don't think too much. I think my sister-in-law must like you. She is such a good person and will not fall in love with you."
Xu Jingxi's face turned even worse.
However, Huo Yuchu didn't like him!
At this time, Yan Shiyue and Meng Hui were also discussing this topic in Wannian Garden.
If you ask Yan Shiyue to see it, the tall one is more in line with her aesthetics, but her daughter obviously prefers the elegant one.
Meng Hui said: "What's the hurry? The cake is not that big, just pick it slowly."
Yan Shiyue nodded.
Okay, you are the mother and you have the final say. When she got engaged, she said the rice cake was not big yet, but Meng Hui glared at her: "How big is big! It's too late to get engaged!"
The two mother and daughter were talking when someone from below called up: "Master Yan Shi, Tu Yan, please see me."
Yan Shiyue went to see him.
Yan Shitu has become more and more calm over the years, but in front of her, his smile is still somewhat open and hearty.
He handed over the job of raising pearls a few years ago, but he still traveled all over the world. He just came back from Jiangnan and brought her two cars of things. He heard that she lived in Wannian Garden for a long time, so he gave her
She sent it over.
The two were sitting and chatting when her maid came over and asked, "Master Yan, what is this?"
Yan Shitu scratched his head and said, "This is a very popular one in Jiangnan...what is it called?"
Yan Shiyue had already taken it and asked with a smile: "What's it called?" Before she finished speaking, she saw the words on the box clearly, and her expression suddenly changed. (To be continued)