The reborn sweet girl always wants to escape, but the abstinent prince hugs her and coaxes her!

Five days later, Mu Yi, the housekeeper of Mu House, received a message addressed to his Marquis.

The source is...the Xu Mansion next door.

Mu Rong opened the post suspiciously, and the small Juanxiu characters were exactly the woman's handwriting.

"Master Marquis, what's going on?" Mu Yi asked, seeing his Master Hou's face looking a little strange.

"Miss Xu held a banquet in Fanlou and invited me alone. She said it was to express my gratitude for the rescue of Shaohua Mountain."

Mu Yi secretly thought that Miss Xu didn't want to see her Marquis. Does this post look like the Hongmen Banquet?

He asked: "Master Marquis, do you want to attend the banquet? If it is inconvenient, my subordinates..."

"Go! Of course I want to go! It's the Hongmen Banquet, and I recognize it." Mu Rong closed the post and made up his mind.

The next evening, Mu Ai tied up the carriage and waited outside the mansion for a long time, but his master still did not come out.

He was impatient, so he went directly to the house to look for someone, but he saw his Marquis trying on clothes.

Mu Yi gestured numbly: There are already twelve sets.

Muai: "..."

In the end, Mu Rong chose royal blue uniforms with a sky blue belt.

When he walked out of the room, he was wearing a white jade-trimmed hair crown, and his uniform was embroidered with bamboo and pine dark patterns, which made his whole person more upright, calm, and quite royal.

Mu Ai was already stunned.

He has followed the Marquis since he was six years old, and it has been 14 years now. This is the first time he has seen his master like this.

"Isn't it just a meal?" he muttered quietly.

Mu Rong didn't take it seriously and replied to him in a good mood: "You are not married yet, so naturally you don't understand."

Muai: "..."

When we arrived at Fanlou, it was getting dark.

The waiter led Mu Rong to the private room facing the street on the second floor. Luo Shu stood guard outside and saluted immediately when he saw him coming.

Mu Rong took a deep breath and pushed open the box.

Xu Rongrong was sitting by the window. When she saw him coming in, she stood up and said, "My little girl has met Mr. Hou."

Today, she was wearing a goose-yellow dress, paired with jasper hairpins, her black hair was like clouds, and she was even more delicate with a touch of powder.There was a smile on his face, his eyebrows were curved, and he looked slightly playful.

She was very different today from the past, and Mu Rong couldn't tell whether he was happy or anxious.

He nodded slightly: "It's just you and me here, so you don't need to be polite, young lady."

The wing room is very elegantly decorated, with a table carved with epiphyllum flowers placed in front of the window. The folding window is half-open, letting in wisps of autumn breeze.Mu Rong is a frequent visitor to Fan Lou, but this is the first time he feels the exquisiteness here.

The two sat facing each other, and the breeze blew through Xu Rongrong's forehead, bringing out the slightest tenderness.She poured a cup of tea for Mu Rong and said with a smile: "I am hosting a banquet with you today. In addition to thanking you for your help during the Shaohua Mountains, I also want to make a deal with you."

Mu Rong took a sip and said, "I would like to hear the details."

"The Marquis must have heard about my daughter's encounter in the Xu Mansion. I have lost my mother's health since I was a child. The Xu Liu family has regarded me as a thorn in their palms. They have humiliated and bullied me for more than ten years. All I have asked for in these years is to live, but I can live forever. It can't just be about living. Even though I am a woman, I still want to realize my ambitions. I hope that after I get married, the Marquis will allow me the right to do things easily."

"Then what are your transaction conditions?" Mu Rong raised his lips.

"I am willing to hand over [-]% of the profits from business to the Marquis Mansion for public use."

"Do you want to do business?" Mu Rong asked.

Xu Rongrong nodded. In order to achieve her goal, she was not afraid to tell the truth.

Mu Rong pondered for a moment: "But I am not interested in money and silk."

Xu Rongrong: "..."

Mu Rong continued: "There are only a few hundred servants in my house, so I can use them less."

"I am frugal myself, and my salary is too much to spend. Not to mention the palace's generous rewards every new year. Therefore, Miss Xu's condition is not attractive to me."

Xu Rongrong gritted her teeth when she heard the words "the salary is too much to spend". After he finished speaking, she asked: "What does the Marquis want?"

"I haven't thought of it yet. When I think of it in the future, I hope the eldest lady will never refuse." There was a hint of cunning in Mu Rong's smile.

Thinking of his previous misdeeds of being frivolous towards her, Xu Rongrong just wanted to refuse.

Mu Rong seemed to have read her mind and promised: "Don't worry, Miss, I won't do anything illegal."

So... it's doable.

Thinking of the real purpose of today, Xu Rongrong agreed.

While they were talking, Fan Lou's waiter served the dishes one by one.

Every dish is a Fan Lou classic: sweet-scented osmanthus cold cake, crispy lotus root, lotus seed fish, eight-treasure duck soup, stir-fried wild rice, and a stack of cloud flower cake.

When the cloud flower cake was served, Mu Rong looked as normal and saw nothing wrong.

When the waiter was pouring wine, he accidentally soiled Mu Rong's sleeves. He didn't care and wiped it off gently.

While the two were chatting, Xu Rongrong asked calmly: "Others say that the Marquis likes the color red the most. Whether it is a shirt or uniform, red is the main color, but from what I have seen, that doesn't seem to be the case?"

Mu Rong put down his chopsticks, nodded and said with a smile: "What others said is true. It's just that I encountered assassins three months ago when I was patrolling the suburbs of Beijing. One of them was captured but could not survive the torture. Someone told them that I was easiest to wear in red robes." Identification. His Majesty knew about this. In order not to worry him, from then on, I stopped wearing red clothes."

Xu Rongrong said thoughtfully: "That's it."

Mu Rong couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth when he saw that her red lips were small and she was particularly elegant and delicate when eating.

It seemed that she liked every dish here. He picked up a piece of cloud cake and put it in his mouth.

It's really delicious.

However, Xu Rongrong seemed to be calm and composed, but actually her hands hidden under the table were shaking slightly as she watched Mu Rong pick up another piece after finishing one piece of cloud cake.

She suddenly felt like crying: It's okay...it's okay...he didn't come back.

Xu Rongrong lowered his head and covered up the moisture in his eyes.

The sound of wheels crushing bluestone came from outside the window. Although they were in the wing on the second floor, they could still hear the clear conversation downstairs:

"Brother Duan is here. What kind of wine did you bring today?"

"There are plum wine, sweet-scented osmanthus wine, and the sorghum wine that my boss ordered me a few days ago." The person who answered had a hearty voice.

Xu Rongrong knew that it was Duan Chuanchao who she had been waiting for, and the day of the banquet for Mu Rong was also the day she specially selected Duan Chuanchao to deliver wine to Fan Lou.

The people downstairs were still praising: "My little brother is really capable. It's rare for you to take care of so many things by yourself. I heard that the third prince also came to order drinks from you?"

"It's just a noble person who came here occasionally to order two altars. I can't say anything." Duan Chuanchao said modestly.

Mu Rong glanced down disapprovingly, then withdrew his gaze, picked up a piece of boneless lotus seed fish for Xu Rongrong, and said warmly: "The lotus seed fish in the capital has too many burn marks. I will take you to Jiangnan next summer." Let’s go and taste the real lotus seed fish.”

Xu Rongrong agreed with a smile.

Mu Rong ate this meal very well.

Xu Rongrong was relieved of her worries and let down her guard, and drank two glasses of wine.

Fan Lou's plum wine was fragrant. She wanted to pour another glass, but Mu Rong stopped her: "Go and have a look in the bronze mirror."

Xu Rongrong was a little strange. She got up and walked to the bronze mirror for washing, only to find that the person in the mirror had flushed cheeks and slightly hooded eyebrows. She felt that she was awake, but in the eyes of others, she was already drunk.

She was momentarily embarrassed.

Mu Rong stood up with a smile: "Although I promise you to be a keeper of etiquette, if you seduce me like this, it will be difficult for me to control you."

Xu Rongrong covered her cheeks with her hands and whispered, "I didn't."

"I know you haven't." After Mu Rong finished speaking, he opened the door of the wing and called Luo Shu to come in and wait.

After a while, Mu Rong ordered the shop boy to hitch the Xu Mansion's carriage and said, "It's getting late. Miss, it's better to go back to the mansion early."

Xu Rongrong took Luo Shu and said goodbye.

Watching Xu's carriage gradually drive out of sight, the plate of cloud cakes on the table was also empty.

Mu Rong bent over and vomited, and veins appeared on his forehead.

She...had doubts after all.