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For the next period of time, Lin Zeyuan visited Chu Huanyan almost every day to express his sincerity.

Chu Huanyan didn't mention the Fujin Tower issue again, as if she had really exposed it and forgiven him.

Chu Ziyuan was still recovering from his injuries, and Ah Si also returned to him.

After Chu Huanyan's instruction, Ah Si would often tell Chu Ziyuan that the third young lady pestered the eldest young lady to arrange her wedding every day and had no time to care about anything else. Even the prince's succession to the title had not been mentioned again recently.

Over time, Chu Ziyuan had accumulated a lot of dissatisfaction with Chu Wanyan, but because he injured his leg and had difficulty moving, he could only endure it for the time being.

Finally, Chu Wanyan's wedding will be in two days.

During this period of time, Zhou's mother came to visit her several times. What she said was that she hoped that the Hou Mansion could pay for the banquet on the day of the wedding.

Naturally, Chu Huanyan would not be taken advantage of. She just pretended that she did not understand and blocked him every time.

Mother Zhou asked Zhou Xiuwen to seduce Chu Wanyan again, but Chu Huanyan had already said that she had spent all the money on Feng Guan.

Chu Wanyan also went to several shops on purpose, and the answers she got were that they either couldn't make ends meet, or they were already selling their shops, and they didn't even get half a penny.

In the end, Chu Wanyan naturally failed.

Now, seeing that there are only two days left, the Zhou family can no longer sit still.

Early in the morning, he pretended to send someone a letter, saying that he had something important to discuss about the wedding in two days, and asked Chu Huanyan to visit the Zhou family.

"Where is the third lady?"

At the gate of the Hou Mansion, Chu Huanyan asked Xian Yue.

"Miss, the third young lady just sent a message saying that it is not appropriate to meet before getting married, so she will not go with you, young lady." Xian Yue replied.

Chu Huanyan raised her eyebrows. Isn't it appropriate to meet before getting married?

Chu Wanyan has been hanging out with Zhou Xiuwen a lot these days.

I guess they knew the purpose of the Zhou family inviting me over today, so they avoided it on purpose.

Chu Huanyan was amused and got into the carriage without saying anything else.

The Zhou family is located in Liangshui Lane to the west of the imperial city. It is in a remote location, and the price of the house is low. Most of the people living there live there who make a living by working hard.

Along the way, Chu Huanyan found that the streets were crowded and the living environment was very poor. Even the outer walls of some houses had been damaged but had not been repaired.

Before the carriage arrived at the door of Zhou's house, Chu Huanyan saw from a distance that Zhou's mother was already standing outside the door waiting.

Seeing the Marquis's carriage, Zhou's mother hurriedly greeted him warmly and invited him into his home.

The Zhou family's yard is not big. At first glance, there are at least a dozen people standing in the small space.

Mother Zhou enthusiastically introduced them, saying that these were all relatives of the Zhou family.

Chu Huanyan was naturally not interested in getting to know him, so he just scanned the crowd and found that Zhou Xiuwen was not there.

Just as he was about to look away, he noticed from the corner of his eye that a line of sight was almost glued to her body.

She saw a man who looked to be about twenty years old and had a pair of eyebrows, staring at her intently.

Seeing Chu Huanyan looking over, the man quickly gave a flattering smile.

"This is my maternal nephew, his name is Li Changqing." Mother Zhou noticed Chu Huanyan's gaze and introduced her immediately.

Li Changqing also immediately stepped forward, wanting to have a few words with Chu Huanyan.

But before he could speak, Chu Huanyan withdrew her gaze.

"Auntie invited me here today. Now you can tell me why."

The smile on Li Changqing's face froze, and he stepped aside sarcastically.

"Actually, it's nothing big. It's just a banquet two days later..." Mother Zhou sighed and pointed at the relatives of the Zhou family present. "You saw it too. I wanted to invite them over and let them help. A little, but we all come from poor families and we really can’t scrape together the money.”

"What does Auntie mean..." Chu Huanyan paused deliberately, "This marriage is cancelled?"

"How can you cancel it?" The expression on Zhou's mother's face froze.

"Auntie, isn't that what you mean? I thought you wanted to say that the Zhou family really has no money to hold a banquet and cannot marry a wife, so the marriage should be abandoned." A sarcastic smile appeared on Chu Huanyan's lips, and she looked at her unabashedly. Mother Zhou.

The latter's face turned blue, and he suppressed his annoyance and said again: "Of course we can't cancel the wedding, otherwise it won't make others laugh. I mean, can you think of something to do with the money for the banquet?"

As she spoke, Mother Zhou did not forget to wink at the relatives around her.

"Yes, although we have no money, the Hou Mansion has money."

"Even if the Hou family has a lot of money, do they still care about the small amount of money for a banquet? It couldn't be easier to just take a thousand and eight hundred taels of silver."

"It's just..."

The relatives of the Zhou family spoke in all directions. While talking, they stepped forward and surrounded Chu Huanyan. Suddenly, there was a sense of oppression due to the large number of people.

"What are you doing!" Xianyue protected Chu Huanyan behind her.

"What else can we do to your young lady? I just want to have a good discussion with her." Zhou's mother squinted her eyes, with a bit of pride in her eyes.

In her opinion, even if Chu Huanyan is the legitimate daughter of the Hou family, she is just a weak woman who has not yet left the palace. Surrounded by so many people, she does not believe that she will not give in.

"Did you have such a discussion?" Xianyue glared at Zhou's mother, "Inviting so many people here, it seems that they are doing it on purpose!"

"What's wrong with the large number of people?" Zhou's mother said in a scoundrel tone, "It's easy to negotiate with the large number of people. Is it possible that our family can't even discuss it with a few more people?"

"you……"

"Of course you can." Chu Huanyan signaled Xian Yue to calm down, and glanced at everyone, "Since there are many people, it is easier to discuss, Xian Yue, why don't you go and invite all the neighbors over, so that we can discuss it together."

Xianyue looked at Chu Huanyan and saw her young lady winking at her. Without waiting for Zhou's mother and others to stop her, she quickly pushed through the crowd and left the yard, raising her voice to call out all the neighbors.

Zhou's mother hurriedly left the yard to stop her, but the house was small and everyone lived close to each other. After Xian Yue shouted a few times, the neighbors gathered around her in a short while.

"What's going on? What happened?"

The neighbors had long heard that the Zhou family had arranged to marry into the Hou Mansion, and now they saw a fairy-like figure standing in the poor yard of the Zhou family, and they all started talking about it.

Just as Mother Zhou was about to speak, Chu Huanyan had already spoken.

"I'm really sorry for bothering everyone. I am the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Ning'an. I wonder if you have heard that my sister is about to marry Mr. Zhou."

"I heard it, I heard it. The Zhou family has already spread the news."

"It turns out she is the eldest lady of the Hou Mansion, no wonder she looks like a fairy!"

The neighbors spoke quickly, and among them, an older man asked curiously.

"Miss Chu, why did you come to us?"

"It's nothing, you guys go back quickly and don't join in the fun here!" Zhou's mother said quickly.

Chu Huanyan glanced at Zhou's mother with a half-smile, and then said with an embarrassed look.

"It's like this. Auntie Zhou's family invited me over today. She said that her family is really poor and can't raise the money for the banquet. She hopes that the money can be provided by the Marquis Mansion. After all, I haven't left the government yet, and my parents died young at home, so there are some customs and rules. I really don’t know much. So I just want to ask everyone if there is really a rule that the groom’s family pays for the wedding banquet, but I have only limited knowledge and have never heard of it.”