Farewell Flower Festival

Mu Tianling asked what talents the two had. Chaoyan answered for them. He pointed at Hongyu and said she could play the piano, and pointed at Cuihe and said she could dance. He asked him whether he wanted to listen to people play the piano or watch people dance, or listen and watch at the same time?

"Can you play chess?" Mu Tianling asked casually, unconventionally.

Hongyu and Cuihe shook their heads, saying no, after all, most of the guests in the building came to have fun, not to discuss chess. Mother Sun only asked people to teach the girls in the building to play musical instruments and dance, and to recite some romantic poems, which was enough to deal with those pretentious young men.

"Miss Zidie can play chess." Hongyu said.

Zidie is the most beautiful courtesan in Chunfeng Tower, and she is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting.

"But Miss Zidie doesn't meet strangers easily. If you want to see her, I can help you ask." Hongyu said.

Mu Tianling said: "Thank you very much."

I'm getting naughty again, Chaoyan complained in her heart.

Hongyu winked at Cuihe, and the two left together. After coming out, they gossiped about the relationship between Mu Tianling and Chaoyan, and agreed that the latter was the former's hidden concubine, and the two must have had a quarrel.

Chaoyan didn't know that the two people's gossip had turned her into a concubine, but she was really upset. Ever since Mu Tianling asked to see the oiran, she turned her head away from him without even making eye contact.

Mu Tianling was calm and composed. He had the leisure to look at the furnishings in the room and commented that the painting of the beauty hanging on the wall was quite nice.

Chaoyan turned her head and glanced at him, and asked casually, "Where did Your Highness go last night?" Mu Tianling asked her if she wanted to increase the monthly salary, deliberately changing the subject. Chaoyan smiled at him, then put away her smile, got up and left.

The door opened with a swish, Qianfeng instinctively tightened the hilt of the sword, and saw Chaoyan striding out without looking back.

It seems that the deal was not reached. . . . .

When Chaoyan was going down the stairs, she was stopped by a drunk young man. He looked at her with his lustful drunken eyes, thinking she was a girl in the building, and asked her to drink with him.

Chaoyan was already furious, and there happened to be a drunkard who was harassing her. She used a kick that could make the drunkard sober up, and he knelt on the ground in pain.

Seeing this scene, the guests in the building were a little shocked.

Then Chao Yan walked out unhindered.

When Hongyu and Cuihe came back with the reply, there was no one in the box. They had to go and tell Zidie that the person had left.

The next day at breakfast, Chao Yan showed up but still didn't speak to Mu Tianling.

When he was leaving, Eunuch Wu told him that there would be a lantern festival tonight and asked him to take Chaoyan to see it. Mu Tianling didn't say whether he wanted to go or not.

Then Eunuch Wu came to talk to Chaoyan about the Lantern Festival. She didn't want to let Eunuch Wu down, and she was also very interested in the Lantern Festival. She wondered if it was as lively and prosperous as what she saw in TV dramas, so she agreed to go to the Lantern Festival together after Mu Tianling came back.

After all, we live under the same roof, and it would be hard to have a bad relationship.

When the sun was about to set, the person still hadn't returned.

Chaoyan went out first, and seeing that the streets were already decorated, she looked forward to the lantern festival in the evening. After arriving at the Jiuxingsi, she asked the two gatekeepers whether Mu Tianling was there. One of them happened to recognize her and knew that she was from Ling Wangfu, so he kindly told her that he had left in the afternoon.

Chaoyan felt a sense of loss in her heart, thinking that he must have gone out for a social event again, but she immediately cheered up and thought that it was no big deal to visit the lantern festival alone.

As soon as it gets dark, the lanterns hanging on both sides of the street are lit up. The vendors who would have closed their stalls and gone home are still setting up their stalls. The market is bustling with people, and it is even more lively than during the day.

The lanterns were lit up one after another, as if lighting up a colorful dream world.

Chao Yan was surrounded by colorful and charming lights, and had the illusion that she was "not knowing that she was a guest in a dream". Looking at the men and women passing by, most of them were in pairs, and she was the only one who seemed to be alone, without even a companion.

The next moment she chased away the feeling of loneliness and ran over to look at the riddles.

When she was concentrating on thinking about the answer to the lantern riddle, she was distracted by the voice beside her. She felt that the voice sounded familiar, and she turned around and saw a familiar face, it was Wen Yunlan. She was about to greet him, but the next moment she found that the other person was not alone, there was a girl next to him, it was the second Miss Shang, and it was obvious that the two of them had agreed to visit the lantern festival together.

Chaoyan turned around and slipped away, not wanting to be a light bulb for the two people. The next moment, she saw the figures of Qianfeng and Feiyu again, and immediately slipped behind a small stall and hid, watching what would happen.

Two carriages were parked on the side of the road, and two maids were following the rear carriage. It was obvious that there was a girl sitting in the carriage.

After Mu Tianling got off the carriage, the girl was also helped out of the carriage by the maid.

The two stood together and talked for a while, then walked over together.

Chaoyan picked up a mask from the stall and put it on her face, then picked up another mask. After the person passed by her, she turned her head to take a look, and her fingers slowly clenched the mask in her hand... She didn't come to her senses until she heard the boss call her "girl". She asked the boss how much the mask was. After the boss told her the price, she took out a silver coin from her small purse and handed it to the boss, and left without waiting for the boss to give her the change.

After seeing the two together, she no longer had the heart to look at the lanterns, but she didn't want to go back, so she wandered aimlessly on the street with a mask on. As she walked, she became distracted and didn't notice the person in front of her and bumped into him.

The collision woke her up. She was about to apologize to the other party, but when she looked up, she saw a pair of smiling fox eyes. It was really a narrow road for enemies.

"Why are you daydreaming while walking? Be careful not to get kidnapped." Han Lie bent down, stared at her mask, and asked her why she was alone.

He was talking about something irrelevant. Chaoyan said he had recognized the wrong person, turned around and left, but stopped when he heard something.

"Little Lianzi, do you want to know who the girl next to the Fourth Prince is?" Han Lie walked over and said.

Chao Yan asked back: "Do you know?"

Han Lie smiled and said, "That's Minister Liu's daughter."

Chao Yan had some impression of this Minister Liu. She had met him once before in the Prime Minister's Residence. At that time, the other party took the initiative to come over and greet Mu Tianling. It turned out that he had set his eyes on him as his son-in-law.

"The Fourth Prince went boating on the lake with Miss Liu the night before yesterday," Han Lie said.

It turned out to be her. Chao Yan felt cold in her heart, but pretended to be relaxed and said, "Men should get married when they are old enough, and women should get married when they are old enough. That's good."

Han Lie stared at her face for a few seconds, avoiding her gaze, not wanting her to see through his true thoughts. But she herself couldn't clearly explain what she was thinking.

Han Lie said he would take her to a fun place and took her away.