Reborn as the Savior of a Short-lived Father and Son

So she reluctantly accepted it and Mingxuan followed her to the stands.

Wei Yanzhou followed behind them, fanning himself with a dashing manner. After walking a few steps, the princess suddenly stopped, looked back at Wei Yanzhou, raised her chin slightly and asked, "You came here by yourself?"

Wei Yanzhou looked around him with a look of curiosity, "Is there something wrong?"

Seeing the princess's face fall, Wei Yanzhou suddenly realized, "Zhang Luyuan has something to do today, so he should be late."

However, he was not sure how much later this would be.

This did not make the eldest princess feel better at all. It was obvious that her words "I have something to do" were just an excuse for not wanting to attend the banquet.

The princess had a blank expression on her face. "Whether Lord Zhang comes or not has nothing to do with me. I am asking you why you didn't bring the Crown Prince's Consort with you."

"She is ill and needs to rest at home." For some reason, when Wei Yanzhou mentioned the Crown Prince's Consort, he subconsciously glanced at Gu Qinghe.

But she stood with Mingxuan, with her eyebrows lowered and her eyes not even a glance at him.

Wei Yanzhou felt inexplicably annoyed. He shouldn't have done anything to offend Gu Qinghe, so why was she smiling when she looked at others, but as soon as she turned to him, the smile on her face disappeared, leaving only an extremely perfunctory and polite fake smile?

Rather than calling it a fake smile, it would be more appropriate to describe it as a fake smile.

But Wei Yanzhou just couldn't stand seeing her like this. The more she was like this, the more he wanted to move closer to her and find out how he had offended her.

Li Qiulian's malicious gaze was not concealed at all. Mingxuan pulled Gu Qinghe forward two steps and turned her back to her.

Mingxuan was so depressed during the time she was recuperating at home that she thought a lot.

Who is Zhao Wang? He is not worthy of her concessions again and again. In the past, she put herself in such a humble position just because she liked him, but now she has no scruples at all. Instead of pinning her joy, sadness and all emotions on a man, it is better to take control of everything by herself.

Mingxuan half-closed her eyes and looked into the distance. Perhaps it was because the huge rock that was weighing on her heart was finally removed. She felt extremely relaxed and happy.

Looking at the sun feels warm, looking at the breeze feels refreshing, and even looking at the young men competing below, it all feels pleasing to the eye.

She pulled Gu Qinghe and said, "The one shooting the arrow is the young master of Tutor Wu's family. Not only is he handsome, but he is also elegant and polite, and is famous for his good temper. During the Lantern Festival, he collected only a few fewer lanterns than Lord Zhang."

Gu Qinghe recalled that it seemed that the custom in Ruichao was to send lanterns during the Lantern Festival.

If the girls who are waiting to get married have a favorite boy, they will give out the lanterns they made by themselves during the Lantern Festival.

The Mr. Zhang that Mingxuan was referring to was Zhang Luyuan, but Gu Qinghe inexplicably asked, "Where's General Shao? He must have collected quite a few lanterns."

Upon hearing this question, Ming Xuan immediately turned her head and shook her finger at Gu Qinghe, "General Shao collected a lot of lanterns at the beginning, but this year he didn't go to the Lantern Festival at all. In addition, most of the girls are a little afraid of his evil spirit, so naturally he doesn't have as many lanterns as the others."

The three people who received the most lanterns in the capital were Zhang Luyuan, the young master of Tutor Wu's family, and Shao Xingjian, the eldest son of the Duke's Mansion.

Gu Qinghe whispered: "It should be okay."

Compared with other generals on the battlefield, Shao Wei's murderous aura was very restrained. At least in Gu Qinghe's eyes, he looked no different from a pale-faced scholar. Just looking at his appearance, one would not think of him as a military general at all.

"Are you okay?" Ming Xuan gave Gu Qinghe a strange look, thought quietly for a moment, moved closer to Gu Qinghe, and asked in a low voice, "What is your relationship with General Shao?"

Gu Qinghe also thought about it for a while, "Maybe it has something to do with distant cousins?"

Shao Wei helped her get an identity that showed she was actually a cousin of his.

The two were talking in whispers, but there was a quarrel not far away. Looking down, they saw several people at the archery range pushing a little girl to stand in the middle of the range as a target.

The little girl was clutching a handkerchief in her hand, her face was pale, and her already thin body was shivering even more.

Gu Qinghe thought the girl looked familiar, but he didn't recognize her at first, so he asked Mingxuan, "Who is that?"

"I've never seen her before," Mingxuan shook her head. "Could she be a concubine's daughter from some family?"

If she were the daughter of a powerful family, no one would dare to do this.

Ming Xuan stared at the archery range for a while and suddenly realized, "It should be someone from the Duke's Mansion. I see the two young ladies next to them are also from the Duke's Mansion."

When she said this, Gu Qinghe vaguely remembered something. In her previous life, there was indeed such a cautious girl in the Duke's Mansion.

But she was not a concubine's daughter, but the niece of one of the Duke's concubines.

The reason why Gu Qinghe had an impression of this person was because of Shao Xingjian, the eldest son of the Duke's Mansion whom Mingxuan had just mentioned.

Shao Xingjian was the number one standard for noble ladies in Beijing to choose a spouse. Words like "elegant and graceful" and "gentlemanly as jade" were somewhat shallow when used to describe him.

It is said that in his previous life, such an outstanding man fell in love with a cousin girl of humble origin who was staying in the Duke's Mansion.

This made the Duke and his wife so angry that they were like a madman. It was said that the Duke used family rules to beat Shao Xingjian so badly that he could not get out of bed for half a month.

The wife of the Duke directly had the cousin sent away secretly. As to where she was sent to, it is still unknown. But the banished immortal-like eldest son of the Duke's Mansion left the capital after his injury healed and his whereabouts are unknown.

Gu Qinghe took a breath and looked down. The girl had a pale face and her slender arms were raised up tremblingly, holding a piece of red cloth in her hands.

Some of the young men holding bows and arrows here have already raised their arrows with laughter.

Gu Qinghe frowned, and Mingxuan also felt nervous, "This is too much."

Seeing that the two looked unhappy, Li Qiulian became a little happy and said to the eldest princess: "It's not exciting enough to watch here. I see Princess Pingyang is also in front. Why don't we go and take a look?"

The relationship between the Princess and Princess Pingyang was OK. She was in a bad mood because she hadn't seen Zhang Luyuan today. She just needed some fun to cheer herself up. She stood up after hearing the words and said, "Let's go over and take a look."

Since the eldest princess had gone, Gu Qinghe and Mingxuan naturally had to follow. When they walked to the archery range, the arrow feather just brushed the cheek of the girl holding the handkerchief.

Drops of blood oozed out instantly.