Spring Courtyard Forbidden Pet

The clenched fists under Ye Zhen's sleeves slowly loosened due to the appearance of Li Xuan.

Ye Rong let everyone in the capital know that she was infatuated with Li Chengge, so she was eager to treat him well and the Marquis's mansion well. Even the servants who had received favors from her would not take her efforts to heart.

She didn't expect anyone to remember.

But Li Xuan spoke it out for her. He was the only person in her past and present life who would feel sorry for her.

The wall that Ye Zhen had built in her heart began to crack, and her eyes felt a little sore.

Li Xuan looked at Zheng, "Your Majesty knows the capabilities of the Marquis' Mansion. Even if my eldest sister-in-law married you, she would only add a little to your usual food expenses."

"But in the past six months, you have made at least eight sets of clothes from Huichun Pavilion alone, if not ten."

"At the end of last year, I caught a cold and couldn't take medicine. I drank ginseng soup for more than half a month. Miss Ye was by your bedside every day. You are not old and confused yet, so how could you forget everything?"

Zheng was afraid of him to begin with. This was the first time he confronted her and she was indeed in the wrong. She quickly held her forehead and said, "That... that was her own will."

"She is the wife of Chengge. It is her duty to be filial to her elders and considerate to her servants."

"This is what she should do!"

Zheng's true face was exposed at this moment, but she didn't know that her words made Li Chengge, who was already in the wrong, even more embarrassed.

The red court robe made Li Xuan look more aggressive, especially at this moment when his eyebrows were raised and he seemed to be smiling, as if the normally warm water suddenly turned into ice strong enough to pierce the body.

"But she has not officially married into the Marquis's mansion. A concubine is not a concubine, so she should be married in a proper manner. My brother has been back for more than a month, but he has never mentioned this matter."

"The Marquisate owed her, and you are forcing people to organize the funeral today? The Marquisate of Dingyuan has lost all its face."

Li Xuan'an spoke loudly. Some people had previously wondered why he wanted to help Ye Zhen, but now they realized that the Marquis's Mansion had not completed the three letters and six ceremonies with Ye Zhen. When Ye Rong was alive, the two were sisters, so they could explain it. But now that Ye Rong is gone, the Marquis's Mansion asked Ye Zhen, who had not yet married, to handle the funeral?

Compared to Li Chengge, a fourth-rank general, the Great Zhou State Master, who was above all other officials, could not afford to lose face like this man.

"You, you..." Zheng was speechless. She looked at the cold Li Xuan eagerly and said after a long while, "Why are you helping outsiders!"

Li Xuan glanced at her coldly, "Now that I admit that she is an outsider, doesn't that mean she is one of us who deserves to be taken advantage of by you guys?"

Zheng no longer had the confidence to speak again, and instead felt more resentful in her chest.

Li Xuan walked into the room, and only after he passed Li Chengge's sturdy arms did he see Ye Zhen who was trapped inside. He frowned and said, "I'm not helping anyone."

"But the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion cannot become a hell where people are eaten without leaving any bones."

These words almost brought out all the resentment that Ye Zhen had been holding in her heart. She felt so soft-hearted, but when she heard him say that he was not helping anyone, she suddenly calmed down.

But her nose was sore and her eyes were swollen, but Li Chengge was pressing on her like a wall, and she couldn't even breathe freely.

She wanted to push the person away, but before she could do anything, she smelled the sandalwood scent getting stronger.

As soon as she raised her head, her soft eyes met Li Xuan'an's. There was a huge sky between his eyebrows, giving her the illusion that it could encompass all her emotions.

Ye Zhen thought that maybe it was because she was soft-hearted that she felt this way.

But she knew better that there was no such person in the world.

In just a moment, the tenderness in her eyes faded away, returning to her previous coldness. She slowly looked away, pursed her lips, and said nothing.

The light in Li Xuan'an's eyes dimmed, and he slightly exerted force on the fingers holding the rosary. He said to Li Chengge, "Brother, since my sister-in-law became seriously ill, every letter you sent back and every request in the letter were done for you by the woman in front of you."

"He took care of your wife and mother for you, and managed the mansion in perfect order, but he never took any credit for it."

"And brother, from the inside out, all your clothes, even your hairpins, were all chosen and arranged by her. I thought brother knew what kind of person she was. But now it seems..."

The corners of his mouth pulled up a bleak smile, "No one in the Marquis' Mansion behaves like a human being. Forcing a good-tempered woman like her to break off the engagement with you in public, and forcing me, a Taoist priest who has not cared about the secular world for thousands of years, to bring shame to the Marquis' Mansion."

Every word Li Xuan said irritated Li Chengge. He felt like he was going to explode several times, but luckily he just had a bad temper and was not stupid.

So he took two steps back with a cold face, giving Ye Zhen some breathing space, then looked down and saw the sachet hanging around his waist. This was a new one made by Ye Zhen after he returned home.

He had been out drinking and socializing almost every day this month, and no matter how late he came back, she would personally bring him a bowl of sobering soup.

However, it would be fine if he remembered these things himself, but what was embarrassing was being reminded by Li Xuan.

"This is a matter between me and her. Ordinary couples will quarrel. It's only because you came here that things have become so serious." He had a gloomy face and wanted to make a small matter out of a big one. He opened his mouth and blamed Li Xuan again.

"It's just that we haven't chosen a date to get married yet, but she belongs to the Marquis' Mansion and is mine."

Li Chengge stretched out his hand to grab Ye Zhen's wrist, but she quickly dodged with a look of vigilance on her face.

He frowned again, "What you said is true, but it is also true that she pissed Rong'er off and refused to order the material for her mother. What's wrong with me asking a few questions in anger?"

Anger welled up in Ye Zhen's eyes, and she didn't want to argue with him anymore, but Li Chengge was like a dog-skin ointment, refusing to admit his mistake and insisting on blaming her.

Li Xuan took another step forward, standing between her and Li Chengge. His scarlet robe pressed against Ye Zhen's light yellow coat, and she felt indescribably safe.

Li Xuan said, "Second Miss Ye is a man of great virtue and wisdom. She could have helped your brother's fortune, but you wronged her first and damaged the fortune of the Marquis' Mansion. You will not be able to enjoy this blessing."

When everyone heard this, their hearts skipped a beat, and they all looked at Ye Zhen with regret.

Li Xuan'an was usually very frugal with words, and he was an invisible boulder in everyone's heart in the court. Sometimes a few words from him could turn the situation around, and a single sentence could turn the memorials compiled by the cabinet in half a month into waste paper.

Especially Guan Yundao Fuhui, it can be said that no one would not believe it.

All the servants who had come into contact with Ye Zhenguang were anxious and ashamed, but Zheng and Li Chengge did not believe it.

Li Chengge said solemnly, "This is not a temple. State Master, please be careful with your words and don't make people panic."

Li Xuan'an relaxed, with a little regret on his face, "Brother, you were foolish and missed Miss Ye Er. Even if you love her more in the future, she won't waste any time on you anymore."

Li Chengge's heart suddenly sank into the abyss. Intellectually he didn't believe it, but emotionally he felt inexplicably uneasy. Thinking back to what happened between him and Ye Zhen in the past few days, Li Xuan's words took root like a thorn.

Ye Zhen kept her head down, and her eyes couldn't help but fall on the crane pattern on Li Xuan'an's cuffs. She looked calm, but her heart was like a wave pushed by the wind, never calm.

Li Xuan seemed different from what she had thought before, and also different from his previous life.

Li Chengge saw that she was about to retreat behind Li Xuan'an, and veins on his forehead throbbed. He turned around and shouted at the servants who were watching the fun outside, "Go away!"

"Get out! Get out!"

After driving everyone away, he said coldly to Li Xuan, "No matter what, she is in my room now. If there is anything, we can solve it behind closed doors."

"Why, you even want to hear what we say in the room?"