After swallowing my anger and taking the blame, I became the lucky little queen

Qin Guan cleared his throat and asked with a half-smile, "Miss Li fought with Miss Nian in the camp that day. Was she not injured?"

Li Yaoyuan was terrified and had only one thought in her mind: How could the Second Prince know this?

Could it be that Miss Nian told him? No way, there was no reason for Miss Nian to do that.

Is that Wang Yuejiao? Probably not. Wang Yuejiao's relationship with him was not so close that he could complain.

Li Yaoyuan frowned slightly, did not answer, and stared at him with puzzled eyes.

Qin Guanqing smiled and said, "Miss Li wants to ask why I know this?"

Li Yaoyuan realized that she had lost her composure and quickly retracted her gaze, returning to her usual cold and aloof state. "The prince was on a hunting trip with the emperor that day and was not in the camp. Miss Nian and I had a conflict with Miss Wang in the tent. How did the prince ..."

Qin Guanqing: "The Japanese king was accidentally scratched by a branch and injured his skin. When he went to find the imperial physician to get medicine, he saw Miss Wang also getting medicine and limping. He was worried that something might happen to her and cause trouble for his brother.

Later, he sent people to investigate in the camp.

I learned that Miss Wang only went to your tent that day, and Miss Nian followed closely behind her."

He smiled meaningfully, with a hint of sarcasm in his voice: "I don't know what the three of them said in the tent, but when Miss Wang came out, she looked very excited."

Li Yaoyuan felt more and more guilty.

Although Wang Yuejiao was wrong first, it was wrong for her to hit someone.

"So you really beat Miss Wang in the tent that day?" Qin Guanqing asked curiously.

Li Yaoyuan tilted her head and realized the problem: "So the prince doesn't know what happened to us?"

Asking her at the beginning if she was injured in the fight was just a trick!

Li Yaoyuan felt angry and wanted to laugh.

Qin Guanqing said, "I don't know anything, so don't ask me." "I didn't say anything."

Li Yaoyuan smiled knowingly and told him the whole story from beginning to end.

After she finished speaking, she took the initiative to ask back: "Why did the prince suddenly ask this?"

She didn't believe that Qin Guanqing really cared whether she was injured.

If Qin Guanqing wanted to care about Nian Susu, given his personality he would definitely ask directly instead of going through the roundabout way to find out information from her.

Qin Guanqing thought about it, it seems that the emperor didn't say to keep it secret, right? He just said that he couldn't ask Miss Nian directly.

"My brother asked me to ask."

Li Yaoyuan understood immediately, and at the same time, another mystery that had puzzled her for a long time was finally solved - Qin Guanqing's feelings for Nian Susu were not love between a man and a woman, but mutual admiration between close friends.

How did you come to this conclusion?

The Second Prince was not stupid. There were only three people involved in the matter that His Highness asked him to find out. Who among these three people was His Highness most likely to be concerned about? It could only be Miss Nian.

Since he knew that His Highness was concerned about Miss Nian, and he was still so attentive, it only showed that he had no such thoughts about Miss Nian at all.

After thinking about this problem clearly, Li Yaoyuan was not as happy as she had imagined, as if she had just learned a very ordinary thing.

Sometimes she doesn't quite understand her own heart.

Qin Guanqing had already left. She deliberately slowed down her pace and watched his gradually receding back. He seemed no different from the people around him.

She smiled with relief.

lobby.

Men and women sat at separate seats, with the men's area on the left and the women's area on the right, with a large screen in the middle separating the two spaces.

The men in the men's section were drinking and chatting animatedly, while the girls in the women's section were a little reserved and spoke in soft voices.

Nian Qiaoyue's seat was originally behind Nian Susu, but she deliberately went to the opposite side next to Xiao Yunzheng. She squatted down in the empty space between seats and whispered something to Xiao Yunzheng.

Xiao Yunzheng had a frown on her face from beginning to end, and looked at Nian Susu twice during this period.

Li Yaoyuan is just to the left of Nianxu.

Seeing that Nian Susu was just eating and didn't care about anything else, she couldn't help but remind her, "Lingling, stop eating." She took the red bean cake from her hand.

Nian Susu had a puzzled expression.

Li Yaoyuan was not the type of person who liked to gossip behind others' backs, but Xiao Yunzheng's eyes and Nian Qiaoyue's strange behavior made her alert.

"Miss Nian Er looked at you from time to time when she was talking to Miss Xiao just now. You should be careful later."

Nian Qiaoyue had already returned to her seat by now.

Nian Susu frowned, swallowed half of the red bean cake in his mouth, glanced at Xiao Yunzheng, and nodded solemnly.

"I will be careful."

After sitting for a while and before the banquet started, Li Yaoyuan suddenly felt uncomfortable in her stomach and went out. Not long after she left, Xiao Jianting came over from the men's area.

He stood behind the screen, keeping a proper distance. "The kitchen has prepared the dishes, and we will be able to eat soon. Ladies, if you have any dietary restrictions, please tell me directly."

Nian Susu was the first to raise his hand, “Me!”

Xiao Jianting had never seen anyone so bold, even more "unbridled" than his younger sister. He gestured, "Miss Nian, please speak."

Nian Susu didn't expect that he still remembered her. She was surprised and happy. It is actually a very happy thing to be remembered by others, and it also means respect.

"Um..." She hesitated, then asked, "Can I have some wine?"

The women's area was served tea as expected. She smelled the aroma of wine wafting from the men's area and her saliva was about to fall to the ground.

Xiao Jianting was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "Of course."

When Xiao Yunzheng heard this, she winked at him frantically, her big eyes almost squint.

Xiao Jianting turned a blind eye and asked the other girls if they had any needs. They all said no. He walked out of the front hall without looking around, for fear of being pestered by Xiao Yunzheng.

Others didn’t dare to say it, but for his own little sister, as soon as she raised her tail, he knew what she was going to say.

Her father repeatedly warned Xiao Yunzheng not to drink alcohol, because she would get drunk and act crazy when she was drunk.

Xiao Jianting was worried that no one in the men's and women's sections would be able to keep an eye on her today, so he simply served tea to everyone in the women's section.

There is always a loophole. No one would have thought that the eldest daughter of the Nian family was also a drunkard. When she mentioned it, how could Xiao Yunzheng refuse it?

As the eldest brother, he can't afford to be careless at all.

A quarter of an hour later, Xiao Jianting came back, followed by a row of maids holding a variety of teas and snacks in their hands. The fragrance could be smelled from afar.

Xiao Jianting stood on one side while the maids served dishes to the young ladies from each family.

Li Yaoyuan was walking towards the front hall at this time.

Wang Yuejiao kept staring at the door, and when she finally saw the long-awaited figure appear, she picked up the boiling hot tea at hand, stood up and left her seat.

Li Yaoyuan entered the front hall. If she wanted to return to her seat, she had to walk in front of or behind Xiao Jianting.

It would be too disrespectful to walk from behind, so she chose to walk in front.

Xiao Jianting calmly stepped back a few steps to make way.

The girl lowered her eyes and brows and walked hurriedly. He didn't see who she was, so his eyes followed her forward.

At this moment, he saw out of the corner of his eye a girl coming from the side with a cup of boiling hot tea in her hand, and the two of them were about to bump into each other.

Xiao Jianting was quick-witted and quick-handed. He raised his hand to block the hot tea in Wang Yuejiao's hand, and the scalding tea poured all over his hand.

Wang Yuejiao had originally intended to spill the tea on Li Yaoyuan. This sudden accident only gave her a momentary fright. After a scream, she instinctively let go of her hand and took a few steps back, unharmed.