Noble Lady

"I'd like to hear how you are going to explain it?" Du Jingyuan's voice suddenly came.

Chen Mingxuan suddenly sat up straight.

"Miss Du, I..."

"What do you mean? Didn't you say you would give an explanation to me and the guy from the General's Mansion?"

Du Jingyuan sat beside Xue Chenyu nonchalantly, looking at him expressionlessly, "How do you want to explain this? Are you going back to break off the engagement with your fiancée?"

Chen Mingxuan was stunned. "...If I cancel the engagement, it will greatly damage the woman's reputation. Even if it's not her fault, the world will only stigmatize her."

Du Jingyuan and Xue Chenyu looked at each other, and the corners of their mouths couldn't help but curl up, but then quickly suppressed it.

"If you're not breaking off the engagement, then why are you saying those things to me?" Du Jingyuan sneered, "Could it be that Instructor Chen, relying on his official position, wants to bully a weak woman like me?"

"Your fiancée isn't the only one with parents. I also have parents who support me. Even if things get tough, I still have Xue Xiaoyu. If you really dare to bully me, she will seek justice for me."

Xue Chenyu: Why are you dragging me into this for no reason? Isn't this just a matter between you two?

Du Jingyuan snorted fearlessly: Since you are already involved, it is too late to say it has nothing to do with you.

Xue Chenyu sighed and thought, since she was already acting, she might as well act it out to the end.

If this Teacher Chen had shown up at the engagement invitation and met his fiancée, the situation wouldn't be like this today.

The so-called "dilemma" is something he brought upon himself, right?

Xue Chenyu didn't sympathize with him, but just felt that after they got married, Du Jingyuan and Chen Mingxuan would be a family.

By then, they will be one as husband and wife, so Chen Mingxuan naturally cannot blame A Yuan. Then wouldn't Xue Chenyu become the culprit?

Chen Mingxuan was stumped by Du Jingyuan's words and fell into an extremely awkward dilemma.

If he breaks off the engagement, it will hurt his innocent fiancée. It was his parents' order and the matchmaker's words, not his wish, but the status quo has been established. If he breaks off the engagement easily, it will bring disaster to the girl's future life.

But if he didn't cancel the engagement, he would be hurting the person in front of him and going against his own wishes.

If he had known this earlier, when those people in Duke Chen's Mansion wanted to make decisions for him, he should have written to His Majesty to completely sever all ties with them.

You didn't make a decision when you should have, and now you are suffering from the chaos.

Chen Mingxuan thought about it for a long time, but it would take more than a moment to make a decision on such a dilemma.

He looked at Du Jingyuan and secretly made a decision in his heart, "Miss Du, this matter is of great importance. I will think about it seriously. When I have the result, I will tell you as soon as possible."

Du Jingyuan: “…” Well, this is really a nerdy temper.

"It's up to you. Just tell me when you have made a decision." He said in an attitude of, I'll wait for your news, but if the result you give me does not satisfy me, I'm not the kind of person who will pester you to death. The worst that can happen is that I will break up with you.

Xue Chenyu wanted to laugh but couldn't, so she had to hold it in.

Afterwards, Xue Chenyu took Du Jingyuan and said goodbye to Chen Mingxuan. The two girls had to talk about their private matters when they got back.

"Miss Du, I..." Chen Mingxuan looked at her reluctantly.

There are many things in my heart, but I can’t say them when they come to my lips.

Du Jingyuan lowered her eyes, took Xue Chenyu's hand and left.

……

In the backyard, in Du Jingyuan's room.

When they entered the room, Yuzhu stood guard at the door, keeping watch. Only Dujuan stayed with Du Jingyuan.

"Tell me, what's going on between you two?"

"What's going on?" Du Jingyuan pretended to be stupid and played with the white porcelain teacup.

Xue Chenyu sneered, "Don't act pretentiously in front of me. You know it's useless to play dumb with me."

"You were dressed like that and you were riding on the same horse with him. It's not appropriate for men and women to touch each other, Du Jingyuan. So many eyes saw you all the way into the city at the county government gate, and you don't even plan to explain."

Du Jingyuan was so upset that she slammed the teacup back. "Chen Mingxuan doesn't know, but you know it too. With my relationship with him, there's no need to be too strict about gender."

Xue Chenyu touched his nose and said, "Is that what I'm talking about? I'm talking about how you two ended up in such a mess after going to the countryside? And you still swore to return Yumei to me."

Her gossip spirit was burning.

After hearing her words, Du Jingyuan also felt guilty. "...I thought it was just a trip to the countryside, no big deal. I didn't know that not everyone is so friendly."

Xue Chenyu agreed with this, "That's why I let Yumei follow you."

Du Jingyuan also touched her nose. "I thought that with his official accompanying him, nothing would happen. I never knew that some people in the countryside are so barbaric."

"We all identified ourselves and brought official documents, but they refused to acknowledge them. They kept saying there was no county magistrate in the county government and that our documents were fake."

Xue Chenyu frowned slightly, smelling a hint of unusual scent.

"Tell me the details of the situation."

Du Jingyuan then recounted the whole story in detail from beginning to end.

Speaking of which, the place she went to was the most remote town under the jurisdiction of Haicheng County, called Dongshui Town, and that village was also the most remote village in Dongshui Town, called Miaoshan Village.

The village is located at the junction of Zhushan, Huaiyuan and Haicheng counties, and is commonly known as the no-man's land.

At first everything was normal. Du Jingyuan took Du Juan and the yamen runner into the village and found the village chief.

But when they suggested that the officials in the county government ask all the village heads and town heads to go to the government office to explain something, the village head turned hostile.

He immediately called in seven or eight young and skilled fighters from the village and was about to drive them out of the village.

When the yamen runners went out on their errands, they naturally carried official documents with the county magistrate's seal on them. They identified themselves on the spot and showed the documents.

"Like I told you before, they don't recognize official documents at all. Just seeing the county magistrate's seal, they kept saying that there was no county magistrate in the county government office and that our documents were fake. Then they started to take action."

"At the time, there were only three of us, including Liu the yamen runner, Du Juan, and I. We were no match for them, so we retreated."

Du Jingyuan said this, poking at the air angrily, "Those blind people are making me so angry!"

"They are sure that the county magistrate cannot go back." Xue Chenyu said slowly.

Du Jingyuan was stunned for a moment, "...Chen Mingxuan said the same thing after he arrived."

"So, you returned Yumei to me halfway and didn't know that Chen Mingxuan had gone?" Xue Chenyu smiled with a forced smile.

Du Jingyuan was stunned. It was over. She accidentally let the cat out of the bag.

"...Um, Xue Xiaoyu, if you don't want to listen to my excuses—no, explain yourself."

Xue Chenyu rolled her eyes: "You'd better stop quibbling. I'm too lazy to listen. Don't look for me if you have nothing to do in the future. I'm too lazy to pay attention to you."

Du Jingyuan: "Oh, oh, oh, Xue Xiaoyu doesn't want me anymore. I really am a poor child with no one to love me."

"Just shut up." Xue Chenyu covered her mouth angrily.

Du Jingyuan winked at her, and after receiving a roll of the eyes in return, she contentedly stopped pretending to be stupid.

Xue Xiaoyu rolled his eyes at her, but he still loved her.

Hitting means kissing and scolding means loving.