Time Travel and Love

Chapter 407 Is it so obvious?

"A Yuan has something to ask the Third Brother, I'm here to play with you." Mu Lingxue also stopped what she was doing, watching Mo Liuyuan wield his spear with amazement in her eyes. "By the way, I want to tell you something. The time for the students' imperial examination has been set. It will start in half a month."

"In such a hurry?"

"Winter is coming soon. If we don't take the exam soon, I'm afraid people will freeze to death in the exam hall."

"That's true. How will the students get back home after the exam?"

"They said the imperial court would send all the students back to their respective prefectures and provide them with subsidies so they could return home."

"That's a solution, but it will cost the imperial court a lot of money."

"Anything that can be solved with money is not a problem."

Chu Qingmeng laughed, "No problem!"

The embroiderer on the fifth floor brought the clothes to be worn for the palace banquet. Chu Qingmeng smiled and pulled Mu Lingxue in to try them on. The light blue clothes were indeed beautiful on her body. Chu Qingmeng was used to the dark embroidery on clothes, but this time the dark embroidery was actually embroidered with silver thread, which made the pattern more lively when she walked.

But Mo Liujin, who was standing in the outer hall, narrowed his eyes. Mo Liuyuan raised an eyebrow and turned to look at him, "Snow satin? When has the superior ever rewarded snow satin?"

Mo Liujin didn't reply. He went straight forward and straightened Chu Qingmeng's clothes. He said casually, "Didn't the embroiderer in the mansion say that it would be delivered before lunch? This is delivered early."

"No, this dress was sent by the fifth floor. I originally wanted to ask Shuang Cheng to go for me, but I saw that the dress was really beautiful that day." Chu Qingmeng said whatever he thought.

"..." So? This is why she wanted to go to the palace banquet? Mo Liujin was a little amused, "Is this material also from the fifth floor?"

"Yeah. It was included in the thank-you gift Eleven sent me earlier..." Chu Qingmeng suddenly realized, stopped adjusting Mu Lingxue's belt, turned around and approached Mo Liujin, looking at him with a playful expression, "Are you jealous again?"

A hint of unnaturalness flashed across Mo Liujin's face, but Chu Qingmeng reached out and pinched his face and said with a smile, "Then you can just drown in jealousy. Eleven sent me so many things before, and if you have the ability, you can get jealous of every one of them."

"..." Mo Liujin sighed and grabbed her squeezing little hands, "Alright, stop messing around. Find out where it doesn't fit and ask the embroiderer to make changes quickly."

Chu Qingmeng snorted lightly before letting him go. He pulled Mu Lingxue back to the inner room to change her clothes and asked the embroiderer to make some changes to the details.

"A thank you gift?" Mo Liuyuan looked at Mo Liujin and waited for him to give an explanation.

"Well, when the superior needs the fifth floor's help for something, in addition to the original price, he will also send an extra thank-you gift. There is nothing I can do unless Qing Meng refuses. He can probably guess what I'm thinking, so the things never come into the mansion, they are all on the fifth floor." Mo Liujin sat in the main seat and rubbed his head with a headache.

"Sister, do you see him often? Otherwise, why would you agree to let you go to the palace banquet now?" Mo Liuyuan frowned slightly and took a sip of tea.

"Well, if they want to meet, I can't stop them. So, it doesn't matter whether they go to the palace banquet or not." Mo Liujin sighed again. "Qing Meng's mind is full of business. I didn't think he had any thoughts at first, but since ascending the throne, he seems unwilling to hide it anymore. His favoritism and affection for Qing Meng are becoming more and more obvious. Even the way he looks at Qing Meng... the way he looks at his beloved. No matter how well he hides it, I can see it! Now... I really don't know what to do."

Mo Liuyuan fell silent. He knew that there were countless memorials impeaching Qing Meng in the court, but without exception, they either fell on deaf ears or the impeachers were punished under various pretexts. Impeachments in the palace were always rebuffed by the higher-ups with various excuses. Now that the entire court, both civil and military, had given up, no one dared to step on the higher-ups' nerves. This was a good thing, but it was not a good sign for the Third Brother.

After a long silence, Mo Liuyuan only said, "Keep a close eye on this girl. She's only sensitive to government affairs and doesn't react that quickly to other things."

"Yeah." Mo Liujin responded. He could trust Qing Meng no matter what, but he was afraid that if that person...

"Greetings, gentlemen. I'm here to deliver clothes for tomorrow's palace banquet." The embroiderer in the mansion came in with a tray and bowed to the two of them.

"Yes, the eldest princess is in the inner room." Mo Liujin motioned her to go in.

Chu Qingmeng had just changed her clothes in the inner room when she saw the embroiderer from the mansion arrive. She picked up the clothes and tried them on too. As she put them on, Chu Qingmeng twitched her lips. Just how obvious was her preference? The same pale blue, the same silver embroidery, only the pattern was different. Even the material was tribute-grade brocade cloud satin.

Mu Lingxue laughed, "You've already chosen a light blue suit, why choose light blue again? No matter how much you like it, you can't like it this way."

Chu Qingmeng changed out of her clothes, which were a little too loose around the waist. She asked the embroiderer to take them away for alterations. Then she said, "Neither of these two sets was chosen by me. The first was chosen by Shuang Cheng, and the second was chosen by A Jin. Is my preference that obvious?"

"After spending a long time with you, I know your preferences." Mu Lingxue also knew that she liked light-colored clothes.