Reborn as the Regent's Beloved

To defuse the awkward situation, Yueyi stepped in to smooth things over, saying, "My young lady prefers to cry quietly, not loudly, because she's afraid of losing face."

The man then asked suspiciously, "Your young lady seems to have a lot on her plate. Why don't we see if she actually cried or not?"

After the official finished speaking, he reached out to pull back the carriage curtain, but Yueyi stopped him. "Sir, my young lady hasn't left the pavilion yet. Isn't it inappropriate for you to pull it back like this?"

Xiao Fengyi was so frightened inside the carriage that she was almost speechless.

She wondered why, having been reborn, she always had to do such terrifying things.

The official then said, "If you don't let me see her, how will I know if she is indeed the young lady from the Duke of Liang's family?"

"Could it be that you've met that Miss Liang?" Yueyi asked, feigning surprise.

The official stammered, "I haven't seen it before, but wasn't this the place where Mu Daren was assassinated? We need to search for the murderer at the checkpoints, and we need to check every carriage."

Xiao Fengyi breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. It turned out that this person had never seen Miss Liang before, so there was nothing to be afraid of.

The official seemed unwilling to offend the young lady who was not yet married, so he took the initiative to ask Yueyi, "Then what do you think we should do? If we don't look, we won't be able to explain ourselves."

Yueyi took out a pre-prepared waist token from her waist. "Look, isn't this the Liang family's token?"

The Liang family mansion was quite mysterious in the capital. Xiao Fengyi had never seen their home or any of the Liang family's young ladies, just like Gu Mingyi. The Liang family members disliked attending banquets.

The officer examined Yue Yi's waist tag and, finding that the Liang family's waist tag was genuine, murmured, "She really is Miss Liang?"

Yue Yi reproachfully said, "Of course it's true, would I lie to you?"

Upon seeing the Duke of Liang's waist badge, the official said to him, "Let's go, let's go."

"Oh, thank you so much!" Yueyi kept thanking them, feeling much more relieved.

When Xiao Fengyi heard that she could leave, she was very disappointed that her tears had been shed in vain, otherwise she could have let the officials see her tear-streaked face.

After saying that, he got into the carriage, started the horse, and left.

The clattering of the carriage and the jingling of the bells rang incessantly, startling Xiao Fengyi, who sat inside and kept patting her chest.

She let out a long sigh and said to Yueyi, "Yueyi, how did you get this waist token from the Duke of Liang?"

Yue Yi smiled and said to Xiao Fengyi, "These were all given to me by my master."

At this moment, Xiao Fengyi truly admired Feng Xingye for being so prepared!

She couldn't resist asking, "So how did your Highness get to know the Duke of Liang?"

Yueyi said indifferently, "The Duke of Liang is the master's maternal grandfather."

After asking the question, Xiao Fengyi had a strange feeling. Why was it that there were so many things that she seemed to know nothing about after living through so many lifetimes?

She knew that the Duke of Liang knew about King Zhao, but she didn't know about the connection between them.

"So, is the young lady I'm impersonating your master's cousin?"

Xiao Fengyi was really curious, so she asked.

At this point, Yueyi couldn't help but laugh: "Miss Xiao, you've been fooled too. There's no Miss Liang. The master only has cousins, no older or younger cousins."

Xiao Fengyi looked puzzled. "If there are no older or younger cousins, then they're all just empty shells. So who is this young lady?"

Yueyi couldn't help but say directly, "This is because the prince was naughty when he was young, and he was too cute, so people mistook him for a girl. He lied to them and said that he was a young lady from the Liang family. Over time, the whole capital thought that the Duke of Liang's family had a young lady."

"So it was fake?" Xiao Fengyi suddenly realized. "No wonder I've never seen this young lady at the banquet. If she were to attend, His Highness Prince Zhao would have to dress as a man."

Xiao Fengyi couldn't help but imagine that it would be a bit much to ask Feng Xingye, with his physique, to dress as a woman.

Yueyi, however, was eager to testify for her master, saying, "My master really did have sex with women when he was gathering information on the border of Yong Kingdom. He could pass for the real thing."

"Deceptively realistic?" Xiao Fengyi covered her mouth in disbelief, then thought for a moment, "Although your master is burly, his face is still beautiful."

"That's right, my master was proposed to when he was in Yong Kingdom."

As Yueyi drove and drank, he couldn't help but say a few more words. If Fengxingye himself heard this, he would definitely punish him by making him run more than ten laps around the training ground until he collapsed from exhaustion.

Xiao Fengyi excitedly poked her delicate head out and asked him, "What does the person who proposed look like?"

Yueyi sighed, "She's quite pretty, just like a girl."

Xiao Fengyi asked, puzzled, "Is it because the girl is more beautiful?"

After taking another sip of wine, Yueyi thought for a moment and replied, "It's not that she looks like a girl, it's that she is a girl, but that person likes to dress up as a boy."

Who is it?

Xiao Fengyi felt as if she were hearing that her future husband had another woman. "Are they married or engaged?"

Yue Yi waved his hand and said, "I don't think so. Only Master knows about this. Yue Qi, me, Yue San, Yue Er, Yue Wu, and Yue Liu don't know. Oh, Yue Liu might know. He went to the Yong Kingdom Palace with Master."

Yong Kingdom Palace?

"Is she a princess? Is she the daughter of the Emperor of Yong?" Xiao Fengyi had never heard of Yong before, so she was quite curious.

Yue Yi shook her head and said, "It seems she's not a princess, but a county princess. But I don't know which county princess she is or whether she's the emperor's daughter. The way the royal family bestows titles in Yong Kingdom might be different from what we do here."

Seeing that Yue kept shaking her head, Xiao Fengyi realized she wouldn't be able to get anything out of her. She sat back in the carriage, looking anxiously at the wasteland on both sides of the road.

“Alas, after searching around, it turns out he’s already taken.” Xiao Fengyi realized halfway through her sentence that she might be worrying unnecessarily. “Our marriage was just a sham, so worrying about these things seems a bit too much.”

She muttered to herself, unaware that the carriage was almost at the Duke of Xiao's residence.

Before heading to the Duke of Xiao's mansion, one must pass through a very bustling street, as this is the largest examination hall in the capital.

There are many academies nearby, where many students who have passed the imperial examinations study. They all wear white robes, which look very elegant.

Xiao Fengyi hadn't noticed anything when she passed by here before, but after encountering the matter of selling official positions, she paid special attention to these people and found that they were all in a hurry, as if they were rushing to some place.

As several people passed by the carriage, their conversation reached Xiao Fengyi's ears.

"I heard that the Seventh Prince is at the crossroads seeking justice for all scholars and demanding a thorough investigation into the Eighth Prince's sale of official positions."

"What?!" Xiao Fengyi was stunned for a long time after hearing this. "Yueyi, let's go take a look too!"

"it is good!"