Chapter 114: Like a Man

Meng Zhi Yu was dressed in a moon white broad-sleeved tunic, wearing a hair-binding golden crown, handsome and clean as an exiled immortal floating in the air, quickly attracting the gazes of all the girls except for Jiang Yixi.

He was familiar with Zheng Tingting, and stood down and smiled, “Eldest Miss Zheng,” and smiled at Cui Wenjun, “Miss Cui.”

He wasn’t familiar with Miss Zhao and Miss Xue, he didn’t have the heart to greet them and only smiled. As for Jiang Yishi and the others, he didn’t recognize them and didn’t look at them.

An appearance of gentle and courteous eyes without slanting.

He was able to be so generous and open in his attitude because he didn’t recognize the girl standing next to him as Jiang Yishi. If Jiang Yishi had pulled him down by the lake, he wouldn’t have recognized this person as Meng Yu.

But Jiang Yishi has lived one more life, and Meng Ruyu has had so many entanglements, even if he turned into ashes, Jiang Yishi can not forget.

Jiang Yishi’s face was as heavy as water, looked at him twice and then looked toward the lake.

It’s not that she wanted to look at him for a second time, but at first glance, she realized that he looked at Cui Wenjun’s eyes with a momentary eagerness. At the second glance and then again, that trace of eagerness had been suppressed.

It turned out that Meng Zhui Yu had his eyes on Cui Wenjun.

Cui Wenjun is fifteen years old and is the only first daughter of Cui’s second assistant, and her family picks their relatives so much that they are not yet betrothed.

Zheng Tingting and Cui Wenjun both smiled with arched eyebrows when they saw Meng Ruyu, and greeted him in unison, “Meng Er Gongzi.”

Jiang YiYan also recognized Meng ZhuYu at a glance, even if what she saw last time was just the back.

At the Peach Blossom Banquet last year, the four sisters of the Jiang family exited the Peach Forest and walked towards the lake. Jiang YiYan suddenly saw three gentlemen standing by the lake, one of them was long and elegant, wearing a tansy green broad-sleeved tunic, just by looking at his back, she could tell how extraordinary he was.

Jiang YiYan’s heart moved, pulling Jiang YiShan toward that side, Jiang YiShi and JiangYiRou also had to follow.

Who knows just walked to the lake, Jiang Yishi was hit by someone, pulling the gentleman into the water. Only later did they realize that he was Meng Rui Yu.

Only Jiang YiYan know, how many midnight dreams she was woke up angry, if that person was hit by her, if she pulled Meng RuYu into the water, how good! She will defy all odds to marry him, regardless of whether he is happy to marry ……

Jiang YiYan reacted only when Meng RuYu’s men passed them by mistake, and hurriedly called out, “Meng ErGongZi.”

Meng Rui Yu didn’t recognize this girl, but still politely nodded at her. There were too many little ladies who didn’t recognize and were willing to greet him, and he was already used to it.

Jiang YiYan’s little face flushed with excitement.

Meng Rui Yu several people walked a few steps before Luo Xiao said, “Rui Yu, the girl in lilac-colored clothes is your future sister-in-law, Second Miss Jiang, why don’t you say hello?”

After saying that, he raised his eyebrows wistfully and smiled.

Meng Zhiyu immediately turned red. He didn’t expect that there was Jiang Yishi among those girls, but he was angry that he hadn’t recognized them yet.

The other few gentlemen all laughed and turned to look at that lilac colored back. With her slender back, and considering her appearance just now, she was indeed a first-class beautiful young lady.

A gentleman put his arm around Meng Yu’s shoulder and laughed, “So handsome little lady, Meng brother also do not grab some, look at your big brother …….”

Meng Ruyu pulled his hand down and sank his face, “I’m warning you, don’t bring me and her together ……”

Jiang Yishi a few people also heard the laughter of those gentlemen, guessed that it was laughing at Meng Ruyu and Jiang Yishi.

Cui Wenjun even pinched Jiang Yishi’s hand and advised, “Second sister Jiang is not angry. I don’t blame you and Meng Er Gongzi, it’s Luo Yi and Su Mei who have evil intentions.”

Jiang Yishi laughed lightly, “I’m not angry ……”

To be angry at seeing him once, would she ever finish being angry at marrying into the Meng family? Ever since she decided to marry Meng Ruimo she had thought about it, only treating Meng Ruyu as a passerby. If he followed Grand Madam Meng to do bad things, she would treat him as an enemy.

Already treating him as a passerby, what did it matter if she met him or not.

Only, it seems that both Cui Wenjun and Zheng Tingting have some admiration for Meng Ruyu. Meng Ruyu wasn’t as clean and nice as he appeared to be, and it wasn’t easy for Jiang Yishi to say this.

Arriving in front of Jin Yan Lake, the lake surface was sparkling with water, a floating boat and a few small boats moving back and forth.

On the other side of the lake is a grassy field with colorful flowers and low shrubs, and to the right of the peach trees is a large house.

This place is rich and boundless, but also very large, only four masters live, one of them also live in the State Prison, no wonder Zheng Tingting said that the Grand Princess is empty and lonely.

Jiang Yishi felt for the first time that it was actually not good to have a home that was too big, unless there were many family members.

They walked along the lake embankment, and it was almost time for them to return to the flower hall for the morning meal.

All the girls and gentlemen who wanted to show their talents ate as fast as they could and went to the designated place to change clothes and make up. In a few moments, they would go to the Flying Flower Pavilion to display their talents, and also to select the second beauty of the “Four Beauties of the Capital” as a replacement.

The four sisters of the Jiang family would not go out to perform their talents. People like them, unless they have amazing talent or courage, they don’t have the courage to go up, and they will only go up to be a sidekick.

Meng Zhuyu would not participate in the talent competition at the Peach Blossom Banquet because she had won the first place in poetry writing at the previous year’s banquet.

Jiang Yixi had long been uninterested in these children’s things. Most of them were in a state of delirium, and only watched attentively when Zheng Tingting played the cave xiao, Cui Wenjun composed poems, Zhao Mingyue danced with a sword, and Xue Qingliu played the zither.

Jiang Yishi’s applause was also unusually enthusiastic. Cui Wenjun’s poem was stunning, and judging by the compliments from those judges, it was clear that it belonged in the upper echelon here. Zheng Tingting’s cave xiao was also good, and was on par with the zither played by Miss Huang San.

Zheng Jing demonstrated doing poetry as he walked to the very center, bowed in the direction of the Grand Princess and the three judges and honored guests, and recited aloud.

Perhaps he was the son of Jojo’s old master, Jiang Yishi listened attentively. Although it was good, it didn’t achieve a stunning effect. Perhaps giving face to the host, the three judges still rated him relatively very highly.

A little girl at the neighboring table quietly said, “I heard that Mr. Zheng is an excellent sword dancer, I thought he could dance with a sword.”

Another little girl said, “Yes, what a pity.”

Jiang Yirou had heard Zheng Tingting say that Zheng Jing had wanted to go to the capital martial arts hall even more in the beginning, but the Grand Princess and Mrs. Zheng had cried and cried and were unwilling to do so, fearing that he’d throw himself into the army and not keep his family just like Zheng Ji, and wanting him to be a civil official, or even not an official at all.

Jiang Yirou used her handkerchief to block her mouth and whispered to Jiang Yishi, “Second sister, look at Mr. Zheng’s side, I always feel like someone, but I can’t remember who.”

Zheng Jing was listening to the three judges evaluating his poem.

Jiang Yishi carefully observed him. In the front view, his features were more rigid in three dimensions, his chin was slightly square, and he had an imperturbable heroic aura. Side view, much softer, did have a slight sense of familiarity.

She put her mouth to Jiang Yirou’s ear and said, “Silly, it must be like Tingting.”

Jiang Yirou smiled and nodded.

Zheng Jing went down, and another girl who played the zither came up.

A girl suddenly came to Jiang Yirou’s side and said softly, “My third girl has asked second girl Jiang to go out and say a few words.”