Song Wan Yue’s words meant something, but the Second Prince pretended not to understand. He ordered someone to serve tea again, and also had several plates of delicate snacks served, “These are not as good as the ones in your pastry shop, but they are still delicious, Miss Song try them.”
Song Wan Yue didn’t feel constrained, she took a piece and put it to her mouth and took a bite, “You’ve eaten my cakes?”
“Naturally, I have eaten them, I heard that Miss Song had worked them out, my palace is curious, is there anything else that Miss Song does not know? ”
“Of course there is.”
“What?”
Song Wangyue swallowed her pastry and said, word for word, “Murder.”
The Second Prince froze, then laughed, “Miss Song is really funny.”
The Qingping governor also laughed with him, he knew Song Wan Yue must have guessed something, but this was good, it saved him from having to figure out how to let Song Wan Yue know that he was in the Second Prince’s faction.
After finishing a piece of pastry, Song Wan Yue casually clapped her hands and got up, “I should go back.”
The Second Prince didn’t force her to stay, nodding his head and saying towards Qingping Governor, “You stay, I have something to ask you.”
Song Wan Yue left the elegant room, went downstairs, walked out of the street and returned to the carriage.
“What took you so long?”
Xiao Yao gave her a hand stove and Song Wan Yue took it, cupped it in her hand and returned vaguely, “After treating his wounds, I went back to the shop to get a bottle of scar-removing medicine.”
Xiao Yao didn’t ask any more questions, and then she spoke excitedly about what had happened in the shop.
Inside the elegant room, after Song Wangyue left, the Second Prince got up and stood by the window, watching Song Wangyue walk away before sitting back down, “The little girl is still quite perceptive.”
The Qingping governor echoed.
The Second Prince fiddled with the lid of his tea, “It’s a good thing we got to talk, I’ll find another opportunity later.”
……
In the afternoon, Song Wan Yue went to the Xu residence to talk about going home.
Meng couldn’t bear to see them go back, but she also knew it wouldn’t work if they didn’t, saying, “To go home, two fifty-eight. Today is sixteen, you will go back the day after tomorrow, and when it is fine after the fifteenth day of the first month, I will go over with your maternal great-grandfather.”
“There is no need to be in such a hurry ……”
Song Wan Yue said her intention, “I think after the New Year, take you and your great grandfather to go to Jiangnan.”
Meng looked at her sharply.
She had only been back once since she married in the capital, when her mother was critically ill, and when she rushed back, she only had time to see her mother off for the last time; when her father died, because she had lost Wan’er, her health was deteriorating and she was unable to travel south. This had always been a regret in her heart, and many times she had woken up crying in her dreams, thinking that if she could go back once more in her life, she would have died without regret.
“I want to go to the south of the Yangtze River for a long time.”
Meng’s mouth opened and closed, but no sound came out for a long time, but tears welled up in her eyes, and only after a long time did she choke up and say, “Yes, yes, yes.”
Naturally, the old gentleman agreed, for he had given his eldest son this marriage back then, but the eldest son had not treated Meng well, so he had a wrong in his heart, and he wanted to go to Meng’s grave to ask forgiveness.
“After February, it will be warm, we will set off again then.”
“Everything is at your disposal.”
The old man did not expect to make another trip to Jiangnan in his lifetime and was thrilled that his family would be at ease with Yue’er around.
“You and grandmother wait in the capital, when the time comes, I will come over with my parents and we will go together.”
The old man responded.
Song Wangyue waited for him to calm down and then played a few games of chess with him. When Xu Yan returned, she told him about her plans and asked him to help plan the route while the New Year was in full swing.
He knew that his mother wanted to go back to Jiangnan. He had originally thought that they would go with him after the New Year, but now that he was the Fourth Prince’s husband, he could not get away.
The old gentleman also knew his worries, “Yue’er has been regulating my body, I am now in better health than before, don’t worry.”
Xu Yan looked at Song Wan Yue and only felt relieved when he saw her nod, saying, “I will plan well, but it will take many days on the way, so prepare more medicine to prevent seasickness, you have never been on a boat before, it is inevitable that you will get seasick the first time you do it, it is too uncomfortable.”
The first time he went on a boat he didn’t know, the family vomited so much that they felt like they were losing their lives.
Song Wangyue nodded her head, “Leave this to me.”
Xu Yan said some more things to note, and only after he finished did he remember that they weren’t leaving until February next year, he smiled and slapped his forehead.
The old gentleman didn’t let her go in the evening, and sent Xu Liang to call Song Si and the two of them over, along with the second gentleman’s family, and gathered together for a lively meal.
After the meal, Mr. Lao, Mr. Er, Xu Yan, Song Si and Song Wan Yue went back to Mr. Lao’s house. Mr. Er was about to play a game with Song Wan Yue, but he saw Song Wan Yue straighten up and tell them what had happened today.
After hearing this, they knew that it was not a coincidence at all.
Xu Yan smiled coldly, “Their calculations are too good.”
First the First Prince, then the Second Prince, each one of them had their eyes on the Xu family, had they forgotten that the Xu family had never been involved in this?
The old gentleman stroked his beard, “Since they have such a mind, they will certainly create other opportunities that we can’t guard against.”
“If they need us, they will naturally bend over backwards and won’t lay a hand on us, so we can just play dumb when the time comes.”
Song Wangyue said with disinterest.
Several people looked at her in unison.
Song Wangyue blinked her eyes, “Am I, am I wrong?”
The old gentleman stroked his beard and smiled, “It’s us who are confused, Yue’er is right, they want to flatter us, naturally they won’t do it, we can just play dumb, anyway, I’m old and it’s time for my mind to be unclear.”
His words amused the crowd and the gloomy atmosphere in the room receded, Mr. Er had Xu Liang set up the chess board and sat over, impatient, “Yue’er, Grandfather Er is not being polite.”
Although he was not in the service, he had a lot of things to do every day, so it was rare to have the opportunity to sit down and play chess with Song Wan Yue.
“Sure.”
Song Wangyue met the battle and did not show any mercy, killing him in a little over half an hour.
This time, Song Wangyue let up a little and played for half an hour more before Mr. Er stood up in satisfaction.
It was not until the curfew that Song Si and Xiao Yao made an appointment with Song Wan Yue to go to the Ding Guo Gong Mansion tomorrow, and then got up to go back to South City.
Song Si had just returned home today when the two were invited over by Xu Liang, and Xiao Yao was only now talking to him, talking excitedly all the way to the shop with a dazzling gleam in her eyes.
Song Si looked at her with a smile at the corners of his mouth.
Xiao Yao felt a strange sensation as she spoke, and she met Song Si’s eyes and could not help but blush.
Song Si leaned slightly closer, his burning breath spraying on her face, “Fu ……”
Before she could finish a sentence, the carriage jerked to a halt, and Huang Gao’s anxious voice rang out from outside the carriage, “Is it Lord Song and Miss Song who have returned?”