step by step

Chapter 61
The next day, a carriage slowly drove out of the inn and headed west.

The person in the carriage wore a crescent-white gown embroidered with gold thread, and a white jade pendant around his waist. His eyes were dark and deep, like stars in the vast sky.

He has a slender figure, a handsome face, and the sunny and heroic spirit of a young man in his brows.

"Wei Yu, how long will it be?"

Zhuo Yibai lifted the curtain of the car and looked out, his voice was clear and pleasant.

The moment he lifted the curtain of the car, his rather seductive face caught the eyes of the girls on the street.

With a look of helplessness on his face, he lowered the curtain again.

The carriage slowly headed west.

"My lord, we will arrive in another three li or so." Wei Yu, who was driving, said.

Zhuo Yibai nodded, didn't speak any more, turned his head and continued to sleep with his eyes closed.

"call"

A long howl spread throughout the suburbs, and the carriage stopped suddenly.

Zhuo Yibai suddenly opened his eyes, and looked outside, with a hint of doubt flashing in the bottom of his eyes.

Wei Yu jumped out of the car, bowed respectfully and said, "My lord, in front is one of the people going south."

Zhuo Yibai lifted the curtain of the car, and saw a group of people galloping towards this side on the street not far away.

Those people were all wearing black costumes and riding on horses, looking majestic.

This road is obviously impassable. Either wait patiently or abandon the car and walk.

"My lord, do we want to make a detour?" The man driving the car asked.

Zhuo Yibai shook his head, pondered for a moment, and said, "No need."

He was a little anxious in his heart, and he didn't have the leisure time to wait, so he ordered: "Pack up your things and take them with you, let's go on our way."

"Yes, young master." Wei Yu replied respectfully, and immediately got into the carriage and packed his bags.

"My lord, these are all things that may be used today." Wei Yu smiled, "Of course, this one is the most important."

He took out an exquisite long box from his sleeve and handed it to Zhuo Yibai.

Zhuo Yibai glanced at it and reached out to take it.

After thinking about it, I opened it up and checked it a little worriedly.

I saw a stack of picture scrolls lying inside, which were the ones that Zhou Ru brought yesterday.

Strangely, the top one is not Miss Ye's.

Zhuo Yibai unfolded all the stacks of scrolls, and his eyes fell on each painting. He didn't find that painting until he finished reading all of them.

His face changed suddenly, his pupils constricted.

"Sir?"

Seeing this, Wei Yu cried out in surprise.

The young master's face is so ugly, is there something wrong with that painting?
Zhuo Yibai ignored him, but spread out all the scrolls and checked them carefully, but the result was still the same.

"Could it have been dropped by someone?"

Zhuo Yibai frowned.

He had seen those paintings before dinner last night, and Miss Ye's portrait was among them.

People who dare to enter his house at night, probably not many people in the Zhuo Palace.

Zhuo Yibai put those scrolls into an envelope, and told the man driving: "Let's go back."

"Yes, my lord." The man driving the car responded, and drove the horse to turn around and return to the original road.

Not long after the carriage left, Xue Huaitan rode a fast horse and rushed back to Ye Mansion with a group of guards.

He got off his horse at the door and walked straight towards the main hall with an arrogant expression.

Mrs. Xue, who had been waiting there for a long time, came out with a smile on her face.

Mrs. Xue was wearing a royal blue silk dress and a huge necklace of pearls around her neck. She looked very wealthy.

"Mother, it's done!" Xue Huaidan smiled at the old lady and cupped his hands, saying.

Mrs. Xue raised her brows slightly, showing a very pleased look.

In this way, they can finally do it.

She sent the maid beside her: "Please bring Zhaoyan and Fugui here!"

"Yes." The maid answered and walked out quickly.

At this moment, Xue Zhiyan was walking into a courtyard in Ye Mansion, with a clever maid holding a tray by her side.

In a small and crude courtyard, a young man was sitting in front of a stone table, holding a writing brush in his hand. He was looking at something carefully while dipping the brush in ink, and wrote in beautiful cursive script.

Xue Zhiyan walked slowly, but the boy didn't even lift his eyelids.

She had to cough lightly and stepped forward.

"Ji Shaoxia, these are clothes custom-made for you by your grandmother, please accept them." Xue Zhiyan winked at the clever maid beside her.

The servant girl understood, smiled and handed the tray to Ji Sinian, bowed and said: "Ji Shaoxia, please taste it!"

Hearing this, Ji Sinian stopped writing, raised his head and glanced at the girl standing upright, with a look of surprise in his eyes, he said, "Give me clothes?"

With a slight smile on her face, Xue Zhiyan said in a warm voice: "I am ordered by my grandmother to come here as a gift of clothes, please Young Master Ji wear them."

There were two men's clothes of different styles on the tray. They were dressed in blue brocade with white soft satin around the waist. The hem of the clothes was painted with blossoming peach blossoms. The texture was clear and smooth, very beautiful and eye-catching, very in line with Ye Fu's aesthetics.

The other one is lavender, bright and gorgeous in color, exquisitely embroidered, with auspicious cloud pattern embroidered on it, it looks quite elegant and elegant, with excellent temperament.

Xue Zhiyan pushed the two sets of brocade clothes in front of Ji Sinian, and said with a smile: "Ji Shaoxia, grandma said, the young man is tall and straight, so it must be very suitable for him to wear."

Hearing this, Ji Sinian was slightly taken aback.

The lavender one is a bit heavy, and the tone is too gorgeous, while the blue one is refreshing and neat.

He put down the pen in his hand, picked up the blue brocade suit on the table, and looked at it carefully.

The blue brocade clothes were embroidered with complicated patterns, and a circle of peach petals was outlined with gold thread on the cuffs, which was lifelike, as if it was really about to bloom.

Xue Zhiyan moved closer, and whispered: "This is the color that Zhaoyan's younger sister likes."

Before she could finish her sentence, Ji Sinian's sharp gaze made her whole body tremble, she quickly shut up, laughed twice, and then took a step back.

He stared at Xue Zhiyan for a moment, then smiled slightly.

There was a layer of mist in those clear water-like pupils, as if some emotion was surging, which was unpredictable.

"Could it be that Miss Xue wants to make decisions for me?"

Ji Sinian asked calmly.

Although the matter between him and Ye Zhaoyan is imperative, as long as it is not finalized, it will always be unfair.

Miss Xue's family and her grandmother are so attentive, which means one can imagine.

These people are probably planning Ye Zhaoyan again.

Even he was included in the calculation.

Xue Zhiyan was stunned for a moment, and a look of embarrassment appeared on his face, "Of course, but it's up to Shaoxia Ji to decide."

"Miss Xue is a smart person."

Hearing this, Xue Zhiyan slightly lowered her eyelids to conceal the sternness in her eyes.

Ji Sinian sneered, "Then."

Before he finished speaking, he threw all the brocade clothes on the plate on the ground, turned around and walked towards the room.

"Hey!" Xue Zhiyan hastily chased after her.

"Ji Shaoxia, what are you?" Xue Zhiyan looked at the young man in front of him in puzzlement, a look of panic flashed across his face, "How could you throw grandma's heart on the ground?"

Her voice was somewhat aggrieved, as if she felt sorry for the clothes.

"Ms. Xue's family, why do you have to be hypocritical and ask questions knowingly?"

Ji Sinian's eyes stopped at the peach blossom texture on the cuff of the clothes, and his eyes darkened.

The color and embroidery are clearly according to the woman's preference.

Could it be that they want to create evidence that the two of them "give and receive in private".

Xue Zhiyan's face changed drastically when she heard his words.

"What do you mean?"

"literal meaning."

Xue Zhiyan gritted her teeth and stared at the young man in front of her.

This guy is so annoying!
However, from a family of swordsmen in the south of the Yangtze River, even if he has some fame, it is really shameful for him to dare to be so hypocritical in Ye Mansion.

Xue Zhiyan cursed him thousands of times in her heart, but she still maintained a pitiful expression on her face, stroking her weak and boneless arms with one hand.

She looked at Ji Sinian with a hurt face, "I don't understand what you're talking about?"

"Don't be stupid."

Ji Sinian sneered, and looked coldly at the girl in front of him, "You know what I said very well."

If he guessed right, the person in front of him is not just giving clothes.

Once the clothes are worn on the body, I am afraid there will be a later story.
Thinking of this, he got up and walked into the house, ignoring the people behind him.

(End of this chapter)