Flowers are expensive

Chapter 519 Suspicion 1
Zuo Xing said disdainfully: "Why are you so anxious with him? He just looks like a dog with his back bent, who is not like this? Go, follow and see where he and the little princess are going to have a private meeting!"

After saying that, the two brothers followed up stealthily.Zuo Yan and Ming Yue arrived at the Faguang Temple in the city in a sedan chair.After entering the temple, he first went to the main hall to pray for Zuo Yan's mother.Although Mingyue was impatient, but considering it was the anniversary of Zuo Yan's mother's death, she sat on the futon and waited obediently.

After praying and chanting sutras, Zuo Yan led Mingyue out of the main hall and walked to a quiet place in the backyard.Mingyue asked impatiently: "What exactly do you want to say? I've come with you, and I've finished chanting the scriptures, so it's time to say it?"

"Wouldn't it be better to go shopping more?" Zuo Yan asked with a sideways smile, "If you go back, you can only stay in Prince Qi's mansion, can't you?"

"If you don't tell me, I'm really leaving."

"Do you remember? There is a holy water well in the backyard?" Zuo Yan changed the subject.

"Remember! So what?"

"I heard that drinking the water from the holy water well can make your wish come true, don't you want to try?"

Mingyue rolled her eyes and said, "Why did you get your wish? I promised it when I was a child, but now I haven't got it!"

"What wish did you make when you were a child?"

Mingyue squinted her hands and said, "Why did I tell you? You and I don't know each other very well."

"Then why not make another one now, maybe it will make your wish come true! For example—" Zuo Yan suddenly stopped, turned to face Mingyue and said with a smile, "Make a wish to help your Dongguo family."

"Oh? Do you still have such a wish?" Mingyue said with a mocking smile, "Why haven't I heard of it, the third young master from the left?"

"It's not that you haven't heard of it, it's that you haven't thought about it."

"Then let's hear it?"

"For example, you can make a wish... Let me help you Qi Wangfu."

"Eh?" Mingyue thought she heard it wrong, and asked with her head tilted, "You just said to help us in Prince Qi's Mansion? Are you joking, Third Young Master Zuo?"

Zuo Yan smiled and said, "Why don't you try it, maybe it will really work."

"It's boring! You want to be funny, find someone else! I'm going back..."

"Mingyue," Zuo Yan stretched out his hand to grab her arm, gently brought her back and said, "Do you think I went all the way to bring you here just for a silly joke?"

Mingyue pushed his hand away, and said solemnly: "I really think so. Third Young Master Zuo, my brain is not good, but my memory is not bad, your surname is Zuo, can I trust you? Maybe you Just treat me like an ignorant girl, and then tell me to believe you, and then want to know something from me? Please save yourself, I won't believe you. "

"It's no wonder," Zuo Yan shook his head lightly, "You hate our Zuo family, so naturally you won't believe me."

"It's good that you know. Although I'm younger than you, I'm still not an ignorant girl, and I'm not so easy to coax. Is there anything else? If it's okay, I really have to go. If you want to go to the temple, you can ask My cousin Aster came with you, anyway, aren't you going to get married soon?"

Zuo Yan glanced outside the gate of the courtyard and said, "If I'm telling the truth, Mingyue? If I help you Prince Qi's mansion, will you marry me?" Mingyue said with a cold smile: "This sounds too Is it fake? You called me here today just to make a joke? I think you, the third young master Zuo, really have nothing to do!"

Zuo Yan shook his head lightly and said: "I'm not kidding, it's true. If you promise to marry me after the matter is completed, I'm willing to help you Qi Wangfu."

"Why?" Mingyue raised her hands, looked at him with a puzzled look and asked, "Is the Zuo family not good? You need to take this risk?"

"Are you okay? Why can't I take this risk for you?" Zuo Yan asked back.

These words sounded so ambiguous, and Mingyue, a young girl who had just started her love, really felt her heart beat faster.Her cheeks were slightly flushed, and she said angrily, "Don't be such a prodigal son, can you? If you talk like this again, I really won't talk to you anymore!"

"Think about it, Mingyue," Zuo Yan said with a smile, "This deal is very cost-effective. If you agree, I will help you turn over Qi Wangfu. The condition is very simple, just that you marry me."

"Are you serious?"

"Really." Zuo Yan nodded sincerely.

But Mingyue still didn't believe him, how could she believe him based on just a few words?

At this time, Zuo Yan glanced at the gate of the courtyard again, approached Mingyue and said softly, "Let's go to the bell tower over there to talk."

"why?"

"I'll tell you when I go."

"Why are you always like this? There is always a mysterious feeling!"

"Let's go!"

Afterwards, Zuo Yan led Mingyue up to the five-story bell tower.The two stood side by side inside the railing, looking up into the distance, one with a calm expression, and the other with a puzzled face.

Zuo Yan glanced down the bell tower, and said softly, "Didn't you notice that someone was following behind?"

"Really? Where is it?" Mingyue was slightly taken aback.

"The vigilance is so low, how can you save your Qi Palace?"

"I..." Mingyue pouts to defend, "I just think who would be so boring to follow you and me?"

Zuo Yan smiled and asked: "Then have you thought about it?"

"Think of what?"

"What I just said."

"Well... I can't trust you yet, who knows what tricks you are playing?"

"As long as you promise me, I won't tell you anything about Prince Qi's mansion. Don't you feel relieved?"

Mingyue's small face was full of doubts, she put her hands behind her back and thought for a while and said, "Is there such a cheap thing?"

"Still don't believe it?"

"I don't believe it," Mingyue shook her head and said, "Why do you let the third young master of the Zuo family be wrong, and want to be the little son-in-law of Prince Qi's mansion?"

Zuo Yan looked into the distance and said, "Do you know why my grandma hates me and Zuo Xing brothers so much?"

"do not know."

"Because we are born of concubines. She hates children born of concubines, and concubines like Aunt An."

"Why?" Mingyue asked curiously.

"Because of one person."

"Who?"

"My uncle - Zuo Xi."

"Zuoxi?" Mingyue turned it over in her mind and said, "I've never heard of it! Is he also from your Zuo family?"

Zuo Yan turned his head and said with a smile: "He is not only from our Zuo family, but also your mother's fiancé."

"Ah? My mother... my mother's fiancé?" Mingyue was taken aback, "Then why did my mother marry my father? He died?"

"It's not that he's dead, it's that he escaped from marriage. Escaping from your mother's marriage has caused the Zuo family and the Yu family to lose face, and also made my grandma feel very ashamed. Zuo Xi was born to my grandfather's concubine. There are only two daughters, and before my grandfather died, she insisted on adopting a son from the same family, that is my father."

"So your grandma hates concubine children?"

"Actually, she shouldn't have hated her that much in the past. It was only because my uncle escaped from marriage that the Zuo family couldn't stand up in the capital at that time, and was even accused by the Yu family. They lost all face."

"So that's it! No wonder she doesn't like you so much! Then where did your uncle go? He's so courageous! He dared to run away from my mother's marriage, and my mother didn't send him to death with a single sword?"

Zuo Yan smiled and said: "Since he escaped from marriage, no one has seen him again. He was also kicked out of the Zuo family tree by my grandma. In my grandma's opinion, those who come out of concubines are not good things, they will all be like me." Like my uncle, I betrayed the Zuo family and did some useless things. My mother died early, and my grandma planned to send me to another relative in the Zuo family to raise me, but my father refused. When I was young, I thought my father loved me so he didn’t let me. Grandma sent me away. Later, when I grew up and became more sensible, I realized that what my father needs is only a son."

"What... what do you mean?"

"Don't understand? My father is very ambitious, and he discovered it after he participated in political affairs. He needs sons, especially capable sons like my elder brother and second brother, so even my sister was trained by him to be a female pioneer officer. He needs more sons to help him and fight for him. As for who the son is and who gave birth to him, he doesn't care at all," Zuo Yan said with a contemptuous smile, "Just like today, how many people will remember him?" Is it my mother's death day? Even if someone thinks about it, no one will pay attention to it."

After hearing these words, Mingyue felt a little sympathetic to Zuo Yan.On weekdays, I always see Zuo Yan with a faint smile, thinking that he is having a good life!I didn't expect such a sad past.

"So," Zuo Yan looked at Mingyue and said with a smile, "What I said just now was not a joke. I don't want to be the third young master of the Zuo family. If you are willing to fulfill my wish, I would rather be the little son-in-law of Prince Qi's mansion."

"Why... is it me?" Mingyue lowered her head and asked a little shyly.

"I think...the first time I saw you, I already remembered you in my heart. Can't you remember? Where did we meet for the first time?" Zuo Yan asked with a smile.

Mingyue turned her numb mind, indeed, she couldn't remember these things at all!To be precise, if her own father hadn't planned to betroth her to Zuo Yan, she didn't care much about Zuo Yan, she just treated him as the son of an elder who had contacts from time to time.

"There," Zuo Yan said, pointing to the holy water well not far downstairs, "I don't think you remember it either, and you were only five or six years old at that time."

"Five or six years old?" Mingyue stretched out a palm to gesture, and asked wonderingly, "Did you see me when I was five or six years old? How old are you!"

"That year was the first time I contradicted my grandma, and it was also the last time I contradicted her. The consequences of contradicting were terrible. Not to mention the beating, I was also fined to strip the young master's clothes and go to the kitchen as a servant. That day was I came to the temple with the elders in my family, and I wore the clothes of a servant, which poor servant did you think I was at that time!"

"And then? Have I spoken to you?"

Zuo Yan nodded and said with a smile: "I said it, you gave me the pearl on your neck so proudly, and asked me to pawn it to buy something to eat."

"Ah?" Mingyue reflexively touched the pearl hanging around her neck, blinked her eyes and asked, "Then you took it?"

"Take it."

"Hey, are you willing to take it? You pretended to be a servant and lied to me about pearls. You can do such things at such a young age?"

"You gave it to me yourself, why should I not?"

"I... I... I was deceived by you, okay?" Mingyue stretched out her hand, "Where's the pearl? You can't really treat it as something to buy, right? Give it back to me, little liar!"

Zuo Yan patted her palm with a smile, and said: "I'll talk about the pearl later, first let me talk about the conditions I just mentioned, do you agree? If you agree, I will do my best to help you Qi Wangfu, and I will definitely do what I say. arrive."

Mingyue lowered her head, stepped on the wooden floor under her feet, hesitated for a moment and said, "Don't you think you're taking advantage of others?"

"These are all things to say later, just say whether you agree or not!"

"I'm going to promise, will you really help our Qi Palace?"

"Yes, absolutely. Why don't I help my own fiancée and future father-in-law?"

(End of this chapter)