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Seeing that Ye Yuning did not seem to care about all this, the passionate words of her mother flashed past Ye Yuchu's mind. She immediately shook her head, and her gaze landed on the paper in front of him.

When others were writing poems, Ye Yuning felt bored and quietly walked away. To him, these things were too boring and did not attract him at all. She wanted to go to the place that would attract her.

The garden at the back was rather big, comparable to the Duke of Pingjiang Palace in the capital. It was just that it lacked the lotus pond that everyone praised. Ye Yuning brought the two maids along as she strolled, and from time to time, she would go over to take a whiff of the fresh flowers.

Just then, an extremely soft voice came out of nowhere and reached Ye Yuning's ears. Ye Yuning stopped and frowned slightly.

"Miss, do you want to go over and take a look?" Ye Zichen asked in a low voice.

Ye Yuning shook her head. She was in the courtyard of someone else, if she saw anything, she would not be able to explain herself. She pondered and said: "Let's go back!"

After strolling around for less than an hour, he reckoned that the other party had already finished their poems.

Ye Yuning did not hesitate at all and turned to leave.

Just as her figure gradually disappeared, a figure walked out from the fake mountain not far away.

"Was someone here just now?"

That person's expression was sinister and his voice was low and hoarse. It brought with it a chilling intent. There seemed to be someone else behind the fake mountain. He could only hear a voice as light as a mosquito.

"I wonder if she heard our conversation …" "You can't get lucky with this. Find out who the person was just now and settle this matter as soon as possible!" With that, the person waved his sleeve and instantly disappeared into the shadows.

Ye Yuning did not know that the danger was approaching him.

Returning to the pavilion, Miss Zhao was just about to let the four young masters compare the levels of today's poems. Shen Yunxing leaned on the side, looking lack of interest. No matter how others tried to talk to him, he would just ignore them.

Ye Yuning found it funny. This guy sure made people grind their teeth in anger when he was putting on an act, but they couldn't do anything about it. Presumably, he was not the only one who could do nothing to Young Master Shen, many people felt the same way. It was just that because of Shen Yunxing's identity, no one said anything.

Very quickly, all of the poems had their scores evaluated, so the one who ranked first was naturally Miss Zhao. Ye Yuchu also ranked fifth, receiving a Jade Orchid hairpin as a prize.

When the results came out, Ye Yuchu was so excited her face flushed red. One must know that last year, when Ye Yuhuan came to participate in the poetry meet, he did not receive anything, but instead looked up to the heavens.

This time's fifth place was already a pretty good result for her. Ye Yuchu carefully put away the hairpin and started to chat with the others, leaving Ye Yuning to the side.

Just as Ye Yuning was bored out of her mind, she suddenly heard a familiar clear and bright voice, "Slow rush, at least I managed to catch up."

Turning his head, he saw a familiar figure standing there. Ye Yuning immediately opened his eyes wide, his face was full of joy.

"Immersed Fish, you're back?"

The person who came was around the same age as Ye Yuning, wearing a bright purple jacket and skirt, outlining her beautiful figure, her pair of big eyes were black and white, looking extremely beautiful, and her smile was colorful, attracting everyone's attention as soon as she appeared.

Ji Chenyu was Ye Yuning's close friend of many years, the most outstanding daughter of the Ji family.

The Ji Family was originally a merchant, but Ji Chenyu's grandfather had donated an official's body, causing the Ji Family to flourish from then on. However, just like the Ye Clan, the Ji Clan was not accepted by those prestigious clans.

Merchants were still merchants after all. No matter how much money they used to make a connection, nothing could change the root of their business. This kind of inherent concept had already been planted in everyone's heart.

Ye Yuning had gotten to know Ji Chenyu at a banquet, and because of their identities, the two of them had been rejected by the crowd. Ye Yuning remained taciturn, but Ji Chenyu straightforwardly left the room.

Seeing Ji Chenyu, Ye Yuning rejoiced from the bottom of her heart. In her previous life, the last time she saw Ji Chenyu was before she got married. Since then, Ji Chenyu had never met her good friend again.

Now that he saw her pink and tender face, Ye Yuning only felt that it had been a lifetime.

"Why are you back now?" Ye Yuning couldn't help but ask as he stepped forward and held Ji Chenyu's hand.

So much time had passed that she could not remember some things clearly. He only remembered that when he was thirteen years old, Ji Chenyu went to the Spirit Serpent Region and only returned after a few months.

But now, he had come back a lot earlier.

Ji Chenyu caressed her earlobes, and said with a bright smile on her face: "I was just visiting my family, and I came back after I finished. How are you these days? "

The two of them had not seen each other for a long time, so they did not know what to say.

The other young mistresses couldn't help but show their disdain and despise when they saw the two of them gathering together. Ye Yuchu blushed on behalf of Ye Yuning as she stepped forward to pull her.

However, Ye Yuning did not feel that there was anything wrong with what she had done. She was not interested in this poetry meet, and if it were not for the fact that she was afraid of embarrassing Qin Du'er, she would not have participated in this kind of gathering.

His future husband would not be someone he could meet casually. He would have a lifetime worth of experience, and he needed to pay more attention to these matters in this life.

"Is the poetry meeting over? "Then we'll take our leave first." Ye Yuning raised her head, smiled at Miss Zhao and stood up to leave.

Didn't everyone try to curry favor with her during every poetry meet and be unwilling to leave? Why does this Miss Ye not know etiquette?

Miss Zhao's heart was in turmoil, but she did not reveal it on the surface. She nodded slightly and said, "If Third Miss Ye has any matters, she might as well leave first."

Hearing this, Ye Yuning and Ji Chenyu left together. Everyone could not help but cast sidelong glances at the merchant's young miss. They felt that they had gained another two points in their evaluation of her.

"Third Sister, with so many people watching us, are we really going to leave?" Ye Yuchu said unwillingly. There were indeed not many opportunities like this on her body, and if she were to leave like this, then the rank she had meticulously obtained just now would no longer have any meaning of continuing.

Ye Yuning swept her eyes across Ye Yuchu, and said indifferently, "If you want to stay, I won't stop you. It's just that I don't have any other thoughts, so you make your own decision." While speaking, without waiting for Ye Yuchu's reply, she pulled Ji Chenyu and disappeared from everyone's line of sight.

Once she left, Ye Yuchu could not stay any longer. He stomped his feet in anger and could only follow along.

They were riding on the same carriage today, so if Ye Yuning returned back first, she would not be able to return home later.

If he knew that Ye Yuning would be so reckless, he wouldn't have followed her out. In this way, not only did he fail to show off in front of everyone, he even became the target of some rude words.