CH 24.1

The crown prince had been one of the most noble people in the world since he was born. Naturally, it was impossible to tolerate the woman who admired him got entangled with other men. What was more, he and Jiang Jinyue were still in an ambiguous period. As long as the crown prince was willing , he could change whenever he wanted, but Jiang Jinyue could only chase after him.

Seeing the crown prince left, Jiang Jinyue was really anxious, and hurriedly chased after him with her skirt, "Your Highness, Your Highness, listen to me, I really have nothing to do with Xu Tianming, it's all Jiang Lin's nonsense, it's Jiang Lin's slander, he wants to ruin my reputation."

"If you are doing well, then you are not afraid of slander. Besides, if you and Xu Tianming haven’t done shameful things, then you should say what you did when you were alone with him in a room?" Jiang Lin continued to add fuel to the fire.

The two good friends followed suit, "Yeah, tell me, tell me to prove your innocence."

"Also, why are you chasing His Highness the Crown Prince? Your brother Tianming is still lying here. Come back and see him. He did all this for you."

"Could it be that with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, you will look down on your Brother Tianming, wow, you flirtatious woman, you are so cruel."

Jiang Jinyue hurriedly chased after the Crown Prince to explain. She didn’t care about the words behind, but the others could hear it clearly, whoever was watching the fun laughed first, anyway, Jiang Jinyue had lost all face today, maybe she could only stay at home during this period of time.

Jiang Lin walked to Xu Tianming and asked him, "Do you feel okay?"

The strong hatred made Xu Tianming's face distorted, and he stared at Jiang Lin viciously, "Jiang Lin, wait, sooner or later you will fall into my hands, I will make your life worse than death!"

"Oh," Jiang Lin responded indifferently.

"It seems that your love for Jiang Jinyue can't outweigh your hatred for me. No wonder Jiang Jinyue ran away with the crown prince without even looking at you. You are miserable." He said miserable, but his tone showed no sympathy .

Xu Tianming gritted his teeth: "Jiang Lin, let's wait and see, I won't let you go!"

Jiang Lin spread his hands innocently, "Okay, I'll also let someone take a message to the Xu family."

Xu Tianming just wanted to ask Jiang Lin what he wanted to do, Jiang Lin had already been dragged away by Zhou Chengwang.

Even though today's good shows came one after another, the flower viewing banquet hadn't really started yet. Zhou Chengwang wanted to take Jiang Lin to meet Qinghe Junwang and his Wangfei.

[郡 jùn: county; 王Wáng: king or monarch; ruler; ]

[王妃   wáng fēi: princess]

Generally, the foreplay of this kind of banquet was a talent show by talented scholars and beauties, also known as the face-slapping session. It usually showed that someone dug a hole for the heroine, and then the heroine responded wisely, and then became famous in Shengjing, and began to fall into the eyes of this and that man .

But today, Jiang Jinyue's embarrassment made her completely lost, it was impossible to do slap in the face, at most she could save her reputation a little bit.

Because of this, Jiang Jinyue was the first to propose a performance, she wanted to do tanqin.

[弹琴   tán qín: to play or strum a lute or other stringed instrument]

Zhou Chengwang and the two sighed next to Jiang Lin, "I have to say, she's thick-skinned enough, she won't leave after she's like this."

Du Yuling also said: "

If you went back without entering the door before, maybe it would look better."

Jiang Lin: "So, she is so embarrassing and she still refuses to leave. What is she trying to do?"

Zhou Chengwang and Du Yuling looked at Jiang Lin at the same time, with surprise on their faces, "Isn't that... she has another trick?”

Jiang Lin looked at the wine glass in front of him and smiled faintly, "It's not a trick, it's because her plan hasn't even started yet.”

The male and female guests sit on one side, separated by a half curtain, and the host, Junwang and his Wangfei sit in the main seat, facing the center of the performance..

Jiang Jinyue led the maid out, bowed to the crown prince and Qinghe Junwang and his Wangfei, then sat down and began to pluck the strings.

Jiang Jinyue's eyes were still red, but she was beautiful. When she played the piano, her eyes moved and she looked at the crown prince frequently, but the crown prince's reaction was flat, and he didn't even look at Jiang Jinyue at all.

Jiang Lin picked up the wine glass and shook it, covered it with his sleeve and drank it, "It seems that this is not coaxing people well."

Zhou Chengwang: "He is a crown prince, how can he be so easy to coax, hey, why are you drinking alone? Wine, come, touch one."

Zhou Chengwang directed the servants behind to pour the wine, Jiang Lin didn’t refuse, he picked up the wine glass and touched each of them, and then drank it all in one gulp, this time he didn't block it.

The three of them were not interested in the tanqin and dancing performed by those girls, they were all absorbed in drinking and gossiping, one cup after another, and it didn't take long for them to hit it off.

At this time, the talent show had progressed from tanqin and dancing to reciting poems. Jiang Lin faintly heard someone calling his name, and he followed the voice, his eyes clouded.     

The one who called him was Qinghe Jun wangfei. She smiled gently at Jiang Lin and said, "You and Jinyue came out of the Houfu together, and you are brother and sister. You must have learned a lot. Why don't you compose the poem today?"

Jiang Lin got up, because he drank too much, his body was still swaying, Jiang Lin stared at Qinghe Jun wangfei and giggled, "It's strange that there are still people in Shengjing who don't know that I, Jiang Lin, am a dude. It's strange."

Jiang Lin was so happy, he turned his head and took the jug from the servant girl's hand, poured himself a glass and drank it cleanly, muttering how strange it was, so he sat down on the table and said nothing. There was no movement.

Qinghe Jun wangfei also blushed, looking angry and embarrassed.