Chapter 220 - Heirs from Four Great Manors (1/2)

Chapter 220: Heirs from Four Great Manors

Bai Yihao lightly smiled. This time, he didn’t say anything and just picked the wine Feng Yuran handed. Bai Yihao also slightly raised the cup and gulped it down.

Music rang from both banks. A broad boat slowly sailed forward, where high and s.p.a.cious platforms were set up. On the platforms, a group of dancers from the princess’s manor were dancing to the music. Maids who stood on both sides of the platforms were carrying flower baskets. From time to time, they would draw out dried flowers from the baskets and spread them to the banks. The scene looked very beautiful.

Beautiful scenery like this in winter was extremely enticing. At that time, the audience burst into cheers.

At the table where Luo Youwen sat, there were only four heirs from Four Great Manors. Now, Ding General Manor’s hair, Ling Mingfeng, sat at the right side of Luo Youwen. Suddenly, Ling Mingfeng pushed Luo Youwen’s hand and lowered his voice to ask, “Youwen, is the girl opposite your cousin?”

At that moment, Luo Youwen couldn’t understand which one he was referring to. Looking in the direction Ling Mingfeng pointed, as expected, Luo Youwen saw several young misses around Princess Royal. Because there were quite a few people there, Luo Youwen failed to recognize them at the time. “Mingfeng, which one did you point to?”

Four Great Manors had been on good terms with each other, and the four heirs were the future inheritors of the families. In their childhood, the four families had deliberately left them bonding with each other. Therefore, no matter what trouble the families were in on the surface, at least, the four heirs were close in private. They were of similar age and weren’t married, so they didn’t care so much about manners.

Ling Mingfeng smilingly asked. He was a somewhat delicate young man, dressed fancily. He was beaming as he pa.s.sed a cup of wine to Luo Wenyou. “That one. The one in plain white. She’s sitting by your sister and wearing a jewel hairpin.”

Luo Wenyou blandly glanced at him and took the wine, sipping on it. “She’s indeed my cousin. Why? Is there a problem?”

Ping General Manor’s heir, Chen Yanyu, was sitting by them. Chen Yanyu cut in before Ling Mingfeng could answer. “There’s no problem. Lingfeng just wants to chat her up. Don’t you know him? He can’t move his feet before a beauty. I really don’t know what his thing is. Every time Princess Royal throws a party, he’s the first one to show up.”

Embarra.s.sed by Chen Yanyu, Ling Mingfeng glared at him, displeased. “Yanyu, don’t talk nonsense. When… when was I so ungrateful? Today, when I arrived, you and Yuecheng were already here.”

Chen Yanyu teased and blinked at him as if saying “We all know you”. “We came early because Her Highness asked us to. We’re here to set up the tables. We didn’t know why you’re here so early. In the morning, you must’ve seen enough beauties in the garden. Don’t pretend. We’re all close. Youwen knows who you are.”

Ling Mingfeng pushed away Chen Yanyu’s cup, displeased. Then, he directly approached Luo Wenyou. “You’re talking nonsense. Am I that kind of person? Youwen, your cousin hasn’t come here, has she?”

Luo Wenyou blankly explained. “My cousin has lived in Capital City. She came to the capital only recently.” He didn’t want to tell too much about Mo Xuetong.

Though Mo Xuetong had attended the party that these two threw in the palace, she was very low-key. At that time, boys and girls were separated afar. Many didn’t see her. Later, in Fu General Manor’s banquet, she only stayed with Luo Mingzhu and other n.o.ble ladies, and never showed her faces publicly.

Instead, her elder sister, Luo Xuemin, had been on everyone’s lips. She had stirred the entire city with her incidents one after another. It was really hard for her not to “s.h.i.+ne”.

Chen Yanyu suddenly thought of something and asked, surprised. “Is this cousin the third younger sister First Miss Mo talked about in the palace?”

Though he wasn’t present, the thing had spread widely. Then, something like that happened outside the palace, which was also an affair among the n.o.ble families. Naturally, many people spread the story in different versions. The most popular one was that First Miss Mo envied her younger sister’s pretty face and legal daughter status. Therefore, she framed her younger sister in the palace to ruin the latter’s name. They didn’t expect that the younger sister with a pretty face was in Princess Royal’s manor.

The rumor turned out to false. Moreover, after leaving the palace, unexpectedly, Mo Xuemin secretly met with Sima Lingyun and was so unlucky as to be robbed on the way. In the end, they were found together lying on the street…

Anyway, because of this First Miss Mo’s fame, the third miss, who was rumored to be very beautiful, was also mentioned in the anecdote. This left many n.o.ble young masters interested in Mo Xuetong, who they never met before.

Luo Wenyou sounded ambiguous, but everyone understood him. “My cousin has been kind. I don’t know what she did to upset First Miss Mo…”

Ling Mingfeng interrupted in a despised tone, looking at You Yuecheng opposite, who was silent and only sipping on his wine. “She’s really mean, that First Miss Mo. I’ve met her once. She looks fine but is a little annoying. She can really talk, but the thing she does is really degrading.”

“Yuecheng, I heard you’re close to that First Miss Mo. I really don’t know why you didn’t see it. Such a woman is pretty but isn’t decent. You didn’t avoid her and even testified for her. That thing involved with Minister Li’s son ended up bad, didn’t it? A woman snuck out in the middle of the night. She was definitely meeting with her secret lover. If Sima Lingyun marries her, he’ll be a cuckold instead of a decent official.”

They were talking about the incident that involved Mo Xuemin and Li Youmo last time!