The next day, at the invitation of Mrs. Zhou, Li Yan took the carriage to the Zhou Mansion of the Duwei again.

Compared with the previous few days, her mood is becoming more and more complicated today. After all, just yesterday, her father, County Governor Li, had agreed to the marriage proposal of the Zhou Duwei. In other words, she had already entered the Zhou Mansion of the Duwei with one foot. After the marriage, she would officially become the wife of the Zhou Duwei.

Logically speaking, she was already quietly staying at home to prepare for the marriage, but her future sister, "Sister Jing", or "Madam Jing", once again invited her to visit the mansion.

If it was said that it was to test her last time, what about this time?

"...Isn't it a discussion with me about the marriage?"

Li Yan, who is not very familiar with the world, couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

If you think about it carefully, it is not impossible. After all, according to rumors, Zhou Duwei and Mrs. Jing were close neighbors of Nanyang County. They met since childhood and the two families decided to get married early. However, the war disasters in Nanyang County more than ten years ago made both elders unfortunately killed. Only Zhou Duwei and Mrs. Jing escaped by chance and fled to Kunyang County, Yingchuan County.

It is said that these two are not a few years older than her, so it is not impossible to discuss marriage with her.

only……

"Realistically speaking, shouldn't we discuss it with my father and mother?"

Miss Li was thinking randomly.

Soon, the carriage arrived at the gate of the Duwei Zhou Mansion.

Just like last time, there were Qing'er and Yao'er's two maids, waiting for her arrival, in front of the mansion.

After Li Yan got off the carriage with the help of a accompanying maid, the two maids immediately came forward and saluted her and greeted her: "Ms. Li."

"Well... I'll have to work hard again."

Li Yan responded politely.

Qing'er and Yao'er looked at each other, and said nothing, leading Li Yan and a maid who was accompanying him into the mansion. As for the carriages when the master and servant came, there were people from the Duwei Zhou Mansion who would guard it.

After a while, Li Yan, led by Qing'er and Yao'er, came to the main hall of the north room and saw the quiet girl sitting in the hall.

"Sister Jing."

Li Yan took the lead in greetings.

"Sister is here?"

Jingnu stood up, stepped forward and held Li Yan's hand. While exchanging greetings, she led the former into the side room to speak, and at the same time ordered the maids to serve incense tea.

"Is Sister Xin'er not here?"

Because he didn't see the palace maid Xin, Li Yan asked curiously.

Jingnv replied with a smile: "She is on the princess's side..."

"oh……"

Li Yan's expression changed a little, and she didn't ask any more questions.

She knew that the Xiangrui Princess, who was deeply loved by today, was now living in the small courtyard on the east side of this mansion.

She also knew that the princess's mother, the wife of Yecheng, also wanted to match the happy events of her daughter and Zhou Duwei, so she allowed her daughter to follow Zhou Duwei to come to Xuchang again.

To be honest, she felt that the way the wife of Yecheng Hou was a bit...inappropriate, but when she thought of her father, Junjun Li, she had no face to say anything.

After all, she also understood that her father, Junjung Li, hoped that she would marry into the Zhou Mansion before the princess, so as not to have too many dreams.

After a while, the tea was served, and Jingnv stepped back and chatted with Li Yan alone in the side room, talking about some unimportant topics, which made Li Yan really puzzled: What did this sister ask him for?

At this moment, there was a loud knock on the door outside the door. Before Li Yan could react, she heard a voice: "Jing'er, are you and Miss Li in the house?"

『Emperor Zhou?』

Li Yan, who recognized the voice, immediately showed a hint of panic on her face, and her pretty face turned red.

Because the person who came was not someone else, she would be her husband in the future.

"How could Wei Du of Zhou be..."

She looked at Jingnu in panic, but saw Jingnu smiling and pressing her hands towards her, signaling her not to panic. Immediately, the lady stood up and opened the door.

Immediately, a man wearing a half-mask stepped into the house.

Li Yan, who was uneasy in her heart, stood up, leaned against the table, and looked at the man who seemed to be looking at her with a blushing face. After a moment of panic, she quickly lowered her head and saluted, "Emperor Zhou..."

The person coming was Zhao Yu. He exchanged a dark color with Jingnv, then walked towards the table with a smile, and said, "Sorry, have you scared?"

"It's not..."

Li Yan barely showed a polite smile.

To be honest, she was indeed scared by the sudden appearance of the Zhou Duwei. Although the two had already been married, she had never thought that she would meet this future husband at this time, and was not mentally prepared for it.

"Sit down and talk."

"Well...thank you, Captain Zhou."

"Don't be restrained." Looking at Li Yan, who was obviously nervous, Zhao Yu glanced at the Jingnv who had closed the door and walked towards them, and then chuckled and said to Li Yan: "That's right, Miss Li, where is me, I discussed with your sister Jing two days ago. Naturally, I welcome Miss Li to be my family, but at the same time, I also hope that Miss Li was not forced by her parents. Therefore, Sister Jing invited you to visit and wanted to hear your own opinions..."

"I see."

Li Yan suddenly realized that she felt that Mrs. Zhou and Mrs. Xiner did not mean to evaluate her last time, but just asked her about something intimately. It turned out that time was not an assessment, but wanted to see what she thought.

She gradually calmed down and nodded and thanked: "Thank you, Zhou Duwei and Sister Jing, for thinking about me so much. Although... although... although the marriage between the two families was strongly advocated by their father,...but I...don't..."

The last few words are as light as mosquito sounds. Not to mention the quiet girl, even Zhao Yu didn't hear them clearly. However, looking at the blushing look of Miss Li, it is not difficult to guess the general meaning.

"That's good."

Zhao Yu smiled and took over the sentence: "Zhou doesn't want abrupt and beautiful woman."

"What, what kind of beauty? Zhou Duwei has won the award. The little girl Pu Liu's figure is not as good as Sister Jing on the ground..." Miss Li's heart was thumping.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu stopped talking about anything else, coughed, and directed the topic to his purpose of coming: "With Miss Li's favor, Zhou is quite honored, but before that, Zhou has something to tell Miss Li..."

"Please speak with Emirate Zhou."

Maybe because of feeling something, Li Yan subconsciously sat upright.

She felt that maybe this time was the test.

However, what surprised her again was that the Zhou Duwei in front of her talked about the fire injury to her: "...Miss Li should know that Zhou had been injured by fire?"

"...Hmm." Li Yan nodded, and then seemed to think of something, lowered her head and said, "Lieutenant Zhou Dujiang said a few days ago, it seems that his fire injury is about to heal?"

"Yes." Zhao Yu nodded with a smile and said, "It is probably because Zhou has never done anything that harms the sky in the past. Therefore, God has seen pity, which has allowed my fire to heal. However, the outside world is still full of controversy, which makes Zhou a little worried, worried that Miss Li will be troubled by rumors."

From the side, Jingnv also smiled and said, "My sister is the daughter of County Governor Li. She is both talented and beautiful. I don't know how many men are thinking about her. Now that her sister is about to marry into my family, there will inevitably be some bad things about those people. My husband and I have long been accustomed to it, so I am worried that my sister will not be able to withstand those rumors and be troubled by them."

Li Yan suddenly realized in her heart and said calmly: "Please rest assured by Zhou Duwei and Sister Jing. I don't care about those rumors."

When she said this, she couldn't help but wonder: In Yingchuan, there are still people who dare to say bad things about the Zhou Duwei in front of her?

As far as she knows, the Zhou Duwei in front of her is very strong...

And at this moment, Zhao Yu and Jingnu looked at each other, then smiled and said to Li Yan, "That's the best. Since that's the case..."

As he said that, he raised his hand to the mask on his face.

"Is he... going to show me his true appearance?"

Li Yan, who noticed this, didn't even bother to think about it. She subconsciously opened her eyes slightly, stared at Zhao Yu's face without turning around, and her heart was pounding.

This time it wasn't because she was shy or moved, she was just very nervous.

After all, there was a lot of rumor about this Zhou Duwei, so how could she not know?

To put it bluntly, if the rumors outside were not too terrifying, how could her father wait until today to start to get her married to the Zhou Duwei in front of him? - Zhou Duwei was already the Yingchuan County lieutenant two years ago!

"Calm down, calm down, Li Yan, even if... you must not show any disgust..."

She subconsciously held her breath and waited for the impact she was about to face.

She told herself secretly that no matter how scary the fire on this Zhou Duwei's face was, she must not show any disgust or disgust, otherwise... her life would be over.

Just when she was extremely nervous, Zhao Yu slowly took off the half of the tiger-patterned mask on his face, placed the mask in a corner next to the table, and showed his real face in front of Miss Li.

『Calm down, cold...hey?"

Miss Li, who was originally waiting to face some kind of impact, opened her red lips slightly in shock.

She thought the fire wound on this Zhou Duwei's face would be so scary. Isn't this good?

This... has healed a little bit, right? Why didn't there even be a scar?

Has this Zhou Duwei really been injured?

In addition to being shocked, Miss Li couldn't help but raise her hand, gently stroked the face of Zhou Duwei in front of her with her index finger and middle finger, and gently stroked it from the corner of her forehead to her face...

"cough."

The quiet girl who came from beside her suddenly coughed lightly.

Miss Li suddenly woke up. Only then did she realize what she was doing. The ground was red and she quickly pulled her hand back. She pinched the corner of her clothes with her right hand and looked embarrassed. She immediately lowered her head.

『What am I doing...』

At this moment, she felt extremely shy.

In front of the wife of the housekeeper, she actually reached out to touch a man's face. Although this man was her future husband and could not be considered an outsider, she had not passed the door yet, so how could she do such a frivolous act?
To be continued...