Good Luck Wedding 038 - Is This Okay?

These past few years, in order to write records of mountains and rivers, Chang Yu’an traveled around with Yue Changgou to experience the customs and practices of various places.

He had been on the border of Nanyue when he received the news that Ye Yunting had been selected by the Directorate of Astronomy to be married to Prince Yong’an. As soon as he got the news, he took Yue Changgou and rushed back to Shangjing without rest. But they arrived a step too late.

When they arrived, not only had Ye Yunting already entered the Yong’an Palace and become the Wangfei, but the situation had also completely reversed. It seemed that Prince Yong’an, who had been seriously ill and dying, wasn’t going to be dying anytime soon.

Therefore, what Yue Changgou could only do was try to send a letter to the palace to see if he could contact Ye Yunting. If that didn’t work, they would find another way to sneak into the Prince’s palace and find out Ye Yunting’s current condition.

“The situation is better than what Teacher and I imagined.” Yue Changgou said. “Before we returned to the capital, Teacher and I thought that if you were faring too poorly in the palace, we would sneak you out of the palace at night and take you away from the capital to live freely. “

He poured wine for Ye Yunting and raised his chin in the direction of Chang Yu’an: “Look at Teacher; he was anxious and angry all the way, and he lost a lot of weight.”

Dressed in gray robes, Chang Yu’an had a slim figure, a clear face, and two long strands of hair hanging below his ears. He exuded the air of an immortal with a thorough understanding of world affairs.

But now, his face looked a little sad and tired, making him appear a little more mundane. He rolled up his sleeves and picked up the wine glass. With a playful smile on his face, he glanced at him and scolded, “You’re just talking nonsense.” “

After speaking, he looked at Ye Yunting with concern. “How are you doing these days?”

“I have missed you, Teacher.” Ye Yunting stood up and bowed, then sat down again and told them about his experiences these days.

Upon hearing his words, Yue Changgou was surprised and said, “So, it sounds like Prince Yong’an is not bad.” He looked at Ye Yunting up and down, and then looked aside to Ji Lian, who was busy eating and hadn’t spoken a word. He raised his eyebrows and smiled.

“If it was before, I would have suspected Shidi to be filling me with empty words, but looking at Ji Lian, I know that you are not telling lies this time.”

After he finished speaking, he reached across the table, pinched Ji Lian’s round cheeks which were becoming more and more plump, making them shake. “Look, he seems to have gained a lot of weight. As expected of brothers, you share the hardships and share the fatness.”

Ji Lian:???

His mouth was full of food, and his face was suddenly pinched. He could only swallow with difficulty, and said unhappily, “You…are so fat!”

Yue Changgou smiled and let go, moving the plate of oily pork knuckles in front of him. “Yes, yes, yes, I’m fat, so I have to eat less. I’ll give this to you.”

Ji Lian immediately calmed down, rolled his eyes at him, and happily ate the pig’s knuckles.

Yue Changgou continued discuss the matter at hand to Ye Yunting: “But what are your plans for the future?”

What plans?

Ye Yunting froze for a moment, then hesitantly said, “I, I haven’t thought about it yet…”

He had really not thought about it. Before working together with Li Fengqi, he had thought that after Li Fengqi ascended the throne, he would fake his own death and leave the capital. Then he would travel around the world like his husband and live happily.

Now, however, he rarely thought about this. It seemed that most of the time, his thoughts were more about how to help Li Fengqi avoid the tragedy in his previous life.

“Then think about it now.” Yue Changgou said, dissatisfied. “You can’t stay in Prince Yong’an’s palace forever. Even though Prince Yong’an treats you quite well, how can you, a man, stay in the palace as Wangfei?”

Chang Yu’an also nodded in agreement. “If you have nowhere to go, you can first go to Nanyue with me.”

“Nanyue is in the south, separated from Shangjing by a hundred and eighty thousand li.” Yue Changgou also felt that this was very feasible, and said enthusiastically, “If you follow us to Nanyue, neither the Duke of Qi nor Prince Yong’an will ever have any connection with you again.”

He counted off the advantages of Nanyue with his fingers: the local customs, food and wine… Ji Lian’s eyes widened as he listened.

Ye Yunting’s brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and his eyes became more hesitant: “I…I’ll think about it again.”

“You don’t want to leave Beizhao?” Chang Yu’an looked at him, as if he had seen through his hesitation. “Or is it that you don’t want to leave Shangjing? Is there anything in Shangjing that is worthy of your thoughts?”

Ye Yunting started to speak, but what flashed through his mind was Li Fengqi’s smiling phoenix eyes.

Li Fengqi was in a difficult situation and only had the Elder Wangfei by his side. If Ye Yunting left, Li Fengqi would have to face those plots alone… Moreover, he had not yet found a chance to remind him of the matter between Yang Buwei and the Shen family.

The more he thought about it, the more hesitant Ye Yunting’s expression became. He bit his cheek and said apologetically, “Yes, Teacher, please allow me to think about it.”

Chang Yu’an did not make the decision for him. He nodded and said, “I only mentioned it. You should think about it carefully. If you don’t want to leave, I won’t force you.”

It was the opportune time to return to the capital for Ye Yunting and then leave Beizhao.

But this was his idea. If Ye Yunting didn’t want to, he wouldn’t force him.

Having said this, the three of them, master and students, stopped talking about the matter and simply drank and chatted about some interesting things they saw along the way. By the time Ye Yunting came to his senses and realized that it was time to return to the palace, the sky had already darkened.

He looked at the dim and poorly-lit scene outside the window, put down his wine glass, and said, “It’s getting late, so I’ll go on ahead.”

Yue Changgou propped his chin against his hand and gently swirled the wine glass. “Why don’t you rest here tonight? There’s a room prepared for you here. Just ask the driver to return to the palace to deliver a message.”

Ye Yunting instinctively refused, but felt that the had been too quick to answer, so he added, “…it’s better to return today. There will be a banquet at the palace on the 15th, and there are still many things we’re busy with.”

“Banquet?” Yue Changgou sat upright, becoming more energetic, and looked at him with narrowed eyes. “I heard someone say that Prince Yong’an invited guests to hold a Hongmen Banquet. How does that have anything to do with you?”

“…” Ye Yunting was didn’t know how to answer the question. He couldn’t say that this banquet was actually to make-up for a wedding feast.

He was silent, then nodded and said, “After all, my current identity is the Yong’an Wangfei, and there are some things that require my attention.”

Yue Changgou said, “Oh” in an ambiguous way, and then said, “Then you go on ahead first. I won’t see you off.”

Ye Yunting suddenly felt guilty for some reason he didn’t know, and hurriedly stood up to bid his goodbyes and leave. As soon as he reached the door, he heard Yue Changgou calling him from behind. “Wait.”

He took a light step and turned around. “Shixiong still has something to say?”

Yue Changgou stared at him and said with a smile, “Since you’re the one organizing the banquet, can Teacher and I go, too?”

“You can go.” Ye Yunting was slightly surprised. “But the people who’ll be attending are all officials from the royal palance. Don’t you and Teacher dislike such occasions the most…?”

“We like it now.” Yue Changgou waved his hand to interrupt his words. “Shidi, remember to send two invitations.”

Ye Yunting had no choice but to agree.

After he left, Yue Changhou put away his playful expression and frowned. “What do you think, Teacher?”

The Ye Yunting that they were meeting today was very different from how he was before.

In the past, when the three of them exchanged letters, Ye Yunting often yearned for the vast world outside, saying that if he had the chance, he would definitely go there in person to see the world for himself. But now that the opportunity was right in front of him, he was hesitating.

Yue Changgou intuited that this change had something to do with the Prince of Yong’an.

“No matter how we look at it, we can’t change his mind.” Chang Yu’an stroked his sleeves and said in a calm voice, “Let’s wait for him to make his own decision.”

He then said, “Go and give that person a letter to say you’re safe.”

“Then let’s wait until the fifteenth.” Yue Changgou said. “I want to meet the Prince of Yong’an and see what kind of person he is. “

He recalled the brief encounter at the door and sighed in his heart. He seemed like a decent person, Shidi must have been deceived by that face.

In the palace, Li Fengqi has been a little restless since Ye Yunting left.

Since he found out that Ye Yunting already knew his feelings but simply steered clear of it and avoided talking about it, he became somewhat anxious. If he was straightforward, he was afraid that Ye Yunting would really refuse and there would be no room for change; on the other hand, he was afraid that if he was too subtle and didn’t make things clear for a long time, Ye Yunting would keep evading like this.

He had always been a decisive person and had never been as indecisive as he was now.

He felt depressed in his heart, but there was no one he could confide in, so he could only hold his breath and sit in the study, waiting for the person who had gone out to come back.

This wait lasted from dawn to dusk.

The darker the sky grew, the gloomier Li Fengqi’s face also became.

He already knew the name of the restaurant and sent people to scope out the location. He almost couldn’t keep from rushing over and pulling the person back, but more thought, he restrained himself.

He just asked Wu Geng to guard the gate and report as soon as Ye Yunting came back.

He himself sat in front of the table, holding a wolf-hair brush in his hand, splashing ink on rice paper to express his emotions.

It was completely dark when Wu Geng finally came to announce: “The Wangfei is back, the carriage has just arrived at the gate.”

Li Fengqi paused, and ink dripped from the tip of his brush, ruining his beautiful calligraphy.

He lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment, then ordered Wu Geng, “Find an opportunity to tell Wangfei… that the residual poison has taken effect.”

But the prince was obviously in a bad mood today, so he decided to keep his thoughts in his stomach to save his life.

“…?” Wu Geng quietly raised his eyes and glanced at him, thinking that if Wangfei hadn’t returned, his lingering poisoning wouldn’t have taken effect, which was a bit too deliberate.

But the prince was obviously in a bad mood today, so he decided to keep his thoughts to himself and prioritize keeping his life intact.

When Ye Yunting returned to the main courtyard, he saw that there were only servants in the main courtyard, with Li Fengqi nowhere to be seen.

He asked the servants, who only said that they saw Wangye enter the study, but no one came out, and the no one came to dinner.

Ye Yunting frowned, thought for a while, and went to the study.

Today, Yue-Shixiong said that they were going to attend the banquet, so he had to inform Li Fengqi in advance.

When he arrived at the door of the study, he saw that the doors and windows were closed and the candles inside were dim. It didn’t look like there was anyone there.

He looked more and more confused, and he tried to push the door open, but Wu Geng suddenly jumped out from the side and stopped him. “Wangfei, you can’t.”

Ye Yunting was startled. He took a deep breath and looked at Wu Geng. “Is Wangye in there, what’s going on?”

After a moment of hesitation, he lowered his voice and said, “Wangye is suffering from the residual poison and has been locked in the study for most of the day…”

As he spoke, he secretly glanced at Ye Yunting’s expression and thought to himself, Wangye, I have tried my best. If Wangfei suddenly finds a flaw, you can’t blame me.

Unexpectedly, when Ye Yunting heard this, he didn’t ask for any details at all. Instead, he opened the door with an anxious expression. “When the poison flared up, why didn’t you call the doctor and just let him lock himself in the study?”

Wu Geng was caught off-guard, and then he stammered: “…Wangye, Wangye won’t let me.”

Ye Yunting didn’t say anything else. When he tried to push against the door, he found that the study door was not locked, so he simply pushed the door open and went inside.

Is that okay???

Wu Geng looked at the closed door in contemplation, thinking that the prince really was powerful.

 

===Author’s Notes==

The author has something to say:
77: My legs hurt, I just pretended.
Wu Geng:???(As expected of you

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