Chongfei Manual

Chapter 93

Actually, Wei Luo did see Li Song. She was only pretending that she didn't.

She hadn't seen Li Song since that time in Duke Ding's bamboo forest. This was good. If he didn't seek her out and provoke her, she wouldn't do anything against him either. If he kept bothering her, then she wouldn't be polite towards him.

Wei Luo and Liang Yu Rong arrived at Yu Quan Courtyard. The palace servant girls were currently busy unpacking things and Zhao Liuli was sitting outside and drinking tea underneath a parasol tree. Seeing the two of them coming over, she gestured for them to sit down and personally poured two cups of tea for them. "This Zi Yu villa's specialty tea, yang xian tea. It has a slightly stronger taste than long jing tea. Try it."

Wei Luo picked up the white teacup with brightly colored lotus flowers and had a sip of the tea. It tasted sweet and pure with a slightly bitter aftertaste. It was pretty good.

Liang Yu Rong also had a sip. Seeing that Zhao Liuli wasn't busy, she suggested, "Want to go to the back of the mountain to walk around? There's a poetry gathering there today."

Duke Ding's third young master, Gao Cong Xun, was holding a friendly poetry gathering at Chun Yin and had invited many classmates and young masters from influential families. Song Hui and Liang Yu had also received an invitation. The gathering would be very lively. Many young women from influential families had already gone over to join in the excitement. Wei Luo hesitated for a moment. She didn't really want to go. It would feel awkward if she met Song Hui. She didn't know how to explain this, so she said, "It'll be dark soon. Let's not go..."

Liang Yu Rong disapprovingly looked at her and grabbed her and Zhao Liuli's sleeves to pull them up. "The sun only just started to move towards the west. It won't be dark for a while. Let's go. Even if we don't go see the poetry gathering, it'll still be good to walk around the mountain. I heard there's a vast stretch of maple trees at the back of the mountain. When the light from the glowing sunset illuminates the trees, who knows how beautiful they'll look?!"

Wei Luo didn't want to ruin her excitement. After hesitating for a while, she still nodded her head in agreement. They walked towards the back of the mountain with their personal servant girls following them.

There was a pagoda at the back of the mountain. Curtains on three sides surrounded the pagoda. The remaining side of the pagoda was facing Chun Yin. There was a large distance between the two buildings. If they tried, they could barely see what was happening in the other building.

There were a few young ladies from noble families sitting inside the pagoda and they seemed to be chatting. Occasionally, they would glance at the building across from them. Although they couldn't hear what the young men were saying, it was still nice to be able to see the elegant young men with their own eyes

When Zhao Liuli and her group arrived, one after another, girls in white silk tops and pleated skirts saluted her, "Greetings Princess Tianji."

Zhao Liuli raised her hand to indicate that they could rise. She had gotten tired from walking here with Wei Luo and Liang Yu Rong, so she sat down at stone table to rest for a while.

Zhao Liuli's health wasn't good. She couldn't stand temperature that was too cold or too hot, so she would come to Zi Yu Villa for summer holidays and could be considered familiar with the landscape here. She knew that they would see Chun Yin before they walked to the maple tree grove that Liang Yu Rong had mentioned. They would still have to walk for a while to reach the maple tree grove, so she want to take this opportunity to lead the two of them here before the poetry gathering ended and the people left.

Otherwise, it would be too embarrassing to directly encounter the people as they started to walk outside after the poetry gathering ended.

They hadn't rest for long time before Zhao Liuli stood up and said to them, "There's still a long way until we reach the maple tree grove, do you still want to go see it?"