This man looked unfamiliar, and Wen Chan had never seen him before.
He lowered his eyes and looked at the flowers handed over by the man. For a moment, he couldn’t react.
But after only a moment of astonishment, Wen Chan realized that there were many people watching around. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Wen Chan wanted to take the flowers and leave as soon as possible.
As soon as he raised his hand, Liang Yanbei couldn’t hold back.
He grabbed the whole flowers at once, held them in his hand, and said, “Little brother, could it be that you gave it to the wrong person?”
Wen Chan turned his head to look and saw that although he was still smiling, the corners of his mouth were twitching slightly, and his smile was very unfriendly.
The flowers were squeezed and deformed in his fingers.
The handsome man seemed not to have noticed Liang Yanbei’s unhappy expression at all. He raised a frivolous smile, and his eyes twirled on Wen Chan’s face, “Flowers are given to beauties, isn’t it right?”
“The beauties you want are all upstairs, not here.” Liang Yanbei’s face became more and more ugly.
“Those beauties are too vulgar to enter my eyes.” The man said, “Besides, beauties are regardless of gender. I just took a glimpse and felt that there is no one more beautiful than this young master in this entire world.”
Wen Chan felt embarrassed for some reason when he was praised like this, and he felt that this person was lying with his eyes open.
He said, “This young master, how can you give flowers to a man? You should take them back.”
The man looked straight at Wen Chan, and his eyes were not shy, “It’s worth giving it to you.”
After hearing this, Liang Yanbei exploded in anger. He squeezed the flowers hard with his hands, and at the same time, he smeared the cakes in his other hand on the man’s face. He pressed it hard twice and said viciously, “I am afraid that there is something wrong with your eyes. Save the money for buying flowers and go see a doctor.”
Wen Chan didn’t expect Liang Yanbei to suddenly attack and was shocked. He hurried to pull him away, “Let’s talk it over, don’t attack him!”
“Talk over it?” Liang Yanbei sneered, “This man is obviously very ill. I’ll treat him.”
“You’re not a doctor, why the hell do you want to treat him?” Wen Chan didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, “Besides, this is not how you treat people!”
The man was covered with cakes all over his face, and he stepped back a few steps, wiping his face with his sleeves in embarrassment. With Wen Chan stopping him, Liang Yanbei didn’t continue to attack and only said, “My cakes are guaranteed to cure all diseases. You will be fine after eating them, don’t worry.”
This area was full of people. As soon as the good show came, a large group of people immediately surrounded it, blocking the surrounding area.
Wen Chan pulled Liang Yanbei aside by a few steps, thinking that in case the man on the opposite side rushed up to fight, he would take him away, but he couldn’t let Liang Yanbei attack again.
However, after the man wiped the cake off his face, he did not come forward again. He looked at Liang Yanbei with a strange expression, turned around, and left without saying a word.
Liang Yanbei still had a dark face, “This fool left quickly.”
“Okay, why were you so cruel to him? Wasn’t he just here to give a flower?” Wen Chan sighed, “Tomorrow, there will be some bad news in the capital.”
“Do you think he looks like he just came here to give flowers?” Liang Yanbei soon fumed with rage and snorted angrily, “He dares to hit on you, so he deserves to die.”
Wen Chan pulled his arm and whispered, “Can’t you see the people filling on the street? Be careful when you speak!”
“I can’t see it.” He shouted while pulling Wen Chan, “Let’s go, this place is not fun.”
“Why are you in a hurry? We don’t even know who the Flower Fairy is.”
“What does who the Flower Fairy is have to do with us? There are too many people who don’t have eyes here. It will be bad if I stay here and offend Your Highness.” Liang Yanbei brought out another high-sounding excuse.
He sneered, “Do you think I’m a fool?”
Someone was now regretting his decision. If he had known it would be like this, he would have never agreed to come here.
This d*** Festival of Flowers shouldn’t exist.
Seeing that Liang Yanbei had been pulling a long face, Wen Chan couldn’t help but want to laugh. He said, pretending to be unhappy, “You are unhappy after just following me for a while. In that case, I’d better go back to the palace.”
This threat hit Liang Yanbei’s fatal spot. His expression changed and he quickly grabbed Wen Chan, “Don’t, why am I unhappy? I laugh out loud all the time when I’m with His Highness.”
“Then why do you still have this expression?” Wen Chan asked.
He immediately put on a smiling face, “My expression is normal. Look at me smiling so happily!”
Wen Chan laughed out loud all of a sudden, “You’re acting exactly like the village idiot.”
“I am like whoever His Highness says I am like.” Liang Yanbei nodded repeatedly, thinking: I have long been no different from an idiot.
The two of them were talking to each other when suddenly a shout came from the top of their heads.
“Brother Yanbei!”
The two people below looked up at the same time, and saw a beautiful girl standing on the edge of the second floor, smiling downwards. Many people were surprised with just a glance.
Wen Chan originally had a smile on his face. But the moment he saw the girl, his smile faded a lot.
After Situ Zhoulan called out to him, she suddenly leaped up with one hand on the railing, and the light-colored dress took a beautiful circle in the air, like a blooming flower, slowly falling in the air, and people couldn’t help but exclaim.
Her beauty was too obvious, and the moment she appeared, she had already suppressed all the flowers filling the house.
After she landed, she walked lightly and gracefully to Liang Yanbei and showed the flowers in her hand, “Brother Yanbei, look, these are the flowers that someone gave me. Aren’t they beautiful?”
Because of what happened just then, Liang Yanbei was extremely disgusted with the idea of giving flowers, and said, “Don’t accept flowers from others casually. Who knows what dirty thoughts that person had when sending flowers.”
His tone was really not good, which made Situ Zhoulan feel embarrassed. She took the flowers back and said with a smile, “I was careless. Brother Yanbei, you are right.”
Dan Ke walked over and said dissatisfied, “Biaoge, what you said is wrong. I heard that today is the Winter Hundred Flowers Festival. People buy flowers for the Flower Fairies in their hearts. Don’t think of people as disgusting, okay?”
“What do you know?” Liang Yanbei just happened to be angry, and Dan Ke bumped into him, “There is no knowing what is in a man’s heart. How can you know whether they are good or bad? I think you are too idle all day long. You are so naive because you have not experienced any dangers. I will have a good talk with Uncle Dan when I go home.”
When Dan Ke heard it, he knew it was over. He knew that his excellent cousin usually had a good relationship with his father. This “having a good talk” held a lot of unspoken meaning.
The last time Liang Yanbei had a good talk with his father, he was grounded for a whole month, and “having a good talk” became his most feared phrase.
Dan Ke immediately changed his words, smiling flatteringly, “Biaoge, what you said is too correct. It’s just that my biaoge, I had been short-sighted just now. I admit my mistake now!”
After speaking, he winked at Situ Zhoulan, and when she received it, she also spoke in support, “Second Brother Dan didn’t mean to say it either. Don’t bother with him. You know Uncle Dan’s temper……”
Wen Chan stood by the side and saw the three people talking and laughing, talking about things he didn’t know at all and couldn’t get involved in. And his eyes were a little cold.
He was thinking about whether to pull Liang Yanbei away to end their conversation or just go back to the palace.
Just when he was thinking about it, Liang Yanbei made a move. He snorted lightly and subconsciously reached to the side, accurately grabbed Wen Chan’s hand, and hid it in his cloak, “You finally came to the capital, and I don’t want to embarrass you. Go and have fun by yourself. Don’t disturb me.”
As he spoke, he slid his fingers into Wen Chan’s fingers and tightened his grip.
Wen Chan immediately understood his intention, smiled with his eyes lowered, but pulled his hand out of his cloak. He coughed dryly, and said, “It’s rare for the two of them to come. So why don’t you take them to play.”
Dan Ke melted the little prejudice against Wen Chan at this moment, only to feel that His Ninth Royal Highness was very good at understanding others!
However, Liang Yanbei said, “They are not children anymore. So why do they need someone to take care of them?”
After saying that, he asked Dan Ke with a bad face, “Do you need me to take care of you?”
In the current situation, even if Dan Ke had eight guts, he didn’t dare to talk nonsense. So he could only say, “Of course not, I have been traveling to various regions for business with my father since I was a child, and I have been traveling around by myself since I became a little older. So I know how to get to know this prosperous capital city.”
The certain someone surnamed Liang nodded in satisfaction, and then said immediately afterward, “My biaodi has long since grown up.”
Dan Ke put on a fake smile. He said in his heart: If I stay any longer, I will probably be driven away by this cold-blooded cousin for the second time. So he wanted to persuade Situ Zhoulan to leave.
In fact, Situ Zhoulan and Dan Ke were on the second floor. They had seen with their own eyes someone giving flowers to Wen Chan, and then Liang Yanbei smearing cakes on his face and driving him away. Dan Ke originally wanted to play on their own and not provoke him, but he never expected that Situ Zhoulan would suddenly call him.
Dan Ke could vaguely perceive some of Situ Zhoulan’s thoughts. After all, they had grown up together since they were children, but when he was in Wuyue island, he saw that His Ninth Royal Highness was very different for his cousin.
From childhood to adulthood, any person or thing that Liang Yanbei valued was not allowed to be meddled with by others. If Situ Zhoulan did something out of the ordinary to anger him, the relationship between the childhood sweethearts might get unstable.
So the clever Dan Ke tugged at Situ Zhoulan’s sleeve, “Sister Ah Lan, let’s go over there and take a look.”
But Situ Zhoulan ignored it, and said to Liang Yanbei, “Brother Yanbei, have you seen the flower ball on the top of the Hundred Flowers Tower?”
If she hadn’t said it Liang Yanbei really wouldn’t have still seen it. When he heard it, he looked up and saw a thicker wooden pillar on the roof of Xingjia Restaurant, and at the top of the pillar, a flower ball was tied with red silk.
“What is that?” He asked.
Dan Ke felt something was wrong.
“I heard from others that every year after the Flower Fairy is chosen, a handsome young man will fly up to pick the flower ball and give it to the Flower Fairy. Although I am not the Flower Fairy, can Brother Yanbei take off the flower ball and give it to me?” She smiled with her eyes curved, bright and beautiful.
This kind of posture was very familiar. Whether it was the expression or the tone, it was not the first time that Liang Yanbei had been requested in this way.
Wen Chan suddenly felt strange. Although he did not have much contact with Situ Zhoulan, he also knew that she was a very cold person. No matter when he saw her, she always had a cold and indifferent temperament, and she rarely smiled so beautifully.
Perhaps, this was how she usually got along with Liang Yanbei, but she rarely showed it in front of outsiders?
Liang Yanbei looked at her quietly for a moment and then did not say anything in response, instead, he raised his hand to untie his cloak.
Looking at the appearance, he was going to pick the flower ball.
Wen Chan was quite unhappy.
After he took off the cloak, revealing the exquisite robe inside; Ah Fu hurriedly stepped forward upon seeing this and took the cloak in his arms.
Then he did qinggong on the tip of his toes, and his whole body became light. In the blink of an eye, he went up to the second floor, causing a commotion.
Several people’s eyes followed Liang Yanbei’s figure, except Situ Zhoulan. Her smile disappeared in an instant, and she turned to look at Wen Chan. She then said in a soft voice, “Your Ninth Royal Highness, could you step aside? I have something I wish to tell you.”
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