The two turned their gazes to Qi Siyun at the same time.

"General Pei...is here too." Qi Siyun restrained his smile and looked at him politely.

Pei Jianing nodded and said, "Well, I just came to visit Marquis."

Qi Siyun simply responded, then walked towards Cui Yinyin, and handed the scroll to her. The two communicated as if no one was present. In this space, Pei Jianing seemed to be an outsider.

Pei Jianing finally left the front hall without saying anything.

After he left, Cui Yinyin slowly closed her voice, her eyes stayed on the direction where he disappeared just now for a long time, her expression was melancholy.

Standing in front of her, Qi Siyun clearly saw her expression, and he clenched the scroll in his hand without any trace.

"Yinyin, do you still like him?"

Hearing this, Cui Yinyin quickly withdrew her thoughts, and after hearing his question, she reacted for a while, "How would you know..."

"I... heard that you liked him before..."

Unexpectedly, he answered so bluntly, Cui Yinyin didn't know how to respond for a while.

"Let's not talk about this. Right now my father is seriously ill and my brother has not returned. I don't have the heart to think about other things."

Qi Siyun nodded obediently and said, "Okay."

It had been nearly a year since Jin Zhao came back from the provincial capital, but during this year, many things happened.

Jin Zhao only wanted to complete the task of the provincial capital as soon as possible and go back to meet the man.

But on New Year's Eve, he learned that he was married.

At first he didn't believe it at all, until...

That night, a lantern festival was held in the palace, and Jin Zhao followed his family to the palace.

Jin Zhao often enters the palace, but this is the first time he has seen such a brightly lit and beautiful scene.

All kinds of palace lanterns are placed everywhere in the palace, with unique and lifelike shapes. There are also an endless stream of lantern watchers tonight, which is very lively.

I heard that this Lantern Festival was chartered by Emperor Xuanhui, and he wanted the courtiers and courtiers who had worked hard all year to relax, so almost everyone's faces were filled with cheerful smiles tonight.

Only Jin Zhao absent-mindedly scanned the entire arena with his eyes.

"Jin Zhao!"

While scanning, someone patted his shoulder, Jin Zhao turned around and saw that it was Pei Jianing.

"General Pei." Jin Zhao forced a smile and called out.

Pei Jianing said: "What a coincidence, I didn't expect you to come too."

Jin Zhao: "Well, here...it looks lively."

"When did you come back?"

"Two days ago."

When Jin Zhao answered his question, his eyes were still scanning, Pei Jianing naturally noticed his absent-mindedness.

"Are you looking for... Prince Li?"

Jin Zhao paused, then turned his eyes and nodded, "General Pei knows where he is?"

Pei Jianing said: "If my guess is correct, he has been in the mansion all along."

When Jin Zhao just came back, he went to look for him in the palace, but he didn't see him. Since he came back till now...he hasn't seen him once. If he was in the mansion, how could he not have found him?

"Look, isn't that Li Wang?"

He was drooping his eyes in thought, and when he heard Pei Jianing talking beside him, he raised his head and looked at the place Pei Jianing was pointing at.

I saw the man still wearing white fox fur, with a faint smile on his face, talking to the person beside him.

And the people around...

It was a woman with a watery and gentle appearance. The woman was wearing a pale pink cloak. The girl supported the woman and moved slowly, while Shen Li followed her steps and walked slowly. If you look closely, you will find that she is half covered by the cloakThe lower abdomen gathered up.

As if feeling Jin Zhao's gaze, Shen Li slightly turned his eyes to meet his eyes.

The eyes of the two met in the air, but Shen Li didn't stay for long, and then moved his eyes to the side.

Jin Zhao felt that just now his glance was neither salty nor dull, without a trace of superfluous emotion, and Jin Zhao thought he just met a stranger who looked similar to him.

"I... just learned about Li Wang's marriage not long ago, you... you probably don't know yet?" Noticing his blank expression, Pei Jianing continued to speak.

He knew it, but he didn't want to believe it until the scene he saw with his own eyes just now.

Seeing that his expression was downcast and he remained silent, Pei Jianing patted him on the shoulder and said, "Li Wang's doing this...is understandable, after all...some things he can't help himself."

Jin Zhao was pulled back from his thoughts by these words, and asked instead: "Can't help yourself?"

"Yes, do you know who that woman is?" Pei Jianing looked at the gentle woman beside Shen Li and asked.

"who is it?"

Pei Jianing: "The woman's name is Lin Miaoyu. The Supervisory Censor Lin Yu is her father, and her mother is... the Empress Dowager's younger sister, Mrs. Wu."

For this person, Jin Zhao feels very strange. He has nothing to do with this person, so naturally he doesn't know, and... the plot of the original book has already been shifted, and there is no such person in the book, so naturally he doesn't know anything.

"That Lin Miaoyu is considered to be the niece of Empress Dowager, His Highness Li Wang probably has no choice but to come to this marriage." Pei Jianing added.

Jin Zhao blurted out: "He is not someone who compromises so easily."

"I don't know about these things, you just go over and have a chat with him."

But that man...had no intention of chatting with him, and...he and the woman beside him were talking as if no one was there, with a smile on their face, and the relationship between the two of them...it seemed that no outsider could be allowed to intervene.

Jin Zhao suddenly had a moment, his legs seemed to be filled with lead, and he couldn't move half a step.

He didn't know how long he stood there for a while, until the figure of the man gradually disappeared.

"Jin Zhao, I heard...Lin Miaoyu seems to be pregnant." Pei Jianing said in a low voice.

Jin Zhao's palm instinctively clenched into a fist. He had been forcing himself not to face this matter before, but he never thought that Pei Jianing would say it outright.

"She married Li Wang in March, that child... should be after they got married."

March……

In less than a month after he left, he married someone else?

Although he didn't want to blindly believe Pei Jianing's words, nor did he want to blindly misunderstand him, but... it is impossible for him to have no waves in his heart.

He and Cui Fengzhi passed letters before, in which he asked about Cui Fengzhi and Shen Li's recent situation, but Cui Fengzhi prevaricated them all.

He also asked his subordinates, but he still hesitated and dared not answer directly, so he sensed that something was wrong, and after many inquiries, he found out that Shen Li agreed to the marriage, and within a short time, the wedding banquet was held.

The scene just now flashed through his mind again, and he still felt a little unacceptable, but he had no choice but to comfort himself, Shen Li did this... Maybe there was some other purpose.

"Okay, General Pei, I know everything. If that's the case...it's useless to force it. What happens next...let's talk about it later."

Pei Jianing looked at him without saying a word. Although his tone was flat, the resistance in his eyes was hard to hide.