Xie Xue'e said angrily:

"Wan Qing, go and sell it to the distinguished guest. I want to see how much this valuable gift is. When I return, the distinguished guest will send the money to Mr. Ouyang's house. It has nothing to do with me, Mr. Xie."

The clever maid named Wan Qing was stunned for a moment, nodded obediently, and walked towards the banquet in front of her holding this oil-paper umbrella, which was as valuable as gold.

"don't want!"

At this moment, an anxious and frightened woman cleared her throat and the sound echoed through the hall.

The lady of the Xie family, who was the focus of the audience tonight, broke free from the wrist held by Madam Kaibushao, held the skirts on both sides of her floor-length dress with both hands, and ran forward as hard as she could, like a fiery red butterfly breaking out of its thick cocoon.

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Xie Lingjiang snatched the oil-paper umbrella from Wan Qing's hand, which she had been looking at for a long time tonight, and held it tightly in her arms. She bit her lower lip and swore her sovereignty to the crowd of bidders:

"This is my umbrella. Senior brother gave it to me, so I won't give it to you!"

"Seventeenth Mother, come back!" Xie Xue'e said anxiously: "Why did you promise your aunt before? Be obedient and come back!"

"I don't!"

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Xie Ling Jiang Gai shook his head slightly and said in a stubborn tone:

"You didn't tell me that you would be so harsh on him and even give his umbrella to others. I won't come! The umbrella is mine and will never be given to anyone else!"

The air in the hall was surprisingly quiet, and Lady Xie's words echoed throughout the venue, and also fell on the ears of someone at the door.

Ouyang Rong turned around blankly and looked at the stubborn figure holding an umbrella with her back to him.

"You..." Feeling the eyes from all directions, Xie Xue'e's face became a little anxious, and she nodded helplessly:

"Okay, okay, I don't give the umbrella away, it belongs to you, come back quickly, you are the birthday girl tonight, this kind of gesture is not appropriate, it is too unclassy, ​​come back quickly..."

Xie Lingjiang held the umbrella and lowered his head, avoiding the eyes of thousands of people, and murmured: "If you continue to be elegant and noble, people will run away."

The noble lady Xie did not dare to look back to see if the figure at the door was still there, and she did not dare to look at him.

"Seventeenth Mother, stop making trouble and come back." Xie Xue'e looked troubled.

"Sister-in-law, stop talking, I...I'm tired."

Xie Lingjiang raised her bare hands and wiped the red corners of her eyes that were itchy. She held the oil-paper umbrella, lowered her head and walked sadly towards the stairs where she came down today.

The next moment, from the corner of her eye, she saw the eyes of the guests at the dining table in front of her, looking past her and towards the back.

Xie Lingjiang was slightly stunned, and then her delicate body trembled, as if she sensed something, and she did not dare to look back.

A young man in plain clothes wearing a fox-white fur shawl held a skirt knife at his waist, turned around from the door, strode over, and walked up to her.

"Don't cry." Ouyang Rong said seriously.

"I...I didn't cry." Xie Lingjiang raised his head slightly, tried to keep his eyes wide open, and stuttered in reply.

Ouyang Rong pursed his lips: "I'm worried about making your relatives angry again, disturbing your birthday party, and making you unhappy. I'm not leaving in anger."

Xie Lingjiang trembled: "I'm very happy that you can come. How could I not be happy? Then, why are you back now?"

"Because I saw a coward, a coward hiding from me tonight."

Xie Lingjiang glared at him and said harshly: "I'm not a coward."

Ouyang Rong nodded: "What a coincidence, neither am I, so I came back." He suddenly asked: "Have you been hungry all night?"

Xie Lingjiang turned away from her pretty face: "No."

"Do you want to eat the hot longevity noodles?"

"Don't eat."

"Then I'll make a bowl for Miss Li."

"I'll eat it! Don't make it for her." Xie Lingjiang said anxiously. She soon realized that she had been deceived. She didn't dare to look at Ouyang Rong's smile. She said weakly, "But there are still guests..."

"You are the birthday boy, the biggest one tonight, who dares to object?" Ouyang Rong stretched out his hand with a bright smile: "Come on, I'll feed you some."

"Ah?" Xie Ling Jiang Fei glanced around, a little shy: "Now?"

The next second, she suddenly felt her left hand tighten and feel warm.

Ouyang Rong picked up Xie Lingjiang's catkins and walked forward without squinting.

Xie Lingjiang's pretty face was instantly flushed, as if she had been smeared with the brightest rouge. She fell into a brief tinnitus, and the hall was filled with overwhelming noise.

Both hands were taken away by him in a daze.

After the usual noise caused by Ouyang Rong's sudden move, the hall became silent. Time seemed to have pressed the pause button, and everyone was stunned in place.

Ouyang Rong held the hand of Xie Lingjiang, who was the birthday boy tonight, and walked straight past Xie Xue'e, who had wide-eyed beautiful eyes. He passed by young talents with stiff faces such as Li Yi and Wang Hengzhi, and also passed by the stunned Wang Lengran, Master Sihui, etc.

People’s dining tables walked out of the door without looking back.

The two held hands and left.

Leave all the guests behind.

The entire Xunyang Tower fell into a brief silence.

Xie Xue'e kept turning her head and looked at this bold man and woman in disbelief.

Wang Lengran was stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed. This Ouyang Rong was really a coward. He refused to give face to Xie Xue'e and the Xie family of Chen County. He was just tearing his face and slapping him in public.

He looked at Xie Xue'e with interest, wanting to see her angry reaction.

"Haha." Uncle Qin suddenly put his hands on his hands and laughed in front of Xie Xue'e:

“Mrs.

"I still remember that your husband-in-law was suppressed by your brother and mother. After so many years, he has become the governor of Yangzhou, but after marriage, I heard that he has never even taken a concubine.

, Miss Xie, you are obedient and follow your advice.

"But the new son-in-law's momentum tonight, tsk tsk, you as an aunt can't seem to suppress it. What will the Seventeenth Mother do in the future? Hahaha, interesting."

New son-in-law?

What the hell?

Wang Lengran was stunned.

"Hahaha." At the venue, other visitors from well-established noble families burst out with tacit and good-natured laughter, smiling a little at a certain routine of the Xie family in Chen County.

Li Yi, Wang Hengzhi and others were specially invited by Xie Xue'e to join the young talents. They felt as if they were lost, especially Li Yi, who looked like he had lost his soul.

It seems that a certain beautiful image of childhood in my heart has completely gone away, and was destroyed by a young man with fox white fur... The shy and delicate girl with her head lowered just now is actually the always serious and strong sister Xie?

Only Master Sihui and other guests who were far away from the top elite circle were confused and were as confused as Wang Lengran.

"It's not that I can't hold it down, it's that Seventeenth Mother is too soft-hearted and really stupid. If this continues, she will be bullied to death in the future... And the same goes for my brother, who just let me sing because of his shameless face. It's better now."

Xie Xue'e frowned and gritted her teeth, holding her hands in place. She looked at the empty door and breathed for a while.

Finally, she seemed to have calmed down a bit, and she had no choice but to look back.

"I was abducted by a brat, and my wife won't chase her back?" You Xungui joked.

Xie Xue'e snorted coldly: "Has he beaten the Seventeenth Mother?"

Uncle Qin joked: "I'm afraid that if my mother is reluctant to beat her, she will be bullied by my husband."

Xie Xue'e suddenly became angry.

After a while, she suddenly calmed down, squinted her eyes slightly, and turned to look at the boy named Yan at the door who had just contradicted her, but he was nowhere to be seen.

Apparently when Uncle Qin teased her just now, this boy's figure was still lingering at the door... He slipped away quite quickly.

Xie Xue'e snorted coldly, then tilted her head, and slowly cast her cold eyes towards a certain Jiangzhou governor whom she had never looked at tonight, like a lioness raising her head.

Wang Lengran suddenly shuddered.
Chapter completed!