The abstinent and powerful minister is cold and aloof during the day, but he adores her in his dream

Chapter 312 Zhiwan was lifted onto horseback by her cousin.
Shuang'er stared at her in astonishment, but her face gradually turned red. "This servant...this servant doesn't know what Miss is talking about?"

"You really don't know?" Zhiwan teased her deliberately. "I was going to say that if you liked Jiang Shi, I would have Chen, the wet nurse, sound him out. If he was also interested in you, then we could get married. But since you don't like Jiang Shi, then forget it. I think there are quite a few maids in the mansion who are interested in him."

Upon hearing this, Shuang'er became somewhat anxious, "Which maids are they?"

"What, you want to warn them? But didn't you say you didn't like Jiang Shi?" Zhiwan raised an eyebrow.

Shuang'er blushed.

After a long pause, she said in a voice barely above a whisper, "This servant didn't say I didn't like it..."

"So that means you like it?" Zhiwan looked at her with a smile.

Shuang'er's face turned as red as if it were about to bleed. "Miss, please stop teasing me."

"Alright, alright, I won't tease you anymore," Zhiwan said with a smile. "But what I said earlier was sincere. If you are interested in Jiang Shi, I will ask Nurse Chen to sound him out."

"Let's wait until he's healed before we talk about it," Shuang'er said, blushing.

“Silly girl, he’ll leave once his injuries have healed. We must ask him about it while he’s still recuperating in our manor,” Zhiwan said.

Shuang'er thought for a moment and said, "Then this servant will follow Miss's arrangements." After saying that, perhaps too shy, she made an excuse and quickly ran away.

Zhiwan smiled for a while, and her originally heavy mood was somewhat lightened by Shuang'er's matter.

Unable to sleep, she got up and started painting.

She painted until noon, ate a few bites of food, and planned to take a break when Ouyang Zhenzhu suddenly arrived.

"Wanwan, Qingyin Pavilion is putting on a play about the Legend of the White Snake today. Come with me to see it."

Zhiwan didn't really want to go.

She was mainly worried about her cousin and wasn't in the mood for anything else.

"Come on, come on, I haven't seen a play in ages, just come with me this once," Ouyang Zhenzhu pleaded, pulling her hand.

Finally, after much pleading and cajoling, Zhiwan agreed.

After tidying up, the two boarded a carriage and headed to Qingyin Pavilion.

Upon arriving at the entrance of Qingyin Pavilion, the two had just disembarked from the carriage and were about to enter when a voice called out to them.

"Zhiwan? Ouyang Zhenzhu?"

Hearing the sound, the two turned around and saw Xuan Yuanjing holding a riding whip and walking towards them.

Upon seeing her, both of them felt unlucky.

"How unlucky to run into her?" Ouyang Zhenzhu whispered. "If I had known I would run into her, I wouldn't have come, no matter how good the Legend of the White Snake was."

Zhiwan thought so too.

Moreover, Xuanyuan Jing clearly had ill intentions; she probably knew that her cousin and Princess Chang Le were not in the capital and was deliberately coming to cause trouble for her.

"Why don't you two pay your respects to this princess?" Xuan Yuanjing stopped in front of the two, narrowed her eyes, and said in an unfriendly tone.

"Greetings, Princess." The two had no choice but to bow in greeting.

Xuanyuan Jing snorted coldly, circled the two of them, and finally stopped in front of Zhiwan, using the horsewhip in her hand to lift her face.

Looking at her beautiful face, a flash of jealousy and hatred crossed Xuan Yuanjing's eyes.

"You're about to marry Lord Lu, you must be very proud of yourself, right?" Xuan Yuanjing said through gritted teeth.

Zhiwan glanced at her and pushed her hand away. "Does the princess want to hear the truth or a lie?"

"What's the difference?" Xuan Yuanjing asked unhappily.

“If I tell a lie, the princess will be happy; if I tell the truth, she will probably be angry,” Zhiwan said calmly. “Insolence!” Xuanyuan Jing was furious. He raised his riding whip, about to strike her, but the guards behind her grabbed the tip of the whip.

Xuan Yuanjing tugged at it, but couldn't pull it back, and immediately flew into a rage, "What are you? How dare you block this princess's way?"

"I was ordered by my young master to protect Miss Cousin. Since the princess is being disrespectful to my young master, I have no choice but to offend her," the guard said.

"This is outrageous! How dare you, a mere guard, defy this princess? Guards, seize him!" Xuan Yuanjing waved her hand, and the guards behind her immediately swarmed forward.

Upon seeing this, the guards on Zhiwan's side immediately rushed forward.

Ouyang Zhenzhu was initially worried, but seeing this situation, she felt somewhat relieved.

Xuanyuan Jing has people, and they also have quite a few people on their side.

When she went out earlier, she saw that Zhiwan was bringing so many guards with her, and she laughed at her. She never expected that they would actually come in handy now.

Little did she know that Zhiwan had just been kidnapped, and the guards Chen Jiu had assigned to her were still at the Zhi residence. When she went out, Zhiwan naturally called them along.

Even so, Ouyang Zhenzhu was still somewhat worried, and hurriedly whispered to her maid, "Go to Dali to find my brother!"

The maid nodded and quietly left.

When Xuan Yuanjing saw so many guards rushing out from Zhi Wan's side, her previously arrogant demeanor immediately subsided.

Seeing that she had several more men than the enemy, she felt more confident and raised her riding whip, saying, "Arrest them all for this princess!"

However, just as her guards were about to make a move, they were violently knocked to the ground by Zhiwan's guards.

In no time, her guards were all lying on the ground.

Xuanyuan Jing was so angry that her face turned ashen, and she could hardly believe her eyes.

The guards of the Prince's mansion were all well-fed and clothed, and were quite robust. But they turned out to be so useless at this crucial moment.

"You bunch of good-for-nothings!" Xuan Yuanjing cursed angrily.

"Does the princess want her subordinates to spar with my people?" Zhiwan looked at her leisurely.

"Zhiwan, don't be so smug!" Xuanyuan Jing said coldly, "It's a piece of cake for me to deal with you."

“Then the princess would better hurry up and make her move, otherwise once Princess Chang Le returns to the capital, the princess will have no choice but to be as obedient as a cat,” Zhi Wan said meaningfully.

"You bitch!" Xuan Yuanjing was so angry that she flew into a rage. She raised her hand to grab Zhi Wan's hair, but Zhi Wan was prepared and ducked to avoid it. Instead, she took advantage of the other's inattention and tripped her.

"boom!"

Xuanyuan Jing fell face down to the ground.

"Haha!" Ouyang Zhenzhu couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Nearby, some ignorant children clapped their hands and laughed loudly, "Haha, you fell flat on your face!"

Zhiwan couldn't help but laugh, covering her mouth with her handkerchief.

"Wanwan, look, who's that?" At this moment, Ouyang Zhenzhu suddenly poked her in the lower back and said with a grin.

Zhiwan looked up and saw a young man riding a horse not far away, looking at her with a faint smile on his handsome face.

Upon seeing him, Zhiwan was taken aback at first, but then she reacted, lifted the hem of her skirt, and ran towards him, calling out, "Cousin!"

She had just run to the front of the horse when the man bent down and lifted her onto its back.

"drive!"

Lu Zhan took his cousin and sped away.