"Ah!" A man then let out a painful howl and collapsed onto the shop floor.
"Husband! Husband! Are you alright?" The man covered his cheek and was helped up by a young woman in a blue dress. Judging from the expression on his face, Wei Tingyu could guess that he had just been slapped hard!
As for the person who slapped him... Wei Tingyu glanced to the side and saw a beautiful woman wearing a red riding shirt, with a braided hairstyle, and exuding a heroic and dashing aura, picking out jewelry in front of the shelves full of jewelry, seemingly oblivious to everyone else!
I was right, it really is her!
Wei Tingyu couldn't help but complain about the system a couple of times!
Just as this guy said, the important female characters in the show all actively approached him.
Princess Chuyue, daughter of the Duke of Chu of the Xisha tribe in Anguo, caused quite a stir just by going out to buy some jewelry, and then I happened to bump into her while I was just strolling around...
Wei Tingyu absolutely refused to believe that this wasn't something the system had deliberately orchestrated!
"So what if it's the Duke of Chu's mansion? Does that mean the county princess can just beat people up?" The woman was furious when she saw her husband looking so pained. She turned and glared at Chu Yue, shouting at her.
"Let me tell you, my father is an imperial censor!"
"When did I make a move?" Upon hearing this, Chu Yue turned her head directly, frowned her beautiful eyebrows, glared at the woman, and then asked impatiently.
At the same time, her maidservant quickly chimed in, "It was clearly this young master who rushed up to snatch the hairpin without saying a word. Our county princess just dodged it, and he fell down on his own!"
“Yes! We all saw it!” A woman standing nearby nodded and said, and many other guests around them echoed her sentiment.
Wei Tingyu was taken aback when he heard this, because he hadn't seen what happened before, so he thought that Princess Chuyue had actually hit that guy.
Now it seems I misunderstood? This girl may be naughty and willful, but she's not unreasonable!
"Even so, the rule in the jewelry business is first come, first served!" The woman, who claimed her father was an imperial censor, was taken aback at first, but then argued back.
However, her words confirmed Wei Tingyu's suspicions: Chu Yue really hadn't hit her husband first!
And this woman actually managed to frame someone else first.
It seems that fairies have existed since ancient times!
If it weren't for Chu Yue's status as a county princess backing her up, and the presence of so many eyewitnesses willing to testify, an ordinary woman would have been unable to explain herself today and would definitely have been humiliated and bullied by the daughter of this imperial censor!
“My husband already has it in his hands, why do you have to snatch it?” Of course, at this point, the censor’s daughter still felt that she was in the right, so she continued to nag.
"Sigh!" Chu Yue rolled her eyes in exasperation upon hearing this, and looked at the shopkeeper speechlessly, saying, "Shopkeeper..."
"Ah, yes!" The shopkeeper realized that he couldn't stay silent now.
"This purple jade hairpin was sent over by the county princess ten days ago as a rough jade piece, which she had polished at a shop!"
"Now that the county princess has come to collect the finished product, I certainly don't want my servant to win this young master's favor when she delivers the hairpin!"
Upon hearing the shopkeeper's words, the woman immediately lowered her head and remained silent. It seemed that she no longer had any grounds for the "first come, first served" principle.
"Do you understand now?" Chu Yue was quite mischievous. Seeing that the other party was silent, she raised her eyebrows and said smugly.
"Hmph!" However, the censor's daughter was also pampered at home, so how could she stand such teasing and ridicule? She immediately frowned, and her eyes darted around as she thought of another way to save face.
He snorted coldly, then said in a sarcastic tone, "The hairpins have always been chosen by the young master to be given to the young lady!"
"Some people can't even distinguish between yin and yang! No wonder they can't even buy their own hairpins!"
Upon hearing this, Chu Yue's expression instantly turned cold, despite her initial smugness.
She always prided herself on being just as capable as any man, so she usually didn't dress up in traditional women's dresses.
Even a jewelry store like this, she has rarely stepped into since she was born.
The other person's words were practically a blatant accusation that she was a tomboy and had no femininity whatsoever!
As soon as the censor's daughter spoke, the crowd began to whisper among themselves.
Moreover, it's clear from most people's comments that they agree with this statement.
Wei Tingyu remained noncommittal upon hearing this, while inwardly mocking these guys for not knowing what good stuff was!
Anguo was originally a political system that transitioned from nomadic to agricultural. Many of its nobles still retained certain nomadic customs and habits, but they were also trying their best to Sinicize.
These people have long forgotten how exciting and fun it is to encounter such wild horses! Therefore, Wei Tingyu found their perception of them laughable!
"Watch your mouth!" Chu Yue frowned, even throwing the hairpin in her hand onto the shelf with a clatter, and then glared at the other person.
"Did I say anything to you?" Seeing Chu Yue angry, the other person became even more smug and immediately said, "Why are you in such a hurry?"
"I only know some people who are engaged!"
"But her fiancé didn't want to say a single extra word to her!"
"On the contrary, as soon as they heard the news of the arranged marriage, they hurriedly fled the capital!"
"You wouldn't believe it, people avoid her like the plague!"
Most of the onlookers were merchants or commoners, who had no idea about these palace secrets! But the censor's daughter was different; she rattled off the rumors circulating among the noblewomen of Anguo in recent days.
The onlookers immediately started discussing it, because everyone could tell that the woman's words were referring to Chu Yue!
Wei Tingyu frowned slightly. It seemed that the timeline had not been completely changed. At least Chuyue was still engaged to Li Tongguang under the auspices of Emperor An!
However, Li Tongguang and Chuyue still couldn't stand each other, so he didn't take this precious daughter of the western desert seriously at all.
But thinking about it, it makes sense. Others might not know, but Wei Tingyu certainly does!
Li Tongguang, Ren Ruyi's apprentice, harbored a distorted love for her since childhood...
Due to the shift in the timeline, he had not actually met Li Tongguang at this moment, and Li Tongguang was unaware that Ren Ruyi was right beside him.
I never expected that this guy's interest in Ren Ruyi is still far from being confirmed, but I've already run into his fiancée!
The thought that this little wild horse was actually a young woman who had been betrothed by Emperor An and was about to be married, and that her fiancé was Li Tongguang who had designs on Ren Ruyi, made Wei Tingyu feel excited!
"You're talking nonsense!" Chuyue's maid couldn't stand it any longer and directly refuted the other party.
But the problem is that what he said was also true. Although Li Tongguang left the capital under the pretext of having official business, the news that he was very dissatisfied with Emperor An’s bestowal of marriage had already spread among the noble ladies in Andu.
His attitude towards Chuyue was as cold as ice!
If even a maid is so angry, then Chu Yue, this little wild horse, must be even more furious!
She had never liked Li Tongguang in the first place, and all she could think about was how to get Emperor An to break off the engagement! But that guy just turned around and ran off to the outskirts of the capital, so all these messy things ended up being piled on her by the gossipy women in Andu.
Now that the censor's daughter has exposed her in front of so many people, she is naturally losing face!
In a fit of rage, he raised his whip to strike the other man.
However, just as he raised the whip, a large hand suddenly reached out from behind him and firmly pressed down on his wrist!
Chu Yue was immediately startled, because she could clearly feel that the hand was extremely powerful, to the point that her wrist could not move even an inch!
You should know that Chu Yue has always considered herself to be no less than any man! Yet now she has been controlled by someone with one hand?
Her first reaction was disbelief! And then she instinctively turned around to see who had this ability!
However, the moment she turned around, the slight frown that had been there due to her confusion suddenly relaxed!
Because in Chuyue's eyes, what she saw was clearly the face of a handsome young man full of heroic spirit!
He wasn't the delicate, greasy-faced young man, nor was he a burly, bearded man.
This feeling of gentleness and perseverance complementing each other suddenly made Chuyue's heart race!
Unlike the shy daughters of the Han people, the pearl of the grasslands was not shy at all. When she saw that the other party was also looking at her with a smile, Chu Yue did not avoid his gaze at all. Instead, she looked back at him with a very curious look.
When Wei Tingyu saw Chu Yue looking directly into his eyes with a probing gaze, he simply smiled and said, "You're so fussy about getting something. How much longer do you want me to wait outside?"
Upon hearing Wei Tingyu's words, Chu Yue's expression became even more bewildered!
Judging from what he said... he was waiting for me? But the question is, do I even know him? And do I have an appointment with him?
However, no matter how hard Chu Yue racked her brains, she couldn't find any information about the young man in front of her.
She was certain that if she hadn't lost her memory, she had never seen this person before!
"I already told you I don't know anything about gold or jade... I only know this!" Wei Tingyu found Chu Yue's bewildered expression quite adorable, so he took out the flowers he had just bought while saying this.
Then, amidst the bewildered gazes of everyone and Chuyue, he gently stepped forward and pinned the flower to Chuyue's hair!
Chu Yue was completely dumbfounded. She had no idea what this man who had suddenly appeared was up to. It wasn't until he put the flowers in her hair that she came to her senses!
This is her way of getting herself out of an awkward situation! It's to avoid embarrassing herself after being ridiculed by so many people.
Especially that censor's daughter, didn't she claim to be unable to distinguish between yin and yang? Now a man is sending her flowers, which is the best rebuttal to her statement!
But the current situation seems a bit...
After all, she was nominally the fiancée of Marquis Changqing, Li Tongguang! To accept flowers from a man in public like this... well, it was a completely unpredictable situation!
"I'm glad you like it!" Wei Tingyu knew exactly what the girl was thinking. If it were an ordinary Han woman, she would definitely refuse him outright for his rash actions.
However, Chuyue is different; this pearl of the grassland has never been afraid of anything!
Besides, girls on the grasslands don't have as many taboos about contact with men from other places!
Of course, this intimate scene was also a first for Chuyue, so she was completely bewildered and had no idea how to respond.
"If you don't like it, just throw it away!" Wei Tingyu said with a smile when he saw that Chu Yue was still staring at him without saying anything.
The meaning is simple: I'm here to help you out of this awkward situation. If you feel embarrassed, you can just ignore me.
However, Chu Yue's eyes flickered and she remained silent, which was taken as tacit acceptance of the flower he gave her.
"Who are you?" At this moment, the censor's daughter finally couldn't hold back any longer. She glared at Wei Tingyu and asked directly.
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