allonlinenovel Chapter 248 Eat Melon
Chapter 248 Eat Melon
Most of these young men were fellow students at the Imperial Academy, so they were naturally quite familiar with each other.
The group exchanged smiles and then began to greet each other warmly.
"Brother Yu! What brings you here too!" Shen Xiuqi and Yu Yifei had been friends for so long, and Shen Xiuqi knew Yu Yifei's personality well.
Knowing he would be restless at such a banquet, I waited for him here early.
“I’ll take a look too!” Yu Yifei replied.
Shen Xiuqi nodded and asked, "Have you seen your junior sister? Is she still with the women?"
"Junior sister? Which one are you talking about? Besides, that's the women's section. How could I possibly go there and peek?"
"Pretend? You're too embarrassed to peek? Your skin is as thick as a city wall. As soon as you see a new female student at the neighboring academy, you wait for her to finish class at the academy gate every day."
Shen Xiuqi bluntly exposed Yu Yifei's lies.
Yu Yifei coughed awkwardly and explained, "I just wanted to see what the new girls looked like! It's a pity that Lin Daiyu is no longer here."
"I'm thinking of finding myself another husband, but I haven't met anyone as interesting as Lin Daiyu yet."
"Alright, alright, still thinking about Lin Daiyu? She's been gone for so long, and we're in the palace. Be careful what you say, don't let anyone with ulterior motives overhear." Shen Xiu retorted bluntly, reminding Yu Yifei, who looked so regretful.
After hearing this, Yu Yifei subconsciously looked around. Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, and said, "You're right!"
Shen Xiuqi was too lazy to waste any more words with Yu Yifei and turned to look into the distance.
"Hey, aren't those women? Why are they out here too?" Shen Xiuqi glanced at the pavilion across the way.
The pavilion on Yu Yifei's side is separated from the pavilion opposite by an artificial lake. There is a banyan tree next to the pavilion opposite. Because it is quite far away, you can only see people walking around, but you can't tell who is who.
Yu Yifei looked in the direction of Shen Xiuqi's voice and indeed saw several women in the pavilion, but he couldn't see what they were doing!
"I can't see what they're doing!" Yu Yifei murmured, craning his neck to look in that direction.
“This place is very remote, and it’s a bit far from the banquet, so it’s unlikely that anyone would notice us. I guess they’re in the same boat as us,” Shen Xiuqi said.
Yu Yifei nodded and said, "It's normal for them to come out at this hour."
After saying that, Yu Yifei glanced at the pavilion opposite.
In the blink of an eye, he suddenly spotted a familiar figure.
Yu Yi took a big step forward, placed his hands on the railing of the pavilion, and stretched his entire upper body forward, as if he was trying to use all his strength to see who was standing on the other side.
Seeing Yu Yifei's actions, Shen Xiuqi couldn't help but shake his head, thinking to himself that this guy was probably back to his old ways.
So he joked, "What can you see like that? Why don't you just swim to the other side and you'll be able to see the other side clearly!"
"Go away! Do you think I'm that kind of person? I just wanted to see who was on the other side!" Yu Yifei replied irritably.
Shen Xiuqi gave Yu Yifei a disdainful look, but Yu Yifei ignored Shen Xiuqi's sharp tongue and continued, "That person looks like my junior sister!"
"Junior sister? I think you're so obsessed with your junior sister that you see everyone as your junior sister!" Shen Xiuqi continued to be sarcastic.
Yu Yifei clicked his tongue impatiently and frowned as he said, "I'm not kidding, it really does look like it."
Seeing that Yu Yifei didn't seem to be joking, Shen Xiuqi looked in the direction Yu Yifei was pointing and began to examine it carefully. He was surprised to find that there was indeed a resemblance.
The junior sister they were talking about was a newcomer who had just entered Baitong Academy not long ago. Her name was Zhu Qianlin, and she was the daughter of Yu Yifei's mother's cousin. According to seniority, she could also be considered Yu Yifei's cousin.
Shen Xiuqi suddenly smiled and teased Yu Yifei: "Your cousin has come all the way from out of town to the capital, there must be a reason! Maybe you're going to settle down and start a family before I do!"
Upon hearing this, Yu Yifei retorted irritably, "Get lost! That's nonsense! Even if there really is such a thing as getting married, shouldn't you at least ask me if I like her or not first?"
In fact, Yu Yifei was perfectly aware of his mother's repeated hints that he should take good care of his cousin.
However, he found this kind of marriage between close relatives difficult to accept and had always been resistant to the relationship.
"You don't like him? Then who do you like?" Shen Xiuqi teased Yu Yifei on purpose.
Yu Yifei glared at him irritably and didn't answer him.
Just as the two were chatting, Yu Yifei glanced across the room and his eyes widened instantly. He saw a woman who seemed to be enraged raise her hand and slap Zhu Qianlin hard across the face.
Yu Yifei hurriedly called Shen Xiuqi over to see what was going on, shouting, "They're fighting! They're fighting! A fight has broken out!" His anxious expression suggested he was afraid of missing any exciting details.
Hearing the shouts, Shen Xiuqi immediately perked up and asked, "Where? Where? Tell me quickly where it is!" As he asked, he craned his neck and stood on tiptoe, trying his best to see what was happening on the other side.
As a worthy bystander, Yu Yifei naturally wouldn't miss anything, keeping his eyes glued to the situation opposite him, and occasionally describing what he was seeing to Shen Xiuqi:
"I clearly saw that woman across from me slap my junior sister without saying a word! I don't know what made her so angry..."
As he spoke, Yu Yifei couldn't help but lean forward again.
"The one who got hit is your junior sister? Then why are you just standing here doing nothing! Hurry up and go help her!" Shen Xiuqi said anxiously.
Hearing this, Yu Yifei remained calm. He frowned slightly and replied softly, "Don't be in such a hurry. We can't be sure yet that person is definitely my junior sister."
"Besides, if I rush over here now, wouldn't that be the same as directly exposing that we're secretly observing them?" As he spoke, his gaze remained fixed on the person who resembled his junior sister, as if he were considering some countermeasure.
In the blink of an eye, the two people who had just been arguing fell into the lake. Yu Yifei, seeing this, exclaimed, "Oh no!"
On the other side, other noble ladies watched anxiously as the two fell into the lake, seemingly at a loss. Chaos seemed to have broken out on the other side.
Yu Yifei sensed something was terribly wrong and said to Shen Xiuqi, "Let's go!"
"Where to?" Shen Xiuqi asked, puzzled.
"Go save her!" Yu Yifei was afraid that if it really was Zhu Qianlin, then something terrible would happen.
No matter what, Zhu Qianlin was brought over by the Yu family, so they can't afford to cause trouble at the Empress's birthday banquet, or the Yu family will suffer the consequences.