What strange aura?
Zheng Lingbo shook her head and looked at Rong Yi somewhat embarrassedly. She secretly pulled Zheng Jing's arm to twist him.
Zheng Jing's skin is tough, and his arms are full of muscles. He only felt that his sister seemed to be pulling him, not feeling any pain at all. So he looked curiously and thought she had something to say.
This nearly made Zheng Lingbo's blood boil.
Rong Yi was observing stealthily without interruption, and did not miss the interaction between the two siblings. She held back a smile and looked down with a lost expression: "If Zheng girl is not convenient, I will wait and see if anyone else wants to travel together."
Zheng Lingbo was so angry at Zheng Jing that her head hurt. She didn't care about him anymore and directly took over: "Convenient! Where is the inconvenience? The carriage is right there, Mr. Rong, please!"
Zheng Jing: "????"
Although he fundamentally felt that the scholar had bad intentions, he wouldn't ruin his sister's promise, so he could only look at Rong Yi with a stern expression, warning him.
Rong Yi expressed his gratitude with a surprised expression: "That's wonderful, thank you very much, Miss Zheng."
Zheng Lingbo led the person towards the carriage: "Mr. Rong, you're too polite. You've helped me a lot, it's only right."
The two people chatted and laughed merrily, but Zheng Jing's heart was very frustrated.
When they reached the carriage, Zheng Lingbo couldn't help but freeze again.
Their carriage was not very large; it was spacious for two people when they came, but adding one more, especially an outsider, felt a bit awkward.
Fortunately, Rong Yi was astute. He smiled and said, "I am already very grateful that Miss Zheng is willing to give me a ride. I can be with the carriage driver."
Zheng Lingbo: "...... truly sorry."
She felt a bit embarrassed.
Originally, she wanted to get along well, but ended up making someone sit outside. However, for their age, it would really be difficult to coexist in a small room in the carriage. Fortunately, Rong Yi was generous. Otherwise, her actions wouldn't be a matter of accumulating gratitude but rather accumulating enmity.
Rong Yi originally intended to talk to the little girl, so he wasn't too worried about this kind of thing. In fact, he was quite happy that the little girl felt guilty.
So they reported their address, and everyone got on the carriage.
The carriage moved, and Zheng Lingbo was a little worried. She opened the curtain slightly with her sister's hot gaze on her, and whispered to Rong Yi, "Mr. Rong, is it really okay for us to sit like this?"
The little girl hid behind the curtain, only showing one eye, like a child playing hide and seek who can't bear the loneliness, blinking her eyes as if looking over. The expression was incredibly cute.
Rong Yi's heart slightly moved, and he said, "I'm fine, thank you very much, Miss Zheng."
Zheng Lingbo relaxed, and glanced at Zheng Jing who was trying to say something but couldn't, coughed once, lowered the curtain, said "That's good", and then fell silent.
Regardless, she had at least obtained Rong Yi's address. She would disguise herself and get closer to him the day after her brother went to work.
Zheng Lingbo felt more at ease with a plan in mind.
Tensioned for a whole day, Zheng Lingbo now felt sleepiness dawning as the carriage swayed slowly. She subconsciously felt her brother's warm, large hand pressing against the carriage wall. As soon as she released the strength she had been holding on to, she fell asleep peacefully.
—it felt like I had gone back to my childhood.
When she was young, whenever she sat in a carriage and swayed, she felt dizzy. Every time the whole family went out for a walk, her brother, who was usually restless and couldn't sit still, would take the initiative to sit in the carriage and hug her in his arms to lull her to sleep.
"By the time you wake up, we'll have arrived."
So when Zheng Lingpo opened her eyes, she really had arrived at her home. She opened her eyes blurry.
Zheng Jing gave her a hostile poke: "You're quite good at timing, you just woke up as soon as the carriage stopped."
Zheng Lingbo: "......"
Fortunately, she had already carefully memorized the address when Rong Yi said it earlier, otherwise she would have missed it if she slept through it.
They returned home, and this palace banquet was full of fright.
Zheng Jing wrote a letter describing today's events and sent it to their father, Zheng Weimin, in an urgent manner. He had originally intended to discuss it with Shi Yueren, but when he turned around, he saw Zheng Lingbo still sitting on the little stool in the corner of the study dozing off. He paused for a moment: "Have you not gone back yet?"
Zheng Lingpo woke up and said, "Well, today has been such a big event, isn't it worth discussing?"
Zheng Jing smiled and said, "Don't worry. The sky will fall on my big brother and me. You're a little girl. It's only when you go to bed early and get up early that you can grow tall."
Zheng Lingbo: "......"
Zheng Lingpo stared at Zheng Jing intently, "I'm not small."
I have been married in my previous life.
Zheng Jing dealt with it casually: "Alright, you're not little. Go back and sleep."
Zheng Lingpo was angry and argued with Zheng Jing for a few sentences, but Zheng Jing only nodded and agreed without saying anything about what they should do next.
Zheng Lingpo: "......"
She was quite upset.
Zheng Lingpo lowered her head with a sense of disappointment: "Brother, do you also think that I am useless and really unqualified?"
Zheng Jing was flustered and categorically denied: "No! How could you think that?"
Zheng Jing saw Zheng Lingpo lowering her head, and her body exuding a forlorn atmosphere. He quickly stood up and patted her head, then pretended nothing was wrong and returned.
——From the palace banquet, they had not yet had time to relax and tidy up. Zheng Lingpo was still wearing a full head of hairpins, making it quite difficult to know where to start.
"What are you thinking about? My sister is the wisest and most lovely sister in the world."
Seeing Zheng Lingpo not affected, he immediately presented strong evidence: "At the palace banquet today, which noble girl could be as calm and orderly as you, facing the king and responding logically."
Zheng Lingpo: "..."
Zheng Lingpo looked up, her eyes red from crying, and asked Zheng Jing: "If that's the case, then why won't you discuss it with me?"
Zheng Jing was stunned for a moment.
After a long time, he sighed deeply with a feeling of reflection: "Lingbo has grown up."
He gently stroked Zheng Lingbo's head and said, "It's not that I'm unwilling."
It was rare to say such open-hearted words. He seemed to be choosing his words carefully, but actually, he was a bit embarrassed.
It took him a long time to slowly say: "You are all my younger siblings, as the eldest brother, naturally I must stand in front and support you with a sky for you to live under, hoping that you can live carefree and do what you want."
Zheng Lingbo: "..."
Zheng Lingbo's eyes became misty for a moment.
Seeing that the atmosphere in front of her was too warm, she thought for a while and suddenly said in a melancholy tone: "Since that's the case, why did you hold back on Third Brother's desire to go to the frontier and take the imperial examination?"
A wave of questioning from the soul.
After saying that, she didn't wait for Zheng Jing's response and continued: "It's late, I won't disturb you, go to bed. Brother, don't work too late."
She ran away after speaking.
Leaving Zheng Jing in the study: "..."
This little tyrant!
