Chapter 256

Although no one lived there, the stairs were also cleaned up with great care. Wei Yuewu lifted the hemline of her skirt and carefully walked up. When she saw the handsome face of the Third Prince, she revealed a smile without the slightest trace of surprise.

“What a coincidence it is to actually see Your Highness here. Greetings, Your Highness!” She lightly bowed and smiled.

When Jin Ling saw that it was the Third Prince upstairs, her heart trembled and she hurriedly bowed along with Wei Yuewu.

The Third Prince fixed his gaze on Wei Yuewu’s face. After a while, he slowly said, “It is not a coincidence, I have been here for some time!”

Wei Yuewu was not surprised that the Third Prince had been here. Since the Third Prince was willing to see her, it meant that he did not intend to hide the fact that he had been here for a long time.

“Why are you here?” The Third Prince turned around and walked towards the inside with his hands behind his back.

Wei Yuewu followed him. Jin Ling carefully looked at the guard who was standing by the side and staring at her vigilantly. After thinking for a while, she did not follow Wei Yuewu and only kept an eye on the guard.

The Third Prince walked to the fence on the second floor and stopped. There was glazed glass on the fence, and there was also a half-closed curtain on the side. It was not easy for people to find someone standing behind the fence from the outside, but people standing behind the fence could have a clear view of the outside.

In other words, Wei Yuewu had discovered the Third Prince only by chance. However, the Third Prince had been able to observe Wei Yuewu all the time. Wei Yuewu went forward and looked down. She could even see the old maidservant walking out of the room and looking around. After confirming Wei Yuewu and Jin Ling were still in the backyard, the old maidservant continued to rest in the room.

“Who told you this is Prince Bei’an Mansion?” The Third Prince asked coldly.

“Isn’t it?” Wei Yuewu smiled slightly and asked. Since the Third Prince went straight to the point, she was not afraid to let him know that she was interested in Prince Bei’an Mansion.

Besides the Third Prince, she really couldn’t find anyone else to ask about a prince mansion that had declined!

“Why are you looking for Prince Bei’an Mansion?” The Third Prince neither said yes or no. He did not event urn his head, but Wei Yuewu could hear a trace of trembling in his voice.

“It’s not me who wanted to find Prince Bei’an Mansion, it’s my mother!” Wei Yuewu said honestly.

“Marquise Hua Yang?” The Third Prince suddenly turned around and looked at Wei Yuewu sternly.

“Yes, my mother!” Wei Yuewu’s expression did not change. She looked at the Third Prince without any fear. Her clear eyes were filled with a trace of pain. “My mother left me a note asking me to find out about Prince Bei’an Mansion.”

She had never told anyone about this matter, but she somehow felt that it was the best time to talk about it. After she finished speaking, her watery eyes were no longer calm.

“Did Marquise Hua Yang know what she was doing?” The third prince suddenly became annoyed.

“Your Highness, what do you mean?” Hearing the Third Prince mentioned her mother like this, Wei Yuewu had a long face and became angry. Her snow-white face slightly flushed.

The Third Prince seemed to have realized that he had lost his composure, and his expression relaxed. He looked at Wei Yuewu with a complicated expression and slowly said, “Sixth Miss Wei, do you know that no one is allowed to mention Prince Bei’an Mansion? Aren’t you afraid?”

“So what? I can’t defy mother’s orders!” Wei Yuewu straightened her back with a fearless face.

These words stunned the Third Prince, but then his eyes became more and more unfathomable. He glanced at Wei Yuewu and said slowly after a while, “Your mother was wrong!”

“My mother was wrong?” Wei Yuewu repeated in confusion.

“Yes, your mother was wrong! She was wrong. This was not important at all!” The Third Prince turned his head again, a bitter smile appearing on his lips. “This is meaningless to her!”

“What about to Your Highness?” Wei Yuewu asked.

These words seemed to have stabbed the Third Prince. The Third Prince could hardly suppress the pain on his face. His hand gently touched the window lattice of the pavilion and his fist clenched tightly. After a long time, he finally relaxed. “Do you know who was the earliest owner of this place?”

He directly switched to another topic and looked at the glazed glass window with gentle eyes. “She was not in good health and could not go out when she was a little girl. She would easily catch cold and get sick, so this building was specially built for her. The windows here were installed with glazed glasses for her to see the scenery outside when she was upstairs.”

“Although her body was weak and she couldn’t walk around freely, she liked seeing beautiful flowers. Therefore, flowers that could bloom in all seasons were planted downstairs…

Wei Yuewu followed the Third Prince’s gaze and looked at a place. There was indeed a garden in that direction, but it seemed to have been abandoned. Although there were still traces of the garden, there were basically no flowers left.

“Your Highness, are you talking about that little sister who was in poor health?” Wei Yuewu asked cautiously. She remembered what the Third Prince had told her before. Was the little sister who was very close to her really the one the Third Prince was talking about?

The Third Prince did not speak. His gaze was fixed on the ground below. After a while, he turned to Wei Yuewu. His expression was calm and indifferent, exactly as was described by the rumors outside. “Sixth Young Lady, you’d better not investigate Prince Bei’an Mansion. This matter has nothing to do with you!”

Without waiting for Wei Yuewu to reply, he turned around and went downstairs with his guard.

Seeing that the Third Prince had left, Jin Ling hurried over.

“Let’s go too!” Wei Yuewu said softly as she looked at the back of the Third Prince.

Although the Third Prince did not say anything, she still found a part of the answer to the question in her heart. This was definitely the former Prince Bei’an Mansion, but she did not expect the little sister in her memory was also related to Prince Bei’an Mansion! Could she be the daughter of Prince Bei’an?

But didn’t the Third Prince say that it was his younger sister? Could it be his cousin?

After making so tremendous effort, she felt that she had solved only one question, but there were now even more questions, especially when the Third Prince repeatedly said that Prince Bei’an Mansion had nothing to do with her. However, when she thought of the note left by her mother, she did not believe that it really had nothing to do with her!

The Third Prince must know something, but it was obvious that he would not tell her.

“Sixth Young Lady, it’s getting late. How about we going to Eldest Young Lady’s courtyard? Maybe she is already anxious to see you!”

The old maidservant who waited at the gate had looked around several times. When she saw Wei Yuewu coming out, she hurriedly went forward with a smile.

“Alright!” Wei Yuewu nodded with a smile. It was indeed getting late. The banquet should be starting soon.

Of course, she would not go to the banquet hall in the front yard. Jing Wenyan had asked her to go to her own courtyard, where she had specially arranged a banquet for several young ladies who were close to her.

Seeing that Wei Yuewu agreed without any intention of making things difficult for her, the old maidservant led the way with a smile.

At this time, they took the shortcut to Jing Wenyan’s courtyard. Not long after, they arrived at the gate of Jing Wenyan’s courtyard.

The maids at the gate of the courtyard saw them coming from afar and hurriedly went in to report to Jing Wenyan, who came out to greet them at the gate.

There were a total of four young ladies who followed Jing Wenyan out. Wei Yuewu was surprised to find that these people were really familiar.

There were Li Yue’er, Lady Li’s niece; Yang Yuyan, the Eldest Lady Yang who framed her in the Plum Blossom Nunnery; Wang Yachun, the eldest daughter of General Ming Yuan whom she had met at the first palace banquet; and the last one was Zhao Ruo’e, who had a conflict with her because of the palace flower.

Well, they were really acquaintances to her. Except for Wang Yachun, the other three all had some kind of friction with her.

Seeing Wei Yuewu in a daze, Jing Wenyan covered her mouth with a handkerchief and laughed, “Sixth Miss Wei, do you think that they look familiar? I have only just arrived in the capital. Actually, I don’t know many young ladies. However, I feel there is special chemistry between me and the five of you. That’s why I specially invited you to my courtyard. You won’t mind, right?”

Of course, no one would mind. Although the mansion of Duke of Jing had declined, Jing Wenyan, who had the title of the number one beauty, was not affected. Instead, the young masters of the aristocratic families in the capital were burning with eagerness for her.

“Eldest Miss Jing, you must be joking. I have indeed met these ladies before!” Wei Yuewu smiled and swept her gaze across everyone’s face.

She didn’t know if there was special chemistry between these ladies and Jing Wenyan, but she did know one thing: these people did have “special” chemistry with her.

Wang Yachun actually had another identity: the Fourth Princess’ study companion. Zhao Ruo’e was the Third Princess’ study companion. Although the two princesses were absent, their “representatives” had both come!

As for Li Yue’er and Yang Yuyan, neither of them had a friendly relationship with her!

Was Jing Wenyan choosing bosom friends for herself, or was she picking opponents for her?

Among the group of ladies, Wang Yachun was the most kind. She first came to greet Wei Yuewu, “I didn’t expect the last person to be Sixth Miss Wei. When I asked Eldest Miss Jing just now, she refused to tell me and only said to give us a surprise!”

Wei Yuewu also bowed back. “Miss Wang, you are too polite. If I had known that you ladies were waiting here, I would have come earlier.”

“Actually, it’s not too late now. I just came back. However, I kept the four of them waiting here!” Jing Wenyan came over with a smile, holding the hands of Wei Yuewu and Wang Yachun and walking towards the inside with them.

The other three looked at each other and did not say anything, but they also followed in.

“Sixth Miss Wei…” After entering the courtyard, Yang Yuyan first opened her mouth, but for a moment, she didn’t know what to say. She only bowed slightly as a sign of greeting.

Wei Yuewu had said that what happened in the Plum Blossom Nunnery might have been a misunderstanding. Since Wei Yuewu had said that she would not pursue the matter, the others naturally would not hold Yang Yuyan responsible.

However, many young aristocratic ladies witnessed what happened at that time, and they deeply despised Yang Yuyan. Because of this, Yang Yuyan rarely appeared in front of everyone. Today, it should be the first time that Yang Yuyan appeared in public after that incident. However, she appeared at Jing Wenyan’s private banquet at the same time as her. Thinking of this, Wei Yuewu sneered in her heart.

What happened between them was not a misunderstanding at all!

Today, Jing Wenyan arranged such a special meeting for the two of them on her birthday banquet. Considering her status as the Eldest Young Lady of the mansion of Duke of Jing, was she trying to make people believe that what happened in the Plum Blossom Nunnery was really a misunderstanding, and that Yang Yuyan really mistook her for someone else?

This Eldest Miss Jing really knew how to be a good person! She asked for her face and then gave it as a favor to others! Well, it seemed today’s banquet was really a good show!

“I want to ask Sixth Miss Wei a question…” Sure enough, it was Li Yue’er who was the first to make trouble!