My old husband who can read minds

Entering the royal garden of the palace, Princess Yumin deliberately stayed away from Shen Yuan and his party in order to avoid suspicion.

After finding his seat and sitting down, he looked around and finally saw the shadow of the new Changning County King Weiyuan.

Although Wei Yuan was a scholar, his appearance was not fair and handsome like ordinary scholars. On the contrary, he was tall, handsome, with eyes as cold as stars.

This is due to the fact that in the past two years, he has adopted the name of the former prince and practiced martial arts with Cui Daoyi and others. Not only has his size and figure changed dramatically, but his appearance and temperament have also undergone earth-shaking changes.

At least judging from his appearance and demeanor, Wei Yuan is worthy of the title of Changning County Prince.

Princess Yumin looked at it secretly and felt quite satisfied.

She didn't like men who were too thin and weak. He looked so weak that he might not be able to withstand a whip from her, but someone like Wei Yuan was more to her liking.

After a while, there were more and more guests in the imperial garden, and it gradually became lively.

Princess Yumin was a little absent-minded. Occasionally she couldn't help but look in the direction of the Qin family's female relatives, secretly wondering and curious about what medicine Qin He and Shen Yuan were selling in the gourd today.

With the arrival of the queen and many concubines, the atmosphere was pushed to a climax.

The young men and women sat in two rows on the left and right, facing each other. This arrangement made it easy for them to see each other.

As a distinguished guest from the Northern Territory, Princess Yumin's status was second only to the princess of Dayong. She was seated below the two princesses of the right age, and sitting diagonally across from her was Wei Yuan.

You can see each other as soon as you raise your eyes, and you can understand each other's movements at any time.

Princess Yumin lowered her eyes and smiled, feeling mostly at ease.

As the palace musicians and dancers performed one after another, the flower-viewing feast finally officially kicked off.

After the warm-up performance was over, the Queen began to speak and invited the unmarried young ladies from various prefectures present to come forward to perform and celebrate the occasion.

This is a common practice during flower viewing banquets, and it is also done to make it easier for everyone to see each other.

Of course, Princess Yumin was not among the performers. She sat at the banquet and enjoyed the performances of various beauties with great interest.

Halfway through the talent show, Princess Yumin, who was watching with great interest, felt her sleeves being tugged twice. She felt awe-struck, secretly thinking that it was finally here.

After the maid who brought her tea had gone away, Princess Yumin pretended to adjust her dress, and quickly read the extra note in her sleeve pocket with the help of the maids on her left and right sides.

Then she pretended that nothing had happened, called Laisang and several other confidant maids, and said she wanted to go to the latrine, and successfully dismissed the accompanying nuns.

No one noticed that about half a quarter of an hour after Princess Yumin left the table, Wang Weiyuan of Changning County also quietly escaped on the pretext that he was too drunk and wanted to go to the side room to rest for a while.

Princess Yumin followed the instructions on the note and went to the latrine to clean up the note. Then she pretended to enjoy the scenery of the imperial garden and asked several maids to accompany her to wander in the imperial garden.

And she seemed to be wandering aimlessly, but in fact she was approaching step by step in the direction indicated on the note.

When she saw the "Spring Pavilion" not far away, Princess Yumin's eyes lit up and she couldn't help but quicken her pace. "Spring Pavilion" is a famous scene in the Xishan Palace. It is full of rockeries, gurgling water, high-arched stone bridges, surrounded by famous flowers and shaded by green trees, making it look very picturesque.

Princess Yumin marveled at the beauty of the scenery in front of her, which was like a fairyland. She walked onto the stone bridge, looked left and right, and was overjoyed.

The accompanying maids were also distracted by their master's "liveliness and intelligence". From time to time they cast their eyes on the surrounding scenery, inevitably becoming distracted and taking a wrong look.

Princess Yumin seized the opportunity and took advantage of the unpreparedness of several maids to slowly approach the bridge. Then she pretended to sprain her feet and fell, and fell into the water with a splash amidst the frightened screams of the maids.

Under the bridge is a living river, with the highest water depth being more than two meters. The river water was still cool in late spring. After falling into the water, Princess Yumin immediately started flopping in the river, looking out from time to time and shouting for help.

After the initial panic among the accompanying maids, one of them who knew how to swim immediately jumped into the river and swam quickly towards Princess Yumin.

Two of the other three maids ran to call for reinforcements, leaving only one Laisang as a helper.

Coincidentally, as soon as the two maids ran away from the bridge, they saw a tall man walking in front of him. He seemed to have an extraordinary identity, and he looked familiar.

One of the maids had sharp eyes and quickly recognized the person. She couldn't help but shout for help: "I have seen the Prince of Changning. My princess has fallen into the water. Please give me a helping hand."

"Where did the princess fall into the water?"

Wei Yuan strode away without saying a word, asking as he ran.

The two maids panted after him, pointing loudly: "The water fell on the bridge of Chunyi Pavilion."

Knowing the place where he fell into the water, Wei Yuan ran faster and quickly pushed the two maids far away.

When Wei Yuan arrived at Chunyi Pavilion, he saw a woman who looked like a maid on the bridge was crying hoarsely, and two women were splashing in the water, one of whom was dragging the other to the shore with difficulty.

But it seems that they are exhausted, and the situation of the two is not optimistic.

Wei Chen jumped up, plunged into the water, spotted Princess Yumin's face, and swam towards her quickly.

With Wei Chen's participation and help, he and another maid quickly rescued Princess Yumin ashore.

Princess Yumin was too frightened and successfully "fainted" in Wei Chen's arms.

When several maids were at a loss, Wei Chen said, "I'm so sorry." He had no choice but to pick up Princess Yumin and walked quickly towards the side room.

Although the maids were anxious, they also knew that now was not the time to pursue the defense of men and women. The most important thing was that the princess was fine.

"You stay here to take care of the princess. The prince will immediately send someone to ask for the imperial doctor. You will also send someone to report to the queen that the princess fell into the water. If there is nothing else, the prince will retire first."

After Wei Yuan sent the person to the side room, he left wisely.

After he left, this small wing soon became lively. (End of chapter)