People in the Tang Dynasty, Jian'an style

"What are you trying to steal? You're really amazing, with such courage... No wonder he's the one favored by the young lady!"

"Go! Go! Go……"

Amid the chatter of conversation, the door opened and two servants in green clothes and small hats stood in front of the door.

A man was guarding a door, looking at him with a look of great admiration. He neither asked him to come in nor told him to go and report. He just looked at him up and down, left and right, and sized him up and down with curiosity.

Li Wenbin was somewhat speechless. He coughed and said, "I wish to see the Crown Princess. Please inform her!"

The two family members woke up as if from a dream and hurriedly said, "Ah! Miss knew that the young master was coming and had already given instructions. As soon as the young master arrived, he would be introduced immediately without notifying him. Young master, please!"

Not knowing whether the Crown Prince was there, Li Wenbin deliberately shouted loudly: "Where is the Crown Princess now?"

"My dear, the young lady is in the Moon Viewing Pavilion." After saying that, the servant added with a smile, "My dear, you don't have to be so loud. My ears are very good!"

Li Wenbin continued loudly, "I am sorry to come here. Your Majesty is in the back house, or she is wearing formal attire, so it is not appropriate for her to see outsiders. Should I wait here and let you go and report first?"

Unexpectedly, after he finished shouting, the servant came over with a grin on his face, bowed and said, "Sir, please go in. The prince is not at home. Even if you shout your throat out, he can't hear you!"

Li Wenbin: “…”

He suddenly remembered something - the servant did not call Zheng Guanyin "Crown Princess" but "Miss".

Li Wenbin's heart moved: "Are you a servant of the Zheng family?"

"My lord, you have a good eye. I am a hereditary servant of the Zheng family. Counting from the youngest, seven or eight generations have worked for the Zheng family." The servant said with a smile, "Not only me, but everyone in this garden is a hereditary servant of the Zheng family. So... you understand."

Now Li Wenbin finally understood. No wonder Zheng Guanyin would invite him to her home so unscrupulously and without any reservations.

It turned out that all the people here were servants of the Zheng family for generations, so they would naturally obey her orders.

This is also the confidence of the Zheng family of Xingyang. They, together with the Lu family of Fanyang, the Cui family of Qinghe, and the Wang family of Taiyuan, are the four largest families. Their family members, students and former officials are spread throughout the court and the country.

If the Song Dynasty was a period in which the emperor and the scholar-officials ruled the world together, then the political situation in the early Tang Dynasty was that the emperor and the aristocratic families ruled the world together - and the Li Tang royal family was even at a disadvantage.

Without the support of these four families, Li Yuan couldn't even hold his position as emperor.

Chapter 64 Help! Help!

A lake of water, sparkling.

There are lotus flowers and lotus pods gradually growing in the pond.

Outside the pavilion by the pond, under the eaves that stretched out like bat wings, Zheng Guanyin, wearing a wide-sleeved silk gown, holding a fishing rod in her hand, with her slender, snow-white feet bare, was lying lazily on a beauty couch.

There was a cute little girl in her early teens sitting next to her, waving her little fists and gently massaging her legs. Apart from her, there was no one else.

The man in blue stood still at a distance and said to Li Wenbin with a smile, "Please go in, my lord. The young lady has already given instructions, so I will not follow you."

Thinking about the plan he had made earlier, Li Wenbin straightened his chest and strode over.

His feet stepped hard on the wooden boards under the corridor, making a "thump thump thump" sound.

The little girl who was massaging Zheng Guanyin's legs glanced over here and whispered something. Zheng Guanyin smiled and replied. The little girl then got down from the couch, lifted her little skirt, and ran away from Li Wenbin.

Judging from the look on her face, the little girl was a little afraid of Li Wenbin's aggressive expression.

Zheng Guanyin lay on the couch, but glanced at him with a smile, her eyes full of charm.

Li Wenbin tightened his face, strode over, stood still, and shouted in a deep voice: "I'm here, what do you want from me?"

"Oh!" Zheng Guanyin patted her full chest and said in a frightened tone, "Your footsteps are so heavy and your voice is so loud, are you trying to scare away all my fish?"

Just at this moment, the fishing float sank, followed by the fishing line being tightened. Zheng Guanyin was so busy talking to Li Wenbin that the fishing rod slipped out of her hand, bounced on the floor with a bang, and was dragged into the water by the big fish.

"Oops! It's bitten, help me..."

Zheng Guanyin shouted excitedly, but Li Wenbin did not move.

Seeing that he did not move, Zheng Guanyin said angrily, "You..." As he spoke, he rushed up to grab the fishing rod. The fishing rod was pulled by the big fish and slid into the water. Zheng Guanyin hurriedly reached forward and barely grabbed the tail of the fishing rod from the water surface, but he lost his balance and fell into the water.

"Aaaaaaaaah..."

Zheng Guanyin shouted and waved her empty left hand like a wheel, but she still couldn't keep her body steady. Li Wenbin was standing next to her and could catch her with his agility, but if she did that, all her efforts to show momentum and anger would be in vain.

Li Wenbin just thought that this was part of her plan against him, and continued to watch coldly with his arms folded.

Zheng Guanyin fell into the water with a "plop" and immediately screamed.

She couldn't swim, and when she fell into the water, she screamed for help in panic. Li Wenbin squatted beside her and watched her struggling in the water. He was angry and amused: "This young lady really put a lot of effort into plotting against me!"

Seeing Zheng Guanyin screaming and struggling, Li Wenbin couldn't help but ask, "Have you had enough of making trouble? Why don't you come up?"

Zheng Guanyin ignored him and moved further away from him.

Li Wenbin noticed something was wrong. The fear on her face didn't seem to be fake.

More importantly, he saw with his own eyes that Zheng Guanyin drank two sips of water while struggling. No matter how much Zheng Guanyin pretended to deceive him, she would not drink the water in the pool.

When Li Wenbin saw that she was indeed drowning, he didn't even bother to take off his clothes. He jumped into the water and swam towards her.

"Help! Help..."

Li Wenbin grabbed her and said unhappily, "Stand still, the water is not that deep!"

There are lotus flowers growing in the lake, so how deep can the water be? It is said that Zheng Guanyin did not know how to swim, and was panicked when she got into the water, so she choked on the water.

If she had been calmer, she could have stood up in the water, and the water would have only reached her chest and abdomen.

Zheng Guanyin was grabbed by the shoulders and shouted at by him, and then she calmed down. Suddenly she found that her feet were on solid ground. It turned out that the water was not too deep, and she couldn't help but calm down a little.

Li Wenbin said: "Let's go ashore!"

Zheng Guanyin was hugging him tightly at this time. She was in the water and had no idea what to do. After hearing what he said, she nodded quickly, but she only let go of Li Wenbin slightly. When she lowered her head, she suddenly saw her appearance and couldn't help but scream again.

Li Wenbin said impatiently: "What are you yelling about..."

Li Wenbin followed Zheng Guanyin's gaze and was suddenly speechless.

Although midsummer had passed, the weather was still hot and Zheng Guanyin was not wearing thick clothes.

A thin layer of silk shirt, especially the white one she was wearing today, which was soft, thin and transparent, and made of high-quality material, so it didn't reveal anything.

Once it got wet, it was like having nothing on...

No, it’s not that it’s the same as not wearing anything, it’s just that it’s more tempting than not wearing anything.

So, Li Wenbin said bluntly: "Scream! Why are you screaming? I have seen every part of your body. Let's go! Hurry up and get ashore!"

Seeing that he was so unromantic, Zheng Guanyin couldn't help but pout. She let him drag her, parting the lotus pods and walking ashore step by step.

Although Zheng Guanyin didn't mind showing off her charm in front of him, this was in broad daylight, and her clothes were wet and she looked like a drowned rat.

In Zheng Guanyin's own opinion, this was not elegant at all, so as soon as she got ashore, she lifted her skirt and ran into the room.

The clothes were soaked with water, revealing the flesh color and seeming transparent. Li Wenbin was really paying attention this time, and kept watching her figure disappear in the pavilion.

After her figure disappeared, Li Wenbin came to his senses and looked around quickly, but there was no one there.

What he didn't know was that Zheng Guanyin had already given orders that if Li Wenbin came, all the servants should stay away.

Those servants thought that the young lady was going to meet her lover, so they naturally stayed as far away from her as possible. If they wanted to see the affair, they had to know who the man was. Did they have the pleasure of watching the young lady's sex scene?

Li Wenbin squeezed the water out of his clothes and shouted to Xuan Nei, "Do you want someone to bring you some clothes?"

Zheng Guanyin replied unhappily in the room: "No need!"

After a while, Zheng Guanyin said again: "Come in!"

Li Wenbin hesitated for a moment and then walked in. If he had even seen the other person's body, what was there to be embarrassed about such a scene?

When Li Wenbin walked into the room, he saw Zheng Guanyin sitting on a couch. She was still wearing the thin shirt with a puddle of water on the floor. It looked like it had been wrung out. Although the flesh color still showed through, it was no longer as concealing as before.

Li Wenbin entered the room and stood at the door. He looked at her unhappily and said, "This is not something you planned in advance, right?"

Zheng Guanyin wrung out her clothes, and her demeanor immediately returned to her usual graceful state.

But her hair was also wet, and she had taken off the hairpins, letting her long, beautiful black hair hang down on her chest and back. Her hair set off her snow-white and tender face, making her look less gorgeous and noble, and more beautiful and elegant.

Chapter 65: The Thief Who Steals Hearts

She glanced at Li Wenbin. Although she pretended to be arrogant, her little face hidden in her hair was strangely charming: "Well, this is purely an accident!"

Zheng Guanyin glanced at his changing expression, twisted her plump waist, and said sweetly, "Come, sit next to me!"

Li Wenbin snorted coldly and said with a cold face: "Why did you invite me here today?"

Zheng Guanyin suddenly jumped up, her chest swaying. It looked like this generous young lady was not wearing a bra in her own backyard. "Why? Why?"

She was angry and her face turned red. She had originally looked calm and composed, but Li Wenbin made her angry with just one sentence. Perhaps only Li Wenbin had the ability to make her happy or angry at her own will, and she could not control her emotions at all.

"Seventy-two days and seven hours. You haven't come to see me for seventy-two days and seven hours!" Zheng Guanyin screamed.

Li Wenbin: “…”

Has it been that long?

He scratched his head slightly embarrassedly, and his tone became gentle involuntarily: "My lady, I'm really busy recently, as you know, I..."

"I don't know!" Zheng Guanyin shook her head frantically. "Humph, I only know that you were involved with the eunuch Wu Lezhang's wife. Is that right?"

Li Wenbin nodded: "My Lady, I can do this..."

"Call me 'Guanyin'."

Seeing Zheng Guanyin's look, Li Wenbin decided not to provoke her, and immediately followed her advice: "Guanyin, I can explain this matter."

"You don't have to explain. I understand everything, and I don't blame you."

Zheng Guanyin's voice suddenly became soft again, and she whispered, "I still remember clearly what happened seventy-two days ago. I remember clearly that you rode on me. You may have forgotten all of this, but I have always kept it firmly in my heart, as if it happened yesterday."

She raised her head slightly, tears glistening in her eyes between her soft black hair: "Do you still remember these? If I have done something wrong, I can change it. Is it so difficult to get your love? Tell me, what do you want me to do in order for you to accept me?"

Zheng Guanyin originally thought that she had a one-night stand with Li Wenbin only because of the situation.

But when she tossed and turned in countless sleepless nights, she found that she had unknowingly fallen in love with the man who had conquered her body.

At the beginning, when Zheng Guanyin realized that she really liked Li Wenbin, the first thing she thought of was to make Li Wenbin her lover.

Yes, this was an insult to a man with self-respect, but Zheng Guanyin never thought of insulting Li Wenbin.

She was just used to being superior and getting whatever he wanted, and she didn't realize that this request was a serious injury to his dignity.

She is the eldest daughter of Zheng family in Xingyang. She has been the apple of her elders' eyes since she was a child and has been given whatever she wants.

But although she was extremely smart, she didn't know that there were other ways to win a man's heart.

She thought that her beauty, status and position were enough to match him, and that was enough.

As for the title of "mianshou", Zheng Guanyin didn't take it too seriously.

Anyway, she knew clearly that she would cherish him, love him, and obey him in everything, and that was enough - she had not yet learned to put down her pride in front of the man she loved.

So, from then on, Xiao Lang was a passerby.

Zheng Guanyin has been secretly wondering what's wrong with her, what she has done wrong, and why Li Wenbin just won't come to see her.

Now, she finally figured it out.

Only tenderness and tears are the best weapons a woman has against a man.

Sure enough, looking at Zheng Guanyin's tears, even Li Wenbin, who thought he was a heart of stone, couldn't help but ask himself - he had deliberately ignored her for so long, and it was a bit too much from time to time.

Although I was pushed down by her at that time, can I really be too harsh on a woman who used such an extreme method for the sake of her own reputation?

"Guanyin, you misunderstood me. I really don't hate you." Li Wenbin said softly, "Although I often think of you, you live in the East Palace, which is located in the Imperial City. How can I see you often? Think about it, the Imperial City is so heavily guarded. What if they mistake me for a thief and shoot me like a sieve? How wronged I would be."

"How come you are not a thief?" Zheng Guanyin said with a slight frown, "You are clearly a thief who steals hearts. By the way, the Qixi Festival is coming in a few days. I want to go boating on the Wei River. You can come too."

Then, she asked with a seductive look, "I wonder what you want to steal this time, my dear?"

"Do you need to ask more?" Li Wenbin's hands began to get naughty. "Guanyin, I also want to ask you a question."

"what is the problem?"

"do you miss me?"

"Think about it..."

"So, where did you think about it?"

Zheng Guanyin bit her cherry lips lightly, glanced at Li Wenbin, and did not answer.

"You're embarrassed to ask? Then let me change the question. What do you miss about me..."