Swap, the involutionary regent palace fight also forced me to rebel

Chapter 134 Mr. Lou, please stop talking and don't make the prince angry

Isn’t the person who spoke Mo Zhu, who serves beside the Imperial Master?

Seeing the already noisy crowd becoming even more chaotic due to the noise, Yun Ting narrowed his eyes.

Not having practiced martial arts, he couldn’t hear distant sounds clearly, nor could he see distant sights clearly. He didn’t understand what was happening, so he was the first to speak: “What’s going on over there?”

Nan Yingzhi was sharp-eyed and sharp-eared, and knew about the ill-fated relationship between Dugu Yue and the Imperial Preceptor. So he knew before he spoke that it was someone from the Imperial Preceptor's residence who had come to visit him.

Not wanting to reveal any information, she was vague: "It seems like someone is making a fuss."

Feeling that "making a fuss" would be detrimental to the atmosphere, Yun Ting waved his hand and assigned Gao Shu a task: "Gao Shu, send someone to take a look."

According to the procedure, Yun Yan should have walked through the crowd and went to the center of the ring, but looking at the ferocious man below, she hesitated.

Noticing her embarrassment, Nan Yingzhi and Yun Ji simultaneously extended their hands and said, "Yan'er, I'll take you there."

Seeing their hands hanging in the air, facing each other from a distance, Yun Yan almost blurted out "You two hold hands."

Noticing that Yun Ting was stretching his neck to look into the distance and not looking at them for the time being, Yun Ji reached out forward calmly.

He accidentally discovered that Gao Shu was peeking over here from time to time, so he had to suppress the urge to hold Nan Yingzhi's hand.

Nan Yingzhi had never expected that she and Yun Ji would extend a helping hand at the same time. A hint of surprise flashed across her face, but she quickly concealed it.

According to etiquette, she said politely: "Madam, what a coincidence, we thought of the same thing."

With curved eyebrows and eyes, Yun Ji lowered his eyes shyly: "What a coincidence."

Seeing them looking at her at the same time, asking her to make the decision herself, Yun Yan hesitated for a moment and opened her arms.

Out of consideration for Yun Ting, she was very cautious. She held Nan Yingzhi's hand with her left hand, took Yun Ji's hand with her right hand, and walked towards Lou Yi accompanied by them.

By the time Yun Ting came to his senses, the three of them had already walked dozens of meters away.

Yun Ting was exhausted both physically and mentally by Jin An's actions just now, and thinking about signing the marriage contract, the etiquette was complicated, so he was too lazy to move. He waved his hand and asked Gao Shu to do it for him.

Gao Shu said "eh" and followed obediently.

Along the way, with Nan Yingzhi and Yun Ji accompanying her, Yun Yan's anxiety was relieved a lot, but she soon felt a new uneasiness again.

She was between her brother the Emperor and her sister Zhaoyi, so any exchange of glances between them had to go through her.

Does this hinder them a bit?

Seeing the ring right in front of them, Yun Yan exerted force with her hands and pulled them both closer.

After saying "You two can be intimate", she let go of their hands and ran to Lou Yi: "Brother Lou~"

Pretending to be unintentional, Yun Ji took this opportunity to stretch out his fingers, rubbed them across the back of Nan Yingzhi's hand, and then slowly retracted them.

Glancing at Gao Shu, who was looking down, wondering if he had seen the scene, he remained calm and apologized to Nan Yingzhi: "I didn't mean to offend Your Highness. I'm really sorry."

Knowing his little thoughts, Nan Yingzhi stroked the place he touched with her other hand, shook her head gently, and said in a gentle voice: "It's okay."

Even though he could only hear a sound, Gao Shu was still puzzled. Why was the Regent like a different person in front of Empress Lian, with an unusually good temper?

Seeing Yun Yan rushing towards him, Lou Yi's dim eyes slowly lit up. He used his strong arms to catch her firmly and held her in his arms.

It seemed that Lou Yi was in a good mood when he came out this morning, but now, he seemed to be troubled by sorrow. Yun Yan wanted to ask, but he hugged her even tighter.

"Be gentle," Yun Yan felt that she was having difficulty breathing, so she patted his back randomly, trying to make him relax a little, "I can't breathe anymore."

Reducing his force appropriately, Lou Yi said in a hoarse voice: "Sorry."

"What's wrong?" Yun Yan felt that Lou Yi had won, but there was a lingering gloom between his brows. She was puzzled, "It's obviously you who won, but why do you look unhappy?"

He wanted to say something, but when he saw the Regent of Dali behind Yun Yan, Lou Yi stopped talking.

"Yan'er," Lou Yi lowered his voice so that Nan Yingzhi wouldn't hear him. His eyes were dark and unclear. "If you can only choose one between your brother and me, who would you choose?"

His question was incoherent, but because of its strangeness, Yun Yan immediately sensed a bad omen.

Seeing that Lou Yi looked serious and didn't seem to be joking with her, Yun Yan felt as if her heart was tied with a stone and couldn't stop sinking.

She really didn't know how to answer so as not to make a mistake. She bit her lip slightly and said, "Why do you ask this all of a sudden?"

After exchanging glances with Yunji for a while, Nan Yingzhi saw that he was pointing at her, so she looked in the direction of his finger and followed suit.

Seeing Nan Yingzhi's gaze shifting towards him, Lou Yi quickly changed the subject and retracted his previous question: "Yan'er, don't answer. Just pretend that I didn't ask anything."

Before Yun Yan could even finish her sentence, “Then why are you asking me this?”, she was interrupted by Nan Yingzhi: “This brother looks familiar, is he Mr. Lou…?”

"I am Lou Yi. When I escorted the princess back, I had the honor of meeting the prince. Unfortunately, the prince doesn't remember him very well," Lou Yi lowered his head in accordance with the Dali rules. "The prince is really a forgetful person."

Feeling that Lou Yi was not as polite as he was the last time she met Nan Yingzhi, Yun Yan touched his waist with her elbow and said, "Brother Lou, how can you speak to my brother like that?"

Seeing Yun Yan speaking for Nan Yingzhi, Lou Yi had a clear answer to the question in his mind.

He suppressed his dissatisfaction and apologized to Nan Yingzhi: "Your Majesty, I am disrespectful to you, my lord."

Nodding, Nan Yingzhi didn't dwell on the matter any more. She spoke calmly and asked about Lou Yi's life experience.

"Since Master Lou is going to marry Yan'er, I, as your elder brother, should inquire about matters related to you."

"I, Lou, have never done anything shameful," he forced himself to ignore Jin An's words "Are you Beishuo..." that echoed in his ears, and said calmly, "Your Highness, please feel free to ask."

"Since Mr. Lou is so frank, I'll ask you," Nan Yingzhi said directly, glancing at the ear holes that Lou Yi had intentionally covered with his hair, "You are a child of a wealthy family in Beishuo, right?"

Fortunately, Yu Nanyingzhi did not reveal her identity directly like Jin An did. Lou Yi nodded: "Yes."

"According to the information I have found, when you entered Dali, the news of the princess's martial arts competition to recruit a husband had not yet spread, so it is absolutely impossible that you came to Dali for the princess.

"Now Beishuo and Dali are at war. As a Beishuo man, you don't go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Instead, you come to Dali alone. Why?"

When Lou Yi heard her asking him why he came, his heart skipped a beat.

The Regent asked him about the purpose of his coming to Beijing. Could it be that the matter was exposed by Admiral Zhao?

"I said so," Lou Yi insisted on his original statement and lied without blushing or beating his heart, "I followed the advice of my master and traveled around."

"Oh?" Nan Yingzhi said with a hint of sarcasm.

"This is the first time I have seen someone who is determined to travel abroad even though his country is on the verge of collapse and his family is ruined."

On one side was her respected brother, and on the other was her beloved fiancé. Caught between the tense atmosphere between them, Yun Yan could hardly breathe.

She didn't understand why Lou Yi suddenly had ill will towards his brother, and her brother's attitude towards Lou Yi was also very strange.

It was clearly agreed before that whoever won would become her consort. Could it be that all this is invalid?

Unable to bear it any longer, Yun Yan shouted, "Can you please stop arguing? It makes me feel uncomfortable!"

Seeing that the opportunity was good, Yun Ji naturally leaned over to Nan Yingzhi and interrupted.

"That's right, Mr. Lou, please stop talking and don't make the prince angry. Your Majesty, calm down. You are very busy, be careful not to get angry and hurt yourself."

She had seen people protecting their own people, but she had never seen one as protective as this. Yun Yan was shocked by Yun Ji's attitude of "comforting Nan Yingzhi and stepping on Lou Yi at the same time" and was stunned.

The feeling of powerlessness that had been pent up in her heart surged even more, and she almost cried in anxiety: "Sister, why are you taking sides?"

If Gao Shu hadn't been there, Yun Ji would have wanted to take this opportunity to snuggle up to Nan Yingzhi's arms.

Looking at Nan Yingzhi who was out of reach, Yun Ji let out an almost inaudible sigh and reluctantly stopped moving forward.

"The prince is your own brother. Princess, there is no need to be so rude to a man who has not yet married you."