Chapter 52: Attending the Festival
If the dishes were actually salty, then he would need to drink some water, not rest. The illogicality of this simple sentence from Chen Chang Sheng meant that the dishes weren’t actually salty but rather, he just really needed to calm his mind and not continue in such a messy state.
He walked towards the lake and stood under a big tree. He stepped over the tree roots above the earth with his hands on his waist. Chen Chang Sheng glanced over the wall and looked into the distance. He only wanted to glance as far as he could, but he didn’t know whether he should look towards the direction of Xi Ning Village or the south.
A moment later, he took out a tiny item that was made out of bamboo and stored it in his pocket. He had told himself not to take it out anymore when he was first living in the tavern. He had taken this tiny thing and placed it into the deepest part of his luggage. It wasn’t until now that he took it out once more.
The southern ambassadors were going to propose in the capital. Xu You Rong was going to be arranged with Qiu Shan Jun. Although she won’t be married to him in such a short time, she was ultimately going to get married.
Chen Chang Sheng always thought romance had no effect on him and that he would never think about Xu You Rong. The reason he came to capital was to dismiss the marriage vow and this still held true. Therefore, he didn’t understand why he became irritated, or even felt despair after hearing this news.
He wasn’t used to such feelings and he didn’t like it. He was unhappy.
Perhaps it wasn’t due to marriage and was for another reason.
Chen Chang Sheng tried to convince himself so, and then he found a justifiable cause – in the least degree, he and Xu You Rong had a marriage vow. No matter the laws, he was her fiance, and she was his fiancee. Under the current condition that he haven’t officially forfeit the vow, of course he wouldn’t be happy because his own fiancee was going to marry some other man.
Of course he shouldn’t be happy.
Yes, this was the reason.
Yu Dong General’s Mansion and Xu You Rong weren’t being respectful with their decision and he was mad.
He told himself in his heart silently.
Tang Thirty Six walked toward the lake and stood beside Chen Chang Sheng, “You still haven’t solve the problem between you and Yu Dong General’s Mansion? Then this is a problem. The Divine Queen always trusted Xu Shi Ji, and if Xu You Rong is married to Qiu Shan Jun, then no one in the Zhou Dynasty will be able to stop him.”
Luo Luo looked at his face with a worried expression, but she didn’t say anything.
The previous reaction of Chen Chang Sheng was strange and it didn’t escape the eyes of Luo Luo and Tang Thirty Six. Plus, they knew that there was trouble between Chen Chang Sheng and Dong Yu General’s Mansion. But no matter what they thought, they couldn’t figure out that he was the fiance of Xu You Rong, and therefore they couldn’t figure out a way to help him.
Just like what Shuang Er first said in the General’s Mansion; the entire world believed that Xu You Rong and Qiu Shan Jun were a destined couple, even Luo Luo and Tang Thirty Six. No one could have known that Chen Chang Sheng existed between those two.