Chapter 218: Men and women team up

I heard Gu Tingye say the word "life experience".

Yu Yanran immediately realized that Gu Tingye was a person who suffered the same fate as herself, and she immediately felt a sense of mutual sympathy.

With Gu Tingye's passionate words, I was even more moved.

"I also heard from Minglan that he has never been to a brothel since that day. I guess he is a good man who keeps his word, but he just took the wrong path before."

Yu Yanran raised her eyelashes slightly and looked at Gu Tingye, who was full of righteousness and acted as if he had no choice but to do it:
"It is said that knowing one's mistakes is the best way to improve oneself. I can't always look at people with the same old eyes."

Thinking this in her heart, Yu Yanran bowed slightly to Gu Tingye and said gratefully:
"Thank you, Brother Gu!"

"This is nothing!"

Gu Tingye had no intention of taking credit for it. He immediately led the group outside and started calling out to Yang Wenyuan and Changbai to come out and play polo.

The three of them looked at each other and smiled.

it is more than words.

At the polo field.

Yang Rujin, Minglan, Rulan, and Yu Yanran all changed into neat polo outfits, tied shoulder straps around their shoulders, and held polo sticks, wanting to go on the field together for a competition.

But there are only four people, which is a bit too few.

So Gu Tingye immediately stepped forward enthusiastically and asked the manager of the polo field to go to each tent and ask if there were any girls who wanted to play polo.

Yet the results are clear.

It was not long after dinner, so the girls were naturally not interested in playing polo.

I waited and waited, but still no one came.

At this time, Qi Heng had just dealt with Princess Pingning and came over in a hurry, while Gu Tingye kept winking at him from the side.

Gu Tingye, Changbai, Yang Wenyuan, and Qi Heng, there are exactly four people at this moment.

Seeing this, Yang Wenyuan pondered for a while, and then suggested:
"It just so happens that we have the same number of people. How about we team up as a male and female team to compete in the previous game?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Gu Tingye and Qi Heng immediately gave him admiring looks.

Gu Tingye: Good brother!
Qi Heng: Good brother-in-law!

"Okay!"

Yang Ruijin was getting a little tired of waiting, so she was the first to stand up and agree, then looked at the three sisters behind her.

Yu Yanran was afraid that she would not be able to complete the match today. Although she couldn't show it on her face, she was actually more anxious than Yang Ruijin, and she immediately nodded in agreement.

Rulan didn't care, instead she felt relieved and nodded as well.

Minglan agreed.

"Okay! Then how do we divide the team?" Seeing that Yang Ruijin was the only girl with her own opinion and could play polo, Yang Wenyuan gave her the right to choose.

"The one who knows how to play should bring the one who doesn't, that's only fair!"

After Yang Ruijin finished speaking, he immediately started counting on his fingers.

"Cousin, you should all know how to..."

"..." Changbai immediately looked embarrassed.

"Hmm~"

Yang Rujin glanced at Changbai at this moment, paused, then looked at Minglan and others and asked:

"I haven't even seen you play polo. Who among you knows how to play polo?"

Yu Yanran hesitated slightly and said:

“I know a little bit, but I’m not proficient in it.”

She only played polo more when she was a child.

Ever since her biological mother passed away, she had been as cautious as Minglan at home, so she hadn't tried playing polo, an activity that required her to appear in public, for a long time.

Rulan nodded.

"me too!"

Seeing this, Yang Rujin turned her gaze to Minglan.

But before Minglan could speak, Qi Heng answered:

"Sixth sister can't play polo."

He had wanted to form a men's and women's team with Minglan to play polo, so he asked about it very early on. However, Minglan, like Yu Yanran, did not want to show up in public, and replied to Qi Heng, "I'm not very good at playing polo."

At this moment, Qi Heng took it and used it.

Seeing this, Yang Rujin nodded slightly and asked Changbai:
"Second Brother Sheng, then I will go with you later?"

She has always been a person who likes to make a lot of noise. When Yang Wenyuan was hanging out at the polo field, Yang Ruijin also followed to join in the fun. She has good polo skills.

Moreover, it is common for men and women to team up to play polo at Madam Wu's place, and there is also the relationship between Yang Wenyuan and Hualan, so Yang Ruijin did not feel embarrassed when she said this.

After hearing the question from the pretty girl, Changbai looked slightly embarrassed, with a barely perceptible blush on both sides of his cheeks, and nodded in agreement.

"So how do we allocate it next?"

Yang Ruijin began to ponder again.

"Let's team up with fifth sister!" Yang Wenyuan suddenly said.

The remaining few people all had some intention of "colluding with each other", so Yang Wenyuan decided to help them and take his sister-in-law away from these "dirty-minded" people.

Besides, from a moral and logical point of view, among the remaining three girls, Rulan is closer to me.

Everyone thought it was a big deal, and Rulan nodded happily.

"Then I'll go with Sister Yanran." Gu Tingye said without any shame.

"Yeah!" After the conversation in the tent just now, Yu Yanran's impression of Gu Tingye has changed a lot, and she even has a better impression of him. She nodded in response.

"I'm on the same team with my sixth sister!"

Qi Heng just felt that today was truly the right time, right place, and right people.

Not only in the polo match in the morning, Yang Wenyuan had been helping him to perform, but now in the afternoon match as well, he was teamed up with Minglan by accident.

Although he was happy in his heart, looking at Minglan's frowning expression, Qi Heng still suppressed his joy in his heart, walked gently to Minglan, and said in a gentle voice:

"Sixth sister, there are only two of us left now."

Minglan glanced at the tent of Duke Wu Qi's house, then looked up at Qi Heng and finally nodded.

"I'll trouble you later, young master."

"No trouble, no trouble." Hearing Minglan's words, Qi Heng's expression was like a long-awaited rain, and he waved his hands repeatedly.

Men and women form teams of eight people each.

This time, it was not a two-side confrontation, but divided into four teams, competing for the ball and scoring goals.

Soon the management of the polo field was arranged.

"Contestants, get on your horses and take your positions!"

As the names of the performers were called out early in the performance, many of the ladies and girls who were resting turned their eyes over.

Hearing the sound of horses galloping on the court, Molan, who had just rested and was about to go to the teahouse to expand her social circle, also came here following the reputation.

However, when she saw Qi Heng and Ming Lan, who were wearing the same color polo uniforms, playing polo happily on the court, her face immediately darkened.

"Didn't they say that the girls were playing polo? Why did it become a team of men and women now, and even the young master got involved?"

Molan didn't know what happened in between.

But looking at Qi Heng's happy smile and his frequent glances towards Minglan, Molan's eyes became a little angry.

After spending such a long time together, she actually had some awareness of Qi Heng's thoughts, but out of her pride and the idea of ​​"giving it a try to win in life", she ignored the details.

Now looking at the way Qi Heng looked at Minglan from time to time, and Liang Han who was walking towards her with a smile not far away, Molan's mind was finally settled.

Molan has known the principle of cutting losses in time since she was a child. Now that she has other options, her thoughts are not limited to Qi Heng alone.

"Fourth sister, why are you here alone?"

Liang Han saw that among the girls from the Sheng family who had just come on stage, there was no fourth girl from the Sheng family whom he had been thinking about. He immediately packed up and headed towards the Sheng family tent.

As expected, Molan was the only one who was "left out" here.

Molan has been taught and taught by Lin Qinshuang since she was a child, and she understands the pain points of men being gentle and considerate to women.

Therefore, when she first discovered Liang Han, Molan did not look back, but raised her head slightly, with an envious expression towards the people galloping on the polo field, exuding a sense of loneliness and abandonment.

"They went to play polo." Molan reluctantly withdrew her gaze from the polo field and replied to Liang Han.

Liang Han frowned slightly:

"Then why don't you go? I think you like it too."

Liang Han also knew a little about the struggles within the inner house. This situation, coupled with Molan's abandoned look, immediately made him imagine a "concubine being bullied" scenario.

Molan glanced at the polo field again with an envious look on her face:
"Although I like it, I'm not very skilled..."

"You can't fight if you don't have good skills? They go up and fight to their heart's content, but you are left here alone."

Seeing that the beauty he liked was wronged, Liang Han immediately stood up for her:
"Come with me to the court right now. When they finish playing, I will definitely ask them clearly for you!"

"No need, sir!"

As if she was worried about Liang Han's impulsiveness, Molan reached out and grabbed Liang Han's sleeve in a hurry. Feeling the pulling on the sleeve, Liang Han looked up at Molan in front of him, only to see that the girl's pretty face was filled with a moving look of worry, which made her look even more pitiful and lovable.

The best thing is what you never had.

Seeing this scene, Liang Han's heart couldn't help but be moved.

"Actually, the root cause is that I don't want to team up with others."

Molan said softly with a timid expression:

"It's fine if the girls team up with each other, but to play polo with other men, I..."

Under Liang Han's gaze, Molan secretly glanced at him:
"I feel a little uncomfortable, and I'm afraid that others will think too much."

This shy and timid expression made Liang Han's eyes even more passionate.

Although he had been around many women since he was a child, all the women he had been with were active and enthusiastic maids and prostitutes. He had never met an artistic girl from a good family like Molan, and he immediately liked her more and more.

It was normal for men and women to form teams in their own polo club, but after hearing what Molan said, Liang Han suddenly felt that it made sense.

What nice girl would play polo with a man she doesn’t know?
Liang Han nodded.

"Fourth sister is right!"

"but……"

Liang Han came up with a good idea to get close to Molan:

"But since you said you're not good at playing polo, and I happened to have grown up on a polo field, so I know a lot about polo, how about letting me teach you?"

Under Liang Han's hopeful gaze, Molan said with embarrassment:

"But Mo'er has never liked being with others since he was a child..."

Liang Han's expression darkened, thinking Molan was going to refuse.

"Well, it was my fault..."

But Molan continued:

"But if it's Brother Han, Mo'er will naturally be willing in his heart."

"what?"

Liang Han didn't expect that there was a ray of hope after all the difficulties. Facing Molan's expression of wanting to say something but not being able to, he confirmed again:

"Really?"

Molan frowned, leaned to the side, and whispered:
"Brother Han, do you still not believe in Mo'er? Then I won't go."

"Go, go! I have all kinds of polo sticks at my house, which are perfect for you, my fourth sister."

Inside the tent of Duke Qi’s mansion.

The scene on the field also fell into the eyes of Princess Pingning.

"The one partnering with Heng'er on the field must be the sixth daughter of the Sheng family, right?" Looking at the two people happily playing polo, Princess Pingning asked Buwei with a calm expression.

"Yes, Princess." Buwei didn't feel strange when he heard Princess Pingning's question. After all, Princess Pingning and the Sixth Girl had only met a few times. If she hadn't paid close attention, she wouldn't have been recognized.

"They seem to have a good relationship?"

Buwei lowered his head even deeper.

"The young master is very friendly and has a good relationship with the brothers and sisters of the Sheng family."

"Ah."

Princess Pingning nodded slightly without making any comment.

After a while, he slowly said:

"I know that you grew up with the young master and are very loyal to him, but you have also read some books since you were young, so you should know what kind of loyalty is good for the young master and what kind of loyalty will only do harm."

"Keep your head up."

Princess Pingning ordered Buwei to raise her head, looking at him steadily with her deep eyes, her face calm.

"Now that the young master has finished his imperial examination, there is no need to contact the Sheng family anymore."

"You know what I'm talking about."

At Mrs. Wu's place.

Looking at Minglan galloping on the polo field, a happy smile appeared on his face.

She had always thought that the sixth daughter of the Sheng family was likable, and she didn't expect that she was also a good polo player.

"This sixth daughter of the Sheng family has the demeanor of me when I was young."

The older people get, the more likely they are to feel sad about the passing of time and start reminiscing about the glorious past.

When I see someone who looks like myself when I was young, I always feel a little more love in my heart, and it feels like a meal replacement.

The same is true for Mrs. Wu.

Looking at Minglan's demeanor on the polo field, he had already made up his mind about the girl from the Sheng family.

"Where's Liu Lang? Call him over quickly to come and see his ball skills." Madam Wu instructed the maid next to her.

She felt happy just looking at such a heroic young girl, let alone her own son. Mrs. Wu immediately wanted Liang Han to come over and see her.

"Sixth brother is over there." The personal maid pointed to the place below where Madam Wu placed the polo sticks.

Mrs. Wu looked up and saw her son fiddling with a polo stick and teasing a girl who was dressed up.

"Who is that woman?"

Because it was far away and she was facing sideways, Mrs. Wu couldn't see clearly at first.

"She is the fourth daughter of the Sheng family in Jiying Lane."

Mrs. Wu's brows immediately frowned.

She had been to the Sheng family several times during this period, so naturally she had some understanding of the daughter of the Sheng family. Based on her years of experience in the ups and downs of the rear house, the fourth daughter of the Sheng family behaved like a brothel girl and did not look like a lady at all.

"I came here to ask him to look at the Sixth Miss Sheng, but he fell in love with the Fourth Miss first."

Mrs. Wu looked at Molan, who was holding a handkerchief to hide her smile and twisting her hair with her eyebrows, and her brows were furrowed even more.

"What's so good about this behavior?"

"Go call him back!"

(End of this chapter)