The streets of Chang'an City have always been bustling, but because today is the Obon Festival, many liquor shops and shops are closed, and there are not many pedestrians on the streets, but they seem a little deserted, but a few shops selling gold leaf incense and candles at the end of the street are doing thriving business. Situ Ningbing didn't plan to wander around the city, so he asked Jianlian to find a horse, and he led the little girl, Princess Yifei, the emperor's youngest daughter, to the largest restaurant in Chang'an City, the Star Picking Tower.

Xingxinglou is specialized in the business of dignitaries and nobles, ordinary people can't enter even if they have silver, Situ Ningbing was almost stopped by the women's running hall that greeted the guests at the door when he walked to the door, but the running hall in places like Xingxinglou has been specially trained, and he has great eyesight, seeing that Situ Ningbing is not wearing it in a carriage, but a few pieces of jewelry are valuable treasures, and a noble spirit is better than those ladies and ladies who are full of gold, silver and jade, guessing which family's daughter must have secretly come out to play with her sister, and the gesture of reaching out to stop it became a greeting halfway, and Situ Ningbing was warmly welcomed into the private room prepared for female guests on the second floorThere is an ice kettle in the private room, although it is the height of summer, but it is a little cool.

Princess Yifei entered the restaurant for the first time, her little head looked around curiously, she felt new about everything, and she was even more excited to hold the menu handed over by the female running hall, although she was not hungry, but because it was the first time she went to the restaurant to order food, she still ordered a lot of dishes that she felt novel, and the female running hall saw that there were only two of them, but she ordered twenty people and looked at Situ Ningbing hesitantly.

Situ Ningbing casually handed her a piece of broken silver and ordered, "Hurry up the dishes." ”

"Yes, the two young ladies will come right away from the dishes later. The female running hall took the silver handed over by Situ Ningbing, and did not dare to slack off and hurriedly retreat Zhang Luo. However, after a while, another female runner came in with iced sour plum soup and snacks, and although there was an ice kettle in the wing room in the middle of summer, it was not as good as a bowl of iced sour plum soup to relieve the heat. In addition to its own luxurious style, the meticulous service is also an important reason for the high officials and dignitaries to get the blue eyes of dignitaries.

Situ Ningbing drank the refreshing sour plum soup on the other side, and said to Princess Yifei who was curiously looking out the window and probing her brain: "Wait a while, I'll take you to the suburbs to visit the lake, okay?"

"Well, good. Yi Fei nodded without hesitation, it doesn't matter where you go as long as you have some fun.

Situ Ningbing couldn't help laughing, and said half-truthfully: "You just followed me out recklessly, aren't you afraid that I will sell you?" Although it is not the same mother, this simple temperament is really the same as Yang Yi, look at the little girl is so cute, Situ Ningbing feels that she needs to mention her and let her know some of the world's people's hearts, after all, even if you are a princess, you can't guarantee that your life will be good enough to be protected by someone for a lifetime.

I don't want Yifei to hear this, but he smiled innocently, "How can it be? ”

Looking at her innocent smile, Situ Ningbing's heart was empty again, "Good person?" Can she be regarded as a good person? Since the year she left home, she had to be forced to learn to do things with a purpose, treating everyone around her as a chess piece, although she had never done it herself, but her hands were really stained with blood, and the word "good person" couldn't match her anyway.

"Silly girl, there is no inscription on my face, how do you know that I am a good person?" Situ Ningbing will not let people see his thoughts, even if the other party is just a **-year-old girl.

"I just know!" Yi Fei said as a matter of course: "I have always been the most accurate in looking at people, so I will say Shu... My eldest brother's mother, all the servants in my family say that she is a good person, but I know that she has a bad stomach! And my eldest brother's concubine, looking poor like a little rabbit, in fact, she is the worst of my eldest brother's concubines!"

Looking at her serious look, Situ Ningbing couldn't help pinching her nose and said with a smile: "You are really a little ghost." ”

Yi Fei rubbed his nose and protested, "I'm not young anymore!"

Situ Ningbing stuffed a piece of pastry into her open little mouth and coaxed, "Yes, you are not small." I can't help but wonder if all children are like her when she was a child, always thinking that they have grown up, and only when they really grow up do they realize that "growing up" comes at a price.

The two chatted for a while, and the dishes came up one after another, although Yi Fei is a princess, she is used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, but the dishes of the Star Picking Tower, although the taste may not be as good as the imperial dining room, but it is novel, each dish is unique, and the imperial food in the palace is very different, Yi Fei looked at the index finger and tasted each dish.

"Sister, why don't you eat?" After burping a few times in a row, Yi Fei remembered that the "kind" sister sitting opposite barely moved her chopsticks.

Situ Ningbing looked at the little girl who was eating like a pig, and rarely flashed a real gentle smile, "I'm not hungry after breakfast, are you full?"

Yi Fei patted his bulging belly and nodded.

"Then let's go. Saying that, Situ Ningbing turned his head and instructed Jianpi, who had already found a waiter standing on the side, and said, "Pack the rest and take them away." ”

"Yes," he said in response, and went out to ask the female runner to help pack. The female running hall hurriedly walked in, and after hearing the words of mercy, she glanced at Situ Ningbing with a strange expression, and it was no wonder that she felt strange that all the dignitaries who came here were dignitaries, and no one would care about this bit of silver for eating, let alone packing it away before eating, which was something that ordinary people also felt ashamed. Didn't she look away and come across eating white food?! After thinking about it, she felt that it was wrong, this meal was only more than one or two pieces of silver, but the reward given by the young lady was enough to have two taels, how could there be such a way to eat white food?

Seeing that she hesitated, she took out a piece of broken silver weighing two taels from her sleeve pocket, stuffed it into the hand of the female running hall and said, "This is the meal money, and the rest is your reward money." The female ran hall looked at the silver in her hand, was stunned, and then smiled and said, "Thank you, girl, the little one will go and prepare." As he spoke, he hurried out of the box, and after a while, he came back with a food box with a sour branch wood drawing five blessings and longevity patterns, and quickly packed up a table of leftovers and put them in the food box.

"Let's go. Situ Ningbing waited for her to pack up and led Yifei's small hand out of the box, and the female runner carried the food box to send it away, and saw that Lian went to the backyard stable to pick up the horse she bought.

"Girl, take it. The female running hall sent Situ Ningbing and Yifei to the door of the restaurant, handed the food box to Jianpi, who was already leading the horse and waiting there, and muttered secretly in her heart: Which lady is this? Shoot so generously but don't want to leave leftovers? Go out without taking a car but ride a horse? She has seen many ladies and young ladies but has never encountered such a strange thing.

Just as she was muttering, Situ Ningbing had already taken the reins from Jianlian's hand, and Yifei looked at the side and asked with an expectant face, "Sister, are we going to ride a horse?"

Situ Ningbing smiled and teased her: "What? Are you afraid? If you are afraid, we will take the car." ”

Yi Fei pouted dissatisfied: "I'm not afraid, who wants to ride a car! I want to ride a horse!" Before the words fell, I only felt that my body was light, and when I came back to my senses, I was already riding on a horse, and I was leaning on a cold and soft body behind me, feeling particularly comfortable in this hot summer, and a hearty and pleasant voice came from above her head: "Sit tight!"

With a clear sound, the horse ran up quickly, Yi Fei's mood flew up with the galloping horses' hooves, she wanted to learn to ride a horse a long time ago, but the mother concubine was not allowed to say that the princess looked like a princess, she didn't understand that riding a horse was not like a princess?

"Sister" Yifei raised his head and looked forward to the people behind him, "Can you teach me to ride a horse?"

Situ Ningbing looked at the front intently and did not look down at her, but responded very cheerfully: "Okay! When you grow up, I will teach you to ride a horse." ”

Yi Fei was happy when she heard her say "good", but then she was unhappy, and protested with a small mouth: "I've grown up!"

"I know. Situ Ningbing followed her words and said, "But you still need to grow taller so that you won't fall off the horse, I promise you to teach you to ride a horse when you reach the age of twelve, okay?"

Although Yi Fei was a little disappointed when she heard this, she still nodded solemnly, she is now nine years old, and she will be twelve in three years, and it will not be a long time for her to wait.

As the two spoke, Situ Ningbing had slowly tightened the reins, and the fast horse, which had been galloping, gradually slowed down, and finally stopped in front of a narrow alley. Situ Ningbing supported Yifei's body with one hand, and gently pressed the saddle with the other hand, and then dismounted with Yifei.

"Where is this?" Yi Fei looked at the narrow and long alley in front of him, and even the blue sky and white day looked a little gloomy, and his little face was full of doubts.