22. Diversion
The Empress Dowager likes women hairpins, and there is a hairpin banquet in the palace all year round, so that she can sit on the high platform and watch a group of noblewomen insert the most beautiful flowers in the palace in their hair. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info up and down, the court entertainment soon spread to the people, and ordinary women also took hairpins as beautiful. Spring and summer are fine, the grass and trees are fernal, the spring rhododendron, the peony peony, you can always find flowers inserted in the crown. In winter, the rich and the poor emerge, and the powerful families have greenhouses and charcoal fires, which can always promote the flowers that are out of season with warm winds. What about ordinary people? The ingenious girls began to imitate fake flowers with silk yarn, and the fake flowers with good handicraft can completely achieve the effect of fake and real.
At the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, the ladies of the garrison dressed up and went out, and one by one they inserted the most beautiful flowers in the family in their hair, red, yellow, purple and pink, which appeared so abruptly in front of Xiao Baoer's eyes. When something beautiful is too dense, it doesn't look beautiful but it can be uncomfortable. She called out to Sanchi to stop, and looked to the side of the road, hoping that the flamboyant women would leave quickly.
The wish was disappointed, and the woman at the head walked to the car with two servants, and said in a loud voice: "The woman Jiang has seen the princess......" She shouted in her mouth, but her eyes crossed Xiao Bao'er to look at Su Su who was sitting in the car.
"Princess," Susu whispered. Xiao Bao'er turned her head sideways and said, "People call you princess, why don't you go out and deal with it quickly?" ”
Su Su sighed and pretended to be Xiao Bao'er to meet this group of female dependents.
He Bo was puzzled, he helped Yao Xitong out of the ox cart and asked in a low voice, "Don't these people have eyes?" How can you mistake someone? Even if the princess is driving, she looks like a foreign race! ”
"That's right, the woman deliberately did this, wanting to give the princess a dismount."
Uncle He's wrinkled old face wrinkled even more, "What does the princess mean, she will plan and allow the maidservants to pretend to be her, and let those ladies salute the maidservants, so as to insult them?" ”
Yao Xitong smiled and called her to come over and ask, don't you know? This is a trick he just learned from Su Su, instead of guessing Xiao Bao'er's psychology, it is better to ask directly.
"Princess, although these women do not have a decree, they are also the wives of middle-ranking officers, will it not be too much for you to let them salute a servant girl?"
"They recognized the wrong person first, why did I go too far?"
"Didn't the princess find out that the woman at the head had deliberately confessed her mistake?"
"What's the difference?"
"The princess doesn't mind?"
"I've been here in Great Xia for five years, and it's not the first time this kind of thing has happened, do you think I need to take care of it?"
Su Su pretended to be a princess to greet the family members of a group of low-level officials, and the woman at the head knew that she was not a princess, but she was speechless. I wanted to disgust the princess of Beiliao, but I didn't want to be self-defeating, so I had to nod my head to a maid and try to please her. It's just that Qingshan-kun told her husband to treat the princess well, and it was best to let them stay for a few more days......
Yao Xitong was full of wine and food before he remembered that he hadn't seen Xiao Bao'er for a long time, and he didn't know where he had been arranged by the master, so he looked around with his cane before he saw Xiao Bao'er brushing the cow in the backyard stable. The sleeves of the coat were rolled up high, and half of the forearm was exposed, and the mouth kept chattering with the cow, which looked less like a rough maid than a princess.
He didn't alarm Xiao Bao'er and quietly returned to the main house. Su Su was cooking tea, and when she saw him, she asked, "Found the princess?" What is she doing? ”
"Brush the cow." Su Suwan'er, Yao Xitong asked again: "You are not surprised by her behavior at all?" ”
"The royal horses in the palace all listen to her, and it's good to get used to it." Speaking of habits, Yao Xitong thought of today's events, "Often pretending to be a princess? ”
"For the first time."
"I feel that she has a good temper, why do the palace people say that she has a violent temperament?"
Su Su poured the boiling hot water into the teapot, and after a few moments, the golden tea soup was poured from the teapot into the teacup, and the enticing aroma of tea wafted through the room. "One day in the middle of the night, she wanted to eat a roast leg of lamb, and told the maid to go to the imperial dining room to ask for it. If the maid couldn't get it, she ordered someone to kill the maid, in her eyes, human life is not as good as roasting a leg of mutton. The tea soup was made for her and she loved warm tea......"
Human life is not as good as roast leg of lamb, Yao Xitong believes in Su Su. What he didn't know was that Xiao Bao'er had just come to Daxia at that time, and he didn't know that there was no fire in the imperial dining room at night, that he didn't know that he had to get permission from the Queen Mother to eat a roast leg of mutton, and he didn't know that twenty boards in the palace would kill the maid.
Xiao Baoer took a bath and changed clothes before returning to the room, picking up the tea on the table and drinking it to the bottom. Yao Xitong sat under the lamp reading a book, and when she saw that the best tea was drunk by her, she couldn't help frowning and said, "Xiaoxiao, if we continue like this, it is very likely that we will go to Chen Di with Qingshanjun, are you willing?" ”
"That's good!"
"Qingshanjun loves you, it's good for you to go to Chendi together, but it's just that the matter of changing your life is ......" Yao Xitong stopped continuing halfway through speaking, Xiao Bao'er said knowingly: "Since I have said that I want you to help change my life, it is up to you how to go." ”
"Is it good to give up the official road and take an old road that has been abandoned for a long time?"
Xiao Bao'er thought for a moment, "The magpie protects Su Su, I protect you, Uncle He ......" Without waiting for her to finish speaking, Yao Xitong said, "Uncle He was born in a bitter background, don't look at his old age, but his legs and feet are good, otherwise how can he accompany me from Qidi to Dadu." ”
"Okay, when are you leaving?"
"Tonight."
Su Su didn't want to go, and according to Xuan Ze's arrangement, the two teams of people would meet on the official road to Chen Di in less than half a month. She secretly glanced at the magpie, hoping that this person could stand up and dissuade Xiao Bao'er, but the magpie didn't seem to feel her sight, got on the horse and left, silent as always.
Just now, the magpie went back to the house and saw Uncle Ho sitting at the table, holding the carrier pigeon he had recently released. Hearing that his family had been rescued from Qingshanjun, he agreed to He Bo's request to change his route with doubts. Prior to this, Uncle He and Yao Xitong had such a conversation, "Childe, our people still don't know what handle Qingshanjun grabbed the magpie, what should we do about this?" ”
"Isn't it suspicious that he has a family? Lie to him and say that his family is in our hands. ”
"Will he believe it?"
"Yes, your martial arts are far stronger than his, how can a person who can easily kill him lie?"
The abandoned ancient road has long been annihilated by the tall barren grass, and every step of the ox cart is like a drowning person struggling, Su Su is holding his breath and getting angry in front of Xiao Bao'er, and his knife-like eyes viciously slashed Yao Xitong many times.
Xiao Bao'er is not really stupid, Yao Xitong and Su Su's small movements are all in their eyes. In order to appease Su Su, she called the magpie to her, "It was my idea to choose this road, I heard that this road is very difficult to walk, if you encounter danger, Su Su's safety will be entrusted to you." ”
The magpie was ordered to protect Xiao Bao'er, and when she heard the words, she was embarrassed and said, "I'm afraid this is not appropriate." ”
"Don't forget that I'm your master now." The magpie was very reluctant to say, "My subordinates obey." ”
"By the way, you are the personal guard of the Empress Dowager, a first-class master of Ouchi, why did you fall into Wu Jun's smoke so easily?"
Xiao Bao'er's question was too sudden, and the magpie didn't have time to think and replied directly: "When Wu Jun appeared, there was a strange fragrance, and his subordinates thought it was the fat powder incense on the female ghost, but they didn't know that it was smoke, and they didn't take precautions, so they lost to Wu Jun for some reason." ”
"The master appeared with a smoke? No wonder when he talks about hell, I see so many strange scenes......" Xiao Bao'er turned her head to look at Yao Xitong and them, "Why are you all right?" ”
"The old slave has a bad nose and doesn't smell anything."
"The slave carries a refreshing purse, perhaps because of this, she has not smoked."
"I'm as lost in smoke as you are, that's why I said that the killing demon is on the fourteenth floor of hell, and I know that that layer is full of ghosts who have committed suicide."
Xiao Bao'er nodded, "So that's the case!" Susu, can you make me a purse? ”
Su Su said kindly, "The slave has been thinking about this, and she has been embroidering for the past few days." ”
As soon as Xiao Bao'er was interrupted, everyone put their minds back on her, after all, she was the main owner of this trip.
The moon was bright and the stars were scarce, and the lamp hanging on the ox cart was the only light in the darkness. Yao Xitong sat in the innermost part of the ox cart, Xiao Bao'er's side face was clearly extinguished under the dim light, and he couldn't see clearly, just for a moment, he felt that Xiao Bao'er looked stupid, but in fact she was very smart, this young girl not only had imperial blood, but also had the way of thinking of a superior. He and Su Su belong to two chess pieces of different forces in Xiao Bao'er's eyes, they supervise each other and guard against each other, Xiao Bao'er only needs to balance the interests of the two in a timely manner to get a safe and stable situation. She didn't ask anything on the day the magpie was rescued, but today she asked coldly why the magpie lost to Wu Jun, it was really a whim, or did throwing this sensitive question make the unpredictable people quiet for a while?
The sky was white, and the group finally walked from the overgrown wilderness to the edge of the dense forest, looking at the forest sea in front of them, the magpie asked everyone to stop and rest, and he went to explore the way.
After a while, the magpie had not returned, and He Bo, who was following behind him, quietly leaned into Yao Xitong's ear and said, "Childe, the old slave followed the magpie and found that he had drugged the princess's drinking water, which was the paper wrapped in the medicine. ”
Yao Xitong took the paper and sniffed it a few times, "It's really interesting, you won't get pregnant in the short term if you take this medicine." ”
"Why did you give this medicine to the princess?"
"Maybe it's because I'm as rich as jade and talented, and Qingshan-kun feels threatened."
He Bo nodded in agreement, "This medicine is fine, so we shouldn't know." ”
Yao Xitong took out another medicine from his arms and gave it to Uncle He, "Take advantage of the magpie's inattention, add this to the princess's water." ”
"What is this? Antidote? ”
"Definitely, this is the medicine that will keep the princess from getting pregnant for the rest of her life."
"Why?"