Zhou Ying looked back, and through the bead curtain, she could faintly see a young girl standing outside the curtain. She was wearing a water-green skirt, with a slender figure, fair skin, and an erhu in her hand. Even if you just look at it vaguely, you can guess that she is a beauty.

Su Zhi frowned on the side, and said in his heart that he had miscalculated, and in the information he memorized, he never mentioned that there were singers in Xixianglou.

A singer actually sang to the princess. If she collided with a nobleman, she was a little singer, and even if she killed her, she couldn't afford it, Su Zhi drew a big cross to Xixianglou in her heart, and she was going to drive people out when she got up.

I didn't want Zhou Yingzheng to be bored and see something interesting to adjust, so she took the initiative to say, "Come in, what's your name?" ”

Su Zhi had no choice but to keep his mouth shut, but stared at the singer without blinking, for fear that this vulgar and lowly person would collide with his own golden and noble princess.

The singer lifted the curtain and walked in, "My name is Cai Die." ”

In fact, when Cai Butterfly took a closer look, it was not as good as when he was outside the curtain just now, and the appearance of the shadow and the weak willow supporting the wind was attractive. Cai Die's appearance is not very beautiful, judging from her facial features, she is not even as good as Su Zhi next to Zhou Ying. But this butterfly picking girl has a pair of extremely smart eyes, with a beautiful eye wave, even if people who don't understand the charm see it, they can't help but cherish the flowers.

Zhou Ying asked, "What tune do you sing?" ”

Cai Die didn't think about it as vulgar and illiterate as she thought, she was three steps away from the rules, and she was blessed, "I've seen the girl, I know some miscellaneous plays." As he spoke, he took out a fold from his sleeve and handed it to Su Zhi, "Please pick it up." ”

Zhou Ying smiled in her heart, she was dressed as a civilian, this butterfly picking was a good look, and she could see at a glance who was the master and who was the servant between her and Su Zhi.

The folded cover has been yellowed and half-worn, and it is obvious that it is often read, but the corners are still neat and tidy, and there is not a trace of creases, which shows that the owner has kept it well. If this fold has always been owned by the butterfly, then she may have been a singer for a long time. Zhou Ying opened the fold and looked at it, it was even more unexpected, if the names of the plays in the excerpt were all written by Cai Die, this delicate hairpin flower Xiaokai must have worked hard, but the words are like them.

Zhou Ying asked, "You wrote the excerpt?" ”

Cai Die nodded, her voice was soft, and she glanced at Zhou Ying timidly, "I wrote it, and the handwriting was unbearable, which made the girl smile." ”

Zhou Ying knew that her appearance was not barbaric and terrifying, and she couldn't scare the little girl she saw for the first time.

Besides, Zhou Ying is not a man, and if she doesn't eat the butterfly, her interest decreased a little, and she smiled lightly: "That's good." Zhou Ying originally picked out an eye-catching song for fun, "Let's just this Dongpo plum." ”

Cai Die is quite good at observing words and feelings, and when she saw that Zhou Ying lost interest in a sentence, she couldn't help but be secretly annoyed, and she didn't dare to make tricks anymore, so she sat on the round stool by the door, stacked all kinds of spirits, and sang songs while playing the erhu.

This kind of singing is called Nanyin, but it is also graceful and beautiful, with a stack of three sighs, but Zhou Ying can't appreciate it, and she will be distracted after a while. At the beginning, he used the singer as a class enemy defense Su Zhi, but now he listened to it, holding his chin with both hands, listening obsessively, and he was fascinated.

As soon as the erhu sound stopped, Su Zhi suddenly came back to his senses and found that he had surrendered to the enemy unconsciously, and he couldn't help but feel ashamed and ashamed.

Zhou Ying didn't notice it, but just casually called for reward.

Su Zhizheng was ashamed, listened to Zhou Ying's instructions, hurriedly took out a piece of silver, and hurriedly stuffed it to Cai Butterfly as if he was afraid of infection.

Cai Die clenched the silver in her hand, but she was very unwilling in her heart. The girl had a great retinue, richly dressed, and evidently of great wealth, and was gentle and soft-spoken, the kind of talkative. Judging from the maid's familiar and intimate attitude, it was obvious that this girl was not difficult to serve. If you can impress this girl and follow her, it will definitely be an escape from the sea of suffering and a step to heaven. But the truth is, she failed.

Although Cai Die was unwilling in her heart, Zhou Ying was no longer interested in her, and staying any longer would only backfire. Cai Die has always known current affairs, so she had to pull the corners of her lips at this moment, "Thank you girl for the reward." Then, gently and reluctantly, he reluctantly retreated.

When the butterfly left, Su Zhi was ashamed and self-blaming, how could he be in the mood to eat again, he picked two bites without knowing the taste, and he didn't even notice that the food was cold. Su Zhi put down her chopsticks, settled down, and said to Zhou Ying: "It's not too early, the princess wants to go back to the house?" ”

Zhou Ying pointed to Huang Qian, who had just been replaced by Deputy Commander Qi Jian outside the curtain, and said, "Wait a while." ”

Su Zhi said angrily: "Look, I forgot, I really should be beaten." While the two were talking, they heard a commotion downstairs and a commotion.

Huang Qian held down the sword vigilantly and came to Zhou Ying, "The princess will sit down for a while, and I'll go down and take a look." Zhou Ying nodded and motioned for him to go. With Zhou Ying's consent, Huang Qian told Qi Jian again, "Good life to protect the princess." Qi Jian naturally responded with a full mouth.

Huang Qian went downstairs, but came back after a while, and reported back to Zhou Ying: "Princess Qiyu, it's a few villains who don't want to wait and make trouble below." Huang Qian paused and added, "It's the Western Turks." ”

Zhou Ying was a little surprised, "Western Turks? As I remember, the Western Turks rarely came to the Central Plains. ”

In fact, these words are polite, the Western Turks have repeatedly violated the border, and when they were in Gaozu, they went all the way south and directly hit the Qushui Bridge on the outskirts of Beijing. Gaozu had no choice but to set up a suspicious array, personally led the army, carried the minister of civil and military affairs, to the Qushui Bridge, and negotiated with the Western Turk Khan at that time, the Western Turk Khan saw the majesty of the Great Chen Army, and Gaozu promised to gold and silver, cut the city, and formed an alliance with it, before leading the troops to retreat, known as the Qushui Alliance.

Zhou Ying pinched her fingers and counted the time, vaguely clear, "It's time to meet the court again." ”

Huang Qian nodded, "The group of people downstairs is indeed from the Western Turkic envoys, and the leader is the Western Turkic envoy Ashina Jimang. ”

In fact, it is said that the Western Turks are for the court, but it is better to say. After all, Da Chen was under the city by the soldiers, only to ask for peace, the Western Turks paid tribute every year, but to sacrifice thousands of horses and square things, and Da Chen wanted to return to a thousand grains, 10,000 horses, agricultural tools and ironware, and so on.

While he was talking, the shopkeeper had already led the Western Turks up to the second floor and into the box reserved for distinguished guests, obviously not offending.

It is said that this Western Turkic envoy Ashina Ji Mang was the younger brother of the Western Turkic Khan, and he was entrusted with the important task of envoy Da Chen. Zhou Ying had never attended the banquet of the emperor's banquet and foreign envoys, so although she had heard of the famous name for a long time, she had never seen this person, and she couldn't help but look at it curiously.

Ashina Ji Mang is a short and sturdy fat man, around forty, with a leopard's head and eyes, a beard, a fierce and vicious spirit, almost able to stop children from crying at night, if they enter the painting and hang on the door, they can directly be used as Zhong Kui to exorcise ghosts.

Su Zhi retracted her head, obviously frightened, Zhou Ying smiled and patted her hands.

After all, the people of the Western Turks didn't make trouble, although Ashina Jimang looked fierce, and he didn't have three heads and six arms, Zhou Ying no longer paid attention, and seeing that the guards outside had almost eaten, she motioned to Su Zhi to settle the bill and prepare to leave.

I didn't want to wait for Xiao Er to settle the bill for a short while, and something went wrong again.

Cai Die came out of the box opposite, of course she could see that this group of foreigners was not easy to provoke, and she didn't dare to provoke them, so she lowered her head and bypassed the box, and she would bypass half of it, and suddenly heard a Turkic shouting loudly, "Why did the girls who sang the song bypass us and look down on people?" ”

Cai Die's body trembled and stopped.

The two tall Turkic people opened the curtain and looked at the butterfly picking with bad intentions, and Ashina Ji Mang saw the butterfly picking at a glance, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and he first pretended to drink the person who shouted at the beginning, "What are you yelling about, don't frighten other girls." ”

After speaking, Ashina Ji grinned at Cai Die again, trying to pretend to be pleasant, but he was used to it, and when he smiled, he couldn't feel any way, either shaking his eyebrows, or staring at his eyes, which made Cai Die even more frightened, standing two or three feet away, he could see that her lips were trembling. This time the butterfly is not pretending to be pitiful, it is definitely really moving.

Sure enough, Ashina Ji Mang was so faceless by Cai Die, although he held back the fire, he didn't get angry with the beauty, kicked away the stool in front of him, got angry, and thought he was handsome and chic and smiled, and walked over to Cai Die, "Don't be afraid, girl, I won't let people hurt you." ”

Cai Die was frightened enough, and forced a smile back, "Thank you......"

Cai Die glanced at Ashina Ji Mang, obviously a fierce and terrifying middle-aged strong man, but he was nondescript, he didn't know where to take a fan, and while shaking the fan, he thought he was following her*. Cai Die was scared and disgusted again, and said in a trembling voice: "Thank you, son." ”

Ashina Ji was recklessly encouraged, and his face smiled even more terrifyingly, "What song do you sing, sing one for me." ”

Saying that, Ashina Jimang stretched out his hand to hug Cai Die and walked to the box, Cai Die finally couldn't hold back anymore, screamed, dodged Ashina Ji Mang's hand, and fled back, "I can't sing, I won't sing......"

Ashina Ji saw that the beauty fled like a tiger and wolf, and lost face in front of so many people in the lobby, and suddenly sank his face, with that fierce and vicious face, it looked even more cloudy, he gritted his teeth and scolded: "It's just a who sells songs, and he dares to put down my face." ”

As he spoke, Ashina Ji waved his hand, and the two Turkic guards behind him pounced on the butterfly like hungry wolves.

The diners in the lobby avoided their eyes, and Cai Die fled to a private room in a panic, crying: "Help, please save my ......."

Zhou Ying raised her hand to stop Huang Qian from saving people, although the butterfly picking was pitiful, Zhou Ying felt a little delicate.

This restaurant is not small, there are more than ten boxes on the second floor, but Cai Die escaped into that box alone. When I heard Cai Die shouting for help, she was asking for help from a certain son, and this "childe" was so touching and pitiful, but it was not as reluctant as shouting Ashina Ji Mang. In addition, although Ashina Ji Mang was a little fierce, he didn't actually offend Meng Lang to the point of running for his life just now.

Judging from the short period of time when Zhou Ying came into contact with Cai Die just now, this singer will observe words and feelings, there is no lack of scheming, she is clear about her appearance advantages, and she is also very good at using her feminine charm to make it convenient for herself.

Maybe at first, the butterfly picker will be frightened by Ashina Jimang's appearance, but after Ashina Jimang obviously showed that he was overwhelmed by the charm of butterfly picking, with the heart of butterfly picking, coupled with the experience of being a singer for many years, can't he even find a way to avoid Ashina Ji Mang? Do we have to refuse in the most direct and irreversible way, exacerbating the conflict and making the situation irreparable?

Of course, it is also possible that the psychological element of butterfly picking's emergency is too poor, but Zhou Ying feels that this is more like a butterfly picker's intention to drink alcohol.

Zhou Ying couldn't help but look at the box, how the son sitting here was so rich and expensive that Cai Die risked her job, chastity and even her life, so painstakingly created such a heroic opportunity to save beauty.

Huang Qian's eyesight is excellent, how can that idea bead curtain block his sight. As early as when he went upstairs, Huang Qian had a pair of sharp eyes, and he probed each box in turn, eliminating the danger one by one. And the box where the butterfly hides is of course no exception.

Seeing that Zhou Ying had been staring at the box for too long, Huang Qian stepped forward and said, "In that box, sitting is Xu Hong, the prince of Anguo, and his companion. ”