Chapter 33: The Greed of Human Nature

87_87437 "Blood Exhaustion Flower." Almost at the same time, Zhong Ziyuan finally reported the mystery. Ye Meisu stomped her feet hatefully, but a trace of appreciation quietly flashed in Prince Rui's eyes.

"Exactly." The shopkeeper smiled and took down the rabbit lantern and handed it to Zhong Ziyuan. Zhong Ziyuan gave the lantern to Qing Dai.

"Thank you, miss." Qingdai was so happy that she couldn't see her eyebrows. She neatly took off the pair of silver butterfly earrings, helped her put them on with cardamom, and then flashed her bright eyes to see if anyone was okay, Caixia and Mingyue both smiled at the corners of their mouths, and praised with envy.

"Let's go and see somewhere else." got the pair of earrings that Qingdai wanted, and Zhong Ziyuan had no interest in continuing to join in the fun here. She grabbed Liu Yuqing's arm and wanted to leave, but Ye Meisu on the side bit her lip unwillingly, and finally said softly: "This young lady, please stay." ”

As soon as Ye Meisu spoke, there was immediately a gang of idle men, intentionally or unintentionally blocking Zhong Ziyuan and Liu Yuqing's side. Liu Yuqing rarely goes out, seeing this situation, she was a little scared, she subconsciously grabbed Zhong Ziyuan's sleeve.

"I know that the limelight is not so good." Zhong Ziyuan muttered in a dissatisfied whisper, and only Liu Yuqing, who was next to him, heard it. So she wanted to laugh a little, and she had to endure laughing, and she was a little afraid of the consequences, that is, her whole body trembled slightly.

Zhong Ziyuan felt her trembling, and thought that she was frightened, and couldn't help but feel a trace of dissatisfaction in her heart. So he asked, "I don't know if Miss Ye has any other advice?" Zhong Ziyuan's voice was calm and polite, but it was very cold.

Ye Mei Su smiled, blooming like a delicate flower, beautiful and unparalleled, making the men around her look straight. She didn't notice anything, her beautiful eyes only looked at Zhong Ziyuan, and said, "Looking at the slave family, Miss is also a master of guessing lantern riddles." I don't know if I'm interested in competing with the slave family to see who can win this grand prize? ”

"I'm not interested." Zhong Ziyuan's clean refusal made Ye Meisu's next words all stuck in her throat. As if she had been hit, she hung her head slightly, her face was shy, and her charming peach blossom eyes seemed to have lost their lustre. just timidly said to Zhong Ziyuan: "I'm sorry, it's the slave family that makes it difficult." ”

After speaking, she whispered to Prince Rui again: "Master Zhu, let's go!" That Zhu Gongzi sounded like a yellow warbler crying and a silver bell jingling, which made people's hearts tremble and feel pity when they heard it. Of course, two pearl-like tears quietly slipped down her smooth cheeks.

Zhong Ziyuan was simply dumbfounded, she had to think about it blankly, and she didn't know what she said, offending the beauty in front of her, making her look so wronged by bullying.

I heard Caixia complain in a low voice on the side: "It's really a natural fox, and she is used to acting." ”

Zhong Ziyuan subconsciously looked at Prince Rui, who had been standing beside her and looked very low-key, but was surprised to see a trace of impatience in his eyes. But he hid it well, and the impatience was fleeting, and he saw him lowering his deep eyes, and comforted him: "Why is this worth your crying nose?" It's squeamish. Who in Chang'an City doesn't know that Ye is well-read, and he writes poems and paintings at will. This guessing lantern riddle is naturally not a problem, so what is there to compare it with? ”

Ye Meisu, who was praised, couldn't help but 'poof' and laughed. Zhong Ziyuan involuntarily covered her chest, she had to admit that Ye Meisu's beautiful appearance of crying and smiling made her feel excited as a woman, let alone those men.

However, Zhong Ziyuan didn't notice that Liu Yuqing behind her actually stopped trembling strangely. She took a few steps forward, endured her shyness, and said to the shopkeeper on the stage: "Shopkeeper, I don't know what the grand prize is?" What are the rules? I want to give it a try. ”

Zhong Ziyuan didn't expect Liu Yuqing to suddenly stand up, but in the blink of an eye, she understood Liu Yuqing's thoughts. Just ask a talented woman who is proud and arrogant, how can she tolerate the man she likes and praise another woman to her face. Of course, she will not be convinced, and will want to prove herself in front of him.

So Zhong Ziyuan also stood up, she said crisply to the shopkeeper on the bamboo platform: "Shopkeeper, don't be too stingy, if my sister struggles to guess the riddle, and the prize you take out is still these silver-clad silver, plain silver jewelry wants to send us away, I will pull your beard!" ”

Zhong Ziyuan's witty words immediately caused laughter from the crowd of onlookers. Even Liu Yuqing covered his mouth and chuckled, feeling less nervous.

"Don't dare, don't dare." The shopkeeper happily stroked his beard on his chin, and he didn't know if he was saying that Zhong Ziyuan didn't dare to pull his beard, or that he didn't dare to use those cheap jewelry to fool people. I saw him slap his face and say to the guy behind him, "Go, bring the prize to the stage." ”

Not long after, the young man appeared on the bamboo platform with a small brocade box with a rose pattern. He walked briskly to the shopkeeper, who carefully opened the box, took out a crested hairpin made of red gold from it, and held it high. When the onlookers saw the hairpin, they couldn't help but be in an uproar.

The crested hairpin is not like an ordinary style, and it is made with several processes such as filigree, weaving, filling, and stacking. So the red gold phoenix is particularly delicate and agile. With a slight movement, the spread wings trembled, as if they were about to spread their wings and fly high.

The shopkeeper looked around at the increasingly crowded crowd below, and said proudly: "This crested hairpin was carefully created by the master of this store for ten days. ”

The crowd below instantly fell into a frenzy, and countless people desperately squeezed forward, and they raised their hands and shouted: "I also want to guess the lantern riddle, I also want to guess the lantern riddle." Even those people who didn't pay attention to the bamboo platform here were attracted by this crazy shout, and blindly squeezed under the stage.

Zhong Ziyuan, Liu Yuqing's group, as well as Prince Rui and Ye Meisu, were defenseless. In an instant, he was squeezed by the crowd of bee chrysalis to the bamboo platform and couldn't move.

Caixia, Mingyue, Cardamom, and Qingdai immediately held hands and protected Zhong Ziyuan and Liu Yuqing in a corner of the bamboo platform. And on Ye Meisu's side, only Prince Rui was guarding him, and he seemed to be unable to stand up left and right.

The crowd at this moment is extremely frenzied, and no one will pity this beautiful woman. Ye Meisu was either stepped on, or her clothes were torn and her hair was ripped up. At this time, she looked unbearable and frightened, and she no longer had the appearance of a fairy before.

Zhong Ziyuan grabbed Liu Yuqing with one hand and a corner of the bamboo platform with the other. She subconsciously glanced at the crowd a few times, and found that several men in black brocade robes were anxiously squeezing in, and their eyes were on Prince Rui, who was in the innermost. It seems that these people are all secret guards brought out by Prince Rui, but the incident happened suddenly, and they were actually left outside the crowd.

If Prince Rui had any damage today, his group would really be in danger of dying. Outside the crowd, the big prisoner couldn't help but sweat beads on his forehead. He shouted loudly, "Get out of the way, get out of the way." ”

An idler in front of him sneered while squeezing forward: "It's really funny, at this time, whoever you want to get out of the way will fight with you." Don't waste your tongue here! ”

When Xing Da heard this, his eyes turned red, so he stopped shouting, but just squeezed his head in. But if he is infinitely powerful, how can he be able to defeat the strength of these thousands of people. So he moved forward unusually slowly.

The shopkeeper on the stage was also stunned, he wanted to take advantage of today's lantern riddle meeting to show his shop's new craftsmanship of making jewelry in front of everyone, intending to make a name for his jewelry shop. But he underestimated human greed.

Those ordinary people under the bamboo platform may not have the opportunity to have a real red gold jewelry for the rest of their lives, but now they have the opportunity to get it for free, and they are not rushing up with all their strength.

The five or six men beside the shopkeeper looked at the surging crowd below, all of them pale. They gathered around the shopkeeper and said anxiously, "What can I do?" What can I do? ”

"Why don't we go first!"

"Yes, yes, the owner. These people are crazy. Even if this crested hairpin is thrown down, they will tear us apart. ”

The shopkeeper stared at the growing crowd below, with a look of horror. He muttered to himself, "How can this be? However, he still subconsciously put the crested hairpin in his hand into the box, and then urged the guys: "Take this crested hairpin to the store." Be fast, be fast. ”

The guy ran down with the box, and the people in the audience became more and more noisy: "Don't go, I said that the crested hairpin is a prize." ”

"Stop, stop, how can you not believe what you say."

"Everyone, go up and grab it!"

One person called out, and immediately countless people began to respond, and more and more people began to climb up the bamboo platform. Zhong Ziyuan was horrified to hear that the bamboo platform began to make a subtle "creak, creak" sound.

Zhong Ziyuan immediately screamed: "Don't climb, the bamboo platform is going to collapse." It's a pity that her voice was immediately drowned in the surging sea of people, and not even a single wave was stirred up. The people in the back are still squeezing forward, and the people in front are still desperately climbing up. A few of the people who went up first even began to snatch the box that the guy was holding.

Liu Yuqing also followed Zhong Ziyuan's example, clutching the corner of the bamboo platform tightly, and she also heard the louder and louder creak. So he cried out in horror, "What should we do?" ”

Zhong Ziyuan lifted the cone hat on his head and glanced back sharply. All that came into view were greedy and distorted faces. She muttered, "We must leave this bamboo platform immediately, otherwise we will definitely be crushed to death by the collapsed bamboo platform." ”

Cardamom behind her desperately resisted the flow of people behind her, and said anxiously: "Now I can't even pull out my feet, how are we going to get out?" ”。