Chapter 194: Hooked
When night falls, even though it is the time of year in Kyoto, there are very few pedestrians on the streets at this hour. However, there is one place that is bustling with traffic and bright lights, and that is Kyoto's No. 1 Song and Dance Workshop.
A fast horse galloped in front of the colorful sleeve shop and disappeared around the street corner, and the guy in front of the gate looked at the direction where the figure disappeared in a daze, rubbed his eyes, and muttered to himself: "I'm not a hell of a god!" β
Hu's mother beckoned a circle of guests to return to the room in the backyard, closed the door, beat her waist twice, hurriedly ran to the table and sat down, took out a stack of silver tickets from her sleeve and counted them with saliva.
Suddenly, out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a pair of legs, she looked up and exclaimed: "Come ......" Before the word could be shouted, a dagger was put on her neck, she swallowed back the words stiffly, and said in a trembling voice: "Chivalrous life, I'll give you three hundred taels of silver, five hundred taels?" β
Xia Chen took off his hood: "Mother Hu, you have earned so much silver and only three or five hundred taels to speak, this is too stingy, right, or is your life only worth this?" β
Mother Hu's eyes suddenly widened like copper bells: "Oh, you are the princess?" How could the princess dress up like this, and her hair ......?"
Xia Chen sat down on the chair next to him: "Mother Hu, don't ask any more about this, I came to ask you for a favor." β
Mother Hu nodded like pounding garlic: "Although the princess has something to order, the old body will not hesitate to go to the soup and fire." β
Xia Chen chuckled and said, "Although I know that what you say is not sincere, it is comfortable to listen to." β
Mother Hu sneered: "What the old man said to others may not be sincere, but he definitely doesn't dare to lie to the princess." β
Xia Chen took out a thousand taels of silver tickets: "I sent silver to earn it for you." β
Mother Hu hurriedly excused herself: "Princess." Although the old body loves money, the princess's money can't be accepted by the old body. β
"Mother Hu, this money is actually not for you. It's for you to buy me something. β
"Oh? What does the princess need, although she is instructed, she is not an old body to brag, but there are old bodies in this world who can do it for the princess. β
"So I'll write you a list. By the way, Mother Hu, don't call me Princess in the future, don't call me Miss Chen, call me Xia Gongzi. β
Mother Hu looked puzzled: "Princess, why is this?" β
"You don't have to ask. Don't forget that I am Xia Gongzi from the Great Cloud Kingdom. β
"Great Cloud Country? Xia Gongzi? β
Xia Chen nodded: "If you don't do what I say, you and I will be in great trouble." β
"The old body remembers, Xia Gongzi."
"I haven't eaten after a day's trip. You go get something to eat. β
After eating, Xia Chen wrote a list of things to Hu's mother to prepare, and handed it to Hu's mother, and then took a hot bath comfortably.
Changing into a silk nightgown and sitting in front of the dresser, Xia Chen wiped the water from his hair while feeling that things are changing. Even if it's a seemingly smooth road. When I walked up, I realized that there were many bumps and forks in the road.
Knowing that she should have run a restaurant in Anyang City today, thinking carefully that she didn't go to the Western Regions to make more money, she was just an idle person, or her heart hadn't found a reason to settle down.
In her previous life, although the memories of her previous life had been restored, she still wanted to go back and see, but she also knew that she would miss this place if she really went back.
After solving all the problems here, she had to go back to her grandfather's house in Qingzhou to see, she was really tired. Thinking of those childhood playmates and interesting stories, a smile appeared on my lips.
Had breakfast the next day. Mother Hu personally came over with a stack of clothes and a brocade box: "Young Master Xia, you wear this plain brocade flying color robe first, I have asked the best cloth village in Kyoto to make more luxurious clothes for Gongzi." Saying that, he opened the brocade box: "This is the Dongzhu Ming jade crown, the dotted cui forehead, the silk woven gold inlaid jade belt, the jade Si Nanpei, the sandalwood hot fan, the shoes can be sent a little later, Xia Gongzi can be satisfied with these things first?" β
Xia Chen glanced at it: "Yes, let's put it here." β
Mother Hu said: "Master Xia, these are all treasures, why don't you seem to look down on them?" β
Xia Chen smiled: "Mother Hu, don't get me wrong, it's just that I've seen too many of these things, so there's nothing to make a fuss about." β
Mother Hu said repeatedly: "Yes, yes, the old body almost forgot about the son...... Hehe. β
"Mother Hu, can I choose the girl I want?"
Mother Hu said repeatedly: "I've chosen, I'll bring it to my son later." β
In the afternoon, Xia Chen came to the courtyard dressed neatly, and the cold air lifted her spirits. Mother Hu came over with a young girl: "Young Master Xia, this is Miss Ruozhi." β
Xia Chen saw that this girl's face was like a hibiscus, her eyebrows were like a crescent moon, her eyes were bright and autumn water, her lips were like cherries, her waist was light, and her golden lotus was steady. "Ruozhi girl, in Xia Chen."
Ruozhi bowed and said, "I've seen Gongzi Xia." β
Xia Chen nodded: "Would the girl like to go out for a walk with you?" β
Ruozhi saw Hu's mother nodding and said, "I can't ask for it." β
"Good!" Xia Chen smiled and stopped Ruozhi's waist: "Let's go." β
The horses had already been washed and put on the Yule treasure saddle, and Xia Chen stopped Ruozhi Fei from getting on the horse: "I heard that the people of Xuanguo are not happy to travel in carriages, I also want to see the style of Xuandu, so the girl will be wronged." β
Ruo Zhiqiao's face was slightly red: "Son, do whatever he says." Although she was really shocked when she saw Xia Chen's white hair for the first time, the more she looked at it, the more she felt that he was fairy-looking, transcendent and elegant, and his white hair was even more jade-like.
The pedestrians on the street were also deeply attracted by Xia Chen, and everyone who saw them was dumbfounded. It didn't take long for the big streets and alleys of Kyoto to spread, and Kyoto came to a fairy-like handsome son, peerless, white hair like snow, and even more money, romantic * chic.
Within two days, King Ge also heard about this, and he smiled and said to the gossiping guards: "Childish face and white hair? Beautiful? Did you see it? β
"This ...... The subordinates didn't see it with their own eyes, but it spread throughout Kyoto. β
Helan Yong snorted: "It's just that it's strange, and you don't want to think about a person with white hair." I can see where to go! β
The guard muttered: "I heard that many people deliberately went to the color sleeve shop not to be a girl, just to see this Xia Gong, thinking that he must have something special." β
Helan Yong was stunned: "You said his surname is Xia?" β
"yes. I also heard that he was from the Great Cloud Country. β
Helan Yong stood up abruptly, took a few steps out, and suddenly stopped: "What happened to the matter I asked you to inquire about?" β
The guard said: "It is true that the prince expected, the emperor sent a shadow guard to investigate the whereabouts of the prince, but the old princess has already concealed it, and the emperor should have received the news that the old princess is sick and the prince is taking care of her." β
He Lanyong nodded: "Did you ask what Gongzi Cen wanted to know?" β
"I asked, sisters Yu Yan and Xue Yan, they ......"
Helan Yong said: "Why are you spitting? β
The guard's slightly dark face turned red: "The emperor ordered someone to strip them naked and send them to the prison yard to be laundry palace slaves." As for Concubine Nan, she was beaten into the cold palace. β
The prison was where the eunuchs lived. The meaning of stripping naked and sending them away is obvious, anyone can do whatever they want to them, and I don't think that sister will survive for long. As for Nan Concubine, the weather is getting colder and colder now, and even if she can survive this winter, she won't be able to survive next year. "Don't tell SΓΉ Cen Gongzi about this, tell SΓΉ him to live in another courtyard with peace of mind. His brother has arrived in Xuanguo. I can't show up right now, and I'll arrange for them to meet in a few days. β
At this time, I suddenly heard Zi Mo's voice coming from outside the door: "Brother Yong, I'm back." β
He Lanyong motioned for the guard to retreat first, and then reached out to catch Zi Mo who rushed into the door: "Why did you come back so soon?" β
Zi Mo said: "I should have come back a long time ago, but I sent some news to the King of Hailing, so I was late." β
Helan Yong closed the door: "What news to send?" β
Zi Mo didn't answer positively: "Brother Yong, do you know that Xia Chen has come to Kyoto?" β
He Lanyong frowned: "Could it be that the white-haired boy who went viral in Kyoto is her?" β
"It turns out that Brother Yong knows."
Helan Yong hurriedly asked, "Mo'er, what's going on?" "He hasn't been out for a few days to avoid the King of Hailing, although someone has gone to inquire about the news. But they all obeyed his orders, except for Shang Wuchen and Zimo. He couldn't let anyone know about Xia Chen.
Zi Mo told He Lanyong about his plan to meet Xia Chen and her, then sat down on the table and shook his feet and asked, "Is Wuchen there?" β
Helan Yong shrugged his shoulders: "It will take him a day or two to come back." "Regardless of whether Xia Chen lived in Dongping before or not, now that she has arrived in Kyoto, Shang Wuchen is destined to come to nothing.
Zi Mo said: "I heard from Fengyi that the King of Hai Ling has already planned to move south. β
"I know he's training and stockpiling food and grass now."
"Brother Yong, didn't you sign a contract?"
Helan Yong snorted coldly: "If you want to fight, are you afraid of finding a reason?" β
Zi Mo shook his hand: "Let's fight, let's fight, anyway, it has nothing to do with me, by the way, Brother Yong, aren't you going to see her?" β
Helan Yong sighed: "Of course I want to, but not yet. As he spoke, he took off the green jade ring from his finger: "Mo'er, give this to her for me, and tell her that I will let Wuchen send her the knife two days later." β
"Brother Yong doesn't have anything else to say?"
Helan Yong hesitated slightly: "I miss her very much, let her be careful in everything." β
At the beginning of the lanterns, the hall of the color sleeve workshop was a song and dance, and the neon clothes fluttered on the stage, and the embroidered ribbons were flying. Xia Chen sat on the best Yatai holding the luminous cup in one hand and Ruozhi's waist in the other, with a comfortable expression on his face.
Suddenly, a brocade guard came in from outside the door, glanced around, and arched his hand in the direction of Xia Chen: "Young Master Xia, my prince is invited." β
The hall fell silent for a moment, and even the musicians on the stage stopped playing. Xia Chen pretended not to hear clearly, and said to Ruozhi beside him: "I heard it right, right?" He said that his prince wanted to invite me? β
Ruozhi smiled: "Childe heard it right, this official did say so." β
Xia Chen nodded and said loudly: "What is the title of your prince?" β
The guard said, "You will know if you go." β
Xia Chen shrugged: "How can you let the prince invite you on the next trip?" If you don't make it clear, I won't dare to go with you. β
The guard hesitated for a moment: "In this case, I will go and ask the prince for a hand." β
"Good!" Xia Chen happily agreed, thinking in her heart that the fish had finally taken the bait, but she wasn't sure if the person who invited her was King Ge or King Hailing?
After a while, the guard came back, casually threw a roll of silk silk at Xia Chen, and said, "Xia Gongzi will naturally understand after reading the edict." β
Xia Chen unfolded it and slowly stood up: "The prince is so gracious, it is better to be respectful, than to obey his fate." β
At this moment, the door of the hall was pushed open, and Zi Mo rushed in wearing a colorful coat and pointed at Xia Chen's nose and said, "Wow, you actually ran to Xuanguo to avoid me." He pointed at Ruozhi: "Who is this woman?" β
Xia Chen pretended to be embarrassed: "Mo'er, you listen to my explanation!" β
Zi Mo ignored her at all, and said to Ruozhi: "You dare to seduce my future husband, see if I don't strangle you, a vixen!" "Say kick, kick, kick up the stairs.
Xia Chen picked up Ruozhi and flew down from the second floor, and then shouted at the guard, "Don't lead the way yet." β
"Oh, oh." The guard came back to his senses and walked briskly out the door.
Zi Mo shouted: "Xia Chen, you! You come back for me, you wait for me. Shouting and chasing out, the guests in the hall all showed ambiguous smiles on their faces after coming back to their senses, it turned out that this Xia Gongzi was running away from marriage, but he was too arrogant, and he dared to go to the color sleeve shop to find the girl.
As soon as Xia Chen walked out of the gate with the guard, he saw an oversized carriage parked at the door. The eight horses pulling the cart are all divine horses, and the carriage is exquisitely carved, inlaid with gold and silver.
The guard walked to the side of the car and said, "Lord Wang, Mr. Xia has arrived." β
"Mr. Xia, please get in the car." A pleasant voice came from the carriage.
Xia Chen was just about to get into the car, but someone grabbed the clothes behind him: "Don't go, go back with me to get married." β
Xia Chen turned around and said helplessly: "Mo'er, I have always treated you as a sister, and besides, marrying you now will only affect you, and you can't die with me." β
Zi Mo stomped his feet: "Since I came to you thousands of miles away, I don't plan to go back to Dayun, and besides, your emperor values you so much, even if you go back, he won't take your life." β
Xia Chen muttered: "I never wanted to be an official, and besides, I have a good life here, and I don't want to go back yet." β
"You! Do you have a crush on her? Zi Mo said and stretched out his hand to hit Ruozhi.
Xia Chen immediately pulled Xia Zhi behind him, and grabbed Zi Mo's wrist at the same time: "Have you made enough trouble!" I just like her! β
Zi Mo said loudly: "You...... If you don't marry me, I'll die to show you. β
The quarrel between the two was spread to the hall by the eventful door, attracting many people to watch the excitement.
The person in the carriage said again: "Young Master Xia, see you another day." With that, he motioned for the coachman to leave.
Xia Chen said to Ruozhi: "You go back first, I want to talk to this girl alone." "Let's talk:" took Zi Mo's hand: "Follow me." β
Everyone watched the two fly away, and dispersed in admiration.
Xia Chen and Zi Mo came to a no-man's corner, and Xia Chen asked, "Why are you here?" It's also a joke! β
Zi Mo whispered: "I heard the news that the King of Hai Ling is not kind to you. β
Xia Chen frowned: "What do you mean by this?" β
Zi Mo bit his lip: "It means that King Hai Ling wants to include you in the harem." β
"Ahem! Cough! Does he want to learn from Emperor Mourning? Perverted! Xia Chen almost fainted when he heard this.
Zi Mo shrugged: "As far as I know, he's a man who can do anything!" (To be continued......)