Ten years later

On the noisy streets of Yicheng, Ling Xi and Ginkgo, who were dressed as men, looked around on the street, looking around like ladies who had never been out, and they were incompatible with their young masters, and they all felt strange.

Ling Xi looked at the spacious streets of this Yi City, and remembered that Leng Qiuye was doing things in the backyard of the Hou Mansion every three or five days, and sure enough, it was the outside that made Ling Xi feel extremely free, maybe she didn't like the life of the high gate and deep courtyard like this routine by nature.

She and Ginkgo walked into the Yuehe Tower, the largest restaurant in the city, it is said that every festival, the lanterns hanging on the Yuehe Tower, just like a scene in the city, even the inner courtyard of the palace can be seen.

Tomorrow is Ling Xiao's birthday, Ling Xi wants to buy a special gift for Ling Xiao outside, but she doesn't seem to know what Ling Xiao likes, as long as Ling Xiao returns to the Pingyuan Marquis Mansion over the years, most of the time is also in Yilan Courtyard, she rarely sees Ling Xiao, I don't know when she and Ling Xiao began to become strangers. It is rare that Ling Xiao can spend her birthday in the Hou Mansion this year, she wants to be closer to Ling Xiao, of course, as long as Leng Qiuye does not come out to make trouble, maybe Ling Xiao will have her own daughter in her eyes. She thought of Ling Zhu, maybe her brother would know her father's preferences better.

Ling Xi went up to the second floor and picked a private seat with a railing. I just happened to be able to see the street downstairs, and after a while, my brother Ling Zhu was going to study too much, this is the only way for Ling Zhu to go to school, and I can just meet Ling Zhu. Since Ling Zhu entered the Tai Academy, she has rarely been able to see him in the Hou Mansion, most of the time Ling Zhu is either studying hard in Taixue, or going to Dr. Yan's house to practice martial arts, in short, it is more difficult for her younger sister to see her brother.

She looked at Ginkgo, who had already stretched her neck and looked down the street below, not even bothering to drink tea.

"What are you looking at? Wait for the Tai Academy to get out of school, there will be a lot of Tai students passing downstairs, you are not in Sichun. Ling Xi teased Ginkgo maliciously, and also held up Ginkgo's chin with the folding fan in his hand.

Ginkgo hurriedly staggered her head away from Ling Xi's folding fan, and lowered her head a little embarrassedly and whispered: "Second Miss, what do you say, I'm just afraid, if you don't see the eldest young master walking downstairs, you will have to complain about me again." ”

Ling Xi leisurely grabbed the melon seeds on the table, and she also glanced downstairs into the street from time to time, for fear of missing Ling Zhu.

Suddenly, there was a commotion on the street downstairs, and Ling Xi took a closer look, it turned out that a group of students and a man in Tsing Yi had an argument downstairs, as if this group of students was making trouble with this man in Tsing Yi.

"Ye Muzhi, where are you going? It's not lying on the door outside the Tai Academy, waiting for the opportunity to go in. I saw one of the Tai students walk to the middle of the street and say to the man in Tsing Yi, who looks like the leader of these Tai students.

"Wang Fu, I am an idler, so naturally I can't wander around blindly during the Taixue time." Ye Muzhi was neither humble nor arrogant, and replied modestly and politely.

Ling Xi looked at Ye Muzhi who was talking, it was estimated that he was in his early twenties, almost as big as Ling Zhu, but Ye Muzhi's dark skin under his green clothes, as well as his very masculine facial features, did not have the slightest scholarly atmosphere, compared with the group of students on the street who seemed to be powerless, it was simply a beat of two rhythms.

Listening to the meaning of Ye Muzhi's words, it seems that this Wang Bo is a truant student, maybe he is still a poor student who was scolded by Mr. in Tai Academy, Ling Xi couldn't help but smile, thinking that there would be a good show to watch now.

Wang Bo downstairs suddenly shouted loudly: "Ye Muzhi, don't think that if you get the appreciation of Dr. Yan, you can get ahead, a concubine is a concubine, in Dongyu Kingdom, you can't enter the concubine of Tai Academy, and you can't be a prince and general." ”

Ling Xi glanced at Ye Muzhi again, I see. Dongyu Guotai College is the highest institution, and students who can enter Taitai College will enter the court as an official one day. If you don't have the background of an official eunuch family, you are not eligible to participate in the selection examination of Tai Academy, and of course, there is also a kind of official eunuch who can't be, that is, concubines.

Ye Muyi didn't say a word, standing on the street with an expressionless face, he knew that Wang Bo was right, although Dr. Yan intended to cultivate him, and often asked him to go to the house to teach him martial arts and lecture with him, but his status as a concubine was not qualified to go to the Tai Academy for the exam, and he couldn't wear the white clothes on Wang Bo and them in his life.

And Wang Bo, who is unlearned and unskilled, is a gentleman, but because he is the nephew of the Queen Mother and the sister-in-law of Wang An, the right minister of Dongyu State, even if he skips school all day, in the end, he can still enter the court as an official with a white coat, and can even take over his father's position as the right minister.

Ye Muzhi looked at the green clothes on his body again, this is the clothes of the students of the state capital, no matter how good he is, he is just the concubine of the Shangshu family of the Ministry of War, either he will become a small official of the Ministry of War, and he will not be able to get to the previous dynasty for a lifetime, or he will join the army and be an inferior soldier, I don't know when he will be able to get ahead, this is the strict concubine system of Dongyu Kingdom, and he really has nothing to do with the princes and generals.

Wang Bo saw that Ye Muzhi did not refute, and he was also proud, and the other students kept counting Ye Muzhi, Ye Muzhi turned around and wanted to leave, but was stopped by Wang Bo.

"Wang Bo, I still have something to do, take the first step, and make way for trouble." Ye Muzhi was still expressionless.

"It's okay to give way, but you have to be like a dog, drill under my crotch," said Wang Bo proudly spread his legs, and many students also began to coax, surrounding Ye Muzhi and letting him drill under Wang Bo's crotch. The green tendons on Ye Muzhi's face flareted up slightly, and he clenched his fists, obviously he was forbearing.

Ling Xi's jaw was about to fall off, he originally thought it would be a big drama of a teenager cleaning up his children, but it turned out to be a farce of a group of sissies humiliating students on the street, not to mention, looking at Ye Muzhi's majestic figure, he must be a person with martial arts, so insulted by people on the street, Ye Muzhi can still bear it, it is really blind to Ye Muzhi's tendon meat.

Ling Xi looked at Wang Bo's villainous appearance downstairs again, it was really ugly, this kind of humiliating thing on the street, but anyone who had gone to school and ate some ink in his stomach couldn't do it, saying that this Wang Bo was a gentleman and raised him, like an upstart, and that group of coaxing students, where is there still the appearance of students from the highest university in Dongyu, Ling Xi couldn't help but be angry.

"Brother Wang Bo, are you going to be famous?" A loud voice came from upstairs, Ling Xi took a folding fan to half-cover his face, and said loudly according to the railing.

Wang Bo raised his eyes and looked at Ling Xi in the restaurant, where is the kid who doesn't have long eyes, he is about to make Ye Muzhi ugly, this kid wants to stand out for Ye Muzhi? Wang Bo muttered in his heart, who would dare to go against him in Yicheng.

"Who are you, don't meddle with things."

"Brother Tai, I see that I am about to get out of school, the students and the masters are estimated to be passing through this place soon, Brother Tai is here to make people suffer the humiliation of the crotch on the street, maybe tomorrow Brother Tai you will be able to become the person discussed by the ministers of the former dynasty, if you can't take on the name of insulting Sven, won't you be famous." Ling Xi replied unhurriedly, she glanced at Wang Bo downstairs, and Wang Bo's expression was also a little nervous.

Wang Bo thought about it, he was originally a truant, if Dr. Yan saw himself humiliating his beloved apprentice in the street, he would sue His Majesty tomorrow, he would have to be scolded again, maybe his aunt would let him be grounded at home. Although Wang Bo was unwilling, it was true that the timing was not good today. Wang Bo could only leave the street with the Taixue junior brothers, and before leaving, he didn't forget to give Ling Xi a vicious look.

Ling Xi looked at Wang Bo's departing figure, and saw that Wang Bo was not a good stubble, she had to leave, and if she didn't leave, maybe Wang Bo would come back to find her trouble. It seemed that she finally slipped out of the Hou Mansion today, but she couldn't see Ling Zhu anymore, and she couldn't buy gifts, she was a little disappointed, got up and dropped a silver ingot, and walked out of the restaurant quickly with Ginkgo.

Ye Muzhi's originally ugly face eased slightly, he saw Ling Xi walking out of the restaurant, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop Ling Xi's way.

and respectfully saluted her.

"Thank you brother Tai for breaking the siege, Ye Muzhi is very grateful, please ask my brother Taigao's surname, he will come to the door to thank you one day."

Ling Xi couldn't help but take a few steps back, quickly covered her face with a folding fan, she looked at Ye Muzhi standing in front of her, compared to what she saw from a distance upstairs just now, Ye Muzhi's clear facial features were more three-dimensional, but Tsing Yi was really incompatible with his dark skin, she suddenly thought that if she changed him into a suit of armor, he might have to look a little handsome.

Suddenly, Ling Xi also felt that he was crazy, and he actually became interested in a man's dressing on the street, which was too inappropriate. And she doesn't like Ye Muzhi very much, she can still be bullied like this, she doesn't look like a young man at all, or she doesn't have any blood at all, Ye Muzhi's style of daring to be angry and dare not speak out really makes her unacceptable.

It's just that she really can't get used to Wang Bo's group of students bullying people like that, so she will help him out, she doesn't want to have anything to do with Ye Muzhi, of course, she can't make friends with a man.

"No need, I'm just not used to seeing others bullying people, and it's not enough to worry about meeting in Pingshui." After saying that, Ling Xi and Ginkgo strode away.

Ye Muzhi hadn't had time to ask Ling Xi's name, so he could only look at Ling Xi's back as he gradually moved away, but he didn't know why, he felt that this young man was a little different, or very special.

Although he couldn't see her face, Ling Xi, who was short in stature, always made people feel a little noble, but he still had the childishness of a child, which made people feel a little cute. Of course, the most important thing is that she told the truth, maybe because Ye Muzhi is a concubine, although Ling Xi helped him, he was unwilling to befriend him. Suddenly, Ye Muzhi felt that the departed young man was chivalrous and not hypocritical compared to the group of noble sons who only laughed at him or were jealous of him.