Chapter 44: A Chance Encounter

"Miss, you see this is so beautiful."

The two walked to an embroidery room to see the embroidery work inside, Lingxiu was not good at this aspect, Su Wanyan's original body was taught by her mother since she was a child, and she was also outstanding in this aspect, but after she passed through, although she had memories of this, she was not interested in these at all, so it was abandoned after a long time.

But this does not prevent her from knowing how to appreciate these, and now she walks to this embroidery room is not big, and there is little embroidery work in the large pieces, but those small pieces are very exquisite, and the patterns are fresh, so there are quite a lot of people who visit.

What Lingxiu saw was a child's tiger head shoes, which were really fine, the tiger embroidery was vivid, and it was cute and cute, and the children's things were originally small and cute, and this pair of red tiger head shoes was even more forbearant.

"Miss I like to buy it for you, and when you become a parent in the future, you will have a baby and take it out to wear." Su Wanyan joked with Lingxiu.

Lingxiu turned around and left here, her face flushed with shame, and she said angrily: "Miss, don't tease the, it's really embarrassing." ”

Su Wanyan smiled, walked over and grabbed her arm, and looked casually.

"Look, this purse looks good, too." Lingxiu was dragging a sapphire blue purse in her hand, which was embroidered with a delicate crane and deer spring pattern, and there were fine entwined flowers and grass patterns on the side, "Tsk, the small purse can be embroidered with such a delicate pattern, which is really eye-opening." ”

"I bought this too, so that I could give it to your future husband." Su Wanyan said with a smile.

Lingxiu slapped her disrespectfully, "Miss, why are you making fun of the maid again, the maid is just appreciating the good-looking things, and she doesn't think much about it at all." ”

"Okay, Miss Ben won't tease you." Su Wanyan said this, but her eyes looked at the purse and was reluctant to turn an eye, seeing Lingxiu walking away, she hurriedly pulled down the purse, took out a small piece of broken silver from her waist and threw it to the embroidery girl, the embroidery girl checked the silver, and wanted to find a copper plate for her, but she had already run away.

She was obviously joking about Lingxiu, but when she saw this purse, she actually thought of Duanmu Rui, if it wasn't for him in the temple last time, she would almost encounter an assassin head-on, whether she would die I don't know, but I would definitely be injured.

If the next time I see him, this purse is just used as a thank you gift, although it is really a bit of a courtesy, but she doesn't know what to give, so she decided to do this temporarily.

Coming out of the embroidery room, the two walked around the street for a while, Su Wanyan saw a magnificent restaurant on the side of the street, and when it was time to formally eat at this time, it seemed to be very lively inside, and there was a sign hanging at the door, just now there was a new dish.

She put her arms around Lingxiu's shoulders, "Let's go, Miss will take you in the restaurant, let's try it too." ”

"Really? Great, the servant has a good mouth today. Lingxiu clapped her hand and smiled delicately.

The two laughed and entered the restaurant, and immediately Xiao Er came to entertain them, and seeing that they were well-dressed and outstanding, they led them to the private room on the second floor.

From the window of the private room, you can see the Yudai River in the capital, the river water is clear, and there are many boats floating on it, loaded with vegetables and fresh fish, etc., people are busy shouting and selling, but they can't hear the sound here.

"It's quite interesting to see other people's behaviors from a distance." Lingxiu said with a smile.

Su Wanyan also looked at it with interest for a moment.

Soon Xiao Er served the food, and now it is spring, and many fresh dishes are coming up, especially the famous mandarin fish, which Xiao Er introduced as being transported by fast boat from the south, which is very fresh.

The two sat down to taste, Su Wanyan felt that it was really delicious, and Lingxiu was even more satisfied.

After eating, the two walked out, and as soon as they went out, they saw several men with extraordinary temperaments walking up the stairs.

Lingxiu pulled Su Wanyan and whispered in her ear, "Miss, it's Lord Rui." ”

In fact, Duanmu Rui is a prince, and the emperor did not give him a title, but everyone is used to calling him Rui Wangye, just like the title, the word "Rui" is also suitable for him.

Su Wanyan naturally saw it at a glance, her heart was pounding, she didn't say anything, but she clenched the purse in her sleeve pocket in her hand, planning to give it out when she saw the opportunity, otherwise she would be seen in the house and even the maids would have a hard time explaining.

Duanmu Rui looked up and saw the two of them stopping at the top of the stairs waiting for their group to pass first.

When he walked to the front, he asked a few people behind him to go to the private room that had been booked first, those who were born and died with him, saying that they were subordinates, but in fact they were the same as brothers, so they didn't even dare to glance at Su Wanyan and walked over, and Lingxiu also quickly retreated into the private room just now.

"I didn't expect to meet you here." The corners of Duanmu Rui's mouth pursed an irrepressible smile.

"yes, what a coincidence." Su Wanyan looked at him with a smile, as if her dexterous mouth had become stupid.

Duanmu Rui heard that they had returned to the capital from the monastery and wanted to see her, but he didn't expect to meet them when he went out, and his heart was naturally happy.

Su Wanyan took out the purse from her sleeve pocket and handed it to him, "This is a thank you gift, thanks to you last time in the temple." ”

Duanmu Rui didn't expect her to give him something at all, and it was such a personal object, he was very surprised in his heart, and then he was ecstatic, and immediately took it, but his face was not happy.

He said calmly, "Thank you, girl, this king is flattered." ”

"It's just a purse, I can't get my needle and thread, this is what I bought in the embroidery room, I hope the prince doesn't think I'm not sincere enough."

Su Wanyan touched her nose embarrassedly, although this was not an action that a dignified lady should do, but she really felt embarrassed, so she couldn't help but do it.

"Why, Miss Su thinks too much." Duanmu Rui thinks she looks cute, because she usually behaves more than anyone else, and her real identity is the master of the Surprise Speech Hall, and she is a character who responds to every call, and it is indeed rare to see this kind of little daughter's behavior.

"Oh, that's good, I'm leaving." After Su Wanyan finished speaking, she walked to the private room in a panic and knocked on the door, and Lingxiu opened the door from the inside.

"Miss......"

Before Lingxiu could say anything, Su Wanyan signaled that it was time for her to go.

Duanmu Rui was still standing in place, seeing that she was panicked and shy, he couldn't help but feel his heart moved, and a pair of clear and deep phoenix eyes looked at her, reluctant to move half a point.

"Lord, let's go." In front of Duanmu Rui, Su Wanyan said another word, and hurriedly pulled Lingxiu downstairs.

Walking quickly to the bottom of the stairs, she couldn't help but look back again, and when she saw Duanmu Rui also turning her head, she hurriedly stopped and walked out.

"Miss, why are you so red?" Lingxiu asked curiously, "Did the prince tell you something?" ”

Thinking about it and smiling ambiguously, it can make the young lady blush, I don't know what the prince said.

"Is there one?" Su Wanyan touched her cheeks, and sure enough, she felt a little hot, but how could she admit it, "What's the matter, it's just a little hot in the restaurant just now, don't you feel hot?" ”

Lingxiu looked at her with sparkling eyes, "No, the maid didn't feel it." ”

"That's your cold." Su Wanyan twisted her face straight, "Be careful of hitting the pillar." ”

Lingxiu turned her head, her eyes saw a little child running past them, touched Su Wanyan, her protector was heartfelt, pointed at the child and said, "Hey, what's the matter with that child." ”

As soon as Su Wanyan heard her, she reacted and immediately touched the money bag on her waist, and found that her waist was empty.

"That's a thief." Su Wanyan said a word to Lingxiu, and went to chase the child.

The child relied on his small stature, rushed left and right in the crowd, and disappeared in a blink of an eye, Su Wanyan ran to the place where he disappeared, and saw a fork in the road, she ran in without hesitation, and ran to the end and still didn't see anyone, there was a side street in front, she didn't know whether to go left or right, and observed carefully to see if she could find clues.

Before I could think clearly, I heard a commotion on the right.

"Catch him for me, dare to rush into the county lord, I don't want to live." A man's rough voice roared.

Then I heard a child's voice: "Nobles, please spare your life, the little one has kowtowed to you, spare your life." ”

Su Wanyan walked towards the right side of the side, walked for a while, and turned the corner to see a big scene.

A splendid horse-drawn carriage was parked in the middle of the street, and a dozen maids presumably surrounded the carriage, and a middle-aged man who looked like a butler and two men faced an eight- or nine-year-old child, who looked like the child who had just stolen her purse.

The boy was in tatters, and kept kowtowing to the ground for mercy, but the housekeeper crossed his arms and looked up at the sky, ignoring the child.

Su Wanyan looked at the carriage, plus this battle, she knew which noble family came out, although the child stole his money bag, but when he saw him kowtowing and kowtowing, he couldn't help but feel pity in his heart, stepped forward and grabbed the child's neck and collar, and said to him, "Don't kowtow." ”

The child's forehead was already bruised, and Su Wanyan felt distressed for a while.

When the child saw her, he thought he had come to arrest him, but he kept struggling in her hands, and shouted in his mouth: "Miss, spare me, and I will return the money bag to you." ”

"There's a nosyman." The housekeeper looked at Su Wanyan and wanted to step forward to reason with her.

At this time, the curtain of the carriage was opened, revealing a young and pretty face, and he said to the front: "Fushun, what are you doing, why don't you leave?" ”

The butler's face instantly showed a sneering smile, and he hurriedly ran to the carriage and told the little girl, "The county lord is a dirty little cub who rushed over without knowing what to do, and the slave was afraid that he would scare the county lord, so he taught him a lesson, and he left, and he left." ”

Su Wanyan put the child on the ground, afraid that he would run away, and kept grabbing his back collar.

She had already recognized this county lord as Duanmu Rong, and mocked with a little coldness: "The county lord is such a big man, and he connived at the presumptuous people on the street. ”

Duanmu Rong was familiar with this voice, and when she looked at it again, she recognized Su Wanyan, heard the sarcasm between Su Wanyan's words, and asked Fushun with a frown: "What's the matter?" How did you offend her? ”

Fushun hurriedly explained: "County lord, how can there be such a thing, it was the slave who taught the child a lesson, she suddenly ran out to stop it, and heard the child say that it seems that she stole her money bag." ”

Duanmu Rong didn't figure out the reason for the incident for a while, so she got out of the carriage and walked to Su Wanyan.

Because last time in the temple, Duanmu Rong saw Su Yuxian beating Jiang Duyan, and felt that Su Yuxian was too fierce and terrifying, and she was not even willing to get close to Su Wanyan, so she didn't get out of the carriage immediately.

At this time, seeing Su Wanyan grabbing the child, the two did not see each other, she asked Su Wanyan what happened, and Su Wanyan explained the reason in three or two sentences.

"I see."

As soon as Duanmu Rong's words fell, she saw the child kneeling on the ground again, crying with tears and snot: "Good deeds, nobles, spare the boy, the boy has no father or mother, and there is a seriously ill sister at home, and the kid has no way to do this kind of stealing." I beg the nobles, if something happens to the boy, the younger sister of the family will be left unattended, and she will soon die. ”

The child's eyes were red from crying, his hair was messy, obviously he hadn't washed it for a long time, his body was dirty, his clothes were tattered, and he was very thin.

Duanmu Rong was also very unbearable in her eyes, so she said to him: "It's not easy to remember your life experience, and the county lord won't pursue you, but you can't steal the money bag." ”

She said to Su Wanyan: "Sister, let's see what to do." ”

Su Wanyan pulled him up from the ground, bent down and asked him, "What you said is the truth?" ”

The child nodded vigorously, raised three fingers and swore: "If there is half a truth, the boy will die here immediately." ”

"Okay, you steal a lot?" Su Wanyan asked again.

The child lowered his head, "My sister has never been good before, but recently she is sick, and the kid has no choice, so he stole a few times, but every time he was caught and beaten half to death." ”