Volume 2 The Dark Tide of the Silent Night Chapter 12 Encounter
In the blink of an eye, another three or five days passed, and Qin Daoyuan did not mention the matter of the saint at all, but only sent people to send all kinds of fresh melons, fruits and pastries every day. I heard that the prince was good Danqing, and he sent a good golden flower ribbed jade version of Xuan, with a rabbit shoulder purple gilt pen, a jade belt moire Xianglan inkstone and Daishan tung oil smoke ink, made up two large boxes of four treasures of the study, and carried it heavily.
The prince was already a little impatient at the State Guest House, but he had nowhere to attack. Seeing this, Su Xiaochen said: "If you come, you will be safe." If they are not annoyed, why should we bother ourselves? It's better to go out for a walk and see the customs of the capital of Taiye. In fact, he made up his mind that he wanted to secretly visit the market to see if there were any clues of Princess Yinquan.
The prince looked at Su Xiaochen and snorted in disgust: "What good places do you want to take me to see this time?" "But there is some expectation in my heart.
"I asked Qin Shilang that day, and said that from this side through the vegetable market street, and then go west for two or three miles, there is a strange mountain, called Guanyinzuo, the shape is like a statue of Guanyin, there is a weeping willow on the cliff on the mountainside, like the willow branch in the Bodhisattva's net bottle. What's even more strange is that on the edge of the weeping willow, there is really a waterfall cascading down, like the nectar in the net bottle sprinkled on the world, which can be called a scene. ”
The prince listened in a daze, suddenly came back to his senses, and pointed out the window with his finger: "Go, call Lao Cao." ”
After a while, the attendant who had gone to the ready-to-wear shop came back and hugged a bunch of ordinary clothes. The prince took off the gold crown, replaced it with a small crown inlaid with beads, took a folding fan, picked out a Ruyi checkered water-colored gown in the pile of clothes, and hung a white jade pendant with a claw pattern in his waist, just like a rich son. Turning his head to look at Su Xiaochen again, he changed a scarf on his head, and also took a folding fan, and couldn't help laughing: "Anyway, he is also a bachelor with a royal jade crown, how can he dress up like a fallen talent." ”
Su Xiaochen blinked playfully, he really learned the clothes of his uncle when he went out on weekdays.
When he turned around and looked at General Cao again, he almost burst into laughter. General Cao didn't seem to have found the right size, and a small servant's clothes were almost torn on him, and he couldn't even cover his navel. He scratched his head and squeezed his stomach again, "I'm Your Highness...... Waiter? ”
The prince said with a smile: "You are such a waiter like Zhong Kui, who dares to ask for it." ”
After a while, the group finally went out.
The land of the Bihai Kingdom is basically dotted with thousands of islands and reefs, and even if there is a large area of land, it is mostly lowland, and it is rare to have mountains and rivers like the vicinity of Taiye City. Therefore, there are nearly one million people living in it, and it is the largest metropolis in the blue sea.
Since the founding of the Ming Emperor, the population has continued to pour in, and the big business alliances that can be ranked first have opened branches in Taiye City, and the merchant goods sold are collected in the south and north, which can be described as dazzling and all-encompassing. After a few decades, the merchants of Imuram and Cangwu also came here to sell their own goods, and made a lot of profits. Until now, a hundred years later, it is not a new thing to see all kinds of foreigners with different costumes and styles on the streets of Taiye City.
This also gave a good cover to the group of people led by Prince Li Chongyan. For example, General Cao, who wears a tight-fitting crop top, actually did not cause much commotion. However, the prince shook the folding fan lightly, and his appearance was dignified, which provoked many young girls to peek in the corner. The prince seemed to be relieved by the spring breeze again, and slightly made up for the regret that he could not ride a white horse into the city a few days ago.
Therefore, there is really a small group of girls following behind them, pulling incense towels to hide their faces and peek and refuse to disperse. The prince didn't care, and continued to sway around the market as if he didn't know. Of course, he wouldn't have known that there were two particularly "small" girls behind this small group of girls.
"Sister Yin, is this the Prince Cangwu you are talking about? I don't think it's interesting. A girl in a white shirt poked her head out of a vegetable basket carefully. Then a smaller head poked out of her shoulder, and said mysteriously:
"Yes, it's that prince, don't look like he's dragging it like 2580,000, it's too bold. A cold arrow can scare him so much that he almost pees his pants, hehe. ”
"Such a waste, then let's not follow him, I thought there was something fun." The girl in the white shirt muttered a few words, and was just about to get up, when she suddenly said "Huh": "Who is the tall man next to him wearing a scarf?" Aren't all the men in Cangwu Kingdom short and small? ”
"That, he's bolder than the prince, his brain is also good, and he knows a lot about our Bihai Kingdom, I heard them call him Master Su or something." Yinhua held her cheeks and thought hard again, and said, "Oh yes, let the prince pretend to be a pig!" ”
"It's the prince's companion! Well, this guy looks a little funny, not so annoying. The girl in the white shirt whispered again: "Sister Yin, the empty cicada technique you taught me turned out to be a voyeur in the vegetable basket, and it is not a great skill!" ”
"What? This is my stunt, Sister Yin! If you're as good as I am, you'll be able to know it! Yinhua couldn't help but flick the white-shirted girl's head.
"It's still perfect...... Unless you crush me to ...... monkey," the girl in the white shirt grimaced. At this time, the vegetable lady standing by the vegetable basket spoke:
"I said, two sisters, how long are you going to stay in my basket?"
The girl in the white shirt threw a silver coin out and raised a finger to "shhhh The eldest lady immediately changed her face when she saw the silver, and she also lowered her voice and said, "The girl will come again tomorrow?" I've got a big basket for you! ”
At this moment, someone suddenly shouted around the corner: "Princess! The princess has found you! ”
When the white-shirted girl heard this, she was so depressed that she couldn't do it, and said, "Alas, this empty cicada technique is not easy to practice at all, and this can be discovered." Just as she was about to stand up and climb out of the basket, she was pressed back into the basket by Yinhua and signaled her to stop talking and continue to look.
I saw a girl in the costume of a palace maid catching up with a very inconspicuous carriage, the curtain of the carriage was slightly lifted, but only a corner was exposed, and the girl in the white shirt said "Huh" again.
"Why is the second sister in the car? Today is the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, shouldn't she go to say hello to her mother? ”
Yinhua whispered: "On the fifth day of the first month of every month, Princess Qingle will go to your majesty to say goodbye, but only on the fifth day of November. ”
Sure enough, the girl handed over a colorful thing to the person in the car, turned around and left, probably forgetting this thing when she left the palace, which made the palace maid go back to the palace to get it.
"Oh yes, on the fifth day of the first month of November, the second sister is not going to ask for peace." The girl in the white shirt patted her head, "Although I don't know why." ”
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Princess Zhu Zhijie of Qingle is a very boring person.
That's probably what she thinks herself. Every day is to read books in my Qinglian Palace, write and write, or embroider something, or just be in a daze, sleep for a while, anyway, it's a silent thing. People who don't know think that she likes to be quiet, and the palace maid who is close to her knows that she is afraid of disturbing others and annoying people.
She is the second princess of Emperor Ming, but she is afraid of disturbing others and annoying people? Who believes this?
But that's what she thought.
For as long as she can remember, she has lived in this Qinglian Palace, which is the farthest palace from the Ming Emperor's Laiyi Palace. Her father died when she couldn't walk, and her mother barely came to see her after that, and she was always brought up by the palace maids and grandmothers.
When she was a child, she would cry or lose her temper like other children, and once she was so angry, a grandmother yelled at her: "You are so noisy, I can't complain that even your mother doesn't want to see you!" Even the palace has chosen the farthest one for you. She remembered this sentence for more than ten years.
Since then she has not quarreled anymore, she is afraid of disturbing the mother. She thought that the mother must be too annoying if she didn't come to see her, and if she could be a little quieter, maybe ...... Maybe the Queen Mother will come a few more times, even if it is one more time.
Slowly, she was also afraid of noisy others, palace maids, and grandmothers, afraid that they would get tired of her one day, leaving her alone in this huge palace.
Later, when she grew up, she realized that the mother just didn't like her, and it had nothing to do with crying or not. Because an old palace maid inadvertently said one day: "You and your father Jinquan don't look too similar." That's why Your Majesty doesn't want to see you. ”
She wondered what her father had done to make her mother so angry, even to herself. But no one could give her an answer.
Slowly, she felt that the mother would probably not change her mind again in this life, and when she greeted the mother queen on the fifth day of the first month of every month, it would always be a few words.
"Say hello to the mother, I wish the mother queen a good health and good health."
"Well, get up. When it's cold, you add a piece of clothing too. Or, "It's hot, watch out for the heat." ”
Then you can bow and go out of the temple, month after month.
Until the fifth day of November of a certain year, Emperor Ming suddenly added a sentence after "You also add a piece of clothing": "On the fifth day of November in the future, you don't have to come over again, go to pay tribute to your father, this is his death." He handed her a multicolored Luo Ying, and refused to say more.
Zhu Zhijie couldn't understand what her mother was thinking? Do you hate your father? So I also feel like my father's own face is hateful. Isn't it hate? So remember the death anniversary and let yourself go to the memorial.
Look closely at Na Luo Ying, the splendid silk thread has been yellowed, it should be some years. The face has been polished out, and it is guessed that it should be because the mother often rubs it in her hand.
Miss? Spitefully?
Still no one could give her an answer.
The eldest sister is always busy, busy reading and practicing martial arts when she was a child. When I was older, I was busy watching the recitals, holding meetings with the ministers, and I was busy patrolling the Quartet for the mother, and I saw less than the mother. The little sister is also very busy, busy playing in the arms of the mother queen, or running out of the palace to play.
Forget it, a person with such an abominable face as himself, don't bother them.
But Zhu Zhijie didn't know that she just had the most beautiful face in the world, a face that captivated the country and the city.
So what? She doesn't even know why she lives, and she still cares if she is beautiful or not.