Chapter 228: There are other things to do
Xiang Yeqi improvised a non-touching topic: "Is it too late?" There was no one on the street, and it was quite quiet. β
Bo Zhaoxu pressed her against the corner of the carriage with one hand, playfully lifted her chin, and had to look directly at him.
"My king's good son, do you know what time it is now? At this time of year, there will be no one on the street, except for those who are hurrying, but they are also thieves. β
"I, I'm not thinking about working a little busier, so that I can solve problems for the prince, and solve these troubles a day earlier, so that I can go home earlier." Xiang Yeqi coquettishly put his hands on Bo Zhaoxu's neck, "The prince shouldn't be angry with me because of this kind of thing, right?" β
β¦β¦
What a woman who embarrasses a straight man of steel, foul, completely foul.
Bo Zhaoxu answered: "You are the biggest trouble for this king, if it weren't for taking care of you, those people wouldn't even be able to see the face of this king." β
Xiang Yeqi believed this, and she could detect that Bo Zhaoxu's gaze was always on her side.
Xiang Yeqi coughed twice at the bottom of the "solemn", took out a hairband with poor workmanship and clumsy stitches from the small embroidery bag on his waist, and patted it into Bo Zhaoxu's arms unceremoniously, muttering: "Take it, just buy it for you!" I've made you unhappy today, count me as pleasing you. β
How arrogant she was at first glance, how weak she was at this time, after slapping the hairband into Bo Zhaoxu's arms, Xiang Yeqi couldn't wait to shrink into a ball and hide.
Bo Zhaoxu looked at the ink-colored headband in his hand, and was a little overwhelmed. It's hard to imagine that as a man who is often regarded as the object of affection, this is the first gift from a woman that he Bo Zhaoxu received.
He is very similar to Xiang Yeqi in that these two people especially like to use their mouths to pretend to be calm with each other, Bo Zhaoxu smiled seemingly indifferently: "Which embroiderer's embroidery skills are so clumsy, take this kind of hairband out to sell, I'm afraid that you will be troubled day and night because you can't eatβwhat does Yan'er think?" β
Xiang Yeqi scolded Bo Zhaoxu in his heart for being an "illiterate man", and even wanted to copy out more than a dozen headbands to draw Bo Zhaoxu's face.
"Then the prince still pays me back, it's good that I keep my wrists tied by myself, and it looks good."
She angrily grabbed the side of the headband, wanting to take it back from Bo Zhaoxu's hands, but found that Bo Zhaoxu, the man, was "disgusted" on the side, and the hand holding the headband refused to let go at all.
Bo Zhaoxu pecked twice at the corner of her lips, as if he was not the one who "disliked" the work of the hairband just now.
The hairband seems to be inconspicuous, but in China and the Western Xia Kingdom have similar intentions, in the Western Xia Kingdom, it is often used as one of the choices of young couples as a love object, in the Chinese Kingdom, the hairband is given to the man, it means to stay with him with his white head, which also corresponds to the meaning of the white head from the dawn of the sky to the twilight of the snow.
"Even if you are a woman with a heart, and you know that you come to make this king happy, this thing is enough to give this king alone. If you give it to another man, I will take it out of their hand, and if you give one, the king will take one. β
Bo Zhaoxu encroached on a wisp of sweetness at the corner of her mouth, and she could see that Bo Zhaoxu's mood was half better, but she always felt that this kind of Bo Zhaoxu seemed to be hundreds of times more dangerous.
"Bo Zhaoxu, don't mess around......"
With a snort, she was about to push away the man who was competing with her for the air on her lips, when she realized that her wrist was tied behind her with a hairband embroidered by herself.
This brazen man even tied a flower-shaped knot with great interest, and Xiang Yeqi didn't even know when he made a move!
It turns out that his little martial arts foundation is used to teach himself a lesson.
Bo Zhaoxu pretended to be stupid: "It's not that Yan'er himself said that he wanted to keep his wrists tied, why did he get into trouble with this king again now?" β
It was night, and it happened to be Nan Chen's turn to be on duty.
He was supposed to keep vigil for a group of people on the terrace on the second floor of the inn, but when he went up to the second floor, there was already a second person standing on the terrace, and when he looked at it, it was Bo Zhaoxu.
"Lord Wang."
Nan Chen bowed his hand to greet people, but Bo Zhaoxu didn't know what to think and was so engrossed that he didn't give any response. He took three or two steps closer before he saw that Bo Zhaoxu's face was flushed with a disobedient crimson.
It's terrifying.
Bo Zhaoxu still held the hairband he had given to Yeqi in his hand, and he had left all his attention on it.
"It's so late, isn't the prince going to rest? I don't know what to do tomorrow. Nan Chen had a conversation with Bo Zhaoxu, "This hairband given to you by the princess is indeed quite chic." β
If it weren't for the master and servant filter, Nan Chen might not be able to say such a disobedient word, if he lacked this intention, this hairband really wouldn't be very good-looking, and the crappy one was as clumsy as a child, but it was this unique mind that was better than thousands.
"Really? You're kind of discerning. Bo Zhaoxu chuckled, full of "pride" in Xiang Yeqi's craftsmanship, "What do you think of this thing, it is suitable for this king?" It's rare for her to have this kind of mind, and when she gets into it, it's really harder than climbing to the sky......"
As if feeling that this remark was a little inconsistent with his usual style, Bo Zhaoxu changed the topic again: "Why, you are the only one on an errand tonight?" Where did the others go? β
Nan Chen was a little embarrassed, and smiled restrainedly: "The subordinates have been doing things with the prince for the longest time, and some things are much more skilled than them, but they are just keeping vigils, and they just leave one person behind." β
Listening to what he said, this meant that there was another hidden secret, but out of friendship, Nan Chen was unwilling to reveal their secret. Bo Zhaoxu didn't say anything, but said: "If someone neglects his duties, you can dispose of it at your own discretion, and this right has been handed over to you by this king." β
"My subordinates understand."
Nan Chen nodded obediently.
"Anything else tonight?"
Bo Zhaoxu said coldly, and inevitably asked Nan Chen a little sluggishly: "Back to the prince, my subordinates only have this errand to keep vigil tonight." β
But seeing Bo Zhaoxu's smile getting deeper, there was a posture of wanting to pull him on some thief ship together, Bo Zhaoxu patted him on the shoulder when he left, and said calmly: "You go out with this king to do some things, and leave it to others to guard this night, this king is waiting for you outside the inn, go back quickly." β
Seeing that the situation was so grim, Nan Chen responded in a panic.
And several "lucky" guards who were sleeping soundly were tragically removed from the door by Nan Chen, who grabbed the three of them from the couch like the legendary tiger aunt who eats children, and the faces of those who couldn't see clearly in the moonlight on their backs looked like evil ghosts who had just escaped, and two of them couldn't open their eyes no matter how sleepy they were, and they were so frightened by the scene in front of them that they couldn't wake up anymore.
As for the other one, he was so frightened that he fainted back on the couch.
"The South Guard?"
The Huaguo guards saw the person who came clearly, and breathed a sigh of relief as if they were the rest of their lives after the catastrophe: "You don't keep vigil outside the inn in the middle of the night, and you don't rest in the room, what's the matter?" It's like, if there's something going on, why don't you come in with a lantern, we think we've seen something we shouldn't see......"
Nan Chen was silent for a long time, threw the unlit lantern and the bamboo pole on the bed of the three of them, and said indifferently: "Last night, you and Zhou Ci and Zhou Fang brothers should be on duty at night, you are not there, I remember." β
He looked at the other two, "You should be with me tonight, but the prince has other arrangements, and I will go out with the prince to run errands." β
The short-haired guard came to his senses, kicked off the mattress, and slipped behind Nan Chen flatteringly to massage his shoulders: "Nan Guard, what are you doing with the prince?" Why don't you bring me one more? It's not that I'm deliberately lazy, it's really that the errand of the vigil is too boring, and there used to be some errands to protect the prince in close quarters, but now, now it's almost an errand! β
Although the other two did not dare to express themselves as bluntly as he did, they also nodded in agreement.
"Want to go?" Nan Chen opened his hand, "Go and talk to the prince yourself." β
The short-haired guard withdrew his hand aggrievedly, and muttered in a low voice: "But it's really not interesting to guard in this inn, if you really want to protect the safety of the inn, there is also the manpower borrowed by the little marquis, we are guarding here, isn't it ......"
Seeing that he wanted to speak and stopped, Nan Chen couldn't help but feel funny: "What is it?" β
The short-haired guard knew that he had mentioned something that should not have been mentioned, and quickly changed his words: "It's nothing! These are the duties of their subordinates, as they should be, as they should be. β
After Nan Chen left, the other two guards who had not caught up with the night on duty trotted all the way to his side, and the other party was curious about the topic that neither of them mentioned: "You didn't stay overnight in China before, why are you so reacting now?" Could it be that there is anything scary about this errand? β
"Scary place? And much more! The short-haired guard snorted coldly, "There is actually only one who is going to the vigil, and as for the other two, they are specially guarding your princess's room!" Not to mention any characters who shouldn't go in, even a mosquito can't be mixed in. β
The safest place in this inn is the room of the Night, even if it is a flying insect that only wants to bite people, it can't escape the eyes of the guards outside the door.
But how boring this errand guarding outside the door is depends on how many insect wings they pull off that night to relieve boredom.
β¦β¦
When Nan Chen walked out of the inn, Bo Zhaoxu was already waiting outside the inn, and he took the initiative to take the reins: "If it is too late to rush back before dawn, the princess is afraid that she will have to think more." β
"It'll be too late to get back before dark tomorrow night."
Bo Zhaoxu turned over and got on the horse neatly, which made Nan Chen feel that the situation was urgent, and couldn't help asking: "What is the arrangement of the prince?" Why don't you let your subordinates go alone? β
Nan Chen has always had only two criteria for the tasks assigned by Bo Zhaoxu, one is that he can do it well, and the other is to go with Bo Zhaoxu, but in the latter standard, Bo Zhaoxu often has to bring a lot of manpower, and it is impossible to be just the two of them.