Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Road to Rivalry is Narrow
The wind chimes hanging on the beam sounded crisply, and Ding Ruoyu was so shocked that he got up.
She slept in a simple and elegant bedroom with her clothes, and when she opened the hanging beads at the door, the figure of Tsing Yi was still lying in front of the desk, as if she had not slept all night.
She had just moved two steps before she got up, and she didn't look tired. He stepped forward and raised his hand to flick her long sideburns hair.
"I ......" Ding Ruoyu found that he came out with a cloak of hair.
"It's almost noon." Li Hong said, "You start training when you are young. ”
Ding Ruoyu stared at him blankly, coiled his hair on the top indiscriminately, and was about to rush out in a mess.
Lihong grabbed her wrist and laughed: "I asked for leave for you, saying that you spent the night with me." ”
Ding Ruoyu just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and his face immediately changed.
"What do you mean?" She's about to petrify.
"Facts." Li Hong said, "We are brother and sister to the outside world, and now I am afraid that the entire witch cult will know that I have you as a drag oil bottle." ”
Ding Ruoyu asked again: "What about the inside?" ”
The child was often clumsy and often caught off guard when she spoke, but Li Hong just sighed, removed her bun, and reproached softly: "You see you are so sloppy, how can you still look like a girl's family?" ”
Hearing him say this, she felt a warm feeling in her heart.
Lihong gave her a woman's head, changed into the clothes of a civilian woman, and wore an ordinary gown, leading her out of the dead camp through the remote back door, and got into a carriage to the most prosperous market in Fire City.
"It's the first time I've grown up to go to a market." Ding Ruoyu usually has a cold temperament, and his eyes are shining at the moment.
She walked everywhere to look around, like a country girl who had never seen the world, and walked to the stall to look at those delicate gadgets, but she didn't dare to touch them.
"Take whatever you like, I have silver." Li Hong said helplessly.
Ding Ruoyu looked back at him and shook his head.
The stall owner on the side was unhappy: "It's not that I said you, it's obviously a husband and wife, and you are still so careful!" ”
Every time he encounters this situation, Ding Ruoyu will act like a fool and can't say anything. Li Hong was too happy not to explain, so he randomly picked a small glass bottle with vanilla and stuffed it into Ding Ruoyu's hand, and gave the stall owner a piece of broken silver.
She has been lingering on these exquisitely crafted little things for a long time.
The two came to a small teahouse opened by Dongying people and ordered red bean balls and flower tea.
Seeing that Ding Ruoyu ate a whole plate of meatballs after a while, Li Hong took a bite of what he had in his hand, and directly asked the boss to serve another plate.
"You like sweets?" He laughed.
Ding Ruoyu stuffed his mouth, poured a cup of tea after a while, and said smoothly: "I don't particularly like it, I'm just hungry." ”
"If you want to go back to Ding's house, in addition to becoming stronger, you have to learn etiquette again." Li Hong said seriously, but his expression was extremely casual.
Ding Ruoyu glanced at him: "I will, but I don't think there's any need to be like that in front of you." ”
"Are you taking me as your own?" Li Hong's eyes were bent, and his smile was sweeter than red bean balls.
"It always has been." Ding Ruoyu didn't dare to look at him in a panic, lowered his head and said softly, taking a small bite of the pill. Her demeanor suddenly became sven, as if she had changed in an instant.
"There's a new troupe in Yingchun Building, do you want to listen to it?" Lihong asked her.
Ding Ruoyu nodded straight, and didn't care about eating.
On the way, he bumped into an uninvited guest.
On the chaotic roadside stalls, a large group of tall men in snow-white cloaks rushed up to surround the two of them in the middle, and made another opening, allowing a man in brocade to walk in unhurriedly.
Lihong took Ding Ruoyu by the hand, let her hide behind her, and rolled her eyes directly when she looked at the person who came with a smile.
"This is the country of Yan." His face also froze.
"Spread out, what are you doing?" The person who came reprimanded his subordinates, turned sideways and glanced at Ding Ruoyu and said strangely, "She is your concubine?" ”
"Yes." Lihong is cold and cold.
Ding Ruoyu was so shocked that he almost pinched his palms to bleed.
Seeing her mediocre appearance, the visitors didn't have much interest, and when they looked back, they were still smiling: "Are you going to see a play?" ”
"Walking around Yanguo Street so blatantly, Yan Ci gives you a lot of rights." Li Hong suddenly smiled.
"Together?" The person who came was Sui Han, the priest of the Snow Country, and he pointed to the Spring Festival Tower not far away, his green eyes were bright and clear, like a star lake with slight ripples.
"It doesn't matter." Lihong walked side by side with him, and the two strode forward, both of them were tall and handsome figures, attracting passers-by to stop and look back.
Ding Ruoyu was extremely embarrassed to follow behind, hanging her head and trotting all the way to catch up with them, like a little girl with no sense of existence.
The big drama is sung, and it is about a female general who served in the army for her father. Ding Ruoyu grabbed a handful of melon seeds and snorted cautiously beside him. The attention of Lihong and Sui Han next to him was not on the stage, and the two were talking softly, looking like friends who had a good relationship.
Ding Ruoyu listened to the conversation between the two with his ears pricked up throughout the whole process, which was nothing more than the customs and customs of the two places. As he spoke, Sui Han pointed at the stage with a folding fan and said in surprise: "Why did this Wudan suddenly change people?" ”
Li Hong also looked over, and at this moment, Wu Dan on the stage threw out a large handful of pear blossom needles and stabbed straight at him and Sui Han.
With a "whew", the folding fan in Sui Han's hand opened, he got up and shook it gently, and then swept off all the poisonous needles. Several of his men rushed up from outside the lobby, and they made a quick move, taking down the scene and escorting it in front of them.
The spectators in Yingchun Building screamed and fled in all directions, knocked over the table, and spilled tea on the ground.
"This is the Yan Country!" Sui Han exaggerated his words and ridiculed him, "There are also people in your country who are bold enough to want to assassinate you?" ”
"He's targeting the two of us." Li Hong picked up the teacup, and he didn't move at nothing when he threw the poison needle before, as if he had calculated that Sui Han was going to make a move.
"You're swaggering all the way, attracting assassins, and you want to push me on the head?" He glanced at the other.
"Young man, who gave you the bear-hearted leopard gall to eat?" Sui Han secretly calculated, did not reply to him, and instead moved the target of the conversation to Na Wudan.
"If you want to kill or chop, give your master a good time!" This Wu Dan knew that he couldn't go back, so he also launched a ruthless attack.
Sui Han looked at Lihong, and saw him take out a small bottle, pour out a pill, and instruct the Snow Country guards as if he were instructing his subordinates: "Give him a dose." ”
Na Wudan took the pill, and after a while, he rolled on the ground in pain, and his original fierce blood was swept away, and he couldn't stop begging for mercy.
Sui Han gave him a thumbs up in admiration.
The assassin was originally a dead soldier under the Prince of Snow Country, and he made a special trip to follow Sui Han, intending to let him die in the Yan Country. They originally dispatched five people, but this time when he saw that Sui Han was actually with the national teacher of the Yan Kingdom, he felt that this was a great opportunity to wipe out the two of them, and he carried out the assassination operation on his own initiative before notifying his companions.
"What about the others?" The thorn in his back was still uncomfortable, and the guards pressed for the whereabouts of the rest of the Assassins.
"I didn't expect you to be like this in Snow Country." After the interrogation, Li Hong couldn't help but sneer.
Sui Han smiled bitterly: "Accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, the matter of the three princes seizing the crown prince ......" He approached Lihong, and his voice was so small that only the two of them could hear it.
Ding Ruoyu watched the two of them go from the tension when they first met to such a happy conversation, I don't know what conspiracy they are thinking about at this moment.
In the end, the two of them finished whispering, and said "happy cooperation" with a smile to each other......
The eyes of the two were unfathomable, and Ding Ruoyu looked at it and trembled.
After that, the group went upstairs to the Accord to book a banquet, and Sui Han sent someone to call Xue Tong as well.
Seeing Ding Ruoyu sitting timidly next to Lihong, he was really startled.
"Little junior brother, let me introduce you, this little lady is the favorite concubine of the great master......" Sui Han smiled gently, as if he didn't know it.
Ding Ruoyu's face was so red that he couldn't speak, and he just wanted to find a hole to hide himself at the moment.
"Ouch!" Sure enough, Xue Tong's tone of voice changed, "This little lady, I'm glad to be happy!" ”
Li Hong stretched out his hand to cover his eyes in a miserable manner.
It was indeed he who was too lazy to explain at the time that caused the current situation.
But fortunately, Ding Ruoyu didn't talk much, and no one looked at the rules, just lowered her head to eat, and didn't let this topic stay on her for long.
Li Hong also picked up vegetables for her from time to time, and every time she clamped it, her head hung down an inch, and her face was almost on the plate.
"So, Your Excellency is the Third Prince of the Snow Country?" She heard Lihong asking Xue Tong.
"What are the three princes, who are the three princes?" Xue Tong pretended to be stupid.
"Okay, Your Highness, the Great Master already knows our plan." Sui Han knocked on his head with a chopstick mercilessly.
"Hehe, haha, hehe......" Xue Tong had to smirk.
When the wine was half-drunk, Sui Han said to them: "You two go back to the dead camp first, I still have something to say with the great master." ”
Ding Ruoyu was still carrying chopsticks, and was directly pulled out by Xue Tong.
"I thought you were just an ordinary subordinate, but I didn't expect it, I didn't expect ......" Sitting in the carriage, Xue Tong was still sighing, "So soon, what will you think when that Feiqiong of yours comes back?" ”
"Your senior brother misunderstood, I don't have that kind of relationship with the great master." Ding Ruoyu was finally expressionless again.
"What do they like about you?" Xue Tong couldn't help but get closer, staring at his big eyes and puzzled.
"I didn't like it." Not only did she keep her face strained, but her eyes also turned cold.
didn't get the answer he wanted, Xue Tong snorted coldly and dozed off against the wall of the car.
At the end of the day, they all returned to their lodgings. Looking at Ding Ruoyu, who was dressed as a young woman, her sleepless eyebrows were folded into mountains.
"It's all rumored in the witch cult," Youlan still sat among the girls, telling about the gossip she came from every day out of nowhere, "The great master really doesn't recognize the six relatives, and sent his sister to the death camp, I heard that I took it back yesterday......"
As soon as she turned her head, she saw Ding Ruoyu's "strange costume", and hurriedly shouted and pounced: "Qiao'er, you didn't return last night, you said you ...... Could it be you? ”