Chapter XXVIII: The Princess's Banquet 4
Jiang Qiushui noticed that the moment Qi Jin appeared, He Xi's eyes lit up, and a heartfelt smile instantly appeared on his face, and he stood up and said crisply: "Brother Jin, why are you here?" β
Qi Jin smiled lightly: "I set off according to the hour, but I suddenly remembered something on the way, so I turned back and got something." β
"What's that?"
"When I came to the princess's mansion as a guest, I should give a gift, I had already prepared it, but I forgot to bring it before leaving, and it took me some time to go back and get it, the princess forgive me."
He Xi's smile was even brighter, "I thought Brother Jin wasn't going to come today, it turned out that Brother Jin knew that Xi'er was going to celebrate a birthday in advance today, so he went to get a gift, but Xi'er didn't tell Brother Jin." Sure enough, Brother Mo Jin, who knows Xi'er, is also very happy. β
Pei Yue, who had been ignored on the side, sneered unceremoniously when he heard this: "Hexi, your skin is really getting thicker and thicker, how can anyone have two birthdays?" Ah Jin said that he was just politely giving a small gift, and you still have to get sucked. β
He Xi glanced at him, and then looked at Qi Jin, as if he hadn't heard anything just now. Apparently in order to maintain the image, he suppressed his anger.
However, Pei Yue, who dared to let Hexi not come to the stage in person, was the first.
Qi Jin and Pei Yue really sat in the two empty seats in front of them.
What they said, Jiang Yushui remembered it.
In his previous life, He Xi seemed to like Qi Jin, and he had been chasing him relentlessly, and the interesting thing is that her imperial sister Princess Ruixi also liked Qi Jin, and the two sisters fought openly and secretly for this proton from another country, which became a topic of conversation after dinner at that time, and even the storyteller in the teahouse liked to talk about the struggle between the two princesses from time to time.
But in the end, these two people didn't succeed, and as soon as the ten-year period arrived, Qi Jin got up and returned to China.
Speaking of the ten-year period, Jiang Yushui only learned about such a period of the past after becoming the queen.
In that year, Nan Se united with the Western Barbarians to attack Bei Cang, and after winning the battle, Emperor Nan Feng was a little carried away, and in the face of Bei Cang's surrender, he actually proposed to let Bei Cang send their prince to Nan Se as a proton for ten years.
This is a great shame of the country, Emperor Nanfeng just wanted to take the opportunity to humiliate Beicang, and expected that Beicang would not agree, so that he had a logical excuse not to accept Beicang's peace, and raised troops to invade the territory of Beicang, who knew that Emperor Beicang was a greedy and afraid of death, and happened to encounter the death of the prince of Beicang, and immediately Feng Qijin sent Nanse to the prince, and Xiban took the opportunity to open his mouth and asked for fifteen cities on the border between Nanse and Ximan, otherwise he would no longer help.
Of course, Emperor Nanfeng can't agree, but if he forcibly attacks Beicang with Nanse's strength alone, Beicang, who has no way out, will inevitably fight with Nanse, and Ximan just takes advantage of the fisherman, which is not what Emperor Nanfeng wants to see. There is no way to advance or retreat at this time, and Emperor Nanfeng can only suffer a dumb loss.
He Xi clapped his hands, and the singer and dancer, who had already been ready, stepped forward to perform in an orderly manner, and He Xi's pair of eyes couldn't wait to stick to Qi Jin's body, and kept talking to him, with a shy smile unique to a young girl in Huaichun, Ruan Yuan turned his head and shook his shoulders at Jiang Yushui, and said with a strange face: "I have never seen He Xi look like this." β
After saying that, he thought about it for a while, and nodded thoughtfully: "But this Qi Gongzi is indeed shocking, and it is not strange that He Xi is like this." β
He sat beside the Seventh Prince, and the gaze that originally fell on Xia Hao instantly turned to Qi Jin's body.
"I've heard that he came to Nansor seven years ago, but this is the first time I've seen him in person."
"You say, is every Beicang person as handsome as him?"
Jiang Yushui shook his head slowly.
The bird that has gone to another country is about to return, and he came silently, and he left without nostalgia.
Although this person is always smiling, is he really happy inside?
Although he is free to move in Nanser, there is an invisible shackle that imprisons him after all.
Her gaze involuntarily fell on Qi Jin's body, but she didn't expect to face the person next to him, the person looked at her and didn't look away, he didn't look away like Qi Jin nodded and smiled at her lightly, and he didn't look away like Chu Ke, when he looked at you, it would make you have a kind of illusion that he was the only one in his eyes, and he couldn't accommodate anything else, and couldn't help but explore the deep meaning of his eyes.
She loved him the most, in the lively banquet, they were far away, as if there was only each other in their eyes, and the tacit understanding seemed that the two of them were a natural pair, making her sure countless times that he was her destined lover.
But now they were just strangers in their lives, and he looked at her like this.
His eyes were focused and not frivolous, not to say that he was profligate, but this situation overlapped with the scenes of her previous life, reminding her again and again that she was once a blind fool.
Jiang Yushui sneered in his heart, raised his eyebrows and smiled at him, as expected, he was stunned for a moment, confirming the guess in his heart.
His mind was twisted and his heart was twisted, and he didn't pay attention to someone's approach for a while, and suddenly felt a chill on his body, and Ruan Yuan's voice next to him seemed to explode in his ears, "What are you doing?!" β
The maidservants who had done the wrong thing trembled with fright, and knelt at their feet and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.
"Spare your life, princess, the slave is unintentional! The slave didn't mean it! Spare the slave and maid! β
Jiang Qiushui retracted her thoughts, she silently looked down at the clothes on her body, she was already wearing a little lighter in the summer heat, and now she was all wet with herbal tea, and there were a few pieces of tea sticking to the fabric, and the clothes were all attached to her skin, outlining the subtle curves, and she didn't need to look up to feel how hot the sight on her was on her.
How shaky does this hand have to be to miss like this? This pot of tea was spilled on her, and she could still open her eyes and say that she was unintentional?
If it weren't out of place, Jiang Yushui would have laughed out loud.
She lowered her head and kept silent, and the maidservant who made the mistake was still kowtowing, and everyone could not see the expression on her face, thinking that she was too ashamed to look up at people.
The herbal tea was sprinkled on the body and blown by the breeze, and it was suddenly cold.
There was a sudden heat on her body, and someone had put a robe over her body.
Oh, I'm waiting for you.
After seeing the stains on her body, she guessed what Hexi's Hongmen banquet was having, not to mention how ridiculous it was to celebrate her birthday in advance, and now the old-fashioned method of directly splashing water is too naΓ―ve.
She raised her head with a cold face, ready to meet Xia Hao's hypocritical and concerned face, but her mind went blank for a second after seeing who that person was.
How could it be Qi Jin?