"Ma'am, the matter is done, are you there?"

In a large mansion in the inner city, the maid who went out to run errands slipped in through the back door and walked all the way to the meditation room in the backyard.

Every day at this time, the lady will chant and meditate in the meditation room to pray for the blessing of the master.

But the strange thing is that it was quiet in the meditation room today, and I didn't see my wife's personal maid guarding the door, nor did I smell the curling cigarettes wafting out of the meditation room, and there was not even the sound of chanting.

"Madame, ma'am?"

The maid asked tentatively twice, and gently pushed the door open.

The meditation room was quiet, and a pink skirt was blown down by the breeze and landed right on the maid's head.

The maid looked up and saw two corpses with big eyes and scarlet tongues hanging on the beams, swaying back and forth with the breeze, it was the lady and her personal maid.

"Ahh Madam!! Oh no, sir! ”

The maid was terrified, and while exclaiming, she rushed out of the meditation room and ran to the main hall where the master was in a panic.

However, when she pushed open the door of the main hall, her pupils suddenly shrank, and her face turned pale in an instant.

"Ahh

A scream of terror shattered the silence completely.

In front of Liu's mansion, Cao Wanxi, as usual, walked towards the gatehouse with a small food box.

In order to let Mrs. Liu and Xu Rui taste the sweetest taste, she specially went to the village outside the city yesterday to buy the freshest honey.

Before dawn today, she got up early, lit a fire and noodles, just to send this box of handmade osmanthus cakes before breakfast in Liu's house.

"Isn't this what a daughter-in-law should do?"

Thinking of her uncle's joke, Cao Wanxi blushed a little, and her steps were faster.

She delayed for a while when she went out, and now it was a little late, usually at this time, Liu Fu was already about to start breakfast, and she told herself that she had to hurry up.

Cao Wanxi had just walked to the gate of Liu's mansion, and the closed door suddenly opened with a "creak", she was afraid that the door would touch the food box, so she quickly subconsciously hid to the side, but the next scene made her fall into an ice cave.

A pair of beautiful people walked out of the gate, the man was tall and handsome, full of vitality, it was Xu Rui, the woman was smart and beautiful, with spring in her eyebrows, she was Princess Qixia.

Accompanied by a team of guards, the two rode two fast horses with a smile and walked side by side towards the street, as if the sun and the moon were shining, complementing each other, and they didn't even notice Cao Wanxi standing behind the door.

Cao Wanxi naturally knows Princess Qixia, this proud girl of heaven who is held in the palm of the emperor's hand is not only beautiful and generous, with outstanding temperament, but also a collection of thousands of favors, I heard that her poems are even more embarrassing to countless talents.

The world is always so unfair, some people do their best and can't ask for it, while others are naturally noble and take it for granted.

It seems that everything that the girls are longing for revolves around her tightly, maybe only a woman like her standing next to Xu Rui will not be overshadowed, right?

Cao Wanxi smiled bitterly in her heart, compared with Princess Qixia, the last trace of confidence in her heart disappeared in an instant.

"It's a strange rock in the mountains, not a pearl and jade, why am I suffering?"

Cao Wanxi sighed, looked at the food box in her hand, and her face became a little sad.

She silently put the food box behind the door, took one last look at the door of Liu's mansion, and quietly walked back.

The same blue sky, completely different moods.

Xu Rui and Princess Qixia traveled hand in hand in the name of apology, which was originally just an ordinary thing, but in the hearts of the two unusual young people, they each had extraordinary significance.

"Over there is the Flying Dragon Cliff, where Taizu raised troops hundreds of years ago and laid the foundation of my Great Wei."

Princess Qixia jumped immediately and pointed to a majestic cliff outside the city to introduce Xu Rui.

When she spoke, she only felt that half of Xu Rui's body was crispy and numb, and her heart was like a deer colliding with each other, but there was a sweet feeling that filled her whole body, and she was indescribably happy.

Xu Rui listened to Princess Qixia's introduction all the way like a few family treasures, and unexpectedly found that she had quite an insight into military, history and national policies, and was not at all half a point worse than Hanlin, a student with the title of the gold list.

Especially when talking about the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Princess Qixia said unabashedly: "The Southern Dynasty has an unborn King Wuling who has been in charge for 13 years, and the galloping weather is better than that of the Northern Dynasty.

However, compared with the Great Wei, after all, the Southern Dynasty was small and weak, and it was not durable to fight, so if it maintained a high-pressure situation, it was slowly trying to do it, and then calmed it down with a thunderous force when it was exhausted and the country was poor and the people were lacking, so that it could be done once and for all. ”

Although this insight is not in-depth, it is the same as Xu Rui's judgment of the Southern Dynasty, and the patience and courage in it make Xu Rui even more awe-inspiring, and he even feels that this princess who grew up in the deep palace since childhood is more far-sighted than the princes of King Su and King Yu.

For a moment, Xu Rui couldn't help but look at this girl with admiration, and then became a confidant, and finally had an inexplicable sense of joy.

The two chatted about the past and the present all the way, from the founding of the Han Dynasty to the trivial matters on the streets of Changxing, regardless of the size of the elegant and vulgar, with their own opinions, occasionally disagreements, arguing a few words, but they can also get some inspiration from the other party's point of view.

When the two of them came to the destination of this trip, the bank of the stream and lake, it was like mountains and flowing water, reflecting each other.

However, the most annoying thing always happens at the most beautiful moment, just when the two of them talk about the wonders, a team of people suddenly came in the distance, the leader of the person is dressed in brocade and jade, with an elegant temperament, quite Pan An, Song Yu's style, it is Qin Changmin, the secretary of the Guozijian Division.

"The princess refused the poetry meeting today, it turned out that she was going out with friends, and she was really idle."

When Qin Changmin saw the two of them, he immediately grabbed the reins of the horse and smiled at Princess Qixia.

Princess Qixia sat on her horse and bowed generously to him.

"The palace is depressed today, so I asked my friends to go out for a walk, and I was tired of Lord Qin."

"Where is it, Chang Min happened to be bored with poetry today, so he went out to find Shixing, I didn't expect to meet the princess by chance, the so-called invitation is better than a chance encounter, how about Chang Min accompany the princess to swim in the lake?"

Qin Changmin proposed with a smile, as if he was really interested after a chance encounter.

Princess Qixia said with a smile: "This palace is just walking around at will, how dare you spoil Lord Qin's poetry?" Adults are also invited to take care of themselves, and Hongu is also just right to chat with friends about the landscape. ”

Seeing the princess's refusal, Qin Changmin's eyes fell on Xu Rui, and his heart was on fire, but he was still smiling on his face.

"I don't know what Your Highness's friend is called? Can you give me a ...... or two?"

Qin Changmin wanted to argue on the basis of reason, no matter how bad he was, he couldn't let the two of them continue to be like this, but before he finished speaking, Princess Qixia had already taken Xu Rui in another direction, and actually left him aside.

Xu Rui looked at Qin Changmin's angry appearance from afar, and he already knew three points in his heart, and turned his head to ask Princess Qixia: "This adult seems to be familiar with you, I don't know which talent it is?" ”

Princess Qixia glanced at him playfully and said with a smile: "I obviously feel that people are worthless, but I have to say that he is a talented man, are you men always so duplicitous?" ”

Xu Rui was poked by Princess Qixia, and couldn't help but blush, but he heard the princess continue: "He's just an irrelevant person, don't pay attention to it, he said that he would take off the clouds in the sky today, but he was not allowed to play tricks on the other side." ”

Xu Rui laughed: "A gentleman is hard to chase after a word, not to mention that it is just a trivial matter, can he still rely on the debt?" ”

As he spoke, Xu Rui grabbed the reins of the horse and beckoned to An Ge, who was following from afar, An Ge hurriedly jumped off the horse, took off a burden from the horse, and hurriedly ran over.

Princess Qixia saw that the burden was not small, and thought that there must be something in it, so she couldn't help but stare at it curiously.

Qin Changmin still didn't give up, he followed the two of them from a distance, and when he saw this scene, he was immediately puzzled, and asked his companion beside him: "Look, what is Xu Rui going to do?" ”

A companion quietly leaned close to his ear and whispered: "I heard the palace maid say that Xu Rui seems to have said that he would take off the clouds in the sky and give it to the princess, could it be ......?"

"What?"

Qin Changmin's eyes froze, and then he sneered: "The white clouds in the sky are given by the divine dragon, how can they be plucked?"

Xu Rui, this thief, is so bold that he dares to deceive the princess like this, you listen well, you will watch with your eyes wide open for a while, don't let him play any tricks, and when he shows his fox tail, we will go up and poke him, so that Her Royal Highness the princess can see his true face! ”

"Brother, don't worry, whatever we say today will make him lose face, and he will never have the face to see the princess from now on!"

A few companions swore and patted their chests.

Qin Changmin stared at Xu Rui's back from afar, sneering again and again.