Chapter XXXVIII
Xiao Siyu glanced sideways at Jiang Xi, and saw that her face was ashamed, and if her eyes seemed to follow Meng Sihong, she probably understood everything in her heart.
This sachet, he has been waiting, waiting for her to finish embroidering it and give it to him. Unexpectedly, the token had already been completed, but it was not given to him.
It turned out that it was himself, and he was amorous.
"Huh."
He thought of what Jiang Xi had done and said before, and he couldn't help but feel that he was ridiculous to the extreme, so he really laughed. The people in the warm pavilion looked at him inexplicably, and when Concubine Duan heard it, she asked suspiciously, "What is the prince laughing at?" ”
Xiao Siyu looked at the sachet, her thin lips raised shallowly, and her words were full of contempt: "Master Meng's sachet is really chic." ”
"Thank you for the prince's appreciation, it is the embroiderer who has a seven-trick exquisite / long heart."
Meng Sihong's face showed joy, like a young lover immersed in the spring breeze, and Jiang Xi hung his head and bit his lip, looking like a little woman with spring, Xiao Siyu felt dazzling, and he couldn't wait to treat them as chess pieces in his hand, and his bones were crushed and turned into powder.
"The prince is a son."
Concubine Duan saw that he was hesitant and reminded him softly.
Xiao Siyu came back to her senses, flicked her sleeves and landed the fingertip black chess in the flat three six directions, there was no previous lazy state, and she pressed Baizi step by step. However, after half a cup of tea, Baizi had no way to retreat, and he threw himself into the net.
Xiao Siyu smiled: "I admit it." ”
"It's been a long time since I've met an opponent like the Prince, and today is especially enjoyable. His Majesty's words are true, although the prince is lazy, but if he encounters something to be done seriously, no one will stop him. "Concubine Duan is a little arrogant in terms of chess skills, and she will not even give in to the emperor. Today is a fierce opponent, although I am disappointed that my chess skills are not perfect, but I am happy to meet an opponent who can match enough.
"There are still important matters to be dealt with in the East Palace, so I won't disturb the reunion between Niangniang and her brothers, and I will leave first."
Xiao Siyu didn't pay much attention to this, although she smiled, her face was always blue. After speaking, he poured the chess pieces in his hand into the chess box, and without waiting for the concubine to send him off, he had already brushed his robe and got up.
It was still snowing outside, and he didn't care, he just strode forward without looking back. Jiang Xi opened the oil-paper umbrella while chasing, but he always opened up with her, even if she barely caught up, he didn't want her to follow him. So much so that when he got into the carriage, Xiao Siyu's shoulders were already covered with snow.
"Your Highness......"
As soon as Jiang Xi's hand handed over the handkerchief was stretched out, he waved it away in disgust, and as soon as the curtain closed, he heard him whisper full of anger: "Go back to the East Palace!" ”
She didn't understand where she had provoked him, obviously the hand stove in her palm was still hot, but Xiao Siyu had become cold. Inevitably he was in an unhappy mood all the time, and Jiang Xi was slapping and laughing on the side of the carriage on the way back to the East Palace. In other words, he would always laugh in the past, and no matter how bad he was, he would tease her a few words, which is like today, only coldly: "If you don't know how to shut up, I cut your tongue!" ”
Hearing this, she didn't dare to open her mouth again and was silent.
As the car drove through the street, a little unkempt beggar suddenly pounced, but fortunately, the deaf pigeon sitting beside the groom stopped the reins in time to save the little beggar from the horse's hooves.
The horseman, who was still shocked, immediately reprimanded angrily: "Bold, I don't know whose car this is, don't get out of here!" ”
The little beggar seemed to have made up his mind not to leave, the torn jacket full of patches could no longer be discerned from the original color, and the hands under the sleeves were black and thin, holding a bamboo stick/child and constantly tapping the ground and begging: "Please do well, uncle, reward some silver, I haven't eaten for three days." ”
"Stinky food, don't blame me for being unkind!"
The groom stared at him and bared his teeth, looking like a dog fighting a man, and the little beggar was not frightened, he kept kneeling and kowtowing, and his mouth could not stop chattering.
Jiang Xi looked at this scene and remembered the scene when he fled from his hometown with his younger brother, and he had been like this, and he was chased and beaten for two streets for a steamed bun.
If they can live, who would be willing to risk their lives to stop these official carriages. She saw the groom roll up his sleeves and was about to beat the little beggar, so she hurriedly walked up to stop him, "He is still young, and he will stop the carriage when he thinks he is desperate." ”
After that, he touched a few pieces of broken silver from his bosom to help the little beggar, but before he could get close to him, a whip fell in the air and was directly drawn on her wrist. The spicy pain made Jiang Xi suddenly let go, and the broken silver fell to the ground, and a red blood mark immediately appeared on the thin white wrist.
She covered her wrist in pain and turned back, and was shocked to find Xiao Siyu standing outside the carriage, holding the horsewhip with a cold face, "Who wants you to make your own decisions, get back." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the little beggar crawled over to pick up the few pieces of broken silver, which made Xiao Siyu more and more dissatisfied, and raised his hand to whip the little beggar on the back. The little beggar screamed in pain, but he always held on to the ingots of silver, and endured his repeated whippings.
"Your Highness!"
Jiang Xi ran up and grabbed Xiao Siyu's whip-wielding hand and pleaded for the little beggar: "If it weren't for the desperate, starving and freezing cold, I believe he would never stop the carriage to offend His Highness." For the sake of his young age, can you spare him? ”
Xiao Siyu glanced at her coldly, pushed her away, and then threw her over with another whip. The crowd gathered around, but no one dared to come up to the rescue of the poor little beggar. Seeing that the little beggar couldn't get up after being whipped, Jiang Xi gritted his teeth and pounced on him to protect him, and was hit on his back with a whip.
"Your Highness, Your Majesty."
The deaf pigeon's steps moved slightly, and he reminded in a dumb voice, but Xiao Siyu ignored it, squinted his eyes, and continued to whip it on the two people. She was so stubborn that she refused to let go of this little beggar of unknown origin until her clothes were torn and blood was dripping.
When the two of them hugged each other and didn't move anymore, he finally stopped swinging his whip.
Xiao Siyu clenched the hand of the horsewhip, his knuckles were white and trembling, as if he had exhausted all his strength, he dropped the horsewhip and turned around and said, "If you don't get out, run over." ”
"Jiang Xi, go away."
The horseman hurriedly ran up to persuade Jiang Xi and the little beggar to retreat to the side of the street, and then returned to drive the carriage and continued to move forward. Jiang Xi hunched his back in pain and hugged the little beggar who was trembling in his arms, and watched the carriage drive away without a trace. Only then did the surrounding people dare to think of the discussions, most of them said that the prince was really as rumored, careless of human life, and regarded the mud on the soles of people's shoes.
He also said that if he becomes an emperor in the future, the bitter days of the people will come.
Not only did the little beggar suffer, Xiao Siyu returned to the East Palace, and was bumped into by a maidservant as soon as she entered the door. Recently, because of Jiang Xi, the atmosphere in the mansion is no longer as tense and terrifying as before, and Xiao Siyu is also more amiable than before, so that this maid still smiles when she kneels down and begs for mercy.
"Am I ridiculous?"
Xiao Siyu asked in a cold voice, and the maid heard that something was wrong, so she quickly restrained the smile on her lips, and knelt on the ground and said, "No, the slave is offended, Your Highness forgives you." ”
When she kowtowed and begged for mercy, the embroidery hidden in her clothes fell out, and it was an unfinished purse with a mandarin duck playing in the water. Xiao Siyu stared at it for a while, took a deep breath and closed her eyes: "Drag it down and kill it." ”
"Your Highness spares your life! The minions don't dare, Your Highness!! ”
The maidservant turned pale with fright, and was so frightened that she climbed up and grabbed his leg and kowtowed and begged for mercy, but she was still dragged out of the courtyard by the eunuch. When the other maidservants and eunuchs saw this picture, they all crawled on the ground like frightened birds, not daring to breathe. The gloomy and terrifying aura of the East Palace has returned.
"Thank you, sister."
The little beggar who was carried into the hospital by Jiang Xi climbed down the shop gratefully and bowed to her after taking the medicine. Jiang Xi was afraid that he would tear the wound on his body, so he hurriedly helped him up and said, "No thanks, remember not to get water on the wound these days, and remember to apply this medicine on time." ”
The little beggar opened his big eyes and asked, "My sister and I don't know each other, why do you want to save me?" In order to save me, my sister was injured. ”
Listening to his sister one by one, he is like Jiang Chao.
Jiang Xi's heart softened even more, and he touched the top of his head with a smile and said, "Because of all this you have experienced, I have also experienced it." I just heard you say that there is a little sister who needs to be taken care of, so remember not to stop the carriage on the street no matter how hard and hungry you are in the future. Although there are many good people among the officials, there are more things like today, and you have to live well for the sake of your little sister. ”
"Well, I remember." The little beggar's dark eyes were filled with tears, and he nodded solemnly in agreement. Jiang Xi took pity on him for suffering, and gave him some silver, and then staggered away holding his injured arm. The little beggar squeezed the medicine bottle and silver in his palm and chased it out, stood on the bustling street and watched her gradually walk away, choking and crying: "If there is a fate, I will repay my sister." ”
When Jiang Xi endured the pain and returned to the East Palace, he was losing his temper in the main hall. The sound of broken porcelain was heard from time to time in the open temple door, and a group of subordinates knelt outside the temple door, trembling and not daring to raise their heads. There was still a scarlet blood channel that snaked up the steps into the courtyard, as if a person had been dragged along. Seeing that she was still walking forward without knowing whether she was alive or dead, Yueci hurriedly jumped out of the shadow of the tree to pull her away, and asked nervously, "Sister, where did you get this injury?" What happened? ”
"I'm fine, what's going on on the ground?"
She pointed to the blood marks on the ground, thinking of Xiao Siyu's abnormality today, and a premonition of not wanting to arise spontaneously. Sure enough, Yueci said: "It's Sister Min Le, I offended His Highness when I came back, and I don't know what happened to His Highness today. ”
Jiang Xi thought, this is Xiao Siyu when she first came to the East Palace, poor Yue Ci only entered the East Palace later, and she didn't know how terrifying it was before.
But she couldn't understand why she was so upright before entering the palace, why she suddenly burst into a rage. She was thinking about it, when she suddenly heard Xiao Siyu shouting angrily from the hall: "Someone! ”
The maid eunuch lay on the ground and looked at each other, no one dared to go in, the aunt in charge looked around at this time, and finally found the person she was looking for, and hurriedly ran over and dragged her to the door of the dormitory regardless of the scars on Jiang Xi's body. She dragged the door frame and refused to go in, half an hour ago, she was almost beaten to death by Xiao Siyu on the street!
"Go quickly, auntie beg."
The aunt in charge said all the good things, kicked her leg and kicked her back hard, Jiang Xi immediately fell forward, fell and injured more and more, and grinned hoarsely in pain.