"Miss, someone is looking for you at the door." Someone reported from afar.

"Okay!"

Zhou Xia trotted all the way to the gate of the manor, but as soon as she saw who was at the door, she looked disappointed and stopped.

The woman at the door hurriedly said, "Xia Xia, you don't invite me in?" ”

Zhou Xia looked up at the sky with a boring expression, and didn't even bother to pay attention to her: "You must have persuaded me to participate in this meeting this time." Either it's just to train me for not wearing that unruly, it's boring......"

Tao Cui said helplessly: "I'm all for your good!" This time, Zhibei City is going to hold a flower viewing party again, and there will be a lot of young talents at the meeting, I heard that there will be people from the royal family coming? Aren't you going with me to get to know a few? ”

Zhou Xia rolled his eyes: "No, I'm going to perform better recently." Anywhere, no, go! ”

Tao Cui stomped his feet and said, "You! I mentioned you because of the relationship between the two of us since childhood, instead of having a disgraceful time in this Zhuangzi, you might as well go out with me and get to know more good men. Look at your grizzled face, you're climbing trees again, aren't you? I also lifted my skirt and tied it up at the waist, and my thighs were exposed! ”

This Tao Cui is the daughter of Zhou Xia's nursing mother, only two years older than Zhou Xia, and her family background is only a commoner, but because her parents are both servants in the Zhou family, she is very familiar with the main family, so Tao Cui also got some opportunities to contact the upper class.

She is actually not qualified to participate in this flower viewing party, but if Zhou Xia takes her there, she can do it, so she wants to persuade Zhou Xia to take her to the flower viewing party.

Tao Cui is not very pleasing to Zhou Xia, mainly because she usually talks about Zhou Xia as a sister seriously. This is also her way to maintain a good image in front of the main family, but unfortunately Zhou Xia herself doesn't buy it at all.

When I was a child, when I was a little older, Zhou Xia and Tao Cui were still good sisters who played together. But later, Zhou Xia had to go to class and learn a lot of things, so he didn't have much time to play with Tao Cui. And Tao Cui's family naturally wouldn't send Tao Cui to school, so they asked her to help with housework at home and learn some female popularity.

This makes the gap between the two wider.

Zhou Xia has a high level of qualifications and learns things very quickly. Every one of her teachers praised her for her quick thinking, her ability to touch the classroom, and her true genius.

And Zhou Xia also has a wide range of interests, and has followed many teachers, whether it is the orthodox knowledge in Ge's Academy, or the partial knowledge of various categories, she is interested.

But among them, Zhou Xia's favorite is martial arts, especially swordsmanship.

She had practiced some rough and shallow martial arts to strengthen her body, and then she quickly focused on swordsmanship. The swordsmanship of the human race was passed down by the great swordsman Kong Yu 30 years ago, and after years of inheritance and evolution, it can now be regarded as a small school.

Although the spread of swordsmanship is far less extensive than Lin Meng's Five Beast Play, its advantage lies in the use of metal weapons, so it is very lethal. But because of the use of metal weapons, ordinary people absolutely can't afford it, and generally only aristocratic families are qualified to learn.

Zhibei City is the royal capital of Zhuangguo, and Zhuangguo is the most powerful vassal state today, and there are quite a few swordsmanship masters in the city. Zhou Xiayang begged her father to invite the most famous swordsman to teach her.

When the swordsmanship teacher first came to Zhou's house, he thought it was an easy and boring errand, nothing more than charging a lot of money to teach the little girl to play with swords, which was really a waste of his talent.

As a result, when he really taught Zhou Xialai, he realized that this girl also had a superb talent in martial arts.

Zhou Xia studied with the swordsmanship teacher for three years, and after three years, her swordsmanship has been a little successful, fighting her peers is the same as chopping melons and vegetables, even if she uses swordsmanship with adults, she often draws.

You must know that Zhou Xia, as a woman, originally had less strength than men, not to mention that she was only 16 years old.

The swordsmanship teacher praised Zhou Xia, saying that she was a rare swordsmanship genius in a century.

However, Zhou Xia is not famous for her intelligence and swordsmanship, and her reputation on the other side far overshadows her other advantages, that is, her appearance.

Zhou Xia's appearance is very beautiful, when she was a child, her father's colleagues occasionally saw her at home, and they were all surprised and praised for her cuteness. When she was thirteen or fourteen years old, and she had not yet fully grown, the beautiful reputation of the daughter of the Zhou family spread all over Zhibei City, and even other places in Zhuangguo had heard of it.

There are even so-called famous experts who say that when Zhou Xia grows up, she will definitely be a peerless beauty.

Since she has such an evaluation, even people from abroad will come to see her.

And those who have seen her are all convinced and praise her appearance.

But Zhou Xia didn't like such a reputation very much.

Zhou Xia's family background is superior since she was a child, and her talent is far beyond ordinary people, she is somewhat arrogant, and she doesn't look down on any of the suitors who come because of her fame and beauty, but thinks they are very annoying.

All she thinks about is how to do what she thinks is fun, not how to deal with all sorts of boring people.

Once, Zhou's mother complained that she practiced martial arts every day, and Zhou Xia said such things to her.

She said, "Mother, do you know why I want to learn swordsmanship? Because I want to be strong. ”

"I'm not free anywhere now, I need to be protected everywhere, and I'm worried about others every day. All of this is because I am weak, so I am affected everywhere. So, I want to be strong, stronger than everybody, so that I can be free and live the life I want to live. ”

Zhou's mother just smiled, thinking that it was just a child's innocent words.

But Zhou Xia is serious, when she learns other knowledge, her interest often wanders, because she is too easy to learn and succeed, which makes her interest constantly shift. But in sword practice, she is very able to endure hardships, even if it is a very basic sword swinging action, as long as the teacher asks her to do it a thousand times, she can really grit her teeth and do it a thousand times.

It is precisely because Zhou Xia has made more and more achievements in orthodox education, miscellaneous studies of three religions and nine streams, or swordsmanship, that the gap between her and Tao Cui is getting bigger and bigger.

Although Tao Cui is only two years older than her, Tao Cui usually talks about who is richer, which man is better and suitable for marriage, or who is virtuous and virtuous and pleasing to others. What's even worse is that Tao Cui always wants to take Zhou Xia to some places that she is not interested in.

After coming and going, Zhou Xia didn't want to be friends with Tao Cui.

If it weren't for the fact that she had known her since she was a child, and because she was the daughter of a nursing mother, Zhou Xia wouldn't have wanted to see her.

Tao Cui also knew in her heart that Zhou Xia didn't like her anymore, but for her, Zhou Xia was still very valuable.

For Tao Cui, Zhou Xia's peerless beauty and her disdain for rejecting all suitors are also her own steps into the body. As long as you find a way to rely on Zhou Xia, how can those men who come for Zhou Xia's beauty be able to give her a piece of the pie after failing.

Tao Cui has come to Zhou Xia with an old face many times, although Zhou Xia is young and doesn't like these things, but she has a smart mind, Tao Cui's twists and turns, Zhou Xia roughly guessed it.

This made her even more dismissive of Tao Cui, she is not a person who likes to be used, why should she be used?

Listening to Zhou Xia's disdainful words, Tao Cui said angrily: "Xia Xia, you are not too young, you are 16 years old, put aside ordinary people, you should get married, don't you find a good ...... early"

As a result, before she finished speaking, Zhou Xia had already run away.

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