Every year on the third day of March, Lin'an Street in the capital will be very lively.

A sedan chair, a carriage, and a load after load of gifts.

Groups of bureaucrats and beautiful women gathered together and walked into the courtyard with the golden plaque of the imperial gift-Fang Mansion.

Intricately carved rockeries separate the inside of the house from the outside.

Bypassing the barrier, along the path, laughing all the way to the Yuqiong Pavilion where the banquet was held.

This year's birthday of Fang Guoshi was organized by the two young ladies of the Fang family, and it was really not easy to let a woman who was about to marry and a little girl who had not yet been married organize a banquet, and it couldn't help but make people feel a few more installments.

Yuqiong Pavilion is a three-storey pavilion built by the lake, the east side of the lake is the cuiwei residence of the eldest lady Fang Zhiling, and the south side is the Rong Pavilion of the second lady Fang Qingxi, and the location is also an excellent place in the inner courtyard.

There were a few small boats in the middle of the lake, and they were the maids of the palace collecting dew.

On the boat, a girl of twelve or thirteen years old sang in a low voice:

"The delicate fish play in the blue lake,

The beautiful woman swims in the lake to take the dew.

Distant mountains and near shadows paint the wall,

The Yuqiong Pavilion is empty. ”

After singing a song, it attracted many curious eyes, and the people in the pavilion looked into the lake, and the people by the lake also looked at the lake.

The green clothes of the girl on the boat reflect the lotus leaves in the lake, and from a distance, there is a feeling of "people are like lotus leaves and leaves".

"Miss, look! So many people are looking to us! ”

"Don't talk, just pick the dew."

The girl lowered her head and continued to dew, not taking the eyes to heart at all, a woman's reserve is always there.

Such a sluggish performance is interesting in the eyes of the man in the pavilion.

"Lord Wang, this woman ......"

The attendant beside the man watched his master look into the lake, and he could feel the inquiring look in his master's eyes.

"Qin Xiao, what do you think of her?"

"This ......"

Qin Xiao didn't dare to say anything, he knew the prince's temper, this kind of thing was not sloppy.

"Say whatever you want, and spit it out."

"Back to the prince, my subordinates feel that they can't look at people too one-sidedly, and the prince can't judge anything just by looking at others."

Qin Xiao's words entered the heart of this prince, and he deserved to be a subordinate by his side for many years.

"Let's go, let's go to the lake."

The master gave an order, and Qin Xiao couldn't refute it, so he could only follow him downstairs, but he didn't think that the prince was interested in swimming in the lake.

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"Miss, why didn't you let me speak!"

The little girl's angry appearance made the girl laugh out loud.

"Wanxin, have you forgotten your sister's instructions?"

Wanxin lowered her head and stopped talking, she naturally remembered the eldest lady's instructions early this morning, so as not to let the second lady show her face, so as not to cause trouble.

"But, Miss, why can the eldest lady entertain guests in the pavilion, so we can only stay in the Rong Pavilion?"

Wanxin doesn't understand, the master only married one lady, gave birth to a boy and two girls, and his own young lady and eldest lady are both born of the same mother, how can there be such a big difference?

Could it be that it was really because Mrs. was difficult to produce a young lady that everyone couldn't tolerate her?

"Wanxin, you forgot, it is inconvenient for the woman who has not reached the end to see many people, this banquet is set in the inner courtyard, let's not cause trouble."

Fang Qingxi picked up the embroidery basket from the small machine and was about to finish the embroidery work left by the previous child, Wanxin looked at the young lady as if she had nothing to do with herself, and she was anxious for her.

She doesn't want the eldest lady to steal the limelight from her own young lady, wouldn't that be a big loss? She is looking forward to her young lady being praised by a famous family, and she will have a good family business in the future.

"Miss! My good young lady! It's all this time, how can you still have the heart to work! If you don't want to find a way, the limelight will be robbed by the eldest lady! Could it be that you want the eldest lady to hold you down forever? ”

The girl's hand paused slightly, stopped in mid-air, and only a moment later returned to its usual normal.

She promised her mother at the grave that she would not fight with her sister or anything.

"If my sister is willing to be in the limelight, I, the younger sister, will fulfill her wishes."

Fang Qingxi guessed that the reason why Fang Zhiling stole the limelight was not to plot the Xu family's wishful husbandry.

How could she mess up the well-planned situation of others?

"Miss, you can't be like this, what's the matter with staying in the house! It wouldn't be good if the lord blamed him. ”

There was some truth in Wanxin's words, and Fang Qingxi also realized how tricky the problem was.

On the one hand, he doesn't love his father, and on the other hand, he is his sister who has always fought with him, which seems to be a difficult choice.

She doesn't like to fight with others, especially with her sister, and she has never been willing to part with her brotherhood.

But the eldest sister's bullying and unreasonable gradually forced her to a dead end.

In desperation, she often had some unexpected small counterattacks, which made the eldest sister speechless every time.

The eldest sister is a casual person, happy and angry, but she knows that all this is just a deliberate cover-up and intentional action by the eldest sister. As for the reason, she thought that the eldest sister might not want others to see through it, so she deliberately made it look like this. With such a disguise, why is it not the same for yourself?

"Miss, what's wrong with you?"

Wanxin saw Qingxi sitting there in a daze, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart that her young lady was like an immortal when she was quiet, and sometimes she even felt that the young lady would be taken away, and then she would become an immortal.

However, now doesn't seem to be the time to be stunned, and she has to wake up Qingxi.

Fang Qingxi's thoughts were pulled back by Wanxin, and she put the embroidery back into the embroidery basket.

got up and came to the door, looked at the sun in the sky, and counted the hours in her heart, at this time the guests should be almost here, and it was time for her to go to Yuqiong Pavilion.

"Wanxin, take the dew that we just picked, and let's go to Yuqiong Pavilion."

Wanxin saw that her young lady intended to go to the pavilion, but she only thought that the young lady was enlightened.

As everyone knows, Fang Qingxi is not unenlightened, but he is unwilling to open his mind.

But this time, she will not be at the mercy of her eldest sister.

Her fate is in the hands of others!

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Fang Qingxi and Wanxin strolled all the way to the pavilion, and met the noblewoman's daughter from time to time on the way. Fang Qingxi's words and deeds showed everyone's beautiful attitude, which couldn't help but make people look up to a few points, and at the same time, she also had a little more affection for the second lady of the Fang family.

When he came to the pavilion, Fang Qingxi noticed that there were a lot of guests, and he couldn't lose the rules at this time.

Fang Qingxi bowed to the man in the upper seat and said slowly.

"My daughter asks her father for peace, and I wish my father a long and healthy life."

The sound as clear as water sounded, stirring people's hearts, and everyone looked at the twelve or thirteen-year-old girl standing in the center.

Seeing that the girl was dressed in green clothes, everyone concluded that this was the girl who had just been revealed, and it turned out that she was the second lady of the Fang family.

"Sister, you're here, if you don't come, I'll invite you to the pavilion in a while."

A voice as soft as water sounded, and Fang Qingxi's brows wrinkled unconsciously.

When I asked, I saw a woman smiling and walking from the screen behind her.

Fang Qingxi looked at her eldest sister and said in her heart that she was going to have to worry about dressing up today. The upper body wears a crimson cardigan jacket, and the lower body is a pomegranate red skirt. The willow eyebrows on his face were lightly wiped, and his red lips were lightly touched, which couldn't help but make Qingxi think of the sentence "The eyebrows are the color of daylilies, and the red skirt is jealous of the pomegranate flowers." ”

It's just that Fang Qingxi is thinking, a beautiful woman with a good clothes. Fang Zhiling's dress is very consistent with her temperament, and everyone present has a verdict about her.

But none of this has anything to do with her.

"My sister prepares a birthday banquet for my father, and Qingxi should do her best."

"It's a blessing for my sister to think like this, I don't know what gift my sister gave to my father?"

"I wonder what my sister sent?"

Fang Qingxi will definitely not cross Fang Zhiling at this time, she will not provoke the beginning of the war for no reason.

Fang Qingxi's approach won Fang Zhiling's heart, and Fang Zhi's Kundalini would not steal her limelight.

Anyway, she doesn't have anything to do with her sister today.

"I don't have anything to give to my father, a few days ago I accidentally got a piece of jade, the color and texture are excellent, so I thought about borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, to express my heart."

Fang Zhiling took out the beautiful jade as she spoke, and everyone present was shocked, only the man's pupils tightened a little.

This jade is really a good product, with a rare blood red covering the whole piece of jade, and the green is full of red.

"Lord Wang, that jade ......"

Qin Xiao was taken aback when he saw the bright jade, outsiders probably didn't know the origin and exquisiteness of this jade, but only regarded it as a rare piece of beautiful jade. But he knew that this was a royal thing, and it was a jade ornament only owned by the prince's cronies.

"Do you think that jade is familiar?"

The man remembered that the prince had a jade mine, and the jade produced was of the highest quality, but the red jade was extremely rare and not sold to the public.

"Lord Wang, isn't this eldest lady of the Fang family the prince's person?"

Qin Xiao didn't dare to think about it in that direction, if this guess was true......

"Fang Zhiling can't use it."

"Then the prince thinks she is available?"

Qin Xiao pointed to the girl downstairs, and saw that the expression on the prince's face was still the same, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

He didn't think a girl of twelve or thirteen years old could have much power.

"After so many years of following this king, you know me. It seems that in the future, everything will be up to you, and this king will be happy to be idle. ”

"Lord Wang, my subordinates have no such intentions."

"That's it. Let's see what this girl can give to the old man. ”

Qin Xiao knew that his prince had never done anything at a loss, so he didn't need to worry too much at all.

★

Fang Zhiling presented the jade to her father, but Fang Weizhong held the jade in his hand but did not speak.

Fang Qingxi noticed the nervousness in his eyes for a moment.

How could a piece of jade make Daddy like this? Could it be that there is something unspeakable here?

Fang Zhiling also found that Fang Weizhong didn't seem to be very happy, and the gifts she carefully prepared were supposed to be infallible.

"My sister's gift is really excellent, but I can't take it compared to my sister."

Fang Qingxi saw that the atmosphere was frozen there, and he had no choice but to come forward by himself.

"What did my sister say? This gift is no matter how important it is, as long as it is a heart, Daddy will not blame you. ”

Fang Zhiling's words were deliberately said to Fang Weizhong, she didn't believe that her father, who had always loved her, would be angry with herself because of a small birthday gift.

"Qingxi, take out your gift."

Seeing his father speak, Fang Qingxi didn't dare to slack off.

"Daddy, this birthday gift daughter has asked Wanxin to go down to prepare, and all the guests and friends here have a share."

Everyone present at the birthday ceremony could not help but be curious.

Even the king upstairs, Wu Zhen, squinted his eyes and looked inquiring.

What is this girl going to do?

After a quarter of an hour, Wanxin led a group of subordinates to present the gifts.

Everyone looked at it and knew the true face of Lushan for this birthday gift.

It turned out to be a cup of tea.

The fragrance of tea permeated the entire Yuqiong Pavilion, as if the ripples in the water were spreading little by little, and finally dissipated.

This intoxicating fragrance of tea attracted a lot of discussion, and Fang Qingxi motioned for Wanxin to bring the tea to the guests.

The man upstairs smelled the refreshing aroma of tea, looked at the tea in the cup, and fell into deep thought.

He drank this tea.

He remembered that it was tea from the Oblique Rain Building.

What does this inconspicuous little girl in front of her have to do with the Oblique Rain Building?

How should he play this move?

"Lord Wang, this tea ......"

Wu Zhen could sense the difference of this tea, not to mention Qin Xiao, who dealt with various sects all day long.

"Qin Xiao, what do you think about this matter?"

Being asked by Wu Zhen like this, Qin Xiao couldn't say why for a while.

The birthday gift offered by the eldest lady of the Fang family is an object only available to the prince's cronies, and the second lady takes out the special fragrant tea of the first killer organization of the Eagle Country, Xieyulou, and more importantly, this tea has the effect of ecstasy.

"Lord Wang, my subordinates don't know."

"That's it."

Whether he knows whether he can't say it or doesn't know whether he doesn't know Wu Zhen doesn't want to pursue anything, what he has to do now is to watch this play quietly.

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Fang Weizhong sniffed the tea in the cup, only feeling a trace of intoxication. Take a sip, the taste is fragrant and smooth, and the tea only feels smooth in the body and mind, and I can't help but take another sip.

Fang Weizhong's love for this cup of tea made Fang Zhiling on the side see it in his eyes, and he was even more angry in his heart.

The gift she carefully prepared was not as good as a cup of tea, so how could she be embarrassed?

Unwilling to see the tea brought by the maid Liuzhu, she took a sip, she wanted to see what the door of this tea was.

The entrance is fragrant, and the aroma flows into the spleen and stomach with the tea, and it feels fresh everywhere you go.

She had never drunk this tea.

"What does my sister think?"

Fang Qingxi saw that everyone present couldn't put down this tea, and some people even poured cup after cup, she thought it was nothing, and the tea didn't taste good at all in her opinion. She didn't want to take out the things sent by the old man, but she had no choice but to please her father.

"This tea is indeed fragrant in the mouth. I don't know where my sister got this tea? I'm going to buy some for my daddy. ”

Fang Zhiling had to admit the deliciousness of this tea for the sake of face, but she didn't want Fang Qingxi to feel better, she didn't believe that this tea was bought casually. Who sent it, but she still remembers the scene of delivering an umbrella in the rain a few months ago. Fang Qingxi is still young, if he has had a holiday with someone, he can't stop his mouth if he wants to come. Not to mention that her reputation will be swept away, even the Fang family will be spurned for this.

Fang Qingxi looked at the eldest sister in front of her, she knew that the eldest sister had always wanted to be more serious with her, and since this was the case, she complied with her wishes.