Chapter 9: The Queen's Birthday
Ling Su entered the "Ling Embroidery Workshop" from the small door in the backyard, and as soon as he entered the backyard, it was not surprising that Ling Su saw a red-clothed Liuli sitting under an old tree in the courtyard, still holding his white jade wine jug.
"Chun Tao, you go and clean up the room first, we will stay here from today!"
"Yes!"
Chun Tao retreated, Ling Su walked to the stone table in the center of the courtyard and sat down, she smiled lightly and said to Liuli:
"You know me, you know that I will definitely come here, not to the Drunken Star Tower?"
"Are you ready?"
Liuli didn't answer Ling Su, but glanced at her and asked rhetorically.
"Huh! It's been delayed long enough, and if it drags on any longer, I'm afraid my mother will go into battle in person! โ
"Just be ready, don't embarrass yourself!"
"Hmm!"
For Liuli's earnest words, Ling Su's heart warmed, to say that her biggest gain in the past two years is probably her friendship with Liuli.
"By the way, I checked Fumanlou after you left yesterday, but there was no one in the room directly opposite my room."
Although this result was expected by Ling Su, it still made her stunned, and then, Ling Su got up and walked to the side of Liuli, and sat down against the old tree as well.
"Maybe I know who was in that room yesterday!"
"Huh?"
Ruri tilted her head slightly, and let out a puzzled sound.
"On the way here, I almost got hit by a carriage!"
"What?" As soon as he heard Ling Su say that he was almost hit by the carriage, he sat up straight and turned around to find out if Ling Su was injured.
"I'm fine, I just almost got bumped! However, I made a discovery that the carriage was very unusual, and the person in the carriage intuitively felt that it was the same person from yesterday! โ
"Are you sure?"
"I can't be sure, it's just that the feeling that the person gave me yesterday is actually very similar to the aura exuded from today's carriage!"
"Who's in the carriage?"
"I don't know, I was about to ask you!"
"Ask me?"
"That's right! The carriage is surrounded by cloud python totems, it stands to reason that the cloud python totem is the exclusive totem of the prince, but there is no prince in Jinling Kingdom now! โ
"Do you see clearly?"
"It won't be wrong, it was a little far away at the time, and I deliberately took a closer look, it won't be wrong, when I got closer, I felt a very cold smell emanating from the carriage, which was terrible! I was so scared that I quickly withdrew! โ
Combined with the information given by Liuli, in fact, Ling Su had already guessed, but she still wanted to get a positive answer from Liuli.
"Prince of Dongyun Kingdom, Cloud War! Hehe! It's coming so fast! โ
Ling Su looked sideways at Liuli, and for some reason, Ling Su always felt that Liuli seemed to be mocking when he mentioned Prince Dongyun.
"It's really him! But why is he eyeing me? I think today's events are just a coincidence! โ
"Whether it's a coincidence or not, it's still too dangerous for you to move out of the General's Mansion now, your cousin treats you well, is it possible, huh?"
Liuli, who was still very serious in the last second, suddenly changed his painting style at this moment, and his smile was very teasing, Ling Su directly glanced at Liuli, and got up and didn't plan to pay attention to this unserious guy anymore.
"It's okay to get out of here quickly, it's annoying to see you!"
Ling Su left such a sentence angrily, and then went straight back to the room without looking back, and Liuli only raised his head and took a sip of wine with a wry smile after Ling Su closed the door with a "bang".
"Chun Tao go get me a basin of water!"
After entering the room, Ling Su directly confessed to Chun Tao, and then walked into the inner room, took off his clothes, revealing his white and tender arms, Ling Su's arms flipped lightly, and a bruise the size of a woman's palm appeared on the outside.
Ling Su frowned, no wonder it hurt so much, thinking of the fall out of the General's Mansion, Ling Su scolded in his heart, "Damn, it must have hurt the tendons inside."
"Squeak~"
"Oh, miss, why are you so badly injured and didn't even say a word!"
Chun Tao came in and saw Ling Su's injury exposed to the air, she put down the basin in her hand, stepped forward and raised her hand and shouted without daring to touch it.
"It's okay, clean it up, rub the ointment on me, and I'll be fine after a few days of recuperation!"
"Will this work? Let's ask a doctor to take a look! If Mrs. sees this, she will definitely feel distressed! โ
Chun Tao burst into tears in a hurry, and mentioned Madame again at a loss, Ling Su sighed, it seems that this matter will definitely not be hidden.
If her mother knows about this matter, according to her mother's character, Ling Su believes that the general's mansion will not be peaceful, and I am afraid that even my cousin will be implicated.
When the time comes, my cousin's love path may be difficult!
"Chun Tao, don't inform Madam about this, did you hear it!"
"But ยทยทยทยทยทยท"
"No, but, do as I say, hurry up and clean up for me, do you want me to die of pain?"
"Oh, yes, yes! Spring Peach will be dealt with by Miss immediately! โ
A quarter of an hour later, after rubbing the ointment, Ling Su felt a little cooler, and it was not as hot as before.
"Chun Tao, go and take my embroidered 'Golden Phoenix Chengxiang' to Liuli Gongzi, and tell him to make a 'seat screen' with pear wood inlaid with jade, and I'll get it in three days!"
"Yes!"
After Chun Tao left, Ling Su took out the jade butterfly hairpin that had been broken by Lin Yiqiu before, and looked at the two hairpins, Ling Su sighed in his heart.
Alas! If this is for my mother to see, she will scold herself to death, this is her coming-of-age ceremony, and it is a pity that it is broken like this.
Ling Su stared at the jade butterfly hairpin for a moment, and muttered in a low voice: "Take it to the Qunhui Jewelry Building tomorrow and ask the craftsmen there to repair it!" โ
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Five days later
This year's birthday of the queen of Jinling Kingdom can be described as extraordinarily grand, first, of course, because of the visit of the prince of Dongyun Kingdom this year, the emperor of Jinling has specially confessed, the queen's birthday must be grand and decent, and the national prestige of Jinling country must not be lost.
Well, the queen wants to choose a wife for her son and the second prince, and she also wants to win over some ministers of the court and the central government to assist the second prince.
Then there is the marriage of Princess Jinyun, the queen mother has made full preparations for Princess Jinyun to marry back to Dongyun Kingdom this time, just wait for Prince Dongyun to come, let the two cultivate their relationship again, and the matter will be completed.
In the past five days, Ling Su has been obediently staying in the "Ling Embroidery Workshop" and has never gone out, even the jade butterfly hairpin was ordered to be repaired by Chun Tao to take it to the Qunhui Jewelry Building.
On this day, Ling Su got up early to freshen up, although she moved out of the General's Mansion, but if she entered the palace, she still had to go with He Zhiyi.
Ling Su knew that He Zhiyi was looking for her these days, but why didn't she go out, and He Zhiyi couldn't find it.
"Miss, the carriage is ready, shall we go directly to the palace gate to wait for the young master, or go to the general's mansion?"
"Let's go to the General's Mansion!"
Ling Su looked at himself in the bronze mirror again, and made sure that he was neither ostentatious nor shabby before getting up and walking out.