Chapter 81: Water chestnuts
Not with such.
It's too fast.
Why?
Zhu Luan's eyes widened because he was frightened, his chest rose and fell violently, and he gasped rapidly.
Rather than surprised, her head was now occupied by huge questions.
The face in front of me was a little familiar, and a little unfamiliar.
Compared with those children who were only a few years old before they died, Duan Haochu, who has become an adult, cannot be said to have changed very much.
The originally handsome young man has become a handsome young man, and his porcelain-white face is still like jade, but the years have given him a different temperature.
The eyes that were once as clear as a mirror have become unfathomable.
She almost didn't recognize him for a moment.
But this is normal, after all, ten years have passed. The span of her memories is even longer, and if it weren't for the bitter suspicion and hatred, she would have completely forgotten the fiancé who appeared in the last year of her life and did not have a deep friendship.
Yes, she didn't know him well.
Counting the first meeting, she and him haven't met a few times, although the queen of heaven has arranged some things for the two to do together, but in fact, they didn't have anything to do in their previous lives.
So looking at the face of the man who was close at hand, Zhu Luan couldn't understand.
She's not her anymore.
Her current body was only half his age.
Zhu Ying doesn't look like Princess Yingluan back then, although Princess Jinyang has said that her eyes are very similar to her back then, but people can't recognize someone with a completely different age as another person just by their eyes.
Especially since that person is still a dead man who has been dead for ten years.
She tilted her head slightly, looking at the gray and black sky through Duan Haochu's face, with a little stunned.
How can the people of this era accept such a strange and chaotic thing?
No matter what's inside, she can't be her anymore.
So she dared to say that she wanted to see Duan Haochu, she dared to meet Duan Haochu as Miss Zhu Jiu, and even planned to use the memories of Princess Yingluan to negotiate with him, pretending to be Princess Yingluan's acquaintance, and finding out what he was doing before that fire.
Because she believed that he would not recognize her, nor would she believe that she was her.
But now everything is messed up.
Chaos can't be messed up anymore.
She racked her brains to remember what she had just said and done, and she didn't think of anything she had done that might reveal her identity.
Even if she behaved like she did back then, she shouldn't have fallen off the horse so quickly?
can still recognize her after she has changed the shell, and Zhu Luan can only think of two people.
One is the queen of heaven, and the other is the princess of Jinyang.
Because she was raised by the queen of heaven, Princess Jinyang was raised by her.
Even so, Princess Jinyang was able to recognize her, but only when she gave a hint.
Even her nephew, who she once loved and lived with for several years, didn't recognize her and didn't believe she was her.
Duan Haochu, who had only met a few times, was even more unlikely to recognize her when they met for the first time.
Unless......
He believed that Princess Yingluan was not dead.
Unless......
He knew she would be born again.
Zhu Luan was taken aback by the conjecture that suddenly came to his mind.
How is that possible?
Zhu Luan stared into the eyes of the man who was close at hand, he was looking at her deeply, his eyes were focused and sincere, but inexplicably uncomfortable.
Because this look was like a sharp sword, as if he wanted to peel her skin and debon, as if he wanted to see her through and see another person through this layer of skin.
This kind of peeping eyes made Zhu Luan creepy.
"Who are you?" Seeing that the girl under him didn't answer, Duan Haochu asked again, and his voice had regained its calmness.
"Whose foot did you just say you were going to step on?" Without waiting for Zhu Luan to answer, Duan Haochu looked at her with a smile and asked in a mellow voice.
Whose foot is it to step on?
Zhu Luan looked at him blankly.
Seeing the girl's eyes, Duan Haochu's eyes darkened.
He knew that he had done something rude to this strange woman, and he didn't understand why he had done it all of a sudden.
But when he saw her and heard that sentence, he was so enthusiastic that he couldn't control himself.
Actually, this is not surprising, because someone once said and did so.
The royal family has important sacrificial activities in the four seasons every year, and agriculture is an important part of it, and in order to show the importance of the royal family to agriculture, the royal family will hold a grand agricultural activity in the sacrificial field every year.
The two most important of these are spring ploughing and autumn harvest.
That year, shortly after meeting Princess Yingluan under the arrangement of the Queen of Heaven, he was invited to participate in the autumn harvest festival of the royal family.
That was the second time he and Princess Yingluan had met.
He and Princess Yingluan were assigned to the same field.
Looking at the smiling queen mother not far away, and the princess standing on the edge of the field with an expressionless face, he probably understood what His Majesty the Emperor's intentions were.
In the conversation with the queen of heaven, he was keenly aware that His Majesty was willing to marry Princess Yingluan to him, but at the same time, he inexplicably didn't want to force her, so he hoped that he could cultivate a good relationship with this princess.
To be honest, before entering the palace, he knew that His Majesty the Emperor was very fond of this adopted daughter, but he didn't expect to be pampered to this extent.
At the same time, he also understands that he has no say in this marriage.
He couldn't help but want to marry Princess Yingluan, unless Princess Yingluan herself didn't want to marry him.
So he never considered his own wishes from beginning to end, and no matter what, he didn't lose anything to marry such a famous princess, did he?
Duan Hao was thinking about these things in his heart, but he didn't show any smile on his face and looked at Princess Yingluan not far away.
I don't know if it was because he wanted the two to be alone, but what he and Princess Yingluan were given was a very small water chestnut field.
Autumn is getting stronger, the ground is clean, the leaves of water chestnuts have dried up, and on the surface of the field, only the straight round leaves of water chestnuts are left.
And the important fruit they want to harvest, water chestnuts are hidden in the mud.
Duan Haochu stared at the princess who was across the field from him not far away, and couldn't help frowning.
Although it was an important festival for the royal family to farm and harvest the land with their own hands, most of the royal family just waved a few sickles and iron rakes to make a show, and the grain in the field was harvested by their own eunuchs.
Why should the princess be assigned to a water chestnut field full of mud?
Even if Princess Yingluan is wearing a riding suit with trousers on her lower body today, after all, she is a princess of a country who has not yet married, how to take water chestnuts from this mud.
Duan Haochu resigned himself to bending down to touch his trousers.
"Your Highness, here is the ...... of Wei Chen"
However, before he could finish his sentence, there was a sudden pop not far away.
He looked up and found that Princess Yingluan had thrown off the boots on her feet, revealing her snow-white calves and feet, and jumped barefoot into the mud field.