"I heard that you were summoned by the Queen of Heaven before?" A few days ago, at a banquet in the same year, Duan Haochu's friend, Du Haoqian, the leader of the national martial arts test that year, asked him.

The two of them were away from the crowd at the time, looking out of a small window and standing and drinking.

Duan Haochu nodded.

"Yes." Du Haoqian was tall and extraordinary, he rubbed the celadon wine glass with the thumb of his right hand, and continued to ask, "I also heard that the Queen of Heaven called Princess Yingluan over at that time. ”

Duan Haochu was about to raise his glass, "I didn't know that Brother Du was so well-informed, and everything in the Mingguang Palace could be known so clearly." ”

"How so." Du Haoqian laughed and drank all the wine in the wine glass, "That's because Your Majesty didn't want to hide this matter." Everyone knows that our Majesty is most worried about Princess Yingluan's marriage now. ”

"I didn't expect Your Majesty to take a fancy to you." Du Haoqian grabbed the wine jug on the table on the side and continued, "No, you can't say that, a talented woman is worthy of a beautiful woman, and the queen of heaven has a good eye, and only you can match her." ”

Duan Haochu looked at Du Haoqian, who continued to pour wine into the wine glass, and frowned, "Brother Du, you ......"

"Stop." Du Haoqian smiled and raised his glass, "I don't have anything wrong with that princess, not to mention that I am a martial artist, unlike you scholars, I will never be able to get close to that one." ”

"Why?" Duan Haochu frowned.

"Because I'm the princess's defeated man." Du Haoqian laughed, "When I was a trainee in the army before, I once met her, and I couldn't suppress my curiosity and fought with her, but I was taught a lesson. ”

"How so?" Duan Haochu looked at his majestic friend in astonishment, and thought back to the princess who looked a little pale and slender in his memory, and always felt that it was a little difficult to imagine the picture of the duel between the two.

"So it's good to be a pure scholar," Du Haoqian patted Duan Haochu on the shoulder, "That princess is special, in fact, to be honest, I really envy you." ”

Duan Haochu smiled bitterly, "I know she is very good and even a genius, but what does this have to do with me?" I didn't even know how to get along with her. ”

"No, that's not what I'm talking about." Du Haoqian's eyes widened and he smiled meaningfully, "That princess's personality is also very special, but it's interesting." ”

But it's interesting what it means.

Duan Haochu didn't understand at the time, and he didn't continue to investigate.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Woo-slip, swoop, swoop.

But listening to the sound in his ears and looking at the picture in front of him, he also had some different ideas.

Princess Yingluan took a step ahead of him and pulled up his trouser legs, bare feet, and stepped in the slippery mud soaked in the cold.

Suddenly, her feet stopped, a smile of surprise appeared on the corner of her mouth, she rolled up her sleeves too, and reached into the mud with her hand, feeling a hard bump. She wiped the mud off the surface with her fingers, revealing a reddish-purple water chestnut.

The girl happily lifted the water chestnut, looked at him with a radiant look.

Duan Haochu gave her a thumbs up.

Princess Yingluan nodded at him, threw the water chestnuts into the small bamboo basket at her waist, and continued to step on the mud field.

A smile appeared on the corner of Duan Haochu's mouth that he had never noticed, he rolled up his trousers indiscriminately, and jumped into the mud field, trying to test the soles of his feet in the mud like Princess Yingluan.

Suddenly, he stepped on a lump, and he reached down and felt a round water chestnut out of the mud.

Princess Yingluan, who was seen not far away, also gave him a thumbs up.

Duan Haochu felt that this was also very good. There is work to do, although it may be very different from the intention of the queen of heaven to arrange the two together, but looking at the water chestnuts covered with mud in her hands, at least it feels quite interesting.

Although Duan Haochu didn't know what Princess Yingluan was thinking, he felt inexplicably happy when he saw that the girl in front of him didn't mind soiling her clothes at all, and even her face was stained with mud.

The two of them didn't say a word, immersed in looking for water chestnuts, and before they knew it, a long time had passed, the sun was setting, and the bright red sunset was falling on the two of them.

Water chestnuts are no longer as ubiquitous as when they first started looking, Duan Haochu lowered his head and stepped on inch by inch, feeling the touch from the soles of his feet, searching carefully, and unconsciously marching into the depths of the paddy field.

Suddenly, the soles of his feet stepped on something soft and slippery, which was so strange to the touch that he couldn't help but be stunned.

This is......

"You've stepped on my foot." There was a girl's strange sound in my ears, as crisp and beautiful as the tinkling of spring water.

Duan Haochu raised his head suddenly, feeling as if his gaze had suddenly fallen into a sea of stars.

He found himself standing face to face with Princess Yingluan, the distance between the two was so small that he could even feel the woman's breath on his face.

Both of them were too focused on finding water chestnuts, but they didn't expect to come together unconsciously.

Looking at each other, Duan Hao didn't know what to say for a while.

stepped on my foot...... So what is the soft and slippery touch under his feet now......

Duan Haochu woke up like a dream, and immediately raised the soles of his feet.

"I'm sorry princess, it was Weichen who offended ......" Duan Haochu hurriedly apologized.

Stepping on the bare feet of my daughter's house was a big accident. Even if the Great Zhou folk customs are developed, this is still not in line with etiquette.

Duan Haochu was ready to bear the wrath of a princess of a country.

Princess Yingluan was close at hand, and she looked a little surprised, her beautiful eyes blinked, and then she smiled disapprovingly.

"Stop, I'm going to step on you." She said with a smile.

As soon as the words fell, Duan Haochu felt a soft touch pressing down on his feet, and she really stepped on her feet with her bare feet.

After stepping on it, Princess Yingluan bypassed herself and continued to happily dig up water chestnuts, as if nothing had happened just now.

"Your Highness?" Duan Haochu shouted from behind.

"Huh?" Princess Yingluan turned around, brushed her hair with her mud-stained hands, and added a few mud marks to her face, looking like a flower cat, arrogant and a little real.

There was a trail of her footprints on the soft dirt floor. The soles of the feet are long, the heels are thin, and the arch of the foot is missing. Much smaller than his footprints.

But at the same time it is powerful and straight.

Even if she is doing farm work so hard, she doesn't look like a peasant woman at all, he thinks of Du Haoqian's words, she just has a peculiar aura, even if she squats on the ridge and pulls weeds, she is still a gentle and noble woman.

Maybe she doesn't have a lot of crossovers with herself, maybe it's because she always has a kind of ...... What is different from the noble ladies he has seen, where is the difference, Duan Haochu can't say, but he feels that what those women care about, she doesn't seem to care, as if she lives in a different place from them.

She looked at him, and the light of the setting sun reflected in her eyes, which was full of brilliance, as if it was quickly passing through a layer of cold light, very, very ...... It's suffocating.

I thought of the coldness released from her body and the long sword she wore at her waist when we first met, and looked at the figure in front of me digging water chestnuts in the field.

There is also the legend of defeating Du Haoqian.

Duan Haochu suddenly had a feeling, as if Princess Yingluan was like a person with a smiling mask, holding a decorative sword studded with gems, looking dignified to the point of being an all-round princess, but only when she touched the enemy, the edge of the toy sword would reveal a cold light full of killing intent, and she had to see blood.

He'd never seen anything like it...... A woman with a special temperament.

So he suddenly laughed, staring at her footprints, and there was a feeling in his body that he had never felt before, and he felt itching in his heart.

Not far away, Princess Yingluan was stunned and looked at him suspiciously.

"Nothing." Duan Haochu heard himself say this.

The first time I met you, I was just a little happy.