Chapter 35: An Unknown Gift
The guards dragged the Hua clan down, and King Chen turned his head to look at Chu Lixue and said, "Did you sleep well?" ”
"Yes!" Chu Lixue couldn't figure out what King Chen's idea was for a while, he was so courteous to himself, probably because he received a letter from his mother, and understood that I was not the queen mother's spy.
However, he doesn't have to be so good to himself, is it possible, he still wants to be the son-in-law of the Chu family and his brother-in-law? Thinking of this, Chu Lixue swallowed her saliva and said tentatively: "His Royal Highness King Chen, you are so good to me, is it because of my sister?" ”
"Glass Frost? Well, there's an element to it. King Chen said lightly.
"My sister has already married Brother Feng, you can't rob the kiss, you will be struck by lightning if you do this." Chu Lixue looked at King Chen and said anxiously.
Even if you like my sister, but people already have a sweetheart, and you still want to snatch it from someone else, which is too inconsistent with the identity of the prince.
"When did this king say that I was going to snatch the frost back?" King Chen looked at Chu Lixue with affection. This woman is really stupid, does it have to be because she likes her sister if she is good to her? Couldn't it be for her? Do you not believe in your own charm so much?
"Since you don't plan to break up my sister and Brother Feng, then why don't you let me go, aren't you keeping me just to force my sister to comply?"
It turns out that she thinks so, is her character so bad? It seems that what he did before was indeed a bit excessive, but all this was to guard against the Queen Mother, and he had no choice.
"Lixue, what if I say that I want you to stay because I like you? Will you stay? King Chen looked at Chu Lixue affectionately.
"Like me? How can you like me ......, then Huashi, isn't it your favorite woman? ”
"What's the matter, you are the king's favorite person, when I first saw you, the king fell in love with you at first sight, but at that time, I felt that you were a spy sent by the queen mother, so I had to let go of my feelings for you. Now, knowing your identity, I will protect you and take care of you, and I will not let you be harmed. ”
The affection of King Chen's words made Chu Lixue very moved, and she didn't know what to do for a while. Actually, she doesn't hate King Chen, especially such a beautiful man, thinking about Chu Lixue is about to drool.
"Okay, this king has patience waiting for you." After that, he shouted to the maidservant outside the door to serve the food.
The maidservants outside the door responded, and in a moment, a group of maidservants came in with plates of exquisite meals, looking at the exquisite meals on the table, Chu Lixue swallowed her saliva, she had slept early in the morning until now, the water and rice had not entered, and she had just drunk a few cups of tea, and she was already hungry.
King Chen smiled when he saw Chu Lixue's appearance, stretched out his hand and broke off a roast duck leg and handed it to Chu Lixue, "I heard that you love meat the most, you are a master who is not happy with meat, today I specially made your favorite dish, eat more." ”
"Well, well, it's delicious, it's delicious, don't look at me every day at Ye Wushuang's place, but this roast duck is still not as delicious as what you make here." As she spoke, Chu Lixue took a piece of Dongpo meat and stuffed it into her mouth.
"Hey, what a conscienceless guy, it seems that you have been wronged by me, my food there is still not as fragrant as the Chenwang Mansion......" Ye Wushuang's dissatisfied protest came from outside the door.
Seeing Ye Wushuang's figure, Chu Lixue hurriedly got up, walked quickly to Ye Wushuang, regardless of the oil stains on the roast duck leg on her hands, pulled Ye Wushuang's sleeve and said: "You are here, come on, sit here, such a big table of dishes, your cooking skills are indeed a little worse, you try it quickly, go back and let him improve it." ”
Ye Wushuang was pulled by Chu Lixue to sit down, and King Chen looked at Ye Wushuang's dark face and knew that he was very uncomfortable. "Wushuang, thank you for taking care of Lixue these days, and letting her mess around, she changed the Happy Building into a place to listen to music and watch plays."
"Lixue didn't mess around, she did it very well, and the business was much better than before. I also want to thank her. ”
"It's good that I didn't mess with you." King Chen said with a smile.
Hearing this, Chu Lixue was not happy, where did she add to the chaos, didn't she just let those women who had fallen into the dust be good? As for the remaining part, who are willing to fall and are willing to continue to survive in the place of wind and snow, Chu Lixue also arranged positions for them, which is called beautiful. They can accompany the guests to drink, talk and laugh. Then the guests will give them a certain commission for the wine and food they order. That's a lot more than she could have earned by just selling her body.
"Hey, Lord Chen, am I as bad as you say?"
"No, no, you're the best." King Chen doted.
Watching King Chen and Chu Lixue talking and laughing, Ye Wushuang suddenly felt that he was so redundant, but let them be together like this? But he was not reconciled.
Looking at the dishes on the table, they are all often eaten by Lixue on weekdays, it can be seen that this King Chen said that he didn't care on the surface, but in fact, he still cared very much in his heart, and even knew that Lixue didn't eat shiitake mushrooms and coriander, and changed the mushroom rape to mushroom rape. Looks like I'm really interested.
"Yihan, I received news that Nanchu has recently sent three princes, and he will send an envoy to Beichen soon." After finishing speaking, Ye Wushuang took a piece of green bamboo shoots and sent it to his mouth to chew.
"Nan Chu and Beichen had a tough battle at this time last year, and now they are still licking their faces to come to Beichen?" King Chen snorted coldly.
At the beginning, he personally led his troops to the battle with Nanchu, and his 80,000 army annihilated all the 120,000 Black Eagle Army in Nanchu. Nan Chu suddenly sent an envoy to Beichen at this time, what was the idea?
"Hehe, I heard that he came to ask for a kiss." Ye Wushuang said with a smile.
"Asking for a kiss? That's good, it's best to let the old witch of the Empress Dowager Bai marry her daughter to make peace, let her force her to marry, and let her taste the taste of forcing other people's daughters to marry. Chu Lixue said indignantly.
Hearing this, the black line in King Chen's head, why, are you so unhappy to marry him? She seems to be willing, and she is very happy to receive the ten miles of red makeup and ten boxes of dowry? Why is it talking about forced marriage again?
Ye Wushuang was in a different mood from King Chen, but he was already applauding happily in his heart when he heard it. Isn't it just forced marriage? In fact, Lixue can still have a lot of choices, for example, he Ye Wushuang is a very good choice.
"Lixue, you are very disgusted with that queen mother, right? Let's design for her daughter to marry Nanchu and kiss, okay. Ye Wushuang said with a smile.
"Okay, okay, do you dare to force someone else to marry?" Chu Lixue clapped her hands and applauded.
"Are you wronged by marrying me?" King Chen looked at Chu Lixue with a cold face.
"This ......" Chu Lixue bit her chopsticks and didn't know how to answer. Although she was also forced to marry into the palace, this prince looks good, if it weren't for the group of concubines around him, perhaps, he could really have a vigorous love with him.
"Why do you have to force Lixue to say it, people don't say it, this is to give you face, you know?" Ye Wushuang added oil and vinegar.
"You ......" King Chen was really speechless, he originally let Chu Lixue stay in his courtyard for dinner, just to take the opportunity to cultivate and cultivate feelings, but he didn't expect to kill Ye Wushuang halfway.
"I don't want you, mine. Let's think about how to deal with the arrival of the three princes of Nanchu. ”
"Well, he can't play any tricks, if he really takes the Bai family's daughter away, it will be a painful thing."
"Then do it, this can also make Lixue breathe, it's just ......"
"Just what?"
"It's just rumored that this third prince is a man with broken sleeves, and there are no women around him, all of them are handsome men." Ye Wushuang said lightly.
Hearing this, Chu Lixue and King Chen both looked dumbfounded, a dignified prince, who actually liked men?
Can there be any successors to their Southern Chu? Could it be that the princess in his house is also a man?
Just thinking about it, I suddenly heard the housekeeper outside the door say respectfully: "Lord, someone outside gave a gift, saying that it was for the princess......"
For yourself? Chu Lixue was a little inexplicably surprised, her family was not in Cloud City now, and she didn't have any relatives and friends, who would give her a gift? Could it be that the Queen Mother sent someone to send it?
"Who sent it?" King Chen said in a deep voice.
"Back to the prince, the person who came did not identify himself, but said that his master liked the princess's talent very much, so he sent a gift to offer, hoping to have a discussion with the princess." The butler replied respectfully.
"Throw it back to him, and tell the people who come that the princess of this king has no time to deal with those who are insignificant."
"But ......, Lord Wang, the other party just put down the gift and left."
"What did you send?" Chu Lixue said curiously. She didn't lack any gifts, and there was nothing she wanted, this person must have some intention in giving herself a gift all of a sudden, and perhaps, as long as she knew what the gift was, she could learn something from it.
"Back to the princess, it's a guqin."
"A guqin?" Chu Lixue was suspicious, there were no more than three people who knew that she could play the guqin, one was herself, another was Ning Xiang, and the last one was Xin Yaxuan's mother Zhang.
I think that Ning Xiang and Zhang's mother were very surprised when they heard her play the piano for the first time, Ning Xiang's girl said that she had never heard her play the piano, and Zhang's mother didn't expect that her guqin played so well.
"What? A guzheng? Throw it out! ”
"Lord Wang, this is a scorched tail."
What the? Jiaowei qin, that is the famous qin of ancient times. According to legend, it was created by Cai Yong of the Eastern Han Dynasty. I didn't expect to be lucky enough to see it today, so who is the person who gave me the guqin?
Immediately, Chu Lixue said softly: "Butler, bring in the Jiaowei Guqin." ”