Chapter 22: Transfiguration
The stamina of Fengqu brewing is really enough, and Xia Taozhi woke up with a splitting headache.
There was no one around, and she sat on the bed with her eyes open in confusion. I don't remember how I got back last night, how I climbed into my bed to sleep, who changed her clothes, and who covered her with the quilt? I only vaguely remember that I drank on the bridge with the tsundere prince last night, played a game of asking each other questions, and in the end, it seemed that I cried in someone's arms, which was very embarrassing.
She doesn't remember what happened after that......
Peony and Begonia pushed the door and walked in, and saw her sitting on the bed in a daze, looking ignorant, and couldn't help but smile.
Peony helped her out of bed and waited for her to change and wash. After getting dressed, lead her to sit in front of the dressing table and dress her up. Peony held the wooden comb in one hand, and gently brushed her soft hair with the other hand, the wooden comb gently passed through her hair, and Peony's fingers flipped flexibly, and soon gave her a beautiful bun.
She looked at herself in the bronze mirror, her face was ruddy, her eyes were flowing, her spirit was radiant, she didn't have a hangover at all, but her lips were a little swollen, as if she had been gnawed by something, she was shocked: "Peony, there are mosquitoes in my house!" ”
Peony said strangely: "It's not summer yet, how can there be mosquitoes?" ”
She pointed to her lips, "There are really mosquitoes, you see my mouth is bitten and swollen......"
Peony was inserting a hosta into her bun, and when she heard the words, her hand shook and it was crooked, and Begonia laughed on the side.
Xia Taozhi was inexplicable, she didn't understand what Haitang was laughing at, and was about to ask out loud, when she saw Song Yuanxi walking in with a black face, and the roots of her ears were slightly red.
Begonia hurriedly silenced and stepped aside.
Xia Taozhi recalled that the two had now reconciled, so she greeted him with a smile: "Your Highness, it's early......"
Song Yuanxi walked behind her, glanced at her with a sad expression, and casually picked a golden butterfly from the jewelry box, inserted it on her head, and said hatefully: "Stupid butterflies and stupid people complement each other." ”
Xia Taozhi: "......"
I don't know where I provoked this master again, I pursed my lips, stretched out my hand to help the innocent golden butterfly, and adjusted the position of the bronze mirror.
The peony has long been set aside, and the breakfast is put on the table with the begonia, a clear porridge and a few side dishes, although simple, but the fragrance is overflowing, and it is most suitable for people with hangovers.
The two looked at each other and smiled, and retreated in understanding.
Song Yuanxi walked to the table, lifted the hem of her clothes and sat down, and beckoned her to come over for breakfast, "What are you doing sitting stupidly, why don't you come over and eat?" As she spoke, she was given a bowl of vegetables.
Xia Taozhi was very puzzled in her heart, obviously she cared, how could she make people want to beat him so much when she said it from his mouth?
She walked over to the table and sat down, took a sip of the porridge. Begonias are really excellent in cooking, and even a simple bowl of porridge is sweet and glutinous, and melts in your mouth. She tasted the side dishes in the bowl again, all of which were fragrant and delicious, with a unique flavor.
couldn't help but praise: "Begonia's craftsmanship is so good, whoever marries her can enjoy it." ”
Song Yuanxi sighed and said disdainfully: "What's good?" Bland, tasteless. ”
Xia Taozhi remembered that someone was spicy, and her lips were spicy and swollen after eating the bowl of "spicy porridge" she made last time, and she couldn't help laughing.
Song Yuanxi obviously remembered some bad memories too, and his face darkened, but when he thought that he had already repaid the money last night, he generously decided not to be like her.
"After breakfast, I'll go out of the house."
"Where are you going?"
"You'll know when you go."
Tsk, but also pretending to be mysterious, arousing people's appetite.
She asked, "What are you going to do?" ”
Song Yuanxi stretched out her hand and made a gesture to change her face, she understood, it was to change her face.
Two days later, it will be the grand event of "Heavy Building Star Picking", according to their plan, Xia Taozhi needs to change her appearance and dress up as a man to participate in the competition, so as to clear the obstacles in front of Song Yuanxi's star picking platform. But she wondered, why did she change her appearance so early? Song Yuanxi explained that it is because after the disguise, it takes a certain amount of time for the human skin mask to fit the original skin on the face, and the better the fit, the more realistic it looks.
"As for women pretending to be men...... he glanced at Xia Taozhi's chest disdainfully, and sneered: "You can play in your true colors......"
Xia Taozhi immediately became angry and threw the chopsticks in his hand at him, Song Yuanxi laughed and flashed, and lost a blank air.
Until he got to the carriage, Xia Taozhi still didn't forgive him, and sat aside with his hands folded angrily. Song Yuanxi was still laughing, and his eyebrows and eyes were crooked. Xia Taozhi grabbed a cushion and threw it over while he was unprepared, hitting him in the face.
Song Yuanxi: "......" rubbed his nose and stopped smiling.
Xia Taozhi sat with her legs crossed, leaning her head on her lap, and stroking the embroidery on the hem of her skirt with one hand: "What if...... I mean, what if......" Her voice was a little muffled, "If I fail, I don't put everyone in front of you...... What will happen? ”
Song Yuanxi sat beside her, grabbed a strand of green silk from her and played with it in his hand, and said casually: "It won't happen...... Ordinary people can't do anything about me...... This prince's dignified "Xuanjia God of War" is not a wasted ......"
Xia Taozhi saw that he said so easily and didn't care, and remembered that his foreign kung fu was indeed not weak, so he immediately felt a little relieved, and said to him: "Don't worry, I will definitely do my best, I ......"
Before she finished speaking, Song Yuanxi's face leaned over, quickly pecked her on the lips, and quickly retreated, pretending to be casual: "Don't be reluctant, just live." I'll take care of the rest......"
The carriage stopped at this time, and Song Yuanxi lifted the curtain and got out of the carriage.
Xia Taozhi was completely stunned, raised his hand to touch his lips, there was still a little residual warmth of his lips, at this moment it seemed to be on fire, the heat spread silently, and gradually the whole face burned.
It seemed that something was remembered by her, soft, moist, fragrant and sweet, like the bowl of soft and glutinous wine-stuffed dumplings she ate in her dream last night......
The curtain of the car was lifted, and Peony's head poked in, and when she saw her face red and her eyes were stunned, she hurriedly called her: "Niangniang, Niangniang, we have arrived." ”
Xia Taozhi came back to her senses and got out of the carriage.
The carriage stopped at the door of a restaurant, and Song Yuanxi stood aside waiting for her, looking as usual, but a suspicious flush floated in her ears, which was a little intriguing.
The two looked at each other and quickly moved away, seeing embarrassment in each other's eyes.
Song Yuanxi clenched his hands into fists, put them to his mouth and coughed lightly, and said, "Go in." ”
This restaurant is called "Tianfu Lou", which is the largest and most luxurious restaurant in Chujing, and it is also one of the favorite gathering places for the powerful and wealthy businessmen in Chujing.
As soon as I entered the door, the shopkeeper politely greeted them and led a few people to a private room on the second floor.
Xiao Mud stayed outside the door to control the wind, and the rest of the people entered the private room, Gu Ziyi was already waiting for them inside, and standing next to him was his personal maid Wanxin.
Song Yuanxi waved his hand to excuse Gu Ziyi's salute, and solemnly said to everyone: "Time is pressing, now listen to me......"
……
Half an hour later, King Ling and his wife left Tianfu Tower, got into the carriage, and went in the direction of King Ling's Mansion. And Gu Ziyi took her maidservant Wanxin, and also got into the carriage of Gu's Mansion and went in the direction of Shilang's Mansion.
Tianfu Lou slowly walked out of a few people in ordinary clothes, who had just been secretly monitoring the movements of the private room on the second floor. At this moment, seeing that the two carriages had left, one of them asked in a low voice, "My lord, what should I do?" Still with you? The man known as "Lord" groaned for a moment and commanded in a low voice: "The people who informed us will closely monitor the Lingwang Mansion and the Gu Mansion, and report any changes to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince immediately." ”
The people answered.
***
Gu's house, a wing room in the backyard.
At this time, the doors and windows were closed, and Xia Taozhi, who was pretending to be graceful, was sitting upright at the table, staring at a brocade box on the table. Gu Ziyi sat opposite her, reached out and opened the lid of the brocade box, and inside was a light human skin mask. He gently pinched the dough and said to Xia Taozhi: "Niangniang only needs to soak the mask and cover it on her face, and when the dough dries naturally, it can fit with the facial skin, but remember not to soak in water again, otherwise the mask will fall off on its own." ”
Xia Taozhi remembered the night when she and the tsundere prince first met in Mibai Mountain, and after the two of them fell into the water, the tsundere prince revealed his true face.
She took the human skin mask and looked at it carefully, this mask was very good, and it could be seen that the workmanship was very fine, and the eyebrows, eyes, nose and lips were like real people, lifelike.
"Gong ...... Master Gu, did you do this? ”
"Niangniang laughed, how can Weichen have such craftsmanship, this dough is made by His Royal Highness himself." Gu Ziyi said: "The peony girl in the house also helped a lot, and many of the ingredients were provided by her......"
No wonder Peony was always missing a few days ago, it turned out that she secretly went to help Prince Tsundere make a human skin mask together without her.
Gu Ziyi stood up, bowed to her, and said, "In the past two days, I have wronged my mother and temporarily lived in Weichen's mansion. ”
With that, he bowed and withdrew.
Xia Taozhi is very familiar with this wing room in Gu's house, although she has never lived in it, but she used to come to clean it often. At this moment, the room was lit with a faint sandalwood, and after she put the human skin mask in a basin of water to wet it, she carefully pasted it in front of the bronze mirror, and then lay down on the soft couch, waiting for the mask to dry.
She stared upwards with her eyes open. Thinking that Wanxin disguised herself as her and returned to the Lingwang Mansion, would she be discovered by the hidden eyeliner? That dead tsundere won't run to her room with Wanxin, right? She thought wildly, feeling a little weirdly uneasy in her heart, and then suddenly remembered Song Yuanxi's dragonfly kiss on the carriage, her cheeks began to burn again, and she said in her heart...... It's really a disciple......
The human skin mask slowly tightens and fits as the water evaporates. An hour later, the mask was completely dry, coinciding with her face.
She sat up, walked to the bronze mirror to take in her appearance, and stretched out her hand to rub it over her face. In the bronze mirror, he already has the appearance of a teenager, delicate and handsome, with a heroic spirit between his eyebrows and eyes, and at first glance he is a face that has been practicing martial arts all year round.
This tsundere prince's craftsmanship is really not to say......
Her new identity is Gu Ziyi's distant cousin, named Gu Sheng, who is seventeen years old. It was a special trip from Yunzhou to Chujing to participate in this "Heavy Building and Picking Stars" event.
She changed into men's clothes and wandered around the Gu Mansion, and the servants were not surprised to see her, and they all respectfully called her Young Master Gu. Obviously, Gu Ziyi had already taken care of everything.
On the second day, she was practicing swords in the backyard of Gufu, and heard a few little maidservants passing by talking about it, saying that Princess Ling was too worried about Xia Xiang's illness and thought too much, and she couldn't afford to get sick. She rolled her eyes when she heard this, and she didn't have to think about it to know that this was fake news released by the tsundere prince. Tomorrow is simply "picking up the stars", and after so many days of preparation, there should be a result. She glanced at the sky and prayed in her heart that it would be a good outcome......
At nightfall, she went to bed early.
In the middle of the night, she suddenly woke up, opened her eyes and sat up, and slashed at the head of the bed with a lightning strike. In the darkness, only one person grinned, listened to the argument in the dark, and accurately grasped the hand she was about to chop off.
"Who?!"
A voice sounded: "Who else could there be?" Of course, it's your husband and me. ”
The candle was lit, and a man dressed as a maid stood in front of her bed, looking down at her, his eyes shining with stars, and a smile on his face.
With a familiar face and a familiar expression, he smiled evilly at her: "Little Peach, do you miss me?" ”
Yes! It turned out to be the tsundere prince!
"You...... What are you doing here? She was shocked, what is this person doing? Do you know what day tomorrow will be? At this time, he dared to disguise himself and sneak into Gu Ziyi's house to look for her, it was simply fatal!
Song Yuanxi said with a hippie smile: "I'll come to see you......"
Xia Taozhi's face turned red when she heard this, and she said: "What do I have to look at......" But a little joy surged in her heart, sweet, it seemed that something had quietly buried in her heart, took root, and sprouted......
Song Yuanxi grinned, took off his boots regardless of it, sat cross-legged on her bed, took out a parchment roll from his arms, raised his eyebrows at her, and said: "This is the level map of this year's "Heavy Building Stars" event, this prince is here to open a small stove for you......"
……
An hour later, Xia Taozhi took Song Yuanxi over the wall in the backyard of Gu Ziyi's house and landed steadily outside the wall. The main reason is because Song Yuanxi lied, saying that he came in from the gate during the day, and now it is the middle of the night and he can't get out, so Xia Taozhi has to take him out of the wall with light skills, or he won't leave.
Xia Taozhi had no choice but to take him out.
"Alright, let's go......"
Song Yuanxi reached out and pinched her nose, scaring her: "Don't talk to Gu Ziyi more, or I'll come to you......"
Xia Taozhi was speechless, why is this person becoming more and more scoundrel?! She rolled her eyes and said impatiently, "Got it, let's go!" ”
Song Yuanxi smiled, turned around and walked into the night, and soon disappeared.
The moon is in the sky, and the stars are dotted. Tomorrow should be a good day.