Chapter 8: The Eldest Princess
There are a lot of people who buy books, at first it was the Qinglou woman brought by the peony girl, and then it was the lady of a large family, the book is limited, and only 30 copies are sold every day, so there is a long queue in front of the stall.
Chu Li touched his nose: "You see, the book I wrote is a bestseller." ”
The corners of Jin Chu's mouth twitched, she had read the book, and there were illustrations, but she was too illiterate to understand.
Chu Li writes a script every day, and the life of the two of them is getting better and better, but Jin Chu feels that the purple luck on his father's head should be more than that.
"Daddy, are you going to sell books all the time?"
"Of course not," Chu Li looked in the direction of the palace, and turned his head for a while: "Wait until the mountains are full of flowers." ”
"Oh?"
Jin Chu didn't understand it very well, but Chu Li was not in a hurry, he went out to sell scripts during the day and wrote scripts at home at night.
Soon, Jin Chu could eat chicken legs every three or five days, and the family's savings changed from a few taels to dozens of taels.
In the past few days, Chu Li's mood has been depressed, and he doesn't talk to Jin Chu much all day, sometimes sitting in the yard and staring blankly at the rabbits raised by Jin Chu.
It's not that Jin Chu is reluctant, it's really that these two rabbits are cute and icy, very similar to Sister Chang'e's Jade Rabbit, and after a long time, I have a relationship with her again.
"Daddy, if you want to eat rabbits, let's kill Da Bai Erbai." Chu Li shook her head and smiled bitterly, covering her head with her hands, she began to have a headache again.
On this day, Chu Li was listless, and she still didn't plan to go out, this was the sixth day she had been closed, and everyone outside was noisy.
"Daddy, let's go out today." Jin Chu was really worried that his father was depressed.
Chu Li frowned and did not speak.
Jin Chu raised his little face seriously: "Jin Chu doesn't know what's wrong with Daddy, but my daughter has a strange premonition, Daddy, you go to set up a stall today." ”
Chu Li retracted his empty gaze and smiled: "It's time to face it." ”
The bustling streets were cleaned up, and everyone changed into new clothes that they wore during the festival.
"The eldest princess is the number one beauty in our cloud country!"
"I went out early in the morning, just to see the eldest princess."
"The toad wants to eat swan meat! Is the princess something that we ordinary people can peep at?"
"This is called disrespect, and the ...... who wants to kill his head will be killed"
Everyone's discussion aroused Jinchu's curiosity, Chang'e Fairy She is common, is the princess more beautiful than her? Besides, Daddy washed off the medicine on his face, and he was also a big beauty.
Jin Chu and Chu Li stood in the crowd and waited for almost an hour before the rumored eldest princess appeared.
The fragrant car BMW, the armor is distinct, the battle is luxurious, and the vastness is mighty.
Whether it is a princess or a prince in Yunguo, they are all ranked by their talents, and the prestige of the eldest princess in the court even overshadowed those princes and grandchildren, and it is rumored that the emperor intends to pass on the throne to her.
Suddenly, there was a burst of flying sand and stones, passing by the carriage in front of Jin Chu, the curtains were blown by the wind, and Jin Chu saw the person in the car.
The girl has plain teeth and red lips, a palm-sized hibiscus face like the moon, sideburns like mist, and a goose yellow palace dress, lining her ice muscles and jade bones.
"Wow, that's beautiful!"
Jin Chu had to admit that the eldest princess was no worse than those fairy sisters, pulled Chu Li's sleeves, and motioned her to look at the beauty.
Chu Li's eyes were firmly fixed on the people in the carriage, and he clenched his fists.
The wind came and went quickly, the carriage just stopped for a moment, and began to move slowly again, Chu Li suddenly pounced into the crowd.
"Daddy......" Jin Chu hurriedly followed, but was dispersed by the crowd.
"This is the eldest princess's car, looking for death!" The guards stopped Chu Li and kicked her down, and two snowy knives were on Chu Li's neck.
The carriage and horses gradually moved away, and the guards followed, and Chu Li got up and looked at the departing carriage.
The people around her pointed at her, and it took a while for Chu Li to come to her senses, and when she saw Jin Chu with a worried face, she said softly: "Go home." ”
After that day, Chu Li never wrote a notebook again.
Ten days later, Chu Li went out and brought back fine dim sum, fragrant roast chicken, and bought a lot of rice noodles.
After dinner, Chu Li handed over all the silver money to Jin Chu, "Child, I want to go to the palace." ”
"Into the palace?" Jin Chu's eyes widened in surprise, "Daddy, what are you doing in the palace?"
"Daddy is going to get what belongs to me."
"What's that?" Jin Chu stared at the purple luck on his father's head, and Chu Li touched Jin Chu's soft hair.
At night, Jin Chu slept unsteadily, until the rooster crowed, he fell asleep in a daze, and when the sun shined through the window, Jin Chu sat up with his arms and saw a letter next to the pillow and a prepared breakfast.
The letter said that Chu Li had paid the rent for another half a year, and if he didn't come back three days later, Jin Chu was so smart that he would definitely be able to live well.
The courtyard door opened and closed again.
The chickens and ducklings were clamoring for food, and the rabbit shook his ears at Jinchu, and Jinchu was the only one left in the house.
"Queen Mother, please bless Daddy's wishes come true, and bless Daddy to return safely in three days!"
Jin Chu didn't believe that her father, who was so good to her on weekdays, would abandon her like an adoptive father and adoptive mother, she firmly believed that her father would definitely come back!
Three days later, in the early morning, Jin Chu changed into clean clothes, cooked a pot of white porridge, fed chickens, ducks and rabbits, and finished watering the vegetables.
From sunrise to sunset, and from dark to dawn, Daddy still didn't come back.
Two vegetable sellers passed by the door quickly, and whispered about today's excitement:
"Have you heard? It's the one who wrote the book, and it shed so much blood that we didn't sell our food. ”
"He really thinks that his cheap life can threaten the eldest princess?"
"I just didn't expect him to dare to hit the pillar, tsk, how much it hurts......"
Jin Chu stood in the courtyard separated by a wall until his limbs stiffened.
She knew that her father would never come back, and it was clear that the black gas on her head was gone!
The next day, the news of Chu Li's death from hitting a pillar reached the ears of the landlady's mother-in-law, and along with the news, there was also a grandmother in the palace.
She looked at the trembling landlady mother-in-law, looked at Jin Chu with disdain, and said, "Follow me." ”
Jin Chu didn't ask anything, and followed her in silence.
After walking a few steps, Mama looked back at her, her eyes full of indifference: "The surname Chu really hurts you in vain, he is dead, you don't even ask." ”
Jin Chu raised his head numbly and opened his mouth, but he couldn't speak.
Mama was surprised, and then chuckled: "I'm pretending to be dumb at this time, I hope you can pretend for a lifetime!" ”
Jin Chu was brought into the palace, and Mama led her to the stables, where there was a lonely hut for the inferior manu.
The stables stink, but other than that, the food and clothing are fine.
There are several stables in the palace, and the Jinchu management is the worst one, and the horses here are all old, weak, sick and disabled, or have a bad temper and hurt their masters.
On weekdays, there was no one, and Jin Chu was accompanied by a little colt with a red maroon and missing an ear.
Of course, there are still people who come once in a while.
The eldest princess's white and tender face, against the backdrop of the peach-colored riding costume, was bright and moving.