As soon as this knife came out, everyone was shocked, and naturally it attracted the attention of the glamorous lady.

The guards were startled and were about to draw their swords to save face, when the noble lady slowly walked over and said, "Don't be rude!"

Hearing this, the guards hurriedly put away their knives and respectfully, "Madam." ”

"I told you not to act recklessly outside, could it be that you have forgotten the rules of Nanyang Mansion?"

The guards immediately fell to their knees, looking terrified, "Don't dare, don't dare!"

The noble lady sneered: "Don't dare? I see that you are very bold!

The guards trembled slightly, but they didn't dare to say a word again.

Snorted, the noble lady continued: "If there is such a behavior next time, there is no need to kneel anymore, just go to the court lover and take off the head!"

Hearing this, the guards finally breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said, "Thank you, madam, thank you, madam!"

"Get out!" the lady raised her hand, and the guards scattered like birds and beasts. The noble lady turned her head to look at Jiang Lili and the others with a warm smile, "Child, what's your name?"

Jiang Lili squinted at him and didn't speak.

Cheng Ru heard this noble lady's words, and naturally knew that this person's power was very high, for fear that Jiang Lili would anger this noble lady under his recklessness, so he hurriedly sneered: "Madam, his name is Jiang Gou, and he is from Yangzhou, ,,,, and the three of us want to go to the major cities of Dasui to see and see the folk customs." ”

It's just that I don't know what the origin of this group of people is, so Cheng Ru kept an eye on it.

Although the name Jiang Gou is cheesy, it has no deep meaning. The noble lady ignored Cheng Ru, turned to the pair of young men and girls sitting on the table, and said, "Jin'er Shuang'er, come and meet these peers, I don't know the truth of outsiders." Look at other people, they are about the same age as you have such knife intent, and it is not a bad thing to make a friend. ”

I didn't see that the noble lady was a little sneering about herself, but she didn't show it on her face, she only said: "Madame is right, there are many friends and many paths, and this is exactly the truth." ”

The noble lady pondered the word "friend", sneered slightly, but still ignored Cheng Ru, and said to the pair of young boys and girls: "Jin'er Shuang'er, don't come over quickly!"

At this point, the two thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys reluctantly got off the table and walked up to the noble lady, the young man named Jin'er said hello to Jiang Lili in an extremely perfunctory manner, the girl didn't make a sound, her eyes widened and swept over several people.

The noble lady's face was a little angry, and she scolded loudly: "Jin'er, is this the etiquette I taught you?"

Hearing this, the young man was a little angry, gritted his teeth and did not speak, and tilted his head to the side.

The noble lady was a little helpless, so she said to Jiang Lili: "My two children have been spoiled by me since they were children, and they have no rules. After a pause, he said, "The boy's name is Su Jin, and the girl's name is Su Shuang, if you don't say that you are friends at this time, you can be regarded as acquaintances!"

Jiang Lili's face was sarcastic, and the corners of her mouth were slightly hooked.

Cheng Ru hurriedly said: "Naturally, we are acquainted, haha, aren't we friends now!"

As soon as the words fell, I heard Su Jin, who had never made a sound, suddenly say, "Mother." ”

"What's wrong?" the noble lady looked down at Su Jin, her eyes full of pity.

Su Jin suddenly pointed at Su Su and said, "I want her to be my maid!"

Hearing this, Cheng Ru frowned slightly, Su Su was startled, and reached out to pull Jiang Lili's sleeve.

Jiang Lili raised her eyebrows!

"Don't be so rude!," said the noble lady angrily, "punish you to copy the Book of Songs twenty times, and copy it again twenty times tomorrow if you don't finish copying it!"

Su Jin snorted, he didn't dare to be angry with the noble lady, but when he lowered his head, his eyes glared at Jiang Lili with extremely vicious eyes, and then turned around and walked back to the original wine table.

"Mother, I'll go see my brother. After Su Shuang said this, he also left.

The noble lady was a little helpless, and said to Jiang Lili apologetically: "My two children are really spoiled, please don't be angry with them, in fact, the two of them are still quite good!"

After saying this, the noble lady also retreated, turned around and walked a few steps, then turned around and said with a smile: "By the way, my name is Sima Lan, I am afraid that you are also lonely and helpless travelers, if you want to find a place to settle down in the future, just come to Nanyang Wangfu to find me, just report my name, and I will definitely give you a place to live! ”

"Definitely, definitely. Cheng Ru laughed twice and then watched the lady leave.

Jiang Lili didn't say a word from beginning to end.

At this time, the little two came back to his senses, looked at the knife mark on the ground, and didn't dare to say the word to compensate.

After such a thing, those guards and other guests didn't have the slightest intention of eating, and it didn't take long for the noble lady to lead Su Jin and Su Shuang and the old man upstairs, and only Jiang Lili and the three of them were left in the entire inn hall.

After turning his head and scanning the surroundings to make sure that there was no one else, Su Su asked Cheng Ru, "Do you know the origin of those people?"

Cheng Ru was originally eating beef, and when he heard this, he put down his chopsticks, his face was slightly solemn, "The Nanyang Mansion that the woman said is only afraid that it is the mansion of the Prince of Nanyang, the Prince of Dasui, and I don't need to say it anymore to know that the power of those people is all over the sky." ”

"King Nanyang?"

"You don't know this?" Cheng Ru looked surprised, "King Nanyang is the elder brother of the Great Sui Emperor!"

Su Su was shocked at first, then panicked, pulled Jiang Lili's sleeve and said, "What should I do? They told me to be that man's maid?

Jiang Lili sneered: "What are you afraid of? Aren't you happy after you are taken away? Presumably, the Nanyang Palace's gold and silver are full of gold, and what you want to buy can't be bought at that time?"

"What do you mean, Jiang Gou?" Su Su's face was full of anger, "Tell me, what do you mean by this?

Jiang Lili laughed and didn't speak again.

Su Su was about to persuade Cheng Ru to run away when Cheng Ru said: "Don't be so alarmed, not to mention that the King of Nanyang has some prestige in the hearts of the people, naturally he will not allow someone in the palace to rob the people's daughter, just say that the noble lady values Jiang Lili so much, she will not do such a thing that annoys Jiang Lili." ”

Hearing Cheng Ruyi's explanation, Su Su relieved his mind slightly, and then seemed to have grasped some straw, and said triumphantly: "Jiang Gou, didn't that person say that he likes you very much? Why don't you say that you will follow her to Nanyang Palace? Maybe I can give you a lifetime of glory and wealth!"

"What the hell is going on with you?"

Su Su choked, annoyed and picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth and bit it viciously, suddenly stunned again, turned his head and asked, "By the way, I think Jiang Lili is not good-looking, and his mouth is also very damaged, why did that person take a fancy to Jiang Lili?"

"I have an idea about this!" Cheng Ru turned his head and glanced behind him for a week, and then replied in a low voice: "Haven't you heard, that King Nanyang lost a child more than ten years ago. Now it seems that there is gossip in the rivers and lakes that the child seems to have been found!"

Su Su looked puzzled again, "But what's the matter with Guan Jiang Lili?"

"You're stupid!" Cheng Ru explained: "The child who was lost is the wife of the king of Nanyang, I guess, this noble lady is only afraid that she is the side concubine of the king of Nanyang!"

Su Suai was puzzled, and looked at Cheng Ru's face full of smiles and became annoyed, "Cheng is called Hua, can you make it clear at once?"

"Oops!" Cheng Ru hurriedly looked left and right, and only after finding that there was no one did he breathe a sigh of relief and complained: "Please call me my name outside, it's rude!"

Seeing that Su Su picked up a plate and was about to pour it on his head, Cheng Ru hurriedly explained: "Do you think, the lost son was not found, didn't this Nanyang Mansion fall on the head of Su Jin after the death of the King of Nanyang? So this noble lady thought about pulling a few more young geniuses, so that her child could have some confidence in the face of the widow who was about to return!"

In the end, Cheng said, "Of course, if you can ask the assassin to kill the widow, you don't have to think about it at all!"

Su Su sighed, and then several people didn't speak again, and each of them ate their own food, but when it was time to pay, the boss said that he would not accept the money, but saved an expense.

The next day the group got up very early, and watched the group leave without hearing any noise of carriages and horses.

The shopkeeper finally breathed a sigh of relief, and when Jiang Lili got up and went downstairs, he handed over an iron sign and said, "This is left to you by that lady, saying that as long as you hold this token, few people will make things difficult for you on the road." ”

Jiang Lili looked at the shopkeeper coldly, not knowing what he was thinking, and he looked at the shopkeeper in a cold sweat. After a long time, Jiang Lili slowly took the iron sign, took a closer look, and turned around to practice knives in the courtyard.

With Cheng Ruye's carriage, the journey is also a lot faster, but it is rare to see Su Su get off the carriage, it is nothing more than sleeping on the carriage, eating when he wakes up, and when he is full, he is sleepy, and he continues to sleep. For Su Su, this day is also very comfortable.

It took almost half a month to stop and go, and then we arrived at Qionghu.

Qionghu Lake, as the name suggests, there is a lake named Qionghu Lake in the city of Qionghu Lake, although it is not as beautiful as the scenery of West Lake, but it is also a good place for the famous party. And the most famous thing in Qionghu City is not Qionghu, but Qionghu Academy, which is located on the edge of Qionghu Lake.

Qionghu Academy was built in the Changli period of the Great Sui Dynasty, more than 300 years ago, among which there have been a lot of literati and Confucian scholars, but also a lot of official residences and a lot of grand dukes.

Relying only on the reputation of this peach and plum three thousand times, no one dares to act recklessly in this Qionghu City, so this Qionghu City has always been among the top three in the ranking of the best cities in the Great Sui Kingdom.

When I entered this Qionghu City, I only felt that the books in this Qionghu City were full of atmosphere, and most of the shops on the street sold the four treasures of the study room and all kinds of books, and then there were embroidered swords and sachets that matched the literati, and there were few restaurants and restaurants, and even inns were extremely rare.

The carriage was parked in a stable specially set up for passers-by, and several people got out of the carriage and went to Qionghu City to travel.

There are many scholars in Qionghu City, and there will be no fewer talented women, so there are also a lot of things linked to daughters in the shops on both sides of the street, such as carmine pink, pendant hairpin, Su Su felt happy at a glance, and ran into a store without two or three steps, looking at a very conspicuous pearl hairpin with some eyes, and looked at Cheng Ruis proudly.

Cheng Ru frowned bitterly, and was extremely reluctant to take out the money from his arms.

A few people didn't walk long on the street, Su Su picked up a large bag of things, followed by Cheng Ru with a sad face, pulled Jiang Lili's sleeve and said: "Jiang Lili, can you do it?" Although I have a lot of money now, it's not enough to be so defeated!"

Although she had lowered her voice, Su Su's ears were very pointy, and she turned her head as soon as Cheng Ru's voice fell, "Cheng Zhaohua, are you secretly saying bad things about me?"

At this time, Cheng Ru couldn't care about the money in his hand, and hurriedly said in a good voice: "You just spend money, just don't call me by this nickname on the street?"

"Isn't this your name?" Jiang Lili said coldly on the side.

Listening to Jiang Lili's words, she became angry, "You don't sneer at me here, if it weren't for your shouting, would Su Su know my reputation? Besides, what kind of money didn't you spend along the way come out of my pocket?

Jiang Lili raised his eyebrows, "No matter how faceless and skinless I am, I won't pick up the chicken bones on the ground to gnaw, right?"

"That's right!" Su Su cheered.

Cheng Ru's face turned blue for a while, and then he turned his head and didn't bother to talk to these two people again.

It was in the afternoon when they arrived at Qionghu, and after walking around the street for so long, it was about to get dark. But now a few people are still standing on the street at a loss, patronizing and following Su Su around, where do they have time to find an inn?

In the end, there was no way, and the two instigated Cheng Ru to ask passers-by about an inn, but where did they know the way? It took a long time to find the inn.

This inn is called Bixi Lake and is located on the east side of Qionghu Lake. The decoration inside the inn is particularly elegant, with poems pasted on the walls, words of landscapes, fish and insects engraved on the tabletop, and even some small characters engraved on the handrails of the railing, which must be witty sentences found in books.

Not only that, but even the name of the dish is extremely elegant, a cucumber fried carrot diced must be called green and red spring, a braised duck paw with a small bowl of soup must be called anthurium Qingbo, a bowl of clear soup with two poached eggs floating in it also made a good name, called Jianjun Mountain.

Although the dishes are extremely cute, the price is really "fair", and it really deserves the reputation of this inn.

After a meal, it turned out to be two or three taels of silver. Cheng Ru's face hurts, this is just eating, if you stay here for the night, you don't know how much it will cost!

But this price is indeed expensive, the room of several people is near the water, a huge window is opened towards Qionghu Lake, a private seat is placed on the side of the window, sitting on the elegant seat can see the scenery of Qionghu Lake, eating wine and drinking tea are all indispensable. What's more, the inn standing by the water is three points cooler than other places, especially at night, sleeping in bed and letting the wind blow in from Qionghu Lake, even in this hot summer, it feels like being in late autumn.

I slept soundly all night, and when I woke up the next morning, I only felt refreshed and energetic.

At this time, you only need to call for a basin of warm water to wash your face and rinse your mouth, and you will also bring a pot of hot tea and two or three desserts for you to taste.

Cheng Ru sat on the elegant seat in his room and listened to the bell faintly coming from the opposite side of Qionghu, took a sip of tea and a dessert, picked up the folding fan and pretended to fiddle with it two or three times, Said that it is really a blessing to be rich, I couldn't imagine when I was a beggar before, the life of a rich person is so wonderful!

Where can I see his original pain now?

It's just that Cheng Ru sighed again, and said, "It would be nice if there was a lazy and sleepy-eyed beauty lying on my bed right now!"

This idea just came out, and Cheng Ru couldn't stay in this room anymore, pushed open the door and walked out of the room, knocked on Jiang Lili's door but no one responded, and then remembered that Jiang Lili had the habit of getting up early every day to practice knives.

The mind is a little lively, although I know that Su Su gets up every morning and is very angry, Cheng Ru also wants to see Su Su's sleepy eyes. Casual clothes knocked on the door a few times, "Susu girl, get up and eat!"

I thought I would have to wait for a long time, but I didn't expect to push the door and walk out just after shouting Susu, but this appearance made Cheng Ru very scared.

I saw Su Su's messy hair, and the skirt on her body was also wrinkled, especially the two huge dark circles on her face were really a little oozing.

Cheng Ru hurriedly asked, "What's wrong, did you sleep badly last night?"

Su Su didn't reply, yawned for a long time, snapped the door shut again, and tinkered in the room for a long time before coming out, combing his hair, changing his clothes, and washing his face, but the dark circles under his eyes were still very heavy.

Cheng Ru asked again: "Did you sleep last night?"

"Didn't sleep!" replied simply.

Cheng Ru was startled again, "What's wrong? Feng Shui is not good and I can't sleep?"

"No, I'm reading!"

Cheng Ru thought that Su Su had fallen into evil at this time, but he knew that Su Su had never read books.

After questioning, I realized that in order to add some bookish atmosphere to this inn, I put a few idle novels in the room, which is nothing more than a story about a poor girl meeting a girl like the little prince, Cheng Ru just turned a page or two and didn't read it, I didn't expect Su Su, a person who never reads, to be able to read it all night?

I didn't ask any more, so I took Su Su downstairs for breakfast.

It's just that when Jiang Lili came back from practicing the knife and was about to sit down with Cheng Ru is language and Su to have breakfast together, Su Su looked at Jiang Lili with the disgust in his eyes, which was inevitably too strong! Jiang Lili roared angrily, "You yellow-haired girl is crazy! Look at his grandmother again, be careful that I scolded you!"

Hearing this, Su Su turned her face, and she didn't have the intention of eating breakfast, she covered her head and looked at the Qionghu Lake outside the door, thinking to herself, why is my Su Su's life so bitter?

Turned his face to look at Cheng Ruyi, who was still snickering.

There was even a bald donkey!