Chapter 56
[The 71st year of the Great Qiankang Dynasty, March 14th, the end of the time, in the courtyard of Tianbao Pavilion]
At this time, there were two young girls standing in the courtyard, one was sixteen years old and the other was nineteen this year. The two daughters were playing with those strange flowers and plants together in the garden, and they were busy with the soil and trees for a while, and the watering and fertilizing for a while.
Naturally, these two young girls, one is Murong Yan, the eldest lady of Tianbao Pavilion, and the other is the seventeenth daughter of the current emperor, Li Qi of Princess Lingyu.
Originally, Murong Yan and Li Qi, one was a beautiful lady, the other was a royal princess, one was locked in the inner courtyard of the deep palace for a long time, and the other could only stay in the boudoir of a famous building all day long, and the two did not have any intersection, but perhaps it was fate, but these two girls stayed together today.
It turned out that after Nangong Wuhua cried and made trouble again in Tsing Yiwei's office, Li Qi suddenly became shy. Nangong Wuhua said that Xu Ke had taken a fancy to herself, which was naturally a misunderstanding, but in front of Nangong who was silent, she was a girl, but she "moved her hands and feet" to Xu Ke several times, which was not very good-looking.
In Li Qi's heart, she naturally regards Xu Ke as her own brother, although she has not seen Xu Ke much, but she always feels that the other party is like a relative of herself, and when she is with Xu Ke, she has no scruples about speaking and behaving at all.
However, Li Qi is already in the cardamom years this year, no matter which girl she is, she has a spring heart when her heart sprouts, and in the face of Xu Ke, a young man with undescended manners and extraordinary manners, she occasionally feels shy.
After Nangong Wuhua snatched the door away, Nangong was silent and hurriedly stepped forward to make amends to Li Qi desperately. Li Qi simply pretended to be angry and said:
"Brother Xu Ke, you don't want to go to Tianbao Pavilion, and I don't force it, so Xiaoqi will go by herself!"
After that, she didn't wait for Xu Ke to answer, and went straight out.
Xu Ke has the heart to go with her, and it stands to reason that Li Qi, as a princess, has the responsibility of accompanying him to defend him. But as soon as he remembered that he would face Murong Huan after a while, he immediately retracted his steps, and just watched Li Qi go out.
Nangong looked at Xu Ke silently, and seeing that he didn't react, he didn't have much to say.
So, Li Qi came to Tianbao Pavilion alone.
She relied on herself to learn a few swordsmanship and Taoism from the Yichen sisters, and she always went out alone, never with a guard.
In fact, every time Li Qi leaves the palace, most of them come secretly, so how can he swagger out with a group of guards?
What Li Qi didn't expect was that after she came to Tianbao Pavilion, she heard that the pavilion master Murong Yuanshan and the eldest and second sons were not in the mansion. Li Qi had to ask the housekeeper of the Murong Mansion that the eldest lady was in the mansion and the housekeeper recognized Li Qi as the seventeenth princess, so he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly led her into the courtyard.
Murong Yan stayed alone in her own courtyard, feeling bored, and suddenly heard that Li Qi was coming, she was overjoyed, and she hurriedly came out to greet her.
As soon as Li Qi saw Murong Yan, she politely called "Sister Xiaoyan", and naturally, Murong Yan also happily took Li Qi's hand and affectionately called her "Sister Xiaoqi".
The ages of these two girls are close, Murong Yan has a gentle personality, like a small family jasper, Li Qi is hot, like a man, although the two have only met for the second time, but they both feel that they are inseparable from each other, and there are endless words to say when they stay together.
Seeing that Li Qi had not yet had lunch, Murong Yan instructed the housekeeper to set up a sumptuous banquet. The two girls were in this courtyard, facing the verdant grass and trees, smelling the lush flowers, and enjoying a pleasant lunch.
After lunch, Murong Yan proposed that the two of them plant flowers and plants together, and Li Qi immediately happily wanted to do so.
The afternoon sun was warm and comfortable, and the breeze passed by them from time to time. While they are cutting flowers and plants, you and I are talking about everything, almost nothing......
Murong Yan asked Li Qi about her intentions, and Li Qi told Murong Yan about her experience of going to Tsing Yi Wei today.
When Li Qi said that she saw Nangong Wuhua today and misunderstood that Xu Ke had taken a fancy to her, she actually cried bitterly in the official room, knocked over more than a dozen dishes, and ran away with her face covered, Murong Yan couldn't help but feel very funny. After all, Li Qi is just a sixteen-year-old girl, and her heart is full of childlike fun, how can she let go of such a good plot full of fun, under her added oil and vinegar, it made Murong Yan laugh out loud, and almost laughed in her stomach......
However, when Li Qi recounted the painful look on Nangong Wuhua's face when she left, she also showed unbearable expression, looking at her expression at the moment, as if she was touched by Nangong Wuhua's true feelings, and at the same time, she couldn't help but feel sorry for her own unintentional actions today, which made Nangong Wuhua so sad......
Murong Yan couldn't help but recall that more than a month ago, she had ventured to Tsing Yi Wei to help Xu Ke rescue Li Junxian. At that time, she made up as her second brother Murong Huan, and deceived all the people in Tsing Yiwei, and the Nangong Wuhua that Li Qi said, Murong Yan had also seen it in the Bei'an Ping Division, and remembered that she and her disease-free brother were hungry because they went out too early, but fortunately, Nangong Wuhua brought a sumptuous breakfast, which allowed them to enjoy a sweet and wonderful breakfast.
Thinking of the chubby Nangong Wuhua in the early morning of that day, with all kinds of admiration for Xu Ke, Murong Yan couldn't help but laugh out loud. Not only does Sister Yiyi like you, Sister Zibei likes you, and even Princess Xiaoqi in the palace likes you so much, the funniest thing is that even Nangong Wuhua, who is as strong as a fat cow, actually has true feelings for you! It seems that you will not be able to escape the entanglement of love debts in this life......
"Sister Xiao Yan, what are you thinking?" Li Qi couldn't help but ask when she saw Murong Yan suddenly stunned.
"Oh, it's nothing!" Murong Yan hurriedly came back to her senses and asked again: "Sister Xiaoqi, then you came today on the order of 'Deputy Envoy Xu' to find my second brother to help you solve the case?"
"That's right!" Li Qi said with disappointment: "Your second brother's ability is so powerful, if he makes a move, the cat demon will be much easier to catch!
Murong Yan sighed: "My second brother, as well as my father and my eldest brother, they are all busy people, they are busy outside all day long, and I don't know what these men are busy with?" cough ......cough It's a pity that I'm just a woman, if only I were a man!"
The implication is that she is a woman, and a lady, so she can only hide in the deep courtyard all day long, although there are no trivial worries, but it is also really boring!
"Sister Xiaoyan, what's wrong with women! What those men can do, we women can do too!" Li Qi said with her head held high.
Next, Li Qi talked about the strategy of "disguise to attract demons" that Yiqing had told her, according to what Li Qi said, cat demons like to hook up with young men and practice "harmony with them", as long as they disguise themselves as handsome men, they don't worry about cat demons not taking the bait!
Li Qi suddenly shook her head and sighed, saying that she didn't know the art of disguise, I was afraid that the disguised man was not very similar, that day, Sister Yiqing just didn't have a good appearance, so she went around Chang'an City for most of the night, but the cat demon never appeared.
Before Li Qi finished speaking, Murong Yan smiled and said, if it comes to the kung fu of catching demons, she Xiaoyan is not good, but if it is about the art of disguise and disguise, I am afraid that no one in the entire Chang'an City can surpass her!
Li Qi clapped her hands and laughed when she heard it, she was an anxious child, and she proposed that the two of them disguise themselves in the afternoon, and after nightfall, they would go out to attract demons. According to Li Qi, she is now following Sister Yiqing to practice the subtle Taoism of the Emei Sect, and it is more than enough to deal with a cat demon......
Murong Yan had never seen a cat demon, and naturally she didn't know how powerful Mao Jiaojiao was, and when she saw Li Qi repeatedly patting her chest and guaranteeing her, she was convinced of this princess's words.
The two girls hit it off, then stopped fiddling with the flowers and plants in the yard and went straight to Murong Yan's inner room. In Murong Yan's boudoir, there is a complete set of easy containers.
The art of disguise is extremely complicated, Li Qi originally just wanted to disguise herself as an ordinary man, but Murong Yan's childlike heart rose, and she turned herself and Li Qi into the two men she had seen.
The whole process of changing appearance is just fun for Li Qi, but in Murong Yan's eyes, it is a "big thing" that cannot tolerate sloppiness, and the two of them hide in the boudoir like this, holding some hair, beard, and glue...... and other disguised things, fiddling with their respective faces.
After two full hours, Murong Yan and Li Qi glanced at each other, and they couldn't help but point to each other's faces and laugh.
At this time, Murong Yan has turned into "Murong Huan", and Li Qi has become "Li Yi".
Murong Yan is naturally familiar with her second brother's face, and she has already melted it in three clicks and two clicks. However, when she saw that Li Qi was not tall and extremely cute, she really didn't know which one to turn into, and she suddenly remembered the Zhao King Li Yi she saw yesterday.
Although Murong Yan had only met Li Yi, the king of Zhao, fortunately, Li Qi looked a little similar to Li Yi, and after Murong Yan's clever transformation, she turned her brother and sister into exactly the same.
"Wooden barrel bowl!" At this moment, "Li Yi" pointed to "Murong Huan" and laughed.
"Barrel...... Bowl?" That "Murong Huan" touched his face, and he was a little puzzled in his heart.
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Immediately, "Murong Huan" led "Li Yi" out of the courtyard and came straight to the gate of his house. When the servants in Murong Mansion saw their second son, they hurriedly bowed down from afar, and respectfully shouted, "The little one greets the second son!"
"Murong Huan" nodded proudly, but he didn't speak, just strode forward.
After the second son left, the servants of the Tianbao Pavilion were busy with their own affairs, and they did not feel the slightest surprise in their hearts, just because the second son of his family had always been so arrogant in his daily life, and the people had long been accustomed to it.
At this time, although it was already the time of the unitary card, there was still a trace of the afterglow of the slanting sun in the sky, Chang'an City had not yet set in the night, but Li Qi was anxious, seeing that the two of them had completed their disguise and transformation, they couldn't wait to get out of the gate of Tianbao Pavilion and go south to Chang'an City......
Only half a moment later, Murong Huan returned to the Tianbao Pavilion, he had just stepped into the door of his house, and his subordinate general Xichuan immediately rushed to the road, and the young lady and Princess Li Qi disguised themselves as him and Li Yi, the king of Zhao, and had already gone out.
"Nonsense!Where did they go?" Murong Huan asked anxiously.
"Son, they're heading south!" Nishikawa replied.
Murong Huan and his third sister went in and out, almost at the same time. At that time, Xichuan, who was in charge of guarding the house, suddenly saw his young master "Murong Huan" striding over, and he couldn't distinguish the truth from the fake for a while, until this moment, after seeing the real Murong Huan returned home, he woke up, and the "Murong Huan" who had just gone out was naturally a young lady pretending to be undoubted.
At that moment, Murong Huan immediately guessed that these two girls were going out at this time, and they must have thought of a plan to "disguise and attract demons", and he was in a hurry, so he didn't have time to think about it, and even if he turned around and went out, he followed him to the south.
"It's just that the cat demon is still there, but the cat demon's side has always followed the 'Frost Old Monster', third sister, third sister, how can you be so stupid? If you meet that deer demon, it's not a joke!"
"The third sister has always been cautious, why is she so bold today? Yes, it must be some kind of 'seventeen princesses' who came to pick it up! Hmph...... Okay, you're a seventeenth princess, my third sister has nothing to do, if she has the slightest mistake, see how this son cleans you up!"
Thinking of Li Qi, Murong Huan couldn't help but feel a wave of indignation, he was anxious in his heart, so he took a breath of true qi, strode like a meteor, and ran straight to the south of the city......