The queen must start from the head

Chapter 56
In the imperial city, the Sancai Bookstore on Academy Street no longer had the prosperity of the past, but was very deserted.

In the bookstore, there are only a group of children in plain clothes nestled in the "Fairy Tale World" area, reading fairy tale books attentively.He Ping and Guangming, who were in charge of guarding the store, did not drive these children away either.

At this moment, He Ping was leaning against the edge of the counter, flicking the abacus in his hand a little bored, talking to Guang Ming who was beside him who was playing with Da Hei.

"Tomorrow is the day when the township examination starts. What do you think the head is doing now? Are you still cramming?"

As soon as he said this, Guangming and Dahei both looked at him with serious eyes.

He Ping scratched his head involuntarily, and said with a resentful smile, "I'm just kidding, with the strength of the sect leader, how can there be any need to cram? However, other bookstores in the imperial city have done too much. They bought our books and asked others to copy them. Selling, so that there are no people in the shop to buy books recently. I have to talk to the head of this matter when she comes back from the provincial examination."

"It's useless, copying books is much cheaper than our printing books. Besides, there is no shortage of poor scholars in the imperial city. Those people can make money by copying books, and secondly, they can have books to read. If it were me, I would Willing to do it."

Although Guangming is not very old, he has a thorough understanding of this issue.

"That's true." He Ping nodded in agreement.

The two were talking, when suddenly a group of people poured into the shop from outside.

When He Ping looked up, he saw that the leader was a female general wearing armor, with dozens of female soldiers behind her.

This woman is eight feet tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and rough lines on her face.As soon as she entered the door, she asked loudly, "Where is the owner of Sancai Bookstore?"

He Ping didn't know the details of who came, and why he came.

He walked out of the counter, bowed his hands to the person who came, and said, "He Ping, I am the shopkeeper of this store. The owner is not here today. May I ask what advice you have for me?"

The female general was more than a head taller than He Ping, and she lowered her head and glanced at He Ping, then looked at the dazzling array of books in front of her, then waved her big hand, "Take all the books here!"

He Ping's heart skipped a beat, and he asked, "What are you doing?"

However, the female general didn't look at him any more, the female soldiers behind the former had already swarmed forward and put all the books on the shelves into the sacks they brought.It looked like locusts crossing the border, trying to sweep up all the books here.

"Stop! I told you to stop! Who asked you to rob books? Do you know who the owner of the bookstore is?"

Seeing this, He Ping was already furious, and his body trembled slightly. How dare these people rob their own bookstore in broad daylight?Is there any justice in this world?
"Dahei, don't go out..." Before He Ping walked out of the counter, he pressed Guangming under the counter to hide. At this time, Dahei bared his teeth and wanted to rush out to bite the group of unkind people, but Guangming pressed him tightly. Hold it, and cover its dog's mouth.

The female general thought He Ping was annoying, so she knocked him unconscious with a palm.Immediately, she set off to the "Women's World" in the bookstore.

After a quarter of an hour, the female general walked out of the "Women's Paradise" with a blank face.

The female soldier under her came forward to report, "General, we have confiscated all the books here."

The female general nodded when she heard the words, "Very well, take this person with you, let's go."

"Yes!" The female soldier took the order to pick up He Ping who was unconscious by the side with her bare hands, and left here together with other female soldiers carrying a sack of books.

As soon as the female general walked out of the Sancai Bookstore, a silver-white figure suddenly came into her eyes.The former only glanced at the iceberg beauty with black hair and purple eyes, and left with his men without saying anything.

The silver-skirted woman looked at the backs of the group of people leaving, and slowly pressed her right hand on her scabbard, when a soft voice suddenly came from behind her, "Sister Qianxue, I advise you not to Draw your sword!"

Qiu Qianxue turned around indifferently, looked at the snow-skinned girl who appeared behind her, and said coldly, "Why are you here?"

The girl smiled softly, stretched out her hands to play with the green hairband hanging from her buns for a while, looked up and said, "I am, of course, I am here to find Sister Qianxue and you go home."

"Home? I don't have a home." Qiu Qianxue turned around and was about to leave.

The girl's eyes turned hard, and she said coldly, "Even if you don't admit that you are from the Chou Family, you still have the blood of the Chou Clan on your body, and your every move also represents the face of the Chou Clan. Do you think that you did something in the imperial city before?" Those absurd things, without the enemy to clean up the mess for you, can you still live as comfortably as you are now?"

Qiu Qianxue's footsteps paused slightly, and there was a trace of surprise in her clear purple eyes, which was fleeting.

She turned her head slightly and looked at the person behind her. The sun shone on half of her slightly sided face, making her look as beautiful as an immortal who had fallen into the mortal world. "What exactly do you want to say?"

The girl was dazed by her beauty, then shook her head and said, "Don't get close to Mu Lian, and don't try to help her. Baiyelou, Xiunufang, Mingyuelou, First Prince, Chaozhong The government's civil service group and other forces have already begun to encircle and suppress her. When Tianhai City is destroyed, she and her Wushuang faction will be wiped out from this world. Today's search of the Sancai Bookstore is just the beginning. Sister Qianxue , I don't want you to be involved in this vortex..."

Qiu Qianxue showed a clear expression, "He taught you these words. Since you are afraid that I will cause trouble for you if I stay in the imperial city, then I will leave. I heard that Mu Lian is participating in the township examination in Zhennan City. Then I'll go find her there."

"Chou, Qian, Xue!" A look of resentment burst out in the girl's eyes, "How long are you going to be stubborn? Wouldn't it be good to go back to the Qiu family and continue to be your eldest lady of the Qiu family? Why do you have to make trouble with the Patriarch? Is it wrong for him to marry my mother after your mother died? Is there anything wrong with him?"

Qiu Qianxue's complexion finally changed, and her eyes gradually became extremely cold.

She remembered that warm afternoon of that day, her mother, the only wife of the Patriarch of the Chou family, was lying on the sickbed, holding her husband's hand tightly, begging bitterly.

"Jiaxiang, didn't you promise me 'a couple forever'? My illness will get better, don't marry again, okay? I'm your only wife, just beg me, okay? ?”

The man pulled her mother's hands away one by one, and told her in a calm voice, "Chun'er, the doctor told you that your illness can't be cured. Don't worry, I will take care of you for the rest of your life. But the Qiu family The wife of the head of the family cannot be a sick woman. Just treat it as me, Chou Jiaxiang, and I am sorry for you, but don't worry, Xueer is still the eldest lady of the Chou family, and no one can change this."

"No, Jiaxiang, Jiaxiang!" The woman on the sick bed was tearful and crying out her husband's name without any image, but the man beside her bed had already left, leaving her without even a shadow of his back.

At that time, she walked up to her mother who was crying in a daze and asked strangely, "Mom, dad just left for a while, why are you crying like this?" As she spoke, she took out her own A handkerchief came to wipe my mother's tears.

But mother's tears flowed more and more, crying more and more fiercely, she cried, "I can't come back, your father left, and he will never come back...".

That night, she slept soundly, but she didn't know that her mother struggled to get up from the bed, bathed, scented, made up and changed into the beautiful phoenix crown and xia cloak she wore on her big wedding, and then reappeared. Lying on the bed, he chose to commit suicide by swallowing gold.

When she woke up, she touched her mother's already cold body.

At that time, she didn't know that there was a kind of love called perfection. She only knew that her mother was forced to death by the man she loved all her life.The mother did not choose to accept the reality and linger on the sick bed. On the contrary, she chose to leave this world completely with the most beautiful appearance and posture.

As time went by, she finally became what she is today.Mother, have you ever thought that one day, your daughter will become a figure that frightens those men who disagree with each other?

As her thoughts gathered little by little, Qiu Qianxue stepped out of her thoughts and glanced at the half-sister in front of her. She didn't say anything, but chose to leave.

What's wrong with love?It's just that some people give more sincerity, and some people give less sincerity.She felt that she was not suitable for thinking about these complicated things, and it would be better to go to Zhennan City to find Mu Lian, because she felt that the woman younger than herself would be in the same path as her.

(End of this chapter)