The Queen of Romance: A Summer of Sweet Classics

Chapter 284 Survival Theory——Don't Compete with Qin Lian

Although Qin Lian really hates him, but the past few days when he was not in the East Palace and the carrier pigeon did not reply, I feel that life is very boring.

Music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, tea and wine are all used to show off to outsiders, and it would be boring to use them for entertainment.And the female officials and servants in the East Palace were all trained by Qin Lian to be stern, with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, they were a hundred times quieter and more obedient than starling birds, and they could do nothing except order them to serve.

A Ji is not a good playmate either.Ah Ji has been more rigid than me since she was a child. Apart from practicing martial arts and reading, she eats and sleeps every day.And from the time I was in Su to now coming to the Southern Dynasty, as long as I show any sign of wanting to overstep the rules, as long as she finds out in advance, she will definitely say respectfully and coldly: "Your Highness, please don't do this!" .” Or another sentence: “Your Highness, you should do this and that.” In short, if you talk to her, you must be prepared to cry without tears.

In Suzhou before, I was not so bored.Because there is a goal of "becoming a multi-talented princess" on top of my head every day, the time to take medicine and rest is to study.The female officer would bring stacks of related books, and the servant would lead me to meet all kinds of old masters.And whenever learning is too boring, Su Qi will always show up at the right time with a sunny smile, calmly push away a lot of pedantic old men with beards and eyebrows, and then lead me to play in places where there are people in the lower ribs Play.

However, since I came to the Southern Dynasty, thinking about it, although Qin Lian is really insidious and cunning, he seems to be the only person I can talk to these days.So now that Qin Lian is not here, it becomes a very painful thing for me to stay in the East Palace by myself.

On the eighth day of Qin Lian's expedition, the Holy Majesty ordered his servants to read the memorial delivered by Qin Lian's eight-hundred-mile horse.Mu Guoguo originally planned to order a group of light cavalry to take a small road and set fire to the food and grass of the Southern Dynasty army. Instead, they were ambushed and wiped out by Qin Lian, who planted a spy to know the situation in advance.Immediately, Mu's army was in a state of confusion, and Qin Lian took advantage of the victory to pursue, and now he has sent troops directly to the capital of Mu.

I have always believed that if a person wants to live a good life, he should not try to compete with Qin Lian; and if he has to compare, he should not try to take advantage of it. It is a very good result if he does not suffer.In my opinion, the Mu Kingdom's monarch probably lost his head in a hurry.This was a war with a budget of no more than 20 days. Even if the food and grass of the Southern Dynasty were really burned, it would not force the Southern Dynasty to withdraw its troops.Apart from forcing the soldiers of the Southern Dynasties to fight their last battle and accelerate the demise of their own country, there is no benefit at all.

It can be seen from this that the monarch of Mu Guo is probably also a person who is a book reader.Although there are not many battles in history where people win more with fewer victories, they are not without it, but he chose the most inappropriate one as an example, and this example happened to be imitated by Qin Lian before and won a lot of attention. All beat.

It's like playing hide and seek, hiding in the same place the first time and the second time, and hiding there the third time won't work.Therefore, the sneak attack on food and grass also has an effective number of times.The first time has been recorded in the history books, and the second time was imitated by Qin Lian, so if it can succeed the third time, it will be a strange thing.

The memorial was read to the end, and the concluding sentence made Qin Lian's image brighter in the hearts of the sage and the courtiers: "Father's birthday will be seven days later, I wish my father a happy life and a healthy life, and I will fulfill my mission. Take the entire border of Mu.

As soon as the servant's high-pitched voice fell, a group of old courtiers knelt down and began to follow Qin Lian to congratulate the Southern Dynasty for generations to come, and the Holy Majesty's longevity and well-being.

On the main hall today, there is really a school of jade and auspiciousness.

Logically speaking, if Qin Lian wanted to securely take down the Mu country within seven days, he would have to be so busy these few days that he would have no time to spare.However, I received a second letter from Qin Lian that afternoon. It was still tied to the ankle of a carrier pigeon, and it was still like a stroll in a courtyard, only elegant and elegant but without hurried and messy handwriting.

Originally, I was relieved and happy because he was so busy and still willing to take time to think about Donggong, but when I opened the letterhead and finished browsing, my comfort and joy immediately turned into a withered yellow and disappeared with the wind.

Qin Lian wrote in the letter: "I went out for seven days, and someone fed five of the goldfish raised by Princess Mingzhu to death in one day; tore up a book shelf in the study and copied a single copy; Once in the gambling house; and a cat was brought from other places to be kept in the East Palace. Can someone please explain these things to your Highness?"

I:"……"

I was immediately discouraged after watching it.Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of a homing pigeon standing proudly on the window sill with an innocent face, and he had the urge to knock it out and give it to the cat for dinner.

Even if Qin Lian is thousands of miles away, he can still control everything here.The spy who was in the East Palace to inform Qin Lian must not let me know who it is, otherwise I will even tear him apart and cook it with pigeon meat.

This spy is obviously not a qualified spy.The tipping is not about writing a storybook, but about being comprehensive and truthful, and the details are appropriate.And he obviously neither did it completely and truthfully, nor did he do it in detail.Although I went to the casino, I did not gamble; although I fed the goldfish, the goldfish was frozen to death overnight, which has nothing to do with me; Report to a busy person like Qin Lian? !

However, it is precisely because these are innocuous and trivial matters, if I really take up a pen and explain them one by one, it will appear that I am too fussy.And what Qin Lian wants to hear is obviously not my explanation, he just wants me to admit my mistake.

I decided not to write back in protest.The female officer who threw the carrier pigeon aside, petted the soft and soft "meow meow" snow-white kitten, and called Ah Ji to have dinner.

It's just that because of Qin Lian's letter, my plan to get out of the palace the next day had to be shelved.But I didn't feel too bored, because His Royal Highness the Third Prince suddenly came to the East Palace, which allowed me to watch the real version of the classic story of a man chasing a woman in the storybook.

With the willows in front of the flowers and the breeze blowing on his face, Qin Chu, dressed in moon-white robes, walked around in front of Ah Ji holding a folding fan, and said with tender eyes and the fragrance of flowers, "Miss Ah Ji, have you eaten?"

Ah Ji took a step back without any trace, and said with a face as cold as water: "Return to Your Highness, the third prince, the princess has not eaten yet, and the servant has no reason to eat first."

Qin Chu's peach blossom eyes were as bright as the sparkling blue lake, and he took another step forward, and said briskly: "It just so happens that I haven't eaten yet. Why don't I take you out of the palace to eat together, what do you say? good?"

Ah Ji took another step back, still bowing his head respectfully, his tone was so cold that he could freeze into ice: "Thank you, Your Highness, for your kindness. The palace has rules, and slaves are not allowed to leave the palace without the princess's permission."

"Your princess will naturally not disallow you." Qin Chu shook his fan, followed one step further, his eyes were glued to Ah Ji's body for a moment, and said softly, "There are many rules in the East Palace, you and your princess are far away. I have come all the way to the Southern Dynasty, is there anything I am not used to?"

Ah Ji took another step back: "Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. There is nothing wrong with this slave."

After she finished speaking, I closed my eyes before Qin Chu couldn't help but follow up again, and then I silently said one, two, three in my heart, and then I really heard the "plop" sound of a large object falling into the water.

A Ji is too cruel.She calmly led Qin Chu to the edge of the pool, turning him from a coquettish fox into a drowned rooster.Even I dare not treat Qin Lian like this.

Qin Chu was not small, so he plunged in like this, crushing several lotus plants that were in full bloom in the pond.Men in the Southern Dynasties basically knew how to swim, but because Qin Chu was unprepared, when he stood up straight from the pool, the folding fan in his hand was gone, and half a lotus leaf was still on his head, still looking a bit embarrassed.

Ah Ji was still standing by the pool, watching with cold eyes the maids and servants swarming up to greet him, still standing straight and majestic, motionless.

I couldn't help but sigh.It is true that men chase women across mountains.It's a pity that I didn't have this luck, and I married Qin Lian before enjoying the process of being admired.

Qin Chu's temper is really good, many times better than Qin Lian and Su Qi's and others.Ah Ji did this, and he hasn't become angry yet.First, he walked out of the pond slowly, then slowly picked off the leaves on the top of his head, then slowly picked up the already soaked front skirt, then slowly twirled his fingertips, and finally walked away slowly.He didn't forget to stop when he reached the door, and smiled back at Ah Ji who was about to stand like a statue.

I almost pay homage to him.To be able to achieve such chicness, such demeanor, and such equanimity under such a downcast situation is really worthy of the title of Merry Young Master.

I thought I had underestimated him, only to find out the next day that I had just overestimated him the day before.Qin Chu Qin Chu, towards Qin and late to Chu.I thought this name was his personality, but the next day I found out that the name Qin Chu was the same as the dream I had in the second half of the night, and it should be understood backwards.

Qin Chu came uninvited again in the early morning of the next day, holding a brand new folding fan. I thought of the male peacock who is willing to put down his body and dance with his tail only during the courtship season.

Qin Chu shook his fan, and said politely with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "Hello, Your Highness, Crown Princess."

To be honest, I really didn't expect his self-confidence to rebuild so quickly and so well, enough to recover in just one night, enough to sadly revisit.I had no choice but to follow the polite way: "Hello, Your Highness, Third Prince."

Qin Chu said, "Is Miss Ah Ji there?"

I knew he would ask this, so I lied neatly: "She's not here. I let her out of the palace, and she will probably come back at night."

I thought that Qin Chu would leave after saying this, but what he followed was: "That's very good. I just wanted to ask His Highness the Crown Princess about Miss Aji. I was worried that it would be inconvenient for her to be present." , so very good."

I:"……"

Qin Chu didn't notice my internal injuries, so he sat down on his own, and then said with a pious and curious look on his face: "Dare to ask Your Highness the Crown Princess, what kind of flowers does Miss Ah Ji like?"

I said, "Isn't it better for you to ask Ah Ji yourself this question than to ask me?"

Qin Chudao: "I can't help it, she won't tell. I asked her yesterday, and she said that she never liked flowers. How could a girl not like flowers? Lies, lies."

But the truth is, A Ji never tells a lie.If she said she didn't like flowers, she really didn't like flowers.One is that she is allergic to the fragrance of flowers, and she will get a headache if she smells it too much; the other is that she has been taught to be ascetic since she was a child. In her habit, she has never liked it very much, only disliked it.

I told Qin Chu these things, and Qin Chu said "ah", and said, "So that's the case. No wonder Ah Ji treated me like that yesterday. It turned out that I made her angry by asking the wrong way."

I looked at Qin Chu with my cheeks propped up, and I was deeply moved by the kind of royal education that could not only cultivate a wise and calm wise prince like Qin Lian, but also a silly child like Qin Chu who is lenient towards others and strict in self-discipline. .It is obvious that Ah Ji simply dislikes him, and has nothing to do with what he has done.

I said: "His Royal Highness, Ah Ji is straightforward, doesn't know how to be polite, and doesn't have any random thoughts. If she really married into Kang Wang's mansion, she would definitely not be able to cope with such a big family. Whether you are young or old, when the time comes, you will be wronged or someone else will be wronged, and you will probably be in a hurry."

Qin Chu took it for granted: "Since Ah Ji is married to me, she will naturally not let her worry about those troubles. Kang Wang's mansion is much simpler than the East Palace, and she will definitely not be wronged. This Crown Princess, don't worry. Let's discuss now. Let’s talk about what things Aji doesn’t like in daily life.”

I thought that as of now, it seems that the thing that Ah Ji dislikes the most is you.But I couldn't say it clearly, so I had to think about my words and said: "As the saying goes, Luo Hua intends to flow water ruthlessly, Ah Ji is not willing now, even I can't force it. Third Prince, look, are you giving her half a year and a year?" Spend some time alone, let her think about it again?"

Qin Chu said awe-inspiringly: "How can I do that? The relationship between a man and a woman is like a kite and a string. If I keep loosening the string, the kite will either run away or fall to the ground. I have a sincere heart for Ah Ji, and the world can learn from it."

I looked at his expression, it was clearly like the silent roar of "I am so touched, when will I be able to touch you".I silently thought that Qin Chu deserves to be the No. 1 in Southern Dynasties. Although he knew that the expression on his face could not be true, if someone who didn't understand his usual personality looked at him, he would probably think that this third His Royal Highness is truly an infatuation that has never been seen before or since.Ah Ji's refusal to marry him was really blinded by lard.

When I was still in the country of Su, when Su Qi once again dumped a lady named Xiuxiu, he defended himself in this way for his own breaking up behavior as neatly as a knife cut hemp: "It's about When a man and a woman are in love, procrastination is a chronic poison. Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain, and I am doing it for the good of Xiuxiu."

I said: "There are a lot of nonsense. It's just because you're eyeing a new target again, and it's as if you have something to hide."

"You can't wrong me like that. Apart from raising one more yellow warbler recently than before, which eye do you still see me and what new target have you set your sights on?"

I straightened my neck and said, "How could I know your messy things, anyway, you are full of nonsense."

Later, Su Qi was so annoyed by me that he simply put away his folding fan, crossed his arms, squinted his long and narrow phoenix eyes and looked at me lazily, and said lazily, "Well, I'm just talking nonsense. Anyway, I Just broke up, what can you do?"

"..."

But Su Qihe's nonsense, I think his sentence "long-term pain is worse than short-term pain" is quite right.In view of my pessimism about Qin Chu and Ah Ji's future, as well as Ah Ji's current attitude, I took a deep breath and decided to tell the truth.

"Your Highness, Third Prince," I looked at his face and said cautiously, "Aji doesn't mean that to you. She doesn't like anyone now, so of course...including you. You see, since she doesn't want to, Don't force yourself?"

Qin Chu put the teacup down, but his expression didn't change at all, he just asked, "Then, does His Highness the Crown Princess like me?"

My eyes widened instantly: "Huh?"

Qin Chu repeated the question again leisurely, and I pinched my palm to make sure I heard correctly, and said cautiously: "I don't like you, but it's not that I don't like you, of course I don't like you, but I don't like you either. That aspect of liking you..."

Qin Chu smiled sweetly and cut off my words: "I understand. Since Her Royal Highness doesn't dislike me, it means that Ah Ji also doesn't dislike me. As long as she doesn't dislike me, I have the confidence to make her like me. I believe that in time, Ah Ji will understand me."

"What's the relationship between me and Aji..."

"Then it's settled." Qin Lian held up the folding fan and tapped on the palm of his hand, stood up, with a sweet smile in his eyes: "I will come to bother you again someday."

"..."

On the 14th day when the army of the Southern Dynasties marched, Qin Lian rushed back to the capital of the Southern Dynasties overnight before other soldiers.However, I didn't see him for the first time, because the first thing he did when he entered the palace was not to go back to the East Palace, but to go to the Holy Majesty's bedroom to visit his father before changing clothes.

Throughout the ages, filial piety has always been placed first, whether in Su or in the Southern Dynasties.The Holy Majesty occasionally felt cold at the turn of autumn and winter, and overnight he became coughing and dizzy, and another day he became low-grade fever and found it difficult to get out of bed.Before Qin Lian arrived at the bedroom, a group of the prince's family and I had already visited, but we couldn't see anything except the overlapping curtains: the bed of the Holy Majesty was already surrounded by the queen and side concubine; a group of imperial doctors Wiping sweat or kneeling on the ground is the punching bag of everyone present; and outside the bedroom behind us, there are also a group of ministers and ministers' wives waiting in line to deliver the report.

At a time when so many people are eager to show their loyalty, we, the female relatives of the prince, are not so conspicuous and important.So I just stayed for a while and left the bedroom, but before I left, I was suddenly stopped by the concubine of the eldest prince Qin Xu. This woman named Zhao You'e gently put her fingertips on my wrist, and her face was soft With a soft smile: "Crown Princess, please stay."

Generally speaking, my friendship with the eldest concubine is limited to the newly added pet cat in the East Palace.When I saw it in the Royal Garden a few days ago, I thought it was a lonely and lonely wild cat. Seeing that although it had a few blades of grass on its back, it still didn’t hurt Yuxue’s cuteness, so I hugged it tease.However, it turns out that in the imperial palace, where the rules are complicated and strict, someone is responsible for even a puddle of water on the ground, let alone a cat.It didn't take long for me to tease the eldest princess, surrounded by a group of maidservants, she appeared radiantly, saluted me with a gentle smile, and claimed the cat.

I guess my expression at that time must be similar to the reluctance that Qin Chu showed every time he left the East Palace, otherwise Zhao You'e would not have given me such a cute cat very happily: "If the princess likes it , just take it away."

"Then how can it work?" I resolutely refused, but at the same time I resolutely refused, but at the same time I couldn't bear to leave the kitten's body, "I can't take people's love."

To be honest, this cat is the cutest species I have ever seen since I came to the Southern Dynasties.Starling goldfish Qin Chu Qin Lian and so on are not half as cute as it.

Zhao You'e smiled and said: "Why not? The Crown Princess is from Su, and His Highness is very busy, and sometimes he may be very lonely. What's wrong with having this cat company? Besides, although my aunt gave me this cat, but His Royal Highness Yilu's character is definitely something he doesn't want to adopt. It's better to just be a favor here and pass it on to the Crown Princess now."

At that time, my heart and eyes were full of this little white cat, and I kept forgetting that the starling bird in the East Palace was bitten by a cat a few days ago. After several nights in a row, I was afraid of crying like a crow at night, and I kept waiting for me. I only remembered after I hugged the cat back.However, it turns out that mynah suffers from the typical "white cat is not a cat" dementia. Once the color of the cat's skin changes, it does not recognize it.He just lazily opened his eyes where he was, and lost interest after a glance.

"I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had rushed back to the capital overnight, and I suddenly remembered something," Zhao You'e said with a smile, "Yesterday I heard from King Lu that His Highness the Crown Prince doesn't like cats, so I think it is necessary to remind the Crown Princess. This is Sorry for my negligence before."

I've never heard of Qin Lian having such a habit.So he nodded: "Thank you Princess Lu for reminding me. I will remember."

"If Her Royal Highness is bored in the East Palace, you can come and play with me at any time." Zhao You'e smiled lightly, "Or you can pass me over."

This Concubine Lu reminds me of my sister Su Zi.Although she doesn't smile often, she is always so considerate in etiquette, always gentle and demure, which is a model that I will never be able to match.

I only know that Qin Lian will come back today, but I don't know when he will come back.According to Ah Ji, I need to take a shower and change clothes to wait dignifiedly and virtuously for him to step into the East Palace threshold.I couldn't move under her gaze, so I had to lie down on the table and wait for him to come back.

The waiting process was really boring, so I said, "Aji, do you really not like the third prince?"

Ah Ji raised his eyelids, and replied coldly: "Princess, do you really dislike Qin Lian?"

I:"……"

Ah Ji said again: "When it was raining that day, the princess squatted on the ground crying, why?"

I:"……"

A Ji continued: "The slave thinks that what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said to you before leaving the country of Su is very reasonable. You can't have both, I hope the princess thinks twice."

When she said this, I suddenly remembered that I had warned myself thousands of times before that I could not talk to Ah Ji. I thought that now I had healed the scar and forgot the pain, so God punished me again to suffer and have a long memory.I leaned back on the table again, and waved my hands weakly: "Aji, I've thought about it many times. The problem is that I can't just say it, so it's useless to think about it."

Until bedtime at night, I still didn't see Qin Lian's figure.I was so sleepy that I went to sleep, but when I opened my eyes the next morning, the clean and bright autumn light did not shine directly on my face as it did the day before.There was darkness in front of my eyes, my waist was firmly hugged, the place where my fingers touched was smooth and elastic, the back of my head was pressed, and some kind of warm thing was forced to stick to my lips, my whole body seemed to be nailed Can't even move.

I blinked reluctantly, and blinked again, and heard a familiar deep voice saying lightly: "I woke up quite early today."

My restraint was finally loosened a little bit, and when I looked up, I saw a familiar face.It still has a beautiful jaw and beautiful lips, it still has the narrow and long corners of the eyes, it still rests on its hands, it still looks like a smile but not a smile.

He was only wearing a coat, and he smelled good.

I didn't expect that I slept so deeply last night, and I didn't even know when Qin Lian arrived at the bedside.What's more unexpected is that Ah Ji didn't wake me up. She has always abided by the rules and dragged me to abide by the rules, so logically speaking, under this situation, she should have persistently grabbed my ear and said, "His Royal Highness back".

I quietly removed the hand that was on his chest at some point in embarrassment, and laughed twice: "It's usually early. In fact, these days when you're not here, I wake up so early every day..."

Qin Lian glanced at my hand, then at my face, with a slight smile on his lips, the hand on my waist exerted a slight force, and I had to stick to his body again, with my chin resting on the back of my hand with the back of his hand on his chest.

There was a joke in his eyes, and he traced my eyebrows inch by inch with his fingers, and said lazily: "Yes. But how did I hear that you eat breakfast and lunch every day?"

I looked at him seriously and said, "You must have heard wrong."

Qin Lian said, "Then what do you eat for breakfast these days?"

I turned half of my face, tried my best to look at the ceiling and said, "It's not just the usual ones..."

He said "hmm": "Then tell me, what did you eat yesterday morning?"

I tilted my eyes 45 degrees to the right, made a look of reminiscence, and said: "Nanxian porridge with bird's nest, bean soup, fragrant rice, shredded lamb..."

I managed to finish reading everything I could think of, Qin Lian smiled after listening, and said leisurely, "What about the day before yesterday?"

"..." I bite the bullet and continued, "Make tea, hibiscus flower cake..."

"What about the day before yesterday?"

……

So Qin Lian kept asking about all the breakfasts in the past seven days.In view of the extensive and profound royal recipes, the chef is always racking his brains to bring forth new ideas, so I have to follow suit.Fortunately, after seven days of questioning, he finally stopped continuing. His fingers slid along the ends of my eyebrows to my temples, moving back and forth like stroking the strings of a piano. Moyu narrowed his eyes slightly, and then held my shoulders. Feeling strenuous, the next moment he leaned over and covered most of my eyes.

His hair slid down his neck and tangled with mine on the pillow.He stretched out his hand and pinched my earlobe, and said calmly: "Okay. Next, tell me the seven-day breakfast recipe you just told me in reverse."

I:"……"

The emperor controls the gate of the country, and the king dies in the country.It is said that after learning that the soldiers of the Southern Dynasty had breached the capital, the monarch of Mu State resolutely fell from the high city wall and died in a terrible condition.However, in the eyes of those who play politics, they should always be kings and losers. This is a gamble, so there is nothing to complain about.I once asked Su Qi, what would he do if he was not born in the country of Su, but in any other small country that was about to be destroyed, as a little prince who was about to be murdered.And Su Qi's answer was that he doubted whether I was his sister or not.If I were his sister, why would I want him to die so much.Why can't I assume that he is the son of the richest businessman in Jiangbei or the number one expert in Jianghu, but I have to assume that he is the unlucky son of the declining royal family who is hard to pick out from thousands of people.

And my idea is, the so-called life of sorrow and death of peace, Su Qi probably will not be able to become the son of a rich businessman or martial arts master after exhausting his life, but maybe in a few years or decades, Su Guo will really be able to do so because of nothing. All kinds of scattered ways have fallen, and he may really become what I said.Although such a bleak scene now seems impossible and unimaginable.

It's just that it's impossible to express such thoughts, so I can only swallow all the words silently.

Two days later, the spirit of the Holy One improved a lot, and the rewards for Qin Lian began to be sent to the East Palace continuously.The courtiers also praised Qin Lian's resourcefulness, saying that this battle was won decisively and beautifully.

If I remember correctly, after Qin Lian proposed a solution to the flood in the south a few days ago, the old courtiers praised him for his resourcefulness and wisdom, and he solved the problem decisively and beautifully.This is really nothing new.However, Qin Lian's face was always calm, and he even became more low-key after hearing the compliments. He even wrote a memorial summarizing the experience and lessons of this battle and submitted it. They all stayed in the East Palace without leaving the gate, and all the rewards they got were given to me.

This is really a smart way of a wise prince.Know how to iron the sacred heart and subdue the hearts of the subjects.Although I have no way of knowing how the current Southern Dynasty emperor gave birth to the fourth prince Qin Lian with the queen eight years after the birth of the third prince Qin Chu, but if we look at the results alone, in the future of the Southern Dynasty, this is really worthy of praise. It is a very wise approach.

Qin Lian did not pick up the map of Qi country just after putting down the map of Mu country as I imagined, which means that he has no plans to attack Qi country again recently.And when I'm bored, I can't help but guess how the land of Qi Kingdom will be divided at the last point, whether one country will eat alone or the two countries will share half of it.However, after much deliberation, I couldn't figure out what the result would be.

In the end, I remembered a bunch of military battles related to Qin Lian that Su Qi told me before I came to the Southern Dynasty.He used to look down on my ability to understand military matters, but in the past few days, he analyzed Qin Lian's usual military strategy, psychology and skills to me like a force-feeding duck.

Su Qi worked tirelessly that day from dawn to dusk, and I finally understood a few things.One of the most memorable events is that when the Southern Dynasty had developed a habit of attacking neighboring countries, the five small countries that lived next to the Southern Dynasty were panicked. Soon after, they finally found a way to unite vertically and horizontally. Gathered hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the five countries to confront the Southern Dynasties.Qin Lian's countermeasure against this was to return the four cities of the three small countries that he captured. The small countries had never received such courtesy from the Southern Dynasty, and they withdrew without hesitation after being flattered. Bian regarded it as a piece of Furong Yulu Cake and cut it into five small pieces, and finally ate them all slowly.

This method is like honey wrapped in arsenic. It is sweet and cool when you eat it, but you will know the pain after swallowing it.Therefore, the word "insidious" is really a perfect match for Qin Lian.

The originally scheduled birthday had to be postponed for half a month due to the unhealthy Eucharist.Half a month later, I went to the birthday banquet wearing the silk clothes that Qin Lian brought from Mu.This time it happened that Zhao You'e was sitting next to me.Her clothes were still bright red, with large clusters of peonies embroidered from the cuffs to the hem of the skirt, and several bunches of agate wreaths on her chest.Noticing that I turned to look at her, she also turned to say hello to me with a smile.

Qin Lian and Qin Xu had already left their seats, and Zhao You'e smiled and said to me: "His Royal Highness is really kind to the Crown Princess. The silk specially brought from Mu Kingdom, such a unique silk weaving pattern, can't be found in the entire Southern Dynasty." .”

"Besides, I heard that His Royal Highness loves Wujiwu, so he tolerated that kitten and let it stay in the East Palace." Zhao You'e tilted her head slightly, "I couldn't believe it when I first heard it, but I saw it today. Crown Princess, I finally completely believe it."

When she spoke, her voice was gentle and gentle, which reminded people of the warmth of early spring in such a bleak autumn.However, the rumors are always different from the facts. The reason why Qin Lian is willing to keep the kitten is because I have been begging for two consecutive days, and in the end he did not allow the kitten to enter the house, only allowed to raise it in the courtyard with.If this is Ai Wu Ji Wu, then it really is Ai Wu Ji Wu.

I smiled, and heard Zhao You'e say again: "By the way, there is one more thing. I just heard yesterday that my third sister, Zhao Youyi, approached His Highness the Crown Prince and was bumped into by the Crown Princess. She acted recklessly and didn't understand etiquette. I'm here to represent her." I apologize, I hope the Crown Princess will not take it to heart."

I sighed in my heart, I haven't found the point of what Zhao You'e said so far.If her previous long paragraphs were just to excuse her younger sister Zhao Youyi, then she would have underestimated me too much.Zhao Youyi didn't even speak to me.Even if she does marry into the East Palace, it's just a matter of Qin Lian's nod. I can't stop it and I haven't thought about it.And if she can't marry into the East Palace, then it has nothing to do with me, where did the theory of apology come from.

Our conversation ended when Qin Lian came back.He sat down holding a crooked wine glass, and brushed the little leaves from my hair with his fingers.Not far away, Le Ji played a new song. The enchanting figures of the dancers were wrapped under heavy veils, and their faces were covered with charming veils.

Qin Lian looked at the eldest prince and concubine, then at me, turned his palm over, and there was a finely carved lotus seal.Pure and delicate white jade, with deep and shallow petals, or layer upon layer, or budding.

I looked at it silently, then raised my head silently: "This seal should not be for me, right?"

Qin Lian bent his lips and smiled: "How do you know it's not for you?"

I whispered: "What's the use of you giving me a seal? It can't be eaten, worn or worn... This doesn't fit your practical and utilitarian style at all..."

Qin Lian glanced at me coldly, and said, "It's really not for you. This is what His Royal Highness the Third Prince wants to give to your maid, Ah Ji."

I said: "Then why didn't he send it directly? By the way, what is engraved under this seal?"

Qin Lian turned the seal over, and saw a pair of lovebirds perched on two trees that were surrounded by each other.

I silently put the evaluation back in my throat.Willing to be a lovebird in the sky, and Lian Lizhi in the earth.Qin Chu's dream is so good and so ethereal.

Qin Lian said: "Third brother thinks that if he gives it directly to Ah Ji, she will definitely not want it. So I entrusted me to pass it on."

I looked at him suspiciously: "The third prince was rejected by Ah Ji not once or twice, why is he so timid this time..."

"It's not timid. It's because he is anxious to succeed once, so he is concerned about gain and loss." Qin Lian glanced at me, and suddenly the corners of his lips curled up, "I heard that Princess Su is good at two skills, and they have to learn them since birth Yes. One is the well-known Phoenix Dance, while the other is a secret."

I glanced at him and said, "You want to know? I won't tell you."

Qin Lian said lightly: "It doesn't matter if you don't tell me. Su Qi is coming to the Southern Dynasty recently, do you know?"

I opened my eyes suddenly: "When?"

Qin Lian slowly raised his eyebrows, stroked his cuffs slowly, picked up a cup of tea and sipped tea slowly, and said slowly, "I won't tell you."

I hugged his arm and said, "Shall we exchange answers?"

Qin Lian smiled, as lazy as he looked, as lazy as he looked, as hateful as he looked.I silently slandered in my heart, saying: "Princess Su can use her own flesh and blood to live to death, but each person only has one chance. That's it."

"Su Qi will come to Nanchao on the tenth day of next month." Qin Lian tilted his head to look at me, then smiled again, "What a deceiving nonsense."

"Ah, how about just lying to you." I said without changing my face, "Anyway, Su Qi's coming here on the tenth day of next month is also a lie, right?"

Qin Lian smiled again, and said leisurely, "That's right."

The Holy Majesty's birthday banquet was held together with Qin Lian's celebration banquet, and the scene became very lively.After reading the seal in Qin Lian's hand, I went to look at Qin Chu, and found that Qin Chu was looking at Ah Ji, and Ah Ji was looking at me not far away as always.

I was silent.Qin Chu's eyes seemed to have been nailed to Ah Ji, and he had been motionless for a long time, which made me almost believe that he really had a deep affection for Ah Ji.However, no matter what, the royal family always pays attention to dignity and dignity, and is not easy to show anger and anger. It is the first time in my life that Qin Chu is looking at Ah Ji with his chin in his hands.

I was thinking about whether to make or break up his relationship with Ah Ji, when I suddenly heard the holy majesty say from the high throne: "Qin Chu."

It's a pity that Qin Chu was still looking at Ah Ji, and didn't hear him like the last banquet.Qin Chu didn't respond, but the surroundings gradually became quiet. It was so quiet that I felt a chill down my spine for him. Suddenly, I heard Qin Lian beside me speak unhurriedly, "Third Brother."

His voice was not loud, but Qin Chu finally reacted, turned his head to look at him, and Qin Lian said flatly, "Father is calling you."

The Holy Majesty's face is already comparable to the ink-like sky at night.Qin Chu finally came to his senses, rolled over and knelt down on the ground, bowed his head tremblingly and said, "Father...Father Emperor..."

His Majesty hated his indisputable expression, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, but this time he did not get angry, but asked in a deep voice, "Are you ninety-nine this year?"

"Return to father, yes..."

"It's not too young. A few days ago, your mother and concubine discussed with Gu and decided to make a marriage for you." The Holy Majesty continued, "King Yu Qing's daughter, Tian Xinru, is also King Yu Qing's only jewel. Naturally beautiful, dignified and elegant, now it's time to get married, and your mother and concubine also read your birthday horoscopes, and think it's a good match. Tomorrow, I will find a good date with the Ministry of Rites, so you two can get married."

Qin Chu raised his head abruptly, almost standing up: "Father, my son has a heart..."

The Holy Majesty didn't wait for him to finish speaking before he said "hmm" and said coldly: "Are you dissatisfied with this marriage? Do you dislike her for being ignorant, uneducated, rude, and vulgar? Is she not good enough for you? "

Qin Chu said, "No..."

The Holy Majesty waved his hand: "You have been so romantic and happy for so many years, and how many troubles you have caused, do you have to mention them to you alone? If you continue like this, the face of the entire royal family will almost be lost to you! After tonight, you will be given Gu reflect on his previous mistakes, and tomorrow you will go to ask for a dowry. That's fine, let's step down."

Qin Chu's shoulders slumped, and his face was ashen at that moment.He has always been energetic, but now he is like an eggplant beaten by frost, completely wilted.

I turned to look at Ah Ji, she still looked so clear and cold.Not even an eyebrow moved.

It's just that as far as I know, King Yu Qing's daughter seems to be the same age as me this year, and she is married to Qin Chu, who is a full ten years older. I really can't see what is a good match.However, the word "good match" is the emperor's consistent excuse. Since he said "good match", it means that a pheasant matches a phoenix, and a wild duck matches a swan.

In my memory, before my elder sister Su Zi was ordered by the emperor to marry the prime minister's son, the two words her father said were also suitable.Even though he already vaguely knew that his sister had someone he liked.

However, my sister agreed much faster than I thought.When she agreed, she bowed her head respectfully to her father, unable to see her expression clearly.

I went to see her the day before she got married, combed her smooth black hair with a jade sandalwood ox horn comb, and asked her if she regretted it, regretted it or not.Sitting in front of the mirror, she said to me lightly: "Su Xi, you should know that talking about relationships in the royal family is a very luxurious thing."

I said: "But you like him so much. Wouldn't it be sad for you to marry someone you don't understand at all with this kind of feeling in your heart?"

She smiled shallowly: "Sad? There is nothing to be sad about. You know that I know my father and the emperor, and I will never marry him anyway. So, what's the use of being sad? There is nothing more honest than emotion."

Su Zi is a really smart person, I guess I will never be one-tenth as good as her in my whole life.She is also a person who is really suitable for living in the royal family, knows how to protect herself, and knows how to make choices with the attitude that a princess should have.

Qin Chu was probably the most and only depressed person at the celebration banquet.The rewards received by the others were all gold, silver and jewels, but his reward was the most special, a piece from his wife who could not refuse.

On the way back to the East Palace, I said to Qin Lian: "That King Yu Qing, what kind of tricks has His Majesty caught recently?"

Qin Lian glanced sideways at me and said, "How do you know there is something wrong?"

"It's not obvious." I glanced at him, "If I had one and only one daughter, I would definitely not agree to marry such a carefree and old man as Qin Chu. Now since His Majesty doesn't even say hello, it's up to you to make the decision." His daughter is married, and must have caught him by the pigtails. And I guess he may have offended His Majesty not long ago, and His Majesty is now killing two birds with one stone. Your Majesty is indeed a wise monarch."

"He can't hear you flattering behind your father's back." Qin Lian said slowly, "Those are not things you should worry about now. What you need to do right now is that in a short time, it is best to have and not only have a daughter."

I:"……"

Qin Lian then said slowly, "Don't worry, I will help you."

I:"……"

Qin Lian really went too far in what he said, and that night was another painful toss.I lay down on the quilt, and he kissed my back inch by inch. My whole body was as wet as if I had just been fished out of the water. The sweaty hair stuck to my skin, but it was not as strong as his fingers gently provoking me. uncomfortable.

The panting sound in the Furong tent rose and fell, and Qin Lian finally circled back and forth on both sides of my waist.A few points down and a few points up, it is like a needle hanging above the head, but it is still refusing to fall.

People who can talk about their integrity at a time like this must be saints.I begged him in a low voice with my eyes closed, but Qin Lian turned a deaf ear.He bent down, slid his fingers into my hair, pushed harder, and I whined again.

I accuse him silently with tears in my eyes, while Qin Lian stands above my head, with beautiful lips and handsome eyebrows and eyes, but no matter how beautiful or handsome he is, he can't hide his wolfish ambition at the moment.I grabbed one side of the fabric to cover my head, but after a closer look, I found that it was the purple palace dress worn at the dinner tonight.Because it has been pressed down, it is now wrinkled and ugly.

Thinking of how the two of them returned to this bedroom tonight, I had the courage to be angry, and I was about to turn my face and stare at him confidently, but when I met his eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, all the courage suddenly disappeared. They are all like ice cubes turning into river water and disappearing with the river.Then he moved a little more, and I whined again.

Probably because I pretended to cry too much, he wiped the corners of my eyes with his index finger, and said without moving his brows: "What do you want?"

I discussed in a low voice: "Can't you hurry up..."

Qin Lian looked at me for a moment, then said leisurely, "When you fulfill your promise tonight, I will fulfill your wish in the future, do you agree?"

"I promised something..."

Qin Lian smiled: "In two years, I have not only one daughter."

My eyes widened in an instant: "What two years? You clearly mean a short period of time, okay? No, you're fooling me again. When did I promise this... um..."

Qin Lian's lips touched mine, and his voice became muffled: "Too many words."

In the end, it didn't stop until it was ugly.When I opened my eyes the next day, Qin Lian wasn't there. I slept so deeply that I didn't even know when he left.

However, Qin Lian has one advantage compared to other dudes, that is, he always likes to do things by himself.It is rare for him to do things like changing clothes by others, so that when he gets up early every day, the room can be kept quiet.

After breakfast, I saw Ah Ji standing under a tree in a daze holding a glazed dish in the yard. He tilted his head slightly and called her twice without realizing it.

It was the first time I saw her in a daze. From a distance, I felt that her state was inexplicably in line with her name, as lonely as autumn.

However, Ah Ji is Ah Ji after all, and soon returned to his normal color.Seeing me standing by the threshold, I walked over a few steps, and said coldly: "Princess, you shouldn't stand in the wind, it's easy to catch the wind and cold."

I pinched a piece of hair off the clothes and held it in my palm to show her: "Look, it's not moving at all. There's no wind here, where is the wind coming from?"

Ah Ji said: "It's better to pay attention."

I looked into the distance with one hand on my hip: "It doesn't matter."

A Ji said: "Princess, forgive me for talking too much. Although you haven't had a cough for two years, the autumn and winter in the Southern Dynasty are much colder and damper than in Su. You are only here for the first year, so it is better to be cautious."

I thought about it, and watched her speak slowly: "A Ji, are you sure you must tell me this?"

Ah Ji's eyelashes brushed violently, and immediately knelt down and said, "I know my mistake, please punish me, princess."

"..." What I didn't know the most was her move, and I simply went back to the house according to what she said.

At noon that day, I gritted my teeth and realized that I was deceived by Qin Lian again last night.Qin Lian was really annoying. Su Qi really wanted to visit the Southern Dynasty next month, and the time was really set around the tenth day of the lunar new year.

To be honest, ever since I came to Nanchao to marry Qin Lian, I never thought that I would have a chance to return to Nanchao, nor did I think that Su Qi would come to Nanchao, so I never thought that I would see Su Qi again.I had planned to store everything about Su Zi, Su Qi and Su country in my memory, but now I was suddenly told that the characters in my memory were about to appear vividly in front of me. Although there was only one person, my chest was full. The taste is still indescribable.

But Su Qi came here this time, obviously not to see my sister.On the tenth day of the next month, it will be a full month since the Mu Kingdom surrendered to the Southern Dynasty.At present, the world is only divided into three parts, one is divided into Su, one is divided into Southern Dynasties, and the other is divided into Qi.However, as far as I can see, if there are no unexpected changes, before the Spring Festival this year at the latest, the three-point world will become two points again. The surrender of the city is obviously a surrender, and stubborn resistance is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. It is only a matter of time before the two countries in southern Jiangsu will squeeze and flatten.

In the past, the capture of territory and the demarcation of the border by the two countries in southern Jiangsu was like two people eating a pear.One person took a bite on one half of the pear, and the other took another bite on the other half of the pear, biting back and forth until the end, and finally the whole pear was inevitably left with the last bite.Su Qi's return to the Southern Dynasty was probably to discuss the future border issue between the two countries.By discussing it well in advance, we can avoid hurting our peace when we meet in battle.

However, before the Qi Kingdom was destroyed, the two countries had already begun to divide the border.It is as if the monarch has not yet passed away, but the usurper is already standing in front of him in a dragon robe.I don't know if the king of Qi Kingdom will be furious when he finds out.

I think what Su Qi is going to do now is called discussion in official terms, and bargaining in vulgar terms.A small piece of Hibiscus Yulu Cake, originally the unwritten rule is half for one person, but this person said that my side has more sesame seeds and your side has less sesame seeds, so it is unfair for one person to have half; Intact, half of one is not fair.So no one is willing to be half of one person.After all, sometimes politics is also business.Although this business is obviously just that the two of them picked up a little more or less when they were picking up free food.

I don't know if it's Ah Ji's Crow's Mouth or Qin's smothering him recently, but I really started to cough that evening.It was just a slight cough at first, and later it developed into a loud cough. By the time Qin Lian returned to the East Palace, I was already out of breath.

In fact, this is much better than when I was in Su.I almost passed out from coughing.However, Qin Lian probably never expected that coughing could reach the state of being out of breath. The moment he stepped into the threshold and saw me, his body even shook, and then Meteor strode over and sat by the bed, taking the water from the handmaid , with a stern voice: "What's going on? Why didn't you announce the imperial doctor?"

I grabbed his sleeve, managed to calm my breathing a bit, and said: "No need to announce the imperial doctor, it is probably a relapse of the old disease, and it will be fine tomorrow. Anyway, if you announce it, they will have nothing to do."

"What a mess." Qin Lian frowned, and while waving his hand to order the maidservant to do as she ordered, he said without changing his stern expression, "How can it be done if you don't declare it."

I firmly grasped the hem of his clothes, coughed a few more times, and slowly recovered under his non-stop pat on the back, taking advantage of the smooth breathing: "The imperial doctors are very annoying, worse than you." To hate..."

Qin Lian looked down at me condescendingly, exuding a chilly aura all over his body, including the words: "Oh? If you don't announce the imperial physician, you will eat carrots for a month."

I said angrily, "I'm not a rabbit! Why do I eat carrots!"

Qin Lian stroked my hair behind my ears and said slowly, "Then are you calling the imperial doctor?"

I sneaked a look at his face, and said weakly: "If you don't want to, you just don't want to, and I don't necessarily want to listen to you..."

Qin Lian said casually: "Since you are married and obey your husband, it seems that there is no such rule in Su Guo."

"..."

It seems that countries are different, and imperial physicians are also different from imperial physicians.Or maybe it was because the imperial physicians in the Southern Dynasties simply thought that I was coughing due to an occasional cold, so even though I came to the East Palace in a hurry, I was still very calm and calm.

It wasn't like this when I was in Su.Every time the imperial doctors stepped into my bedroom, without exception, they were frowning, as if they were not the ones who were seriously ill.When their faces are bitter, it means that my taste buds are going to be bitter, and if I am bitter, my father will be bitter, and if my father is bitter, the faces of the imperial doctors will be even more bitter. Such a vicious circle year after year, I It's a miracle that my father didn't cure the imperial doctor and the imperial doctor didn't feed me poison in the medicine.

Qin Lian kept holding my wrist, and he didn't let go until the imperial physician arrived at the bed, saying: "Prince Princess suddenly coughs continuously, imperial physician Zhou should give her a diagnosis and treatment."

I tried to retract my hand under the quilt, but Qin Lian quickly grabbed it again, and asked calmly, "What do you want to do?"

I whispered: "Can we not diagnose and treat..."

Qin Lian smiled but didn't smile: "What do you think?"

I tried to turn around and face the inside of the bed, but failed under Qin Lian's eyes that could almost see the future of the celestial phenomenon cave.I struggled for the last chance, and said weakly: "Anyway, I have been like this since I was a child, and it will be the same after diagnosis and treatment..."

Qin Lian glanced at me and said slowly, "Are you doubting the medical skills of Imperial Physician Zhou?"

"..." I decided to ignore him, and turned to ask the imperial physician, "Is there any Yutuo flower in the Southern Dynasties?"

The Zhou imperial doctor glanced at me, bowed and said, "Back to the princess, Yutuo flower is a good medicine for cough. Although it is not a rare thing, it is suitable for growing in cold and dry weather. The climate in the Southern Dynasties is humid and warm. It is difficult to survive. But there are many medicines to treat coughs, maybe some medicines can be found instead of Yutuohua, the crown princess might as well let me cut everything."

Since he said the same thing, I had no choice but to stretch out my hand.

Cutting the pulse is also a technical activity.Cutting too fast is likely to be suspected of poor medical skills, and cutting too slowly is easily suspected of poor medical skills.And this Imperial Physician Zhou obviously failed to grasp the fire, and finally gave up after Qin Lian's urging twice.

He said: "His Royal Highness, don't worry too much. The Crown Princess just feels cold occasionally. I will prescribe a prescription for you. Take the medicine for two days and you will be fine."

He did what he said, and immediately wrote a prescription with a pen.This doctor Zhou's handwriting has been scrawled to the point of uncanny craftsmanship. I read it twice but didn't understand it. Just looking at the two pages full of medicinal materials, my scalp felt numb.

The medicine boy then ran to decoct the medicine.Qin Lian sat by the bed and asked the imperial physician, "Is there any Yutuo flower in it?"

The imperial physician bowed and said, "Going back to His Royal Highness, the Imperial Hospital has not prepared medicinal herbs such as Yutuohua for a long time. I used other herbs instead, and the effect is the same."

Qin Lian gave a "hmm", and then the imperial physician bowed and left.I covered my handkerchief and leaned sideways on the edge of the bed to cough. At first I thought this movement was nothing, but under Qin Lian's long-term gaze, I gradually felt that even normal movements were abnormal. I raised my head to look at him and found him Still looking at me.

Qin Lian's eyes were very strange, as if I was a bait to lure a fish into the bait. He was clearly looking at me, but it felt like he wasn't looking at me.I was horrified by him, and suddenly I heard him whisper: "You just said that this is an old disease, did you have it before?"

I let out an "ah" and said, "Actually, this has been with me since I was born. I would cough every winter, but I stopped coughing when I got spring. In fact, I didn't make it anymore in the past two years. I don't know why this year. It will be like this. Maybe it’s because I’m not acclimatized when I first came to Nanchao, or it’s..."

Qin Lian said, "Or what?"

I closed my eyes and said, "Maybe it's because I'm too oppressed by you, and my heart disease is too deep..."

I heard a snort, and then I was wrapped in someone's arms together with the quilt.His eyes are close at hand, and I can clearly see the long, curved and thick eyelashes on them.There is my funny look in my pupils, and Qin Lian's pale lips are pursed into a pretty arc, or in fact, it can be said that no matter what kind of appearance he makes at any time, he is probably very good-looking.

He slowly leaned over, and I closed my lips tightly in fright.Feeling wrong again, so I leaned back desperately, and whispered: "You, you, what do you want to do? I'm sick, you can't bully the sick..."

Qin Lian looked at me, finally put me back on the bed, patted me through the quilt, and said calmly, "Who told you to talk too much?"

I prayed that time would pass more slowly, but in the end the medicine was prepared and delivered on time.Qin Lian waved Ah Ji back, holding the medicine bowl in one hand and helping me to sit up with the other. I looked at the medicine bowl full of black juice, and immediately shrank back.

While stirring the medicine, Qin Lian said casually, "Hiding for what? You can also drink it when you hide in the corner of the bed."

After speaking for a long time, I realized that there was no response, and then raised my head to look at me: "Why don't you speak?"

I said confidently, "Didn't you dislike me for talking too much?"

Qin Lian: "..."

After a while, I whispered: "His Royal Highness..."

Qin Lian slowly scooped up half a spoonful of medicinal soup, brought it to my mouth, and said slowly, "Huh?"

My throat was itchy for a while, I turned my face away and coughed twice, then stepped back and looked at him sincerely: "I can just drink it myself, don't you have something to do? There are still people waiting in the study ? Just call Ah Chi over.”

Qin Lian glanced at me, but the hand holding the medicine spoon was still steady, motionless.I stared at him, he stared at me, and finally I looked at the ceiling, finally lowered my head slightly, and swallowed the medicine in one gulp.

...It's really not ordinary suffering.It was twice as bitter as the ones I had tasted in Su before.I was so painful that I covered my mouth and breathed in desperately. There were puddles of water in my eyes. Based on past experience, I believe that although this expression is not delicate, it must be very pitiful. However, Qin Lian was still unmoved. Spoon moved to my mouth again, his expression didn't even change a bit.

I wiped away my tears, propped myself up on the bed, puffed out my chest and said righteously: "I won't drink, I just won't drink!"

Generally speaking, if I do this, if the object is the father, then the father will coax softly, and then show the majesty of the emperor, and order the imperial doctor to cook a bowl of less bitter medicine; Qi, then Su Qi will definitely give me a cool look, and then sigh, but in the end he will also coax me softly, and then scold the imperial doctor, and ask them to cook another bowl of less bitter medicine. .

Now that I have done this, Qin Lian's reaction is similar to what I imagined.First he looked at me with a blank expression, and I looked at him with an even more blank expression. After a while, he also compromised, and took the medicine spoon back.

I thought this was the end, but I didn't expect it to be just the beginning.Before I had time to rejoice, he suddenly scooped up a spoonful of medicine and put it in his mouth, and then put down the medicine bowl.When I watched his movements, my eyes widened immediately, and my mouth opened slightly in disbelief. I didn't expect that he was always generous, so how could he be so frugal today?

Unexpectedly, it is still further behind.He leaned over and pinched my chin, and I finally realized the moment his lips touched, but before I could close my mouth, a bitter taste spread along the tip of my tongue.

"..."

Before I fully recovered, Qin Lian had already stepped back, picked up the medicine bowl again, and said slowly, "Continue?"

There are still some light brown drug marks left at the corner of his mouth, his head is tilted slightly, and the profile of his face is too calm and pretty.My hands softened for a while, and my voice also softened, and said tremblingly: "No, I can't..."

Then Qin Lian brought the medicine spoon to my mouth again, this time I didn't even dare to frown again, and swallowed without hesitation.

It was the first time in my history that I drank medicine so fast that the bowl of kung fu medicine, which was less than half a cup of tea, had already bottomed out.

The imperial physician's medicine didn't work that night. After Qin Lian left to go to the study, I still coughed profusely, and finally managed to fall asleep while coughing.However, as soon as my eyelids were closed, I felt the soft bed around me sag. I managed to open my eyes, and it was indeed Qin Lian.

"Woke you up?" He said leisurely, "Just leaning in, I was squeezed by you until I was only on the edge of the bed."

I rubbed my eyes and said, "Aren't you going to sleep in the study? Why did you run back?"

Qin Lian said, "When did I say I was going to sleep in the study?"

I said: "Ah Ji didn't tell you? Generally speaking, I cough very badly in the middle of the night, and I will definitely wake you up at that time. Aren't you very busy recently, you should go to the study to sleep."

Qin Lian glanced at me and said, "The study room is not as warm as it is here."

I turned over and faced inside, and said in a vague way: "Then let someone add more fire to you."

There was no movement behind me for a while.After a while, I suddenly felt that the surroundings were a little darker than before. I opened my eyes and saw that Qin Lian had already untied the curtains, and the candlelight was half-bright and half-dark hidden outside the double curtains. Qin Lian followed and lay down with arms folded. With one ring closed, the two of them were stuck very close, and the huge bed surface immediately vacated more than half of the vacancy.

His lips were close to my ears, and he read out each word: "You are really considerate."

I coughed twice, and said, "Your Highness is absurd, this is just the responsibility of being a princess."

His palms were on my heart, and the fabric was pressed against my skin, which was a bit warmer than the brocade quilt, and my cough gradually got better.Then he whispered: "If it's just a cold, why would you cough in the middle of the night?"

"Quack doctor. I told you that I have an old disease, but Zhou Taiyi insisted on diagnosis and treatment with wind and cold." I yawned, closed my eyes and said, "As the saying goes, there is no disease in the world, and quack doctors disturb themselves... "

Qin Lian paused, then interrupted me: "Since it's an old disease, did you find a suitable prescription when you were in Su?"

Of course not.The State of Su is also dominated by quack doctors, not much better than that of the Southern Dynasties.A doctor's diagnosis is like a monk carrying water. One doctor has water to drink, two doctors carry water to drink, and three doctors have no water to drink.According to Ah Ji, when I was young, I suffered from the first illness, and the imperial physicians gathered together to discuss the treatment plan seriously.However, the discussions came and went, but the final result was that there was no result.Because they insisted on their own opinions, and they couldn't do headless experiments on me, and at the same time they couldn't find anyone with the same disease as me, so in the end they had to adopt the mildest treatment method. And only me.

Qin Lian was silent for a while.I took the opportunity to say: "His Royal Highness, can we discuss something?"

"Oh?" Qin Lian said lazily, "What do you want to talk about? Except for the medicine, let's talk about the rest."

"..." I said angrily, "That doctor Zhou made a wrong diagnosis, why should I continue to take medicine?"

Qin Lian ignored my words at all, and said to himself: "That is to say, from the time you were born until the first two years, you basically had to cough like this every winter?"

I said "ah" and said, "So are you very disappointed and want to divorce now?"

He let out a "huh" and asked with great interest, "What do you say?"

"You will definitely think I'm troublesome. It's like buying an embroidered pillow that is very pleasing to the eye, but when you go home and take it apart, you find that it is wheat bran instead of cotton. It's just wheat bran, it's still old Wheat bran, sticky all over the floor, you can’t even take the pillow skin. You must be very disappointed.” I continued, “Actually, I didn’t mean to hide it from you. I really thought that my illness was cured. of."

Qin Lian gave a "hmm" behind me, and said slowly: "I didn't think of it if you didn't say it. But the divorce is fine for now. Although you are indeed troublesome, it is not as troublesome as the divorce. Besides, the successive princes of the Southern Dynasties There is no precedent for retiring a marriage in this book to refer to."

I suddenly cleared my mind: "Ah, yes. I forgot the tradition of the Southern Dynasty, you can still accept the side concubine again. Naturally, you can save the divorce."

He smiled inexplicably: "Na side concubine? You think further than I do."

I coughed twice, then cleared my throat, and said solemnly: "This is just the responsibility of being a princess."

Qin Lian put one hand on my lower abdomen, kneading it lightly and said, "Then tell me, which one should I take?"

"For a wise prince to accept concubines, it is naturally the worst policy to accept concubines out of the love of children, and the middle policy to accept concubines out of political considerations. If it meets both political considerations and the love of children, then it is the best policy. But since ancient times, the world Good things don’t come in pairs, and even if they do, they can’t stay together for a long time, so to be honest, there are not too many chances of being the best policy..." My words stopped abruptly, and my eyes widened suddenly, "You..."

"What's wrong with me?"

I cried, "Stop rubbing..."

In the end, he still went his own way, and I almost cried without tears: "I want to be called Ah Ji, quickly call me Ah Ji..."

He bit my earlobe, and the words he said were soft and low, as soft as cream in the night: "What did you ask her to do?"

I looked at the top of the tent, and my whole body was stiff like a log: "I'm here for Kuishui..."

"..."

The next day the eldest princess Zhao You'e came to visit, and she brought her innocent younger sister Zhao Youyi with her.

Qin Lian was painting a fan with his wrist hanging, and before he could stop writing, his arm was tightly hugged by a ball of bright yellow. The brush he was holding shook, and a drop of ink as big as a bean fell down. Just blurred to the center of the fan.

Zhao Youyi almost hung on Qin Lian's body, raised her pretty oval face, and said coquettishly, "Brother Qin, it's been a long time since you went to play at his house."

Zhao You'e walked in slowly, and lightly reprimanded: "His Royal Highness is always busy, do you think that other people are just as idle as you?"

Zhao Youyi fell off Qin Lian's body in embarrassment, pouted and said nothing.Qin Lian put the fan aside, Zhao You'e blushed slightly, and said: "The concubine heard that the Crown Princess had a lot of coughs the night before, and it happened that there was a good medicine for coughing in Prince Lu's Mansion, so I brought it here today. I don't know that His Highness the Crown Prince is also here, please excuse me gone."

After speaking, he raised his eyes and glanced at Zhao Youyi, and said calmly, "Youyi, come here."

Zhao Youyi reluctantly walked over, and then reluctantly blessed me under her sister's nose, with a voice as loud as a mosquito: "I have seen the princess."

This scene is really like the situation when I was with my sister Su Zi in Su country.Su Qi once made a comparison between the two of us, saying that Su Zi is like a summer hibiscus, seen from a distance, left and right, during the day and at night, no matter how you look at it, she is peaceful and gentle, dignified and elegant, and she is not stained by mud I am like a dead leaf in autumn, which can only be admired from a distance but not up close. If the autumn wind sweeps it casually, I can show off most of my feet.

Su Zi just smiled slightly after hearing his tattered metaphor, and continued to sip the tea leisurely.At that time, I tightened the fox fur on my shoulders, and said contemptuously: "You are the withered leaves in autumn, you look like the withered leaves in autumn."

Su Qi gave a "tsk", put down the teacup, pointed at me and said to Su Zi, "Look, I'm right."

It seemed that because of Qin Lian's presence, Zhao You'e couldn't say much, so she left after sitting for a while.On the other hand, Zhao Youyi had an attitude of reluctance, followed behind Zhao You'e and looked at Qin Lian with watery eyes, completely ignoring the existence of me, the princess, and not only ignoring, but also looked at Qin Lian with a very hateful look at the corner. I glance.

After she finished watching, she was almost fell by the obstacle in front of her, and then she heard Zhao You'e's voice scolding her younger sister from a distance.There are folk rumors that the second child is always not as smart as the first child. Based on my personal experience and what I have seen with my own eyes today, this is probably true in all likelihood.During such an incense stick of time, Qin Lian never even had a look at Zhao Youyi, but the latter still couldn't forget it, and he always wrote the four characters of infatuation and no regrets clearly on his face.

If it was Zhao You'e, she probably wouldn't do this.If it were her older sister Su Zi, she would definitely not do this.As the daughter of the royal family, she has always put dignity and pride above all else.You can live and die for the country, but you will never shed tears for the love of your children.

As soon as the Zhao family sisters left, Qin Lian took out the fan and stared at the black ink the size of a thumb, frowning thoughtfully.I lay down on the table and coughed twice, and said, "It's a pity that a good fan..."

Qin Lian held the brush and licked the ink, without raising his head, he said: "When did you start making friends with the eldest princess?"

"That little white cat was given to me by her..." I raised my head and said, "There is a saying that you are soft on people, but short on mouth when you eat people, do you know that?"

"But there's another saying called reciprocity, do you know that?" Qin Lian slowly painted on the circle of smudges, and said casually, "It's a big deal to give her back a more beautiful one. The people in Lu Wang's mansion are still far away." Farther away is better."

I didn't ask why, and Qin Lian didn't explain either.After a while, he had already finished the fan, and he patched up the ink stain into a little girl lying on her side beside the green pool on the rockery.He put the brush back on the washer, pinched the fan bone and looked at me sideways: "How is it?"

I glanced at it and said disdainfully, "This little girl is really ugly."

Qin Lian was silent for a moment, and said, "The little girl I drew is you."

"..."

The next afternoon, taking advantage of Qin Lian's absence, I secretly carried the snow-white kitten to the bed to play with.The kitten is very well-behaved, holding the human finger and rolling its tail.I was getting excited when Ah Ji opened the door and came in, whispering: "Princess, mynah is dead."

I was stunned, and then I remembered that mynah always likes to be a blockbuster when it is silent, but today it is still too obedient.After a while, he asked, "Which one?"

Ah Ji looked at my face carefully, and replied patiently: "It's the one you raised."

I stood still for a moment, the kitten rubbed its paws and stared at the felt ball in my hand, jumped up, grabbed it in one bite and ran away.I still didn't move, and asked softly, "How did you die? Was it scratched by a cat?"

"It was still jumping around in the morning. When I came back just now, I found that its body was already stiff. It was still bleeding from its mouth. It was probably poisoned to death."

Now I calmed down completely: "Who poisoned to death?"

"I don't know." Ah Ji asked, "Do you want to check?"

"No need." I thought for a while, exhaled lightly, and said, "We are alone now, how should we investigate?"

Ah Ji asked again: "When Qin Lian comes back, do you still want to tell him?"

I didn't answer, but asked seriously: "You said, if we endure this time, will we continue to be bullied in the future?"

Ah Ji's face was ice jade, and he lowered his eyes and replied: "It depends on Qin Lian's attitude. If he can treat the princess well, the princess will naturally live better."

I opened my mouth, and after a while I said in frustration: "Forget it, he should stop being nice to me."

This starling bird has not been with me for a long time, it was bought by Su Qi when he was still in the country of Su when he heard that I was about to leave for the Southern Dynasty.According to what Su Qi means, I have lived for nearly 20 years without even leaving the capital of Su, but now I have to travel thousands of miles to the Southern Dynasty. If one day I think of him so much that he wants to cry, he can't rush there. After much deliberation, I had to buy a starling bird and teach it some comforting words such as my sister, don’t cry, everything will be fine, etc. When I miss him, I will take out this bird and listen to it. Anyway, talking is better than nothing, barely comforting lovesickness suffering.

However, it later proved that the ideal is plump, and the reality is thin.When this starling bird faced Su Qi, it knew nothing except eating, drinking, sleeping, and staring at Su Qi from a height like a fool. Let it call out its sister.Su Qi was obviously very annoyed at this piebald bird that ruined his dignity, and really wanted to destroy the body, as if this meant that he had never had such a failure, and finally I rushed towards him to say something and reluctantly let it go.

However, after I married into Nanchao, one day Qin Lian passed by the promenade, stopped and taught it "Su Xi is an idiot". Suddenly, this starling bird stroked its fur with its paws as if it were a godsend. Arrogantly followed by "Su Xi is an idiot".

I was so surprised at the time, so surprised that I didn't even care about what Qin Lian taught it. Anyway, Qin Lian has long been a habit of bullying others. I just thought silently, if Su Qi was there, he would become so angry. Maybe it set fire to the entire Southern Dynasty palace.

When Qin Lian came back when dinner was approaching, I was leaning against the table and flipping through the scriptures. The first thing he said when he saw me was: "Why is that starling bird in the corridor gone?"

I paused, looked up at him strangely, and then replied, "Dead."

Qin Lian raised his eyebrows, pulled out the notebook in my hand and flipped through a few pages, he seemed very dissatisfied with the content in it, and refused to return it to me, he threw it aside casually, and asked me again: "Why did you die?" ?”

I braced my chin and said, "He just died out of nowhere, Ah Ji said he was poisoned to death."

He raised his eyebrows again: "Poisoned to death? Who did it?"

I said confidently, "If I knew who was poisoned to death, would I still say it was inexplicable?"

Qin Lian looked at me for a while, and finally said, "I'll buy you a more beautiful one tomorrow."

I was discouraged and said, "I don't want it."

"how?"

I secretly glanced at him, bit my lip, and remained silent for a while.

This afternoon, I walked around in circles for a while before I got up the courage to ask Ah Ji if it was Qin Lian who poisoned the starling bird.Without raising her head, she told me with certainty: "[-]% not." After a pause, she continued, "If Qin Lian agrees to buy the princess a more beautiful starling bird, the princess had better not agree."

"why?"

Ah Ji said quietly: "Although the one given to you by His Royal Highness can't speak, most starlings can still imitate human speech. If they accidentally imitate some words, or someone taught it some words before blaming you At that time, even if we jump into the Yellow River, we won't be able to clean up."

I tilted my head and looked at Qin Lian. After a while, I finally came up with an idea, and whispered, "Instead of buying a starling, you might as well allow the kitten to come into the bedroom..."

Qin Lian's jade-like face showed a smile that was not a smile, and he simply rejected me: "Don't even think about it."

"Then maybe allow me to leave the palace once..."

"This," he picked up a piece of plum cake on the table, stuffed it into my mouth, and said with a smile, "I'll wait until your cough is completely healed."

Two days passed, but I didn't expect the prescription of Zhou Taiyi to really work.I miraculously didn't cough after getting up early in the morning of the third day. For this, Qin Lian gave me a lot of praise and criticism, saying that my illness was obviously just an accidental cold, and he swore that it was an old disease.As the chief of Tai Hospital, Doctor Zhou could make a wrong diagnosis.

I was very angry at his contempt for killing and beating, and asked him why he didn't say that Zhou Taiyi was the dean at the beginning, and he didn't give the credit to him until his medicine had curative effect. It is clear that it is a firecracker after the horse.

Qin Lian expressed a little surprise at my resolute protest, but the surprise was only fleeting, and soon he returned to his normal expression, with a smile that was not a smile at the corner of his lips: "The rabbit bites when it is anxious." ?”

"You are the rabbit!"

Qin Lian dipped his pen and ink, slowly flipped through the book, drew circles on it, and didn't even lift his head: "Come and have a look at this."

I said righteously, "I'm not going there."

Qin Lian glanced at me and wrote casually: "Your brother is coming to the Southern Dynasty to negotiate a new border. I thought you would be interested in the terrain of Qi."

"..." I silently stood up and walked to his side, but he grabbed it with one hand and hugged him on his lap.He opened the booklet on one side, grabbed my waist again and fixed me: "What are you doing?"

"Don't you think I'm heavy? I'd better come down..."

Qin Lian looked at me amusedly: "If you are so gentle and considerate, you might as well give me a shoulder squeeze."

"But I don't pinch my shoulders, I just scratch it."

"Female reds can't pinch their shoulders. I haven't played piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting since we got married. It's really a loss for me to marry you." Qin Lian tapped on the table with one hand, "Look at this."

I never thought that Qin Lian would take the initiative to show me the topographic map of Qi country, but his mind is always in a thousand turns, and it has always been difficult for me to fathom it, so no matter what he does, I will not be surprised.The entire land of Qi State is as long and slender as an earthworm, and a mark is drawn in the middle, probably this is the legendary dividing line between the two southern Jiangsu countries in the future.

Qin Lian said lazily, "Do you think your brother will be satisfied if the land is divided like this?"

I said: "How would I know about you..."

The corners of Qin Lian's lips curled up in an arc that seemed to be a smile but not a smile, which made my heart shudder.I tried to break free from him, but he hugged me even tighter, he bent and straightened my fingers, straightened and bent, and said indifferently: "Su Xi, your brother is here, why don't you have any intention of getting excited? "

I also said indifferently: "I heard that Qi Kingdom sent her here yesterday as the number one beauty of the court and Princess Yu. His Majesty originally planned to reward her to you. Why don't you have any intention of being excited?"

Qin Lian smiled again: "Didn't you say that the prince and the concubine are divided into three strategies, the middle and the lower? This one of Princess Heyu's strategy doesn't count. Why should I be excited?"

I also smiled: "So, Su Qi didn't come to Nanchao to visit me, why should I be excited?"

Qin Lian propped his forehead, his smile deepened, his eyes were deep and indistinguishable, and a little weird, giving people the feeling of a flower in the mist and a moon in the water.I became more and more uneasy when he saw me, I jumped off his lap, turned around and ran out quickly, until I ran out of the study, he didn't even stop me.

My cough just happened, and before I had time to propose to Qin Lian that he fulfill his promise to take me out of the palace, it was already the tenth day of the lunar new year.

In the early morning of the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, just as I finished washing, the maidservant came to announce the arrival of a distinguished guest in the main hall.

However, when I hurried to the main hall, I didn't see anyone.Instead, under the osmanthus tree in the courtyard, there is a tall and graceful figure with a long body, a rainbow jade waist, and a brocade-bend dress, gentle and elegant.At this moment, she was raising her eyebrows and lowering her head to tease the little white cat that rolled into a ball in her palm.Two osmanthus petals fell on the shoulders. Sensing someone coming, she turned her head slightly, then smiled lightly, and with a movement of her wrist, the kitten jumped to the ground lightly.

Su Qi straightened up, ringing the jade finger on his thumb, his smile was as light as the wind and the moon, and his voice was as clear as the winter snow melting, he said in a calm and unhurried manner: "Sister."

He smiled like a spring breeze, I glanced at him, blessed myself, and said softly as much as possible: "Brother."

Su Qidao: "Have you been away for a long time?"

I said: "Everything is fine. Are sister and father safe?"

Su Qidao: "It's okay."

I asked, "Is my brother married?"

Su Qidao: "Not yet."

I said: "Okay, aren't you afraid of biting your tongue after pulling and pulling? Go back to the room and talk."

Su Qi: "..."

Su Qi took his seat, and first took out a small bag of things from his sleeve. I reckoned that he wanted to habitually throw the embroidered bag to me, but in view of the maids around, he still honestly took it lightly and softly. put it in my hand.

I smelled the familiar aroma of Yutuo flowers.Just after a "huh", Su Qi explained: "It is said that you coughed again a few days ago. There are jade petals inside."

I stared at the kit for a long time, and had to express my contempt: "That's all you brought?"

Su Qi glanced at me, and said: "This was originally brought for you to make a sachet, but you would cough again. I'm not a porter, so why don't I carry two sacks for you?"

"..." I put the embroidered pouch in my sleeve and said, "Then when did you come to Nanchao?"

Su Qi fiddled with the set of purple clay pots on the table, and said slowly: "It's this morning. I miss you, and I came to see you before I had a formal meeting."

I said, "Then when are you leaving?"

Su Qi hated that iron could not be made into steel: "Listen to what this is saying. I haven't attended the state banquet hosted by the emperor yet, so you want me to go?"

I said: "I hope it will be of no use. Father certainly doesn't want you to stay here for too long."

Su Qi sipped his tea in small sips, and after a while he said unhurriedly: "I didn't worry about it, what are you worrying about. It's just," he changed his tone suddenly, and said coldly, "The eavesdropper at the door What is your handmaid?"

Before I could react, the teacup lid in Su Qi's hand had already been thrown out quickly, and then I heard a low inhalation.Su Qi sat up straight, glanced over casually, and said in a solemn voice, "Come out."

Sure enough, a court lady came out timidly from behind the flowers in front of the door. I lay on the armrest of the chair and saw the strangeness. I waved my hand to the court lady who was about to cry, trying to put on a gentle attitude of a lady, and said calmly : "I didn't cry, why are you crying. It's none of your business, you go down first."

Su Qi turned his face to look at me, it seemed that his anger was still there, and his eyes seemed to have changed several complicated meanings in an instant.I held the teacup and drank tea slowly, pretending I didn't see it, and after a while I heard him sigh: "...It's really spoiling my interest." After saying that, he dragged me out of the chair without any explanation, "Don't drink it , you come out of the palace with me."

An hour later, we were sitting by the window on the second floor of the largest restaurant in the capital, with good wine, tea and food in front of us. However, my elder brother obviously didn't want to move his chopsticks. He frowned and thought for a while, and finally made a sound. Question: "That means you have been under surveillance since you got married?"

"Brother, what you said is really ugly." I took a bite of the crispy carrot and said, "Everyone knows that Su and Nanchao are not friendly neighbors at all, and it's normal to have mutual suspicion. If Qin Lian's My sister married you, don't you still want to know her every move?"

"Also, where's the starling bird? Why haven't I seen it?"

I whispered, "I was poisoned to death."

Su Qi's face darkened for a moment: "All these were ordered by Qin Lian?"

I thought for a while, and said, "Mynah doesn't seem to be the case. But the East Palace was originally Qin Lian's place. However, Qin Lian's arrangement was upright. The maidservants standing in the main hall today belonged to him, but the eavesdropper Yes, it was probably arranged by someone else."

After hearing this, Su Qi's face became even more gloomy.I patted the back of his hand across the table, and calmed him down: "Don't be angry. Think about it, who hasn't been planted with a few eyes and ears, isn't even you, brother? Anyway, I still I haven’t done anything wrong, so I’m not afraid. Try the shredded radish here, it’s delicious, you’ve never tasted this kind of shredded radish in Su.”

"I'm so full of gas, what else do I want to eat?" Su Qi glanced at me, but was still angry, "No matter how delicious shredded radish is, it's just shredded radish. Can you pursue it a little bit?"

"Oh," I nodded and said, "You and the emperor's attack on Qi Kingdom is called pursuit, but it is not called pursuit when I am full, right? I am the victim from the beginning to the end. If you don't comfort me, it's fine." Are you still mad at me?"

Su Qi's expression finally calmed down, holding his chopsticks and not speaking.I said, "Why are you so serious, just smile."

"I can't laugh." Su Qi let out a breath slowly, and said coldly, "There's a banquet tonight, what are you eating so much for now? There's so much meat on both cheeks, like a pig."

I was immediately angry: "Su Qi, you are going to die!"

Su Qi said coolly: "I didn't tell you before, did I? Last winter you ate and drank a lot in Su country. I didn't have the heart to talk about you at the time. In fact, at that time you shot at pigs at a speed that can be seen by human eyes." The shape is the same. Now it is thinner than before, but it still has a pig-like face, basically unchanged."

I was about to jump up and murder my own brother, but I was pushed back into the chair by Su Qi's sudden words: "Xi'er, you don't need to listen to all the emperor's words, I'm still here."

I was startled, turned my head to look at the sky outside the window, smiled, and said slowly: "But I'm a princess after all."

His Majesty has been ill with the Eucharist recently, but he still attended the dinner on time.He was sitting on a high throne, propping his chin with one hand, his face was a little sickly pale.Although no one dared to mention it, it was a tacit fact that the emperor of the Southern Dynasty was in poor health this year.

At the banquet, there was a lot of drinking and drinking, and there was no mention of matters related to the Qi Kingdom.I don't know where the legendary Princess Heyu, who was reluctantly handed over by the king of Qi Kingdom a few days ago, was placed.And Su Qi has been smiling faintly. He is the most distinguished guest at this banquet, and he has a face that is easy to get close to others, so since the beginning of the banquet music, he has been extremely busy.

Su Qi has his own set of tactics for dealing with women's flirting.Back then at the state banquet of the State of Su, I saw him entangled among the colorful beauties, and when he got out after a while, he couldn't find even the slightest wrinkle on his body.And women in the Southern Dynasty are much more reserved than Su Guo, even if Su Qi is allowed to enjoy the grace of several beauties at the same time, he probably can do it.

Qin Lian was busy greeting his father, and I took the opportunity to sneak out of the banquet.There is a rockery not far away, but before I approach it, a pretty figure stands in front of me.

Zhao Youyi is as tall as me, but her imposing manner is much higher than mine. The strings of jewels hanging around her neck flashed brightly in the dim light, her chin was raised high, and she said seriously: "I want to talk to you .”

I looked her up and down, and said, "According to the rules of the Southern Dynasty, shouldn't you call me Crown Princess first?"

Zhao Youyi took a step closer and looked at me bitterly: "You are not worthy to be a princess!"

I said "oh", tilted my head, and said leisurely: "But I am the princess now."

According to Su Qi's grudge experience since we were young, when we quarreled, even if we were so angry that we would vomit blood, we must maintain a calm and indifferent attitude on the surface.And the result of the quarrel is directly proportional to the degree of your calmness and indifference. The calmer you are, the more you can make the other party vomit blood with anger, and return the oppression in your chest to the other party with interest.I have been fighting with Su Qi for more than ten years, and the level of quarrels has been continuously upgraded in the mutual contest. Now Su Qi and I have basically reached the perfect level of quarreling skills, and we can listen to others from the eighteenth generation of our ancestors without changing our expressions. From greetings to certain parts of the body to mental illness and doubts about ability, I didn't even raise my eyebrows.

Zhao Youyi was indeed even more angry, and said viciously: "Brother Qin said before he married you that it was only a matter of time before the Southern Dynasty captured Su. When the Southern Dynasty unified the mainland, you would no longer be a princess!" Thinking of something again, she went on to say triumphantly, "Did you see the death of your starling bird that day? Just wait, that's what you will look like in the future."

My eyelids twitched, I clenched my fists in my sleeves, and I didn't speak for a long time.And my attitude obviously encouraged her, and Zhao Youyi said more happily: "Do you think your Su country is so powerful? You don't know, Su country has many loopholes, from the court of party disputes to the separatist regime With Brother Qin's ability, it would be easy for one side of the feudal town to cause civil strife. Everyone knows that his marriage to you is just a stopgap measure. And since you married to the Southern Dynasty, don't think about going back alive."

My eyelids twitched again, staring at her and asked seriously: "Where did you know this?"

Zhao Youyi looked at me triumphantly: "You don't care!"

"Then has anyone ever told you?" I took a few deep breaths, resisting the desire to grab her neck, "It's better not to say some things?"

Subsequent developments proved that my theoretical experience seemed to be in need of refinement.Su Qi could barely be called a gentleman who was courteous before fighting, so when arguing with him, he only needed to use his mouth instead of his hands.However, as a girl, Zhao Youyi doesn't care what a gentleman is, and she obviously doesn't want to be a gentleman. She just stared at me with a pair of angry eyes, and then suddenly stretched out her hand and pushed hard. I didn't pay attention for a while, thump He took two steps back, and suddenly bumped into the rockery behind him.

There is only one sharp edge on this side of the rockery, but I just bumped into it.I was in so much pain that I couldn't see stars, I squatted down and curled up into a ball, motionless.After a long while, I finally regained my senses. I looked up at Zhao Youyi. She was even more surprised than I was. She took a step forward in a daze, and said in a slightly bewildered voice, "Are you... all right?"

I opened my mouth, but a cold voice came from behind Zhao Youyi: "Youyi, what are you doing?"

Zhao Youyi's body trembled, and she stood still in place.Zhao You'e came out from behind the tree shadow, walked around her and helped me up, frowning, with a worried attitude: "Crown Princess, what do you think?"

I frowned and shook my head, breathing in pain, regretting in my heart why I left Ah Ji in the Eastern Palace tonight and did not bring him out.Now the back of the waist hurts when you touch it, and Zhao Youyi is obviously not ready to take responsibility for this beating incident. After seeing her sister, her face was as white as winter snow, and she couldn't do it for a long time. melt.

Zhao You'e turned to look at Zhao Youyi, and said sharply: "Youyi, you are becoming more and more outrageous now! Apologize to the princess! I will tell my father later that you don't know how serious it is if you don't confine you for a month or two!"

Zhao Youyi was obviously wronged, twisted her fingers and said, "But..."

"No but! It's your fault for hitting someone! Apologize quickly!"

Zhao Youyi looked at me, pointed at me suddenly and said loudly: "She obviously bumped into me on purpose to frame me! I am not wrong! I will not apologize!"

I looked at Zhao Youyi in a little surprise, she is really... indescribable.Zhao You'e's face suddenly became ugly, she suddenly let go of me and took a step forward, raised her hand high, and slapped her hard across the face.

Zhao Youyi stared at her blankly, and burst into tears with a "wow".

"Why are you crying? You know how to lie now, don't you? How did your father and elder brother teach you? How could the Zhao family have a daughter like you!"

After Zhao You'e finished her reprimand, she came back to help me again, Zhao Youyi cried even louder, and my head hurt even more from her crying: "Can you stop crying?"

Zhao Youyi gave me a hard look, and didn't want to pay any attention to me at all. I thought about Su Qi's tricks to appease girls that I had peeped before, and thought for a while: "If you cry again, the makeup on your face will be gone."

This trick is really clever.Zhao Youyi was still sobbing, but the tears miraculously stopped.I looked back at Zhao You'e, she was staring at Zhao Youyi sullenly, with an expression of reckoning after autumn, completely gone from the gentle and graceful appearance she used to be.

My eyelids twitched again, Zhao Youyi suddenly raised her face, gave us a resentful look, turned around and ran away quickly.

As soon as my sister left, my sister turned around and wanted to apologize to me again. I waved my hand, looked into her eyes, and said softly, "His Royal Highness Princess Lu, Qin Lian told me a few days ago to keep me away from the people in Prince Lu's mansion."

Zhao You'e looked at me, and gradually regained her dignified and calm demeanor as a princess, and smiled softly: "I see, just don't bother Your Highness in the future."

(End of this chapter)