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Chapter 9 Princess Huanzhu Xiaoyanzi 8

When she looked away, Yongqi, who was riding on the horse, seemed to notice her gaze and looked over.

However, when he looked over, Xiaoyanzi had already looked away, so he naturally didn't notice anything wrong.

"The person in the sedan should be Ziwei!" Liu Qing said firmly.

Liu Hong's eyesight was not that good. There were bead curtains around the sedan chair, so she couldn't see the people inside at all. She asked uncertainly, "How did you know?"

"The maid outside the sedan is Jinsuo!" Xiaoyanzi didn't see the person in the sedan clearly, but she saw Jinsuo following the sedan. It is estimated that Liu Qing saw Jinsuo first, and then dared to say that Ziwei was in the sedan.

"Yes, I saw the golden lock next to it first and then I said it was Ziwei inside!"

Liu Qing did not refute Xiaoyanzi's words. He did see the golden lock outside before he was sure that the person inside was Ziwei.

As they were talking, Ziwei's sedan chair had already arrived in front of the three of them.

Jinsuo outside saw the three people outside before Ziwei in the sedan chair. She excitedly said to Ziwei in the sedan chair, "Princess, Xiaoyanzi and the others are here to see you!"

"Really? Where are they?" Ziwei followed the direction of Jinsuo's finger and saw Xiaoyanzi and the other two. She waved to them excitedly. "Xiaoyanzi! Liu Qing and Liu Hong!"

Xiaoyanzi and Liu Qing and Liu Hong beside them also smiled and waved in response to her.

After greeting Ziwei, the sedan chair she was riding in passed the three people and continued to move forward.

Xiaoyanzi and Liu Qing and Liu Hong waved to Ziwei and watched the sedan chair leave with smiles on their faces.

After the emperor's procession for offering sacrifices to heaven left the street, the crowd of onlookers began to disperse in twos and threes.

Xiaoyanzi, Liu Qing and Liu Hong also went back home, leaving only a few vendors selling goods on the street.

On the way back to the slum, Liu Qing saw a vendor selling candied haws, so he quickly chased him and bought two candied haws, one for Xiaoyanzi and one for Liu Hong.

"Xiaoyanzi, I remember that you like to eat candied haws the most. You and Liu Hong should each get one!"

Xiaoyanzi took the red candied haws handed to her by Liu Qing and smiled as beautifully as a flower.

She does like eating candied haws, she likes the sour and sweet taste of candied haws.

Liu Qing stared blankly at Xiaoyanzi's bright smile, not noticing that Liu Hong took the candied haws, gave him a speechless look, and turned away.

If she didn't create opportunities for her silly brother and Xiaoyanzi to be alone, she didn't know when their relationship would be able to take a step further.

Seeing Liu Hong leaving quietly and Liu Qing still staring at her blankly, Xiaoyanzi turned her head and walked around him and followed Liu Hong.

In the blink of an eye, Liu Qing saw Xiaoyanzi passing him and walking straight ahead. Just as he was about to catch up with her, he saw a silver hairpin with a swallow climbing a tree on a jewelry stall nearby.

He walked up to the stall, picked up the silver hairpin and asked the stall owner.

"how much is this?"

When the stall owner saw the tall and strong man approaching him, he was a little slow to react.

"I asked you how much this is? I want it!"

The stall owner finally reacted this time. He originally wanted to ask for more money, but looking at the sturdy man in front of him, he thought that if he angered the other party, his small body would not be enough for him to beat him.

He gave up the idea and said a realistic price, "Two taels!"

Liu Qing felt that it was a bit expensive, but the meaning of the hairpin was in line with Xiaoyanzi's name, and after weighing the hairpin in his hand, he realized that it weighed about one tael. The extra money the stall owner asked for was probably the labor fee.

Thinking this way, it seemed fair, so she took out a piece of silver from her waist and threw it to the stall owner, then put the hairpin in her hand into her arms and caught up with Xiaoyanzi who had not walked far ahead.

Because of Liu Qing's delay, Xiaoyanzi had already walked dozens of meters away. By the time he caught up with Xiaoyanzi, Xiaoyanzi had already eaten three of the eight candied haws in the string.

Xiaoyanzi saw Liu Qing coming to her side and casually handed over the remaining candied haws. "I don't want to eat it anymore. Do you want some?"

Liu Qing looked at the bright red candied haws in front of him and took it without any hesitation.

"Eat! Why don't you eat!"

Liu Qing took the candied haws and brought it to his mouth and took a bite, then closed his eyes because of the sour taste of hawthorn.

Xiaoyanzi looked at him with amusement, "Is it sweet?"

She just couldn't eat it because it was so sour, but it felt a pity to throw it away, so she thought of playing a trick on Liu Qing.

Liu Qing swallowed the hawthorn in his mouth, looked carefully into Xiaoyanzi's eyes, and replied, "Sweet!"

I don't know whether this was referring to the candied haws in his hand or the person in front of him.

Xiaoyanzi felt a little embarrassed by the stares, so she turned around, put her hands behind her back, and skipped towards the slum.

Along the way, she didn't ask Liu Qing what he had just done behind.

After Liu Qing finished eating the candied haws, he followed Xiaoyanzi and kept touching his chest. He thought that it would look very beautiful if Xiaoyanzi wore it on her head, so he bought it on impulse. However, he didn't know when to give the hairpin to Xiaoyanzi.

Liu Qing hadn't made up his mind until they were almost at the slum.

At night, Liu Qing secretly put the hairpin next to Xiaoyanzi's pillow while Xiaoyanzi and Liu Hong were in the kitchen. He thought Xiaoyanzi would like it if she saw it.

Xiaoyanzi found the hairpin next to her pillow when she was sleeping.

Holding the hairpin, she realized the reason why Liu Qing fell behind today. This hairpin must have been placed there by him.

Xiaoyanzi hesitated for a while holding the hairpin, then put it into the box of hair ties on the table.

After giving the hairpin away, Liu Qing was secretly happy for a long time the next day when he saw that Xiaoyanzi did not return the item.

He thought Xiaoyanzi should understand her feelings, right? Did not returning the hairpin mean that she was willing to give him a chance?

But afterwards, when he didn't see Xiaoyanzi wearing the hairpin he gave her, he started to feel anxious and evasive when he met Xiaoyanzi, fearing that she would return the hairpin to him the next second and then say something to reject him.

Liu Hong noticed his strangeness and made fun of him after asking him about it.

"Can you be a man? Why are you being so fussy? The things have already been given away, so don't think too much about it! If Xiaoyanzi really wants to refuse, there's nothing you can do. Just keep it to yourself!"

Liu Qing agreed when he heard it. Avoiding would not avoid the problem. Fortunately, the scene he was afraid of did not happen afterwards.

That day, after Xiaoyanzi went to school in the morning, she went to the street to perform with Liu Qing and Liu Hong as usual in the afternoon.

However, they had just started to perform and hadn't performed for long when the kids from the slum came over and called them back.

They said that the two girls who had lived in the compound last time came with their families to thank them.

After hearing what the child said, the three of them immediately thought of Ziwei Jinsuo.

Xiaoyanzi was a little surprised. She thought Ziwei would not be able to come out so easily after entering the palace, but who knew that she came out in just half a month.

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