Rebirth of the Golden Bastard

It had been pouring rain all night, and the drizzle that continued the next day seemed to have hung a gauzy curtain over the sky, making everything foggy.

Murong Ya put on the official uniform of the court, and heard that Cang Qiao was still sound asleep, so she had no choice but to go to the guest room to arrest her.

The carved wooden door was pushed open from the outside, and the wind carried a damp breath into the house.Behind the bead curtain, the person in the bed turned over and muttered something.

"Xia Cangqiao!" Murong Ya rushed to the bed in a few steps, raised her hand and lifted Cang Qiao's quilt.

A cool wind suddenly hit his back, Cang Qiao shivered and slowly opened his eyes.

"Ok?"

"Are you alright?" Murong Ya threw away the quilt and went to pull people away, "Didn't the Xia family have an appointment with the Ninth Prince today! Why don't you get up!"

Under the covers, the man in only a snow-white undershirt stretched lazily.The drowsy face showed a handsome figure that is rarely seen in ordinary times, and the black hair was scattered on the pillow, like ink smeared between the rice paper.

He turned his head slightly, bent his knees and stretched out his hands to scratch the soles of his feet: "It's still early..."

"It's getting late!" Murong Ya raised her hand to open his indecent gesture, and said in disgust: "The court rules, you have to wait in advance, do you still want the Ninth Prince to wait for you?!"

Cang Qiao got up reluctantly, Murong Ya turned to look outside the door: "Come and help Master Xia wash and change clothes!"

After speaking, she turned her head and stared at Cang Qiao: "Hurry up, I'm going out first."

"Walk slowly without sending."

……

When Cang Qiao went out, Xia's sedan chair was already waiting at the door.

The person who carried the sedan chair was wearing a bamboo hat and a coir raincoat. Seeing him coming out, Gu Xiao who was next to him hurriedly raised the curtain of the sedan chair.

"Master!"

I haven't seen him for a few days, and Gu Xiao stared closely at the man as if he wanted to hang his eyes on the man.

Cang Qiao was stunned, "What are you doing here?"

Immediately afterwards, he saw Xia Yunqing's face emerging from behind the sedan chair curtain in the sedan chair behind.

The two looked at each other for a while, but neither of them spoke first.But Xia Yunqing's fixed eyes made Cang Qiao feel a little guilty.

"Humph."

He hummed softly without confidence, and then he no longer refused, and went down the stone steps and sat in the sedan chair.

It was the first time to go to the palace, Cang Qiao finally woke up from the lazy drowsiness.He lifted the curtain of the window and kept looking out, getting a little bit closer to the towering red wall, and he actually became a little nervous.

The heavy palace door opened slowly, and the layout inside was like another perfect city.The golden roof is connected to the rain curtain in the distance, weakening the usual majesty, but it looks a bit sad.

The person carrying the sedan chair turned left and right, obviously familiar with the layout of the palace.

Cang Qiao felt dizzy just remembering the way. When the sedan chair finally stopped after passing through the arches, he only thought that if he lived in the palace, he would definitely starve to death on the road because of getting lost.

"Master!"

Gu Xiao opened the oil-paper umbrella she had been carrying behind her back, and carefully placed it over Cang Qiao's head to wait for him to get off the sedan chair.

Cang Qiao was rather displeased, so she took the umbrella and glared at him, "I haven't seen you for a few days, why have you become servile?"

Gu Xiaobian pouted, "I thought the young master didn't want me anymore."

Cang Qiao was taken aback for a moment, and then suddenly felt an indescribable feeling in her heart.He raised his hand and rubbed the boy's hair, "If I wanted you, the unmarried girls in the capital would cry."

Gu Xiaodeng laughed immediately: "Young master really likes to joke! Only Miss Yuehua in the whole capital can cry for you."

Cang Qiao: "..."

He shouldn't have softened his heart so quickly!

Xia Yunqing, who had been waiting at the side for a long time, silently looked at Cang Qiao's profile.The drizzle softened the man's outline, and the ends of his black hair were a little wet from the rain, as if sprinkled with fine icing.

At this time, it was time to go to court, and the two were invited into the house for tea by the attendants of the Ninth Prince.In the hall, the maids who had been waiting for a long time began to make Tieguanyin for the two of them.

Wooden tables and chairs, blue porcelain cups bring out the brilliance.

Cang Qiao sat on the chair of the Eight Immortals opposite, watching the court lady scoop out clear water from the wooden bucket and pour it into the porcelain cup: just submerge the tea leaves, then pour it out, scoop up water again, submerge the tea leaves, and pour it out again.

After so many repetitions, Cang Qiao was surprised: "Is this washing the cups?"

I have to say that the Ninth Prince is really a person who pays attention to food safety, and in order to dispel their doubts, he can wash the cups in public.

The hand of the palace lady pouring tea shook, and the attendant next to her coughed dryly: "Young Master, I don't know, this is called Seven Pao Lingering Fragrance."

"What scent?"

"seven……"

"Seven bubbles and lingering fragrance." Xia Yunqing suddenly took over the conversation, and said calmly: "You have to drink seven bubbles and seven bubbles to taste the true meaning."

Cang Qiao couldn't help rolling her eyes, "I'm so sorry, I'm a rough person, and I don't understand these elegant things."

Xia Yunqing's jaw clenched, "I didn't mean that."

Cang Qiao pouted and ignored him.Xia Yunqing showed helplessness on her face, and the tea over there was ready, and the two maids carried the trays and put them on the low table beside them.

The maid Fu stepped back, Cang Qiao picked up the teacup and smelled it: "Mmm, it smells good."

The attendant who had been standing by the side nodded and said: "This is an old Tieguanyin, and there are special people in the palace to take care of it. It must be difficult for the two young masters to drink outside..."

The attendant's praise was not over yet, Cang Qiao had already sprayed out the tea wrapped in his mouth.

Xia Yunqing's hand holding the teacup froze.Cang Qiao's handsome face was wrinkled into an orange peel, and he yelled, "It's so bitter! The black coffee is about to cry!"

Who is Black Coffee?

Xia Yunqing rationally didn't ask any further questions, put down the teacup in his hand and calmly looked at the sluggish attendant.

"Sorry, do you have something sweeter?"

"……some."

……

After Sikong Shen and Sikong Yanjin came back, in Sikong Shen's courtyard, squatting by a corner was a man who was constantly thinking about it.

"Nan Liu?" Sikong frowned, "What are you doing there? Where are the guests?"

"Nine princes..."

Nan Xun stood up, eyes dull and said: "The two young masters are in the room..."

Sikong Yanjin also looked at him strangely: "Did you not sleep well yesterday?"

Nan Xun was Sikong Shen's first attendant, and it was the first time in so many years that he saw Nan Xun in broad daylight in a trance.

"No..." Nan Xun seemed to be talking to himself: "Prince Nine, you can't treat Young Master Xia like everyone else. Tieguanyin is too bitter, sweet-scented osmanthus cake is too sweet, oranges are too sour, apples are too brittle..."

Sikong said unhappily: "Then find someone he likes."

"Well, I asked the same question." Nan Xun showed a disillusioned smile, "But Ninth Prince, have you heard of such a thing? Colorless but sweet, water that can burst out bubbles when you shake it .”

"Ah?" Sikong Yanjin stared wide-eyed, and stared blankly at Sikong Shen.

"There is also a noodle cake on the top, and a noodle cake on the bottom, with roast beef and fried eggs in the middle, vegetable leaves and chili sauce."

"..." Sikong Shen finally understood why his first attendant looked like this.

Sikong Yanjin looked at the man mockingly: "I said Jiudi, could it be that this guy is just here to trouble you?"

Sikong didn't change his face, and walked in with a flick of his sleeves, "Didn't the third brother insist on finding him?"

Sikong Yanjin smiled: "So my decision is indeed correct."

The man paused, and looked back at Yan Jin, "So the third brother is looking for trouble for me?"

It would be troublesome to place Xia Cangqiao anywhere, which was almost everyone's common thought.

Sikong Yanjin shrugged his shoulders, but before he could speak, loud laughter suddenly came from the room on the stone steps.

That voice that doesn't know what restraint is, you know who it is as soon as you hear it.

Sikong Shen turned his eyes, and the murderous look in his eyes disappeared in a flash.He lifted his robe and went up the steps, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly before entering the door, as if measured with a ruler.

"Master Xia." He nodded slightly, then looked at Xia Yunqing in a blink of an eye, "Brother Yunqing!"

Xia Yunqing quickly stood up and cupped her hands: "See Ninth Prince!"

Cang Qiao also stood up, "Ninth prince, third prince."

At this moment, Xia Yunqing also saw Si Kong Yanjin slowly crossing the threshold, and just as he was about to salute again, the man waved his hand.

"Anyway, there are only a few of us, so you don't need to look out of the way."

He sat in the upper seat on his own, and the maids came over one after another with tea and fruit plates.

Sikong Chen took a look at him, then sat on the main seat with his robe lifted.

"I didn't expect it to rain today. It's really not as good as God."

"It's okay." Xia Yunqing said calmly, "It's also unique to watch the scenery in the rain."

"You're talking nonsense." Cang Qiao rolled his eyes at him and said disdainfully, "Where is the scenery? There is a bare courtyard in front."

Sikong said with a deep smile: "Originally it was true to learn martial arts with brother Yunqing, but the third brother brought it to appreciate the flowers. I don't have any flowers to see here, why don't we go to the third brother's yard together?"

"Hey." Sikong Yanjin put down his teacup in a calm manner, "There are no flowers in my yard to enjoy, why not go to the garden in the atrium. It's just that it's raining, so it might be inconvenient."

Both of them have something to say, but only each other can hear it.Xia Yunqing looked at the two of them, knowing that he couldn't say much at this time, but Cang Qiao next to him couldn't see much, so he tugged at his sleeves and said, "Then the discussion and flower viewing are gone? The four of us want to sit like this One afternoon?"

Sikong Chen remembered this, and asked casually: "I heard that Young Master Xia doesn't like dim sum in the palace?"

"Oh, this." Cang Qiao said slowly, "Ninth Prince, I don't know if I should say something."

"But it's okay to say." Sikong Shen made a gesture of invitation.

"After all, you are also a palace, why are all the snacks, fruits and drinks so... unreasonable."

Sikong Yanjin almost spit out a mouthful of tea, but swallowed it with difficulty, and squinted at him, "What are you talking about?"

"Well." Cang Qiao squinted her eyes and licked the corners of her mouth: "Of course red wine with steak and seafood buffet is also fine. How about some sushi..."

"Brother." Xia Yunqing promptly stopped Xia Cangqiao, who was getting more and more enthusiastic, and looked at the two princes, their expressions were really unusual...very weird...

"I think the rain is getting light." Sikong Shen was the first to come back to his senses, coughed and said, "How about brother Yunqing... do you want to have a show?"

Xia Yunqing naturally obeyed, stood up and said politely: "Just as the Ninth Prince said."

Cang Qiao found himself being ignored.But thinking about it, where can I find sushi red wine in this era.But if they wanted to listen, they would just play around.

Sikong said solemnly: "Competition of swords?"

Xia Yunqing said: "I heard that the Ninth Prince's swordsmanship is excellent, please let Yunqing see it."

Sikong Shen waved his hand, "That's all exaggeration."

That being said, Nan Xun has already brought Sikong Shen's usual saber.

It was a blue long sword with a scabbard like jasper.Cang Qiao looked at Xia Yunqing's pitch-black ancient sword again. Comparing the two, they looked like people using swords. One was restrained and low-key, while the other was low-key but wise.

"Ninth Brother and Brother Yun Qing are both General Ying's apprentices, this competition is something to wait and see."

Sikong Yanjin spoke slowly while holding the teacup, Cang Qiao took a look at him, and saw the man's slightly raised mouth with fine features - indescribably cunning.

Wait until the two of them go out to stand in the courtyard.As a witness, Nan Xun stood aside and said loudly: "This competition can only be done as far as it can go."

Xia Yunqing nodded, and Sikong smiled, "That's natural."

Cang Qiao sneaked up to Si Kong Yanjin's side and poked him with her finger: "Third prince."

Si Kong Yanjin was startled, and frowned at him, "What?"

"I want to discuss something with you."

Sikong Yanjin laughed and said: "You don't want to say who will win when we bet?"

Cang Qiao said "wow": "As expected of the third prince! You can guess that too!"

Sikong Yanjin hummed softly, but Cang Qiao quickly continued: "But that's not what I want to talk about."

"..."