"Your Majesty, that is Miss Xu."
Hearing this, the woman who was leaning on the railing and looking away turned her head. Following her gaze, she saw a smiling girl greeting guests in the busy and noisy long street decorated with lights.
He was fifteen or sixteen years old, dressed in coarse linen clothes, and worked hard to sell concentric knots to customers.
Sun Li hurriedly said: "Today is the Qiao Qiao Festival. There are many people on the street, so Miss Xu made heart knots and brought them to the street to exchange for money. Her father died early, and her mother seems to be feeling a little unwell recently..."
Xihe nodded: "Well, let's go and have a look."
The group of people went downstairs, and within a few steps they saw Miss Xu's stall and stood still.
Four guards with swords protected her body. The attendants beside her had white faces and no beards. Miss Xu noticed the woman before she walked in. When she got closer, she saw that the woman was dressed in a yellow robe and had majestic features. She couldn't help but feel uneasy.
"Guest, guest."
She spoke tremblingly.
Xihe didn't speak, his gaze moved from top to bottom, inch by inch from her crescent-shaped eyebrows to her red lips - exactly the same as Song Chenyin.
Even after a lifetime, this face remains unchanged.
Xu Qingluan was frightened by the sight: "Guest, do you want to get married?"
He quickly lowered his head and grabbed a delicate, bright red concentric knot from the stall and handed it to Xihe, barely holding on to a smile: "Do you like this?"
For some reason, she had unspeakable fear and fear of the woman in front of her, and she just wanted to escape at this moment.
However, the woman did not speak, and still looked at her quietly. A pair of sharp phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, staring at her until Xu Qingluan's scalp went numb. Just when she was about to lose control, the woman finally said, "Yes."
Xu Qingluan instantly felt as if he had been granted amnesty: "Then..."
Sun Li quickly stepped forward, took the knot, and handed the silver ingot over: "Is it enough?"
Xu Qingluan was stunned: "It's too much." She didn't have that much money to change, and she couldn't help showing a look of embarrassment on her face.
However, Xihe had already turned around and left at this time. Sun Li said with a smile: "My master likes the girl's skills. You can just keep the rest of the money. There is no need to look for it."
As soon as Miss Xu was born, the master sent someone to pay close attention to her.
Her family is in a difficult situation, but she has never really suffered much since she was a child. Her neighbors are very kind to her. Although there are some reasons why the girl has a gentle temperament and is kind to others, most of them are arranged by her master.
Sun Li couldn't help but take a deep look at Xu Qingluan's young and familiar face.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that there were people with such identical looks in the world... He couldn't help but think of two other equally familiar faces.
The group of people came and left quickly, and soon there were no traces of a few people in the crowd.
Xu Qingluan couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, she had no intention of continuing to sell, so she packed it up casually and walked home with the basket. Unexpectedly, she bumped into a young man as soon as she reached an alley.
"Ouch!"
The basket fell to the ground and the contents were scattered all over the floor.
Xu Qingluan fell on her butt and frowned in pain. She couldn't help but said: "Gu Shang! How many times have I told you to watch the road when you walk, but why can't you always remember it?"
The young man was startled, and then he frowned and said aggrievedly: "I can't find you~"
No matter how angry Xu Qingluan was, she couldn't lose her temper at this time. Why would she care about a fool? Gu Shang hurriedly helped him get up from the ground.
Two people picked up the scattered concentric knots.
Gu Shang was clumsy and accidentally caught the thread. Xu Qingluan was heartbroken and slapped his hand away: "Stop it, I will do it myself." Gu Shang stood aside obediently.
Covering it with blue cloth, Xu Qingluan stretched out his hand and looked at Gu Shang.
Gu Shang's eyes lit up, and he immediately held her hand and walked home happily. The moonlight stretched the shadows of the two of them very long.
royal palace,
As soon as he returned to the palace, Xihe went straight to the bedroom.
In the distance, a palace maid and eunuch stood outside the bedroom. There was a yellowish candlelight in the room, and a man's tall figure was reflected in the window.
Xihe quickened his pace and strode to the door.
The palace maid and eunuch bowed respectfully: "Join Your Majesty."
The man sitting cross-legged in the room paused for a moment, then continued to close his eyes and muttered something.
crunch,
The palace door opens,
Steady and neat footsteps approached.
The next second, someone sat down next to him, and his warm breath gradually amplified in his ears.
The man's eyes were closed tightly, but even so, he could still feel the heat of the eyes falling on him. His heart couldn't help but beat faster and faster, and the heat burned from his neck to his face.
His face became more serious, and his mind became calmer and he thought faster and faster.
Xihe was not in a hurry. He held his chin with both hands and looked at his sweaty forehead and serious face with great interest. The more he looked at it, the more interesting he became, and he couldn't help laughing.
The man couldn't help it anymore, opened his eyes and said angrily, "Your Majesty!"
Xihe smiled: "Yes, I'm here." Her eyebrows were stretched, and there was a sincere smile in her eyes. She was completely different from the majestic empress in the court who was calm and proud.
The man choked and said angrily: "It's late at night, Your Majesty, if you don't go to rest, why are you here on Pindao?"
Look, I teased him without feeling any guilt at all.
"Come to see you."
Like magic, Xihe took out the concentric knot and put it in front of him: "Today is the Qiao Qiao Festival. I saw men and women on the street buying this thing to express their feelings to each other, so I bought one for you, too."
The man didn't answer, and his expression regained his composure: "Your Majesty, why are you sending this poor man to me? You should send it to General Yuan instead."
Xihe was stunned for a moment and looked at the man's face carefully. He had slender eyebrows and long eyes, a straight bridge of his nose, and his lips were neither thin nor thick. They were all her aesthetic points.
But at this moment, the corners of his mouth were slightly depressed, and it was easy to see that he was unhappy.
Xihe looked at it, a smile pouring out from his eyes. He leaned forward and slapped the man on the face. The man was so frightened that he jumped three feet high.
He pointed at her with trembling fingers, angry and embarrassed: "What are you doing!"
Xihe smiled brightly: "What, are you jealous?"
The man suddenly became furious: "Why is Pindao jealous? Your Majesty, don't talk nonsense and ruin Pindao's reputation!"
Xihe blinked his eyes with confusion on his face: "You live in my palace and sleep with me day and night. How can you actually have such a thing as reputation?"
"Yuanbao, come here quickly, I will help you tie the concentric knot around your waist."
Yuan Bao was so angry that he jumped on his feet: "That's why you forced the poor Taoist. All the immortals in the sky obey your orders, and you still force them. If the poor Taoist doesn't agree to enter the palace, you will cleanse the heavenly palace!"
"What can they do? They can only force the poor Taoist, but what can the poor Taoist do?"
He still remembered that he had just woken up, and a room full of immortals, emperors and queens were talking all over the place. He was packed and sent to the palace gate without even understanding the situation.
The more Yuan Bao thought about it, the angrier he became. After all, he was also a heavenly official, a heavenly immortal, so why could he only be trapped in this one-third of an acre of land! And I want to see her marry someone else! hateful!
Yuan Bao snorted: "Pindao is leaving the palace!"
