"You, you... are bullying others too much!" Chen Ninglu covered her face and ran away crying.
Fu Yunqing patted Qi Chengyi on the shoulder, smiled and raised his eyebrows and said, "Brother Chengyi, you cooperated well."
"That's natural." Qi Chengyi said, "But can you please stop calling me Brother Chengyi?"
"Why?"
"I don't want to be your brother."
"Am I not loyal enough?"
"..." Qi Chengyi shook his head, "No."
"Why is that?" Fu Yunqing asked.
"No reason."
"Okay." Fu Yunqing pondered for a moment, observed Qi Chengyi's face, and asked cautiously, "Just now...was I too tough? Did I scare you?"
"That's good." Qi Chengyi looked at her with a gaze that was softer than the spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River. "I don't want you to be a slave and others to be slaves. If possible, I want you to be a slave and not to be bullied."
These words were like pebbles thrown into an ancient pond, causing ripples in circles. Fu Yunqing was moved indescribably in her heart and hid a trace of strangeness in her eyes: "A maverick woman like me should not be tolerated by the world. It is not ordinary. A good girl for a man.”
"In ancient times, there was a fairy deer. Because it was surrounded by colorful lights, it was regarded as unlucky by its kind. After the fairy deer ascended, her kind regarded her as a god and built temples to worship her." Qi Chengyi said.
"In my eyes, you are this fairy deer, your body is shining with light, your worldly world is shallow, and you have not yet been able to see the jade through the stone."
"When you succeed, the world will also worship you as a god."
This is the warmest comfort Fu Yunqing has ever heard.
She stood up on her tiptoes and pinched Qi Chengyi's handsome face: "Thank you for your good advice. I just pulled His Highness's face a long time ago. Why is his skin so white and good?"
“It’s hard to give up on someone who is born handsome.”
"..." Fuyunqing chuckled.
"Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, there is a night market like a dragon, people watching lanterns and guessing riddles, and Nuo performances lighting lanterns. Will you go?" Qi Chengyi asked.
"If you invite me, I will go." Fu Yunqing winked and smiled.
"Okay." Qi Chengyi stared at the woman with a flowery smile, "Qingqing, I invite you to go to the night market with me. Are you willing to go with me?"
"What if I don't want to?" Fu Yunqing smiled slyly, deliberately teasing him.
Qi Chengyi was teased by her so much that the corners of his lips curled up slightly. His handsome eyes, which were like a thousand-year-old cold pool, cracked open like ice. His smile reached directly into his eyes. He lightly supported Yun Qing's forehead with his fingers: "Then wherever you go, I will go."
Fu Yunqing changed his mind and his voice flowed like a clear stream: "Then I'll go to Suixi Street to go shopping at the night market!"
"Haha." Qi Chengyi smiled, half-smiling, but slightly startled.
In his life, in the first twenty years, he had never laughed so heartily.
Even Fu Yunqing was slightly startled. Until now, she has never seen Qi Chengyi smile so freely and from the heart.
In the past, she could not see Qi Chengyi clearly, and felt that the man seemed to be in a fog, unable to touch or grasp him.
But today, just at this moment, she could feel that Qi Chengyi was really happy, real, and very close to her.
Fu Yunqing suddenly asked for no reason: "Your Highness, you and I are sincere friends, right?"
She hated betrayal in her previous life, but after her rebirth, she still did not choose to rest on her laurels.
She will never trust those who betray her; but she cannot be suspicious of those who have not betrayed her. If she is always suspicious of the people around her, she will be like a frightened bird, exhausted, and very tired...
So this time, she chose to trust Qi Chengyi who rushed into her life.
Qi Chengyi was a little hesitant. This question was like a sharp arrow that hit him directly between the eyebrows. His smile was tainted with a hint of unconscious worry. He did not answer directly, but made indirect remarks: "You didn't answer me last time, what does it mean to be sincere. "
"Is it sincerity to tell the truth and not hide anything?" he asked.
His slight hesitation was particularly eye-catching to Fuyunqing.
Without verification, she knew that Qi Chengyi did not dare to answer the question just now.
Fu Yunqing's smile flashed with a trace of disappointment that was too fast to be seen, and without answering him, he asked the same question: "Your Highness, do you think I am my true self when I get along with you?"
Qi Chengyi nodded, he was never wrong when he knew people in his life.
Fu Yunqing has never pretended. Hate is hate, love is love, ruthlessness is ruthlessness, and treating others sincerely means treating others sincerely.
Fu Yunqing asked again: "So, is His Highness also his true face now?"
This sharp arrow pierced the smile at the corner of his lips. Suddenly, Qi Chengyi became somewhat silent.
Before Fu Yunqing asked, he was not sure at all. The question he just asked was also a deliberate attempt to deceive him.
But from his silence, Fu Yunqing has confirmed that Qi Chengyi must have an even more unknown side.
For a moment, it was clear that the two of them were walking side by side, but they seemed to be separated by mountains and seas.
"Everyone in the world has difficulties, and there are some things that I can't tell you in detail." Qi Chengyi thought for a long time, and finally opened his lips and said in a low voice, "When major events are settled, if there is a chance in the future, I will see you with my true face. .”
"That's not necessary." Fu Yunqing declined, "I'm not someone who wants to get to the bottom of things, and I won't pursue your secrets. I'm just a little regretful that my Highness has been a close friend in death, but His Highness can't be honest."
"So, I'm not interested in your true face. As long as you and I work together to bring down Concubine Yu's gang, and don't stab each other in the back or kill each other in the future, I'm fine with it even if we're just strangers."
What a pity.
Fu Yunqing originally wanted to treat him sincerely and regard him as a close friend.
It seems that in the future, we will only be strangers.
After all, she doesn't like insincere people.
"Why do you..." Qi Chengyi's voice became lower and lower.
Fu Yunqing tried his best to raise a smile on his lips, but the smile was a little forced. He said to him in a pretentious voice: "Let's go! Go back to Xisu Palace."
Seeing her walking further and further, Qi Chengyi froze in place as he caught up with her half a step ahead. He asked a little unconfidently: "Will you still go to Suixi Street tomorrow night?"
Fu Yunqing seemed not to hear, but also seemed to have heard. After a slight pause, he left Baihua Garden without hesitation.
When returning to Xisui Palace, Fu Yunqing passed by Taiye Pond and met Qi Suian in a daze in the pavilion.
Qi Sui was sitting on a stone bench covered with a velvet carpet, turning a tea cup carelessly in his hand, staring at the water lilies on the pond in a daze.
When there are no other people, she is very quiet, as quiet as a stone sculpture.
She has been in the palace for twenty years, day after day, without ever stepping out of the palace.
Although she was powerful, wealthy and safe, she always felt as if her feet were tied by invisible chains.
Qi Sui'an's eyes were stained with loneliness, and his thin eyebrows were raised, adding a touch of sentimentality to this already soft face.
There was a piece of yellowing fallen leaf, hanging down from the tip of the branch, dangling on the ground. Qi Sui'an sighed, looked forward along the fallen leaf, and saw Fu Yunqing. She covered the loneliness in her eyes, smiled on her lips, and waved He waved: "Yun Qing, come here."
Fu Yunqing was slightly startled. She had never seen the eldest princess like that just now.
The eldest princess was always bright and beautiful, but she showed sadness when no one was around.
At that moment, Fu Yunqing realized that Qi Sui'an might not be happy.
Fu Yunqing walked over and was about to salute——
Qi Sui'an raised her hand and smiled: "In the future, if it's just you and me, you don't have to salute."
"I'm afraid this is against the rules..."
"It doesn't matter, the rules are set by people. Now I set the rules. In the future, when you see me in private, don't bow."
Qi Sui'an helped Yunqing sit down, with a pair of deer eyes slightly curved, and a gentle smile: "Yunqing, I heard that you have been on the battlefield?"
"Well, when I was sixteen, my mother took my daughter to the border. My daughter had fought with her father to defend against the enemy."
"Wow... you are so awesome!" Qi Sui'an's eyes showed yearning, "Can you tell me about your past? I want to hear about your marching and fighting, learning about martial arts, riding and archery, and border affairs."
"Okay." Fu Yunqing couldn't refuse, and his thoughts went back to many years ago, and he slowly recalled,
"When I was four years old, my daughter followed my father on horseback. When I was six years old, I practiced martial arts with a mahogany sword. When I was ten years old, my mother took my daughter to the border."
"One day, enemy spies sneaked into my father's camp, captured my daughter and my mother on the city wall, and threatened my father to surrender."
"It's so dangerous!" Qi Suian asked worriedly, "What happens next?"
