As soon as the pleasure boat docked, the young man in red hurried onto the dock, seemingly in a hurry to get back. "Hey! Little brother!" Xiao Lun called him from behind.
The young man turned around and looked at the two people who came over. He frowned slightly, and then opened his brows in the next moment: "Do you have anything else to teach me?"
Xiao Lun said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry to leave, little brother. I rarely meet such like-minded friends. How about having a drink together?"
The young man frowned and said, "Well, I'm sorry. I have to go home."
"Hmm?" Xiao Lun turned his head and looked at the man in black clothes. "Seventh brother, when you were this old, were your family members also so strict?"
Before the black-clothed man could answer, the young man rolled his eyes and said, "Well, Your Majesty. My situation is different from yours." The young man didn't seem to be afraid of the identities of these two people at all.
"Oh, I see. Someone is running out disguised as a man and is afraid that they will be discovered by their family if they play for too long. Is that right?" He smiled and came forward, looking at her eyes which were slightly teasing. The red-shirted boy was stunned, and his face flushed as if his thoughts were seen through.
The man in black finally spoke: "Okay, Sixth Brother. We've had enough fun, don't make things difficult for a girl." He was Xiao Yi, the seventh prince of the current emperor.
The young man stammered, "What...what? I don't understand what you are saying."
Seeing that she was still holding on even after her past was exposed, Xiao Lun found this girl even more funny. He thought for a moment and said, "Forget it, forget it. Seventh brother, the girl is timid. I'm afraid she will be punished if she stays outside for too long. Let's not force her. Let's go, let's go." After saying that, he started to leave.
When the young man heard this, he hurried forward to stop them and said angrily: "Who is timid? Who is afraid? No... Isn't it just a drink together? What's the big deal? Let's go to a restaurant?" What is there to be afraid of? You are royal relatives and I am from a famous family. What's the big deal? Thinking about it, he stopped refusing.
Seeing that she was finally provoked, Xiao Lun laughed and looked cunningly at Xiao Yi on the side. Xiao Yi also smiled and shook his head helplessly.
There is a pavilion called "Yongxia" on the shore of Cuihu Lake. In the middle of summer every year, it is surrounded by lotus flowers, which is cool and comfortable, and is most suitable for literati to chant, so it got this name. But now it is early spring and the weather is still very cold, so it looks a bit desolate.
Xiao Lun asked the waiters who were serving tea to leave. Now there were only three of them left in the pavilion. He smiled and poured three glasses of crystal clear wine: "Beautiful scenery, good wine, and beautiful women. This is the Zhuqing wine I brought specially. I usually don't want to drink it. You are lucky today."
She frowned: "I don't drink."
"Will it work if you drink?" Xiao Lun smiled, with some ill intentions, "You dare to dress up as a man to play, what's wrong with drinking?"
The three of them drank a cup. She drank it all, and felt a burning sensation from her throat to her stomach. She couldn't help but feel a little annoyed: "How can you tell that I'm a woman dressed as a man?"
Xiao Lun laughed: "We are not like those pedantic old scholars. If you paint your face uglier, maybe I won't recognize you. But this is too... right, Seventh Brother?" He nudged Xiao Yi with his elbow and saw that he was just like usual, not talkative and only liked to explore things with his eyes. So he could only let him be.
"By the way, after chatting for such a long time, what's your name?" Xiao Lun asked the woman in front of him whose face was flushed due to drinking some wine. He found that there was a bit of surprise between her eyebrows, just like her fiery red clothes.
"My name is Xu Zhaopei." She smiled, "My father is Xu Kun. You should know that, right?" As she spoke, her eyelids drooped a little.
Xiao Lun's eyes lit up: "So you are General Xu's daughter. Then Xu Zhaojie is your brother? That's good." He turned his head to look at Xiao Yi, "Seventh brother, you know Xu Zhaojie, right? I heard him say he has a sister, but I didn't know his sister is so interesting." Xiao Yi stared at the woman in red silently, used to using eyes instead of words. Xiao Lun just let him do what he wanted.
"Ah, your name is Xu Zhaopei, right?" Xiao Lun saw that she had only drunk two or three cups, and she had already fallen asleep on the stone table. "Wake up, don't sleep here, Xu Zhaopei?" No matter how he called her, she couldn't wake up. Xu Zhaopei had fallen asleep in a daze, but someone was buzzing like a fly. He waved his hand in anger, and there was a crisp sound that hit someone, and the sound disappeared in an instant.
"It's finally quiet. It wouldn't be nice if it didn't get louder." She pursed her red lips and murmured, then went back to sleep.
After a long time, a faint chuckle was heard, and then nothing else could be heard. She had a good dream. The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara in her painting came down and looked at her with a smile, her eyes full of kindness. Those eyes were full of light and spirit. (To be continued)