Mu Xiaoxi bowed his head and saluted. He performed a set of movements very smoothly. He had practiced it many times in recent days, "I have met His Highness the Crown Prince."
Zhao Yuanlang did not spare her the courtesy. After dusting off the fallen leaves on his body, he picked up a stone from the pile of fallen leaves and hit it on a branch, knocking down the kite above. The kite gently landed on his hand, and he watched the corners of her lips curve.
"Not everything can be solved with brute force."
This word is a pun, not only referring to her desperate pulling of the kite string, but also easily reminding people of the scene where she bit off someone else's finger.
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that the woman in front of him excused himself and asked him: "What should I do when someone wants to slap me again?" She actually asked him for advice on how to solve it. Method.
Zhao Yuanlang looked slightly surprised, and paused for a moment before replying: "If it were me, I would avoid the unimportant matters for the time being, and wait until the other day to give him a head-on blow." He seemed to have forgotten the unpleasant things, and concentrated on preaching to others and solving their doubts. .
"It's easy to say, but hard to do. Why should I waste so many days in the future with her? Isn't my time more valuable than hers?"
"...That's not unreasonable." He smiled.
"Since it makes sense, then return the kite to me." After she finished speaking, she reached out to pick up the kite, but he held the other end and could not pull it easily. Zhao Yuanlang asked: "If someone holds something you want, it will be damaged by brute force. How do you solve it?"
Mu Xiaoxi thought for a moment, then moved his eyes from the kite to his hands, "I can cut off that man's hands."
The expression of the person in front of her didn't change at all. The hand with distinct finger bones caught her kite so naturally, without dodging or avoiding, and didn't even show any sign of weakening its strength. He just said: "What if that person is me?"
A hissing sound of paper breaking sounded between the two of them.
"Then it's not what I want." She said decisively.
Zhao Yuanlang stared at her for a long time, until he heard the sound of a pulley not far away, and finally let go of his hand. The torn kite fell to the ground, and she didn't want it anymore.
He suddenly felt a little funny, and he didn't know what was going on, so he started to compete with the person in front of him.
On the other side, Su Anran suddenly seemed to see a familiar figure, who was talking to a little maid under the tree with his head lowered, and seemed to be holding something like paper in his hand. She forgot for a moment that this was the second prince's backyard, and she didn't have time to wonder why he appeared here, so she quickly slid over there on roller skates.
Zhao Yuanya was entangled by the concubines flying kites and was a little slow.
When Su Anran arrived, the person had disappeared, as if her eyes were hallucinating, and there was only the person in front of her who she recognized as the little maid. Although Su Anran always believed that a woman's beauty lies in her temperament, she was also amazed by her appearance. Then she remembered that this was one of Zhao Yuanya's concubines, and she had met the concubine once.
Although she never looked down on her servants and had no ill intentions towards the women in the back house, there was no woman who was not jealous. For Zhao Yuanya's other women, she could always see them without seeing them. If they really wanted to meet, she would only show off. He is polite and courteous, and will not play the old-fashioned way of being affectionate and affectionate to treat himself.
She told Zhao Yuanya these feelings frankly, and Zhao Yuanya exempted her from the rule of greeting the principal concubine.
"Did you talk to someone just now?" It was a bit awkward for her to take the initiative to talk to her concubine for the first time. She thought for a while before speaking, but saw the other person shook his head and told her "no" with a confused expression.
"Really?" She didn't believe it, "I just saw it clearly -"
"What did you see?"
Zhao Yuanya appeared behind them. The moment he saw Mu Xiaoxi, his expression changed slightly and his eyebrows darkened, "Why are you here?"
Mu Xiaoxi kicked the tattered kite on the ground with his toes, "Come fly the kite."
“…”
"The string of the kite was broken and it hung on a tree and was scratched by a branch."
He said: "Don't go out and walk around in the future."
"oh."
The tone of the two of them was too natural, even if Zhao Yuanya's tone was not very good. Su Anran didn't know that Zhao Yuanya was worried that Mu Xiaoxi who casually bit off people's fingers would cause harm to her. She only felt a sense of being abandoned.
She suddenly interrupted: "I seemed to have seen the prince just now."
"Um?"
"Maybe it's an illusion..."
Zhao Yuanya glanced around, half-smiling but not smiling, "How could the dignified prince not go through the main entrance and do the things of those young people? You must have seen it wrong." As he said that, he squeezed her hand tightly and pulled her away. That tree, "Go back and continue playing."
After the two left, Mu Xiaoxi looked behind the tree and saw that the man had left. He didn't know if he heard the last words. Out of boredom, she dismantled a kite frame and made a few random scratches on the soft soil, vaguely making out the back of a person.
I don’t know if it’s Zhao Yuanlang or Zhao Yuanya.
After Mu Xiaoxi returned, he received a message from his family.
This section is also found in the original work. The concubine threatens Mu Xiaoxi through her family in an attempt to control the chess piece. In the original work, Mu Xiaoxi did not accept the concubine's "recruitment" at first. Even though her brother was lured into gambling, her father was framed and imprisoned, and her mother's hair turned gray due to worry, she still stuck to her bottom line. Later, she realized that this persistence was meaningless, and as time went by, she compromised with fate.
But now, Mu Xiaoxi, played by Ai Bei, is compromising quickly.
Because she finally caught a thread among the threads scattered on the floor and started her own layout.
When the princess saw her promise, she immediately smiled: "I hope my sister will keep her promise and really understand what I mean. Otherwise, if I can release your father from prison, I can have him imprisoned again."
"Then, when?"
"In a few days, there will be a Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet. The mother-in-law has taken a fancy to you. I think you will also be brought into the palace. The time, place and people are all right. By then, you only need to put something like this in, and it will be enough." If anything happens, my mother and concubine will protect you together with me."
"But before that, I have to gain her trust no matter what method you use."
For Su Anran, who never gets close to the concubine in the backyard, gaining her trust is not an easy task. It may be difficult to impress Su Anran, but it will not be more difficult than impressing a male character whose heart belongs to her.
The princess once proposed a trick like "saving her life" and sent someone to her, but she rejected it as being too cliche. The princess became angry and withdrew everyone.
Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhao Yuanya's mother Li Fei invited them all into the palace. The palace people have already decorated the palace in a joyful and festive atmosphere. The palace lanterns are hung all over the treetops, which is generally consistent with the moonlight approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition to the palace people, there are also foreigners hanging out here.
Strange people are always new, and everyone gathers around the foreigners to ask for advice on this or that. The princes are the exception, but they all sit in the pavilion drinking tea and watching other people lively. The festival is not here yet, and this is a good time for young people to have fun.
The pavilion is spacious, the first seat is empty, there are Taishi chairs and high tables on both sides, and there is a spacious space in the middle, which is more than enough for people to perform and have fun.
The blond and blue-eyed foreigner first taught them a few words of spoken English. They all parroted the words, and the bad accent was very funny, which made people laugh. Among them, the third prince, Zhao Yuanying, laughed the loudest. While laughing, he slid his eyes to the side of the second prince, Su Anran. He sat next to the second prince and translated for Zhao Yuanya, telling him what these conversations meant.
The princes also learned simple foreign language conversations, but Su Anran could converse with foreigners fluently, so the second prince was happy to show off.
"He said he wanted to teach everyone how to dance and wanted to invite a lady to join him."
Su Anran was of course willing to cooperate, but as soon as he put his hand on it, Zhao Yuanya pulled him away. He looked at the foreigner with an unkind expression. Su Anran had long been accustomed to the ancient rules of men and women not being intimate, and suggested: "How about you imitate his movements, and we will cooperate."
Zhao Yuanya was still unhappy. Which prince would dance for fun in front of everyone
He didn't say it clearly, but it was clear during the learning process that he didn't cooperate. The foreigner jumped twice, but he just lazily raised his arm.
Su Anran suddenly became unhappy. For her, dancing for pleasure was not a performance, and the waltz movements were not out of place. Whether it was due to different ideas or the rejection of the proposal, the atmosphere between the two was somewhat tense.
Mu Xiaoxi was also present, but stood at the back like other women of the same status. Those women whispered and laughed at Su Anran.
"This second prince's concubine is quite strange. She is obviously of high status, but she behaves like a dancing girl."
"The dancer may not be as good as she is."
"What's wrong with the dancer?" Mu Xiaoxi suddenly asked.
"Dancing girl..."
"Hey—" Someone grabbed her and whispered in her ear, "That's the concubine from the second prince's house."
The man shouted, and when he opened his mouth, someone suddenly pushed him from behind, causing the originally low voice to suddenly rise: "Just a concubine-"
The field was quiet for a second. Behind her, Mu Xiaoxi Anran withdrew his hand.
Originally, the person in the center at this moment was Su Anran, so everyone naturally thought that this voice was mocking her. No matter how nice the concubine's name was, she was really just a concubine.
Su Anran looked embarrassed, and the three princes also looked worried. Zhao Yuanying had an angry look on her face, and Zhao Yuanya next to her smiled slightly, having already remembered the person's appearance in her heart. Zhao Yuanlang was the most reserved, tapping the tea lid lightly in his hand.
Suddenly, a person stepped forward and made an invitation and salute to Su Anran. Su Anran was a little stunned, but subconsciously put her hand in the other person's hand.
"I just watched them dance and learned a little bit," Mu Xiaoxi said.
The melody of the violin spread melodiously in the long bow, and the moonlight was like water, with sparkling waves flowing on them. With the same long black hair and fair face, the power of the two beauties is doubled, not to mention the appearance of one of them is better than most of the people present.
The basic slow three steps are lyrical and gentle. The two cooperated tacitly and looked at each other during the undulating dance steps. Su Anran's eyes were jumping brighter and brighter, "I'll teach you another way to jump!"
[What's going on with this passionate feeling? ]
[…Why do I suddenly feel that the person the anchor wants to attack is Su Anran. ]
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