Real Empress from a Noble Family

Chapter 45: Battle for favor

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The snow stopped at noon this afternoon, and the thin winter sun gave people a faint warmth.

Qiu Yilan walked to Cuiwei Pavilion with an unhappy expression. As soon as she entered, she saw Deng Yi sitting under the window and reading with a frown.

"Hey, aren't you here to practice martial arts? Why are you reviewing your books?" Qiu Yilan was surprised.

Deng Yi glanced at her and frowned even more: "Why are you here?"

"I want to come over and give you some advice." Qiu Yilan squeezed her hands and her knuckles crackled, "You are actually lazy!"

"The day after tomorrow is the day when uncle will assess his homework. I want to go back to Guangyang Prince's Mansion." Deng Yi glanced at her white little hands with envy, but he was not envious of the beauty of these hands, but envious of what was in them. The power contained in it, "I have been crouching in the past few days, so I have to take a quick look."

Seeing Qiu Yilan looking around with no intention of leaving, Deng Yi couldn't help but ask, "Do you have anything else?"

"No..." Qiu Yilan said absently, "I just came here to take a look, so that you don't think I mean what I say!"

Deng Yi snorted: "What do you mean by what you say? Forget it if you have been asking me to squat on horseback for so many days. Two days ago, you wanted to make me angry and break my promise! Fortunately, I woke up halfway and didn't give in. You succeeded!"

That's definitely because you're overthinking it, okay? ! Under normal circumstances, my integrity is always maxed out... If the total amount of integrity is naturally low, that's another matter...

Qiu Yilan was about to retort when Deng Yi said again, "Just tell me what crooked idea you came here with! Don't think I don't know. Lord Ling Xiaohou gave you a lion cat two days ago. Little girls like you I like this kind of thing the most, and I just got it, so I should stick to it all day long, so you still have time to think about me?"

"...Why do I think your sour tone sounds so plaintive?" Qiu Yilan said seriously, "Don't you like girls?"

Deng Yi was shocked! His face turned red at first, then turned white, then turned blue. Finally, he suddenly threw down the book and shouted angrily: "It's... it's simply shameless!"

"Do you accept such words as incompetence? How much does this guy resist women?" Seeing his disgusted and angry face, Qiu Yilan secretly wiped her cold sweat and said: "The lion cat is not me and Ling." Little Marquis wants it.”

In fact, it was because Su He and the others liked the lion cat so much that they often ignored Qiu Yilan, and Qiu Yilan was embarrassed to openly compete with a cat for favors no matter how bad her moral integrity was. Thinking of Deng Yi's last time using medicinal wine, howling like a ghost, That’s why I came here specifically to find a balance…

What she hates most right now is the big white, okay

As a result, Deng Yi's sharp retaliation almost killed her - he gave a noble and cold smile: "You don't need to explain to me, anyway, you and I will only have the name of husband and wife in this life, and we will never think of being a husband and wife!"

Qiu Yilan vomited blood and said: "I am stating the facts!!!" Do I look like a nymphomaniac, knowing that you deeply love someone of the same sex, but still have a passion for you? !

Deng Yi said indifferently: "It's best this way. If anyone gives you something in the future, you don't have to come and tell me. I don't mind at all!"

What should I do if I really want to chop him to death? !

Qiu Yilan took a deep breath, brushed her sleeves, and walked out!

Looking at her angrily walking away, Deng Yi felt that he was in a really good mood - but his good mood did not last long - Qiu Yilan left and came back again, holding two pieces of snow as big as the mouth of a bowl in her hand. ball!

"I told you to talk nonsense!" With the huge disparity in force between the two, poor Deng Yi couldn't escape being hit on the bridge of the nose by a snowball even if he jumped up immediately! He covered his sore nose and screamed: "A gentleman uses his mouth but not his hands-"

"I call you noble and cool!" The second snowball hit Deng Yi on the head. Deng Yi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this: "You fierce and savage shrew! Do you dare to have an open and honest verbal battle with me?!"

As a result, Qiu Yilan, whose hands were already empty, sneered, retracted his hands into his sleeves, and when he stretched them out, he took two bigger snowballs, opened his bow from left to right, and hit him all over!

"I told you to call me a shrew!!"

"I told you to call me fierce and brutal!"

"I told you to jump up and down and not let me hit you!"

"I told you to stand still like a piece of wood, so that I could smash you and it would be unpleasant!"

"I'm calling you… "

Less than half an hour later, Qiu Yilan's cheeks glowed, as bright as peaches and plums. She stood in front of the short couch with her hands on her hips, panting slightly, and asked: "Are you coming out?!"

"A real man! How can you not keep your word?!" Deng Yi's slightly dull voice came from the bottom of the couch. He said with great backbone, "I won't go out if I can't tell you!"

"I don't have any snowballs anymore!" Qiu Yilan bent down and stretched her hand under the couch to show him.

Deng Yi was angry: "That's what you said just now! Then you showed up, and you poured a basin of snow on it! Do you think I will still be fooled?!"

"The basin is empty now." Qiu Yilan dragged the basin to the couch and turned it upside down to prove her innocence.

"There are bottles on the table, and you can put the snowballs on the couch or something like that!" Apparently the deception just now has used up Qiu Yilan's credit with Deng Yi. Deng Yi sneered and said, "Anyway, If you don’t leave today, I won’t go out!”

Qiu Yilan shook her head and sighed: "Hey, are you so afraid of me?"

"Who said I'm afraid of you?!" There was a sound of teeth grinding under the couch for a moment, and Deng Yi said in a deep voice, "I just don't bother to argue with a shrew like you!"

"Then why don't you come out? If you let me vent my anger, you'll be fine?" Qiu Yilan said confidently.

Deng Yi vomited blood: "Get out of here!!"

"I told you to tell me to get lost!" Qiu Yilan suddenly kicked the couch, causing old dust to fall from the bottom of the couch...

Listening to Deng Yi's violent cough, Qiu Yilan combed her hair, straightened her skirt, and Shi Shiran was about to leave: "Humph! Seeing that you are so weak, I will spare you this time... Just You are such a weak scholar, do you think I will fall in love with you? If others don’t tell me, my cousin will leave you alone, okay?”

As a result, before she finished speaking, she heard the same broken cough coming from behind her!

When Qiu Yilan turned around, she saw Ruan Qingyan standing at the door with a strange look on his face, as if he wanted to say something but didn't know how.

"Cousin, why are you here?" Qiu Yilan looked at the snowy water in the room with a guilty conscience, and stepped forward with a smile, "Just concentrate on studying, I will take care of the affairs in the house for you first... uh... these are actually all It was Deng Yi who did it, I'm talking about him..."

Ruan Qingyan gave her a complicated look and said, "Since Mr. Deng has been entrusted to me to teach you, don't worry about it. Don't come here casually in the future."

"Yes, yes! It was an accident today... It will definitely not happen next time!" Qiu Yilan said flatteringly, "Cousin, are you here for me? Actually, don't worry, you see, the one who suffers is not me... "

At this scene, Deng Yi crawled out in disgrace and complained to Ruan Qingyan angrily: "Master Ruan! Look at your cousin! Do you still have any rules?"

Ruan Qingyan pondered for a moment and said: "Cousin, apologize!"

Qiu Yilan was startled. This cousin had always favored her, but today he was so fair? But she had bullied Deng Yi for so long anyway, so there was no harm in apologizing. She gave Deng Yi a hasty salute and said with a smile: "Master Deng, I'm really sorry. I won the snowball fight today!"

"Are you having a snowball fight? You're basically beating me, okay!?" Deng Yi gritted his teeth in his heart and yearned even more for the martial arts taught by General Ruan: "Master Ruan, I have been squatting on horseback for several days. Do you think it's time to do it? Officially taught? I think my talent for learning is still good."

As he spoke, he glanced at Qiu Yilan contemptuously: This little girl can learn so well in movies, will I be worse than her

Obviously, Qiu Yilan's performance of force caused Deng Yi to make a huge error in judging the power of the Ruan family's martial arts... And Ruan Qingyan, who shocked Qiu Yilan with just a show of his hands, now has a strong sense of force in Deng Yi's mind. The value is almost different from that of mortals...

Ruan Qingyan frowned, thought for a moment, and then said: "I came here today just to teach you."

When he said this, he noticed Qiu Yilan's expression from the corner of his eyes, but saw that the cousin did not mean any disappointment or ridicule. Instead, he said with great interest: "Cousin, I want to learn too!"

"No!" Ruan Qingyan refused, "Go back to the yard and practice needlework! Don't wander around the house all the time!"

"...Okay!" Qiu Yilan rolled her eyes, readily agreed, and walked out.

Then Ruan Qingyan shouted: "My five senses are sharper than you think. If you hide nearby and peek, believe it or not, I will lock you in Green Rose Garden and not allow you to go out?!"

Can we still happily be brother and sister? ! If you want to be a biological mother so much, why don’t you find a man and give birth to one yourself

Qiu Yilan left Cuiwei Pavilion angrily and returned to Green Rose Garden. Seeing Su He and others surrounding Dabai again, without even noticing that she went out alone, she felt that she couldn't bear it anymore!

She walked over and shouted: "Su He!"

"Princess, have you taken a nap?" Su He turned around happily and said, "The tea has just been made for you, and it's on the table! The pastries are also newly delivered... The chestnut cake you like, Dabai also likes it. Oh! I just put a piece in front of it, and it kept stretching out its claws to get it... Unfortunately, the person who brought it said it can't eat it yet... "

Qiu Yilan's face was expressionless: "Today is already the end of the first lunar month, and my cousin is going to die on the ninth day of February! Do you still have time to hang around a lion cat?!"

"Princess, you are saying..." Hearing this, Su He and others were startled. They put down Dabai and walked over and stood with their hands down, waiting for instructions.

"Aunt Kang and her daughter came to have a quarrel the day after the court meeting. However, since we withdrew the Kangli seal, everything has been calm. Do you think that with the despicableness of Prince Xihe and the methods of Queen Mother Gu, you will let go so easily?" Qiu Yi Lan frowned and said, "Especially since there is a grandnephew of the Queen Mother living in the house now!"

Su He and others lowered their heads in shame: "My maid, I don't dare anymore!"

"Then, Princess, what are we going to do now?" Qiu Yilan was just satisfied with her little plan, so she took the attention of the maids away from Dabai. As a result, Su He and others were ashamed, and they all became inspired. The woman tightened her handkerchief and looked at her with shining eyes, "We must not let them destroy my cousin!"

Qiu Yilan bit her lip for a while, then swallowed the words "take it one step at a time" and said, "If they haven't made any movement in the past few days, they probably want to attack my cousin on his way to the examination room. In this case, I think... I can only borrow someone from the Jiang family!"

"But are the Jiang family willing to borrow it?" Su He and others looked at each other and said worriedly, "Didn't General Jiang hint to you last time that he didn't want to take care of things like smashing up medicine shops?"

"He said he didn't want to take care of it, but it's not that he won't take care of it! It's just that he didn't want me to blackmail the Jiang family completely by taking advantage of the incident in the Xihe Prince's Mansion. It's just a few steps from the General's Mansion to the examination room. The Jiang family has been a master of the military for generations. There are so many, and you can replace them with a young and promising talent with just one escort. Would they not do such a worthwhile thing? "

Qiu Yilan rubbed her forehead, her expression was not good-looking, "With the few manpower in our house, we can't even drive away Aunt Kang. How can we escort my cousin to the examination room? Even though my cousin is very skilled, he has no eyesight." , What will happen if you get injured or get emotional?”

Su He was about to speak when Xi Xian hurried in and said urgently: "Princess! The old general suddenly vomited blood!!!"

"What?!" Qiu Yilan suddenly stood up, "Weren't you fine before noon?!"

This is simply a bolt from the blue!