Prince Consort

Chapter 3
"In the capital, Mu Tusu is known as the most beautiful man, unmatched by anyone. I heard that he accompanied Prince Gong to the White Horse Temple in our Suzhou city to worship Buddha. All the girls in Sucheng went to the White Horse Temple to offer incense. This White Horse The incense in the temple is unprecedentedly prosperous."

Bai Zhi just said "Oh" and stopped making a sound.

"Look at your uninterested look, you must have never seen Mu Tusu's beauty."

"Then you saw it again?" Bai Zhi joked.

"It's better to hit the sun than choose the day, let's go and see now?" Qiu Chan opened her bright eyes with excitement.

"You find someone else."

"It's boring, how about we go eat the buns from the North Street bun shop?"

"This is up for discussion."

You can live without men, but you can't live without food.

The buns at Beijie Baozi Shop are a famous delicacy in Sioux City, with soft skin and fresh gravy, and the supply is in short supply every day.Bai Zhi had never eaten out before, and Qiu Chan brought this steamed stuffed bun into the mansion for her to try, but it got out of control, so she asked Qiu Chan to bring some steamed stuffed stuffed buns here every now and then.

Later, Bai Zhi simply went to North Street with Qiu Chan to buy, just like her, regardless of other people's eyes, eating buns on the street.Even though Qing He who was next to her kept thinking that she was an official lady and that she shouldn't be like this, she ignored it.

What a lady, go to hell.From now on, she will live for herself.

Bai Zhi and Qiu Chan sneaked out, so they had to go through the back door.When the two greedy cats arrived at the bun shop, they saw a group of people standing in front of the steamer.The two looked at each other, as if they had agreed on something, they rushed into the crowd...

When the two of them came out, they both held hot steamed buns in their hands.As soon as the steamed stuffed bun was in hand, Bai Zhi couldn't wait to take a bite, and as usual, she finished it on the way before returning to the White Mansion.

"Be careful." Qiu Chan suddenly shouted loudly behind her.

Only then did Bai Zhi raise her head, and was shocked to find that she was already under the horse, and was about to be trampled to death by the horse.Before she could exclaim in surprise, a white figure jumped out of the carriage, and her waist was tightly hugged. She felt her body lighten up, and then regained her senses, and she was already one step away from the carriage.The carriage has also stopped.

Bai Zhi looked up at her savior, and when she saw a face so familiar that she couldn't be more familiar with it, she struggled to get out of his embrace, and was about to leave without saying a word.

"Girl, did I offend you?" Mu Tusu asked.

Bai Zhi stamped her feet and took a deep breath: "No." Before he could continue to ask, he dragged Qiu Chan who was in a daze and hurried away.

"Zhi'er, that young master is so handsome!"

"He is Mutusu."

"How do you know?"

"..." She was speechless.

Yes, she has sworn not to love Tu Su, but the memory in her dream is still there, that is the lover she longed for!

Regardless of her ladylike image, Bai Zhi eats steamed stuffed buns in the street and occasionally crashes into a carriage. Fortunately, her eldest son rescues her, but she treats each other coldly.This story spread like wildfire in Su City, and naturally reached the ears of Master Bai, who loves face very much.

Master Bai immediately lost his temper, and ordered his servant girl to go to Linshuixuan to call Bai Zhi into the study early in the morning.Qing He, who was standing next to Bai Zhi, saw the servant girl's posture, knew the seriousness of the matter, beat her chest and said, "It's all Qing He's fault. If I keep an eye on Miss, Miss will not follow Qiu Chan to eat buns."

Bai Zhi is not nervous at all, she understands her father's temper very well.The reason for his fury this time is definitely not that she damaged the image of everyone's lady, it must be that she has no sense of propriety and coldly treats the eldest son Mu Tusu from the capital!
In her dream, she met Mutusu when she was 15 years old. She still remembered that it was the Qiqiao Festival, the night sky was clean, and the river lanterns came on, illuminating her boudoir years.Like a girl who has never seen the world, she recklessly squeezed into the crowd, looking at things that were not new to her.

She is not amazingly talented, but she knows a little bit about pen and ink.After all, she is young, and she happened to guess a few lantern riddles, and she was complacent, thinking that all the riddles would not be difficult for her.Until the idiom "Bai Sun Yi Shan End" hit her, she was in chaos.

She blushed and looked at the paper in her hand, unable to speak for a long time.Suddenly, a man in a white shirt jumped out beside him. He had a pair of long and narrow eyebrows that flew into his temples, his dark eyes sparkled, his straight nose bridge, and his thin lips seemed to be singing leisurely, saying one after another. Guess all the lantern riddles without deviation.

It was the first time she spoke to a man other than her father, and she asked shyly, "Young Master, let the sun be at the end of the day, let's make an idiom."

He looked back at her and smiled lightly: "The whereabouts are unknown." He was not overwhelmed by her stunning beauty, as if she was like everyone else, and it would be a waste to linger on for a second.He left after speaking.But for Bai Zhi, that was the root of love. Even if his whereabouts were unknown, she didn't know that he was the son of Prince Gong until her mother passed away two years later and she went to the capital to join her father.

But this time, she met him two years earlier. What went wrong?
Bai Zhi came to the study and saw Master Bai was practicing calligraphy, she leaned forward and said, "Father."

Only then did Master Bai put down his pen and sat upright, with no emotion or joy on his face: "Zhi'er, you and Shao'er were born in the same year and the same month, but you have become the apple of your eye, do you know why?"

"It must be because of my daughter-in-law."

"It's good to know. Compared with Shao'er, you are short-sighted, and you will always show your likes and dislikes on your face immediately, and you don't know how to hide it. On the contrary, Shao'er knows how to hide."

"Father taught me the lesson." Bai Zhi lowered her eyebrows, as a tacit consent.In fact, my heart is not happy.She hates Bai Shao so much, how can she imitate Bai Shao?
"We are extremely honored that the son from the capital has come to our little Su city. You should show your face to the son, shouldn't you?"

Bai Zhi admitted his mistake: "No."

"Very good." Master Bai nodded with satisfaction, "Prince Gong came to write. The capital is hot, the princess is weak, and Su City is warm in winter and cool in summer, so it is suitable for health preservation. Let me, the state, take care of it. The prince has named the craftsman a few years ago. The construction of a villa at the foot of Qiongqi Mountain is almost finished. During the closing period, the princess and the eldest son will stay at our residence, Zhier, you should know how to do it, right?" Master Bai looked at her solemnly.

How could Bai Zhi not understand her father, who had amazing talent but was buried in the small city of Su, and who had great ambitions but was far away from the capital.The arrival of Princess Gong and his son seemed to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.But is there any way to seize this opportunity?
Marriage, of course, is the ideal way.If it is said that this Suzhou City is more beautiful than Bai Zhi, who would dare to say that it is the first?Furthermore, she is a prostitute, and she is the best choice to marry the eldest son.

Bai Zhi didn't object to her father, and obediently bowed: "Zhi'er do your best."

The son's eyes are in the sky, she can't afford it.It might be her best choice to give Master Bai an answer that is not a promise.She couldn't refuse her dad.In the White Mansion, she and her mother's only status is that of wife and daughter.The financial power is in the hands of Erniang, and the only male in the White Mansion is also born of Erniang, and Erniang is the most favored one.Although Bai Shao is not Erniang's biological child, she is on Liu's side on the surface, but now Bai Zhi knows that Bai Shao has always blamed Liu's for her mother's death.In this way, Bai Zhi and Liu's family are very weak, if they offend her father again, the mother and daughter will have no place in the White Mansion.

Master Bai said: "Go to your second mother's place to get some money, and go to the shop to buy some jewelry and clothes for yourself."

"Yes, my daughter will leave." Bai Zhi exited the study, looked up at the sky today, and sighed with great emotion.It's such a hassle these days.Let her seduce Mu Tusu?In the dream, she fought hard, but what did she get in return?
She just wanted to stay away from Mutusu as far as possible, so that he could love and pamper his little princess of Nanzhao, and she would find her own lover and spend this life happily.

But why is fate so ill-fated, so not as good as her wish?
Bai Zhi was ordered to go to the street to buy rouge and gouache for herself.Master Bai was afraid that something might happen to Bai Zhi, so he asked Qing He to accompany him.It didn't matter to Bai Zhi, after learning horsemanship with Qiu Chan, she took Qiu Chan to the street.

Unfortunately, the scorching sun suddenly rained heavily, and the rain poured down. If the three of them hadn't happened to be choosing hairpins in the shop, they would definitely have fallen into the water today.

Qiu Chan never wears powder and dresses up, and wears armor all day long, so she doesn't care much about these things in the girl's house.

Bai Zhi didn't pay much attention to it, she just looked at it casually, and bought it if she found it pleasing to the eye.They didn't go to another shop until the shower stopped.

A few people came to a cloth shop, Bai Zhi casually looked at it a few times, touched the texture, then chose the water blue silk and satin, paid the silver, and left.Fang walked out of the shop, and a carriage stopped in front of her.Bai Zhi knew this carriage, it belonged to her family.

The curtain of the carriage was raised, and it turned out to be Bai Shao!Today she was wearing a green water gauze skirt embroidered with big blue lotuses, and she was lowering her head and carefully getting out of the carriage.As soon as she looked up, Bai Zhi smiled at her: "Where did my sister come from?"

Bai Shao said delicately: "Naturally, it came from the mansion."

"Oh?" Bai Zhi looked at the wheels of the carriage calmly, it was covered with red soil, which is the unique soil quality of Qiongqi Mountain.Why did she go to Qiongqi Mountain?Apart from the White Horse Temple on the mountainside, what else is there in Qiongqi Mountain?
"Sister, it's rare to see you go out to buy cloth and make new clothes?" Bai Shao hastily changed the topic.

Bai Zhi didn't want to talk about this topic either, so she followed her words and said, "Yeah, the clothes are getting smaller recently, and it's bothering me."

Bai Shao was stunned, covered her mouth and smiled lightly: "Could it be that my sister eats too many steamed buns?"

Bai Shao presumably took pleasure in her body shape.Bai Zhi was not annoyed, but covered her stomach, frowning like a sick child.Seeing her like this, Qing He hurriedly supported her: "Miss, what's wrong with you?"

"Eating too many buns, I want to go to the toilet."

As soon as these words came out, everyone present was astonished.Bai Zhi bit her lip and looked at Bai Shao pitifully: "Sister, borrow the carriage."

"But……"

Before she finished speaking, Bai Zhi quickly got into the carriage like a rabbit. Before entering the carriage, she hurriedly said to Qiu Chan and Qing He: "Get in the carriage." Then she ordered the driver to drive the horse quickly.Bai Shao just came from the White Horse Temple, she was exhausted already, now Bai Zhi asks her to walk back, I don't know if her three inch golden lotus can bear it.This is also a small punishment for her.

The two in a daze got into the car quickly.

"Sister." Bai Shao wanted to save her, but it was too late, her face turned blue, and there was more apprehension and fear in her eyes.

On the carriage, Bai Zhifang raised the curtain, and unexpectedly met a pair of narrow phoenix eyes, he was looking at her with a half-smile.Naturally, Bai Zhi couldn't help but let out a loud cry.The coachman immediately slammed on the brakes, and the two behind Bai Zhi lost their center of gravity and fell directly into the carriage.Bai Zhi felt the impulsive force from behind, and her body uncontrollably threw herself on the person inside.The man wanted to catch Bai Zhi, but Bai Zhi was willing to fall on the hard car floor and blocked him with her hands.Unexpectedly, the horse suddenly became restless, the carriage vibrated, and her body bumped back again.

Then, a tragic and tragic thing happened...

It was a rather soft lip, moist and warm.

Qiu Chan and Qing He who were at the door of the carriage were completely dumbfounded.How could a man jump out of the carriage alive?And she looks so beautiful, no wonder the daughter of the Bai family couldn't wait to throw herself down and kiss her!
Bai Zhi was in a daze for a moment, then bounced off him immediately, her face turned pale.Why didn't she have the shy expression of other women, but instead turned pale and panicked?
It was because the one she threw down was none other than Mu Tusu who she wanted to escape.

Mutusu sat up with her, and smiled to himself: "Miss Bai is really very lively."

She knew that Mu Tusu was not laughing.He smiled at everyone, but never from the bottom of his heart, he only acted as a modest son on the surface.She really, pretty much, hated his laugh.She pursed her lips and retorted: "Forgive me for being presumptuous. I didn't know that the prince was in the car, let alone that the prince had such an affair with my sister."

"Miss Bai's family misunderstood. I was walking in the bamboo forest, and it rained suddenly. It happened that the second young lady of Bai's family passed by and gave me a ride."

Bai Zhi was neither slow nor ill, and said very rigidly: "Men and women can't live in the same room together. If the younger sister doesn't understand, doesn't it mean that the son doesn't understand either? Or is the son interested in the younger sister?" After saying that, a thought flashed into Bai Zhi's mind.

She could see that Bai Shao went to the White Horse Temple, she must be like other women, wanting to see the legendary prince, after that, Bai Shao ignored the etiquette and invited him to hide in the carriage to hide from the rain, which shows Bai Shao's intentions.Since father wants to marry Prince Gong, why doesn't she match Bai Shao and Mu Tusu?She can please both sides, but also get rid of this troublesome thing, why not do it?
Just do it.

As soon as Bai Zhi raised her eyes, her gaze fell into his dark pupils.He was looking at her playfully: "My fair lady, a gentleman is so sweet. Why don't you think that I am interested in you?"

Listening to Mutusu's words, Bai Zhi seemed to have heard a big joke: "Your son has both talent and looks, and I can't afford to be high." Bai Zhi didn't want to be in the same car with him, so she shouted to the driver, "Stop."

When the car stopped, Bai Zhi wanted to get out of the car.With doubts on Mu Tusu's face, he asked, "Miss Bai, since we first met in the forest, you have been full of hostility towards me. Tusu really doesn't know what grievances there are between us!"

Bai Zhi paused, not knowing how to answer him.Scenes from the dream reappeared in her mind, they were so real that she had to believe and be vigilant, and the man in front of her was exactly the man she couldn't ask for in her dream!

She fears him, even hates him!

Since she has returned to the starting point, they have nothing to do with each other.What she resisted was just him.She doesn't want to make herself suffer anymore, so she must strictly control herself.

"My son and I have never met each other, so where is the grievance? You are too worried." Bai Zhi said, and left the carriage.

Qiu Chan and Qing He almost trotted to keep up with Bai Zhi.

Sitting in the carriage, Mu Tusu frowned slightly, his eyes occasionally turned to the corner of the carriage, and found a piece of water-blue silk, which must have been dropped by Bai Zhi.

Mutusu smiled gently at the piece of cloth, and there was an intriguing smile in that smile.

Qiu Chan and Qing He managed to catch up with Bai Zhi who was walking quickly, Qing He muttered: "Miss, don't be sad, I will definitely report this matter to the master, and make Miss innocent."

Qing He thought that Bai Zhi's hasty walk was due to anger.In Qing He's eyes, it was out of character for a young girl with yellow flowers to kiss a strange man on the carriage.

Because of Qing He's words, Bai Zhi stamped her feet, turned around and said to Qing He and Qiu Chan word by word: "You all forget everything that happened between me and Shi Zi in the car, and you are not allowed to mention anything, understand?"

Bai Zhi's aura was very scary, the two of them were almost out of their bodies, and they nodded blankly.Bai Zhi knew her father too well, if her father knew about this matter, he would send her to Mutusu's bed with drums and drums.She doesn't want to make the same mistakes again, absolutely not.

Not long after she returned to the White Mansion, Liu's accompanying maid came to Shuixuan and called her to go to the Buddhist hall.The Liu family ate fast and recited Buddha's name all the year round, and hardly ever left the Buddhist hall in the White Mansion.Bai Zhi followed the maid to the Buddhist hall, and passed a courtyard on the way, seeing the servants busy, she casually asked the maid, "What's the matter?"

"Don't Missy know? The princess will be staying in the White Mansion in a few days."

"Oh, so fast." Bai Zhi groaned in her heart.It seems that her father tried his best to get her to marry Mu Tusu.If she wants to leave Linshuixuan, she must pass through this other courtyard, so the chances of encountering Mu Tusu will be greatly increased.

Bai Zhi couldn't help sighing.It seems that these days, she can't eat hot buns anymore.

Bai Zhi came to the Buddhist hall and saw Bai Shao picking up the wick for Liu Shi.Bai Zhi paused, then smiled gently at Bai Shao: "Sister, are you back?"

"En." Bai Shao didn't say much, after lighting the lamp, she walked to Liu's side and sat obediently.

Sometimes Bai Zhi really admires the stamina of Bai Shao, with Liu Shi often accompanied by the green light, Bai Shao doesn't feel depressed?Her biological daughter is not half as good as her adopted daughter.

"Zhi'er." Liu Shi lightly closed her eyes, kneeling in front of the Buddha, the beads in her hands kept rolling.

"mother."

Only then did Liu's eyes open, and she wanted to stand up.Bai Shao thoughtfully supported Liu Shi, and helped her to sit on the chair beside her.Mrs. Liu said, "Shao'er said, you had diarrhea today, is it better now?"

Bai Zhi looked up at Bai Shao, and Bai Shao smiled at her as a response.Bai Zhi sneered in her heart, the speed of making small reports was really fast.Bai Zhi leaned forward and said, "It's much better."

(End of this chapter)