female catcher

Chapter 210 The Empress Summons
The lotus is fragrant and fragrant, and the petals are pink and tender, like the light crimson palace dress on her body, blooming as if waiting for mercy.The rough flower stalk pricked his hand slightly, Xia Chu held it in his hand and stroked it gently with his thumb, a little lost in thought, but he didn't know what he was thinking.

Su Zhen took a step in front of her, lowered his head and sniffed the flowers in her hand, then raised his eyes to look at the face that was not so close to him, and asked her softly, "What are you thinking?"

Xia Chu raised his head and looked into those eyes that were cut off from the night and dyed with moonlight, and his mind was in a trance for a while.The gaze of the two sides makes people forget to breathe quietly, the world seems to disappear in the tranquility of the setting sun and the breeze, and I can only hear my heart beating suddenly chaotic and tense.

Su Zhen's eyelash feathers moved slightly, his eyes slid over her eyebrows, eyes and nose, and landed on her lips as tender as lotus petals, he carefully held his breath, and poked forward again.

Xia Chu caught his gaze, pursed his lips subconsciously, suddenly became nervous, and his breath became short and chaotic.Seeing Su Zhen's face getting closer and closer to him, he was so close that he couldn't see anything clearly.

She clenched her palms tightly and was pricked by the rough thorns on the lotus stem, and she suddenly came back to her senses.He took a step back in a panic, raised the lotus in his hand, and blocked it in front of him.

"Xia Chu..." Su Zhen took a step forward, and Xia Chu took another step back, lowering his head to sniff the slightly pungent fragrance of the lotus, covering his reddened face, his heart beating so fast, "Your Majesty, It's getting late, I, I have to go back." After speaking, he didn't dare to look at Su Zhen again, didn't dare to listen to him, and fled away in a panic.

Su Zhen watched her back running away on the gravel road until she disappeared among the willow bushes. After a long time, he slowly let out the breath that was choked in his chest.A little lost, a little bored, and a little inexplicably sad.

Speaking of the past, Xia Chu seems to be the same Xia Chu, but when facing the present, he always sees hesitation and bewilderment in her eyes.She seemed to be very careful, just like him, lest she break something with just one expression or one word.

One day later, Jiang Shangyi came to Xia Chu early in the morning, still looking at her with the same look and contemplation, looking at her with a smile but not a smile.Xia Chu blessed her with all manners of courtesy, thinking that Jiang Shangyi didn't know what was wrong with her. He had been here for so many days, why every time he saw him, he acted as if he didn't know him.

"It's pretty well packed, let's go." Jiang Shangyi said while turning around.

"Where are you going?" Xia Chu caught up a step and asked.

Jiang Shangyi turned her head and glanced at her, "Fengyi Palace, the empress wants to see you."

Xia Chu's heart skipped a beat, and he subconsciously took a step back.Seeing her cowering look, Jiang Shangyi gently pulled the corner of her lips, her tone was flat but impatient, "Didn't you hear me? Let's go."

Along the way, Xia Chu pondered a lot, his mind was full of images of the domineering queen and the ruthless Nanny Rong in Huanzhugege, as well as the plot of the needle-pricking and water-splashing in the secret room.She knew that Jiang Xiyuan's younger sister was not that old, but she just couldn't get rid of this rote imagination.

It's about Gong Dou, the queens are almost all villains!

Jiang Shangyi didn't say anything along the way, didn't tell her what kind of person the queen is, and didn't tell her what she should pay attention to when she saw the queen, not even a pretentious sentence like 'be careful, don't lose your manners'. talk to her.This made Xia Chu feel more and more uneasy.

When they arrived at the gate of Fengyi Palace, Jiang Shangyi informed the young envoy of the palace gate, and after waiting for a while, the inner hall called them in.

The main hall has quite a large opening, covered with a dark red soft cut-flower carpet, walking silently, when Xia Chu stepped on it, it felt like the soles of his feet were stepping on needle boards.Yong Wei wore a light white silk gown with wide sleeves, and the begonia-colored skirt fell softly from the phoenix seat, showing the beauty of a girl without losing her dignity.

Xia Chu secretly glanced at her, without even seeing her appearance clearly, he bowed down with Jiang Shangyi and greeted her in unison.After getting Ping, Jiang Shangyi folded her sleeves and bowed her body, smiled very sincerely, and said, "I want to report to you, Madam, this is the new servant of the fifth rank in the palace, early Xia."

Xia Chu was a little distracted, trying to figure out what the empress would say to him, whether he wanted to seek Jiang Xiyuan's friendship with her, or whether she would not ask, and rushed to him in two steps and slapped him , reprimanded himself sharply, 'You foxy son, how dare you seduce the Holy Majesty!Come, give me a foot of red! 'some type of.

Hearing Jiang Shangyi mention her name, Xia Chu raised her head for a moment, then quickly knelt down again with her skirt in her hands, and kowtowed cautiously, "Servant Xia Chu, see the empress."

Yong Wei has been sizing her up without any trace, thinking that this person is thin and tall, so it's no wonder that he can pretend to be a man and serve as a headhunter. He doesn't look very beautiful, but he still suits his eyes.

"Get up." Yong Wei raised her hand.When Xia Chu stood up, she said to Jiang Shangyi: "Please trouble Jiang Shangyi, Xia Chu will stay here for a while, Jiang Shangyi can just go."

Jiang Shangyi answered yes, stepped back out of the main hall, and glanced at Xia Chu when she walked past Xia Chu's side. The look in her eyes didn't know what it meant.Xia Chu always wanted to run away with her, but he couldn't. He was a little bit reluctant to see this figure like the dean leave.

When Jiang Shangyi left, Yongwei stood up from her seat, and came towards Xia Chu with her cloak in her arm.Shocked, Xia Chu took a step back and raised his hand to cover his face.He raised his hand halfway, but was caught by Yong Wei.

"Xia Chu, are you really that headhunter Xia Chu?" Yong Wei's smiling voice made Xia Chu startled, then raised his eyes to look at the person in front of him, and said in a daze, "Your Majesty...knows me? No, do you know slaves?"

Yongwei nodded, and said with a smile: "I thought this name sounded familiar at first glance, but Qianqian reminded me that the head catcher of the Xijing government office is also called by this name."

When she smiled like this, her eyes were bent into beautiful curves, very similar to Jiang Xiyuan's smile.Looking at it at the beginning of Xia, he suddenly didn't feel nervous, and felt a little close, so he also smiled.

Qianqian was serving tea and came in, and she was full of smiles when she heard Yongwei's words. After putting the tea on the table, she looked at Xia Chu, "In the past, the servants in the general's mansion often heard people talk about Xia Dian serving, and breaking up with the fourth young master. There are many cases, but I didn't expect it to be a daughter. Xia Dian's servants don't give up to men, and the servants are very envious."

"Are you envious? Let Eunuch An arrange for you to dress up as a man to be the guard of the palace gate another day?" Yong Wei smiled and said to Qianqian, then turned to Xia Chu and said, "I wrote to my brother and asked him He said that he recommended you to enter the palace. Since you are brother's friend, you are also my friend."

Xia Chu was slightly taken aback when he heard these words, and immediately understood Jiang Xiyuan's intentions, and felt a bit sour in his heart.After a moment of silence, he asked: "Master Jiang, how are you doing these days?"

Yongwei smiled lightly, with a trace of loneliness in her eyes, "It should be okay. I won't have a chance to see my family again after entering the palace, so I wrote a letter when I thought about it, and didn't dare to say anything else, for fear of falling into the trap of someone with a heart."

When Xia Chu looked at her expression, he seemed to see Jiang Xiyuan from those similar eyebrows.She remembered that trip to Yuanping Mountain.At that time, he already knew that Mr. Huang was the emperor, and he was ready to send himself into the palace, so for a person who had always been in high spirits, even his breathing seemed to be painful.

Now that she really entered the palace, she didn't even have time to say goodbye so suddenly, how could he be okay?
After Yong Wei finished speaking, she sighed lightly, and laughed again, "The palace is actually quite boring, it's all over now, you can talk to me when you come. In this way, we don't have to hold back anymore. , you don’t need to call yourself a slave in private, and I won’t call you my servant, okay?”

Xia Chu smiled shyly, hesitated for a moment before nodding.

Yongwei asked Qianqian to buy some snacks, some exquisite desserts, pointing at this and that like an ordinary boudoir girl, so that Xia Chu can taste it.

She was also suffocated, she was originally a lively character, but she was suppressed by a diorama and a phoenix crown, and could only be dignified and majestic. Except for showing her true nature when she was alone with Qianqian, she had to control every smile and every word on weekdays , really tired panic.

At the beginning of Xia, a girl dared to dress up as a man to go to the headhunter, and she knew she must not be a polite person.After she received Jiang Xiyuan's letter, she had nothing to do and asked Qianqian about "Xia Butou", as if listening to a story, but she already liked it a little before she saw it.Coupled with Jiang Xiyuan's relationship, they warmed up as soon as they met.

"Chu Xia, did brother mention me in front of you?"

"Yes." Xia Chu nodded and smiled, "My lord said that among his brothers and sisters, he is the closest to the empress, even though they are noisy. My lord loves my empress very much. Once when we came back from handling a case, Brother Liu said that my empress is the closest. Crying at home, the adults said it was troublesome, but ran back to the general's mansion without a moment's delay, and didn't even eat lunch."

Speaking of Jiang Xiyuan, Xia Chu's mood became much smoother. While eating with Yongwei, he talked about how they handled the case, what kind of interesting things they encountered, and what kind of difficult things they encountered.Said that she had quarreled with Jiang Xiyuan, and said how majestic Jiang Xiyuan was during the trial...

Yong Wei listened very seriously, frowning for a while, covering her mouth for a laugh, but tears welled up in her eyes as she listened.Xia Chuzheng was talking with great interest, immersed in those memories, and stopped when he saw Yongwei like this.

Yong Wei calmed down, pressed her eyes with a handkerchief, and forced a smile, "It's okay..., I just miss my family and my brother. The courtiers are not allowed to enter the harem, and I don't know when I can see him."

Xia Chu didn't speak quietly, but Yong Wei's words made his heart sink, and he sank to the bottom of the deep water, as if he couldn't breathe.

I still remember the day before entering the palace, Jiang Xiyuan stood beside her brazenly laughing at her handwriting, grabbed the pen, found a blank space on the messy paper she had written, and wrote "Jiang Xiyuan" three words. Character.

"Is it well written?"

"It's okay." Xia Chu reluctantly nodded.

"Come and write, Jiang Xiyuan."

"why?"

"Other characters are ugly, but you have to write my name beautifully."

"I want to practice also my own name, what's the use of practicing your name?"

Jiang Xiyuan put his hands on the desk, looked at her from the side, and said with a smile: "You need to practice more to write well, maybe as you write, it will be written in your heart."

I don't know when I will be able to see him again...Xia Chu suddenly felt like crying.

(End of this chapter)