Flowers are expensive

Chapter 419 The Little Princess Arrives 2
"If it wasn't for you, would I still take a sedan chair when I go out?" Zhuang Yunxian said with a smile, "You're not used to it, and I'm not used to it! By the way, where are we going?"

"Anyway, it's just the two of us anyway," Xixi teased, holding Zhuang Yunxian's arm, "It's fine to go to Chaos Tianya! How about it, Miss Zhuang, are you interested in elope with me?"

"Who elopes with a big belly?"

"So, we still need to find someone like Bingshuai, right?"

Zhuang Yunxian smiled sheepishly, then turned to ask her: "Where are you going to go crazy, concubine concubine? Let's talk about it first, don't even think about mountain climbing, lest Zhao Yuanyin trouble me later!"

"Is there any place you want to go?"

Zhuang Yunxian thought for a while and said, "Why don't you go to Tianfu Bridge outside the city! At this season, the maple leaves there should be red, and it should be very beautiful."

"Picnic? Good idea! Then do we have to take food and drink with us? We won't be back at noon."

"There is a river beside the maple leaf forest, and there is a Red Maple Pavilion by the river. Everything is ready, just take someone there."

"Okay, let's go!"

The two of them were in high spirits, like birds released after being sleepy for a long time, they headed all the way to the Red Maple Pavilion.After leaving the south city gate and walking about half a mile, there was a blush like morning glow not far away, that was the maple forest.Going 200 meters further, a river crosses the road, blocking the way. There is a Tianfu Bridge on the river, and the Red Maple Pavilion is beside the bridge.

Xixi was so excited, she ran in and was about to shout, "Xiao Er, bring me two catties of dry rice and three catties of beef!" when she suddenly froze for a moment and swallowed the words in her throat!

The so-called Red Maple Restaurant is a tavern in name, but it is not a tavern where punches are everywhere, and more realistically speaking, it should be a sketching studio.When Xixi happily jumped in, he saw that the restaurant was quiet, with a row of open windows facing the maple forest, and the dozen or so tables in the restaurant had their owners.Some sipped wine and whispered, or talked about the beautiful scenery outside the window, or chatted about other things;

Xixi's lofty ambition of wanting to eat meat and drink alcohol was gently and quietly "strangled" away!Zhuang Yunxian followed in and whispered in her ear: "Don't shout too loudly, it will make people laugh."

"Sister Zhuang," Xixi said softly, squinting at her, "isn't this too quiet?"

"The Red Maple Pavilion was originally used by literati to entertain the maple forest in front of them. What do you think they are here for?"

"You really came to sketch?"

"Sketch?"

The two were whispering, when a man in elegant clothes came over, bowed his hands to the two and asked with a smile: "It seems that the two ladies are here for the first time? Are there any good friends waiting for you?"

Zhuang Yunxian was about to answer the conversation, when a familiar face suddenly walked towards them and said with a smile: "It's you two again? Did you sneak out?"

"Qixiang?" Xixi and Zhuang Yunxian said in unison.

This person is Qixiang!Seeing that they were familiar with each other, the shopkeeper stepped back to prepare tea.Qixiang led them to his own table, pointed to the scenery outside the window and said with a smile, "Is this a good location? It's a good view!"

Xixi stared at him suspiciously and asked, "Hey, didn't you go to the barracks with that guard with Zhao Yuanyin and the others? Why did you come here to be lazy?"

"Accompany the imperial guards, not to accompany the emperor. As for so many people? I heard that the maple leaves here are beautiful, so I found an excuse to slip out. Anyway, those two brothers are there, and I am not there. I'm all the same!"

"Really? I thought the little Prince Qixiang would not like to go to brothels except for visiting brothels!" Xixi laughed.

"Vulgar," Qixiang said pretending to be serious, "am I that kind of person? Otherwise, what are these ready-made paintbrushes and rice paper used for? I came here to appreciate the landscape painting. How about it? Sister-in-law Zhuang How about a picture? I'll grind it for you!"

"Really?" Both Xixi and Zhuang Yunxian shook their heads, not believing his words at all.Zhuang Yunxian asked with a smile: "Could it be that you provoked some girl in the city and hid from her?"

"Where did you go, sister-in-law Zhuang? I can't take care of that mess. I'm still called Qixiang little prince? A woman who can pester me is still born! Stop talking nonsense, draw a picture for me first, and turn around." When my new yard is finished, it will look so pretty inside!" Qi Xiang said, rolled up his sleeves and really started to study ink for Zhuang Yunxian.

Xixi asked while drinking boiled water: "Hey, who promised to build a new yard for you? Zhao Yuanyin said?"

"That's natural!" Qi Xiang was working hard, shaking his head and said, "He is my own brother, if I want him, will he not give it to me? It won't take up much space in the palace, don't worry, sister-in-law!"

"What are you doing with the new yard? Raising that Yuzhan girl?" Xixi asked with a smile.

"That kind of woman is not worthy of my support. It's too clichéd to have a girl in a golden house. If I really have such a woman, I will definitely welcome her home. What else is there to hide?"

"By the way," Zhuang Yunxian asked, "how is your girl Yuzhan's injury?"

"I still keep it! Then Achana is really ruthless, she is just a jealous woman, who can bear her? Yuzhan is the one who called Zhang Xianchu to question the night she came to Zhang's mansion, good guy, That day in the meditation room of Jingyin Temple, he deliberately broke the cup and asked Yuzhan to kneel on the fragment! Who would want such a woman?"

Xixi asked: "Is it that girl Yuzhan who screamed that day?"

Zhuang Yunxian nodded and said: "You fainted, how do you know? Later, when Zhao Yuanyin and Zhao Xun and I went back to the mountain, I saw the aunt who was in charge asked someone to carry her out of the room. Her knees were covered with blood. How cruel!"

"So," Qixiang said in an experienced tone, "what is that shrew in our family? At most, I can't beat her, so can I hide? Zhang Xianchu's jealous woman is in trouble. Who will talk to Zhang Xianchu? Who will be unlucky! I have retired early for this kind of woman, what are you doing at home?"

"Hey, little prince, so you still like your shrew quite a bit?" Xixi asked with a smile.

"Who likes her? I like her, do I still play outside like this every day? If I really meet someone I like, I will definitely stay at home every day like those two brothers. What are you going out for?"

Both Zhuang Yunxian and Xixi stared at Qixiang, shaking their heads together.Qixiang said helplessly: "Believe it or not, look back anyway, I still don't believe it, with my young prince Qixiang's looks, talent, and family background, I still can't find someone I like! Okay, sister-in-law Zhuang, Zhusha Moyan Alright, please do it!"

Zhuang Yunxian really started to draw.Both Xixi and Qixiang are good at chatting, while leaning on the soft pillow to drink tea and fruit, they chatted about Zhang Xianchu's concubine, helped Zhuang Yunxian to grind and add some tea from time to time, and felt at ease.

Zhuang Yunxian always draws very quickly, and after a while she finished a painting, she put down her pen and said: "Come and see, little prince, can you still hang it in your new yard?"

Qixiang sat up, pulled the painting, held it in his hand and looked at it, nodded and said: "Well... not bad! It really deserves to be the work of Sister Zhuang! When I turn around and wait for my Qixiang Courtyard to be repaired, I'll just hang up..."

Before the hanging words were finished, the painting suddenly broke apart and became two pieces!The three of them froze for a moment at the same time, turned their heads and saw a young woman standing by the table at some point, putting the sword into the scabbard!
As soon as Qixiang saw her, his face turned pale, and he shook the torn drawing paper awkwardly and asked, "It's a good painting, if you don't know how to appreciate it, it's fine. As for such a waste? Really!"

"You also know how to paint? Don't you only know women?" The woman's voice was very clear, with the majesty of a woman.As soon as these words came out, sister Zhuang, who originally wanted to fight, immediately suppressed her anger, and her tone sounded like she was scolding her family.Xixi hurriedly got up and pulled Zhuang Yunxian over, looked him up and down and asked Qixiang, "Who is this?"

Qixiang didn't answer, he patted the painting aside, stood up and said impatiently to the lady: "You don't need to praise me, I know this very well! Please go back to the city first, or where did you come from?" You can go back anywhere! Go slowly, don’t send me off!”

"Being caught straight by me, you simply want to tear your face apart? Isn't your Dongguo Qixiang's face thicker than a city wall? In front of two women, why is it as thin as a cicada's wing? Is it possible that you still Coaxing people to say that you have never been married, and you want to pretend to be a young man, you should first see if your face looks like it!"

"I'm not like you, you're more like a young and unmarried young girl, okay?"

This sentence made the people next to him burst into laughter.Xixi and Zhuang Yunxian also recognized that the person in front of them was probably Qixiang's little princess Zuo Chanyin.From the looks of it, Zuo Chanyin was not the kind of petite and delicate woman who would cling to others, she had a heroic appearance.If it is said that women are usually represented by flowers, but she is more like a dark green Clivia.

Qixiang's words really irritated her, but she didn't have the urge to draw her sword. Instead, she raised her sword eyebrows, pointed at Qixiang and said, "Hide here as long as you can, don't go back to your cousin's house! It's just about you You are so brave, you are only worthy of painting with two women here!"

"I can do whatever I like, can you control me? I just don't want to go back to my cousin's place, it's not that I have nowhere to go!" Qixiang retorted, "There are many nests in the city! You've heard of the three caves of the cunning rabbit. No? I have ten caves, do you believe it or not?"

"So, you are just a gopher, a gopher who can't see the light, you can only hang around in the holes of those rat spirits! You better hide here, don't be too promising, or you won't be your little prince of the Qi Palace at all. like!"

"Zuo Chanyin, haven't you been on the battlefield for a long time, and your heart is itchy? If you really feel uncomfortable, go out and turn right. There are several hundred-year-old yellow fruit trees there. You can chop them down slowly! Here is the Red Maple Pavilion, gentle Where people come, take your bloody sword and hurry out!"

"Who are you talking about?" Zuo Chanyin took a step forward, actually scaring Qi Xiang back three steps.Qixiang looked really afraid of Zuo Chanyin, pointed at her and said with a blue face: "Hurry up... Hurry up! Don't embarrass my brother here, saying that the relatives of Prince You's Mansion are here to play tricks and beat people! Zuo... ...Zuo Chanyin, let me tell you, this is really not a place to do it, you... you, you, you, hurry up!"

Zuo Chanyin approached him without changing expression and sneered and said, "With your courage, you still want to scare me? Go back to your rat's den and stay here! Anyway, I'm here today to take you back to Bianjing City. If you want to run, just run, tie, I will tie you back! While you can still run here, jump out of the window and show me how far you can run!"

"Don't go too far, let me tell you, the surname is Zuo!" Qi Xiang had already been forced to the window by Zuo Chanyin, his face turned from blue to red, so embarrassed!Everyone in the hall is watching!But this Zuo Chanyin looked as if he was going to swallow him alive, how could he be so cruel to a person who couldn't beat him or run away?

"Run!" Zuo Chanyin waved his hands provocatively, "The two calves are used to climb mouse holes? Don't dare to jump out of a window? I will give you a chance to run now. If you don't run, you will go back to the city immediately." !"

(End of this chapter)