Empress: The Old Emperor's Way to Pursue His Wife

Chapter 136 Early Summer (4)

Xiao Yi and Xiao Yi were eating lunch in a gazebo in the palace, because there was a towering old tree next to the gazebo, the branches and leaves of the ancient tree covered the entire gazebo under its branches and leaves.

In this season of increasing temperature, this place can be described as a natural sanctuary for cooling off.

Xiao Yi gave Xiao Yi her favorite dish, and Xiao Yi deliberately put the dish Xiao Yi didn't like very much into his mouth, forcing him to eat it.

One emperor and one empress, one meal, the two of them were in a daze for a long time, and a hidden guard hiding in the dark finally couldn't help but flew into the pavilion and dedicated a package to the emperor and empress.

Xiao Yi raised his eyebrows slightly: "What is this?"

The hidden guard: "Report to the emperor, this is the mask thrown to His Royal Highness by the mysterious man."

"Mask?" Xiao Yi opened the bag, and there was a pungent stench, and there was a mask of a monkey head glued inside the bag, and a few lines of writing could be vaguely seen inside the mask.

"Why can't these words be read clearly? And this smell, why is it so like..."

The dark guard lowered his head a little, "This mask was crushed by His Highness, and then... Then His Highness threw the mask into the cesspit."

"Ugh..." Xiao Yi threw the burden on the ground, feeling nauseous.

Fortunately, she hasn't reached out to take it yet, thankfully.

Xiao Yi stroked Xiao Yi's back lightly, and stared at the dark guard with his dragon eyes, who shrank back in fear.

"Has anyone seen who threw this mask to His Highness?"

"No, no."

"Hmm!" Xiao Yi snorted a faint and thick nasal voice, a majesty from the emperor made the dark guard tremble all over.

In the end, it was Xiao Yi who spoke, and Xiao Yi let the courageous guard go.

The three of Xiao Xi'er had dinner, and Sanata didn't want to visit any boring scenic spots, so Xiao Xi'er proposed to go to the Beijing Huaihe Canal and visit those places that she had only heard about from the Xiao family couple in the past. ship building.

As soon as Sanata heard the name of the ship building, she became energetic.Not to mention boats, she has never even seen the sea. Now when she hears about this boat building, she feels very fresh.

A group of people came to the Beijing Huaihe Canal in a carriage. From a distance, there were rows of ship buildings standing on the shore, and there were countless people going to and from each ship building.

Hundreds of years ago, this was originally a pier for official transport to stop ships. Later, the Beijing-Huaihe Canal was overhauled, and the imperial court rebuilt the pier to another place, and this place became obsolete.

Later, some merchants saw business opportunities here, and after the first ship building was built here, the rest of the ship buildings sprung up one by one, and then there were the present ship building merchants.

After getting off the carriage, Sanata was aroused by the scene in front of her, while Xiao Xi'er and Wei Wei were playing and playing together.

A few people walked along the shore for a while before they got on a rather busy boat building.They just went up, and Li Zhong and Qiu Zhu followed behind.

Li Zhong originally thought that he and Qiu Zhu would say goodbye, and he didn't know when they would see each other again.As a result, when Qiu Zhu heard about the ship building, he became very excited and wanted to follow him.

Li Zhong couldn't be stubborn, so he followed her.

This ship building is not too big, but it is not small either. From the bottom of the ship, it is divided into three floors. When you get on the boat, you will find that there are four floors in total, because the first floor is hidden in the hull.

As soon as they boarded the boat, a young servant stepped forward to welcome them into a table and chairs, and invited them to take their seats.

They had just eaten, so they didn't order anything, they just asked for a few plates of fruit and a pot of tea.

Sitting in the ship building, they knew the internal structure of the ship building.

Siheyuan-style seats are arranged along the floors. With the layout of each floor and the number of people, it can be seen that the higher you go, the more wealthy people stay.

And in the middle of this courtyard style is a square stage, on which there is a woman playing the piano.

There is a deep sense of elegance, but these spectators...

Xiao Xi'er grabbed a handful of melon seeds and licked them on the table, rolling her big eyes while licking, looking for the target.

On the mask that Mei Qing threw to her, it was written that she should come to the boat building next to the Beijing Huaihe Canal, but when she came, she was dumbfounded when she saw this row of boat buildings.

Because Mei Qing didn't specify the ship building, and I don't know if Mei Qing will show up when she goes up so casually.

With more and more people recently, this floor has become more and more noisy.

Xiao Xi: "Xiao Weizi, it's so noisy here, shall we go upstairs?"

Wei Wei is naturally what Xi'er says, that's what it is.Sanata was excited to see it, so she let the two kids go by themselves, and she wanted to stay in this crowded place to join in the fun.

Wei Wei led Xiao Xi'er up to the second floor, and a servant girl stepped forward to greet her, and Li Zhong was trying her best to suppress her sense of presence in a position not far behind the servant girl.

Although Xiao Yiyou told Xiao Xi'er that he was assigned to secretly protect her, Her Royal Highness, but this Imperial Highness once said, "Since you are a secret guard, then you will always be kept secret by this hall, unless this hall is in danger. If you are seen by this hall when this hall is not in danger, this hall will make you look good."

Xiao Xi'er was not joking about this, because...

Xiao Xi: "Li Zhong, why are you here?"

Li Zhong: "His Royal Highness, humble position... humble position..."

Xiao Xi: "This hall doesn't care what you do. Since you broke the rules of this hall, this hall will make you look good."

That time, he just dozed off for a while just because he was in the palace, but he fell straight in front of the queen, and then he was completely stunned and invited the emperor for ten days and a half months false self-cultivation.

As for the reason, the secret of the man's house...

Anyway, since this time, Li Zhong has tried his best not to appear in front of Her Royal Highness.

He didn't expect that because he felt that this position could see the position where Xiao Xi'er was sitting just now and the surroundings clearly, alas, he made a mistake.

Seeing his appearance, Qiu Zhu couldn't help snickering, and even made a gesture to call Xiao Xi'er, so frightened that Li Zhong called her sister and grandma.

After listening to the maid's explanation, Wei Wei asked Xiao Xi, "Xi'er, what do you think of this place?"

Xiao Xi'er had already probed her head to get an overview of the people on this floor, but there was no such familiar figure, so she shook her head.

Wei Wei: "Since Xi'er doesn't like it, let's continue upstairs."

Wei Wei pulled Xiao Xi'er and wanted to go up, but was blocked by the servant girl.

"Young master and young lady, except for the first floor and the second floor, not everyone can go to the third and fourth floors casually." The servant girl apologized. "I'm sorry, but please either choose a seat on the second floor, or go back to the first floor and choose a seat."

"Why can't we go to the third floor and the fourth floor?" Xiao Xi'er quit now, as soon as His Highness lost his temper, he pointed to the servant girl's nose and said: "You don't allow me to go, I will go, hum! This hall still doesn't believe it, there are still places in the Great Chu that this hall can't go to."

Maid: "This..."

It's not that this maid has never seen the world, in this place where fish and dragons are mixed, she can even tell at a glance from the clothes worn by Xiao Xi'er and Wei Wei that these two dolls are not children of ordinary merchants.

The servant girl bowed her knees and saluted: "Please wait a moment, please wait for the servant girl to ask the captain for instructions?"

"Ben..." Her Highness Xiao Xi'er only got excited, but she didn't want to, but Wei Wei stopped her and asked the maid to ask the captain.

"Xiao Weizi, how dare you stop this hall from speaking."

"Xi'er, listen to me, this is not the palace, this is a place where fish and dragons are mixed together, come, look at these people."

Wei Wei dragged Xiao Xi'er to the railing, and pointed to the people in different clothes upstairs one by one.

"Look at these people, they are basically people from the world, and how many of them are outlaws or killers. Xi'er, you have to know that even if you have the status of a princess, there are not many people here to protect you." You are your own bodyguard, if you are so impulsive, you may be killed for no reason."

Xiao Xi'er looked at the people that Wei Wei pointed out one by one, she was only looking for Mei Qing's figure just now, she didn't take a close look at these people at all, now that she saw it, she was still a little scared.

After all, not long ago, she almost died in the hands of Sanata.That fright was enough for her to recall for a lifetime.

"And Xi'er, you are outside the palace now, and you can no longer call yourself the main hall in front of others. Now it's because you are too young, and those adults don't take it seriously. If you are older, you still open your mouth Shut up is the main hall, then others will hide away when they see you, and you won’t be able to play a lot of fun, don’t you want this?”

When Wei Wei said this, Xiao Xi'er's face was full of shock, she shook her head, of course she didn't want to.

Wei Wei smiled and patted her on the shoulder, "That's it. In the future, Xiao Xi'er must remember that you can't call yourself the main palace outside the palace, and you can't call your father, queen, and queen as your father, queen, and queen. You can only call me the queen like me." Parents, do you understand?"

Xiao Xi'er nodded her head, seeming to understand.

"And no matter how you lose your temper, don't tell others your identity casually, you know? Especially when there is no one to protect you."

"En." Xiao Xi'er nodded again. Although she didn't quite understand why, she suddenly felt that what Wei Wei said was definitely not wrong.

After a while, the servant girl came back and welcomed their two special 'guests' up to the third floor, and Xiao Xi'er chose a private seat to sit in.

(End of this chapter)