Jiaochu

Chapter 146 The King of Zhenbei ([-])
Ye Lingxi looked at the horizon and thought for a moment, then asked, "Have you slept well recently?"

Zhu'er was stunned for a moment, unable to keep up with her princess's jumping thoughts, "Your Majesty has been sleeping peacefully these days, and I see that your Majesty's complexion is getting better and better."

Ye Lingxi nodded, "Wu'er is a smart person. Let her pay more attention. Naturally, her benefits will be indispensable when she leaves the palace in the future."

Zhu'er agreed, "I heard that the Imperial Concubine and Concubine Liu have been close to each other recently, and they don't come to our palace very much. I seem to be deliberately alienating our palace."

The further away the better, Ye Ling said with a heart, "If the imperial concubine doesn't come, we'll be quieter."

Pearl smiled and replied: "That's what the princess said."

The weather is getting warmer, and tender green leaf buds are popping out from the branches. A spring orchid in the yard has already produced flower buds. The green leaves cover the green flower buds, and the faint fragrance exudes attracts a flower. The butterfly's slender toes gently grasp the flower buds, and its sapphire blue wings glow with dots of scales in the sun, like countless tiny diamonds inlaid on them.

Ye Lingxi looked at the picture of butterflies playing with orchids in front of her, as if she was in a trance. Someone came over without noticing. The butterflies were still resting on the green buds, flapping their strange sapphire blue wings, without being disturbed.

After a while, the butterfly flew away from the flower bud, its sapphire blue wings drew a sparkling trajectory in the sun, and stopped on the orchid hosta again.

"It would be great if my father was here." Ye Lingxi spread his hands and said with regret, "My father is really short-sighted and can't even see my mother and concubine looking so beautiful."

Concubine Lan smiled, and the orchid hosta tilted slightly to one side. The butterfly flew away again, and its light figure disappeared on the other side of the palace wall.

"Where did the princess go?"

As soon as Concubine Lan's gentle voice fell, Meng Jingxiu walked in happily from outside, turned around and waved to the people outside the door, urging, "Brother, why are you standing outside? Come in quickly, empress." What a nice person.”

After Meng Tianlan walked in, he stopped at the door and saluted Concubine Lan and Ye Lingxi from a distance of three or four meters.

"Your Majesty, I told Uncle Huang to ask my eldest brother to take my sister Lingxi and me out of the palace to play. Uncle Huang agreed." Meng Jingxiu said as she came over and took Ye Lingxi's little hand, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will definitely take good care of Lingxi." Sister, my elder brother is very careful and considerate, and he will definitely not let sister Lingxi suffer any injustice."

Ye Lingxi: "..."

Concubine Lan had heard Ye Lanchen praise the Northern Crown Prince for his stability before, and she felt more at ease with him taking care of her.

Half an hour later, a group of three people got on the carriage leaving the palace, accompanied by two more plainclothes guards, and a young guard with a serious look and a heavy sword in his hand.

In the carriage, Meng Jingxiu muttered in a low voice: "Brother, didn't I tell you not to call me Mu Qi?" She turned her head and glanced outside the car curtain, as if she was a little afraid of the expressionless Mu Qi.

Meng Tianlan did not answer.

Meng Jingxiu leaned into Ye Lingxi's ear again and whispered: "Sister Lingxi, don't think that my eldest brother doesn't like to talk much, but he is actually very good at taking care of others. When I was a child, I thought the medicine was bitter and refused to drink it. My eldest brother would buy me rice dumpling candies, and I would drink them. After taking the medicine and eating a rice dumpling candy, it won’t be bitter at all.”

This is called being cold-faced and warm-hearted, Ye Ling Xixin said.

When the lively shouts outside floated in from the car window, Meng Jingxiu immediately asked someone to stop the carriage. Before even putting her pedals on the ground, she jumped out with agility.

"Princess please go first." Meng Tianlan said.

Ye Lingxi got off the carriage first, followed by Meng Tianlan.

Passers-by took a few more glances at the three young gentlemen who got off the carriage, and their eyes paused for a moment on the faces of the two pink and jade young gentlemen.

Both Meng Jingxiu and Ye Lingxi were dressed in men's clothing. The former turned a folding fan quite skillfully and played the role of a dashing nobleman. He seemed to be a "habitual criminal".

"There are so many of us, so we are too conspicuous, so you just follow us at a distance." After Meng Jingxiu dismissed the two plainclothes guards, she turned to the expressionless Mu Qi. After hesitating for a moment, she winked at her elder brother and thought She asked her eldest brother to speak. When her eldest brother refused to speak, she took Ye Lingxi to go shopping.A group of carriages and horses came from the city gate, and suddenly a figure jumped out from the roadside and stopped in front of the leading honor guard.

The people blocking the road were unkempt, wearing tattered clothes, and holding bamboo poles and broken bowls in their hands. They were no different from the beggars squatting in the corner and begging for a living. However, they were more courageous than those beggars and dared to stop them in the street. The carriage of the Yangzhou governor.

One of the guards sternly scolded the beggar to leave, but the beggar seemed unable to hear and placed the broken bowl on the ground, knelt down and kowtowed.

More and more people were watching, laughing at the beggar as a fool who dared to stop his carriage without even looking at who he was. He would definitely be beaten severely.

As expected, the guard raised his whip to beat the beggar, but was stopped by the people in the carriage.

"stop."

The person in the carriage lifted the curtain and got out of the carriage. He was in his 40s, had an upright face, a broad forehead, and an aura of magnanimity.

The Yangzhou governor walked towards the beggar, and the guard followed him.

After stopping in front of the beggar, the Yangzhou governor asked: "Did you stop me to get some money or something else?"

The beggar held up the broken bowl as a sign of asking for money.

"Give him the money you have."

The guard took out a few pieces of silver from his arms and put them into the beggar's bowl. The beggar kowtowed several times and left with the broken bowl.

Behind the windows on the second floor of the teahouse, three pairs of eyes witnessed what happened.

"This beggar is too courageous. He dares to block someone's carriage on the street. If he encounters an unreasonable person, he will definitely be beaten to death." Meng Jingxiu said.

Ye Lingxi paid attention to the direction in which the beggar left, and saw him turning a corner and disappearing.

"Sister Lingxi?" Meng Jingxiu saw that Ye Lingxi was silent and waved her hand in front of her, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay." Ye Lingxi shook his head and changed the subject, "Sister Jing'er, where else do you want to go?"

It happened that the guests at the next table mentioned that Mr. Shan was going to tell stories at Chunfeng Tower in the afternoon. Judging from the eagerness of several people, I didn't know whether it was because of Mr. Shan's great reputation or because of the loud sign of Chunfeng Tower.

"Sister Lingxi, who is Mr. Shan? Have you heard of him?" Meng Jingxiu asked curiously.

Ye Lingxi heard this title a little familiar, and after thinking about it, he remembered, "Mr. Shan compiled a rouge book to rank the beautiful sisters in the capital."

"Then who is No. 1?" Meng Jingxiu asked curiously.

Ye Lingxi shook his head and said he didn't know.

Meng Jingxiu had an idea and said: "Then let's go to the study and have a look. There must be something for sale in the study." Then she changed her mind, "I can go by myself. Brother, take good care of sister Lingxi. I will be back soon." ." After saying that, she quickly slipped away.

Without Meng Tianlan speaking, Mu Qi resigned and left.When Meng Jingxiu walked out of the teahouse, Mu Qi was already following behind.

(End of this chapter)