Phoenix Queen

Looking at Situ Qinglian's scorching eyes like a child, Xia Ying couldn't bear to ignore her, and comforted her, "No...Jing Feng treats you differently." Thinking back on Jing Feng's expression, Xia Ying said honestly , "For me, for Si Bai, his eyes are full of calculations, but it's different when he looks at you..."

"Are you coaxing me?" Situ Qinglian let go of Xia Ying's hand a little angrily, raised his head and took another sip of wine, this time, the wine gourd had bottomed out, "What are you coaxing me, I'm not a child, If you coax me, can I be happy?"

"I'm serious." Xia Ying repeated again, "I usually don't lie..."

"Really?" Situ Qinglian blinked his eyes, a little excited, but a little unbelievable.

After drinking the wine, Situ Qinglian's pear-like white face was stained with a little blush, still beautiful.

Xia Ying nodded again, "Really."

Hearing this answer, Situ Qinglian smiled and frowned.

After hiccupping, Situ Qinglian shook the empty wine gourd, and threw the empty gourd in the palm of his hand to the sky, watching it roll away...

After a while, Situ Qinglian said, "Xia Ying, Mei Yi...ah, why do you have a gourd around your neck? It's so pretty."

I don't know if she changed the topic on purpose, mentioned Mei Yizhi and then gently avoided it.

Looking at the small thumb-sized colorful gourd, Situ Qinglian reached out to pick the little gourd on Xia Ying's neck...

Before Xia Ying could react, her own body had already dodged first!

I don't know why... For this jade gourd that belongs to a stranger, she likes it very tightly, and there is an obsession that she can't let go of.

Situ Qinglian has been in the harem for so many years, and has won the hearts of the people. He is always a vigilant master. Seeing Xia Ying's actions, he dared not touch the gourd anymore, and even turned his eyes away.

The two were silent for a while. In order to break the embarrassment, Xia Ying let go of the colorful gourd tightly held in her hand, and asked in a low voice, "What did you just say about Mei Yizhi?"

"Did I say that?" Situ Qinglian frowned, thought for a while, reached out and patted his forehead, "By the way, what did I want to say? Why did I forget? Look at my mind."

Although she wanted to know about Mei Yizhi, Xia Ying didn't press her...

Moreover, Situ Qinglian is a smart person, so it may not be unreasonable to change the subject twice.If she didn't want to say it, then Xia Ying wouldn't be able to ask anything of value.

"I thought about it for a day, but I didn't think about it." Situ Qing said with a bitter face, "I'm not old yet, why is it getting harder to remember?"

"..." Seeing her attitude, Xia Ying stopped asking.

Situ Qinglian took two steps forward, then turned around suddenly, and suddenly saw Xia Ying's burlap wrapped with silverware, "Did you buy jade and jewelry for Xiaotong?"

Xia Ying nodded.

Situ Qinglian asked again, "Then have you seen Zhuqing?"

"I see... I still owe her 80 taels of silver." Xia Ying felt pain again when she said this.

The bank notes she used as pocket money...all won from Mu Chen!Other dowries and the like have already been moved back to Daxia.

At the beginning, I also won more than ten thousand taels from Muchen, which is already quite a lot, but now, there is not much left around me...it can be called poor.

Why is this money so irresistible?Xia Ying frowned.

Just as she was thinking about it, Situ Qinglian chuckled, "Coincidentally, coincidentally! You owe her money, and I owe you money for drinks. Now it's all over...everyone is evened out."

Seeing Xia Ying's confused face, Situ Qinglian explained with a smile, "Xia Ying, you don't know... This shop of the clumsy craftsman is mine. I even mentioned the word "Jiang!"

"Your shop!" Xia Ying was really taken aback, she always thought that the proprietress was Qingqing.

"It's my shop!" Situ Qinglian said with a smile, "The shop I owned on my ninth birthday was only a small shop at that time, and it was about to close down. I remember I only spent eight taels of money on it. The silver came off the plate, but... I found out later that the shop owed 300 taels of silver before. I was still young at that time, so how could I have so much money? My mother was still alive, and she paid it back to me with the dowry... You don't know, I feel distressed when I returned it, the couple in front of the shop took eight taels of silver and ran away, and they haven't found it until now." Situ Qinglian thought, and there were some memories in his eyes, "At that time, I didn't expect that that humble shop could be the best jade shop in Hua Chu, and I also didn't expect that I would become a concubine in the future... It's been almost ten years since then."

Xia Ying listened with gusto, and Situ Qinglian's voice was soft and sweet, and she thought it was more exciting than the storyteller.

"Why do you have a jade shop? You actually have a jade shop!" Xia Ying couldn't hide her surprise.

Situ Qinglian made a booing gesture, "Hush your voice, don't let anyone hear you." Her delicate features were just like being squeezed by Situ Qinglian, she glanced around like a thief, and finally He lowered his voice and said to Xia Ying, "You can't let Jing Feng know...so that when the national treasury is insufficient, he will come to attack me. This clumsy craftsman's shop has a little money, but the annual tax I pay is not enough. Quite a lot, the property of the Clumsy Craftsman's shop is my private money!"

Xia Ying finally laughed out loud, the deliberately distant distance seemed to be brought closer by Situ Qinglian's little joke.

A private room made Xia Ying get close to her somewhat. She liked Situ Qinglian's way of speaking. She seemed to be born with a good impression that people wanted to get close to.

Xia Ying was still laughing, almost to the point of tears, even her waist was bent from laughing.

Crisp laughter rang out one after another, lingering in the sky for a long time, "Pay back the private money! You...don't be funny, Situ Qing...Qing Lian...haha, private money!"

"Okay! Xia Ying, enough is enough!" Situ Qinglian stomped her feet, "Stop laughing..." After waiting for a few seconds, Xia Ying's laughter hadn't stopped yet, Situ Qinglian saw her smile, I also laughed, "Hey hey hey... You are really enough, laugh again, I will strangle your neck."

As she said that, she made a gesture to pinch Xia Ying, and Xia Ying got up and ran!

Situ Qinglian went after him...

The two quarreled in the street for a while.

In fact, girls of their age should play and laugh wantonly like this, but...they only rarely do this.

In the end, I have to wake up to myself and just have fun!

"Stop making trouble, stop making trouble!" Situ Qinglian reached out and hooked Xia Ying's shoulder, like a good buddy in the military camp, pointed at the tea shop with his chin, "Here we are... as I told you just now, there is something good here. Tea, the quality is not satisfactory."

The two of them entered the store...

"Qin Silian?" Thinking he had read it wrong, the clerk rubbed his eyes, "It's really you, Silian, aren't you resting today?" The clerk in the teahouse obviously recognized Situ Qinglian.

"Brother Chang Xing!" Situ Qing smiled sweetly, "I'm done with my work, now I'm bringing my friend here for tea...I'm a guest today, don't make me work later."

"Si Lian, see what you said." Brother Chang Xing yelled again and again, making this half-sized guy feel happy, "Let's go, let's go... let's take you to the private room, this private room No fee will be charged, just give me some tea money."

"Thank you Brother Chang Xing." Tilting his head, Situ Qinglian thanked him again.

This tea shop is surprisingly not small. There is a stage in the middle, and there are seats under it. The middle is a place for entertainment. There are chess and go tables, as well as pens, ink, paper and inkstones. Books, both paper and bamboo slips, look carefully at those books, there are quite a few types, and there are so few books that are hard to see even in the palace...

On the left are ordinary seats, while on the right are private rooms one after another.

The buddy Chang Xing took Xia Ying and Situ Qinglian into the private room with the words 'Empty Valley and Clouds Deep'.

"Si Lian, what kind of tea do you want to drink?" Chang Xing rolled his eyes with a smile, "You Xin? Ya Yun? How about some...Mao Jian?"

"I want to drink the ... ten-year-old single Chen Pu'er in the store." Situ Qinglian was already licking the corners of his lips.

"Okay, I'll get you a ten-year-old single Chen Pu'er...what, what! What?" Chang Xing trembled in fright, "Sister Si Lian... don't scare me! You are here I've been a clerk in this shop for a year, so I think I can have a drink." Chang Xing was already swallowing his saliva as he spoke.

"I'm going to drink that!" Situ Qinglian's eyes were firm, and he hooked Xia Ying's arm at once, "Even if I don't have money, she does too...Why are you so anxious!"

Situ Qinglian snatched the sack from Xia Ying's hand, which was embroidered with the characters of "Qingjiu", and shook it in front of Chang Xing's eyes, "It's from Clumsy Craftsman!"

Chang Xing kept looking at the bag all the time, and was almost dazzled by Situ Qinglian. After a long time, he went to look at Xia Ying again. The girl was quiet, but for no reason people couldn't look directly at her. The unusual master responded again and again, "Okay, I'll get someone to soak you two now." After finishing speaking, Chang Xing had already put the white sweat towel on his shoulders, with a pleasing expression on his face. The opera voice shouted towards the outside of the private room, "The ten-year-old single plant Chen Pu... Konggu Yunshen, open... soak...!"

Only Xia Ying and Situ Qinglian were left in the private room, and Situ Qinglian pointed to the stage, "Can you see it? It's late, and when noon comes...someone is singing an opera, many of the troupe here have been to the palace Li...Yingping has always liked to listen to operas, and has called it several times."

"Really?" The visual effect in this private room is very good, the stage can be seen clearly, and the eaves of the whole teahouse are painted with many bumpy ear shapes, the sound effect is particularly good, often people outside the hall , Speak louder and you can pass through the private room.