Chapter 271: 271 slap in the face (second update)
Chapter 271 Chapter 271 Slap in the face (second update)
The cold wind was blowing around her, but Yuan Zhitong didn't squint her eyes. Although she couldn't see Gu Jue or hear the footsteps, she could catch a glimpse of the shadow of the person behind her moving forward on the ground.
She silently counted from one to three in her heart, and then said with a sincere expression: "My aunt is worried about my cousin, and I can't see the princess on weekdays, so she asked me to send a message to my cousin, but you kept stopping me, princess. Let me see my cousin."
"Princess, I, I...if you really don't want to see me, after I help my aunt send a message to my cousin, I will definitely never see my cousin again..."
Yuan Zhitong seemed a little excited, breathing slightly.
At this time, Gu Jue had already walked outside the bamboo shed, and Chu Qianchen naturally saw him. He curved his lips and smiled happily, not paying attention to what Yuan Zhitong said later.
Gu Jue walked past Yuan Zhitong, and Yuan Zhitong seemed to have just noticed Gu Jue. He was a little at a loss and panicked, and quickly saluted: "Cousin."
She turned slightly to make way for Gu Jue, but she was so panicked that she accidentally stepped on the hem of her skirt.
"Girl!" The maid quickly went to support Yuan Zhitong's arm.
Yuan Zhitong barely stood firm, but the split hydrangea she was holding also fell down. The golden bell made a crisp sound when it hit the ground, and half of the hydrangeas rolled in the direction of Gu Jue.
She lowered her face and looked at the hydrangea on the ground. She became even more panicked and explained with a forced smile: "I broke it accidentally and it has nothing to do with the princess."
"Girl, it was clearly the princess who did this on purpose!" The maid next to Yuan Zhitong widened her eyes and said indignantly, as if she was complaining about her master.
Yuan Zhitong smiled bitterly and shouted at the maid unhappily: "Don't talk nonsense!"
She emphasized to Gu Jue again: "Cousin, it really has nothing to do with the princess. It's all my fault..."
Another gust of cold wind came, ruffling Yuan Zhitong's hair at the temples.
She raised her hand and tucked a few strands of hair behind her ears, revealing her graceful chin, which was both elegant and pretty.
She sighed quietly and added: "It's just that this hydrangea was rewarded by the Queen..."
"It doesn't matter, I will go to Haosheng to apologize to the Queen."
She smiled again, her smile was beautiful, but her eye circles were still red, which made her smile contain a hint of forbearance.
Gu Jue sat down next to Chu Qianchen and asked, "Do you like to play with hydrangeas?"
"Yueying likes it." Chu Qianchen said with a smile, "I..."
As she spoke, she looked at the hydrangea that was split in half on the ground, "I just like splitting."
Her understatement seemed to say she liked splitting watermelons.
Gu Jue laughed and said calmly: "Jingfeng, have someone go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and bring some hydrangeas."
Jingfeng immediately took two steps forward and said respectfully: "Yes, Your Majesty."
When Jingfeng passed by Yuan Zhitong, he glanced at her with contempt, as if to say that it was just an hydrangea. If the princess could happily chop it, that was the blessing of the hydrangea.
Yuan Zhitong: "..."
Yuan Zhitong was stunned again, his mind was in confusion.
How dare Chu Qianchen directly say that she likes splitting in front of him? Shouldn't she cover it up?
And Gu Jue...
Didn't Gu Jue hear what he just said?
It is said that King Chen ran the army in a fair and strict manner and set an example, which is why he was so famous and military-minded among the Northland and the Northland Army.
Didn't he at least have to ask what happened?
Even if he couldn't let Chu Qianchen apologize to her for the sake of Prince Chen's palace - in fact, she didn't expect Gu Jue to seek justice for her, she just hoped to plant a thorn in his heart...
"surface…"
Yuan Zhitong's lips parted slightly, and she wanted to say something else, but Gu Jue had already turned his head to look at Chu Qianchen, and thrust a gourd-shaped sleeve stove into her hand, "Take it."
Just when he was applying medicine to her fingertips, he found that her hands were ice cold.
Chu Qianchen reacted very quickly and even grabbed the sleeve burner by the hand. The two of them covered the small sleeve burner with four hands.
"..." Yuan Zhitong, who was ignored, felt his cheeks burning.
At this moment, she felt the familiar intimacy that they had felt when they were playing shuttlecock together just now.
This was clearly Chu Qianchen declaring sovereignty to her!
Yuan Zhitong was embarrassed and embarrassed, as if he was mute, and could no longer make a sound. His feet seemed to be filled with lead, and he could not move an inch.
She could clearly feel the burning gazes of the ladies behind her falling on her back.
After a while, Jingfeng came holding a wooden box two feet long and two feet wide.
When you open the lid of the box, you can see that there are seven or eight colorful hydrangeas in the wooden box, just like colorful hydrangeas.
Each of these hydrangeas are luxurious and exquisite. Some are decorated with gold bells and tassels like Yuan Zhitong's, some are sewn with red coral beads, some are covered with red gold engraved balls, and some are made of Yun brocade. …
Not only are these hydrangeas no worse than Yuan Zhitong’s ones, they are actually more delicate and beautiful.
Jingfeng respectfully presented these hydrangeas to the table in front of Chu Qianchen.
"If it's not enough, let Jingfeng go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to get it." Gu Jue grabbed an embroidered ball covered with red gold and played with it casually for a while.
Chu Qianchen responded casually, grabbed Gu Jue's wrist, leaned over and looked at the carp and butterfly patterns on the hydrangea he caught, and smiled, "Give this to Yueying."
She took another hydrangea decorated with golden bells from the box, held it in her hand and weighed it up casually. When the hydrangea was thrown up, the bells made a crisp sound.
"Not bad." She praised, and then said to Yuan Zhitong with a smile, "Here."
Yuan Zhitong: "?"
Before she could react, she saw the other party suddenly raised his arm and threw the hydrangea.
Yuan Zhitong couldn't help but think of the scene where he deliberately threw the hydrangea at Chu Qianchen, and his beauty suddenly turned pale.
The first reaction was that Chu Qianchen was taking revenge on himself!
"Ah!" She exclaimed subconsciously. At the same time, she raised her arms to protect her face and staggered back.
She retreated too quickly and almost fell, but fortunately her eldest maid stretched out her hand to support her. But after Yuan Zhitong stood firm, he discovered that the embroidered ball did not hit her at all, but flew to the other side and fell steadily into Jiang Yuan's hands.
Jiang Yuan walked towards Yuan Zhitong, his pretty face expressionless, and his wordless look exuded a sense of indifference and ridicule.
"The princess rewarded you."
Jiang Yuan directly stuffed the embroidered ball into Yuan Zhitong's hand with a clean and neat movement. Regardless of Yuan Zhitong's reaction, he returned behind Chu Qianchen and stood there like a statue, with the scabbard still on his waist.
"..." Yuan Zhitong held the brand-new hydrangea stiffly, feeling that his cheeks were about to burn, but his whole body was cold, and his limbs were numb from the cold.
There was a burst of snickering from behind, and the chatter and laughter of the noble ladies penetrated Yuan Zhitong's ears.
"Ha, why is Miss Yuan so surprised!"
"Hey, does she really think she can fall in the princess's eyes?"
“…”
Each word and sentence was extremely harsh, as if Chu Qianchen really hit her with a hydrangea, but instead looked up to her and gave her face.
Yuan Zhitong felt her face turn from burning to tingling, and emotions such as humiliation, shame, anger, and unwillingness surged in her body.
Yuan Zhitong gritted his teeth and broke into a cold sweat.
She looked at Gu Jue again, with a hint of hope and a hint of prayer in her eyes.
Gu Jue was handing the hydrangea in his hand to Chu Qianchen without even looking at Yuan Zhitong, as if she was not worthy of his eyes.
Yuan Zhitong: "..."
Yuan Zhitong stood there, feeling as if he had knocked over a five-flavor bottle, with various flavors mixed together and stir-fried.
She doesn't understand, and she doesn't want to.
After all, she was from a famous family, the eldest daughter, and her father was a high official in the border areas. She was inferior to the princesses and county heads in the clan, but she was much better than Chu Qianchen, a concubine in a down-and-out prince's mansion.
Moreover, she is Gu Jue's cousin.
Why didn't Gu Jue even look at her? !
Yuan Zhitong clenched the hydrangea in his hand, almost deforming it, and his pupils were as deep as the abyss.
Ever since she was a child, there was nothing she couldn't get.
Whether it's jewelry and fine clothes, father's preference, or the favor of young men...
Same this time.
She will also be loved by Gu Jue!
Just in the blink of an eye, Yuan Zhitong's mind could be said to have turned over and over again and had thousands of thoughts.
When she raised her little face again, a smile appeared on her face.
"Cousin, princess, I'll take my leave then."
She held the brand-new hydrangea and blessed her gracefully, with a gentle smile, but her movements were a little stiff at the moment, which made it look like she was forcing a smile.
She didn't stay any longer and returned to those noble ladies.
This is only a hundred feet away, Yuan Zhitong has returned to his original state, and there is no trace of any abnormality in his behavior.
"Miss Wang, Miss Jiang, Miss Li... let's continue playing." She raised the new hydrangea in her hand slightly higher as if nothing had happened.
"Play?" Miss Jiang, who was wearing a purple riding uniform, raised her long and heroic eyebrows and looked at her with a half-smile, "Are you sure you want to play with the ball? Are you not playing tricks?"
Miss Jiang's words were almost as if she raised her hand and slapped Yuan Zhitong in the face. She was obviously saying that Yuan Zhitong had deliberately thrown the hydrangea at Chu Qianchen.
The girl in Cuiyi walked up to Miss Jiang, smiled, shook her finger, and said, "What you said is not appropriate. You should throw hydrangeas to attract a son-in-law."
What she said was more straightforward than Miss Jiang, except that she didn't say that Yuan Zhitong threw the hydrangea just to hook up with others.
Each of the two sentences was sharper than the other, like a thunderstorm rising from the ground, making the other ladies stunned.
Their eyes widened even more. They didn't expect that today's drama was such a twist and turn that there would be another section.
Some people nodded frequently, thinking that Miss Jiang's words were reasonable; some looked at Yuan Zhitong with a look of ridicule on their faces; some were noncommittal; and some felt some sympathy for Yuan Zhitong.
"You..." Yuan Zhitong's little face turned red again, as if stained with blood, and he felt even more aggrieved.
She was just a little unhappy with Chu Qianchen.
This matter obviously has nothing to do with Miss Jiang and Miss Gong. They were clearly playing together affectionately just now. Why could Miss Jiang and the others turn their backs on each other in the blink of an eye and embarrass themselves because of Chu Qianchen? !
It couldn't be said that it was because of jealousy, unwillingness or other emotions, Yuan Zhitong felt like there was a fire burning in his heart.
"How can you say that about me?" Yuan Zhitong blinked, his eyes filled with tears again, as if they were about to fall down at any time, "I just missed it."
Miss Jiang sneered disdainfully. She was proud and bright, and her slanted eyes were half cold and half arrogant.
"Stop it, I'm not a man, I won't accept your tricks!"
"Haven't we seen enough at home?"
"Your aunt taught you this, right?"
Miss Jiang crossed her arms and spoke more sharply.
When she said this, some people around her looked very subtle, thinking that Miss Jiang was really smart!
At first glance, Miss Jiang's words seemed like she mistakenly thought that Yuan Zhitong was a concubine, but upon further inspection, she was clearly mocking Yuan Zhitong for being as fond of playing dirty tricks as those aunts!
The girls who were still somewhat sympathetic to her immediately shut up and couldn't help but think of the aunts in the house.
Which family in each government does not have several aunts and married women? The way those favored aunts talk and act is really similar to Yuan Zhitong.
(End of chapter)