Chapter 140 Wait until we move to the wedding house

"Good sword!" Xiao Yu shouted softly, turning his wrist and dancing around the room.

His swordsmanship does not involve many flamboyant and exaggerated movements, but is more precise and neat, hitting the vital points directly.

The blade of the dagger was not long, but the sword energy was very strong. The tip of the sword was a full forearm away from the bed curtain, and it directly cut the bed curtain into several pieces of cloth.

"It's really extraordinary." He praised and tried another curtain.

Looking from afar at Xiao Yu scratching up the decorations in his room, Xu Chuchu couldn't help but find it a little funny.

This was the first time she looked at Xiao Yu's room seriously.

The room's décor was simple and understated, without many luxurious ornaments. The furniture was made of acceptable materials but not the best. It looked slightly inferior to the luxurious hotel they had stayed in last time, and it didn't look like the residence of a wealthy Beijinger at all.

But the style of the room is somewhat like him, not ostentatious, not high-profile, not pursuing food, clothing and daily necessities, and even a bit traditional.

"What are you looking at?" Xiao Yu saw Xu Chuchu looking around, and suddenly remembered that his dirty clothes from yesterday were still under the bed. He moved to the front of the bed guiltily, trying to cover up something.

"What are these?" Xu Chuchu looked at the display rack against the wall curiously.

Unlike many people who place objects such as vases and jade in their rooms, Xiao Yu's display rack is filled with pens, ink, books and some small decorations, and there is also a long bow hanging on the wall.

Although it is not dusty, it looks like it has not been used for a long time.

"These, these are the prizes I won for winning the first prize in archery when I was a kid." Xiao Yu said with some embarrassment, "...When we moved in, Ah Fu asked me to pick out some decorations, but I was too lazy to choose, so I let him put them however he wanted, and that's how it turned out."

You may not notice these things in your daily life, but when your loved one sees them, everything seems strange.

Xu Chuchu laughed even harder after hearing this.

Putting prizes in the room, isn't that the same as many kids putting certificates on their walls at home?

"Don't laugh." Xiao Yu felt a headache. "If you don't like it, I can just change a batch."

"No, no." Xu Chuchu explained with a smile, "It's great. I like them all. It shows that my Xiao Yu was very outstanding when he was young."

The phrase "my Xiao Yu" greatly pleased Xiao Yu. He took the opportunity to hug her from behind and whispered, "...After that, we'll move into the bridal chamber. You'll decide what to put in the house."

Xu Chuchu was embarrassed for a moment: "Why do you keep talking about getting married?"

"If we don't get married, I'm afraid you'll run away." Xiao Yu said seriously.

"I won't run away. I just..." Xu Chuchu lowered her head, "I haven't made up my mind yet."

At that time, Xiao Yu said that he would propose to her after he helped her find a master. Now that he suddenly doesn't have to find a master, can't he skip this most troublesome step?

But Xu Chuchu really hasn't made up her mind yet.

Getting married means more responsibilities and ties, and she doesn't feel she is ready. Besides, Xiao Yu is a prince, and the royal situation involved is much more complicated.

The most important thing is that she doesn't think she fully understands Xiao Yu.

She understood his temper and personality, his values ​​and ways of dealing with the world, but there seemed to be something hidden deep in his soul, and sometimes his eyes would reveal emotions that she could not understand at all.

If she wanted to get married, she wanted to see it more clearly.

"Okay, I'll wait for you." Xiao Yu said this, but held her wrist tighter.

"Hmm..." Xu Chuchu tried desperately to change the subject, but her eyes suddenly fell on a small ornament placed on the right side of the wooden shelf. She asked curiously, "What is this?"

"This?" Xiao Yu followed her gaze and picked up the palm-sized ornament. "This is a model of the imperial palace, a one-to-one replica. It was given to me by a teacher from the academy. He has now retired and returned home."

"Model of the imperial palace?" Xu Chuchu held it in her hands and looked at it carefully. Sure enough, she saw the small city gate, palace and garden.

This ornament is very finely crafted, even the yellow dots on the palace gate are clearly visible and arranged one by one. But...

"How about this?" She suddenly took a few steps back, putting some distance between herself and Xiao Yu. "Look at it from a distance again. Does it look like a jade cicada?"

Xiao Yu frowned, and only after Xu Chuchu reminded him did he realize that the model really looked like a cicada from a distance.

The arched roof in front of the main gate is the head of a cicada, the city walls built on both sides are like folded wings, the densely packed palaces form the body of a cicada, and the neatly arranged rockery and gardens are like the feet of a cicada.

Xu Chuchu had just seen it from a distance, so she noticed it immediately. Xiao Yu, because of preconceived notions, only noticed it now.

"Are you saying that Mr. Shuyuan is also a member of this organization? No, no." Xiao Yu suddenly realized midway through his words, "You are saying that the entire palace was built to look like a giant jade cicada?!"

"Yes." Xu Chuchu nodded solemnly.

Realizing this, both of them felt a little numb.

They initially wanted to look for the jade cicada's mark in the temples outside the capital, but they did not find any clues and thought that this force had not invaded the capital.

Now it seems that the biggest and most terrifying cicada in the capital is this huge imperial palace!

"When was this palace built?" Xu Chuchu asked.

"The palace was probably built by the previous dynasty. The Helian family of our dynasty occupied it directly when they conquered the country. They have only repaired it over the years and have not touched the foundation." Xiao Yu murmured, "...the previous dynasty, the previous dynasty again."

Like Xiao Yu, Xu Chuchu also remembered the jade cicada mark they found in the tomb of the prince of the previous dynasty when they were in Tailing County.

"What impact will it have if the palace is built in the shape of a jade cicada? Is it for the purpose of preaching?" he asked Xu Chuchu.

Xu Chuchu frowned and looked down at the model: "This is not just a belief, it may be a large-scale magic circle, or at least it may have been a magic circle in the past."

"Magic circle?"

"The Imperial Palace is a very special place," Xu Chuchu explained. "It's a land of true dragon veins and precious feng shui. If there really is a magic array, the effect will definitely be doubled. Not to mention a magic array of this magnitude."

"But I can't say exactly what kind of formation it is right now." She pursed her lips and said, "You can only judge it by seeing it with your own eyes."

"Need to enter the palace?" Xiao Yu hesitated for a moment, not wanting to let Xu Chuchu go into danger. But seeing her determined expression, he knew that this matter was no trivial matter, so he no longer hesitated. "Okay, the emperor's fiftieth birthday is in two days, so I'll take you to the palace if I have the chance."

He then went out and called Ah Fu over, asking him to quickly prepare a birthday gift for the emperor.

"What type would you like to prepare, sir?" Ah Fu asked him.

Xiao Yu waved his hand and said, "It's all fine. Whatever you want. As long as the value is right."

After Ah Fu left, Xu Chuchu asked Xiao Yu in confusion, "Uh, wait a minute. The emperor's birthday is the day after tomorrow, and you haven't prepared anything for him to give today."

"No." Xiao Yu answered easily, "I wasn't planning to go at all."

The emperor held a birthday banquet every year, but Xiao Yu had never attended one since he was a child, nor had he ever sent a gift.

It’s not that he is rebellious, but because he suffers from a strange disease and is not suitable to go to places where people gather.

This year his illness was covered up and he wanted to play dumb and get away with it, but when things got worse, he simply gave up pretending.

"I'm sorry to ask you to pretend to be my maid," he said.

"No problem." Xu Chuchu clenched his fist seriously.