Chapter 18: Do you think I'm teasing you by breaking your dog legs? If you don't get out of here...
The warm sunlight of late winter shines through the small carved window onto the woman lying on the bed.
"Princess, don't sleep!" Chun Tao put the wash basin aside. "Princess, remember you have things to do today. It will be too late to sleep any longer!"
"Sleep a little longer." Qin Yuqing pulled the quilt over his head and ignored Chuntao's words.
"Princess!" Chuntao had no choice but to take a look at the sky outside and drag Qin Yuqing up from the bed.
"Princess, it's really too late." Chuntao's tone was full of helplessness, ignoring Qin Yuqing's resentful eyes.
"Is the carriage ready?" Qin Yuqing sighed. It was all because of someone. Originally, things had come to an end and he could have a good rest, but who would have thought that this would happen.
In the middle of the night, Qin Yuqing put down the book in his hand. Even the time of the imperial examination in this dynasty was different. It was held in early spring every year, which meant the hope of spring.
Next to the book was a piece of exquisite letter paper with three big words written on it.
"Invitation," Qin Yuqing muttered to herself, tapping the letter unconsciously. "What on earth is Qin Youran planning to do tomorrow? I wanted to come to the Wenshan Flower Viewing Banquet so badly, but I didn't see any trace of Qin Youran."
While he was thinking, he suddenly looked up and saw a handsome young general hanging upside down on the beam.
"Isn't it bad to sneak into my boudoir in the middle of the night?" Qin Yuqing patted her chest and took a deep breath. "After all, I am also a princess. Isn't General Lu afraid that I will sue my father for doing this?"
Lu Jingchuan shook his head, climbed down from the beam, and said with a rather unjustified but very confident tone, "This isn't the first time."
Finally, perhaps realizing his actions were flawed, Lu Jingchuan rarely explained, "Cooperation must be done in secret, and no one else should be alerted."
Qin Yuqing was speechless. She carefully examined Lu Jingchuan's expression and saw that his words had no other meaning and that he really wanted to act secretly. After a long silence, Qin Yuqing said.
"Even so, this is no reason for you to break into my boudoir, especially since I am a princess."
"Yeah." Lu Jingchuan nodded obediently, "I won't do it next time."
Why don’t I believe it?
Qin Yuqing looked at Lu Jingchuan's expressionless face. Although she knew that he was always like this, she still looked at him suspiciously.
"Tell me." Qin Yuqing picked up the pile of books on the table, turned around and walked to the simple bookshelf beside him, "What do you want to talk to me about in the middle of the night?"
"I missed you." The sound of putting the book down just blocked Lu Jingchuan's voice, so Qin Yuqing didn't hear it clearly.
"What did you say?" Qin Yuqing put the book away, sat on the table and poured a cup of tea for her and Lu Jingchuan. "Sit down and talk."
"No need." For some reason, Qin Yuqing always felt that Lu Jingchuan's mood suddenly became low.
But she doesn't care why, as long as it doesn't affect the cooperation.
"This is a prescription written by an old Chinese doctor in Lucheng." Lu Jingchuan put a prescription on the table. "If you don't have enough money, tell me." After saying that, Lu Jingchuan was about to climb out the window.
"Why?"
"What?"
"Why are you giving it to me?" Qin Yuqing pointed at the prescription on the table. "Why?"
Lu Jingchuan pursed his lips, as if thinking about how to answer. It seemed like a long time had passed, and when Qin Yuqing began to doze off, Lu Jingchuan spoke three words sparingly.
"have no idea."
"?" Qin Yuqing was wondering whether she should be angry or laugh. She rubbed her sore eyes and sighed, "I will pay you back."
"No......"
“I don’t like owing people money.”
“…”
"Okay, remember to take your medicine."
Qin Yuqing looked at Lu Jingchuan's back as he left, and always felt that he seemed a little lonely.
You are in your twenties and you are not a little boy anymore, why are you still in such weird moods?
Qin Yuqing shook his head and said, "Forget it, let's have a good rest first. There will be a banquet tomorrow, which may be the Hongmen Banquet."
When Qin Yuqing finally woke up, she had already arrived in front of the carriage leaving the palace. She didn't like to show off, so she asked Chuntao to find an ordinary carriage.
"Princess, what's so good about this carriage? It's so tattered." Chuntao took out a cushion, spread it on the chair, and said complainingly.
Qin Yuqing sat down with Chuntao's help, and motioned Chuntao to sit up and follow him. After both of them were seated, Qin Yuqing spoke.
"But for ordinary people, the rental of this carriage is already expensive."
"You are a princess, how can you be compared with ordinary people?" Chuntao didn't understand. In her opinion, royal blood is naturally nobler than that of ordinary people.
Qin Yuqing shook her head. She understood that some deep-rooted ideas could not be changed immediately, like the idea that women were not allowed to take part in the imperial examinations and could only take care of their husbands and children.
She was sure that even if she defeated Guo Lin, a woman defeating a man, there would still be people who would say that it was just luck, and would use the fact that there was one more military general than civil official in the first round as an excuse.
They would probably say something like, how can these crude warriors understand literature?
"Chun Tao, let me ask you, what's the difference between me and the common people?" Qin Yuqing took a sip of tea and said slowly, "Don't rush to answer me. Think about why you have such thoughts first."
Chuntao didn't seem to expect Qin Yuqing to ask her this question. Subconsciously, she wanted to say, "Because you are a princess, princesses are born different from ordinary people." But after listening to Qin Yuqing's words, she thought for the first time why she had such an idea.
Qin Yuqing nodded with satisfaction. Although Chuntao had a somewhat impulsive temper, she was intelligent and proactive in thinking, making her a useful person.
The street outside the carriage was bustling with people, and many vendors like those in modern times were constantly shouting, but most of them were men.
At this moment, the carriage suddenly stopped and the sound of a girl crying was heard outside.
"I want my mother, I want my mother!"
"Who are you! Have you seen my mother?"
The child's crying made Qin Yuqing's heart tremble inexplicably, and she gave instructions to Chuntao.
"Look, what exactly happened?" She was still a little worried. Just as she was about to go out with Chuntao, she heard chaotic sounds coming from the street.
"Whose child is this? This is terrible."
"Why don't you take good care of the child? He's unlucky enough to have run into the young master of the Song family."
"Such a good child, but it's just like this, what a sin."
Listening to the people's words, Qin Yuqing had a bad premonition in his heart, and the crying of the child in his ears became sharper.
"I want my mother! Let me go! I want my mother!"
"Little sister, your mother is at my house. Come home with me and I will take you to find your mother." A greasy-sounding voice sounded in front of the carriage, and the next moment the voice suddenly spoke angrily.
"The carriage in front of you wants to die, even daring to stop my carriage."
"How dare you! Young Master Song is so bold that he even ignores the princess' carriage!" Chun Tao could not stand others slandering her princess. At this moment, she directly lifted the curtain of the carriage and walked out, with her hands on her hips, and started scolding Young Master Song.
Young Master Song? Qin Yuqing pondered for a long time before finding a relevant character introduction in the corners of the original book.
Song Yaozu is the only male in the Song family of the Prime Minister's Mansion. He was spoiled by his family since childhood. In the original book, he was a person with no moral values.
"Princess? Whose princess is riding in this shabby old carriage? Why don't you let me see who this princess is from?"
It was a rare occasion for Qin Yuqing to encounter a character whose description was exactly the same as in the original book. She lifted the curtain, looked at Song Yaozu and said, "Young Master Song is so majestic."
"It's you!" The moment Song Yaozu saw Qin Yuqing, his eyes widened. He pushed the child to the ground and walked towards Qin Yuqing.
"Chun Tao, give the child to that mother." Qin Yuqing saw a woman on the street who was anxious and angry. She rushed forward several times but was stopped every time. Her face was filled with tears of despair.
When the woman heard Qin Yuqing's words, she hurriedly hugged the child and was about to kneel down and kowtow when Chuntao stopped her.
"The princess said, you don't have to kneel. Just take good care of the child next time and be careful."
The woman thanked him repeatedly, handed Chuntao a package and turned to leave.
Qin Yuqing looked at Chuntao with some relief. This child is really smart. Why not find a way to snatch it from Lu Jingchuan?
She suddenly felt a little reluctant to kill Chuntao. Such a good talent should not be wasted.
"Sixth Princess, I am the young master of the Song family in the Prime Minister's Mansion." Song Yaozu rubbed his hands and walked in front of Qin Yuqing. "I felt that the Sixth Princess had an extraordinary temperament when we were in Wenshan before. Seeing her today, it is indeed true."
Qin Yuqing looked at Song Yaozu's appearance and a word came to her mind: rubbing her hands like flies.
For a moment, she felt a little nauseous.
"Are you okay?" Qin Yuqing said with a cold face. There was indifference and a flash of murderous intent in his fox eyes. "Nothing, get out."
Qin Yuqing didn't need to be nice to someone like this, lest he try to climb up the ladder.
But she underestimated Song Yaozu's shamelessness and his character.
"Sixth Princess, you have a bad temper." Song Yaozu was not angry, but laughed even more happily. His face was piled with fat, and when he laughed, his mouth opened wide, and saliva flowed down the corners of his mouth and dripped into his clothes. "But how would the Sixth Princess know that I like beauties with bad tempers?"
As he continued talking, Qin Yuqing felt like he was about to vomit out the food he had eaten yesterday, oh no, the day before yesterday, or the day before yesterday.
"Sixth Princess, I heard you refused to marry that heartless bastard Lu Jingchuan. You were absolutely right."
A heartless bastard?
Strangely, Qin Yuqing felt his anger rising sharply when he heard Song Yaozu say that Lu Jingchuan was doing those deadly things and had no idea how many lives he had on his hands, and that those who worked in those sky prisons were not clean.
Qin Yuqing couldn't bear it any longer. She looked at Chuntao and said, "Let's go."
Chuntao came over and lifted the curtain. Just as Qin Yuqing was about to go up, a pair of hands fatter than pig's trotters grabbed her wrists, and an indescribable fishy smell came from her.
"How dare you!" Chuntao subconsciously rotted in front of Qin Yuqing, but before she could move, she heard a scream, and then a huge "ball" flew out.
"Handkerchief." Qin Yuqing reached out to take the handkerchief handed over by Chuntao. For someone as fat as Song Yaozu, she simply grabbed it with her backhand and threw it away.
It seems that the assassinations I encountered these days were not in vain. At least after exercise, my energy and blood are more sufficient than before.
"Do you know who I am?" Song Yaozu struggled for a long time, and finally stood up with the help of the servants. He pointed at Qin Yuqing and cursed her rudely, "Even if you are a princess, it doesn't matter. You are an unpopular princess. It's an honor for me to like you!"
Wow, so disgusting.
Qin Yuqing wiped his hands while looking at Song Yaozu who was talking nonsense to them, and felt that the places that had been wiped red were dirty again.
But she was confused. Normally, no matter how domineering one was, one had to bow his head when seeing the royal family, but Song Yaozu was not like that.
The moment he recognized himself as the Sixth Princess, there was no awe for the royal family in his eyes, only a sense of excitement that Qin Yuqing could not describe.
"If you ask me, Sixth Princess, as long as you marry me, I will make you live a fairy-like life every day." Song Yaozu continued to speak without any tact, while the servants beside him had already hidden away.
"Like that bastard Lu Jingchuan, if I meet him again, I will burn a brand on his face and carve the word 'lowly slave' into his face..."
Song Yaozu's words stopped abruptly. He collapsed to the ground in horror, his legs shaking uncontrollably.
Qin Yuqing held a small bow and arrow in her hand and said coldly, "If you keep talking nonsense, I won't mind breaking your dog legs." She took the arrow from Chuntao and aimed it at the center of Song Yaozu's leg. "Do you think I'm teasing you? If you don't get out of here, I'll break your dog legs."
"roll."
But who would have thought that Song Yaozu was a man without vision and with a bad mouth.
"You, you, you! Just wait! Sooner or later, I will fall asleep..."
“Ahhhhhh!”
“Bitch…Ahhhhhhh!”
Screams rang out one after another, and Song Yaozu collapsed to the ground, covering his thigh in pain. The servants beside him looked at each other, not knowing whether they should come up.
"Why don't you take Young Master Song to see the imperial physician? What are you doing here?" Chun Tao reacted and shouted loudly.
Qin Yuqing looked at Song Yaozu who was being carried onto the carriage. She did not use any harsh force. The young master of the Song family would only have to lie in bed for a few months at most.
"Remember, I hit you just because..." Qin Yuqing looked directly into the hatred in Song Yaozu's eyes and said, "You bully the people, rape women, and insult meritorious officials." After saying that, Qin Yuqing lowered the curtain in a gloomy manner.
This time, Song Yaozu's carriage consciously gave way.
In the carriage, Qin Yuqing kept wiping her arms with clean water until she felt a tingling sensation in her arms.
Suddenly, a slightly cool hand grabbed Qin Yuqing's hand, and the familiar scent of plum blossoms came.
“It’s not dirty anymore.”
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