Chapter 15: Deep as the Sea You two, come here slowly, the world is bright and clear, ...
Xiu Yu wasn't one to be bored. She'd been able to stay put in the inn until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, thanks to a "fifth-day appointment" with Xuanye. She'd been concentrating on cooking and presenting the Emperor with gifts, maintaining her Manchurian demeanor, observing the rules, and satisfying the Emperor. But after the meal, she felt completely bored.
"If your stay is truly unbearable, why not try some embroidery?" Lihua found Xiuyu's half-finished embroidery and handed it to her. "Didn't you say you had to finish it before entering the palace?"
"You clearly know that I was forced to do this by my mother. Finally, my mother is no longer nagging me, but you, a little girl, actually use this to bother me." Xiu Yu deliberately teased Lihua, pretending to be angry.
Lihua said, "The princess will be entering the palace in a few days. By then, you'll have the clever, beautiful Xiao Tao serving you, and you won't have to hear me nagging anymore."
"Okay." Hearing Lihua say this, Xiuyu immediately stood up and comforted her: "I, your princess, was just teasing you. You have become more sensitive recently."
Just as they were saying this, the sound of a vendor outside the inn shouting "Tanghulu! Bingtanghulu!" came in. Xiu Yu's eyes lit up and she said, "How about I take you for a stroll around the capital? Honestly, your dowry was prepared by your mother, so I should give you a nice gift, just as if I, the princess, had attended your wedding banquet."
Lihua said, "As long as Princess lives a good life in the future, I don't need any gifts."
"Good girl." Xiu Yu touched Lihua's cheek, took her hand and walked to the big camphorwood box filled with clothes: "Today, you and I will dress up as a handsome young man. As long as you like, I will buy you anything."
Xiu Yu was a generous master three hundred years later, and an even more generous and attentive master three hundred years ago. How could you ask Li Hua, a servant, to personally tell her own princess that she liked this or wanted that? However, Xiu Yu, the attentive master, could tell what the little girl had her eye on just by looking at her.
So, before they'd even finished strolling down the street, Lihua and Liuzi's hands were practically full of stuff. Xiuyu glanced at Lihua, then at Liuzi, then leaned close to Lihua's ear and whispered, "Even though you care about Liuzi, you should treat him like a man. He should be the one doing the heavy lifting! My girl is like a water chestnut, she's not meant to be married off to someone else's house as a maid."
Lihua was amused by Xiu Yu: "Gege is right, Liuzi should carry all of them!" As she spoke, she threw all the things in her hands into Liuzi's arms.
Liuzi complained bitterly, "Princess, no, Master! Lihua is your little maid, and I've been your servant for many years. You're treating us differently, it's too obvious."
"Really?" Xiu Yu's pretty face raised slightly: "Why do I feel that this job should be done by you?"
Seeing his princess folding her arms, Liuzi immediately admitted his mistake: "Princess is right, this job should be done by me. From now on, I will do all the housework. I must not tire Lihua out."
Xiu Yu lowered her eyelids and said, "That's more like it."
The master and his two servants were joking with each other when a man rushed out from the side at the end of the street, snatched the bag from Liuzi's arms and ran away.
"Hey!" Lihua was a little dumbfounded.
Xiu Yu reacted incredibly quickly. While chasing the man, he ordered Liuzi and Lihua, "Come on, both of you! It's broad daylight, in the streets of the capital, and there's no law!"
The man obviously had some martial arts skills. After twists and turns, he led Xiu Yu into a sparsely populated alley.
Xiu Yu stopped, feeling a vague sense of unease. This was clearly a sign of a 'trap.' However, Xiu Yu had never been afraid of 'fighting' since she was a child.
Sure enough, before Xiu Yu could leave the alley, people jumped down from the wall in front and behind her.
Xiu Yu snorted coldly, a sneer on her face. She took a stance and said, "No one in this world dares to steal my things!"
Those people were obviously coming for Xiu Yu. Before Xiu Yu finished speaking, they all rushed up. Two of them specifically hit Xiu Yu in the face, obviously wanting to ruin her beautiful face.
Xiu Yu was agile and had mastered light-body skills to great effect. She only regretted that she had run too hastily and had forgotten her weapon.
"A few grown men don't even know the rules of the underworld!" Xiu Yu swung his fist and hit one of them in the face.
After all, they had more people and Xiu Yu had no weapons, so he was gradually losing the upper hand.
"Princess, whip!" Liuzi was out of breath when he ran over, but he had no time to rest. He threw the whip in his hand to Xiu Yu, and then used his mediocre kung fu to deal with the group of people.
The whip had always been Xiu Yu's most effective weapon. As the saying goes, "With a whip in hand, the world is mine!" Holding the whip handle, Xiu Yu leaped up, lashing out with a series of blows that stunned the men. Combined with Liu Zi's flurry of punches, Xiu Yu unexpectedly gained the upper hand.
After a while, those people's faces were covered with bruises. Xiu Yu put away the whip and said, "How dare you set your sights on me! Why don't you ask me how famous I, Guo Luoluo Xiu Yu, am outside the Great Wall! I'm not just saying I'm invincible outside the Great Wall! Do you want to come again?"
Seeing that they could no longer gain any advantage, the leader of the group shouted, "Retreat!"
"Hey!" Liuzi was still trying to chase after him, but Xiuyu stretched out her arms to block him, raised her pretty face and said, "I, your princess, am in a good mood today. Don't let these people ruin our fun."
"Princess." Lihua finally caught up, throwing away everything Liuzi had given her. She looked Xiuyu up and down and said, "Are you okay? Are you okay?" There was a hint of tears in her voice.
Xiu Yu patted her cheek and said, "Look, I'm fine, your princess. But you! Liuzi gave you all the things, didn't he? You threw them all away? Do you think your princess's money was blown by the wind?"
"Princess!" Lihua was amused by Xiuyu, but then she frowned and asked, "Those people just wanted to steal things?"
"It's not that simple." Xiu Yu patted the dirt off herself. "Forget it! We just arrived in Beijing, it would be bad if we made a big fuss. Let's go." She took Lihua's hand. "I'll buy you back those things you lost! The shops on this street are all thanks to my Lihua!"
No matter how open-minded or in a good mood one is, after being disturbed by that group of people, it was also stained with a bit of gloom. When Xiuyu asked Lihua to go into the clothing store to try on clothes, she still frowned.
Liuzi lowered his voice and said, "Princess, you must be careful in the days ahead. We just entered the customs, and already..."
"I haven't even mentioned you yet, and you're already talking about me!" Xiu Yu glared at Liu Zi fiercely. "I usually tell you to practice hard, but you just love to slack off! Just to deal with a few show-offs, look at the punches you threw! When my father goes to the battlefield, I'm afraid it won't be you who protects the master, but the master who will protect you instead."
"Master originally..." Liuzi wanted to make a few excuses.
Xiu Yu raised her eyebrows and said, "What? You are not good at martial arts, and you think you are right?"
"I was wrong." Liuzi bent down and lowered his head. "Master Yu, please forgive me this time. When I return to the border, I will practice martial arts diligently and protect you on the battlefield."
Xiu Yu raised his hand and slammed Liu Zi's forehead. "Don't you know my father's abilities? Do you really need to protect him on the battlefield?"
"You're the one who asked me to protect my master, and you're the one who said my master didn't need protecting me! After all, you're my master's daughter, and when you act like a spoiled child, I have no choice but to follow your lead." Liu Zi thought to himself, sighed softly, and decided not to argue any further.
In fact, Xiu Yu is not an unreasonable person. She was really mad at those "robbers" today, and she had to find a place to vent her anger. Liuzi is her servant recently and also the future husband of her daughter Lihua, so of course she can use him first.
When Lihua came out after changing her clothes, Xiuyu's face was smiling again. She asked Liuzi, "Our Lihua is a beautiful lady, isn't she?"
Liuzi scratched his head awkwardly. Of course he thought Lihua was very pretty, but he couldn't say it in front of Gege and Lihua.
Xiu Yu looked at Liuzi's embarrassed face, pursed her lips, lowered her head and smiled, then said to the shopkeeper: "Pack up all the clothes that this girl tried on just now and let him carry them." As she spoke, she pointed at Liuzi.
Lihua said, "Princess, you bought so much, you can't wear it all."
"Why can't I wear it?" Xiu Yu asked Liu Zi to pay the silver, and then said to Li Hua, "When you return to the border, I'm afraid you won't be able to buy clothes like this again. I change clothes every day, how can I not change them all?"
Even in a place like the capital, the people were short of money due to the Three Feudatories War. Buying seven sets of clothes at once, like Xiu Yu, was rare. The shopkeeper, with a smile on his face, packed the seven sets of clothes separately and even gave Xiu Yu some silk and a folding fan.
It was still winter, and holding a folding fan in her hand was a bit strange. However, Xiu Yu looked at herself in the full-length mirror holding the folding fan and felt that if she were a man, she would definitely be the most handsome person in the world.
After returning to the inn and changing back into her Manchu clothing, Xiu Yu finally calmed down and thought carefully about what had happened that day. Even without needing to use her sixth sense, she knew those 'bandits' were no ordinary 'bandits'. She was just afraid... the blame would be placed on the current emperor! Thinking of this, Xiu Yu couldn't help but roll her eyes.
In the Qianqing Palace, Xuanye sneezed loudly. Liang Jiugong hurriedly said, "Master, can I add some more charcoal to the charcoal basin?"
"That's not the case." Xuanye waved his hand, then turned his head and asked Liang Jiugong: "Is Chu Tiankuo back?"
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