Chapter 19 Chapter 19 She kissed the corner of his lips [Copywriting plot...
Zhang Jingxuan went to the bookshop to work every day as usual.
Xue Yuanyin started practicing painting again. She did not ask Zhang Jingxuan for advice, but instead focused on painting a few little foxes on her own.
She picked out the best painting and took it with her, then went out to bookstores and bookshops to inquire about the market price.
As a result, she asked several stores, but the shopkeepers were unwilling to buy her because she was not famous.
Here, the reputation of a painting is more important than its craftsmanship. In the capital, dignitaries might buy a few exquisite paintings to take home for their children to appreciate, but people in this poor and remote area only care about reputation, not craftsmanship. Without reputation, they would not buy the painting at all, and the shopkeeper would also be afraid that the painting would be hidden in the bottom of the box after he bought it.
Another shopkeeper was considering buying it, but asked her if she was willing to sell it at a low price.
Xue Yuanyin calculated that the price was not much more expensive than the ink and pens at home, so she refused the shopkeeper's offer.
Her paintings were not sold, and she returned empty-handed. It was already evening when she got home.
As soon as I entered the room, I saw Zhang Jingxuan, whom I hadn't communicated with for many days, sitting at the desk in the main room. His shoulders were straight and his back was stiff. The halo of the setting sun shone on him, adding a bit of obscurity.
Ever since their last fight, they have been in a cold war until today. During this period, except for breakfast, lunch and dinner, he has never sat at the table outside the main room.
Xue Yuanyin walked over and asked coldly, "What's wrong?"
Zhang Jingxuan looked up, placed the silver in his hand on the table, and said, "The second month's salary is one and a half taels. I'll leave one tael with you and include it in the public account. The other half tael of silver and the half tael of silver from last month will be brought to you tomorrow. We need to get down to business."
His eyes were calm and his attitude was natural, as if there was no barrier between them. Xue Yuanyin was stuck in her breath.
After a while, for the sake of what he called "business", she suppressed her emotions, accepted one tael of silver, and pushed the other half tael to him, saying, "One tael of silver is enough for the following expenses. This is your wages. You can take the extra half tael."
This obvious demarcation made Zhang Jingxuan frown, then he pressed the silver and pushed it back again, saying in a tone that did not allow for argument:
"I don't need it. You can keep it in the account. If I need it, I will ask you for it."
Seeing that he insisted, Xue Yuanyin did not refuse anymore and accepted the monthly salary he handed over.
Zhang Jingxuan raised his eyes to look at her, but saw that she had her eyes downcast, with a low mood, and it was obvious that she didn't want to talk to him any more.
He wanted to find a topic to start, but gave up after seeing this.
He thought to himself that Su Mian's guess was not entirely unreasonable. At least it surprised him and caught him off guard. For the first time, he even felt it difficult to make a decision about what to do next.
Either be cold and distant, and repeat the deliberate rules from four years ago.
Or maybe... first fulfill her wish, then make her give up and embark on another shocking and entangled path.
After thinking about so many things, it’s actually just a matter of thought.
Zhang Jingxuan stood up, lightly brushed the hem of his coarse cloth clothes, said softly, "You should rest early," and walked away.
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The next day, Xue Yuanyin and Zhang Jingxuan met in the yard early. After having the breakfast prepared by Grandma Chen early in the morning, they went out to the market together.
Even though Xue Yuanyin had some opinions about Zhang Jingxuan, she never let them interfere with her business. She took the initiative to lead the way and said solemnly:
"There's only one stable in town, and the horses have different breeds and appearances, and the prices vary. I took a quick look, and there are a few good ones. Although they're a bit expensive, I think I can still afford them."
Zhang Jingxuan walked in, looked at the horses Xue Yuanyin mentioned, nodded and said, "You come from a military family, and your eye for horses is better than mine. Choose from these."
He looked among the horses for a moment and quickly picked out a horse with a white mane.
Xue Yuanyin had originally chosen a group of brown-maned horses, but the servant waiting by the side explained that the horse had been reserved. She couldn't help but feel regretful, so she looked among the other horses and chose the black horse next to it.
Dark horses have more aggressive temperaments, but are also more challenging. Compared to the human-like white horse chosen by Zhang Jingxuan, Xue Yuanyin prefers to tame this kind of wild horse.
It cost four hundred coins to rent two horses. Xue Yuanyin used to be a young lady who spent money without checking the price, but now she has learned to be frugal. She forced the shopkeeper to bargain down the price to three hundred and fifty coins, and finally gave him half a tael of silver with satisfaction and got a change of one hundred and fifty coins.
After temporarily leaving the horses in the stable, the two men went to the weapon shop and spent all the remaining silver to buy two bows, some arrows, and two sharp blades.
There is nothing to choose from these. I can't afford the better weapons, so the ordinary ones like these are fine.
The shopkeeper saw that they bought a lot, so he gave them an extra sack.
After everything was ready, the two men returned to the stable to take the horses, signed the deed to return the horses, and drove the horses up the mountain.
The deeper you go into the mountains and forests, the fewer traces of pedestrians you will see, and in the end you will only occasionally see hunters' houses.
The mountain is covered with lush trees, blocking out the sun. It is so quiet that even the scorching sun above is blocked by a third of its color, leaving only scattered patches of light and shadow.
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Noon passed and nothing was caught except a hare.
Xue Yuanyin stopped to drink some water and gave Zhang Jingxuan a cake to fill his stomach. After a short rest, the two of them were discussing what kind of wild animals to hunt.
Zhang Jingxuan suddenly stopped the horse, grabbed Xue Yuanyin, and looked into the distance with deep eyes.
Xue Yuanyin was distracted for a moment, and suddenly realized that his strength was so great, like an iron clamp, which was completely unlike his usual gentle and humble style.
When she came to her senses, she vaguely heard the sound of footsteps passing by the grass in the distance. Looking carefully, she actually saw a beautiful wolf with black fur standing between the thick trees.
Xue Yuanyin frowned and signaled Zhang Jingxuan to leave quickly.
Wolves always appear in packs, so there is no need for them to waste time on this.
Zhang Jingxuan didn't move. He listened intently for a moment, then leaned over and whispered, "A lone wolf."
His voice was like hot breath, brushing against Xue Yuanyin's ears, making them a little itchy.
"Alone? Are you sure?"
Xue Yuanyin rubbed her hot ears uncomfortably and looked at him suspiciously.
He hasn't even learned martial arts, so is his hearing reliable?
Zhang Jingxuan pointed to his ears, then to his eyes and brain. His meaning was very clear: it depends not only on hearing, but also on eyesight and brain.
Xue Yuanyin: “…”
She reluctantly believed him for once.
She gestured to Zhang Jingxuan, asking him to cooperate, and rode her horse quietly over, drew out an arrow, squinted her eyes, and pulled the bowstring to its full extent.
The next second, Zhang Jingxuan seemed to have expected it. He suddenly exerted force with his arms, and the veins in his thin muscles bulged, and he shot an arrow at a very tricky angle.
As the wolf let out a miserable howl, its retreat was blocked.
If the timing hadn't been wrong, with the beautiful angle and coordination of this arrow, Xue Yuanyin would have definitely whistled loudly for him.
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The wolf is dead.
Skinning a wolf is a technical job, which is not within Zhang Jingxuan's scope, so he handed it over to Xue Yuanyin.
Xue Yuanyin had seen a lot as a child of his father, and had learned a little bit of all kinds of strange things. Although he was not very good at skinning, he finally knew how to do it. He found a safe and secluded place to sit down and quietly began to skin the wolf.
Zhang Jingxuan stood quietly in the shadow of the tree canopy, looking up at her.
No longer needing to cooperate, she had apparently returned to her previous state, but she had forgotten that they had known each other since childhood and that she understood him as well as he understood her.
He didn't know why she was angry, but he knew very well how to provoke her emotions.
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After Xue Yuanyin finished skinning the wolf and carefully put it into a sack, the two men rode their horses down the mountain and returned to return the horses before sunset.
Zhang Jingxuan turned his head to look at her and suddenly asked, "Why did you lose to me in the horseback archery class?"
Xue Yuanyin was displeased by his questioning and directly retorted: "Just because I lost to you doesn't mean I am necessarily weaker than you."
"You've been riding horses up the mountain and hunting this time. You're clearly an excellent rider and archer, and your performance has been impressive. Why are you always inferior to me in school?" Zhang Jingxuan asked calmly, "Are you afraid? What are you afraid of?"
He looked at her and said, "Xue Yuanyin, you are afraid of losing. If you continue like this, you will never be able to win against a real enemy in the future."
Xue Yuanyin was furious at his tone, and the frustration that had been accumulating for days poured out. She drew her bow and aimed an arrow in his direction.
"What gives you the right to judge me with such a bystander's tone? I hate it most when you sit on the throne, plotting every moment! If you have the guts, fight me right now!"
Zhang Jingxuan frowned and said, "Go back first. I'll find an open space to practice with you later."
Xue Yuanyin was unhappy and ignored him, shooting an arrow at him.
Zhang Jingxuan picked up the bow and arrow hanging from his horse's tail, tensed his arm, and pulled out an arrow. The two arrows collided in the air. He blocked her attack perfectly and taunted her:
"Xue Yuanyin, is this all you can do? Since you want to practice archery, then show your strength and don't let me look down on you."
Xue Yuanyin glared at him, suppressing her rage. What did he mean by looking down on her? Why did she need him to look down on her?!
The horse was frightened by the sudden change and raised its hooves to run away. She sat on the horse's back and shot the second arrow at it from a high position. The next second, she suddenly pulled the frightened horse and held it firmly in place.
Zhang Jingxuan pulled the reins hard, and the horse galloped out. When they passed each other in an instant, he raised his arm and shot the second arrow, knocking her second arrow away with a bang.
He immediately pulled the reins to a stop and said calmly, "It's getting dark."
Realizing that he was a little confused, Xue Yuanyin took a deep breath, adjusted his posture, and then took out the last two arrows, put them on the strings, and aimed at his neck in the gradually dimming twilight.
She threatened: "Zhang Jingxuan, if you can't dodge these two arrows, you will die here."
Zhang Jingxuan raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "Are you confident that you can hit me?"
Xue Yuanyin narrowed her eyes, pulled the bowstring to its full extent, and the arrow deviated an inch slowly and almost imperceptibly. She suddenly let go.
Zhang Jingxuan had one last arrow left, and he smoothly drew his bow and shot the arrow. Unexpectedly, it missed by a few inches when it blocked her arrow. He yanked the reins, steering his horse out of the way, and then spoke softly:
"The arrow missed, Xue Yuanyin. You lose."
Xue Yuanyin stared at him quietly with her pair of dark and bright eyes, pursed her lips, and said nothing.
The night in the mountains darkened faster, the shadows of the trees were blurry, and the seven arrows lying in a mess on the ground made her look a little disheveled.
Zhang Jingxuan rode his horse closer to her, his handsome face showing pride and fearlessness. He said, "If you want to beat me, you need to practice for a few more years."
He thought he was patient enough and had given enough advice, so he put away his bow and said, "Go back. You are not yet able to beat me."
Xue Yuanyin was groping in the dark to pick up arrows. After holding it in for a long time, he could no longer hold it in and said unwillingly:
"I deliberately deviated the third time!"
Zhang Jingxuan was a little surprised she would say that, and asked casually, "I know. But why did you deliberately miss this arrow?"
He tilted his head slightly, and a sinister look suddenly appeared on his gentle and humble face. He spoke softly and slowly:
"Don't you and Prince Yu's followers all want to get rid of me as soon as possible?"
Why? He still had the nerve to ask why?
They have been childhood sweethearts and have a deep friendship. Why does she act like this? Doesn't he know?
All the resentment Xue Yuanyin had suppressed was easily ignited by Zhang Jingxuan's appearance. With a cold and pretty face, she directed all her anger at him:
"Zhang Jingxuan, I'm going to challenge you!"
Zhang Jingxuan bent down, picked up the last three arrows, and threw them into the quiver at the back. He pulled the reins and spurred his horse, heading down the mountain in the fading darkness, saying:
"Okay, I understand. Miss, can we go now?"
Xue Yuanyin jumped on his horse and chased after him, shouting angrily:
"Listen carefully—I, Xue Yuanyin, will defeat you one day! Zhang Jingxuan, just wait, sooner or later I will defeat you!"
Her voice was loud, clear and crisp, and it made the birds in the forest fly away. Zhang Jingxuan sped up, and she immediately caught up with him, as if she was determined to avenge her previous humiliation.
Seeing him walking faster and faster, she shouted angrily: "Zhang Jingxuan!!!"
The horse was a little frightened and raised its hooves to run away. Xue Yuanyin stumbled on the horse and almost fell to the ground.
Zhang Jingxuan quickly pulled down the hem of her clothes, saving her from falling flat on her face.
Xue Yuanyin suddenly turned around and clamped his arm, then jumped onto his horse's back. Zhang Jingxuan frowned and tried to stop the horse, but he couldn't get away in time, so she succeeded and sat in front of him, holding his neck with both hands.
A cold light flashed in her eyes, and in that instant, she burst out with true murderous intent: "Tell me, if I crush you to death here, will His Royal Highness the Crown Prince be defeated?"
She kept her word and slowly tightened the grip in her hands.
The air was silent for a moment.
Xue Yuanyin heard her own heartbeat as rapid as a drum.
At this moment, she belatedly realized that she actually hated him.
Zhang Jingxuan was pinched by the neck, but he was unexpectedly calm. He just tightened his arm around the reins slightly, his eyes slightly drooping as he stared at her without saying a word.
If it were in the past, he bet Xue Yuanyin would not take action.
But at that moment, he clearly realized that she had been suppressing her emotions towards him all along, and beneath the little quarrels was a surging emotion that he had never discovered before.
He frowned slightly, not understanding, really not understanding...why was this happening?
She hated him. Why did she hate him so much?
He felt a bit uncontrollable irritation, and the anger suppressed in his brows released a little, but was forced back again.
Perhaps because he was extremely annoyed, yet mixed with some thoughts he couldn't explain, he raised his hand and gently stroked the back of her neck, imitating her movements.
Some are intimate, some are dangerous.
He thought that if he did something as she wished, she couldn't blame him.
It was she who provoked him first, and it was she who insisted on breaking the pure relationship between them as brother, sister and good friends.
The next second, before she could react, Zhang Jingxuan pressed her neck and moved straight towards her.
Xue Yuanyin's upper body suddenly leaned forward, and her lips touched his handsome and superior profile, kissing the corner of his lips.
Amidst the faint and subtle scent of pine, a light, sweet, girlish body fragrance filled my arms.
The soft and warm touch is so sudden that it makes one's heart tremble unconsciously.
There was a moment of stillness in the mountain night.
Xue Yuanyin seemed to come to his senses, suddenly loosened his grip, stepped back, and widened his eyes as if in extreme shock.
His light brown eyes met Zhang Jingxuan's in the thin air on horseback.
In an instant, the night was quiet and deep, and their eyes met.
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The handsome Crown Prince of Dajin Dynasty came of age and went to the capital to select a Crown Princess. His subordinates eagerly collected portraits of unmarried women from the capital and presented them to him.
The prince was mean and picky, with extremely high standards, and was dissatisfied with many things—
There is a mole at the corner of the lip, which is not a good thing.
The eyebrows are too thick, I don’t like them.
The eyes are too small, I don’t like them.
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Until I saw a portrait of a young girl with a thick face, big black eyebrows, and facial features that were blurred together by ink strokes. Not only was it extremely weird, but the words "stupid" and "very stupid" were also written in bold. She was criticized for nothing.
The prince had never seen such a person before. He was so shocked that he coughed several times while drinking water. He was so angry that he pointed at the girl and said:
"Let's take her. Marry her and place her in the East Palace to protect her from evil spirits. That would be great."
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Jiang Zhiyu was the unloved daughter of her family. She was also stupid and had been bullied since childhood. However, she was beautiful and when she finally reached the age of sixteen, her stepmother betrothed her to an old widower.
It happened that the Crown Prince was choosing a Crown Princess, but her stepmother didn't want her to go and wanted her stepsister to go instead. She gave money to the painter to deliberately paint her in a ugly way.
Unexpectedly, her elder sister was not selected, and she, who was not very smart, was chosen as the Crown Princess among a group of beauties of all shapes and sizes.
Jiang Zhiyu, who was about to be married to an old widower, suddenly became the Crown Princess. As soon as she entered the palace, she faced a situation where she was surrounded by wolves and watched covetously.
Aside from cultivating a "marriage relationship" with the Crown Prince every night, where he would teach her unpleasant things, Jiang Zhiyu was never allowed to see him. Even wolves and tigers had set their sights on this little lamb, but the young Crown Princess was too clueless, unable to grasp the subtext. She only cared about eating, drinking, playing, and sleeping. When she was truly bullied, she burst into tears, sobs that they could flood the beams of the entire Eastern Palace.
The prince had no choice but to marry a stupid princess. Not only could he not use money to appease her, he had to frown and get angry to coax her...
Jiang Zhiyu, the envied daughter of a wealthy family, was accused of marrying the crown prince on the strength of her beauty. They said she only relied on her husband, was incompetent, and was a foolish beauty who had failed her royal ancestors.
Jiang Zhiyu was very sad to hear the comments. She felt very aggrieved when she heard that everyone wanted to change the Crown Princess. She wrote a farewell letter with tears in her eyes, packed up her gold and silver belongings, and decided to quietly run away on a dark and windy night. She would never be criticized again and would be a stupid Crown Princess.
Unexpectedly, after finally slipping out of the door, she saw the neatly dressed Crown Prince sitting leisurely in the lobby, with her favorite ice cream, osmanthus cake, soft smoke silk, woven gold brocade, exquisite fan, jade ruyi, agate necklace, mother-of-pearl beads... He said to her:
"Will your princess not reconsider this?"
Jiang Zhiyu was dumbfounded, and the small bag fell to the ground with a thud.
Woohoo, that's too abominable! What should she do? TT
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Later, Jiang Zhiyu originally thought that she would live her life first, and when the prince became tired of her, she would run away with the money.
Later, she felt conflicted as she watched her belly grow bigger day by day. She decided to wait until the baby was born before leaving.
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Finally, she finally sat on the throne of the queen, watching all those who had spoken ill of her kneeling down to greet her respectfully, and she thought confusedly:
How did things turn out like this...
【Small Theater】
Before being crowned Queen, the Crown Princess and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had a quarrel.
Jiang Zhiyu sobbed and asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince: "Why did you marry me?"
The prince was concentrating on his work and ignored her.
Jiang Zhiyu was very unconfident: "Why would you like someone like me? They all say that I am a straw beauty and not worthy of His Highness."
The prince took some time out of his busy schedule to tell her to listen less to rumors and read less storybooks.
Jiang Zhiyu was somewhat disheartened and said, "Why not get a divorce? I can't be the mother of a country. I'm just a fool."
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sighed, put down the memorials on the table, held the tearful little girl in his arms, and said seriously:
"You are not stupid, you are the apple of my eye."
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"I have only one wife, who is as precious as a pearl."
——"Biography of Prince Chengzhang"
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·A kind-hearted and soft-hearted pretty fool x a cruel and vicious prince who stares at his wife behind her back
·1v1｜Micro-cultivation｜Daily Pampering｜Cheerful and Sweet Story｜Light and Joyful Wind
Age difference is 5 years, the female lead is 15, the male lead is 20
Write about the daily life of the Tyrannosaurus Rex Prince and the little fool Meibao in the East Palace
Note: The portraits in the text are described in an exaggerated manner. The prince suffers from a slight face blindness, so for him, neither "beautiful" nor "ugly" is the same. This is for the sake of laughter, not for cynicism.
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