Chapter 74 No matter how much it dislikes me, it will have to surrender sooner or later
Fang Qianxue turned around and found it was Xiao Mingzhe. She was not used to his gentle tone today. He did not even call himself "this king". "Why is your highness here again?"
"I also want to see Qilin. Let's go together." Xiao Mingzhe's tone today was particularly kind, without any trace of hostility.
"Your Highness has the token, so he should be able to see the Qilin beast at any time. Why wait for me?" Fang Qianxue asked.
"That guy bares his teeth when he sees me. It's not that I'm afraid of it, but I just don't want to waste energy fighting it. It's better for me to follow you in." Xiao Mingzhe said as he asked the guards to open the big iron gate and made a "please" gesture.
Fang Qianxue had no choice but to go in with him.
Because Qilin can fly, the stable where Qilin is kept is actually a large iron cage, and Emperor Ming even ordered people to reinforce it with two layers inside and outside.
Fang Qianxue opened the cage door and the two walked in.
Qilin still didn't like Xiao Mingzhe, but when he saw Fang Qianxue, he immediately wagged his tail and lay down to let Fang Qianxue comb his hair.
As a spiritual animal, Qilin does not need to take a bath, but it needs to comb its hair. Normally, the palace people dare not approach Qilin, so the hair on its body becomes clumps.
This time, Xiao Mingzhe did not sit aside, but followed Fang Qianxue, feeding Qilin with red fruits and occasionally touching Qilin's head when it was not expecting it.
Every time Qilin found that he had been touched by him, he would bare his teeth at him angrily, but the amplitude of the bare teeth became smaller and smaller. Later, when he found that he had no ill intentions, he gradually became too lazy to pay attention to him.
Fang Qianxue couldn't help laughing when she saw how carefully he was cultivating feelings with Qilin.
"Why is it so funny?" Xiao Mingzhe was a little embarrassed.
"If I had known this would happen, why did I do this? Your Majesty, you shouldn't have provoked it and let it be free, wouldn't it be better?" Fang Qianxue said with a smile.
Not to mention the Qilin, even ferocious beasts like tigers and leopards would not want to be locked in a cage.
"I will get back what I like even if it takes my life." Xiao Mingzhe said while observing her expression. "As for whether it's happy or not after I get it back, it doesn't matter."
Fang Qianxue shook her head and said, "No wonder Qilin doesn't like you. Doesn't Your Majesty know that a forced melon is not sweet?"
"This is the thinking of the weak. The victor goes to the king and the loser goes to the bandit, and the weak can only submit. No matter how much it dislikes me, it will have to submit sooner or later." Xiao Mingzhe continued to touch Qilin's head as he pleased. The latter was already very angry at being forced to touch his head, and was thinking about ways to retaliate.
"If you think so, just pretend I didn't say anything." Fang Qianxue remembered that there was a person named King Beining in the original book, but he had always stayed in Luzhou in Mobei and rarely returned to the Central Plains. Later, after the young emperor ascended the throne, King Beining rebelled and was suppressed by the troops sent by the male protagonist.
According to the plot of the original book, King Xiao Mingzhe of Beining was retaliated by the Western Regions army on his way back. He was attacked from all sides and had nowhere to go, and eventually fell off a cliff and died.
In short, this person is a violent villain, and in the end he was deserted by his friends and relatives and got what he deserved. Fang Qianxue wanted to persuade him to be kind to others and not make too many enemies, but she found that this person was stubborn and self-willed, and it was not so easy to persuade him.
A person's destiny is indeed already written in his character.
"Do you know that the Liaoyuan Marquisate is arranging a marriage for Jiang Xu recently?" Xiao Mingzhe suddenly asked.
"I don't know. What's wrong?" Fang Qianxue had a feeling that there was something fishy about this question.
"Ahem!" Xiao Mingzhe coughed awkwardly twice, "You seem to have some friendship with Jiang Xu, right? What do you think of his marriage?"
"Are you talking about the last time I saved him?" Fang Qianxue thought for a moment, "I saved him not because of any friendship, but because I felt that Young Marquis Jiang was not a bad person, and there might be some misunderstanding between the prince and him."
"How do you know he's not a bad guy? Do you know the relationship between him and Yi An?"
"What?" Fang Qianxue was surprised.
"You really don't know," Xiao Mingzhe glanced at her smugly, "He is seducing Yi'an. You know, Jiang Xu is a very attractive person. He wants to attack Yi'an, so I can't just sit back and watch."
Fang Qianxue thought for a moment and said, "Godmother should know what kind of person the young marquis is. He and Princess Yi'an are of similar age and are a good match. There's nothing wrong with them."
"You really don't object to him and Yi'an's marriage?" Xiao Mingzhe looked at her with a meaningful look in his eyes.
"Why does Your Highness ask me this?" Fang Qianxue frowned, trying to see through the meaning in his eyes, but failed.
"You are the adopted daughter of the emperor's sister, and Yi'an is your sister. I want to ask for your opinion on Yi'an's marriage. Is there anything strange about that?" Xiao Mingzhe took another half step closer and asked in a low voice, "What do you think of Jiang Xu?"
"I'm not very good at judging men, so please don't ask me, Your Majesty." Fang Qianxue finished combing Qilin's fur, and Qilin was almost full. "I remember that I have something else to do in the mansion, so I'll take my leave now."
"I'll take you out."
"No need, Your Highness, please stay." Fang Qianxue packed up and left in a hurry.
The man looked at her back and sighed in disappointment.
He wanted to find out about the relationship between Fang Qianxue and Jiang Xu, but she was very guarded and never let anything slip in her conversation, so he could not get anything useful out of her.
The air suddenly became scorching hot.
Xiao Mingzhe turned around suddenly and was startled: "..."
The Qilin was baring its teeth at him, and there seemed to be a fireball brewing in its bloody mouth.
Qilin stared at him with his lantern-like eyes, as if to say: Who did you call a weakling? !
Xiao Mingzhe ran out of the door and locked the stable door.
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Fang Qianxue had just finished her breakfast when she saw Suiqiong running in.
"Madam! A maid from the outer courtyard came running to say that the owner of Jinxiuzhai wants to see you."
"No." Fang Qianxue didn't have time to see that profiteer.
"I have to see him," said Sui Qiong, "I heard from the concierge that the man is a prince."
Fang Qianxue frowned, thought for a long time before saying, "Take him to the flower hall in the outer courtyard."
There are a lot of royal relatives in the capital city. It is said that the owner of Jinxiu Zhai is an old prince from a remote corner, but Fang Qianxue guessed that since no one knows who he is, that person should only have the title of a prince, but has long lost his real power.
Fang Qianxue didn't want to have anything to do with Jinxiu Zhai, so she deliberately delayed and took an incense stick of time before leaving.
When I arrived at the flower hall in the outer courtyard, I was shocked by the scene before me.
Xiao Mingzhe was seen sitting calmly on the armchair in the flower hall, drinking tea leisurely. Next to him stood a fat middle-aged man, who was the shopkeeper Wen.
Fang Qianxue calmed herself down, knelt down and saluted, still with a look of disbelief in her eyes: "The owner of Jinxiuzhai... why is it you?"
Seeing the surprised look on her face, Xiao Mingzhe felt a little gloating, and his smile almost overflowed: "It's me."
"Isn't it said that he is an old prince?" This man is not old! He is only in his early thirties, about the same age as Lu Changqing. I don't know how those rumors spread.
"That's right. Jinxiu Zhai was originally the property of my fifth uncle. He was short of money a year ago, so he sold it to me." Xiao Mingzhe said calmly.
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