Chapter 98: Unlocking the Nine Links in a Cup of Tea
The Dongyou Kingdom on New Year's Eve was no longer as quiet as before. At this time of the day, there were only a few stalls on the street and few people came out.
Now that it is a festive season and it is raining, the smart stall owner used waterproof paper which is a bit more expensive.
So the streets are full of lanterns made by skillful vendors, with lanterns of birds and animals, and even dragon and phoenix lanterns.
The most anticipated fireworks have to wait until midnight, when they are set off on the highest city wall in the imperial city by order of the emperor.
It is estimated that there is still one hour left until midnight.
Shangguan Nanxing took Su Yue and walked through the crowd. At this moment, the two of them looked like an ordinary couple.
"Here, Yue'er, your favorite." Shangguan Nanxing handed over a candied haws. He always remembered that Yue'er in the previous life loved to eat this the most.
Su Yue looked at the candied haws and a complex look flashed in her eyes. Because of the reasons in her previous life, she rarely touched sweets in this life. If Shangguan Nanxing hadn't reminded her, she would have forgotten that she liked this sour and sweet food.
"What's wrong? Don't you like it?" Shangguan Nanxing looked at Su Yue who was staring at the candied haws in a daze, and shook the candied haws in front of her.
"It's okay. Thank you, Third Prince." Su Yue chuckled and took the candied haws.
"What a crappy game, it's a dead end, how can it be solved? Tell me, are you trying to scam me?"
A young woman's somewhat unruly voice came from not far in front of the two of them. Looking up, they saw a lot of people gathered over there under the light of the lanterns.
When they got closer, they found that the person who was talking was Concubine Yu's daughter, Princess Fuping. At this moment, she was staring at the stall owner with an angry face, and a toy in her hand was shaking with a snapping sound.
"Miss, you don't have the ability to untie the nine rings, but you can't accuse me of lying!"
The stall owner looked to be around 30 or 40 years old, with a thick beard, and judging by his dress, he didn't look like a native of Dongyou Country.
At this time, he felt quite aggrieved. He was just setting up his stall here. As long as the puzzles he set were solved, he could get the corresponding prizes.
The most valuable prize in this stall is a talking parrot, but the prerequisite is to solve the nine-ring chain.
This nine-ring chain was a new thing that he brought from the Mo Kingdom. People in the Dongyou Kingdom had never seen it before, let alone solve it. Therefore, many people tried, but no one had really solved it.
Just when he was happily counting his money, he met this difficult girl. If she were an ordinary person, he would have chased her away long ago, but looking at the girl's dress.
Not to mention what he was wearing, even the handkerchief pinned on his chest was made of the finest gold woven fabrics. It was obvious at first glance that he was someone he could not afford to offend.
"What nine-ring chain? It's just a trick you use to cheat people out of money. Show me how to solve it now!"
Princess Fuping refused to give in. If she hadn't taken a fancy to the talking parrot and planned to give it as a surprise for her mother on her birthday later, she wouldn't have wasted her time here.
"Miss, I do know how to solve the Nine Rings, but if you ask me to solve it, there are so many people watching and I still have to live. Please be kind and let me go."
The stall owner was very humble, and several people who didn't know Princess Fuping couldn't stand it and started to grumble in low voices.
"It's not easy for him to run a business. If he were to untie the nine rings by himself, he would be destroying his livelihood!"
"Yes, yes, who is this girl? She is so domineering. If she can't untie it herself, it means she is stupid!"
"Oh my god, please stop talking nonsense and shut up."
Among the onlookers, there were some who knew Princess Fuping. When they heard someone next to them say that Princess Fuping was stupid, they were so scared that they quickly covered that person's mouth.
Then he whispered Fuping's identity in the man's ear. The person whose mouth was covered was immediately frightened to the point of breaking out in a sweat and dared not say anything anymore.
Princess Fuping naturally heard the murmurs of the onlookers, and she looked at them one by one with a gloomy face.
"let's go."
When Su Yue saw this, she understood roughly what was going on. Seeing that Fuping was about to look over, she prepared to leave, thinking that less trouble is better.
Shangguan Nanxing naturally had no interest in watching Fuping throwing a tantrum, so when he was about to follow Su Yue, he heard Fuping's voice behind him.
"Nanxing? Why are you here?"
The curve at the corner of Shangguan Nanxing's mouth just now retracted again.
He only knew what his 'sister' was thinking when his father arranged a marriage between him and Su Xin in his previous life.
Thinking of the day when she asked him out, her red eyes from crying, and her inexplicable confession, he was completely stunned.
After all, she and I have the same father. How could she have such dirty thoughts?
"Sister, Su Yue and I went out to play." Shangguan Nanxing suppressed the disgust in his heart, pulled Su Yue over, and replied indifferently, but he emphasized the word "sister".
"Oh, Miss Su Er is quite interesting."
Fuping naturally heard Shangguan Nanxing's address to her. He suppressed his displeasure, put down the Nine Rings in his hand, and looked at Su Yue who was standing next to him with gloomy eyes.
At this moment, the two of them holding hands looked particularly eye-catching.
When did these two become so close? This Su Yue, who had risked her life in the Golden Palace rather than be married to Nanxing by her father, what is the situation now?
Could it be that Su Yue wanted to do this on purpose to arouse Nan Xing's curiosity as a way of playing hard to get?
Thinking of this, Fuping looked at Su Yue with a hint of contempt.
When the stall owner next to Fuping saw that the troublesome lady was talking to someone else, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and began to greet the onlookers.
After Fuping's commotion just now, the people present were very interested in this new toy called the Nine-Rings Link, and many of them were eager to try it out with silver in hand.
It looks like this stall is quite busy.
"Princess Fuping." Su Yue bowed slightly. She naturally did not ignore the contempt in Fuping's eyes, but she didn't care at all what Fuping was thinking.
Fuping looked at Su Yue, and then glanced at the nine-ring chain next to him, and a clever plan emerged in his mind.
"You, this princess orders you to untie this nine-link chain within a cup of tea. If you can't, I will punish you."
Fuping looked at Su Yue with a firm attitude and a tone that did not allow for argument. She had been fiddling with it for half an hour and still couldn't figure it out, so she didn't believe that Su Yue could do it in a cup of tea.
"Sister, you are being unreasonable." Shangguan Nanxing frowned when she heard that Fuping wanted Su Yue to untie the Nine Rings within a cup of tea.
Although in the previous life, when Su Yue was bored during pregnancy, he would send her some small toys from time to time to cheer her up, among them was this Nine Rings.
But what if Su Yue didn't play with it? Even if she did, a cup of tea would be too short.
The design of this nine-ring chain is so ingenious and tortuous that even I would find it difficult to untie it within a cup of tea.
Su Yue looked at Princess Fuping quietly. It was obvious that she also heard the gunpowder in Fuping's words.
It seems that the real purpose of this princess asking me to cancel the Nine-Ring Leave today is that she can't stand me being with Shangguan Nanxing, and wants to take the opportunity to punish me.
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