Xie Xun's plan to soak in hot springs during the day was not realized in the end.
Because Qin Rushuang resolutely rejected Bai Ri Qingtian, the two met sincerely.
Qin Rushuang remembered visiting this royal courtyard with her father when she was very young.
But I was too young at that time, and my memory is a bit fuzzy.
Now that I'm back in my hometown, I can't help but wander around.
As I walked, I walked to the kitchen in the back.
As soon as she approached the kitchen, she smelled a special fragrance. When she got closer, she saw that the cook was cooking pork ribs and lotus root.
Qin Rushuang came up to take a look and asked, "It's not the season for lotus roots yet, why is it already there?"
The cook quickly replied, "There is a private manor not far from the courtyard. There is a large area of lotus flowers there. We purchased these lotus roots from them in advance. We were in a hurry. I heard that it took a large area to be dug.
There are so many lotus roots! I just wanted to make something delicious for the princess."
Qin Rushuang nodded, obviously very satisfied.
Then, as if he remembered something, he asked the cook: "Since it's not the time to eat lotus roots yet, the lotus flowers in that place must not have faded yet, right?"
The cook smiled and said, "Not yet. If the prince and princess are interested, why don't we send someone to notify them and clear them out so that the prince and princess can go in and enjoy the lotus."
Qin Rushuang waved her hand and said, "Why bother the master, we can just go ourselves."
Their trip was casual, and Xie Xun did not stop Qin Rushuang's decision. Instead, he found someone to bring a horse.
He held Qin Rushuang and climbed onto the horse's back on the grounds that Qin Rushuang was still weak and it was not suitable for her to ride a horse by herself.
The two of them rode a horse together and walked slowly towards the manor pointed by the cook.
Along the way, the breeze blew on his face, and the tip of his nose was filled with Qin Rushuang's unique fragrance. Xie Xun felt very comfortable.
The cook was right, that manor was indeed very close to the Royal Courtyard.
After they rode for a while, they saw a mansion in the distance.
Xie Xun wanted to dismount and go to negotiate, but was stopped by Qin Rushuang.
Qin Rushuang glanced at him and said, "Your Majesty has become more and more powerful recently. It's better not to go, so as not to scare others. I'll go."
Xie Xun didn't stop him, nodded and said, "Then I'll wait for you where you are."
Qin Rushuang walked forward slowly.
The layout of this mansion is very interesting.
You can see the gate of the mansion from a distance, but behind the gate is not a building, but a large lotus pond.
The door was halfway open, and there was a young scholar sitting at the door. The scholar was holding a book in his hand and was reading attentively.
Qin Rushuang came closer and asked in a low voice: "Master, we are here to play. I heard that there is a very beautiful lotus pond in the house here. I wonder if we can harass you?"
But he said that the young man was the only son in the family of the owner of this mansion. He had liked reading books since he was a child, but what he read today was not the Four Books and Five Classics, but a miscellaneous biography.
The miscellaneous biography is very interesting, telling the story between humans and spirits.
This type of story is nothing more than the scholar and the goblin.
He was looking very excited when he suddenly looked up and saw an extremely beautiful woman wearing powder and pink clothes. She was looking at him with a smile and called him Young Master in a low voice.
The young man was stunned for a moment and didn't come back to his senses for a long time. He thought to himself where did this monster come from and how did it become so beautiful?
She's still wearing pink clothes, isn't it because the lotus flowers in her lotus pond have become spirits?
Seeing that he didn't respond, Qin Rushuang could only ask again, "Master, I wonder if it's inconvenient for us to go in and disturb you? We'll just go in and have a look. If it's not convenient, we can pay some money."
The young man finally came to his senses and stammered, "Of course you can! May I ask, which girl are you from?"
He originally thought that since the two of them were similar in age, they should be addressed as "you", but for some reason, this woman looked young but had an aura of nobility about her. When she spoke, she couldn't help but say "you" in her mouth.
"You" was replaced by the awkward "you".
Seeing the blushing young man, Qin Rushuang also felt that he was a little cute, so he said, "In that case, thank you very much, Master."
The young man blushed again and asked: "This place is remote, whose sister are you from?"
Qin Rushuang laughed again, her tone a little naughty.
"I should be older than you, so you can call me sister."
After Qin Rushuang finished speaking, she pointed to the Imperial City and said, "My family lives far away, at the foot of the Imperial City. Today I went out for an outing with my husband."
When the young man heard this, he felt a little disappointed.
He didn't know whether he was disappointed because he heard that Qin Rushuang lived at the foot of the imperial city and was beyond his reach, or because Qin Rushuang said she already had a husband.
But no matter what, the two finally entered the mansion smoothly.
In the mansion, as the cook said, there is a large lotus pond.
The young man kindly pointed the way for them and said, "This pool is very large. If you want to go to the middle of the pool, you have to take a boat."
He pointed not far away from the pond and said: "There is a worker from our family there who can row a boat. You can go over there. Just say that I asked you to go over there. He will take you in to play."
Qin Rushuang and Xie Xun thanked the young man and went to the place he pointed out.
Sure enough, there was a small boat with a middle-aged man in black clothes beside it.
"Brother, your master allows us to come in and play. He also wants to trouble his eldest brother to row the boat for us and go to the center of the pool to have a look."
The middle-aged man didn't say much. He wore a bamboo hat, nodded, and motioned for the two of them to get on the boat.
The scenery of this lotus pond is very beautiful.
Xie Xun and Qin Rushuang sat on the boat and rowed slowly towards the middle of the pool.
As far as the eye can see, there are green lotus leaves and pink lotus flowers. There is also a unique fragrance of lotus leaves and lotus flowers floating in the air.
While enjoying the scenery, Qin Rushuang suddenly saw a few small fish passing by the boat. She became playful and pointed at the fish flashing in the water and said to Xie Xun, "Husband, I
I want to eat this lotus fish tonight!”
Xie Xun was helpless, "How can we fish if we don't bring any tools?"
"It's simple." Qin Rushuang said, taking out the dagger he was carrying with him from his arms, pulling a rope from the bow of the boat, tying it to the dagger, and handing it to Xie Xun.
"With your husband's internal strength, it won't be difficult to shoot a few fish up with your internal strength, right?"
It's really not difficult, but it's not simple either.
But Qin Rushuang had spoken, and Xie Xun had no right to refuse.
He took off his robe, took the dagger and rope and stood beside the boat, preparing to get some fish the next time they swam by.
Not many fish were encountered, and the boat had already reached the center of the pond.
The middle-aged man said to them, "You two distinguished guests, please just play in the lake for a while. I'm an outsider here, so you may feel uncomfortable. If you have enough fun, shout loudly to the shore and I will come in to pick you up."
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Qin Rushuang nodded in agreement, thinking that the servants in this house were quite sensible and knew not to hinder them.
After the middle-aged man left, the two of them played around in the boat for a while, and they actually let Xie Xun get a few fish on board.
The two of them had so much fun that their clothes got a lot wet. The wind started to blow and it was actually a bit cool.
Fortunately, Xie Xun's robe was taken off early in the morning and it didn't get wet.
But Qin Rushuang was not so lucky.
Her clothes were half wet, but she thought it was troublesome and didn't bring her outer robe when she came out, so Xie Xun said to Qin Rushuang, "My hands are wet, you can use my outer robe to put it on yourself, so you don't catch a cold."
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Qin Rushuang was having fun, but she was a little unhappy.
But Xie Xun insisted again and again, so she took the robe from the boat and put it on.
But when I went to get the robe, I felt that the robe under my hand was a little wet, and I thought to myself that it looked like I was not wearing the clothes, and it was getting wet anyway.
Qin Rushuang had just put on her robe and was about to discuss with Xie Xun whether she should leave when she suddenly heard Xie Xun's nervous voice.
"Rushuang, don't move!"
At this moment, Qin Rushuang suddenly felt a whisper coming from her ears.
And then, the exposed skin on the neck suddenly felt a chill to the bone.
She slowly tilted her head, and at some point, a colorful venomous snake climbed up on her neck!
Just when the two of them were extremely nervous and Xie Xun was about to use his internal strength to shake off the poisonous tongue, for some reason, a gust of wind suddenly blew.
The hull swayed slightly, and the poisonous snake on Qin Rushuang's shoulder was stimulated, and it suddenly arched up and assumed an attacking posture!
In a hurry, Xie Xun could no longer care about anything and put his hand between Qin Rushuang and the poisonous snake!
In an instant, the venomous snake's sharp teeth pierced Xie Xun's arm!
After Qin Rushuang reacted, she grabbed the dagger on the side and shot the snake through, nailing it to the boat.
But it's too late.
There were two teeth marks on Xie Xun's arm, and black poisonous blood flowed down Xie Xun's arm.
