The arrow was on the string, but it was held back halfway. The expression on Zhou Zhan's face was quite wonderful.
Shen Moran smiled very happily, drawing circles on his chest with her fingers, not to make it too obvious that she was watching the excitement.
"Your Highness, don't you go out and take a look?"
Zhou Zhan endured it for a while, sat up and put on his shoes. Shen Moran gathered up the clothes that were a little messy due to his stripping, straightened his hair, and followed him.
"Cousin, look!"
Chang Jinchan shoveled a piece of exposed soil in the snow, sprinkled millet on the ground, and propped up the basket with a stick. Once the bird got in, he used a rope to pull open the stick, and the bird was covered under the basket.
"Hurry and help me catch the bird!"
Shen Moran poked half of his head out from behind Zhou Zhan, which looked interesting.
"Teach me how to play this!" No one had really played with her when she was a child, so she ran over with great interest, guarded the basket under her hand and asked, "Are there really birds in it? "
The person she wanted to attract attention didn't come, but someone she didn't want to see came. Chang Jinchan raised her head and pursed her lips at Zhou Zhan. Zhou Zhan covered his mouth and coughed in time, and diverted his attention.
Shen Moran opened the basket out of curiosity, and a gray sparrow flew out from underneath.
"My bird!" Chang Jinchan said angrily, "I finally caught it, you pay for it!"
The grain in the basket has been eaten by sparrows.
Shen Moran's eyes widened and he looked at her innocently.
"I'll catch another one with you."
The snow was still falling, Zhou Zhan rubbed his hands and ordered his servants to get cloaks for the two of them. In the cold weather, the two women squatted outside and waited for the bird to be caught. One of them would look down on the other from time to time.
Zhou Zhan came out to watch a few times, then sighed and went back to the room. Apart from the children, they were the only two who were interested in this little game of catching birds.
The sparrow had been fooled once, how could it be easily fooled a second time? After waiting for a long time, the millet was still lying on the ground, and the basket was covered with snow.
Chang Jinchan stood up straight irritably, stamped her cold feet, and said to herself: "I'm really crazy to stay here with you in the cold!"
Shen Moran held her back.
"I'll give you whatever birds you want. If you don't mind the trouble, let's go to the bird market now and I'll give you all the birds you like."
Chang Jinchan said dubiously: "This is what you said, don't go back on it..."
Shen Moran smiled and said, "Even if you buy all the birds in the bird market, I won't regret it."
"Bitao, let Uncle Fu prepare the car!"
As the sky turned dark, the two of them came back from the bird market, dusty and tired.
"Look, cousin, I bought a talking myna! Come on, call me cousin!"
The black starling spoke incomprehensible bird language to the air, and Chang Jinchan teased it with its small feathers.
"Aren't you very good at talking outside? Please call me cousin!"
After the Starling said something shamelessly, he suddenly said:
"Long live King Rong, long live King Rong!"
Chang Jinchan knocked on Bage's head, hating that iron could not make steel, "I asked you to call me cousin, what are you talking about? I spent 800 taels of silver to buy you, how are you worth 800 taels of silver?"
Shen Moran and Zhou Zhan both changed their expressions. Myna flapped his wings noisily in the bird cage and shouted desperately in the direction of Zhou Zhan: "Long live King Rong, long live King Rong!"
Zhou Zhan took the birdcage and threw it on the ground. The birdcage rolled several times on the ground, but the myna inside still didn't stop.
This movement frightened Chang Jinchan to the point where her face turned pale.
"Cousin, what are you doing?"
Zhou Zhan grabbed her arm and stopped her from picking it up.
Shen Moran looked at him, took out some white powder from the jewelry box on the dressing table, mixed it with bird food and fed it to the myna. After taking the medicine, the myna finally stopped moving and lay down in the cage to sleep obediently.
"It's a very important matter, I'm going to find Si Yiluo now."
Chang Jinchan also realized the seriousness of the problem and remembered who King Rong was.
"Cousin, cousin, did I get into trouble?"
Zhou Zhan asked seriously: "Why did you buy this myna?"
Chang Jinchan tried hard to recall the details.
"There are many birds in the bird market. This bird was pitch black, and I didn't like it at first. But it could talk, so I walked over to it. Then I heard it calling "Master," so I teased it and let it call "Biao." Brother, it shouted."
"At first, the boss was not willing to sell to us. I struggled with the shopkeeper for a long time. My cousin couldn't wait for me, so she came out to look for me. When she saw my cousin, the shopkeeper was willing to sell to us. I heard that he wanted eight hundred taels in return. I couldn't bargain, I thought it was too expensive, but my cousin said..."
She also felt that she had gone too far. Even in her own home, her father doted on her, but he would never let her spend so much money on toys. The money spent made her feel heartbroken.
"My cousin said that she let go of my sparrow in exchange for a myna, so that I can have something to relieve my boredom... Cousin, is there someone trying to frame you for this matter?"
I was reluctant to sell it at first, but I was willing to sell it when I saw Shen Moran. I'm afraid the other party was interested in Princess Zhan's identity!
With this method of trapping people, there must be triggering factors for the myna to suddenly lose control.
Zhou Zhan searched around the room and looked down at the python pattern on his body.
Si Yiluo finished his work at the yamen and returned home early. Tomorrow he would worship his ancestors in the palace. Wei Heyan couldn't come back tonight, so she didn't have to sneak to the admiral's house. Aunt Chen was happy and cooked a big pot of lamb in the afternoon. Bone soup, everyone sat at the table and cooked pot in the evening.
"Sir, eat more food."
Yu Mo took the seat on her left, and Yan Li took the seat on her right. Sitting below them were Wei Chen, Gong Xiyun, who was immersed in cooking, and Yue Beishu, whose eyes were a little evasive.
Chen Zhuo did not fight with them and sat down opposite Si Yiluo. On his left sat his own mother, Aunt Chen, and on her right was Xiang Yun.
"Prince Xiang will be back tomorrow, and we will have a good time together then. It's been a long time since we've seen each other!"
Chen Zhuo spoke like a master and was slapped by his own mother.
"What status do you have that allows you to be on an equal footing with Prince Xiang?"
Chen Zhuo said aggrievedly: "Mom, if I marry Sister Aluo, Prince Xiang and I will be equals. Is there anything we can't say?"
His unbridled words attracted the jealous looks of Yu Mo and Yan Li. Gong Xiyun lightly sneered and focused on eating the meat in front of him, without even giving him a look.
Wei Chen's harmless eyes also looked at him several times. It was almost the New Year. After the New Year, he would be one year older. He seemed to be older than when he first arrived...a little?
Most of the hidden clues in Yue Beishu's hands were caught. He was not sure whether he had anything to do with the woman in front of him, or whether she knew his identity. If she knew, why would she keep him?
And Gong Xiyun... What is his identity? The person behind him was arrested before he could find out, which made him even more suspicious.
No matter how good the food in front of him tasted, he lost his appetite.
Without those hidden clues, even if he leaves the Si Mansion, to Xiao Yuanjin, without the chips in his hand, he is equivalent to a useless person, and no one will care about his life or death...
Everyone has something on their mind.
"You brat! Are you capable of making jokes about your sister Aluo?"
Aunt Chen grabbed the bowl in front of Chen Zhuo and pretended to beat him. My mother beat her son. No matter how skilled he was in martial arts, he didn't dare to resist and just hid on Xiang Yun.
Xiang Yun's cold and arrogant lips curled up slightly and held him down.
"Brother Xiang Yun, who are you with? Let me go!"
Xiang Yun snorted, his tone neither salty nor light.
"If you want to marry an adult and be my master, you have to defeat me first."
Aunt Chen's slap fell on his butt, and Chen Zhuo's head was covered by Xiang Yun's stomach. Only his whining sound came out.
"Don't spank me, save some face for me!"
Si Yiluo liked to watch them fight. When he looked past Chen Zhuo and saw the people in the courtyard, the smile on his lips froze and he stood up to greet them.