Jiaochu

Chapter 245
After school that day, Ye Lingxi and Yan Feisu talked for a while.While Zhao Ce watched coldly, the two of them headed out of the palace, and under his seemingly nymphomaniac gaze, Ye Lingxi headed toward Changle Palace.

Turning a corner, she frowned and strutted over with He He and the bell.

"Third brother, what are you doing?"

Ye Xingye was frightened and quickly explained: "I didn't do anything. It was Miss Hongxing's sprained foot."

"Princess, don't get me wrong. This slave accidentally sprained her foot. His Highness was kind enough to help this slave." Hong Xing's charming voice was as sweet as honey. She frowned and hissed softly as she spoke, as if she was in pain. She tried to take a step forward again, but before her feet hit the ground, she heard a sound like she was about to fall down. Ye Xingye quickly held her up, and Hongxing raised her beautiful eyes, smiled sweetly, and then lowered her head shyly. Eyes, "Thank you, Your Highness."

Ye Xingye's face turned red, so red that he was speechless.

"Hurry up and help sister Hongxing. If someone sees it, they will think that the third brother is teasing the little palace maid." Ye Lingxi deliberately prolonged the last few words, which scared Ye Xingye and turned even redder.Hehe and Lingdang hurried over to help the person. After Ye Xingye handed the person to the two of them to support, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved.

Hongxing bowed slightly and said, "Thank you princess."

"It's okay, it's just a piece of cake. My princess sees that you can't even walk with your feet." At this point, Ye Lingxi's eyes fell on the passing patrol guards, shouted for people to come over, and then asked one of the guards to carry him away.

"Third brother, why are you talking to her?" After the others walked away, Ye Lingxi became very serious for a second, "Just believe her when she says she has a sprained foot. Next time you are bothered by her, I will ignore you." Let her eat you till you have no bones left."

Hearing the last sentence, Ye Xingye felt a chill in his back. Seeing that the little princess seemed really angry, he quickly promised that he would stay far away next time.

"Lingxi, do you want to see the Great Emperor? Let's go together."

"Third brother, don't try to change the subject. I will tell the eldest brother later that the third brother is teasing the little palace maid."

"No, no, no, no, I promise to go as far as possible to see that Hongxing in the future."

"Really?"

"Really, I swear."

"Okay, then I won't tell big brother."

Two days later, Ye Lingxi deliberately got up early, rushed to the study room first before everyone else, and then waited at the entrance of the courtyard to wait for someone.

The misty morning mist still lingers in the Imperial Garden, and the fresh and moist air is filled with the fragrance of lotus. The lotus in the Taiye Pond is in full bloom, and the breeze blows, and you can smell the fragrance from a long distance away. Every day There were little palace maids who came to pick lotus flowers and bring them back to the palaces, and the imperial kitchen also prepared various lotus delicacies in various ways.

But what Ye Lingxi craves the most is the lotus cake. Just the appearance alone can make people want to eat more. However, when she was waiting at the door today, she did not ask Yan Fei to bring lotus cake again, but had "another purpose"~
Today, Yan Fei and Su Shi came over together.

This was just right, she didn't have to wait twice.

As soon as the two of them walked to the door, Ye Lingxi appeared and invited them to talk behind the sycamore tree in the yard.After arriving behind the tree, she took out two small blessing packets and handed them to them. She cleared her throat with a cough and made fists with both hands to wish them happy birthday.Yan Fei and Su Shi were born on the same birthday, and the former was exactly one year younger than the latter. "I wish Brother Su and Brother Yan to be as blessed as the East China Sea, live as long as the Nanshan Mountains, and have good health and a long life."

Faced with this sudden birthday celebration, both of them were a little... confused.After coming back to his senses, Su Shi cupped his hands and thanked him. Yanfei weighed the festive little lucky bag in his hand and joked, "I thought the princess wanted to give you lucky money. Could it be the princess's private money?" Ye Lingxi said. , "Brother Yan, you will know after you open it when you get back." He asked the two of them to put it away quickly so that no one could see it, otherwise they would think that she was "bribing" them.Yan Fei took the little blessing bag into his arms, and Su Shi tucked it into his sleeves.

As soon as the three of them stepped out from behind the tree, Zhou Jing and Zhao Ce arrived.Seeing that the three of them seemed to have just whispered something, Zhao Ce quickened his pace and walked over, staring at Su Shi with an unkind look, then pierced Yan Fei next to him with his eyes, and glanced at Ye Lingxi with a sour and resentful look. He walked away angrily.

During lunch, Zhao Ce kept his eyes on the three of them.Ye Lingxi didn't have to turn her head to feel the gaze stuck behind her, unable to shake it off, which made her feel a little nervous even when she was eating. She sighed silently in her heart and had a little headache...

After school, Zhao Ce's eyes were still following them like a shadow. When he saw the three of them standing together and talking again, he immediately walked over. When he walked up to them, he showed a nonchalant look and stood there looking at the sky nonchalantly.

"Brother Prince, are you waiting for Brother Su and Brother Yan?" Ye Lingxi asked.

Zhao Ce said stiffly: "Who is waiting for them? Can't I just stand here for a while?"

"Ah Shi, let's go."

Hearing the word "Go", Zhao Ce immediately turned away and took a look. Seeing that the two of them were really gone, he was happy for a second when he heard the word "Go back". Ye Lingxi said that she was going back first, Zhao Ce called out anxiously. , hurriedly walked over while taking something out of his arms, stretched out his hand and stuffed a crystal clear and colorful bead into Ye Lingxi's hand, and hurried away again, for fear of being returned.

Ye Lingxi looked at the bead in his hand, then held it up to admire the light of the setting sun for a few seconds. The beads shone with mysterious light, as bright as the starry sky.

It is a priceless glass bead.

"Princess, why does the Crown Prince like to give you beads so much? Last time it was a luminous pearl, but this time it is..." Lingdang looked at the beads and didn't quite recognize what they were.Ye Lingxi said that these were glass beads, which were passed down from Persia.

Because it is an imported product, a glass bead costs at least a hundred taels of silver, and the best ones can be sold for a thousand taels or even tens of thousands of taels. Ordinary people have never seen such luxury goods.

Speaking of Persia, Ye Lingxi thought of the Hu merchant and wondered if it was the other party who sold the beads to Zhao Ce. The ring last time cost 10 taels...

He must have been tricked.

……

Here, Yan Fei and Su Shi met someone after leaving the palace.

The other party was tall and thin, with a black cloth covering his eyes. He parked the carriage under an inconspicuous willow tree on the side of the road. Opposite was a small tea stall. The boss was closing the stall and quickly loading the pots and pans onto the donkey cart. Get ready to go home.

Yanfei called Uncle Meng, who nodded and raised the curtain of the car without saying much.Yan Fei asked Su Shi to get on the carriage together, and then the carriage stopped at a crossroads for a while. After Su Shi got off, the carriage headed out of the city.

(End of this chapter)