Queen's New Clothes

Chapter 16 The Rare Girl

"Is it okay to go again in the afternoon?" Although riding in a carriage didn't take much energy, Su Xi got up at midnight this morning. She was dozing off badly and wanted to catch up on sleep.

Su Baiyu didn't speak, just looked at her quietly, that look, as if she had done something outrageous.

Su Xi was so looked at by him that he felt weak, and had no choice but to sit up from the soft couch bitterly, "Okay, okay, I'll just go with you." As she spoke, Tingyan asked Tingyan to take her cloak, the wind was strong on the mountain, Seeing that Su Baiyu was also wearing less clothes, she asked Ting Yan to prepare another thick dress, pinched Su Baiyu's little face in frustration, "Let's make an agreement first, we will only leave it for an hour, and if we leave it for a long time, we will get sick." Besides, she has just recovered from the cold, so it is not appropriate to blow too much cold wind.

Su Baiyu took a step back to avoid it, and said with a serious childish face, "I'm not an aunt, and I won't get sick every now and then."

Su Xi: "..."

After everything was packed, Su Xi led Su Baiyu to the back door of the other courtyard.Opposite the back door is an open space, and further away is a green and lush mountain peak. A pavilion is built on the mountainside, with angled corners and cornices, which is very unique.

Su Xi asked her second brother before going out, and Su Zhi happened to be free, so she came with them.

Su Baiyu had never flown a kite before, but he saw other children playing with it. Holding the cotton thread in his hand, he ran a few steps, and when he turned around, he saw the eagle kite gliding limply against the grass for some distance, and looked at Su in puzzlement. Xi, "Auntie, why doesn't it fly?" Other people's kites are flying in the sky.

Su Xi liked to fly kites very much when she was a child, but that was several years ago. She hasn't touched a kite since she was reborn and returned to ten years old.

"Look at me." She took the cotton thread from Su Baiyu, raised her head to observe the direction of the wind, followed the direction of the wind, raised the kite in her hand and ran for a few steps. After all, she was unfamiliar, and the kite only struggled twice in mid-air. It wobbled and fell to the ground.

Su Baiyu ran up from behind, looked at the kite on the ground, and then at Su Xi who was frustrated, but said nothing.After a while, the little guy picked up the kite on the ground and lifted it above his head, looking at Su Xi with dark eyes, "Auntie, do it again."

Su Xi nodded, and she was not the kind of person who retreated in the face of difficulties. She took two steps back and said to Su Baiyu: "Brother Bai, don't let go, let's run together, and let go when I tell you to let go."

I don't know if it was because of being with Su Baiyu, but Su Xi was brought out a little childish by him. The more the kite couldn't fly into the sky, the more she wanted to fly it.

Su Baiyu gave an obedient "hmm".

Two quarters of an hour later, Su Xi and Su Baiyu still failed to successfully put the kite into the sky.

Su Zhi stood under the tree, smiled lowly, his stern eyebrows looked much softer.He strode forward, took off the water bag on his waist, pulled out the cork and handed it to Su Xi, and asked, "Xiaoyou, do you really not need my help?"

Su Xi's face was flushed, maybe it was because she had run too hard just now, a thin layer of sweat appeared on her forehead and nose, and even her two little soft ears were flushed red.She took a sip of water from the water bag, pursed her pink lips lightly, and rolled her watery almond eyes, quite dissatisfied: "I will definitely be able to put it in today, second brother let me try again."

Saying that, he handed the water bag to Su Baiyu who was at the side, and bent down to wipe the sweat off his face, "Brother Bo, what do you think?"

Su Baiyu also said to try again.

So the two rested for a while, one in front and the other in the back, and continued to fly the kite persistently.

This time, the kite finally flew successfully.

Su Xi stepped back backwards, raised her pink face and looked up at the sky, her big beautiful eyes were bent into crescent moons, and she said pleasantly, "Second Brother, Brother Bai, look!"

Su Baiyu showed a little joy rarely, and raised his small arms, "Auntie, Auntie, give me..."

Su Xi handed the cotton thread to Su Baiyu.

With a smile on Su Zhi's lips, his eyes fell on the smiling Su Xi.Since he came back from the border this time, he felt that Su Xi was a little different from before. Although she was still a delicate and well-behaved girl who occasionally made a temper tantrum, she seemed to have grown up and became more sensible. She thought Su Baiyu was weird before. He seldom took the initiative to care about Su Baiyu, but this time he actually thought of taking him to another courtyard to fly a kite, and even taught him hand in hand.

Su Zhi was about to go forward, but Zhu Li, the manager, came out from the back door and came to him and whispered a few words.

Su Zhi narrowed his eyes after listening, and said: "You stay and look after Nine Girls and Bo Geer, I'll go over and have a look."

Guanshi Zhu said: "Don't worry, Second Lord, leave it to the young one."

After Su Zhi left, Su Xi and Su Baiyu in this room didn't notice, they just looked at the sky, and they didn't even know when Su Zhi left.

At this time, in the pavilion on the mountainside.

The two were playing chess, when the man holding black pieces in his hand and wearing a red-purple embroidered gold round-neck robe made a move, glanced at the flat ground below the mountain, smiled, dipped his fingers in water and wrote on the table: "You bet We won, and the kite flew up."

Wei Feng's eyes fell on the chessboard, not down the mountain, "It's just a random guess, it's not a bet."

The man shook his head, and wrote again: "I'm willing to bet and admit defeat." Immediately, he remembered something, dipped his index finger in the tea again, and said stroke by stroke: "It's rare to see such a persistent girl."

Wei Yan dropped a white piece in the center of the chessboard. Thinking of Su Xi's obsessive appearance just now, he paused slightly, and suddenly felt that Su Xi was somewhat similar to this chess piece under his hand. It was round and white. If he held it in his hand, It should also be very well controlled.When he thought of something, his lips curved slightly, "It's really rare."

The rare gluttonous and charming.

The man wanted to say something, but he coughed uncontrollably as soon as he opened his mouth.

The mountain is windy, it seems that this game of chess is endless.Wei Yan said to the guard at the side: "Yang Zhi, send your master back. There is a shortcut behind the pavilion, from there you can reach the other courtyard in a short time."

Yang Zhi helped up the man in purple, and said, "My lord, please go back."

The man barely stood up and said goodbye to Wei Feng.

After the man in purple left, Wei Yan looked at the mess in front of him for a while. Heizi was cornered by Baizi, and within a few steps, everything was wiped out.Standing in Heizi's position, Wei Wei thought for a moment, picked up a stick and was about to drop it, but saw a black shadow gradually falling towards the pavilion in the distance, and when he got closer, Wei Yan saw clearly that it was a paper-made sky. Eagle kite.

The kite broke its string and fell right at Wei Feng's feet.

In this room, Su Xi and Su Baiyu looked at each other, no one expected that the kite would suddenly break.

Su Baiyu held the only piece of cotton thread left, looked up at the pavilion on the mountainside, and then at Su Xi, "I didn't mean it." He admitted his mistake very quickly.

Of course Su Xi knew that he didn't do it on purpose, the most important thing now was how to get the kite back.The kite was made by the eldest brother for Su Baiyu, and it is very meaningful, otherwise Su Baiyu would not have kept it until now, if it was really lost, Su Baiyu would definitely be sad for a long time.She checked the height of the pavilion with her own eyes, and it wasn't too high, so she could go up, and if the kite didn't fall somewhere else, it was possible to get it back.

Su Xi turned her head to look for Su Zhi, and wanted to go up with Su Zhi, but she couldn't find Su Zhi after searching around. Only then did she know that her second brother had just returned in a hurry.

Guanshi Zhu said: "Girl, don't worry, I'll tell people to go up and look for the kite."

But Su Xi saw people walking around in the pavilion, if they went late, would they be picked up by the people in the pavilion?
Su Xi handed Su Baiyu to the steward, and said: "Guarantee, take Brother Bo back first, I'll go up with Ting Yan and look for it." Ting Yan knows martial arts, so protecting her is not a problem.

Butler Zhu hurriedly said no, "Let's go as a villain, if the girl is in any danger..."

Su Xi said: "Officer Zhu doesn't know what the kite looks like, and I'm afraid I won't be able to find it if I go there. Don't worry, it's such a short road, nothing will happen."

Steward Zhu's persuasion failed, and seeing Su Xi and Ting Yan leave, he sent people to inform the second master, took Su Baiyu back to another courtyard, and at the same time arranged for people to go to the back mountain to find Jiu girl, and he was so busy that he lost his head for a while. .

Thanks to Su Xi's regular exercise, whether it's running or kicking shuttlecock, she also started dancing with Mr. Dong recently, and her physical strength has more than doubled. When she reached the mountainside, she was only panting a little, but her face remained unchanged.

Su Xi looked at the pavilion ahead, and said in surprise, "Here we are."

After finishing speaking, without waiting to listen to the geese, he took the skirt and walked quickly to the pavilion.From a distance, I saw a person sitting in the pavilion, wearing a green lotus-colored robe embroidered with gold and dark patterns, with his back to her, and his face could not be seen. It should be a man, and he didn't look too old.Su Xi's footsteps paused, and she was not happy when she walked. No matter how she is now a half-grown girl, it is always not good to meet outside men.

But fortunately, at her age, even if she pretends to be immature, she won't look obtrusive.

So Su Xi stood outside the pavilion, deliberated for a while, and said softly, "Excuse me, did you see a kite landed here?"

The man didn't turn his head, and asked softly, "Is the kite yours?"

Su Xi said yes, feeling that the voice was somewhat familiar, as if she had heard it somewhere not long ago.But before she could think of anything, the man took out a broken eagle kite from the stone bench opposite and asked, "Is it this one?"

Su Xi's eyes lit up, and she said happily, "Exactly."

Sure enough, it fell here, Su Xi stepped up, walked up to the green lotus man, took the kite in his hand, and said sincerely: "Thank you..." Before she finished speaking, she saw the other person's face clearly, and her smile froze. Yi Ning, "Ting, cousin Tingzhou?"

Wei Yan's expression remained unchanged, and the brows slightly raised, "Sister Xi doesn't seem to want to see me much?"

"No, it's not." Just too surprised, Su Xi shook her head and said.

She lowered her eyes, thinking about saying goodbye and leaving, but saw that a bamboo strip was broken on the wing of the eagle kite, and a corner collapsed. It must have been broken when it fell just now.A kite can't fly because of a broken wing.

Seeing her drooping her head and not speaking, Wei Yan rarely took the initiative: "What's wrong?"

Su Xi blinked, without thinking too much, raised the half of the broken wing of the kite to Wei Feng's eyes, and said dejectedly, "It's broken."

(End of this chapter)