Queen's New Clothes

Chapter 28

On the first day, Mr. Gu only asked Su Xi to play the simplest "Xian Weng Cao" repeatedly.

"Xian Weng Cao" is a finger-opening ditty, which is used to practice basic fingering. Su Xi played this piece when she first learned the piano. Now Mr. Gu still asks her to play this piece, she is somewhat puzzled.Su Xi played all morning, during which Mr. Gu Tong went to the hall to meet a guest, and he went there for about half an hour.

I didn't expect that Mr. Gu's eccentric temperament would have friends. Su Xi was slandered in her heart. She had learned about Mr. Gu's eccentricities in the past few days, so she thought that those who can become friends with Mr. Gu must not be ordinary people. .Though thinking so, the finger movement did not stop.

Back home in the evening, I happened to meet Su Lingrong and Su Lingyun who came back from the ethnology.

Seeing Su Xi, Su Lingyun was overjoyed, and came up to talk eagerly: "Sister Xi, you went to learn piano from Mr. Gu today? How is Mr. Gu doing?"

When Mr. Gu didn't accept Su Xi, Su Lingyun was secretly happy, but who knew that only two days later, Mr. Gu changed his mind and not only accepted Su Xi as a disciple, but also as a closed disciple.Although Su Lingyun felt that Su Xi's fate was good, she would not show it on her face. After all, she still had to rely on the big house in the future, so Su Xi naturally couldn't offend her.

Su Xi thought for a while, and said, "I don't know." She really didn't know, Mr. Ge Yingu didn't teach her anything at all today, he only asked her to play "Xian Weng Cao" over and over again, and she didn't know Mr. Gu How are you teaching.

Su Lingyun was stunned for a moment, then looked at Su Xi's side face and deliberately joked: "Sister Xi doesn't want to tell us, does she? What's the matter, can we still secretly learn your piano skills..."

"Sixth sister thinks too much, Mr. Gu really didn't teach me anything today." Soon after arriving at Hualu Tianxiang, Su Xi said goodbye to the two and entered the yard.

Su Lingyun smacked her lips, obviously not believing Su Xi's words, she just felt that she was deliberately not telling her the truth.

Su Lingrong didn't move, she just stared at Su Xi's back.

The winter has passed quickly. After the previous cold spring, today it is getting warmer, the sun is shining, and there are no clouds in the sky.Su Xi was wearing a pink-blue skirt, with a slender figure and a slim back, even her walking posture was indescribably beautiful.Su Xi has changed a lot in the past two years, not only her appearance has changed, but also her dignified manner is not the same as it was two years ago. Perhaps it is because of both internal and external cultivation. She has the softness that dancers should have, and also has chastity and tranquility. Xian is dignified, standing with them, even if she doesn't say anything, she can still compare them by a large margin.

After Su Lingrong realized this, her complexion became more and more ugly.

When Su Xi walked down the corridor, he happened to hear Yan walking into the house carrying a pastel painted narcissus plate filled with cherries.She called Ting Yan to stop, took a cherry and dipped it in sweet-scented osmanthus honey sauce, put it in her mouth, and said with a smile: "Cherries are the best at this time."

Su Lingrong looked at Su Xi's charming and naive smile from a distance, and seemed to be suffocated in her heart, very unwilling, why could Su Xi get better and better?Why are the benefits all hers?
Su Lingrong gritted her teeth and walked towards her yard.As soon as I arrived at the gate of the courtyard, I saw Su Chen coming from the side, thinking of the dirty things he did a while ago, I felt depressed again for no reason. Su Xi's two older brothers, Su Li and Su Zhi, are so outstanding, but her The fourth brother is ignorant, and he plays with the maidservants with the second son of the Qing Anhou Mansion...

Su Lingrong suddenly stopped, as if thinking of something, she looked towards Su Rong.

Su Yu came over and asked cheekily: "Sister Rong, do you have any cash on you?" All the money on him was looted by that shrew Dou Jin'er.

Su Lingrong knew what he wanted the money for, it was just going out to drink flowers and wine, she would not have given it in the past, but today she generously handed the purse to Su Zhen. "Who does fourth brother want to go out to meet?"

Su Ling weighed the purse, it was not light, grinned, and happily replied: "Second Young Master of Qing'an Hou Mansion, you met last time." He patted Su Lingrong's head, and said quite gratifiedly: " It's better for our sister Rong, unlike your fourth sister-in-law, who only knows how to scold me all day long."

Su Lingrong ignored his nonsense, and pulled him aside by his sleeve.

Su Ling asked in puzzlement, "Sister Rong?"

Walking to the bottom of a wall, Su Lingrong looked around and said in a low voice: "Fourth brother, you can do something for me..."

One day when Su Xi came back from Qingshui Mountain after learning the piano, when she passed by West Street, she remembered that Su Baiyu said yesterday that she wanted to eat the lotus root starch osmanthus cake from Yuhelou, so she asked the driver to stop at the entrance of Yuhelou, and got off to buy some snacks. Then go back.

As soon as she walked out of the gate of Yuhe Building, she saw a maid in a pea green chest-length skirt walking by.The maid looked very familiar, like the colored fan of the second-class maid next to Su Lingrong, Su Xi saw that maid was in a hurry, as if there was something urgent.But Su Xi didn't intend to meddle in her own business, and was about to get into the carriage to go home, but the maid saw her, turned back, and finally found a savior and said: "Miss Ninth, please save Miss Si..."

Su Xi took half a step back and frowned subconsciously. "What's going on?" Su Lingrong was fine before she went out, why did she need help half a day ago, and she was still on the street?Su Xi never heard that Su Lingrong would go out today.

The color fan explained all the ins and outs, and said: "Miss Si wants to eat snacks from the Emerald Building after class today, so she brought her servants along with her. But who would have thought that Miss Si would have a stomachache after eating a piece of dim sum?" , but after a while, the pain was so painful that I was unconscious... The servant was worried about what happened to the fourth girl, so she had to go to the nearby medical center to ask for a doctor, but the fourth girl was left alone in the Emerald Building, and the servant was really worried. Ninth Miss, please go and see Fourth Miss..."

After listening to Caifan's words, Su Xi fell silent and did not express her position.

The color fan was a little anxious, as if she was about to cry, "Ninth Miss, if something happens to Fourth Miss..."

Only then did Su Xi move her eyeballs, and looked at the colorful fan, "You said Fourth Sister ate snacks in the Jade Building, what kind of snacks did she eat?"

The color fan paused and said, "Yam cake with jujube paste."

Su Xi didn't change her face, and after a while she said, "I see, let's go about your business."

"Ninth girl, fourth girl is in the private room upstairs..." Cai Shan told Su Xi the name of the private room, as if she was afraid that Su Xi would not go, so she hesitated for a long time, and then left without turning her head.

Su Xi stood where she was, not believing the colorful fan's rhetoric in her heart.She remembered that Su Lingrong didn't like jujube paste. In her previous life, Su Xi once handed Su Lingrong a piece of yam cake with jujube paste, and Su Lingrong threw it into the pool in a blink of an eye.Although this has never happened in this life, people's preferences will not be easily changed. Since Su Lingrong doesn't eat jujube yam cake, why did she lie to her?
Su Xi wanted to know what Su Lingrong's plan was to deliberately lure her to the Emerald Building, and why?
Ting Yan asked: "Girl, do you want to go there?"

Su Xi thought for a while and said, "Go and have a look."

The Emerald Building is not far from the Yuhe Building, just turn one street away.It was time for dinner, and there were many people in the lobby on the first floor. Su Xi put on a veiled hat, and led Ting Yan and Ting He upstairs.The color fan said that Su Lingrong was in the innermost Luxue Pavilion, she walked a few steps, stopped in front of the mullioned door with the words "Luxue Pavilion" on the door plate, raised her hand and knocked on the door.

"Fourth sister."

There was no response at the door.

Su Xi looked at Ting Yan beside her, and Ting Yan immediately understood, and took a step forward to slightly block her.

Su Xi knocked on the door twice again, but this time there was still no answer.She withdrew her hand, although she didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Su Lingrong's gourd, but she had already been here, and it was considered as benevolent, even if Su Lingrong really had something to do, she would have a clear conscience.She said to Ting Yan: "Go back."

Hearing Yan Yan say yes, she led Su Xi out.

At this moment, the Zhiling door was suddenly opened from the inside, and a force came out, without warning, grabbed Su Xi's waist, and dragged her into the room.Before Su Xi could recover, the door was already slammed shut with a hand.Ting Yan and Ting He exclaimed "Girl" outside the door, and Ting Yan tried to break in, but for some reason there was no movement after a while.

Su Xi was taken all the way behind the four screens painted with magpies and climbing branches. Just as she was about to open her mouth to call for help, the person behind her covered her mouth, and then a low, somewhat familiar voice slowly said, "It's me."

Su Xi opened her eyes wide, turned her head quickly, and really saw Wei Yan's face.

Annoyed, she blurted out, "You..." Why is Wei Feng here?Didn't he know that if people saw him doing this, it would damage both of their reputations?
Wei Yan didn't seem to see her anger, pinched her chin, told her to look at the door, and said, "Shut up."

Su Xi had no choice but to look towards the door, not understanding what Wei Feng meant by this move.However, not long after, the mullion door was pushed open from the outside, and then a man in a pink straight gown with a lotus pattern came in.

He is the second son of Qing'an Houfu.

(End of this chapter)