The capital city during the Lantern Festival is the busiest place tonight.
Male and female, old and young, shuttled through the brightly lit streets and alleys, with laughter, cries of hawking, and fireworks that burst into the sky from time to time, turning the capital into a city that never sleeps.
However, even at the feet of the emperor in the heavily guarded capital, there would be dissolute children who would cause trouble.
"I beg your pardon, gentlemen, I really can't sing." The flower girl hugged the flower basket tightly in her arms and stepped back in panic, but there was a dead end behind her. Where to retreat?
"I don't have to choose, just sing a few lines." The man in purple robe took off the jade pendant from his waist and shook it in his hand: "You broke my jade pendant, my son. I didn’t ask you to pay any money, I just asked you to sing a few lines, what else are you dissatisfied with?”
The flower girl quickly shook her head: "I didn't..."
These princes, nobles, and ordinary people didn't even have the courage to approach them, how could they dare to break his jade pendant?
Before she could finish her words, she saw the jade pendant in the hand of the purple-robed man fall and hit the hard stone, shattering into pieces.
“Look, didn’t you smash this into pieces?” The purple-robed man shook his head and sighed: “This is a good piece of jade worth five hundred taels, and you ruined it like this.”
< br> He crossed his arms and looked at the shivering flower girl, as if teasing the cats and dogs on the roadside, laughing happily.
The young men who were traveling with him all made fun of each other, and even the big black dogs they were leading started barking at the flower girl.
The flower girl looked at them desperately, tears of fear filling her eyes. The fireworks shone in the distance, reflecting the faces of these young men. The ferocious smiles on their faces were clearly extinguished in the light of the fireworks. She could not see their faces clearly, and she only felt that they were no different from the black dogs they were holding in their hands.
"Sing quickly, if you don't want to sing, you can pay us five hundred taels of silver."
"If you can't afford the compensation, then I will take you to see the official..."
“Hey, with her small body, how many yamen boards can she withstand?”
The sound of fireworks, the laughter coming from another street, and the unscrupulous teasing laughter of these young men were mixed together, as if turning into a biting cold wind, tightly blocking the flower girl's mouth and nose, Let her cool from head to sole.
Who can help her?
Who can save her?
“I said it’s a good Lantern Festival, why are there pigs and dogs barking, it turns out it’s you beasts.”
The flower girl stared blankly at the white horse riding on the horse. The woman in red who came from the moon could not recover for a long time.
The man in purple had just turned his head, and before he could see clearly who was coming, he felt a pain in his waist and flew out. His forehead happened to hit the broken jade pendant, and blood immediately flowed out.
"Brother Wang!" A young man who was traveling with him wanted to help him, but before he could take two steps, he was kicked to the ground by the woman in red who dismounted, lying on the ground like a turtle.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the third young man turned around and planned to run out of the alley to find help. Unexpectedly, the woman in red moved faster than him and stepped in front of him.
"Do you, do you know who we are?" The young master took two steps back, looked at the woman wearing a gauze face with a serious look, and said sternly: "If you mess with us, you will not get the consequences."
The woman in red sneered, as if she had heard a big joke.
Seeing this woman laughing at him, the young master couldn't help but clenched his fists and rushed forward.
But before his fist touched the corner of the woman's clothes, he was slapped hard in the face. The moment he flew out, he seemed to see his great-grandfather, who had been dead for several years, smiling kindly at him.
"Woof woof woof!" When the big black dog saw his master being beaten, he bared his teeth and pounced on the woman in red, intending to avenge his master.
Crack!
The black dog was also slapped away by the woman, and its black body hit its owner, making a whimpering cry. It looked up and saw the woman in red walking towards it. It was so frightened that it clamped its tail and dug its two front paws into the soil desperately, wishing it could dig a hole to hide itself.
"A dog is like its master." The woman in red glanced at the black dog digging hard in the soil, then turned to look at the only man in blue who was still standing.
Seeing the three grown men being knocked down easily by the veiled woman, the young man in blue was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he did not dare to resist at all. He just hoped that the young man at home could come to save them at this moment. One life.
He stammered: "I, I just happened to be walking with them, I didn't do anything to molest the women."
"Knowing that your friends are doing evil things but not stopping them is bad. "The woman in red slapped the young man in blue in the face with her backhand. On the way up, she saw him covering his face angrily, raising his eyebrows and asked, "Don't accept it?"
The young master in blue covered his face and dared not speak out in anger. Thinking of the miserable situation of the other three people, he comforted himself, she Not slapping him away showed that she still had some tolerance for herself.
"Hold it in if you don't accept it." The woman in red didn't bother to talk to him. She walked straight to the flower girl and held her cold hand: "You don't have to be afraid. The broken jade has nothing to do with you. I'll take you home."< br>
“Girl.” The tears she had held back finally burst out at this moment, and the flower girl felt that she She had never held such a warm hand before. She turned her head and looked at the young masters lying on the ground. Even though her cheeks were trembling with fear, she still said: "Girl, go away quickly, don't get involved with me."
"What are you afraid of?" The woman in red chuckled, took off her cloak and put it on the flower girl. Above: "How can such a wicked dandy know how to be a human being unless he gets beaten a few times?"
The man in purple who was lying on the ground groaning heard this and covered his forehead with his hands. He opened his wound and shouted at the woman in red: "My grandfather is a loyal and loyal man. You have offended me today. I It will make life difficult for your whole family.”
The woman in red didn’t pay attention to his shouting, and slowly tied up the flower girl’s cloak, then turned around and walked to the man in purple, stepped on his back and crushed him. Grind, ignore his wailing and calling, and ask: "It's just you?"
"Your brother was elected in high school, and your sister is famous far and wide, but you are using your skills to ruin the reputation of the Chengzhong Palace outside." The woman in red removed her foot from the man in purple: "Your face is full of tolerance. Horse racing, or being able to resist foreign enemies, will it make life difficult for my whole family?”
When the struggling man in purple heard this, he instantly stiffened and looked carefully at the woman's eyes exposed outside the veil: "Who are you?"
It is impossible for ordinary people to know the affairs of his family, but looking at it, How many noble women in the entire capital dare to attack the four of them easily?
The only young man in blue who was still standing saw that the normally arrogant Wang Yanhe suddenly slumped down, and felt bad. He covered his red and swollen face and stepped back several steps again.
The woman in red noticed his move and glanced at him, scaring him so much that he didn't dare to move again.
Bang!
A huge fireworks bloomed, and the direction of the fireworks looked like a palace.
"It's so beautiful." The woman in red looked up at the direction of the palace: "The fireworks in the capital are the most beautiful."
The night wind lifted her veil, and the man in purple lying on the ground was stunned. He stared at her for a while, and said tremblingly after a while: "Listen, I heard that Marquis Wen Yong and the Crown Prince returned to Beijing today?" The woman in red lowered her head and glanced at him.
"You, you are..." The man in purple's face was pale, and his voice trembled like a fallen leaf in the wind: "Yun... Fuyi?" , as if he instantly turned into a duck being strangled by the neck, and his voice suddenly stopped.
The alley at this moment is eerily quiet.
"Yes, it's me." Yun Fuyi took off her veil, bowed her head and smiled kindly at the prodigal disciples: "We haven't seen each other for three years, you seem to be quite domineering?"
The three young masters shook their heads desperately.
The young man in blue standing nearby was confused and looked at the three of them in confusion. What on earth were they afraid of?
"Teasing a common girl?"
The man in purple shook his head desperately: "I was wrong, I was wrong, I just wanted to tease her, I didn't dare to do anything else."
Yun Fuyi turned to look at the other two people: "Aiding Zhou to do evil?"
The other two people shook their heads: "It has nothing to do with us, this is Wang Yanhe's idea alone!"
"In the important place of the capital, at the feet of the emperor, you are so courageous." The smile on Yun Fuyi's face disappeared: "If there is another time, I will break your legs."
The three of them came together one after another. Nodding: "I don't dare anymore, I don't dare anymore."
"Bring it here." Yun Fuyi reached out to the man in purple.
The man in purple clothes took off the purse from his waist without thinking, and put the purse in Yun Fuyi's palm with both hands: "This is compensation for that girl."
The other two young masters saw Like this, he quickly took off the purse from his waist and handed it over. One of them saw that the young man in blue was still standing there and didn't move, so he winked at him quickly.
What are you doing standing there stupidly? Why don't you quickly take off your purse, or risk your life? !
Although the young man in blue didn't understand why they were so skillful in their movements, he still took off his purse in a daze, carefully moved it to Yun Fuyi, and handed her a purse full of silver.
Yun Fuyi raised his eyebrows and turned to look at the bewildered flower girl in the corner.
The man in purple came to his senses, licked his face and crawled up to the flower girl, wiped the blood from his forehead with his sleeves, and bowed to her to apologize, completely different from the arrogant and domineering look he had just now.
The flower girl did not dare to accept his courtesy and hid behind Yun Fuyi with a pale face.
"If anything happens to this girl and her family in the future, I will take the blame on you." Yun Fuyi stuffed all her purse into the flower girl's hands, but the flower girl refused and did not dare to accept it.
“Here, although they are dirty and smelly and are not good things, their money is good things.” Yun Fuyi forced the purse to the flower girl, took her hand and rode on the horse. , said with a smile: "Let's go, I will take you home."
The flower girl pulled on her warm cloak, sat high on the horse and looked down at the young men who had just teased her. They all had their heads lowered, and the black dog lay with its ears drooped and its tail between its legs. It was motionless on the ground, like a stone pile on the roadside.
It turns out that they can be so short.
“Let’s go, I’ll accompany you home.”
Listening to the girl's smiling voice, the flower girl's cheeks turned red.
It turns out that someone in the world really came down like a god to save her from the fire and water.
“Is she gone?”
It wasn’t until the sound of horse hooves disappeared at the end of the alley that the man in purple leaned against the wall and fell limply to the ground again.
"Let's go, let's go." The other two people crowded around him and sat down.
"Why are you so afraid of her?" The young master in blue covered his red and swollen face and squatted in front of the three of them: "What is her identity?"
"You have only been in the capital for two years, and you don't know much about her. She is Yun Fuyi.”
“It’s Yun Fuyi who can kill someone in one step.”
“Ah?” The young master in blue was even more confused.
Although he has little reading, doesn’t that poem read: “Kill one person in ten steps, leave no trace in a thousand miles. When the matter is over, you will take off your clothes and hide your body and name deeply”?
Forget it, these three people are less learned and skillless than him, so it is understandable that they misread their words.
(End of this chapter)
The author said: I watched the sky last night and it is appropriate to write the article today, so I will write it temporarily!
This article is written by Su Xiang, the heroine, in a relaxed style. I wish everyone a happy reading~
Note: [Kill a person in ten steps, and leave no trace in a thousand miles. When things are done, I brush off my clothes and hide myself deeply. The name is taken from Li Bai's "Xia Ke Xing".