Chapter 160 Digging one’s own grave
Just for her several times, Master Qi praised her for being a good martial artist and having such talent.
Then he is twice as fast as her, wouldn't his martial arts talent be incredible?
"Well, I've finished reading. Please lend me a few more books later." Chu Jingqi was not polite to her at all, and then asked gently, "Do you know about the banquet held by the Chu family?"
"I just received the invitation." Seeing that there was less tea in his cup, Xia Zihan poured it for him personally, "Why, your second aunt and your grandmother are causing trouble again?"
"They are digging their own graves." Chu Jingqi said disapprovingly.
Xia Zihan glared at him angrily, "It's important to be on guard against others. It's better to be careful."
Digging your own grave?
No.
In the previous life, their conspiracy succeeded. Three members of your family died miserably. You even died without a burial place and no bones left.
In this life, although Chu Jingqi's family escaped that assassination with the help of the Chu family, there is no guarantee that another assassination will come one day. Will they still be able to escape by then?
Mr. Chu's family are all cunning, cunning and ruthless people. As long as they are given a little chance to exploit, they may turn defeat into victory.
Facing such an opponent, Chu Jingqi didn't take it seriously, which really pissed her off.
"If you take it lightly again, let's see who can save you next time." She wanted to shake Chu Jingqi's head to keep him alert.
"I know, I will be vigilant." Chu Jingqi smiled and responded to her gently, but kept pinching the walnuts in his hands. When the rock-hard walnuts came into his hands, it was as simple as peeling a peanut. He pinched it gently. , the walnut shell becomes two halves, with the complete walnut meat exposed inside.
After peeling out a small plate of walnut meat, he brought it to her, and she grabbed it and ate it without any ceremony.
She likes to eat walnuts, but she is too lazy to peel them, so she asks the maids to peel them. The maids are not that strong and cannot crush them, so they can only use hammers to crack them, but every time they break the meat inside, leaving a pile of chopped walnut meat. I have no appetite anymore.
Chu Jingqi knew about it, so he took the initiative to take on this task. Every time he came, he would help her peel the walnut meat. The more times he did it, the more he became familiar with it. The walnut meat was a little bit broken at the beginning, but now it is not broken into pieces. .
And her maids also knew that every time Chu Jingqi came, they would prepare a fruit plate full of walnuts and let him do free labor.
"You are also a prince now. Don't always be cold-faced and scare others away from talking to you. Have one more friend, one more path, and make more friends. It will always be useful to them."
Xia Zihan chewed the food slowly and taught him in a soft voice, just like teaching his own son.
Chu Jingqi listened, pinched walnuts, and sometimes said a few words of hum.
"Your eldest cousin will be twelve years old this year. After this year, she can find her husband's family. Although you have separated your family, her identity as your grandfather's eldest granddaughter will not change. In addition, she is from Ruyi County. As the eldest daughter of the lord and the niece of Prince Yu's palace, the status of the in-laws she is looking for in the future will definitely not be lowered. But if your second uncle comes to find a good marriage partner, I'm afraid he will have to stop."
"Aqi, you have to pay more attention to this matter, and you must not let them succeed."
He actually instigated Chu Jingqi to disrupt his eldest cousin's marriage.
Xia Zihan had no sympathy for Mr. Chu's family at all. For that kind of person, as long as he was given a few colors, he would dare to dye his house.
They are like brown sugar, they cannot be driven away, beaten to death, or thrown away, so they have to be suppressed severely until they can never stand up before they can stop.
Chu Jingqi hummed, indicating that she understood.
Putting a handful of walnut meat in his hand into her plate, he told her carefully, "I'll peel some more and save some for you to eat tomorrow. I have to help my father prepare for the banquet these two days, so I will definitely be very busy." , I won’t come to see you. If anything happens to you, just ask the maid to go find Ma Bao, and I will come.”
"What can I do? Besides, my grandmother is here." Xia Zihan did not listen to him.
She went to Duke An Guo's mansion to find him. It was a joke. She was not crazy. If others found out, she was not allowed to spread gossip.
Xia Zihan pouted and glared at him.
Chu Jingqi seemed to have not seen it and was minding his own business peeling walnuts. After a while, he said, "Is it okay if I have dinner at your place today before leaving?"
"There is no male master in the house, how can I let you eat?" Xia Zihan's eyes widened even more.
Although Chu Jingqi came many times, except for the first time when he stayed for a meal with Zhuo family Song Huai, Xia Zihan would chase him back before meal time.
Just because men and women did not sit at the same table when they were eight years old, no man in the Chu family could come forward to entertain him, and he had a cold temperament and did not like to eat or drink with strangers.
Chu Jingqi looked aggrieved, "What are you afraid of? We will eat in this pavilion, and we are afraid that others will spread gossip."
"Afraid, I'm scared to death." Xia Zihan pretended to twist the handkerchief, his eyes watery.
Chu Jingqi jumped up angrily, "Isn't it just a meal? The pure will become pure themselves, and the dirty will become dirty. Those slaves who dare to talk nonsense will just be sold out."
Humph, if he hadn't overheard someone talking about how little she had eaten this morning and noon when he came, he wouldn't have stayed to eat with her. He is very busy. He learns one kind of martial arts a day. He can only sleep for two hours a day. He wishes he could use one day as ten days.
In the evening, when Chu Jingqi refused to leave, Xia Zihan kept him down for dinner. He also ordered the kitchen to make his favorite sauce pork elbow and beggar's chicken, and stewed tea tree mushroom and old duck soup.
However, they didn't eat alone in the evening, they ate together with Zeng, and they also made Zeng's favorite steamed mandarin fish.
When Mrs. Zeng saw Chu Jingqi, who was bowing to her respectfully and politely, her eyes turned into slits with joy, "How wonderful is your mother? Let me tell you, your mother's body and bones are sick again. Did your grandmother give her something again?" Are you angry?”
Mrs. Zeng had already heard from Zhuo about some of the things about Mrs. Chu's top quality. In fact, she didn't need to say anything about Mrs. Chu. Everyone in this circle in the capital didn't know about Mrs. Chu's shrewdness, ruthlessness and unreasonableness.
When Prince Chu was still two years old, he was punished by her for kneeling down all night because he accidentally broke a cup because of his naughtiness.
Such a young child was almost destroyed by her.
To be honest, there are not many such vicious women in this circle, and there are even some even more vicious than this one.
If he fell in love with a girl, he would kill his wife when he got home. For the sake of title, he poisoned his father to death and killed his biological brother from the same mother. It is not uncommon for sisters to turn against each other because of men.
But people's viciousness is hidden under their smiling faces. Even if they kill people, no one can suspect it. Just like Yu, she appears to be a gentle, generous and charming Princess Ruyi, but she can also please her husband and mother-in-law. .
For such a virtuous daughter-in-law, no one would have thought that she would pay for murder.
Mrs. Chu's style was to treat Prince Chu openly and honestly, as if the person she was mistreating was not a little child, but a wicked person full of evil.
Zeng sneered at such people.
Mrs. Zhuo found herself in trouble with such a vicious mother-in-law, and Mrs. Zeng sympathized with her.
Chu Jingqi hummed twice, "This time, my mother didn't make her feel better either."
"Your parents are just soft-hearted."
If they had not been assassinated this time, they would have almost died, and Prince Chu would not have been cruel enough to attack his brother Chu Erye and his family.
But seeing that Mr. Chu's family was still living well, they were just separated, Mrs. Zeng knew that Prince Chu, oh, no, it was Duke Chu, he still softened his heart.
"With my grandfather here, the family can rest for a while." Chu Jingqi saw that Xia Zihan ate very little, as if he was counting grains of rice, so he couldn't help but frown, and raised his chopsticks. A chicken drumstick appeared in her bowl.
"I don't like eating..." Xia Zihan frowned and stared at the chicken legs in the bowl with disgust.
I picked up the chicken legs and was about to give them to him when I heard him say, "Eat more and you will grow taller. I will soon be taller than you."
He is two years younger than her, but taller than her. Is he laughing at her for being a dwarf?
The chicken drumstick Xia Zihan held fell back into the bowl and muttered, "Just eat it." It was just a drumstick, how could she be afraid of eating it.
Seeing her wrinkling her little face as if swallowing a fly, Chu Jingqi felt distressed and piled half a bowl with her favorite vegetarian meatballs and lotus root slices.
"After you eat all these, I will take you to play on the street tomorrow." Chu Jingqi coaxed her softly.
Xia Zihan didn't believe it, "Didn't I say you weren't free these two days?" Why are you free now?
"My family has many things to do, and my father may not ask me to help." If he hadn't seen how uncomfortable she was at home, would he have sacrificed his precious time to accompany her?
This silly girl actually looked disgusted and didn't want his company.
Regarding the conversation between the two, Zeng just regarded it as a child's playfulness and didn't think much about it. She also encouraged Xia Zihan, "Go, go out and see more, and gain more experience. When grandma was as old as you, My favorite thing is to take the little maid shopping.”
"Yes, grandma." Grandma had already spoken, but she couldn't refuse. "Grandma, what do you want to buy? Can I bring it to you?"
"I don't lack anything, just buy what you like."
After dinner, Zeng also gave Xia Zihan two hundred taels of silver to go shopping.
How can Xia Zihan be short of money and flowers? He hurriedly waved his hand and said with a long face, "Grandma gives it to you, you can take it."
Then he added, "Grandma knows that you have money and no shortage of money, but you are still a child and your only treasure. Grandma wants to love you. Do you want to block her love from her?"
When the conversation came to this point, Xia Zihan didn't dare to refuse. He quickly continued with a smile and put it in his purse.
(End of chapter)