Let Me Pursue You - Chapter 41

Yuan Cixian took two steps, and was reminded by the burning gaze from behind, and looked down, only then did he realize that Lu Shiqing was still holding her hand, and couldn’t help but tremble.

It’s amazing, she was held by the future emperor’s teacher. This is a road leading to the pinnacle of life.

Yuan Cixian was so excited that her heart beat a little faster. She squinted at Lu Shiqing’s side face, but saw that he was serious as if he was just holding a sheep by hand. She couldn’t help but want to make him fluctuate too, and felt his slightly sticky and wet palm. , whispered: “Lu Shilang seems very nervous?”

The white waves in Lu Shiqing’s heart had already set off thousands of feet high, but he answered calmly without looking sideways: “Well, it’s the first time I see so many people, I’m a little nervous.”

He just bluffs.

Yuan Cixian said ambiguously: “It’s also my first time, and I’m still a little shy.”

Her tone was ambiguous, of course he understood, but he remained calm and calm: “Oh, just see you more in the future.”

Yuan Cixian thought that he thought well, and continued to tease him with secret words: “The people are so cute, you have a taste in your heart, is it sweet?”

The more she talked, the more she went over her head, Lu Shiqing choked, and more sweat broke out from her palms, and she answered lightly, “I don’t think it’s cute.”

“But I’m watching…” Yuan Cixian leaned close to his ear, her eyes rolled, and she exhaled like blue, “It’s so cute.”

Lu Shiqing’s whole body was flaky, and he really didn’t know how he returned to the carriage, he just thought of letting go and he would lose, even if she let her wind from east to west, he would not move.

In fact, his superficial skills are not bad. Let’s say that he was in front of the people before. He who is usually very indifferent can act quite close to the people in the blink of an eye. The beating made his eardrums vibrate, and his heart trembled.

So when the refugees dispersed and the carriage drove into a mansion arranged by the governor of Shuzhou, he went back to his room to calm down without saying a word.

Yuan Cixian also ran to take a bath contentedly, while thinking about the farce in front of the city gate just now.

Lu Shiqing’s forgiveness of the door officials can be said to be beautiful. One is to demonstrate the benevolence of the court and appease the hearts of the people at this moment when everyone is in danger. The second is to put a long line to catch big fish, so as to follow the vine to find out the instigator.

Of course, based on the words he questioned the doorman at that time, Yuan Cixian deduced that this matter may have something to do with King Ping, the land leader in Huainan, and there is no need to spend a lot of time investigating.

Perhaps it was because of such preconceived ideas that after a few days, King Ping came from Yangzhou in the east to discuss the follow-up matters of disaster relief with Lu Shiqing, and she subconsciously became somewhat wary of this person.

Especially the next day, when Lu Shiqing went out to inspect the water conditions and returned late, and King Ping asked her to play chess alone, she became even more vigilant.

She remembered that Xu Shan said that he was assassinated on the way to Beijing to work for Zheng Zhuo, and his life was almost lost. At that time, she didn’t ask more questions out of politeness, but later she thought about this matter more than once, thinking that the so-called assassin might have something to do with the second or third prince of the court, that is, King Ping.

Now that King Ping suddenly played chess with her, did he have ulterior motives to test something?

She couldn’t make up her mind, but she couldn’t refuse directly, so she played a game of unqualified chess with him as a perfunctory, then excused being sleepy, yawned a few times, and went back to her room.

Fortunately, this seemingly dangerous person did not stay for long. After a few days, when the disaster situation in Shuzhou stabilized, King Ping returned to Yangzhou.

Lu Shiqing had been leaving early and returning late for most of the month, Yuan Cixian didn’t want to disturb his official business, so he tried to say good morning and evening to him every day.

When she was in the mansion in her spare time, she heard by chance that he had not disturbed the local officials near Shangzhou, but planned to hide his whereabouts and arrest some corrupt officials. But because of her assassination, he had to go all the way with great fanfare, and naturally he was alarmed. That’s why he stayed for three days in Tangzhou, the junction of Shannan East Road and Huainan Road, in order to ensure the smooth delivery of relief supplies.

Yuan Cixian felt that she had caused trouble for the court, and felt quite sorry. Seeing that Lu Shiqing was so busy every day, it seemed that it was a good time to show his hospitality. In the next few days, he practiced his cooking skills hard.

After chopping the tenth cutting board, Cao An, Zhao Shu, Shi Cui, and even Xiao Hei complained endlessly, and turned around and ran away when they saw her holding the bowl, finally made a leap and breakthrough, and successfully cooked a bowl of color and fragrance Complete vegetable and tofu soup.

That’s right, in order to be the same as the people, she chose such subtle ingredients.

However, there are unpredictable things in the sky, and people have misfortunes and blessings. In the end, Lu Shiqing did not drink this bowl of soup that was approved by the masses. The reason was that Yuan Cixian intercepted a letter on the way to deliver the soup.

A letter sent from Chang’an, and a letter addressed to Lu Shiqing, signed “Shaohe”.

Yuan Cixian turned back halfway, and instead of delivering the soup, he gave it to Xiao Hei to drink, and then went back to the room with the letter.

I heard that Lu Shilang, who drank vegetables and tofu soup at night, waited in the room for a long time, and finally waited for Yuan Cixian, who was empty-handed. She broke into his study very elegantly, pulled out a letter from her sleeve very gracefully, and threw it on his desk: “Lu Shilang, I have your letter.”

After thinking about it, she couldn’t do the immoral thing of stealing it, so she brought it anyway.

Lu Shiqing glanced at the inscription on the carp-patterned letter, was a little taken aback, and said, “What are you writing to me in the name of Princess Shaohe?”

Wow, this reaction is really perfect. In one sentence, he completely wiped himself out and denied all possible correspondence with Zheng Yun before.

Yuan Cixian was about to be moved, but after looking at the words “Zi Shu’s personal letter” on the letter, she still felt that Lu Shiqing should not be trusted. If this is the first time they have such contacts, they must be calling too close. She was so shameless that she never called him “Zi Shu”.

She glanced at him, and said in disbelief, “I’ve practiced cooking so hard these days, how can I write to you? Open your eyes and take a good look, this is written by Princess Shaohe.”

Yuan Cixian really misunderstood Lu Shiqing this time, he really thought she was playing around with him just now, after all Zheng Yun had never written to him before.

With an “oh”, he took the letter to read, and glanced at the complete wax pattern on the seal of the letter.

Yuan Cixian snorted: “It hasn’t been dismantled, so there is no need to check.”

Lu Shiqing glanced at her: “Why don’t you take it apart if you want to see?”

Oh, did she hear it wrong? Why is there an inexplicable pampering in this tone. Yuan Cixian was overjoyed, and pretended to be dissatisfied on the face: “Who said I want to watch it?”

Lu Shiqing twitched the corner of his mouth: “Then it’s a good thing you don’t want to. If you dismantle it, I might report to the police and arrest you.”

“…”

It was the first time Yuan Cixian pretended to be affectionate, she gritted her molars angrily, took a deep breath and endured.

Well, he won this game, and she will be a hero in the next game.

After Lu Shiqing finished speaking, he lowered his head and opened the letter, but he didn’t mean to tell Yuan Cixian to avoid it, and opened the letter paper in front of her eyes.

But she is also very face-saving at this time, so she would not eagerly read the content of the letter, but kept looking at the pillars above her head, pretending to be uninterested to avoid suspicion.

There was only one piece of letter paper, but only a few greetings. Lu Shiqing glanced at her, looked up and saw her like this, and suddenly got up and left.

Yuan Cixian was taken aback: “Where are you going, don’t you read the letter?”

Lu Shiqing said lightly: “It’s convenient for me to go, you also care?”

When she choked, she gave him a sharp look, and when he went to clean the room, she slumped, walked around to his desk, and read the letter laid out on top silently, paying attention to the movement around her while reading. I don’t want Lu Shiqing to come back after half a day as if he had fallen into a latrine.

At this time, it seems that she has read it three times, she has already retreated to her original position, and continued to stand in front of his desk and look at the sky.

After returning to his seat, Lu Shiqing glanced at her, slowly dipped his pen into the ink, and drew a circle on the letter paper to form a word.

Yuan Cixian was attracted by this action, and she didn’t give up. She looked down and saw that his pen paused, and then circled another word. After doing this several times, he pieced together a four-character message: Be careful on the way home.

She was slightly taken aback, and then realized that it was a secret code hidden in the letter, pointing out: “You still act like Shao He failed the letter, this code has made you perfect!”

Lu Shiqing glanced at her: “I thought you would ask first, why did she remind me to be careful on the way home, whether someone might want to assassinate me.”

Yuan Cixian choked, and muttered: “You still care about these things, I’m going back with you, you are in danger, I will definitely risk my life to block the knife for you!”

He sneered, probably because he didn’t believe it, and explained her previous question: “It’s not a secret sign between me and her, it was a time when I accompanied the thirteenth prince to guess the hidden acrostic, and she was also there, so I probably heard it.”

Yuan Cixian said “Oh”: “I’m really envious…”

Lu Shiqing thought it was funny: “Do you envy her?” He talked less to Zheng Yun in a year than he talked to her in a day.

“Yes.” Yuan Cixian said seriously and positively, “I really envy the thirteenth prince, who can learn Tibetan acrostics at such a young age.”

“…”

It fell through.

Lu Shiqing frowned, and continued to study the code on the letter.

Yuan Cixian succeeded in breaking back a round, and was in a good mood, so she stopped ostentatiously and went to his side to look at the letter together to see if there were any other messages, but she didn’t find the next word for a long time.

She frowned and said to herself, “Why do you want to be careful? I don’t see why.”

But Lu Shiqing had a rough idea in his heart, closed the letter, lit the oil lamp and candle to ashes, and said: “There are many people who want to kill me, but only a few dare to do it.”

Seeing that he didn’t seem to take it seriously, Yuan Cixian no longer worried, this time she said sincerely: “Don’t worry, I promise you, you won’t die this time.”

“…”

Yuan Cixian is serious, after all, in her dream, he can still live for many years.

But Lu Shiqing felt uncomfortable hearing these words, and said: “I can’t die this time, will I die next time?”

She knew that the words she used were inappropriate, so she smiled coquettishly: “I won’t die next time, I will never die.”

That’s not too good, they’re all monsters.

Lu Shiqing didn’t know whether to be angry or to laugh, and waved her off: “It’s getting late, I’m going to bed.”

Yuan Cixian was tired from making soup before, and now she is also a little tired. She nodded and yawned, turned around and led the door out, but she seemed to remember something, stopped and asked him: “Lu Shilang, why does Shaohe call you ‘Zishu’?” ah?”

Lu Shiqing raised his head and replied, “What’s wrong with calling me Biaozi? All over the world, regardless of their dignity, regardless of gender, they can call me that.”

The implication seems to be implying that Yuan Cixian also calls it that way.

But how could she be willing to be content with such a title that can be called by tens of millions of people, she showed her teeth and smiled slyly, and said: “Then there are fewer people who call you ‘Lu Shiqing’?”