vrcanaries Chapter 210 Chu Xingchen saw that she was a little tipsy and sighed. "Sister, you are drunk.&qu
Chapter 210 Chu Xingchen saw that she was a little tipsy and sighed. "Sister, you are drunk.&qu
"Have you heard? The performer today is Xiao Lihua, the mainstay of the Jiangnan Xiao Baihua Opera Troupe."
"That's right. I heard that this time, a wealthy man in the capital specifically offered a 100-gold engagement and invited her from Jiangnan."
"I heard that the Phoenix Tower has been performing for ten days. Now the business of the Phoenix Tower has been so good that even the seats downstairs are costing a hundred taels of silver per table, not to mention the private rooms upstairs."
A few wealthy men, enjoying drinks, sat in the stands near the stage, drinking and waiting for the actors to appear. They seemed to want to see what was different about the famous Xiao Baihua Opera Troupe in the south.
"Sister, what are you thinking about?"
Chu Xing looked at Su Yingxue, who was in a daze with her chin in her hand, in a deep voice, and poured her a cup of Hundred Flowers Wine.
Chu Xingchen remembered that in his dream, Su Yingxue from his previous life loved this very thing. She had always been very fond of this sweet floral wine. She always liked to drink two cups before going to sleep.
When she was in the Princess's Palace, one day, she drank a few glasses of wine, her cheeks were slightly tipsy, her eyes were watery, and she lay drunkenly on the brocade couch.
Chu Xingchen approached the bedroom and saw her lying on the couch in a daze. Her graceful figure, red lips, fair skin, pink cheeks and soft eyes made her look very charming and attractive.
Chu Xingchen walked over and lowered his head. He could smell the sweet fragrance of the wine made from hundreds of flowers blended with the faint orchid fragrance on her body.
"Your Highness," Chu Xingchen asked her gently, standing in front of the couch. He was busy eroding her power and hadn't visited her in the palace for several days.
"Chu Lang," Su Yingxue opened her beautiful and charming phoenix eyes, looked at his eyes with tenderness, and whispered as if she was acting coquettishly.
"Chu Lang, I heard that a southern opera troupe called the Xiao Baihua Opera Troupe has come to the capital."
"I heard the memorials inside are very interesting. Would you like to sneak out of the palace with me to take a look?"
Su Yingxue's eyes were calm and watery, and her face was a bit cold. She whispered, "I originally wanted to tell my brother to secretly let the secret guards take me out of the palace, but my brother..."
"But my brother said that when I was a child, Chunfeng and I sneaked out of the palace, and on the way, someone recognized our carriage as the Princess's."
"That caused public outrage, and those unruly people threw stones at me, smashing my head and leaving it covered in blood..."
"If the Imperial Guards hadn't patrolled and found me in time and brought me back to the palace, I might not have seen the Chu Lang I am today..."
Su Yingxue spoke timidly. A scar still remained on her left forehead, hidden beneath her hair. The memory of that day filled her with fear.
"So, my brother has not allowed me to leave the palace since then..."
"But Chu Lang, I've grown up now. I've been locked up in the palace since I was a child. I want to see what life is like outside the palace."
When Su Yingxue mentioned the outside of the palace, her eyes were full of tenderness and longing.
Chu Xingchen sneered in his heart. He was so busy, how could he have time to accompany her outside the palace to watch the Shilaozi opera?
But after all, she was born to protect her power, so Chu Xingchen suppressed his dissatisfaction, replaced it with a gentle smile, and gently advised her, "Since it is the will of His Majesty, Your Highness should stay in the Princess' Palace obediently."
"Your Majesty, this is also for the safety of Her Royal Highness the Princess, isn't it?" Chu Xingchen raised his eyebrows slightly. He has been busy looking for border defense maps recently. The old emperor told him openly and secretly that this would be the stepping stone for his return.
Chu Xingchen planned every step carefully, and it was time to return, except for this last step.
But after searching the entire Grand Council, they found neither a secret room nor a map of the border defenses. This thing must be somewhere Su Qinhuai could see, and it must be extremely secretive. But where could it be?
Chu Xingchen was puzzled.
Until one day, Su Yingxue got angry and poured a cup of Hundred Flowers Wine on the embroidered screen. The screen was wet and changed its appearance.
I could vaguely see that it was a hill.
Chu Xingchen looked through the slightly drunk Su Yingxue and saw the embroidered screen, and suddenly his eyes flashed.
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Chu Xingchen suddenly understood.
"Your Highness, you are drunk..."
Chu Xingchen snatched the white jade porcelain cup from her hand and said to her softly and gently, "Your Highness, don't drink too much. It will harm your health."
"Even if I don't have the chance to take you to see the Little Hundred Flowers Troupe this time, next time..."
Chu Xingchen's eyes were full of brilliance. He looked through her to the embroidered screen behind him. He smiled gently and whispered to her, "If there is another opportunity next year or the year after, Xingchen will take Your Highness to watch that excerpt, okay?"
Chu Xingchen's eyes were extremely gentle. Su Yingxue felt a little warm in her heart as she looked at Chu Xingchen, whose smile was full of affection.
"Chu Lang," she called him softly.
He gently picked her up and carried her back to the inner hall.
On the second night, an identical imitation screen appeared in the Princess's Palace.
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On the stage of the Phoenix Tower, Xiao Lihua, a famous actress from the Xiao Baihua Opera Troupe, was singing song after song of joy and sorrow, separation and reunion. The audience cheered loudly, one after another, the continuous cheers rising and falling like waves.
Su Yingxue was fascinated by the sight as the table full of delicacies was slowly brought up.
Su Yingxue sat in the house, looking at the table full of delicious food. She was attracted by the short opera downstairs, which seemed to be very prosperous and charming.
The magnificent Phoenix Pavilion, the room full of cheering spectators in fine clothes, everything seemed to have fallen into a nest of wealth and prosperity.
Su Yingxue took the cup of sweet and fragrant Hundred Flowers Wine that Chu Xingchen had poured out, took a sip, and couldn't help but sigh that people have different destinies.
Some people are obsessed with so much prosperity and wealth, but she is thinking about the long journey home.
She looked at the prosperity in front of her, feeling lonely in her heart, and drank one cup after another. Su Yingxue didn't understand, she didn't understand why the world was so prosperous, but she still didn't feel any joy.
Until she drank one cup after another, this sweet drink seemed to have a lingering aftertaste, so that she felt dazed, as if she had fallen into another prosperous world.
Chu Xingchen saw that her face was slightly red, like peach petals, like crimson clouds in the sky, and her pair of watery eyes, so bright that they seemed to have just come out of the water. Through the misty fog, they were full of starlight, intoxicating and beautiful.
The dream of his past life overlapped with her in this life, and Chu Xingchen suddenly felt a little dazed. He remembered her calling him "Chu Lang" affectionately on the brocade couch.
He remembered that in the dream, she didn't understand in the end that her Chu Lang had promised her to take him to see a short opera the next day, but it was just a lie to coax her.
In fact, in his dream, he took the military border map on the screen and returned to Qi State shortly afterwards.
As a result, she was placed under house arrest in the Princess's Palace for the rest of her years and was unable to leave.
Until he broke through the city gate, that day she rushed out of the Princess Palace with joy, wanting to see Chu Xingchen in her dream. But she did not see him, and what she waited for was an extremely severe punishment.
"Sister," Chu Xingchen sighed when he saw that she was a little tipsy.
"Sister, you are drunk."