Chapter 9
The two asked and answered almost simultaneously, and then both couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Zhou Xian Yang hands her his hand to pull her out of this ditch, and Rong Xiangmian doesn’t dare to pick it up.
“There’s no one here.” Zhou Xianyang said, grabbing Rong Xiangmian’s wrist through her sleeve, and unexpectedly the bracelet on her hand shattered with a sound.
“Sorry!” Zhou Xian Yang thought that he was too strong and broke something of hers, Xiangmian shook her head, “It must have been bumped, the bracelet shattered as a peacekeeper.”
Rong Xiangmian was just pulled up a little bit, then there was a downward momentum.
“Ouch!”
Young girls, all love cleanliness. She was originally wrapped in a quilt and straddled the dirty upper layer, but she didn’t get dirty.
“Don’t move, I’ll carry you up.”
Zhou Xian Yang was standing inside anyway, so he simply put the quilt back over her face and carried her up to the side of the ditch with the quilt across her.
Rong Xiangyang was so nervous that as soon as her feet hit the ground, she immediately jumped away a few steps away from him and lowered her voice and blessed herself, “Thank you, Your Highness, my daughter has been rude.”
“What is rude? You did it to save people, I did it to save people, not to mention that if it wasn’t for you just now, I would have already been smashed and burned.”
Rong Xiangmian was also in a hurry just now, so she kicked the big drum that the temple used to celebrate the festival over to save the day, so it was really a close call.
She exhaled and reminded, “Your Highness is all dirty.”
“Oh,” Zhou Xian Yang looked down at a foul odor, “I’ve long since gotten used to it, in places like West Qin, if you’re not paying attention, you’ll step into a swamp like this.”
Someone in front of him was calling out to him, very anxious, so Zhou Xian Yang said, “Go over the fence and get out, don’t let anyone know you’re in the fire. Other than that, I’ll take care of it, no one will know or talk about it.”
Saying this, he walks over to the fence and squats down, “You step on my shoulder, dare you?”
Rong Xiangxian was touched in her heart, Yu Wang risked his life to save and think about her, refusing at this moment was too squirmy.
“I dare.” She holds onto the fence and steps on Yü Wang’s shoulder, he slowly stands up so that she can climb up. Rong Xiangxian fought to sit on the wall, not realizing that it was higher down there, and momentarily went limp.
She is contemplating how to fall down and get hurt less, completely oblivious to how Yü Wang got onto the wall and leapt down again, tumbling on the ground, his shadow as light as a spirit monkey’s.
He stood below, reaching toward her, “Jump down, I’ll catch you.”
“It will smash you!” Rong Xiangyang didn’t dare.
Zhou Xian Yang knew that this girl could not be provoked, so he said, “You despise me, don’t you?”
Rong Xiangmian was determined: “I’ll jump!”
The moment she landed, Rong Xiangmian only felt the sky spinning, and was carried by Yulong in his arms as if he had just jumped himself, tumbling around in a circle.
When she stopped, she was lying on the ground in the melting snow, with King Yüeh lying on top of her. In the moonlight, they could see the panic in each other’s eyes and a hint of unspoken emotions.
Breaths touched each other, and the skin of their entire bodies, all cooled once, rolled back up again.
Rong Xiangyang was greatly embarrassed in her heart and was busy pushing him away. Zhou Xian Yang came back to his senses and immediately got up, looking around, fortunately no one was there. Luckily, no one was there. In this darkness, someone probably wouldn’t be able to see her face.
He watched Rong Xiangmian nimbly put on her mask and blurted out, “Fourth Miss, many years ago, did we meet outside Yonghua Palace?”
Rong Xiangmian was anxious to leave this place of lonely men and women, and quickly walked ahead, “No, I entered the palace in the first year of Shengping, and at that time, His Highness had already left the palace.”
Zhou Xian Yang hmmmed, for some reason, there is some inexplicable loss in his heart.
When he was at the border, when he heard that the fourth girl of the Rong family had been chosen, his heart felt like it had been thrown up high and then fell down hard.
For the first time, he experienced the four words of “fate”. All the way back to the capital, he tried to convince himself not to be too greedy, this is not fair to the fourth girl.
He followed behind Rong Xiangmian for ten feet, and soon arrived at the front of the City God Temple, where it was already crowded. All around were straggling crowds looking for someone.
They reached the area where the lanterns were being given away, and there were still several lanterns left to be given away.
The elder gave up the struggle and handed one to Zhou Xian Yang: “Young prime minister, take this one home and coax your little lady to play with it.”
Rong Xiangmian was anxious and told him to keep his mouth shut, but Zhou Xianyang thanked her at the same time and took the lantern and handed it to her, “They’re probably looking for me inside, I’m going to take care of the back, you go find your family, if you can’t find them, wait for me here, I’ll send you home.”
Rong Xiang Xiang took the lantern and whispered, “Many thanks.”
Zhou Xian Yang said, “Thank you, your baked sweet potatoes are delicious.”
“Oh ……” Rong Xiangmian was confused, “I haven’t eaten any of them yet ……”
“I’ll treat you some other day.” Zhou Xian Yang smiled somewhat mischievously and turned around to walk into the smoke rushing into the sky in the City God Temple.
Rong Xiangmian stood frozen for a while before she saw Feiyun Feixue looking outside the City God Temple.
She immediately walked over and patted them.
“Girl! Are you alright, you scared us to death!”
Just now, Rong Xiangxian said that she wanted to eat sugar gourds and told them to come out to buy them before sending them to their siblings at home. Who knew that a big fire broke out inside, and so many people ran out one by one.
Rong Xiang Gu knew that they had gotten separated from the fourth sister, and instructed them to keep it a secret, each guarding the entrance and the carriage, while he went to the main hall where the fire started to look for the fourth sister.
“God bless!” Feiyun saw that Rong Xiangmei was unharmed and hurriedly ran to report to the Grand Duke.
“Third sister, what happened to you?”
Rong Xiangchi was as deaf to her sixth sister’s words as if she hadn’t heard them, she lifted the curtains of the carriage and looked out the window at the city full of lanterns, feeling as if she was flying.
Not being able to get an answer from her third sister, Rong Xiangwen had to continue to ask Rong Xiangmian, “Fourth sister, what’s wrong with you?”
Rong Xiangmian was also not in the mood, just holding an extinguished rabbit lantern out of focus.
“Just now so many people ran without life, it wouldn’t have scared you silly!” Rong Xiangwen whacked Xiangmian’s shoulder, she then came back to her senses, “I was squeezed down by people and stepped on several feet, look at me all over.”
In fact, the car sedan is dim, can’t see what’s wrong.
“Letting you run around, you didn’t see King Yu, did you! Want to ask me to tell your future husband, how is the person?”
Xiangshi suddenly smiles, “What kind of person he is, there will be plenty of time to see in the future.”
Hearing these words, Rong Xiangzhi takes her eyes back inside the sedan chair, the two sisters not seeing the subtle changes that appear on her face.
The matter of Fourth Highness saving people from the fire at the City Temple was quickly spread, and the folk added fuel to the fire to talk about him as if he were a god descending from the heavens. With Western Qin’s unparalleled achievements first, followed by his courageous act of saving the people’s lives, there was no other prince in the dynasty who was as popular as Zhou Xian Yang. One of the courtiers wrote a letter asking the emperor to honor His Majesty.
When His Majesty asked what he wanted, he said, “The fire at the City God Temple was not a good thing, so how could I dare ask for a reward? How to prevent such an incident from happening again is the most important thing.”
These remarks and the style of not asking for rewards based on merit, even more in the state dynasty of civil officials caused a piece of praise. His Majesty was greatly pleased and rewarded him with a number of prizes.
Gradually there are news in the palace, the empress dowager wants to give Yu Wang said a high family noble girl as the princess, Jinling city many dignitaries, and moved up the mind, one by one to the lady princess palace.
This day the Duke of State birthday, Yuhang was invited to celebrate, not only with the birthday gift to the Duke of State, but also to the Rong family each son and daughter have prepared a gift, said: “Thank you for that day of the City God Temple hospitality.”
“What hospitality, but just treating His Highness to a bowl of wine-stuffed Lanterns and a baked sweet potato.” Rong Xiang Gu said this on his lips, but guessed that this gift was actually running towards the fourth sister. After several times of politely refusing, he still sent someone to the backyard to deliver it.