novelaction Chapter 129: Princess Guiyue
Chapter 129: Princess Guiyue
Chapter 129: Princess Guiyue
There are a total of ninety-nine artificial lakes of various sizes in the Northern Qi Imperial Palace, not counting non-artificial natural lakes.
It is said that water can bring wealth, so the founding ancestors drew a lot of water sources when building the palace, in order to pray for the prosperity of the Northern Qi Dynasty.
The lake in front of Ye Wenyan was relatively large, and because it was so large, it was not too frozen.
But even if it is not true, the snow must be at least two feet thick and it cannot be broken open with a hoe!
Ye Wenyan looked in the direction of the banging sounds and saw a woman in red using a hoe to chisel at the ice very seriously.
The hoe was huge, and the woman in red was very thin. Every time she swung the hoe, she felt as if she would be knocked off the ground. The weather on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month was extremely cold, but the woman was wearing very little. She was still wearing a winter robe, and she was only wearing a long gauze skirt. Although she was covered up tightly, the fabric was not suitable for winter after all, and it looked too thin no matter how you looked at it.
Ye Wenyan felt that he might have met a fool. Otherwise, how could someone be so stupid as to stay up in the cold winter and come here to chisel the ice lake in summer clothes?
Looking around again, it seemed that no palace guards came to check after hearing the sound. It seemed that the girl had been chiseling for a while and the guards had gotten used to it.
Is this the princess left behind by the late emperor? Or is she the daughter of an older prince?
Only royal family members would dare to play like this in the palace, right?
She thought about it for a while, then jumped down from the tree. Seeing that there were really no people around, she no longer hid her figure, and simply showed her true form, and walked straight towards the girl in red. The girl who was chiseling the ice was very serious, and she was not discouraged after each strike. She did not notice Ye Wenyan's arrival, and just kept muttering to herself: "The winter in Northern Qi is indeed colder than Guiyue. The lake water can be frozen so solid. I have chiseled more than a hundred times, but why can't I see any water?"
Ye Wenyan couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so he patted her shoulder with one hand and took the big hoe from her hand with the other. Using his spiritual power, he gently pushed the hoe forward - there was a "bang" sound, followed by another "thump".
The ice broke and the hoe fell, and a big hole was finally created in the frozen lake water.
The woman in red was stunned. She turned around and looked at Ye Wenyan with surprise and admiration. After looking for a while, she suddenly reached out and held her face, and kissed her on the cheek.
Ye Wenyan was stunned, and his first reaction was to look around to see if Shi Liyuan was following him.
The feeling was like having an affair with someone but afraid of being discovered by the real boyfriend, feeling extremely guilty. When he saw that there was no spiritual power fluctuation around him, he breathed a sigh of relief and turned back to look at the woman in red... Well, she had conjured up a fishing rod from nowhere and was now sitting cross-legged on the ice, fishing through the ice hole.
She was simply in awe.
"Princess Guiyue?" She walked forward and squatted down beside the woman in red. "No, I heard you talking to yourself just now. You are Princess Guiyue, right? I say, breaking the ice to fish in the middle of winter, and in the imperial palace of Northern Qi, are you crazy?"
"I'm not sick!" The woman in red turned to look at her and gave her a stunning smile.
Ye Wenyan's little heart skipped a beat. This girl was so pretty, with delicate features just like those drawn in a painting. With the red dress on, the fiery red color made her face look rosy and shiny, and she became even more charming when she smiled.
In the past, she only thought she was pretty, but then she met Shi Liyuan and found that she was surpassed by a man. Until tonight, she found that she was surpassed by a princess from another country. Ye Wenyan said a thousand MMPs in her heart, and at the same time, she had deep doubts about her appearance, and at the same time, she had some doubts about her orientation. Otherwise, why did she panic when the girl in red looked at her and smiled? Did she have a natural inability to resist people wearing red clothes?
The girl in red naturally didn't know what she was thinking, so she just continued with what she had just said: "I'm definitely not sick! Wherever there is water, there are fish, and where there are fish, people have to fish. I don't care whose palace it is, I just want to fish."
She said it as if it was a matter of course, and then asked Ye Wenyan: "Who are you? I am the princess of Guiyue Country, and I am considered a guest, so they have to give me some face. For a trivial matter like breaking the ice to fish, the great Northern Qi Country would not bother with me. But how come you are wandering around the palace in the middle of the night, and no one cares?"
Ye Wenyan blinked, "Maybe they didn't see me!"
"Can you become invisible?" the woman in red asked her seriously, "Can you become invisible? Otherwise, there are guards everywhere in the palace, how could they not see you?"
"If I say I can really become invisible, would you believe me?"
"If you dare to say it, I will believe it!"
"..." That's all. "I can't become invisible, but maybe I'm lucky, so I wasn't seen. What's the matter, you're a guest from afar, do you want to chase me away, or do you want to expose me?"
"Neither." The red-dressed lady laughed again. "You are so beautiful, why should I chase you away? I am fishing in the middle of the night, and I have a beautiful woman by my side. I should enjoy such beautiful things. Anyone who chases you away is mentally ill."
Ye Wenyan nodded. "Although what you said was not very good, you can admit that I am good-looking, which shows that you have good taste. You are not bad either. You are the best-looking person I have ever seen besides our little master."
"Who is the young master?" The woman in red was quite interested. "Is he your husband?"
"He's your future man, after all! He's not married yet!" "Then you're really lucky. You're good-looking, and the man you found is also good-looking. Just like a friend of mine, you both have a very lucky life."
"What friend?"
The woman in red did not continue, but just shook her head. "It happened a long time ago, I don't remember it very clearly, let's not talk about it. Look, we are like strangers who don't know each other until we break the ice, let me ask you something."
"Well, you said."
The woman in red came closer to her and lowered her voice: "In your Northern Qi imperial palace, is there a kind of fish with four colors? Or is there a lake with four colors? Oh, I can't remember clearly whether it was a four-color fish or a four-color lake, but it must be four colors. Have you heard of it?"
Ye Wenyan thought for a while and shook her head. "I haven't heard of it. I don't come to this palace often, so I really don't know if there are such strange lakes and fish in the palace. But apart from the Northern Qi Palace, I have never heard of a four-color lake or four-color fish in the world?" She still felt that this girl might be crazy. She thought that Ye Wenyan had lived two lives, and in her previous life she was the head of a hidden family. She had read countless ancient books, but she had never heard of fish with four colors.
The Four-Color Lake seems to exist, but it is just an illusion caused by optical effects.
This girl is weird and doesn't look like a normal person at all. It's such a waste of her pretty face.
She thought too much, and realized that a girl with a dull mind could not marry Quan Qingcheng, and even a powerless little emperor could not marry a fool, otherwise, wouldn't he become a laughing stock of the world when he took power in the future?
He tilted his head again, and saw that the fool had caught a fish. The fishing rod paused for a moment, and the fool quickly pulled it up.
Unfortunately, it was a skinny carp, and black in color.
The fool released the fish with a look of regret on his face. "Beiqi is much bigger than Guiyue. I've often heard that Beiqi is rich in resources and has many things that Guiyue doesn't have. I thought, what if those four-colored fish or lakes can be found in Beiqi, so I came. I didn't expect it would be so difficult to find them in Beiqi. I've caught countless fish and passed countless lakes along the way, but unfortunately I didn't find what I was looking for."
"Is this why you came here?"
The woman in red asked back, "Why else could it be?"
"Isn't it for the purpose of marriage?"
"Kissing a bullshit!" The beauty was furious. "I don't want to marry that little bastard who hasn't even grown all his hair yet!"
The beauty might have been really angry, and she started to curse and swear.
Ye Wenyan found it very magical when she heard it. A girl with such amazing beauty could actually curse with such a variety of words. This kind of contrast was very rare, at least she had never seen it before.
But there was one thing she didn't quite understand: "Now that you're here, it's not up to you to decide whether to get married or not, right?"
"Why can't I have the final say on my own business?" The red-dressed girl slapped her thigh. "It's my own business, why can't I have the final say? That brat from Northern Qi wants to marry me, but he should consider his own strength and see if he can beat me. Anyway, I don't like him, so why should I marry him? Whoever I like is the most important in the world!"
Ye Wenyan felt that what she said was a bit exaggerated, but she also felt that it made a lot of sense. She asked again: "Who do you like?"
"I like..." The girl in red finally became serious and thought for a while, as if she was trying very hard to recall something, but unfortunately she couldn't remember anything after thinking for a long time. She could only shake her head and said, "I don't know who I like, but I definitely have someone I like, I'm very sure of that. And that kind of love is unforgettable, as if it was a fate from the previous life, and even though I have reincarnated in this life, I still haven't forgotten it."
"What does this mean?" She didn't understand. "What does it mean to not know who you like, but to be sure that you like someone?" The girl in red told her, "Because I remember that person always liked to wear white clothes, and always waved a folding fan in his hand, just like an immortal who walked out of a painting, not belonging to the mortal world at all. And the smell of sandalwood on him, I also remember it clearly, it was the kind of incense burned when burning incense to worship Buddha, it appeared on him, light and refreshing, especially good smelling. But I couldn't see his face, because every time he turned around, I would wake up..."