I Am This Type of Woman Chapter 83: City
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The further she walked into the yard, the more things Rong Xia could see that were unlikely to appear in other people's homes.
There are lounge chairs covered with soft cushions, a swing frame, a hammock, an upholstered chair, and fresh fruits on the table. The most obvious thing is a platform set up in the middle of the yard, which looks a bit nondescript.
"There are several singers and storytellers in the house. Sometimes the madam and the princess will ask them to perform a piece," the housekeeper noticed Rong Xia's eyes and explained with a smile, "Uncle, please."
"Very good," Rong Xia nodded, and then said, "When I go back, I will also have someone set up a stage in the inner courtyard."
The butler smiled and said nothing. There were many words that a servant of his should not say: "Uncle, this is it. The masters like to eat together on weekdays, and they don't need to be served much." He led Rong Xia in. Standing on the stone steps at the inner door, he said, "My lord, Cheng Anbo has arrived."
Rong Xia raised her head and glanced at the plaque hanging on the house, which read the words "Taotie Pavilion". The font was very beautiful, grand yet graceful, like a woman's font.
"Please come in."
Ban Huai's voice came from inside, Rong Xia straightened her robe and walked in the door.
"Junior, I have met my uncle and aunt." When Rong Xia saluted the two elders, he saw Banhua smiling at him and couldn't help but smile back at her.
After laughing, he suddenly came to his senses. How long had it been since he had done such a disrespectful thing?
"Sit down, our family is not one who pays attention to such vulgar etiquette." Ban Huai saw that Rong Xia's clothes had not changed and were still the same as before, "Have you eaten yet?"
According to the rules of scholars, even if this meeting is useless, it still needs to be said that it is used.
Rong Xia glanced at Ban Huai and Ban Hua, shook his head slowly and said, "I just went to Dali Temple and haven't eaten yet."
"How can young people not eat?" He called his servants and asked them to prepare them immediately.
"Uncle, how can you be so embarrassed," Rong Xia said hurriedly, "I..."
"Didn't I just say that we don't follow useless rules in our family?" Ban Huai stood up and patted his shoulder, "When you are hungry, you have to eat, when you are thirsty, you have to drink. No matter how reasonable you are, you can't give in. I have a big belly. Fortunately, our family didn’t have a good meal just now, so I just treated you as accompanying us."
Half an hour later, several bowls of hot plain noodles and a bunch of side dishes were placed on the table.
The food is indeed not particular, but Rong Xia's appetite is particularly good. It seemed that he hadn't sat with anyone for a long time, just eating a bowl of noodles. He didn't even follow the rule of not talking when eating, and could talk while eating.
"Sister, why do you eat so much?" Ban Heng sat next to Banhua, separating her from Rong Xia, "Did you eat in the palace?"
Banhua nodded: "I'm just bored, so I'll eat something with you." She raised her head and looked at Rong Xia, "Did you just say you went to Dali Temple?"
"Yes, I have some friendship with the people in Dali Temple, so I talked to them a little more about this case." Rong Xia saw Ban Hua smiling and couldn't help but laugh along, "You go to the palace , is it going well?"
Banhua nodded: "Your Majesty and the empress both said that this matter must be thoroughly investigated."
Rong Xia chuckled when he heard this: "If I had known that Huahua was so powerful, I wouldn't have made this extra trip to Dali Temple."
"You can't say that. This is called a two-pronged approach." Banhua saw that Rong Xia was so troubled about her father's affairs, so she pushed the side dish in front of her to Rong Xia, "Here, this is for you."
"Thank you."
Ban Heng, sitting between the two of them:...
At this moment, he felt that he was the Milky Way that separated the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
After dinner, the four members of the Ban family sat lazily on the soft chairs, with their backs straightened and their faces almost leaning along with them. Fortunately, years of living habits stopped him in time, and he is still the handsome young man who can sit with extreme elegance.
When the case just happened, Rong Xia couldn't guess who the murderer was. He had previously guessed whether the person who assassinated Ban Huai was the same person who assassinated Zhao Jia. But he soon overturned this idea. The assassin who assassinated Zhao Jia was very professional, and even the murder weapon was specially chosen to be one commonly used by foreigners. One is to prevent people from guessing his specific identity, and the other is to prevent His Majesty from making a big publicity investigation.
Although the Aipo tribe is a small place, there are many dependent countries of Daye. If this matter becomes serious, it will have a great impact on the stability of Daye's surrounding areas. Daye's current troops are not as strong as before. If many countries unite to become enemies of Daye, it is still unclear whether Daye can win.
I am afraid that even if it is a victory, it will be a miserable victory.
That’s why Your Majesty doesn’t dare to fight.
The murderers who assassinated Ban Huai this time were different. They were all ungrateful gangsters. They usually did sneaky things. They took risks because they couldn't survive. Their methods of killing were also ungrateful. No one with scheming ideas and means would use such a gangster to get things done.
Zhao Jia's case may involve national affairs, while Ban Huai's case is more likely to be a personal vendetta.
He already knew what kind of person Ban Huai was. He has a lazy personality and does not want to make progress, but this person has an obvious characteristic, that is, he is knowledgeable. He never does anything he shouldn't do. Although he is not a kind-hearted person, he has never done anything bad. He has never even tasted flower wine.
In fact, when he learned that Ban Huai had never drank flower wine, he was very shocked. The famous dandy of the Daye Dynasty had never been to Fireworks Willow Alley, never entered a gambling house, and was not good at drinking. How did such a person get the reputation of a dandy?
Rong Xia didn't understand it before, but he didn't know why until he asked to see the eldest princess and saw what the eldest princess left him.
Accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger, and the world of wealth is poisonous. The Ban family just wants to live a safe life.
Perhaps the atmosphere at Ban's house was too friendly, so Rong Xia unknowingly stayed at Ban's house for the entire afternoon and had a dinner at Ban's house before getting up and leaving.
When he walked to the door, he saw Banhua chasing after him.
"Wait a minute." Banhua saw that he only brought a few guards, "I don't know who is plotting against the Ban family, and I don't know what he wants to do. You are engaged to me. , be careful in everything."
Rong Xia didn't expect that she came after her specifically to talk about this matter. She was stunned for a moment and nodded: "Okay."
Banhua smiled, then high-fived, and four guards walked out from behind her: "The four of them were personally chosen by my grandfather back then. It's dark and the roads are slippery, so let them go back with you."
Rong Xia looked at the four guards behind Banhua. These four were similar in age, all in their mid-twenties. They should have been trained as personal guards since they were young, so they were very respectful to Banhua. It seems that Old Jingting Gong has already thought about it, so he arranged these loyal and available guards for future generations.
He nodded and did not refuse Banhua's kindness.
Banhua suddenly showed a smile: "Be careful on the road."
"Yes." Rong Xia suddenly lowered her head and gently twisted a leaf off her shoulder, "Don't worry, nothing will happen to me."
Ban Hua blinked at him with bright eyes and said nothing.
Rong Xia stretched out his palm, gently covered her eyes, and said in a low voice: "Huahua's eyes are so beautiful."
Banhua blinked, her long eyelashes sweeping back and forth in his palm.
"You said my eyes are beautiful and you covered them," Banhua grabbed his wrist and pulled his hand down, "You are jealous that my eyes are prettier than yours."
Rong Xia laughed out loud: "Huahua's eyes are so beautiful, I don't want others to see them."
Banhua:? ? ?
What kind of weird idea is this?
She stood on tiptoe and covered Rong Xia's face with both hands: "Your face is so beautiful, I didn't even ask you to cover it. As a human being, you have to be generous."
Rong Xia chuckled, and the heat from the tip of her nose traveled to Banhua's palm. She felt her palms were a little itchy, and then... she reached out and pinched Rong Xia's nose. Facts have proven that no matter how good-looking a man is, his nose will become less good-looking after his nose is pinched.
"Hee hee, pig's nose." Banhua pinched the wings of her nose twice more. After fully feeling the touch of the beautiful man's tender skin, she retracted her hand with satisfaction.
"Huahua," Rong Xia looked at her darkly with a pair of peach blossom eyes, "Does this behavior of yours count as teasing?"
Banhua turned her face: "How can touching my fiancé's nose be considered molestation?"
"Is that so?" Rong Xia stretched out his hand and gently scraped the tip of her nose. Because his movements were so light that Banhua thought it was an illusion.
A bright smile appeared on Rong Xia's face: "If you touch me, I am yours, and you will be responsible for me in the future."
Ban Hua stared blankly into Rong Xia's charming eyes and nodded blankly.
Until Rong Xia got on the horse, she was still a little unable to recover.
Nothing else, just because those eyes are so beautiful. She had often looked at Rong Xia's eyes before, but she had never felt that Rong Xia's eyes were as beautiful as they were today.
Dark and shining, her reflection was still printed in those eyes. When the eyes curled up with a smile, her heart was trembling.
With such stunning beauty in the world, if you look at other men, they all turn into scum.
Men's looks are a disaster. From today on, Banhua's taste in beauty will increase. How will she live in the future?
On the way home, Rong Xia met Shi Jin, who was taking a break. After the two greeted each other, they left without saying a word.
"Sir," said a guard following Shi Jin, "among the guards who followed Cheng Anbo just now, some of them are people close to Princess Fule."
Shi Jin tightened his grip on the reins and turned to his subordinates: "How did you know?"
Hearing this, the imperial guards blushed and said: "Princess Fule is so beautiful. As long as she goes out, we brothers will inevitably... secretly take a look at the personal guards she always brings with her. We, I have long recognized my face."
After saying this, he was worried about being punished by Shi Jin, so he added: "Sir, we brothers don't dare to look too much, and we don't dare to leave our posts without permission. It's just that sometimes our eyes are disobedient, so just a little I watched a little more, a little more."
"Everyone has a love for beauty, and I don't blame you." Shi Jin took a deep breath of the cold night air, "I guess Princess Fule doesn't trust him, so she sent him home when she sent someone."
"How can a woman send someone to take a man home?" The guard touched his chin and said in a sour tone, "But Cheng Amber is so gorgeous that he can be the fiancé of Princess Fule."
These soldiers don't understand poetry or painting, but in their eyes, Princess Fule is extremely beautiful, and whoever gets to marry her is a blessing.
The tastes of military commanders and scholars are still different.