After taking two sips of hot tea, Yuan Zhitong gradually warmed up.

She put down the teacup and looked at the bamboo shed where Gu Jue and Chu Qianchen were again.

Chu Qianchen and Gu Jue sat side by side. Gu Jue was holding a few colorful cocktail feathers and a copper plate in his hand. He knew at a glance that he was making shuttlecocks.

Chu Qianchen stared at his fingers without blinking, his eyes clear.

The two of them were intimately heading to each other, as if no one was around.

Gu Jue's fingers are fair and slender, flexible and agile, and his nails are trimmed cleanly and look very beautiful. Whether it is stretched or curled up, it has a pleasing beauty.

The colorful cocktail feather made his fingers as bright as jade bamboo, and the long tail feathers fluttered and shook with his movements.

As Chu Qianchen looked at it, he couldn't help but reach out to touch the soft and bright feathers, one after another.

How could Gu Jue not see it? A soft smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and he felt that the little girl's expression was exactly the same as the little black cat she raised when she stretched out her claws to play with her feathers.

After Gu Jue adjusted the position of his feathers, the shuttlecock was completed, and the long feathers on the shuttlecock bloomed like flowers.

Chu Qianchen took the shuttlecock he handed over and over again, as if he was enjoying flowers.

Gu Jue said: "Kick and see."

"I want to keep it." Chu Qianchen sent the shuttlecock to his other hand, as if he was afraid that Gu Jue would snatch it away, thinking: What if this is kicked out! This is the first shuttlecock the prince made for her.

Her thoughts were almost written on her face. Gu Jue laughed and said, "I'll make one for you, you can keep this one and play with the other."

"Okay!" Chu Qianchen nodded hurriedly and said with a smile, "I'll do it with you, I'll make one for Qi Niang."

Rather than saying that she wants to make shuttlecocks, she likes the feeling of doing the same thing with him, even if it is just a small shuttlecock.

The two of them picked the cloth head, one red and the other bright red, and they sewed the copper coins together.

Making shuttlecocks is simple, as long as you can thread needles and threads, you can do it.

While stitching, Chu Qianchen couldn't help looking at Gu Jue's hand and thought to himself: The prince's hand is indeed a coincidence, and the stitches are also sewn evenly!

Chu Qianchen was a little absent-minded. He accidentally stabbed the tip of the needle on the belly of the middle finger of his left hand, and a drop of red blood was added to his white skin.

Gu Jue put down the needle and thread, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped the blood from his fingertips, and carefully applied medicine to her.

After Amber put down the ointment, she quietly retreated. She was no longer surprised. After all, when the princess made clothes for the prince, she didn't know how many times she had pricked her own fingertips.

Chu Qianchen smiled obediently, and his face was as beautiful as a flower.

Gu Jue had no choice but to do anything to her, and gently flicked her fingers on her forehead, "Concentrate."

Chu Qianchen covered his forehead and smiled with his little face, being obedient and clever, so cute and lovely, it makes people unbearable to blame.

At this time, Jingfeng walked over from the direction of the palace and said to Gu Jue with his ears. Gu Jue got up and whispered: "I'll go back."

Chu Qianchen picked up the half-made shuttlecock again and waved his hand, meaning, go ahead and go.

After a cup of tea, Chu Qianchen's first shuttlecock was ready.

If Gu Jue is not here, she is not so easily distracted, and the shuttlecock is made soon.

Chu Qianchen happily played with the shuttlecock he made. The few tail feathers inserted on the shuttlecock were more gorgeous than the one Gu Jue made, like the peacock with a wide open screen.

Then, she handed the shuttlecock to Amber.

"Amber, take this shuttlecock for Qi Niang to play with. The tail feather of this pheasant is beautiful, and every girl will definitely like it."

"By the way, remember to tell her that this is the shuttlecock I made with my own hands."

Chu Qianchen smiled sweetly, thinking that she had to do another one and give it to Chu Yunmu after returning to Beijing, otherwise this kid would say she was biased again.

"Don't worry, princess." Amber took the order while taking the shuttlecock and headed towards the palace.

Chu Qianchen started to pick the rag head again, and the next shuttlecock was made for Chu Yunmu. These red rag heads were not suitable, so Chu Qianchen chose a piece of rag head.

She had just picked up the cloth head, and suddenly a sound of breaking through the air came from the front right, accompanied by the girl's delicate exclamation: "My hydrangea!"

Not far away, a bowl-sized hydrangea drew a long curve in the air and flew over quickly. In the sun, the hydrangea was colorful, and several golden bells on the sphere were shining brightly, and the bells were ringing.

Yuan Zhitong panted and ran over to chase the hydrangea in the air, with a strange light flashing through her eyes.

Chu Qianchen was sitting now, looking at the momentum of the hydrangea, it should be able to hit her head. Even if she stood up immediately, she would still be hit by the hydrangea on her shoulder.

The hydrangea is a little muddy, no matter where it hits Chu Qianchen, it will be enough to make her lose face in public!

The girls who were playing with Yuan Zhitong also noticed this scene and let out nervous low voices one after another.

Yuan Zhitong felt a little relieved. While running, the corners of her lips slightly raised.

In the blink of an eye, the hydrangea flew closer, only about two feet away from Chu Qianchen.

Yuan Zhitong seemed to be able to see the hydrangea hit Chu Qianchen's hair bun, making her hair messy, beads and flowers crooked, and her appearance was lost.

The next moment—

A silver sword light flashed, as fast as lightning. The sword rose and fell, and it simply split the hydrangea in half in the air.

Two "bang, bang" sounded.

The hydrangea that was split in half fell on the ground. The big red hydrangea was decorated with golden bells and red tassels, and carp and peonies were embroidered with golden threads, so exquisite that it looked like a work of art.

Yuan Zhitong was so distressed that she took a breath. When she looked closely, she found that there was a long sword in Chu Qianchen's hand.

Chu Qianchen played a sword flower casually, and the long sword returned to the scabbard on the side of Jiang Yuan's waist.

From playing swords to collecting swords, a series of movements are like flowing water, without any drag, and each movement is fast and accurate.

It is impossible for anyone to see that it is impossible for a few years to achieve the skill.

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All the noble ladies around were stunned.

They looked different. Some were more frightened than surprised and frowned slightly; some looked at each other in shock; some were two or three girls in riding clothes exclaimed "wow" and their eyes were as bright as stars.

"..." Yuan Zhitong froze in place as if frozen, her eyes slightly opened, and she looked at Chu Qianchen with an incredible look, as if she was saying, how could you do this!

Her hydrangea!

A faint mist was gathered in Yuan Zhitong's eyes with naked eyes. Her slender body trembled slightly like fallen leaves in the cold wind. She was weak and helpless, and I felt pity for her.

Looking at her, she seemed to cry at any time.

Finally, she took a deep breath and took a few more steps forward resolutely.

"My hydrangea..." Her neatly weaving jade teeth bit her lower lip, her eyes half-hung, and she looked at the hydrangea split into two on the ground.

Her eyes turned redder little by little, becoming more and more pitiful and aggrieved.

Yuan Zhitong really feels sorry.

This hydrangea was rewarded by the queen half a month ago and was a tribute from Yanzhou.

When she was in Qingzhou, she was the daughter of the governor. Everyone held her and respected her. But after coming to the capital, she realized that the world was so big that the Yuan family was really nothing in the capital. They were neither noble nor noble family.

The things she once thought she was proud of were just like this in the eyes of these noble ladies in the capital. She also saw the noble ladies pointing at her jewelry and clothes from afar.

She is the eldest daughter of the family, and her father never treated her badly in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, but she could not have been as careful as her mother when she was alive. This was the first time she had such exquisite and precious things as the tribute hydrangea.

It is precisely because of this that she brought out this hydrangea.

Yuan Zhitong leaned over and picked up the hydrangea that was split in half, and looked at Chu Qianchen again, with reluctance and heartache.

She bit her lower lip again and explained: "Princess, we are just playing with Miss Liu, Miss Li and the others. Only when we play hard will the hydrangea fly over here..."

"I'm wrong with this matter first..."

Yuan Zhitong looked open and her eyes were red.

Chu Qianchen looked at Yuan Zhitong with a smile, "Since you know you are wrong, just step down."

The noble girls who had just played with Yuan Zhitong watched this scene from a distance. They couldn't hear what Yuan Zhitong and Chu Qianchen had said specifically, but at least they could tell from the expressions of the two that their conversation was not going smoothly.

A girl in a begonia red riding suit wanted to say a few words to Yuan Zhitong, but after taking a step, she felt her cuffs tightened. A girl in a purple riding suit and a heroic appearance grabbed her.

"Sister **?" The girl in red blinked in confusion.

The girl in purple shook her head as if she was not smiling.

Another girl in green took the other arm of the girl in red, patted her lightly, and said in a voice that only she could hear: "Little cousin, don't be stupid. A mere minister, if you hit the princess, it would be natural to get slap in the mouth."

The other noble girls were not moved, all looking in the direction of Chu Qianchen and Yuan Zhitong.

"..." Yuan Zhitong's face froze again. From the corner of her eyes, she saw Gu Jue walking towards this side in the southeast, and her eyelashes trembled.

Instead of retreating, she took a step further and cleverly blocked Chu Qianchen's view with her own body, preventing her from seeing Gu Jue.

"Princess." Yuan Zhitong called softly, staring into Chu Qianchen's eyes, and grabbed the hydrangea in her hand tighter.

She was standing now, while Chu Qianchen was sitting, a lot shorter than herself, and she was looking down at her from top to bottom, but at this moment Yuan Zhitong felt as if she was the one being looked down on.

The other party's cold phoenix eyes seemed to be able to see through everything, making her feel that there was nothing inside and outside.

Yuan Zhitong's eyes flashed, she lowered her eyes to avoid the other party's gaze, and said helplessly: "Did you have some misunderstandings about me..."

"I don't understand why the princess targeted me? I shouldn't have offended the princess, right?" She asked two questions in a row, and seemed to think of something, guessing, "Is it because of the Queen Mother?"

"The Empress Dowager is my cousin aunt. I respect the Empress, so I go to Shouning Palace from time to time to pay my respects..."

"It's not what you think, princess."

Yuan Zhitong spoke to herself, her expression was weak, excited, and strong.
Chapter completed!