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    Tomorrow, he was going to leave the capital and go far away to Yunzhou, so Xu Qi’an immediately left the government office and went home to prepare for his trip.

    In order to cover his tracks, he only put valuable items inside small jade mirrors, such as silver, gold, and silver certificates ….

    Then he told his aunt and sister that he was traveling with the governor to Yunzhou.

    Xu Qi’an had never left the capital when he was so old, and even his aunt couldn’t help but be concerned, telling him to bring all his things with him, and that apart from silver, clothing was the most important thing.

    “I’ve heard that there’s a lot of miasma over in Yunzhou, and it’s always cloudy and rainy, so you’ll need to bring some antidote pills, and some ointment to remove the dampness…Xu Ningyan, I’m talking to you.” The aunt slapped the table.

    “Got it got it.” Xu Qi’an suspected that she was annoying, and said in a bad mood, “This doesn’t even need you to say well, right, I’m just here to let you know.”

    I was a southerner in my last life, enduring magic attacks all year round, and relying on all the righteousness to protect me from the cold, what is the cold and dampness of the south …. Xu Qi’an muttered in his heart.

    …..

    The Church Office, Shadow Plum Pavilion.

    The sound of shaking the bed slowly ceased, Xu Qi’an propped up his arms and looked at the beauty underneath him with a blushing face, “I’m going to leave the capital tomorrow and go on a trip to Yunzhou, so I guess I won’t be able to come back for some time.”

    When Floating Fragrance heard this, her two big white legs immediately clamped onto his waist, and in a worried tone, “I’ve heard that the bandits in Yunzhou are making a lot of noise, and it’s very dangerous.”

    “Even if it’s dangerous, it’s still the court’s place.” Xu Qi An pinches the soft cheeks, signaling that there is no need to worry.

    “It’s been a while since you’ve been here, and when you do, you talk about this.” Fuuka grumbled.

    “I’m afraid of manipulating the beauty, not leaving you out in the cold.” Xu Qi’an said.

    The two men talked for a while before the squeaking came back.

    …..

    Leaving the Department of Education, Xu Qi’an went back to Stargazer House to tell Chu Caiwei the news that he was going to Yunzhou.

    After hearing this, the yellow-skirted beauty was very impressed and said that she also wanted to go. However, because the chicken essence was still being improved and refined, and subsequently had to be promoted, and then the opportunity was taken to promote to the sixth grade, so it could not leave the capital.

    This trip will definitely bring warlocks, Xu Qi’an superfluous to run, is out of selfishness, want to travel with Chu Caiwei, as a tourist.

    Many men and women in flirtatious relationships are traveling hand in hand together, swimming and getting pregnant.

    Failing to take away Chu Caiwei, Xu Qi’an took away the chicken essence she had painstakingly refined. The goose-egg-faced yellow-skirted little beauty was furious as she chased all the way out of Stargazer Building, shouting towards Xu Qi’an’s back as he galloped his horse furiously, “Xu Ningyan you asshole.”

    Next, he went to the palace to seek an audience with Princess Huaiqing. As an ally of the Princess, it was only right for him to report on his trip, and in the meantime, talk to the incredibly smart Princess about the situation in Yunzhou and ask for advice.

    The guards brought back the Rapunzel’s reply, “The Princess doesn’t want to see you, please go back.”

    Uh-huh? You don’t want to see me? Yesterday was not a good chat, I yesterday some operation, should make Huaiqing more important to me is …. Xu Qi’an left in a daze.

    Xu Qi’an, who had been cruelly rejected by his sister, turned his head to his round-faced, flirtatious and affectionate sister.

    Lin’an is not in the palace, but in Lin’an Mansion in the imperial city.

    “The framing execution is very strong.” Xu Qi’an immediately diverted to Princess Lin’an’s residence.

    He could go in and out of the Imperial City with his framed waist jade, but the Palace City was inaccessible, and it was better that Lin An was not in the Palace City.

    In a short time, he arrived outside the mansion in Lin’an, and after the guards had summoned him, he entered the mansion.

    Xu Qi’an walked all the way to look at the garden, attic, small pavilion, and even a stage for singing opera, and said that it is worthy of being the emperor’s favorite daughter, this is so grand.

    Mounted was very happy to hear that Xu Qi’an had paid a visit, and sitting in the gazebo, he said with a smile, “Being out of the palace is really a lot freer, it’s just that the mansion is too boring, so it’s better to live in the palace.”

    Her subtext was obvious: How are you going to play it?

    I didn t come to play, I came to say goodbye …. Xu Qi’an said, “I’m leaving the capital tomorrow for a trip to Yunzhou, and won’t be back for a long time. I thought that I have an appointment with the princess tomorrow, so I came over to say goodbye.”

    When Lin An heard this, his little face collapsed and he looked at him with disappointment.

    Well, then, wouldn’t it be futile for her to come back to the Princess’ residence to stay. Mother Consort had allowed her to stay outside for three days at most, and she had been secretly excited in her heart, thinking that this little gong would take her to the inner city to play.

    “Then humble servant will take his leave.” Xu Qi’an turned to leave, and after taking a few steps, he couldn’t help but look back.

    Lin An sat in the gazebo, with the depressed garden in the background, she was dressed in red like fire, charming and beautiful, but lonely and silent.

    So annoying… he grumbled inwardly and turned to walk back again.

    Lin An’s peach blossom eyes instantly lit up, staring at him in a mesmerized manner without speaking.

    “Does the princess like to play chess?”

    “Not like that.”

    “Why?”

    “For the trouble.”

    It’s because of stupidity, right… Xu Qi’an said, “My humble servant has a fresh way to play, the princess can try it out, and if she’s bored in her leisure time, she can also play with the palace maid.”

    Advent bristled, a little disappointed, “That’s it?”

    Just don’t really smell good later. Xu Qi’an summoned the palace maid and had her fetch the chessboard and set it up on the stone table in the pavilion.

    “Second Princess, the chess I’m going to teach you is called Five Pieces Chess, there aren’t that many rules and maneuvers, it’s very simple, no matter if it’s vertical or horizontal or diagonal, whoever strings the five pieces together first wins.”

    “It’s even less fun when it’s so simple.” Prosper shook his head.

    “Don’t be in a hurry, let’s play the next game first.” Xu Qi’an’s demeanor was calm.

    “Good da.”

    Lin An twisted up a chess piece and “snapped” it in the center of the board, raising her snow-white jaw towards Xu Qi An.

    Xu Qi’an landed randomly.

    Playing down, framing began to give their all, the two fell like flying, snapping sound, Xu Qi’an won a game.

    “Again and again and again!” Framed kicked her feet and wiggled her red skirt.

    Second game, third game, fourth game …. Framed kept losing, but the more he played, the more spirited he became, and the more focused his peach eyes became.

    She was surprised to find that this kind of chess was obviously very simple, and there were only a few patterns, but for some reason, it was countless times more interesting than normal chess. One couldn’t help but get into it and couldn’t help themselves.

    Losing over and over, wanting to keep playing over and over again burns up a strong fighting spirit.

    At the same time, she had the illusion that she was a Go master, dribbling her pieces as if they were flying, killing you.

    In the end, Xu Qi’an intentionally gave up a son, giving her the five-star linked pearls.

    “Winning!” Framed cheered happily.

    Xu Qi’an smiled, a gesture of being in control.

    Backgammon was something that, if Princess Huaiqing had played it, she would have gotten tired of it in less than a quarter of an hour and scoffed at it as being too simple.

    But for a silly girl like Lin An, backgammon was an extremely interesting game, and simple mini-games could reap huge traffic. Xu Qi’an had been addicted to small games such as Pick One Pick One, such as Connect the Dots, such as 2048, and so on.

    Playing for hours at a time, the brain keeps telling itself: no more, no more ….

    The body, however, is honest.

    “Xu Ningyan, you’re really something.” Lin An’s green fingers fiddled with the chessboard, “And you know how to write poetry and so many interesting gadgets.

    “By the way, have you figured out the first half of that poem yet?”

    Xu Qi’an shook his head.

    “Drunkenly unaware that the sky is in the water, the boat is full of dreams and presses the starry river.” Princess Lin’an also stopped asking questions and recited the half-verse in a low voice:

    “It’s beautiful, and I think about the day when I can lie on a boat and look at the stars in the sky around me. I hope I’m free then.”

    At this time she is not framed, she is the girl with innocence and childlike wonder.

    “Second Princess, did you tell the Eldest Princess about the chicken essence I sent you?” Xu Qi’an asked coldly.

    “No.” Prosper blinked her flirty, amorous eyes as she instantly went from childish girl Prosper again to framed little nightclub queen.

    “Oh!” Xu Qi’an didn’t ask any more questions and looked at the sky, only to realize that it was dusk and the Imperial City was closed, making it impossible to leave.

    Because the patrolling of the Imperial City was the business of the silver gongs, his waist plate could not be used, and the same was true of Princess Lin’an’s waist jade.

    The curfew of the imperial city is very strict, the vouchers of the imperial court itself is very difficult to get, and the vouchers are usually applied for a few days in advance, so they can’t be written and used now. Besides, the government offices in the Imperial City had long since dispersed their duties.

    ….

    Xu Qi’an logically stayed in Lin’an Mansion, and at dusk, Xu Qi’an strolled around the Princess’s Mansion and realized that the Princess’s Mansion had a large pool in the back garden.

    An outrigger boat is moored by the pool.

    “Hehe, she mouths the thought of lying on the boat and looking at the stars, obviously the time and place are all there, but she just mouths it …. Young people nowadays, ah, are always the kings of strong mouths and lack practical skills.”

    Xu Qi’an didn’t move to leave, and when Mount Mount set up a banquet to entertain him, he proposed, “Your Highness, let’s dine somewhere else.”

    The princess’s eyes lit up, and without asking any more questions, she followed his instructions and instructed the palace maid to carry the small table and dishes to the back garden and boarded the crow’s nest boat.

    After a small table had been set up and a charcoal fire burned, the oubliette could not accommodate any more people, so the courtesans could only watch from the shore, looking at each other with some sadness.

    Princess and this man walked a little close, daytime how it does not matter, this night in the pool meeting, in love and courtesy are not appropriate.

    Lin An drank a few cups of wine, her face flushed, “This palace has never tried to dine in a ship.”

    In the candlelight, her face was as warm as a flawless piece of jade, her peach blossom eyes flirtatious as silk. Obviously a showy classical beauty, Xu Qi’an was dressing her up in his mind, brainstorming a little nightclub queen wearing a red T-shirt with a bear reflected on her chest, a pair of denim shorts underneath, white sneakers on her feet, two jade legs long and straight, and permed with wavy curls.

    Night falls and the stringed moon hangs high.

    Xu Qi’an suddenly said, “Lie down.”

    Framed froze for a moment, his heart moved slightly, and without thinking, he made a trip backwards…

    “Oops.”

    She yelped in pain as her brain hit the boards of the boat, but quickly froze. In the night, a stringed moon hung, sparsely dotted with stars that shimmered with silent light.

    The water was smooth as a mirror, reflecting the stringed moon and stars.

    “Drunkenly unaware that the sky is in the water, the boat is full of clear dreams pressing down on the river of stars.” Xu Qi’an whispered.

    She looked at the stars in the sky in a daze, her eyes mesmerized, Xu Qi’an was looking at her, her snow-white jawline beautiful, her nose straight, her cherry mouth slightly open.

    A girl like her was born with internal charm, and her slightly drunken stance was downright seductive.

    “There are too few stars, I want to see a river of stars, I want to see a river of stars.” She lay on the board and twisted her waist, unconsciously pouting.

    There are a lot of stars today, but they don’t compare to the “river of stars”, which will have to wait until summer.

    “That’s nice…” she then murmured.

    …….

    Stargazer Building, Bagua Terrace.

    Standing on the edge of the Eight Trigrams Platform, the Supervisor Zheng, who was observing the sky at night, had a twitch in his ear.

    A few seconds later, the array pattern lit up, and a white-clothed figure standing with his hands behind his back appeared, leisurely reciting:

    “Hands on Tomorrow Pick ….”

    Halfway through his voice, he suddenly jammed, his throat seemed to be pinched by an invisible hand, how could he not spit out the subsequent content.

    After a long time, Yang Qianyi realized that he could speak, honestly, “Teacher, what do you want to see me about?”

    Supervisor Zheng, who also had his back to him, his white beard fluttering, “Go to Yunzhou and watch ….”

    The second half of the sentence was a transmission.

    The master and disciple had their backs to each other, and Yang Qianyi tried, “Sneak in?”

    “Uh-huh.”

    “I see… What else does the teacher have to say?”

    “Crouching tigers and hidden dragons in the nine states, one mountain is even higher than the other, when you go out, you should know how to keep a low profile and be humble, don’t say what you shouldn’t say, and don’t do what you shouldn’t do.”

    “Teacher, speak more clearly.”

    “Keep your head down, and don’t go around saying that line, you’ll get your ass kicked.”

    “Okay teacher.”

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