Travel To The World Of Ca Li
Guests In Reading Room
4 Days Later, the square of Lian City, Shen Empire.
A cheerful frenzied sound with the warm scent of spring lingered on each visitor's nose.
Merchants offering their wares, hundreds of walkers have beaming faces, dozens of small children running around and whining at their mothers for toy masks.
Lian City Square is so crowded, crowded by residents who gather to trade or buy goods.
It was seen that the Young Miss was shopping for so many items wearing their beautiful silk clothes and the makeup and bodyguards so conspicuously displayed their status and standing.
The spring festival for the turn of the year had already passed for so long. But, why do some nobles look to be preparing for some celebrations?
"Capital News! Latest news from the capital!" A book and newspaper merchant had just arrived, he shouted loudly peddling his merchandise. "Recent news, latest news. For all Miss and Madam prepare yourself,—The Emperor will hold a competition for the selection of the prince's consort..."
"Aiyaa, the umpteenth rumor you're publishing is..." Another trader responded indifferently by ridiculing.
"Shut up! This time, I can confirm the truth. I have a trusted informant from the Capital. Look at this—, a list of names and face paintings of the Young Misses who will be invited directly by the Emperor to enter the Palace." The newspaper seller growled with annoyance at his colleague, showing him thick paper scrolls.
From behind the hood, Xiu Qixuan's face remained flat, but, her eyes twitching low showed curious interest. His fingers shrunk open a little cloth hood he was wearing.
Suddenly, a young lady with her servants flashed past in a whisper.
"Isn't that old news. We're getting ready now." The Miss said to the waiter with a frown.
The waiter replied in a whisper making a compliment to curry favor. "Because the Great Lord is a noble who comes from the Capital. So the news will come first for you, miss. After all, only the great nobles knew the truth of— before it was truly widespread."
Hearing their words, Xiu Qixuan squinted her eyes sharply. The sentence written in the mail from Xiu Haocun suddenly flashed quickly filled his mind and thoughts.
In an instant, Xiu Qixuan's calmness faded as her suspicious heart tried to digest some information.
Xiu Qixuan immediately got up and walked quietly past the newspaper sellers who were already busy in the crowd.
He broke through the edge of the crowd of buyers and tossed a bag of coins then passed away without saying anything after picking up the scroll containing the list of names.
Both feet of Xiu Qixuan continued to step, his head lowered with movable fingers opening the scroll.
Srek...
Xiu Qixuan's eyeballs moved reading the entire contents of the list of names. And, it came to a halt when her face suddenly peeled hard with a dark look at the written sentence.
[Great Lady Xiu, Princess General Big Xiu. of Jizhou County of Ping'an City at the Southern Border.]
There are no face paintings on display. Perhaps it was because Xiu Qixuan really rarely left the residence using the status of a Grand Miss Xiu.
His distorted face was back flat. His eyes that twitched provoked it again shrank blankly. The words of the father written in the letter slowly flashed again, Xiu Qixuan understood the whole thing briefly.
Xiu Haocun—sang father, ordered to immediately select one man and accept his proposal. That meant that he did not want the princess to enter the Imperial Palace to participate in the selection of the prince's empress.
Therefore he had to hasten his return and choose a future husband before the imperial people came. Xiu Qixuan immediately ran towards the inn where she had left the horse.
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Ten days later, Ping'an City. The Residence of the Great General Xiu.
"Great Miss, you're home!" A walking residence maid carrying a laundry basket exclaimed as she looked at Xiu Qixuan who jumped down from the horse.
"Is my father in the house?" Xiu Qixuan asked hurriedly.
"Eh?" The servant girl tilted her face answering with a puzzled stutter. "It seems like the Great Lord is still in the reading room.." paused he.
Because without waiting for any more words, Xiu Qixuan immediately ran towards the corridor from the side gate of the residence.
During the trip and stripped of her identity as Big Miss Xiu, she had to use the side door to disguise herself so as not to be conspicuous.
"Eh, wait a minute Miss..." The servant girl said to try to hold back Xiu Qixuan's footsteps, but, she was late because Xiu Qixuan had already completely disappeared away.
"Aiyaa, while the Great Lord is receiving guests." The servant girl scratched the itch of her cold shuddering nape, she felt like she had made a big mistake.
And, it turns out that later in life he found out it was indeed a mistake.
Arriving at the reading room, without having any special patience—Xiu Qixuan opened the door loudly until it made a loud thud and he exclaimed excitedly; "... Dad, your daughter is back!"
This is what he usually does to comfort the father who is always sulking.
**Brack**...
When the door is completely open. A huge wave of pressure hit Xiu Qixuan who was instantly peeking at the entrance threshold. His heart jumped in surprise. But, he was trying to maintain a polite and gentle expression on his face.
He looked at Xiu Haocun who was bowing low like he was begging something to someone who was sitting gracefully sipping tea with an indifferent gesture.
Xiu Qixuan's mouth twitched with her fingers holding back to form a fist. He was angry to see the father bowing lower like that.
".... Father." Xiu Qixuan smilingly called out low with her eyes that were starting to turn cold.
Both Xiu Haocun's eyes lifted and glared at him sharply. "What kind of disrespectful behavior is this?! Quickly return to your room now, Xuan'er!" he shouted to throw her away in anger.
Xiu Qixuan was aghast. He blinked with a face of disbelief hearing Xiu Haocun yell at him.
"Aiyaa, now I understand. The Great General tried so hard to hide his daughter because she was so sweet..." The graceful voice flowed sharply by issuing a special arrogance pressure belonging to a respectable person.
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***Happy new year 2022. May happiness bless us all. Thank you for always supporting this work and author. Love you all💞***
***Who are your guests***? ***are new characters***?
***Btw, why should the author's novel cover change****** it? does anyone know***?