Three Years After Falling Off the Cliff

After leaving the city, Fu Yi suddenly hugged Princess Ning's waist tightly and said, "Princess, the Cuju field is just ahead. We need to speed up."

Princess Ning was about to say it was okay, but the scenery in front of her blurred and the horse under her started running fast. She thought she would be scared, but watching the trees flying around and the passers-by she left behind quickly made her excited.

The arm around her waist was slender but strong. Princess Ning subconsciously believed the person behind her, believing that she would not put herself in danger.

It turns out that the feeling of galloping on horseback is so joyful.
The sound of horse hooves was like dense drum beats, hitting her heart again and again.

A small river appeared in front of them, and the golden sunlight shone on the water, so bright that it was blinding. The horse raised its front hooves and jumped high. Princess Ning exclaimed, and in a trance she thought the horse was flying.

"The Cuju field is in front of us." Fu Yi was afraid of scaring Princess Ning, so she tightened the reins and slowed down the horse: "The Cuju field occupies too much space, and there are many people in the capital who like to watch football, so for the sake of public security in the city, the Cuju field was built outside the city."

Princess Ning heard faint cheers coming from afar. In the north of the Ling Mountains, learning was flourishing and playing Cuju would be seen as a waste of time, so she had never been to a place like a Cuju field.

Thinking that she was doing something that her family did not allow, her palms broke out in sweat and she felt an indescribable excitement and anticipation in her heart.

"Boss!" Yang Erlang saw from afar that Fu Yi was hugging someone in her arms. He jumped up and waved at her: "Who did you bring?"

Fu Yi stopped the horse in front of him, dismounted, and turned around to help Princess Ning dismount.

"You're finally here. You have no idea how arrogant Liu Xiaopang and the others are..." After Yang Erlang saw clearly who Fu Yi was supporting, he opened his mouth for a long time without saying a word, and there was a crazy scream in his head.

Why did the boss bring Princess Ning here? !
Crazy, really crazy!
Screaming wildly in his heart, Yang Erlang did not forget to salute Princess Ning: "Greetings, Princess Ning."

"He is the second son of Marquis Yang. Princess, you can just call him Yang Erlang from now on." Sensing Princess Ning's discomfort, Fu Yi held Princess Ning's wrist and said, "There are many people inside. Please hold my hand."

Princess Ning followed Fu Yi into the gate of the Cuju field. Cheers were deafening and she saw many people looking at them.

"Yun Fuyi, you are finally here!"
"Sister Yun, we are one goal behind. Go and teach them a lesson."
"Sis, you are my most powerful sister, and I am betting that you will win!"

Princess Ning saw that among this group of people there were sons of military generals and royal relatives. Many of them were holding red flags, and in the distance there was a group of people holding blue flags.

Fu Yi reached out and took a small red flag and stuffed it into Princess Ning's hand: "Please make way first. I will take everyone to their seats first."

Sui Anying came over and pushed Fu Yi away eagerly: "Don't worry, leave her to me. I promise to take good care of her for you. You go in first."

Princess Ning had met the little princess several times at royal family banquets, but their friendship was limited to mutual greetings and they had no other interactions.

"Princess, Anying is my good friend, you can play with her at ease." Fu Yi handed Princess Ning's hand to Anying: "Princess, this is the first time for you to come to the Cuju field, please take good care of her."

"Oh, I know, I know!" Sui Anying grabbed Princess Ning's hand and pretended to kick Fu Yi: "Hurry up!"

After Fu Yi walked away, Sui Anying pulled Princess Ning to the front row and sat down: "Please sit here, Princess. It's the clearest place to see."

Princess Ning saw many familiar-looking people here. They seemed a little surprised at her appearance and a little wary, but when they heard that she was brought here by Yun Fuyi, the wariness on their faces disappeared.

Soon someone came to tell her the rules of the Cuju field, and someone else told her about the glorious achievements of the Red Team over the years.

"Fuyi is coming!"
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"
"Yun Fuyi!"

Watching Yun Fuyi, who was wearing a red riding suit and had her hair tied in a braid, entering the venue amid the cheers of the crowd, Princess Ning felt as if she was also infected by the people around her and couldn't help but cheer for her.

Hearing the cheers from the seats, Fu Yi waved at them, and the screams instantly became more enthusiastic.

"Humph!" Fatty Liu in the blue team's stands saw this scene and snorted disdainfully: "Yun Fuyi hasn't played on the Cuju field for three years. She may not win even if she relies on her. Right, cousin?"

After waiting for a while without getting any answer, Fat Liu turned his head and saw his cousin staring at the field with flushed cheeks. He didn't even hear what he said.

Fatty Liu: “…”
He knew that reading all day long would make a person stupid, and he could even watch a Cuju game with total rapt attention.

Each of the red and blue teams has twelve people, six men and six women. There are six holes on both sides of the court. One point is counted for each time the ball is kicked into the opponent's hole.

Seeing the Red Team replace Yun Fuyi with another player, the Blue Team became nervous. Who among those present could forget Yun Fuyi’s heroic figure when he scored a goal three years ago?
The golden gong sounded and both sides started running. The blue team tried desperately to stop Yun Fuyi, but no matter how hard they tried, Yun Fuyi could find a tricky angle to dribble past the opponent. In the blink of an eye, she kicked the ball into the blue team's hole.

“Ahhhhhh, I knew that as long as she was on the court, we would definitely win!” Sui Anying pulled Princess Ning’s sleeve and screamed excitedly: “Fuyi, Fuyi!”
Excited screams rang out one after another, and Princess Ning was unconsciously infected by them. She waved the little red flag in her hand and cheered for Yun Fuyi.

After Yun Fuyi appeared, the Red Team played more and more courageously. The two sides did not retreat in the confrontation. In just three incense sticks of time, the Red Team turned defeat into victory and led the Blue Team by two goals.

“Go! Knock Yun Fuyi over first!” Fat Liu pounded the table angrily. He wished he could rush into the room and hold Yun Fuyi down with his fat body.

While he was roaring, Yun Fuyi scored another goal.

Seeing Yun Fuyi pretending to be calm and waving at the red party seat, Fatty Liu pounded the table loudly: "Bah, just pretending, she must be very proud right now."
Yun Fuyi has been like this since she was a child. After becoming famous, she pretends not to care and waits for others to praise her.
Pretend!

"She is as graceful as a startled swan, as gentle as a swimming dragon..." Liu Zihe stared at the court infatuatedly: "Such beauty is rare in ancient and modern times."

"What do you mean by red?" Fatty Liu turned his head and looked at Liu Zihe: "Cousin, we support the blue team. Don't mention the word red, it's unlucky!"

"You don't understand." Liu Zihe shook his head in a daze: "You don't understand..."

Fatty Liu: “…”
He still doesn’t understand. The Blue Team has lost so badly, how can he understand?
As the red team scored more and more goals, the spectators in the blue team's seats became dejected, while the red team's seats were filled with loud drums and laughter.
People do not share the same joys and sorrows. Liu Xiaopang only felt that the red seats were noisy.

At the end of the game, the winning players will not only receive silver medals, but also wreaths and purses.

Fu Yi wore a wreath on her head, walked through the cheering crowd, and walked to Princess Ning with a smile: "Princess, is the Cuju game interesting?"

Looking at the tiny beads of sweat on Yun Fuyi's nose, Princess Ning realized that her voice had become a little hoarse. She nodded and said, "It was very interesting. It was worth the trip."

"That's good." Fu Yi pushed aside Sui Anying, took off the wreath on her head and put it on Princess Ning's head: "Flowers are given to beautiful women. Princess should be in a much better mood now?"

Princess Ning stared at Yun Fuyi, whose black hair was a little disheveled, in shock. She thought she had hidden her emotions very well, but she didn't expect Yun Fuyi to know that she was in a bad mood. Someone threw a handkerchief to Fuyi, and Fuyi stretched out her hand, grabbed a handkerchief, and wiped the sweat from her forehead with it: "Thank you for your kindness, girls."
The girl whose handkerchief was caught by Fu Yi blushed, covered her face with her hands and hid in the crowd.

"Calm down a bit. You've seduced the little girl into such a state." Sui Anying handed the water bag to Fu Yi: "Drink some water."

"Sweet?" Fu Yi uncorked and took a sip: "I knew that Anying held me in the palm of her heart."

"Ha." Sui Anying found a round fan and fanned Fu Yi: "Don't try that on me. When Lin Xiaowu finds out, he'll make trouble with me again, saying that she and you are the best in the world."

Fu Yi held the water bag and drank it down guiltily. She glanced around a few times and only felt relieved when she was sure that no one heard what she said.

"We kicked the blue team so hard today. Fatty Liu is going to be so angry that he can't eat again." Sui Anying glanced at the wreath on Princess Ning's head and said with a smile: "When you won the game before, the wreath was given to me or Lin Xiaowu. Now that you have a newcomer, you forget about me, the old one?"

"This is the first time that Princess Ning has come to watch a Cuju match." Fu Yi grabbed Sui Anying's sleeve and said, "I will definitely give you the wreath next time."
Sui Anying tapped her forehead with a round fan, as if smiling, "I'll remember this for you first." After that, she bowed to Princess Ning, "Princess, I was just joking with Fu Yi, please don't take it seriously."

Princess Ning smiled and shook her head. She stroked the wreath on her head, which was still covered with morning dew. "I am the third among my sisters. My father named me Siyue. Fuyi can call me Sister Siyue in private."

Fu Yi was slightly stunned, then she took Lu Siyue's arm and leaned against her intimately: "The first time I saw you, I felt that you were as beautiful as the moon in the sky. From now on, I will call you princess in front of others, and sister behind others?"

Lu Siyue looked at Fu Yi's sparkling eyes and reached out to tidy up the few strands of messy hair on her temples: "Okay."

"Yun Fuyi!"
Fatty Liu pushed through the crowd and rushed to Fu Yi with a player from the blue team: "Yun Fu Yi, are you deliberately going against me?"

"It's normal to have winners and losers in a Cuju game. Why am I deliberately singing a different tune?" Fu Yi stood up from Lu Siyue and threw her braids behind her: "You blue team lost ugly because you are incompetent."

"You!" This player from the blue team also came from an official family. When he heard Yun Fuyi humiliating their blue team, he was already upset and his face instantly turned ugly: "Miss Yun's skills are outstanding. We are far from her, but you shouldn't insult us like this."

"I know you. Your father is the Imperial Censor." Fu Yi saw this man and relaxed his expression towards him: "It's not your fault that the Blue Team lost."

"What do you mean?" Fatty Liu looked at Fu Yi in confusion, then looked at the player behind him: "Did you let Yun Fu Yi win?"

The blue team player angrily said, "Nonsense, how could I have any friendship with such a playboy?"

Hearing this, Sui Anying frowned, and even Liu Xiaopang's expression was not good.

"Don't get me wrong. I just heard that his family is relatively poor. Maybe his three meals a day are simple, so he doesn't have the energy to play Cuju." Fu Yi took out the winning silver and handed it to this person: "Take it back to improve your life. Don't treat yourself badly."

"Yun Fuyi, we have no grudges against each other, why are you humiliating me like this?!" The player threw the jackpot away and cursed, "The Yun family is a century-old noble family, how could there be a playboy like you?"

Fu Yi glanced at the silver that fell on the ground, and the smile on her face disappeared: "Pick it up."

"What did you say?" Seeing Fu Yi's face gloomy, the player was a little scared.

"I asked you to pick it up." Fu Yi said expressionlessly.

The player sneered: "A small ingot of silver is not worth this young master bending over."

"The brocade clothes you are wearing are worth a hundred taels, and the jade pendant on your waist is even more expensive. No wonder you don't care about this little prize money." Fu Yi kicked Liu Xiaopang and said, "Go pick it up."

"Why, why should I pick it up?" Fatty Liu covered his knee that was kicked by Yun Fuyi, and bent down to pick up the prize money while cursing: "I'm not afraid of you, I just don't want to bother with you."

Fu Yi took the silver and ignored him, instead she said to the player, "It's a pity that the son is not as good as his father. Your father is frugal by nature and doesn't even dare to spend more than three or five taels of silver, thinking that it is a luxury. But you regard ten taels of silver as nothing and wear such expensive clothes. Are you doing this to your father?"

"When did my father ever say such a thing?" The player laughed in anger, "With my family's wealth, this little money is not considered extravagance."

"Really? I don't believe it." Fu Yi looked him up and down, "Could it be that some people are pretending to be rich without telling their parents?"

"Yun Fuyi, I think you have been in Chongzhou for too long, and you find everything strange." The player was a little impatient: "No matter what you say today, I will hold you accountable for your insulting words."

"Are you sure your father agreed to you wearing such an expensive brocade robe?" Fu Yi put the silver in her purse and said, "Forget it, I apologize for what I said just now. Don't try to be so pretentious in the future. It's not easy for your father."

"I told you that this little bit of money is nothing to my family. Do you understand me?" the player said angrily, "Who cares about this little bit of money? Neither I nor my father cares! Do you understand?"

"Oh." Fu Yi dragged out her voice and said to the people around her, "Did you all hear what he said?"

The crowd watching the fun nodded in unison.

"Yun Fuyi, what do you mean?" Fatty Liu looked at her in confusion: "Why do you keep emphasizing three or five taels of silver?"

"You don't know that the Imperial Censor told His Majesty a few days ago that if the frontier soldiers were given an extra three taels of silver every year, it would develop their extravagant habits." Fu Yi frowned, "But now this young master said that your father doesn't even look down on three or five taels of silver. Does that mean... your father is deceiving the emperor?"

"If the Imperial Censor was not frugal by nature, how could he be afraid that a few taels of silver would foster extravagant habits in the soldiers?" Fu Yi opened her eyes wide in surprise, covered her mouth and said, "Deceiving the emperor is a serious crime, how dare your father do that?"

"You, don't slander us. Our Zhang family is loyal to His Majesty. How could we deceive the emperor?" The player subconsciously felt that something was wrong and his face suddenly turned pale as paper.

"We all heard what you said just now." Fu Yi said innocently: "Liu Xiaopang, did you hear it too?"

Liu Xiaopang didn't say anything. He always felt that this matter was a little strange.

"I heard it." Liu Zihe squeezed out of the crowd, blushed and bowed to Fu Yi, saying, "Miss Yun didn't lie, Mr. Zhang did say those words."

Fatty Liu: “…”
Cousin, why are you joining in the fun at a time like this?
"I heard it, too."
Everyone turned around and saw His Royal Highness the Prince walking towards them step by step on the stairs.

Why is Your Highness here?
Before anyone could react, the player had already fallen to his knees, trembling all over.

Fat Liu looked around in confusion. It was strange enough that his cousin suddenly came to watch the Cuju match today, but he didn't expect that His Royal Highness the Prince would also show up in a noisy place like the Cuju field.
What exactly is here at the Cuju field?

(End of this chapter)