Surprise! The prince is busy reading the princess' mind while raising a child!

Hong Xiaoyu looked at the crowd watching the excitement. For the first time, she saw the ridicule, disdain, disgust, and even hatred in their eyes so clearly...

She suddenly panicked.

He jumped on his horse and quickly made way for the crowd.

In full view of everyone, Hong Xiaoyu rode away in a hurry, looking extremely embarrassed.

Zhao Shuo looked at the servant who followed Xiao Yu away with a ferocious look, and was about to say something, but he inadvertently saw Hong Shuyuan standing there with a veil on the street corner.

Hong Xiaoyu's half sister.

He recognized those eyes.

When he first entered the Hong family and asked for marriage, Hong Shuyuan urged Xiaoyu not to agree, saying that she was now a poor person and must marry a powerful man in the future, even if it was as a second wife.

Zhao Shuo narrowed his eyes and looked away. Then he followed the direction that Shi Yi and the others had left and searched all the way.

He wanted to meet this person.

Even want to make friends with him.

From a distance, Zhao Shuo saw Shi Yi and her group walking on the street. He did not rush forward to disturb them, but just followed them quietly.

"Miss, that Zhao Shuo was following us just now, but he didn't seem to have any bad intentions." Ding Dong walked over and reported in a low voice to Shi Yi, who could help me in the morning.

"It doesn't matter."

Shi Yi and his group bought a lot of local specialties, had a meal at a roadside restaurant, and then returned to the inn.

After dinner, the master took the two children to see the lanterns, and Ding Dong Ding Dang followed them.

Shi Yi said she had something to do and waited in the room.

Sure enough, after a while, there was a knock on the door.

"Excuse me, are you in your room? Would you be so kind as to come downstairs for a drink?"

Shi Yi's mouth curled up.

here it is~

Opening the door, Shi Yi walked out: "Brother Zhao!"

"May I ask what your name is, brother?" Zhao Shuo's eyes sparkled.

"My name is He Feng. Would you like to drink with me downstairs?"

"please!"

Shi Yi and Zhao Shuo walked down the stairs side by side and went to the pub next door.

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.

Shi Yi took the wine glass and took a sip of the light wine. He couldn't understand how the ancients got drunk with such a low alcohol content.

"Brother Zhao, we hit it off right away. If you have anything to say, just tell me. I will definitely help you in any way I can."

Zhao Shuo, under the influence of alcohol, recounted his situation and then drank another full glass.

"Hey, now, brother, I am living here in such an unclear way, feeling very depressed. I don't know how to break the impasse. The key is that Xiaoyu has been deceived by her stepmother. Now in Wantong City, everyone thinks she is a female tyrant."

Shi Yi picked up the chopsticks, took two bites of food, and said with a smile

"Brother Zhao, do you want Xiaoyu to wake up? Or do you have some other expectations?"

After taking a look at Shi Yi's clear eyes that seemed to see through everything, Zhao Shuo raised his glass and drank it first as a toast!

"I have regarded Hong Xiaoyu as my future wife since I was a child, and that has never changed. Although my parents are both dead and I have no one to rely on, I still want to marry her."

"Then what are your plans, Brother Zhao, after you marry her?" Shi Yi's eyes darkened.

"I want to join the army. Everyone in my Zhao family is good at raising horses, especially war horses. So I want to join the Northeast Camp. I heard that their Black Cavalry has just retired and is now recruiting new soldiers. I want to take her with me and try my best to give her the best life. If she stays in the hands of her stepmother, I can't guarantee that she will lose her original intention."

"Then how do you know that Hong Xiaoyu still has a kind heart?" I'm a little curious, haha~

Zhao Shuo picked up his chopsticks and took a bite of the food:

"Although she often rode her horse at a high speed in the city, I observed that she never knocked over a roadside stall or hit anyone. There was another time when she fell into a roadside ditch while trying to avoid a child playing in the mud on a sparsely populated path."

"Every few days, food from different pubs and restaurants would be delivered to my rented courtyard. I hid in a tree and observed her. I knew which restaurant she went to and which dish she liked, so I asked the waiter to send me a portion."

Zhao Shuo suddenly lost his composure. He wiped away his tears and said with a sob:

"So, I believe that she is still the kind-hearted girl she was when she was little."

Shi Yi said very seriously today:

"What is his father's attitude? As an official appointed by the imperial court, why does he break his promise?"

"I bribed the servants around her father and found out that my father-in-law's boss, the prefect, had lost his wife, so my father-in-law, Ken Hung, planned to marry Xiao Yu to him as his successor."

Shi Yi gritted her teeth and wanted to hit someone: "Does Xiaoyu know?"

Zhao Shuo shook his head:

"I don't know if she knows. Whenever I approach her or talk to her, the servants around her will drive me away fiercely! Oh! I'm so worried!"

Looking at the winding scar on his face, Shi Yi curled the corners of her mouth and asked casually:

"Can you really raise horses? Then do you know where I can buy horses around here?"

Zhao Shuo took a sip of wine and glanced at Shi Yi nonchalantly:

"Outside Wantong City, there is a horse farm that specializes in producing fine horses."

"tell me the story."

"That horse farm is called Danshan Horse Farm. There are hundreds of fine horses, even war horses. My grandfather used to work there. But the horses there are not sold to the military camp. I don't know why."

"Brother Zhao, can you take me there?"

Zhao Shuo frowned: "I will take you there after you solve the problem of playing with Xiaoyu."

"That's good! Since Brother Zhao trusts me so much, I will give Brother Zhao a suggestion. Although it may not necessarily help him marry Xiaoyu, it will definitely help her see the true colors of her family members."

"really?"

"really!"

In the evening, at the home of County Magistrate Hong.

The whole family gathered around the table.

"Where is Xiaoyu?" asked Ken Hung.

"Oh, the child was tired after playing outside today and caught a cold. I've already found a doctor for her. She took some medicine and went to bed." Xiaoyu's stepmother Zhou Feifei said as she served the soup.

"She really has no rules! She only knows how to go out and have fun! I also heard people on the street say that she was even flirting with two men. How disgraceful!" Ken Hung slammed the table, his face turning pale with anger.

"Master, don't be angry! Although Xiaoyu is spoiled and makes trouble outside every day, he is not arrogant and does not bully others often. So, Master, Xiaoyu is still a good child!"

Zhou Feifei picked up some food for Hong Zhuoli, turned to look at her two children, and said sternly:

"Eat well. After dinner, Shuyuan will practice needlework, Jingyuan will study and practice swordplay. You are not allowed to go out and make trouble! You are not allowed to learn from your elder sister! Your elder sister knows what is going on, but you don't! Do you hear me?"

At this moment, Zhao Shuo was pulling Hong Xiaoyu into a dark room. In front of them was something like a big box with light flashing on it. There were also people there. It was the Hong family having dinner.

Hong Xiaoyu was stunned when she heard what they said!

It turns out that my stepmother treated me and my younger siblings differently.

She listened to what they said and looked at their strange faces, tears streaming down her face:

"Brother Zhao, is this what you call "killing with praise"?"