The prince's personal bodyguard

Bai Xinyin secretly glanced at the maid at the door: the little maid had a pretty and fair face, and was wearing a fruit green silk dress, jewelry, and the pearls on her head were just right. Her manners were decent, which showed that her master had high taste and cultivation.

After entering the door, the princes and gentlemen paid their respects one by one. He took out four plates of cakes from the food box like flowing water: almond snowflake crisps, walnut and red date thousand layers, taro paste and egg yolk mochi, and egg yolk crisps, and placed them on the table one by one. He kept his head down and said nothing, put away the food box and slowly walked away.

Chang Li followed out with a tray in his hand and walked to the door: "Miss, please stay. Here are some golden melon seeds for you to have tea. These are the fruits that the emperor rewarded to the prince. Please let your young lady have a taste." The little maid bowed to thank her, took it with a smile, and went back with her head down.

Si Mochen watched all this with a smile and said jokingly, "They are indeed cousins, they are in love with each other, they have each other in their eyes and in their hearts...ah...uh..." Before he finished speaking, an apricot blossom pastry flew into his mouth, and he could not swallow it or spit it out. He was stunned.

He quickly drank some water and sent it down, then said to Mu Yunxiao with a red face, "You'll choke me to death. My image of being a romantic and unrestrained man has been ruined by you time and time again. I, I, I won't fight for you..."

When Bai Xinyin saw this scene, she smiled with dimples on her lips and curved eyebrows, like a spring breeze blowing through everyone's heartstrings.

Everyone in the box was stunned for a moment. Suddenly, Feng Jiu pointed outside and said, "Look!"

The auction hall was full of people. A flying girl appeared in the sky above the center of the auction hall. She was wearing a purple gauze skirt and descended from mid-air. When she was about to land, she circled around the crowd. The girl was masked, revealing only a pair of beautiful eyes. She was tall and hot, wearing a waist-baring gauze skirt and many bells tied to her belt. As the bells rang, the people in the venue immediately became excited and the atmosphere was high. Some people with dirty thoughts raised their hands and wanted to take the opportunity to touch her.

As the woman stood firmly in the venue, a regular customer began to tease her, "Are you, Manniang, among the treasures being auctioned today? If so, I will spend all my money to buy you away!" Then there was a burst of laughter.

The woman named Man Niang in the field was not angry either: "Sir, please prepare the money and wait. Don't spend all the money, or Man Niang will go back and starve to death with you." Everyone laughed again.

Man Niang walked to the center of the venue and said to everyone in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "Thank you all for your support. Today, we are entrusted by new and old customers to conduct the auction. Please abide by the rules of the auction venue. As usual, the highest bidder wins."

"All the items auctioned today are genuine. If there are any fakes, they will be destroyed in public. The items are valuable. If you win the bid, please keep them properly..."

It was Bai Xinyin's first time to watch an ancient auction, and she watched with great interest. Mu Yunxiao glanced at her from time to time, and he seemed to be in a good mood.

At the beginning, the auction was for ordinary items, and the bids were not high. Some ordinary people came to take a look and came back with a lot of goods.

About a cup of tea later, Bai Xinyin, who was a little uninterested, was just about to grab some melon seeds on the table to eat, when she suddenly saw Man Niang coming on stage with a birdcage in her hand. In the birdcage was a green parrot with its eyes closed. The parrot was green all over, with a circle of orange around its eyes and red dots at the turn of its wings.

African parrots, shouldn't this be the case in this era? Bai Xinyin thought, and after a closer look, she discovered that there were purple dots on the parrot's head. Ah! Ah Dai! Is it Ah Dai, the parrot from my modern grandfather's house? How did it get here?

Bai Xinyin held her breath and looked straight at the parrot in the field. The bird seemed to sense someone looking at it, opened its eyes and looked around: seeing no familiar face, it closed its eyes again.

Man Niang said softly, "The owner of this bird loves it very much, so why is he auctioning it off? Its owner only heard it speak three times, and it refused to speak again. Today we are looking for a destined person. Whoever can make this parrot speak more than three sentences will be given the bird for free."

There was a sudden whisper in the audience. Keeping a parrot is not a rare thing. Some parrots can even speak a few words, but getting a parrot for free is also a fun thing.

The audience was eager to try, and first a big man came up and shouted at the parrot: "Stupid bird! Say something to me."

"You are stupid, your whole family is stupid!" The bird suddenly said two words, and the whole audience burst into laughter. However, no matter how the big man tempted or even threatened it, the bird did not even bat an eyelid.

The big man went down dejectedly. Another maid came, and Bai Xinyin saw that it was the one who brought snacks from the third lady of the Lin Mansion. The maid took the best snacks in her hand and fed the parrot. The parrot looked at the snacks, and seemed to have a question in its eyes. It looked at the maid again, came closer to smell it, said "thank you" and closed its eyes again. The maid went down slightly embarrassedly.

Several people went up like this. Just when Man Niang thought she couldn't find her destined one and was about to go down, Bai Xinyin walked quickly to the cage with tears in her eyes: "Is it you, Ah Dai?" The parrot suddenly opened its eyes wide and immediately jumped up and down. If it weren't for the birdcage, it would have jumped out: "You ungrateful wolf, it's so hard for me to find you. If I didn't think you were pretty, I would have beaten you up a long time ago."

The people on the field opened their eyes wide, strange, really strange!

Whose handsome young man is this? Judging from his attire, he is a guard, a guard of the Prince Rong's mansion. Many people have seen the palace uniforms of the Prince Rong's mansion. The Prince Rong is 23 years old and still unmarried. This guard is so handsome, could it be that... someone had such an idea in his mind. But thinking that he was a prince, he was so scared that he swallowed the idea again.

"Let me out, I want to go with her!" the parrot shouted loudly in the cage.

Bai Xinyin looked at Man Niang. Man Niang held the bird cage in her hand and looked at Bai Xinyin with a probing look in her eyes: "The bird's owner is trustworthy, but I have a request. When the auction is over, please ask the new owner to come over. I have a few words to say."

"Okay." Bai Xinyin watched Man Niang and Ah Dai go down. She returned to the private room. Mu Yunxiao seemed nonchalant, but he actually saw everything.

Feng Jiu chattered: "Ah Si, how did you make the bird talk? Do you know bird language? Teach me someday, and I will definitely benefit from it."

Bai Xinyin just smiled without answering. Suddenly, she felt a cold light in Mu Yunxiao's eyes, as if she had fallen into an ice cave. Feng Jiu snapped and stopped talking. Si Mochen smiled complacently: There will always be someone who will repeat my mistakes.

The auction continued, and Man Niang came up holding a scroll: "I was surprised to hear the birds talking just now. Now let's enjoy the amazing work "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix"."

A maid helped to open the door, and music started playing at the same moment. The ancients really knew how to use sound to set off the scenery, Bai Xinyin thought.

But when you pull it open, you will see many fat little birds drawn on the large white paper, all flying in the same direction. These birds look like the doodles of a three-year-old child, with their round bodies, which make people laugh.

The audience burst into laughter, but Man Niang remained calm and smiled, "Why did you bring my young master's "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix" here? I'm sorry to embarrass you all."

The people below were whispering to each other, and just as they were about to make a noise, a piano sounded, and two slender women flew down from the sky, both dressed in white, with beautiful eyes. Along with the women, there was also a huge scroll, and two people each held one side of the scroll and slowly pulled it open, and everyone's eyes followed the scroll to look at the picture.