Chapter 38: When the Dandy Encounters a Robber

  "Do you know where there's a jewelry store?" With design drawings in hand, after class, I first asked Li Yu.

  Li Yu looked at me with a hint of wariness: "What do you want to do?" She still seemed to be holding a grudge from the last time I used snow to wipe her face.

  "What's wrong with you? Do you think I, a high-ranking official's son, would rob a jewelry store?" He angrily flung his sleeves, looking down on others.

  "It's not that serious, but you have to tell me what you're planning to do at the jewelry store first?" Li Yu was proudly showing off her new hairpin in front of me, a swallowtail pin, which looked very pretty.

  "Let me tell you... but don't ever tell anyone else." My expression turned extremely serious, as if I were about to discuss with her the process of human evolution from beasts to primates.

  "How...I really want to go rob?" Li Yu's expression was very excited, and the tip of her nose had turned red......Damn, this girl's mind is really too dark.

  "Robbery... Today I'll really go rob, tomorrow you all just wait to come to my house and burn incense for me, or else Old Master will throw us into the pigpen and chop us up."

  Li Yu lowered his voice, glanced around to make sure no one was listening, and deliberately lowered his voice: "Isn't it that you want to buy some jewelry for your Qin sister?" The little girl laughed very wickedly, her pink tongue licking her lips, her eyelashes trembling with excitement.

  Anger burns in my chest, I slam the table and say with great righteousness: "Nonsense! How could this young master be a person who forgets his principles at the sight of beauty? I am doing all this for my mother who raised me with hardships, to do some small things for her and fulfill my filial piety..."

  Li Yu made a vomiting gesture on one side: "Believe you and there will be ghosts."

  "Whether you say it or not, if you tell me, you'll get your benefits in two days..." Stop chatting nonsense with this little woman and get to the point.

  "What benefits." Li Yu's reaction was quick this time.

  "In short, it's absolutely something that Your Highness has never seen before, so are you going to agree or not? If not, I'll find someone else." With a flick of her sleeve, she stood up.

  "Deal!" Li Hu hurriedly clapped his hands: "After leaving the Hongwen Museum, walk east for three or four hundred steps, and there is a Bi Huan Xuan. That's one of the top jewelry stores in our Chang'an City. Remember..."

  Having completed the transaction, I felt relieved and took a step to the window to take a breath of fresh air. "Jun Ge, what did you just say to my sister? It seemed so mysterious..." The future Emperor Li Zhi, who was curious about gossip, squeezed over and learned my reverse breathing method.

  "A monumental undertaking that will make the heavens weep and the gods tremble... I want to add my contribution to the fashion and trends of Tang Dynasty women, enriching the Tang Dynasty... Wait... What's wrong? You little brat, where are you going?..."

  This stinky kid, ignore him. Let's continue designing. Design a pair for Mother, a pair for Elder Sister-in-law, this lovely and adorable little maid Green Butterfly also wants a pair, and... Miss Qin Yan also wants to give her a pair. As for Li Shu... design a pair of skull wolf-tooth earrings that suits her evil and dark personality, hahaha..."

  "What are you muttering about?..." Li Yu took advantage of Lao Fuzi's inattention and poked me with his pen.

  "What? No... I was thinking about state affairs..." Next time when thinking about things, it seems like I need to shut my mouth.

  During the break, Li Yu didn't let me off the hook. The tip of his pen kept drawing in front of me, his eyes disdainful: "Hmph... nonsense! Earlier, your gaze at me was quite off, were you thinking of some bad idea?"

  Isn't that just a skull earring? The young ladies of later generations might like it, but as for the Li Yu in front of me, his aesthetic sense may not be up to that level.

  "Alright, since you asked so strongly, I'll tell you the truth. I was observing, and later on, I'll give you something that suits your pretty face..." Absolutely true.

  "You... scoundrel." Li Yu's face was bright red, biting his lip and stabbing me with his pen.

  "...Hey, stop it! If you don't stop, I'll really get angry. Duntu...I'm telling you, big sister, do you even understand what 'duntu' means? Someone like me, who is wholeheartedly devoted to the public good and is a true gentleman of great virtue, is rarely found in the Tang Dynasty." He said with a very wronged tone, his hands spread out.

  "...a decent person, like you?..." Li Yu covered his mouth and smiled, very charming, with big bright eyes and long thick eyelashes looking beautiful, but the gaze was too improper, as if looking at a cockroach crawling on the ground.

  "Am I not a decent person?" Enraged, his eyes widened, and the aura of royalty shook violently. It seemed that Princess Hepu had been immunized by His Majesty's royal aura and was not affected at all. She smiled cleverly and put the pen back on the holder with a delicate gesture: "Remember, at 5 pm, go to Yunwen Pavilion... someone is looking for you..." Her gaze was somewhat... indescribable, but it seemed strange.

  "Looking for me? Are you Third Brother?" That handsome guy with the electric eyes didn't say he was going to Luoyang to have fun and flirt, how come he's back in less than half a month?

  "You'll know if you go!" Li Yu interrupted my question with great impatience, twisting her slender waist to follow the other girls who were gossiping in a small circle.

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  "What is this?" The shopkeeper, who looked to be in his fifties, had a gentle appearance, but the glint of gold in his triangular eyes made it clear that he wasn't someone to be trifled with. At the moment, he was holding my design draft and almost poked his eyes into the rice paper.

  "This thing was personally designed by this young master, called earrings, hung on the ears, exclusively for ladies." He took over the tea water handed over by the helper, and elegantly sipped a mouthful, but his heart was a bit nervous, fearing that this guy had never seen it before and didn't know its value.

  The shopkeeper's eyes grew higher and higher, probably even the high sun outside couldn't compare to his shining gaze. The longer he looked, the more the old shopkeeper's hands trembled with excitement... Ha! This old fellow really knows his stuff, of course he'd know that this thing we designed has a fatal attraction for those women. It will be all the rage in the entire Tang Dynasty, the entire Asia, the entire Eurasian plate, the entire Earth! Elated, he grabbed his tea and downed it like wine.

  "This is... this is what you gave to the small store?" The shopkeeper's mouth corners almost split to the back of his head, staring at me with that face, making me think of Zhou Xingxing's "Royal Tramp" 's Du Long, too... too lewd.

  "What?!... This old man almost choked on his water for half a day, and it turned out that this guy wasn't the boss, but rather an old bandit."

  The old man didn't even wait for me to catch my breath, and he grabbed my hand tightly: "This young master... as soon as you came in the door, I noticed that you have a noble appearance, and I knew that you were from a wealthy and aristocratic family... Hehe... don't be nervous, I'm not a bad person, it's just that when I saw this thing on your drawing... although it's not very useful, it's quite ingenious... I was thinking of asking you to give it to my humble shop... what do you think?" The old man's saliva splattered all over my face, and the design drawings that I had spent thousands of years accumulating were being grasped tightly by him.

  "Cut the nonsense... return my stuff first!!!" You think you can rob me, Young Master? How dare you! Enraged, I let out a fierce roar, my eyes bulging like a tiger's, my body trembling with fury, killing intent radiating from me. If this old man doesn't return my treasure, he will definitely meet a bloody end.

  The entire Bihuan Xuan was dead silent, with everyone staring at Ben Shao in a daze and fear.

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  PS: The second chapter is over, everyone take a good rest... Tomorrow there might only be one update, and even if the weather clears up, I need to rest, in order to provide better updates during the National Day period, so please bear with me.