Chapter 133
Turning her head to face him with one hand, Pei Qianhao watched her expression as he spoke . "Don't you know what this Prince wants? You always pretend to act obediently when this Prince speaks to you, yet you just have to oppose me and find trouble for yourself . "
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He still has the nerve to say that… Would I be opposing him if he didn't touch my bottom line every time? His behaviour in the room is only one of many times that he has prevented me from escaping .
Do I have to behave obediently even in bed if he asks me? What a joke!
Pei Qianhao suddenly released her and sat back down . "Forget it, how is it possible for you to be obedient? This Prince is just playing the zither to a cow[1] . " Having said that, he closed his eyes to rest .
Su Xi-er looked at him . What a metaphor . I am not a cow, and it's not clear if he can even play the zither .
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Back when she was still in Nanzhao, she had heard that men from Beimin were unruly . Although the belief that men were superior to women was not as prevalent as it was in Nanzhao, Beimin still had a set of rules to control women .
Beimin men typically wouldn't know how to do something as elegant as playing the zither .
The two then stopped talking, although Pei Qianhao continued to secretly observe Su Xi-er from time to time without her noticing .
The wind blew open the curtain of the carriage and allowed Su Xi-er to look outside at the streets . The street the horse carriage was travelling on was a secluded one, not the bustling main road . At this moment, Pei Qianhao suddenly instructed, "Change to another route . Go to the main road . "
The imperial guard driving the carriage obliged, turning the carriage around and heading the other way .
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Su Xi-er was puzzled and asked, "Why change the route when this street has fewer people? Besides, the horse carriage is so ostentatious . "
People from the capital city should all know Prince Yun's horse carriage . All the pedestrians will stop and watch if they see it travelling on the bustling main road .
"This Prince likes it," Pei Qianhao said coldly, then instructed, "Lift the curtains up when we reach the main road; this Prince wants to take a look . "
I had a taste of Yun Ruofeng's excellent training techniques last time I pa . s . sed by the army barracks on the way to the archery range . This time, I want to take a good look at Nanzhao's busiest main road, not just take a few quick glances like before .
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The horse carriage slowed down when it reached the main road, making it easy to hear the loud voices of the peddlers hawking their wares .
"Lift the curtains . " Pei Qianhao opened his eyes; his voice was cold, and his expression serious .
Su Xi-er followed his instructions and lifted the curtains, just enough to allow him to see the scenes from the road, but preventing any pedestrians from looking in .
"There are no beggars this time . " A sneer escaped from Pei Qianhao's thin lips . His eyes were dark, as if he was thinking about something .
With the state banquet so near, there can't be any beggars on any of the streets in the capital city, much less the main road . Either improve the strength of the nation, and let the commoners lead comfortable lives; or make arrangements for the beggars before the start of the state banquet . Seeing how things are, it's likely that the second option was taken .
Su Xi-er softly asked, "Prince Hao, do you still need to look?"
"I'll continue to look . " Pei Qianhao turned his gaze to the stall of a peddler .
Su Xi-er's gaze followed, discovering something suspicious .
The peddler had a reluctant expression, and had a number of patches on their clothes . The stall even had a broken empty bowl in the middle, while a bamboo pole used for begging hung on the side .
1 . A Chinese idiom . It means something like talking to someone ignorant about the topic at hand, similar to how the cow has no sense of music . An English idiom that has roughly the same meaning is 'caviar to the general' .