The Princess Kicks Down the Protagonists

Chapter 317: What you sow, what you reap

In the dim town, Yongqi stopped his horse before curfew.

He asked in every town along the way, but didn't get any useful information. He thought that Xiaoyanzi might not have come this way, or she might have left long ago.

He walked into an inn, intending to rest for the night and continue looking for it early the next morning.

Walking to the counter, he habitually took out the portrait of Xiaoyanzi and asked the shopkeeper if he had ever seen Xiaoyanzi.

The shopkeeper hadn't expected that someone would come to stay at the inn so late. Seeing that the person was looking for someone, he looked at the portrait carefully with the idea of trying his best to help.

"Hiss, looks familiar."

Hearing that he looked familiar, Yongqi instantly perked up. "Familiar? Shopkeeper, please take a closer look. Has he passed by our place in the past few days?"

The shopkeeper took the portrait and looked at it carefully under the lamp. It took him a long time to remember.

"Oh, no wonder she looks familiar to me. This girl was crying on the side of the road all afternoon during the day, so she left a deep impression on me."

When Yongqi heard Xiaoyanzi crying, his heart instantly tightened, as if he saw with his own eyes how sad Xiaoyanzi was crying. He wished he could find Xiaoyanzi immediately and hug her to comfort her.

"Do you know where she might be right now? I want to find her immediately."

The shopkeeper thought for a moment and shook his head helplessly, "Young man, if you had come earlier, you might have seen her, but she might be in some inn now. It's almost closing time, so it's not convenient for you to ask everyone one by one."

That's the truth, Yongqi was deflated.

Yongqi felt extremely disappointed when he thought that he almost met Xiaoyanzi and that he could catch up with her if he was just a little faster.

Xiaoyanzi may be in a corner of this small town now, but she seems to be far away in the horizon, and he can't catch up with her no matter what.

Seeing the young man so lost, the shopkeeper suggested, "Young man, it's getting late. You can look for her tomorrow morning when the inn opens. If she's in this town, you'll definitely run into her if you go out and look around."

"Hey, thank you, boss." Yongqi nodded. Indeed, the chance of finding it if he went out now was too small.

The shopkeeper asked mysteriously, "Young man, who is this girl to you?"

Yongqi smiled bitterly, his smile full of helplessness, "To be honest, this is my wife. She has a bad temper. She had a conflict with me and ran away in anger. I was so anxious."

Upon hearing this, the boss laughed good-naturedly, "Young man, you don't understand this. You should coax and flatter your wife, not quarrel with her. Don't do this next time."

"Yes, yes, it's too late for me to regret it now. When I find her, I will apologize and comfort her."

"Then I won't bother you any more. Go and get some rest now. Go look for your wife early tomorrow morning."

Yongqi bowed to the shopkeeper and was taken upstairs by the waiter.

The shopkeeper looked at Yongqi's tired body, then at the way he was trembling even when climbing the stairs, and shook his head helplessly.

"Young people nowadays are so full of themselves. Look at this guy, he can barely stand, yet he's even going on a saga of traveling a thousand miles to find his wife. He really thinks this is a storybook."

I don’t know how far I have run to catch up with you. If my body is broken, who will be responsible?

Young people!

On the other hand, Xiaoyanzi was also moved by the old woman. In the small room, she opened her heart to the strange but gentle old woman.

The old woman had never expected that so many great things would happen to this seemingly ordinary little girl in front of her.

Just the fact that she could impersonate a princess was something that ordinary people wouldn't even dare to think about. She was truly extremely bold.

If the sadness in Xiaoyanzi's eyes had not been so real, the old woman would have suspected that the girl was telling stories deliberately to amuse her.

Seeing the old woman's increasingly shocked expression, Xiaoyanzi burst into laughter. "Old woman, what do you think? Are you regretting bringing me back now? I'm a disaster."

Unexpectedly, upon hearing Xiaoyanzi's self-deprecating words, her mother-in-law's expression changed. She patted Xiaoyanzi's hand seriously and said, "Child, don't talk about yourself like that. You can live well in the capital. Why do you have to run to this poor and remote place to suffer?"

When this was mentioned, Xiaoyanzi became dejected again.

"My sweetheart betrayed me."

Faced with such a kind old lady, Xiaoyanzi somehow felt an extra desire to talk to her.

Perhaps it was because she really had no one in the capital to confide in. She used to be able to tell Ziwei, and later she could tell Liuhong, but now she could only tell the old woman whom she had only met once.

Xiaoyanzi told the story of Concubine Yu's dissatisfaction with her, and how Xinrong interfered between the two of them, forcing the Fifth Prince to marry and her from being a concubine to a princess.

When talking about the grievances she felt, Xiaoyanzi burst into tears again.

This time the old woman did not interrupt, but just wiped Xiaoyanzi's tears silently and waited for Xiaoyanzi to finish her story.

Xiaoyanzi finished her story in one breath, thinking that the old woman would comfort her softly, or at least give her a warm hug, but the old woman didn't.

She just sighed and said, "Girl, you said you were unlucky before, but think about it, you and your sweetheart have come to this point, maybe there are your own reasons."

Xiaoyanzi was stunned. "My own reasons?"

"Yes, although I don't understand the things going on in the capital, I can guess a little bit. You are hiding something, right? Otherwise, based on what you said, how could your sweetheart suddenly stop loving you?"

Xiaoyanzi blushed when she heard the old woman's sharp words.

She did hide some things and didn't tell anyone about the uproar she had caused. She still had some dignity to maintain.

But now that the old woman had seen through everything, Xiaoyanzi felt even more ashamed.

Seeing that Xiaoyanzi felt a little guilty, the mother-in-law didn't want to find out what had happened to Xiaoyanzi. She stood up and patted Xiaoyanzi on the shoulder.

"Everyone is bound by fate. You reap what you sow. Just like now, think carefully about why you acted so impulsively. Never make irreversible decisions based on a momentary impulse."

Little Swallow murmured softly, "You reap what you sow."

What about her? Does she really want to find her relatives, or is she hoping that Yongqi will come to find her?

Xiaoyanzi had been traveling with great anxiety these days and had never dared to think about this problem at all. Now that the old woman pointed it out, she had to start thinking about it.

But Xiaoyanzi couldn't understand it.

What she saw was the truth. Could it be that Yongqi really changed his mind?

Or were all of Yongqi's previous promises false?

After all, he is a royal prince.

Perhaps it was Yongqi's constant efforts to get close to her that made Xiaoyanzi temporarily forget the fact that the Fifth Prince was a playboy, but in essence, the Fifth Prince was different from her.

Xiaoyanzi couldn't sleep. Listening to the old woman's snoring, she thought about her relationship with Yongqi all night.