"Miss, someone is looking for you at the door." Someone informed me from a distance.
"OK!"
Zhou Xia trotted all the way to the gate of the manor, but as soon as she saw who the gate was, she looked disappointed and stopped.
The woman at the door hurriedly said, "Xia Xia, don''t you invite me in?"
Zhou Xia raised her little face and looked at the sky with a dull expression. She didn''t even bother to talk to her: "you must have advised me to attend this meeting again this time. Otherwise, you scolded me for not wearing well. It''s irregular and boring..."
Tao Cui said helplessly, "I''m doing it for you! This time, I know that Beicheng will hold a flower appreciation party again. There are a lot of young talents at the meeting. I heard that there will be people from the royal family? Don''t you go to meet some with me?"
Zhou Xia rolled her eyes: "no, I want to behave better recently. I don''t want to go anywhere!"
Tao Cui stamped her foot and said, "you! I only mentioned you for the love we have known since childhood. Instead of playing in this villa, you''d better go out with me and meet more good men. Look at your ashen face, have you climbed the tree again? Lift up your skirt and tie your waist, and your thighs are exposed!"
Tao Cui is the daughter of Zhou Xia''s nursing mother. She is only two years older than Zhou Xia. Her family is just a civilian. However, because her parents are servants in the Zhou family and are very familiar with the host family, Tao Cui also has some opportunities to get in touch with the upper class society.
In fact, she is not qualified to participate in the flower appreciation party, but if Zhou Xia takes her, she can, so she wants to persuade Zhou Xia to take her to the flower appreciation party.
Tao Cui is not very popular with Zhou Xia, mainly because she always speaks of Zhou Xia as her sister. This is also a way for her to maintain a good image in front of her master''s house. Unfortunately, Zhou Xia himself doesn''t buy it at all.
When I was a little older, Zhou Xia and Tao Cui were still good sisters to play together. But later, Zhou Xia had a class and had to learn a lot of things, so he didn''t have much time to play with Tao Cui. The Tao Cui family naturally won''t send Tao Cui to school, so they let her help with housework and learn some needlework at home.
This makes the gap between the two bigger and bigger.
Zhou Xia was gifted and learned things very quickly. Each of her teachers praised her for her quick thinking and analogy. She was really a great genius.
Zhou Xia also has a wide range of interests. She is interested in many teachers, whether it is the orthodox knowledge in GE''s college or the partial knowledge of various categories.
But among them, Zhou Xia''s favorite is martial arts, especially fencing.
She practiced some superficial martial arts to strengthen her body, and then quickly focused on fencing. The swordsmanship of the Terran was handed down by the great swordsman Kong Yu 30 years ago. After years of inheritance and evolution, it has now evolved into a small school.
Although the spread of swordsmanship is far less extensive than Lin Meng''s five animal drama, its advantage is that it uses metal weapons, so it is highly lethal. However, due to the use of metal weapons, ordinary people can''t afford it. Generally, only noble families are qualified to study.
It is known that Beicheng is the king capital of Zhuang, and Zhuang is the most powerful vassal state today, so there are several swordsmen in the city. Zhou Xia begged her father to invite the most famous swordsman to teach her.
When the fencing teacher first came to Zhou''s house, he thought it was a relaxed to boring job. He just collected a lot of money to teach the little girl to play with the sword. It really wasted his talent.
As a result, he realized that the girl also had a superb talent in martial arts.
Zhou Xia studied fencing with her fencing teacher for three years. After three years, her fencing has achieved little success. Beating her peers is the same as chopping melons and vegetables. Even if she plays fencing with adults, she often draws.
As a woman, Zhou Xia has less strength than men, not to mention that she is only 16 years old.
The swordsmanship teacher praised Zhou Xia and called her a rare swordsmanship genius in a hundred years.
However, Zhou Xia was not famous for her intelligence and swordsmanship. On the other hand, her reputation far outweighed her other advantages, that is, her appearance.
Zhou Xia looks very beautiful. When she was a child, her father''s colleagues occasionally saw her at home. They were surprised and praised her for being cute. When she was 13 or 4 years old and had not yet fully grown up, the reputation of the Zhou family''s daughter''s beauty spread all over ZhiBei City, even in other parts of Zhuang country.
There are even so-called famous experts who say that when Zhou Xia grows up, he will be a peerless beauty.
Since such an evaluation, even people from abroad have come to see her in admiration.
And those who had seen her were convinced and praised her appearance.
But Zhou Xia doesn''t like such a reputation.
Zhou Xia had a superior family background since childhood, and her talent was far superior to that of ordinary people. She was more or less arrogant. She didn''t look up to any of the suitors who came because of fame and beauty, but felt that they were particularly annoying.
All she wanted was how to do what she thought was interesting, rather than dealing with all kinds of boring people.
Once, Zhou''s mother complained that she practiced martial arts every day. Zhou Xia said such a thing to her.
She said, "Mom, do you know why I want to learn swordsmanship? Because I want to be strong."
"I''m not free anywhere now. I have to be protected everywhere. I worry about others every day. These are because I''m weak. I''m influenced everywhere. Therefore, I want to be a strong person, stronger than everyone else, so that I can be free and live the life I want to live."
Zhou''s mother just smiled and thought it was just a child''s naive words.
But Zhou Xia is serious. When she learns other knowledge, her interest often fluctuates, because she is too easy to learn, which makes her interest constantly shift. But in sword practice, she can bear hardships very much. Even if it is a very basic sword swing, as long as the teacher asks her to do it a thousand times, she can really bite her teeth a thousand times.
It is precisely because Zhou Xia has made more and more achievements in orthodox education, acrobatics, or fencing, the gap between her and Tao Cui is becoming larger and larger.
Although Tao Cui is only two years older than her, what Tao Cuiping said is who has more money, which man is better and suitable for marriage, or being a woman should be virtuous, virtuous and pleasing. What''s more, Tao Cui always wants to take Zhou Xia to some places she''s not interested in.
Zhou Xia doesn''t want to be friends with Tao Cui.
If it weren''t for the fact that she had known each other since childhood and was also the daughter of the nursing mother, Zhou Xia simply didn''t want to see her.
Tao Cuixin also knows that Zhou Xia doesn''t like her anymore, but for her, Zhou Xia is still very valuable.
For Tao Cui, Zhou Xia''s peerless beauty and her disdain attitude of rejecting all suitors are also her own advancement. As long as we try to rely on Zhou Xia, how can those men who come for Zhou Xia''s beauty give her a share after failure.
Tao Cui repeatedly looks up to Zhou Xia. Although Zhou Xia is young and doesn''t like these things, she is smart. Tao Cui''s twists and turns, and Zhou Xia guessed it.
This makes her more ashamed of Tao Cui. She doesn''t like to be used. Why should she be used?
After listening to Zhou Xia''s contemptuous words, Tao Cui said, "Xia Xia, you''re old enough. You''re 16 years old. It''s time for you to get married. Don''t find a good one earlier..."
As a result, before she finished, Zhou Xia had run away.