"Miss, someone is looking for you at the door." Someone informed him from afar.

"Okay!"

Zhou Xia trotted all the way and came to the door of the manor, but when she saw clearly who was at the door, 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 boring expression on her face. She was too lazy to pay attention to her: "You must have advised me to attend this and that time again this time. Or she would have scolded me for not dressing well and being unruly, which is boring..."

Tao Cui said helplessly: "I'm all for your own good! This time, Zhibeicheng is going to hold a flower viewing party again. There are many young talents at the meeting. I heard that there will be people from the royal family coming? Don't you meet a few with me?"

Zhou Xia rolled her eyes: "If you don't go, I'm going to perform better recently. Nowhere, go!"

Tao Cui stomped her feet and said, "You! I only mentioned you because of the relationship we met since childhood. Instead of playing in this farm, you might as well go out with me to meet more good men. Look at your dirty look, you have climbed a tree again? You lifted your skirt up and tied it on your waist, revealing your thighs!"

Tao Cui is the daughter of Zhou Xia's wet nurse. She is only two years older than Zhou Xia. Her family is just a commoner. However, because both parents are servants in the Zhou family and have a very familiar relationship with the master family, Tao Cui also took advantage of some opportunities to get in touch with the upper class.

She was actually not qualified to participate in this flower viewing party, but if Zhou Xia took her there, she would do it, so she wanted to persuade Zhou Xia to take her to the flower viewing party.

Tao Cui was not very pleased by Zhou Xia, mainly because she always talked about Zhou Xia as her sister. This is also the way she maintains a good image in front of the master's house, but unfortunately Zhou Xia herself does not buy it at all.

When he was a child, Xiaodian was a good sister to play together. But later Zhou Xia had to go to class and learn a lot, so he didn't have much time to play with Tao Cui. Naturally, Tao Cui's family would not send Tao Cui to school, so they asked her to help with housework and learn some girl-red at home.

This made the gap between the two bigger and bigger.

Zhou Xia is very talented and learns things very quickly. Every teacher of her praises her for being quick-witted and learning from other things, and is truly a genius.

Zhou Xia was also very interested and followed many teachers. She was interested in the orthodox knowledge in the Ge Academy or various categories of partial knowledge.

But among them, Zhou Xia’s favorite is martial arts, especially swordsmanship.

She practiced some superficial martial arts to strengthen her body, and then quickly focused her attention on swordsmanship. The human swordsman was passed down by the great swordsman Kong Yu 30 years ago. After years of inheritance and evolution, she has now evolved into a small school.

Although swordsmanship is far less popular than Lin Meng’s Five Beasts, its advantage is that it uses metal weapons, so it is very lethal. However, because it requires metal weapons, ordinary families are absolutely unable to afford it. Generally, only aristocratic families are qualified to learn.

Knowing that North City is the capital of Zhuang Kingdom, and Zhuang Kingdom is the most powerful vassal state today. There are several swordsman masters in the city. Zhou Xia begged her father to invite the most famous swordsman masters to teach her.

When the swordsman first came to the Zhou family, he thought it was a boring job, but he was nothing more than a big sum of money to teach the little girl to play with swords, which was a waste of his talent.

As a result, when he really taught Zhou Xia, he realized that this girl actually had high talent in martial arts.

Zhou Xia learned from her swordsman for three years. After three years, her swordsmanship has achieved some success. She beat her peers and chopped melons and vegetables. Even if she used swordsmanship with adults, she often tied her hand.

You should know that as a woman, Zhou Xia is originally less powerful than a man, not to mention that she is only 16 years old.

The swordsman praised Zhou Xia very much, calling her a swordsman genius that was rare in a century.

However, Zhou Xia was not famous for her intelligence and swordsmanship. Her reputation on the other hand far surpassed her other advantages, that is, her appearance.

Zhou Xia looked very beautiful. When she was a child, her father's colleagues were surprised when they saw her at home and praised her cuteness. When she was thirteen or fourteen years old, the reputation of the Zhou family's daughter spread throughout Zhibei City, and even other parts of the Zhuang Kingdom were heard of.

There are even so-called famous scholars who say that when Zhou Xia grows up, she will definitely be a peerless beauty.

Since this evaluation, even people from abroad will come to see her.

And those who have seen her are convinced and praised her appearance.

But Zhou Xia doesn't like such a reputation very much.

Zhou Xia has been from a superior family since childhood and has a very talented person. She is somewhat arrogant. She doesn't look down on any of the suitors who come from reputation and beauty, but instead thinks they are particularly annoyed.

All she was thinking about was how to do what she thought was interesting, not dealing with all kinds of boring people.

Once, Zhou's mother complained that she practiced martial arts every day, and Zhou Xia said this to her.

She said: "Mom, do you know why I want to learn swordsmanship? Because I want to become stronger."

"I am not free wherever I go now, and I need people to protect me wherever I go, and I am troubled by others every day. These are all because I am weak and are influenced by others everywhere. Therefore, I want to be a strong person, stronger than everyone, so that I can be free and live the life I want to live."

Zhou's mother just smiled, thinking that it was just a child's innocent words.

But Zhou Xia was serious. When she learned other knowledge, her interests were often unsteady because she was too easy to learn, which kept changing her interest. However, when practicing swordsmanship, she was very capable of enduring hardships. Even if it was a very basic sword swing, as long as the teacher asked her to do it a thousand times, she could really grit her teeth and do it a thousand times.

It is precisely because Zhou Xia has achieved more and more achievements in orthodox education, miscellaneous studies of all religions, or swordsmanship, that the gap between her and Tao Cui is getting bigger and bigger.

Although Tao Cui is only two years older than her, what Tao Cui usually says is about someone who is richer, who is better, who is suitable for marriage, or whether she is virtuous and kind as a woman. What's even more terrible is that Tao Cui always wants to take Zhou Xia to some places she is not interested in.

After a while, Zhou Xia no longer wanted to be friends with Tao Cui.

If it weren't for knowing her since childhood and being the daughter of a wet nurse, Zhou Xia wouldn't even want to see her.

Tao Cui knew in her heart that Zhou Xia no longer liked her, but for her, Zhou Xia was still very valuable.

For Tao Cui, Zhou Xia's peerless beauty and her disdainful attitude of rejecting all suitors are also her own advancement. As long as she finds a way to rely on Zhou Xia, those men who come for Zhou Xia's beauty can give her a share of the pie after failure.

Tao Cui has been looking up to Zhou Xia many times. Although Zhou Xia is young and doesn't like these things, she is smart and Zhou Xia can roughly guess Tao Cui's twists and turns.

This made her even more disrespectful to Tao Cui. She is not someone who likes to be exploited, so why should she be exploited?

After hearing Zhou Xia's contemptuous words, Tao Cui said angrily: "Xia Xia, you are not young anymore. You are 16 years old. For ordinary families, you should get married. Don't find a good one soon..."

As a result, before she finished speaking, Zhou Xia had run away.
Chapter completed!