Around the year Lou Yihua was eight years old, a grand feast was held in the palace to celebrate the successful peace agreements reached with the neighboring countries on the frontier. Officials of all sizes in the imperial court brought their families to participate in this large-scale royal feast that is rare in a century, and as the other side of the banquet, those countries on the margins also sent most of the royal family members and some important ministers of the court to bring their own treasures to the banquet.

Clearly knowing the significance of this banquet, Lou Xiangzheng sensibly left Lou Yixing, who might cause trouble, at home, and only brought his wife and obedient and sensible second daughter to support the scene.

Although this banquet is special, it still belongs to the category of palace banquets, and some new programs have been added, but the routines have not changed, so the overly gorgeous appearance is stripped away, and the form is not much different from the past.

As for the children of the bureaucrats, they basically have nothing to do, and after saluting the emperor under the leadership of adults, they will be put into a small group for their own children.

Lou Yihua was the first time to participate in the palace banquet independently, and without the need to keep an eye on her sister to resolve the troubles she caused, facing this large group of children of the same age alone, Lou Yihua was a little at a loss. And this helplessness was directly magnified into a little shyness after discovering that her little friends were mixed with a few strange alien faces.

So, Lou Yihua was rarely squeamish, her little hand held Lou Xiangzheng's hand tightly and refused to let go, her petite body was hidden behind her father, revealing a round face with baby fat, looking timidly at the familiar and strange friends.

There were two blush floating on her white little face, and her eyes were also red, and she shrunk softly, dodging the curious gaze projected at her by the unfamiliar faces in the group of friends.

Lou Xiangzheng, a rough man can't understand the little girl's mind at all, even though he loves his little daughter very much, he still puts his responsibilities at the banquet in the first place, softens his voice to coax a little, kisses Lou Yi's red face, and is very relieved to hand over his cowardly little daughter to the palace maid, and walks away step by step.

The young Lou Yihua stood in place in a daze, watching her father's back drift away, tears flashed in her eyes, there was a little red on the tip of her nose, one hand was hidden behind her back, and she was holding a cloth unknown object tightly inside, and the other hand was held by the palace maid, looking at the abandoned little pitiful look, looking at the brothers and sisters who were not far away.

Lou Yihua, who is already eight years old, learned embroidery for the first time not long ago, and it was at a time when she was very interested. A few days ago, I heard that I could go to the palace to see her friends, and immediately decided to process and make a sachet overnight, and in the limited number of sachets embroidered, Lou Yihua picked out the most suitable one, embroidered her own words, and she made up her mind to take her first female red product to the county lord's sister who met at the banquet for advice.

Since she was a child, she has been taught by her mother to be sensible and obedient to be a likable daughter, Lou Yihua has developed a docile habit, in the end she is still a child, looking at the exotic faces mixed in those familiar friends, she just stood in place and couldn't take a step. The gentle county lord's sister, whom she was looking for, was chatting hotly with a blue-eyed interracial brother at this time, completely oblivious to her eager and pleading gaze.

Finding that it was not a matter to stand stupidly, but it was embarrassing for the palace maid sister, Lou Yihua sniffed, thanked the palace maid who was kind to hold her hand in a milky voice, wiped her face with her sleeve, and slowly moved into the pile of children over there.

After looking around for a week, I was frustrated to find that her brothers and sisters, who were quite familiar, were all circling around those strange, characteristic-looking aliens, and occasionally someone paid attention to her and just reached out and touched her head to make her obedient. She was still too young for anyone to talk to her.

People who grew up in the deep palace will have their own little ninety-nine in their hearts, and they can distinguish the importance of the matter, and today is the day of communication with foreign people, so it is natural to give full play to their ability to establish diplomatic relations and take the opportunity to win the emperor's appreciation. This kind of thinking is incomprehensible to Xiao Yihua, who has been raised as a good baby, she just suddenly found that the friends she made on weekdays have snubbed her and her new love, and without the company of her sister, the banquet suddenly became so lonely.

Grabbing the crumpled sachet in his hand, Lou Yihua found a small remote table and sat down. She was absentmindedly eating the pastries and fruits on the table, but her ears were pricked up to eavesdrop on the topics of her friends on the side, and she must find a way to reintegrate into the group. So, she didn't pay attention and hit the sachet she had thrown on the side of the table to the ground.

Then, a person picked up the sachet before her, and Lou Yihua looked at the boy who didn't know when she was sitting beside her. The unfamiliar face, as beautiful as Xia Yu's brother, and the somewhat fleshy figure that she has not completely gotten rid of, although the boy is tall, he is a little thin, and there is not much blood on his face, as if he is malnourished. The facial features are delicate and three-dimensional, the short black hair, the ends of the hair are naturally curled, and a red rope is tied to the forehead, and the pair of dark black eyes like her are deeper and deeper than any pair of eyes she has ever seen.

Lou Yihua didn't pay much attention to these, she found that this strange brother was intently looking at the sachet she embroidered, and her heart suddenly jumped in frustration, as for that little shyness, it was negligible. She had forgotten for a moment that she didn't know this boy of the other race.

He put down the pastry in his hand, took out his handkerchief, wiped his hands, and then pounced happily, grabbed the boy's arm, and looked at him with shining eyes, "Brother, brother, isn't the sachet I embroidered beautiful!" ”

The boy, who was frightened by this abrupt move, subconsciously withdrew his hand, but when he saw the bright little eyes of this mature little girl full of trust and expectation, the steps of turning around and leaving were frozen in place. His somewhat pale face was a dark red, and the tips of his ears were hot.

"It's the first time I've seen you." His voice was small, somewhat hoarse, as if he hadn't spoken in a long time. Lou Yihua blinked her eyes and moved her face closer to wait for him to continue, not wanting her little brother to avoid her, she didn't grasp her body, her whole body slipped, and she almost fell to the ground, and was pulled up at an emergency, and when she reacted, she supported the table with both hands, and the whole person pressed the little brother on the table together......

There are palace people around and hurriedly pull the two children together, the stupid Lou Yihua saw an uncle in strange clothes coming over, pulled the little brother and called His Highness, and then took him away, and then, until the end of the whole banquet, Lou Yihua was not able to see him again.

It's just that when Lou Yihua was about to leave the table, a palace maid handed over a small and delicate jade lock to her, saying that it was the money paid by His Royal Highness the Third Prince of the Border Kingdom to buy incense sachets.

This jade lock is simply the greatest affirmation of her embroidery skills, since then, Lou Yihua has regarded this jade lock as a personal medal of honor, wearing a rope like a baby, hanging on her chest, and wearing it every day.

Taking this as a starting point, an unprecedented interest in embroidery rose, and hundreds of sachets were embroidered in just one year, and finally almost everyone in the Xiangfu got a sachet embroidered by the second lady herself, and then when Lou Yihua was a little older, her sachet spread into the palace......

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Lou Yihua held the small sachet in her hand and sat stiffly on the mattress, it turned out that her habit of exchanging sachets everywhere came from.

However, Yun Qiuxi turned out to be the third prince of the border country? Yun Qiuxi's image slowly matched the foreign little brother who didn't even know his name.

She had looked for this little brother back then, and the result of inquiring was that he was a prince of a small country who had been sent to Kyoto as a proton since he was five years old, and he was taken back to the country after the peace treaty was signed, and his name was not enough to worry about. She had been depressed for a long time, and now, she didn't even dare to recognize her. Lou Yihua knows in her heart that the change of identity will be a barrier that can never be eliminated.

Lou Yihua looked around the environment she was in at the moment, the magnificent decoration, the bed that was big enough to roll on three laps, completely revealing the style of a dormitory, she was taken captive into a foreign palace.

Yun Qiuxi just looked at Lou Yihua's bitter and hateful appearance and was thinking about the problem, and she understood that she couldn't give any answer for a while, so she walked over and Lou Yihua hugged her.

Lou Yihua said that it was okay to surprise and hug her, but it was not the elegant princess hugging, but the posture of holding a child holding her body, which was really messy, and she found that the unreasonable cards of the people around her recently, completely shattered her little white lotus aura.

"Xiaohua, you have to be obedient next."

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