Although the emperor was very surprised by Xuanyuan Hao's proposal and was very pleased with his suggestion, the emperor did not immediately agree to him, but looked at him with some hesitation and said: "I understand your intentions, but the court has been eventful recently, several princes have had accidents one after another, and the eldest prince is still unconscious, so the banquet should be put aside for the time being." ”

"Yes, everything is subject to my father's arrangement." Xuanyuan Hao should inherit from the good. The room became quiet again, Xuanyuan Hao looked around, and said, "If the father and emperor have nothing to explain, the son will retire first." ”

"Did you enter the palace alone this time?" The emperor didn't want Xuanyuan Hao to leave so quickly, so he tried to find a topic and asked.

"No, the Nine Emperor Princesses accompanied me into the palace, and the Imperial Concubine missed her a little, so she should go to the Imperial Concubine after she asked the queen to say goodbye." Xuanyuan Hao replied calmly, slightly wary of the purpose of the emperor's sudden question.

The emperor smiled faintly, that smile made Xuanyuan Hao unable to guess the meaning of the door, just looked at the emperor expressionlessly, waiting for him to speak.

"Since the Nine Emperor Princesses also entered the palace with you today, it is better to stay in the palace at noon and have lunch together, and I ordered someone to go to the Imperial Concubine to spread a word, so let's go to her for dinner together." The emperor said with a kind smile.

Xuanyuan Hao thought about it for a while, and there was no intention of refusing the emperor, thinking that a meal would not matter, so he nodded and said, "Okay, everything is subject to the arrangement of my father." ”

"Come, it's still early, play a game of chess with me, I haven't played chess with you for a long time." The emperor didn't have a chance to let Xuanyuan Hao refuse, and immediately called the servant to take out the chessboard.

Xuanyuan Hao saw that the chessboard had already been laid out, although he wanted to go to Murong Xuanji, he still sat down in front of the chessboard and planned to accompany the emperor to play chess.

"Nine Emperor Princesses, the Empress invites you in." The maid led Murong Xuanji into the queen's palace.

"Xuanji greets the queen." Murong Xuanji blessed her body, raised her head to look at the queen, but found a man standing next to the queen, slightly surprised, but quickly lowered her head.

"It turned out to be the Nine Emperor Princesses, hurry up and sit down." The queen smiled and asked Murong Xuanji to sit down, chatted kindly and asked, "How did the Nine Emperor Princesses come to the palace today?" Hongu heard that the Nine Emperors woke up, right? How is the body? ”

"Empress Xie cares!" Murong Xuanji said with a calm smile: "The Nine Emperors' health has improved a lot, and I entered the palace with him when I entered the palace today." He went to see his father. ”

The queen nodded, and suddenly thought of the man beside her, so she opened her mouth to introduce Murong Xuanji: "Ninth Emperor Princess, do you still know him?" ”

The queen's words made Murong Xuanji start to look at the man, and the more she looked at it, the more familiar she felt, but for a while she couldn't remember where she had seen it.

"What's wrong? Don't know? You've met. The queen was not angry, and said with a smile: "He is Xuanyuan Qi, the fourth prince of this palace, are you really not impressed at all?" ”

"Queen Mother, my sons have been away for so long, and they are no longer what they used to be, and it is normal for the Nine Emperor Princesses not to recognize me for a while." Xuanyuan Qi always had a smile on his face.

"It turned out to be the fourth prince, but I was clumsy." Murong Xuanji said modestly. I was very surprised in my heart, I didn't think that I hadn't seen it for a while, and the white and pure man had now become black and thin, and he looked sick.

"The Nine Emperor Princesses don't have to be modest, I have heard others talk about you even if I am thousands of miles away about you." Xuanyuan Qi said with a smile.

Murong Xuanji smiled faintly, "Since the fourth prince is here to accompany the queen, then it is inconvenient for me to disturb, Xuanji retired." ”

"Okay, you go get busy first. When you have time, you often come to my palace to walk around. The queen nodded and watched Murong Xuanji leave.

Walking out of the queen's palace, Murong Xuanji's heart that had been mentioning it was slightly relieved, although it was only a short time to get along, but Murong Xuanji always felt that the four princes were no longer the four princes he had seen before.

However, Murong Xuanji didn't think much about it, and it was not too early to see it, so he hurried to the palace of the imperial concubine, but he didn't expect to see other people in the palace of the imperial concubine.

"Nine Emperor Princesses, hurry up." Seeing Murong Xuanji walk into the house, Concubine Huangxian happily shouted to her side, "I heard that the Eighth Prince said that you were going to enter the palace, and I was slightly surprised. ”

"Actually, I accompanied my husband into the palace this time, he went to see my father, and I just invited the queen to come over." Murong Xuanji knew that her actions had already been known to the Imperial Concubine, so she took the initiative to say it before she spoke.

Concubine Huangxian smiled and nodded in understanding, "It should be like this." After all, the queen is the mother of the country, and if you enter the palace and don't greet the queen, it will be a bit too much. ”

"Yes, but I didn't expect the fourth prince to be there, so I came over after a few chats." Murong Xuanji looked at a young woman on the side with deep meaning, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that Concubine Huangxian also had guests here, but I came to disturb the two of them by accident." ”

"How so? Come, let me introduce you to it. Concubine Huangxian beckoned the woman to her side and introduced: "This is Yan Qing, the daughter of Yan Song, the secretary of the ministry, Qing'er, and this is Murong Xuanji, the ninth princess." ”

"Qing'er greets the Nine Emperor Princesses." Yan Qing stepped forward and took two steps, and turned slightly to Murong Xuanji to ask for a peace.

"Miss Yan, please get up. You are a guest of the Imperial Concubine, and now that you are in the Imperial Concubine's palace, you don't need to be polite. Murong Xuanji said lightly. looked at this Yan Qing silently in her heart, knowing that her appearance was not a coincidence, but Concubine Huangxian did not take the initiative to explain, and Murong Xuanji was smart not to ask.

"Qing'er, this palace has always told you that the Nine Emperor Princesses are a woman who understands the general situation, and she is also very straightforward and easy to get along with, I didn't lie to you." Concubine Huangxian took Yan Qing's hand lovingly and said.

"The so-called hearing is better than seeing, and today Qing'er is fortunate to see the Nine Emperor Princesses, which is Qing'er's blessing." Qing'er said with a smile.

Looking at Qing'er like this, Murong Xuanji only felt that the smile on her face was very hypocritical, and she didn't like the girl in front of her very much at first glance, so she always maintained a faint detached smile on her face.

"There are not so many rules in my palace, don't be restrained, let's sit down and chat." Concubine Huangxian also felt a faint embarrassment in the atmosphere, so she pulled one person up with one hand and sat down on the stool.

"Nine Emperor Princesses, do you remember that this palace told you that you wanted to find a suitable Eighth Emperor Concubine for the Eighth Prince? What do you think of Qing'er? Concubine Huangxian's hand kept holding Yan Qing's hand, and asked Murong Xuanji with a smile.

Murong Xuanji heard the reason why Yan Qing would appear here, and looked at her very seriously for a few times before she said lightly: "I don't think it matters how Miss Yan is, what matters is the feelings of the Eighth Prince, after all, the person who wants to live with Miss Yan for the rest of her life is the Eighth Prince, not me." Are you right? Miss Yan! ”

In the end, the three words of Miss Yan, Murong Xuanji deliberately accentuated her tone, and even Concubine Huangxian and Yan Qing could feel that Murong Xuanyuan didn't like Yan Qing very much.

"The Nine Emperor Princesses don't have to be so polite, just call me Qing'er like the Imperial Concubine." Yan Qing deliberately ignored Murong Xuanji's dislike of herself, and still said with a smile and flattery.

"No need, I still like to be polite to people I don't know very well." Murong Xuanji politely rejected Yan Qing's words, if she hadn't agreed to wait for Xuanyuan Hao here with the Imperial Concubine, Murong Xuanji would have gotten up and left here.

A trace of anger flashed in Yan Qing's eyes, but neither Concubine Huangxian nor Murong Xuanji noticed it. She pretended to be cautious and asked, "Does the Nine Emperor Princesses dislike me?" ”

Murong Xuanji snorted coldly in her heart, looked at Yan Qing with a smile, and always remained silent, neither admitting nor denying it, and the atmosphere slowly fell into embarrassment.

"How so? The Nine Emperor Princesses don't hate you. Concubine Huangxian came out to play a round game, "Qing'er, don't think about it, you are so knowledgeable, good and beautiful, many people can't like you." ”

"It's the Imperial Concubine who praises Qing'er too much." Yan Qing pretended to be shy and lowered her head, but when others couldn't see it, her eyes showed a cruel gaze.

"How is the Nine Emperor Princes in health?" Concubine Huangxian saw Murong Xuanji sitting aside and didn't speak, and it was not good to snub her too much, so she found a topic to chat with her, "It's been a hard time, and now that the Nine Emperors have woken up, you can finally breathe a sigh of relief." ”

"I'm okay, Concubine Huangxian and the Eighth Prince, and others have helped us a lot during this time." Murong Xuanji said politely.

"We can't help much." Concubine Huangxian smiled and said, "Since it is rare for you and the Nine Emperor Princes to enter the palace together, it is better to stay in the palace for lunch at noon." ”

"No, we-" Before Murong Xuanji's words were finished, the servants in the imperial palace ran over to pass the word.

"Coincidentally, the emperor and I thought of going together." Concubine Huangxian said with a smile: "Now you can't shirk me anymore, this is the emperor's will, let you and the Nine Emperor Princes stay in the palace for dinner." Concubine Huangxian immediately ordered someone to go to the imperial dining room to prepare lunch.

Although he didn't want to stay in the palace in his heart, since the emperor had already spoken, and the imperial concubine had repeatedly retained him, Murong Xuanji couldn't refuse too much, so he had to reluctantly agree.

"It's better to call the Eighth Prince too, there will be more people." Concubine Huangxian opened her mouth and asked Murong Xuanji, "It just so happens that the two brothers, the Eighth Prince and the Ninth Emperor, can also get together and chat with me." ”

Murong Xuanji knew that the purpose of Concubine Huangxian was to create an opportunity for Xuanyuan Jue and Yan Qing to meet, so naturally it was difficult to refuse, so she had to smile and nod.