Chapter 11: The Royal Interior (Part I)

"Xu Ji," Liu Huai affectionately called out to the woman in a dark yellow Zen robe and smiled, and his eyes fell on Liu Ruoan, "You take her to freshen up, I will go first!" ”

Xu Ji received the order and stood in place to watch everyone follow the emperor away. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"You're the third princess, right?" Xu Ji said softly, "My name is Xu Yan." ”

Liu Ruoan withdrew his gaze from the group of people who were far away, and when he looked at Xu Yan again, he couldn't help but be stunned, this woman looked seven or eight points similar to her mother, in her thirties, not tall, very thin, her skin looked delicate and smooth, her smiling eyes were crooked like crescent moons, and her voice was very gentle and sweet.

Liu Ruo'an was led by Xu Yan to the door of a meditation room, and her and Liu Yu'an's names were written on the door. She pushed open the door and entered, and it was a very elegant and spotless room, with two beds in it, and two very good wooden cabinets at the head of the bed, with their names engraved on them, and the sheets of the duvet cover as white as new, each with their names embroidered on the corner.

Seo Yan began to arrange her clothes and hair in earnest. Because she looked like her mother, Liu Ruoan looked at Xu Yan with two eyes.

"Your Highness will look at Xu Ji like this again, Xu Ji will blush." Xu Yan quipped while bowing her head to sort out Liu Ruoan's clothes.

Liu Ruoan was a little at a loss for a moment, and argued, "Uh...... I don't know why, I feel like Xu Ji Niangniang, you are very much like a mother! ”

Xu Yan smiled slightly, "That's why Your Majesty kept me by your side!" ”

Liu Ruoan was stunned for a while, her mother was full of resentment towards her father, but it seemed that her father's love for her mother was very deep, and even the concubine looked for someone who looked alike. It's just that Xu Yan is much gentler than her mother. Some people with strong personalities will be very mindful that they are winning the favor of their lover because they look like someone, so they will quarrel with their lover, and desperately want to get rid of the label of the person they look like and be their unique self. But Xu Yan doesn't seem to mind at all, she doesn't deliberately imitate or deliberately get rid of it, she never thinks that she is a substitute for Yu Chi Rongxin, a shadow. She was very glad that she looked like Yu Chi Rongxin, so she won Liu Huai's favor.

"If only my mother could be as gentle as Xu Ji Niangniang!" Liu Ruoan burst out with emotion.

Xu Yan gently pinched her face and smiled at her dotingly: "The little mouth is so sweet!" ”

When Liu Ruoan and Xu Yan came to the Void Hall of Xiangning Palace, the morning class had already begun, the Queen Mother, the Emperor and the Empress stood at the front, and the others stood back according to the eldest and youngest, in order not to disturb the progress, the two of them stood in the last row.

The maidservant presented two yellow silk framed booklets and handed them to Xu Yan and Liu Ruoan respectively, and after informing them where to read, they respectfully retreated.

A girl in the front row turned her head frequently and tiptoed towards Xu Yan. She looked like she was about fourteen or fifteen years old, with thick eyebrows and apricot eyes, maybe in puberty, a little chubby, and fleshy and cute.

"Mother, I'm hungry!" The girl touched her stomach and looked at Xu Yan pitifully and said.

"When you wake up in the morning, let you eat something to make a bottom, you won't live or die! Tell me you're hungry now? Where are you going to ask me to get you something to eat? Xu Yan glared at her with a straight face: "Bear it!" ”

Liu Ruoan took out a box of cookies from his sleeve and smiled awkwardly, "This was stuffed to me by the maid before entering the palace because she was afraid that I would be hungry, but I just accidentally fell and crushed some of it, if you don't dislike it, take it and eat it!" She touched the other sleeve again, took out a snack from it and handed it to the girl, "There are a few pieces of dried tofu and oatmeal chocolate here, all for you!" ”

The girl unceremoniously took them one by one and put them in her arms, opened the half-broken cookies, and devoured them, looking Liu Ruoan up and down while eating, "Sister, you look so good!" Do you have a boyfriend? ”

Liu Ruoan looked at her and was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile, "No! Why don't you look for one? ”

"Okay! I'll give you Brother Yan! ”

Xu Yan looked at this kind of topic, and the two chatted, her embarrassed face turned green all of a sudden, and she smiled at Liu Ruo'an, "This is the little girl Yu'an, ranked seventh among the sisters," and said to Liu Yu'an, "This is your third emperor sister Ruo'an, can you stop talking nonsense." ”

Liu Yu'an's mouth was full, she pursed her lips and said vaguely, "A talented man is a beautiful woman!" Brother Yan is handsome, and the third emperor sister is beautiful, isn't it just right? ”

"Go, go, go! Go out and eat! Xu Yan's face was dark, her eyebrows frowned slightly, and she tried to lower her voice, "Look at your eating appearance, where do you look like a girl!" Hurry up, come in after eating! ”

When Liu Yu'an heard this, he was decisive and obedient.

Xu Yan said to Liu Ruoan again: "This kid is spoiled and can't speak, don't mind!" ”

Liu Ruoan smiled at Liu Yu'an's departing back, "No, the seventh sister is very cute!" ”

After an hour, the morning fast begins. The elders are in one room, the juniors are in the other, Xu Yan is relatively aware of everyone's eating habits, so she runs at both ends. Liu Ruoan sat down next to Liu Yu'an. Each person has a bowl of soy milk or porridge, a steamed bun, a vegetarian bun, and a plate of pickles.

As soon as she picked up the chopsticks and was about to start eating, the chopsticks broke in two without warning.

Seeing this, Xu Yan immediately ordered the maid to take a new pair of chopsticks, and then the queen mother called her over. The maid brought new chopsticks and handed them to Liu Ruoan with both hands, but as a result, Liu Ruoan just took them and broke them in two, and the maid was so frightened that she knelt on the ground.

Liu Yu'an sneered and handed his chopsticks to Liu Ruo'an, "Use mine, Third Emperor Sister!" She said with something in her words, "I'm afraid that if I take ten more pairs, it will be broken!" ”

Liu Ruoan asked suspiciously, "What does Seventh Sister mean by this?" ”

Liu Yu'an looked at her with her cheeks and said, "You offended the Fifth Emperor Sister, and some dog minions naturally want to fix you in order to please her!" ”

Liu Ruoan squinted his eyes unconsciously, "How do you know?" ”

Liu Yu'an glanced at her, "I've been bullied by these dog minions!" ”

"I want to hear about it."

"Earlier, there were royal relatives from Western countries to bring back a few exquisite glass bowls to the Queen Mother, my grandmother especially likes ceramic glass and other things, I begged the Queen Mother to reward me with one, the Queen Mother very readily agreed, that day, I happily took the glass bowl to thank the imperial grandmother, out of the door of Xiangning Palace to meet the five emperor sisters, she saw that the glass bowl in my arms is very exquisite, stunned to rob me, I was annoyed and fought with her, scratched her hand, and she was not lightly injured, she was scraped by her ear, The canker sores didn't heal for a week, and after that, I was subjected to all kinds of inexplicable pranks, and it was a long time later that I learned that the dog minions did it to please her! ”

"Won't Xu Ji Niangniang call the shots for you?"

"If there is no evidence, my mother and father will not make decisions for me based on my words alone!"

After listening to Liu Yu'an's description, Liu Ruoan was still a little puzzled, "But how can you be sure that it was someone else's prank to please her?" ”

Liu Yu'an grabbed a broken chopstick, "Such a neat incision is not man-made!" She looked at Liu Ruoan, "I bet, this is just the beginning, all kinds of inexplicable things are still to come!" Just wait! ”

Liu Ruoan glanced at Liu Jinan suspiciously, and saw that she was pestering Liu Chengyan in vain, twisting her body from time to time to play coquettishly. But Liu Chengyan only cared about laughing with the girl next to him, and there was a ten-year-old boy on the other side who grabbed Liu Chengyan's arm and begged him to play with him, he only occasionally smiled perfunctory Liu Jinan.

"She likes Cousin Seihiko?" Liu Ruoan's eyes locked on the four people opposite, leaned his head on Liu Yu'an's shoulder, and asked softly in a mocking tone.

Liu Yu'an smiled, "That's right! Everyone in the Han Palace knows that the Five Emperor Sisters like him! ”

Liu Ruoan raised her eyebrows and frowned slightly, "But my cousin doesn't seem to want to deal with her very much!" ”

Liu Yu'an replied, "That's right, because it's the wishful thinking of the Fifth Emperor Sister!" If Brother Yan hadn't looked at the queen's face, he wouldn't have paid attention to her at all! At the end, she added: "Oh, third sister, don't call your cousin so outside, Brother Yan is older than us, you can also call him Brother Yan!" You're a 'cousin' on the left and a 'cousin' on the right, I feel weird to hear! ”

Liu Ruoan laughed loudly, "That cousin...... Who are the other two people next to Brother Nahiko? ”

Liu Yu'an glanced at it and said, "The girl is Sister Shuo, Liu Yu, the second daughter of Uncle Shuo's family, and the little boy is Shizi Yu'er, Liu Chengyu, he was born to Princess Shuo's mother, and he is the son-in-law of Uncle Wang's family!" ”

Liu Ruoan looked puzzled, "Listening to your tone, aren't Brother Yan and Sister Yan born to the princess?" ”

"Of course not!" Liu Yu'an blinked his big round eyes and said seriously, "Brother Yan was picked up by the imperial uncle when he was ten years old in Shameng, and his biological mother was a Shameng woman, who seemed to have died of illness!" As for Sister Sister, her mother was also from a humble background, she was an ordinary palace maid, and she heard that she died of hemorrhage when she gave birth to Sister Sister! ”

Liu Ruoan's eyes scanned everyone, his brain was running rapidly, sorting out the relationship between the characters, and Liu Chengyan's gaze suddenly collided.