"Okay, come and kiss me, I'll invite you to eat shabu-shabu!" The sudden immature child's voice startled Zhu Zheng, and she hurriedly searched for the source of the sound.

"I'm here!" The sound of laughter approached, and it sounded from behind the stone beside the bamboo basket, and the bamboo basket turned his head to look, and saw through the palace lamp at night that it was a small child, walking towards him step by step.

Approaching, Zhu Zhen smiled and said, "The slave is clumsy, I don't know which palace you are?" ”

"One less bite of a 'slave', one bite of a 'master', let's not eat this set!" The little boy was white-eyed, and he didn't care about being clean, he sat directly on the big rock, and his legs were hanging in the air and playing the swing.

Zhu Zhen raised his eyebrows, pretending to be aggrieved: "Why did the slave provoke this young master, so unpopular with you?" ”

"You're so boring, where is the excitement just now? Now it's more restrained. The little boy looked decent, but he really grasped a little bit of the master's score, and when he saw that Zhu Zhen did not refute him, he said, "If you say that you are a good manner, but you will only play tricks, and I haven't seen you say hello to us for a long time; If you say you don't have a rule, but you have a rare sweet mouth, heh, interesting! So saying, the little boy jumped down from the big stone and paced in front of the bamboo basket.

Zhu Zhen squatted down and said: "The slave knows that the seventeenth master will not care about these things with the slave and the maid, if the seventeenth master insists, the slave and the maid will give the seventeenth master a big gift now." "Gesture is to get up.

The seventeenth elder brother pouted and pressed the bamboo basket down, and said: "Originally, I heard that Huang Ama said that you are a cunning girl, and the thirteenth brother and the fourteenth brother also said that you are a ghost and clever, I didn't believe it at first, but at this point, it was Huang Ama and the thirteenth brother and the fourteenth brother who said it lightly!" ”

"The slave maid has not heard that the seventeenth master is a cautious person, isn't the seventeenth master going to hold a grudge against the slave and maid?" Zhu Zhen said with a smile.

The seventeenth elder brother is a child in the end, "snorted", and said: "I'm a gentleman, what kind of grudge do I have against you, a little girl's family?" ”

The seventeenth elder brother's voice fell, and he was hugged by the bamboo basket coldly, and the bamboo basket then sent a big kiss on the cheek of the seventeenth elder brother, and said with a smile: "Since the seventeenth master doesn't care, then hurry up and invite the slave maid to eat shabu-shabu!" ”

The seventeenth elder brother was so "sneak attacked" by the bamboo basket, and he was stunned for a while, and for a long time, he blushed and said: "If you are greedy, you will be greedy, no, it's not just a pot, I can't afford to invite you!" After speaking, he was busy breaking out of the bamboo basket's arms and jumping out of the distance.

Seeing the actions of the seventeenth elder brother, Zhu Zhen couldn't help but laugh in his heart, and stopped teasing him, and followed him to the south.

"Here we are." The seventeenth elder brother led the bamboo basket into a courtyard, which was not big, but it was very clean when he looked at it, and it seemed that someone often cleaned it.

"Where is this?" It's not a brother's office, nor is it the East and West Six Palaces.

"Just come along." The seventeenth elder brother led the bamboo basket to the only lit room, pushed the door and shouted, "Twelfth brother! Twelve brothers! ”

"Little Seventeen, why did you come here so late? Enough fuss on Seventh Brother's side? A smiling voice rang out from the room.

"It's over there early in the morning, come and see what Brother Twelve is doing?" After a pause, the seventeenth elder brother smiled and said, "By the way, bring someone to the twelfth brother!" ”

"Oh? Who did you bring here? The voice in the room approached as the speaker's steps approached, and the twelfth elder brother was wearing a casual dress with duck eggs and green weaving ** dark patterns, and he was still holding an open scroll in his left hand.

"The slave and maid greet the twelfth master." The bamboo hoop saluted in response.

"Seventeenth brother, where did you bring a little palace maid?" After the twelfth elder brother called, he turned to the seventeenth elder brother.

At this time, the seventeenth elder brother had already jumped to the table, took a piece of pastry and ate it happily, swallowed the snack in his mouth, and the seventeenth elder brother said, "I picked it up on the road." I saw that she was so hungry that she had hysteria, so I brought her and went to the twelfth brother to rub a shabu-shabu. Glancing at Zhu Zheng, seeing that her expression was as usual, he couldn't help but sigh exaggeratedly, "It's really pitiful!" ”

The twelfth elder brother shook his head with a smile, raised his voice and shouted to a little eunuch outside, and said, "Your seventeenth master is going to eat shabu-shabu, go and buy a table." ”

The little eunuch retreated, and the seventeenth elder brother quit, shouting: "Twelfth brother, it's obviously for this girl to eat, how can you say it to me!" ”

The twelfth elder brother smiled back at her: "You have come here for ten times, and eight of them have come to look for food." ”

As soon as the twelfth elder brother spoke, Zhu Zhen couldn't help but bow his head and purse his lips and snicker, causing the seventeenth elder brother to jump up from the chair, point at Zhu Zhen and say, "Twelfth brother, do you know who this girl is?" Don't look at her now, she is better than a monkey! ”

Receiving the searching gaze from the twelfth elder brother, Zhu Zheng blessed his body and said, "Slave Zhu Zheng, on duty in the Qianqing Palace." ”

"No wonder it looks familiar." Zhu Zhen felt the obvious alienation in the tone of the Twelfth Elder Brother, and he also understood in his heart that his sensitive identity, his response was understandable, and even wise.

For a while, the atmosphere in the room was a little stiff, but fortunately, the arrival of hot pot broke this embarrassment. Seeing that the table was almost set, the seventeenth elder brother got up and beckoned the bamboo basket to come over to eat. Before he came, Zhu Zhen didn't know that there were other people there, and he thought that the seventeenth elder brother was nothing as a child, and he didn't want to have a twelfth elder brother, so it would be inappropriate to eat with them again.

Before Zhu Ji could say anything to refuse, the twelfth elder brother put down the scroll first, and said to the seventeenth elder brother: "It's late, if you don't leave, the palace gate will be keyed, so I'll go back to the house first." Xiaoluzi will leave you here, if there is anything you tell him to do, I will go to my brother to lead him tomorrow. ”

He reminded him that Zhu Zhen remembered that because of the current New Year's Festival, today is Qibeile marrying the side Fujin, and the palace door is closed later than usual, so that it is convenient for those princes to leave the palace. The seventeenth elder brother also knew, but he didn't keep the twelfth elder brother.

After sending away the twelfth elder brother, the bamboo basket was released a lot, and the seventeenth elder brother sat down with the bamboo basket, busy with seasoning for a while, and busy putting mutton slices into the pot for a while, and there was no time to be idle.

The seventeenth elder brother is not big, and he is only nine years old after the end of the year, but he is like a little adult, taking care of the bamboo basket and eating. Zhu Zhen smiled and took the seasoning bowl from the seventeenth elder brother's hand, and said, "Seventeenth master, you just sit here and wait to eat, you have a treat, and the slave and maid always have to express their gratitude, right?" "Brother Seventeen was not polite to the bamboo basket, he really put down the chopsticks and waited for the bamboo basket to serve.

After a shabu-shabu meal, the bamboo basket was very satisfied, and the seventeenth elder brother also ate a round belly, and the bamboo basket slapped the seventeenth elder brother on the stomach and said with a smile: "Well, it's cooked." "The seventeenth elder brother didn't understand the meaning of the bamboo basket at first, but as soon as he pondered it, he opened his teeth and claws at the bamboo basket.

Called Xiaoluzi in to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, Zhu Zhen and Seventeen Elder Brother went outside to make a pot of tea to digest food, and Zhu Zhen said with satisfaction: "I haven't eaten mutton shabu for a long time, but I miss me!" ”

"It's not out of the New Year yet, how can you say such a taboo word?" If the bamboo basket forgets for a while, he will call the seventeenth elder brother to stop.

Zhu Zhen smiled: "Today is the blessing of the seventeenth master, if the seventeenth master does not dislike it, go to the slave's residence, and the slave and the maid invite the seventeenth master to eat the spicy pot fried by the slave and the maid with their own ingredients." ”

"Just waiting for your words! Also, is there any roast meat that Brother Fourteen got from you last time? I also heard the tenth brother say, you made a fried snack with ice skates in front of Huang Ama, and we haven't tasted it until the fifteenth brother, you make some, and I will go back to the fifteenth brother and the sixteenth brother! "Dare to love, this kid has already calculated.

"Tell me, are you waiting there early in the morning for the slave to come in?" Zhu Zhen raised his chin at the seventeenth elder brother.

"Isn't it to look down on us?" The seventeenth elder brother pointed to the fox fur warm gloves that he had taken off from the bamboo basket and put aside, and said, "When I got closer, I saw your gloves and knew it was you." ”

"Gloves?" Isn't it just a fur glove, how did this seventeenth elder brother recognize it?

"Isn't this what the white fox that Brother Jiu beat did! It was given to you by Huang Ama himself. Brother Seventeen took the gloves and played with them in his hands.

"You kid has sharp eyes." Zhu Zhen said with a smile.

"What 'boy'? I'm the Seventeenth Prince! Brother Seventeen straightened his chest and said.

"Forget it." Zhu Zhen waved his hand and said, "If you care about this, you will eat at the same table with one of my slaves?" ”

"You're really getting bolder, and you even dare to use 'me'." The seventeenth elder brother put a hawthorn fruit wrapped in sugar juice in his mouth and said.

"The slave maid heard that the seventeenth master is loyal and upright on weekdays, open-minded and courteous, why doesn't it look like the same person as the slave and maid?" The bamboo hoop slanted with his eyes, and the seventeenth elder brother.

When the seventeenth elder brother heard this, he suddenly changed from a tsundere little prince to a white sweet little Zhengtai, moved to the bamboo basket, and actually tugged on the bamboo basket's sleeve coquettishly, and said: "Good bamboo basket, don't I like to play with you, is this the case?" If it's someone else, I won't see it! ”

The seventeenth elder brother took a bite of a "good sister", and rubbed it all the way to the lap of the bamboo basket. Zhu Ji Ben also likes children, in modern times, the seventeenth elder brother is only in the second or third grade, or a small bean, plus this kid looks like a small face, the bamboo basket can't refuse, so let the seventeenth elder brother rely on himself.

The welfare is in front of him, and Zhu Zhen has no reason to push his head out, and from time to time he pinched the tender little face of the seventeenth elder brother, and Zhu Zhen said: "Seventeen masters, listen to my sister obediently in the future, my sister has something delicious, and I will be the first to give it to you!."

"Eat it before Brother Fourteen?" Seventeenth elder brother will be very well-behaved, without the slightest appearance of the human spirit.

"If you're always as well-behaved as you are now, of course it's fine!" After a pause, Zhu Zhen changed his words and said, "But if you tease me like before, you won't have a mouthful!" ”

"Zhuji, you are so arrogant!" Brother Seventeen said with a grin.

Nodding the tip of the seventeenth elder brother's nose, Zhu Zhen said: "I am principled, when I meet such a cute jade snow as the seventeenth master, which makes me rare, I will be so arrogant, do you understand?" I don't want to see anyone else. Zhu Zhen returned the words of the seventeenth elder brother to him.

"Zhuzhen, your temperament is really weird, but it's so weird that it makes people feel comfortable." As if thinking of something, the seventeenth elder brother said again, "If you know the fifteenth or sixteenth brother in the future, you are not allowed to forget about me." ”

"If I had a brother as big as you, I would love him and protect him." Rubbing the head of the seventeenth elder brother, the bamboo basket rarely looked playful, and said softly.

"Okay, then use it all on me." The seventeenth elder brother gradually showed tiredness, and his voice lowered.

"Okay." The bamboo basket gently patted the back of the seventeenth elder brother and whispered.

In the muttering, Zhu Zhen vaguely heard the seventeenth elder brother shouting "Sister Zhen Zheng", and what he said, Zhu Zhen didn't hear it clearly. Carefully moved the seventeenth elder brother into Xiao Luzi's arms, and said a few more words, watching Xiao Luzi lead a few little eunuchs to carry the seventeenth elder brother back to the direction of the elder brother, and the bamboo basket turned back to his yard.