Chapter 25

Princess Jing'an is the ninth daughter of the current emperor, known as the Ninth Princess. The ninth princess is spicy and bold, although she is a royal person, she is most unaccustomed to those court rules, but she is still very well-behaved in front of the emperor, and this contrast also makes Jinshang very useful, very fond of her, and almost responds to requests.

No, before the prince organized to go hunting in the paddock, the ninth princess personally sent an invitation to Meng Yuan, and Meng Cheng looked at the words on the post, and even lost the mood to twist his beard.

Meng Yuan stood aside, pretending not to know anything, and after taking a sip of tea, he suddenly said seriously: "Dad, there is something I have always wanted to tell you." ”

Prime Minister Meng raised her eyebrows and motioned for her to continue.

Meng Yuan lowered her voice and said: "Although the eldest sister has married into the Xianwang Mansion, and Aunt Lin can't toss any tricks in the mansion alone, but the daughter always feels uneasy, she must hate her father and daughter very much, I am worried that she will ......" She nodded and mentioned another thing, "After all, Dad, you also know that the eldest sister's marriage was facilitated by Lin Guifei, how could Lin Guifei make a loss-making business." ”

Prime Minister Meng didn't expect her to be serious, and after listening to her for a while, he smiled and said, "I didn't expect Yuan Yuan to know how to be prepared for danger in times of peace." ”

"Daddy, don't make fun of your daughter, your daughter can't compare with others, so she relies on her father to spoil me." Meng Yuan told the truth.

Meng Chengxiang said lightly: "You can rest assured first, Concubine Lin will not make any moves for the time being, what she wants to do, she has to wait for Rou'er to hold King Xian's heart." ”

"That's right." That Zhao Yin is not a fuel-efficient lamp at first glance, but, "My daughter always feels that Lin Guifei and King Xian have the same purpose, although the two will also involve conflicts of interest later, but at least they are on the same front now, and they will soon reach an agreement." She sighed, "Hey, if only you could find a mistake and let Aunt Lin go to another Zhuangzi." ”

Meng Chengxiang said: "Do you think you haven't thought about being a father?" If she could, the last time she and your eldest sister harmed you together, it would have been enough to die 10,000 times. It's just that now Concubine Lin is being favored, she clearly wants to support your Aunt Lin, if we really do that, she may make some demons, it will only be more unfavorable to you. ”

Meng Yuan looked very distressed, full of sorrow, Meng Cheng was helpless, so he had to say: "Okay, you go and relax first, this post of the ninth princess is really hard to refuse as a father." ”

Meng Yuan's eyes lit up: "Dad agreed?" ”

"It's just that you've never been good at equestrianism, even if it's hunting, you must not be reckless, just look at the excitement." Prime Minister Meng Cheng advised.

Meng Yuan nodded again and again: "Don't worry, Dad, I will, there are still a few days before the hunt, I can practice first." ”

"It's okay, let Han Ning teach you, I don't worry about others." Prime Minister Meng Cheng slapped the board, and let Meng Yuan go to practice horseback riding.

Meng Yuan and Han Ning stood on the widest piece of land in the Xiangfu, which was quite close to the front house, but it was in the northeast corner, uninhabited, very quiet, and quite suitable for practice.

However, if she knew that Su Jichen wanted this somewhat old house in the northeast corner for the sake of quiet, she would never practice here.

"Miss, take your time, there's still time." Han Ning took the reins of the horse and said, "This is the little white horse that his subordinates chose for you, it is called Xuefeng, it is docile and obedient, you will ride it when the time comes." ”

Meng Yuan was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but say: "Didn't everyone choose a horse when they arrived at the paddock?" ”

Fufeng chimed in: "Yes, why do we have to bring the horses ourselves?" ”

Han Ning said: "Xiangye is not worried about the horse there, so let his subordinates send this horse to you when the time comes." ”

This should be afraid that people will do something right away, my father is very cautious, Meng Yuan is ashamed of himself, the hunt arranged by the prince must have a lot of people in the palace, and if it is not good, there will be people from Lin Guifei, and it is most beneficial for them to have some accidents now, she really has to take more precautions.

"But won't that turn off others?" Meng Yuan frowned and said, "After all, it was the hunt arranged by the crown prince, and the people who went were all the princes, nobles and children of important ministers, and everyone else used horses from the paddock, only if I was special, I am afraid it would not be appropriate." ”

Han Ning said with a smile: "Miss, please rest assured, on the day of the hunt, the subordinates will send the horse to the paddock in advance, and someone will take good care of it, I think no one else will pick such a small mare, it must be Miss's." ”

"Then it's going to be troublesome for Commander Han." Meng Yuan touched the head of the little white horse, although it was a little smaller, it was indeed a very aura horse, so that she dared to give it a try even if she was not good at riding horses.

While she was practicing, Su Jichen appeared behind the rockery not far away with a scroll.

He was bored from reading, and he wanted to come out to breathe, and he didn't plan to go to the back house, but this remote place where no one usually comes is favored today, and the three of them all gathered here.

Looking at the smiling girl from afar, I felt that all the beautiful words in the world could not be used to describe her, it was really a peony country. It's just that she doesn't have a good impression of him, when she was in Ganlin, she thought that she was either rich or expensive, but she was the prime minister's daughter, not to mention that she had made a family relationship with the current Duanwang, and he was about to get married, even if he won the top prize, he couldn't compare with Duanwang.

All in all, he didn't have a chance.

A little lost, but also resigned to fate, Su Jichen took a few steps back and looked at her from a distance, which could be regarded as a little relief of his thoughts.

Not long after, there was a light laugh behind him, Su Jichen was startled, and immediately turned around to leave, and also thought about making a salute before leaving, but this person looked like he had some purpose and did not accept his etiquette.

"This son must be the doorman who Xiang Ye received a few days ago." Lin Wan smiled and said, "I don't know what Childe is doing here?" ”

Su Jichen lowered his eyes and said: "It's boring to read, come out to breathe, and if there is nothing to do, Xiaosheng will go back first, disturb." After that, he raised his feet to leave, but Lin Wan directly asked the maid to stop him.

Slowly walking to the side of the rockery, Lin Wan saw Meng Yuan who was practicing horseback riding there, she walked back, stayed away from that side, lowered her voice, and the corners of her mouth provoked ambiguously: "It turned out that I was looking at Yuan Yuan, Su Gongzi has a really good eye, and he has taken a fancy to Xiangye's favorite daughter." ”

Su Jichen hurriedly said: "Don't dare to talk nonsense, how dare Xiaosheng covet his grandfather and daughter, he just happened to pass by here and saw this scene, and he didn't deliberately peek at it, Mrs. Mingjian!" ”

"I don't have the guts." Aunt Lin sneered and said, "I originally thought that if you were interested, I could still help you, but I didn't expect you to be so unproductive, I didn't even dare to think about it, I really don't know what Xiangye values about you." After finishing speaking, he turned his head and said, "Lanxi, let's go." ”

In this way, Lin Wan took the maid and waved her sleeves away, not taking away a single cloud. Su Jichen froze in place for a long time, and when he came back to his senses, there was no longer the girl's laughter behind him.

It's really strange, is it really too unruly, and the place where you are walking? But this is obviously still the boundary of the former house.

Miss Meng practiced horses in that open space, accompanied by Commander Han and his subordinates, which can be said to be reasonable, after all, there are no flowers and plants in the Prime Minister's Mansion and the largest place in the open space is there, otherwise she would have to go to the suburbs to practice, but what happened to that lady just now?

She combed the woman's hair, although the clothes were plain, but the material was good, and her speech and demeanor were not as rough as the wife of the next person, if there was no accident, she was the only concubine in the Prime Minister's mansion, Lin, she was a concubine in the back house, how could she come here?

If there are no flowers and no grass, what are you rewarding?

Could it be ...... Did you come to him on purpose?

Su Jichen frowned, he also knew about the struggle in the back house of a big family, and he knew that the Lin family was uneasy and kind. He thought he had to find a chance to remind Miss Meng, but when he went to the clearing the next day, Miss Meng and Commander Han did not appear.

Meng Yuan is in the suburbs with Prime Minister Meng Cheng and the guards in the house at the moment, today Prime Minister Meng Cheng is resting, specially took his daughter out to run a horse, and he also rode a horse to accompany him, and he felt tired after riding for a while, but he didn't exercise for many years, and his body bones were not good.

"Dad, why did you stop here?" Meng Yuan said brightly.

Prime Minister Meng Cheng gasped and said, "Your father and I are used to being pampered, and I feel tired after riding for a while." ”

"Dad, you can't do this, you have to exercise a lot, you are still so young, you can't give up on yourself like Lord Zhai!"

Zhai Qingchi and Zhai Qingmo's father, Lord Zhai, the squire of the military department, was about the same age as Meng Chengxiang, but he had a big belly and gave up treatment.

Although Prime Minister Meng Cheng is also old now, he is still handsome, elegant and handsome, and Meng Yuan doesn't want him to become like Lord Zhai.

Hearing his daughter say this, Prime Minister Meng tried to follow again, looking at her happy appearance, as if he had seen his young wife again, and his expression was a little dazed for a while.

In the next few days, Meng Yuan didn't go to practice horseback riding, because Han Ning received an errand and went out of the house to run errands, so she stayed in the yard and obediently cultivated herself.

When the day of the hunt came, she specially put on a narrow-sleeved skirt suitable for horseback riding, and the tender yellow color made her complexion more and more snow-white, and when she came from afar, it was as if the sun had set, so brilliant and dazzling.

Zhao Chen stood with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and the fourth prince Zhao Cheng was also invited, and several people were together, but Zhao Yin, the virtuous king, was not there.

Meng Yuan arrived, naturally with the female guest, the ninth princess had long wanted to meet the legendary first beauty in Kyoto, in the palace banquet before, either she didn't see it or couldn't see it clearly, the prime minister always covered her as if she were not there, as if she was afraid that they would eat her, she was too curious about her.

Meng Yuan also found that Princess Jing'an was very interested in her, and she had been staring at her since she arrived, and her eyes were almost shining.

"Sure enough, it lives up to its name." The ninth princess said with a smile, "The title of the first beauty in Kyoto, Miss Meng can really afford it." ”

Meng Yuan said: "The ninth princess has a good reputation, how dare the courtiers bear this name, Her Royal Highness the princess is peerless, and she is many times more beautiful than the courtiers." ”

"Okay, I know how this princess looks in my heart, saying that you are good-looking is good-looking, don't be so tired and panicked." The temper of the ninth princess is also worthy of her reputation, and after speaking, she said, "My third brother looks serious on weekdays, I really didn't expect him to do this kind of thing, it seems that you are not only beautiful, but also very good." ”

The ninth princess said this to a good level, both praised her and praised Zhao Chen, Meng Yuan was convinced, and was about to say thank you, when he heard a voice behind him: "Her Royal Highness the princess said this, could it be that Miss Meng came over this time, and it was instructed by His Royal Highness King Duan?" ”

Meng Yuan and the Ninth Princess looked together, it turned out that King Xian and Princess Xian had arrived, and there was a familiar figure next to Zhou Jing, who looked beautiful but a little haggard.

It's Meng Rou.

has just been married for less than half a month, and she has been able to accompany King Xian to this kind of occasion, and it seems that King Xian treats her well.

Of course, there is another possibility, King Xian knew that Meng Yuan would come today, so he specially brought Meng Rou over, highlighting that he also attached great importance to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Hmph, it is estimated that the probability of the latter is relatively large, she really doesn't like Zhao Yin, so don't look at it.

Zhao Yin saw from afar that the beautiful and moving girl like a flower lowered her head and stopped looking at him, and her heart began to feel uncomfortable.

He glanced at the prince and his party in the distance, Zhao Chen was talking to the prince, and Zhao Cheng, the king of Rui, was listening to him, and the three of them seemed to be very brotherly.

With a cold snort in his heart, Zhao Yin stood in front of the female guest, and was embarrassed by the concubine Zhou Jing Meng Yuan, but Zhou Jing actually couldn't embarrass her, because the ninth princess was here.

"Who should I be, it turned out to be the second sister-in-law, I really didn't expect that the status of the second sister-in-law would also eavesdrop on others."

The ninth princess didn't give her face at all.

Zhou Jing said unhurriedly: "Where, I just heard it with my ears, and the ninth princess doesn't blame me for being too talkative." ”

"How come, you're my second sister-in-law, aren't you?" Jing'an raised her eyebrows and said.

Zhao Yin knew that he couldn't leave it alone, so he said: "Since everyone has arrived, let's all go over." "Say that, go first.

The ninth princess chuckled at Zhou Jing and said to Meng Yuan: "Miss Meng, you were invited by this princess, let's go together." ”

Meng Yuan smiled gently, nodded in response, and the two left together, and no one paid attention to Meng Rou, a person with a very weak sense of self-awareness.

Meng Rou stared at Meng Yuan's back intently, and said with a smile in her heart, let you be happy first, good days are still to come.

Zhao Chen couldn't wait to talk to Meng Yuan for a long time, but because of his marriage contract with Meng Yuan, he needed to avoid suspicion, otherwise there would be a lot of people present, and he might not know what would be passed out.

Seeing that Jing'an finally brought Meng Yuan, Zhao Chen's heart had already flown away, and his eyes were fixed on her uncontrollably.

Feeling Rumang in his body, Meng Yuan slowly raised his head and looked forward, facing Zhao Chen's scorching gaze.

She dodged as if she had been burned, and after a while she seemed to be very entangled, and finally looked at it again.

In the forest, the most noble princes and the crown prince stood together, but they couldn't compare to him at all.

When she saw him, she couldn't see anyone.

He was dressed in a moire snow-colored heavy gauze robe, wearing a crown of white hosta feathers, the vermilion tassels hung down behind the crown, and his hair was as black as ink.

Look, the always cold and stern appearance, when he saw her, he couldn't help but soften, but others could see it, he had to turn his gaze to King Xian, and the corners of his mouth were still unconsciously hooked, this smile directly made King Xian freeze in place.

Why do you look at him like this? These three brothers, who are not close to women on weekdays, are it difficult to ...... Could it be ...... How can it be! Absurd.

Zhao Yin himself felt that he was thinking too much, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he greeted him awkwardly: "Third brother." ”

Zhao Chen bowed his head and called "Second Brother", and when he finished speaking, his expression had returned to normal, and he was the Duan King who was tall and difficult to approach.

After going back and forth, Zhao Yin couldn't help but slander, this is because he was not enthusiastic enough to respond, so he was unhappy?

Is he courting me or what?

…… It's annoying!