Entering the study, Chu Lanxi saw Xiao Qiming sitting at the desk, holding a book in his left hand and a woman's hand in his right hand.

That woman is, of course, Xia Ling. At this time, she had already taken off the maid's clothes. Time is in a hurry, just a set of ready-to-wear clothes bought at the clothes shop outside, although it doesn't fit well, but it's also silk and satin, and it can be distinguished from those maids anyway.

As soon as Xiao Qiming saw Chu Lanxi coming in, he let go of the hand holding Xia Ling, beckoned to Chu Lanxi who was standing at the door, and said, "Coming?" Come and sit down. ”

Hearing Xiao Qiming's words, Chu Lanxi weighed a little in his heart: "It seems that I still have a very high status in His Highness's heart." ”

Chu Lanxi walked over dignifiedly, and as soon as she approached Xiao Qiming, Xiao Qiming took her in his arms, put down the book with his right hand, and hugged Xia Ling on the side. Hug left and right, so happy.

Chu Lanxi turned his head and saw Xia Ling with a shy face, and suddenly became angry and glared at Xia Ling fiercely.

"What are you looking at?" Xiao Qiming saw that Chu Lanxi had been staring at a certain place, and asked suspiciously.

"I'm looking at this sister. Your Highness, you haven't introduced her properly to Lan Xi. Chu Lanxi's hand put on Xiao Qiming's shoulder and looked at Xia Ling gently.

"This is Xia Ling." Xiao Qiming pointed to Xia Ling and said to Chu Lanxi, and then pointed to Chu Lanxi and said to Xia Ling: "This is your sister Lanxi." In the future, the two of you must get along well, and you must not be jealous. ”

"My sister looks dignified and virtuous at first glance, Lan Xi has been the temper of the eldest lady since she was a child, and I will ask my sister to be more tolerant in the future." Chu Lanxi walked up to Xia Ling, held her hand, and said with a sincere face, "Your Highness, Sister Xia Ling and I will definitely get along well." ”

Xiao Qiming originally thought that Chu Lanxi would be jealous because he favored Xia Ling, after all, the example of Zhao Lingshu in the past was there. And now seeing that she is so sensible, I am very satisfied. I once saw the family members of other families and nobles all competing for the wind and jealousy, making the family house jump, but fortunately, the women in their own family are so sensible.

Xiao Qiming put his mind at ease, let go of the hand holding Chu Lanxi, and turned around to play with Xia Ling. Xiao Qiming went to pull Xia Ling's hand, Xia Ling was afraid of Chu Lanxi, and quickly patted Xiao Qiming's hand gently, Xiao Qiming only thought she was shy, and reached out to pull it again.

When Chu Lanxi saw it, he just thought that they were teasing each other. Xiao Qiming seemed to have forgotten her existence, and played with Xia Ling wholeheartedly. Chu Lanxi looked at these two people like glue, blowing his beard angrily and glaring, but he didn't dare to show it.

"Your Highness, I still have some things, so I'll leave first." Chu Lanxi couldn't bear it anymore, so he could only find an excuse to leave the study.

As soon as he walked out of the door of the study, the smile on Chu Lanxi's face suddenly disappeared, and he became gritted and angry.

"Chun Tao, when His Highness is gone, you can find an opportunity to bring that little slut over to see me. I'd like to see what tricks she can do without Her Highness. ”

"Yes, Princess." Chun Tao replied, but she was very worried about Xia Ling in her heart. When Xia Ling was still a maid, they had a good relationship. And Chun Tao has served Chu Lanxi for so long, and she knows Chu Lanxi's vicious character. Now Chu Lanxi is determined that Xia Ling will compete with her for favor, and he will definitely not let him go.

A few days later, it happened that Xiao Qiming was out on errands, and Chun Tao found Xia Ling according to Chu Lanxi's meaning and said to her, "Concubine Fang asked you to go over." As he spoke, he kept glancing at Xia Ling.

Xia Ling has been favored by Xiao Qiming these days, and she has long been inappropriate for herself to be a maid, and she doesn't recognize this former little sister, let alone look at her properly. As a result, Xia Ling completely missed the hint of Chun Tao.

Seeing that Xia Ling didn't look at her, Chun Tao hurriedly wanted to remind her, but there were other maids around, if Chu Lanxi knew that she had betrayed her, maybe she would be worse than Xia Ling. Therefore, I can only give up, and secretly wish Xia Ling good luck in my heart.

Chun Tao took Xia Ling to the courtyard of Chu Lanxi.

"Please also ask my aunt to wait here first, and the slave maid will go in and inform the side concubine." After Chun Tao finished speaking, he walked into the room to find Chu Lanxi.

At first, Xia Ling didn't care about it, and just waited quietly outside.

But Xia Ling waited outside for a long time, but there was still no movement in the house.

The sun was scorching outside, and the windless afternoon was even more drowsy. Xia Ling had already waited very impatiently, but the slave mentality in the past still made her afraid of Chu Lanxi, who had always been the master, so she didn't dare to leave wantonly, so she could only endure the scorching sun above her head and wait obediently.

After an hour, Chu Lanxi helped Chun Tao lazily, and Shi Shiran came out of the room, yawning loudly as he came out.

Xia Ling only dared to be angry but didn't dare to speak, she didn't lower her head, she stared directly at Chu Lanxi, her eyes were full of anger.

"Isn't this Sister Xia Ling? Why are you standing here? Chu Lanxi, who yawned, seemed to have just found Xia Ling standing, and even forgot that he had called Xia Ling over.

"Princess, you asked me to call Xia Ling." Of course, Chun Tao knew what Chu Lanxi meant, but she could only remind him according to his meaning.

"Then why don't you call me? I'm taking a nap, Sister Xia Ling is here, you should quickly wake me up, let Sister Xia Ling stand in the sun and wait for so long, it's really my sin. Chu Lanxi looked at Chun Tao with a pretended annoyed look.

"Chun Tao damn it." Chun Tao knelt down silently.

"Sister Xia Ling, come into the house quickly." After pretending to reprimand Chun Tao and pushing his responsibility away, Chu Lanxi pretended to pull Xia Ling into the house.

Xia Ling, who had been exposed to the sun for more than an hour, was already dizzy at the moment, completely lost her ability to judge, and followed Chu Lanxi into the house in a daze and sat on the stool.

"My sister has been out in the sun for so long, she must be thirsty. Spring peach, pour tea. Chu Lanxi said diligently.

Xia Ling looked at Chu Lanxi's busy appearance, thinking that Chu Lanxi felt that he had won the favor of His Royal Highness and would lose his status in this mansion, so he hurried to have a good relationship with himself in case something happened in the future.

How could Xia Ling, who had just become a concubine, think of Chu Lanxi's twists and turns and the actions of the nobles of the family in order to compete for favor?

Chun Tao quickly brought the tea, Chu Lanxi stood up and went to pick it up with his own hands, and then poured the tea into the teacup for Xia Ling, and then handed the teacup to Xia Ling.

Xia Ling naively thought that her guess was right, and reached out to pick up the teacup handed over by Chu Lanxi with a proud face.

Who knew that at the same time as Xia Ling reached out to pick up the teacup, Chu Lanxi suddenly let go of his hand, and the hot tea with the green tea leaves was poured directly on Xia Ling's delicate hands and body.

"Ahh Xia Ling immediately screamed from the scalded, covering the burned part and arching her body.

"Sister, are you alright? It's all my fault, I didn't hold the cup with my clumsy hands. Chu Lanxi looked at Xia Ling apologetically, "Chun Tao, quickly wipe Xia Ling's sister." ”

Chun Tao hurriedly took a clean cloth and gave Xia Ling to wipe the burned place.

"Sister Xia Ling, you see that you are all wet, do you want to change your clothes?" Chu Lanxi said, "Chun Tao, take Sister Xia Ling to the back to change clothes." ”

Chu Lanxi said and glanced at Chun Tao, Chun Tao understood, sighed silently in his heart, and decided to do what Chu Lanxi had ordered beforehand.

In the inner room, Chun Tao took out a set of clothes worn by Chu Lanxi and gave it to Xia Ling. Xia Ling didn't know whose clothes it was, and she didn't know what was at stake. I only felt that this dress was made of better material than the clothes on my body, and the cut was more detailed, and I secretly sighed in my heart that Chu Lanxi was so generous, so I happily changed it.

When she came out after changing her clothes, Xia Ling was still counting on Chu Lanxi to praise her a few words. Who knew that Chu Lanxi, who was sitting at the table drinking tea slowly, just raised his eyes to look at her, and then looked at Chun Tao on the side.

Then Chun Tao scolded Xia Ling: "Presumptuous! A little concubine actually dared to commit a crime against our side concubine! Our concubine's clothes can also be worn by people like you! ”

Xia Ling, who was scolded inexplicably, looked confused: "But didn't you give me this dress to wear?" ”

"Presumptuous! How could I bring you the princess's clothes to wear! Auntie, is this spewing blood, or is she angry? Chun Tao said sharply, and after speaking, he stepped forward and slapped his mouth at Xia Ling's face.

"Smack!" "Smack!"

After a few slaps, Xia Ling's white and tender face was immediately beaten red and swollen.

"Alright, let's stop." Chu Lanxi, who was drinking tea and didn't say a word the whole time, finally spoke, and Chun Tao immediately stopped when she heard this sentence and stood aside.

"I'm a little tired today, so I'm going to lie down. If Sister Xia Ling has nothing to do, she will leave my yard and do whatever she wants. After speaking, Chu Lanxi put down Xia Ling, who was kneeling on the ground, and entered the inner room by himself.

Xia Ling on the ground already understood that Chu Lanxi's face change speed was to pretend to him, she covered her swollen face, looked at Chu Lanxi's back as she left, and her eyes were full of unwillingness.

Xia Ling returned to her courtyard, sat in front of the bronze mirror and looked at her face, and immediately "hissed" in pain after touching it slightly.

Xia Ling cried aggrievedly and loudly, so loud that the whole courtyard could hear it. The maids who were waiting for her were startled when they saw this, and hurriedly went to get ice cubes and wrap them in handkerchiefs to cover Xia Ling's face. And the maids in the courtyard who used to be the same identity as her and called each other sisters with her got together and laughed at her.

"Look at her miserable state!"

"Without ability and background, the sparrow that flies on the branches can't become a phoenix."

"It's just, what's so great about being good-looking? It's just that my parents are good, who is not a maid's life? ”

"Now, she knows how many pounds and taels she has, and she still wants to compete for favor with the side concubine? The side concubine's family is Cheng Sihou. ”

Xia Ling heard the unscrupulous ridicule outside the house, but she didn't dare to rush out and scold them like Chu Lanxi. She has no background and no identity, she wants to become a real phoenix, she can only rely on Xiao Qiming's favor, and she can only rely on her mother and son.

Xia Ling bit her lip forbearingly, the clothes that caused the trouble had already been clutched to the ground, full of wrinkles.

Now, Xia Ling can only hope that Xiao Qiming will come back soon, while she is still favored. Take a good tell Xiao Qiming about Chu Lanxi.

Xia Ling waited quietly in the room. It didn't take long for Xiao Qiming to return.