"Queen Mother, I'm afraid this princess of Chu is not easy to deal with." Mama Xu, who was next to Nanhou, squinted her eyes and said.

"That's true, this palace has asked King Ling about the situation at the time of the wedding several times, but he was blocked back by the princess of Chu State."

"Niangniang, there is one more thing," Mama Xu paused and said, "The maid we put in King Ling's mansion said...... Last night, King Ling favored the princess of Chu State. ”

"What! There is such a thing! ”

Nanhou pondered: "Over the years since King Ling returned to the southern country, this palace has stuffed a lot of women for her openly and secretly, but he has refused them one by one, this palace thought that he would never touch any woman in his life, but he didn't expect it...... This princess of Chu is indeed a bit interesting......"

"Mama, you let people keep an eye on that woman in King Ling's mansion, this palace wants to see what she is capable of!" Nanhou ordered.

"The slave obeys."

On the way back, the more Su Lan thought about it, the more wrong it became. She originally thought that the queen of the southern kingdom would be a virtuous and gentle woman like her mother, Concubine Xiangui, but when she saw her recently, it was not at all what she thought.

"You told me before that the Southern Empress treated King Ling very well when he was young, and after King Ling returned from the Snow Mountain a few years ago, the Southern Empress treated King Ling well, and even mentioned that he wanted to choose a princess for King Ling, right?" Su Lan asked suspiciously.

"Yes, that's what I heard, princess, is there anything wrong?" Qingmei was a little dazed and asked.

"It's weird, it's weird." Su Lan was puzzled: "If according to what you said, Nanhou and King Ling should have a good relationship But just now in the Nanhou Palace, she clearly wanted to inquire about King Ling, and asked me why I didn't come with King Ling, and after I answered, she was not dissatisfied, but a little happy."

Su Lan continued to think deeply: "Although her performance is not obvious, I can still see that she is very optimistic about the discord between me and King Ling, so it is either that the news you heard is wrong, and there is any news that we can't reach because we first came to the southern country, or there is a strange relationship between King Ling and Queen Ling, or rather, there is a deeper contradiction. ”

"This ...... That's too complicated, isn't it...... Princess, you are so powerful, just meeting Nanhou has so many reasoning. Xia Dong was shocked, she didn't expect Princess Lan to be so smart.

"Well, the princess is right, we just came to the southern country, and there are many things we don't understand." Qingmei frowned and said, "Moreover, I always feel that this Nanhou doesn't look like a good person."

"Mmmm, I also think she gives me an eerie feeling." Xia Dong is a wood-based mystery, so her perception of others is stronger and more correct.

Because the wood power is the power of life, it can perceive the attributes in other people's bodies.

However, not all wood-based mysteries have such a perception ability, and relatively few have such a perception ability, but it just happens to be in summer and winter.

"In short, we must be more careful in the south in the future. I have a hunch that this King Ling is not an idle person. ”

It wasn't for nothing that she said this, King Ling didn't feel very easy to get along with, and besides, she always felt that King Ling's evil spirit was too heavy.

After returning to King Ling's Mansion, the housekeeper greeted him: "I have seen the princess, tell the princess, because you are already the mistress of King Ling's Mansion, so the power of the Ling Palace's house is also taken over by you." ”

"The power of the house? Can I do without? "Su Lan has never been interested in management, and besides, this is the Ling Wangfu who has just arrived.

If it was her own mansion, she wouldn't go to the housekeeper, and she would usually leave it to someone she trusted.

Trusted people...... Manage...... Wait, she didn't have the opportunity to get in touch with any management matters before, and she didn't have anyone she trusted, but why...... Thinking of these things, she felt a heartache in her heart, and her head felt a little painful.

She held her aching head and shook it gently.

Xia Dong saw that something was wrong with her: "Princess, what's wrong with you?" ”

Qingmei was also frightened, "Princess, are you okay?" ”

Su Lan felt very bad, her head hurt, there were sounds echoing in her head, she wanted to stop those sounds, but she didn't know what to do.

Su Lan held his head and slowly squatted down.

At this moment, a pair of broad hands were placed on top of her head, and a vigorous, warm force entered her body.

It didn't take long for Su Lan to feel better.

Su Lan opened her eyes, and when she saw a pair of black boots and a dark blue robe, she raised her head and slowly stood up, it turned out to be him, King Ling.

"Su Lan, thank His Royal Highness King Ling for coming to the rescue." She thanked King Ling.

"Your headache is very strange, this king has never encountered a case like you," Ling Wang said.

"Weird? Why did His Royal Highness King Ling say this? To be honest, Su Lan himself felt very strange.

She had never passed her head for no reason when she was in Chu before, and the chaotic voices in her head also made her scratch her head.

"There's a power in you that I've never seen before."

"Uncle Wang, why are you here?" King Ling looked at the butler and asked.

"This ...... The old slave came to take the princess to take over the stewardship...... Whoever wanted to talk about it, the princess had a headache. ”

Xiao Ling was stunned and said coldly: "Uncle Wang, this Ling Wangfu is still under your control, after all, the princess has not been in the Ling Wangfu for a long time, and she still doesn't know a lot of things." ”

"This, okay." The housekeeper wanted to speak and stopped, but after thinking about it, what the prince said was indeed reasonable. He originally wanted the princess to be the housekeeper, then this princess Ling would have a real hostess.

The courtyard where Su Lan lives is called Jing Yuan, the scenery is very chic, the yard is also very large, and Jing Yuan is also very close to King Ling's residence. In fact, this is all arranged by the housekeeper with good intentions.

"Princess, you're scaring us today." Xia Dong said worriedly.

"Yes, princess." Qingmei also looked worried, "Princess, you have to take good care of your body in the future." ”

"Don't worry, I'm fine, it's the first time I've had such a problem in nine years, I'll pay attention to it in the future." Su Lan nodded and looked at them with a smile.

In fact, Su Lan was also a little worried in her heart, because she had never passed through for no reason before, and the voices in her head, as well as the bursts of heartache, also made her very uneasy and confused.

Su Lan stayed in King Ling's Mansion for more than 20 days, and in these 20 days, they never left Jingyuan once.

Because Su Lan set a goal for Xia Dong and Qingmei, that is, to raise his own Xuan Power to the second-order intermediate level.

Xia Dong and Qingmei are of the same age, and their cultivation of Xuanli is similar, and they are both at the second-order primary Xuanli.

More than twenty days have passed, and Qingmei has reached the second-order intermediate level first.

Because it was already autumn for a while, many plants had begun to wither, and the life force was quietly decaying, so the life force that Xia Dong could obtain from the outside world in this season was very small, and he could only rely on his own cultivation. In this way, it is a little slower than that of green plums.

"Qingmei, that's good." Su Lan looked at Qingmei and gave her a commending look, "How long have you been staying in the second-order primary stage?" ”

"It's been more than a year, because I've been in the palace before, and I haven't had time to cultivate at all, so I've been staying at the bivalent primary."

Xia Dong and Qingmei both entered the palace at the age of fourteen, and they only stayed in the palace for two years, and they suffered a lot, so their current personalities are relatively simple.

"Princess, time flies so fast" Su Lan was walking with the two of them in the palace, Xia Dong sighed.

"Yes, it's been more than a month since I left the Chu State."

Qingmei looked at Su Lan's somewhat sad look, and said, "Princess, do you miss your relatives in the Chu Kingdom?" ”

Su Lan thought of her mother and Liu Zijin.

"Princess, it will be the Midyear Festival soon, and we can go to put the river lanterns together when the time comes." Xia Dong proposed.

"That's right, princess, we haven't had the Midyear Festival in the south yet, I don't know how the people in the south celebrate the Midyear Festival." Qingmei was a little curious.

……

On this day, Su Lan suddenly thought of something and asked, "By the way, Xia Dong Qingmei, do you have a storage vessel?" ”

"Huh? Not...... No. Xia Dong Qingmei didn't react at once.

Storage is something that only rich and noble people will buy, and even if that thing is expensive, it needs to be tailor-made.

Ordinary people from families would not create that kind of thing, and besides, Xia Dong and Qingmei sold them into the palace for money before the family had any.

"Okay, then we'll help you build two storages." Su Lan decided.

Su Lan happened to meet Steward Wang before going out, and the housekeeper asked Su Lan if he needed to prepare a carriage for travel, but Su Lan refused.

It's been almost a month since she's been in the Southland, and both trips have been by horse-drawn carriage, and she hasn't really seen what the Southern Kings City is like.

Su Lan took Xia Dong and Qingmei to a restaurant, and the shopkeeper saw that Su Lan was dressed luxuriously and looked very beautiful, so he hurriedly ran over.

"Does this girl want a private room or a sitting room?" Su Lan's hair bun is the bun of the unmarried girl she combed when she was in Chu State, although she is married to King Ling, but she has always wanted to go back to Chu State to find Liu Zijin, so Xiao Er has always called her girl.

"Bring me a private room."

"Okay, girl, please." Xiao Er led them to the second floor.

"This wine house is really a good place, even the private room is so exquisitely furnished." Su Lan praised.

"Of course, our wine house is the best restaurant in the royal city, and you want to come the second time when you come here."

Su Lan and the three of them sat down, "Little Er, serve me a few of your signature dishes and a pot of good wine." ”

"Okay!"

"Wait." Su Lan stopped him: "I still want to ask you something, I am a foreigner, and I have just come to Wangcheng not long ago, so I want to inquire, where is the best forging defense in Wangcheng?" ”