"Miss, Sister Hongyan next to the old lady is here." The green myrtle outside the door walked in and saluted.

"Please come in."

"Hello Miss Xie Er, the old lady asked me to invite you to the Buddhist hall, she has something to say." Red Aya was expressionless.

She was used to the appearance of Red Aya, and she followed her grandmother all year round, no matter who she did.

"Please also ask Sister Hongya to lead the way." After that, he took Ah Zhen and Ah Ran to follow behind Hong Aya.

It was getting dark, and the people in the house were lighting lanterns.

In the past few years, she has followed the rule of going to the Buddha Hall on the fifteenth day of the new year to ask her grandmother for peace. But every time I asked Grandma Ann, I just asked a few random words of daily life, and nothing else.

This was the first time that her grandmother had asked her to go to the Buddha hall for questioning.

Red Aya led her to her grandmother's bedroom. The bedroom is divided into two rooms, the middle is covered by a screen, the inner bedroom is the bedroom, and the outer is the guest room.

Grandmother sat on a couch chair in the center of the living room, dressed in a dark blue embroidered pine crane pattern cross-collar placket with narrow sleeves, leaning slightly on one armrest, holding a Buddhist bead in her right hand and turning.

Xie Ying stepped forward to salute and stood quietly with her head bowed.

"Do you know what you did wrong today?" Xu Shi looked at her with a serious face and sharp eyes.

"Sakura shouldn't carry a dagger with her, let alone make it public." Xie Ying bowed her head and spoke sincerely.

"But Ah Ying is also here to save people, which is understandable."

"Do you think you're doing the wrong thing?" Xu Shi was expressionless and shouted loudly.

"Ah Ying is also high-spirited and compares with His Royal Highness the second highness, and is too popular in the master's house."

"Well, it looks like you still know you're wrong." The expression on Xu's face softened slightly. "If you do something wrong, you have to be punished, what do you think?"

"The granddaughter obeys her grandmother's teachings." Xie Ying knelt on the ground obediently.

"In that case, give me your dagger to keep it for you, the boudoir girl doesn't need this."

When Xie Ying heard this, she suddenly raised her head, excited in her heart, but tried to calm herself down: "Grandmother, can you change the punishment?" ”

"What, you want to disobey me?" Xu's originally soothing face became serious again.

"The granddaughter doesn't dare, it's just that this dagger is the only thing left by the fourth brother to Ah Ying, I hope that my grandmother will show mercy." Xie Ying looked at Xu with tears in her eyes, and her voice was mournful.

"If I don't punish you severely, how can I teach you a long lesson!" Xu Shi seemed to turn a deaf ear, and his words were unquestionable.

The granddaughter knew she was wrong and promised not to have a next time. If there is a next time, it is not too late for grandmother to take back the dagger. Xie Ying kowtowed to Xu.

Xu Shi looked at Xie Ying's sad face, and was silent for a long time: "Okay, I won't accept the dagger first, but as you said, there will be no next time." ”

"Thank you, Grandmother!" Xie Ying kowtowed at Xu again.

"Let's go down first."

"Yes."

Walked out of the bedroom, Xie Ying took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped his tears.

Go back to Sakuraun Temple, and let Ah Zhen Ah Ran go out and guard the door. She walked to the side of the bed alone, lifted the futon on the bed, took out a dagger and stabbed it fiercely at the bed.

In the past few years, every time she encounters something unhappy, she will use the dagger that the fourth brother gave her to pierce the bed board to vent her emotions.

She didn't dare to throw things casually to express her dissatisfaction, which would only make her grandmothers find her difficult to discipline and cause her more trouble.

Xie Ying stretched out her hand and stroked the large and small knife wounds on the bed, tears welled up, "Fourth brother, Ah Ying misses you......"

Ah Zhen and Ah Ran outside the house glanced at each other, they had long been accustomed to it, and when Miss Tomorrow was still the girl who knew how to read and etiquette.

Night, East Palace.

In the study, Prince Murui sat on a chair behind the bookcase in a yellow robe with a round neck and narrow sleeves.

Leaning back against the chair, his hands on the armrests on both sides of the chair, his face is like a crown of jade, and his eyebrows are clear.

He was smiling and looking at Shen Lao, a staff member standing in front of him, and asked, "What do you think today?" ”

He asked the result of Shen Lao going to Zuo Xiang's Mansion to meet Xie Ying on his behalf today, and this result was of course whether Xie Ying was suitable for becoming the crown princess and whether he could be his help.

Because he is the prince of the East Palace, he cannot leave the palace at will.

Yesterday, his subordinates told him that today's birthday banquet of Zuo Xiang, the crown princess who had lived in the Yasukuni Mansion for four years, was going to attend, so he sent Shen Lao, the most trusted person around him, to see how this woman looked.

Shen Lao, who was at the bottom, stroked his beard, looked at the prince with a playful look and said with a smile: "Liyuan plays butterflies, a peerless beauty." ”

"Oh?" The prince raised his eyebrows, Shen Lao has always not commented on a woman's appearance, and today's ......

"That's all? You know it's not the answer I want. The prince asked with a serious face.

"The martial arts are good, but the intelligence is insufficient." Shen Lao waved to the prince and informed the prince of all the things that happened to Xie Ying in Zuo Xiang's mansion today.

The prince finally concluded: "Isn't that a woman who looks good but can only be brave and show off? ”

Shen Lao was silent.

"Let's go down." After Shen Lao left, the prince fell into deep thought.

Now although he is the crown prince and looks only one step away from the throne, he knows that his father does not like him, or because the queen mother is married, he is very disliked, and he doesn't even like him.

If he hadn't been the crown prince of the previous emperor's edict, he would never have had the opportunity to get in touch with that position in his life.

Over the years, he has been conscientious in the position of the crown prince, for fear of giving his father and his brothers a handle, and he will be deposed if he is not careful.

He had a glimmer of hope that the woman whom his grandfather had assigned him to marry would be as resourceful as his mother, or that he would have half the intelligence of his mother, and would be able to help him, but today it seemed that he had hoped that this was his extravagant hope.

The Mansion of the Six Princes, the studio.

"Gu Lao! Gu Lao! As soon as the sixth prince Mu Yao entered the mansion, he went straight to the studio, and shouted as soon as he arrived at the door of the studio.

"What's wrong? You are so flustered, what happened? A slightly old voice came from inside the room.

Then came an old man with gray hair and a ruddy face, dressed in coarse linen, but looking radiant.

"Old Gu, I saw a woman today, a peerless beauty!" Mu Yao took Gu Lao's arm, ecstatic.

"How beautiful? Can you draw it? Gu Lao's eyes lit up when he heard this.

He is a painter who has traveled around for decades, and in half of his life, he has painted landscapes, wind and rain, birds and animals, trees and flowers.

He has left some works that are enough to be handed down, and is even known as "Gu Qing", which means that his painting skills are perfect.

Ten years ago, he became obsessed with figure painting, and then he planned to make a picture of the most beautiful woman in Kyoto during his lifetime.

So he came to the capital, but the search for the past few years made him very disappointed. Now that he heard Mu Yao's words, he rekindled his hope.

"Old Gu, wait a while." With that, he ran into the room and drew on the table, and raised his pen with a wave.

After a while, a painting was gone.

In the painting, under a pear blossom tree, a girl in purple holds a butterfly fan and attracts a butterfly to dance around her, and the girl looks up and smiles at the butterfly.

The woman in the painting is Xie Ying.

"Old Gu, look." Hold up the painting where the ink has not yet dried and show it to Gu Lao.

Gu Lao's eyes lit up, and he stepped forward and looked at it carefully.

"Yes, it's a beauty." Liang Jiu said happily, "Who is this woman?" ”

"She is Miss Xie Er of the Yasukuni Mansion." Mu Yao was very happy to see that the beauty she said was recognized.

But he was a little sad and said: "She is also my future sister-in-law." Then he put down the painting and collapsed in the chair behind the painting table, looking at the beams of the room with a mournful expression.

Gu Lao looked at Mu Yu's appearance, thoughtful, and said in a deep voice: "You won't admire her, right?" ”

"How is it possible, she is my sister-in-law, how can I have such a non-centrific thought." Hearing this, Mu Yao jumped up and shouted at Elder Gu.

"As you say, she is your sister-in-law, you have to remember." Gu Lao said this on his lips, but he secretly screamed in his heart.

In the past few years, he knows Mu Yao, and she doesn't care about the woman he doesn't like at all, and she doesn't bother to take care of it.

Hey, beauty is beautiful, but I'm afraid of disaster to the country!

The Second Prince's Mansion, Study.

Mu Jue was standing in front of the window with his hands behind his back and quietly looking at the moon in the sky, and suddenly said loudly: "Ji Bai, what do you think of the martial arts of the second miss of the Xie family today?" ”

Ji Bai was silent for a while and only replied: "Quite strong!" ”

"Oh?" The second prince, Mu Jue, looked at Ji Bai in some surprise.

Ji Bai is an excellent child cultivated by his mother, the Su family, who was sent to the Jiangnan sect since he was a child, and since he came to him three years ago, he has helped him find out a lot of useful information with this kung fu, and has escaped many assassinations.

He knew that Ji Bai was quite complacent in martial arts, and there were few that made him praise, and even the strongest guard Fang Mi beside the prince only said that it was good.

"What if you deal with her?" Mu looked at Ji Bai with some curiosity.

"I don't know, maybe I won." Ji Bai said seriously.

It seems that this Xie Ying is at least extremely good at martial arts, but I don't know what his eldest brother thinks of Xie Ying.

He saw Shen Lao beside his eldest brother in Zuo Xiang's Mansion, the eldest brother was smart enough and affectionate enough, just because this Shen Lao had saved his life, he became his most trusted person besides his mother.

It's just that this Shen Lao is a little not simple......

Left Prime Minister's House.

After the feast, Pang Dai was called to the study by the people sent by his grandfather.

"Tell me what happened to that snake today." Behind the bookcase, an old man dressed in a black brocade robe, with gray hair and a thin but tough body, looked at Pang Dai who came in and asked aloud.

Pang Dai straightened out his thoughts and not only talked about today's events in the bamboo forest, but also talked about Xie Ying's pear orchard playing butterflies and the pot throwing competition with His Royal Highness the Second Highness, and specially emphasized that Xie Ying's appearance was better than that of his mother Xia Jiao.

After listening to this, Pang Guan immediately understood what his granddaughter was thinking. Said with a smile: "This matter is not urgent, even if we want to promote the good story of the Hall of Eternal Life, we must meet each other." ”

"It's the granddaughter who is reckless." Pang Dai hurriedly bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

"You did a good job today, and this right minister doesn't take the old man seriously." Pang Guan's face was a little gloomy.

He asked again: "What do you think of Chen Ling?" ”

"I do have some skills, but I am too small-bellied, and today Xie Ying is just trying to compete with His Second Highness, so she can't bear it." Pang Dai's face was a little disdainful.

"Yes, but people like these tend to do extraordinary things." Pang Guanshensi was a little flustered, "You go down first." ”

"Yes."

Same night, same night, different mansions, different moods.