"Is the crown princess out of the house on errands?" Xiao Yu asked Chai Qingyue, who looked distressed, in a soft voice, "If it is a trivial matter, the crown princess can tell the slave maid to do it." ”

"Not really." Chai Qingyue waved her hand, "I can only go to this matter by myself." ”

Can only go on your own? The suspicion in Xiao Yu's heart deepened.

"If the crown princess wants to leave the house, talk to the father-in-law in charge, and he will prepare the things he needs for the trip." Xiao Yu reminded aloud.

Chai Qingyue thought about it and felt that if she left the mansion as the crown princess, she would not be able to see Qin Changyong, after all, Qin Changyong is now a white-clothed person who has not even gained fame.

How can this disparity in identity be solved?

"Forget it, it's not a big deal, let's talk about it later." Chai Qingyue waved her hand and let Xiao Yu retreat, "You can come in and clean up the dishes and chopsticks later." ”

"Yes." Xiao Yu bowed her head as usual and took a few steps back before turning to go out.

Can't go out to meet people as the crown princess? That is to say, the person the crown princess wants to hide the most is the crown prince. Xiao Yu thought silently in her heart, can she try to find out who the princess's little lover is?

After making up his mind, Xiao Yu took some of the soft he had saved and bribed a fellow in the procurement office, so that they could pay attention to the legendary little lover of the crown princess for themselves when they went out to run errands.

Chai Qingyue was seriously ill, and she lost a lot of weight, and when she went to the New Year's banquet in the palace, she was pulled by a group of ladies in the palace who were not happy with the prince, and secretly looked at whether Chai Qingyue was doing well in the prince's mansion and was not favored by the prince. Of course, the most important thing is that Chai Qingyue's monthly value is not worth climbing by himself.

Although Chai Qingyue is relatively simple, she is not stupid. The twists and turns in the hearts of those women in the back house, even if Chai Qingyue has not been in contact with it much, she has heard of it a little.

"Sister."

Chai Qingyue was chatting with a lady from the Hou Mansion when she heard a gentle female voice behind her. After turning her head, Chai Qingyue saw Bai Chudie standing there in a lake-blue tunic wide-sleeved skirt, looking at her with crooked eyebrows.

"You called me?" Chai Qingyue raised her eyebrows and looked at Bai Chudie with a smile.

Bai Chudie didn't expect Chai Qingyue, who hadn't seen her for many days, to be a little stronger in her aura, and she was surprised in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face, and walked in front of Chai Qingyue with a gentle smile as always.

After blessing her body, Bai Chudie said softly: "Sister, are you chatting with the wife of the Marquis of Dingyuan?" It seems that I was presumptuous. ”

After speaking, he blessed the two of them again, with a guilty face.

Chai Qingyue looked at the person in front of her, if she hadn't let her see her face clearly during the time she lived in the prince's mansion, she would really mistakenly think that she was apologizing.

"It's okay, we're not talking about anything anyway, we're just talking about how to manage the back house." Chai Qingyue's face was calm, "Sister, you haven't married yet, I guess you won't be able to talk to us together, this time is almost the same, let's go there and take a seat." ”

Chai Qingyue's words made Bai Chudie stunned, clenched the embroidered handkerchief in his sleeve, but showed a shy smile on his face: "Where is my sister." ”

Bai Chudie's reaction made Chai Qingyue only feel funny, stretched out her finger and pointed in the direction, and said respectfully to Mrs. Dingyuan Hou, "Madame, please first." ”

"What's so embarrassing about that? Of course, it was the crown princess who left first. "Although Marquis Dingyuan is a first-class military marquis, he also has a command, but how can he compare to the noble status of the crown princess.

Chai Qingyue smiled, took Mrs. Dingyuan's hand and said, "Madame is polite, you are an elder." ”

Mrs. Dingyuan's mother is the lord of Qinghe, and she is also half a royal person, so it is reasonable to treat her with the courtesy of an elder. It's just that there is no need to be so polite as the crown princess.

Mrs. Dingyuan Hou looked at Chai Qingyue in her heart, and suddenly felt that this princess selected from the city did not seem to be as unbearable as rumored, and it seemed that she was still a little unashamed.

The so-called palace banquet is a variety of salutes and congratulations, and then coax the superiors to be happy. From the very beginning, the congratulatory messages of the hundred officials have not been repeated, and the congratulatory messages of the civil officials are even more varied.

Chai Qingyue is not very accustomed to this kind of occasion, and feels that this is all an inconsequential etiquette carried out by some superiors in order to satisfy their inner vanity, they may not understand how hard the life of the people at the bottom is, and the so-called prosperous Chang'an is just the self-deception of the ruler.

"What? The dishes of the palace banquet are not appetizing? Murong Sichen looked at Chai Qingyue, who was a little absent-minded, and felt that as his nominal husband, he should care about his wife.

Chai Qingyue's mind didn't know where to go, and when she heard Murong Sichen speak, she didn't react at once, and she still sat there thinking blankly.

"What are you thinking?" Murong Sichen saw that Chai Qingyue was still sitting there thinking about things, and he didn't hear his own question, so he was a little unhappy at the moment, and his tone involuntarily increased, and it sounded very unkind.

"Huh?" Chai Qingyue finally came back to her senses, and looked at the source of the sound with a blank expression.

Chai Qingyue, who had come back to her senses, blinked her eyes before answering Murong Sichen's question: "The concubine body was thinking just now, in fact, you high-ranking people don't know the lives of the people at the bottom at all. ”

As soon as the words came out, Chai Qingyue felt that something was wrong, it didn't seem very kind to say bad things about others in front of them, and there was still a high-ranking person on the other side, so it was even more intolerable for others to say bad things in front of them.

Sure enough, after listening to Chai Qingyue's words, Murong Sichen's face darkened, and the light in his eyes dimmed.

After a long time, Murong Sichen spoke: "This palace is different from them. ”

Not the same? What's different?

Chai Qingyue felt that her brain might not be enough, so she simply didn't think about the meaning of Murong Sichen's words, so she focused her attention on the dishes of the palace banquet.

Looking at a table of dishes that were excellently arranged, Chai Qingyue had no appetite at all, and this palace banquet did not have the atmosphere of the New Year at all. Although the dishes at the palace banquet are very beautiful, in order to maintain their delicacy, they have no temperature and lose the deliciousness of the dishes.

A table full of delicacies from the mountains and seas, but Chai Qingyue misses her parents in the private school more and more, I don't know how they spent the New Year this year? Is it still the same as usual? Will the orphans taken in by the private school still go to the yard to set off firecrackers after the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner? Will the fireworks on East Street be as brilliant as in previous years?

Chai Qingyue silently glanced at the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty who was sitting at the top, slightly fat, sitting there enjoying the congratulations of the hundred officials, looking at the feeling of an old dragon clock, and suddenly remembered the rumors in the market.