Late at night, Xiaoyao Houfu.

A head poked in from outside the wall, and in the soft white moonlight, it could be vaguely seen that the owner of the head was a young man with red lips and white teeth.

The little boy's eyes rolled from side to side, and after making sure that there was no one, he turned into the wall with both hands, and landed quietly.

"Whew!"

The little boy exhaled slowly, dusted off the hem of his clothes, and was about to walk back when a low snort sounded.

"Stop!"

The little boy shook his body, pulled his legs and ran, ran for less than two steps, crashed into a thick embrace, and was carried up like a chick.

"Dad, mother, don't hit me, I was wrong!"

Chu Yue'an screamed wow, and Su Li stood aside with her hands on her chest unmoved: "Dressed like this, where did you go?" ”

The girl's family doesn't rest in the boudoir in the middle of the night, and she dresses up as a man and runs around in the middle of the night.

"I can't sleep, go out and get some air."

Chu Yuean took out her usual excuse, and Su Li frowned: "Can't sleep for a month?" Yue'er told her mother, what are you worried about? ”

“……”

Chu Yue'an was dumbfounded, she didn't expect her mother to know her whereabouts so thoroughly, and she had already discovered that she had secretly run outside.

Chu Yue'an lowered her head and twisted her fingers into hemp rope: "Mother, Yue'er knows that she is wrong." ”

"...... you go out?"

"Mother, don't ask, I didn't do anything bad, I won't go out again, really!" Chu Yue'an raised his voice slightly and muttered, a little impatient, Su Li's brows furrowed even tighter, and seeing that he was about to get angry, Chu Huai'an patted Chu Yue'an on the head: "Tomorrow I will go to the Buddha Hall to accompany your grandmother to recite the scriptures." ”

"Yes!"

Chu Yuean slipped away quickly, Su Li wanted to catch up, Chu Huaian immediately hugged her into his arms, Su Li slapped him angrily: "What do you think of her now?" If you don't manage it well, how can you do it when you get to your in-law's house in the future? ”

"It's not that you don't know what Yue'er is like, she has always been unintentional."

Chu Huaian patted Su Li's back to reassure her, and Su Li glared at her: "You spoiled her like this!" ”

"You're all about that stupid guy, who spoils her if I don't spoil her?" Chu Huai'an deliberately made fun of Chu Gua, Su Li's momentum suddenly became half a cut shorter, and then he became worried: "Gua Gua hasn't written back for half a year, I don't know how he is now, he will write in two months at most." ”

"He's all over the crown now, and his skills are not bad, you should rest assured."

He, as a father, hurts his two daughters terribly, but he directly raises Guagua's son, and he is not worried at all.

Su Li wanted to say something, but was picked up by Chu Huai'an: "It's not early, rest early, and talk about it tomorrow." ”

"No...... Not! ”

Su Li's voice was swallowed up.

Chu Yue'an was locked up for several days because of secretly going out over the wall, and the whole person was like a frosted eggplant, and he couldn't lift his spirits.

"Eldest sister, why are you unhappy?"

Chu Yuexuan leaned into Chu Yue'an's ear and asked, Chu Huai'an didn't take a concubine, the two sisters have a very good relationship, and there is no difference between the concubines of other families.

Chu Yuean shook her head with a melancholy expression, Chu Yuexuan took out a puppet to make her happy: "Eldest sister, look ......"

"I don't want to see it."

Chu Yuean twisted his head to the side and stretched out his hand to push Chu Yuexuan, but it was clear that he didn't use any force, but the puppet head in Chu Yuexuan's hand fell off all of a sudden, and he rolled to the side.

The puppet is a woman, with a thick makeup and blush on her face, which looks very funny, but after her head falls off, she suddenly feels weird.

Chu Yuexuan swallowed her saliva and threw the puppet body away, Chu Yuean thought she was angry, walked over and picked up the puppet, and apologized softly: "Xuan'er, don't be angry, I was in a bad mood just now, can I help you sew the puppet and then return it to you?" ”

"Sister, I'm not angry, I think this looks so strange, don't do it."

Chu Yuexuan whispered, the more she looked at the puppet, the more frightened she felt, and suddenly she couldn't remember how the puppet got into her hands.

"Nothing strange." Chu Yuean stared at the puppet curiously, knowing that his sister had always been relatively timid, and smiled: "Since you don't want it, give it to me, you can't waste your heart in vain." ”

Chu Yuean said and put the puppet away, and couldn't see the puppet, the weirdness in Chu Yuexuan's heart disappeared, and she saw that Chu Yue'an seemed to be in a better mood, and she was also happy.

The two got together again and muttered for a while before Chu Yuexuan left.

Chu Yuean closed the door, the room was quiet, she took the puppet to the inside, and took a puppet from the bottom of the makeup box.

The puppet was no more than the size of a palm, wearing a black and white brocade robe, with a double dragon twisted moon sword around his waist, his posture was straight, and his black hair was fluttering, but he was wearing a mask on his face, covering half of his face, and he couldn't see the whole picture clearly.

Chu Yuean stretched out his hand and poked the puppet's head: "If you don't give me news, you'll die!" ”

After saying that, Chu Yuean took out the puppet in his arms and wiped the thick makeup powder on the puppet's head with a silk handkerchief.

"Huh?"

Chu Yue'an was puzzled, picked up the puppet's head and compared it with himself, and it was seven or eight points similar.

"It really seems."

Chu Yuean muttered, didn't know what to think, his eyebrows curled, and he took out a sewing kit and prepared to help the puppet put its head back.

As soon as she took out the silver needle, she accidentally pricked her finger, and a drop of blood stained the puppet's head, Chu Yue'an snorted bitterly, frowned and held her fingertips, and took a closer look, but saw that the puppet's head was clean and clean, and there was no blood at all.

Could it be that she was mistaken?

Chu Yue'an muttered in his heart, turned his head and saw that the sun was shining outside the window, everything was fine, and he felt that he was affected by Chu Yuexuan, and he was suspicious.

Is there a ghost in this world?

Chu Yuean shook his head, drove out those messy thoughts, and continued to sew up the puppet's head.

She didn't notice that a strand of red blood had burrowed into her body along the tip of her injured finger with a silver needle.

Three days later, the imperial city posted a notice that the crown prince and the crown ceremony would be celebrated by the whole country next month.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs covered the palace with red silk early, and civil and military officials brought their families into the palace to celebrate.

If you have a daughter to marry in the family, you should all dress up your daughter beautifully, and it is best to stand out from the crowd.

After all, the prince's appearance inherited his father's appearance, his eyes and teeth are bright, and he is extravagant, very good-looking, but now he has not married the crown princess, who is not a fragrant meat bun in his eyes?

Others were dressed up in full swing, but in the Xiaoyao Hou Mansion, Su Li asked her daughter not to dress up too well.

With their status, what kind of husband can't be found? Entering the palace is the best choice.

"Mother, why are everyone else dressed up beautifully, and Xuan'er and I want to be compared like this?"

Chu Yue'an asked dissatisfiedly, her little face wrinkled into a ball, and Su Li didn't raise her head: "Aren't you beautiful one day, you have to be in the limelight on this day, don't you know what it means for others to dress up?" ”

"You know, isn't it just choosing the crown princess." Chu Yuean lowered her head and didn't care: "Can't I be the crown princess?" ”

"What did you say?!"

Su Li slapped the table and was shocked by Chu Yue'an's words, Chu Yuean didn't expect Su Li to have such a big reaction, she was so frightened that her body trembled, and a wave of annoyance surged in her heart: "I'm telling the truth, mother, what are you doing to me?" ”

"You want to be the crown princess?"

Su Li asked, Chu Yuean stiffened his neck and did not deny it.

Su Li was so angry that her hands were shaking, she knew a long time ago that An Ruolan intended to let Chu Chen marry Chu Yuean as the crown princess, but she didn't want Chu Yuean to be involved in those troubles of right and wrong, and she had rarely let Chu Yuean enter the palace over the years.

She didn't know when Chu Yue'an had a private relationship with Chu Chen, and she didn't even know where they had developed now!

Su Li's palms were sweating, and she settled down and said, "Yue'er, tell me honestly, what do you have to do with the prince in private?" ”

"Nope."

"Really?"

"Naturally not, mother, you don't allow me to enter the palace on weekdays, how can I have dealings with him?" Chu Yue'an raised her voice, she was wronged first, Su Li knew that what she said was true, and she relaxed a little.

"Since you don't have much contact with the prince, how do you know his character? How did you get the idea of wanting to be a crown princess? ”

"What's so bad about being a crown princess? In the future, when he succeeds to the throne, I will be the queen, the most noble woman in Yuanzhao, I ......"

The more Chu Yue'an said, the more outrageous it became, Su Li's face became more and more heavy, Chu Yuexuan was trembling beside her, and stretched out her hand to pull Chu Yue'an's sleeve: "Sister, don't say it, my mother is angry!" ”

"What are you pulling me for?"

Chu Yuean shook Chu Yuexuan away dissatisfiedly, she learned some fist and foot kung fu when she was a child, Chu Yuexuan was defenseless, and fell to the ground all of a sudden.

"Chu Yue'an!"

Su Li scolded sharply, and Qibao came in from the outside when he heard the voice: "Madam, what's the matter?" ”

Su Li ignored Qibao and looked at Chu Yue'an coldly: "Kneel down for me!" ”

In the early years, although she cared more about Chu Gua, she didn't treat this daughter badly at all, and she still had the qualifications to discipline her!

"Why?"

Chu Yue'an stiffened her neck and refused to admit her mistake, Su Li's face was already extremely difficult to see, Qibao hurriedly stepped forward to pull Chu Yue'an: "Miss, Madame is all for your good, you quickly admit your mistake with Madame, don't talk to Madame!" ”

"What's good for me, I think she just can't see me! She only likes Chugua's son, and she doesn't take her daughter seriously at all, Xuan'er and I are grass in her eyes! ”

Chu Yue'an said this heartbreakingly, she didn't think about it herself, and she also pulled Chu Yuexuan together.

Su Li's face turned pale, and Chu Yuexuan hurriedly got up to support Su Li: "Mother, my sister is confused, don't be angry with her, Xuan'er and my sister have never thought of you like this!" ”

Chu Huai'an has treated Su Li very well over the years, Chu Gua is old, and when she was at home, she helped her watch her two daughters, she didn't worry about anything, these days there was no news of Chu Gua, she was so worried, she was so angry with Chu Yue'an at this time, her head was a little dizzy.

Feeling that she couldn't stand on her feet steadily, Chu Yuexuan was so frightened that she shouted: "Aunt Qibao, my mother is going to faint, call someone to ask for a doctor!" ”

After speaking, Chu Yuexuan gave Chu Yuean another look, and asked her to quickly kneel down and apologize to Su Li.

It's a big deal to make my mother dizzy, and when my father comes back, I'm afraid I'm going to peel off a layer of her skin.

Chu Yuean didn't receive Chu Yuexuan's message, turned his head and left directly.

Chu Yuexuan was in a hurry, but she couldn't leave Su Li alone.

Qibao quickly found a doctor, and the people in the house also quickly went to report to Chu Huai'an, Chu Huai'an immediately rushed back with a calm face, and when he entered the house, he saw Su Li lying on the bed, Chu Yuexuan was feeding her medicine, and her face was even darker.

"Xuan'er go out!"

Chu Huai'an ordered, Chu Yuexuan trembled with the medicine bowl: "Dad, mother, she is fine, don't ......"

"Get out!"

Chu Huai'an didn't want to listen to her, Chu Yuexuan could only put down the bowl and leave, as soon as the door closed, Chu Huai'an immediately sat on the edge of the bed, reached out and touched Su Li's forehead, Su Li turned her head to avoid: "I'm fine." ”

"What did Yue'er say today to make you angry like this?"

Chu Huai'an picked up the bowl of medicine and fed her, Su Li sighed, her eyes were red: "It's nothing, the little girl is the age of Aimei, I asked her to dress plainly, she was not happy, so she quarreled a few words." ”

Su Li has never restrained the dress of her two daughters on weekdays, and when she heard her say this, she suddenly understood: "She usually likes to be in the limelight, so she should be restrained, and I will tell her in a while." ”

"That's it, let her go, she's not too young, she has her own ideas."

Su Li turned her back to Chu Huai'an, and she didn't even want to drink the medicine.

Seeing her like this, Chu Huai'an knew that she was really sad, coaxed her to drink the medicine and stopped bothering her, got up and went out, and sure enough, he saw Chu Yuexuan standing outside the door.

Chu Huai'an made a silent gesture and took Chu Yuexuan out of the courtyard before speaking: "Say, what's going on." ”

Chu Yuexuan told today's events in detail, afraid that Chu Huai'an would get angry and run away halfway, and helped Chu Yuean say a lot of good things.

To her surprise, Chu Huai'an's face has always been very calm, but the calmer she is, the more scared Chu Yuexuan becomes, and she is about to cry in the end: "Dad, I don't know why my sister would say such a thing, when she was with me on weekdays, she never said anything bad about her mother, I think there must be a reason for this!" ”

"What is the reason?"

Chu Huai'an asked, Chu Yuexuan opened her mouth, speechless.

She just felt that Chu Yuean's behavior in the past two days was a little abnormal, but she couldn't answer what it was.

Chu Huai'an raised his hand and touched Chu Yuexuan's head, his tone was gentle but his expression was solemn: "Xuan'er, Dad can spoil you in everything, but you and Yue'er don't think about the position of the crown princess." ”

"Xuan'er and my sister know it, there are many rules in the palace, and people's hearts are complicated, we didn't think about going there."

"Good."

Chu Huai'an praised Chu Yuexuan and asked her to send her back to the room, while he stepped to find Chu Yuean.

Chu Yue'an is nearly two years old and has a close relationship with Chu Gua, so her yard is close to Chu Gua, but it is a little distance from Chu Yuexuan.

Chu Huai'an walked fast, the wind was blowing under his feet, with a chilling anger, as soon as he entered the courtyard, Chu Yue'an's personal maid hurriedly knelt down: "The slave has seen the Hou Ye!" ”

Chu Huai'an didn't respond, stepped forward directly, and kicked Chu Yue'an's boudoir, but there was no one in the house.

"Where's the eldest lady?"

Chu Huai'an asked coldly, and the maid's shoulders trembled: "Slave...... The slave maid didn't know, but today the eldest lady went to see the lady early in the morning, and then she ...... I didn't come back! ”

Chu Yue'an is often like this, Chu Huai'an is not surprised, he sent the guards in the mansion, the guards returned, Chu Yue'an and Su Li quarreled, and went directly out of the mansion and went in the direction of the palace gate.

Chu Huai'an's eyes narrowed dangerously, and asked the guards to hide this matter, not to tell Su Li, and rode directly into the palace.

At the same time, a man dressed in black and wearing a white undershirt rode into the city gate.

He wears a mask on his face, which fits exactly half of his cheek, revealing only half of his handsome face.

The Buddha seal is engraved with cinnabar under the mask, which is originally a little weird, but with his long posture and righteousness, there is a kind of mystery that people want to explore.

The man entered the city lightly on the belly of his horse, his otherwise flat chest suddenly moved, and after a moment, a fluffy orange ear arched.

The ear moved dexterously, and he raised his hand and patted it back.

"Don't move."

"Woo!"

The little thing in his arms let out a small whimper, as if in protest, and the corner of his lips smiled: "People here love to use animal fur as a collar, do you want to try it?" ”

As he said that, the little thing finally quieted down.

After five years away from Beijing, there were not many changes in Beijing, Chu Qian walked around the city slowly, bought some gifts and went to the Xiaoyao Marquis Mansion.

When he reached the door, he turned over and dismounted, bowed his head and carefully arranged his clothes.

The porter had already changed, and he didn't recognize him at the first time, and stared at the mask on his face for a long time before he called out in disbelief: "World...... The Son? ”

"It's me."

He looked up and grinned, like the warm sun of March.

The man was stunned, and shouted in his heart before he ran into the house and shouted, "The son of the world is back!" Hou Ye, Madame, Old Madam, the prince is back! ”

Chu Qian walked into the house with steps, there was a porter yelling in front of him to open the way, he didn't encounter any obstacles along the way, and the maids in the house also bowed their heads to say hello to him, he bowed his head one by one, and walked briskly towards the main courtyard.

As soon as he stepped into the courtyard gate, he heard Su Li's excited call: "Is Guaga coming back?" ”

"It's Qian'er back, not Guagua."

He corrected it carefully, heard the little one in his arms squeak and snickered, and patted it before stepping into the house.

Su Li sat on the edge of the bed, and there was still a shoe that he didn't have time to put on, seeing that he had already entered the house, he didn't care about anything else, so he pounced directly, grabbed his arm and looked at it carefully, and kept complaining: "Why didn't you bring a letter back in advance?" I'll ask your father to send someone to pick you up, and I haven't had a letter for most of the year, I don't know if my mother will be worried? ”

As she spoke, her eyes turned red again, Chu Qian helped her to sit on the edge of the bed, and bent down to help her put on her shoes: "Qian'er misses her mother, and she feels that the letter paper can't convey one-ten-thousandth of her thoughts, so she came back to see her mother in person, isn't her mother happy?" ”

"Happy,, happy!"

Su Li responded in response, and helped Chu Qian up to take a closer look.

This child was born different from others, she knew very early that when he grew up to fifteen years old, he would have to go out to practice alone, and the host of Jinyun Temple did not say how many years he would have to train, and she was very distressed.

"Why is it so dark?"

Su Li patted Chu Qian's much stiffer shoulder and asked, her voice was hoarse with a crying tone, Chu Qian couldn't cry or laugh: "It's just a little dark, and I'll come back in vain in a few days, so it's okay." ”

"Are you hurt out there?" Su Li asked nervously, thinking that he wouldn't tell the truth, and immediately ordered Qibao: "Go and ask the imperial doctor, wait for the prince to finish bathing in a while, and let the imperial doctor help him check it!" ”

"Mother, don't be like this."

Chu Qian's head was big, and he was glared at by Su Li: "When you get home, you have to listen to your mother, go to the bath first, and change your clothes after a while, go with me to say hello to your grandmother!" She has been talking about you for a few days, and I'll see her in a while to see how you explain! ”

Thinking of Chu Liu's broken thoughts, Chu Qian's scalp was numb, and he didn't dare to say anything else, so he had to respond: "Yes!" ”

After speaking, Su Li was kicked out of the main courtyard and walked out of the courtyard gate of the main courtyard, Chu Qian smiled, raised his hand and touched the mask, lowered his head and said to the little thing in his arms: "Do you smell the smell?" ”

"Squeak!"

The little thing responded in a whisper, and the corners of Chu Qian's lips were slightly hooked, with a ruthless look.

Chu Qian's room was exactly the same as when he left, it was cleaned every day, and he could move in at any time.

The servant quickly brought hot water, and the man who was going to bathe him was driven out by him, and he took off his clothes, and took out from his bosom a little creature the size of a palm, with the body of a cat's head and a mouse.

The little guy was round, full of orange, his coat was shiny, his two big eyes looked extraordinarily bright, and he was heavy in his hands, and he didn't know what trick he had just played, but he didn't notice it at all in his arms.

"Squeak!"

As soon as the little guy came out, he made a big noise, Chu Qian raised his right index finger, wiped it on his lips, and then pressed his index finger on the little guy's mouth, the little guy's eyes widened, and then he found that he couldn't make a sound, and the hair all over his body exploded, like a round hairball.

"Don't make trouble, or I'll throw you to alchemy!"

Chu Qian lazily threatened, the little guy's eyes rolled around, and after a while, he nodded again and again.

Chu Qian was satisfied, put the little guy on the screen, covered it with the coat he took off, and then took off his underwear and sat in the bathtub.

The warm water soaked all over his body, Chu Qian sighed with satisfaction, but the little guy who was covered by his clothes was restless, and he poked out his little head one by one, and opened his eyes wide to see the half of Chu Qian's face under his mask.

However, Chu Qian had no intention of taking off the mask, the little guy was a little dissatisfied, and stared at Chu Gua, his eyes gradually leaching out a little blue light.

"What do you want to do badly?"

Chu Qian suddenly lifted his eyes and looked at the little guy, and under the mask, a golden Buddha seal was reflected at the bottom of that eye.

"Squeak!"

The little one screamed, his hair stood on end, he fell straight down, and fell into the tub with a thud.

Chu Qian stretched out his hand to fish it out, but the door was suddenly kicked open, and the imperial doctor was pushed in with the medicine box.

"Shizi, Madame, please cooperate with the inspection!"

“……”

Chu Qian's body stiffened, and he silently added a certain little guy who had gotten between his legs alive and dead to the death list!