The interior of the ordinary, slightly old room is completely different from the appearance of neatness and grandeur, and the eye is neatly placed in the jujube wood cupboard, but not a trace of dust falls in, the thin and crystalline white porcelain bowl, ivory chopsticks, then the silver-edged stove, and the newly added water container made of a whole piece of warm jade.

"Did you really find this?" The woman who stepped into the small kitchen said in surprise to the people behind her.

"Yes." The man who followed was a little unnatural, "You said you wanted to eat, so I mentioned it to the people below, but I didn't expect them to hear it and really find it." ”

The woman didn't expose him, but happily picked up the pastries in a porcelain plate and put them in her mouth, and ate with a happy face: "I really didn't expect you to find it, I remember when I was in Ning's house, Manpo said that one day when I left Ningfu, I would open a pastry shop by myself and make all kinds of pastries, and then Manpo was dismissed, I thought I would never be able to eat it again." The sadness on the woman's face was only for a moment, and a happy smile reoccupied the entire face, and she casually took a piece of flower-shaped green pastry and handed it to the man's mouth, "You try this, this is a mung bean cake, with dried mint in it, it tastes cool and cool, and every summer I will pester the man to make it for me." ”

The man took a bite with his slender hand, and it really tasted different from the other place, sweet and cool.

Looking at the man's well-behaved look, the woman reached out and touched his hair, and said, "Xiao Fan, don't kill people in this courtyard in the future, okay?" ”

Mo Xiaofan had already changed out of the bloodstained clothes before, and the anger on his body had also dissipated, and when he heard the woman's words, his expression was slightly stunned: "Why?" ”

"Because I don't like to see the way you have blood on your body, even if you really have someone you have to dispose of, let the people around you do it, okay?"

"Ranran, I want to eat the noodles you made." Mo Xiaofan was silent for a while, and then changed the topic without giving a clear answer.

If Mo Yu or anyone from Nie Jiazhai were present, they would all find that the woman called "Ran Ran" was clearly Nie Leran.

Nie Leran didn't ask, answered with a smile, turned around and went into the pots and pans to get busy.

About half a pillar of incense, the woman came to Mo Xiaofan, who had been watching her busy, with a bowl of noodles.

Mo Xiaofan took the warm ivory chopsticks and pushed the green onions floating on the noodles aside, and then picked up the noodles one by one, eating slowly.

Nie Leran sat next to him, holding his cheeks, remembering when he first met him.

Back then, Nie Leran was four years old, unlike the twin sisters, she was weak since she was a child, that is, one of them could be sick for a while if she didn't pay attention to being blown by the cool breeze, but she was a twin, and the housemother of the Nie family entered a ghost gate because she gave birth to the two of them, and she came out after a whirlwind, and the disease that fell when she gave birth to a child was the most difficult to treat, and since then she has often been sick, and she has no more energy to take care of the two children.

This errand fell on the head of Nie Wenbo, the head of the Nie family. But Nie Wenbo is a man after all, no matter how careful she is, there is something she can't take care of after all, plus she is weak, she has a cough and fever at the end of the year, and she has become a delicate little medicine jar.

Mrs. Nie's heart was all on her little daughter's body, and when she was drugged, she cried miserably, and her heart was pinched, so often her illness was cured, and Mrs. Nie's illness came. Nie Wenbo saw that this was not going to work, so he discussed it with Mrs. Nie, and finally decided to take Mrs. Nie's mother, Mrs. Ning, from Jiangnan.

Finally, under Mrs. Nie's repeated invitations, Mrs. Ning stepped into the door of Nie's house.

Seeing that her daughter, who was so sick in her heart, became so haggard, and the delicate and cute little niece was also frail and sickly, she made up her mind to live without waiting for others to speak. Half a year has passed, Mrs. Nie's physical care has improved a lot, and the little niece has drunk medicine less often.

But the old lady felt sorry for her daughter and her son, and she felt sorry for her granddaughter, and she naturally felt sorry for her granddaughter, and Ning Fu came to the letter, and the eldest lady Ning Sisi was infected with the cold, crying every day to find her grandmother, not eating, not drinking medicine, and no one coaxed to listen. When Mrs. Ning heard that her granddaughter was also sick, she was even more anxious, and she couldn't wait to fly back immediately, but she turned her head and looked at the haggard appearance of her baby daughter who had been held in the palm of her hand since she was a child.

In this way, the days of Mrs. Ning's return dragged on and on, and an urgent letter came from Jiangnan, saying that Ning Sisi's condition had worsened to the point that the medicine stone was in vain, and when the old lady heard the letter, she rubbed several bubbles in her mouth, and she didn't dare to delay at all, so she went back.

After another half a month, Mrs. Ning sent a letter, discussing with the Nie family and his wife to bring Nie Leran to Jiangnan's house to be raised by the old lady, and at the same time said that Ning Sisi was really sick, and asked someone to find a master outside the world, and his medical skills were really good, and Ning Sisi's cough was much lighter after a few injections, but the master said that Ning Sisi had to go to his valley to live for a while. According to Mrs. Ning's meaning, she wanted to ask the master to give Nie Leran a look to see how the child would be raised.

The Nie family and his wife had already found famous doctors in the capital for Nie Leran, and they all said that Nie Leran's meridians were blocked, and there was no cure, so he could only recuperate slowly. But the Nie family and his wife are unwilling in the end, who can be willing to let their children get sick all day long, so although they don't believe in how good the master's medical skills are, they still want to try it after all.

In this way, Nie Leran stayed in Jiangnan with Mrs. Ning for ten years.

During this period, in order to facilitate Mrs. Ning, with the consent of the Nie family and his wife, she gave Nie Leran a new name - Ning Ranran.

Here is Nie Leran's reminiscences of the past, coincidentally, Zou Yi in the Zhaoyang Mansion looked at the money coming towards him, obviously the age of a girl, but under the expression of Zhili, there was the momentum of a housewife who did not match her age.

"Miss." Zou Yi bowed slightly to Xiang Xiaoqi who came over.

"Guard Zou, I heard that the prince wants Lei Jun Pavilion to be born, but is there such a thing?" The willow eyebrows bent towards Xiaoqi frowned slightly, and the eyes that were full of tenderness in the past were full of worry.

"Miss, the prince has never liked your interference in these things." Although Zou Yi's words were a little polite, those who knew him knew that he was caring about Xiang Xiaoqi.

In this Zhaoyang Palace, there is no princess, even a side concubine, some are just women who don't know where to come from Sheng Rui from everywhere, and those who want to flatter Sheng Rui sent dancing girls, but they are all playthings, Sheng Rui only provided them with a place to live, and never treated each other differently.

But this Xiang Xiaoqi is different, her origin Zou Yi has inquired from the side, she was originally a little palace maid in the palace, and she happened to enter Sheng Rui's eyes. It is said that this little palace maid pretended to be dumb at that time to escape, but when she escaped, she took Sheng Rui's jade pendant, and it was because of this that Sheng Rui rummaged through the palace. At that time, Zou Yi had other things to do, and he had never followed Sheng Rui into the palace, so what he knew was also said by the eunuchs who were present at the time.

However, after seeing Xiang Xiaoqi, Zou Yi wondered why Xiang Xiaoqi, who would rather pretend to be a dumb person than flee at that time, had neither others to take care of him nor threaten him when he arrived at the palace, so why he never escaped once?

Later, the old housekeeper who had seen a lot of personnel clutches solved his doubts: "You have followed the prince since you were a child, of course you don't know the thoughts of people who are fighting at the bottom." When the prince met Miss Xiang, she was just a palace maid at the bottom, she didn't run away at that time, if the prince was just a whim in the end, the price would never stop at her becoming the laughing stock of the entire palace, the palace is a real place to eat people. With the appearance and power of the prince, coupled with the emperor's favor for the prince, which palace maid with status in the palace does not have a little thought in his heart? And this Xiao can only stop at Xiao thinking. But if suddenly a person who is inferior to you in all aspects approaches what you want, even if it is just close and not obtained, it is enough to make those people crazy. At that time, there is really only one way to wait for Miss Xiang. The old butler made a motion to wipe his neck, and the originally bloody action was made by a kind old man with a wrinkled face who laughed and was particularly infiltrating.

"In that case, why did she take away the prince's jade pendant?" Zou Yi is still puzzled.

A fine light flashed in the old butler's cloudy eyes, and his voice pressed down: "If you don't take the jade pendant, how can the prince turn back to her?" Another said, even if the prince doesn't care about this jade pendant and doesn't look for her, she can hide this small jade pendant from being discovered by others, and when she is old enough to leave the palace, this jade pendant can also be exchanged for a large amount of entanglement, in short, it is beneficial and harmless. ”

"According to what you say, this girl is quite scheming, will it be harmful to the prince?"

"This needs you to guard against it, you remember, even if this girl is not as scheming as I thought, she will never be shallow, she is harmless to the prince and it is the best, if you really make a move, you must protect the prince."

Zou Yi still remembers the entrustment in the old housekeeper's eyes, that is, from then on, Zou Yi always left an alienation from Xiang Xiaoqi.

It's just that people's hearts are flesh and blood, and within a few years after Xiang Xiaoqi entered the palace, the old housekeeper returned to his hometown and handed over everything in the palace to Xiang Xiaoqi. Especially when Sheng Rui left the capital to travel in the rivers and lakes, Xiang Xiaoqi became the head of the Zhaoyang Palace, from the oil and salt month to the exchanges between the palace and others, all of which were cooked by Xiang Xiaoqi. The little girl ran a huge palace, and except for some small mistakes when she was not familiar with it at first, everything that passed through his hands was proper and proper, and she never went out of any way.

Slowly, Zou Yi let down his guard against her.

Later, because she took care of everything in the palace, she inevitably came into contact with some of the powers hidden in the shadows of Sheng Rui, including Lei Jun Pavilion.