Chang Ruolan obsessively peeked at Xiao Wenxuan and fell into a fascination, and actually forgot her duty. She also wanted to be rude to the pomegranate who reminded her. Xiao Wenxuan couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to beat her twenty boards.

Chang Ruolan knelt on the ground and wept bitterly, begging bitterly.

"You'an, it's the first time to miss her, spare her this time." Su Muling opened his mouth to intercede for Chang Ruolan.

Xiao Wenxuan stared at Chang Ruolan on the ground with a dark face and said, "For the sake of the crown princess today, spare you." From today on, I went back to my room and thought about it, and I was not allowed to go out without the order of the palace. ”

"His Royal Highness Prince Xie, Princess Xie Niangniang!" Chang Ruolan was exempted from the twenty boards, and quickly kowtowed to thank her.

"Get out!"

Xiao Wenxuan shouted angrily, and Chang Ruolan hurriedly retreated.

The meal was thrilling, and the other concubines were cautious in their words and deeds, for fear of displeasing the prince and eating the board again.

"Okay, you're just here, and there are some rules that you have to get used to."

"Pomegranate, let's eat."

After Su Muling finished speaking, he took Jing Ye in Xichun's arms. Xiao Wenxuan took it from her arms and smiled thoughtfully: "Ye'er is getting heavier and heavier, I'll hug you, don't tire you." ”

Su Muling tidied up Jing Ye's clothes, took the wool cloak in Xi Chun's hand and put it on Jing Ye, and looked at him with watery eyes: "Thank you for your thoughtfulness." Xiao Wenxuan touched her delicate cheek with his free hand, hugged her shoulder with a smile, and the family of three went back to Wenlingyuan.

Everyone saluted and sent them off, and their hearts were very jealous.

When Xiao Wenxuan and Su Muling walked away, Pomegranate got up and sat down at the table with Xichun.

In winter, the rice is easy to cool, so Xichun thought of a way to let the cook make a double-layer tray and put it on the charcoal fire. In this way, even if you eat it for a long time, the food will still maintain a normal temperature.

"Come and eat too." Xichun saw a few concubines stunned in place and greeted them.

"Right here?" Jiang Shuxian's eyes widened in surprise.

"Yes, right here." Xichun took a mouthful of food and put it in his mouth.

"Eat with a few of your minions?" Si Qi's brows furrowed.

"Yes, with us." Pomegranate took a piece of barbecued deer breast and put it in his mouth and chewed it heavily.

"Eat what they're leftovers?" Wu Yu'er almost screamed.

"What do you think?" Pomegranate glanced at her disdainfully.

"I don't eat, I eat leftovers with my minions, that's the biggest insult to me. Even if we are concubines, they can't treat us like this. Jiang Shuxian turned around to leave.

Pomegranate sent her coldly behind her: "I don't believe it, your Jiang family's concubines eat at the same table with you and sleep in the same room." ”

Jiang Shuxian paused.

Pomegranate is right. A concubine is a concubine, and she is not much more noble than her subordinates. The treatment of concubines with a son will be higher, and concubines like them who have not been fortunate by the prince are not much better than their subordinates.

But despite the facts, they are married to the prince after all. One day the crown prince ascends the throne, they are concubines, they are mothers, and if they mix well, they may become queens...... It is the capital of the mother's family to glorify the ancestors.

Thinking of this, Jiang Shuxian raised her head proudly: "I am a concubine, but I am the concubine of His Royal Highness the Prince, how can I eat at the same table with you." ”

Jiang Shuxian left, went back to her yard and asked the girl to make food in the small kitchen to add to her stomach.

When the others saw this, they also left, each looking for a way to fill their stomachs.

……

Su Muling and Xiao Wenxuan were playing chess in the bedroom, and after listening to Pomegranate, Xiao Wenxuan did not raise his head and ordered:

"No shadow."

Shadowless stepped forward: "Yes." ”

"From now on, the East Palace will save money and cancel the kitchenettes in each room and courtyard. Except for the prince, the dishes at each meal in the East Palace are halved. The silver saved was used to add food and clothing to the border soldiers. ”

"Yes."

Ordered, Si Qi and Wu Yu'er, who were preparing the small kitchen because of today's events, were dumbfounded.

They dared to shout in front of Pomegranate and Xichun, but they did not dare to disobey the orders of His Royal Highness the Prince, and hurriedly ordered someone to close the small kitchen.

For dinner, half of the dishes on the table in the dining hall were missing. Zuo Yan was still left on the table to eat together.

"Today's flower lotus root and coriander pigeon are doing well, cherish the spring, reward you."

Because of the previous lesson, no one made any moths for this meal. Xiao Wenxuan wiped his hands with satisfaction and commanded.

"Thank you for the reward." Xichun got up slightly and thanked him.

Wu Yu'er, who had been staring at the coriander pigeon for a long time, and was waiting for Xiao Wenxuan and Su Muling to get off the table and feast on her mouth, pouted in disappointment.

"Pomegranate likes to stew crab roe lion's head and bad whitebait, pomegranate, take it back to the house to eat later." Su Muling suddenly said this before he got up. Pomegranate bowed and saluted: "Thank you for the reward of the crown princess." ”

Jiang Shuxian, who secretly swallowed a lot of saliva at the stewed crab roe lion's head, was also angry with the pomegranate.

As soon as Su Muling and Xiao Wenxuan left, Zuo Yan also left. A few delicacies were put back into the food box by the palace maid, and they were sent to Wenling Garden with Pomegranate and Xichun.

Jiang Shuxian, Si Qi and Wu Yu'er, who were already hungry, hurriedly gathered around the table and picked up the dishes and chopsticks that the palace maid had changed and eaten.

According to the rules of the palace, the dishes of the crown prince and the crown princess can reach more than 30 kinds per meal. Xiao Wenxuan is thrifty Since staying in the East Palace, the number of dishes per meal has been reduced to 20.

Now Xiao Wenxuan has ordered halving. So there are only ten dishes left for this dinner.

The cooking in the palace pays attention to the shape, the plate is not small, and the dishes inside are only barely filling the heart of the plate. The crown prince and the princess didn't eat much, but they were rewarded with four plates, and the remaining six dishes were very shabby for everyone who was used to being extravagant at home.

Fortunately, the Qi family and the Chang family are not here, otherwise I am afraid that this dish is really not enough for a few concubines to eat.

Pomegranate and Xichun sat in the warm pavilion of the side hall of Wenling Garden, eating leisurely.

Su Muling and Xiao Wenxuan accompanied Jing Ye to stack blocks. The two were talking in a whisper, and Su Muling suddenly became interested: "I heard that several younger sisters are talented, why don't you ask them to show them?" ”

Xiao Wenxuan did not object, and asked Wuying to call them.

When several concubines heard that the prince wanted them to perform their talents for the prince, of course they couldn't ask for it.

After each of them freshened up and dressed up, Wu Yuer took her to be good at guzheng, Si Qi took her Yaoqin, Jiang Shuxian was good at dancing, and they came to Wenlingyuan one after another wearing the dance clothes they had prepared at home.

Su Muling called them into the dormitory, and Xiao Wenxuan stood in front of the desk, his slender fingers gently grasping what the wolf was drawing.

Opposite him, Su Muling sat on an arhat collapse, holding a pattern embroidered with a small tiger.

Su Muling's big eyes swept around the faces of several people.

"Where's the left concubine?"

Zuo Yan followed Su Muling's voice: "Zuo Yan is here." ”

Zuo Yan saluted.

"Come, sit here." Su Muling pointed to the seat next to him and asked Zuo Yan to sit down.

Zuo Yan thanked him and came to sit down beside Su Muling.

"I heard that several younger sisters are all extraordinarily knowledgeable and talented. We're idle, so why don't we have a talent show? ”

Wu Yu'er took the lead: "The concubine is willing to play a song for the princess." ”

Su Muling looked at her and smiled like a flower: "Okay, then ask Wu Liangyuan to play a song for Taidan." ”

Wu Yuer put the guzheng on the piano platform and sat down on the chair. As her fingers moved, the sound of the piano sounded leisurely.

Sometimes soothing like flowing water, sometimes sharp like a waterfall, sometimes crisp like a pearl falling on a jade plate, sometimes low back like a whisper. In the sound of the piano, there seems to be a white elf dancing with the wind, dancing gracefully and nobly; It is like roses blooming one after another, wafting out the fragrance of music......

At the end of the song, Su Muling praised sincerely: "Wu Liangyuan really deserves his reputation. Si Liangyuan, what are you good at? ”

Si Qi proudly glanced at the Yaoqin in his hand, and his eyes skimmed to Xiao Wenxuan: "Back to the crown princess, the concubine is good at Yaoqin." ”

"Good. I see that Jiang Liangdi seems to be good at singing and dancing when she dresses up, so let's collaborate on a song. ”

Jiang Shuxian wished that someone would accompany her, so she bent down and agreed.

Si Qi was displeased, cooperating with Jiang Shuxian, everyone's eyes were attracted by Jiang Shuxian, didn't she lose her brilliance?

But she didn't dare to object, sitting in front of the piano table, Si Qi's brain turned, her fingers fell on the strings, and a fast-paced song "Night Rain" followed.

The music picks up speed in vain from the beginning to the beginning, and then it gets faster and faster, faster and faster, like a rainstorm pouring down from the sky.

Jiang Shuxian, who danced with dance music, barely kept up with the rhythm at first, but later was completely thrown away by Si Qi, and her hands and feet danced slowly and rhythmlessly.

Xiao Wenxuan didn't look at them from beginning to end, but kept concentrating on his drawing paper.

Jiang Shuxian saw Xiao Wenxuan raise her head and glance in her direction, and she was secretly happy in her heart. The prince was afraid that he was attracted by her dancing posture, and perhaps her beautiful and moving posture was drawn on the drawing paper.

Jiang Shuxian had the motivation and began to adjust her dance steps and gradually get better.

The music stopped, and Xiao Wenxuan also put down the pen in his hand. Picking up the drawing paper, he came to Su Muling.

Su Muling stretched out her head to see that the painting was exactly what she was painting on the Arhat Cave embroidering, and she pursed her lips and smiled: "When will you paint yourself so vividly." ”

Xiao Wenxuan smiled: "I can only draw beautiful women." ”

"A few of you, if anyone jumps well or plays well, this palace will also reward a portrait." Xiao Wenxuan unfolded Su Muling's portrait to everyone. Smugly glanced at everyone.

Jiang Shuxian, Si Qi and Wu Yu'er had a twinkle in their eyes, and they immediately competed to play. For a while, the palace was full of violin and zheng.

"Stop. Selfish things, get out of the way! Xiao Wenxuan's face changed suddenly, and his voice was cold.

Si Qi and Wu Yu'er hurriedly got up and knelt down: "The concubine is wrong. The concubine knew that she was wrong. ”

Xiao Wenxuan's anger in his eyes did not subside, Su Muling got up and pulled him to his side and sat down, one hand gently caressing his back:

"Don't be angry, it's not that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince painted it too well, everyone wants to have this blessing to treasure."

"Okay, you two play a song together, Jiang Liangdi, you come to dance." Su Muling commanded.

Si Qi and Wu Yuer didn't dare to make a mistake, the two discussed a few words in a low voice and played together. Xiao Wenxuan stopped painting, and half-leaned on Su Muling's side to watch her embroider.