"Miss Xiahou, your things have been dropped, and the queen asked me to send them to you."

The girl stretched out her hand, and a string of gold and silver bells lay quietly in the palm of her hand.

Xiahou Ji took the bell and thanked her, stared at her with a layer of mist in her eyes, and said softly: "Sister Xu, I was too excited to hug Brother Achen, you won't mind, right?" ”

Xiahou Ji said this, but she was thinking in her heart: It's just a concubine, what if you mind?

Xu Chaowan withdrew his hand with a calm expression: "You are not hugging me, what do I mind." ”

Seeing the girl turn around and leave, Li Hanchen said to Xiahou Xi, "You go back by yourself", and then raised his feet to catch up.

Xiahou stayed where she was, looking at the direction in which the two left in a daze.

Everything was as she expected.

deliberately dropped the bell, and my sister would either send a maidservant to send it, or Xu Chaodui would send it.

But whoever comes will see it.

If it was Xu Chaodui who came, it would just be enough for her to see; If it's a maidservant, she just has to let the news out in private.

The girl suddenly smiled playfully, she was really smart.

And here, Li Hanchen caught up with Xu Chaodui, grabbed her, and said: "My husband is wrong, and my husband will definitely keep his distance from other women in the future." ”

Xu Chaodui looked at him and said softly, "I'm not angry. ”

Li Hanchen was a little disappointed: "Why aren't you angry?" ”

"Because I know it wasn't what you intended."

Miss Xiahou let her see this scene, just to make her awkward with Li Hanchen.

Li Hanchen is good to her, how can she make him sad because of others?

Seeing that she didn't look like duplicity, Li Hanchen's mind turned slightly, and he sighed: "Dusk'er is duplicitous, she says she is not angry, but she is actually angry with her husband." ”

Xu Chaowei explained: "I'm really not angry with you, you believe me." ”

"Hmm......" Li Hanchen seemed to be thinking, and after a while, he opened his arms: "Unless you come to my arms and let me hug me, I don't believe it." ”

Xu Chaodui finally understood that this person was teasing her, and turned around and left when she was speechless.

Before he could take a step, he was pulled into his arms by a force, and a faint fragrance wafted into his nose.

The man rested his chin on the top of her head, and his voice was as gentle as the moonlight: "I like you, and only you." ”

The sudden confession made Xu Chaodu's ears red, and listening to someone's puff and puff accelerating heartbeat, she sent out three words: "Really? ”

"I have not and will not say these words to any woman except you."

Firm words are like a flower seed quietly buried in the heart, only when spring comes, it will sprout and then bloom into beautiful flowers.

"I see." She nodded, obediently letting him hold him like this for the first time.

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The next day, at breakfast, Empress Xuande couldn't help but feel a little worried when she saw Xiahou Xi's eyes red and she didn't speak.

As soon as he finished breakfast, Li Hanchen was called by Emperor Mingren to play chess in the study.

By the bamboo pavilion window, the two sat opposite each other.

The two brothers talked, naturally there was no need to beat around the bush, and Emperor Akihito opened his mouth and asked, "You and Auntie have been having trouble recently?" ”

"Nope." The slender bony fingers slowly froze Bai Zi on the chessboard, "It's just that she said something she doesn't like to hear." ”

Emperor Akihito knew it from the bottom of his heart, and smiled lightly: "Brother Huang knows that you have always been assertive and know what you want, but Grandma is still a little girl, and there are some things that you can't say too much to hurt people's hearts." ”

"Brother Huang, feelings are no better than anything else, if you don't make it clear to her, it will be harmful to her."

When Emperor Mingren heard this, his eyes turned from the chessboard to him, and asked, "Could it be that you really like that Xu family girl?" ”

Li Hanchen smiled: "I am the same to Du'er as the imperial brother is to the imperial sister-in-law." ”

"Why haven't you ever mentioned her before?"

"At that time, the imperial brother had a lot of etiquette to study all day, how dare I run to tell the imperial brother this. Besides, I was young at that time, and I didn't understand what the love of children was. ”

After a pause, he said again: "If the younger brother wants to marry Du'er as the princess openly, what will the imperial brother say?" ”

Emperor Akihito dropped a sunspot and spit out two words: "Whatever you want." ”

When he spoke, he made a wrong move, and Emperor Akihito reached out to get the chess piece, but Li Hanchen held his fingertips with two fingers.

"Brother Huang, there are no regrets."

Emperor Akihito looked at him with a smile and quipped: "It seems that there is still a layer of brotherhood between us, can't we be accommodating?" ”

Li Hanchen raised his lips and smiled: "No." ”

……

On the other side, Xu Chaodui saw that Huaiyi and Vanilla were too boring, so he sent the two to play by themselves.

The two men who were allowed to cheer and ran out of the villa and went down to the river to catch fish.

Not long after breakfast, Xu Chaodui was not in a hurry to return to his residence, so he wandered around the villa alone.

Xiangyun Villa is built around the mountain, except for the land that needs to be occupied to build the palace and the road, the rest of the mountains and forests are kept intact.

Therefore, small animals such as squirrels, monkeys, and rabbits appear in the mountain village from time to time.

Next to the bluestone winding path is the shade of green trees, and occasionally three or four rays of sunlight leak in through the branches and leaves.

The sound of birdsong around is scattered in the forest.

The girl walked calmly on the road, stretched out her hand to catch a piece of pink petals that swirled and fell, and recited two lines of poetry in her heart: "After a long time in the cage, you can return to nature." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a small cloud of white fluffy snow suddenly burst out of a cluster of wildflowers, ran across the road and crashed into the foot of a huge flower tree on the side of the road.

The small snow ball was bounced to the ground, and the two long ears on the little head shook and shook.

Xu Chaodui walked briskly, squatting down and holding it in his arms.

Seeing its dizzy appearance, the girl stretched out her hand to help it rub its head, but what came out of her mouth was not what the rabbit liked to hear.

She said, "How can there be such a stupid rabbit as you, be careful that the next time someone picks it up and roasts it." ”

Xiao Xuetuan seemed to understand, and after screaming twice in dissatisfaction, she jumped from her arms and ran away.

"Auntie, shall we go to Uncle Huang?"

A childish voice sounded.

Xu Chaodui watched along with the voice, and Xiahou Ji slowly came with a child about six or seven years old.

The little boy was carved in pink and jade, very cute, staring at Xiahou with eyes like black jewels.

"Chen'er, let's not go to Uncle Huang."

"Nope. My aunt is not happy, and she is happy to see Uncle Huang. ”

As he spoke, two people, one tall and one short, had already walked over.

She got up and nodded to Xiahou Ji as a greeting.

"Xu Chaodui."

When she turned around, Xiahou Ji stopped her as expected.

Xu Chaodui turned around, and said without changing his face: "Miss Xiahou, please say something." ”

Xiahou Ji walked in with the little prince in her eyes.

"What did you say to me last time?"

"I remember." A calm tone.

"Do you remember?" She lowered her face: "If you remember, you should stay away from Brother Chen, what's going on with you now?" ”

"I don't know."

She said truthfully: "If he is good to me, I will be good to him." ”

Xiahou snorted coldly: "It's that simple? You dare to swear you don't like him? ”

After being silent for a long time, she said slowly: "I can't guarantee this, after all, people's hearts are not stones, and it is impossible to have no feelings at all." But what I can guarantee is that if one day he marries the princess, I will never stay in the palace. ”

"Okay." Xiahou Xi stared at her lightly, her politeness and gentleness in the past vanished, and her tone was disdainful: "You are not worthy of Brother Chen." The day I enter the house will be the day you leave. ”

Xu Chaodui didn't answer, and his eyes fell on the little prince.

The little prince looked at her with swarthy eyes, and closed his mouth tightly without speaking.

His father often taught him that if he didn't understand what others were saying, then he should not speak and think for himself.

He couldn't understand what his aunt and beautiful sister were saying, so he couldn't say a word.