Hachiofu, Kyoto.

Gonggong Liu, who was in the Empress Dowager's palace, had a smile on his wrinkled old face, and after saying "stay" to the eighth princess, he led Zhao Yan to the palace.

The smile on the face of the eighth princess disappeared the moment Gonggong Liu turned around, she was full of fire, and looked at the jade pot in front of her impatiently, which was specially brought by Ah Shou, one of her four personal maids, who had stayed up all morning.

"The weather has been hot recently, Princess, you haven't eaten well for several days, the slave and maid have specially boiled a jade pot today, Princess, you taste a little."

"It's hard for you to figure it out." The eighth princess's cold eyes swept over the low-eyed maids in the corner, and then fell on Ah Shou, who bowed down in front of her to persuade herself to eat something.

"How long have you been with me?"

"Back to the princess, the slave maid has been assigned to work in front of the princess since the princess married into the palace in the sixteenth year of Changyou, and it has been ten years."

"Bang dang!"

The eighth princess suddenly swept the jade pot on the table to the ground: "Presumptuous! What kind of indiscriminate hooves are you, and you dare to mention when the concubine will marry into the palace? ”

"Slaves don't dare!" Ah Shou hurriedly knelt down, "The slave and maid lost her words and begged the princess for forgiveness." ”

The eighth princess glanced at her fiercely, walked to the Nanmu carved dressing mirror, and looked at herself in the mirror dressed in gorgeous clothes and wearing pearls: "You say, is this concubine old?" ”

Ah Shou and the other maids buried their heads on the ground and trembled, and no one dared to respond.

"Say!"

The eighth princess smashed a plate of eyebrow moire painted lacquer box in her hand and smashed it on the head of the maid on Ah Shou's right, and the maid's body trembled like chaff in an instant.

"Back to the princess's words, the princess is fragrant and beautiful, her appearance is peerless, and she has not seen old age." Ah Shou suppressed the fear in his heart and gritted his teeth.

"Huh! Tianxiang country? Peerless? The eighth princess played with the jewelry in her makeup and smiled sadly, "Then why did the prince bring back a fox spirit yesterday?" ”

……

The eighth princess was furious, and there was laughter in the queen mother's palace.

Zhao Yan squatted in front of the Queen Mother, beating her legs for the Queen Mother lightly.

"Yan'er is filial, on weekdays, he can stay in my palace." The Queen Mother smiled and said to the grandmother beside her.

"Isn't it, although the banquet is young, he is very calm, unlike other boys, who ......jump up and down like monkeys all day long."

Zhao Yan smiled and silently listened to the chatter between the Queen Mother and the grandmothers.

The Queen Mother yawned lazily: "Okay, I'm tired today, you can rest and rest at the banquet, don't keep reading and hurt your eyes carefully." ”

Zhao Yan replied obediently: "Yan'er knows." ”

"Go ahead."

In the wide side hall, rows of bookshelves were neatly arranged, and Zhao Yan sat cross-legged on the ground, reading quietly.

Every time Zhao Yan entered the palace, he said that he was accompanying the Queen Mother, but in fact, he stayed in this side hall most of the time.

The books in the hall are as vast as a sea of smoke, Zhao Yan can't help but be overjoyed, and he can't help but crave all the knowledge in the book into his mind immediately, so as soon as he enters this side hall every day, he is addicted to the sea of books and can't extricate himself.

The Queen Mother said a few times and asked him to find other children to play more, and he answered, but in a blink of an eye, he fell into the book again.

In this palace, who else can you go to play?

Huaiyu is not there, and he doesn't want to look for anyone.

……

After Zhao Yan read all the books in the Queen Mother's side hall, it was the spring of the second year, and he asked the Queen Mother for a favor, and the Queen Mother made a will to allow him to go to school in Feihong Pavilion.

He is already smart, and he is the first in the entrance assessment of Feihong Pavilion, with excellent grades.

After several exchanges with the masters, the mountain chief felt that with Zhao Yan's knowledge, he could skip a grade to enter the school, after all, it was a waste of time and a waste of youth to let him learn from the most elementary level.

So Zhao Yan directly entered Huaiyu's class and became Huaiyu's tablemate.

"It seems that your senior sister's dream can't come true? Well? On the first day of Zhao Yan's enrollment, he turned his head to look at Huaiyu, who was practicing calligraphy, and said with a smile.

Huaiyu glanced at him: "Don't bother me, if you don't finish writing this today, I won't eat!" ”

"Okay, then you write slowly."

When Zhao Yan first came to the school, he was full of joy, he looked at Huaiyu who was writing seriously, and remembered the days when he was reading books alone in the Empress Dowager Palace in the past year, and showed a satisfied smile.

Yuan Xi and Shuangyan sat behind Huaiyu and whispered interesting things that happened during the long vacation just past.

"Sister Xia, you seem to have lost some weight." Shuangyan frowned.

"Yes...... Have it? ”

"Yes, yes!" Shuangyan put her hands on Yuan Xi's shoulders, "Look at it, this beautiful face is a lot sharper, and the skin was obviously white and tender before the holiday, but now it is a lot darker." ”

As she spoke, she stretched out her hand and poked Huaiyu in the front row: "Huaiyu, take a look, is Sister Xia thin?" ”

Huaiyu carefully put the pen on the inkstone on the table, turned his head, looked at Yuan Xi seriously, and began to chatter: "It's okay, my mother asked me to bring a bunch of Yurong Cream Snow Muscle Cream, share some with you at night, Sister Xia will use it for a few days, and it will get better, Shuangyan, you will eat less meat in the future, and make up for Sister Xia more......"

Zhao Yan shrugged his shoulders, and just told himself not to make noise, why didn't he continue to write at this time?

The three girls who were chattering didn't care about Zhao Yan's little unhappiness, the three of them hadn't seen each other for a long time, and there were endless words to say at this time.

"Sure enough, 'only women and villains are difficult to raise'." Zhao Yan whispered.

"What are you muttering?" Huaiyu turned his head to look at Zhao Yan.

"No, you go on."

"Humph!" Huaiyu turned around again and continued to discuss with Shuangyan what to eat for lunch: "I really want to eat Master Kong's fish lip stew with three fresh, as well as steamed lobster with garlic, the best Buddha jumping over the wall, and lamb chops in sauce......"

Shuangyan swallowed the saliva in her mouth: "Huaiyu, don't talk about it!" I'm hungry, I'm up late tonight, and I haven't eaten breakfast yet. ”

Huaiyu also swallowed his saliva: "If I had known, I would have brought the pastries prepared by Panfu over!" ”

Zhao Yan, who was ignored on one side, gently spit out a few words: "Glutton!" ”

"What are you muttering again?"

"Nope!" Zhao Yan looked innocent, "I said, Mr. is coming soon, you quickly turn around and sit down!" ”

Huaiyu looked outside the door: "No, you just came to the school, you don't know yet, Mr. will only enter the half-school fast at six o'clock every day." ”

"What time is it?"

Huaiyu stretched his neck, looked at the sundial above the lecture hall, and said in surprise: "It's six or two o'clock, why hasn't Mr. Kong come yet?" ”

Huaiyu was a little panicked in his heart.

She didn't know why she was flustered, she just clenched her fists: "Mr. Kong has always been punctual." ”

The other people in the class also noticed the anomaly, and the noisy class became quiet for a while.

"Gu Huaiyu, Mr. Kong has always favored you, don't you know why he hasn't come today?" Zhao Xuan shouted at Huaiyu from afar, Huaiyu and Zhao Yan glanced at Zhao Xuan together, but no one replied.

There was silence in the classroom.