The arrival of the lord of Pingning seems to have made the huge palace of the Li Dynasty a little more cautious and lively, the emperor set up a banquet, and the laughter in the queen mother's palace continued, which could be heard as soon as you entered the palace gate.

She is loved by the emperor, and the queen mother is favored, and there is also a marquis mansion with great military achievements as her mother's family, and she is a fragrant bait in the eyes of all the mothers who have children under the knees of the harem, although their courtesy will not be particularly conspicuous.

But even so, the fact that the Nine Emperor Princes Xiao Chulan was bullied by other brothers will not change, at most he has reined in a little in the first two days, and after those two days, this bad habit has gradually regained again.

And Xiao Chulan is worthy of their ridicule and practice on nothing more than two points, one is that his mother died early, and he has a mother and no mother; The second is that he is feminine and feminine, and he is still a short-lived ghost.

On this day, with the support of the noble concubine, the second prince had many attendants around him, and finally succeeded in picking up Xiao Chulan's clothes and replacing them with a set of delicate splendid Luo skirts.

The second prince asked people to hold him, rubbed his chin and admired it, and said with a smile: "It's really good-looking~ I said that the ninth brother, you are reincarnated and stepped on the wrong foot, if you are a female second emperor brother, I promise to treat you well!" After speaking, he made a gesture to reach out and touch his face, but Xiao Chulan turned his head in shame and avoided it.

"Get out of here, don't touch me!"

"Hehe, I really even talk like a girl!" The second prince, Xiao Chuhan, saw that his body was weak and weak, and he gasped like a girl when he moved, and he couldn't help laughing. "Look at you! What girl would want to marry a man who is more female than herself? ”

"Niangniang, His Royal Highness the Second Prince, what are they playing with?" A sweet and touching question came from not far away, and the embarrassment on Concubine Liu's face flashed, she never thought that Han'er would actually do something to Xiao Chulan in Fanghui Palace, and she was also seen by Ping Ning. The girl beside her leaned out and walked over.

Xiao Chuhan couldn't help but light up when he saw the little phoenix-like Ping Ning beside his mother, and the rest of the little eunuchs were so frightened that they let go, who could take care of the Nine Emperors at this time.

Ping Ning looked at Xiao Chulan, who knew that the guy deliberately avoided her sight.

Xiao Chulan hugged his body, ashamed and eager to leave immediately, and subconsciously avoided Ping Ning's gaze. Why can she bump into her every time she makes a fool of herself? The embroidered toe and the swaying skirt appeared in front of him, and a figure was cast from above, Xiao Chulan's body suddenly stiffened, and his heart beat violently.

This look, I don't want to be seen by her. He thought so for the first time, but unfortunately it backfired.

"This is—the Nine Emperors?" Ping Ning asked knowingly, and pretended to be curious and pulled down his hand to cover his face.

Xiao Chuhan leaned over and said excitedly, as if he was showing his proud work to others. "yes, yes, it's beautiful! But compared to the county lord, it's still far behind. ”

Under the wide sleeves, Liu Guifei folded her hands and pinched them fiercely. Xiao Chulan is also a prince no matter how he says, and his reputation is not good, if it is an ordinary person, it is just Pingning. Hearing Zhao Lu say that she saw Pingning in Bixi Palace, she had to think about it more. What's more, she hoped that Han'er could get the help of Anhou Mansion, so she invited someone to come over.

"Well, it's pretty. But there's something missing..."

The girl's chuckle sounded like ridicule in Xiao Chulan's ears, and his heart suddenly became cold. It turns out that you are the same as them.

Just as he was thinking this, something suddenly appeared on his head. It was Ping Ning who pulled out the purple and silver tassel hairpin on his head and inserted it into Xiao Chulan's hair, and after straightening it, he casually stroked it on the hanging silver-purple tassel, and Xiao Chulan's ears jingled and fell a string of fine silver pieces, like a bell floating in the wind in the hot summer.

He raised his head sluggishly, only to see a smile on his face, as dazzling as a flying flower in a dream, the girl did not have a trace of malice, and the pure white and flawless smile crashed straight into his eyes. In just a moment, Xiao Chulan lowered his head, his heart was still beating violently, but he was a little more flustered and... Throb.

He clutched his heart with some difficulty breathing, and involuntarily breathed heavily, but he held back. Liu Guifei was afraid that he would get sick, and when the time came, she couldn't help but come out and say a few words hastily, and gently uncovered the child-like words like "Han'er, don't bully the small, your ninth brother is weak, don't tease him".

He also ordered the Nine Emperors to go down to change their clothes and send them back. Ping Ning wanted to stay in Fanghui Palace to talk and joke with her, and by the way, he was close to Xiao Chuhan. Xiao Chuhan likes beautiful things the most, especially likes to dress up and fiddle with those beautiful things, looking at Ping Ning's attitude towards Xiao Chulan, she has long been classified as a fellow practitioner.

Xiao Chulan changed his clothes and glanced at Ping Ning before leaving. But he retracted his gaze before Ping Ning noticed him and looked back.

The honeysuckle hairpin lay in his sleeve pocket in every way. After returning to the palace, he took it in his hand and looked at it, and put it in the jewelry box of his mother's concubine. In addition to a hairpin, there were two pieces of shriveled white begonias in the box, which had fallen from the clothes he had thrown on the ground a few days ago. It was originally stained with some dust, but he washed it clean.

The window opened by the night breeze crept into the dormitory, nearly blowing the petals away. He closed his jewelry box, closed his eyes, sighed, and got up to close the window. said to himself: "Xiao Chulan, she is the stars holding the moon, what are you?" Stop thinking nonsense..."

*

Xu was caught in the wind last night, and the weak Nine Emperor Princes fell ill the next day. When the lord of Pingning came to visit with medicine, he lay on the bed weakly, and could only watch her sit on the edge of his bed with a grumbling look, and reached out to touch his forehead.

"You, ahem!" His throat was swollen with cold, and his voice was hoarse, as rough as grit rubbing.

Ping Ning laughed. After beating the prince and screwing the county lord, she found that he had more backbone than ordinary weak people, but he was a little less capable, and he was always bullied in the end.

"What are you going to do?" Xiao Chulan gasped lightly, his chest rising and falling shallowly.

Ping Ning: "I'm here to visit the patient." ”

"Hmph, come and see when I'm going to die?"

Ping Ning sighed lightly and said unhappily: "Can you hope that you will be better?" ”

"I didn't live long, I already saw it, and I don't bother with the county lord. When a man is about to die, his words are good. If you're looking for fun, look elsewhere. Xiao Chulan stiffened a feminine face, lowered his eyes to hide the coldness and silence in his eyes, and said fiercely.

"Having fun? When did I make fun of you? I think I'm quite concerned about you. As she spoke, she picked up the medicinal herbs and condolences in her hand and shook them at him, asking him to see them.

Xiao Chulan was a little impatient, "The county lord is really a noble man who forgets things, and he obviously humiliated with the second prince yesterday... Well, yes, I'm not a pastime in your eyes? The county lord is condescending, and I really need to be grateful to Dade. ”

"Xiao Chulan." Ping Ning picked up his hand, "What are you talking about?" If I helped you yesterday, could Liu Guifei let you go? ”

Xiao Chulan was stunned, "What do you mean?" ”

"No, how did you grow so big with such innocence?" Ping Ning raised his hand to cover his face and sighed, "Can't you see that all the palace ladies are currying favor with me and pushing those brothers of yours in front of me?" What is the difference between helping you at this time and harming you? Anyway, you wear all the women's clothes, and it won't be good to wear an extra hairpin, Liu Guifei saw that I treated you like other princes, so I was relieved to send you away. ”

Be... Is that so? Xiao Chulan sat there stunned. With her family background, she is indeed the best choice for the rest of the princes and concubines.

"Then you... Then you can't be with them—" He said in a very small voice, his hand clenching the futon. Then she couldn't come with them to humiliate him.

"Huh?" Ping Ning went through his words in his head, leaned forward and said, "I can't be with them?" Why, in your heart I am different from others? ”

She approached suddenly, and Xiao Chulan subconsciously retreated until her back touched the head of the bed, and there was no way back.

Probably she persuaded him to live, so he didn't want her to come with others to ridicule and laugh at him. Or, he doesn't mind if she hates herself, but can't be with someone else, because someone else doesn't deserve to be with her. Others adding her will only make him more disgusting, not for himself, but for the feeling that others have defiled her.

But he wouldn't tell her these words, not even mention them.

But he asked another question.

"If you are asked to choose in the future, who do you like among the princes?"

He blurted out this sentence and regretted it. Ping Ning looked at him calmly and asked, "Who do you think is more suitable?" ”

Although she may not join the royal family in the future, the Queen Mother and Her Majesty are not blind. The harem concubines let their sons get close to her, and they all saw this, and they didn't speak out, so they acquiesced. Although they did not say it explicitly, they also had this heart. If you have this mind, it may not be impossible to become a reality in the future.

The first eight princes went through it, and to be honest, he didn't think anyone could be worthy of her. If you have to say...

"The eldest prince is brave and calm, the third prince is as gentle as jade, and the seventh prince is quick to think." He picked up a dry road that could barely catch his eyes.

Ping Ning raised his eyes to look at him and asked, "What about you?" Aren't the Nine Emperors also good-looking? ”

Xiao Chulan was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had misheard. This skin is feminine and weak, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is beautiful, but it is a bit self-deceptive to say that it looks dignified. Xiao Chuhan's guy is right, that is, women will not find a man who is more female than themselves as a husband. The county lord of Pingning didn't have to think much about it, was he entertaining himself?

"I..."

Before he could say anything, Ping Ning clapped his hands, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it made sense, as if his mouth was suddenly opened.

"You are good-looking, your grandfather's family background is ordinary, and there is no problem with relatives, Your Majesty must be particularly relieved to let you marry me. Or the royal family, how can any family go beyond the royal head? ”

"But I-"

"I know, it's short-lived. But you think, when you die, I'll marry someone once, and I'll still marry the prince, and no one will dare to marry me again, right? Even if he wanted to, it was impossible for the royal family to agree. At that time, the lord of this county is not a free bird, and he can go wherever he wants? The wealth and power of my Hou Mansion will not fall into the hands of others, and maybe I can go to the battlefield with my father! It's a lot of money, so it counts... Xiao Chulan, you are simply an excellent candidate for my marriage! ”

“……”

Probably no one wants to hear how convenient it will be for others after his death, Ping Ning looked at his face and laughed awkwardly, pulling the topic elsewhere. "You might as well exercise and exercise, my cousin looked small when he was a child, and after being trained by my uncle, he is now a little general! Cui Yanyu, do you know? Last time, he was my cousin! ”

Xiao Chulan had a cold face, and he was really not happy at all about Ping Ning, who could talk eloquently whether he was dead or alive. Only the sentence "Xiao Chulan, you are simply an excellent candidate for my marriage" has been lingering in his heart for a long time.

Can he and her be so compatible?

If he could live a little longer, wouldn't he be able to... With her? And she said that she can live well after he dies. Even if he was only her husband for a few short years, he - also wanted to.

In an instant, he shook those ridiculous ideas out again. These are just Ping Ning's own thoughts, how can His Majesty really agree, he is bound to make good use of Anhou's power, how can he allow Ping Ning to have the final say?

Furthermore, how could An Hou agree? Assuming that what Pingning just said is okay, how could Anhou, as a father, let his daughter marry a husband who knew that he was short-lived, and how could the county lord of Pingning be widowed for others! Naturally, it is good to marry a person who has both ability and political integrity, a first-class family background, and an extraordinary appearance, and live a peaceful and happy life.

She deserves the best in the world, and he is willing to hold it to her with his own hands.

"What's wrong with you?" Seeing that he didn't speak, Ping Ning couldn't help but stop and ask.

Xiao Chulan raised his eyes and glanced at her lightly, lowered his eyes, and said, "My throat hurts, I'm tired." ”

“… Oh. ”

Ping Ning sat on the edge of the bed with his cheeks up, perhaps a rare person who was snubbed, this "oh" was a little aggrieved, and there was something wrong in his heart. I thought about it again and again, and didn't care about the patient. Although you are the lord of the county, it is true that everyone loves you, but who said that people have to pay attention to you? No shame!

Thinking like this, she quieted down, sat on the edge of the bed and was bored for a while, not knowing what to think in her little head.

Xiao Chulan opened his eyes and quietly looked at her, and then quietly closed his eyes and continued to close his eyes to recuperate, and the corners of his mouth silently pulled up a smile.

*

Anhou was ordered to take command of the expedition, and now he has been gone for more than three years.

He went for more than three years, and Pingning raised him in the palace for more than three years.

She is smart, well-born, has a good family background, and does not have the pretentiousness of a wealthy daughter, quite a bit of her father Anhou's uninhibited and uninhibited temperament, such a person has no sense of distance, it is difficult not to have a good impression.

For those concubines who tried their best to match her with their sons, they retreated to the next best thing, and gradually shifted their focus to matching her with their sons and nephews. But in this process, although Ping Ning was young, he did it very steadily, neither letting them succeed nor complaining. Of course, for those toads who did not hesitate to use subordinate means against her to make this happen, she also repaired it ruthlessly without mercy.

I don't know if she was too successful in killing chickens and monkeys, anyway, there were indeed a lot fewer bad things after that.

"Brother Jiu, you said that last time that person was thrown into the men's wind hall and then thrown out, did you do a little too much? He was thrown out naked, and after hearing about it, not only did he not dare to touch a woman, but he even wanted to vomit when a man touched him, and he was locked in his room all day long. I don't know what those little guys did to him? ”

He said sympathetic words in his mouth, but there was a sly smile in the corners of his eyes, and he didn't reflect on it at all, and he didn't feel pity for that person.

"No, it won't." Xiao Chulan, the ninth brother in her mouth, spoke. Originally, it was just a name for her to see him blushing and teasing, but after talking for a long time, it became easier to speak, and she shouted like this in private on weekdays.

More than three years have passed, and the fifteen-year-old boy has grown faster and faster, dressed neatly in white like a fairy, and his body is like an elegant bamboo that grows straight, and gradually withdraws away.

His facial features are still so feminine, but he doesn't have the weakness that made people feel indestructible at first glance in the early years. The boneless knuckles are slender and distinct, holding the wolf pen to dip the ink on the inkstone, and the cold eyes when looking at Ping Ning only melt the ice and snow, and a few rays of sunlight shine through the thick clouds.

The corners of the mouth raised a trace of curvature, which was incredibly beautiful. With the truth that only he knew in his heart, the truth about why that man and woman didn't dare to touch it again, he slowly opened his mouth.

"He brought it on himself."