Emperor Chu wrote in the summer of the twelfth year

The third day of the seventh month is the queen's birthday, and on this day, the royal family and the ladies of the dignitaries in Beijing have been called to the palace to participate in the banquet to celebrate the queen's birthday.

In the spring, Xiao Xuan had just passed her ninth birthday. In the past few years, she has been pumping fast, and she has gradually taken off her white and fat toddler appearance. The nine-year-old figure has caught up with the thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl outside, and the original round little face has become smaller. Her appearance also picked out the benefits of Emperor Chu and Emperor Liu's concubines, and she was already quite a beauty.

"Mrs. Liu." Dan Tang brought the clothes that Liu Shufu had chosen for Xiao Xuan in advance. "The princess's dress for today has been ironed."

The eldest princess Xiao Lu has a flamboyant personality and loves all kinds of colorful costumes. Xiao Xuan has a lively and likable personality, preferring pink and lighter colors.

Today is the queen's birthday, and Liu Shufu picked out a crimson dress for Xiao Xuan, which was outstanding and unassuming.

Liu Shufu also chose the jewelry that Xiao Xuan wanted to bring today in front of the dressing table. In the past three or four years, the brothers of Emperor Liu's concubine have been promoted again. The children of the Liu family are also competing, in last year's scientific expedition, the children of the Liu family raised eleven people, and the eldest grandson of the eldest princess of Yongshou who was only thirteen years old won the position of Tanhua, becoming the youngest Tanhua since the founding of the Jokhang Kingdom. The Liu clan was in a lot of noise, but the Liu clan became more and more low-key.

Emperor Liu's concubine in the palace is still favored, and the eldest son under his knees is also quite valued by Emperor Chu.

Emperor Liu's concubine knew that the queen was only afraid that she hated herself more and more, and the eldest son had a calm personality and didn't need to take extra care, so she had to focus all her energy on Xiao Jun and Xiao Xuan.

"Auntie." Liu Shufu was inspecting her clothes and jewelry when there was a sound of rings crashing into the inner room, and a girl walked out surrounded by palace people.

"Your Highness up?" Liu Shufu put down the jewelry in her hand and walked forward quickly. "I have chosen today's clothes and jewelry for you, Your Highness is late today, you have to quickly dress up and go with the mother to pay tribute to the queen's mother."

"Hmm, got it." Xiao Xuan is the most greedy on weekdays, she is not a prince and needs to get up early to study, Emperor Chu and Emperor Liu's concubines are also very pampered by her, so that she sleeps until three poles in the morning every day.

Xiao Xuan was hugged by the palace maids to wash, turned around and changed into clothes, and Liu Shufu personally combed her hair according to her.

"Mother." Xiao Xuan had just stopped putting on makeup, stood up and turned around, and saw Emperor Liu, who was wearing a concubine dress, coming over.

Xiao Xuan picked up the hem of her skirt and ran out immediately.

"Look at you, do you still look like a girl?" Xiao Xuan ran to Concubine Liu and looked up at her with admiration. Concubine Liu Huang smiled gently, looked at Xiao Xuan and asked. "Have you had breakfast?"

"No, I'm late for now." Xiao Xuan took the hand of Emperor Liu's concubine and said with a smile.

"Then you can wait to endure it for a while, and when you finish paying tribute to the queen's mother, you will use some more when we come back." Emperor Liu's concubine led Xiao Xuan in front, and more than a dozen palace maids from Yihua Palace followed, and the group went towards Zhaoyang Palace.

In recent years, the queen's body has really been raised well. In the past, the delicate and pale face also added a little color because of a little more blood, and today is her good day, she is dressed up in the queen's dress and sits in a high position, and the concubines take the prince and princess to pay her birthday in Zhaoyang Palace.

"Get up." She waved her hand to let everyone below get up, and her eyes couldn't stop looking at Emperor Liu and the three children beside her.

In addition to the dazzling set of imperial concubine dresses on her body, the makeup and hair accessories are just simple. Xiao Yu led Xiao Jun and Xiao Xuan to stand on the side of the prince and princess, and they were all very obedient.

After talking for a while, the queen said that she was not in good spirits, so the concubines, princesses and princesses were scattered.

The princes' homework today was as usual, and Xiao Yu took his brother Xiao Jun back to the upper study where he was taught. Emperor Liu's concubine also wanted to go to Concubine De's palace to talk, so she asked Xiao Xuan to go back to Yihua Palace by herself.

Xiao Xuan thought that it would be boring to go back now, so she asked people to go back to Yihua Palace to ask for some pastries and tea, and she took people straight to the Imperial Garden.

Xiao Xuan finished eating the pastries, sat in the pavilion by the water, leaned against the pillar and looked at the water, and gradually the cool breeze from the water made her fall asleep.

Knowing that she got up early today, Liu Shufu waved her hand to let the palace people who followed her retreat, and only took Dan Tang to stay by Xiao Xuan's side.

Xiao Xuan was able to sleep soundly, but there was a sudden noise in his ears, as if someone was scolding something not far away. Xiao Xuan vaguely heard a familiar voice, which was really unbearable, so Xiao Xuan had to open his eyes.

"Your Highness is awake?" Liu Shufu stepped forward with a smile. "It's noisy here, if Your Highness is still thirsty and sleepy, you might as well go back to the palace to rest for a while, the birthday banquet of the queen will not be held until Shenshi."

"No need." Xiao Xuan got up and patted her skirt. "Shall we go see the excitement?"

"Your Highness, just now we saw the people around the eldest princess go there." Liu Shufu entered the palace to accompany Xiao Xuan for all these years, so she naturally knew about Xiao Lu and Xiao Xuan, and hurriedly persuaded her. "Today is a good day for the queen's mother, Your Highness, don't cause any trouble."

"There are people coming and going in the imperial garden, I don't know how many people are coming today, my sister is not afraid of trouble, I just went to see a lively scene, where can there be any trouble?" Xiao Xuan doesn't like to take care of Xiao Xuan, who likes to give birth to something if she has nothing to do, but today she slept less, and it was easy to be comfortable enough to rely on her son and be disturbed by her, and Rao is muddy people can't help but give birth to three points of fire.

Xiao Xuan, the little ancestor, is the best to serve on weekdays, but he is the most stubborn when he lacks sleep. She insisted on going to see it, but Liu Shufu could only bring someone to follow her.

Not far away at this time, several palace maids beside Xiao Lu were pressing a little girl who was only three or four years old to kneel on the ground, and on the other end was a young boy who couldn't control him because of his strength, and Xiao Lu was directing several internal supervisors to suppress him.

Xiao Xuan stopped, seeing that the little boy seemed to know how to punch and kick, and it was easy to deal with a few internal prisoners. It's just that he still knows how to restrain himself, and he didn't make a move, but he moved flexibly to bypass the inner prison that surrounded him, and ran to the little girl who was crying in fright.

The palace maids who can serve Xiao Lu in close proximity don't need to do rough work, and their daily food and clothing are comparable to the daughters raised by ordinary businessmen outside. Therefore, Xiao Shao overturned the palace maids young and easily, and scooped up the little girl on the ground, but in a blink of an eye, he was surrounded by the inner prison.

"Why don't you hurry back to the palace and call someone!" Xiao Lu, as the eldest daughter of Emperor Chu, except for eating some hangings on Xiao Xuan's body every time, where can she tolerate such a scene, she immediately shouted screaming. "Let people go and get the boards, I must teach them a good lesson today!"

The boy and the little girl looked like a pair of brothers and sisters, and they should also be children of the noble family when they looked at the clothes.

Even so, if Xiao Lu had a seizure and people scolded the two brothers and sisters for no reason, it would not be good.

"Big sister, what are you doing here?" Xiao Xuan stepped forward with someone and asked with a smile.

"It's none of your business." Xiao Lu glared at Xiao Xuan angrily and continued to call people back. "What are you doing! Don't go yet! ”

"Dan Tangerine, stop someone for me." Xiao Xuan glanced at the orange and said in a loud voice. "Big sister, today is the queen mother's birthday, and I see that this brother and sister should enter the palace with the female relatives of the family to pay homage to the queen mother's birthday. Although I arrived late, I don't know why I came beforehand. But on such a good day, I'm afraid it's not good for my sister to scold others for no reason. ”

Dan Tang led people to stop the inner prison who was about to go back to report the news, and asked people to separate the brother and sister from the people around Xiao Lu.

"Xiao Xuan!" Xiao Lu pointed at Xiao Xuan and shouted.

"Which family are you children from?" Xiao Xuan ignored her and walked straight to the brother and sister. "I never seem to have seen you in the palace."

The boy's eyes were not defensive, and he watched the girl who was no taller than his chest and abdomen come up to him and smiled and asked him.

"Childe, this is Her Royal Highness the Second Princess." Seeing that the young man was slow to reply, Liu Shufu stepped forward and reminded in a low voice.

"I've seen Your Highness." Seeing Xiao Xuan's eyes smiling, the young man took off his guard, put down his sister, who was still crying and sobbing in his arms, and leaned over to salute Xiao Xuan. "My sister and I are in the second room of the Zhenguo Mansion, and today we entered the palace with my mother, Lord Duansu, to celebrate the queen's birthday. Because my mother rarely took us into the palace, His Royal Highness never saw our brother and sister. ”

Xiao Xuan was stunned when she heard this, she didn't expect that the brother and sister who were in trouble by Xiao Lu were actually from the Queen's Mother's Zhenguo Mansion. However, because the queen is the descendant of the Zhenguo Mansion, the eldest son is her brother-in-law, and the second room is just the concubine of the Zhenguo Prince.

The concubine of the Zhenguo Mansion is mediocre, the concubine is shrewd and capable, and the discord between the two concubines is also famous in the imperial capital.

"Little sister, why are you crying so pitifully?" Now there is no younger child than Xiao Xuan in the palace, Xiao Xuan couldn't help but ask when she saw that little girl looking cute and crying pitifully.

The little girl was so frightened that she had to cry and be speechless for a while.

"At home, my mother and aunt are talking to the queen mother in Zhaoyang Palace, and my sister went back to the palace, and the queen mother asked us to take us out for a walk, but the palace people who led us halfway said that something was gone, and our brother and sister bumped into Her Royal Highness the eldest princess." Seeing that his sister couldn't tell the situation clearly, the young man had to speak, and he had to tell the story of Fang Cai in a clear manner. "It was my sister who was naughty and bumped into the eldest princess and stained the eldest princess's clothes. The eldest princess asked, and her sister cried when she was afraid. ”

"Oh, it's just such a trifle." Xiao Xuan didn't think so, but it was really Xiao Lu's usual style, as long as it was about herself, she could make trouble about things the size of a needle point.

Looking at it again, the hem of Xiao Lu's skirt was really stained with a small piece, and it was not very conspicuous.

"The queen mother's birthday banquet was only opened, since the eldest sister is angry, it is the right thing to hurry back to Yuxiu Palace to change into a clean dress." Xiao Xuan raised her eyes to look at Xiao Lu, and her face was angry. "The Imperial Garden is full of people, does the big sister really want to make a fuss in the palace?"

"Xiao Xuan, how do you know I'm angry?!" Xiao Lu's voice was sharp, and Xiao Xuan couldn't help frowning when she heard it.

"Big sister made such a fuss, I can be noisy when I sit so far, isn't it enough to be angry with this molecule?" Xiao Xuan is also impatient, Xiao Lu always acts like this.

"I have this set of clothes specially made for today, do you know how rare the material of the clothes can be?"

"Really?" Xiao Xuan could naturally recognize that the dress on Xiao Lu's body was made of the most rare Yuehua brocade in Shu brocade, which was remote and difficult in Shu, so the price of Shu brocade rose. "It's just Yuehua Jin, and there are still a few horses in my mother's palace. However, because the colors are too bright, my mother and I don't like it very much, and now we only sit in the storeroom. If my sister likes it, how about I let Dan Tang lead my sister to Yihua Palace to pick one? It was me who made amends to my sister on behalf of the siblings. ”