After talking for a while, Xiao Xuan quickly became familiar with Sister Ying. Sister Ying'er has a soft temper, and she has a proper sense of proportion when dealing with people. And as long as Xiao Xuan is not a natural opponent Xiao Lu, she is also a very well-behaved girl, and she does not rely on the arrogance and arrogance of the royal family at all.

Sister Ying'er because she guarded her mother's filial piety and was unwilling to go out to trouble her grandfather's family, she studied, painted, and embroidered in her boudoir all the year round.

"Cousin Ying, I like this veil." As she spoke, Sister Ying handed Xiao Xuan a handkerchief she had brought with her.

The handkerchief is also rusty by Sister Ying'er, embroidered with a pair of swifts in front of the corridor. The swifts were embroidered with their feathers, and their eyes were even more expressive.

"If the princess likes it, take it." Sister Ying said with a smile. "I don't have anything to look at, and it's rare for a princess to like my clumsy skills."

"Well, I love it." Xiao Xuan said. "I'm going to live in my grandmother's house for a while, and my grandmother's house only has my cousins. If Cousin Ying is free, she will often come and sit and talk to me, okay? ”

On the other hand, Concubine Liu and the eldest princess of Yongshou, who were sitting together, looked at Xiao Xuan and Sister Ying talking and laughing, and they were even more satisfied.

The eldest princess of Yongshou waited until the palace gate was about to give the key, and then got up and took Sister Ying to say goodbye.

Xiao Xuan and Sister Ying looked like they were old at first sight, and they kept holding Sister Ying'er's hand and sending them to the palace gate of Yihua Palace, and watched them get into the carriage leaving the palace before turning back.

"Mother."

"Come in and sit down, don't leave tonight, stay here and have dinner with me." Concubine Liu Huang beckoned Xiao Xuan to her. "Your temper is getting bigger and bigger, I just lectured you a few words, and you avoided me for a few days."

"I didn't hide from my mother, I'm busy." Xiao Xuan sat beside Emperor Liu's concubine and said strongly.

"You little girl, what's so busy." Concubine Liu asked people to go to the small kitchen of Yihua Palace to spread the word, asking them to serve a few more dishes that Xiao Xuan likes to eat tonight. "How's your aunt's illness?"

"Auntie is almost better." Xiao Xuan leaned on the side of Emperor Liu's concubine again and asked puzzledly. "Does the concubine like Cousin Ying very much?"

"Well, she's a good boy. I don't think you like her too? Concubine Liu said.

"I like her very much, she is not like the girls who enter the palace with the elders of the family on weekdays, and she is very respectful to me, and she speaks and does things carefully, for fear that she will offend me if she does something wrong or says something wrong." Xiao Xuan was used to seeing those girls, but she treated girls like Sister Ying a little differently. "Besides, when I saw that you and my grandmother treated Cousin Ying very kindly, I knew that Cousin Ying must be a good person."

"Well, she's a good girl. Indeed, I sent someone to call you to come to her today. "Emperor Liu's concubine knew that although her daughter was young, she was sensible, so she simply told her thoroughly." I want Sister Ying to be your sixth brother's side concubine. ”

"Mother, since Cousin Ying is the child of the aunt of the Liu family, is her identity not enough, why can she only be made a side concubine?"

"Her biological father is a third-grade squire, and the Liu family has been famous for generations, so if she is your sixth brother's concubine, she is also qualified." Emperor Liu's concubine only wanted Sister Ying to be Xiao Jun's side concubine before, and it was also because she heard the eldest princess of Yongshou say that Sister Ying'er had a weak personality and was afraid that she would not be able to take on the responsibilities of the prince's concubine.

There are rules in the Zhao, even if the prince gets married, he can't move out of the inner palace until he is twenty years old to open his teeth and build a mansion. In the future, Xiao Jun will be out of the palace when he is old, and his concubine can't just aspire to be a rich and idle king like him. In the future, a huge palace, many inner courtyards, outings and communication matters with the ladies of various palaces will have to be supported by the concubines. Xiao Jun was impatient with these chores, so at the beginning, Concubine Liu Huang was interested in looking for a girl from a military general's family.

But today, the eldest princess of Yongshou took Sister Ying out of the palace, and when Emperor Liu saw her, she knew that such a weak and slender girl was extremely mature in mind, and she spoke and acted very measuredly.

Now that Xiao Xuan asked like this, Emperor Liu's heart was even more shaken.

"Mother." Xiao Xuan was in a trance when she saw that Emperor Liu was thinking about things in her heart, and called out to her.

"We'll talk about that later." At this time, dinner was also delivered, and Concubine Liu Huang diverted from the conversation. "Dinner first."

It will take some time for the marriage of the two sons to settle, Xiao Yu's concubine and side concubine have almost been decided, and she still needs to think carefully about Xiao Jun's concubine and side concubine candidates.

The election officially began, and hundreds of show girls to be selected were ordered to enter the palace and live in the Mingguang Palace.

The first round of the primary election did not work to the palace of the mothers, through the physical examination, the appearance, skin, and limbs were screened out.

In the second round of selection, because Emperor Chu was no longer ready to choose people to serve in the general election, Emperor Chu was absent from this selection and handed over the matter to the queen and Emperor Liu.

This round mainly depends on the speech and behavior of the show girls, and those who are overly complacent or too timid are not left, and a group of people are screened out.

After this round of selection is over, there are less than seventy show girls who can still live in Mingguang Palace and wait for the last round, among which the queen and the concubine Liu Huang naturally stayed behind.

In the Mingguang Palace, the show girls who can stay now are naturally already the best. Appearance, bearing, and family background, all of them are outstanding. The whole process of waiting for the selection will take about a month, and the final round of selection will start at the end.

Until one day, the only two princesses under the knee of Emperor Chu actually visited Mingguang Palace at the same time.

"Hello big sister." This time it was not Xiao Xuan's intention to block Xiao Lu, today Xiao Xuan also came temporarily, I really didn't expect that Xiao Lu, who had lived in a simple place these days, would come to Mingguang Palace where the show girl lived at this time.

Although she was surprised, she saw that the show girls had gathered and were ready to give her two sisters a salute, so she immediately changed her expression and greeted her with a smile.

"My sister is fine." Xiao Lu was wearing a dress made of the crimson Yuehua brocade that Xiao Xuan sent over a few days ago, Xiao Lu was tall, a head taller than Xiao Xuan, who was only nine years old, and she was quite elegant when she wore such a dress.

Standing in front of her, Xiao Xuan looked much younger.

As soon as Xiao Lu opened her mouth, she was really shocked by Xiao Xuan. Since she can remember, Xiao Lu has given her a good look.

"I was thinking that I was going to visit my sister in Concubine Chen's palace in the past two days, but I really didn't expect to see my sister here." Xiao Xuan blinked, confirming that the person smiling at her in front of her was indeed Xiao Lu. "What did my sister do when she came to Mingguang Palace today?"

"What my sister is here to do, I am here to do." Xiao Lu said.

"Then I won't bother my sister." With all the show girls, Xiao Xuan didn't want to continue talking to the strange Xiao Lu, so she asked the palace maid who greeted her to lead her to see Sister Ying.

Xiao Xuan walked out quickly for a long time, but he could still feel that Xiao Lu was still standing in the distance and looking at him, so he could only walk faster and faster, hoping to get out of Xiao Lu's sight quickly.

"Princess, why does the eldest princess look weird today." Lu Lin, who was following Xiao Xuan, couldn't help but ask. "Celestia used to have a good color when she saw the princess?"

"Maybe the teachings of the grandmothers worked."

When she arrived at Sister Ying'er's room, Xiao Xuan was completely relieved. Because she was in a hurry when she came, she suddenly stopped and was still a little out of breath.

"Princess, what's wrong?" Sister Ying, who got the news of the palace maid, stepped forward and hurriedly poured a cup of warm tea for Xiao Xuan. "Let's have a sip of tea first."

Xiao Xuan took the tea and drank it all in one gulp.

"It's fine, but I was in a hurry when I came." Xiao Xuan said after sitting down. "Cousin Ying, sit down too."

"Princess Xie." After Sister Ying'er gave a thank-you gift, she sat down on the side. "How did the princess have to come to Mingguang Palace today?"

"Well, I just came around with nothing to do." Xiao Xuan looked at Sister Ying'er's room, which was fresh and elegant, and it seemed that it was also for her to live alone. "Cousin Ying, are you still used to spending this time in the palace? If there is any inconvenience, please tell me. ”

"Thank you princess, I'm fine."

Sister Ying's biological father, after knowing that she had the blue eyes of the eldest princess of Yongshou and the concubine of Emperor Liu, had not visited her in the palace for several years, and visited her in the palace a few days before she entered the palace to be elected, and also stuffed a lot of money for Sister Ying to spend in the palace.

Sister Ying was personally named by Emperor Liu's concubine, and she was quite generous with the money in her hand, so she lived quite smoothly in Mingguang Palace.

"That's good, so that my mother and I can rest assured." Xiao Xuan asked Lu Lin to bring in all the things she had prepared for Sister Ying'er. "My mother and I have prepared some things for you, you can take them."

"The princess and the lady have already taken care of me, and I really can't take these things anymore."

"It's nothing, most of the things I bring are snacks and food." Xiao Xuan pressed her hand and said. "The mother concubine said that the food in the Mingguang Palace may not be clean, so let me tell my cousin that even if it is for my own good, I must be more careful with the things in the entrance. And we all know that Cousin Ying likes to be pure, but the people who serve in the palace are used to watching people put dishes on their plates, so they still have to dress up. ”

"Thank you to the mother and the princess for reminding me, I have written it down." Sister Ying ordered someone to accept the things and thanked Xiao Xuan.

After talking with Sister Ying for a while, Xiao Xuan got up to say goodbye.

When Xiao Xuan walked away, Xiao Lu turned out under a tree not far away.

"Brother Parrot, go check which family the show girl who lives in that room is from?" Xiao Lu instructed the palace maid beside her.