Brother Xiao knew that he ran out behind someone's back, lowered his head and didn't dare to look at his brother's face, and secretly wanted to hide behind Duan Shaolan's body.

"You call me brother, I also sincerely treat your brother as my own brother, you don't have to be so polite to me." Duan Shaolan looked at Brother Xiao'er who was hiding behind him with a hairy head exposed, and took the initiative to explain to Brother Xiao. "Brother Xiao knew that he was wrong, he shouldn't have gotten rid of the attendants in the mansion and went out alone. But he also has a reason, he knows that it is because of himself that the princess will be injured, so he will come to apologize to the princess. ”

"I see, brother." Brother Xin glanced at his younger brother who was hiding behind Duan Shaolan, shook his head helplessly and said with a smile. "I'm really sorry that my brother and princess are disturbing my brother today."

"It's okay, the princess is bored in the camp to recuperate, Brother Xiao can come over to talk to her, she's very happy." Duan Shaolan took out Brother Xiao and sent him to his brother. "Brother Xiao, come to us again when you have time."

Brother Xiao obediently walked up to his brother, first held his brother's hand, and then turned around and nodded at Duan Shaolan.

"Brother, then I'll take Brother Xiao back first." Brother Xin said. "Father knows that Brother Xiao'er is gone, and he has to worry about it again."

"Okay." Duan Shaolan nodded, watched the two brothers leave, and went in the direction of Nan'anhou's tent.

After a few more days, the scab on Xiao Xuan's face finally fell off. Early in the morning, Duan Shaolan hadn't gotten up yet, Xiao Xuan had already gotten up excitedly, beckoning Dan Tang and Lu Lin to bring people in to serve her in and dress up.

"What's wrong?" Duan Shaolan was awakened by Xiao Xuan's movement, sat up with his eyes rubbed, and looked at Xiao Xuan, who was already sitting in front of the dressing table, and asked. "Woke up so early?"

"I made an appointment with Ning Guiren yesterday, and I'm going to run a horse together today." Dan Tang was pulling Xiao Xuan's hair, and Xiao Xuan said without looking back. "I've been bored for several days, thinking that I won't be able to sleep anyway, so I just get up and change my clothes and dress up."

"I've been with you for several days, why don't you ask me to go horseback riding?" Duan Shaolan leaned on the head of the bed, and asked deliberately with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"I want to accompany you at any time, but Ning Guiren is a concubine in her father's palace, and without me by her side, she can't go out alone." Xiao Xuan looked at the makeup that Green Forest had drawn for her, and nodded with satisfaction. "Besides, my father brought Ning Guiren with him, originally to accompany me. As a result, after you came, I hung them for several days. ”

"Okay, I won't ask." Duan Shaolan said. "Then I have nothing to do today, and I can rest for a while. When you come back, will you have lunch with me? ”

"Uh-huh." Xiao Xuan's hair was tied up, and Xiao Xuan spun around in front of the mirror with satisfaction.

A sweet smile bloomed on her face, and she was dressed in a crimson riding suit. She turned around and trotted to the edge of the bed, lightly imprinting a kiss on the side of Duan Shaolan's cheek.

"I'm leaving, you wait for me to come back."

"Okay." Duan Shaolan subconsciously raised his hand and touched the side face that Xiao Xuan had kissed, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously raised. "Stay safe."

"Got it."

Xiao Xuan and Ning Guiren gathered in an open place, before Xiao Xuan rode the horse that had an accident and was sent back to the imperial capital by Emperor Chu, Ning Guiren grew up on horseback since he was a child, today Xiao Xuan invited, she went to the stable yesterday to re-select a horse for Xiao Xuan.

After Xiao Xuan arrived, Ning Guiren took her to see the horses.

Ning Guiren chose a black horse for her this time, with four hooves like snow, a touch of red between his eyebrows, and he was tall and heroic. After Xiao Xuan stepped forward, Ning Guiren stuffed a purse full of sugar cubes for her, and motioned for her to take the candy and feed the horse.

Xiao Xuan took out a candy cube from his purse and put it in the palm of his hand, and slowly approached the horse, who first let out a breath from his nose and took a small step back impatiently. Seeing this, Xiao Xuan immediately stopped, and waited until the horse got used to it, then stretched out his arm and handed the hand holding the sugar cube in front of the horse.

This horse had a pair of beautiful big eyes, it winked at Xiao Xuan, Xiao Xuan stretched out his hand in front of it for a long time, it tentatively stepped forward again, looked at Xiao Xuan for a while, and then suddenly stretched its neck and took the piece of candy cube from Xiao Xuan's palm.

Xiao Xuan made persistent efforts, and did not move forward directly, but still took out a piece of candy from his purse.

This time her arms did not stretch so far, and the horse tilted its head to look at her for a while, as if he was unwary of her, and it was really difficult to resist the sugar cube in her palm, so he took the initiative to step forward and take a few steps, and rolled away the sugar cube in her palm with his tongue.

Xiao Xuan stepped forward at this time, gently stroked its neck, it had sugar in its mouth, and honestly let her touch it.

"It's so pretty." Looking up at it for a while, Xiao Xuan turned around and said to Ning Guiren behind him. "Thank you for choosing it for me."

"Nothing, you know, I'm not good at anything." Ning Guiren stepped forward with a hearty smile. "Fortunately, I grew up on horseback since I was a child, and I am still good at picking horses. There was something better and faster than it, but I thought something happened to you, so I chose it. It's a young mare with a more supple and gentle temperament, which is more suitable for you to ride right now. ”

Xiao Xuan still had some palpitations when he thought back to that day when he was suddenly shocked. You know, when she suddenly encounters that situation, she loses her way for a while, and the only reaction she can make when she realizes is to hold herself off the horse. You must know the chaos at that time, if she was really thrown off the horse, stepped on or kicked by another horse, not to mention breaking her muscles and bones, it might even endanger her life.

"You said that at this time, why is your luck so bad?" Ning Guiren didn't go with him that day, and by the time the matter came back, Emperor Chu had already been escorted back to the camp.

When he heard that Xiao Xuan was missing, Ning Guiren was also worried.

When Ning Guiren had not yet entered the palace, he was rolling in such a place, unlike the girls of Dazhao who were all raised delicately. She didn't know how many heads she had fallen from horseback since she was a child, and she had long been used to it.

But Xiao Xuan is different, she is a golden branch and jade leaf, where does she have the experience of dealing with such a thing.

"Who knows, a little kid accidentally shot down a wild bee nest, but we happened to pass by nearby and happened to encounter a wild bee colony." Xiao Xuan shook his head and sighed. "Fortunately, everything is safe."

"yes." Ning Guiren said. "Then don't go into the woods today, because there are a lot of people inside. Just running outside in the open space, it's nothing. ”

"Okay." Xiao Xuan said, turned over and got on the horse very neatly, and immediately greeted Ning Guiren. "You come too."

"Hmm." Ning Guiren ordered someone to lead her horse over. "Let's go, trot around."

After running a few laps, Xiao Xuan smiled brightly, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.

"Gee, it's so comfortable to run around like this." Xiao Xuan moved his wrist and said to Ning Guiren. "In the tent, they were afraid that there would be something wrong with me, so they watched me lying on the bed and did not allow me to get up and move around. I was lying stiff and comfortable. ”

"Fortunately, you were slightly injured, otherwise Your Majesty would definitely send someone to escort you back to the imperial capital." Ning Guiren rode his horse to Xiao Xuan's side and said. "By the way, have you informed the imperial concubine of the danger with Your Majesty?"

"Hey, I didn't let anyone go back anyway." Xiao Xuan hurriedly shook his head. "But my father shouldn't have sent someone to inform my mother about this matter, otherwise, according to my mother's character, if I knew that something like this happened to me in the paddock, I would definitely send someone over to the paddock as soon as possible to escort me back to the imperial capital to recuperate."

"You are the only daughter of the imperial concubine, and the mother values you so much." Ning Guiren covered his lips and said with a smile. "The girls in our tribe were raised as boys, and my mother didn't care if I suffered some minor injuries."

"I think that's pretty good." Xiao Xuan said. "The mother is sometimes too close to me."

"Isn't that good? I remember the first time I fell from a horse and broke my arm when I was a child, and my mother had only come to see me before she left, and she went away without looking back before the tribe's traveling doctor could treat my wounds. Ning Guiren sat on horseback and looked in the direction of her hometown from afar. My mother and I have not been very close since I was a child, and even when I was sent by my father thousands of miles to the imperial capital to be dedicated to His Majesty, I went to my mother's tent to ask for a meeting before leaving, but she was unwilling to see me again. ”

"Why is that?" Xiao Xuan was puzzled.

"I don't know." Ning Guiren said with a grudge. "But that's it, I always wanted to know the reason when I was young, but now that I've been in the imperial capital for so many years, I want to open a lot. I came to the imperial capital alone away from my hometown and homeland, and became His Majesty's concubine, and my life was very smooth, so why bother with these fruitless pasts. Anyway, that's all I have for the rest of my life, and it's just a good life for those who have no children and no daughters in the harem. ”

"Do you really think it's a good day?" Xiao Xuan hesitated, but still asked.

"It's a good day for me." Ning Guiren nodded indifferently. "I am a concubine of a different race, although Your Majesty does not favor me much, but he does not treat me badly, even the queen and the imperial concubine are very polite to me. Even if I stay in the grassland, I may not be able to live much more comfortably, but it is better to live in His Majesty's harem. ”