In the courtyard of the second room of the Zhenguo Mansion.

The first thing Duan Shaolan did when he returned to the courtyard of the second room was to greet his mother, Lord Duansu.

"Brother." He had just taken a step into the courtyard, and Sister Chu, who was playing with the little maids in the yard, saw him and shouted in surprise and pounced.

Duan Shaolan leaned over and scooped up Sister Chu, who was rushing over, and Sister Chu held his face and looked at it carefully.

"What is Sister Chu looking at?" Duan Shaolan was stared at by Sister Chu's big eyes and laughed, and asked.

"My brother leaves early in the morning every day of school, and Sister Chu can't see you when she gets up." Sister Chu said solemnly. "Sister Chu has to make up for my brother in the morning."

"Sister Chu, come down quickly." Lord Duansu, who was sitting idly in the house, heard the movement outside the house and walked out with the help of the maid. "Your brother has been studying outside for a day, don't be tired of your brother."

"Mother, it's fine."

Duan Shaolan hugged Sister Chu and followed Lord Duansu back to the house.

"Hold the book, bring that food box in." Duan Shaolan asked the little maid to bring in the food box given by Xiao Xuan today. "Today, I happened to meet the second princess outside the door of the imperial study. She happened to have fresh snacks and gave me some to bring to my mother and sister to try. ”

Sister Chu was greedy, and immediately leaned over, and a maid stepped forward to clean her hands before taking a piece of snack for her. She held the snack in her hand, hugged it like a little squirrel and nibbled on it.

"Her Royal Highness the Second Princess is really kind." The county lord of Duansu also took out a piece of dim sum with his clean hand, and said with a smile to Duan Shaolan. "How have you been in the palace lately? Can you keep up with your studies? ”

Duan Shaolan was originally only taking classes in the Duan family's clan studies, and the Duansu County Lord was worried that he would have difficulties in his schoolwork when he suddenly entered the palace.

"Back to my mother, I'm fine." Duan Shaolan thought for a while before he said again. "In the imperial study, the eldest prince and the sixth prince took good care of me."

"The Great Prince and the Sixth Prince?" When the county lord of Duansu heard this, the movements in his hands paused. "Those two highnesses are from the same mother as the second princess."

"Yes, it stands to reason that my son was born in the Zhenguo Mansion, and the two highnesses shouldn't be too close to me." Now that the princes under the knees of Emperor Chu have grown up, the queen and the concubine of Emperor Liu in the harem have been fighting for many years, although there is no trouble on the face, but in private it has long been like fire and water. "The second prince who was raised under the queen's knee also came to talk to me after class today. And now in the imperial study, except for the princes, they are all children of the clan, and I am the only one who is a subordinate child. ”

"Don't worry, it's okay, I was born in the Xianwang Mansion and am also a close branch of the clan, and you are raised under my knees and naturally have the qualifications to enter the palace to study. It's just that your father never mentioned it in the past, and seeing that you are also very motivated in family studies, I didn't mention that I want to send you to the palace to study. Lord Duansu said gently. Although your father was born in the Zhenguo Mansion, he is only a concubine, and he is not from the same mother as the prince of the palace and the queen of the palace, and the relationship has not been very good since he was a child, and you also know it. ”

"What does Mother mean?" Duan Shaolan looked at the Duansu County Lord and asked.

"I mean you just have to go to the palace to study, the princes are from noble backgrounds, if they talk to you, you just have to answer well." The county lord of Duansu watched Sister Chu on the side eat all over her heart, and she was so loving that she took a handkerchief and slapped it for her. "However, in the past, the queen would only summon the princess and the wife, and in the future, I will often be called to the palace."

"Sister Chu is also going to enter the palace with her mother, I like Sister Princess." Sister Chu was eating dim sum happily, but she heard the county lord of Duansu say that she would often enter the palace in the future, and immediately answered. "Mother will take me next time, okay?"

"Okay, but if you want to follow me into the palace in the future, you must follow Mama Fang in my room and start learning the rules." Su Riduan Su County Lord and her husband both regarded Sister Chu as a pearl in the palm of their hands, and in the past, because she was young and delicate, she didn't have to go out to socialize, so she always had no requirements for her.

But the incident that happened in the womb a while ago, Lord Duansu knew that Sister Chu was indeed a little worse in terms of rules, and she was raised to be spoiled and would only cry when she encountered trouble. I happened to meet such a bastard princess as a bastard, if it wasn't for the second princess to intervene, I would almost have suffered a big loss.

Now that her husband is getting taller and taller, Brother Lan will also have a great future in the future when she enters the palace to study, as long as their father and son have a great future in the future, Sister Chu will also have a bit of decency when she walks outside in the future, not to mention the choice of choosing a son-in-law in the future, it seems that this time she must be ruthless to teach Sister Chu the rules.

Xiao Lu's life in Qingjingxuan for half a year was not easy, Emperor Chu only allowed her to bring a palace maid to serve, and also assigned four grandmothers who had been waiting in the palace for a long time to teach her. Two of these four grandmothers are from the imperial front, and two of them were originally serving in front of the empress dowager, who are disciplined and decent, and Emperor Chu also put down his words, and they need to teach the eldest princess who is almost marriageable age very carefully.

When the grandmothers got the words, they naturally taught them wholeheartedly. Xiao Lu is a person who can't understand the situation, so he is destined to suffer some hardships.

Mama moved the ring ruler for the first time, and Xiao Lu actually snatched the ring ruler and slapped Mama back.

The beaten grandmother was not easy to get along with, and immediately went back to Emperor Chu with the unerased palm print on her face. Emperor Chu was furious when he heard this, so he asked the banner guard to choose two female flag guards to go back with Mama, and asked them to assist Mama in disciplining Xiao Lu in the future.

Since then, Xiao Lu can only be beaten obediently if she makes a mistake again, even if she is not beaten obediently, there is no way, and there are two female flag guards with strong martial arts sent by Emperor Chu to suppress her.

In half a year, the ring ruler was broken one after another.

As soon as Concubine Chen's two-month confinement period expired, she immediately came to Qingjingxuan to see Xiao Lu, but was stopped by two female flag guards, saying that Emperor Chu had ordered that outsiders were not allowed to enter Qingjingxuan to disturb the eldest princess during the half year.

Concubine Chen stood outside the door, vaguely listening to Xiao Lu's crying sound from inside the door, so she didn't say anything about moving the two cold-faced female flag guards, and finally had to cry and leave.

Concubine Chen cried and wiped away tears, and Xiao Xuan snickered and walked out from behind a tree on the side of the road.

"I've seen Your Highness." Xiao Xuan approached, and two female flag guards saluted her.

"I thought that my sister studied hard in Qingjingxuan, and specially asked the people in the small kitchen of Yihua Palace to make some snacks." Xiao Xuan smiled and talked to the two female flag guards, while motioning for Dan Tangerine, who was following her, to come forward with two food boxes. "It's also hard for the grandmothers and the two flag guards to take care of my sister, the black food box is for my sister, and the black color is for my mother and the two."

"Thank you, Your Highness." The two flag guards glanced at each other and accepted the two food boxes.

One of the flag guards brought the food box inside.

"Eldest princess, this is just sent by the second princess." Mama Zhang, who had served in front of the emperor, took out the snacks and sent them to Xiao Lu.

"Throw it out for me, don't let Xiao Lu's stuff stain my eyes." Xiao Lu, who has lost a lot of weight, is still full of anger when she looks up at people.

"Eldest princess, the snacks sent by the second princess kindly, even if it is inconvenient for you to go out to thank you now, you shouldn't say such things." Mama Zhang and Mama Shi, who was also serving in front of the palace, looked at each other, and they were speechless, but it was Mama Yang, who served the Empress Dowager, who said something.

Xiao Lu opened her mouth to speak, and after listening to Mama Yang's words, she swallowed back the words that had slipped into her mouth. She leaned on the side of the bed and looked at the four grandmothers in the room, so she turned her body directly into the bed out of sight and out of mind.

It's this picture again, I just won't listen to it, but thinking that Xiao Lu has come to Kwai Shui recently and is unwell, the four grandmothers have no choice but to retreat first.

The four grandmothers are now at a loss, the eldest princess's temperament is really unable to penetrate the needle and splash the water, but fortunately, although the temperament has not changed to the end, under the threat of the ring ruler, it is finally only a cover or two.

In the half year that Xiao Lu lived in Qingjingxuan, Xiao Xuan's life was very comfortable.

Every day, he either wanders around the palace, or goes to the horse farm to play with Ning Guiren.

In addition to studying, the princes in the palace also need to practice some riding and archery kung fu.

Duan Shaolan went to the horse farm with the princes, but there were already people galloping horses in the horse farm.

The man, dressed in a crimson beard, rode a snow-white horse, holding the reins in one hand and a bow and arrow in the other, and an arrow hit the bull's-eye.

"Xuan'er!" The sharp-eyed Xiao Jun was the first to recognize the person.

"Huh~~~Driving~~~" Xiao Xuan in the field heard it, so he immediately threw down the bow in his hand and ran straight in the direction of the comer.

Xiao Xuan had studied for several years with people like Ning Guiren who had grown up on horseback, and his riding skills were not inferior to everyone present. She waved her hand at Xiao Jun, and only when the horse got close did she hold on to the reins and stop.

Seeing that she stopped, the chamberlain on the side immediately stepped forward to control the horse, and she turned over and dismounted neatly. For the convenience of horseback riding, she gave up her cumbersome skirt and put on a beard, and her long black hair was neatly tied up in a bun at the back of her head.

"All of you brothers are here today." Just after a few laps around the racecourse, Xiao Xuan walked over with a smile on his face.

"The second sister is really getting more and more refined in riding and shooting." Xiao Jin said with a smile. "Look closely, it seems that none of us brothers can compare to you."

"My brothers still have studies in the past, so naturally they can't practice wholeheartedly." Xiao Xuan grabbed Xiao Yu's arm. "I'm no better than your brothers, but I'm just an idler."

"Xuan'er, look at you have a lot of sweat, beware of getting sick from the cold wind." Xiao Yu's brows moved, his fingers gently brushed Xiao Xuan's forehead, and said casually. "It's time for you to go back to the palace and change your clothes."

"Yes....... Got it, big brother. Xiao Xuan thought that he had been here for less than half an hour, so he didn't want to go back like this. Besides, it's not hot summer, but the beginning of autumn, and she has only run two laps, where can she sweat?

But she looked up and was just about to be coquettish to him, but when she saw Xiao Yu's eyes heavy, she immediately fell asleep.

The palace maids of Yihua Palace who followed her out stood on one side, Xiao Yu took Xiao Xuan's shoulders slightly and walked out, and the palace maids followed and walked out together.

When Xiao Xuan walked out, he accidentally saw the familiar Duan Shaolan among the group of teenagers.

Duan Shaolan was also looking at her and bowed slightly to her. Xiao Xuan looked at him for a while, and somehow burst out laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Xiao Yu heard her laugh and asked her.

"Nothing, nothing." Xiao Xuan shook his head. "Big brother has something to do, I'll go back to Yihua Palace first."

The teenagers who came to the racecourse today are all studying in the imperial study room in the palace, except for the children of subordinates like Duan Shaolan, the princes are the children of the close branches of the clan, and the Dazhao atmosphere is open, and there are not too many taboos about the interaction between teenagers and girls.

Duan Shaolan was already standing on the outermost side, and he couldn't help but glance back after Xiao Xuan said goodbye and left. With only that glance, Xiao Xuan also turned around.

She glanced at him, Duan Shaolan was stunned and didn't have time to make any expression, but Xiao Xuan had already raised the corners of his mouth to reveal a bright smile.