In the past few days, Yihua Palace has been very lively, and many ladies from families who have been friends with Xiao Xuan have entered the palace to congratulate, but Xiao Xuan really can't spare time.

"In a few days, I'll go to visit my big sister." Xiao Xuan said with a smile.

"Yes, the slave maid has written it down, and when the slave maid returns home from the palace, she will definitely tell the princess what Princess Zhaoyue said."

In the main courtyard of the second room of the Zhenguo Mansion, Sister Chu was playing with her younger brother on the chaise longue near the window, and the county lord Duansu looked at the congratulatory gifts sent by the Princess Nan'an Mansion.

"The slave maid mandarin duck greets the lord of Duansu County." When the parrot brother entered the palace, the mandarin duck came to the Zhenguo Mansion. "There is a great event in the house, and the county lord is an elder, so it stands to reason that our princess should have come to the door in person. However, our princess is now a month older, and her body is getting more and more bulky, and it is inconvenient to leave the house, so I let the slave and maid come over. ”

"The princess is so polite." Lord Duansu accepted the congratulatory gift with a smile on his face. "I know the princess's situation, and I thank the princess for her kindness."

The county lord of Duansu asked a few words about Xiao Lu's current situation, and gave the mandarin duck a purse with a handful of golden melon seeds, and the mandarin duck said goodbye and left.

Waiting for the mandarin duck to leave, Sister Chu came over with her younger brother in her arms.

"Mother." Sister Chu came over and said. "Sister Princess sent a letter the day before yesterday, saying that she would let someone take me into the palace to play, can I go?"

"The princess summoned you to the palace, and you can naturally go."

The brother in Sister Chu's arms saw the Duansu County Lord, and she couldn't take care of her favorite sister on weekdays, babbling and screaming, fluttering and trying to go to the Duansu County Lord's arms. Sister Chu didn't expect her younger brother to suddenly exert herself and almost accidentally didn't hug him, but fortunately, the county lord of Duansu took her brother away from Sister Chu's arms in time.

"Mother, can I take my younger brother into the palace with me?" After her brother landed, Sister Chu regarded this younger brother as a treasure, and she couldn't wait to tell everyone how cute her brother was.

"That's not going to work, your brother is too young." Lord Duansu shook his head and said. "You can go into the palace and have fun by yourself."

"Oh, got it." Sister Chu listened to the words of the county lord of Duansu, and agreed with some hesitation.

A few days later, Xiao Xuan went out of the palace to visit Xiao Lu.

This day coincided with Mrs. Ding'anhou also bringing a few girls from her family to Princess Nan'an's mansion and was talking to Xiao Lu.

When Xiao Xuan was greeted over, Mrs. Ding'an Hou hurriedly got up.

"Looks like I'm here on a coincidence." Xiao Xuan walked into the hall and saw Mrs. Ding'anhou who had already stood up next to Xiao Lu, as well as a few young girls standing beside her, and said with a smile. "Big sister, it's so lively here."

"The courtiers greet Princess Zhaoyue." Mrs. Ding'an Hou greeted Xiao Xuan, and several concubines who followed her hurriedly followed her movements and saluted. "These are a few girls under the courtier's knees, and because they are also of age, they are brought out to walk around."

"Brother Parrot, why don't you ask Princess Zhaoyue to sit down." Xiao Lu, who had a big belly and had difficulty moving, asked Brother Parrot to invite Xiao Xuan to sit down beside her.

After Xiao Xuan sat down, she met Deng Ting, who had had several relationships before, beside Mrs. Ding'anhou. Xiao Xuan smiled at her, and she smiled back shyly.

"I didn't know that there were so many guests in the big sister's mansion today, and I didn't prepare a gift for the first meeting." Xiao Xuan glanced over, in addition to Deng Ting she knew, Mrs. Ding'an Hou also brought three girls of the same age as Deng Ting.

However, unlike Deng Ting's clear eyes, the three girls looked at the gorgeous clothes and jewelry on their bodies, and their eyes were full of envy and greed.

"Princess Zhaoyue laughed, but it's just a few unfinished children in the courtier's family, where is it good to receive the princess's gifts?" Mrs. Ding'anhou was really helpless, Ding'anhou took the beautiful concubine and left happily, leaving a bunch of unmarried concubines in the house.

It's okay for the concubine to be a man, but the marriage of the girl in the family stumped her. As a woman, Mrs. Ding'an Hou knows in her heart the importance of marriage to a long life with a woman. She has a gentle personality, even if the girls who are born are not as long in front of her as Deng Ting, she is willing to plan a suitable marriage for them.

Now the Ding'an Hou Mansion has little influence in the imperial capital, and most of the families who come to ask for marriage from the girls in the palace are those who have taken a fancy to the family assets earned by the Hou of Ding'an in the past few years.

Mrs. Ding'anhou couldn't find a suitable one to pick and choose, so she could only take the girls from the family out and walk around a lot.

"That's not what I said." Xiao Xuan smiled and beckoned, motioning for the girls behind Mrs. Ding'an Hou to step forward.

The three girls immediately stepped forward, only Deng Ting hesitated and didn't know what to do, she subconsciously glanced at Mrs. Ding'anhou, and only stepped forward after seeing Mrs. Ding'anhou nodding slightly.

Today, Xiao Xuan is dressed up and has a lot of jewelry on her body.

She first took off the pair of red agate bracelets she was carrying and gave them to the two girls standing in front of her, the two girls immediately took it with a smile, and Xiao Xuan took a golden step from her head and shook it down and gave it to the other girl.

When Deng Ting stepped forward, Xiao Xuan motioned for her to stand closer.

"We haven't seen each other in a while since we last met." Xiao Xuan smiled and took Deng Ting's hand and said. "How are you doing?"

"Thank you princess for your care, I'm all right." Deng Ting smiled timidly.

Xiao Xuan pulled out a golden phoenix hairpin from her bun again, motioned Deng Ting to bow her head, and personally inserted it into the bun for her.

The golden phoenix is coiled with a thin golden thread like a hair, vivid, the wings of the golden phoenix are trembling, and the beads in the mouth of the golden phoenix are not the southern pearls of ordinary color, and the warm jade color is also faintly powdered.

"It's too precious." Mrs. Ding'an Hou recognized at a glance that among the things given by Xiao Xuan, the golden phoenix and pearl hairpin on Deng Ting's head were the most valuable.

"Nothing, but I took it off at random." Xiao Xuan waved his hand casually and said. "Several young ladies in the house are cousins of my eldest sister, and I should give some gifts."

"Yes, aunt." Xiao Lu also opened her mouth to persuade. "It's just a simple greeting gift, so let the cousins accept it with confidence."

"Big sister, how are you doing?" Xiao Xuan turned her head to look at Xiao Lu, looking at Xiao Lu's familiar appearance at this time, she was a lot more gentle and smooth, and when she looked at her already big belly, Xiao Xuan was inevitably a little stunned for a while.

The Xiao Lu who is always angry with her, the Xiao Lu who doesn't like her no matter how she looks at her.

It seems that she has really changed, she is tall and slender, but because she is pregnant, her body is somewhat swollen. In addition, the pregnancy was going well, the appetite increased greatly, and the originally pointed chin became much rounder.

She always had a smile on her face, but it was not like a smirk like a play, but a sincere smile with hope and hope.

"I'm so good, you see if I'm a lot fatter now." Because of the growing belly, when Xiao Lu was sitting, he had to lean back slightly. "I eat well, sleep well, and I don't have to worry about the affairs of the house, and now I can't find anything bad except for my big belly and inconvenience."

Xiao Lu smiled and talked to Xiao Xuan, while gently brushing her hand on her stomach.

"The big sister doesn't look fat, but she's just rounded, and she looks better." Xiao Xuan echoed and said. "My father is also very worried about my eldest sister, and every time the imperial doctor who serves my eldest sister asks for a pulse, my father will also summon him to ask about the eldest sister's current situation."

"Really?" Xiao Lu said. "I remembered that my sister is going to get married in half a year, and I haven't congratulated my sister in person."

Speaking of his big wedding in half a year, Xiao Xuan's face brought a light red.

Mrs. Ding'an Hou got up at the right time to say goodbye, and left Princess Nan'an's mansion with Deng Ting and the other girls.

On the way back to Ding'anhou's mansion, Deng Ting and Mrs. Ding'anhou took a car, and the other three girls took a car.

"Look at Sister Ting'er's cowering look, but she got the blue eyes of Princess Zhaoyue." The oldest of them was a girl with a delicate goose egg face, but the expression on her face was really mean.

She stroked the bracelet on her wrist back and forth.

"Among the four things given by Princess Zhaoyue, it is the most valuable thing she has gotten."

"That's not because of her mother's partiality, on such a big day when the princess's cousin got married, I don't know how many dignitaries and dignitaries in the imperial capital participated, but my mother only brought Sister Ting's girl to watch the ceremony." Another girl, who looked weak, followed suit. "Mother doesn't know how many people Sister Ting met that day, otherwise how could Sister Ting show her face in front of Princess Zhaoyue?!"

"That's also something that can't be helped, who let the three of us grow up in front of our biological mother. Sister Ting grew up beside her mother, and her mother's affection for her is naturally unusual. The girl with the most beautiful appearance said angrily. The three of us are all sixteen years old this year, and if we don't make a family affair, we will become the old girl who can't get married. ”

"Yes, Sister Ting is still young now, and my mother doesn't think much about us, and blindly refuses those who come to the house to propose marriage, maybe she is afraid that we will marry too well and cross Sister Ting in the future."

In Princess Nan'an's mansion, after Mrs. Ding'an Hou left with the girl, the hall was quiet for a moment.

"Sister." Xiao Lu opened his mouth. "I am ashamed that you have come to visit me in my house today. In the previous years, it was my sister who was delusional, not only did not do what a sister should do, but also had trouble with you every time, and now it has always been difficult to see you. ”