On the day when the envoy entered Beijing, the emperor and queen greeted the envoy on the Xuande Tower, and the courtiers stood on both sides of the city gate, headed by the crown prince Ruan Lang.

Ruan Yu came out of the inn and got into a carriage and went straight to the imperial city. Ruan Lang saw her and greeted her happily, "Sister, you're here." ”

Ruan Yu smiled, "I promised you." ”

Ruan Lang touched her head and led her to the city gate for a few steps, "Father, Queen and Queen are all on it, go over and say hello to them." ”

Ruan Yu glanced at the crowd.

She pulled her hand out of her brother's hand, "Wait. ”

Ruan Lang was stunned for a moment, and his face suddenly became complicated when he saw his sister walking in front of Lu Ye.

"Inn...... I'm not going to live for a while. Ruan Yu said, "I have to go back to the palace to live for a while." ”

Lu Ye nodded: "Are you willing to do it yourself?" ”

Ruan Yu lowered his head and smiled, did not answer, only asked, "Will you go to the banquet in Yujin Garden tomorrow?" ”

"Go."

"Okay, then I'll go too." Ruan Yu smiled, "I'll go up first, see you tomorrow?" ”

"See you tomorrow."

Ruan Lang was still standing where he was, waiting for her.

"Let's go up." Ruan Yu helped her sister's arm, and didn't ask her what she had just said to Lu Ye, "Submit to your father and mother." ”

Ruan Yu smiled, not saying good, not bad. After going upstairs, I saw Xiao Wanqing looking at her with a resentful face, and I knew that it was not easy to deal with.

However, after so many years, Ruan Yu has mastered a little bit of the doorway.

Ruan Yu lowered her head and walked over obediently, "Daddy, Auntie." ”

Ruan Jian looked at him dissatisfied, smacked her head with his finger, and said with hatred: "You still know how to come!" Yes? I'll just let your mind fly away, follow that ...... That ......"

Xiao Wanqing patted Ruan lightly.

Ruan Jian shook his sleeves, stopped talking, and looked down at the city tower with a tense face.

Xiao Wanqing is almost forty years old, and she is well-maintained, probably because she doesn't smile often, and there are no wrinkles on her face. Today, he greeted the foreign envoys, wearing gorgeous queen court clothes, and the whole person looked dignified and noble without smiling.

"What have you done and who have you met in these days? Explain it yourself. Xiao Wanqing said coldly.

Ruan Yu has always felt that the most difficult thing for her family to deal with is her mother.

Although Ruan Lang has a keen mind, his style of action is relatively gentle. Ruan Jian can't finish handling the major affairs of the country, and she doesn't have so much spare time to take care of her. Only Xiao Wanqing is used to using tough means to make her commit crimes, from childhood to adulthood.

This made Ruan Yu feel out of breath.

Ruan Yu frowned, the magnitude was so light that Xiao Wanqing would notice. She has nothing to hide, deliberately concealing it will make Xiao Wanqing feel that she has a ghost in her heart, so she honestly explained what she has done recently.

Xiao Wanqing looked at her, and her anger seemed to subside a little.

"You said you," Xiao Wanqing frowned, "It's not good to have a good relationship with anyone, I want to ...... with Xilianghou"

Ruan Yu: "Why can't it be Xilianghou?" ”

Xiao Wanqing was choked by the question, and couldn't answer for a while, and said after a while: "Who are you to be him?" Fighting and killing, with human lives on your hands, how can you associate with such a person? ”

Ruan Yu smiled, "Although Xilianghou is doing things of fighting and killing, he is kind-hearted, and he is much kinder than those hypocrites in the court. ”

Xiao Wanqing sneered: "How long have you known him, and you got into his heart?" ”

Xiao Wanqing's words were not quite right, but Ruan Yu was not sure what she meant, so she could only be silent.

"You are already married to a wife, you must always pay attention to your behavior, don't let people say that our princess of Dazhao is not educated." Xiao Wanqing stared at her daughter.

Ruan Yu smiled.

"First, I am friends with Xilianghou, and there is no transgression. Second, I don't think Xiao Yuanji is my husband, and Xiao Yuanji doesn't treat me as a wife. ”

Xiao Wanqing was stunned, her expression immediately became vigilant, and she reprimanded her: "As a princess, you must have the consciousness of a princess." misbehaving, giving people a handle, will affect the reputation of your father and me, and even the entire Jokhang. are all such adults, why are they still so ignorant? ”

Ruan Yu clearly saw the disgust in Xiao Wanqing's eyes.

Condescending, blatant dislike.

How can you be like this as my daughter?

But otherwise, what should she be?

Greet Xiao Yuanji's bastard with a smile, devote himself to his husband and children, and run the livelihood of the Hou Mansion?

It's disgusting to think about.

Ruan Yu smiled, she felt very tired and didn't bother to say anything more. You can't win arguing with Xiao Wanqing, because she always knows more than you, and she always has her own set of big truths, and you have to accept it.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of music, Xiao Wanqing subconsciously looked into the distance, and sure enough, she saw a black and oppressive team.

Ruan Yu did not stay on the castle tower any longer, and she decided to leave.

Xiao Wanqing turned around and saw that her daughter was gone, and hurriedly pulled the eunuch behind her, "Call the princess over!" ”

"Forget it." Ruan Jian helplessly stopped his wife: "The envoy is coming, I'll talk about Ah Yu's matter later." ”

*

Ruan Yu leaned against the wall and slowly walked down the stairs.

She loved the steps from the castle tower.

When it rains, moss grows out of the cracks in the stones. The place is very narrow, and you can reach the wall with two hands stretched out without much effort.

When she was a child, she often ran out alone and sat on the steps for half a day.

No one can find her, no need to deal with the hypocritical flattery of the palace maidens, no need to be dragged to participate in various ceremonies, and no need to be urged by her mother to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

Ruan Yu was in a slightly better mood.

A man popped into her sight.

The man was standing on the platform, leaning against the wall with his arms folded, and looked up at the movement when he heard the movement.

Ruan Yu was a little surprised, and a little surprised.

"Why are you here?" She asked pleasantly.

The hundred officials should have lined up at this time.

Lu Ye smiled, "Wait for you." ”

Ruan Yu was a little flustered for a moment, but she didn't know what she was panicking about.

Be all abroad.

"How do you know I'll come down first?" Ruan Yu asked, "What if I come down with my parents?" ”

Lu Ye said: "Then I'll just leave when the time comes." ”

Ruan Yu smiled, "You're not going to greet the Goryeo envoys?" ”

"Do you want to see it?" Lu Ye raised his eyebrows, "I'll take you to see it." ”

Ruan Yu hesitated and shook her head. At this juncture, if she walks with Lu Ye in a grand manner, she may make her father and mother angry.

"I'm a little tired, go back to the palace first, and see you tomorrow."

*

Ruan Yu's dormitory is called Rui Zhu. After returning to the Ruizhu Palace, Ruan Yu slept on the couch. In a daze, I felt a little itchy on my nose, and when I slapped it with my hand, I slapped a paw.

It was Ruan Lang's claws.

Ruan Lang often scratched his sister's nose, and Ruan Yu was always worried that her nose would collapse when she was a child, but it didn't.

"What are you doing...... Ruan Yu let out a desperate wail, and her voice was thick.

Ruan Lang sat down and showed her a fan. This fan is made of jade, very thin and small, and the carved begonia pattern is very delicate, and the stamens are inlaid with rubies.

"Like it or not?" Ruan Lang closed the fan and put it in her hand.

Ruan Yu lay on the couch, opened the fan, and traced his fingers along the pattern, "Goryeo tribute?" ”

"Yes. The envoy sent it to me alone. Ruan Lang smiled meaningfully.

Sending Ruan Lang alone means that he is not among the tributes, and he intends to curry favor with Ruan Lang. The folding fans were passed down from Goryeo, and most of the folding fans of Jokhang were imported from Goryeo, and the price was very expensive.

This delicate jade fan is definitely worth a lot of money.

"That's what you gave me?" Ruan Yu fanned the wind.

"You're my sister, who won't you give it to?"

Ruan Yu smiled, "To my sister-in-law." ”

"She has it too." Ruan Lang dispelled her worries.

Ruan Lang probably doesn't like his crown princess very much, only Ruan Yu knows this.

Ruan Lang is different from her, Ruan Lang can accept everything very calmly, so few people can see his true joy and anger.

Ruan Yu sat up, "Then I'll take it." ”

*

Yujin Garden is a very large garden outside the imperial city. The next day, Ruan Lang took Ruan Yu over.

Ruan Yu had a good life last night. Because Xiao Wanqing spent too much time entertaining the envoy, she didn't have time to pay attention to her. However, a few sisters ran to her Ruizhu Hall and greeted her with false affection.

Her sisters are all married, and they usually don't live in the palace, but because of Goryeo's envoy back to the palace, they got together. As if singing, he sighed at Xiao Yuanji's absurdity for a while, asked her about what was going on with Lu Ye for a while, and showed off how intimate his colt was.

Ruan Yu was really bored.

In addition to banquets, various competitions are held in the garden to compete with foreign envoys, such as archery and bowing. By the time Ruan Yu arrived, the bowing competition had already begun.

Someone probably scored a goal, and there was a boiling cheer in the stadium, and the horns sounded in unison. Ruan Yu looked towards the arena and saw Lu Ye riding a horse in a small circle around the arena, with a presumptuous smile on his lips.

Obviously, it was he who scored.

Ruan Yu bent the corners of her lips, and suddenly found Lu Ye's gaze sweeping over and smiled at her.

She hurriedly glanced in the direction of her father and mother, and found that the two of them did not notice Lu Ye's abnormality, so she was relieved.

"Sit." Ruan Lang pressed her shoulder, "I still have something to do, so I won't accompany you." ”

Ruan Yu nodded.

Her seat is not with the emperor and queen, mainly because there are more concubines who came to watch the game today, and she has brought a lot of young brothers and sisters, and she is not suitable to sit with her younger brothers and sisters as a married princess.

But there was still a lot of chirping in her ears.

The princes and princesses who have already married are all sitting in this area. Ruan Yu sat at the front alone, watching the arena intently.

She has no affection for these so-called brothers and sisters, and to her, they are all inconsequential people.

She caught a glimpse of a man's clothes, who walked up to her and sat down.

Ruan Yu's thorns stood up.

"Why are you here?"