Cui'er's expression tensed when she heard this voice, and she turned around and Bai Haocang was standing behind her.

"See the Three Princes."

Xu Mengyao shook her legs, pointed to the place where the six princes had done just now, and pouted.

"What the six princes sat on just now, you wipe it and sit again, otherwise I won't be responsible if I become stupid."

Bai Haocang smiled and stepped forward to sit on the stone bench in the courtyard, not sitting next to Xu Mengyao, the stone table was carved with a Go chessboard, and black and white were placed in the middle.

glanced at the place where Bai Haocang was sitting, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Hey, how about we play backgammon?"

The idle and panicked Xu Mengyao had long wanted to play backgammon, Xu Mengyao didn't know how to play Go at all, she wanted to drag Cui'er to play, but Cui'er said she didn't want to say anything, and in the end she could only eat desperately.

"Okay."

Bai Haocang wanted to play Go by himself, but unfortunately Xu Mengyao had to put the sunspot back in the box.

So, Bai Haocang was entangled by Xu Mengyao for a whole afternoon of backgammon, Bai Haocang would let Xu Mengyao at first, and then directly let Xu Mengyao see what it means to lose in seconds.

"Hey, why don't you have any gentlemanly demeanor? Don't you know how to let me? ”

After losing N times, Xu Mengyao finally broke out, Bai Haocang just quietly cleaned up the black and white pieces on the chessboard, and listened to Xu Mengyao's nagging with a light smile.

"This is ancient times, there are only gentlemen, no gentlemen."

After cleaning up the black and white pieces on the chessboard, Bai Haocang answered Xu Mengyao slowly, and this time Xu Mengyao was choked.

"Stop playing, what are you doing today?"

Xu Mengyao turned around and returned to her rocking chair, grabbed a handful of melon seeds and knocked them viciously.

"The fourth prince will return to Beijing tomorrow, he is the only general among all the princes, and tomorrow all the officials' families will be invited to participate in the reception banquet, you must not show that you know how to do martial arts, otherwise it will be very troublesome."

Bai Haocang glanced at the sunset and stood up, and left with Xu Mengyao's impatient wave.

"It's troublesome, and who else is more troublesome than you."

Knocked the melon seeds vaguely, but Cui'er, who had been standing in the corner, trembled when she heard the news of the four princes, but she recovered quickly and did not let Xu Mengyao see it.

That night, Xu Mengyao really received a message from her uncle, and the maid was still holding a lake-blue Luo skirt in her hand, and butterflies fluttered at the edge, as if she was alive.

"This is the clothes that Lord Youxiang needs to wear for tomorrow's banquet."

Cui'er took it from the maid's hand, but Xu Mengyao didn't even look at it, and hummed lightly.

Why did the four princes come back so grandly? Could it be that the emperor wants to pass the throne to the four princes?

"Miss, the slave has the audacity to make a request."

Xu Mengyao was thinking about it, and Cui'er suddenly spoke up beside her.

Slightly surprised, he glanced at Cui'er and motioned for her to continue, after all, Cui'er had hardly taken the initiative to talk to herself in the past few days, and if it wasn't about herself, she rarely walked around.

This time, he actually took the initiative to speak without looking for her, which made Xu Mengyao a little interested.

"The slave maid does not want to be bound by the etiquette of the palace, so I implore the young lady not to bring the slave and maid there."

Cui'er is an extremely arrogant person, rarely regards herself as a slave, this time in order not to enter the palace with herself, she actually said three times in a row.

Nodding, Xu Mengyao continued to eat melon seeds, which was considered to have agreed to Cui'er's request, but she did have a heart for Cui'er's abnormal behavior.

The six princes seemed to know Cui'er, but when they wanted to reveal their identity, they were interrupted by Cui'er.

Now even the palace is reluctant to enter, could it be that Cui'er is originally a person in the palace? Or is it for some other reason?

After a night without words, Xu Mengyao was dragged up by several maids early in the morning and began to freshen up, and when Xu Mengyao woke up and opened her eyes, she had already been dressed up.

"Didn't you mean to a dinner party? Why did you hold me up early in the morning? ”

Xu Mengyao stood in front of the mirror and looked at the clothes, only to find that the lake blue was only the color of the Luo skirt, and the white gauze outside was the fluttering butterfly.

It's a nice outfit, but what's going on on your head?

Xu Mengyao shook the hairpin in more than a dozen catties on her head, feeling that her hair was about to separate from her scalp, and it hurt to grin her teeth.

"Miss, don't move your head. Later, a carriage will come to pick you up in the palace, saying that the queen mother invited the ladies to visit the imperial garden. ”

rolled his eyes, and kept explaining to a few maids around him, he reached out and took off all the more than a dozen hairpits, leaving only a silver butterfly hairpin, which matched the clothes on his body a little.

"Miss, if you go out like this, the right minister will be blamed."

"What's wrong with me like this, I think it's good." Xu Mengyao twisted her head and felt refreshed, jumped in place twice and threw off her arms and went out, "Hey, where is Cui'er?" ”

"Miss Cui'er said that it was inconvenient for her to enter the palace, and she was in her room and did not come out."

"Oh." frowned, glanced at the ear room, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, "Let's go, go to the palace to see the flowers." ”

Cui'er, who was hiding in the ear room, stared at Xu Mengyao's back with her eyes, and didn't exhale until she couldn't see.

Cui'er, who was originally dressed as a maid, was wearing tight black clothes at this time, and tied a small dagger to the inside of her waist, and the tip of the dagger was obviously quenched with poison.

"Miss, Cui'er can't follow you in the future."

In a flash, the person had disappeared into the room, and after Xu Mengyao arrived at the palace, he was taken to the imperial garden, looking at the flowers in the courtyard, which was quite fresh at first, and almost fell asleep when he saw it at the end.

"You are all famous and noble girls, why don't we compose a poem here, and it is not in vain that the queen invites us to come to the imperial garden to have a look."

The eldest lady of the Shangshu family has loved to sing poetry since she was a child, so she naturally wants to express herself.

As she said, they are all the daughters of court officials, and they are more or less things that can be handled, and several people responded as soon as they exited.

"It is rumored that Miss Xu, who was born with a phoenix life, is also here, so it is better to ...... it too"

The eldest lady of Shangshufu looked at Xu Mengyao intentionally or unintentionally, and wanted to compete with Xu Mengyao, but it was a pity......

"I won't."

Xu Mengyao said categorically that she wouldn't, and she looked like she took it for granted, almost making the eldest lady of Shangshufu angry.

The good self-cultivation still didn't make her mad, but the expression on her face was very embarrassing.

"Miss Xu is really straightforward, it's just that, the palace is also tired, go to the front pavilion to rest."

The queen looked to be about forty or fifty years old, and her face was as good as her early thirties, but the wrinkles around her neck betrayed her face.

Dozens of people set off towards the pavilion, but Xu Mengyao took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, and directly found a big tree to lie on the branch to make up for sleep.