Zhou Youchen was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't know how to answer.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Meng Xilan deliberately looked up at him, her eyes shining.

Zhou Youchen also raised his head, facing her smiling eyebrows, and was stunned for a while.

She smiled best, better than any woman he had ever seen. The eyebrows and eyes are curved, and the red lips are gently pursed, revealing a pair of shallow pear vortices, smiling like flowers, and bright eyes.

He just stared at her blankly for a long time, and before he knew it, there was a faint flush on his face.

Seeing this, Meng Xilan didn't tease him anymore, lowered her head and continued to wipe his hands and said, "Ming'er is fifteen, you go with me to say hello to the Queen Mother." ”

Zhou Youchen frowned slightly and snorted disdainfully. "I'm not going to ......"

Meng Xilan touched his head and persuaded him: "It's been more than half a month, and it's time for you to go over and show your face." Don't worry, just do what I teach you, and the Queen Mother will like you. ”

Although he has a pair of brown eyes, this face can't deceive people, and there are more than one or two similarities between him and Zhou Shixian.

Zhou Youchen really stopped talking, frowned, and said: "This time I will listen to you, but next time, you will listen to me." ”

Meng Xilan glanced at him thoughtfully, not knowing what idea he had in his heart. However, as long as he can behave well in front of the Queen Mother, it doesn't hurt to nod and promise him once. "What do you want me to promise you?"

Zhou Youchen deliberately bought a pass, and raised his eyebrows slightly: "I won't say it now, when the time comes, you must follow me." ”

When Meng Xilan heard what he said, she felt that he was just a child, so she responded with a smile.

Early the next morning, Zhou Youchen came to Cining Palace early, and Meng Xilan was waiting for him in front of the palace gate with Zhuqing and Gao Fuli.

Zhou Youchen is still wearing the magpie-gray robe today, his body is cleaned up, and he looks refreshed.

Meng Xilan beckoned to him, let him come to him, looked down and checked his hands and cuffs, his nails were slightly white, very clean, and the cuffs were too.

However, his hands were too cold, like a sick person.

"Zhulu brought me the stove." Meng Xilan turned around and ordered.

Zhulu handed over the hand stove, but Zhou Youchen didn't answer: "What am I doing ......with my daughter's things?"

"Take it, if the Queen Mother asks you to talk to you in a while, I'm afraid she will be suspicious." His body seemed to be different from ordinary people, but what was different must be something that only the imperial doctors could see.

When the Queen Mother woke up in the morning, she coughed slightly, originally because she didn't want to see anyone. Because it was Meng Xilan, she sat up lazily.

Gonggong Lu was waiting by the side, and said in a low voice: "Niangniang, His Royal Highness the Ninth is also coming over today." ”

The Queen Mother frowned slightly: "Why is he here too." ”

Father-in-law Lu said with a smile: "Eighty percent is the meaning of Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”

Counting the days, Meng Xilan has been teaching Zhou Youchen for almost a month, and she must let the Queen Mother see some effect.

The Queen Mother's attitude towards Zhou Youchen is still very entangled...... Nowadays, this child is like a hot potato in the palace, and everyone avoids it. It stands to reason that he is the emperor's son, and his biological mother died early, so there should be an adoptive mother around to take care of him. But the queen mother is not sure about the candidate for this adoptive mother, because no one wants to keep him by her side!

After thinking about it, Meng Xilan had already come in with Zhou Youchen.

"The son asks the queen mother to say goodbye, and the queen mother is a thousand years old and a thousand years old." Meng Xilan smiled slightly and bowed her head.

Zhou Youchen's movements were a little slower by half a beat, but she still followed the rules taught to her by Meng Xilan, kneeling on her knees and kowtowing to the Queen Mother: "Grandson to the Queen Mother, Niangniang Chitose Chitose Chitose." ”

His well-behaved attitude made the Queen Mother slightly surprised, and Gonggong Lu was also stunned.

Meng Xilan lowered her eyes and was silent, and the corner of her eyes kept looking at Zhou Youchen's back. His back was straight, and he still looked a little stubborn.

The Queen Mother pondered for a moment, her eyebrows soothed, and she said gently: "Get up." ”

"Thank you, Empress Dowager." Zhou Youchen was originally a very smart child, if he didn't do it, he had to do his best. When he saw the elders, how to salute, how to reply, and how to stand, he remembered it clearly in his heart.

When the Queen Mother saw it, she only turned her eyes to Meng Xilan's body, and sighed with emotion: "You still have a way, you see...... It was like a different person. ”

The smile on Meng Xilan's face deepened, and she only took Zhou Youchen's hand and sent him to the Queen Mother: "His Royal Highness the Ninth is talented and intelligent, and he can learn everything as soon as he learns, where do you need me to contribute." ”

The Queen Mother sat up slightly straight, looked carefully at Zhou Youchen, who was getting closer and closer, and was shocked again.

These facial features, this appearance, are seven or eight points similar to Zhou Shixian, only those brown eyes, which are very similar to his biological mother.

It was the first time she had looked at Zhou Youchen so closely...... Since he was born, she has only seen him three times, the first time when he was born, the second time when he was full moon, and the third time when his biological mother Concubine Xiao died......

The Queen Mother took a deep breath, stretched out her hand to Zhou Youchen and said, "Child, come over and let the mourning family take a closer look." ”

Zhou Youchen stood still when he heard this, turned his head to look at Meng Xilan, and saw her reminding him with a smile: "Go quickly, the Queen Mother called you." ”

Zhou Youchen looked serious and took two steps forward solemnly.

The Queen Mother stared at his face and looked at him, and the doubts in her heart disappeared, but she still felt a little remorseful.

If I knew this, I should have treated him better...... A blood test is simply superfluous!

"Good boy, you suffered a lot in the palace in the past, but don't worry, no one in this palace will dare to bully you in the future." The Queen Mother said to him earnestly, and touched his head again.

Zhou Youchen instinctively wanted to dodge, but thinking of what Meng Xilan had said, he just clenched his fists and nodded silently.

The Queen Mother is old, and she is the easiest to be soft-hearted, Meng Xilan knows that as long as Zhou Youchen is willing to behave well, the Queen Mother will not embarrass him.

When she came out of the main hall, Meng Xilan stood still slightly and said to Zhou Youchen, "I'm going to take you to see someone today." ”

Zhou Youchen immediately shook his head: "I want to go back to Changqing Palace." ”

Meng Xilan said softly: "She is your sister Princess Wen'an, you should meet her." ”

Zhou Youchen raised his head impatiently, "Why?" ”

"Because she will be a good sister, and she will really love you. There are not many people in this house who can be honestly opposed, and even more so for you. Meng Xilan said her original intention without concealment.

Zhou Youning is such a gentle and kind person, Meng Xilan knows better than anyone else. She has never had the intention of harming others, let alone what human calculations are.

Zhou Youchen knows very little about Zhou Youchen, it's not that she doesn't care, but the Queen Mother never lets her ask about the bad rumors in the palace.

Meng Xilan brought Zhou Youchen to Zhou Youning, and before she could speak, Zhou Youning's eyes were sore, and she complained to herself with tears: "I haven't even seen my own brother, I'm still a sister......

Meng Xilan stepped forward to comfort her and said, "It's not too late to see it now...... Don't cry and cry, let my brother see the joke. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Youning hurriedly regained his composure, walked up to Zhou Youchen, with tears still on his face, and grinned: "Ninth brother, my sister will definitely be good to you in the future, a hundred and a thousand good." ”

Zhou Youchen took a step back slightly, as if he was a little confused about the person in front of him who was crying and laughing.

Zhou Youning looked him up and down, shook his head again, nodded again, and let out a long sigh.

Meng Xilan smiled slightly: "Good and dignified, what are you sighing for?" ”

"It's nothing, I just think that the ninth brother is too thin and looks a little pitiful." Zhou Youning stretched out his hand as he spoke, wanting to touch Zhou Youchen's shoulder.

Zhou Youchen dodged back with a look of avoidance, his eyes full of resistance. Zhou Youning was a little disappointed, but he didn't care much, just smiled and said: "The small kitchen here is delicious, what does the ninth brother want to eat?" ”

Zhou Youchen still didn't speak, just looked at Meng Xilan and shook his head.

"Sister, if you don't change the day, I will go to the Changqing Palace to check his homework." Meng Xilan knew that Zhou Youchen's patience was limited, and he couldn't stay at this moment.

Zhou Youning looked at Zhou Youchen and said, "Then next time." Ninth brother, you must come to play with me often. ”

Zhou Youchen nodded reluctantly under Meng Xilan's gaze.

Back in Changqing Palace, Zhou Youchen sat on the chair a little tiredly, but Meng Xilan was very energetic, picked up the homework he had practiced last night and checked it carefully.

If she writes a wrong word, she will draw a circle with vermilion ink, and she will also write the correct word next to it.

Zhou Youchen's calligraphy doesn't seem to have improved much. However, although the writing is not neat and beautiful, it is not casually perfunctory, and every stroke is very hard.

Meng Xilan couldn't help but bend the corners of her mouth slightly, and was about to raise her head to praise him for a few words, but found that he had fallen asleep on the table.

Cui'er stepped forward with a tea bowl, and when she saw this scene, she quickly stopped.

Meng Xilan looked back at her and ordered softly, "Just let him rest here for a while." I'll go back first and take good care of your master. ”

Cui'er nodded silently and bowed lightly to her.

After nightfall, Zhu Lu saw that Meng Xilan had been bowing her head to do needlework, and was busy adding a lamp to her. "Master, look carefully."

Meng Xilan was holding a small piece of finished clothes in her hand, which was a 100-day gift for Brother Yun.

The clothes were ready, but the patterns were not embroidered.

Meng Xilan saw Zhulu standing aside, so she said, "You go to sleep outside." I'll rest when I'm done fixing it. ”

Zhu Lu replied yes.

Half an hour later, Meng Xilan finally embroidered the petals, sighed with satisfaction, put away the needle and thread, got up and put on a robe, walked to the window to breathe, and woke up.

She was looking at the moon and was distracted, when she suddenly saw a figure quietly walking under the corridor, she thought it was a eunuch who kept vigil, but when she looked at it, she was startled.

Zhou Youchen's figure was stretched long by the candle flame, and he went straight to her window, and then smiled at her calmly.