The harem was full of Concubine Shu's eyeliner, and for the sake of safety, Ruotang and Chu Qianlan did not stay for long. After Chu Qianlan left, Ruotang straightened his clothes and walked out slowly.

As soon as I walked out of the remote broken garden, I heard a "wow". The Eighth Prince jumped out from behind a tree with his teeth and claws.

Ruotang was combing through the current situation attentively, and he was almost not frightened by him.

As soon as the eighth prince saw her so frightened that she couldn't help patting her chest, he clapped his palms proudly and laughed, "Hahahaha, I'm scared, I'm scared!" ”

"Your Highness, you're naughty again." The strange woman's quiet voice sounded quietly.

Seeing that the eighth prince, who was still proud at first, was like a mouse seeing a cat, he squeaked and hid behind Ruotang. He was so big, and it was obviously very reluctant to shrink behind Ruotang, and he probably realized it himself, desperately holding Ruotang's waist behind him, to raise her up to better cover himself.

Ruotang couldn't laugh or cry by him, and felt very itchy. I couldn't help but slap it over, "Don't move." ”

His Royal Highness was beaten with an "ouch", but he obediently endured it, and did not jump up to find trouble with Ruotang, which shows how afraid he is of the people in front of him.

Ruotang looked at the girl standing not far away by the faint moonlight, she was about seventeen or eighteen years old. She is slender and plump, not very beautiful, but her beautiful complexion and the fall between her eyebrows and eyes can easily make people have a good impression of her.

"Miss Shen." The girl took the lead in saluting Ruotang, "His Royal Highness has always been naughty, so it didn't scare you." ”

"His Royal Highness is reckless and naïve, and it didn't scare me." Ruotang returned the salute to her, "I don't know what to call the girl?" ”

"Xiao, Xiao Min." Xiao Min replied shortly, and his eyes turned around Ruotang's face again, "Miss Shen is lost, do you need me to send you back?" ”

"Then there's Miss Laushaw." Ruotang smiled without leaking, but his mind was spinning fast.

The surname is Xiao. The family surnamed Xiao who is qualified to be invited to the banquet today is not the girl of the Marquis Xiao of the Yipin Army? Concubine Shu's maiden family are all civil ministers, and they have never produced military generals, if Concubine Shu really wants to marry Chu Qianlan - that is to say, the one in front of her is likely to be the candidate for the Seventh Imperial Concubine that Concubine Shu has already found for Chu Qianlan?

"On the main hall just now, Miss Shen is okay, right?" When Xiao Min spoke, the Eighth Prince was about to sneak away, but she easily slipped back with one hand, and her face was not red or panting, indicating that her skills must not be bad.

No wonder the Eighth Prince, who seems to be not afraid of heaven and earth, will be scared like that when he sees her.

"It's fine, it's just that my clothes are wet." Ruotang wondered in his heart if this Xiao girl knew something and ran over to test it. Therefore, he became cautious between his words, "Thank you Miss Xiao for your concern." ”

Xiao Min smiled slightly and glanced at the dress on her body: "It can be seen that His Royal Highness is very attentive to you, but the one just now is too conspicuous, but this one is just right." ”

"Conspicuous?" Ruotang was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "Thank you Miss Xiao for reminding me, I was negligent." ”

Before she came, she had been immersed in the nervousness and worry of meeting Chu Qianlan, what clothes Shiqin changed for her, she didn't pay attention to it at all, and later in the car, Shiqin also said how beautiful the clothes were, how much time it took and so on, how could she have the energy to pay attention to these at that time, and naturally she didn't think about it, as an orphan girl. Dressed too gorgeously and conspicuously, isn't it waiting for people to look at her unpleasantly?

"It's hard to walk on the dark road this night, Miss Shen better be careful in everything." Xiao Min mentioned it meaningfully.

Ruotang is a little confused, is this Xiao Min friend or foe?

If she just appeared here by coincidence, Ruotang would believe it at all. I don't know if she came with Chu Qianlan, or if His Royal Highness showed her whereabouts and asked her to follow. Did she see Chu Qianlan leave? If Concubine Shu really takes a fancy to her, does she know it? She doesn't look like an opinionated person, so if she knew, how could she be kind enough to come and mention her?

"No matter what, thank you Miss Xiao." Ruotang suppressed his doubts in his heart, and smiled at her gratefully and gently thanked her.

After walking a few steps, two women dressed as palace maids hurriedly came, and when they saw Xiao Min and Ruotang walking together, they seemed to be a little surprised, and after saluting, they said respectfully: "Miss Shen, the concubine is invited!" ”

Ruotang's heart was shook, she just came out of the queen's palace, and Concubine Shugui couldn't bear to invite her over to talk?

"I may not have said goodbye to the concubine for a long time." Xiao Min said with a smile, "I wonder if the concubine has forgotten me?" "Brother.

A clever little palace maid immediately laughed, "Look at what you said, Miss Xiao, you haven't heard from you for so long, and the concubine Niangniang was still talking about you two days ago, and she was worried that you wouldn't be able to come back in time for the Dragon Boat Festival." ”

"I've been out there these days, and I've missed the concubine and the ninth princess very much." Xiao Min naturally followed to Concubine Shugui's Huaqing Palace, chatting with the palace maids at ease, as if he had forgotten Ruotang to the side.

Ruotang looked thoughtfully at the back of the little girl, who was more heroic and upright than ordinary girls, and couldn't help but guess, what did she mean by helping her so quietly?

……

The group soon arrived at Huaqing Palace, and when they saw Xiao Min, Concubine Shugui was obviously slightly stunned, and then smiled softly, "Min'er, why did you bump into Miss Shen?" ”

Xiao Min suppressed the struggling Eighth Prince with one hand, and saluted while saluting: "Back to Niangniang, I drank two more glasses at the banquet just now, and I was about to go out to take a breath, when I bumped into His Royal Highness the Eighth Emperor who was bullying Miss Shen." I remembered that I hadn't asked my mother for a long time, so I came with me, and my mother wouldn't be disgusted with Min'er and come uninvited, right? ”

Concubine Shugui's eyebrows and eyes were crooked and she smiled very kindly, as if she was facing her favorite junior: "What are you talking about, can you think of coming to the palace to say goodbye, it's too late for the palace to be happy-come over and let the palace see, this time you have to go out for more than half a year, your father is too, such a delicate daughter's family should be well raised at home, if you change the palace, how can you be willing to go outside to suffer?" Your mother will come to the palace another day, and this palace will have to talk to her. ”

"You have wronged my father, it was Min'er who couldn't be idle by herself, so she begged her father for an errand and went out." Xiao Min replied with a smile.

Concubine Shu nodded with satisfaction, her eyes full of kindness: "Your father has no son under his knees, and you are the only one who can solve your father's worries." It's just that you've worked hard in the end, which of the daughters of ordinary families is not enjoying Qingfu in the boudoir? Every time Bengong thinks of this, I can't help but feel sorry for you kid. ”

"Min'er has also gotten used to it in the past two years, and she doesn't feel hard, and Lao Niangniang remembers it."

"What a good boy." Concubine Shu praised Xiao Min with praise, as if she remembered Ruotang, who had been hanging on the side for a long time, "Miss Shen, Xiaoba has always been a rampage character, he didn't bump into you, right?" ”

"Xie Niangniang cares, His Royal Highness is just playing with the people's daughters." Ruotang stepped forward respectfully and replied.

"Well, then, if this boy offends in any way, I hope you don't have to deal with him."

"No, it won't." This tone sounds no different from the Eighth Prince's mother-in-law, and this superficial effort is really good.

"Min'er, you send Xiaoba back to his palace first, this monkey is afraid of you alone, and he will send him back by another person, but I am afraid that he will run away again halfway." Concubine Shu had a legitimate reason to separate Xiao Min from the Eighth Prince.

Xiao Min glanced at Ruotang and said with a smile: "Yes, Min'er will definitely live up to her mother's trust." ”

After Xiao Min suppressed the struggling Eighth Prince and left, Concubine Shu Guifei looked at Ruotang, "Miss Shen, sit down and talk." ”

"Xie Niangniang." Ruotang thanked him and sat down as he said. She won't take the initiative to stand up for the rules just because this is her mother-in-law, and besides, no one treats her as her daughter-in-law.

"At the banquet just now, that little hachi's kid was messing around, didn't hurt you, right?" Concubine Shu asked with great concern.

That night, I heard such a question. Ruotang scolded in his heart, but replied respectfully: "Thank you for your concern, the people are fine." ”

"Then the palace will be relieved." Concubine Shu took a sip of tea, "Miss Shen tasted this tea in the palace, it is the same as the one in the queen's palace?" ”

Ruotang calmly picked up the teacup and took a sip, "The tea in the Niangniang Palace, and the one in the Queen Niangniang's Palace, are naturally excellent." ”

Concubine Shugui raised her eyebrows lightly, "The queen has rarely invited people to drink tea in recent years, and Miss Shen has something extraordinary about coming to her, not only can she get the queen mother's tea to drink, but she can also talk with her very happily, which makes the palace really a little curious." ”

As she spoke, her big steamy eyes smiled and looked at Ruotang.

Those who are interested naturally hurry up and say everything the queen said.

Ruotang couldn't help but want to laugh, a woman like Concubine Shu can be called the best of the White Lotus! With her beauty and means, such a woman never directly confides in people what she wants and what she wants to know, and naturally someone will send her what she wants to hear in front of her, and ask for her favor!

When a woman does this, Ruotang can't help but be envious.

She pursed her lips slightly, lowered her head as if she was a little frightened, and said: "The queen didn't actually say anything to the people's daughter, she only asked the people's daughter, do you know why she wants to help the people's daughter break the siege, the people's daughter naturally doesn't know, the queen's mother was silent for a long time, and then said with a wry smile, because she felt that the people's daughter was as pitiful as her - this, the people's daughter was very frightened, the queen mother is the mother of a country, how can she ...... To be able to compare with the people's daughters is really too embarrassing for the people's daughters. ”

Concubine Shu's eyes flashed slightly: "Oh? The queen said that? ”

Before she finished speaking, she heard the palace maid's panicked dissuasion voice outside: "Your Royal Highness, there are still guests in the Niangniang's house, you can't go in......"