After returning to the Zhengyang Palace, the maid served warm tea, the queen's state was a little better, Chu Nian sat at the bottom, the queen at the top rubbed her eyebrows, the original charm of the face became a little paler, seeing this, Chu Nian glanced sideways at Ming Xiu, who was quiet and didn't know what he was thinking, a handsome face was calm and unwavering, and he couldn't see any emotion.

After settling down, Chu Nian looked at the queen and said, "Niangniang doesn't have to worry, as long as Niangniang is here, no one dares to touch His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

The queen opened her mouth, and at the end, she sighed lightly and said, "The county lord tasted this new Xichu melon fruit, and the household servant only paid tribute to the emperor a few days ago." ”

Hearing this, Chu Nian suddenly understood what the queen was worried about, what did the household servant do to pay tribute to the emperor if he had nothing to do? But just a puppet of the royal family, what does the emperor have to flatter them? That is, because there are five princesses in the palace, and they have some blood relationship, even if the Wang family has great power, they have no time to manage the future life of a princess, in the final analysis, the future marriage of this princess is also handled by the queen.

Most of the princesses of ordinary imperial families were sent to marry, but with the appearance and character of the fifth princess, even if they wanted to get married, it was estimated that if someone was sent over, the other party would think that this was Da Liang's plan to start a war with the other party. But in the end, it is a princess, just with royal decency, and she can't marry ordinary people just because she looks ugly, right? Then you can only choose a husband among the big families in the capital...... With this bad reputation in the capital, which son-in-law should you marry not be resentful?

It's no wonder that the queen is sad, the biological mother of the five princesses, Concubine Jin, doesn't care about anything, and all this trouble falls on the queen's shoulders.

Thinking of this, Chu Nian looked at Ming Xiu sideways, and when he noticed her gaze, Ming Xiu raised his head and shook his head lightly between the two eyes.

Chu Nian had no choice but to lower his eyes and suppress his voice back. She originally thought that since these five princesses are so tricky, it is better to marry to the barbarians, how brutal the men in the barbarian land are, and the temperament of the five princesses may not be suppressed, and the barbarian land has been pressed and beaten by Da Liang and Xichu all the year round, and the people have long been bored, if Da Liang marries a princess to show friendship, they will not care about what kind of ugly appearance this princess will be, maybe they will have to thank the heavens and the earth happily.

But I didn't expect Ming Xiu to be so generous to this sister.

After a while, Ming Xiu regained his willful temperament, and clamored to go out of the palace with Chu Nian, but the queen couldn't resist him, so she nodded and agreed, just asked him to bring some more guards, and went back to rest with the support of the palace maid, and it could be seen that she was indeed not in a good state.

When the two of them left the palace, the guards followed far behind with great interest. Chu Nian looked sideways and whispered, "It's just right, go to Jishitang." ”

Ming Xiu looked down at her, his eyes were full of a shallow smile, "Aren't you tired of staying in Jishitang all day?" ”

"You're hurt."

Chu Nian raised his head and looked at him, there was no intention of giving in to his eyes, "I saw that the whip of the fifth princess seems to have barbs on it, and there are many people in Western Chu who use whips and are also poisonous, you are careful of being poisoned." ”

Looking at her serious appearance, Ming Xiu's face was stunned, and after a while, he tilted his body and fell on top of her exaggeratedly, "Ouch, it is highly poisonous in the lonely body, and the unequaled county lord is responsible for the lonely." ”

Chu Nian pushed away the person who took the opportunity to take advantage.

Ming Xiu smiled and said: "It's all up to you, it's all up to you, but I said that you will accompany Gu Yu to the lake later, and I'm in a bad mood today." ”

Get up on the wrong side of the bed? Where can you tell that this hippie smiling face is in a bad mood? Chu Nian glanced at him angrily, but at the end, he said curiously as if he remembered something: "Why did you stop me from giving the queen mother an idea?" ”

The two of them walked forward, and the large group of guards had already been thrown out of the distance, so they had no scruples, anyway, at the moment they were dressed no different from the rich sons and women, and others couldn't recognize them, Ming Xiu reached out and held Chu Nian's little hand in the palm of his hand, seeing that she didn't refuse, the smile between his eyebrows became more and more profound.

He knew that she was so smart that she would definitely guess that there was a deception, and he couldn't help but say in a brisk voice: "How do you know that there is only one person in the palace who is pretending to be stupid?" ”

Hearing this, Chu Nian's face was stunned, and he immediately reacted, frowning without a trace, no matter how she looked at it, it didn't look like she was pretending, otherwise she would have nothing to do to provoke the prince?

Unless...... Chu Nian's eyes fluttered on Ming Xiu's handsome face with a faint smile, unless the two brothers and sisters had already colluded with this play, just to make a show......

"Make it for Concubine Liang."

Seeing that Chu Nian's eyes were still inquiring, Ming Xiu smiled even more happily, he reached out and quickly scratched Chu Nian's small nose, before he wanted to touch Chu Nian's head inch by inch, but Chu Nian avoided it, he retreated and pinched the soft little face.

"Even if it's because of the Queen Mother's relationship, Liu Qi won't be so indifferent to Lone, but he seems to be worried about something recently, between the scattered Imperial Forest Army, there will naturally be unscrupulous people mixed in, but this person can get mixed up with Lone, and I think Concubine Liang has some real skills."

"Concubine Liang sent someone to spy on you?"

Ming Xiu nodded of course, "She has been looking for your flaws, so she naturally has her eyes on Lone, who is very close to you on weekdays, but she is only suspicious now, if she catches the evidence, I am afraid that King Huainan will attack Lone first." ”

Chu Nian frowned, he couldn't imagine that Concubine Liang couldn't go on in hibernation, but it was also reasonable, for so many years, the emperor favored the queen, but Concubine Liang had been fighting with the queen in the harem for so long under such circumstances, no matter how gentle and generous she looked, how could she survive in the cannibalistic harem until now without a little scheming?

However, since the Queen Mother had already given her a warning, she still dared to ...... Ming Xiu After a while, Chu Nian's eyes sank, and the reason before and after was smooth, Concubine Liang is still the person of King Huainan now, and the only person who can threaten the status of the queen in the eyes of the queen mother, at least the queen mother will not completely suppress Concubine Liang so much that she can't turn over, so it gives Concubine Liang a hope, a hope to return to the queen mother's side.

At present, the meaning of the queen mother is very clear, as long as Concubine Liang can find out the queen's fault, in the blink of an eye, she can restore the original scenery as a concubine, as long as the scenery is restored, it will be much more convenient for her to do things for King Huainan.

Although the queen's mind is not meticulous, Chu Nian has already reminded her of Concubine Liang's precautions, and the queen is concerned, and the people around her are naturally paying close attention.

Now there are two choices, one is to startle the snake, the other is to let the tiger return to the mountain, the former is undoubtedly to tear his face with Concubine Liang, and the latter is to let Concubine Liang continue to monitor Ming Xiu, and wait until the right time to pull out Concubine Liang's people one by one and catch her off guard.

But the fifth princess......

As if seeing through Chu Nian's doubts, Ming Xiu hooked his thin lips, "Li Yue, the head of the household, is not a fuel-efficient lamp for the Queen Mother. ”

"What do you mean......"

Chu Nian has heard of this household servant, the household is the head of the six, when the Su family was still there before, the original household servant was framed by the Wang family with a conspiracy, the eldest princess of Western Chu took advantage of this opportunity to force the Wang family to raise Li Yue to the position of the household department, the queen mother was afraid of the war on the border of Western Chu that was finally quelled - if the war was chaotic together, even if the queen mother got the power, she would not be able to enjoy it for long, so she was threatened, but she didn't expect that after Li Yue became the household servant, no matter how the Wang family showed goodwill, he never bought the Wang family's account, But he was not with the Su family, and for a while, he was the only neutral faction other than the secretary and supervisor who no one dared to move.

In this way, it is indeed not a fuel-efficient lamp, but the Queen Mother still has a way, and brought Li Yue's only sister Concubine Jin into the harem on the grounds of choosing a concubine for the emperor, and asked her to give birth to a daughter.

The Queen Mother can't kill Ming Qiao directly, otherwise she is afraid that she will provoke the Li family and the Wang family to die, and the only thing that can threaten the Li family is the second half of Ming Qiao's life, which is controlled by the queen.

As far as the eldest princess of Xichu is concerned, she will never allow her children and grandchildren to be wronged in Da Liang, let alone such a big thing.

The Li family was afraid of Mingqiao's second half of his life, so he didn't dare to act rashly and accepted the Wang family's overtures, and the only reason why the Li family was exempt from the constraints of the Wang family was ......

The reputation of the fifth princess is too stinky, even if the queen mother has the heart to arrange a very poor family for the fifth princess, I am afraid that the other party will not dare to accept such an ugly and bad fifth princess.

Thinking of this, Chu Nian frowned, and Ming Xiu looked at her little face with sideways eyes, but at this time he chuckled, "It's okay, the queen mother grounded her in the palace, I'm afraid she won't be able to ask for it." ”

"How?"

"If she is outside her own palace, she can only pretend to be a fool, that girl can't stand this the most, she is worried that she has to go outside every day to pretend to be a fool and pretend to be sad, you have given her a chance, but you have to go back and send her some food and drink, that girl has a very strange temper, and will definitely remember that you have murdered her."

Chu Nian smiled, it was really not a family that didn't enter the door, the prince Ming just pretended to be stupid, she never expected that the fifth princess would also pretend to be a fool, it seems that in her previous life, her investigation of the royal family was not enough.

At the stall of speaking, Jishitang arrived, Auntie was busy inside, Zhao Er was sitting at the door, a big man, blocked at the door with a foolish smile on his face, and looked back at the girl in the room, how weird this picture looked.

Chu Nian kicked his leg, "You kid is blocking here, and you don't let people do business?" ”

Seeing that it was Chu Nian, Zhao Er laughed twice before getting up and leaning over to Chu Nian's side like a dog, "Sanniang, when are you going to give my grandmother a vacation or something, I saw my grandmother soaking in medicinal herbs all day long, and it was very hard." ”

Chu Nian raised his eyebrows, "Distressed?" ”

Zhao Er was a head taller than Chu Nian, and the appearance of hanging his head and twisting at this time made people get goosebumps, "It's not, it's just ...... If Auntie is tired, Jishitang can't be opened, right? ”

This is true, if something really happens to Ah Wu, Jishitang has no substitute doctor, and it will really not be able to continue.

Zhao Er saw Ming Xiu beside Chu Nian at this stall, but Shi Li, who was sincerely afraid, was stopped by Ming Xiu, and he didn't dare to talk to Chu Nian anymore, so he saw Chu Nian walking towards the house, "Auntie, let's rest for a day tomorrow, let's go to the outskirts of the city to play?" ”

Ah Wu raised her head from the pile of patients, "Sanniang, but what about these patients?" ”

The few people in front of her are well-known sick seedlings in the city, these few people who are sick all day long, and they have been dealing with Ah Niang a lot, and when they saw Chu Nian, they nodded and greeted: "County Lord." ”

"Grandma really hasn't rested for a long time, I can see Grandma when I come in the morning, and I can be busy until late at night."

"Yes, your own body can't bear it, and we will have to ask you for our illness in the future."

"It's okay for a day, let's just take our own medicine honestly."

Most of these people are from poor families, they are taken care of a lot by Grandma, and they are also old, seeing Grandma is like seeing their own daughter, seeing her getting up early and greedy for the illness of herself and others, they can't help but feel distressed, and when they hear Chu Nian's proposal at this moment, they all echo it.

Auntie frowned, looked up and saw Zhao Er at the door with a look of expectation, she took a deep breath and said, "Why are you still here?" ”