Looking at the guards in front of him who were clearly inexplicably enthusiastic about a little eunuch but pretended to be indifferent, Chu Nian was slightly stunned, and immediately smiled as if he thought of something, thinking about it, the goal of these four princes is not only Ming Xiu.

Seems to be more troublesome.

Not long after, a palatial room appeared in front of Ming Xiu and Chu Nian's eyes, the guard stood still in front of the door, his eyes swept over Chu Nian, Chu Nian raised her eyes, she withdrew her gaze and looked at it again.

At this point, Ming Xiu raised his eyes, and saw Xi Chu Lu Ning coming out of it, his gaze swept over Chu Nian on the side, and finally fixed on Ming Xiu's face. He seemed to smile enthusiastically and said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is coming, please come in, this king is preparing excellent refreshments for the two of you to enjoy." ”

Ming Xiu nodded in response, and Chu Nian followed behind Ming Xiu and was greeted by Xi Chu Lu Ning.

The room was also very luxurious, Xi Chu Lu Ning sat on the main seat, and Ming Xiu and Chu Nian sat on the guest seats on the side.

The tables and chairs in this room are all made of rosewood, mostly inlaid with gold edges, and there are white porcelain vases with beautiful patterns on them, and the cost is also very expensive. The air was filled with the aftertaste of chicken tongue, and at this moment the incense burned out in the incense burner, and the sunlight shone through the window of the carved sculpture of an unknown flower, and a trace of incense ash danced in the air.

Chu Nian inexplicably felt that the King of Huainan might be a little poorer than Xi Chu Luning, otherwise the old man of the King of Huainan did not know how to enjoy life.

At this time, Lu Ning, who was at the top of Xichu, looked at Ming Xiu, and there was a smirk on his face that made people unable to find a flaw: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still satisfied with my stay in Xichu today?" His Majesty has always been careless, and if there is any inadequate care, I hope His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will forgive me. ”

Ming Xiu's gaze swept over her, picked up the teacup and put it on his thin lips and took a sip before he said, "Fortunately, Your Majesty and Her Royal Highness the Eldest Empress have taken care of Gu very carefully. ”

Xi Chu Lu Ning didn't seem to care about Ming Xiu's cold attitude, she chuckled lightly before turning to Chu Nian, "This ...... What do you call it? ”

Chu Nian raised his eyes, and saw the meaningful touch in Xi Chu Lu Ning's eyes, and Chu Nian, who had been prepared for this, smiled decently, "But it's just a mere person, how can you be embarrassed to ask the prince to remember." ”

"How offended last night." Xichu Luning did not let Chu Nian go, "Yuan'er is the princess of a country, and she may sit on the throne of the prince in the future, face is too important, and I hope His Royal Highness the Crown Prince understands." ”

She seemed to nod slightly towards Ming Xiu's side apologetically, but her voice was also a little proud, and she also deliberately emphasized the word "prince", the affirmation in that tone made Chu Nian even wonder if there was only one princess left in Xichu Yuan.

I saw that Xi Chu Lu Ning looked at Chu Nian, and Chu Nian pretended not to see it, and his eyes were half lowered and he was silent.

Ming Xiu drank tea indifferently and ignored Xi Chu Lu Ning's words.

It seems that he didn't expect to apologize so lowly, the two people in front of him are still calm, Xi Chu Luning's face stiffened a little, his eyes were gloomy for a moment, and he continued to smile and said: "If Your Highness likes this tea, before returning to Da Liang, this king will send someone to send more to His Highness, this is the best Shou Mei, Da Liang is not common." ”

Ming Xiu pursed his lips and didn't speak, but he put down the teacup and didn't hold it again, and the disgust was obvious.

The top of Xichu Lu Ning's forehead gradually climbed a few traces of green tendons, obviously holding back his anger.

Seeing Chu Nian get up suddenly, he couldn't notice Xi Chu Lu Ning's displeasure and said with a light smile: "The tulips in the prince's yard are really beautiful, can you go and take a look at the small ones?" ”

Ming Xiu raised his eyes and looked at Chu Nian suspiciously, and saw that Chu Nian seemed to blink mischievously, Ming Xiu retracted his gaze, frowning.

Seeing that Chu Nian actually took the initiative to talk to him, Xi Chu Lu Ning's face finally looked better, so he hurriedly got up, and smiled as if embarrassed: "This king forgot, there are many views in the courtyard, and I may be in a better mood to look at it, Your Highness, why don't you follow this king to the garden to narrate?" ”

Ming Xiu nodded and didn't speak, Xi Chu Lu Ning glanced at Chu Nian with gratitude in his eyes, but saw Chu Nian looking out the window, Xi Chu Lu Ning's eyes flashed slightly, and in the end, he had to take Chu Nian and Ming Xiu to "move" to the garden.

It is the season when the tulips are in bloom, and a gentle breeze blows, and the rich fragrance of flowers fills the garden. In the center of this tulip garden is a red-roofed pavilion with stone tables and benches carved in various fine stone carvings, marble floors, and mahogany pillars rising from the ground to support the whole exquisite pavilion.

On the stone table were a few rare pastries, and two handsome male waiters stood honestly in place, and behind them was a small pond dyed with the color of flower petals, and at the bottom of the pond, there seemed to be fish swimming faintly.

Chu Nian dared to guarantee that this was another masterpiece of the four princesses, at least this fourth prince of Western Chu would never have such an elegant preference.

Sure enough, walking through the path in the middle of the tulips, Xi Chu Lu Ning showed a little vague disgust on his face, Chu Nian raised his eyes, and said with a light smile: "The tulips in the courtyard of the fourth prince are very good. ”

Xichu Lu Ning smiled stiffly, "Yes." ”

Chu Nian glanced at Xi Chu Lu Ning meaningfully and stopped speaking, the three of them sat down in the pavilion, and several male attendants next to them immediately put on a thin veil in the windy pavilion around them, Xi Chu Lu Ning took a big breath, and saw Chu Nian and Ming Xiu's inquiring eyes, she explained: "Ahem, this king is slightly allergic to dust, especially this tulip, when it comes to flowering, it seems to be the life of this king." ”

Hearing this, Chu Nian raised his eyebrows slightly, glanced at Ming Xiu with his side eyes, and then said with a light smile: "The prince is really pampered by the fourth princess." ”

There seemed to be a flash of annoyance in Xi Chu Lu Ning's eyes, but he still smiled forcefully, and turned to look at Ming Xiu and said: "Since Your Highness has come to this king's palace today, this king naturally wants to entertain him well, and introduce a few people to His Highness." ”

As she spoke, she beckoned to the waiter outside, and saw the waiter bow down and turn to leave, and in a short time, several sturdy-looking figures appeared outside the tent.

"This is the king's new subordinates, good skills, I heard that His Royal Highness the crown prince is going to use people recently, so this king specially asked them to come over to His Royal Highness the prince to see, if His Royal Highness the prince likes it, just take it away."

When these words fell, Ming Xiu frowned without a trace, at this moment Chu Nian also understood what Xi Chu Lu Ning meant, originally thought that Xi Chu Lu Ning would grab this pigtail to make trouble for Xi Chu Yue Ling when he knew her true identity, but he didn't expect that the vision of this fourth prince was so high, he actually wanted to pull Ming Xiu and her from Xi Chu Yue Ling's sphere of influence to her side?

However, Xichu Luning really underestimated Ming Xiu, don't say that the four secret guards alone are enough to defeat a hundred, and there are no less than 100 secret guards like the dark three and them, and now the four secret guards are hidden around, and the people of Xichu Luning have not found out, and now these few she brought, but it is enough for the secret guards to stuff their teeth?

Obviously, Ming Xiu also thought so, and just as the three strong men walked in from outside the curtain tent, Ming Xiu raised his eyes casually, "Is the prince too exalting these few?" ”

As if he had been slapped in the face, Xi Chu Lu Ning's face stiffened, and he saw that one of the three people was quite unconvinced.

"Does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince judge people by their appearance? The little one even dared to say that there were few people in Xichu who dared to say big things in front of the three of our brothers, if His Highness didn't believe it today, he could try it. ”

The man stretched out his hand and patted his seemingly hard chest vigorously, looking like he was not afraid of heaven and earth, but this appearance only got a careless look from Ming Xiu, and the man suddenly felt hot, and said impulsively: "His Royal Highness the Prince......"

"Your Highness." Xichu Lu Ning waved his hand to stop the strong man, and looked at Ming Xiu with a smile: "This newly bought thing, I don't know if it's good or bad if it's used or not, it's the same thing for this employer, but after looking at the skin, how can you deny the value of the other party's existence?" ”

Ming Xiu glanced at her lightly, and even more disdainful of giving those big men more looks, as soon as his thin lips opened and closed, it was enough to make Xichu Lu Ning vomit blood in anger: "Lone will not pay any price for useless things." ”

When these words fell, Chu Nian couldn't help but burst out laughing, Xi Chu Luning's face was like eating, she clenched the tea cup in her hand, gritted her teeth and didn't say a word, and the three strong men on the side heard this, their faces were full of anger.

One of them took the lead in stepping forward, stretched out his fist and prepared to sneak attack Ming Xiu's façade, "Then we can only let Your Highness see how powerful we are!" ”

As soon as these words fell, the fist was already close to the tip of Ming Xiu's nose, and the strong man who punched suddenly screamed, Chu Nian raised his sleeves in time to cover himself and Ming Xiu, so that he was not splashed with blood, and the strong man's figure had already flown out, and the two strong men behind him were also knocked out, and a thin man in black was squatting on the table, looking at the three strong men who had already been beaten away, with a fine scabbard on his back, and a long sword in his hand, the blood was slowly leaving along the edge of the long sword, revealing a sharp blade.

Xichu Lu Ning failed to dodge in time, and was splashed with blood, and at this moment, he looked at Dark Er who was squatting on the table with frightened eyes.

"Come, come, there is ......"

"No need." Chu Nian put down his blood-stained sleeves, revealing Ming Xiu's still expressionless handsome face, and at this moment, there were two thin lips hanging on that handsome face that were opening and closing, "Go down." ”

Dark Er replied in a low voice, turned around and disappeared in place.

Xi Chu Lu Ning's eyes widened, his mouth opened wide, and he couldn't speak, the three people who were knocked away stopped after knocking down the two rockeries, and they all got up with a painful cry, and the strong man who originally shot at Ming Xiu broke a palm at this moment, and there were neat marks on his wrists, and blood flowed.

His face turned pale and searched around: "Brother, brother, help me find my arm......"

After a long time, Xichu Lu Ning came back to her senses from her surprise, she looked at Ming Xiu, and stumbled: "His Royal Highness the Prince, this, this is ......"

Ming Xiu glanced at her, still didn't mean to speak, Chu Nian smiled and said, "If His Highness makes a move, I'm afraid it's not just as simple as breaking his arm, these adults still need to thank His Highness's personal guards." ”

Xi Chu Lu Ning's face suddenly froze, at this moment she also understood what Chu Nian meant, it was not that there were no available people around Ming Xiu, and he Ming Xiu couldn't look down on these wastes in front of him at all! It's not that Prince Ming Xiu doesn't know martial arts, it's that he doesn't shoot easily!

But at this moment, a strong man on the side suddenly shouted, "Taking advantage of people's unpreparedness, it is not a gentleman's doing!" ”