Xiao Ran asked all the attendants in the side hall to retreat, and began to report to me about the situation during this time.

On that day, he jumped to the edge of the opposite cliff, and happened to meet Xiao Wang Li Shao standing alone in the backyard of Changqing Temple. I thought that Li Shao would shout that there was an assassin, but after panicking, Li Shao saw Xiao Ran's face clearly and couldn't help but ask his identity, Xiao Ran truthfully told his life experience, Li Shao sighed, and the two talked about it by candle in the wing room of Changqing Temple, and took Xiao Ran back to the palace the next day.

Things went so much smoother than I had imagined, and there wasn't even the slightest bit of a ripple that was supposed to happen.

chatted with Xiao Ran for a long time, until an internal eunuch came to report, saying that King Xiao had set up a family banquet to invite the prince over.

Xiao Ran looked at my outfit and said, "You change your clothes and go with me." ”

An older maid named Forsythia led me to a room in the backyard of the Yanhua Palace, saying that I would live here after the prince had specially explained it.

After taking the maid's dress in Forsythia's hand, I felt very melancholy, Xiao Guo was really generous, and even the clothes of this person were made of haode brocade. When I entered the room, I saw that the furnishings were fresh and elegant, and there was a rosewood shelf bed in the inner room, and the drapery was covered with tassels of various colors.

didn't have time to take a closer look, hurriedly changed his clothes, and followed Forsythia behind Xiao Ran to Jinghe Palace, where King Xiao held a banquet. Because it's a family dinner, it's not as restrained as I imagined.

Xiao Wang Li Shao sat on the main seat, only to see that he was personable and handsome, and he didn't look like a person in his early forties, and the one sitting next to him was Queen Wei, who was dressed in a bright yellow silk Luo shirt, and her appearance was very outstanding. Sitting in turn were several concubines, as well as the rumored two princesses, Chaoyun and Lian Qing.

After saluting, Xiao Ran sat down, and I stood behind him, handing a handkerchief and pouring a wine or something very sadly.

There is nothing more painful in the world than when others sit and stand, others eat and you watch, and you have to wait carefully......

On the surface, the family banquet seemed to be a happy one, but the two princesses obviously didn't have much affection for this brother who appeared out of thin air, and there was a hidden edge in their words.

"Those minions in Yanhua Hall should really teach a good lesson, they must have seen that Brother Wang was kind and kind soon after he entered the palace, so he neglected Brother Wang, and Brother Wang took someone from outside the palace to serve." Princess Chaoyun, who was dressed in a turquoise emerald cigarette shirt, had a mocking smile on the corner of her mouth, glanced at me and said leisurely.

Xiao Ran's face was as usual, and he gently put down the chopsticks in his hand and said slowly: "Sister Qingge said that she laughed, the subordinates of Yanhua Hall served me very well, but I was always taken care of by tassels when I didn't enter the palace, and she was alone outside the palace without relatives and no reason, so I took her in for my brother." ”

Hearing this, Li Shao glanced up at me standing behind Xiao Ran, nodded and said, "Jing Ruo Youlan has beautiful eyebrows and eyes, well, very good, and the name tassel is also good." ”

As soon as I blushed, I couldn't get up, and it was the first time that I had been praised for my good looks, and my name was good.

It is a pity that the man who praises me is my father's killer......

Princess Lianqing, who was half-ringing next to her, raised her Shuiyun gold-rimmed sleeves to cover her mouth and laughed: "It is said that it is a maid, maybe it is the good relationship of Brother Wang when he is outside the palace, Brother Wang will be the monarch of this country in the future, and it is just a matter of being happy with this kind of wild girl outside the palace, but she must not be brought into the palace to do something reluctant, she is not worthy of being a girl in a room with this identity, Brother Wang still recognizes his identity as soon as possible and puts himself in the right position." ”

Princess Chaoyun on the side felt the same way when she heard this, and the two looked at each other and laughed wildly.

Li Shao coughed lightly, "Don't lose your sense of proportion when Man Wu speaks." ”

The two of them fell silent.

I felt unhappy for a while, I didn't know if she was happy to abuse me like this, and I couldn't show it on my face, so I had to continue to stand quietly.

Li Shao saw that Xiao Ran had a look of displeasure on his face, and said in a deep voice: "If Ran'er really likes it, it is not impossible to give her the title of a concubine and include her in the room." ”

Xiao Ran's shoulders shook, and the cup in his hand fell to the ground with a snap, and it was torn apart in an instant. I was so frightened that I fell to my knees, and in a few words, I was transformed from a maid into a concubine.

"The slave and maid know that their status is low, and they dare not want to be the concubine of the prince, please let the slave and maid continue to stay by the side of the prince for the sake of the slave and maid serving the prince for many years." My knee happened to be on my knees on the fragment of the cup, and it hurt so much that I looked like I was in tears when I said this.

Xiao Ranwu watched me act with appreciative eyes next to him, until I glared at him, he came back to his senses and knelt aside and said to Li Shao: "Father, I really don't think about tassels, and she grew up in the nunnery since she was a child, and she has no thoughts about men and women. ”

When I heard this, my blood immediately surged, and I scolded in my heart, you only grew up in the nunnery, I grew up in the Ji'an Hall, okay, you have no idea about men and women, your whole family has no idea about men and women.

The queen, who had not spoken, carried a silk scattered flower mist pleated skirt, and Lianbu moved lightly to Xiao Ran, and said softly: "This palace sees that these two children are also telling the truth, Bixia still takes back her fate, don't order the mandarin duck indiscriminately." ”

Li Shao nodded, waved his hand, and said, "Get up." ”

Xiao Ran got up and sat back at the table, and when he saw that I was still kneeling on the ground, he asked puzzledly, "What's wrong with you?" I grinned and pointed to my knees, saying, "I can't get up." ”

Xiao Ran looked down and saw that the side of my skirt was bloodstained, and hurriedly stepped forward to pull me up.

Fragments of several cups were embedded in my knees, digging deep into the flesh and bleeding profusely. Xiao Ran's eyes lit up with a trace of anger, "Are you a pig!" I was tempted to answer no, but seeing the fierce light in his eyes, I shrunk my neck and didn't dare to make a sound.

Xiao Ran wanted to send me back to Yanhua Palace, but it was really unseemly to run away with me, a maid, before the family banquet was over. I signaled to him that he was okay, reluctantly straightened up, and said, "Let Forsythia send me back." Xiao Ran had no choice but to nod.

Forsythia helped me back to the room, carefully cleaned the wound for me, put some medicine to stop bleeding, and wrapped it with gauze layer by layer, because she had something to do and left in a hurry after dressing my wound.

I was lying alone on the rosewood shelf bed, and I thought of what Tang Huan often said, "The sky will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their skin and flesh and hurt their muscles and ......bones."

As soon as the family banquet was over, Xiao Ran hurried back, and saw me lying on the bed looking comfortable, angry and funny, he moved a chair and sat aside, and said: "I finally understand that Weishenme Ji'an Hall will send you out to carry out a mission, you are the killer who is not like a killer I have ever seen, even if you want to kneel, you can see it clearly and kneel again, it is always so confused and worrying." How's the wound going, does it still hurt? ”

I glanced at him with disdain: "You kneel up and try it, see if it hurts!" I almost became your concubine, how can I still be in the mood to look at the ground, besides, that cup was dropped by you, it's all your fault! ”

"Okay, good, you're reasonable, it's all my fault. But what's next for you? Xiao Ran asked.

I sat up with the fence next to the bed, "I just entered the palace, and now my move will inevitably arouse suspicion, so let's wait for a while." ”

Because of the knee injury, it was very difficult for me to move, so I didn't need to serve Xiao Ran, and Xiao Ran also assigned Forsythia to take care of me. Thinking about this is very good, this injury has been recuperated for more than half a month.

May 16, which should have been the day when Xiao Ran was officially canonized as the prince, I didn't want the Queen Mother Zhao to suddenly fall ill the day before, King Xiao was very sad and ordered the canonization ceremony to be postponed for three months, so Xiao Ran and I were also very sad during the national funeral.