After seeing off Mrs. Shi, it was too late, and Zhixin and Princess Seventeen returned to their own residence together.

Spring is warm, and there is no chill in the evening. After the seventeenth princess finished eating, she looked at Zhixin's demeanor a little strange during the day, and she didn't know why, so she was very curious, so she wanted to ask what happened. She came to Zhixin's room and saw that Zhixin was in a happy mood, which was very different from yesterday, so she asked, "Why, I haven't seen you for a while, why did your expression change so quickly?" ”

"Do I have one?"

"Of course you have, you didn't see what it was like when you were afraid of your aunt and you went back!"

Zhixin touched her face and smiled happily: "Anyway, it's okay now." ”

"It's okay now, but I'm curious to know, why did your aunt pull you back? Why are you so scared? ”

Hearing the seventeenth princess ask, Zhixin put away a hearty smile and said, "Everyone has their own difficulties. ”

"What's your problem? I heard your grandmother say, is it related to any of your life's events? ”

Zhixin thought: Since the seventeenth princess told me about her own thoughts, she regarded me as a close friend, so simply, I will also tell her my thoughts. After thinking about it, Zhixin told the seventeenth princess about the forced marriage, but did not mention her previous life experience.

"Forced marriage? And such a thing? ”

Zhixin nodded.

"In other words, it was when you were helpless about the forced marriage and your parents had already agreed to half of the family, that the queen and I happened to save you?"

Zhixin nodded again.

"Who's the man's house? Why don't you agree? ”

"Ruyin Shi's family, his father is now a loose horseman, and he is now also a secretary in the court."

The seventeenth princess heard this and said loudly: "Huh? He, that boy is white-skinned and handsome, and he is suave, why don't you agree? ”

"Huh?" Zhixin was surprised, "What, princess, do you know him?" ”

"Oh......" At this time, the seventeenth princess had already realized that something was wrong, as a harem princess, how could she know an outside son? It's all because during the imperial banquet last year, I secretly followed Xiao Mo and inadvertently glanced at a few times outside Lingyuntai, and if I wanted to say that I knew, I was also wronged. She was so embarrassed that her face turned red, and she wanted to pinch her mouth a few times, but the words had already come out, and she wanted to find a reason to cover it up...... "I heard what others said." You know, now in Luoyang City, the beautiful and merry son of the family is the most loved by the world, and if you are not careful, you will become famous! ”

Zhixin looked at the demeanor of the seventeenth princess, inexplicably, she was a little skeptical, "Are men in the world popular with this kind of beauty now?" ”

"It's not, it turns out that you, the daughter of the Houmen, don't know anything about the world, so you are not as good as me, who has lived in the harem for a long time."

"The princess likes such people too?"

"Me?" The seventeenth princess remembered that day, Xiao Mo had to say which type of words Shu Yan and Shi Biyu preferred, she had been tricked once, and she didn't want Zhixin to ask the same topic again today, how could she be fooled again? asked Zhixin rhetorically, "Don't get involved with me, you haven't finished talking about it yet, you can tell me, the son of the Shi family is extraordinary and has countless family fortunes, why don't you agree to that marriage?" ”

"I don't like men who are too gentle and beautiful."

"I don't believe it, the son of a beautiful family is the benchmark for today's women to choose a son-in-law, how can you not like it?"

Although Zhixin and the seventeenth princess are in love now, it is still difficult to say that she has long been in her heart, so she leads the topic to the seventeenth princess, and the other party pushes her over, and the two of them fight each other, make trouble for a while, and feel more intimate, until they are sleepy, and they fall asleep.

The next day, Zhixin knew the rules of the palace, she couldn't stay in bed, and she didn't wait for others to call, and got up before anyone else. After finishing the grooming, I simply used some food, and went to the seventeenth princess's room to wait for her. The two palace maids were combing the seventeenth princess's hair bun, and they hadn't had breakfast yet, and when they saw Zhixin coming so early, they were a little surprised, "I originally wanted to wait until I had dinner to find you, but I didn't expect you to be so early." ”

Zhixin smiled lightly: "It's been a long time since I got up early, and when I got up early this morning, my mood was very different." In the future, I will continue this habit every day. ”

After cleaning up her head and face, another palace maid brought over a bowl of porridge and a few side dishes, and the seventeenth princess ate two bites indiscriminately, and then took the two palace maids and Zhixin to the Jade Leaf Pavilion. As usual, Confucius is worshiped first, and then taught. As soon as I had been talking for a while, I heard footsteps outside the hall and someone talking, as if there was more than one person. Sure enough, two gorgeously dressed women came to the door of the pavilion, followed by several palace maids. When several princesses saw these two coming, they all stood up and saluted, and called out, "Jieyu, beauty." ”

Zhixin didn't know why, although she didn't know these two, but seeing the princesses like this, she knew that they must be the emperor's concubines, so she had to go forward and salute.

Why did you come here? It turned out that they were all Sima Yan's concubines, and they had been favored for a few days, but since the five thousand beauties of Wu Kingdom entered the palace, the emperor had too many new loves, so he naturally fell out of favor. They don't see the emperor once a year, so they are naturally bored, depressed, and bored. At this time, I heard that the queen invited a new female gentleman to teach the princesses to read, and the two of them discussed: Anyway, this day is empty and boring, why don't we go to the Jade Leaf Pavilion and listen to the female doctor talk about poetry, but it's not interesting. The two hit it off, so they came here to find Zhixin. Zhixin understood their intentions, readily agreed, and immediately arranged for them to sit down. This is good, not only the princess, but even the emperor's concubine has become her student, and she is nervous and happy. This happiness will inevitably be overwhelming, so it is natural to talk about it for a while.

When the class was over, Zhixin and the seventeenth princess just went out of the door, they saw Chunlan and peony who had been waiting in front of the door, several people were happy, and went back together, and when they arrived at the residence of the seventeenth princess, Zhixin said goodbye to her, and was about to walk to her room, but the seventeenth princess grabbed her and smiled: "Eat here with me today, I will catch the wind for you." ”

"Pick up the wind for me? Why? ”

"Just because you and I are destined, you helped me at the first silkworm ceremony, and you also had my advice when you entered the palace as a female doctor, and now you are my teacher again, so I should pick up the wind for you. It was supposed to be yesterday, but yesterday was too late and I didn't prepare, so it was changed to today. ”

Zhixin feels a little tired today. First of all, because of Shimu's forced marriage, she was upset, and she just relieved her spirits a little; Secondly, I suddenly came to this new environment, I didn't sleep well for a few days, I was pampered in Shifu for a long time, and I got up early in the morning; Again, in the past two days in the library, although she didn't teach much content, but the first time she taught, facing this group of golden branches and jade leaves, it took a lot of effort.

"I'm tired, so let's eat some each, isn't it the same everywhere?"

"How can it be the same? The food of the people in the palace is divided into three, six and nine categories: the emperor and the queen are the highest; The rest of the concubines were divided into several classes, and the princesses mostly followed their mothers in their meals; You female officials and eunuchs with status are of the same rank; The rest of the little eunuchs and palace maids who had no status were the last. ”

"Since there are standards and regulations, everyone has to abide by the regulations, and they can't exceed the extra, so what else do you prepare?"

"You don't know that, do you?" The seventeenth princess smiled mysteriously, "Now in the palace, in addition to the Taiguan Bureau, there is also a Treasure Bureau, and I am very familiar with the Treasure Bureau, so I asked them to secretly get us a few extra dishes." ”

"This ......" According to Zhixin's heart, she naturally planned to eat something casually and rest early, but she saw that the seventeenth princess had made extra preparations for herself, and her kindness was difficult, so she had to agree, "Okay then." ”

The seventeenth princess was very happy when she saw that Zhixin agreed, so she asked someone to go to the Food Department to get the food immediately. In less than two moments, the palace maids brought two large food boxes and more than a dozen dishes. The two sat opposite each other, and the maids served.

Although these delicacies are all royal treasures, Zhixin often eats them in Shifu. Zhixin looked at it and thought: It turns out that the wealth of the Shi family is really worthy of its reputation, although the car clothes tent does not dare to deviate, but when it comes to eating, it is no different from the royal family.

Zhixin didn't eat much, but she was a little hot in the past two days, so her appetite became smaller. The seventeenth princess was diligent in distributing vegetables for Zhixin, thinking that Zhixin would eat a big meal when she saw the delicious food, but she didn't expect her to eat much, so she said to herself: "These dishes must not be very delicious, right?" I knew that without Xiao Mo, these stupid things couldn't do anything. Alas, it's really not a coincidence, Xiao Mo is not there. ”

"No, this dish is delicious. It's just that I don't eat much by nature, and I can't eat a lot of delicious things, no matter how delicious they are. ”

"That's because you haven't tasted Xiao Mo's cooking, you have to eat the food he made, regardless of whether you eat a lot or not, to ensure that your appetite is big."

Zhixin put down the chopsticks and asked, "Who is Xiao Mo?" Is it that exaggerated? ”

"Of course there is, Xiao Mo is the official of the Treasure Administration, but he is very special, he is a eunuch, and he is a Huaqiang hybrid. He is about the same age as you, but he has all the culinary essence of the world. ”

"Is that really that exaggerated?"

"Yes, otherwise, why would my father edict him to the palace? When he didn't make a delicacies, he lived with a Shang Shulang in the Shangshutai Mansion, and the two of them ate and lived together, and after a few months, he fed that Shang Shulang a lot of fat. And ......?"

"What else?" Zhixin listened to the words of the seventeenth princess, although she felt exaggerated, she liked her enthusiasm very much, and asked intentionally or unintentionally.

The seventeenth princess smiled wickedly, "There is also the secretary of the Shi family who wants to marry you, he doesn't even look down on the cooking skills of the Taiguan Office, so he likes the food made by Xiao Mo." ”

Although Zhixin was angry, she knew that this seventeenth princess was this character, and she couldn't care much about it if she talked nonsense unintentionally, so she changed the conversation: "That Xiao Mo you said, where did he go?" ”

"He's such a strange man, he was fine before the royal banquet last year, and the day after the royal banquet ended, he suddenly left without warning, leaving me only a note, and did not say how long he would be gone, nor when he would be back. There was no news of this departure...... Before he left, he must go to Shangshutai to say goodbye to that Shangshulang. ”

"Since he is a Qiang man, and the journey is so far, he won't not come back, right?"

"Why don't you come back? In addition to the emperor and I both looking forward to his return, that Shang Shulang must also be looking forward to the stars, the moon, and your secretary Lang......"

"Can the princess be more serious?"

"Hahaha, no, I mean, there are so many people who want him to come back, and he will definitely come back."

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