Cheng Yuguan sat at the bottom of the queen's mother, looking at Xu Zhiyun like a roundworm in the queen's stomach.

Before the queen's eyes were raised, Xu Zhiyun's pen had already been handed over, serving tea for a while, grinding ink for a while, but there was nothing wrong with it, it was inappropriate.

Obviously, she has a deep intention for the queen mother.

It's easy to get to noon.

"Zhiyun, your mother entered the palace to catch up with Concubine Min, you also want to go and see it, right? I heard that Concubine Min's palace is a vegetarian must. You don't have to accompany me here, go to Concubine Min's palace to dine with your mother. ”

When Xu Zhiyun heard this, he got up from the queen's side and came to the queen's head and saluted respectfully.

"Disturbing the queen for a long time, the courtiers have gained a lot, and they are grateful to the queen for their compassion. The courtiers then went back to their mother, and after lunch, they came to serve the queen for a lunch break. ”

As he spoke, he bowed and turned away from the goodness.

There is not a trace of distraction.

It's just that at the moment of turning around, he avoided the queen's kind gaze and glanced at Cheng Yuguan.

Cheng Yuguan was sensitive to his gaze, and when he looked up from the documents on the case, he saw a smiling face.

Cheng Yuguan subconsciously smiled back.

…

After Xu Zhiyun's figure left completely, the queen breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Cheng Yuguan and beckoned with a smile.

"Come to my aunt."

Cheng Yuguan had the opportunity to go to the queen's side.

This position was occupied by Xu Zhiyun just now, intentionally or unintentionally.

"An Guogong worked hard and stationed in the frontier land of the extreme south. This time, his family entered Beijing, and His Majesty specially entertained him and told the palace to entertain him well. Miss Xu is also a sensible and polite person, endearing, never overstepping, sensitive and studious, so Bengong let her follow her to do chores. ”

As she spoke, the queen sighed slightly.

"Maybe it's because the palace is used to being pampered in the palace, Miss Xu is obviously easy-going and humble, but it always makes the palace feel a little uncomfortable."

"I can't say I'm uncomfortable, it's just a little too restrained. Every board and every glance are rules, such a person is rare..."

The word "rare", the queen mother said in a long tone, as if with a different meaning.

Cheng Yuguan nodded with a slight understanding.

The queen and Cheng Yuguan have always had something to say. In the face of a woman like Xu Zhiyun, it is naturally even more so.

After saying a few words to Xu Zhiyun, the queen put aside the topic and asked about Cheng Yuguan and the state customs instead.

When she heard that they were on their return journey, within one day, they experienced three kinds of weather: snow, rain, and sunshine, and the queen listened with even more brilliant eyes.

"In this world, that is, you, Yuguan'er, can appreciate everything in the world as a woman."

The queen mother sighed with emotion, mixed with relief.

Reaching out and touching Cheng Yuguan's somewhat frosty yellowish face, compared to Xu Zhiyun's white and glowing skin just now, the queen mother felt a little distressed in her heart.

"It's hard, isn't it?"

Cheng Yuguan shook his head.

"It's hard to travel and ride a horse. But compared to the scenery along the road, those hardships are nothing. ”

Seeing her niece like this, the queen no longer bothered about Cheng Yuguan's lack of appearance, but smiled happily.

Mian'er played the right thing in the previous court, and whispered to his father behind closed doors for a long time, and at this time, it was time for Mian'er to take a breath. It just so happened that Yuguan also came, and someone came to invite the four princes to Fengyi Palace for dinner. ”

Some palace people heard the sound and left.

After a while, I saw someone striding towards me.

But it was not Li Mian, but His Majesty's guard of honor. Behind him, there were not only the four princes following, but also the five princes, as well as a strange young man, and of course, Xu Zhiyun.

Cheng Yuguan and the queen glanced at each other, inexplicable.

Xu Zhiyun was still there just now, and after a while, he actually arrived at His Majesty's side.

"The queen is naturally in charge of the food here, you two brothers and sisters are here with the queen today, and you can taste the home-cooked food in the queen's palace."

His Majesty spoke, his voice was soothing and magnificent, and he was obviously in a good mood.

Xu Zhiyun hurriedly explained.

"It's not that the queen doesn't stay here, it's that the courtiers rushed to their mother's side, so they missed it."

As he spoke, Xu Zhiyun smiled apologetically at the queen's mother, as if she felt that because of herself, Her Majesty had misunderstood.

The queen didn't look at Xu Zhiyun's eyebrows and eyes, but only greeted the palace people to serve the food in her usual tone, and she got up and greeted His Majesty in person.

Cheng Yuguan followed, got off the phoenix, and came to Li Mian's side.

His Majesty stretched out his hand, naturally supported the queen, and the two took their seats.

Although His Majesty and his entourage came in a hurry, there was no chaos in Fengyi Palace.

Orderly put the table for everyone to sit down.

Xu Zhiyun stepped forward and invited Cheng Yuguan to sit together.

"Miss Cheng, shall we sit together? It was the first time I dined in the Queen's Palace, and I wanted my sister to be by my side, so that I could feel at ease. ”

Xu Zhiyun didn't know when, came to Cheng Yuguan's side and whispered for help.

Looking at the pleading in Xu Zhiyun's eyes, Cheng Yuguan smiled calmly.

"There are no strict rules here, Miss Xu's name as the daughter of the first family, where you will have a palace banquet, you have to be nervous, just be comfortable."

After Cheng Yuguan finished speaking, he raised his feet and walked to Li Mian and sat down with him.

Everyone in the palace saw it in their eyes, Xu Zhiyun, the fifth prince, and the man with the eyes all stared at Cheng Luo, but the queen nodded with a smile.

His Majesty laughed even more.

"Well, that's how it should be. You're getting married in the fall, so you should be familiar with it, and don't always be too polite. It seems that you have all gained from this trip. Just now, Mian'er told me that Yuguan has helped a lot to suppress bandits in Bingzhou. It's good that the two of you can sing like this and complement each other like this! ”

At this time, everyone had already sat down in their places, and when they heard this, several people had different faces, but they all smiled and nodded in agreement.

"Sister Yuguan is really capable, unlike me, I didn't even get out of the house since I was a child, and I only got permission from my mother to go out when I arrived in the capital."

Xu Zhiyun looked at Cheng Yuguan enviously and said.

"Oh? I didn't expect Xu Shiqi, a rough man, to adopt his daughter so delicately, and he didn't even let out the door. Back then, he wasn't a rule-by-the-law. ”

The emperor was in a good mood, so he answered casually.

When Xu Zhiyun heard this, he smiled shyly, but the strange young man spoke at this time.

"Your Majesty doesn't know anything, south of Yizhou, an uncivilized land. Local customs, when you see a woman you like, you will snatch the marriage. Although my father has made some achievements in rectification after taking office, the barbarism of the people here cannot be changed for a while. ”

Speaking of border people, it was obvious that the topic was heavy, but the young man changed his mind.

"My little sister has been born since she was a child, and she is still good at home, but when she goes out, I'm afraid it won't lead to a fight among those border people?"

As soon as these words came out, His Majesty reopened his arms, laughed loudly, and pointed to the young man.

"It's a shame that you're still called Zhili, and you're just as cheeky as your father back then."

"But your sister Zhiyun is still beautiful, and you are not too exaggerated."

Xu Zhiyun blushed at what his brother and His Majesty said, lowered his head and stopped talking.

…

The feast was served.

Li Mian naturally gave Cheng Yuguan vegetables, which caused Xu Zhiyun to speak in surprise.

"The fourth prince looked like he was not close to him, but he didn't expect to be a gentle and careful person, and he also served vegetables for Sister Cheng! Sure enough, it was taught by His Majesty, and it is in the same vein as what His Majesty did. ”

When His Majesty heard this, he laughed again, put the dishes for the queen in the queen's bowl, looked at Li Mian, and nodded with relief.

"It's always an enlightenment, yes. Kerr, you have to learn it earlier. Otherwise, I'm afraid I will be lonely and widowed for a long time than your fourth brother. ”

When Li Mian heard this, he put the dish in Cheng Yuguan's bowl as usual, and his eyes did not move.

It was the fifth prince Li Ke, who smiled stiffly, and after being ridiculed by His Majesty, he subconsciously glanced at Xu Zhiyun.

This glance was seen by the emperor and queen, and the two looked at each other and circulated in tacit understanding.

Xu Zhili smiled and watched coldly.

Li Mian and Cheng Yuguan didn't pay much attention.

Xu Zhiyun lowered his head, making people unable to see his expression clearly, and naturally he couldn't see his attitude in response.

When there are many people, one meal will be eaten for a long time, and the food will be tired, and the food will not taste good.

Fortunately, Cheng Yuguan is used to it and is alone.

With Li Mian, have a good meal.

Finally the table was removed. Only half of their table dishes were gone, and the other tables didn't move a few chopsticks at all.

Obviously, in this small feast, everyone had different thoughts and had no intention of eating.

…

After the feast, Xu Zhili took Xu Zhiyun away, His Majesty brought the four princes and the five princes to the front court, Cheng Yuguan waved his hand and called Mei Ling.

"Go and re-serve the vegetarian brocade plate just now, and bring another bowl of eight-treasure porridge. Lunch is important, the mother has something on her mind, and she has to think about it when she is full. ”

Mei Ling agreed with a smile.

The queen looked at Cheng Yuguan, but smiled with relief.

"That's good. When you first came to your aunt that year, you only looked at it with your eyes, and you didn't care about many things, and you couldn't do anything. At this time, I actually knew that I had taken the initiative to arrange my aunt. ”

The queen made a joke about Cheng Yuguan, but Cheng Yuguan didn't care.

Mei Ling quickly brought the porridge dishes, and Cheng Yuguan scooped up a bowl of eight-treasure porridge and handed it to the queen mother.

"You pat on before you speak."

Seeing this, the queen had to take a good meal under Cheng Wu's unrelated gaze.

…

"The Xu family sits in the south of Yizhou and overlooks the entire Yizhou. Now it seems that I have some ideas. If it was a few days ago, from what they said, it is not difficult to see that they are satisfied with the fifth prince Li Ke. Now he is suddenly silent, ambiguous about the fourth child. Mian'er, I am naturally relieved. I am afraid that the two brothers will not get along because of this, and even under the influence of outsiders, they will add fuel to the fire. When the time comes, it will be another turmoil in the capital. ”

The queen said abruptly.

With others, it's not easy to talk nonsense about things that are naturally gone.

But the queen has been in charge of the harem for many years, so she naturally knows that all the turmoil is gradually expanding from a deliberate little thing.

Therefore, my heart is worried.

Cheng Yuguan could only comfort, "It's man-made." ”

The Xu family is menacing, and may be kind on the face, but what they do, that kind of meaning and ambiguous appearance, anyone can see it, for the sake of today, they can only see the move.

Bidding farewell to the queen's mother, Cheng Yuguan did not take a carriage, but walked home.

And the state is open, and the mountains are running to death. Everywhere you go, you have to ride a horse.

The capital is different.

The square, neat streets are nothing more than two extra steps.

Leisurely walking on the Royal Street, the Royal Street is empty, only some small vendors, selling under the porch on both sides of the Royal Street.

"Miss, let's go shopping."

Liuyun and Cheng Yuguan went to Bingzhou, and they were very greedy for the fireworks in the capital at the moment.

Cheng Yuguan followed her and walked slowly on the royal street together.

"Sister, let me wait!"

Suddenly, a somewhat delicate voice sounded, and Cheng Yuguan and Liuyun turned their heads.

It turned out to be Xu Zhiyun's carriage, waiting on the street.

Xu Zhiyun opened the carriage window and looked at Cheng Yuguan with a smile.

"The royal street is less than a mile, but my sister has been waiting for half an hour!"

Hearing this, Liuyun whispered.

"Who made you wait."

It was quiet, but everyone listened to it.

Cheng Yuguan was stunned, this is also what she meant.

Xu Zhiyun listened, his face remained unchanged, and he only looked at Cheng Yuguan.

"My sister wants to invite my sister to go with me, I don't know if my sister will reward my sister for this face."

Cheng Yuguan nodded.

"I don't like to take the car, Miss Xu wants to talk, you might as well come down and walk together."

Xu Zhiyun's face stiffened for a moment, and she didn't speak, but the girl behind her was like a flowing cloud, showing dissatisfaction.

"Our young lady is pampered, and she doesn't even go down to the embroidery building often at home, where can she go so far?"

Xu Zhiyun stopped with difficulty and looked at Cheng Yuguan.

Cheng Yuguan didn't speak, only looked at Xu Zhiyun.

Xu Zhiyun can't.

She knew what she had always done, Cheng Yuguan didn't eat this at all, so she slowly got off the carriage and was side by side with Cheng Yuguan.

"The queen is really a model for women in the world. In the past few months that my sister has been in Bingzhou, my sister has been with the queen in place of my sister, and I have never seen the queen mother's red face. No matter what emergencies there are in the harem, the queen mother has always been calm, and the little sister has learned a lot from the queen mother. ”

Cheng Yuguan nodded when he heard this, and didn't say a word.

But the flowing clouds behind secretly pouted.

"Sister, here, there is a reluctant request, and I ask my sister to agree."

Suddenly, Xu Zhiyun stopped and said.

Cheng Yuguan also stopped, waiting for Xu Zhiyun's words.

"My sister has limited time in the capital, can my sister not go to Fengyi Palace in the near future and give my sister a chance to learn from Niangniang. My sister is my mother's future daughter-in-law anyway. In the future, there will be opportunities to learn and ask for advice. ”

"Why??"

Liuyun was the first to listen to it and asked.

"When the master speaks, let's listen first."

Xu Zhiyun's maid stopped Liuyun.

Xu Zhiyun also stared at Cheng Yuguan with burning eyes.

Cheng Yuguan smiled when he heard this.

"Since she knew that it was a reluctant invitation, Miss Xu Zhiyun shouldn't say it. Otherwise, as soon as the words come out, you will lose face to yourself. ”

Xu Zhiyun's eyes widened.

She knew that Cheng Yuguan spoke directly, but she didn't expect Cheng Yuguan to speak so directly.

"Sister, I don't mean anything else, it's just that time is precious, and I'm going to return to Yizhou soon..."

Cheng Yuguan smiled.

"If you go back to Yizhou and use the things you learned in the capital to Yizhou, it will inevitably be unadaptable. If you don't go back to Yizhou and stay in the capital for a long time, everyone will be in the capital. It's been a long time, what's the use of being so anxious? actually wanted to monopolize the queen's aunt. ”