After the heroine was robbed, save the paranoid villain

After Wanli returned, she met Ningxia who was extremely anxious.

Ning Xia finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her come back: "Where have you been? We were so worried when we didn't see you just now. The princess was afraid that you would get lost outside, so she asked us to ask Huo Wang to look for you everywhere."

"I'm fine. I just went out to relax." Wanli said, "Do you want to tell the princess?"

Ning Xia shook her head: "The prince is in there, he doesn't know about this, the princess didn't dare to tell him. Go eat something and go to bed early."

Wanli felt relieved.

Fortunately, the King of Qin didn't know. Otherwise, he would have sent her back and the news would have reached the Ma family's ears. Wanli really didn't know how to explain herself.

The next day, Wanli held her chin and kept thinking about the person she met last night. As she thought about it, she became a little dazed.

She missed her brother.

There were some issues with that person yesterday, but from his words and actions it could be seen that he had a good temper and was as gentle as Wanli's brother.

Yan Yu raised his eyes slightly: "Would you like to eat some chestnut cake?"

Wanli was daydreaming. Yan Yu asked her two or three times before she finally heard him and quickly took a piece of cake.

Yan Yu smiled and asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Wanli shook her head, and after a while she said, "Princess, what are the identities of the guards in front of the emperor?"

Yan Yu thought for a moment: "Most of them are from royal families, most of them are descendants of the Xiao family, and some are other relatives of the Xiao family."

This guard is not like that guard. To be able to serve the emperor, his ancestors for three generations must be clean. Of course, the safest ones are the descendants of the royal family.

In order for these people to show up in front of the emperor, they must first of all have a distinguished status, secondly have extraordinary skills and superb martial arts, and thirdly, have noble character, be young and promising.

These people would not serve as guards for many years, and would often be assigned to other important official positions by the emperor after a few years.

Wanli said "Oh", and it was just as she thought. Judging from the man's behavior, he was indeed a son of a noble family.

They arrived at the Lanyue Palace at noon, and rested here for two days before continuing on their journey.

Yan Yu had been sitting in a carriage for more than a day and was finally arranged to rest in the palace.

Xiao Chengji and some favored ministers were still in front of the emperor.

Emperor Jianxing was in high spirits along the way. In fact, he should have arrived at the Lanyue Palace last night. However, he saw some beautiful scenery on the way and wanted to stay there. He stayed too long and had to set up camp on the spot at night, which delayed him for half a day.

He brought a few young and favored concubines, but no concubines of higher rank came.

Xiao Qirui also presented a splash-ink landscape painting, which depicted the place where Emperor Jianxing stayed the longest yesterday, and said some words boasting about Emperor Jianxing's political achievements.

Several ministers followed Xiao Qirui's words and praised Emperor Jianxing.

No one doesn't like to hear good words, and the emperor is no exception.

Emperor Jianxing was overjoyed and praised the painting presented by Xiao Qirui.

Xiao Jiashan felt ironic when he saw Xiao Qirui's flattering appearance. He sneered, "Seventh Brother, you are amazing. You are so busy on the road, but you still prepared paint, paper and pens to paint such a large painting. I'm afraid it took a lot of thought, right?"

Xiao Qirui smiled and said, "In order to paint the scenery that my father likes, I specially asked someone to prepare paper and pen. I stayed up all night last night to paint it. As long as my father likes it, everything is worth it."

Xiao Jiashan looked down on his flattering look and ignored him.

Xiao Chengji hadn't seen Yan Yu the whole day. He didn't know what kind of meal the palace would prepare for Yan Yu in the evening, and whether she would be able to eat it. He had no time to pay attention to the two people who were fighting openly and secretly.

After finally enduring enough time here, Xiao Chengji immediately walked back. By then, it was already dark.

It is dark inside the palace. The trees planted here do not lose their leaves in autumn and winter, and it looks quite eerie.

Xingwen quickly followed: "I have settled the princess this afternoon. She said the red-crowned cranes here are pretty good, so I had someone catch two and put them in the yard where the princess lives. When I came here, the princess said the fish here are pretty good too, but there is no pond where the princess lives, so we didn't get any fish."

Xingwen knew that the princess might have just made a few compliments.

But there is no way. Sometimes the master's casual words will make the people under them busy for a long time.

It would be fine if the Princess of Qin had an ordinary status, but the King of Qin thinks about the Princess all day long. He has become obsessed with love.

These children of power and nobility have seen too much since childhood. They are either loyal or promiscuous. There is only one loyal person among a thousand promiscuous ones. Xingwen has been with Xiao Chengji for more than ten years, but it was only in the past one or two years that he realized that his prince was a lovesick person.

The previous Huo Ha was driven out because he didn't handle things properly and offended both the prince and the princess. Although the princess brought him back, his status is still not as good as before.

Xingwen couldn't guarantee that someone would bring him back after he was kicked out. He didn't have that ability, so he could only be careful everywhere and explain everything to the prince.

Xiao Chengji said casually: "Then make two and steam them for the princess."

The pond contains golden koi carps, all of which are large in size. Xingwen is worried that the fish meat is too rough and unpalatable, which would make his masters angry.

Sea bass are fat at this time of year and taste much better than carp, so I asked someone to make two steamed sea bass and send them over.

Xiao Qirui was in high spirits and returned to his residence at night.

Of course he did not bring his concubines or side concubines this time, only Zheng.

Seeing that Xiao Qirui was in a good mood, Zheng felt a little relieved.

After being manipulated by Xiao Qirui several times, Zheng put away her fierce temperament, dared not to say anything more, and just pretended to be dumb in front of Xiao Qirui.

Xiao Qirui looked at the taciturn Zheng and felt a little disgusted.

He was tired after a day's work and wanted to rest. Zheng didn't want to sleep with him, and since she had no concubines, she sent her most beautiful maid to serve Xiao Qirui.

Xiao Qirui was annoyed with the Zheng family, so he went to sleep alone in the main hall. Zheng had no choice but to go to the side hall with her maid.

Xiao Qirui woke up before five o'clock in the morning, put on his clothes, got up and sat until dawn. He often suffered from insomnia like this these days.

He went out for a walk in the early morning. There were not many people on the road at this time. The cold fog was hazy. Xiao Qirui saw a green figure at the end.

What a fate, he still wants to find her.

Wanli was picking begonias with a basket on her shoulder. Xiao Qirui came forward with a smile: "Wanli, I see you again."

Wanli was startled by him and the basket fell to the ground. She picked it up and said with a frown: "Who allowed you to call my name?"

In addition to begonias, there were also balsams, hibiscus and okra in her basket. The flowers fell all over the ground. Xiao Qirui squatted down and picked them up for her: "Your cousin asked you to pick flowers so early?"

"I'm used to getting up early and coming here by myself." Wanli said, "Those that fell on the ground are dirty, so I don't want them. There are so many flowers in the garden, so they don't matter."