Cheng Xi greeted the outside of the courtyard. Xia Yan sat in front of the case and pretended to read a book, but actually raised his eyes from the top of the book and glanced into the courtyard——

Standing under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree was a young girl in a blue gauze dress and an emerald bead on her head, holding a food box and a brocade box in her hands, and six maids lined up behind her.

The young girl stood very close to Cheng Xi, and he couldn't hear what she said, but the girl was beaming, her expression fluctuated several times, and finally she smiled happily, handed the food box and brocade box to Cheng Xi, turned around, walked away In the middle of it, I turned around and glanced at it halfway.Cheng Xi also stood still and did not come back until the girl was completely out of sight outside the courtyard, and put the food box and brocade box on the small table casually.

He walked briskly, as if he was very happy.

Xia Yan endured a bit of sourness from nowhere, retracted his eyes and curled his lips, and asked coldly, "Who is that?"

Cheng Xidao: "Concubine Li's niece, Miss Su Lan'er. She came to the palace to visit her aunt, and she happened to meet yesterday, so she got to know each other. She asked me to help her revise the article, and gave her some food as a thank you gift." A finger food box and brocade box.

"It's quite familiar." Concubine Li is the birth mother of the second prince Xia Ji. She has a high status in the Jianping Emperor's harem, second only to the empress. Xia Yan doesn't like her very much. "It seems that this Miss Su and her aunt and cousin Same, the eyes are higher than the head and domineering."

Su Lan'er came to the Nuan Pavilion to look for Cheng Xi, and neither informed him in advance as the master, nor paid a visit to him when she came. It can be seen that Concubine Li and the second prince did not pay attention to him, the prince who came out halfway, and even The same goes for their relatives.

Cheng Xi naturally saw this too, thinking about Xia Yan's recent situation and his surroundings, such as his misconduct, ignorance, lack of skill, good taste, lazy work, far inferior to other princes, Emperor Jianping did not let him go out of the palace to establish a mansion as usual, but placed him in this place. Located in a remote corner between the inner garden and the outer court, in the warm pavilion that was even abandoned in the past, because he didn't like all the rumors about this son at all, his expression was dim, and he suddenly wanted to chat with Xia Yan.

It happened that Xia Yan sneezed at this time, Cheng Xi changed his words and said, "He said he didn't catch a cold, go and put on his shoes."

Xia Yan rubbed the tip of her nose and said, "It's not that I've caught a cold, it's that someone misses me."

Cheng Xi found it funny and asked, "Who is missing you?"

"I don't know." Xia Yan held his breath in his heart, and said stiffly: "Anyway, it's not you."

Cheng Xi: "..."

The wonderful reading atmosphere was destroyed, Cheng Xi raised his eyebrows slightly, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "Are you quite dissatisfied with Concubine Li and the Second Prince?"

Logically, as a courtier, it was inappropriate for him to talk about this with Xia Yan, but he still asked, and Xia Yan didn't think it was inappropriate, flipping through the book boredly and said: "It's not really dissatisfaction, it's just that the second prince's brother has a bad temper. He's quite big, he looks arrogant, but he's actually not smart at all, and I don't like him."

Cheng Xi said "Oh" with a rising voice, and said with a smile, "What about the other princes?"

Xia Yan said bluntly: "The elder brother of the prince is much smarter than the elder brother of the second prince, and his character is also much better, but he is also very arrogant. I don't like it very much. Fortunately, there is brother Ameng to treat him."

Cheng Xi smiled.

"Brother Third Prince... Hey, I'm a few months older than him, but my father said that I came too late and didn't bother to change it, and asked me to call him brother. He is sometimes smart and sometimes stupid. He is really young. He can’t talk about going together.” Xia Yan shrugged, “A relationship is born from the heart, and their characteristics can be seen from their appearance. The elder brother of the prince is a dazzling and extravagant pile of gold bars, gold nuggets, precious stones, and elder brother of the second prince. A large pot of lard stewed meat soup is showing off its heroic spirit, and the third prince's elder brother is a natural pure gas strung together with emeralds and jade stones."

Cheng Xi laughed, and asked with interest: "What about you?"

"Me?" Xia Yan froze for a moment, shook his head, his expression was a little downcast, "I never thought about it, probably not as good as them."

Cheng Xi was startled, and comforted in a warm voice: "I heard everyone say that you are a rare white peony."

Xia Yan said disapprovingly: "Everyone also said that I am short and weak."

Cheng Xi said sincerely: "You are not short, you are of normal size."

Xia Yan immediately regained his spirits, and clapped the table and said, "That's right! I'm not short! It's because you are too tall!"

Cheng Xi smiled reassuringly, and asked again: "You said just now that you don't like this or that, so what do you like?"

"I like it..." Xia Yan rested her chin in thought, just happened to Xiao Fang walked into the courtyard after washing her clothes, and rolled up her black warrior arrow sleeves, revealing her lean arms with water droplets hanging on them.

Xia Yan didn't think Cheng Xi's question so narrowly, but just thought it was a common comparison between men. Seeing Xiao Fang's simplicity, honesty and handsomeness, he said directly: "Just Xiao Fang."

Xiao Fang paused, then poked his head out of the window, "What?"

Cheng Xi followed suit, his face turning cold.

That night, Cheng Xi accidentally chose to go home instead of staying overnight, Xia Yan was rarely relaxed, and got together with Xiao Fang to read the storybook and chat.

Xia Yan said: "Cheng Xi is almost 24, and he is not yet married. I don't know how many eyes are staring at him in Beijing. Concubine Li's niece must be a drunkard!"

Xiao Fang said: "But Mr. Cheng used to be the prince's companion to study, and the scene is the Taifu. The prince and the second prince are in the same situation..."

"That's why Concubine Li Gui and the Second Prince want to drag Cheng Xi to their side!" Xia Yan said firmly, pointing to the food box that Cheng Xi hadn't taken away, "I've given all the gifts, it must be!"

"What?!" Xiao Fang was shocked, "Your Highness, I thought it was given to you by Mr. Cheng!"

Xia Yan was startled.

"Suddenly there was a food box that no one wanted. I was curious. I opened it and looked, and found that it contained top-quality grapes! Your Highness, you like to eat grapes. Mr. Cheng has noticed it these days..." Xiao Fang Clap your hands, "It must be! You like to eat grapes, so Mr. Cheng accepted the gift."

"No way..." Xia Yan frowned and muttered, "I didn't see him say that either."

"Did you provoke him again? Otherwise, why did he leave suddenly?" Xiao Fang crossed his arms and guessed.

Xia Yan's face wrinkled in distress and confusion, wondering if there is?I've been obedient and studying, how could I still mess with him?Is it because I slapped his ass?It shouldn't be, he was very happy to see it at the time... And to be honest, Cheng Xi's butt is easy to touch, vigorous, soft and hard, and elastic, presumably this is the benefit of martial arts.Um, so what the hell is messing with him?Is it possible that I have some complaints about that lady?Well, I guess so.

He nodded heavily while thinking.

The next day it rained lightly, and Cheng Xi came back feeling cool, but he didn't call Xia Yan to study, Xia Yan was happy and hid in the bedroom for a while.

After a while, Xiao Fang came in and reported as if facing an enemy: "Your Highness, Miss Su is here again! In the hall, Mr. Cheng is helping her to correct the article."

Xia Yan's face changed slightly, then he lowered his eyebrows, pretending not to care, and said, "Let them do as they please."

"But I see that Mr. Cheng is not in good spirits, he seems to have not slept all night, and his hands are pale, swollen and wrinkled!"

Xia Yan was taken aback, "What special palm technique did you practice?"

"Your Highness, don't be joking." Xiao Fang said seriously.

Xia Yan casually said that he was fine and left him alone, and let Xiao Fang go to work on his own, and walked for a while holding the scriptures alone, then he came to his senses, rolled his clear eyes, and finally got up and went to the hall.

In the hall, Su Lan'er was sitting in front of the desk with an article in hand, while Cheng Xi stood aside, holding a pen and bowing to explain.

Su Lan'er looked up at Cheng Xi, with a longing smile in her eyes, she raised her elbow to lay a pillow on the desk, and accidentally touched the inkstone, some ink spilled out and splashed on her sleeve.

She said "Oops", looked around, leaned over and reached out to take out a white silk embroidered red plum scarf from the brocade box at the other corner of the desk, and wiped the ink on her sleeve.

Xia Yan, who had just arrived in the hall, suddenly exploded.

"What are you doing?!" Xia Yan rushed forward, snatched back the scarf, his eyes widened, and his face was stern, "Who asked you to use it!"

Both Su Lan'er and Cheng Xi were taken aback. Su Lan'er was a little dazed at first, and moved her lips in panic. After realizing it, she looked not afraid at all. She got up and looked at Xia Yan, and said arrogantly: "A piece of handkerchief That's all, you..."

"Don't you yourself?!" Xia Yan roared.

Su Lan'er stared at her almond-shaped eyes, "My scarf is so precious, this one is just thick silk, I will pay you at worst, and I will pay for a few more..."

"Get out!" Xia Yan's face was as frosty as snow, and his voice was hoarse, he forcibly pulled Su Wan'er away from the desk and pushed it out, "Get out immediately!"

Cheng Xi hurriedly came to Xia Yan's side and held down his arm. At that time, Su Lan'er had already been pushed out, her feet went limp in a panic, and she staggered and fell to the ground.

The maids rushed forward, Su Wan'er lowered her head and bit her lips for a moment, then burst into tears, pointing at Xia Yan with red eyes: "You, you...I want to sue the Holy Majesty and my aunt!

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