The Empire and the Kingdom

There was a lively girl in the princess' mansion, and there was more laughter.The eldest princess likes to grow flowers, so Xue Ai accompanied the eldest princess to tend the flowers and plants.In addition, the eldest princess has collected a lot of books on growing flowers. Xue Ai accompanied the eldest princess to read and study together, and soon she became an expert in flower planting. The eldest princess asked her to teach her many questions.

"I don't like such lovely girls, but I prefer those who only know how to flatter and flatter me. Mrs. Xue is really blindfolded by prejudice!" the eldest princess said privately to Lingxiang, the maid of honor.

Lingxiang glanced at Xue Ai who was busy in the greenhouse, "Ms. Xue San is more like Xue Xiang than the other four ladies in Xue's house."

"Yeah, I don't know why this child is showing up now. According to her temper and talent, she should have attracted Xue Xiang's attention long ago. I don't believe that Xue Xiang was also blindfolded." Regarding this question, the eldest princess asked I can't solve it all the time.

"Your Highness, why don't you ask Miss Xue San?"

The eldest princess shook her head, "Such a smart girl hasn't shown her head for many years, the reason behind it must be bitter. I'm old, I don't want to be sad, and I don't want to make her sad. It's fine now."

The news that Xue Ai lived in the Princess's Mansion for a long time spread quickly, and there were discussions inside and outside the palace.

In Fengde Palace, the queen who heard about this incident finally became interested in Xue Ai, the future daughter-in-law.To be honest, she was not very satisfied with the appointment of Xue Ai to the prince back then, and she hoped to marry Xue Ying, the eldest daughter of Xue Xiang.Xue Ai has always been known as a "wooden vase", and she has seen it several times at palace banquets. It looks really beautiful, but the eyes are like dead fish, and she is really not a person who knows how to serve people.But the purpose of this marriage was to bind Xue Xiang, and it didn't matter what happened to Xue Ai.Now that Princess Ming Qi is so kind to Xue Ai, it can be seen that Xue Ai still has some tricks.

"It seems that next time we meet again, I will take a good look at her." The queen was trying on a dress, and her birthday would be the Qianqiu Festival in a few days.

"Your Majesty, you will be able to see Miss Xue San on the Qianqiu Festival." Cai He laughed.

"That's right, Caihe, go pick out a suitable gift. It's the first time I officially meet with her. A reward is indispensable, and let her recite the kindness of the heavenly family."

"Yes."

There was a chessboard in front of Feng Qianzi, and she held the sunspots for a long time without dropping them.Xue Ai made such a big commotion in the capital again, now not only the dignitaries in the capital, but also the palace should have become interested in her.

This is a risky move.However, it is also a wonderful move.

Xue Ying was furious when she learned that Xue Ai lived in the Princess's mansion.She didn't get any benefit from going to the princess mansion many times, so why can Xue Ai go to live there for a long time?Fortunately, she has now become good friends with King Xin's daughter, Princess Qingrong, otherwise she would have been overwhelmed by Xue Ai.For this reason, Xue Ying paid more attention to management and friendship with Princess Qingrong.

The Queen's Qianqiu Festival is at the end of February, and a palace banquet will inevitably be held.This time Xue Ai entered the palace with Princess Ming Qi.All of her clothes were tailored for Xue Ai by the eldest princess, who was not only fit, but also beautiful.

Although she entered the palace with the eldest princess, Xue Ai is a member of the Xue family after all, so she still has to sit at the table of the Xue family.The other ladies of the Xue family looked at Xue Ai's outfit, and then looked down at their own, and suddenly felt much shabby.In fact, Miss Xiangfu's dress is not bad when she enters the palace for a banquet, but it is hard to compare with the eldest princess's deliberate dressing of Xue Ai.

"Third Sister is really worth climbing, otherwise how could she be so rich?" Xue Ying couldn't help mocking.

Xue Ai looked at her, "Eldest sister is right. Aren't all the good things my sister has with her? My younger sister is naturally gone."

Xue Zhi in the middle covered her mouth with a handkerchief. She loved to watch Xue Ying and Xue Ai fighting each other, and she was happy no matter who lost or won.

Pan frowned, "Ai'er, didn't Ying'er return all the things to you? This kind of talk is also talking nonsense in the palace? Don't shut up!"

Xue Ai lowered her head, "Yes, mother."

Just as Xue Ying showed a triumphant smile, she saw a court lady approaching, "Miss Xue San, Empress, please go over and talk."

Xue Ai's heart trembled, and he suddenly became nervous.She really didn't want to have anything to do with the queen or the prince.

The queen summoned her, and even if she didn't want to, she would go there. This was something she couldn't refuse.When she came in front of the queen, Xue Ai knelt down and saluted, "My daughter, Xue Ai, sees the empress, and wishes her good luck like the East Sea, and a long life like Nanshan."

Princess Hejia next to the queen couldn't help laughing out loud, why is this Miss Xue San so stupid?The general lady He Shou would say something out of the ordinary, but this one actually spoke so well.

The queen remained calm and asked the maid to help Xue Ai up, "Miss Xue San, I and you are not outsiders, don't be so cautious." She asked Xue Ai to come closer and raised her head to let her take a closer look.

Xue Ai's facial features are the most standard ones. Her beauty is not amazing, but she is very attractive.It is getting more and more beautiful, and it can completely withstand the appearance of fine products.The queen looked at it carefully for a while, and was quite satisfied. No matter what, Xue Ai's appearance was always worthy of her status as a prince and side concubine.Even if such a woman is not smart, with her appearance and family background, she can still have a place in the harem.

"Miss Xue San, you were a little girl when I proposed marriage to you the year before last, and you have grown into a big girl in no time. As expected, the longer you grow, the more beautiful you are. It seems that the prince is blessed." The queen took Xue Ai's hand, Said kindly.

Xue Ai lowered her head, looking shy. "Your Majesty praises me absurdly, I am ashamed to be a courtier's daughter."

Seeing Xue Ai's reaction, the queen was really dull, and she was not in the mood to chat, so she asked Xue Ai to go back after she was rewarded with the jewelry she had prepared.

When she returned to her seat, Xue Ai's complexion was still not good. She was blushing in front of the queen before, but now she is a little pale.

Meng An came back with the jewelry bestowed by the Queen, Xue Ying and the other sisters pretended to glance at it casually.Of course, the queen's rewards are not bad, a pair of Danfeng hairpins are extremely beautiful, there is also a jade pendant with a double lotus, and a pair of white jade bracelets.

Xue Ying looked at the warm and delicate pair of white jade bracelets, and saw that Xue Ai was wearing a purple warm jade bracelet on her wrist, she had already moved her mind.It's just that this was rewarded by the queen, even if she wanted to, she dared not speak now.

When Feng Jingsu arrived, it happened to be the time when the queen called Xue Ai away. She didn't want to go forward, but kept paying attention to that side.Seeing that Xue Ai's complexion is not good now, she knows why, and feels a little distressed. Just as she was about to step forward, she heard footsteps around her. She turned her head and saw Feng Qianzi walking over.

"Princess, is your heart hurting?" Feng Qianzi also looked at Xue Ai, "Princess, look at how many pairs of eyes are staring at Xiao Ai now. Are you sure this is the right time to go forward to comfort her?"

Feng Jingsu smiled and said, "Thank you, Miss Feng, for reminding me."

Feng Qianzi didn't answer, she pointed at Feng Jingsu, "the authority." Then she pointed at herself, "bystander." Then she made an innocent gesture of spreading her hands, and left.

Xue Ai returned to his seat to relax for a while, and finally calmed down.She raised her head and looked around, looking for Feng Jingsu.

As soon as the eyes of the two met in the air, they immediately stuck together.Xue Ai smiled at Feng Jingsu, expressing that she was fine.Feng Jingsu nodded, indicating that she understood.The two of them didn't dare to be too explicit in the air, and silently looked away.

At the end of the banquet, Mrs. Pan asked Xue Ai when she would go home. The eldest princess heard it and said that she wanted to stay with Xue Ai for a longer period of time, but Mrs. Pan had no choice but to agree.In fact, Pan asked Xue Ai mainly because of the reward Xue Ai had just received. Originally, she wanted to say that if Xue Ai didn't go home, she would give her the queen's reward and take it home, so that she could give it to Xue Ying directly.But the eldest princess is here, so it's hard for her to say such a thing.

After hesitating for a while, Mrs. Pan still didn't say that she wanted to take the reward home, so Xue Ai took the reward from the queen to the eldest princess mansion.

On the carriage, the eldest princess said: "Xiao Ai, you have collected the rewards from the queen yourself. This is a royal gift and cannot be given away casually. Do you understand?"

Xue Ai nodded, "Understood."

The eldest princess stroked her long hair, and looked down on Pan from the bottom of her heart.Anyway, she is also the serious mistress of the Prime Minister's Mansion, why does she seem to have never seen the world?Can my daughter's things be swiped into my hands?I have never heard of mothers subsidizing their daughters, but not mothers asking their daughters to subsidize them.Is the Xiangfu lacking these things?Of course not, it's just that Mrs. Pan can't see that the younger daughter has one but the eldest daughter doesn't.

Entering March, the weather has completely warmed up.The emperor gave Feng Jingsu a secret mission to train a group of guards in the mountains outside the city.Feng Jingsu has been back to the palace for more than half a year, and she has seen most of the guards in the palace, but she has never seen any of these guards.

The training is actually very simple, these are masters, daily fixed physical training plus skill training, as well as combat training, as for what is considered qualified, that is up to Feng Jingsu.

Training goes on every day, but Feng Jingsu doesn't come every day.What she is doing now is the training she herself did at Feiyejin Academy.At that time, Jiang Fengmin always gave her a daily schedule, and then she disappeared.Come back to check in a few days, increase the difficulty if you do it, and chase after you if you don't.That's right, it is chasing and hitting, and it can be avoided.Why are she and her junior sister Gu Li good at lightness kung fu? It was all practiced while avoiding chasing and hitting.Although you can hide, but with such an expert master, who can hide?In the end, he was beaten while running, so the situation should not be too miserable.

Five days later, Feng Jingsu took Yushu to the mountains to check the training effect.Because the guards are all masters, the training requirements are also very high. After inspection, only two of them are qualified, and the rest must be lazy.

Feng Jingsu took these people to the mountain, and took a cloth bag from Yushu's hand, "After a while, I said, you can run, hide, or hide as you like. Here are the special arrowheads made in the palace," she said from the bag He took one out from the inside, and everyone looked at it, the flesh on his face twitched, it was really an arrowhead, the kind of triangular arrowhead without an arrow shaft, but it was made of wood, and the tip was very blunt, so even if it was hit, it would not hurt , the most is to be smashed. "I'll use these arrows to hit you. After half an hour, whoever can continue to hide will win, and you will be exempted from today's training. Those who lose will double their training."

After Feng Jingsu finished speaking, everyone was still reminiscing about the meaning of the words. A guard at the side had already brought out a big copper gong, "The gong starts to ring, and the ringing ends." Feng Jingsu just finished speaking, and the gong sounded once.

I don't know how much force was used this time, it made people's ears buzzing.Those who reacted quickly rushed into the mountains immediately, while those who reacted slowly were still covering their ears, and then they found that they could not move while keeping their ears covered.Feng Jingsu was indeed just attacking them with wooden arrows. The problem was that Feng Jingsu was attacking acupuncture points, and she couldn't move after being hit.At this time, everyone understood what Feng Jingsu meant when he said that he could continue to hide after half an hour. He couldn't even move, so why hide?

After solving a few slow-moving ones, Feng Jingsu jumped into the mountain.Yu Shu was her personal maid, so of course she chased after her, but soon she came back dejected, and she lost her.

Feng Jingsu's skill is definitely not ranked first among the academy's disciples. She is talented in martial arts, but she is not the top one. Forget it, she doesn't want to compare.But her skills are in Yunguo, at least she hasn't met any opponents in this capital, and it's not a problem to deal with these guards.

Half an hour later, the mountain was full of guards who had acupuncture points.The gong sounded, and no one could return to the original place.

Feng Jingsu strolled down the mountain, and the guard in charge of management looked confused, "Princess, how do you get these people down?"

"Don't worry, the acupoints will be resolved by themselves in a while." She pointed to a few guards next to her who had been covering their ears and couldn't move. These people were able to move suddenly, but they just kept one position for too long. He fell to the ground, grinning and moving his paralyzed body.

"When everyone comes back, watch them do the training twice, and train with this list tomorrow." Feng Jingsu took Yu Shu away after explaining.

Yushu didn't speak along the way, Feng Jingsu turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"

"The princess is so good at martial arts, the servant feels that she is so useless." Yushu felt a sense of frustration.

"It's not easy to be good at martial arts. As long as you can bear the hardships, I will teach you when you return to the palace."

Yushu immediately nodded happily, "Thank you, princess." She was happy for a while, thinking of her younger sister Yuyan who was at Xue Ai's side, and wanted to let her learn more.

"Thinking of Yuyan?" Feng Jingsu laughed.The aristocratic ladies in the capital fight in their nests all day long, and they say that the five sisters of the Xue family fight more fiercely than outsiders, but the two sisters who lick blood with knives do not forget each other.

"The servant girl also wants her to learn more things, so that she will have an explanation to her parents when she returns home." Yushu knew that this request was a little too much for her identity, so she slowly lowered her head.

"You study hard. When you finish your studies, go out of the palace and change Yuyan to come in to study. Anyway, you two look the same, who can tell the difference?" Feng Jingsu is funny. Know how to make good use of it.

Yushu was really happy when she heard that, she smiled so much that she couldn't see her eyes, as if Feng Jingsu's good martial arts had already been acquired.

During this time, Feng Jingsu had to go out of the city frequently to train the guards, and she had to hide it from others, so she had less time to visit Xue Ai.

Since such a big incident occurred during the last outing, in recent days, everyone has rarely organized outdoor activities, even banquets in the mansion, and the ladies who came to participate are determined not to stay alone, even if they go to the clean room, they have to find more Few people dare to go, for fear of being taken advantage of by some villain.The ladies may not know the truth of the matter, but there are definitely many people who know the truth behind Shen Zhiqiu's incident, so they have been very careful with their own daughters recently.

There were fewer banquets, and the Xue family sisters felt bored.Xue Ying is going to buy books with Princess Qingrong today. The bookstore has a new batch of books, which are said to be very popular. She has been bored for a long time and wants to go to lively places.

At the Moxiang Bookstore on Zhuque Street, Xue Ying had just entered the door, and unexpectedly met Xue Ai who had been living in the Princess' Mansion.

"Elder sister also came to buy books?" Xue Ai was curious.Xue Ying is indeed a talented person, and she is famous in the capital, so Xue Ying has always sneered at the secular novels that Moxiang Bookstore has entered, but she did not expect to meet them here today.

Xue Ying was even angrier when she saw that Xue Ai was not only surrounded by Meng'an, but also by a strange maid, guessing it was a maid from the Princess's Mansion.She introduced Princess Qingrong next to her to Xue Ai, "I'm here with the princess, but it's you, third sister." She glanced behind Xue Ai, except for Meng An and the maid who didn't see it. Others said, "You come here alone, so it can be seen that you want to buy books."

Xue Ai smiled, "I'm an ordinary person, it's okay to come to the bookstore to buy a few novels, but you, elder sister, have always disdained these vulgar things, why are you willing to come today? Aren't you afraid of losing face for your eldest lady?"

Princess Qingrong looked at Xue Ying when she heard the words. Princess Qingrong liked to read some story books to relieve boredom. When talking with Xue Ying, Xue Ying always said that she liked story books very much, so the two had a lot of conversations.

Xue Ying saw that the conversation between the two attracted Princess Qingrong's attention, and hurriedly said: "The novels are also works of literati, why are they so vulgar? You usually like to take words out of context and misinterpret my words. Now don't mess around in front of the princess. Say, be careful not to be punished by your parents if they find out about it.” She said this cleverly, first she said that Xue Ai usually likes to provoke right and wrong, and then used the word "you" to point out that Xue Ai had been punished, showing that she was an older sister. With majesty and the generosity to protect his sister from speaking right and wrong, he earned enough face in front of Princess Qingrong.

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