Qi Huang

The familiar sound of chanting sutras disappeared, and Xie Xuan had many messy dreams in the few nights after returning to Rongchun Palace.

Another day, when he woke up from the mist, it was only dawn, and there were sparks of fire in the furnace at some point, indicating that someone had come here to add charcoal for him.

Xie Xuan endured the cold for several days, and was suddenly surrounded by the warm firelight, and felt a little uncomfortable for a while.The maids in the palace were busy before their bellies turned pale. Concubine Rong liked to be quiet, so the maids had to be quiet.

In the secluded courtyard, there were hurried footsteps.Not long after, someone seemed to stop in front of Xie Xuan's door, raised his hand and knocked on the door three times: "Your Highness."

It was the perfunctory voice of the eldest maid of Rongchun Palace.

Xie Xuan didn't raise her eyes: "What's the matter?"

"Your Highness, don't forget, today is the family banquet hosted by the Empress Dowager. Concubine Rong is worried that His Highness may oversleep, so she sent a servant over to let her know."

Through the thick door, Xie Xuan could feel the reluctance on the maid's face.

Although these words are decent, it is not difficult to distinguish another meaning from the words - you Xie Xuan just forgot the family banquet, but in the end the queen mother and the emperor didn't see anyone, so they must come to question Concubine Rong, don't give it to my family Nyonnyon makes trouble.

Xie Xuan did not forget.

Today's empress dowager cares about the family relationship with her children and grandchildren. Although she is not the emperor's biological mother, she will set up family banquets in the palace during good seasons to share the family happiness.But when it comes to family banquets, apart from the royal family, there are also some children of important court officials, princes in the palace, etc. sitting at the banquet table, so it should not be neglected like an ordinary family banquet.

But at this time, Xie Xuan heard the slightly impatient voice of the eldest maid, and suddenly wanted to neglect again.

He hugged the quilt and rolled it to the corner of the bed, saying: "It's still early, don't worry."

"Why can't you be in a hurry?!"

Xie Xuan's attitude was languid, but the maid became anxious, and her voice suddenly rose.Then she realized that she was a bit out of line, and hurriedly tried to make amends, "The empress dowager must have already woken up. In order to stay in bed this time, the little highness is not worth the loss if I go late and anger the empress?"

Xie Xuan didn't make a sound anymore. After a while, the voice outside the door also stopped.

A moment later, the door was pushed open heavily from the outside to the inside.I saw the big servant girl walking forward quickly, and actually opened the window lattice directly. The chill of early spring scrambled into the room, dissipating the warmth that had just gathered.

"Your Highness." The big maid said coolly, "It's time to get up."

Xie Xuan didn't move, her head was buried in the quilt, and she seemed to have fallen asleep again.

The eldest servant girl looked at the bulging quilt, and a burst of nameless anger suddenly rose in her heart.

Since Xie Xuan came to Rongchun Palace, the emperor has not been here for a long time.In her eyes, the favor of the emperor is the only way out for Concubine Rong in her life.Even though Concubine Rong has a cold temper and the emperor doesn't often stay in the palace, she also knows that the emperor is still happy.Fortunately now, with Xie Xuan as the prince in name, the emperor seemed to be relieved, and never even looked at Concubine Rong again!

For Concubine Rong, a prince like Xie Xuan who was destined not to be reused from birth would not only not become a ladder for climbing, but would be a burden instead!

The big servant girl thought a lot in her mind, but she never thought about her master and never thought about clinging to her.At this time, she was full of grievances for Concubine Rong, and she was worried that if Xie Xuan was late for the family banquet, Concubine Rong would be blamed for being poorly educated, grievance, anger, impatience, and mixed emotions, urging her to go straight He stretched out his hand towards Xie Xuan's quilt.

At the moment when she moved first and her mind hadn't caught up, the maid's hand paused for a moment.However, before she regained consciousness, she felt her wrist was suddenly pinched, and then her whole body was swung away by a strong force.

Xie Xuan had already lifted the quilt, and there was no trace of hazy sleepiness in her eyes.He squinted, and said slowly and leisurely: "I remember your name is Tan Xia?"

Tan Xia fell to the ground, still a little dazed for a while.

"Ask you!" Xie Xuan scolded coldly.

Tan Xia was terrified by the stern voice, and finally realized belatedly that his behavior just now was too presumptuous, and he could be dragged out and killed with a stick on the spot, with a panicked look on his face.

But as a maid, she is experienced, she quickly calmed down, looked up at Xie Xuan, and nodded: "Yes."

"Didn't your etiquette mother teach you how to talk to the master?"

Feeling the coldness of Xie Xuan's words, Tan Xia was not angry, but still leaned over and kowtowed: "Return to Your Highness, this servant is indeed named Tan Xia."

Xie Xuan stood up slowly, stepping on the ground with bare feet, behind him was a servant who prostrated himself on the ground.

He took a few steps forward, put one hand behind his back, and played with the teacup on the table with the other, seemingly carelessly: "You are dissatisfied."

Tan Xia's face was covered under her arms, no one knew what kind of expression she had now.

"You think I'm just an unfavored prince who can't make a big storm. If you suffer any grievances, you can only swallow the pain silently, and you can't say a word."

Tan Xia: "...Your Highness is joking."

"Oh, maybe I misunderstood." Xie Xuan turned back and said, "Mother and concubine have nothing to do with the world, presumably Rongchun Palace has no rules, and everyone has the right to be in charge of the family. You didn't grow up in the palace, and mother and concubine treated you well." Hello, you think that if there is no identity gap between people, they are just two pairs of stinky skins, and no one is more noble than the other. Now you are kneeling in front of me, maybe you still think in your heart, this is a humiliation to yourself ,Yeah?"

Tan Xia's heart skipped a beat.

After entering the room, she finally realized that no matter how young the person in front of her was, no matter how low her weight in the emperor's heart was, she was still a prince.

She raised her head slightly and looked at Xie Xuan through the gap between her arms, trying to see something different from his thin and thin body, but she found nothing.

Xie Xuan saw Tan Xia's reaction in his eyes, and smiled lightly: "It seems that I have hit the mark this time."

The next moment, he changed his tone and knocked the teacup heavily on the table, which also smashed into Tan Xia's heart.

"Then do you know that if it were not me today, this time and this place, but any prince, anyone who could stay here, your head would have already fallen off your neck." Xie Xuan looked down at Tan Xia, with a condescending attitude, "Not only that, your beloved master will also be implicated for your recklessness, ranging from a fine to a salary to a severe crime."

After all, Xie Xuan seemed to suddenly think of something, and slightly bent the corners of his lips: "Of course, I can also fulfill your wish of getting your head off, and no one will come to hold me accountable."

Tan Xia was not a stupid person, and immediately bent down and kowtowed again, more sincerely than ever: "It's a servant who is disrespectful, and has nothing to do with Concubine Rong, I hope your Highness will punish her!"

Xie Xuan didn't move.

He sat on a low stool, but he was much taller than Tan Xia who bowed his head and knelt down.But at this moment, the coldness in his eyes has faded away, as if he saw someone's shadow through the maid in front of him who had to submit to others because of her status, status, position and other reasons.

He took a sip of the tea, it was cold, so he didn't care.

"Want to stand up and talk?" Xie Xuan said softly, "Then you have to stand tall enough."

It was the first time for Tan Xia to serve Xie Xuan personally, and it was also the first time that he realized that the little Highness in front of him was not a careless person.The scene when he returned to the Rongchun Palace with injuries and embarrassment was still vivid in his memory, and Tan Xia thought that this child had long been used to crawling and rolling in the mud, unlike those expensive princes.

It's not like now——

A little maid brought food to Concubine Rong's room, Xie Xuan looked at it from afar through the window, wrinkling her nose in distaste: "This is a yellow croaker made by a famous artist, the thorns are not even picked out. "

Tan Xia thought to himself: It's not for you to eat.

There were a few maids around the bed, under Xie Xuan's watchful eyes, they were in a hurry, just after finishing the bedding, Xie Xuan said: "The bed is a bit hard, is there no cotton silk available in your palace?"

Tan Xia: "..."

It's also where you live, thank you.

The time for the family banquet was rushed, Tan Xia helped Xie Xuan change his clothes, but the little ancestor tore the clothes: "This fabric is a bit thick, it's too uncomfortable to wear, change it."

Tan Xia finally couldn't help but choked out loudly: "Concubine Rong likes it very much."

Xie Xuan: "I'm not a concubine mother."

He just turned his head and saw Tan Xia's stinky face, which was so dark that ink could be wrung out, he couldn't help laughing: "I didn't torment you, it's true."

After finishing speaking, Xie Xuan rolled up the long sleeve of her left hand to the crook of her arm, exposing her white and slender arm to the air.I saw that the area near the upper arm was red, and there were scattered small rashes. The old and new marks alternated, and it seemed that it could not be born in a day or two.

Tan Xia: "..."

Tan Xia blurted out: "Then why didn't you say it before?"

Xie Xuan thought to herself that the previous one is not the current me, but she said: "I told you, do you care?"

Tan Xia: "..." That's really...not my concern.

If it wasn't for Xie Xuan's rare backlash today, Tan Xia guessed that she wouldn't even know what size clothes Xie Xuan was wearing.

However, the clothes and fabrics supplied to the Rongchun Palace in the palace are all purchased uniformly, either as tribute to neighboring countries, or sent to the palace for noble women, the good ones are picked by the people above, and the ones that fall on Concubine Rong's head are all Some common fabrics.

But isn't Concubine Rong dressed well?Thinking about it, Xie Xuan herself was too delicate.

Tan Xia made up a road in his heart.

"I heard it." Xie Xuan said abruptly.

Tan Xia was startled, thinking that the little ancestor Xie Xuan was going to have another seizure and was about to kneel down in a moment, but saw him slowly smoothing down the sleeves on his arms: "That's how it is, I'm leaving."

Xie Xuan walked forward for a while on his own, then turned around suddenly: "Hello."

"Huh?" Tan Xia was taken aback.

Xie Xuan: "When I go back to the palace, the charcoal fire in the room must be burning, is there a problem?"

"……no problem."

"That's good, don't say you can't even afford charcoal."

Tan Xia: "?"

She should have thrown Xie Xuan into the pond to feed the fish when he first came to Rongchun Palace!