National Beauty

Song Jianing, who has just finished eating persimmons, has a moist mouth and redder than cherries.

Zhao Heng paused for a moment with his eyes on her face, then looked at her hand, did not see the persimmon skin, Zhao Heng was slightly surprised, is she so hungry that she even ate the persimmon skin?

"Master, you called me over. Is there anything wrong?" Song Jianing asked softly, very worried that the purse would be soaked in persimmon skin and then soiled on the dress, and wanted to return to the government office soon.

Zhao Heng asked her to come to the study to appease her, so as not to be frightened by Princess Duanhui, but the fat girl has recovered her composure at this time, her eyes are bright, and I don't know whether it is due to him or persimmon. After thinking for a moment, Zhao Heng got up, walked to the Duobao Pavilion in the southeast corner, raised his hand to take out an oblate white porcelain box, and then signaled Song Jianing to come over.

"Reward you." Zhao Heng handed her the white porcelain box, with a clear look in his eyes: "If you are not entertained well, apologize."

Song Jianing stretched out his hand to take it, and immediately retracted his hand when he heard the words, and said happily: "The prince is too polite, you are right today, and you just rewarded me with a persimmon, I really don't need it." The prince is actually very approachable, and Song Jianing is not so nervous and restrained in speaking.

Zhao Heng still held the box and reminded her briefly: "They will ask."

Song Jianing was not Father Fu, and it took a while to react. Yes, Shouwang took her to the study, and her cousin and sister will definitely ask when she turns back, she can't say that she ate a persimmon here, and they won't be laughed at for a while. After figuring it out, Song Jianing smiled shyly, looking at the white porcelain box questioningly as he went to pick it up, "Master, what is this?"

"Pigment, open it and take a look." Zhao Heng put down his hand, Song Jianing looked at the box, he looked at her.

Song Jianing hadn't touched such elegant objects in two lifetimes. He unscrewed the lid and took it away. The eye was a dazzling cherry red. The red was fresh and bright, just like the ripe red cherries in early summer. It was very beautiful. Song Jianing let out a lightly surprised admiration and raised her head to meet Zhao Heng's calm eyes. She immediately closed the lid and bowed her knees: "Thank you, Lord, for your reward."

She liked it so much, Zhao Heng moved in his heart, and asked her as he walked out, "Like painting?"

Song Jianing shook his head honestly: "No, I don't paint well."

Zhao Heng frowned. This box of paint must be given to her as a guise, but this thing is rare, and it falls into the hands of someone who is not good at painting. It is really a violent thing.

"What do you want to do with it?" Zhao Heng asked casually.

If Grandpa Fu is by his side and hears several conversations between his master and Song Jianing, 80% will be jealous. After all, Zhao Heng would not speak easily when he saw outsiders. He used to stay in King Shou Palace at Jingping Palace and would not speak at all. Almost a day was spent in silence, which made the people of the palace less and less talkative, and there was no place in the entire capital that was quieter than the palace of Shou.

Song Jianing cherished the paint from the future emperor, and said without hesitation: "I will put it in the study room and pay my respects every day." No, she has to put it away and keep it as a family heirloom in the future.

Pay homage daily...

Zhao Heng calmly looked away, and a shallow helplessness flashed across his eyes. This girl, who was still a child, actually knew that she was seeing things and thinking about people, and she said it in front of him. However, her face was as usual when she spoke, she was still childish and naive, and she didn't understand the true love of men and women.

After two quarters of an hour, Song Jianing returned to Linyuntang with the paint box of the "Royal Gifts", first went to his small yard to unwind his purse, and then took the paint box to see his mother. Yunfang couldn't keep her mouth shut, and the whole Guogong Mansion would yell at everything. Instead of worrying her mother, Song Jianing obediently confessed the unhappiness of Shouwang Mansion, and only omitted the persimmons she ate in the study.

Lin naturally didn't like Princess Duanhui. Fortunately, the King of Shou was fair and didn't let her daughter suffer more.

After seeing the paint, Lin said in surprise: "The prince's gift is too expensive."

Song Jianing didn't understand, and then looked at the beautiful cherry red in the box, wondering: "How much silver do you want?"

Lin closed the lid and said to his daughter with emotion: "This is a precious gold item used by high-ranking officials and nobles, and ordinary merchants can't buy it if they have money. An An takes it carefully and remembers this lesson. In the future, Princess Duanhui will always be there. , Even if you are hungry for a while, don't provoke her."

Song Jianing pouted her mouth and leaned into her mother's arms and complained: "I don't want to eat after eating a bowl of rice. It was the third brother and the third sister who said that she leaked." As for the sneeze, she can hold back the fart in front of others, and can't hold back the sneeze. , Come as soon as it is said, no preparation at all.

"Well, mother knows, our An An is getting more and more sensible." Lin hugged her daughter, bowed her head and kissed Xiaoya's head.

And when their mother and daughter were talking softly, the palace, Princess Duanhui came back and rushed directly to Emperor Xuande to file a complaint, regardless of Emperor Xuande's reviewing memorials, she squeezed into his arms and cried: "Father, You control the third brother, I kindly congratulate him on his housewarming, he actually scolded me in front of so many people, even if the eldest brother and the second brother, my cousin and cousin also heard it, and my dignified princess was completely ashamed! "

Emperor Xuande frowned, held his daughter's shoulders and asked her to raise her head. Seeing his daughter's eyes were red from crying, Emperor Xuande said solemnly: "Don't cry, what's going on."

Princess Duanhui tried to learn it again: "...Cousin Jianing sneezed, and we all heard it. The second and third cousins ​​laughed. I just followed a joke, and the third brother called me a lot of mouth...Father, third brother stared at me. The eyes are fierce, he doesn't even have my sister in his heart..."

Emperor Xuande listened carefully, but didn't pay attention to it. The children played a little bit and it was not worth his trouble. He sent his daughter away after a perfunctory moment, and he continued to deal with political affairs.

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When Guo Xiao and Mrs. Tai came back from Anguo Temple, Song Jianing was still sleeping, and Guo Xiao sent Mrs. Tai to Changxinyuan. After he came out, he said to Guo Fu, "Let the third brother go to Yihexuan to find me."

Guo Fu nodded.

Guo Xiao strode back to the Summer Palace, changed his clothes and came out. Guo Shu had arrived and was drinking tea in the hall.

Guo Xiao sat opposite him and asked about the banquet at the Shouwang Palace today.

Guo Shu knew what his brother was most worried about, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, eldest brother, I have been staring at the Fourth Highness today, and he used the dinner to catch up with the third and fourth sisters."

Guo Xiao glanced at him.

Guo Shu was cold all over, as if he had done something wrong. He misunderstood that the eldest brother knew of the good things that Princess Duanhui had done, Guo Shu helplessly said: "The cousin’s temper is not clear to the eldest brother. She even dared to offend the prince of life. I can't control her."

Guo Xiao's face sank, "Say one hundred and fifty."

Guo Shu leaned back in his chair and said wherever he thought.

"What did Your Highness Three bring Jianing to the study?" Guo Xiao asked coldly, "How long have you been there."

Guo Shu raised his head to think about it, and said, "A quarter of an hour? The third majesty was very polite. The cousin bullied the fourth sister. He claimed to be inadequate and gave the fourth sister a box of paint."

A quarter of an hour? Guo Xiao's eyes are getting colder. He just sends paint and tells the people around him to take a trip. Why should he take them by himself? King Shou was withdrawn from his childhood, and no one really understood the temperament of King Shou except King Chu. Seeing how many times he looked at his step-sister differently, did he do something to the step-sister in the study?

Guo Xiao grew up so big that he was not nearly female, but he had heard of some things that some men have different hobbies from ordinary people, and he likes to raise some little girls who have not grown up, even half-aged teenagers.

"Brother, you won't worry about the kind of sentimentality of the third sister to the fourth sister, do you?" Guo Shu finally made a mistake, and smiled confidently: "Then you really think about it, the fourth sister wants to pick his big persimmon. No, how could you like the fourth sister."

Guo Xiao raised his eyebrows, but his cousin did not mention anything about persimmons, so he immediately asked.

The next day, Song Jianing led the pair to go to class with Mrs. Tai. On the way, he saw a young man in a dark robe standing on the pebble path in front of him. He was tall and stern, and it was Guo Xiao. Song Jianing felt frustrated every time he met him alone, but there was no reason to hide, pretending to walk over naturally, and approaching him, he respectfully called out: "Big Brother."

Usually the two of them met each other, and her elder brother Guo Xiao replied "Yeah", even if they had already said hello, they were politely alienated. Song Jianing would still stop at first, but later discovered that Guo Xiao had just passed by. Song Jianing gradually didn't stop, just like now, she continued to move forward after being polite.

"Wait, I have something to ask you." Guo Xiao called to her.

Song Jianing was taken aback, looked at him in surprise, and stopped.

Guo Xiao looked over her and fell on the twins who accompanied Song Jianing to study. They understood, and took the initiative to walk a distance, and waited sideways, but the two were brothers and sisters, and the one who stopped the four girls was still the most stable son of the world. , Shuang'er did not suspect anything.

"Yesterday, the Three Highnesses took you to the study. What did you do?" Guo Xiao asked straightaway, staring at Song Jianing, his eyes sharp, as if interrogating.

Song Jianing originally looked at his chest, raised his head weirdly, and met Guo Xiao's gloomy face. A chill suddenly climbed up Song Jianing's spine and his body was chilly. What does this person mean? Not only did she deliberately inquire about her staying in the Shou Palace, but now she has come to interrogate her?

Afraid that she would seize the opportunity to seduce King Shou, just like in the previous life, he obviously robbed her, but raked her back and blamed her for eye-catching? Perhaps in Guo Xiao's heart, she really hooked him. He was the same as the aunt of the second room of the Song family. Because she was so charming, she was convinced that she was wrong, so he wronged her in the previous life, and in this life he wronged her to go to the king of life.

For a woman, there is no more insulting charge than misconduct.

Song Jianing was very angry, but she didn't have an attack, and she looked down and said: "His Royal Highness has rewarded me with a box of paint."

"Just so?" Guo Xiao asked meaningfully, with a bit of irony.

Song Jianing laughed angrily and looked at him directly and said, "Why does the eldest brother ask that?"

She raised her head and stared at this man without evasiveness for the first time. She had nothing in her previous life, her mother and her reputation, just like a canary caught by Guo Xiao, unable to escape, and relying on him for food and clothing. Now it's different. She has a mother, and Wei Guogong, who gave him the status of his son, is also her stepfather. Although she is not as honorable as him, the two are nominally siblings and equal, and Guo Xiao is not qualified to treat her like that anymore.

Finally glared at him, and Song Jianing turned and left.

Guo Xiao was stunned in the same place, watching her stepsister quickly walk away with a complicated mood, with her black and white apricot eyes in her mind. She has always been afraid of him, and Guo Xiao is no stranger, but just now, he clearly saw a trace of...hate in her eyes.