After seeing off Mrs. Shi, it was getting late, so Zhixin and Princess Seventeen returned to their own residence together.

The spring weather was warm, and there was no chill in the evening. After the seventeenth princess finished her meal, she saw Zhixin's expression was a little strange during the day, and she didn't know why. She was very curious, so she wanted to ask what happened. She came to Zhixin's room,

Seeing that Zhi Xin was in a cheerful mood, which was very different from yesterday, he asked: "Why, we haven't seen you for a while, how come your expression changed so quickly?"

"Did I?"

"Of course. You didn't see how you looked when your mother took you back because you were afraid!"

Zhixin touched her face and smiled happily: "Anyway, I'm fine now."

"Although I'm fine now, I really want to know why your mother pulled you back? And why are you so scared?"

Hearing Princess Seventeen's question, Zhixin stopped her cheerful smile and said, "Everyone has their own difficulties."

"What difficulties do you have? I heard your mother say that any of your life-long events are related to this?"

Zhixin thought: Since Princess Seventeen told me her own thoughts and treated me as a close friend, I might as well tell her my thoughts. After thinking about it, Zhixin told the story about forced marriage to Ten

The seventh princess listened, but did not mention her past life experience.

"Forced marriage? Is there such a thing?"

Zhixin nodded.

"In other words, it was just when you were helpless against the forced marriage and your parents had already agreed to half of it that the queen and I happened to save you?"

Zhixin nodded again.

"Whose family is the man? Why don't you agree?"

"In the Shi family of Ruyin, his father is now the minister of Sanqi, and he is also the secretary in the court."

The seventeenth princess heard this and said loudly: "Ah? He, that young master is fair-skinned, handsome, and suave. Why don't you agree?"

"Huh?" Zhixin was surprised, "What, princess, do you know him?"

"Oh..." At this time, the Seventeenth Princess had already realized that something was wrong. As a harem princess, how could she know an outsider? It was all because she secretly followed Xiao Mo during the royal banquet last year and was in Lingyun.

Outside the stage, she glanced at her a few times inadvertently. To say that she knew him was aggrieved. She was embarrassed.

I was so desperate that my face turned red, and I wanted to pinch my open mouth a few times, but the words had already been spoken, so I had to think of a reason to cover them up... "I heard what others said. You know that now in Luoyang

In the city, the handsome and elegant young master from aristocratic families is the most popular among the people. If you don't pay attention, you will become famous!"

Zhixin looked at the seventeenth princess's expression. She was confused and doubtful, "Is this kind of beauty popular among men in the world now?"

"Isn't that right? It turns out that you, the daughter of a noble family, don't know anything about the world, and you are not as good as me, who has lived in the harem for a long time."

"The princess also likes such a person?"

"Me?" Princess Seventeen recalled that day, when Xiao Mo insisted on saying which type of words he preferred between Shu Yan and Shi Biyu. She had been tricked once, and she didn't want Zhixin to ask the same topic again today.

How could he be fooled again? Then he asked Zhixin, "Don't involve me. You haven't finished talking about it yet. Please tell me, Mr. Shi is an extraordinary person and has countless wealth. Why don't you agree to that marriage?"

"I don't like men who are too gentle and beautiful."

"I don't believe it. The handsome and handsome young master from an aristocratic family is the benchmark for women to choose their husbands nowadays. How could you not like him?"

Although Zhixin and the Seventeenth Princess now agree on each other, it is still difficult to say that she has already been in love with her for a long time, so she brings the topic to the Seventeenth Princess. The other party pushes her over again, and the two argue with each other. After a while, they feel more intimate.

Incessantly, until they were tired, they fell asleep separately.

The next day, Zhixin knew the rules in the palace and could not stay in bed. She got up before others without waiting for others to call her. After washing herself, she had a simple meal and went to the seventeenth princess's room to wait for her.

The two palace maids were combing Princess Seventeen's hair and had not yet had breakfast. Seeing Zhixin arriving so early, they were a little surprised and said, "I originally wanted to wait until after dinner to find you, but I didn't expect you to be so early.

"

Zhixin smiled lightly: "I haven't gotten up early for a long time. When I got up early today, my mood was very different. From now on, I will stick to this habit every day."

After clearing her head, another palace maid brought over a bowl of meat porridge and a few dishes of side dishes. The Seventeenth Princess took a few random bites, and then took the two palace ladies and Zhixin to the Yuye Pavilion. As usual, she first paid homage to Confucius and then gave lessons.

Just after talking for a while, I heard

There were footsteps outside, and someone was talking. It seemed that there was more than one person. Sure enough, two women in gorgeous clothes came to the entrance of the pavilion, followed by several palace maids. When the princesses saw these two people coming, they all stood up to greet them and shouted, "

Jieyu, beauty."

Zhixin didn't know why. Although she didn't know these two people, seeing the princesses acting like this, she knew they must be the emperor's concubines, so she had no choice but to bow forward.

Why do you think these two people are here? It turns out that they are both concubines of Sima Yan, and they have been favored for a few days. However, since the five thousand beauties from the Wu Kingdom entered the palace, the emperor had too many new loves, so they naturally fell out of favor.

They could not see the emperor once throughout the year, so naturally they would be bored, melancholy and bored. At this time, they heard that the queen had hired a new female gentleman to teach the princesses how to read. The two of them discussed: Anyway, this day is also

Empty and boring, no

It would be interesting if we also went to the Jade Leaf Pavilion and listened to the female doctor's lecture on poetry. We don't need to learn much, but if we want to be better than living in such a muddleheaded way every day, wouldn't it be good? The two hit it off, so they came here to find Zhi.

Xin. Zhixin heard her clearly.

He readily agreed to their intention to come and immediately arranged for them to sit down. Now it was great, not only the princess, but also the emperor's concubine became his student. She was nervous and happy. This happiness inevitably made her cry in the hall, and she naturally wanted to

Talk for a while.

When the class ended, Zhixin and Princess Seventeen had just walked out of the door when they saw Chunlan and Shaoyao who had been waiting in front of the door. They were happy and went back together. When they arrived at Princess Seventeen's residence, Zhixin and her

After saying goodbye, she was about to go to her room when the Seventeenth Princess pulled her back and said with a smile: "Have a meal at my place today and I will take care of you."

"Catch the wind for me? Why?"

"It's just because you and I are destined. You helped me during the funeral ceremony. I also gave you my advice when you entered the palace to become a female doctor. Now you are my teacher again, so I should help you. It was supposed to be yesterday.

, but it was too late yesterday and I was not prepared, so I changed it to today."

Zhixin felt a little tired today. First of all, she was upset because of Shi Mu's forced marriage, and she had just calmed down a little. Secondly, she suddenly came to this new environment, and she couldn't sleep well in the past few days.

Shifu had been pampered for a long time, and got up early in the morning; again, although she didn't teach much in the library these two days, it was her first time teaching, facing this group of golden branches and jade leaves, and she spent a lot of thought.

"I'm very tired. Let's each eat something. Isn't it the same wherever we eat?"

"How can it be the same? The food and delicacies of the people in the palace are divided into three, six or nine grades: the emperor and the queen are the highest; the rest of the concubines are divided into several grades. The food of the princesses mostly follows their mothers; you female officials and

The eunuchs who have status are in the first class; the other eunuchs and maids who have no status are in the last class."

"Since there are standards and regulations, everyone must abide by the regulations and cannot exceed the extra limit, so what else is there to prepare?"

"You don't know about this, right?" Princess Seventeen smiled mysteriously, "Now in the palace, in addition to the Taiguan's Office, there is also a Fine Food Department. I am very familiar with the Fine Food Department, so I asked them to secretly add some extra food.

We prepared some delicious dishes for us."

"Well..." Yi Zhixin's original intention was to eat whatever she wanted and rest early, but when she saw that the Seventeenth Princess had made extra preparations for her, she couldn't resist her good intentions, so she had no choice but to agree, "Okay then.

Bar."

When the seventeenth princess saw that Zhixin had agreed, she was very happy and asked people to go to the delicacies department immediately to get the food. In less than two moments, the maids brought two large food boxes with more than ten kinds of food. The two sat on the couch opposite each other, and the maid

They serve beside you.

Although these delicacies are all land and water delicacies that the royal family pays great attention to, Zhixin often eats them in Shi Mansion. Zhi Xin looked at them and thought: It turns out that the wealth of the Shi family is well-deserved, even though the carriages and clothing tents did not dare to go out of line.

, but when it comes to eating, it is no different from the royal family.

Zhixin didn't eat much at first, but she got a little angry in the past two days, so her appetite became even smaller. The Seventeenth Princess prepared dishes for Zhixin diligently. She thought that Zhixin would eat a lot when she saw the delicious food, but she didn't expect that she

There wasn't much, so he thought to himself and said: "These dishes must not be very delicious, right? I know that without Xiao Mo, they idiots can't do anything. Alas, what a coincidence, Xiao Mo is not here

."

"No, this dish is delicious. It's just that I don't have a big appetite by nature. No matter how delicious the food is, I can't eat a lot."

"That's because you haven't tasted Xiao Mo's cooking skills. If you want to eat his food, it doesn't matter whether you have a big appetite or not. I guarantee that you will have an appetite."

Zhixin put down her chopsticks and asked, "Who is Xiao Mo? Is it that exaggerated?"

"Of course, Xiao Mo is the director of the Department of Fine Food, but he is very special. He is a eunuch and a mixed race of Huaqiang. He is about the same age as you, but he combines all the culinary essences in the world."

"Is it really that exaggerated?"

"Yes, otherwise, why would my father send him to the palace? Before he made the delicacy order, he lived with a minister in the Shangshutai Mansion. The two of them ate and lived together.

By the end of the month, I had made that Shang Shulang fat enough. And what’s more..."

"What else?" Zhixin asked intentionally or unintentionally after listening to Princess Seventeen's words. Although she thought it was a bit exaggerated, she liked her enthusiasm very much.

The Seventeenth Princess smiled mischievously, "There is also the secretary of the Shi family who wants to marry you. He doesn't even look down on the cooking skills of the Taiguan Office, but he likes Xiao Mo's dishes."

Although Zhixin was angry, she knew that this was the character of the Seventeenth Princess. She could not care too much about talking nonsense without meaning, so she changed the subject: "Where did the Xiao Mo you mentioned go?"

"He, it sounds like he was a weirdo. He was fine before the royal banquet last year. On the day after the royal banquet, he suddenly left without any warning. He only left me a note and didn't say he was leaving.

There was no word on when he would come back for a long time. There was no news after he left... Before he left, he must go to the Chancellor's Desk to say goodbye to the Master."

"Since he is a Qiang person and the journey has been so long, he will not come back, right?"

"Why not come back? In addition to the emperor and I both looking forward to his return, the minister must also be looking forward to the stars and the moon, and your secretary..."

"Princess, can you please be more serious?"

"Hahaha, no, I mean, if so many people want him to come back, he will definitely come back."
Chapter completed!