You hear it, do people say it?

It was not too early for Xun Yi to return to the mansion, but the housekeeper was still waiting at the gatehouse.

Seeing the door open and the master coming back, the steward hurriedly greeted him: "My lord, you are back!"

Xun Yi got out of the car and glanced at him: "What's wrong?"

The housekeeper wiped the sweat that came out of his forehead, and said in a low voice: "The princess is waiting for you in the main hall. I have been waiting for more than an hour. You should go and have a look."

Xun Yi nodded, and asked as he walked, "What is she waiting for me for?"

The butler followed suit step by step: "This, what is the specific matter, the subordinates don't know; it's just that the princess seems to have returned from the palace."

Xun Yi's footsteps paused: "Didn't she say in the morning that after seeing Ziyu, she would go to Jingguo Temple to burn incense and pray for blessings?"

The housekeeper said: "This, maybe it's the princess's temporary intention, so I can't say for sure." He didn't know the specifics.

Seeing his apprehension, Xun Yi didn't make things difficult for him: "I see."

After all, the butler has been with Xun Yi for a long time, so naturally it is impossible to just listen to Princess Ping; after hesitating for a moment, he said: "When the princess came back, she looked unhappy, my son, please be careful."

"Yeah." Xun Yi responded lightly, "Go and do your work."

The housekeeper hurriedly retreated as if he had received an amnesty.

There are not many guests in Prince Ping’s mansion, and even if they come, they are acquaintances like the third prince and Funing. The servants in the mansion are used to leading people directly to the side hall and Xun Yi’s small courtyard, so the main hall usually does not light much. , only a few lights were left for decoration; but today the main hall is brightly lit from the outside to the inside, and the maids and servants stood all over the ground, but it was silent.

The maid at the door who opened the door for Fu Ning, dressed in azure blue and gold dress, hurriedly greeted Xun Yi: "My lord, you are back, the princess is waiting for you."

When she speaks, her tone and behavior are very decent, but her expression is soft and smiling, her eyes are rolling, and she is quite beautiful against the lamp.

It's a pity that Xun Yi didn't even look at her, and walked straight into the house. The maid was so tender that she almost broke her silver teeth, but she couldn't make a sound. She took a deep breath and pretended nothing happened. stood at the door again.

She thought that no one noticed what she was doing, but the servants in Shizi Mansion were not stupid, they saw her performance just now ten to ten percent, although they didn't make a sound, they all silently winked and laughed silently.

A maid standing at the bottom tugged at the little sister beside her, and said with mouth shape: "Look at her, I'm afraid she is just thinking that the prince will look at her more, so that I can be a concubine!"

Her little sister snorted contemptuously, and mouthed: "I'm still a princess, what kind of good things do I bring? My eyelids are so shallow. She alone is not worthy of carrying Mr. Fu's shoes!"

There were not many people in the main hall, only Princess Ping and the maid who accompanied her in a long emerald-embedded silver dress.Princess Ping was sitting on a cushioned chair, holding a scroll in her hand and slowly looking at it. There was a cup of steaming tea on the table beside her. She didn't move when she heard the sound of Xun Yi entering the door; On the other hand, the maid at the side saw him coming, saluted, and said to Princess Ping in a low voice: "Princess, His Royal Highness has arrived."

"En." Princess Ping nodded slightly, but her eyes still kept on the scroll.

However, Xun Yi seemed to be used to it. He came to Princess Ping and bowed to greet him: "Mother."

After a while, Princess Ping finished reading this page, put down the book, picked up the tea, and said calmly: "You and my mother, there is no need to be formal, you can sit down too."

The maid at the side moved a small stool for Xun Yi and was about to leave when Princess Ping suddenly said, "Diancui, you stay here."

Dian Cui froze slightly, hesitated for a moment, then turned back, but did not move forward, but stood still a little distance from the mother and child.

After Princess Ping finished speaking, she didn't say any more, she carefully tasted the tea in her hand, as if it was some kind of peerless famous tea; she didn't make a sound, Xun Yi was not in a hurry, just sat and waited.

After a long time, Princess Ping finally finished tasting the tea, put down the cup, and licked the corners of her lips with a handkerchief: "I called you today because I want to tell you something."

Xun Yi lowered his head slightly and listened respectfully: "Mother, please tell me."

"You are sixteen now, and you will be seventeen after the new year; according to the rules in the capital, you should also be the age to talk about marriage."

This topic came at a bad time, Xun Yi frowned, subconsciously said: "Mother—"

Concubine Ping turned a deaf ear to it, and continued on by herself: "When I went to the palace today, the empress was choosing a concubine for the third prince; I also looked at it, but I always felt that there was no one who was worthy of you. The third lady of the servant's family is barely okay; it's just that she is still young, you have to wait a bit..."

"Mother!" Xun Yi saw that her words were getting more and more wrong, and he didn't care about etiquette, so he interrupted her directly, "Since Mother took the time to meet Ziyu today, she must have known that he is my sweetheart; If you are happy with each other, there will be no one else in this life, so mother doesn't need to worry too much."

Princess Ping looked at him quietly, and after he finished speaking, she laughed: "The two are in love?"

"It's nothing more than his short-sightedness now, and he didn't step up to court, so he was coaxed by you, so he is willing to get tired of you; with his talent, it will be a matter of time before he soars to the sky, and he will leave the country in a few years Xue, seeing more things and more people, can he still be willing to be with you? His family sees that his bright future has been delayed by you, can he be willing?"

Xun Yi looked directly at Princess Ping and said seriously: "He is not an ordinary person, and I can't coax him; he is with me only because he wants to. I can't be sure about the future, but he is with me now. If I'm together, I won't let him down. As for his family you mentioned... the old master has already acquiesced."

"Li Yun is his grandfather, not his parents." Concubine Ping looked at Xun Yi, "If you write a letter to tell Yuezhou prefect and his wife about this now, how do you think they will react? Or you can go to Li's residence tomorrow Go to the Minister of Zhongshu and tell them that you want to marry Fu Ziyu, how do you think they will respond?"

"I have already thought about what my mother said; but he is not yet old, and it is not only inappropriate for me to come to the door rashly, but it will also affect his studies in Guozixue; when he leaves Guozixue, what you said will not be accepted. I'll figure it out myself."

Princess Ping sneered: "Graduated from Guozixue? If he went out from Guozixue and looked down on you, where would you go to plan a settlement?"

Xun Yi took a deep breath: "As I said, I can't be sure about the future, but I will try my best to fight for it; if he doesn't want to be with me again... Then, naturally I won't." Will force it."

"I don't force you...heh." Princess Ping chuckled lightly, "That's all."

"You don't want to talk about marriage, and I don't want to hurt those girls from good families. The engagement is over here; but you will be seventeen soon, and you have to have a servant by your side. It's still not good. I'm here this time, We specially picked two smart girls from the mansion, this one is Diancui, and the one outside is called Lianjin, both of them look like they are waiting for you, so let them serve you first."

The service she mentioned is naturally not the service of a servant girl, but...

Xun Yi frowned: "I am fond of Ziyu, and I will never get close to others. Besides, over the years, the servants in the mansion have taken good care of me; since they are maidservants brought by my mother, and they are so clever, my mother must use them If you are used to it, let them help your son take care of you."

He was sincere, but Princess Ping didn't let go: "My servant is still not as caring as the person next to my pillow; Fu Ziyu is still young and still studying, so he probably can't serve you wholeheartedly; besides, a man has three wives and four concubines. It's a common thing, and it's not a big deal to have two serving maids. If he doesn't like it, when he enters the mansion in the future, he can just send them away."

Xun Yi gritted his teeth to suppress his anger, stood up and looked at Princess Ping: "I am pleased with him, not because I want him to be a bird I raise in the mansion for the rest of my life, but to join hands with him for the well-being of the common people. To establish peace for the world."

"I said that as long as I want him in this life, I won't want anyone else, no matter how high or low my status is, I won't want anyone else."

Concubine Ping was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "You look like a lover, you really look like Xun Jing."

Xun Yi was shocked, and looked at Princess Ping in astonishment, but Princess Ping stopped looking at him, got up and walked out: "I won't take these two girls back, you can decide what to do with them; after waiting I will go back to the northwest for the New Year's Eve family banquet, and what you want to do in the future has nothing to do with me, and you don't need to tell me."

Dian Cui trotted to lift the curtain for Princess Ping, there was a greeting sound outside, and the lights went away, it was Princess Ping who left.

Xun Yi still stood where he was, looking at the book on the table that was placed randomly, and suddenly said: "If it was him, he would never leave the book like this."

His sweetheart likes to read books, and when he sees the ancient books he has found so hard, he always reads them carefully, and then keeps them cherished.

The main hall was lit with high-quality charcoal fire, and the warm room was light and sweet, but Xun Yi suddenly wanted to turn around and leave, and return to Funing's small courtyard, which was not very big, but reassuring.

There was a "plop" from behind, and it was Dian Cui who knelt down: "Your Highness, you have someone you like, so you naturally know how tormenting it is to be with someone who has no affection; There are also people who are in love with each other, and the servant does not ask the prince to let the servant return to his hometown, but the servant really cannot bear the heavy responsibility of serving the prince, so please ask the prince to let the servant do some rough work!"

After she finished speaking, she kowtowed heavily to Xun Yi a few times. The ground covered with blankets was not harsh, but she kowtowed bloodshot forehead.

"Where is your hometown?"

When Xun Yi's voice sounded, Dian Cui didn't dare to neglect her, and quickly replied: "The hometown of my servant is Yuezhou."

"Yuezhou?" Xun Yi said, "Yuezhou is not close to the northwest."

"Reporting to the son, when the slave girl was ten years old, her biological mother passed away. The stepmother didn't like the slave girl, so she sold the slave girl to a kidnapper without telling her father, saying that she would kidnap her far away; , to survive until now.”

"How long have you been with the princess?"

Dian Cui respectfully said: "Back to the son, the servant has been with the princess for eight years."

"Eight years." Xun Yi suddenly laughed, "The maid who has been with me for eight years is really willing to give it to me."

Dian Cui was not sure what he meant, so she didn't dare to raise her head.

"You go to your original residence to rest today. When my mother returns to the northwest after the new year, you can follow the caravan going south and go back to Yuezhou to meet your sweetheart."

Dian Cui was stunned for a moment, and finally realized what Xun Yi meant, tears streaming down his face immediately: "Thank you, son, thank you, son!"

Xun Yi didn't stay in the main hall any longer, and went straight back to his yard.

The servant who followed him had a very winking look, and in a nonchalant manner, he cryptically said what Lianjin had done just now, and finally said: "Your Highness, do you want to arrange a few more people to spend the night in your courtyard today?" Someone broke into Shizi's door at night.

Xun Yi said: "That's not necessary." No matter how courageous that servant girl is, she probably wouldn't dare to make trouble under Princess Ping's nose - after all, Princess Ping's rules are quite strict.

He walked a few steps, and then said to the boy: "You will tell the butler later, when the princess is gone, check to see if there is a caravan going south, give that Diancui some money, and then ask her to follow the caravan in the south of the Yangtze River." Let's go back to her house; then find a few smart girls and talk to that Jin Duo, and make sure to find someone she likes."

The little servant understood what he meant when he thought about it, and said with a happy smile: "Obey, I will do it now!"

Xun Yi doesn't really care if Dian Cui really has a crush on him, as long as he can find a suitable reason to send him out of the mansion and not let Princess Ping find a reason to blame Fu Ning, he doesn't care.As for the pity gold, it will be sent out for the same reason at that time.

The wind is tight today, but the moonlight is very pleasant.Xun Yi looked at the bright moon in the pond, recalled what Princess Ping said today, but frowned again.

He always felt that this year's He Gong family banquet would not be as peaceful as in previous years. ?