Chapter 181 I Miss Huo Zheng a Little

Chunzhi took Huo Yanran and Xiaoxing back to the carriage and returned to the palace.

The little princess was very happy all the way because she met Liu Tanhua when she was leaving the palace.

Chunzhi felt that Huo Yanran was pretty good like this. Even though she knew she couldn't get her, she was happy just by looking at her a little longer.

If you don't ask for too much, you will be easier to be satisfied.

This was not the first time Huo Yanran came to the Chang'an Palace. She also came on the day Chunzhi and Huo Zheng got married. However, the palace was full of guests and friends, and her father, the emperor, and mother, the queen, were also there, so she did not stand out among the crowd.

When she came again today, Chunzhi took her for a walk around the mansion.

The palace was filled with winding corridors, small bridges, pavilions and waterside terraces, which seemed particularly fresh to Huo Yanran, who had rarely left the palace.

Chunzhi said to her, "You should stay here for a while, pick a yard you like."

Huo Yanran liked everything they saw, so she said, "I want to live closest to the Seventh Princess, so it's convenient for me to visit her and play with her."

"Okay." Chunzhi responded gently and immediately ordered people to prepare the courtyard closest to the main courtyard so that the third princess could move in tonight.

"Yes." Butler Cheng responded and went to do it.

Chunzhi continued to walk slowly in the garden with Huo Yanran. Xiaoxing fell asleep in the carriage. As soon as she returned home, she asked the wet nurse to take the child back to the side room.

The aunt and sister-in-law were strolling in the courtyard, keeping a distance from the palace maids.

Huo Yanran smiled and said, "I don't know what kind of princess mansion my father will give me in the future. It would be even better if it was closer to the Chang'an Palace."

The emperor bestowed the princess's mansion upon the princess, probably because his daughter was about to get married. Chunzhi saw that Huo Yanran had been reluctant to bring up the matter of selecting a prince consort before, but now that there were no outsiders around, she brought up the princess's mansion herself.

Chunzhi said, "Wait for your seventh brother to come back and have him talk to father."

"Seventh Princess is so nice." Huo Yanran hugged Chunzhi's arm.

Although she and Huo Zheng were both raised by the queen, there was a big age difference between them. The things that the prince and princess had to learn and the education they received since childhood were also completely different.

Among the several imperial brothers, Huo Yanran was naturally the closest to Huo Zheng, but that was not enough for her to tell everything to the seventh imperial brother.

After all, they are not born of the same mother, so I can't bother him all the time.

But now it’s different. Huo Zheng married the princess, and this princess is a very good person.

"What's so good about this?"

Chunzhi sometimes felt that the understanding of the word "good" by these royal family members seemed completely different from theirs.

Huo Yanran smiled and didn't explain, only saying, "It's very good, very good."

Being in the royal family, I have been accustomed to intrigues and calculations since childhood. How many people have a smile on their faces and say sweet words, but turn around and push others into the abyss, with no chance of recovery.

There are very few people as "genuine" as Haruji, and it is extremely rare that she has no intention of harming others.

What's more, she is a kind person.

This kindness is not deliberately emitted, but exists invisibly, as if it is innate.

It was difficult for Huo Yanran to describe this feeling to Chunzhi. She only knew that her seventh brother had very good taste.

The aunt and sister-in-law walked in the garden for a long time. The sun set in the west and dusk gradually fell.

Qingye came through the archway and said, "Princess, dinner is ready, you can enjoy it now."

Chunzhi replied "Okay" and said to Huo Yanran, "Let's go have dinner."

Huo Yanran smiled and said, "Let's go. I want to taste the cooking skills of the chef in the palace today."

Dinner was served in the flower hall. It was the first time Chunzhi had dinner here since Huo Zheng went to Xizhou.

Huo Zheng was not in the mansion, and Chunzhi felt that the mansion was a bit empty, so she asked someone to send all the meals to the main house.

The Thirteenth Princess is coming today, and we can't let the little princess have dinner with her in the main house.

When Chunzhi stepped into the flower hall, she felt dazed for a moment, as if Huo Zheng was sitting in the same seat he usually sat.

His presence is everywhere.

Chunzhi stopped and looked at "Huo Zheng".

Huo Yanran noticed Chunzhi's abnormality and stopped with her, asking softly, "Seventh Sister-in-law, what's wrong?"

"nothing……"

Chunzhi quickly came to her senses. Huo Zheng was thousands of miles away, and what she had just seen was just an illusion.

"Did you walk for too long and get tired?" Huo Yanran helped Chunzhi sit down and said a little embarrassedly, "It's rare for me to leave the palace, so everything is new to me. I'm sorry to have troubled the Seventh Princess."

"I'm not tired, I just... miss Huo Zheng a little bit."

Chunzhi said this very lightly.

Huo Yanran was close to her and happened to hear it. She quickly said, "So you're thinking about your Seventh Brother. Then let's have dinner quickly so that your Seventh Brother can go back to her room and read the letter he sent home."

In fact, Chunzhi had wanted to read the letter from home for a long time, but she couldn't show too much eagerness in front of Queen Wang when she was in the palace. After returning home, she had to fulfill her duties as a good host and take the little princess for a walk. The letter sent by Huo Zheng was hidden in Chunzhi's sleeve and had already carried her body temperature.

Chunzhi smiled and served the food to Huo Yanran herself.

The little princess said: "No need, since I am here, I will not be polite to the Seventh Princess."

There are fixed rules for what to eat and drink in the palace, and one must always be careful when sitting, standing, and walking.

But Chunzhi was quite casual in the Chang'an Palace and there were not so many strict rules. Huo Yanran felt very comfortable in her presence. Not only did she eat a lot of each dish, she even ate one more bowl of rice than usual.

Chunzhi saw that the little princess had a big appetite, so she asked her, "Would you like another bowl?"

Huo Yanran said, "No, this is the first time I've eaten so much in my life."

Eating too much at dinner will easily cause indigestion at night, so Chunzhi did not try to persuade the little princess to eat more.

After Huo Yanran had eaten, she asked someone to take her to rest and urged Chunzhi to go back to her room to read letters from home.

Chunzhi really wanted to go back to her room to read the letter from home, so she told someone to take good care of Princess Thirteen and then returned to the main house.

The lights in the room were on, the flames were dim and warm.

Chunzhi asked the maids to leave, then closed the door, went to sit beside the couch, took out the letter from home that had been in her sleeve for a long time, carefully opened the envelope, took out the letter inside, and unfolded it to read.

——My wife, Haruzhi, sees the words as if they were on the face.

Chunzhi looked at the familiar handwriting, as if Huo Zheng was standing right in front of her.

He said that Xizhou was cold and the night wind was strong, but fortunately my wife had prepared winter clothes early.

He said that he was separated from his wife and missed her day and night, tossing and turning in bed with his cold blanket, unable to sleep.

Chunzhi didn't know what expression Huo Zheng had when he wrote this. She only knew that if such a family letter was sent to the palace among the memorials, and if someone saw it, it would be... unspeakable.

Who would have thought that the Prince of Chang'an, who was upright and aloof in public, would be so clingy to his own princess.

In the letter, Huo Zheng wrote about some of the things that happened after he arrived in Xizhou. His words were all about asking Chunzhi not to worry too much about him, and that he would put down the rebellion in Xizhou as soon as possible and come back to accompany her and Xiaoxing.

He is a man of few words on weekdays, but he is quite good at writing letters.

Huo Zheng filled up three full pages.

Chunzhi read the letter over and over again until late at night when she went to bed.

She held the letter to her heart and closed her eyes, as if Huo Zheng was right beside her.