Bai Yan looked down at him: "That's it?"

Huo Jin magically pulled out a bag of crudely wrapped candied chestnuts from his pocket: "I saw this in the market when I left the palace. Do you want some?" Many children in the palace like to eat them, and some even have eunuchs specifically watch over them to buy them.

Despite the cold weather, the candied chestnuts were still hot to the touch; he had brought them wrapped inside his clothes.

"And there are candied hawthorns, roast chicken from the street vendors, and snacks—things you never ate when you were little. I'll take you to eat them all today," Huo Jin said ingratiatingly. "Okay?"

Bai Yan was no longer angry. She propped her cheek up with her hand and said, "Then you feed me..."

"Ruifeng greets Ninth Uncle." Bai Ruifeng walked down the steps. Since it was a private meeting, she should address him as an elder and not as His Majesty. She quickly winked at Bai Yan, who was still leaning on the balcony: Come down quickly! Quickly!

Bai Yan reluctantly stepped down and stood beside her elder sister.

Since both of them called him Ninth Uncle, it wouldn't be right to favor one over the other. So Huo Jin glanced at Bai Ruifeng and said, "I brought a gift for Xiao Yan, but I forgot about the eldest young lady. Is there anything the eldest young lady wants? I'll give it to you."

Bai Ruifeng wasn't angry at Huo Jin's biased remarks. She was about to shake her head when Bai Yan poked her waist: "Sister, think about what you want quickly. A king's word is as good as his bond!"

Bai Ruifeng glared at her younger sister and slapped her hand: "Stop fooling around."

Huo Jin pulled Bai Yan to his side: "Xiao Yan is right. Miss, you should think about what you want." He didn't like the feeling of her standing with others, he just didn't like it.

Bai Ruifeng thought for a long time: "Ninth Uncle, I want to learn martial arts, is that alright?" Liu Yunrou bullied her many times because of her martial arts skills. At that time, she longed to have martial arts skills. Not to mention making great achievements, at least she could protect herself and her younger sister.

“Okay,” Huo Jin said.

"Fourteen." He called out to somewhere, and a guard jumped down from the wall: "From today onwards, you will be the eldest young lady's instructor."

The fourteenth guard bowed and said, "Yes, Your Majesty!"

Bai Ruifeng looked at Fourteen in astonishment, "Where were you hiding just now? Did you fly out?"

"It's lightness skill," the guard replied.

"Would you like to go see the flowers?" Huo Jin turned and asked Bai Yan.

Bai Yan asked, "But it's snowing now?"

"Just tell me if you want to go or not?" Huo Jin asked.

"think!"

Huo Jin extended his hand, and Bai Yan placed her hand on it. Then she said to Bai Ruifeng, "Sister, would you like to go admire the flowers?"

Bai Ruifeng had just found a master and was about to begin her training when she shook her head and said, "I'm not going. I'll practice martial arts."

She stepped forward to see her off, then instructed her younger sister, "Have fun with Uncle Jiu, and don't be willful."

Bai Yan smiled and waved.

Bai Ruifeng took two steps forward, her gaze fixed on the departing figures of the two: Perhaps it was because her younger sister had never received a father's care since childhood that she was so dependent on His Majesty...

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that His Majesty, having witnessed the royal infighting, was able to view Xiao Yan with different eyes.

She was the older sister looking after her younger sister, and no matter how she looked at her, she seemed like a child; she couldn't see anything wrong with her at all.

Thinking it to himself, he couldn't help but read it aloud again, cursing, "Xiao Yan is so well-behaved, smart and cute. Apart from that blind Bai Chong, which elder in the world doesn't like her?"

Fourteen looked at Bai Ruifeng in shock: No wonder Liu Yunrou and Gu Cheng'an could exchange glances in the Marquis's mansion for so long, the eldest young lady's eyesight is more or less a bit off.

No wonder His Majesty asked her to protect the eldest daughter; if something were to happen to such a kind-hearted person, the second daughter would be devastated.