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◎The little princess's "revenge".◎

The cruise ship was ready. In addition to a middle-aged eunuch rowing the boat, there were also two young eunuchs who were familiar with water to prevent the masters from falling into the water.

The boatman stood at the stern, rowing the boat. Two young eunuchs were also waiting on this side. Jie Yu was in the boat awning, checking various utensils and fruits and cakes sent from the imperial kitchen. From time to time, he glanced at the bow, where the little princess was lying comfortably on a felt mat that almost covered the entire bow. Zhang Su was kneeling with his back straight, an arm's length away. The boat had traveled for a distance, but the young man seemed to have not moved at all.

Qingyang really liked lying down and looking at the sky like this, so she wanted her playmates, whom she had specially invited, to enjoy it too.

"What do you want in exchange for lying down?" With his hands behind his head, Qingyang looked at the straight figure in front of him.

Zhang Su: "There is a difference between high and low, and I dare not."

Qingyang: "Then do you like to accompany me to the lake? Are you unwilling in your heart?"

Zhang Su: "...I am willing to protect Your Highness here."

Qingyang: "There's no danger here, I don't need your protection. Everyone else is sleeping in, and I know you must be up early, so I asked you to come and keep me company."

Zhang Su nodded at the bow of the ship, and since the little princess did not ask any more questions, he fell silent again.

Qingyang found this man quite boring. After lying down for a while, he sat up and looked back at the distance between the cruise ship and the shore. Qingyang said to the boat awning, "Jie Yu, stop the boat."

After the boat stopped, Qingyang asked Zhang Su to help her put on the bait and cast the rod. Zhang Su's shortcoming was that he was not talkative, but no matter what Qingyang asked him to do, he would do it obediently. He was more obedient than his second brother and more capable than his third brother, so Qingyang liked to be with Zhang Su very much.

Zhang Su quickly cast the fishing rod and handed it to the little princess. The rod was hung with a small hook, so there was no need to worry about a big fish pulling the princess.

Qingyang looked at the other fishing rod and said, "You can fish with it too. This one should be fine, right?"

Zhang Su didn't refuse again.

The boatman knew how to stop the boat, just enough for the little princess to sit in the bow with her back to the sun. The lake was clear, and in the distance there were mountains, islands, embankments, and pavilions hidden behind the flowers and trees. Fishing in such a scenery would not be boring.

As the thin rod sank, Qingyang's eyes lit up. After waiting for a moment to confirm that a fish had taken the bait, Qingyang suddenly pulled it up and caught a small silverfish the size of a palm. Zhang Su put down his fishing rod and wanted to help, but Qingyang told him not to move and moved the fishing rod back, allowing the silverfish to get closer and closer.

The silverfish didn't move much during the process of moving the rod. When Qingyang reached out to grab it, the fish suddenly swung its tail wildly, splashing water all over their faces.

Zhang Su caught the fish in time, and then looked at the little princess who was covering her face with her sleeves with concern.

The sleeves fell, revealing the little princess's watery, smiling black eyes. Just as Zhang Su tried to avoid them, the little princess smiled even more happily and pointed at his face: "Why did you splash so much?"

Zhang Su then wiped it casually with his sleeve.

The silverfish was placed in the little princess's wooden barrel. Zhang Su picked up his fishing rod again. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the little princess kneeling in front of the barrel, looking down at the fish. As she looked, she said to the fish, "If I can't catch a bigger one, I'll use you to make fish soup for my father, the emperor, and my mother."

Zhang Su: “…”

As more and more fish were caught in the lake, the little princess uttered more and more childish words.

Zhang Su felt relieved. Yesterday, Prime Minister Yan had spoken so harshly, and he had even wondered if the little princess would feel aggrieved and unhappy because of it.

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We went fishing in the morning and rested in the house at noon. When it was cooler in the afternoon, Qingyang called his third brother and Zhang Su to go horseback riding on the grassland.

Qin Ren finally slept enough and felt very energetic after sleeping until lunch, but he was not very interested in riding or racing horses. He would rather walk beside Zhang Su, who was helping his sister hold the horse, and chat with his sister from time to time.

"Princess, here we come!"

A little girl's sweet voice came from afar. Qingyang, who was sitting high on the horse, turned around and saw Yuan Chongli's sister Yuan Jie running towards him happily. Yan Xiang's granddaughter Yan Zhenzhen was a few steps behind, and finally the two's maids.

Qingyang asked Zhang Su to turn his horse around, but he had no intention of dismounting.

Yuan Jie kept running. When she stopped in front of him, her face turned red. She looked at Qin Ren with a smile.

Qin Ren was already fourteen years old. Two years ago, he had heard Yuan Chongli brag to his second brother about his relationship with the family's maid. Although Qin Ren felt that such things should not be brought up, Yuan Chongli's words did make him understand the relationship between men and women. With his eldest brother's marriage and his second brother's arranged marriage, the elders began to joke about his marriage. His mother even reminded him that Yuan Jie might be interested in him!

Qin Ren liked to attend wedding banquets because he didn't have to get up early to study on the days he could attend wedding banquets, but he had never thought about getting married, and had no interest in marrying Yuan Chongli's sister.

Qin Ren winked at his sister and said with a smile, "Then you girls can play together. Zhang Su and I will leave first."

Qingyang cooperated and surrendered.

Yuan Jie stopped Qin Ren and suggested, "What can three of us do? How about the five of us play hide-and-seek?"

Qin Ren: "No, the Second Prince is still waiting for me up ahead. I'll go find him."

After saying that, Qin Ren climbed onto his sister's mount with nimble hands and feet, kicked the horse's belly and ran away without looking back.

Zhang Su looked at his and the Third Prince's two horses, which were tied to a tree about ten feet away.

Qingyang: "Go chase after the third brother, and watch him so he doesn't fall."

Zhang Su took his leave and rode one horse after another to chase after the third prince.

Qingyang glared at him darkly, then looked at Yuan Jie and Yan Zhenzhen. Yuan Jie was feeling lost over the Third Prince's departure, while Yan Zhenzhen, clutching a few wildflowers she had picked along the way, asked, "So, are we going to pick flowers or play hide-and-seek?"

Yuan Jie wasn't interested in either and asked the little princess directly: "The Third Prince ran away when he saw me. Does he not like me?"

Lu Wenrong became the Crown Princess, Meng Yao became the second prince's future princess, and the only one left was the third prince, who was so handsome that Yuan Jie didn't want to miss him.

The little princess looked bewildered: "What did you do to offend Third Brother?"

Yan Zhenzhen, holding wild flowers in her hands, also looked over in confusion.

Two nine-year-old girls, two pairs of clear and innocent big eyes. Yuan Jie bit her lip, feeling that she could not agree with them, so she simply did not mention it.

Qingyang accompanied Yan Zhenzhen to pick wild flowers.

When returning to the palace, Qingyang wanted to give wild flowers to his mother, but when he came over, he found that his father was also there.

"Mother, do they look good?" Qingyang leaned close to his mother and held up the wild flowers that she had carefully selected and specially matched in different colors.

Concubine Li smiled and said, "It looks nice. Is this a gift for mother?"

Qingyang nodded.

Emperor Xingwu, who was leaning on the other side of the Luohan bed and looking at the mother and daughter with a smile, suddenly asked, "Why did you only give your mother a gift, but not your father?"

Qingyang then gave a few flowers to his father.

Emperor Xingwu took it, sniffed it pretentiously, and asked, "Did your third brother help you pick it?"

Qingyang shook his head and said that he picked them with Yan Zhenzhen.

Emperor Xingwu smiled and asked Concubine Li to find a vase to put the flowers in. He pulled his daughter to sit beside him and whispered, "Prime Minister Yan just scolded you yesterday. Why are you still willing to play with his granddaughter?"

Qingyang, who had long forgotten about this, said: "...It was Yan Xiang who was mean to me. Zhen Zhen didn't offend me, so why should I ignore her?"

Emperor Xingwu asked: "If you see Prime Minister Yan outside, will you still greet him?"

Qingyang: "Yes, he is the Prime Minister of my father and an elder. I cannot be disrespectful to him."

Emperor Xingwu was surprised. "You're not angry with him? If father had listened to him completely, he would have taken back your gold medal right now, or even ignored you for a while."

The little princess, imagining herself being ignored, glared at her father and said, "Father, if you ignore me just because someone said something bad about me, then I will ignore you too."

After saying that, the little princess sat down at the other end of the Arhat bed, leaning her body sideways.

Emperor Xingwu smiled and chased over to his daughter. The two of them stood side by side. "Don't worry, Lin'er. Your father will never neglect you in this life."

How many years does he have left in his life? It is not even known whether he can see his youngest daughter get married.

Qingyang heard his father sigh, looked up, and noticed the wrinkles at the corners of his father's eyes. Qingyang hugged his father's arm and leaned against him, saying, "Then I will also be filial to you, father, and I will be filial to you for the rest of my life."

Emperor Xingwu patted his daughter's head and said, "I'm sorry that Lin'er suffered yesterday."

Even if Yan Xi was trying to nip the problem in the bud for the future of Da Qi, he shouldn't have said that in public. It did serve as a warning to him, but what if the prince was narrow-minded? How would Lin'er cope with the situation in the future?

Qingyang: "I feel a little wronged, but I know that Prime Minister Yan is doing this for the sake of state affairs and to fulfill his duties as Prime Minister, so I don't blame him."

Emperor Xingwu hugged his daughter's shoulders tightly, and after a moment's silence, he smiled and praised her, "They say a prime minister has a broad mind. Although my daughter is only nine years old, she is as tolerant as a prime minister."

The little princess didn't like what she heard: "Why should I compare myself with the Prime Minister? I am the emperor's daughter, my status is more noble than the Prime Minister, so it is only natural that I should be more generous than the Prime Minister."

Concubine Li, who had just found a suitable vase and walked over, heard the emperor laugh again: "Yes, they should be like my son!"

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The emperor and his ministers rested for three days, and then those who were supposed to review memorials began to review them, and those who were supposed to work began to work.

The little princess had already forgotten the unpleasantness in Tingquan Palace, but when her father reminded her, on the first day of the ministers' duty, Qingyang hung the golden waist badge bestowed by the emperor on her waist, went to the Small Secretariat of the temporary palace in a dignified manner, and went straight to the official residences of the two prime ministers.

Qin Hong was also here. When he saw his sister wearing a light yellow skirt, with a fair face and black eyes, his mood improved. Due to the presence of the two prime ministers and knowing that his sister would probably take a look around and leave, Qin Hong just smiled at his sister and lowered his head to continue reading the documents in his hand.

The same was true for Right Prime Minister Dai Lun.

Yan Xizheng glanced at the little princess expressionlessly. Just as he was about to look away, the little princess actually walked to his side and stopped.

Yan Xizheng immediately closed the document on the table.

Qingyang: “I didn’t want to see it.”

Then she asked the palace maid to bring in a chair and placed it on the left side of Yan Xizheng's desk, so that she could see Yan Xizheng's face conveniently while ensuring that she could not see the words on the memorial clearly.

Yan Xizheng: "Princess, what do you mean?"

Qingyang: "Prime Minister Yan is afraid that I will interfere in state affairs and make friends with important officials. So I will stay by Prime Minister Yan's side and be supervised by him personally."

Yan Xizheng: "...If the princess is willing to live peacefully in the inner palace and never set foot in the former court again, then why should I worry so much?"

Qingyang: "But I came to the Former Court to admire the style of the founding heroes, especially Prime Minister Yan. If I miss one day, I will see you less. I can't bear it. Okay, Prime Minister Yan, please continue. Don't let me delay the affairs of state."

Yan Xizheng: “…”

What extraordinary intelligence and perseverance? This is clearly a nine-year-old naughty boy who came here to take revenge on him!

【Author’s words】

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