The two played around in the plum garden for a while. Yaoyao looked at the bright red plum blossoms and sighed, "My Queen Mother used to come to see these red plum blossoms every year, but I'm afraid I won't be able to see them this year."
Although the queen's body recovered well, it would take several months for her to return to normal. By the time she recovered, the red plum blossoms would have already withered.
Seeing Yaoyao's dejected look, Tian An gently pinched her nose and said with a smile: "The Queen can't come out, so why don't we move Meihua into the bedroom for her?"
Yaoyao's eyes lit up, and she slapped herself on the forehead. "Yes! In previous years, I often broke off plum blossom branches to put in a vase for my mother. How could I have suddenly forgotten it now?"
Tian An said with a smile: "You are so concerned that you become confused."
The two of them got to work right away, having a lot of fun picking plum branches.
Yaoyao likes brightly blooming plum blossoms, but she is not tall enough, so she can only ask the palace maids to pick the most blooming branch at the top of the plum tree for her.
But if the plum blossoms are in full bloom, a few petals will always fall off if you move them even slightly. Yaoyao shook her head when she saw this, "The plum branches I want to pick for my mother must be the best, and not a single petal can fall off."
After saying this, he threw the plum branch aside and directed the palace servants to pick other plum branches.
Tian An shook her head helplessly and asked Deng Xue to pick up the plum branch she had dropped. "It's a pity to throw away these plum blossoms. Let's take them back and make cakes, or dry them and make sachets!"
So, Tian An picked the plum buds that were about to bloom by himself, and Deng Xue followed Yaoyao to pick the plum branches that she didn't like.
Yaoyao saw Deng Xue picking plum branches. After learning that it was Tian An who wanted them, she asked the palace maids to keep them and take them back later.
Deng Xue no longer needed to pick plum branches, so she returned to Tian An to stay with her.
Yaoyao picked all the good plum branches nearby, then left a personal maid to accompany Tian An and the others, and took people to other places to look for satisfactory plum branches.
I thought that on such a cold day, they would be the only ones in the plum garden.
However, she didn't expect that just as Tian An was tiptoeing to pick a plum branch she liked, someone behind her suddenly shouted at her.
"How dare you! Do you think a lowly servant like you can pluck the plum branches from the plum garden at will?"
Tian An turned around and saw a group of people coming behind him, and there was a familiar face in the crowd.
Seeing who was coming, Yaoyao's personal maid hurried forward and whispered to Tian An, "My Lord, the one leading the group in pink palace attire is Princess Yonglin, born to Concubine Jiang. The girl next to her is Miss Jiang Wanmeng from the Earl's Mansion, Concubine Jiang's family."
Tian An nodded, turned around and handed the plum branch he had just picked to Deng Xue, and took the two of them towards the group of people opposite.
Although they were called a group of people, in fact, it was just Princess Yonglin and Jiang Wanmeng with a group of palace maids and servants.
Princess Yonglin's outing seemed even more grand than Princess Yaoyao's! This time, Yaoyao only brought four or five personal palace maids with her.
Although he was secretly complaining, Tian An still led the palace maids left behind by Deng Xue and Yaoyao to pay their respects to Princess Yonglin in a proper manner.
However, Princess Yonglin seemed to be hostile to Tian An. She did not even ask Tian An to excuse herself. After glancing at her with contempt, she started talking to Jiang Wanmeng beside her.
Tian An paused while saluting.
So, this is to intimidate her?
This was her first time meeting Princess Yonglin, so she probably had never provoked her before!
Glancing at Jiang Wanmeng beside her, Tian An secretly said, "How stingy."
It must be because of Zhao Qianhua at Gu Jinyan's coming-of-age ceremony that Tian An embarrassed her and she was resentful of him, so she whispered in Princess Yonglin's ear!
After realizing this, Tian An didn't tolerate them anymore. He took Deng Xue and the palace maid to pay their respects and then stood up.
After all, she was invited into the palace by the emperor, and she would not tolerate such humiliation.
Deng Xue always obeyed Tian An's orders. When she saw Tian An stand up, she immediately followed without saying a word. The maid left behind by Yaoyao was also very quick. She had been with Yaoyao for a long time and had taken advantage of her influence.
However, Princess Yonglin became upset when she saw that they stood up without her permission.
She pointed at the three people and scolded them, "How dare you! You don't have my permission. Who allowed you to get up? Kneel down before me."
Tian An has lived many lives after all, so how could he be easily frightened by a little kid?
Kneeling was impossible. Even her father, Tian An, had never kneeled many times, so it was not her turn yet.
As if she hadn't heard Princess Yonglin's words asking her to kneel down, Tian An didn't even bend her waist, and her smile remained unchanged. "Anping saw that the princess was busy talking to Miss Jiang and probably couldn't pay attention to Anping, so she stood up on her own. This way, anyone with ulterior motives wouldn't see her and think that the princess was deliberately making things difficult for Anping.
Anping is the Empress's guest. If word gets out, people who don't know might think the princess is slapping the Empress in the face. It would be bad if the princess is misunderstood because of this."
"you……"
Tian An acted as if she was doing this for your own good, which made Yonglin so angry that she pointed her finger at her and kept saying "you" for a long time without saying a word.
Seeing Yonglin's frustration, Jiang Wanmeng at the side finally spoke up to smooth things over with a smile, "The Anping Township Master is still as sharp-tongued as ever! Yonglin, please calm down. The Township Master has just this temper. He treats everyone this way."
The implication of his words was almost to say that Tian An was sharp-tongued and had a bad temper, and did not take Yonglin seriously.
This is clearly adding fuel to the fire!
Sure enough, Yonglin became even angrier after hearing this, not even caring about the Queen, and pointed at Tian An and said, "I don't care how rude you are outside, but when you see me, you have to follow my rules.
Now, kneel down before this princess."
Tian An ignored her, standing straight without even bending his knees, and just looked at Yonglin in front of him with sympathy. It seemed that this was undoubtedly another "knife" of Jiang Wanmeng.
Seeing Tian An didn't move, Princess Yonglin immediately felt that her dignity was challenged. She raised her hand and signaled the palace servants behind her, "Hold her down for me. Today, she must kneel down before me."
At Yonglin's command, several palace maids behind him immediately rushed towards Tian An and the other two. Jiang Wanmeng watched the fun with excitement on her face.
The palace maid left behind by Yaoyao looked anxious and hurriedly said that Yaoyao was nearby and Tian An was the queen's guest and could not be moved.
Yonglin was originally a little shaken, but after Jiang Wanmeng whispered a few words to her, she seemed to have taken courage drugs and insisted that Tian An kneel down to her.
Deng Xue has always been protective of her master, no matter whether the other party is a princess or not. She carefully placed the plum branch in her hand on the snow and stood in front of Tian An in a defensive posture.
Tian An was not afraid either. She was brought into the palace by the emperor himself. If Princess Yonglin touched her today, she would be the one who would suffer.
With Princess Yonglin's order, the war was about to break out.
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