On a midsummer morning, clusters of clouds surrounded the scorching sun, suppressing half of the heat.
A ray of morning light sprinkled on the jade floor of the bedroom.
A gentle breeze blew through the gaps in the window lattices, gently blowing the pink curtains on the rosewood bed.
"Your Highness, the Second Young Master of Marquis Xiao's Mansion requests an audience."
A pair of slender, white hands stretched out from the curtain, and were caught by another slender hand.
The princess's sleepy voice rang out, "I understand. Please ask him to wait in the hall for a moment."
"Yes." The maid outside took the order and left.
The princess opened the pink curtain and got out of bed. As she dressed, she said, "Stay in your room and don't rush out."
The woman's voice inside the curtain was like an oriole singing out of a valley: "I know."
In the hall of Fengxi Pavilion, Xiao Yunchen was wearing a moon-white embroidered robe with a light golden cloud pattern at the collar. He had a tall figure and stood like a green pine, making the eighteen-year-old look like a calm and elegant 28-year-old.
The princess finished washing up and came to see him slowly. When she walked out of the side hall, she saw Xiao Yunchen standing there as calmly as a pine tree.
Even though he had been waiting for a long time, he didn't look impatient at all.
"I wonder why Lord Xiao came here so early in the morning?"
When Xiao Yunchen heard the voice, he quickly turned around and looked at her, bowing respectfully: "Greetings, Your Highness the Princess."
He said calmly, "I came to bother you so early this morning to take my wife back home. I hope Your Highness will not mind."
The princess walked to the phoenix couch with a dignified manner and sat down, feeling slightly surprised.
I didn't expect that Xiao Yunchen, who has always been as gentle as jade, would be so impatient after getting married.
The princess chuckled and said, "I only wanted to keep her for one night, but you were so anxious that you came here early this morning to ask for her. I'm afraid you even took a day off today, didn't you?"
"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Your Highness." Xiao Yunchen smiled faintly. He felt a little embarrassed at being exposed, but his face remained elegant and refined.
"It is true that my humble wife is so bold and carefree, and I am afraid she will disturb Her Royal Highness."
"Master Xiao, you are too kind. Madam is very straightforward and honest, and I like her very much." The princess instructed the maid beside her, "Go and invite the two ladies here."
"Yes," the maidservant took the order and left.
Li Sisi drank a lot of wine yesterday. After returning to her room, she slept until dawn. Her biological clock, which required her to pay her respects to Mrs. Xiao every day, woke her up.
Since she couldn't sleep, she slowly dressed up until she heard a faint conversation outside.
During this period, he looked at Li Nian's door more than once, and seeing that she had not gone out, he simply stayed in the room eating the morning tea prepared by the maids and waiting leisurely.
Unexpectedly, before she finished her morning tea, a maid came to ask her and Li Nian to go to the hall of Fengxi Pavilion, saying that the young master of the Xiao family had come to take his wife home.
Hearing this, she was surprised that the two brothers of the Xiao family actually had such thoughts? They even knew to come and pick up their wives?!
Li Sisi happily knocked on Li Nian's door, her voice full of energy: "Niannian, get up quickly, your husband is here to take you home!"
Li Nian had not slept well last night because there was a man in her bed. When she heard Li Sisi's cry, she rubbed her eyes and sat up in confusion.
Didn't Xiao Yunyu leave just this morning? Why is he here again?
"Nian Nian, are you awake?"
Li Sisi's voice was still ringing outside the door.
Li Nian quickly replied, "I'm up now. You go first, I'll be right there."
"It's okay. I'll wait for you."
"Okay, then wait for me." Li Nian hurriedly put on her clothes and casually tied her hair into a bun.
This bun is the simplest hairstyle she has learned since she came here, and it is also the one she is best at.
“Squeak—”
Li Nian opened the door and went to Fengxi Pavilion with Li Sisi.
On the way, Li Sisi was still full of energy. She stretched out her arms and said, "Oh~ah~, the air here is so good!"
She turned her head to look at Li Nian beside her with a smile on her face, but saw that she looked sleepy and confused.
She asked doubtfully, "Nian Nian, did you not sleep well last night?" She remembered that Nian Nian was very adaptable and didn't recognize her bed!
Li Nian nodded: "Yeah, I didn't sleep well." Then he yawned again, "Well, I have to catch up on my sleep when I get home."
As they were talking, they arrived at Fengxi Pavilion.
Xiao Yunchen was puzzled when he saw Li Sisi's cheerful and energetic appearance and Li Nian's listless and lazy appearance.
Why is it different from what he thought?
Sisi looked in good spirits even without him.
On the other hand, my eldest sister-in-law, who has been living alone in an empty house since her marriage, looks listless.
Xiao Yunchen stood up and bowed to the princess, saying, "Thank you for your hospitality yesterday, Your Highness. We will not bother you any further. Goodbye."
Li Sisi looked around and asked in confusion, "Huh? Isn't my eldest brother here?"
"Brother..." Xiao Yunchen actually went to call Xiao Yunyu, preparing for the two brothers to come together to pick someone up, but he didn't expect the maid at Shuixieju to say that the eldest master had not returned all night.
He hesitated for a moment and decided to tell the truth: "It seems that my eldest brother was not at home last night."
Li Sisi's eyes widened when she heard this, and she couldn't help but raise her voice: "Stay out all night again? He really should be locked up in the ancestral hall and taught to practice male virtues 200 times!"
Xiao Yunchen thought of the book "Male Virtue" that Li Sisi wrote for him after she left the ancestral hall. If this thing was shown to his elder brother, he would tear it up on the spot!
He walked forward, took Li Sisi's hand, and said gently, "My wife, let's talk about these things when we get home."
"Yeah, let's go home first." Li Nian didn't care whether Xiao Yunyu came to pick her up or not. She just wanted to go back and take a nap.
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