Chapter 1605 I Miss My Sister
"Xinping, I asked you to ask the Imperial Concubine to bring that young lady into the palace. Did you tell her?"
Nan Yan's heart skipped a beat.
The steps that were about to step in also stopped.
She carefully leaned over and saw Prince Wei and Xinping standing in the courtyard of Chengqian Palace. Xinping was holding her brother's thighs with both hands.
Zhu Chengxuan squatted down, looked at his sister, and gently pinched her face.
"Did you tell me?"
"I, I, I forgot."
Xinping pouted and lowered her head.
Zhu Chengxuan was a little anxious and said, "How could you forget? The Imperial Concubine will soon follow my father to the northwest. If she leaves, there will be no one to make the decision."
“…”
Hearing her brother so anxious, she thought he was angry, her heart sank and she was about to cry.
Zhu Chengxuan was so scared that he quickly hugged her and comforted her.
"Oh, don't cry, don't cry. It's my fault."
"Brother is fierce..."
"Brother is not mean, brother will never be mean to you again."
"snort!"
"Be good, it's all my fault."
"snort!"
Nan Yan saw that the girl was being unreasonable, which frightened Zhu Chengxuan so much that he broke out in a sweat. He sighed and walked in directly: "Xinping, are you being willful again?"
Upon hearing her voice, Xinping and King Wei turned their heads.
Xinping immediately rushed over happily: "Mother!"
He bumped into Nan Yan's arms.
Nan Yan reluctantly hugged her and couldn't help but smile. She looked up at King Wei again and saw a trace of panic flash across Zhu Chengxuan's face, but he immediately stood up and saluted her respectfully.
"Your Highness."
Nan Yan walked over with a smile: "What are you doing, Your Highness?"
"I just finished my morning class and was coming back to practice horseback archery."
“Will it be too hard?”
"It's okay, not tired."
"Well, diligent practice is a good thing. Your father did that, and that's why the Great Yan Dynasty has had peace for so many years."
"yes."
After talking to Zhu Chengxuan, Nan Yan lowered her head again and looked at her smiling daughter in her arms, deliberately putting on a stern face: "You are being willful with your brother again!"
Xinping just looked at her with a sweet smile.
Zhu Chengxuan hurriedly said: "No, my sister is very well behaved."
"Don't speak for her. I don't know her yet."
"Well--"
"If she does something wrong, you can't just indulge her. You are her brother, you have to teach her."
"yes."
Only then did Nan Yan smile.
At this time, a pair of warm little hands climbed up from her neck to her face. Nan Yan lowered her head and saw her daughter holding her face with both hands, wanting her to look at her.
"Mother."
"Um?"
"I miss my little sister."
“…”
Nan Yan listened, her eyes flickered, and she immediately noticed from the corner of her eye that Zhu Chengxuan, who was standing in front of her, had a stern expression on his face and was looking at her very cautiously.
Xinping looked at her expectantly, "Mother, please take my little sister to the palace to play."
“…”
Nan Yan didn't speak immediately.
Zhu Chengxuan had been standing aside, waiting for an answer. Seeing that she had been silent for a long time, he became anxious and said cautiously, "Your Highness, I really like Miss Gu. Why don't you bring her back to the palace and let her spend a day with Xinping?"
“…”
Nan Yan looked up at him.
Zhu Chengxuan was obviously very nervous. After saying this, he was afraid that she would notice something, so his eyes flickered and turned to the side, avoiding Nan Yan's gaze.
Nan Yan was quiet for a while before she said, "I'm afraid this won't work."
"Huh? Why?"
"In a few days, I will go on a tour to the northwest with your father."
"But these past few days——"
"Her father, Lord Gu, has returned home and will be disciplining her strictly. I cannot summon her to the palace again these days."
Hearing this, Zhu Chengxuan was shocked.
"Strict discipline? Why? Did she, did she do something bad?"
“…”
Nan Yan looked at him for a while.
This time, Zhu Chengxuan did not avoid her gaze. Perhaps he was too anxious, and he looked straight at Nan Yan without dodging at all.
Nan Yan sighed inwardly, then said, "This is a matter between father and daughter. Even I, the Queen, cannot interfere too much."
“…”
"so--"
Nan Yan glanced at him again, then lowered her head and said to Xin Ping, who was staring blankly at her in her arms, "From now on, don't mention bringing Qi Qing into the palace anymore."
Hearing this, Xinping pouted.
Nan Yan also saw from the corner of her eye that Zhu Chengxuan's expression suddenly became gloomy, but she pretended not to see it.
But behind him, a laughing voice came -
"Who wants to enter the palace?"
Upon hearing the voice, Nan Yan hurriedly turned around and saw Queen Xu Miaoyin walking in.
She quickly calmed down the heart in her arms.
Several people bowed to the queen and said, "Greetings, Her Majesty."
"Greetings, Mother."
Xu Miaoyin came over, held Nan Yan's arm to help her stand up, and said, "Okay, no need to be so polite."
As he spoke, he looked down at Xinping again.
"Xin Xiaoping, have you been having fun recently?"
Xinping was still frustrated by what Nanyan had just said, pouting, "I'm not happy!"
Nan Yan immediately pinched her, then said with a smile, "Your Majesty, please ignore this crazy girl. She pesters His Royal Highness the Prince of Wei so much every day that he doesn't know what to do."
The Queen smiled and said, "It's best if they have a good relationship as siblings."
Then he turned to look at Nan Yan and said with a smile, "Just now, I heard the imperial concubine say that she seemed to be bringing someone into the palace?"
Nan Yan smiled and said, "No, it was during the Chinese New Year that I brought a younger sister from my family to the palace to accompany Xinping for two days. I was just talking about her."
"Oh, I heard about it too. It's the young lady of the Gu family."
Zhu Chengxuan's expression suddenly became a little panicked.
Nan Yan smiled calmly and said, "It's her."
"Why, the imperial concubine wants to bring her into the palace again?"
"Of course not. It was the Emperor's grace that he brought her into the palace during the New Year. How could she run to the palace every day?"
“…”
"She is old now, it is not convenient for her to go into the palace anymore."
“…”
"Besides, I have to accompany the Emperor on his tour of the northwest, so I don't have the time for that."
Xu Miaoyin glanced at her, then smiled and said, "Your Highness is right to worry."
“…”
"Miss Gu is naturally a lady from a wealthy family. It's not good for her to go out and about in public now that she's older. If she shows up in public, she'll easily attract gossip from villains."
"yes."
After saying this, the Queen turned to look at Zhu Chengxuan and said, "Prince Wei, you are not young anymore. This time, the Emperor has allowed you to enter the cabinet. You should learn from the ministers and remember not to be the same as before."
After hearing their conversation, Zhu Chengxuan's expression became gloomy.
At this time, hearing the Queen's instructions, he could only lower his head and say softly, "Your son understands."
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