wedding dress

Chapter 163
The fourth prince has been by Xiaodong's side all the time, seemingly reluctant to part.The Empress Dowager Shengci asked him to take him out to play, and when he came back after going out for a while, he still sat next to Xiaodong and listened to her talking with the Empress Dowager Shengci.

The Empress Dowager Shengci was not close to her first few grandchildren.

In the early days, the Empress Dowager Shengde made the decision in the palace. Although she also bears the title of empress dowager, her status is far inferior, and she is just a decoration.At that time, including the empress, the female family members, princes and princesses in the harem were all close to the Empress Dowager Shengde.Later, Empress Dowager Shengde lost power, but Empress Dowager Shengci couldn't get close to them either.

The fourth prince's life experience is really pitiful, the Empress Dowager Shengci knows how difficult it is for a child without his mother to take care of him in this harem.She also often asked people to take care of her more.

However, it is not enough to just have enough food and clothing.

This child probably regards Xiaodong as her sister, right?

Sure enough, when Xiaodong was about to leave, the fourth prince pleaded with the Empress Dowager Shengci, wanted to go out of the palace to send Xiaodong off, and also recognized the door of the Qin residence.

The Empress Dowager Shengci thought for a while, nodded and agreed: "Bring a few more followers. You must come back before the palace gate is under the key. Don't run around, don't be mischievous, and listen to your sister Xiaodong."

The Fourth Prince smiled brightly, pulled Xiaodong's sleeve tightly, and replied crisply: "Yes."

Xiaodong didn't expect to go to the palace and bring back a little tail.

However, the Fourth Prince was a well-behaved child, and he had never been heard of being mischievous.

The fourth prince and Xiao Dong were sitting in the same car, lifting the car curtain to look out from time to time along the way.

"Is this the first time you've left the palace?"

"Yeah." The fourth prince nodded and said, "So it's like this outside the palace, there are so many people, it's so lively."

Xiaodong's heart felt slightly sour.The Fourth Prince pointed to a shop by the side of the road: "What's that for?"

"It's a cloth shop that sells silk and satin cloth."

"Is a piece of cloth expensive?"

"Generally people don't care about buying a horse. They measure the size first, and come to pull the cloth. It may be seven feet or nine feet. It is enough to make a suit of clothes, and there is no need to buy a whole horse."

The fourth prince nodded: "So that's the case. Is it too expensive for a whole horse?"

"Well, and the cloth is left at home, so it can't be worn for a while, it's prone to damp, insects... It's very troublesome. It's better to buy it when you want to wear it."

Xiaodong has never gotten along with children younger than her, and she has been taken care of by others since she was a child. Now suddenly there is someone who needs her to take care of and teach, which feels very novel.

The car crossed the street and walked slower than usual, which was convenient for the fourth prince to look around.Xiaodong was a little worried at first, afraid that the child would want to get out of the car when he saw the excitement, but the fourth prince was very obedient from beginning to end, extremely curious, but he didn't say he wanted to get out of the car to play.

Passing by the door of a shop, there was a Hu merchant coming out of it, with high nose and deep eyes, red hair and blue eyes, the fourth prince said: "That... that person..."

"That's a barbarian who came from the far west to do business."

The fourth prince asked a very classic question: "Sister Xiaodong, his eyeballs are blue... Are the things he sees also blue?"

Xiaodong couldn't help but laugh: "Then your eyeballs are still black, so what you see is black?"

The fourth prince rubbed his eyes and smiled: "No wonder the book said that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. These things are not written in the books."

The car turned a corner, Xiaodong pointed to the front and said, "Here, my home is just ahead, if you want to come by yourself in the future, you have to look for the door."

The fourth prince nodded vigorously: "Yes, I remember."

Xiaodong smiled.When the car arrived in front of the door, the fourth prince got out of the car first, and turned around to help Xiaodong in a dignified manner.

"Sister, slow down."

It would be nice to have such a well-behaved and smart brother.

Xiaodong held his hand and said with a smile, "Okay."

The fourth prince looked up at the front of the Qin Mansion, pointed to the plaque on the door and said, "Who wrote this word?"

Xiaodong smiled: "What do you guess?"

The fourth prince's delicate eyebrows were slightly frowned, and before he could speak, a few people suddenly jumped out of the slant and rushed towards them.The guards brought by the fourth prince reacted very quickly, and the servants at the gate of the Qin Mansion reacted even faster, stopping those people from a distance of two or three feet.

Xiaodong blocked the fourth prince from behind, but the child blocked Xiaodong in front.

"Hey, don't get me wrong!" One of the visitors shouted, "We are here to find relatives! We are looking for Grandma Qin and Uncle Lie!" The voice was crisp and childish, sounding between a child and a teenager.

"I made a mistake. It's not Uncle Lie. Now I have to call Uncle Lie."

"That's right, mother's brother is of course called uncle, but is aunt's brother also called uncle?"

"It's wrong to call uncle anyway!"

Before he could speak clearly, he started to have internal strife.

Another child said: "Don't be noisy." Her voice was as crisp as a silver bell, she took a step forward, raised her face and said, "Let's find Grandma Qin, my uncle is Li Wanhe, does he live in the Here? Are you... Uncle Lie's new wife?"

This is Li Wanhe's... nephew and niece?
Seeing that they were only half-grown children, the fourth prince relaxed his tense body and shook Xiaodong's hand: "Sister?"

Aren't they in Suizhou?Why did you come all the way to the capital?And, why only three children?No adults follow?

"You...how did you come here?" Xiaodong raised his hand and let them come over.The three children looked dusty, and the girl was also dressed like a boy, her face was smeared with dirt on the left and right—the fourth prince tilted his head and looked at them, probably never seen anything like this before, and again Children of similar age are very curious.

"Sister Shi brought us here."

Who is Sister Shi?Not from the Li family?
A child pointed back, and a man came out from behind the crowd and took a step forward.

She was dressed in men's clothing, and the boot on one foot was simply tied up with hemp rope. Although her face was covered with dust and dust, her eyes were big and round, black and white, as clear as spring water.She stared at Xiaodong fixedly, her lips tightly pursed.

Xiaodong feels a little strange, but the gate is not a suitable place to talk.Li Wanhe and the others had already left the capital, and these children probably didn't know about it, so they came here at this time, just a day later.

Could something be wrong?Otherwise, with such a long journey, how could a girl's family bring three children all the way to the capital?
Xiaodong ordered Hongfu to lead them into the mansion, wash and settle down first, and then ordered someone to report to Qin Lie, saying that it was someone from his hometown, asking him to come back early.

The fourth prince was very curious, followed Xiaodong inward, and frequently turned his head to look at the group of four, and asked in a low voice: "Sister Xiaodong, all the guests in your house are like this..." He couldn't describe it, but Xiaodong understood what he meant.

That's not true, for the first time today, the fourth prince caught up with him.

"Is... from my brother-in-law's hometown?"

Xiaodong nodded.

It was the first time I heard someone call Qin Lie's brother-in-law, and it felt really... quite novel and interesting.

Mrs. Hu came out to greet him, she already knew that the fourth prince was coming, so she saluted first, and the fourth prince waved his hand in a dignified manner: "No courtesy.

Children pretending to be adults are the most interesting.

"Princess, I heard that there are guests here?"

"Well, it should be a child of the Li family. He ran to the capital for some reason, and he seemed to be in a hurry..."

It doesn't look like a guest looking for relatives, but like a child running away from home.

"Mom went to take a look to see if they still lack anything. After packing up, she brought them to the side hall. You have to ask them."

Xiaodong greeted the fourth prince to sit down, asked someone to bring some refreshments, and went to fetch some things.Zhao Lu gave Xiaodong many exquisite gifts before, most of them stayed in Prince An's Mansion, and some were brought here.There are all kinds of chess pieces like the Nine Chain Ruyi Bell String.The fourth prince washed his hands and took a piece of berry jam snack, but obviously his mind was not on eating, after a while, he secretly looked out at least three times.

Xiaodong knew what he was thinking, and after a while the servant girl brought the four people over, they had all changed their clothes and washed their faces, one of the two boys was a little bigger, the other was a little smaller.Sure enough, dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, and with Li Changhe's body, his son is not short, like half an adult.The girl's skin was snow-white, her hair was braided in two small braids, and she was tied with two small red flowers.

The Shi girl walked last, she looked seventeen or eighteen years old, slender, handsome, with thick and black hair, she was a very beautiful woman.Xiaodong thought, when they came here with their faces smeared like that, probably it wasn't because the journey was too hard.Going out, the beauty of a young woman is really not appropriate.

Xiaodong asked them to sit down, and before she could ask, the little girl over there spoke up first, chirping like a bird: "Where's Grandma Qin? Where's my aunt? Isn't uncle here?"

Xiaodong asked: "What's your name? Why did you come to the capital from Suizhou? But what happened at home?"

The three little ones shrank their heads, Xiaodong glanced at it, and he had a rough idea.

The three children pushed me and I pushed you, and the girl said: "My name is Yanzi, and my brothers are Tusheng and Baocheng. There is... nothing at home. We just miss our uncle and aunt... well, I want to come to see you in Beijing." See the world."

Asking them didn't seem to gain anything, Xiaodong cast his eyes on that girl Shi, and met her eyes.

Her direct, almost scrutinizing look made Xiaodong frown slightly.

Her experiences over the years had made her especially sensitive to the hostility of women.

The stone girl's gaze was wrong.

"This girl's surname is Shi? I don't know what to call her and the Li family? Why did she bring their children to the capital?"

Miss Shi didn't speak, but Li Yanzi rushed to say: "Sister Shi lives close to our family, if it wasn't for her, we wouldn't be able to come to the capital."

So they are not relatives?
Miss Shi suddenly said, "Brother Qin and I grew up together as children, and my father is his teacher."

When she spoke, her chin was lifted slightly, and there was a strong sense of provocation in her words.

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In fact, Miss Shi should have come two days ago, because as soon as I felt unwell, I delayed her appearance.

(End of this chapter)