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Zhao Jinzhong listened to what the people were saying, but Zhou Ruo didn't hear a word they said.

Her attention was entirely focused on the chilling air drifting above the northern troops.

"Brother, it's so cold!"

Zhou Ruo stared at the cold air and couldn't help but sigh, her body shivering.

"What's wrong? It's already spring, you can't be shivering from the cold, can you?"

"It's not that I'm cold, it's that they're cold!"

Zhou Ruo raised her hand and pointed to the Northern Kingdom team.

Zhao Jinzhong thought for a moment and explained, "Because they come from the north, and the north is much colder than Daqing."

"But this isn't the northern country anymore!"

When Zhao Jinzhong heard Zhou Ruo say that, it seemed to make sense, but why would she say they were cold?

Zhou Ruo: "Brother, I feel like there's something very cold among them, the kind that emits cold air."

The thing must have been hidden; there were many people in the group, and the crowd was noisy, so Zhou Ruo couldn't see it for a while.

Zhao Jinzhong and Zhou Ruo have been together for so long, and have faced all sorts of things, big and small.

Zhou Ruo's sigh was not unfounded.

Given the unusual behavior in the North, why would they arrive ahead of schedule?

Why is the team so large?

Why was the Northern Kingdom princess not among the visiting delegation that was reported, but she did appear?

Zhao Jinzhong couldn't help but become wary.

"Ruo Ruo, let's go back first and see if there's any news from the palace."

The brother and sister quickly returned to the Duke of Dingguo's mansion.

Sure enough, news came from the palace that Zhao Yucheng had been waiting for their return.

"The envoy from the Northern Kingdom arrived in the capital ahead of schedule, and we will enter the palace today."

Zhao Yucheng told the two children the news from the palace and instructed them to prepare and respond accordingly.

Zhou Ruo returned to Lanxiang Courtyard to find Ji Ping: "Mother, I want to dress up beautifully to enter the palace."

The sleeves shouldn't be too tight; they should be loose enough to easily eat fruit.

She was determined to have a big meal at the palace, and she even stuffed two handkerchiefs into her floral dress.

It was specially designed to deal with the juice dripping everywhere when she eats fruit.

When Zhou Ruo and Zhao Jinzhong arrived at the palace hall to welcome the envoys with Zhao Yucheng, Zhou Ruo was stunned.

Wow, so many seats!

How many fruits do we need? Is it enough?

Not enough is not acceptable; she was already prepared to come on an empty stomach.

She didn't know where she heard it from, but she heard that there were many delicious fruits in the North that Daqing didn't have.

Moreover, the envoys also presented a lot of fruit to Daqing this time.

I heard that it was the Emperor who specially decreed that fruit should make up a larger proportion of the tribute items from the Northern Kingdom.

Empresses, concubines, princes, princesses, and ministers of Daqing took their seats one by one.

The envoys from the northern kingdom gradually took their seats.

The Crown Prince and six other princes sat in a row, with Zhao Jinzhong sitting behind the Crown Prince, and Zhou Ruo and the Seventh Princess sitting right next to him.

Zhou Ruo was originally sitting between Zhao Jinzhong and the Seventh Princess, but she got up and deliberately adjusted her position.

"Pretty lady, let's switch seats! The fruit over there is tastier!"

The Seventh Princess found Zhou Ruo's greedy look as she stared at the fruit plate in front of her quite adorable.

But upon closer inspection, the fruit in everyone's fruit plate was exactly the same.

She looked at Zhou Ruo with a suspicious expression.

Zhou Ruo stuck out her little tongue and licked her lips, saying, "It's different. The one in front of the pretty lady smells better."

The Seventh Princess had no choice but to move the fruit plate in front of her to Zhou Ruo, saying with a doting expression, "It's all yours."

But Zhou Ruo shook her head again, "No, no, it tastes better when I sit in the seat of a pretty lady!"

After several rounds, the Seventh Princess was defeated and had no choice but to switch places with Zhou Ruo as she wished.

It wasn't until the Seventh Princess sat down in Zhou Ruo's seat and glanced at Zhao Jinzhong's face, which was already flushed red to the roots of his ears, that she realized...

Only then did I realize something was wrong.

Before the Seventh Princess had even settled in, Zhou Ruo leaned forward and said to Zhao Jinzhong across the princess:

"Brother, this is all I can do for you!"

Zhao Jinzhong gave Zhou Ruo a piercing look, but Zhou Ruo deflected it with a smile.

She truly is her brother's "good sister," he thought to himself.

The prince and the third princess of the Northern Kingdom entered later, followed by the Grand Preceptor of the Northern Kingdom.

The Imperial Preceptor held a whisk, but the handle of the whisk was larger than usual.

Zhou Ruo kept staring at the whisk in the Grand Preceptor's hand because she saw a surge of cold air emanating from it.

There were several moving things inside the handle of the whisk, their bodies emitting white steam.

Oh~ So those chilling wisps of air from the northern group I encountered at the market in the north of the city earlier were coming from these things!

Those guys are quite powerful.

If that's the case, within an hour, those around the Imperial Preceptor who aren't prepared will probably all be frozen.

After everyone at the banquet had taken their seats, Eunuch Qin announced, "His Majesty has arrived!"

Since the prince of the Northern Kingdom and the Imperial Advisor were sitting not far in front of the Emperor's dragon throne, the Emperor had just taken his seat...

I felt a particularly chilly sensation.

"Oh no!" Zhou Ruo muttered under her breath.

"If His Majesty sits there like this, exposed to the chill for half an hour, he'll catch a cold!"

She had to find a way to dispel the chill from the whisk in the Imperial Preceptor's hand.

After the Emperor took his seat, he glanced at the offerings of fruit on the table, then turned to Zhou Ruo, who was engrossed in eating fruit, and said:

"Anning, this time the North has brought many fruits that Daqing doesn't have."

"I specially ordered the envoys to send more tribute for you; you can eat as much as you like!"

Zhou Ruo was flattered and surprised. She raised her face, which was covered in juice, and with fruit still in her mouth, and mumbled to the Emperor:

"Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty!"

The Emperor nodded in satisfaction.

The envoy from the Northern Kingdom, however, turned his attention to Zhou Ruo.

Some people discussed it privately: "Is this the little princess? The Emperor of Daqing dotes on her so much?"

"I've never seen this princess before! Is she the newborn Emperor of Daqing?"

While everyone was speculating, Zhou Ruo stood up, holding a piece of cantaloupe, and ran to the Grand Preceptor.

"Uncle, could you use your stick to poke a little at my melon?"

The Northern Kingdom's Grand Preceptor was bewildered by Zhou Ruo's sudden appearance and did not understand the meaning of her request.

Seeing the stunned look on the Northern Kingdom's Grand Preceptor's face, the Emperor specially explained:

"Grand Preceptor of the Northern Kingdom, this is Princess Anning, a meritorious official of our Great Qing, and a treasure of our Great Qing!"

The Emperor actually said in front of the envoy that Zhou Ruo was a treasure of Daqing.

This was something even Zhao Yucheng hadn't expected.

The envoys from the Northern Kingdom now knew just how important Zhou Ruo was in the Emperor's heart.

The Northern Kingdom's Grand Preceptor dared not be negligent: "So it's Princess Anning! I was very rude earlier, please forgive me, Princess!"

"Anning, what are you doing going to the Northern Kingdom's Grand Preceptor?" the Emperor asked Zhou Ruo.

Zhou Ruo held up a large slice of cantaloupe above her head and said:

"Your Majesty, my brother tricked me into eating chili peppers, and now my stomach feels burning."

I wanted to get some chilling air from this old man and have a piece of chilled melon.