"If you can swim and row a boat, the risk will be much lower. It will be difficult to learn if you can't swim. Water needs to enter your eyes, your nose and ears. If you open your mouth, it will enter your mouth …"
Gao Qianqian's imagination was plentiful as well. She quickly covered her mouth and shook her head, no longer mentioning the matter of swimming.
Just then, a surprised shout came from the lake, "I found one!"
"I saw it first!"
It attracted the attention of everyone in the pavilion, and then they saw the two boats colliding with each other. The people on the boat all fell into the water, but they didn't care and desperately swam towards the lotus flower.
The two of them were like two fish as they chased each other. It was hard for people to not hold their breath. Finally, one of them touched the stem of the flower first and took out a small knife to cut off the flower. She quickly swam to the shore with both hands in her mouth.
Ru Yi smiled at Feng Lin and said, "Tell Qin Yan to change her clothes before coming back."
Then, he nodded in satisfaction and said to Gao Rui, "Not bad, bring these little ones to the Eastern Palace to pay respects to the Grand Preceptor's daughter, and also to bring your daughters and sisters home. We old guys still have to talk for a while."
Li Qing listened to the eunuch in front of him, then led the son of the Cheng Guogong to the East Palace. He had signalled with his eyes for the eunuch to go and tell the rest.
Qin Yan personally brought the flowers to the pavilion, while Gao Qianqian looked at her in admiration. Fortunately, she didn't say anything this time.
Ru Yi took it and passed it to Gao Qianqian. "Give this flower to our youngest sister."
Gao Qianqian beamed as she accepted the gift. After some hesitation, she said, "Thank you, your highness. You should've given it to your sisters first." Although he said that, his hands were tightly clenched.
"Today you are all lonely guests, everyone has one."
Gao Qianqian was extremely polite as she nodded at Qin Yan, "Thank you, sister."
Although Qin Yan followed Master Wu, her etiquette wasn't bad. After seeing the etiquette, she stood to the side.
Not long after, the others also found the lotus flowers and offered them up. The pavilion was filled with young ladies that seemed like flower buds.
Li Rou saw that the Grand Princess was surrounded by people, so she could only signal for Green Bamboo to come out. When it was seen by Ru Yi, she directly asked, "Is there something going on with Imperial Father?"
"Reporting to Your Highness, the Crown Prince Cheng and Qi Shizi have brought some people to pay their respects."
Ru Yi stood up and said to the girls, "Your family members are here to pick you up. Let's go greet them together."
Whose family's youth did not have the slightest bit of worry in their hearts? In the past, when he heard his father talk about his daughter with half pride and half sorrow, and then look at him with that kind of gaze, Gao Shang's mood had always fluctuated. Until today, when he had met with his majesty, his majesty had clearly expressed that he was not interested in these young masters.
And today, when he saw the girl walking over from afar, his disappointment was clear.
Everyone wants to have the best partner in the world. He cannot be ignored …
Ru Yi's smile was impeccable. She personally supported the Crown Prince, praising Gao Qianqian for her "brilliant and flawless". She then told the other girls that she was very happy to see her sisters today, and that she should walk around more in the future. He personally delivered it to the entrance of the Eastern Palace. Only then did Green Bamboo send out gifts from the princess to the noble ladies.
Her maid, seeing that she was so happy, also laughed and said, "Just now, after Miss entered, there were palace maids and sisters who came over to ask if there was a taboo for me to drink tea, so I said Miss's favorite is the silver needles in Jun Shan." "You little girl." Xu Xin smiled and stared at her, but she didn't get angry. What she drank with the Tai Palace was still the spring of the cave courtyard, and what she drank with the tea in the pavilion was the afternoon immortal.
Anyone would be happy to be valued so highly! Therefore, she could not bring herself to vent her anger on this servant girl.
"Miss, take a look quickly. Who knows, these tea leaves might be the Jun Mountain Silver Needle."
Xu Xin rolled her eyes, "Shut up." The silver needles on the Monarch's mountain were so rare that even the Duke of Guo's Palace could only get two to three catties a year. And it was given to her by the Emperor. Although she liked them, she couldn't bear to drink them.
Even though she was told to shut up, Xu Xin couldn't help but to take a look. When the fragrance of the tea entered her nose, she couldn't help but open it.
Xu Hao, who was riding the horse beside his sister's palanquin, heard the exclamation and hurriedly asked. The eldest sister, who had always been the most well-behaved, opened the palanquin curtain and smiled at him, "Second brother, His Highness gave me a big bag of Jun Shan's silver needles!"
Xu Hao couldn't react in time, he wouldn't admit it even if he was beaten to death. At that moment, he was actually thinking, could it be that His Highness has taken a fancy to his little sister?
As for Emperor Qinghu, he was speaking to the Duke of Cheng. "I see that this grandson of yours is quite good." Actually, half of his words had been omitted. The crown prince, Gao Rui, really wasn't much. Upon hearing that it was possible for the emperor to attack the emperor, Emperor Qing He couldn't help but feel embarrassed to look at the emperor.
The Duke of Cheng was also a little worried. He didn't know how to raise his son to be so pure and innocent …
In fact, Qi Guo's family only had Xiao Jia, who was the direct grandson, and a lot of other bastard children. However, Qi Guo's wives were not kind people either, each one of them looked refined, with no success in them. Liang Prefecture's son, Xu Donghao, was able to control his wife. He had two sons, but his eldest brother, Xu Yang, was so old that when he started to play with him, he was only able to protect his daughter-in-law and not accept a concubine at the age of twenty-eight! The second brother Xu Hao was already 23 years old, and it was reasonable that he had no children. "The eldest brother also has no children."
After drinking tea and eating snacks in the imperial kitchens, he said proudly, "This was added for me by the imperial concubine who asked the imperial physician, saying that I had worked hard in the imperial government and needed to eat less and eat more food. The imperial maiden would also accompany me on supper at night." Emperor Qinghe couldn't help but laugh as he thought of the Grand Princess's joke of a 'warm welcome' when she was young.
The other old men all smiled in understanding. They knew that Emperor Qinghe had called them here today with the intention of calling them here, and they were all willing to allow their daughter to be a good girl.
Ru Yi was in good spirits after sending off the guest. When she saw Li Rou's distressed appearance, she asked with a smile, "What business do you have?"
There were people outside saying that the princess was not ordinary to Prince Jiang and that she treated him to a meal at the East Palace. She even went to the inn the next day, and Prince Jiang's appearance was especially pleasing to the eyes … Li Rou's heart itched with hatred towards Prince Jiang. She wished she could use a knife to chop him into pieces. "It's just that there are some unpleasant words outside."
"Don't listen if you don't like it, it looks like you have a mouth on someone else, do you want to stare at them everyday and see what they have to say?"
"Furthermore, this is the Yan Kingdom. If the great eunuch of Gu is troubled by such a small matter, would he dare to use you?"
"Aren't you afraid of breaking the porcelain if you hit a mouse?" Li Rou accidentally said something slang.
"Do not be rude. "There is nothing that cannot be said to others in this matter. You are the eunuch in front of the palace, how many people do not believe your words?" Ru Yi thought for a moment after speaking to Li Rou. "We still need to find a person who can restrain Prince Jiang Liu. How about this, he doesn't have many people with him. You go find Senior Officer Zheng and see if you can assign a few people to use for Prince Jiang Liu. Teach him the rules of Yan Kingdom." He turned his head and saw Li Rou's mischievous smile. She added calmly, "She said she's teaching, but she's an esteemed guest. If I was too slow, I wouldn't have forgiven her."
The gossip about the princess and Prince Jiang Liu spread for a few days, and then the news of the sixth prince giving the princess a dog, but the prince was very worried about whether he could raise her or not, so Prince Jiang continued to raise the dog for the princess.
Li Rou secretly spat out a mouthful of blood. It was clear that he didn't like returning goods, okay? His words sounded so nice, as if his highness was lacking a dog.
He had already informed Senior Officer Zheng that he would deliver it to the official residence of Prince Jiang Liu tomorrow. Li Rou had originally planned to give pointers to her colleagues, but after thinking about His Highness' words, she decided not to.
Wang Taichang couldn't sit still and brought a mastiff to give to Ru Yi. "This is the dog that this old man admires the most!"
Ru Yi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Great-grandfather Zeng, I don't like dogs. Besides, the East Palace is full of little girls. Take it back with you. You are royal father's elder, and I am royal father's junior. I wish to wrap up two dumplings for royal father at noon and use our names to enter. What do you think? "
"Alright, I'll send someone to give His Highness a carriage when I get back. Aiyo, Your Highness, take a look at this dog. This isn't scary. Look, you can't even see his eyes. How is he scary?" "This dog is much better than those mediocre poodle dogs. He has accepted a master, and is only loyal to one person in his entire life. In terms of loyalty, he is well-known in the dog world." Wang too often refused to give up.
As soon as he didn't follow the elder's wishes, he would feel uncomfortable. In the end, Ru Yi was taken in and named "Ah Fu", and little Ah Fu was only two years old and not very big, but when he yelled out, he was very fierce, and his body was completely black. His eyes were hidden in his hair, just like what Wang Taizong said, he couldn't find his eyes.
"Ah, what a cute dog. If His Highness were to be released at night, I can't find him …"
A group of reading partners laughed and surrounded Ah Fu. Ah Fu was not afraid, but he still stuck to Ru Yi like Feng Lin. Where Ru Yi went, he would follow. It was just like what Wang Taizhuang said, he was extremely smart, and knew Ru Yi was the boss.
When Ru Yi left in the morning, she walked to the gate of the Eastern Palace and sat down at the base of the wall with her tail wagging.
Probably no one disliked cute dogs. Even Li Rou, with Li Qing's dark face, directed the eunuchs to build a simple shed for Ah Fu under the wall so that it wouldn't get wet under the rain.
Green Bamboo and Feng Lin arranged Ah Fu's kennel extravagantly in the Huajing Palace. They made clothes and bedding for him, and used the leftover side materials from Her Highness the Princess to make a mattress for him.