I don’t know if every palace is like this, but there is actually a small martial arts arena in the courtyard of this palace, where Li Zhaozheng and the chief guard Fu Chengfeng are practicing sparring.

When Eunuch Ji saw the Crown Princess coming, he trotted over from a distance and greeted her with a smile: "Prince Crown Princess, please sit over here."

Seeing that Li Zhao and Fu Chengfeng were fighting vigorously, Eunuch Ji added another word: "This umbrella and this chair are specially prepared for you today. They are not available on weekdays."

As he said this, he poured tea for Song Qingyue. His technique seemed not to be very good, and he even burned himself a few times, gritting his teeth without making a sound.

Song Qingyue smiled, took a sip of it in a dignified manner, and asked: "The prince usually doesn't sit down to rest when he's tired?"

Eunuch Ji chuckled: "Aren't you just trying to prevent yourself from being lazy? I definitely don't put tables and chairs there."

Song Qingyue was a little surprised and said: "Then you should be more careful. You always need to drink water, especially in summer."

Eunuch Ji smiled: "Yes, it is the Crown Princess who cares most about Your Highness."

Song Qingyue turned to look at Li Zhao.

Speaking of which, Fu Chengfeng, the prince's bodyguard leader, looks really majestic. He is tall and powerful, and Li Zhao is quite tall. He is half a head taller than Li Zhao, and the muscles on his shoulders fill up his clothes.

Tsk tsk tsk, I don’t know if Mr. Chengfeng is losing his hair.

The two of them fought for half an hour before the leader of the secret guard, Wan Quan, came up. Wan Quan was very different from Fu Chengfeng. He was not tall and had a rather slender figure, but his movements were so fast that people could not see clearly.

Song Qingyue asked Eunuch Ji in a low voice: "Eunuch, who is better, Guard Fu or Mr. Wan?"

Eunuch Ji chuckled: "You've got to ask the right person. When it comes to fists and kicks, Guard Fu is definitely the best. But when it comes to killing people, it's hard to say."

Song Qingyue turned to look at him and asked, "Eunuch Ji, has he killed anyone?"

Ji Quanfu raised an eyebrow slightly and whispered: "When I was in Fujian, I killed pirates and Japanese pirates."

Song Qingyue praised: "Eunuch Ji is also a hero."

Ji Quanfu hurriedly said that he didn't dare to take it seriously, but the corners of his lips curled up, and he smiled sincerely, feeling delighted by the princess's words.

He is a eunuch, but this is the first time someone calls him a hero! Eunuch Ji can't blame the Crown Princess for being so favored, he is so lovable just by opening his mouth, why is that stupid Lin Wanfu so stubborn that he wants to go against the Crown Princess?

Li Zhao practiced from the beginning of Mao to the end of Mao for two full hours without taking a break. When it was over, he was like fished out of water.

Song Qingyue came forward with the handkerchief with a smile on her face. Li Zhao reached out to take it, but Song Qingyue raised her hand and did not give him the handkerchief. Instead, she stood up on tiptoes and wiped it for him herself.

Li Zhao looked at her with a smile on his face.

Song Qingyue asked in a low voice while wiping: "Husband, how is Guard Fu's family background? Does he have a wife?"

Li Zhao raised his eyebrows: "What?"

"Look at Mo Yun, how is Mo Xiang? Mo Yun is nineteen this year, and Mo Xiang is almost twenty, what do you think, husband?"

Li Zhaodao: "They are only nineteen or twenty, why are you so anxious? You don't want to keep them for a few more years?"

Song Qingyue suddenly said: "Not to mention them, sister Feng Qi is almost 27 this year, and Feng Jiu is also 22."

"That's true..." Li Zhao frowned.

"What's the family background of Guard Fu? If he's too good, I'm afraid it won't work." Song Qingyue asked worriedly.

Li Zhao held Song Qingyue's hand and walked back, saying: "If you like it, there's nothing wrong with it. Just go back and wait for your husband to take a bath."

"Besides Guard Fu, do you have any good subordinates there? Can you please introduce them to them?"

"Okay, go back and ask Wanfu to prepare a list for you." Li Zhao quickened his pace, making Song Qingyue unable to keep up, so he pulled her along and trotted along.

When she returned to Wentaoyuan, Song Qingyue was sweating all over and out of breath. If she hadn't struggled so hard, she would have been carried directly into the hot spring pool by Li Zhao.

"My little life is not over yet!" Song Qingyue was carried on his shoulders and kicked and beaten for a long time, "Husband, put me down quickly!"

Only then did Li Zhao remember this, put her down, and went to take a shower with some regret.

Song Qingyue took a bath in a wooden bucket alone in the clean room. Aunt Bai also added ginger slices and peppercorns to the bath water, saying that it was good for her health. Song Qingyue felt as if she was about to be stewed by Aunt Bai.

After washing, she applied a layer of lanolin oil with orange essential oil on her body, and combed her hair with a little orange-scented oil. When she walked out of the clean room, Li Zhao smelled a smell of orange.

Tianxiang couldn't wait to walk over, took the dry cotton cloth from Aunt Bai's hand, and said, "I'll do it."

He pulled her to sit down in front of the mirror, carefully wiped the moisture from her hair, hugged her tightly from behind, buried his face in her neck, sniffed hard, and said, "This smells good."

Song Qingyue smiled and said: "I didn't expect that my husband likes orange scent the most."

Li Zhao hugged her and gave a low response, rubbing his lips against the delicate skin on her neck. After a long while, he said in a hoarse voice: "I really want to eat you right now."

Song Qingyue frowned, thinking that the wolf cub was being held back again. He was afraid that he would find something to do and cause trouble for her later, so he reached out and waved away the people.

…

Chinese Valentine's Day is the last day of the chess match. There were only 18 people left after yesterday's game, and only one girl, Lu Wenyan, was left.

The first game started at 1 hour, and everyone played very fast. It was over in about an hour, and Lu Wenyan won again.

The loser was the young master of Wei Shilang's family in the Ministry of Rites. Mr. Wei was naturally unhappy because he was defeated by a woman, so he cupped his hands and walked away with a sullen face.

Lu Wenyan snorted and whispered: "If you can't afford to lose, don't come."

Xing Yanran and Yuan Zixin quickly comforted her: "Ignore him, we should win or win!"

Lu Wenyan put her hands on her hips, full of fighting spirit: "That's natural! I still want to get the money from the Crown Princess!"

Yuan Zixin immediately said: "We agreed, if we win the money, we will be treated to ice bowls!"

"It's easy to talk!"

The next step is to draw the opponent for the next round.

The other eight young masters actually wanted to give Miss Lu a try, but no one got the chance to win against Miss Lu.

Lu Wenyan realized that she could advance to the next round without competing in this round, and she immediately became unhappy. She wanted to win based on her strength! Why wasn't she asked to compete?

At this time, a handsome young man, dressed in a sultry purple outfit, walked up to Lu Wenyan and waved a folding fan with white painted landscapes in his hand, and said with a smile: "How about playing a game with the girl?"

Lu Wenyan glanced at him up and down, a little disdainful of this dandy, and said, "Which family are you from?"

The visitor closed his fan with a snap, held a flower in his hand, and then raised his hand to Lu Wenyan: "I am not talented, I am traveling to the Hou Mansion in Zhenbei, and I am Ningyuan."

When Lu Wenyan heard that it was this guy, he immediately rolled his eyes and refused: "Didn't you lose on the fourth day of junior high school? You don't want to play."

"No!" Ning Yuan blocked her way, "If the girl loses this round, she will not participate in the next round. If I lose, can I give this jade pendant to the girl?"

This is too frivolous to say. How can you give the jade pendant you wear to others casually?

Lu Wenyan turned around and was about to leave, but Ning Yuan went to stop her again and changed her words: "Girl, don't leave, don't leave! How about I give you five hundred taels of silver to the girl?"

Although the Lu family is a scholarly family, it has fallen into decline in Lu Wenyan's father's generation. Besides, her father is not very powerful. He is still a poor scholar. Living in the capital is not easy. Five hundred taels of silver is not a big deal for Lu Wenyan.

There's no such thing as too much pocket money. Lu Wenyan blinked twice and sat down without hesitating for too long.

Ning Yuan admired Lu Wenyan's fair and smooth cheeks through the thin gauze curtain. This look made Lu Wenyan extremely disgusted.

She didn't show any humility and just picked up the black chips and started playing, thinking that she would have to ask the annoying dude to take out five hundred taels!

In fact, five hundred taels was quite a lot for Ning Yuan. It only cost a few dozen taels to ask the oiran from Yichun Tower to play and sing for an entire night. It was not easy to get him to spend five hundred taels in a game of chess.

After having only two cups of tea, Lu Wenyan frowned. She raised her eyes and glanced at Ning Yuan, and saw him crossing his legs and playing with his fan, looking absentminded.

"It took a while." Lu Wenyan said unconvinced.

"I've talked about it, I just want to understand it, understand it briefly, hahaha!" He opened the fan with a snap and started fanning himself. He looked at Lu Wenyan again and saw some sweat on her forehead, so he stretched his hand to the opposite side,

I also fanned it for her.

"Don't disturb me!" Lu Wenyan said angrily.

"I didn't say anything! I just fanned you because the girl was hot." Ning Yuan clicked his tongue and said rudely to the maid standing next to him: "Why are you on duty? Didn't you see that Miss Lu is sweating?

Move the ice basin closer, hurry up! Didn’t you see that the sun is getting stronger?”

The maid said yes, and asked someone to bring an extra ice basin and put it next to Lu Wenyan, which really made her feel much more comfortable.

She didn't have such a luxury of large ice cubes at home. The little bit she kept in her cellar during the winter had long since melted away by June and was no longer of use.

This game lasted for less than an hour. Lu Wenyan tried several times to turn the tide without success, and finally lost. She was extremely tired. She looked up, but saw Ning Yuan still looking calm and calm, looking at him with a smile.

It’s her face and her figure!

"You're a bastard!" Lu Wenyan slapped Ning Yuan on the head without any courtesy. She hit her head with a round fan, but it hurt!

Ning Yuan held his head and screamed: "Girl, you can't get angry when you lose! If you're not convinced, girl, let's go to the next round."

"Just get off, come on!" Lu Wenyan sat down again.

After seeing Ning Yuan's tricks, she didn't believe she could lose again!

As a result, he lost again without even two cups of tea.

Lu Wenyan was so angry that she gasped for breath. Xing Yanran and Yuan Zixin were fanning her and wiping her sweat. They comforted her and said: "It's okay, it's okay. You are tired today. You can try it another day!"

Ning Yuan squinted his fox eyes and smiled, and asked: "If we fight another day, girl, will you dare?"

"Why don't you dare!" Lu Wenyan glared at him.

Ning Yuan closed the fan with a snap and said, "Okay! Ning will leave a message for the girl some other time."

On the other side, the last four have been selected, and there will be two games in the afternoon to decide the first, second, and third places.

Song Qingyue had been looking at the second floor of Linxi Pavilion for a long time. She asked Li Zhao: "Ning Sifang just gave up to Miss Lu, right?"
To be continued...