That day, Xia Yan concealed all his flashy clothes and bowed his hands respectfully to the housekeeper.
"I'm Xia Zixuan."
His surname is Xia, his first name is Yan, and his courtesy name is Zixuan.
When Xia Chengjun saw this, he also followed suit: "I'm the devil Chengjun."
One of them kept his last name anonymous, and the other kept his name anonymous.
Most of the people in the palace have never seen the market. If Xia Yan reveals his name, I am afraid that the palace will spend the rest of his life in fear.
When the housekeeper heard this, he quickly pulled me aside and asked in a low voice: "Princess, didn't you go to get married?"
It is impossible for a woman to get married as usual to come back, just like a gift given out, there is no reason to turn back.
Before I could say anything, Uncle Dog came over and asked warily: "Did the princess escape?"
I'm sweating profusely, why do these two old people have such rich imaginations? Can't they think of me at all?
"The princess came back to visit her relatives this time on the order of the king." Xia Yan said more than ten sentences to me, saving me from the deadlock at once.
The butler felt relieved and took us into the dining room.
Prince Huai's Mansion is the shabbiest of all the palaces. It is small and the terrain is remote. Apart from an overhaul every year before New Year's Eve, there are almost no changes.
But I don't dislike it at all.
After dinner, the housekeeper exchanged greetings with me, but he never mentioned anything about my father. He only said that my father had been assigned a good job by Uncle Wang and that he might not be able to come back soon.
In fact, they all knew that my father was missing, but they hid the matter because they were afraid that I would be sad.
I am sincerely grateful for their love for me.
In the evening, I arranged for Xia Yan and Xia Chengjun to stay and returned to the small room by myself.
Everything here is the same as before. My former maid heard that she got married, so there is no one to serve her tonight.
Duotong and Liang Tao stood at Xia Yan's door, one on the left and one on the right, like door gods. The housekeeper was so scared that he didn't even dare to enter Xia Yan's yard. He came to me in a hurry and asked me where these two friends were from. I was worried by the housekeeper.
It looks funny.
"They are just the chief guards of Ouchi, escorting me here."
The old housekeeper felt relieved and closed the door for me.
The next day, my married maid came back from her husband's house to serve me specially. This shocked me, and she was also shocked when she saw me.
I, who was plain in appearance, suddenly became beautiful.
"Princess, why are you..." She stood in the distance and did not dare to move.
I smiled at her: "What's wrong with me?"
Xiao Yin quickly shook his head: "I heard from the prince before that the princess had changed her appearance, but I still didn't believe it."
"What? Father told you?"
"Not only did he say that, the old prince also drew a painting himself and put it in the study. He invited many people to see it. He said that if the princess came back one day, this would be what it would look like."
After Xiaoyin helped me wash up, I hurriedly pushed open my father's study room and saw a painting hanging on the wall.
In the painting, I am wearing a pink gauze dress, holding a futon fan in my hand, my chin resting on the fan, my eyelashes hanging down, and the lotus flowers on my forehead dripping with beauty, making a very classy thinking pose.
Looking at this painting, I seemed to see my father carefully sketching one stroke at a time on the rice paper at midnight.
I closed my eyes and felt an indescribable sourness in my heart.
Just as he was about to go out, he saw Xia Yan and Xiao Qi coming. He must have heard from the housekeeper that I was in the study.
The two came in one after another. Xia Yan looked around and fixed his gaze on the painting.
