The villain prince is three and a half years old

"It's not wrong to say that it's bullying." Xia Jing said to Ning Xue.

He originally thought that Ning Xue Nian would suggest going to rescue Yan Nanque, but he forgot that the girl was also a person who loved to watch the fun and not mind getting involved.

"Let's go," Ning Xuenian's eyes sparkled, "Let's follow them and see how Ning Yitao and Ning Peixiang bully him!"

Tsk. Xia Jing pinched her face and walked out of the pillar.

"Stop!" the Ninth Prince shouted.

Ning Yitao and Ning Peixiang were startled and ran away without even looking at who shouted.

It was the first time for them to do this, and they were very nervous.

"Prince! Are you okay?" Yan Nanque's maid broke free from her restraints and came to her side.

"It's okay." Yan Nanque got up.

The two princesses knocked her down while running away.

She turned around and saluted Xia Jing: "Thank you, Ninth Prince."

Raising her head, she had a look of resentment in her eyes. The boy was clearly the Ninth Prince, yet he had lied to her and said he was a general. She had called him "general" so many times in vain.

"And me!" Ning Xuenian poked her head out from behind Xia Jing.

Yan Nanque bowed to the girl again. Ning Xuenian was very pleased and thought that she was a polite child.

"Why did Prince Yan have a conflict with the Fifth and Fourth Princesses?" Xia Jing asked knowingly.

Before Yan Nanque could reply, the maid interrupted, "It was the Fourth and Fifth Princesses who kept pestering our prince. He was very careful to avoid them, but he was still caught up today!"

As the palace maid spoke, she stared at Xia Jing and Ning Xuenian, wanting them to take care of the two princesses.

"Pick plums!" a stern voice sounded.

The palace maid named Caimei immediately lowered her head and retreated behind Yan Nanque.

Xia Jing and Ning Xuenian looked in the direction of the sound and saw a girl about ten years old. The girl looked very similar to Yan Nanque, the only difference was her eyes.

Yan Nanque's eyes were like a pool of rippling night water, while the other person's eyes were like a silent pool.

Youtan looked at Xia Jing.

"Greetings to the Ninth Prince, and long live the Seventh Princess." She bowed and turned to look at Caimei. "Who taught you to say that? The two princesses want to play with the prince, and you're the one who's got to keep your mouth shut!"

Caimei knelt down and said in panic, "I was wrong! Ninth Prince and Seventh Princess, please forgive me!"

"It's okay, they are just a little vulgar." Xia Jing comforted Caimei.

"This is my sister." Yan Nanque introduced the girl.

The girl is the elder sister among the sisters of Yan State, and also the princess who was sent as a hostage by Yan State.

Xia Jing knew her name.

[Name: Yan Yushi]

【Age: 9】

[Identity: Princess of Yan]

[Intimacy: 50 (-20)]

Looking at the intimacy of the last barrier, the Ninth Prince was puzzled.

50-20, only 30 left. Even Ning Chengrui, who was beaten by the Ninth Prince several times, even Ning Gaoxiang, who was tricked by the Ninth Prince several times and was beaten once, did not have such a low score!

Although the -20 is a temporary intimacy and does not mean real hostility, what did Xia Jing do to make Yan Yushi so hostile?

Xia Jing glanced at Yan Nanque's interface again.

[Intimacy: 57 → 60]

Because he saved her from the evil woman, Yan Nanque's favorability increased by another 3 points.

This made Xia Jing even more confused.

In the game, the sisters of Yan State are as close as siblings. It is not appropriate for one of them to have a good impression of you while the other is hostile to you.

Could it be that the elder sister's hostility stems from her younger sister's affection?

Xia Jing really wanted to say something rude, "This prince is not here to break up your family, but to join your family!"

Yan Yushi pulled her sister behind her and faced Xia Jing and Ning Xuenian. There was a wariness in her eyes.

If it were Xia Jing, he would also be vigilant.

Just as we often need to worry about our teammates rather than our enemies, in some cases, we need to be wary of the good guys rather than the bad guys. When facing the bad guys, we tend to be vigilant and flee, but when facing the good guys, we tend to slack off and be easily exposed.

Yan Nanque is just a 5-year-old child, so how could she have any complicated thoughts? What if her gender is exposed while playing with the Ninth Prince?

The State of Yan doesn't care about their life or death, but they themselves cannot help but care.

"It's getting late. Would the Ninth Prince and the Seventh Princess like to go for a stroll around Tongde Palace?" Yan Yushi said.

This was of course just a polite remark. It would be too abrupt to directly say that she was leaving. Yan Yushi was afraid of causing dissatisfaction among the Ninth Prince and the Seventh Princess.

But Xia Jing was not prepared to be polite and said, "Well, I haven't been to Tongde Palace yet!"

Ning Xuenian blinked: "What kind of tree is there?"

This is to explore whether the leaves of that tree are easy to shoot.

"I don't know what kind of tree it is. Its leaves are quite strange." Yan Nanque spoke cheerfully, welcoming the two people's visit.

Yan Yushi glanced at her sister and sighed helplessly.

Together with Caimei, she brought Xia Jing and Ning Xuenian to Tongde Palace.

Tongde Palace had been without an owner for a long time and had stood in silence for dozens of years. When a group of people from the State of Yan moved in, they were unfamiliar with the place and did not dare to make a fuss, so the palace remained dead silent.

Until Xia Jing and Ning Xuenian arrived.

The tree in the courtyard of Tongde Palace is a ginkgo tree. It is not very old and its branches are not high. Ning Xue Nian shot at it a few times and then lost interest.

She took out bamboo sticks and played the bamboo stick picking game with Xia Jing and Yan Nanque.

This game is more fun with more people playing, but adults are much better than children, so Ning Xuenian usually only plays with Xia Jing. Today, Yan Nanque is added to the game, which makes it more interesting.

They added a rule that the loser would have a piece of paper stuck on his face, and soon Yan Nanque's face was covered with white paper.

The girl was not annoyed at all. When Xia Jing and Ning Xuenian passed the notes to her, she even smiled at them.

Yan Yushi sat aside, watching her innocent sister being 'bullied' by the two men, and shook her head helplessly.

She knew that in her sister's eyes, the prince and princess who were willing to play with her and did not hit or pinch others were already excellent playmates, but the two sisters were in danger and now was not the time to make friends.

She had seen Ning Xuenian. The Seventh Princess looked heartless and had just listened to the prince all the way.

She looked at Xia Jing. This Ninth Prince was the most difficult to deal with. Princesses needed to avoid suspicion with princes, so they wouldn't discover Nan Que's identity. But princes had no taboos with each other. As long as he suggested a contest to see whose penis was the longest, Nan Que would be exposed.

Moreover, the Ninth Prince is not an ordinary prince.

Yan Yushi looked into the room and saw a soap on the washstand. It was a gift from Empress Dowager You to her younger sister. According to her younger sister, when she arrived at the Cining Palace that night, she was received by Empress Dowager You and the Ninth Prince.

Chapter 148 Your good days are over!

An ordinary prince and a prince favored by the empress dowager are completely different concepts.

Although the princes are the masters of the harem and belong to the upper class, the differences between the upper classes are also huge. The ninth prince, who is on good terms with the queen mother, is undoubtedly the upper class among the upper classes.

According to Yan Yushi's understanding, there are now five princes in the palace, two concubines, and three imperial concubines, besides the crown prince. A concubine is already a very high position, but how can she compare to the empress dowager? Only the empress can barely compete with the empress dowager.

"Princess." Caimei came to Yan Yushi's side holding the cakes.

Yan Yushi took the pastry and walked over to the three of them.

"Cloud Cake?" Ning Xuenian glanced at it and shook her head. "I'm tired of it."

Anyone would get tired of eating pastries all winter long.

Caimei, who was following behind Yan Yushi, raised her head and glanced at Ning Xuenian. This cloud cake was a rare treat for her and her two masters in the Yan Kingdom palace.

Xia Jing was also not interested in the cloud cake, but still took a piece.

Yan Nanque looked at her sister, tentatively stretched out her hand, and after confirming that she could take it, she happily stuffed it into her mouth. She blinked, confused.

Instead of tasting the sweetness of the cloud cake, she tasted a bitter taste. She forgot that her face was covered with notes!

Yan Yushi put down the pastry basket and was about to help her sister to move the note away, but when she looked up, her job was snatched away.

Xia Jing helped the fake prince take out the note from her mouth and fed the cloud cake into her mouth.

"It's delicious. Thank you, Ninth Prince." Yan Nanque's eyes curved into crescents.

[Intimacy: 50 (-20) → 50 (-21)]

Yan Yushi's temporary intimacy immediately dropped a little.

Xia Jing found it interesting and fed another piece to Yan Nanque, and Yan Yushi's temporary intimacy dropped a little again.

He picked up the third piece and was about to continue feeding it when a Ning Xue Nian suddenly appeared and took away the Yunpian Cake.

Ning Xuenian pinched the cloud cake she had picked up and opened her mouth again: "Ah~"

She grabbed this piece, so she has to feed it too!

Xia Jing was speechless. The Yannanque he fed didn't react at all, but Yan Yushi and Ning Xuenian showed some emotion.

He stuffed another piece of cloud cake into Ning Xuenian's mouth, and Yan Nanque moved and moved closer to him.

"Ah~" the fake prince opened his mouth.

Ning Xuenian was not willing to be outdone, so she came over and competed for the food.

Xia Jing felt like a mother bird, and the two people in front of her were her hungry baby birds.

Isn’t this scene of an animal with its mouth open and neck stretched out a common sight in the animal world?

The cloud cakes in the basket were quickly eaten up, but the two baby birds were still not full, so Xia Jing took off the cloth bag from his waist and took out lychees to feed them.

They were having a great time, and Yan Yushi stood aside, her eyes twitching as she watched.

She didn't see the loving relationship between the bird family, but only saw two greedy puppies begging for food from the Ninth Prince.

"Nanzhi, don't be rude." She stopped her sister, "This is lychee, thank you quickly..."

Before she could finish her words, the Ninth Prince stretched out his hand in front of her and fed a lychee into her mouth.

She was stunned for a moment, then she chewed the lychee, the sweet and sour taste spreading across her tongue.

After all, she was only nine years old and unable to resist the temptation of delicious food.

The loving bird mother and her family now have another child.

Looking at her own princess crying for food at the hands of the Ninth Prince, Caimei covered her face. Although her own princess was mature and steady, she became a captive of food once she saw delicious food.

After feeding the three baby birds a bag of lychees, Xia Jing patted the empty cloth bag and told them that there was not a single one left.

Yan Yushi wiped the corner of her lips and then she remembered that she came to stop the Ninth Prince from feeding the animals, but ended up becoming one of the people being fed.

She remained calm, as if she was not the one who had just been rude, and thanked the Ninth Prince for the lychees.

"As long as you like it." Xia Jing knew from the game that the Yan sisters liked sweets.

After feeding, he asked about the business: "I heard that Yan State and Chu State are neighbors. Do you know Chu State?"

"Chu? That barbarian country?" Ning Xuenian came over.

The State of Chu was located on the periphery of the Seven Kingdoms and was surrounded by mountains, making travel very inconvenient, so there was little intelligence.

Yan Nanque looked at her sister. She had only heard the name of Chu a few times, but her sister knew more than she did, so she might understand.

"Is the Ninth Prince interested in the State of Chu?" Yan Yushi inquired about the reason why Xia Jing asked for information about the State of Chu.

"I heard that when a Chu person dies, they place their coffin in the water and let the body float downstream until it hits a reef and sinks to the bottom." Xia Jing pretended to be curious about Chu customs. "There's also a rumor that a Chu Taoist priest could make the body move and cross mountains and rivers by shaking a bell."

Now, Ning Xuenian and Yan Nanque also became curious and asked Yan Yushi about the Chu State.

Yan Yushi had no choice but to tell everyone what information he knew about the Chu State.

Xia Jing then asked the palace maids and eunuchs from Yan State, asking them to speak about anything, big or small, as long as it was related to Chu State.

The palace maids and eunuchs of Yan State originally wanted to please the local tyrant, the Ninth Prince, so when they got the chance, they naturally worked very hard and told all the stories in their memory.

Amidst this pile of gossip and legends, Xia Jing got the information he wanted.