Strange, what are they looking for? The Ninth Prince touched his full stomach, puzzled.

Walking through the Imperial Garden, Xia Jing quickened his pace again. Passing an alley, he caught a glimpse of Honeysuckle's shadow out of the corner of his eye and saw it pause.

Turning around, he followed the girl's gaze and saw Luhua in the alley.

When he walked to Luhua's side, Xia Jing saw Ning Xuenian who was blocked by Luhua again.

The master and servant stood at the corner of the alley, peeking and looking into the distance.

Xia Jing patted Luhua, and Luhua shrank back to make room for the Ninth Prince.

Lying behind the wall, Xia Jing poked his head out from under Ning Xuenian's arm.

The alley leads to a wide road, where two princesses are blocking a prince.

"..."

What a familiar scene.

"You can't run away!" The fifth princess Ning Yitao supported herself on the wall with her right hand, touched her chin with her left hand, and laughed sharply.

"Just surrender!" The fourth princess Ning Peixiang supported herself against the wall with her left hand, covered her forehead with her right hand, and laughed in a low voice.

The two princesses stood shoulder to shoulder, forming a right angle, trapping Yan Nanque in the corner.

"Hurry up and tell me, come to our palace to play tomorrow!" Ning Yitao stared at Yan Nanque.

"Otherwise, we won't let you go today!" Ning Peixiang warned.

“Few people pass by here!”

"So no one will come to help you even if you scream your throat out!"

The two princesses' laughter, one high and one low, floated in the evening sky.

They said in unison: "You have no choice but to agree to our request!"

"any request?"

"Play with us after school tomorrow!" Ning Yitao said.

"We played until dinner!" Ning Peixiang added.

"Can I?"

"...?"

Ning Yitao and Ning Peixiang noticed something was wrong. The person who spoke was not Prince Yan, and they looked behind them in confusion.

They met a boy who was as cute as the prince of Yan.

The boy smiled innocently, but they felt a chilly wind.

Like a demon in human skin! Like ginger disguised as meat!

The two princesses shuddered and said in fear:

"It's the brother who hit us! Xiangxiang, run!"

"And that sister who hits people! Taotao, run!"

The two princesses ran away hand in hand.

Xia Jing turned around and looked at Ning Xuenian: "Sister Nian'er, you scared them away."

"You scared them too!" Ning Xuenian put her hands on her hips.

She looked in the direction where the two princesses fled, feeling a little regretful. She wanted to see how the two sisters bullied Prince Yan and see what Brother Jing meant by "being a good friend".

Yan Nanque had no idea what Ning Xuenian was thinking, and she had no idea that the Seventh Princess had been following her to watch the show all the way. Otherwise, she would have definitely been hiding behind Xia Jing, trembling with fear.

The fake prince thanked the two men, looked at the sky, and hurried to Tongde Palace.

"Where is your maid?" Xia Jing held her back.

"I was stopped by the two princesses' maids while I was picking plums. I don't know where they are now," Yan Nanque replied. "My sister is still waiting for me. I need to go back quickly."

"They are waiting right in front. Do you want to walk into their trap?" Ning Xuenian pointed to the corner where two pairs of eyes were peeking.

Seeing Ning Xuenian pointing at them, the two princesses screamed and ran away again.

"Let's take you back." Xia Jing said.

In the game, the Yan sisters completely control the Yan Kingdom's heritage and are crucial plot characters. But in reality, Xia Jing, like a butterfly, has flapped her wings. The two who were supposed to have grown up in the Yan Kingdom palace have now come to the Ning Kingdom palace, and Xia Jing is unsure of their future.

But he knew that it was best to protect Yan Nanque now to avoid any further complications.

"Thank you, Ninth Prince." Yan Nanque smiled at Xia Jing.

"Thank you, Seventh Princess too." She looked at Ning Xuenian again.

Ning Xuenian turned her head away guiltily.

The three children walked in the sunset, with Honeysuckle and Dew following behind.

Not long after, Caimei ran over and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Yan Nanque was fine.

She grumbled and complained about the fourth and fifth princesses.

As soon as she returned from the study, she and Yan Nanque were intercepted by two princesses. They have been fleeing until now and only managed to escape with the help of Xia Jing.

She had a lot of opinions about the two princesses.

Xia Jing listened and glanced at Caimei.

Is this palace maid scheming or just foolish?

When she muttered these things, was she hoping that Ning Xuenian and she could help Yan Nanque file a complaint so that the two princesses would stop entangled with each other, or was she just venting her anger without caring who was next to her?

In ancient times, when clan law often trumped national law, it was common to favor one's relatives over others. Fortunately, the person Caimei was talking about was Ning Xuenian and him. If it were any other prince or princess, disaster would have ensued!

Without responding to Caimei's words, Xia Jing took Ning Xuenian's hand and sent Yan Nanque to the gate of Tongde Palace. Yan Yushi, who had been waiting anxiously in front of the palace gate, breathed a sigh of relief and thanked the two of them.

It was already dark, and Xia Jing and Ning Xuenian walked back, no longer in a hurry.

"Why are you following Prince Yan?" Xia Jing asked Ning Xuenian.

He discovered that the alley Ning Xuenian was in was not the one Ning Xuenian usually walked on, and guessed that the girl had followed Ning Yitao and Ning Peixiang there.

Ning Xuenian lowered her head and looked at the small lotus embroidered on the toe of her shoe. "I went to Jingyixuan to look for you, but you weren't there, so I walked towards the upper study. When I got close, the eunuch guarding the door wouldn't let me in. I waited for a while and asked Prince Yan, who had come out. He said you didn't go to class."

Then Prince Yan was abducted by two princesses, and Ning Xuenian followed them secretly.

Xia Jing patted her head. Although he hadn't been to the study recently, the Ninth Prince was still very busy. He was busy slacking off in the morning, busy at the glass workshop in the afternoon, and also had to go to Shuiyun Palace to practice martial arts and visit places like Cining Palace.

After careful calculation, I realized that I hadn't seen Ning Xuenian for two days.

"I went to the foreman," he explained.

"Yeah." Ning Xuenian nodded, took out a lychee from her pocket and handed it to Xia Jing.

"There are still some?" Xia Jing was a little surprised, holding up the lychees.

It is not easy to transport litchis, and it is impossible to make several deliveries in a short period of time.

"It's from last time. This is the last one. My mother put it in the ice basket, and two of them are broken." Ning Xuenian took the lychee from the boy's hand, peeled it, and handed it to his mouth.

The ice basket is not an ice storage, so it cannot lock in the freshness of the lychees. The sweetness is less and the sourness is stronger. Xia Jing chewed the flesh, spit out the core, and turned to look at the girl.

Beyond the distant palace walls, the setting sun was reduced to a single orange-red rim, like the peel of a lychee peeled by a girl. She clutched the peel in her palm, and the sky darkened. The glow, like embers, reflected in the girl's eyes, and Xia Jing thought of annealed glass.

Compared to the busy academic lives of the princes, the princesses had more freedom and were also more boring. No one had any expectations of them. In Xia Jing's previous life's historical research, many princesses were not even named. They were invisible.

The two sisters Ning Yitao and Ning Peixiang are inseparable and are making trouble everywhere in the harem. What about Ning Xuenian? What is she doing when she is not around?

Hitting all the leaves in the harem? Or just stalking other princesses out of boredom?

"We can walk faster this way." Ning Xuenian pointed to a small path.

She was very familiar with the roads of the harem. The palace was large, but also small.

After parting with the girl at the fork in the road, Xia Jing stood for a while and then went back to Jingyixuan.

……

In the morning, next to Qianqing Gate, in the teahouse.

King Jing looked at the imperial edict from the "General of the Study" in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Xia Jing stood aside. As soon as he arrived at the upper study, he was called over by King Jing and asked for his general certificate, which made him confused.

King Jing closed the "edict", rubbed his forehead and sighed.

When he was a child, the late emperor always said that he was the most mischievous prince. Now he felt that the late emperor had misjudged him, and Emperor Kangning was the most mischievous one.

At least he couldn't think of the title of 'General of the Imperial Study'!

"I have something that I would like the general's assistance with." He handed the imperial edict back to Xia Jing and joked.

Xia Jing took it and said, "Uncle, please feel free to speak."

"The breeze is warm and spring is coming late. It's a good time for an outing. I want to take you for a walk outside the city. I'm afraid that Master Qi will not agree, so I'd like to trouble you to persuade him." King Jing directly stated his purpose.

"Spring outing?" Xia Jing was surprised.

In his previous life, when he was in kindergarten, Xia Jing’s school organized a spring outing. Unexpectedly, the upper study room also had such an activity.

Of course, the Ninth Prince would support such a good thing. Moreover, the spring outing was also an opportunity to interact with the King of Jing.

However, Xia Jing had other ideas about this spring outing plan.

He thought of Ning Xuenian's eyes yesterday evening, and the girl's smiling face by the Xue family's lantern lake.

Seeing that he didn't respond, King Jing took out a flat wooden box from the cabinet and pushed it in front of Xia Jing: "This is the reward for asking the general to do something."

Xia Jing looked at the wooden box and felt that it looked more and more familiar. He opened it and took a look, and the corner of his mouth twitched.

Isn’t this his Yin Yang fish puzzle!

If it was a Rubik's Cube, the Ninth Prince would have accepted it. There was only one Rubik's Cube, but there were many puzzle pieces.

He pushed the flat wooden box back and said, "No need for reward, but my nephew has a suggestion."

"What proposal?" King Jing asked in confusion.

"Since we are going on an outing, how about bringing all the princes and princesses who are willing to go?" Xia Jing looked at King Jing.

"You want the Seventh Princess to go too?" King Jing instantly understood the boy's thoughts.

"I can't hide it from my uncle." Xia Jing said with a smile.

The King of Jing hesitated. He had suggested the outing as a gesture of care from an uncle to his nephews, and it would be even better if his nieces could be included as well.

"I have no objection, but the emperor will probably not agree." He shook his head.

Emperor Corning is flexible only where it is profitable, and extremely rigid in other places.

He was even unwilling to approve the King of Jing taking the princes on an outing, but instead asked the King of Jing to find Xia Jing. How could such a person agree to let the princesses leave the palace!

Chapter 152 The princess is kidnapped!

"Father didn't say forbid." The ninth prince's voice sounded like the devil's whisper.

The Ninth Prince did not whisper to everyone. He first looked at King Jing's interpersonal interface.

[Name: Ning Jiyu]

【Age: 47】

[Identity: King of Jing]

[Compassion: 63]

The intimacy level of 63 is enough to show some harmless little coquettishness.

Prince Jing shook his head: "I've told the emperor, he will definitely not agree."

At the age of King Jing, how could he not understand the meaning of the boy's words? He was just pretending to be confused!

"The Emperor didn't tell me to tell him!" The Ninth Prince continued, "The Upper Study is responsible for the education of the royal family, and the princess is of course a member of that group. Isn't it reasonable to bring the princess along?"

"That's true." Prince Jing stroked his beard, "However, I can't explain it this way when I go to the Emperor."

"What if my uncle sends someone to invite my third and fourth brothers, and my sisters hear it, and they hug my uncle's legs and cry and shout that they want to go with him?" Xia Jing whispered.

King Jing stared into the boy's eyes, testing whether he would waver. More than a dozen breaths passed, and the boy's expression remained unchanged.

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