After eating and drinking, it's time to exercise.

Honeysuckle's eyes lit up, and she followed the boy. It had been a long time since she had sparred with the Ninth Prince.

Watching the two figures disappear outside the courtyard gate, Yi Qiu sighed: "The young master is running faster and faster. I could catch up with him before, but now I can't even keep up with him."

"Jing'er learned martial arts after all," Xiao Yue sighed, "I didn't expect that he could really stick with it."

"That's right," Yi Qiu said, "Everyone in the palace says that the young master is naughty and lazy, but in my opinion, it's just the opposite!"

Yi Qiu turned her head again, looked in the direction Xia Jing left, and sighed: "It's a pity that this servant was born more than ten years earlier."

Xiao Yue raised her chopsticks and tapped the maid on the head: "What are you thinking about!"

Yi Qiu covered her head. The chopstick strike failed to shatter her thoughts. She said indignantly, "I wonder who can marry our Ninth Prince."

Xiao Yue thought for a moment and said, "The Xue family has a girl, and I heard Jing'er likes her very much."

"A daughter born out of wedlock, no way." Yi Qiu shook her head.

"The princess of Yan State also played with Jing'er."

"I can't take a hostage."

"This girl, Honeysuckle, is well-behaved and heroic, and she's also pretty. I heard she's a noble from a foreign country who's fallen on hard times."

"Not of my kind, no way."

Xiao Yue laughed and scolded: "You are even more picky than a mother like me!"

Chapter 200 Prism Experiment

On the day Ning Zhuzhu entered the Cining Palace, Xia Jing dragged Ning Xuenian over to watch the fun.

"I don't like her." In the main room, Ning Xuenian pouted and said to Xia Jing.

"Did Sister Nian'er have a grudge against her before?" Xia Jing asked curiously.

"When I first met her, she was very polite to me, but not at all to Luhua," Ning Xuenian explained. "I scolded her, but she lied and got me scolded."

Xia Jing squeezed Ning Xuenian's hand and comforted her, "Don't worry, that little pearl will end up in trouble if it falls into Grandma's hands."

"What's a piglet?" the girl giggled.

Before her laughter stopped, there was a noise at the palace gate. Ning Zhuzhu passed through the Cining Gate and came here.

Empress Dowager You sat on the armchair in the main hall, and Ning Zhuzhu came into the main hall holding Concubine Wan's hand.

The mother and daughter knelt down and saluted Empress Dowager You, and Ning Zhuzhu served her tea.

After this brief ceremony, Ning Zhuzhu was handed over to Queen Mother You, who asked the two to sit down and talk.

Wanpin looked left and right, looking at the precious and luxurious furnishings in the Cining Palace, the carved beams and painted buildings, and the golden bricks and red walls.

She spoke to Empress Dowager You, and her gentle response made her feel that she was no longer a small concubine, but a big figure on equal footing with the Empress Dowager.

She became reserved, and her eyes were filled with arrogance when she looked at Xia Jing and Ning Xuenian.

Ning Zhuzhu was different from her mother. She only cared about the cakes and fruit plate on the table next to her. She held a crabapple pastry in one hand and a piece of watermelon in the other, and her face and the floor were covered with crumbs and juice from eating.

Queen Mother You was too lazy to deal with them and yawned deliberately.

Wanpin didn't see it and was looking at the gold-thread screen beside her.

Empress Dowager You yawned again. Wanpin noticed it and said, "Did your Majesty not sleep well last night? I have a recipe for calming the nerves..."

She actually talked about sleeping tips with Queen Mother You!

Empress Dowager You almost laughed out of anger. This Wanpin was so tactless!

Xia Jing came to the rescue of Empress Dowager You, jumped off the chair and walked in front of her.

He rubbed his eyes and said, "Grandma, I'm tired."

"Go inside and sleep." Queen Mother You thought to herself, the Ninth Prince is really considerate and more sensible than the adults!

As she spoke, she stood up and said, "I am tired too. Yuhe, take Concubine Wan and Princess Zhu'er to tour the palace."

Wanpin realized this was a sign to say goodbye to the guests. But she didn't want to leave and wanted to explore the Cining Palace. Once her daughter settled down, she would come to visit often. In short, this was her palace.

Queen Mother You is old and she doesn't know how to use such a beautiful palace, so it has to be used by her mother and daughter.

So she pretended not to understand, stood up and looked at Yuhe, and wanted to go visit her own palace.

Yuhe looked at Queen Mother You in embarrassment. This time, Queen Mother You was really happy and waved her hand to let Yuhe lead them there.

Wanpin pulled Ning Zhuzhu, who was eating happily, over and she had some words to say to her daughter.

Seeing Ning Zhuzhu looking back every few steps, reluctant to leave the cakes and fruits, Empress Dowager You sighed.

Sure enough, there are very few cute and well-behaved children, but many uncomfortable children.

"Come, sleep with me, and let her see the rules of the Cining Palace tomorrow." Empress Dowager You leaned over and hugged Xia Jing.

She put her arms around the boy's waist, but after trying a little harder, she failed to lift him up and almost hurt her waist.

"Have you gained weight?" Empress Dowager You held her waist and looked at Xia Jing suspiciously.

"Yes, I've grown taller!" Xia Jing gestured with his head.

Empress Dowager You turned around and embraced Ning Xuenian, easily lifting the girl up: "Nian'er is a little taller than you, but much lighter than you."

Xia Jing muttered something about the differences between men and women, muscles, and just having lunch.

Empress Dowager You got on the bed, and Xia Jing lay beside her. He turned around to look at the old lady's face and thought, Ning Xuenian is thin, and he is heavier than Ning Xuenian. Empress Dowager You could easily pick him up a few days ago, so it doesn't make sense that he has gained so much weight in just a few days.

He looked at Empress Dowager You's chest, which was rising and falling weakly. The old lady fell asleep soon after lying down.

Before, Empress Dowager You basically never took naps, she only dozed off.

Looking at the silver hair on the old man's head again, Xia Jing sighed in his heart.

He couldn't sleep, so he got out of bed quietly. Ning Xuenian was sleeping soundly, but when she sensed Xia Jing's movement, she also moved and lay down on the bed.

Fortunately, this bed is very wide.

Walking out of the dormitory, Xia Jing met Ning Shouxu and Sun Jingzhu.

"Third brother is here too." Xia Jing said with a smile.

"Where is that girl?" Ning Shouxu asked.

There was a new princess living in the Cining Palace, so of course he had to come and take a look.

"I went to visit the Cining Palace." Xia Jing replied.

"Oh, you really treat the Cining Palace as your own home." Ning Shouxu sneered.

The Third Prince didn't know what Xia Jing and Queen Mother You were up to, but he was very sure that neither Xia Jing nor Queen Mother You would like Ning Zhuzhu.

He guessed that what Empress Dowager You really wanted was one of Ning Sisi and Ning Shuang'er.

"They are all here!" Another person came in from outside the door. It was the fourth prince Ning Zhixing.

Ning Zhixing took some time off to come and see the Cining Palace, and also to ask Xia Jing some difficult questions.

He took out a glass triangular prism from his sleeve and handed it to Xia Jing.

"Fourth brother actually made this!" Xia Jing was surprised.

Such a perfect prism is not easy to make.

"How it is done is not important. What is important is another thing." Ning Zhixing picked up Xia Jing and put her in the sun.

The sunlight shines on the boy's hand, enters the prism, and refracts onto the wall.

"Rainbow." Sun Jingzhu said in surprise.

On the wall, seven colors of light shine brilliantly.

Xia Jing moves the prism and the rainbow moves with it.

"Why is this?" Ning Shouxu pushed the wheelchair and came to the side of the two people.

He stared at the colors on the wall, amazed. Although the glass beads before him also showed strange colors, they were far from being so regular, so neat, and so like the rainbow in nature.

Ning Zhixing looked at Xia Jing. Xia Jing played with the prism for a while. No one could refuse this way of playing.

The Ninth Prince had never expected that Ning Zhixing's research had reached this point. In his previous life, this was a prism experiment that only appeared in the 17th century. It was also an experiment that every high school physics teacher had to perform.

He replied, “That’s it.”

"What does that mean?" Ning Zhixing and Ning Shouxu frowned.

"It's just what you see." Xia Jing didn't plan to say too much. It was useless to say anything. The application of this technology was too complicated and it was only suitable for playing.

By the way, is he considered a riddle man?

To prevent himself from becoming the person he hated the most, Xia Jing added a few more words: "When making dye, if you add a lot of pigments, the final product will be black. Now it's just the other way around."

"That is to say, sunlight is composed of so many colors?" Ning Zhixing and Ning Shouxu stared at the rainbow on the wall for a long time without saying a word.

For ordinary people, this is nothing to be surprised about. So what if there are so many colors in it? It can't be eaten or sold.

But Ning Shouxu was a thoughtful person, and Ning Zhixing was a curious person, neither of them ordinary people. The sudden revelation of such a huge secret in the sunlight they had long been accustomed to made them uneasy.

Ning Shouxu even began to doubt reality. He originally thought that what he saw and felt was the truth, but now he was told that what he saw was not the final truth?

Sun Jingzhu didn't think as deeply as the two brothers did. He squatted beside Xia Jing and played with the glass prism with the boy.

Rainbow flew around the room, stepped on Ning Shouxu's head, and climbed onto Ning Zhixing's chest.

"What is this!" A sharp voice broke the silence.

Ning Zhuzhu is back.

The maid in the bedroom hurried out: "The Queen Mother is asleep, Princess, please be quiet!"

Empress Dowager You was sleeping soundly and hadn't woken up yet. Ning Xuenian woke up, rubbed her eyes, and walked out the door.

Chapter 201: Failed Sneak Attack

Even modern children would be amazed when they see the beautiful rainbow, let alone the princesses of the Ning Dynasty.

Ning Xuenian opened her mouth, a cry of surprise on the tip of her tongue, but her hands muffled it. Empress Dowager You was still soundly asleep and could not be disturbed.

Ning Zhuzhu stood in front of the wall, stretched out her hands and stood on tiptoe, trying to catch the rainbow on the wall. She thought the rainbow was some kind of independent object hanging on the wall.

Xia Jing shook the prism, the rainbow swayed, and Ning Zhuzhu also jumped left and right.

Ning Xuenian figured out the trick and ran to Xia Jing's side: "What is this?"

The girl opened her eyes wide and looked at the glass triangular prism in Xia Jing's hand with curiosity.

Xia Jing handed the prism to the girl. The girl was inexperienced and changed the angle, and the rainbow on the wall suddenly disappeared.

Ning Zhuzhu looked around and found Ning Xuenian fiddling with a glass column. The rainbow changed size and hid under Ning Xuenian's feet.

She pounced forward and grabbed at the ground for a while, but the rainbow disappeared again and was thrown onto the wall by Ning Xuenian.

At this time, Ning Zhuzhu finally realized that the rainbow was related to the glass pillar in Ning Xuenian's hand.

"Let me see!" Ning Zhuzhu reached out to Ning Xuenian and snatched the prism from her hand.

Ning Shouxu frowned and wanted to push his wheelchair over to stop them, but Xia Jing held him down.

"It's okay, don't worry, third brother." Xia Jing said to Ning Shouxu.

Ning Xuenian is not Ning Sisi, don't worry.

In the sunlight, the prism was already in Ning Zhuzhu's hands. Ning Zhuzhu was quick, and Ning Xuenian was not careful enough and dropped the treasure, but the Seventh Princess quickly reached out and took it back from Ning Zhuzhu.

"Give it to me!" Ning Zhuzhu reached out to grab it again.

Ning Xuenian clenched her fist, raised it high, and punched Ning Zhuzhu in the face three times with "bang bang bang".

Ning Zhuzhu fell to the ground, her head buzzing. After a few breaths, she came to her senses, wrinkled her face, opened her mouth, and was about to burst into tears.

"Don't cry!"

Ning Xuenian raised an eyebrow and raised her hand, instantly choking back Ning Zhuzhu's cries. Ning Xuenian was even more ruthless than the raccoon, and Ning Zhuzhu didn't want to take another three hits.

Ning Xuenian put down her hand with satisfaction. She had successfully maintained Empress Dowager You's sleep.

Ning Zhuzhu stared at Ning Xuenian, looking her up and down. When she first entered the Cining Palace, she felt that the girl looked familiar, and now she finally recognized her.

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