The next day, Bai Ren and Qi Xiao entered the palace together to pay tribute to the emperor. When they were bored in front of Chengqian Palace, Qi Xiao kept talking to Bai Ren softly about the customs of celebrating the New Year in Beijing.

"Today, Empress Feng will bring all the concubines to "sweep the dust". After sweeping over, the queen will bring the concubines and princesses to the front. Apart from those concubines with low status, the rest will go to Taimiao to worship their ancestors together." Looking from a distance, Qi Xiao frowned slightly and said slowly, "You don't have to go, just stay in my palace. I'll ask them to prepare fruit snacks for you in advance. Sit for a while, and we will be back after noon."

Bai Ren also saw Qi Hua, a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, and when he heard Qi Xiao's words, he lowered his voice and said, "Go to your palace?"

Qi Xiao nodded: "The Shuiyun Palace where you rested before has already been cleaned up and prepared to let Lao Wu move in after the New Year, let's talk about it..."

There were palace servants around him walking by. When they passed by Qi Xiao, they bowed and bowed. Qi Xiao waved his hand and glanced at Qi Hua who was walking towards him and said softly: "Besides, you can't rest assured elsewhere except in my palace... Haha, the second brother doesn't need to be too polite."

Qi Hua saw the two of them as if they were talking from afar. As expected, they saw them chatting intimately. Qi Hua still thought that Qi Xiao and Bai Ren became familiar with things in the side hall of the Qianqing Palace that time. He became more and more angry. He originally wanted to teach Bai Ren a lesson, but he didn't get embarrassed. He also brought the two people together.

Qi Hua smiled slightly but didn't smile, and turned to Bairen and smiled: "Hello, the prince."

Bai Ren smiled faintly: "Hello, the second prince."

Bai Ren turned his head and looked at Qi Xiao and smiled: "Is it really a day to sweep the dust and worship ancestors? In Lingnan, there are twenty-four sweeps the dust and twenty-five worship ancestors. It's a bit different. What are the twenty-six here doing?"

Qi Xiao raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Why might I talk to the prince first about the customs of the twenty-sixth Lingnan with me?"

The two of them joked as if they didn't see Qi Hua. Qi Hua's face turned red and white. Finally, the fourth prince came and said a few words to Qi Hua. Qi Hua was not too boring. Qi Xiao looked at Qi Hua from afar and sneered: "He has been flattering in front of the emperor recently, and there is no problem. After the New Year, the emperor will probably let him enter the court again."

Bai Ren frowned slightly, and Qi Xiao smiled comfortingly: "It's the New Year, I won't scare you just now. From today on, we probably won't be able to leave the palace first. In previous years, I entered the palace at 23, and this year it's too late. If you say... the emperor will definitely say that you are young and have no relatives in the imperial city, so I want to keep you in the palace for the New Year... Don't worry, I will let you go to my palace."

Bai Ren thought for a while and shook his head, "It's better to... find another place."

Qi Xiao chuckled: "Don't worry, this is in the palace. The emperor will announce you at any time. I dare not do anything. If you limp to the face of the saint... Haha, this matter has reached Lingnan, and the King of Lingnan will be sent to the army."

Bai Ren was stunned for a moment before he understood what Qi Xiao was saying. He blushed in an instant, lowered his voice and said anxiously: "What I mean... Qi Hua kept holding his energy and wanted to harm me, and he couldn't help but be implicated in your palace..."

Bai Ren was even more unable to speak, and did not dare to look at Qi Xiao anymore, and whispered: "I just... prevent problems before they happen."

Qi Xiao looked around, but there were so many people. Otherwise, Qi Xiao would really want to hold Bai Ren in his arms and kiss him. His smile could hardly be hidden on his face, and he chuckled softly: "Isn't it okay to implicate me? I'm dead, you're okay..."

"Your Highness!" Bai Ren was angry, "You know me... I have never thought about it like that. It's like a joke during the New Year, why bother talking about it?"

Qi Xiao smiled and apologized: "Yes, I won't say it."

Bai Ren was angry: "There is no taboo."

While he was speaking, Fu Hailu, the emperor's personal eunuch, came out, bowed to Qi Xiao to pay tribute, and then paid tribute to the princes and Bairen in turn, before saying, "The emperor, Prince Xuan, the princes and the prince of Lingnan entered the palace."

Everyone followed Fu Hailu into the main hall. The emperor and the empress in the room had just finished their breakfast. Queen Feng put down the teacup and said with a smile: "The ground is cold, get up quickly, Xiao'er... I haven't entered the palace for two days. On that day, will your mansion sacrifice to the kitchen?"

Qi Xiao lowered his eyes: "Thank you for your care, I have sacrificed my sacrifice."

Queen Feng nodded with a smile: "That's fine, I'm afraid you kids are not considerate, what about Bai Ren? I have long thought that Xuan you have come to the palace to celebrate the New Year together. Because there are so many things in the New Year, I have forgotten it. I will stay here now and wait for the first day of the day to go back."

Bai Ren bowed and said lightly: "Thank you for your care."

The emperor glanced at Queen Feng with satisfaction: "It's still the queen who thought about it carefully..."

Everyone sat down for a while and was about to leave for the Taimiao. Qi Xiao left Jiang Deqing and Bai Ren followed Jiang Deqing to Haiyan Palace.

"The prince has instructed you to let Your Highness do whatever you want." Jiang Deqing gave Bai Ren to the inner room and smiled, "If you want anything to eat and play, just tell me to the old slave."

Bai Ren shook his head and took the book to read and pass the time. Jiang Deqing stayed with him for a while and saw that Bai Ren had no instructions and then went down.

Bai Ren sat until noon, and he didn't get up until Jiang Deqing asked him to have lunch. Jiang Deqing laughed softly while serving Bai Ren's meal: "The prince really can sit still. This morning... although he has to work hard, reading books all day long is too harmful to his eyes."

Bai Ren smiled faintly: "What's the point of hard work? I just read some biographies."

"Your Highness will have to go to the yard after you finish your meal." Jiang Deqing smiled, "The plum blossoms in the yard are just right."

Bai Ren looked at Jiang Deqing: "When I came just now, I saw a plum blossom blooming in the west of the yard, which is also from Haiyan Palace?"

Jiang Deqing hesitated and smiled and said, "The outside is not as good as the one in the hall. Your Highness will know at a glance. Besides, the snow on Hualin has never been swept smoothly. The snow in this winter has accumulated ice after a few layers of snow. It is not a fun thing to slip."

Bai Ren thought it through and smiled faintly: "This is probably the prince's order. I can't even leave the yard?"

Jiang Deqing paused and smiled: "Your Highness... It's a cold day, the prince is also afraid that you will go out and get frozen. Isn't it good to be in the house? If you are bored, just walk in the yard, it's great."

Bairen chuckled: "It's okay, since he doesn't want me to go out, it's fine if I don't go out."

Jiang Deqing was sweating for a while, but when he saw Bai Ren was not angry, he felt relieved and smiled: "After that it is the prince who can understand the prince's painstaking efforts, the prince will come and try this first-grade bear paw... Before the prince left, he specially asked the kitchen to prepare for His Highness. It is best to eat this tonic in winter..."

After lunch, Bai Ren didn't even leave the door. He stood in front of the window for a while before going inside for a break. When he woke up again, Qi Xiao was sitting next to him.

Bai Ren looked out the window: "I came back so early..."

The charcoal fire in Qi Xiao's bedroom has always been burning strong, Bai Ren's face is blushing and very cute. Qi Xiao looked at him and chuckled: "I heard from Jiang Deqing that you have been in the house for a day?"

Bai Ren nodded, hesitated and whispered: "I am with you, you have to take responsibility. Even if you don't tell Jiang Deqing, I won't go around and cause trouble for you."

Qi Xiao felt very upset and said softly: "I'm not afraid of right and wrong, but you really scared me that time in autumn. I didn't see you for a while and I was hurt by that thing. I'm not in the palace for half a day, who knows who will come to tease you without knowing what to do?"

Bai Ren felt warm in his heart and smiled deliberately: "Your Highness should be relieved. Didn't the second prince go to Taimiao too?"

Qi Xiao laughed and talked to Bai Ren about the customs of the middle-aged mansions with Bai Ren.

In Fenghua Palace, Empress Feng smiled and spoke to the concubines for a while. After everyone left, she immediately put down her face and entered the inner room and said coldly: "So... he hasn't gone out of Haiyan Palace this day?"

Queen Feng's confidant palace servant reluctantly smiled: "Empress do not come out, this... I did not come out, let alone the hospital was discharged from the hospital. His Highness the Prince did not leave the house at all. The servants kept walking outside with the two girls, but they had never been able to see His Highness the Prince, and they did not dare to go too close to that... The Empress knew that the servants in Haiyan Palace did not have mouths, but they all had more than a dozen pairs of eyes. The servants were afraid that they would see something, and they were afraid that the two girls would be suspicious, so they would take them back first."

"Waste!" Queen Feng was furious, "It's all waste! Qi Xiao is not here, what a good opportunity, you can accomplish nothing!"

The confidant palace servant complained and couldn't come out. Could it be that he wanted to pull the person out by himself?

Queen Feng knew that no one else was wrong, so she breathed a sigh of relief and said coldly: "Forget it, he has been in the palace these days, so I'll find another way."

The confidant palace servant agreed repeatedly, and Queen Feng's tone changed: "But if there is no movement after the first day of the lunar calendar... you know the family rules of the ancestors. After the fifteenth emperor, you can go to the concubine palace. If the emperor really favors them at that time... don't blame me for being ruthless."

"Yes, I must have tried every means in the past few days." The confidant palace servant knelt on the ground and said bitterly, "I will definitely share the worries for the empress."

Queen Feng closed her eyes and waved her hand in disgust: "Go."

In the warm pavilion of Haiyan Palace, Qi Xiao nodded at the big words written by Bairen: "No, it's just this word "Shou"..."

"Crown Prince." Jiang Deqing bowed and smiled, "Prince Rong and Prince Rong are here, the emperor let the prince go."

Qi Xiao paused and turned to Bairen and smiled: "I'll go and sit down and come back. Don't be lazy. I'll write the plaque before I come back. I'll use it now."

Bai Ren nodded, changed the paper and continued to write seriously. Qi Xiao turned around and followed Jiang Deqing out of the warm room.

"What's wrong?" Prince Rong entered the palace in the afternoon. Qi Xiao had already seen it. Now he used this as an excuse. Naturally, he had something to avoid Bai Ren's words. Qi Xiao put on a big cloak and walked out of the yard, frowned, "But there in Lingnan..."

"No, it's Empress Feng." Jiang Deqing winked at the little eunuch who was following him. The little eunuch quickly ordered everyone to follow a little further. Jiang Deqing whispered, "Empress Feng wants to catch the prince in the past few days after entering the palace, it will harm the prince."

Qi Xiao sneered: "What do she want?"

"Before the twelfth lunar month, Empress Feng asked her parents' home to send two girls in. Both girls had no family background, but were only good in their beautiful colors. Empress Feng kept these two girls by her side and carefully taught the rules. Although she didn't say it clearly... But everyone knows this, it must be prepared for the emperor. Your Highness knows that the concubines sometimes put a few such girls in their palace in order to compete for favor."

Qi Xiao frowned: "What does it have to do with Bairen?"

Jiang Deqing lowered his eyes: "It's all the old slave who is not thinking well. He knew that Feng's mansion sent two girls into the palace. The old slave just thought it was the queen's trick to win over the emperor's heart, so he didn't take it seriously and told Your Highness, but... Empress Feng's intention was not to drink, she was preparing to use these two girls to deal with the prince."

"Empress Feng has no tolerance. She didn't want to present people to the emperor at all. She just let the emperor meet. The emperor was very satisfied. Both sides understood it. However, Empress Feng had always said that the two girls had not learned the rules well and were not suitable for serving the emperor, so they would not be able to do anything. The time block was too appropriate. After learning the rules well, it would be the Little New Year. If the emperor was not good at getting close to the concubines, he would let go of this matter first."

"Just just now, the spy from Fenghua Palace said that Empress Feng's original intention... was to take advantage of the Chinese New Year's Day to let the prince meet with these two girls, and then let the palace servants find ways to do something bad, so... they said that His Highness was greedy for the beauty of that girl and abruptly."

Qi Xiao stopped, Jiang Deqing paused, and looked carefully at Qi Xiao's face and continued: "It is said... today Queen Feng's original intention was to let her palace servants take the girl out and walk around. When she met the prince, she pushed the girl into the prince's arms, saying that she was sliding to the prince's arms or something else... There must be some accidents first, and then take the girl back to the palace to strangle her to death... It was said that the girl could not bear the humiliation and committed suicide by hanging herself on the beam. No matter how far-fetched it was before, the prince's teasing concubines became real. The emperor even believed it. In this way, there was no need to present the girl to the emperor anymore, and he could throw a basin of sewage from the prince. His Highness knew that such a romantic thing... was spread the fastest."

A fierce look flashed in Qi Xiao's eyes and he sneered: "I... really underestimated Queen Feng before."

Jiang Deqing lowered his voice: "Because of the fact that there was Maoer Hutong in the side palace of Qianqing Palace before, Empress Feng had long hated the prince."

Qi Xiao pursed his thin lips and smiled coldly: "Okay... I'll play tricks with me, so I'll play with her."

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