After traveling through time, I became the aunt of the loyal dog emperor

Three days passed in a flash, and today is the day to collect the paintings.

Wan Ning sat at the dining table eating breakfast, sighing and frowning. If she had to ask what was bothering her, it was the business outside the palace. Through talent shows and joint activities, she had indeed attracted the attention of the whole city and made a lot of money. But this flow of traffic came quickly and went quickly. The most important thing was that the target consumer group was now staying in the palace. Now the sales trend was gradually weakening, and even showing a downward trend.

If you continue to be so unmotivated, sooner or later you will be out of the discussion, and you will lose everything, not to mention making money.

"Oh!" Wan Ning just picked up the spoon and brought the porridge to her mouth, but she lost the desire to eat. She put it down dejectedly, and couldn't stop sighing.

"Princess, what's wrong with you?"

Wan Ning looked up and glanced out the window. It had started snowing again without her noticing. The light snowflakes were flying all over the sky. It was still chilly in spring, and she couldn't help but shiver just by looking at them.

Afraid that Wan Tao would worry, Wan Ning smiled bitterly and said, "It's okay. It must be affected by the weather. It's already spring, why is it snowing again today?"

"Well, of all the four seasons in Nanye City, spring is the shortest and comes the most casually, which makes winter seem particularly long." Wan Tao also turned her head to look in the direction that Wan Ning had just looked at, carefully observing the flying snowflakes, and said, "According to the usual practice of previous years, it will still be cold for a while. If the princess is cold, I will send someone to light another stove."

Wan Ning waved her hand, then pulled her clothes tight and refused, "It's okay, I'm not cold. Each palace has its share of charcoal, and it's not much to begin with. If I use more, Zhu Ying and the others will have to save it. By the way, let Zhu Ying arrange for someone to go to Yudie Palace to check. It snowed today, but can the palace withstand it? Do the young masters and young ladies need anything? Hey, speaking of Zhu Ying, why didn't I see her this morning?"

Wan Tao poured a cup of ginger tea and handed it to Wan Ning, then put away the bowl of porridge on the table and replied, "It is said that the three-day deadline has come, and Zhu Ying took Zhu Zi to Yudie Palace and Lanzhi Garden to collect paintings early in the morning."

As Wan Tao was talking, she looked up and saw two figures in the snow, with their heads down and something in their arms, moving towards them. She identified them carefully and they were Zhu Ying and Zhu Zi, whose heads and bodies were covered with snow and their hair turned white. Wan Tao said happily, "Speaking of the devil, they are here. You just mentioned them and they are already back." She put down her things, walked to the door, picked up two umbrellas and went to meet them.

After receiving the signal, Wan Ning immediately put down her cup and followed Wan Tao in front of her. The four met in the courtyard. Zhu Zi pouted her face and cursed. If you listen carefully, she was complaining about the weather: "This lousy weather, it was fine when I left, and it snowed as soon as it said it would snow. You rely on yourself to be God and don't understand the sufferings of us humans. It's going to snow, it will stop sooner or later."

Wan Ning heard what she said and felt that she had more to say than just complaining about the weather. Seeing her aggrieved face, she winked at Zhu Ying from behind. After all, she was her sister, so she spoke directly and pointed out to her face: "You don't have to use the weather to make indirect accusations. This is also because the princess is generous and doesn't care. If others hear it, they will punish you for insubordination. After all, it is because the princess is too considerate to us servants that you are so outspoken. Be careful that one day you will say something bad, and no one can save you!"

Zhu Zi immediately shut up and just wrapped the painting in her arms tighter. Although she looked aggrieved, she had nothing to say and stuck close to her sister. At this time, Zhu Ying explained to Wan Ning: "Princess, she is worried. She is young and can't keep things to herself. She was young and went to collect the painting, so she was teased. Zhu Zi felt wronged and was upset again. I will definitely teach her a lesson later."

"Who bullied us nobles? I'll go settle the score with them tomorrow," Wan Ning joked.

Zhu Zi blushed and explained, "Princess, I know I was wrong. But I'm not angry just for myself. I went to collect the paintings on behalf of the princess. Some young masters and young ladies are pretentious and look down on a little girl like me and make fun of me. Isn't that disrespectful to Xiang Wanxuan?"

In a blink of an eye, several people have walked into the house. Everyone shook off the snow on their bodies in unison and helped each other to pat it. Zhu Ying took the portrait from Zhu Zi's arms, carefully placed it on the table, carefully examined it, and said happily: "Fortunately, everything is fine. It snowed heavily today!" Then he turned around and taught Zhu Zi a lesson: "You, you are still too young. They have their own mouths. How can you control what they want to say? If they need you in the future, you will naturally treat them well. You just wait. It's not worth getting angry!"

Wan Ning picked up a painting and was immediately attracted by the portrait on the paper. She picked up another one and agreed with Zhu Ying while reading it: "You are right, Zhu Zi, take a small notebook and write it down first. Our Xiang Wanxuan is not a troublemaker but not afraid of trouble. We will settle the accounts one by one in the future and make him apologize to you in person."

"This portrait is well drawn!" Wan Ning paused for a moment and couldn't help but exclaim.

"Yes, the portraits are lifelike and vivid," Zhu Ying counted carefully.

"Is everything here?" Wan Ning asked.

Zhu Ying counted for a moment and replied, "The portraits of the young ladies and young masters of Yudie Palace and Xiangwanxuan are all collected here, but Prince Mu Xiu's portrait is missing. I just passed by Yuxi Palace and the gate was closed. It was snowing too hard, so I came back because I was worried that the paintings would get wet. If the princess needs them, I'll go get them now."

Wan Ning immediately stopped her, "Zhu Ying, wait. I'll go get Prince Mu Xiu's things myself. Pack these up and I'll send them to the Queen Mother's Buddhist temple later."

This matter should be dealt with sooner rather than later, Wan Ning took all the paintings and went straight to Yuxi Palace. The palace gate was closed, but she pushed it gently, and the half-closed door slowly opened. There was already a layer of snow on the ground, and there was no trace of anything on it. Since Mengzhu moved to live in Yudie Palace, it has been very quiet on weekdays, and now it can be described as lonely.

"Is anyone there?" Wan Ning lowered her voice and called out tentatively. No one responded, "If no one is there, I'll come in."

After that, she tiptoed in, closed the door carefully, looked around, and then chose to sneak towards Mu Xiu's study. Wan Ning was very curious about what Mu Xiu did on weekdays. It was better to arrive early than to arrive at the right time. She wanted to observe secretly when no one was around.

Walking slowly on tiptoe, she arrived at the door of the study room soon. The door was closed, the smoke from the incense burner in the room was reflected on the window, and there was only the sound of falling snow. Wan Ning did not dare to make a sound, holding her breath and lying by the window, poking holes in the window like in movies and TV shows. Just when she thought she had finished, the finger that had passed through the window was grabbed from the inside without any warning.

She was so anxious that she wanted to scream but didn't dare to. She covered her mouth with her other hand and tried to pull it out with all her strength but it didn't move at all.

When he was in trouble, the door of the room beside him opened from the inside and Yin Zhu walked out under Wan Ning's anxious gaze. He looked surprised. Although he didn't understand what the princess was doing, he walked to Wan Ning very respectfully and bowed to her, saying, "Princess Le Yan, good luck, please come in."

Wan Ning couldn't pull her finger back, so she could only smile awkwardly and said to the people inside through gritted teeth: "Okay, okay, please go in first, I'll be there soon!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the person in the window chuckled and let go of his hand. Wan Ning took the opportunity to pull it out and walked inside with his head held high.