If not abolished

Originally, Hu Shanxiang was still worried about what to do if she saw the strange man again, but she didn't expect that the man didn't appear for several days, so she could stay in the bamboo forest with peace of mind again.

"Why did His Highness hide himself when he came?"

"Do not talk."

Wu Cheng was puzzled. He now knew why the grandson looked forward to coming to the Imperial City Temple every time. It turned out that he was here to see the girl. But wasn't the girl a little young? She looked only about ten years old? He had waited for more than half a month, and she was just looking at him like this? It was really hard to guess what the master was thinking.

Here, Hu Shanxiang took a zither and sat in the pavilion today. She had no chance to learn this thing in modern times, but after traveling to ancient times, she had the opportunity to learn it.

"The girl is playing better and better."

"Then what did you hear?" Hu Shanxiang asked while playing the piano.

"I can't hear it anymore, anyway it sounds good."

"The song is called "Spring and White Snow", which just reflects the current situation of everything reviving and full of vitality."

"I see. No wonder I feel so happy listening to this."

"Wu Cheng, is the thorn peach from Huangcheng Temple still there?" Zhu Zhanji suddenly asked after listening to Hu Shanxiang playing the song "Yangchun Baixue".

"Yes, it is the season of the pear trees in the Imperial City Temple. I heard that every year at this time, many people come to see them."

"Let's go up from the other end."

Zhu Zhanji went over there, stretched out his hand and plucked one down, saying, "Go, give it to the third young lady of the Hu family."

"Yes."

Hu Shanxiang had just returned to the courtyard where she lived when Wu Cheng brought the things over and met her at the door.

"May I ask if she is the daughter of the Hu family?"

"Who are you?" Lingzhi blocked her girl behind her.

"My master asked me to give something to the girl." Wu Cheng said as he took out the peach tree.

"Your young master, how could my girl know your young master, who are you?" Lingzhi felt that this was not a serious person, how could the girl know any young master.

"Lingzhi, don't be rude." Hu Shanxiang walked forward and thought that it was probably the strange man from last time.

"Go and tell your master that one should not accept gifts without doing anything. It is not right for a girl like me to accept things from strange men again and again. Your master must be a pervert." After saying this, Hu Shanxiang turned and left. After walking a few steps, she thought and turned back and said, "It's a pity that such a beautiful flower was picked. I thought your master was a gentleman, but I didn't expect him to be a vulgar man." After saying this, Hu Shanxiang left without looking back.

Zhu Zhanji looked at Wu Cheng coming back with the things, and his brows were so tense that he could kill a fly.

"Your Highness, I failed to do my job well. Please punish me."

"What's going on?" Zhu Zhanji was not the kind of person who would punish people at will, so he asked for the reason.

Wu Cheng told the whole story in detail, especially the two sentences by Hu Shanxiang, which he said without changing a single word.

Zhu Zhanji took the thorn peach, looked at it for a while and said, "Since it's a pity, let's keep it well in the palace."

"Yes, I'll ask the gardener to take good care of it."

"Let the gardener come to the East Palace and teach me how to grow it." Zhu Zhanji said again.

"Ah... yes, I'll do it right away when I get back." Wu Cheng thought, who on earth is this girl from the Hu family? Not only did she refuse the gift from her master, she also scolded the crown prince. But the crown prince was not angry, and he took her words to heart. This is simply unbelievable. Wu Cheng couldn't help but think highly of this girl from the Hu family, and he was afraid that she would have great luck in the future.

On the other side, Hu Shanxiang returned to the room, and Lingzhi poured her tea while saying, "Is that young man the one the girl met last time?"

"Well, it should be." Hu Shanxiang picked up the teacup and took a sip of water.

"Then why does he repeatedly give gifts to the girl? Does he have a crush on her?"

"What are you talking about? I'm so young and you're not ashamed." Hu Shanxiang blushed when she heard Lingzhi's words.

"Why did he suddenly want to give the girl a peach today?" Lingzhi asked again.

"How do I know this?" After saying this, he looked at his sleeves. He was wearing a pink jacket and skirt today. That didn't mean he saw her today. Jingtao, everything is revived, and the spring is white. Sure enough, he was a lecher, hiding in the dark and peeking.

"Girl, girl..." Lingzhi called her several times but there was no response.

"what?"

"What are you thinking about, young lady? Are you thinking about that young man?" Lingzhi joked.

After hearing this, Hu Shanxiang raised her hand to hit him, "If you say something like this again, I'll have someone send you back home."

"No, good girl, I was wrong." The two started fighting.

East Palace.

As soon as Zhu Zhanji returned, he asked people to prepare flower pots, soil, and all the necessary tools, and waited for the gardener to come and teach him how to grow flowers.

"Your Highness, the thorn peach likes the sun, so it should be placed outside the window to get sunlight from time to time, and should not be placed indoors. Your branch is difficult to cultivate. If you want it, I will ask the greenhouse to bring a few pots over."

"No, I want this one." Zhu Zhanji's tone did not reveal his joy or anger.

"Yes." The person in the greenhouse obeyed.

Finally, Zhu Zhanji planted the broken peach tree in the flowerpot himself, watered it and loosened the soil without asking anyone else for help. When everything was done, he stared at the flower in a trance.

In a blink of an eye, it was Hu Shanxiang's birthday. Her family sent someone to pick her up early so that she could go back home to celebrate her birthday early.

"Sister, brother, second brother." After getting off the carriage, Hu Shanxiang trotted all the way to the hall.

The maidservants behind her shouted, "Slow down, Miss San. Watch your step."

Hu Shanxiang quickly threw herself into Hu Shanwei's arms and said coquettishly, "Big sister, I miss you so much!"

"You are becoming more and more shameless, you little naughty monkey, you almost pounced on me, your sister." Hu Shanwei was really pounced and took two steps back, raised his hand and knocked her on the head.

"I'm just so excited to go home, hehe." Hu Shanxiang said as she raised her head from Hu Shanwei's arms.

"Really? Who was it that went to the temple without saying a word and didn't even come back home? Huh." Hu Shanwei let her go from his arms.

"Sister, I was wrong. Please forgive me for the fact that today is my birthday, okay?" Hu Shanxiang clasped her hands together and acted coquettishly.

"Since you are the birthday boy today, I won't bother with you."

"Miss, Master, the Second Master is back." The servant came to report.

"Got it. Let the two gentlemen go directly to Yunfeng Pavilion later."

"Yes."

"Let's go, little birthday boy."

"What birthday present did you prepare for me this year?"

"Your gift has already been placed in your room. After you finish your meal and listen to the opera, you can go and watch it by yourself." With these words, the two sisters walked out.

Yunfeng Pavilion is built by the water. Walking across a long corridor, there is a temporary small stage opposite, where singing has already started. In the past in Jining, the family would only invite an opera troupe to perform on the occasion of the grandmother's birthday. Every year on Hu Shanxiang's birthday, she would invite her sisters to her small courtyard, set up a table, have a meal and have some fun. Hu Shanxiang didn't have any interest in listening to opera. If she did nothing but sit there and listen to the opera, she would probably fall asleep.

"The third sister is finally back. She is so young, why not go anywhere else, such as to a temple? She won't come home." Hu Xuan complained.

"Second brother, I'm back." As he said this, he pulled Hu Xuan's hand and shook it left and right.

"Third sister and eldest brother are here too." Hu An stood aside and watched with a sour tone, thinking, why is the third sister holding on to that idiot, the second sister, and why is she ignoring me.

"Big brother." Hu Shanxiang called him sweetly and walked up to him.

"Yeah." Hu An then reached out and touched her head. As expected, his sister was really cute.

"Third sister, second brother will go out with you to play later."

"Aren't you going to be on duty later? Why don't you accompany Third Sister? Or should I go with you? I'll buy you whatever you want later."

"Today is my third sister's birthday, and I specially exchanged my duty day with someone else."

"Oh, then I happen to have time."

"you……"

"Okay, sit down and eat." Hu Shanwei couldn't stand it anymore and immediately interrupted his two younger brothers.

"Yes." The three said in unison.

But after a while, Hu Shanxiang's bowl was filled with food from her two brothers and there was no more room.

"Brother, you guys eat it yourselves. I can't finish it." Hu Shanxiang complained.

"Eat more. You've lost weight."

"That's right, eat more."

The two of them said as they squeezed each other, "Sister, save me." Hu Shanxiang looked at her elder sister pitifully.

"You two are almost there." Hu Shanwei's words were still effective at the critical moment.

After dinner, the four brothers and sisters took a carriage to play in the next few streets.

Speaking of which, on the other side of the palace, Zhu Zhanji was about to leave the palace yesterday, but he was unexpectedly tripped up by the homework assigned by the teacher in the main hall. He originally thought that since he had been an emperor in his previous life, it didn't matter if he didn't attend this class. Unexpectedly, the teacher said that he couldn't concentrate recently and asked him to copy a book.

The Grand Tutor took the book he copied and read it while saying, "Your Highness's calligraphy is quite accomplished. You must pay more attention in class from now on and stop being distracted. Okay, take a rest today, Your Highness, please go back."

"Yes." After Zhu Zhanji saluted, he turned around and walked away quickly.

When he came out and saw Wu Cheng waiting by the side, Zhu Zhanji walked over and asked, "Is the carriage ready?"

"It's been prepared a long time ago."

When Zhu Zhanji hurried to Huangcheng Temple, he did not see Hu Shanxiang. Wu Cheng hurried to ask people and walked to Zhu Zhanji and replied, "I heard that today is Miss Hu's birthday, so she went home early." After replying, Wu Cheng looked at his master's face and it suddenly turned dark.

"Birthday, today...why didn't I remember it? I didn't even have time to prepare a birthday gift."

"Your Highness, should we return to the palace or..." Wu Cheng asked tentatively.

"Let's go to Hu's house." After saying that, Zhu Zhanji left like a gust of wind again.

"Your Highness, wait a minute." Wu Cheng had no choice but to jog to catch up.

When Zhu Zhanji arrived at Hu's house, he found that he seemed to have no reason to go in. He was sitting in the carriage sulking. At this time, the Hu brothers and sisters just came back from outside. Zhu Zhanji heard Hu Shanxiang's voice, opened the door and looked over, and saw that the two brothers of the Hu family were holding a lot of things in their hands.

"Third sister, eat so many candied haws, don't let your teeth fall out from the sourness." Hu Xuan carried a handful of candied haws directly on his shoulder.

"Then let's all eat together."

Only after they entered the house did Zhu Zhanji order them to return to the palace.