Spring comes and autumn comes, the vegetation flourishes and withers, and eight years pass in the blink of an eye.

Ever since Nalanxue was born, things have been going smoothly in the country of Mo. Even the border areas where there used to be small wars suddenly became peaceful.

Prime Minister Nalan was sixty-eight years old, his ears were deaf and his eyesight was blurred. However, the emperor still refused to let him retire and return to his hometown. He was afraid that his body would not be able to bear it, so he added a chair in the court hall and allowed him to return to his hometown.

He sat in court and was awarded the title of first-class Duke.

Remembering that Prime Minister Nalan had devoted his life to the country of Mo, the emperor granted the third princess to marry Nalan Ji, the eldest son of the Nalan family. Nalan Shu and Nalan Xue, who were only eight years old, were also granted the title of county prince and princess.

Nalan's family, for a time, had an unparalleled glory.

There are rumors that the emperor plans to let Princess Nalan, who is only eight years old, choose her husband. This talented princess is famous in Mo country. Which prince she chooses will be the future new king. Of course, this is just for the common people.

Their pastimes after dinner should not be taken seriously. In an imperial family, there is no reason to let outsiders decide on the succession of his children. However, from this point of view, we can see the great influence of the Nalan family on the decision of the Emperor of Mo State.

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Under Yan Niang's careful care, Nalan Xue has grown from a newborn baby into a smart little girl. In addition to chess, which she has been good at since birth, she is also good at piano, calligraphy, painting and dancing.

They all learned very well. Under the teachings of Prime Minister Nalan, at a young age, their gestures were already quite elegant.

Everyone in Prime Minister Nalan's mansion knows that the old prime minister's favorite daughter is Nalan Xue. A game of Go with her is indispensable every day in court.

"Daddy!"

Several years of getting along with each other have made Nalan Xue accept Nalan Duan from the bottom of her heart as a good father who loves her. Every day, when Nalan Duan goes to court early in the morning, she will wrap herself in a small cloak and crawl to the left.

I was waiting on the second floor of the small building closest to the door. I saw Nalan Duan's carriage coming back from a distance, so I happily trotted to the door and immediately threw myself into his arms and acted coquettishly with him.

"Well, here, here, daddy's dear Xue'er, daddy is here, daddy is here."

Nalan Duan got off the carriage as before, picked up little Nalan Xue from the ground, and answered her call. However, today he was not as happy as before.

"What's bothering you, Daddy?"

Nalan Xue's behavior is a bit childish, but that's just because she likes the feeling of having relatives acting coquettishly. It's not that her mind has also become worse. On the contrary, after these years of listening and watching, fusion

After learning what she had learned in her previous life, her views on many things were even better than those of Nalan Duan. "Did someone give you a hard time?"

"Yesterday, three envoys from the Kingdom of Surabaya came. Today, they met with the Holy Spirit and presented several difficult problems to His Majesty."

Nalan Duan never prevaricates Nalan Xue just because she is a child. On the contrary, he will consult her opinions on many things, and when she answers well, he will reward her. "Those questions are extremely

Difficult, no one in the civil servants or generals of the dynasty could answer it

It turns out that this made His Majesty very embarrassed. In a fit of anger... he actually responded to the provocation of those envoys. Within three days, if no one in the Mo Kingdom could answer these questions, the border with the Kingdom of Surabaya was

The three cities that I took over were ceded to them..."

Nalan Duan's words made Nalan Xue slightly stunned, and then she secretly cursed Sima Qing in her heart.

Everyone knows that the three cities between the Mo Kingdom and the Sishui Kingdom are dangerous places that are easy to defend and difficult to attack. Beyond that, there is a plain that supplies food for the entire Mo Kingdom... If Sima Qing really takes those three cities

It was ceded to the Sishui Kingdom.

, if the Sishui Kingdom wants to defeat the Mo Kingdom, it only needs to lead its troops to occupy the grain-producing plains and cut off the food and grass of the Mo army. By then, without supplies, the soldiers will not be able to fight, and the Mo Kingdom will become

The fish meat on the chopping board can be slaughtered by the Surabaya Kingdom.

Nalan Xue was thinking this in her heart, but she didn't show anything on her face. She didn't have much affection for Mo Guo. She wasn't interested in whether Sima Qing's country could be saved.

If Nalan Duan was not the Prime Minister of Mo Country, if Mo Country fell, Nalan's family would not have a happy ending, so she didn't bother to think about Mo Country's affairs!

"Didn't you tell the emperor's uncle the truth, dad?"

Nalan Xue deliberately pretended to be confused and frowned, tilted her head, and looked at Nalan Duan's face, "Well, also, when the envoy from Surabaya comes, he won't just say directly that he has a problem.

Are you going to embarrass the Emperor's uncle?"

"Silly boy, above the court, in front of so many people, even if I am your majesty's teacher, I will never betray your majesty's face... The success or failure of people's hearts all depend on the word greed!"

Nalan Duan sighed helplessly, stretched out his hand and touched Nalan Xue's head, "The three envoys from the Surabaya Kingdom came to tell His Majesty that a wise man visited the Surabaya Kingdom as a guest a year ago.

The king of Surabaya was given several difficult problems. No one in the country could solve them. The king said that whoever could solve these problems would be given three cities, a thousand cattle and sheep, and ten thousand taels of gold..."

"The reward is also a matter for the head of the Sishui Kingdom. What does it have to do with the emperor's uncle?"

As she asked, Nalan Xue already understood in her heart that these envoys from the Sishui Kingdom came to the Mo Kingdom just to dig such a hole for Sima Qing, and Sima Qing, just as they wished,

He jumped in without any hesitation, "The emperor of our Mo Country is not a subject of the Lord of Surabaya... If he also wants this benefit, wouldn't it damage the national prestige of our Mo Country?"

"Isn't that what it's all about? But your Majesty doesn't think so!"

Speaking of Sima Qing's thoughts, Nalan Duan immediately became angry. He was Sima Qing's teacher. From the time he taught Sima Qing, he always told him how to be a king. In the past ten years, Sima Qing had also been teaching him how to be a king.

They all did a great job, but just when he thought he could rest assured and enjoy his old age, Sima Qing made such a wrong and outrageous decision because of greed!

"Dad, don't be angry, don't be angry. No one is perfect. Gods and gods will inevitably make mistakes sometimes, let alone the emperor's uncle?"

Nalan Duan is already old. Normally, no one would dare to make him angry. Now, seeing that his father was angry and no one dared to persuade him, Nalan Xue naturally took on the responsibility of calming his father down.

The lobbyist asked, "How did those envoys from Surabaya make an agreement with the emperor's uncle, and what kind of problems did they bring to the emperor's uncle?"

Feeling depressed, Nalan Duan told Nalan Xue everything that happened in the court. From the envoy of the Surabaya Kingdom setting up a trap, he pretended to unintentionally reveal the reward from the Emperor of the Surabaya Kingdom.

After hearing this, Sima Qing became greedy and deliberately tested the envoys of the Sishui Kingdom. He wanted to take advantage and took the opportunity to come to Sishui.

The three equally precarious cities on the border between Shuiguo and Moguo were then used to pull back the trap that had been prepared long ago. They used provocative methods to make him retreat and agree to take out the three cities on the border of Moguo.

After making a bet, the envoys from the Kingdom of Surabaya told the difficult questions, and everyone in the court was speechless...

"Dad, let's bring Xue'er to court tomorrow."

After listening to Nalan Duan's story quietly, Nalan Xue smiled and stretched out her hand, touching his brows that were furrowed in anger, "If you can answer these questions correctly, dad will let my brother take over the pony that Ta Feng just gave birth to."

Give the horse to Xue'er, um, the sky-blue one, okay?"

"Look at what you said, it's like dad has treated you badly and refused to give you what you want. He gives it to you, everything..."

Nalan Duan has become accustomed to Nalan Xue's way of speaking. If he wants something, he will first assume that she can do something. Instinctively, he responded to Nalan Xue with a smile,

After regaining consciousness, she opened her eyes in surprise, stared at Nalan Xue and asked, "Xue'er, what did you just... say?! Did you mean that you can answer those difficult questions?

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"Tomorrow morning, you just need to take me to go to court with you, daddy."

Nalan Xue narrowed her eyes with laughter, pulled Nalan Duan's collar, and shook it coquettishly, "Now, let's go play chess?"

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In the early morning of the next day, Nalan Duan carefully took Nalan Xue from the arms of the wet nurse Yan Niang, who was still sleeping in a daze. He was afraid that she would catch a cold, so he pulled his cloak from the side.

Wrapped around her body.

After finishing the chess game yesterday, Nalan Xue went back to her room and wrote and drew mysteriously until midnight. Even dinner was brought back by Yan Niang. Nalan Duan felt sorry for her daughter and was afraid that

She was exhausted and it was not suitable to go into her boudoir, so she

Pretending to take a walk outside her house, he would look at her window from time to time. He didn't put out the candle and asked someone to make a snack and send it in. He looked again. He didn't put out the candle and asked someone to make a midnight snack and sent it in. He looked again.

Without extinguishing the candle, he asked someone to bring a fruit plate in.

Until Nalanxue asked Yan Niang to come out and tell him that she was ready to sleep, and asked him to go back and rest quickly. She walked back to her yard three times and lay down on the bed. She was tossing and turning and couldn't fall asleep. She simply got up and laid down.

People went to watch secretly, and when they received the report that the lights in Nalan Xue's room had indeed been turned off, they finally felt relieved and closed their eyes.

After all, Nalan Duan was already over sixty years old. If he didn't sleep well the night before, he would be in low spirits the next day. When he was carrying Nalan Xue in a sedan chair from Nalan Xiang's Mansion to the palace, he started to squint again.

He went over and waited until the sedan landed on the ground. The bearer knocked on the door of the sedan and called more than twenty times before he woke up.

When he came over, he felt that the baby daughter he was holding in his arms was missing. He was shocked. He hurriedly lowered his head and looked to both sides, only to see Nalan Xue sitting next to him, shaking her legs and looking at him with a smile. She was completely gone.

I regained my usual good spirit, and now I felt completely relieved.
Chapter completed!