The sixteenth day of the first lunar month finally passed, which also marks the end of the Lantern Festival. Although I played very late last night, when the sky in the east was slightly bright today, Princess Pingyang got up early happily, then washed up and prepared to go out. She wanted Princess Yun Tong'an to explore the wind. If the princess agrees, she can ask Mr. Ma to come to propose marriage.

Li Xiu also stayed with Princess Pingyang last night. She also got up early today and was even excited to help her wife comb her hair. However, he was really unable to handle the complex hairstyles of women in the Tang Dynasty, and the more she combed, she became more and more messy. Later, Yue Chan couldn't stand it anymore, so she took the initiative to replace him. Seeing Li Xiu's helpless appearance, Princess Pingyang showed a warm smile. The whole Tang Dynasty could not say that there were no husbands who could help his wife dress up, but there were definitely not many.

Seeing that he couldn't help, Li Xiu had no choice but to leave the room and prepare to go to the garden of the Princess Mansion to practice Tai Chi. Speaking of which, although their family likes to live outside the city, the garden of the Princess Mansion is very popular with Li Xiu. Not only is it large in scale, but also because it is close to Qujiang Pond, the garden also attracts river water from Qujiang Pond and builds a water garden, which has the elegance of later southern gardens and the majestic Tang architecture. Unfortunately, this garden cannot be moved away, otherwise Li Xiu really wanted to move the entire garden to his home outside the city.

However, just as Li Xiu walked to the garden door, he suddenly saw Qi Niang and Hen'er, two girls, sneakily returning from outside, which made Li Xiu unable to help but say, "You two girls have been having fun all night, why did you come back so late?"

When Qi Niang and Hen'er heard Li Xiu's voice, they were both shocked, but Qi Niang quickly reacted and ran up to act coquettishly and said, "Brother, yesterday was the last day of the Lantern Festival. It is also worth playing with Sister Hener for a while, and I have prepared a gift for you!"

"Gift? You girl can you remember to prepare a gift for me?" Li Xiu couldn't help but look at Qi Niang in surprise when he heard this. She hadn't been so considerate for a long time since this girl entered the rebellious period.

"Brother, what are you saying? Isn't it okay for my sister to give me a gift?" Qi Niang asked back with her innocent big eyes open at this time, with an expression of being wronged by Li Xiu.

"This..." Li Xiu couldn't help but regret that he had passed the words when he saw this. He hurriedly apologized, "Okay, it's the elder brother who said the wrong thing. Where is your gift? Let me see what gift you gave?"

"Hehe, I have put the gift in your study. You will know after you look at it. You must look carefully!" Qi Niang suddenly smiled mischievously, and after saying that, she pulled Hen'er and ran back to the yard where she lived.

Seeing Qi Niang's face becoming so fast, Li Xiu felt a little strange, especially when He'er left just now, he seemed to have been afraid to look at his eyes, as if he was a little guilty, which made Li Xiu even more suspicious.

Li Xiu went straight to the study room in the mansion. After entering the room, he looked around but found no gifts. This made him a little strange. He even thought that Qi Niang was playing tricks on him. But even though Qi Niang was a little rebellious, she should not lie to him, let alone he wrote poems for them yesterday?

Thinking of this, Li Xiu carefully searched the study room again, but finally found that there were more things on the desk in the study room, to be precise, a thick stack of paper, and in the study room, the most was paper and pen. No wonder he didn't pay attention to the extra stack of paper on the desk at the beginning.

"What the hell is this girl?" Li Xiu also came to the desk with confusion, then picked up the stack of paper on the table and looked at it, but he looked confused, because there was actually a poem on the paper, which looked gorgeous, but compared with those classic ancient poems that have been passed down from later generations, what is the disadvantage? Moreover, at the end of the poem, there was a sentence "Student Chen Meng worshipped", which made Li Xiu confused. He seemed to know this Chen Meng at all?

Now Li Xiu flipped it down one by one, and found that the paper below was either poetry, fu, or current commentary. However, with his ancient literacy, it was very difficult to read, especially in some articles, they even like to quote classics, which made the articles extremely obscure. Li Xiu was too lazy to read. In addition, he also found that almost every poem or article has a different author, and these authors call themselves students, which makes people really confused?

Li Xiu only looked at the dozen pictures in the first place, and then he was too lazy to read them again. Although he didn't know how these things came from, they must have something to do with Qi Niang. What's even more annoying is that this girl actually lied to him that these were gifts, which also made Li Xiu very angry. He immediately took these things and came to the inner house to settle the score with Qi Niang!

When Li Xiu found Qi Niang, he found that the girl had just gotten into the quilt and couldn't come out. However, he still went up to the front and pulled the quilt open, exposing Qi Niang's little head and questioned: "Qi Niang, is this the gift you gave me?"

Qi Niang originally wanted to pretend to be asleep, but when she heard her elder brother's tone was not good, she opened her eyes, and then smiled shamelessly and said, "Yes, do you like it, brother?"

"What do you like? Tell me what these things are first?" Li Xiu reached out and flicked Qi Niang's little head in anger. This girl is really lawless.

"Oh~, brother, you really hate it. I'm no longer a child!" Qi Niang rubbed her forehead with dissatisfaction, but when she saw Li Xiu's bad expression, she finally honestly told the origin of these things.

It turned out that yesterday, Qi Niang and Hen'er attended the Shangyuan Poetry Conference, but finally they said something. The scholars who participated in the poetry conference were all very smart, and soon they found her identity from Qi Niang.

When these scholars learned that Qi Niang was Li Xiu's own sister, they were immediately ecstatic. Some of them immediately took out their proud works and sent them to Qi Niang. Some of them didn't have time to go back and pick them up. So they simply wrote down their old works on the spot and asked her to pass them on to Li Xiu, hoping to get Li Xiu's recommendation, so there was such a thick stack of things.

"You... you girl is really rash. How could you take the escorts of those scholars at will?" Li Xiu heard Qi Niang's story and then remembered that there was an imperial examination this year. These must be the escorts of scholars. This made him helplessly say that he never liked to participate in these things. He ignored someone's escorts for him before, but he didn't expect Qi Niang to receive so many at once.

"Brother, they are just giving you a booklet. If you like it, please recommend it. If you don't like it, just throw it away. Anyway, they are not just giving you a booklet alone!" Qi Niang said with confidence at this time, but at the end, she suddenly found a picture from the stack of booklets and said, "No, forget about other people, but you have to help this guy, brother!"

When Li Xiu heard that Qi Niang dared to make a request, he couldn't help but give her a blank look. However, when his eyes swept over the name on the book, he couldn't help but show a surprised expression.
Chapter completed!