030 - Comfort
"How can the concubines decide where the emperor goes?" she said with a smile, looking flat on the surface, but in fact, her heart was already surging.
"I'm going to Shouhe Palace, I came to see you when I passed by you, and before I remembered it, you could promise me to tell me the story of when you were a child, I haven't forgotten, my Ye Zhaoyi is now more and more interested in me, from Concubine Lan's backgammon to the previous koi, Ye Zhaoyi seems to have a lot of skills that others don't know." Murong Fu sat on her chaise longue and took a sip of a cup of tea.
Hearing that he didn't want to rest in her Suixuan Palace, Ye Xuexi's heart suddenly put down a large boulder and breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's all some carving insect skills, it's just a little clever in front of the emperor, the emperor doesn't care about the emperor's generosity, how dare the concubines be self-contained?" Ye Xuexi said modestly with his head down.
"Alright, the modesty is over, now it's time to sit down and tell me the story of your childhood. Murong Fu put down the teacup, his eyes were like water, and he looked calm, as if he was really ready to listen to what stories she told when she was a child.
Ye Xuexi pursed her lips, a little embarrassed, the story that the Ye family made up for her was just a rough idea, Ye Xuexi couldn't guarantee how much the emperor in front of her knew, it would be wrong to say too much, and it would be a crime of concealment if she said less, which is really not easy to grasp.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that Ye Xuexi didn't speak for a long time, Murong Fu looked at him with a slight frown.
Seriously, Murong Fu really opened a deceptive face, obviously he was the emperor, but he had clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, like water in a clear pool, his every move showed his innate gentleness, and his eyebrows took away the anger of being an emperor, leaving a tender smile in vain.
Such a person will make people feel close, and it is easy to give him the bottom line between conversations, which is really dangerous to say, especially for someone like her who has too many secrets.
The concubine was thinking back to what had happened when she was a child, and then she thought about it, it was too much, and she didn't know where to start. Ye Xuexi covered her mouth with a handkerchief and smiled softly, showing off the performance of a concubine who was coquettish to the emperor.
"Then tell me, who taught you how to paint, how did you think of painting with eyebrow stones?"
Seeing that on the paper, the koi fish was like a living one, even the most famous painter in the palace could hardly do it, and when I looked closely, I found that the scales on the koi fish, including the fine texture, were not spared, if it were not for the black and white colorless painting, anyone might think that they could take it off the paper with their bare hands.
"It was taught to me by a master who traveled all over the world, and he said that it was a very rare painting in the Western Regions, and he taught it to his concubine when he saw that he was destined for it. ”
"A master who travels all over the world?" Murong Fu frowned slightly.
"Exactly. Ye Xuexi nodded.
If it is said that other people may be able to find out that what she said is false, since it is a master who has traveled all over the world for so long, it means that this person is uncertain and does not want to leave his name, even if he intends to check, he will not be able to find it.
"It seems that Ye Zhaoyi is really very popular, even the master who has always been reluctant to accept apprentices is willing to teach his skills to you. Murong Fu didn't say anything more, just a shallow smile on his face, holding his head with one hand, and his eyes fell on her body gently.
"Then I don't know if Concubine Ai is willing to teach me?"
When Ye Xuexi heard this, her eyebrows raised slightly, and she thought to herself, what is so difficult to teach, I am afraid that the emperor will not be able to learn it.
"It is the honor of the concubines that the emperor is willing to learn. ”
It takes several weeks to learn sketching at the earliest, so she is still worried that there is no reason to find the emperor every day to brush up on the sense of existence, but he has come to the door.
"Then from tomorrow, I will ask Gonggong Lin to come and pick you up and take you to Yunshui Pavilion. He said, "It's not very early today, and I have to go to see the queen mother, so you can rest." ”
He glanced at the sky outside the window, didn't stay long, called Gonggong Lin, who was waiting outside the door, put on his coat and left.
It was a good thing for Ye Xuexi that the emperor always didn't stay overnight in Suixuan Palace, after all, as a woman with advanced thoughts, she didn't have the consciousness to do something embarrassing with someone she didn't like, but for other people in Suixuan Palace, it should be strange.
Ye Xuexi frowned slightly, paced to the bedside, the scenery outside the window was already surrounded by a heavy night at this time, as if covered with a layer of mysterious colors, the lights in the distance were faint, like stars in the sky.
A slightly cool breeze blew through the window, carrying a faint floral scent that blended into the scent of her room.
Previously, the pot of flowers sent by Ye Shuanghan was really as she said, the flowers did not wither like immortal flowers, not to mention the blooming very vigorous, and the fragrance was also extremely strong, like a good soothing incense, which made people smell it and feel comfortable.
"I see you've been so comfortable as Zhaoyi lately that you forgot what you were going to do. ”
Ye Xuexi closed her eyes lightly and was feeling the fragrance of flowers, and suddenly a slightly mocking voice came from her ears, the voice was very soft, as if she was talking to her in her ear, and Ye Xuexi suddenly opened her eyes and looked around, but she didn't see any figure.
"Who?" she whispered, frowning and staring into the darkness of the night ahead.
This voice was definitely not her imagination!
"It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that you must not forget your task, and besides, the master has no patience to wait any longer, give you another three days, after three days, if you don't want to let the emperor send Zhang Mingshu to the frontier, you Zhaoyi will not be so easy to do." The man snorted and sneered.
Ye Xuexi suddenly had goosebumps all over her body, and her whole person instantly tensed, like a bow full of strings, I don't know if it was her own vigilance that told her or a woman's sixth sense, she only knew that the person who spoke to him just now was very dangerous!
But......
A glimmer of light instantly slipped through Ye Xuexi's mind, as if some important detail had been captured in an instant.
The person who let her enter the palace was Mrs. Ye, so it was naturally Mrs. Ye who gave her the task, but why, from the first time she saw that message on the petals, she felt that something was not quite right.
Such a secret method, it is not like what Ye Taifu can do, Taifu's original intention is naturally to stabilize the country, to put it bluntly, he still wants to assist the emperor to govern the country better, then he does not need to play any means, plus she is the daughter of Ye Taifu, Ye Taifu wants to see her easily, naturally there is no need to go through such tortuous means.
At this time, she made her faintly feel a bit like ...... Spy?
Moreover, there was always a voice in her head telling her at the moment that things were not as simple as they seemed.
Could it be that there is another person besides Mrs. Ye?