Seeing that Rong Qingyi's gaze always stayed outside the carriage, Jian Ye asked softly, "What are you thinking?"

Rong Qingyi frowned slightly, he didn't hear Jian Ye's inquiry, he just quietly looked at the scenery outside the carriage that kept retreating to the back, and the high courtyard wall covered everything.

Jian Ye didn't continue to ask, Rong Qingyi must have encountered something.

In front of the Queen Mother, she seemed to inadvertently mention that her father and mother loved to plant flowers and plants when she was young, which seems to be nothing wrong, there are many flowers and plants in the old house of the Rong family, and there is no shortage of precious varieties, and it is true that he sent some plum blossoms to Yuntian Taoist Temple, and he moved the plum blossoms of Yuntian Taoist Temple to replace the plum blossoms that were burned to death by Zhao Jiangxuan in the backyard.

Speaking of the flowers and plants in the palace, it is really beautiful, and it is most pleasant to see the flowers and plants in the rain.

Did she see any flowers and plants that resembled her memories of her childhood, and reminded her of her father and brother?

He didn't care about what the people around him were thinking before, because he could always guess what they were thinking, whether it was his parents or siblings, including Zhao Jiangxuan, but for Rong Qingyi now, he found that he began to frequently ask the same sentence: What are you thinking?

Yes, he found that Rong Qingyi has changed a lot, the most obvious point is that she began to have her own thoughts, and she didn't completely talk to him, including some of her thoughts, even if it was just a moment, she would rather think and do it by herself than discuss it with him, even if she talked to him occasionally, although there was dependence in her eyes, her words were just simple and casual.

Thinking of the first time I met her outside the old house of the Rong family for ten years, her eyes were clear and indifferent in the snowflakes, and she seemed to be a familiar stranger, slightly surprised and subconsciously alienated, making him seem to suddenly smell the fragrance of cold plums and the sweetness of narcissus. Later, when I saw her again in my mother's back garden, it seemed that she was outside the world, standing in a place where she could reach out, but it was far away, as if she was thousands of miles away, like a blowing breeze, unable to grasp.

In those two encounters, she was still coquettish, as if she was still avoiding him, afraid of him, unwilling to face to face with him, even if it was a gentle smile, she also hid avoidance, it was a kind of slight rejection and disgust had to face, he once thought that if she could, she would rather disappear completely in front of him.

And now, she is gentle, as if he is indeed the husband she has always admired, but that gentleness hides politeness and politeness, to him, it is not as good as being kind and casual to Jiang Shiwei, and even he is a little jealous of her laughter and scolding when facing Jiang Shiwei, that ridicule and teasing, and even that undisguised indifference, she does not hide her disgust for Jiang Shiwei, but she can still calmly treat Jiang Shiwei as a so-called friend.

But for him, she is gentle as water, cold as ice, seemingly the same object, one flowing light and ungraspable, the other solidified and transparent and unapproachable. Even if two people are in a room, in a bed, they are strange, polite, polite, and distant.

If she doesn't say it, it will be useless for him to ask again, so it's better not to ask.

Suddenly, Rong Qingyi glanced sideways at Jian Ye, and said softly: "I want to see Jiang Shiwei, he is more familiar with the palace than anyone else, he grew up there, although he left later, but the layout of the palace will not change, at least the palace pattern he drew before is not different from the current look, the courtyard of the queen mother, maybe, he can give me some reminders." ”

Jian Ye was stunned, he didn't know that Jiang Shiwei had painted a map of the palace for Rong Qingwei before, but the accident was an accident, Rong Qingyi said it well, Jiang Shiwei grew up in the palace, and he was much more familiar with the layout of the palace than himself, although he often went in and out of the palace, but some details were naturally inferior to Jiang Shiwei.

"Okay, I'll send someone to inform him and let him find a suitable opportunity to come over. Jian Ye said gently.

Rong Qingyi bit her lip lightly, and let out a sigh gently, as if she was about to say something, but she was silent, she didn't speak for a while, and her brows furrowed slightly.

"Did you meet someone or something?" Jian Ye asked softly, he didn't want to ask Rong Qingyi to give him an answer, but he still couldn't help asking, even he felt a little wordy.

Rong Qingyi just shook his head slightly, with only shallow confusion in his eyes.

At night, the wind became stronger, there was some crashing sound on the closed windows, the lamps on the table were added with lampshades, or the flames were jumping wildly, sometimes bright and sometimes dark, Rong Qingyi sat at the table in a daze, Jian Ye did not disturb her, only quietly accompanied, looking at the remnants of chess on the table, this kind of chess game that needs to be thought about with your brain, you don't have to cooperate with Rong Qingyi.

"He'll come. Jian Ye felt that he was not calm enough, so he took his eyes off the remnant chess, looked at Rong Qingyi, who was silent, and said in a gentle voice, "He won't fail your appointment." ”

Rong Qingyi let out a long breath and said slowly, "He's already here." ”

Jian Ye was stunned, and saw that the door was pushed open, and Jiang Shiwei walked in from the outside, his whole body was hidden in black clothes, and his face was also covered with a thick black veil, as if a ghost walked in from outside the door that was blown open by the wind, and Jin Zhong Jinxi followed behind him, stretching out his arms as if trying to stop him.

Jiang Shiwei came alone and did not bring any entourage.

"No need to stop, let him in. Jian Ye smiled slightly, and said half-jokingly, "It's a guest invited by your wife, and it's windy, so it's rude to block the door." ”

Jin Xi and Jin Zhong immediately retreated and covered the door.

"Is it just one person?" Jian Ye pointed to the empty chair and said with a smile, "How did you coax the little aunt and grandmother, I rushed over at this hour, thinking that it would be after midnight." ”

"She will use medicine, and I will too, so can I be better than blue, otherwise, I will not live up to the mantra of my predecessors, and the next drug will make her sleep more steadily, and it is also filial piety to be a child, so as not to hurt her body by missing Quanhuan and not sleeping at night. Jiang Shiwei sat down on the empty chair with a haha, and turned on the flames, "Say, what's the matter with me in such a hurry, it's only been a long time since we were separated, and I want to be like this." ”

Rong Qingyi looked at Jiang Shiwei, completely ignored his ridicule, stretched out his hand and put it on the table, his half-clenched fist opened, and there was a withered flower inside, not big, very small, the color seemed to be red, extremely inconspicuous, if it weren't for Rong Qingyi's clean palm, he wouldn't even be able to see that it was a withered flower.

"What is this?" Jiang Shiwei was stunned, and took off the black veil that covered his face.

"Where would this kind of flower be planted in the palace?" Rong Qingyi stared at Jiang Shiwei's tangled face, his expression was serious, and his tone was a little indifferent.

Jiang Shiwei was stunned, stared at the flower in Rong Qingyi's hand for a while, and didn't know it, "What kind of flower is this? I have never seen it, this kind of inconspicuous flower, it is impossible to plant it in the palace, unless it is a place where no one stays, such as the cold palace and the private inner prison of the concubines." ”

Rong Qingyi sighed softly, "Well, then you sue me, which place in the palace has more pines and cypresses, and there are fewer people, since you don't know it, it means that the owner of this flower is not a favored concubine, nor is he a celebrity in the eyes of the queen mother, it must be a place where people rarely visit, but this place, the emperor must know, and maybe occasionally send cronies over to take a look." ”

Jiang Shiwei was stunned again, glanced at Jian Ye, Jian Ye's expression was also a little confused, the two looked at each other, each thought quietly, and no one immediately answered this question.

"Where will there be these palaces?" Rong Qingyi took out the layout of the palace drawn by Jiang Shiwei before, and crossed the far away palace courtyard from the Empress Dowager's palace with his hand, and the location was a little remote, "It's best to have forgotten, the area inside should be large, planted with pines and cypresses, and there are some not so good legends, no one will approach." ”

"Feng Xiao Pavilion!" Jiang Shiwei and Jian Ye said the same place almost at the same time.

"This is it. Jiang Shiwei's pale fingers fell on a place, which was a very remote corner of the palace, and he drew a big box at random, which read: 'Phoenix Pavilion', "These three words were given by the father of the first emperor when he ascended the throne, taking the meaning of phoenix chicks, and I hope that the princes are all young but have great achievements in the future." In the past, it was a place for princes to practice martial arts and play, and there was a door on the palace wall, leading to an open place outside, guarded by people with superb martial arts, because usually the princes would ride horses there to practice martial arts. I still have the impression that there are a lot of pines and cypresses planted in it to keep it cool, but there are no flowers and plants in it, and there are some precious bonsai. Later, it was said that a person died there, and he died a very miserable death, and there would still be a miserable wail for a long time after death, and people would be horrified to hear it, and as long as they got close, they would go crazy, and even the eunuchs and slaves who went in to clean would die mysteriously. The old witch of the Queen Mother sent someone to seal it up, and it became barren and uninhabited for decades. Later, I also heard about it, because I was already in prison at that time. ”

"Phoenix Pavilion?" Rong Qingyi looked at the withered flowers in his palm, muttering and repeating.

"Yes, the person who died in the legend was my father's own brother, Jian Songzhi. Jian Ye frowned slightly, "If you don't mention the word 'phoenix', I have almost forgotten that there is such a place, these two words will never be mentioned in King Jian's mansion, I still remember that my father once had a concubine, originally favored, one year her family came to visit her, she had a young brother whose name had these two words, my father was angry at that time, and immediately kicked out the favored concubine, and her young brother also immediately changed his name, and never set foot in the capital half a step again." It was the only time my mother came forward to intercede for my father's concubine, so I remember very clearly, I was very young at the time, and I just remembered, and I remember that the child was eight or nine years old, and I was so frightened that I cried at that time. ”