This time, Ruan Liuyan heard it clearly, the timbre was immature, like a child's voice, and she walked along the source of the sound, and when she opened the wide banana leaves, she saw the little man hidden behind the lush trees.

Helping the person out of the tree, Ruan Liuyan took him to a bright place, and took advantage of the candle fire at the corner of the eaves to look at the little doll in brocade and jade clothes. This little baby is about six or seven years old, with a small face, eyebrows and eyes that are very delicate, and her eyes are even darker and brighter in the dim night of the candlelight, and she is sitting obediently on the bench where Ruan Liuyan has placed him in the corridor.

Ruan Liuyan on the side had a lot of thoughts, and he screened whether there was a lady who brought the prince into the palace today, but he didn't have any impression in his mind after thinking about it. While squatting down, she held the baby's right foot: "This one?" The little baby nodded, Ruan Liuyan took off his foot clothes, revealing his snow-white feet, this action seemed to make the little baby a little shy, he wanted to retract his feet, it just so happened that Ruan Liuyan checked his injury, accidentally touched the swollen area, so he couldn't help but cry out in pain, "It hurts." ”

"This? Or is this it? Tentatively groping, Ruan Liuyan examined his injuries. Generally, there are two kinds of foot injuries, one is a slight foot injury, and the other is the dislocation of the inner tendons. If it is a simple bruise, only a cold compress and local massage after two days are required; If the tendons are misaligned, they have to be picked up, which requires the cooperation of this little baby, don't cry in pain.

"What's your name?" In order to divert the attention of this little baby, Ruan Liuyan talked to him. The little baby kept staring into the distance, and when she saw Ruan Liuyan asking him, she was silent for a while and said, "Guess." ”

This little baby is interesting. Ruan Liuyan thought to himself, his subordinates touched a slightly bulging place, this is it, and his hands exerted, only to hear a slight sound of bones touching each other—the muscles and bones were connected.

Speaking of this ability to pick bones, or Ruan Liuyan learned from people when he was in the nunnery, the nunnery was built in the mountains and forests, and often the girls in the nunnery went out to pick wild fruits, and they didn't know when they broke their feet.

"Rude." I did a good deed, and I didn't hear the voice of praise, but I heard an unpleasant evaluation. Raising his eyebrows, Ruan Liuyan straightened up, making his eyes level with the boy, "You let me guess who you are, then let me guess." You are seven years old today, the first prince of the current emperor of Dayan, your name is Dongfang Ling, am I right? ”

Dongfang Ke has a son, Ruan Liuyan, who has always known it, but he has never seen it, and I heard that the biological mother of this little prince died early, and now he is raised under Concubine Rong's name. Propped up and down from the bench with one hand, Dongfang Ling's palm-sized little face was raised, "You guessed it right." But I don't know who you are yet, and you should tell me your name too. ”

"I can't." Ruan Liuyan smiled lightly, sat down on the bench next to Dongfang Ling, and turned his head to look at him: "I guessed it myself, it wasn't what you told me, little prince, it can't be regarded as a courtesy." The little prince likes to joke with people so much, why don't you guess who I am? ”

"Don't guess, you must be my father's concubine!" Dongfang Ling didn't want to blurt out, as if he had thought of something, he suddenly said a little sneeringly: "But let me guess which one, I can't guess, my father has so many concubines, I... This prince is not an immortal. ”

Ruan Liuyan was just about to open his mouth to express his approval, when he heard the sound of hurried and staggered footsteps outside another palace wall, among which several female voices called anxiously: "Little prince, little prince-where are you, come out quickly-" It seems that someone has come to look for it.

"Don't let people know I'm here."

Touching Dongfang Ling's head, Ruan Liuyan got up and quickly walked to the end of the corridor and hid his body. Dongfang Ling also quickly put on his foot coat and brocade boots, and after a while, palace maids arrived, and one of the older grandmothers stepped forward, "Big prince, has the old slave found you?" If I can't find you again, Concubine Rong will kill the old slave—"

"Mama Qiao is really good at laughing." Dongfang Ling Laocheng held his weight and withdrew his gaze looking at Ruan Liuyan's hiding place, he said expressionlessly. Naturally, the grandmother also paid attention to his gaze, and secretly glanced at the end of the corridor, and saw nothing in the dark. Dongfang Ling got up and walked down the steps, "Mama Qiao, this prince is tired, you can send this prince back." ”

"Yes, yes, the old slave obeys." Mama Qiao nodded again and again, and left behind Dongfang Ling, and the rest of the people all left with them. When their figures disappeared into the arch, Ruan Liuyan came out of the hiding place.

This little prince is only seven years old, but his behavior is not like a child at all, and his pretending to be old looks a little like Dongfang Ke. Thinking of Dongfang Ke, Ruan Liuyan was a little stunned, when did she pay attention to his style?

"Niangniang, Niangniang, where are you?"

Mingyue's anxious call came, pulling back Ruan Liuyan's thoughts, and after collecting her thoughts, she went out of the corridor and returned the same way.

"Mother, the slave has finally found you!" Seeing her, Mingyue hurriedly greeted her, "Where have you been?" The slave maid just went to get an umbrella, and when I came back, I couldn't find you, and the anxious slave and maid were easy to find for a while. If you can't find it again, the slave will go looking for someone to come looking for you! ”

"Just walked around the neighborhood and blew the wind." Standing up straight, Ruan Liuyan Ren Mingyue unfolded the cloak in her hand and draped it over her shoulders, holding the string of the cloak to tie a knot for her. "The master is too polite, seeing that the performance of Da Si Le's piano skills is almost over, let's go back quickly! Don't make a mistake by giving a gift to the princess. ”

"Let's go." After the knot was tied, Ruan Liuyan walked back to the main hall, and Mingyue followed closely.

When he returned to the main hall, the performance of the great musician also came to an end, approaching the hall from the side door, the sound of the piano came from far and near, faintly transmitted from the air, when the familiar tone came into his ears, Ruan Liuyan couldn't help but be shocked.

"Mother, why don't you leave?" Ming Yue noticed her strange appearance and stepped forward puzzled, but Ruan Liuyan grabbed her arm, "I... I suddenly felt a little dizzy, and you helped me in. ”

"Dizzy?" Mingyue became nervous and reached out to probe her forehead, "How can you be dizzy?" Niangniang is not cold, it's all because the slave didn't find Niangniang earlier..."

"It's none of your business." Ruan Liuyan interrupted her, and grabbed the palm of her arm hard, "You help me in, hurry up." ”

"Okay, good..."Mingyue agreed, and walked in with Ruan Liuyan's arm with both hands.

The further in, the closer to the white Yu in the middle of the main hall. Holding her breath, Ruan Liuyan and Ming Yue bypassed the wide column, and the moment they arrived in front of the hall, she was shocked, and everything in front of her was unbelievable.

In the center of the main hall, the man in a white robe dressed in a crescent-colored brocade robe sitting in front of Changqin, who is it not Ziyu? But how could he be here, and he was called Da Si Le again, he wasn't, he wasn't in Jun County... As if sensing Ruan Liuyan's gaze, Su Changbai raised his eyes and glanced in the direction where Ruan Liuyan was.

With just one glance, the look in his eyes turned from ethereal to surprised.

His subordinates trembled suddenly, and the tail note of the seven pianos in his hand that should have been sunk was turned up, and the sound of the piano circled around the beams in the main hall, and it flew away for a long time.

Chapter 29

Ruan Liuyan's body was crumbling, and she could only stand firm by holding Ming Yue's hands tightly on her arms. Endured the monstrous wave in her heart, she said to Mingyue on the side: "Help me to the position." ”

Ming Yue should get down, and hurriedly helped her to sit down in the position, over there Su Changbai finished the song, he got up from the seat, clasped his hands into fists and saluted: "The minister is ugly." ”

"Da Si Le has a heart, it's rare that I and the Queen Mother, Princess Jiahe and the ministers can hear your piano, so don't be modest." His eyes fell on Su Changbai, and Dongfang Ke praised it.

In fact, he knew in his heart that Su Changbai had made a small mistake at the end of this song, which was generally inaudible to those who did not know the rhythm or beginners, and with Su Changbai's musical attainments, he should not have made such a mistake. Generally, this kind of mistake occurs only when the mind is unstable, who is the source of Su Changbai's unstable?

His gaze inadvertently swept over the audience, his gaze swept over everyone's faces one by one, and finally locked his gaze on Ruan Liuyan, who was a little pale. At this time, she was looking in one direction, and following her line of sight, Dongfang Ke saw Su Changbai, the great priest of the dynasty who was sitting in a robe not far away.

"What's wrong with the Emperor?" The Empress Dowager Zheng Shi noticed that his face was wrong, and couldn't help asking, Dongfang Ke came back to his senses and eased his face, "I'm fine, thank you for the Empress Dowager's care." Seeing that Dongfang Ke refused to say more, Zheng suppressed the suspicion in his heart and stopped speaking.

Dongfang Rong on the side never took her eyes off Su Changbai's body, and when she heard Dongfang Ke's affirmation of Su Changbai, she smiled even brighter. Su Changbai's piano art interlude passed, and this time he came back to present the gifts, and it was Ruan Liuyan's turn to prepare the birthday gift on the stage, and when the eunuchs in the palace brought the gift display racks brought by the Chonghua Palace, the crowd sitting around began to exchange ears.

The display shelf is covered with blue cloth, but at first glance, the general outline is very similar to the gift of Zheng Cainu, who has just been promoted to a nobleman, which makes everyone wonder if the gifts given by these two people are related. Ruan Liuyan knew what the people present were thinking, and before the questioning people could say anything, she stood up first.

"Your Majesty, I... The concubine has something to say. ”

Saluting to the high platform, Ruan Liuyan forced himself to ignore Su Changbai's gaze. Whether he is Ziyu or Su Changbai, now they have nothing to do with themselves, and now that someone wants to harm her, she must rely on herself to fight back.

"You say." Dongfang Ke's words were concise and concise, Ruan Liuyan walked out of her seat, glanced back and forth at everyone in the hall, she raised her head and spoke, "Presumably everyone has seen the concubine's gift, and also guessed in their hearts, whether I copied someone else's design, or my design was copied by someone, now the concubine wants everyone to understand the truth, and ask the emperor to fulfill it." ”

As soon as these words came out, it caused an uproar in the Taihe Palace. Unexpectedly, there was really such a thing as stealing and plotting, Ruan Liuyan was surprised, which made them completely unexpected. They felt that a woman should at least panic if something like this happened, but this woman seemed unusually calm.

"That's right." Dongfang Ke nodded, and Dongfang Rong on his right hand was interested in the detective's neck, "Yin Chongyuan, I'm waiting for you to surprise me!" Ruan Liuyan nodded when he heard this, indicating that he would definitely be. Then she turned to the eunuchs in the hall and asked them to extinguish a few torches in the hall, several people looked at each other, looked at the emperor on the high platform, Dongfang Ke nodded slightly, and several people extinguished the torches in the four directions according to the order.

Half of the torch was extinguished, and the light in the hall suddenly dimmed a lot, and when the fire was extinguished, Zheng Cainu, who is now Zheng Guiren, was as white as paper. Obviously, that person said that it was foolproof, so she dared to imitate Ruan Liuyan's gift in such a big scene, but this woman is so confident to prove that she is the original, if she can really prove it, then what should she do?

No one noticed Zheng Guiren's pale face, and at this time, everyone was attracted by Ruan Liuyan's preemptive self-proof innocence. The blue silk covering the exhibition shelves was slowly uncovered, and everyone saw the eight big characters hanging - Princess Chitose, Hong Fu Qitian. These words are exactly the same as the previous gifts from Zheng Guiren, the only difference is that the words offered by Ruan Liuyan seem to be shining with firefly green light at this time, and the pale green light emanates from the bulging big characters, which is mysterious and mixed with beauty.

"Wow, that's beautiful!" Dongfang Rong was the first to exclaim, and when she stepped down from the high platform, she couldn't wait to speak, "Yin Chongyuan, how did you do it?" What's in it? ”

Instructed a few people to cover the display shelf with blue silk, Ruan Liuyan asked her to check through the gap left by the blue silk, Dongfang Rong felt very funny, and immediately stepped over.