Carved bed, blue curtain.

She just lay there, looking at Yiqiē in front of her in confusion.

Where is this? Why is the scene in front of her so similar to the scene in her dream?

When I was confused, I suddenly heard a girl's surprise voice in my ears, "Miss, you...... Wake up! ”

She turned her head to see a girl about sixteen or seventeen years old, which surprised her again...... This girl dressed up as a maid is the same as in her dream, hasn't she woken up yet?

She didn't dare to answer, and shook her palm quietly, "Hiss! The pain of her long nails digging into her flesh made her grit her teeth.

No dreaming! It's true!

The girl in front of her was puzzled by her actions and hesitated, "Miss? Miss, what's wrong with you, why don't you speak? Don't you recognize me, I'm Yanling! ”

Yan Ling?

Sure enough, exactly like in the dream, she is really Yanling, Yanling who grew up with her since she was a child, since she is Yanling, isn't she a ...... Chu Xue?

"Cher, Cher, you're awake, you're finally awake! But I'm worried about dying as a mother! ”

Just as she was thinking, another voice came, and she was about to get up, when she saw a middle-aged woman dressed as a noble lady approaching, and the woman was sitting on the edge of her bed, with tears in her eyes, and was putting her warm hand on her forehead.

"Auntie ......"

She exclaimed but was all covered by the woman, the woman's eyes were afraid, the grandmother next to her hurriedly turned around to close the door, only the four closest people were left in the room, the woman asked in a low voice, "Xue'er, what's wrong with you?" Isn't it confused? You don't remember...... For a mother? ”

Confused? She had a headache for a while, and finally remembered after a while that she was hit hard before she went to sleep, if she was Chu Xue, then she should indeed call the person in front of her "mother", and the "aunt" just now would indeed cause strict consequences, and even ...... Killed!

But if she was really Chu Xue, then the long dream just now was just her memory, all the memories of the past sixteen years. However, the car accident before falling asleep, with

She tried her best to think, and after a moment finally had an epiphany, could it be that her soul had gone back more than a thousand years? In other words, the more than 20 years since I climbed off the cliff, it was a dream!

Seeing that she had been staring at her and not speaking, the grandmother in the house opened her mouth: "Madam, Miss is probably in a mess, why don't you ask the doctor to take a look?" ”

"Good, good. Get a doctor! Madame hurriedly responded.

But Mama raised her foot to open the door, but the housekeeper outside the door came in to pass the word, "Madam, the Hengwang Mansion has sent a royal doctor, and the marquis is in the front hall, do you want to come in and check the pulse of the young lady?" ”

Madame looked at her, "Cher, are you okay?" Can...... Let the Imperial Doctor come in and see you? ”

She stayed for a while, then nodded, "Just let the doctor come over, mother, I'm fine, don't worry......"

When her mother saw that her speech was finally normal, she relaxed her heart a little, and ordered the housekeeper outside the door, "Please come in." ”

Through the bed tent, her hand was covered with a thin veil, and the imperial doctor took her pulse intently. After a while, the imperial doctor's hand was raised, and he got up and replied politely: "Madame, don't worry, Miss's body is no longer in serious trouble, and she should be able to recover as before after a few more days of rest." It's just that you still have to take the medicine on time these days, write a prescription later, and ask someone to grab the medicine. ”

Madame was relieved, and said politely: "Mr. trouble!" Seeing that it is almost noon, please ask Mr. to enjoy his face and stay for a light meal today. ”

"His Royal Highness King Heng has been worried about Miss's illness, and he will go to the palace to resume his life later, so I won't bother."

The imperial doctor raised his pen to write the prescription, and politely left the house.

King Heng?

Another name entered her ears, which reminded her of one more thing, an important matter, a month later, she would marry into the Hengwang Mansion and be the second concubine of Hengwang Song Chen.

The second concubine was his fourth woman...... Her heart sank.

After the upheaval eight years ago, she is still a girl, she no longer dares to dream of a white horse lover, she no longer expects to marry a wishful husband, she has always just wanted to stay in the house, stay with her parents who are so kind to her, she even thought about not marrying for the rest of her life, and sending her parents to the end of her life - although this is also impossible.

Although King Heng is the best among the princes, although he is only a young man and not very old, marrying him as a side concubine is actually just a concubine, or the third concubine, which still makes her a little unacceptable.

She knew that her father and mother were originally reluctant, but she was able to invite her father Chu Lin's old friend and boss, Zhou Fuzhi Zhou Taiwei to come to the door to talk to the matchmaker in person, King Heng's will was obviously very firm, and she had not decided to marry, so it was not a good strategy to categorically refuse. Although he was a little embarrassed, Chu Fu still agreed to this family business. After all, being able to marry into the palace, whether it is a wife or not, is a rare blessing in the eyes of ordinary women.

What's more, it was a decision she made herself before she fell unconscious.

A month ago.

A carriage drove out of the Hengwang Mansion and slowly walked on the streets of the capital.

Sitting inside was the third son of the emperor, King Heng Song Chen. King Heng deliberately dressed in a low-key dress today, and there is only one destination, which is the mansion of Yu Shi Chulin.

The father suddenly summoned a few of their princes back to Beijing this time, although the reason for the ostensibly was to hold a birthday banquet, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that the deep meaning behind this was great, and his old man probably finally couldn't bear the prince's mediocrity and inability, and he had already made plans to abolish the reserve and choose again.

Although the emperor is silent on the surface, and his attitude towards the prince is the same as before, King Heng is not the only one who has come out of the door.

The court has always changed rapidly, and the princes have just returned to Beijing for more than a month, and several important ministers of the court who are aware of the current affairs have thrown olive branches to King Heng, and they are important ministers in the court, so their choices can definitely affect the future of the entire dynasty.

They didn't know in their hearts that among the seven princes who have reached adulthood in the Holy Heaven today, only the third son of the emperor, King Heng, is the most like his father in terms of deciding in action, he has only been in the fief for ten years, and he has already governed the desolate Yanzhou since ancient times on a par with the capital, and this ability is incomparable to the prince who has always lived in the capital but has not made any achievements.

These exploits, the emperor naturally also saw in his eyes.

The decision to rebuild the scrap may be just a matter of time and a reason.

Whether or not you can accurately grasp the timing is the key to affecting the life of King Heng and even the future of the entire dynasty.

As a prince, I'm afraid no one will believe it if he doesn't think about that dragon chair, and besides, he is still a prince with both ability and integrity. Compared with King Heng, if you have to find something outstanding, it is just that the prince's biological mother is the queen, and King Heng's biological mother is a concubine.

Moreover, since the founding of the Great Qi Dynasty, the two generations of kings were not crown princes, so for this dynasty, it seems that orthodoxy is not so important.

After all, the intentions of several powerful ministers have been very clear, and now they will send the governor Shi Chulin.

Chu Lin looks mediocre on the surface, but in fact he is a hard bone, which can be seen from the handling of several major cases in the DPRK and China in the past few decades since he took office, Chu Lin never formed a party, and never favoritism, so he is one of the important ministers that the emperor relies on in his heart.

The handsome prince in the carriage frowned slightly, it stands to reason that if Chu Lin was sober-minded, he should have chosen himself, but if he was a little pedantic, it was also possible to stand under the orthodox formation. But in any case, King Heng will take the opportunity to return to Beijing to pull him to his side.

But how to win over is a problem.

He has no deep friendship with Chu Lin, and Chu Lin has never been a person who is good at profit-seeking like a grass on the wall, so he can only visit Chu's mansion in the name of discussing politics this time, and as for the rest, he can only act later.

In order to avoid the eyes and ears of others, King Heng specially got out of the car when he was still some distance away from Chu Mansion, only brought a plainclothes guard, and walked to the gate of Chu Mansion on foot.

The time chosen by King Heng is actually very particular, it is past noon, Lord Chu must have finished handling official business and resting at home, there should be no idle people waiting to disturb, it is suitable for them to negotiate business.

Sure enough, when King Heng arrived, Lord Chu was at home, and after being passed on, King Heng saw him very easily.

Since he has been able to live in a high position for decades, of course he knows the recent situation in the DPRK, and he also understands that the prince is embarrassed by the big responsibility, but his personality has never been as smooth as other colleagues, and he is also waiting for an opportunity.

They are all people with social interests in their hearts, and the negotiation between the two is also very smooth, but it is very coincidental that not long after the talks began, the housekeeper hurriedly came in to report, and there was a rare guest outside the door, who turned out to be the prince.

From childhood to adulthood, there have been too many things that have been intervened by the second brother of the crown prince, and King Heng has long been used to it, but this time it is a coincidence?

He smiled faintly and said to Chu Lin, who had a difficult face: "I heard that the garden scenery of your mansion is very good, I wonder if this king will have a chance to see it today?" ”

The prince has arrived outside the door, even if King Heng resigns at this time, he will inevitably bump into him, the two princes meet in their own mansion is obviously not a good thing for anyone, Chu Lin understands that King Heng's move is to avoid the problem of meeting with the prince, so he said respectfully: "In this way, I will first wronged His Royal Highness, please forgive the old minister for not accompaniing." ”

King Heng nodded and went to the garden of the Chu Mansion.

After a few steps, he instructed his attendant to find an opportunity to go to the front yard, and the guard left at once, and he strolled through the garden as he secretly made plans.

The weather in early summer was changeable, just as he was strolling, a torrential rain fell without warning, he took a look, and saw that there was a pavilion on the lotus pond not far away to shelter from the rain, so he hurried over.

Coincidentally, there was a young girl in the pavilion who was also sheltering from the rain, it was Chu Xue.

The young girl was feeding the fish in the pavilion today, and the attendant Yanling happened to leave for a while, just in time for this torrential rain.

In a torrential rain, the young lady in the pavilion is meeting the prince who has come in to take shelter from the rain.

Hearing the hurried footsteps, Chu Xue thought that Yanling was back, and was about to make fun of her being caught in the rain, but when she turned around, a smile was fixed on her face, and the man who suddenly appeared in front of her surprised her.

The man was also stunned when he saw her, and the gaze flowing from his handsome eyebrows paused on her.

Dressed in a light-colored embroidered skirt, with only a royal blue step on the black hair and cloud bun, although it is an extremely elegant dress, it really can't hide the bright appearance. Coupled with the gaze of the person in front of her at this moment, a faint crimson rose on her face of Shengxue Aoshuang, which was far more colorful than the most precious rouge in the world.

She is indeed beautiful, and it is understandable for people to look at her with such eyes, but she has always rarely gone out, and she rarely sees a living face on weekdays, so although she has a gentle temperament, the gaze of the strange man in front of her still makes her a little angry, she leaned sideways, and her voice was a little cold: "Who are you, why are you in my house, don't you think it's too much to look at people like this?" ”

Although King Heng had heard that this Lord Chu Lin had a daughter, he didn't know that he was such a beautiful woman, so although he was a prince, he had seen countless beauties in the past thirty years, he was still amazed just now, and it was only when this girl was angry that he realized that Fang Cai's gaze was indeed rude.

The girl didn't know his identity, and she didn't blame her for being polite, besides, although he was a prince, but after all, he was in someone's house, he bowed his head and smiled, bent down very respectfully, and made amends honestly, "Please forgive me for being abrupt, I came to visit Lord Chu in the next, because the adult had something to do temporarily, so I came to the garden, who expected to catch up with the heavy rain, so I had to come in a hurry to hide." Fang Cai is being rude, please forgive me. ”

Next? In this world, I am afraid that the only girl in front of him is the girl in front of him.

Although Fang Cai's eyes were a little rude, but these words were quite sincere, Chu Xue looked at him silently, and saw that he looked like an elegant gentleman, and it was difficult to hide his nobility in regular clothes, although he was in a hurry to hide from the rain, his body after standing was very calm, he should be a well-bred son, it didn't look like he was lying, so she coughed lightly and said softly: "Since it is my father's guest, then Fang is the little girl's rudeness, please forgive me." As he spoke, he bowed lightly.

He paused slightly, there was another dignified under his beauty, which was actually in line with his heart.

But this time he just smiled and nodded, and then he wanted to cast his eyes on her again, you know, the frivolity of the disciple was not suitable for his age and status.

There is a pool of clear water in front of the pavilion, and the garden is full of begonias behind the pavilion.

The girl in the pavilion has a reddish complexion, like a begonia flower that blooms late after the rain.

Stunning.

Both of them were silent, and there was a moment of embarrassment in the rain shelter, but fortunately, the rain came and went quickly, but after a moment the rain stopped, Yanling, who went to get something, also hurriedly ran over, and said with urgent concern: "Miss, you didn't get drenched, did you?" ”

Sure enough, it was the young lady of the Chu Mansion.

Chu Xue chuckled, "Finally remembered me?" Now I care about people, why don't I see you when it rains? ”

Yan Ling was clever, "This rain must come and go quickly, besides, Miss is so smart, she must know how to wait for the slave maid in the pavilion, well, it's cold after the rain, Miss, let's go back to the room...... Hey? Who is this child? ”

With Yan Ling's doubts, Chu Xue remembered the guests in the pavilion, and said politely: "Let Gongzi smile, I don't know how long Gongzi will have to wait, why don't you ask someone to serve you some refreshments." ”

He politely excused himself, "No need to bother...... As he spoke, he caught a glimpse of the guards who went to inquire nodding at him not far away, so he smiled and said goodbye: "Ling Zun's affairs should be over, and it should be over in the future, there are many disturbances today, please forgive me." ”

She nodded, smiled goodbye, and left the gazebo.

Looking at the departing figure of the girl, a hint of relief suddenly flashed in King Heng's eyes. This encounter in today's pavilion was like a gust of fresh wind, which suddenly blew away the fog that had accumulated in my heart for many days.

For the first time, the prince came at the right time.