On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Runrun, Hui Xue and others ate glutinous rice balls together.

At this time of year, there will be a variety of riddle lantern festivals in the capital, which is particularly lively.

In contrast, the palace is much more deserted.

Ruyi sent a lot of lanterns before, and Hui Xue and others hung them all over the yard.

Runrun opened the makeup and found some home-style jewelry that she often wore as a little girl as a reward, so that the maids also guessed a lantern riddle. I didn't go to bed until late at night.

In the middle of the night, the prince suddenly came.

Runrun slept a little dazed, and when he woke up, he found the prince curled up on the edge of his bed.

She leaned back into the bed and put the quilt on the prince.

The prince did not fall asleep, sensing her movements, groped and took her hand.

"Why is it so cold?" Runrun covered him with the quilt with his other hand, "Why don't you take off your coat and come in to warm up?" ”

The prince was silent for a long time.

"But what happened?" Runrun asked hesitantly.

The prince sighed for a long time, and only after a long time did he say: "Today there is a banquet in the palace, my father drank some wine, and said to me with drunkenness, now that there is no Concubine Li in the East Palace, you are recuperating outside, and I am afraid that there will be no one to take care of you, so I said, ......"

Runrun understood that the emperor was going to stuff people into the East Palace.

Yu Qing, she is the crown princess, the mistress of the East Palace, and she has the right to speak in this matter. But she had already expressed her heart in front of Empress Yuan and avoided these. Yu Li...... She knew that she had no plans to return to the palace for the time being, whether it was the East Palace or the crown prince, she needed concubines.

But whether it is reasonable or reasonable, she can't say it to let the prince accept others.

She was also silent, and after another moment, the prince said, "I refused." I just missed you, come and see you. ”

In the night, his voice was extremely cold, and Runrun suddenly felt a soft pain in his heart.

"But ......"

The prince stopped her words, "There is no 'but'. I can't let the East Palace produce another 'Concubine Li'. Runrun, I'm afraid too. ”

He leaned closer to her and gently hugged her with a chill, "I was wrong, I was wrong. Can you forgive me? ”

The crown prince said that the emperor drank too much wine, so why not himself. The two of them got closer, and Runrun felt the smell of wine on his body. I don't know how much I drank, so that the journey from the capital to the palace didn't dissipate.

"I really know it's wrong...... the prince kept repeating his apology, and even choked up as he spoke, "Ruyi told me everything." I realized what I had done wrong, and that wasn't something that could be summed up with a 'I don't know'. How could I, how could I ......"

Runrun felt that his cheeks were moist, and they were the tears of the prince.

"I won't let anyone else have in the East Palace, I just want you to Runrun." The prince choked and muttered like a helpless child.

Runrun wants to forgive him now, Ruyi can forgive her, she can also forgive the prince, and then everyone can live happily together.

But she couldn't, she knew she couldn't do it now.

Now that she sees the prince, she no longer only feels happy and happy as before, but more of the pain that Li Nianyu once brought to herself. The prince was like a signal, a constant reminder of what she had been through.

She was also very uncomfortable, and said with tears: "You, you wait for me." ”

Wait for me, stand where you are and don't leave, wait for me to forget the bad things, wait for me to get back to my former self.

*

The next morning, when Runrun woke up, the prince didn't know when to leave.

If it weren't for the messy bed next to her, she felt like she had a ridiculous dream.

The crown prince, who swore as if he had everything in his hands, hugged her and cried over and over again begging for her forgiveness.

In the first month, the emperor gave his courtiers a holiday.

The prince ran to the palace from time to time.

Most of them come and go in a hurry at night.

Sometimes Runrun was awake and the two didn't speak, so he went to bed and hugged her quietly for a while, and when she was asleep, he left.

Sometimes Runrun fell asleep, so he would sit quietly for a while and leave before dawn.

But every time he came, he would bring some small gifts.

Sometimes it's a plum blossom that blooms just right, sometimes it's a small grasshopper that he weaves a little messily by himself, and sometimes it's a moist little portrait he paints.

In those small statues, she had a gentle smile on her face, happy or angry.

Checking the gifts on his desk every day has become the first thing Runrun does after waking up in the morning.

The maids took very good care of her, and thought of ways to make her happy every day.

By the time the spring flowers were blooming, Runrun was already much richer than before winter, and the sharp and scary chin was finally rounded.

The prince still came every once in a while.

Runrun can also see that he has worked very hard during this time, he looks a lot thinner than before, and his spring shirt is empty on his body. Sometimes the prince leaned on her and quickly fell asleep.

Ruyi also often comes, she told the ministers of the court during this time to give a lot of excerpts on the matter of the harem of the East Palace, what she said is nothing more than that the crown princess has been away from the palace for a long time, and she must set up another side concubine for the prince. There are even more daring ones, saying that the crown princess has been recuperating for a long time and is weak, so she must set up another crown princess.

But these things were never mentioned to him again except once on the day when the prince was drunk.

Every time he said, he just asked her if she ate well and slept well. If she mentioned something that was not good, he immediately sent someone to help improve it.

He chooses to undertake everything silently alone.

*

Runrun's birthday is in late spring and early summer, when the flowering season is the most brilliant.

The crown prince came to the palace the day before,

Runrun thought that he would still leave quietly before dawn the next day, but when he woke up the next day, he smelled a strange smell of burning.

As soon as she got up, Hui Xue came in and said, "Niangniang is awake?" ”

Runrun covered his nose and asked, "Where did the strange smell come from?" ”

Hui Xue said with a smile, "Niangniang, hurry up and freshen up, and go to the small kitchen with the slave maid to have a look." ”

Runrun was quite curious, and quickly packed up and followed her.

There were a lot of people in the kitchenette.

The maids gathered in a circle and whispered 'Come on'.

Hui Xue pushed away everyone, Runrun went in to take a look, only to see the prince rolling up his sleeves, leaning over, looking at the fire on the stove intently, not noticing that she was coming, and still asking Donglai beside him: "Is the method you taught me right?" Why doesn't it taste right? ”

Donglai is also sweating profusely, he has served the prince since he was a child, and he has never done kitchen work.

The prince stood up again, and stirred a black thing in the pot with a spatula.

"It's ...... What are you doing? Runrun looked at it for a while, and finally couldn't help but ask.

Only then did the prince know that she was coming, and hung his shoulders in frustration and said, "I want to fry an egg for you and lie on the noodles." ”

Runrun looked at the black thing in the pot, and when he looked at it, he didn't see a trace of an egg.

Forsythia came to her side and whispered, "Your Highness came to the small kitchen early in the morning, and said that he wouldn't let us help, and he didn't let us make a sound, and he scrambled dozens of eggs." ”

Following her line of sight, Runrun saw the hill-like thing on the desk stacked in a few sea bowls......

"Uh...... In fact, it's okay not to eat eggs, just have a bowl of noodles. Runrun said.

The prince said, "Okay, I'll give you a bowl of noodles." ”

Runrun watched as he put a white mass into another pot with chicken broth boiling.

Forsythia said again: "That's also the noodles that His Highness kneaded in the morning, and the noodles that were kneaded by himself." ”

The prince was busy cooking noodles and drove Runrun back to the house.

It didn't take long for the noodles to cook. He personally brought out the face and held it in front of her.

Fortunately, the soup base is chicken soup that was hung before the cook, and it tastes good.

It's just that side......

Forsythia said that it was rubbed out by the prince.

can bear the word 'rub', and it is indeed coarse. The roots are the thickness of fingers.

Under the prince's earnest gaze, Runrun bit down on a piece of noodles and felt like eating a lump of gnocchi.

"How? What do you think? Is the taste okay? ”

Runrun nodded repeatedly, "Very good, very good." ”

The prince was handsome and still sticky with flour and pot ash. Only then did there a smile on his face, "It's delicious." ”

After eating another ball of gnocchi, Runrun put down the bowl and said, "You don't have to do this......

The prince immediately said: "It's okay, it's okay, I don't have to work hard to do it, I'll do it for you every year in the future." ”

Runrun laughed unconsciously, and took a handkerchief to wipe his face.

The prince disappreliantly blocked her hand, "I'm dirty, I'm going to wash it later, don't dirty your handkerchief." ”

Hui Xue and Forsythia on the side couldn't help but glance at each other, and said with one heart, where is 'effortless', the prince got up and met before dawn. I don't know how much it cost to knead such a ball of flour that can be seen. And those scrambled eggs...... The eggs and flour in their kitchenette were empty.

The prince pushed the bowl in front of her again, "Eat more." Longevity noodles are needed, eat more to have good intentions. ”

Runrun smiled as he finished the bowl of gnocchi.

The prince watched her put down the dishes and chopsticks, and then went to wash up happily.

I don't know if it's because the gnocchi is too full, or whatever, she feels like her stomach and heart are full this day.