A canopy boat broke through the thin ice floe on the shore of a small island in the middle of the lake, and the wharf made of bamboo planks was slippery and frozen.

Zhu Di got off the boat first, Yao Miaoyi followed closely, stepping on the soft straw with an unstable center of gravity, swaying, Zhu Di turned around and grabbed her hand.

"Be careful."

Zhu Di's tone was still cold, but the palms of his hands were warm and dry, and Yao Miaoyi felt a little heartbeat, and instinctively wanted to break free.

But Zhu Di's broad and powerful palm was tightly clenched, and he didn't allow her to resist at all, and helped her through the entire bamboo wharf, and only let go when he reached the steps of the river.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Yao Miaoyi hurriedly shrunk her hands into the bearskin.

Yao Miaoyi's face was warm and heartbeat, and she secretly thought that it must be too thick and warm, so she would feel hot.

Zhu Di's heart palpitated, and he secretly said that it might be because he ate chili peppers, but what was the reason for the crispy numbness that seemed to have eaten peppercorns when he held hands just now......

Ma Sanbao, who was in the back, saw the two walking side by side holding hands, and shouted in his heart: I must have been dazzled by the mistake!

Rubbing his eyes again, he saw the two people on the shore walking separately one after the other, and he was sure that what he saw just now was a hallucination.

Bafutang, a small island in the middle of the lake, is surrounded by dense forests, and in the center is a hill with a large garden built in the hill. By the light of the snowy night, Yao Miaoyi clearly saw that the pattern of this garden was very elegant along the way, with rockeries made of Taihu stone, nine-curved corridors, pavilions and pavilions, and exquisite everywhere, not like the garden of Jinling, but like the characteristics of Suzhou garden.

Yao Miaoyi suddenly became curious about the hostess of this garden, and secretly thought that Zhu Yuanzhang, as the emperor and a generation of male masters, could generously carry any woman he wanted into the harem and give him a position, and the future dragon sons and dragon girls would also have a name.

Why bother to find such a secluded place outside the court?

Besides, it's not very convenient to get up, cough cough......

Queen Ma is a virtuous person, she only gave birth to two daughters in her life, and the children born to the concubines are regarded as her own, kind and kind, so it should not be because of the queen.

Who the hell is this woman? Why don't you take the initiative to summon the imperial doctor to check the pulse when you are suspected of being pregnant, but instead refuse to diagnose and treat, and you want to die or live?

Yao Miaoyi observed the topography of the garden, and at the same time followed Zhu Di's footsteps, and when she arrived at a wing room, Zhu Di threw her a set of palace maid's clothes, "Change into it, and act according to the plan later......"

The snow fell silently.

In the Peach Blossom Pavilion, smokeless silver frost charcoal is burning. In the heavy Su embroidery bed tent, a pale woman is falling asleep, she is very delicate, and her sideburns are scattered on the pillow, but she has a noble and dusty temperament.

I don't know what unhappy things I dreamed of, she frowned slightly, and the tip of her nose twitched, as if she was crying in a dream.

Yao Miaoyi was wearing a set of autumn fragrance palace maid clothes, and quietly opened the bed tent, unexpectedly, this woman is not an eighteen [nineteen-year-old young beauty, her figure and face are well maintained, but it can be seen that she should be about to enter middle age, she is a very mature woman.

Yao Miaoyi stretched out her right hand and put it on her wrist. The woman woke up suddenly, and before she opened her eyes, she took out the dagger under the pillow and stabbed it in the direction of Yao Miaoyi!

Yao Miaoyi dodged away, her right hand was still firmly clasped on the woman's wrist, and she shouted loudly: "Miss, the hall is on fire!" Come with me! ”

Seeing the fire outside, and then smelling the pungent smell of smoke, the woman woke up like a dream, but still held the dagger tightly in her hand, Yao Miaoyi pulled her to retreat in the direction of the side hall, but secretly changed her left and right hands to check the pulse along the way.

This is Zhu Di's plan to "divert the tiger from the mountain", lighting a fire outside to burn cigarette coal, creating a fire chaos, and then pushing out Yao Miaoyi, who pretended to be a palace maid, escaped from the savior, and actually took the opportunity to feel the pulse to determine whether the woman was pregnant.

Yao Miaoyi kicked open the back door and was about to pull the woman out of the dormitory, when a falling tile fell from above and smashed into pieces on the solid stone steps.

Yao Miaoyi secretly observed the woman's expression and posture after being frightened, and a group of palace maids and attendants flocked to the palace, holding warm things such as quilts and furs, and carrying the barefoot woman to the safe dormitory.

In the Peach Blossom Pavilion, Ma Sanbao covered his nose and instructed the soldiers to remove a pile of charcoal basins to "extinguish" the fire. In the study, Zhu Di asked, "How?" ”

Zhu Di is this kind of person who cherishes words like gold, can say one word, never say two words, can only say one sentence, and will never come to the second sentence. It seems that in the previous life, he was a chatter, and he said all the words, and in this life, he regarded every word as gold, and he was reluctant to say more.

Yao Miaoyi was changing clothes through the screen, she took off her palace maid costume, untied the belt under her armpit, and replied: "The pulse is like a ball, it is a happy pulse." And when Ma Sanbao threw the tiles from the roof, her first reaction was not to cover her face, not to hold her head, or to retreat, but to protect her lower abdomen for the first time. It is the nature of motherhood, no matter what dangers the outside world has, the first thing that comes to mind is to protect the fetus. ”

Speaking of her mother's nature, Yao Miaoyi's hand tied with the squirrel skin skirt belt paused for a moment, remembering that when her mother Xie Shi met the assassin, she also held her firmly in her arms, and she didn't say a word when her lumbar vertebrae were broken, and even in order not to drag her to escape, she would rather use a hairpin to commit suicide, like a cold plum withering and crushing into dust......

This is when a mother's last protection of her daughter, at the cost of her life.

The nose was inexplicably sour, and Yao Miaoyi was a little distracted for a while.

Zhu Di sat on the Luohan bed near the window, there was only an oil lamp in the study, the light was dim, but the snow outside the window was translucent, and the beautiful ice patterns of the celadon tea cup in his hand were clearly visible.

There was a sound of dressing behind the screen, this screen is a double-sided embroidered rich peony embroidered by Suzhou, the stitches are tight, and there is no light at all, and the half figure of the person changing clothes behind the screen can not be seen at all.

Obviously he couldn't see anything, and he didn't have the function of clairvoyance, Zhu Di still lowered his gaze and didn't look at the screen opposite, as if he was really afraid of seeing something.

But at this time, Zhu Di felt that his hearing had suddenly become excellent, and he could even conclude that the sound of rustling from behind the screen was whether the jacket fell to the ground, or the horse-faced skirt fell to the waist, or ......

Stop! ｀

Obviously, he drank this winter's new tea, but Zhu Di felt his throat tighten, and he drank the warm tea liquid, still feeling thirsty.

Not only was he thirsty, he was also inexplicably hot, he put down the teacup and walked to the window, he wanted to open the window to breathe, but after thinking about it, the cold wind blew in with fine snow, which would freeze Yao Miaoyi, who was changing clothes behind the screen.

Zhu Di's hand floated half an inch from the window and stopped, and he withdrew his hands.

Breathing in the cold air oozing from the window, the heat in my heart slowly calmed down, but there was silence in my ears, not hearing the sound of changing clothes just now. Zhu Di turned around and looked, but he didn't see Yao Miaoyi, who had changed her clothes, walking out from behind the screen.

"Doctor Yao?" Zhu Di shouted in a low voice.

There was no response.

"Yao Miaoyi?" Zhu Di shouted again, and the answer to him was still silent.

Zhu Di felt that something was wrong, raised the oil lamp on the kang table, and walked quickly behind the screen, but saw Yao Miaoyi standing against the double-sided embroidered screen, her expression was desolate, her eyes were blank, two lines of tears fell from her cheeks like balls, and the chest of the moon-white collared undershirt was already soaked.

She was unaware of the arrival of Zhu Di, as if she was stunned, and fell into a sadness that covered the sky and couldn't extricate herself.

Zhu Di has only seen Yao Miaoyi, who is as fierce as a butcher, and has never seen a fragile Yao Miaoyi who is covered with ice cracks like a celadon of the Song Dynasty in his hand.

Even Yao Miaoyi is like this, at this moment, she is straightening her spine, trying not to be crushed by sadness, just like the cold plum in winter, the more cold the weather, the more fragrant it is.

Zhu Di usually only loves military books, does not like poetry, and has limited Chinese and ink in his chest, and at this time he only thinks of a Chinese poem taught by the Hanlin of the main hall: There are beautiful people in the north, peerless and independent.

"Miss Yao." Zhu Di shouted softly: "What's wrong with you? ”

"Uh-huh!" Yao Miaoyi woke up from the painful memories, saw Zhu Di who was in charge of the lamp, and saw that she was only wearing a moon-white shirt, and subconsciously took a few steps back.

Behind her was clinging to the double-sided embroidered screen, and the result of forcibly retreating was to hit the screen.

The screen fell to the ground suddenly, Yao Miaoyi's footing was unstable, and she was about to fall down with the screen, Zhu Di's eyes were quick, and he hurriedly put down the oil lamp, grabbed Yao Miaoyi's waist, and held her firmly in his arms.

Skin-to-skin, eyes facing each other, close enough to hear the chaotic breathing and heartbeats of both sides.

Zhu Di and Yao Miaoyi were stunned.

Bang dang!

The screen hit the gold brick ground with a loud bang, and the sandalwood frame of the double-sided embroidered screen broke several knots.

Ma Sanbao, who was outside the door, heard it, and thought that there had been an accident, so he rushed in with the guards, and shouted loudly: "There are assassins!" Protect the Four Highnesses! ”

A group of men, plus half of Ma Sanbao's men rushed into the study with weapons pushing the door open, Zhu Di's blank mind woke up suddenly, his heart was bad, and he quickly stretched out his arms to protect Yao Miaoyi, who was only wearing a moon-white shirt on his upper body.

"Get out of here!"

What did I see? At this time, Ma Sanbao would rather be a blind man!

Oh my God, how did I see His Royal Highness holding Butcher Yao! Butcher Yao was disheveled, his expression was panicked, and the remains of double-sided embroidered screens were scattered on the ground!

Could it be that His Royal Highness and Butcher Yao were doing misdeeds in the study, and they were too involved in selflessness and accidentally knocked over the screen......

Zhu Di looked at the stunned Ma Sanbao coldly, "You, take them out." The screen is just down, and it makes a lot of noise, what kind of system! ”

"Withdraw, withdraw!" Ma Sanbao left with everyone as if sleepwalking, and Zhu Di also exited the study at the end, and closed the door himself, leaving Yao Miaoyi to change clothes in the study.

Ma Sanbao secretly looked at Zhu Di from the corner of his eye, well, he was neatly dressed, his belt was tied well, and his hair was not messy, there should be no "success" in the study.

The screen fell too timely! Ma Sanbao secretly rejoiced, how could a fierce woman like Butcher Yao be worthy of His Royal Highness? is just a medical woman, and it is impossible to be a concubine.

If you are a concubine, according to the fiery temper of Butcher Yao, how can you be willing to live under others? In the future, the Four Princes' Mansion will be turned upside down, and there will never be peace.

Ma Sanbao decided to light a wax on the broken screen that he had made great contributions to tomorrow and put a stick of incense on it.