The Yeting Palace in the East Palace is not far from the Plum Garden, when the plum garden is full of thousands of plums, the faint and cold fragrance overflows the Yeting Palace. Compared with the palace maids in the Yeting Palace, they can go to the plum garden together when they are not on duty, and the three widows such as Du, Zhang, and Mi can only watch the plum blossoms bloom from afar in their respective residences, and they want to enjoy the plum blossoms nearby.

But all women, especially beautiful women, always have a strange psychology. What she gets, she doesn't cherish, what she can hope for but can't get, she is paranoid to the bones, she has to fight and work hard. This is true for the plum blossoms that cannot be appreciated, and even more so for the unattainable prince.

Speaking of which, the lives of Du, Zhang and the other three daughters in the Yeting Palace are better than their situation in their parents' family. After all, the three of them are all concubines, and they each have sisters, not to mention that they are not as good as sisters in all aspects, and they must be more cautious when they live under their mothers, and they must be careful at all times, and they can't let their limelight overshadow their sisters. After entering the East Palace, in addition to not being able to leave the palace at will, the crown princess was not strict with them, and the degree of food and clothing was more heaven and earth than the family.

Unfortunately, people are not satisfied with the status quo. Before entering the East Palace, it felt too good to be looked down upon by my father, mother-in-law and sisters in my mother's house. When you enter the harem, you can't help but expect to be favored by the prince, and let your mother and sisters kneel down to worship you openly. When this expectation may come to an end, the three girls are naturally psychologically unbalanced. Especially Mi Ruren, she is even more unwilling, her appearance, talent, and ability are all excellent, just because she is a concubine, she can't marry Shen Xuan's cousin as a wife, and even be willing to be a concubine, which is not accepted. Cousin Han of my aunt's family would rather marry Mi Sanniang's stupid thing than be too lazy to look at herself. All this is just because she is from a low background and feels that she is not worthy of them. But now, she is the prince and the widow, and those who looked down on her at the beginning must be careful with herself.

Mi Ruren's mind is chaotic, but the sound of the piano flowing from his fingers is more and more peaceful and indisputable. Ke'er, who was standing behind her, stared at Mi Ruren's back with red eyes, and secretly said in her heart: "Our widow is really beautiful and talented, and the woman in this world can only compare with our widow, I'm afraid that only the crown princess." ”

"Who's playing the piano?" Wang Zhangshi of the Yeting Palace appeared in front of Mi Ruren with a cold face.

Ke'er was startled, and hurriedly saluted: "Zhangshi, it's our widow." "It's just playing the piano in the pavilion of the Yeting Palace, why don't you have such a cold face in the palm of the history. Besides, in this palace, in addition to Du and Zhang, they are the biggest, and Wang Zhangshi, a female official, can still control the heads of the widows! Ke'er thought so, the panic on her face faded, and she raised her chin slightly, "Is there something wrong with the history?" ”

Wang Zhangshi has been having a hard time since An Si Boudoir lost power, and he was almost overwhelmed by Chen Zhangshi in Yeting Palace, and he had to be ridiculed from time to time. When did she suffer such a grievance, she secretly planned to take refuge in Yan Siwei's hands. However, she has helped An Si Bou and Yan Si Bou to deal with each other for so long, and she didn't even think about the fact that she could be accepted by saying a few soft words. just secretly endured his anger and quietly monitored a few widows. Her idea is very simple, Yan Si Boudoir is the concubine's companion, and she must also see a few widows who are not pleasing to the eye, if she finds something wrong with a few widows, she will take the first step to sue Yan Si Boudoir, and it can be regarded as a gift of sincerity.

Today, it happened to be Wang Zhangshi on duty, and a little palace maid quietly came over to tell her, "Zhangshi, Mi Ruren's personal palace maid Ke'er, today in Meiyuan folded a large plum blossom in a bottle, for Mi Ruren to enjoy." "Every grass and tree in the East Palace belongs to the crown prince and the crown princess, and without an order, it is punishable to climb and break the flowers and trees in the palace at will. Of course, Su Yan can't be so harsh, ordinary flowers and trees are folded with the palace maids for hairpins to wear. However, the matter of taking a large plum blossom offering bottle is not something that the palace ladies can do.

"Do you see clearly, what kind of plum blossom is she folding?" Wang Zhangshi hurriedly lowered his voice and asked. Ordinary plum blossoms, of course, can not be folded, but Mi Ru people can be offered.

The little palace maid shook her head blankly, "I don't know." "She has only been in the palace for a year, where can she recognize the varieties of plum blossoms.

"Alright, you can go down." Wang Zhangshi reluctantly threw a small purse to her and let the little palace maid go down. Seeing that he was in the Ting Palace, becoming more and more like a transparent person, Wang Zhangshi was extremely unwilling. She thought about it, but she still took people to find Miruren.

In a mountain pavilion near the Plum Garden, Mi Ruren faced a branch of the hundred-leaf plum that bloomed very spiritually, although it was not particularly precious, but it was also the favorite of the crown princess. Li Ping, the head of the palace, once listed to the palace people that several kinds of plum blossoms in the plum garden are not allowed to touch, including the hundred-leaf plum. Wang Zhangshi was secretly happy in his heart, and he passed with people.

"Ke'er, don't you know that this hundred-leaf plum is not allowed to be touched by General Manager Ping's three orders?" Wang Zhangshi asked coldly with a straight face.

Ke'er is a little blind, she doesn't know much about plum blossoms, but she sees that the widow likes the plum and becomes obsessed, but she can't enjoy it, so she volunteered to go to the plum garden to fold a branch to offer a bottle to the widow. The plum blossom of that tree is a very ordinary white flower, and it doesn't look like some precious variety. "You, you are talking nonsense, what kind of hundred leaves and plums are this, they are obviously ordinary white plums." Ke'er straightened her spine and said with a hard mouth.

Wang Zhangshi chuckled and said: "Mi Ru's family has a family history, please tell me, what kind of flower is this?" ”

Mi Ruren pointed to the sound of the piano, and said lightly: "Plum blossoms." ”

Wang Zhangshi: ...... She took a deep breath and asked, "What plum blossoms?" ”

Mi Ruren sighed and said softly: "Hundred Leaves and Plums." After speaking, he slowly stood up and turned to look at Wang Zhangshi, "I asked Ke'er to give me a plum blossom offering bottle, and Zhangshi will punish me." ”

Wang Zhangshi smiled slightly, "The minister is not qualified to punish the widow, and besides, this is all Ke'er's fault, she has no eyes, and she mistakenly broke the princess's beloved thing, what does it have to do with the widow." After speaking, he immediately shouted with a cold face: "Don't tie Ke'er up for me yet, send it to the inner courtyard." ”

Before the words fell, two thick palace maids came up and held down Ke'er to tie up, Mi Ruren grabbed a few steps forward, pushed away the two palace maids, and protected Ke'er behind him, "It's my fault, if you want to punish me, you are not allowed to move Ke'er." ”

Ke'er was moved to tears by Mi Ruren, and she choked up: "Ruren, you, don't care about Ke'er, it's all Ke'er's fault, Ke'er is willing to be punished." ”

Wang Zhangshi didn't eat their master-servant affection, hugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "Mi Ruren, the rules of the East Palace are set by the crown princess, and if you have a mistake, you will be punished, and no one can intercede." I want you, just go back to your yard obediently and prepare medicine for Ke'er, this is what you, the master, should do. ”

Mi Ruren glared at Wang Zhangshi hatefully, hugged Ke'er hard, took a deep breath, and said loudly: "I want to see the crown princess!" ”

"Yo, who wants to see the crown princess?" A crisp and sweet voice sounded, and a pretty and beautiful girl in palace clothes, accompanied by Chen Zhangshi, slowly walked up the steps.

When Ke'er saw Chen Zhangshi, she cried as if she were a relative, and cried: "Chen Zhangshi, please give us our widows and slaves as masters, and Wang Zhangshi has wronged slaves." ”

As soon as Wang Zhangshi saw Chen Zhangshi coming, he motioned for his subordinates to stand aside, and she said with a smile: "Female Officer Chen, if I remember correctly, I am on duty today." ”

Female Official Chen smiled faintly, "Wang Zhangshi doesn't have to worry, I don't mean to interfere, I just accompanied Female Official Yang to find someone today." ”

The female official Yang who can make the female official in charge of the Yeting Palace so respectful can only be the palace maid who is close to the crown princess. Of course, Wang Zhangshi refused to offend Banxia, and hurriedly stretched out his hand slightly apologetically and said, "Female Officer Yang invites first." ”

Banxia glanced at Mi Ruren slightly, and chuckled: "Presumably Mi Ruren was playing the piano just now?" ”

"Yes." Mi Ruren's thin white teeth bit his red lips, and his jade hands clenched tightly. She was a little flustered in her heart, how could she be the person next to the crown princess? At this time in the past, shouldn't the prince come to the plum garden to fold the plum blossom offering bottle for the crown princess?

Banxia turned sideways slightly, "Mi Ruren, please, the lady wants to see you." ”

Hearing this, Mi Ru's heart became more and more bottomless, and she pretended to speak calmly, "Female Officer Yang, my maid Ke'er picked the hundred leaf plum by mistake, and Wang Zhangshi wants to punish her, can you please be gracious." ”

Banxia shook his head: "Forgive me, this matter is not in my hands, you should find Yan Si Boudoir." ”

Mi Ruren sneered twice: "Female official Yang doesn't have to shirk, I'll go directly to intercede with the crown princess." ”

Banxia looked at Mi Ruren's posture, and secretly annoyed, what did this Mi Ruren do with our lady, and she dared to bother her about a palace maid.

At this moment, Su Yan was holding a hot fruit dew, looking at the plum blossoms outside the window, and heard the palace people report that the person who played the piano had found it. "Call her in." Su Yan commanded lightly.

Mi Ruren followed behind Banxia, half-hanging his head, and slowly entered the Qimei Pavilion. This remote palace located in the southwest corner of the East Palace does not feel cold and damp at all, but is warmer than the palace where she lives, and the room is full of the cold fragrance of plum blossoms. She knew that the mistress of the entire East Palace, the crown princess, who had monopolized all the favors of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, was sitting in the house at the moment. Somehow, Mi Ruren thought of her first meeting with the crown princess. is different from the first encounter in Princess Pingyang's mansion, at this moment in this room, she didn't dare to look up at her at all, so she could only look at the lichen and honestly kneel at her feet.

"Numi, I've seen the crown princess." Mi Ruren knelt on the ground in a proper manner and saluted calmly. As far as the eye can see, you can only see the embroidered shoes of the palace ladies standing around the crown princess.

Su Yan looked at the person as early as Mi Ruren entered the house. This Mi Ruren, she has not changed much from the first time she met, she is still a plain dress, and her calm and indifferent demeanor makes her delicate appearance a little more charming. "Flat." Su Yan said lightly.

"Crown Princess Xie." Mi Ruren thanked him, and then slowly got up, his eyes always falling on the ground in front of him.

Su Yan was a little curious: "You were playing the piano just now?" Because of the distance, she only faintly listened to a passage, and did not hear it very clearly. When I saw Mi Ruren at this time, I thought that she had pointed out that the music of the musicians in the princess's house was wrong at the banquet of Princess Pingyang.

Mi Ruren secretly gritted his teeth and replied calmly: "Yes." She didn't feel like she was showing the slightest flaw. But Su Yan was too allergic to the voice, and when she heard it, she felt that this woman was a little weak and scared.

"It's okay now, maybe listen to Mi Ruren's wonderful song?" Su Yan's words were the same as the question when the two first met that day.

Mi Ru's heart trembled, thinking that this was Su Yan's revenge for being dismissed by her in public on the day of the report, and she couldn't help but be even more careful. On that day, she mispredicted the character of the crown princess, so that she did not gain favor, but added resentment. Now, she didn't dare to take Qiao anymore, and responded obediently: "If the crown princess doesn't dislike it, the slave should do her best." ”

Su Yan didn't say anything, but Banxia smiled and said, "Please." ”

The piano case had already been set up in the house, but no incense was lit. Mi Ruren bent his knees slightly, "Princess, the slave has an uninvited invitation." ”

"You say."

"How can you play the piano without fragrance? Ask the crown princess to light a stove of plum incense. Mi Ruren thinks that this request is not inappropriate at all, burning incense and playing the piano, the ancient elegance, thinking about the princess should be very clear. When she said this, she should make a good impression on the crown princess.

When the prince walked outside the door, he just heard this sentence, and he didn't use the palace maid, he raised his hand to open the soft curtain, stepped inside, and said coldly: "If you want to play, you can play, if you don't want to, get out!" "If it weren't for Su Yan in front of him, with the words of this cheap person just now, he would have been able to let people strangle her. Knowing that the crown princess was pregnant, he specially ordered that no one was allowed to smoke incense in the East Palace, and dared to ask for a return to Meixiang to play the piano, this is not looking for death.

His Royal Highness the Prince! Mi Ru was overjoyed, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, praying deeply in his heart that he could leave an impression on the prince today. Even if you can't be favored immediately, it's better than never seeing a face. As for the prince's remarks just now, the Mi Ruren, who was full of worries, did not suffer much harm and blows.

The crown prince's boots embroidered with a golden dragon shook in front of his eyes, and the cold and piercing voice just now turned into soft spring water almost in an instant, "Qingqing, how can you open the window?" Beware of freezing you. ”

When Su Yan saw her husband coming back, she burst into a brilliant smile: "Qilang, you see how lively this green calyx plum blossoms are, let's draw it?" ”

The prince looked at his beloved wife's slightly protruding lower abdomen worriedly, "Qingqing, can you draw a picture for your husband?" ”

"Okay." Su Yan nodded happily in agreement.

The prince happily turned his head and ordered: "Ang Li, go get pen and ink." ”

Su Yan saw that her husband had no intention of telling Mi Ruren to get up, so she opened her mouth and said, "Well, Mi Ruren, you go and play the piano." "For women with real talents, she is always a little more tolerant. As for whether Mi Ruren played the piano at this time to hook up with her husband, Miss Su didn't care at all. If anyone can hook up with the prince, she will lose her reputation as the first talented woman in the capital, and she will be ashamed of her teaching to her teacher and seventh uncle.

Mi Ruren's full of thoughts flew away in the snub just now, and the rest of the unwilling to be entangled in his heart turned into a deep obsession. She stood up and saluted dignified and elegant, before kneeling in front of the piano table, her fingers plucked lightly, and the peaceful and distant sound of the piano flowed out.

At the moment when the piano sounded, Su Yan frowned slightly. The prince lowered his head and kissed her eyebrows, and said in a low voice: "If you don't like it, change someone." ”

Su Yan lazily leaned on her husband's arms, played with his slender fingers, and said casually: "But after listening to two songs, whoever plays it is the same." "The musicians of the music workshop may be good, maybe the pipa is a must, maybe Xiao Yin Qingyue, but the guqin has no one who has Su Yan's heart. She thought that her husband's widow might have some ability to match her "pride", but now it seems that she is just thinking too much.

In order to make a beautiful and deep impression on the crown prince, Mi Ruren used all her skills. The more Su Yan listened, the more his brows furrowed, and finally he couldn't help but speak: "Okay, you go back." "This Mi Ruren really disappointed her, her piano is not as good as the musician in the music workshop, and even Mi Sanniang is not as good.

"The princess ......" Mi Ruren thought that this was her best performance, but before she finished the song, she was ordered by the princess to stop talking and be driven away. Mi Ruren's snow-white little face turned red with shame, and he said in a trembling voice: "Princess, where is the slave not playing well, please advise." ”

The prince was tired of the many strange women here obstructing his eyes, and just as he was about to speak, his fingers were pinched by a tender little hand, and he looked down and saw that he was facing his beloved wife's beautiful autumn water. "Qingqing." The prince bowed his head and kissed Su Yan's eyes as if fascinated, sighed lightly, and hugged the person into his arms again.

Su Yan stopped her husband and said flatly: "Even if there is no rhyme, and there is no melody, what do you do with just listening skills?" You can't bounce a quilt. ”

Mi Ruren's little face turned from red to blue, she raised her head unconvinced, facing the eyes of the prince, the coldness in it almost made her heart tremble, her head hung down involuntarily, and she heard a broken shout: "Get out." Before she could move, she was carried out by two palace maids.

Banxia, who had brought her over before, said with a smile: "Mi Ruren, the next official will send you back." ”

Mi Ruren was blown by the cold wind outside, and suddenly remembered that Ke'er was taken away by Wang Zhangshi, and turned around so violently that he wanted to pounce into the house, and was directly pressed to the ground by several palace maids, and his mouth was blocked to death, Li Ping stepped forward and looked at Mi Ruren condescendingly, and said softly: "If the old slave is a widow, he will go back to the palace quietly, and maybe he can suffer a little less." ”

"Come on, send Miru people back. Let's just say that Mi Ru people are cold today, so they have to recuperate for a while. "Li Ping has to take thunderous measures against any woman who wants to compete with their crown princess. After inquiring about the prince's itinerary, if you want to hook up with His Royal Highness through the sound of the piano, it depends on whether our family agrees.

Mi Ruren is also unlucky, today is the first day of her plan, the prince did not attract it, but attracted the princess, and finally abandoned the prince, which is depressing. If she wants to reverse today's situation in the future, she doesn't know how much more she can do.

The prince saw that the obstructive person was gone, so he leaned in front of Su Yan with great interest and smiled: "Qingqing, play the piano for your husband." "Hmph, the person who plays the piano for Qingqing must be His Royal Highness, any cat or dog dares to show in front of Qingqing and kill him directly!

Therefore, it is really nothing for the prince to hear the sound of the qin, but it is an unforgivable sin to lead the princess!