In the blink of an eye, it is the day of the annual royal hunt, and in the days before Chinese New Year's Eve, the royal family also wants to ask for a lottery, so they will go to the hunting ground to hunt. All the nobles and ministers have to participate, also to dispel the evil spirit of the year, and to relax and relax.

The hunting ground is in Beiguanglin, where the mountains and valleys are complex, but there are also many rare birds and beasts, which is a strange challenge for the children of these rich and noble officials. This time it was even more lively.

Jiang Dan easily said that the emperor took her with her, and on this day, the maids in the palace chose clothes for her early, because she was already a concubine and not the daughter of a noble family, but she could not wear bright riding clothes like them. After arriving at the end of the day, Jiang Dan looked at the woman in the mirror, and finally pulled off the hairpin with pearls in his hair with some chagrin, and said, "What is it?" This hairpin looks too old-fashioned, do you just think this palace should wear something like this? ”

The palace maid was startled, and quickly knelt down and begged for mercy. In fact, there is nothing wrong with the hairpin, it is often used by the ladies in the palace. This root is in very good condition, and it is also a reward for the emperor's sake, which is now very favored by her. Jiang Dan was a little angry, and he turned over the dresser by himself, only looking at the beaded enamel in the dresser and was very dissatisfied. Unlike Jiang Li, although Jiang Dan pursues the promotion of status, she is not as cheesy as she hangs on her rich things. She values and cares for her youthful beauty. Now as the emperor's concubine, she must always pay attention to her identity, and she can't dress up like a young girl. Sometimes she even felt that the little palace maids around her were looking younger than her.

Entering the palace, living with an old man who can be his father, competing with all kinds of women for this man, and dressing himself up as older than his peers. For what, she is clearly the same age as a flower. Her eyes fell on a red velvet flower in the dresser, and she suddenly remembered Jiang Ruanlai.

is also the daughter of Jiang Fu, but Jiang Ruan can wear the clothes she wants as she wants, and she doesn't have to worry about whether she will be indecent, even if she is also a lady of a good order, and she is also Princess Jinying, but she can also dress up like other young girls, because Xiao Shao doesn't mind these at all. Not only that, Xiao Shao is also much younger than the emperor, he is just the right age, and he was born handsome, why is Jiang Ruan so good? Even if she was cornered by Xia Yan, she had enough good luck to turn over, but she could only sell her youth and freedom in exchange for temporary superiority. And all the wealth in front of him is still like a flower in the water, and it may disappear at any time.

"Mother...... Seeing that she didn't speak for a long time, the look on her face was a little hideous, and she was a little scared for a while, and reminded her loudly.

Jiang Dan came back to her senses, and slowly held the big red velvet flower tightly in her hand, she had a lot of strength, almost crushing the petals, but the corners of her mouth showed a weird smile.

It doesn't matter, no matter what, it's all coming to an end. After this matter passes, the daughter of the Jiang Mansion will be left alone, and there will be nothing in this world that can threaten her. She will always be a high-ranking person.

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In the Jinying Palace, Jiang Ruan had a headache when he looked at the huge bag in front of him, so he had to glare at Xiao Shao, but Xiao Shao turned his head unintentionally, obviously pretending not to see her eyes.

Steward Lin was still chattering: "Young lady, this is the pastry specially prepared by the old slave in the kitchen, as well as osmanthus wine, you little husband and wife, and they are both young people, the first time you go out to play seriously like this, you should also prepare some food." However, I was afraid that the young lady would drink too much wine, so I also prepared some decanting soup with a little honey in it, so I wouldn't feel that it was difficult to eat, and the taste was sweet and long. By the way, there are also a few miscellaneous books of poetry, which may be used when the time comes. The old slave has already asked Jiao Weiqin to be carried to the carriage, and the young lady is afraid that she will not know how to do it, and the master strokes the qin very well. Well, there are some medicines, cough, ah, the old slave thinks about what else he can't move, he should probably make some more camping things, is the candlestick good? It also looks good when you light it up at night. ”

Jiang Ruan wanted to stick to Steward Lin's mouth, since the last time Xiao Shao revealed her life experience and discernment, she could no longer look directly at Steward Lin. Occasionally, when I look at Steward Lin's wrinkled old face, I can't help but want to step forward and pull his face, and it is best to tear off that face at once to see if the true face underneath is really like the rumored half of the jade tree in the wind.

No matter what his true face is, it is really difficult for some strong people to talk more than the nurse in the courtyard under the identity of Tanhualang in the former dynasty. Jiang Ruan admired Steward Lin a little, that is, Steward Lin himself went to the street and said that he was the Tanhualang of the previous dynasty, and no one believed it, it was really too far behind.

Jiang Ruan finally interrupted her: "Steward Lin, we are just going to hunt, not play. ”

"Hunting is play," Steward Lin waved his hand: "By the way, let the young master give you a few beasts to play with." The fur can be peeled off to make a cloak, and if there are cubs, it can probably be raised for the young lady to play with. Young master, you can bring the Tiger with you. ”

"What are you going to do with the pigeons?" It was the dew that spoke, and Xiao Shao's snow pigeon that sent the message was named "Tiger Ba" is indeed an incomprehensible thing. Dew Drop said, "Do you have any letters to send?" ”

"It's good to bring it over to deter the prey." Steward Lin said: "Tiger Ba is very smart. ”

Now the dew drops stopped talking, probably because they really didn't know how to "deter" the prey of a pigeon like Lu Dao, and it was almost the same to confuse the prey. This is the legendary beauty trick? Jiang Ruan thought about it and burst out laughing.

Xiao Shao turned his head to look at her, and Jiang Ruan hurriedly said: "Feel free, it's not too early, get in the carriage first, the person at the hunting ground is waiting, if you are late, you will also be tempted to attract tongues." ”

Steward Lin was busy packing up the carriage outside the mansion gate, Xiao Shao and Jiang Ruan walked out of the house, the sky was dark outside, the earth they had learned was white, and the trees were full of shiny white icicles, a snowy scenery. Today, Jiang Ruan wore a twisted gold and silver silk Ruyi cloud pattern riding suit, the upper body is a neat little jacket with a collar, and the lower body is knee-length brocade pants embroidered with fox leather boots with white fur edges, and the outer head is covered with a thick brocade fire mouse skin cloak of eight regiments of happy encounters, which is surprisingly red, and the bright and charming face on weekdays is a little more chic and neat today, but it is more pretty.

In the snow, Xiao Shao was still dressed in black, embroidered with a golden unicorn pattern on the hem of the clothes, and covered with a black gold crane of the same color on the outside, his eyebrows were picturesque, handsome and indifferent, looking as cold as the lonely moon in the sky, Jiang Ruan glanced at it, and said with a smile: "You look good, take it to the hunting ground, I feel that all the prey is not as precious as yours." ”

Xiao Shao raised his eyebrows and turned his head to look at her: "Prey? ”

"I'm going to have to watch it closely." Jiang Ruan said with a smile, turned his head and jumped into the carriage that Steward Lin had prepared for them, and Xiao Shao also jumped in. After the two sat down, Forsythia and Jinsan followed in the carriage behind, and Steward Lin gave some careful instructions before pulling down the curtain, and the coachman shouted like a horsewhip, and the carriage drove slowly.

Beiguanglin is also more than ten miles away from the capital, and the terrain is very complicated, and there is always some boredom along the way. Jiang Ruan looked at the small table in front of him, Steward Lin was very thoughtful in the carriage, and walked in alone, it seemed like a small building of a rich and noble family. There was even a pot of wine and a few plates of snacks on the table, and the sky was white, did you want them to drink?

Jiang Ruan saw that the wine pot was also lovely and exquisite, and the gilded body of the pot seemed to have a figure bulge on it, which seemed lifelike, and there were skilled craftsmen carving it at that time. She turned the flask and aimed the point of the person at herself, and at first glance she was stunned, it was clearly two bare-bottomed people together, she was not a fool, no matter how bad her eyes were, she could understand what it was. Before she could react, Xiao Shao suddenly reached out and grabbed the wine jug in her hand and put it aside, and said casually: "There's nothing to see." ”

Jiang Ruan thought about it, then picked up the wine glass on the side again, wanting to ease the atmosphere, so she said: "This wine glass is actually very fine......" Before the words fell, she stared at the character on the wine glass and stopped talking.

Xiao Shao silently put away the wine glass again. Jiang Ruan glared at the contents of the carriage, and finally found that in addition to the wine jug and wine glass, the small table legs, the tablecloth, the candlestick, the box for decorating the snacks, and even the curtain in the carriage were all unique. The pictures in it are so vivid that they make people's eyes and hearts beat.

Steward Lin is also too caring, this is simply pervasive, maybe he is the most suitable person to be the leader of the Jinyi Guard. is so pervasive, it really makes people cry and laugh. Jiang Ruan turned his head, Xiao Shao's fair-skinned face was flushed, and he still turned his head a little uncomfortably, but perhaps he felt that this was really covering his ears and stealing the bell, so he quickly turned back and looked at Jiang Ruan fixedly, as if to prove that he was not weak-hearted.

Jiang Ruan couldn't help laughing, Xiao Shao was really persistent and cute in some things, especially the awkward appearance of keeping face every time he died. Xiao Shao, who laughed at her, was a little annoyed, so she simply took her over and wrapped him in his arms with a black gold crane.

"Still laughing." He said coldly.

Jiang Ruan is not afraid of him, but in fact, Xiao Shao has nothing to fear, at most, he just puts on a cold face on his face, and he has never even been able to put a cold face in front of Jiang Ruan. There's really no deterrent.

Xiao Shao raised his eyebrows, as if he felt that Jiang Ruan was becoming more and more open now, and he grabbed her tighter for a while, lowered his head and slowly leaned over. He may have just wanted to scare Jiang Ruan, but somehow his eyes finally fell on Jiang Ruan's lips, and his movements slowly became gentle.

Jiang Ruan quietly watched his handsome face get closer and closer, others couldn't imagine what the always indifferent Xiao Shao looked like, but only she had seen such a Xiao Shao, as if all the coldness and indifference had receded in an instant, and there was only a kind of bitter tenderness. She slowly closed her eyes, and then the car staggered, Jiang Ruan almost didn't fall over, Xiao Shao reached out in time to help her, so as not to hurt her head.

The driver's apologetic voice came from the front: "Madame Master, there is a stone with a burning foot, and the horse has kicked it, so it didn't alarm you." ”

Xiao Shao: "......"

Jiang Ruan couldn't help laughing, Xiao Shao looked at her helplessly and laughed for a while, Jiang Ruan finally stopped laughing and touched Xiao Shao with his hand: "Seriously, are you nervous about this hunt?" ”

Xiao Shao took her back into his arms, carefully wrapped her tightly with a crane, only revealing a small face the size of a palm, and said lightly: "Don't be nervous." ”

Jiang Ruan let him hold him through the crane, and said: "I'm a little nervous, Jiang Dan will definitely take advantage of this time to take action, I heard what your Jinyi Wei said, Jiang Dan has hooked up with Xuanhua now, she is very fast, saving me a lot of trouble." ”

"You don't have to worry about anything." Xiao Shao's eyes flashed with a hint of coldness.

"I don't care about anything, they are in a hurry to kill themselves." Jiang Ruan said lightly: "Jiang Dan is understandable for calculating me, our feud was formed many years ago, and we will never die in this life." As for Pei'er, she also wants to calculate, which really makes me very unhappy, and now I can't wait to see her defeated. ”

Xiao Shao tightened her embrace, pursed her lips, and did not speak. Jiang Ruan smiled slightly, Xiao Shaohe was very warm, she had also longed for this royal hunt in her previous life, Jiang Susu could participate at that time, because she was an unmarried official woman, and she could only be in the deep palace, across the red walls and green tiles, longing for freedom that would never be possible. Now that I'm here again, I've gone to a place I've never been to, but this time it's a scuffle. This is indeed a hunt, everyone wants to be a hunter and not a prey, she glanced at Xiao Shao, greedy and the warmth under the crane, and leaned closer to him again, the most clever hunter was by her side, at least she had nothing to worry about.

……

In the afternoon, the carriage finally arrived in Beiguanglin, and Jiang Ruan and Xiao Shao were the latest people to come outside except for the royal driver. This year's royal hunting ground is much more lively than in previous years, and the enthusiasm of the children of the official family is very high. As soon as Jiang Ruan arrived, he was pulled over by Lin Zixiang and said, "It's too late for you to come, I thought you wouldn't come." ”

There are many daughters of officials and nobles around, and when they see the arrival of the carriage of the Jinying Palace, they all point to him, and when they see Xiao Shao, they all stick to him with the same kind of admiration. When Xiao Shao and Jiang Ruan said something and walked to the male dependent's side, the eyes that looked at Jiang Ruan suddenly became hostile.

Jiang Ruan was not a fool, so he naturally knew why this hostility came from, and he couldn't help but wonder: "He is so loved? But before you married me, it wasn't as hot as it is today. ”

"Fool," Lin Zixiang glanced at her: "At the beginning, those people looked at your family Xiao Wang Ye with a cold face and a cold heart, I am afraid that I will not be able to enter the eyes of others, who dares to open this mouth easily, and they will also dispel their own thoughts." Who knows that now that you see that your family Prince Xiao treats you gently and considerately, and you are born well, isn't this a regret, who doesn't want to squeeze into your palace. ”

Jiang Ruan thought about it, and then calmly, Xiao Shao's talent and power are indeed one of the best in the Dajin Dynasty, when she married her, everyone said that Xiao Shao's good cabbage was arched by her pig, and now it seems that the number of people who think about this cabbage is countless, Jiang Ruan is thinking about when to raise this cabbage in captivity, Lin Zixiang was angry, and said: "Look, isn't this a regret?" ”

Jiang Ruan followed her gaze and saw a woman standing next to the crown princess, about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a pale green cardigan feather gauze dress. Wearing a dark cloak on the outside, among the women in a beautiful dress of all colors, such a dress is really plain and a little bland. The woman seemed to notice their gaze, turned her head, and happened to be facing Jiang Ruan, and did not show a surprised look, but smiled slightly.

This woman has light eyebrows and small mouths, and there is nothing special about her facial features when she takes them apart, but there is a special beauty when she is together, and the delicate ones are a bit excessive. And then the most important thing is that there is a graceful and generous charm between her eyebrows, which adds a lot of color to her, in short, she is a woman who feels very comfortable and proper at a glance.

Jiang Ruan faintly guessed the identity of this woman in his heart, and only heard Lin Zixiang say: "You still don't know who Lu Dao is, right?" The pearl of the Yao family, the governor of Binhai, Yao Niannian. ”

The daughter of the Yao family, Jiang Ruan lowered his eyes, he had heard many times, most of them were the emperor's intention to ask this daughter of the Yao family to be the princess of Jinying, but somehow Xiao Shao finally fell in love with Jiang Ruan, so he was still very wronged Xiao Shao. For these rumors, Jiang Ruan has always laughed at them, for Yao Niannian, it is a little strange, I heard that this daughter of the Yao family knows astronomy and geography, and Jiang Susu is different from the so-called talented woman who only knows Lu Dao Qing chess calligraphy and painting, Yao Niannian knows the power of the temple and understands the suffering of the rivers and lakes. The reason why the Yao family is thriving is even partly due to Yao Niannian.

And Jiang Ruan also knew that the old Jinying King and his wife were aggressive against the Jinying Mansion because of the name of rebellion, but the Yao family supported the Jinying Palace, and even wanted to complain about Xiao Shao. It is said that it was Yao Niannian who knew about the matter and returned home to persuade his father, so Yao Niannian and Xiao Shao were at least not hostile relations.

Jiang Ruan had inadvertently taken a look at Yao Niannian, but she didn't have anything else in mind, firstly, Xiao Shao was not a person who messed with flowers, and secondly, this Yao Niannian had always been just the emperor's wishful thinking, and she really didn't pay attention to it. But the moment she and Yao Niannian looked at each other, she felt that something was wrong, the woman's gaze seemed to be a little hostile, maybe it was well concealed, but for a person like Jiang Ruan who grew up from "hostility" at a young age, such eyes were too familiar.

"You are talking nonsense again," Wen Feifei has gone out for the first time since she gave birth to a child, and this time she accompanied her husband to the hunting grounds, and she was in a good mood. After listening to Lin Zixiang and Jiang Ruan's chat, he couldn't help but interject at this moment: "What regrets? I heard that the daughter of the Yao family is a person with great ambitions, and it is rare to be lenient, as for what you said about Lord Xiao, don't block Sister Ruan, I didn't see anyone and the two of them just mixing oil in honey. ”

"If you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves remembering." It's a pity that Lin Zixiang didn't appreciate it and insisted on her own opinion: "All the so-called talented women in this world are the same. said that he was generous, but he didn't want to be a laughing stock. It's not two words yet, hypocrisy. ”

Lin Zixiang has a keen intuition about human nature, and such people are the smartest in many things. This time, Jiang Ruan's thoughts coincided with her, but it was just a short look, and she knew that this daughter of the Yao family was not as generous and generous as she looked on the surface, at least in Fang Cai's eyes, she had already noticed many inexplicable emotions.

Sure enough, their own cabbage is precious, and it is accidentally wanted to be arched.

Just thinking about it, I heard a familiar voice unexpectedly: "Sister Ruan, you are here too!" ”

Jiang Ruan turned around, Zhao Jinfang turned over and dismounted, today she was dressed in a bright yellow small riding costume, because their family is a military general's family, but they are also extremely particular about this aspect, dressed up like this, but almost compared to a group of female dependents, it is really playful and heroic, many of the noble children of the male dependents present looked straight, and some of the eyes were not concealed.

"Nguyen." Jiang Xinzhi happened to come over too. Now he is also regarded as a new upstart in the DPRK, and such a scene today is indispensable. He strode over, Jiang Ruan may not have seen him for a long time, these days he is busy with things in the camp, and he runs less to Jinying Palace, Jiang Ruan smiled and said: "Big brother, you are only here now." ”

Zhao Jin wanted to talk to Jiang Ruan, but he didn't expect that Jiang Xinzhi arrived before he could say a word, and he was stunned for a while, and then quickly lowered his head, for fear that Jiang Xinzhi would notice her. When Lin Zixiang saw it, he was surprised: "Zhao Jin, what are you looking down at?" Is there silver on the ground? ”

At this moment, Zhao Jin couldn't hide it even if he wanted to, so he could only raise his head and say hello dryly: "General Jiang." Then he looked down at the stone under his feet, and kicked it again and again, as if he were going to have an accident when he raised his head.

Jiang Xinzhi looked at her appearance and frowned, as if he was a little angry.

Jiang Ruan's eyes rolled over the two of them, and the corners of his lips curled. It's not that she doesn't know what is between the two of them, but she doesn't know that Zhao Jin's influence is greater than she imagined. What kind of person is Jiang Xinzhi, he is about a rare good man in the world, except for enemies, he has always been gentle and elegant, and he is a real gentleman. But such a person has his own emotions when facing Zhao Jin, and Jiang Xinzhi himself did not find this problem.