The moonlight peeked in through the window, gilding the furnishings in the room with a faint layer of light.

I stayed still in my room, but my mind didn't stop thinking.

Cui'er came in with a tray, followed by a rare grandmother.

She was startled when she saw that the room was dark, and then immediately went to light the lamp.

My face narrowed at the burning fire.

"Miss, this is the dinner that the master has delivered."

Cui'er opened the stew pot in the tray, and the fragrant soup was filled as usual.

Since that accidental fall into the water, I have been extra careful about my diet and daily life.

Besides, although the injury has already healed, the root of the disease that fell can not be left behind, so the four seasons tea and dinner, the kitchen has been taken care of by the parents, and they are extra attentive.

Not to mention that the ingredients and medicinal materials used to make soup must be selected from the best in Daye City, even if it is a strange prescription prescribed by the doctor, Daye City can't buy it, and my father even asked people to bring it from other places.

I lifted the lid, slowly scooped a spoonful of the soup with the medicinal aroma, tasted it, and swallowed it.

After the warm soup was in his stomach, he felt that the qi and blood in his body were active.

From strong resistance at first, to getting used to it, I can now drink almost without frowning no matter what kind of food is delivered.

This feeling is especially true today, when there is a lot of preoccupation.

Glancing at the grandmother behind Cui'er who had been standing without much words, I suddenly remembered that this person seemed to have met once last month.

At that time, my mother asked her to prepare new spring clothes for me, wasn't it this kind and short-eyed grandmother?

Something was wrong, and I wrung my eyebrows and gave her a strange look.

Without waiting for me to ask, Cui'er took the lead, and she glanced at me with complicated eyes, her eyes filled with feelings that I couldn't understand. Then he bowed his head in front of me.

I couldn't see Cui'er's expression clearly, but I could hear her whispering, "Miss, Madame asked Mama to come." Cut some more clothes. ”

The bottom of the eyes darkened, and a heart inevitably sank again. Sink down!

If there was some hesitation before, this overnight tailor-made is to add some weight to the suspicion that the balance is pressed down.

Cui'er caught my gloomy expression and comforted me: "If Miss is tired, it's okay to let Mama come back tomorrow, this is Madame's care." ”

"No," I got up and walked over, and said in a nonchalant tone, "Then measure." ”

Cui'er is outside on weekdays. She has always been an honest Muna, and this is what I took care of her.

Out of the eyes of outsiders, in front of me, I have almost no reservations about her.

There are not many people in Ye Zhai who can make me talk. Tsui Er is the one I trust the most.

This trust has been established since I rescued her, and it is even more unbreakable after all these years of companionship.

I've lost a memory, but from the moment I woke up to now. Cui'er has always been the closest person to me.

Every time I go back to live in Qinglian Nunnery, she follows me.

I sat at the table for a long time, the wind blowing through the curtains.

I suddenly asked her, "Is there a way to send a letter to Xiao Gongzi." ”

Cui'er looked up. Her eyes moved, and confusion flashed in her eyes after half a day before she said: "Xiao Gongzi is in a neighboring country, and every time he comes, he rides that red horse." "The slave and maid have seen it from afar, and the speed of the horse is astonishingly fast."

Cui'er's eyes flashed.

I sighed, lowered my hand and shook the corner of my shirt uneasily, then looked up and said, "Yes, there has never been a half-year appointment. “

I looked in the mirror and said, "But I haven't heard him say anything about where he lives." ”

Xiao Chu and I were mysterious when we first met, and it is still the same to this day.

It is clear that the path of sending letters will not work, and my words and inquiries are only to relieve the fear in my heart.

My hands clenched slowly, and my eyes were obscure, and what was hanging now was the appointment of less than two months and the holy decree that might be issued in the future.

Cui'er sat on a stool not far from me, has been embroidering the commonly used handkerchief for me, since Xiao Chu gave me a lotus hairpin, I am very happy, slowly, the handkerchief, the clothes I wear like to embroider a little lotus pattern.

At this time, the handkerchief in Cui'er's hand is embroidered with a very beautiful summer lotus.

The incense in the room exuded a good smell, but my mood was worse than usual, and I really couldn't raise the interest in praise, so I stood up silently in the chair and walked to the bookshelf alone.

I swiped my fingers across the row of books on display, took out a copy of Daye's Chronicles, flipped through them casually and asked, "How many sets of clothes did my mother let my mother prepare?" ”

"There are a lot, not to mention seven or eight sets, plus those spring shirts I made before, there are more than a dozen sets in total."

Cui'er's voice was very low, word by word.

What she said really shocked me, and with a slack in my hand, the heavy Daye Chronicle rolled down the bookshelf and almost missed my feet.

Cui'er was startled, glanced at the book, and hurriedly stepped forward to help me by the arm and said, "Miss, it's just a guess, and it's still inconclusive." ”

"I know," I suddenly looked at her and smiled bitterly, looking down at Cui'er picking up the book, before I lowered my voice, "but it won't be that I bought so many clothes for no reason, and I have to ask Mama to measure them for me overnight." ”

"Miss," Cui'er looked at me in astonishment with her mouth slightly open, and then said with some hesitation, "There is a sentence, the slave still speaks. ”

She picked up the book that had rolled to the ground, wiped the pages and said, "Miss, at dinner, the slave maid heard that in the past few days, the daughters of the wealthy merchants in Daye City have been cutting new clothes. ”

"In case the holy decree comes, even if the lord and the lady are unwilling to send you into the palace, it is impossible to stay out of this preliminary preparation."

Concern is chaos, a glimmer of light flashed in my eyes, although I knew that what Cui'er said was very reasonable, but the depression in my heart could not be lingered.

Thinking that from now on, he might leave Daye and go to the capital hundreds of miles away, and he would have to enter that indifferent high wall, and maybe he would die there for the rest of his life, and the irrepressible sadness in his heart rose again.

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and opened them. "Cui'er. You're not me, you don't understand my mood. "I don't look away from her eyes looking at me." They didn't want to send it, but it was really a holy decree. How can you not send it. “

"Miss, the rumors outside have never stopped, and there may be room for turnaround."

Cui'er refers to the incident that happened to me in Daye City.

Before the lady who made the clothes came, I did have such a fluke in my heart, but when the soft ruler passed around me, I slowly realized that it was too easy to think before.

This emperor. He has always been known for his fierceness, and he can win treacherous battles, and he may not let me go if he sticks to that little rumor.

The palace is like a cage, and there are only a few hundred hearts trapped in it, sinking to the bottom. I shook my head and sat down.

There was silence in the room, except for Cui'er to accompany me silently.

"There are two months left," I whispered, looking out the window at the moonlight, my face pale. "Cui'er, I'm afraid I can't wait"

My heart was empty, and before I came to my senses, I took off the lotus hairpin that had been inserted on my head, and stroked it without speaking.

Xiao Chu. What are you doing at this time?

The neighbors are so far apart that I don't even have a way to send letters, and I have never thought that it would be good to make an appointment, as long as both parties keep their word and not miss the appointment, but it is easy to do this, but I have not considered anything else

The mountain rain is coming, and the atmosphere in Daye City has always been tense.

At the same time, rumors of unknown origin gradually spread throughout the city.

With a slip in my hand, I broke a teacup, looked at Cui'er in disbelief and said, "Where did this news come from?" “

She said anxiously: "I've heard about it on the street, and now I'm afraid the entire Daye City has learned about it." “

"It is just a cover to convene Daye rich businessmen this time, but in fact, the only person who really wants to see the lord is alone, and it is rumored that the emperor is very dissatisfied with the friendship between King Chen and the lord in the past." "There are also rumors that Cui'er looked at me cautiously and said, "that the master is going to marry the young lady far away from a neighboring country and move the family out of Daye."

You must know that at this time, all kinds of rumors are rampant in the city, how can such rumors come out?

I sat heavily in my chair, speechless for a while.

I thought that the biggest obstacle to entering the palace was my accident in the past, but as soon as the rumors came, all the excuses seemed so weak.

Marrying far away from a neighboring country and moving out with my family means that even if the Ye family releases the news of my ill health in Daye City, it will become a move to disobey the holy decree and secretly Chen Cang.

If someone who has been done a good thing adds oil and vinegar to the new emperor, where will the Ye family be placed?

Before the road could be opened, it was sealed first.

The haze in front of me obscures the view and lingers.

If you don't come early or late, rumors come at such a time, and no matter how you think about it, I feel as if someone is deliberately behind it

The axles of the carriage turned, pressing through the forest path, and a convoy of dozens of girls was moving along Daye's road to the capital.

I sat in the car, thinking about what had happened in the past few days.

A qiē came too quickly, summoned, the holy decree, and then a wealthy merchant in Daye City sent a woman to Beijing.

It was too fast to pause, too late to hesitate.

Our car was in the center, following the large army slowly.

The girls in the team have different feelings, some are looking forward to the unknown scene of the palace in the capital, and some are crying all day longing for the love of parting from their families

Cui'er handed over a bowl of hot soup.

From the beginning of the departure, food, clothing, housing and transportation are naturally not as good as when I was pampered in the Ye Mansion, if it weren't for the large amount of money that my parents gave to the person who received me in the palace, I am afraid that such a bowl of hot soup with a small stove would be rare.

I raised my hand to take it, and suddenly there was a commotion outside the carriage