After Mu Qing and the others withdrew from the main house, they were all ordered to stand outside the house and wait. Everyone was shocked by the scene that happened to each other, but at this time, they couldn't hear the conversation between the emperor and the king of Rui in the house, so everyone had to hang their hearts and wait patiently outside. Yin Zheng glanced at Mu Qing without a trace, and then strode away with Huo Pei'an's fine work.

After waiting for a while, Mu Qing whispered to Zhu Yu beside him: "There are a lot of people here, I walk everywhere to breathe." ”

"The slave will accompany the mother, right?" Zhu Yu said uneasily.

Mu Qing shook his head with a smile and said with relief: "No need, I want to go by myself." Don't worry, this is the palace after all, and nothing will happen. ”

Although Zhu Yu was still not very relieved in her heart, she knew that her master's revisit to his hometown today must have brought back a lot of sad past, and she should not disturb at this time. So Zhu Yu lowered her head and stepped aside, watching Mu Qing's slender back go farther and farther.

Mu Qing walked alone on the empty corridor of King Rui's Mansion, and with every step, memories of the past flashed in his mind like a shadow puppet play, as if it was yesterday and as if it was a previous life. In the best years, he was a noble prince with a high heart and arrogance, she was an innocent and cheerful girl in the flower season, and she was so perfect in their world, without sorrow or trouble, so when parting and sadness suddenly came, she would be so caught off guard, and she didn't even say a final goodbye.

Mu Qingding stood in the middle of the corridor, looking around at the familiar scenery around her, and in a trance, she seemed to be able to see a young prince holding the girl's hand, passing by her, and the two trotted all the way. The young man said happily: "Changyan, this is the house given to me by my father, what kind of flowers and plants do you say should be planted on both sides of this corridor?" ”

The girl asked puzzledly: "You can make a decision on what flowers to plant, the fifth prince, why do you ask me?" ”

The young man laughed with great malice, and deliberately teased: "Anyway, you will also enter the palace in the future, it is better for you to decide now, and it will save me from trouble in the future." ”

"What nonsense are the five princes talking about?!" The girl's cheeks were red, and she said with a fake sneer, "Who is going to enter your palace?" ”

Seeing the girl's shy look, the smile between the young man's eyebrows and eyes was even worse, and he grabbed the girl's hand and said, "Where am I talking nonsense?" In a few more ****, I will ask my father to marry, you will marry me sooner or later! ”

The girl smiled and broke free from the man's hand, and the two of them disappeared.

Mu Qing smiled and recalled the past, she suddenly had a feeling, as if she just had a nightmare, a very terrible nightmare, as long as she opened her eyes again, she could return to the original beautiful moment.

A deep male voice suddenly came to mind behind him, "Why did Niangniang run here alone?" ”

Mu Qing turned around and looked, and the person who came was Wu Sheng, the guard beside King Rui. Mu Qing remembered that when she was a child, Wu Sheng had been following Liang Yinhuan as a companion, and if she counted the time, she hadn't seen this upright and loyal man for seven years. The relationship between Wu Sheng and Liang Yinhuan is not just as simple as a master and servant. Coupled with the accident seven years ago and the departure from Beijing five years ago, Wu Sheng has always been by the side of King Rui, and the two are probably closer than brothers.

Mu Qing lowered his head and smiled lightly, looking at the other party with his spare eyes. Wu Sheng's body is stronger than before, his dark skin is more manly, and his calm and reticent temperament replaces the immaturity and arrogance of the past. After the fluctuating mood calmed down, Mu Qingcai said softly: "This palace saw that the courtyard corridor of His Royal Highness King Rui was repaired very elegantly, so I wanted to look around, and I didn't take into account the master's absence, and I was rude, please forgive me." ”

"Niangniang's words are serious, every brick and tile, grass and tree in the house is rewarded by the emperor, so how can it be rude." Wu Sheng said politely, but Mu Qing still found traces of disdain from the corners of his stiff mouth.

"Looking at the layout of this courtyard and corridor, the prince must have put a lot of thought into it, right?" Mu Qing deliberately changed the topic, "On a cold winter day, the house is still full of flowers, this flower is not like a plum, it must be a camellia, right?" ”

"Yes, Niangniang happened to come by coincidence, and this year's camellia bloomed very early." Speaking of the flowers in the yard, Wu Sheng put away his original vigilant expression and took the initiative to speak, "Every camellia in this yard was planted by the prince himself, and he insisted on refusing to fake his hands to others, which can be said to have taken all his thoughts. The prince said that the camellia is not as arrogant as the plum, but it is comparable to the delicate peony, so the prince is full of camellia in the whole yard. ”

Wu Sheng didn't know why he suddenly said so many words today, and he was still facing that Dog Emperor's favorite concubine, but he always felt that this concubine had a special feeling on her body, a familiar and unfamiliar feeling, which made him feel involuntarily cordial. Just as Wu Sheng was talking, Concubine Chen beside him suddenly interrupted his words with a sharp cough. Wu Sheng saw that the woman was half-leaning on the railing, her breath was disordered, and her face was slightly red from a violent cough. He stepped forward and asked worriedly, "Is Niangniang okay?" Would you like to see a doctor? ”

Mu Qing waved his hand weakly, "No need, old problem." In winter, it is easy to cough and is not in the way. ”

Wu Sheng nodded and said, "Then Weichen will accompany Niangniang back?" ”

"There is labor." Mu Qing smiled gratefully. Before turning to leave, Mu Qing took one last deep look at the camellia flowers that filled the courtyard like the morning glow, and a wave of sorrow swelled in his heart. At this moment, she understood why Liang Yinhuan would plant camellias in the courtyard, because that was what she wished back then.

When Liang Yinhuan, who was still the fifth prince at the time, suddenly asked her one day what flowers she hoped to plant at home in the future, she said casually: "I want to plant camellia in the yard." The ancients said: Only camellia is very durable, and it can only occupy the spring breeze in the deep moon. It is said that when a camellia withers, it is not the whole flower that falls, but the petals slowly wither one by one until the end of life. Such a cautious and reluctant way of withering is poignant and admirable. ”

Mu Qing didn't expect a joke from his childhood, he actually remembered it in his heart, and he never forgot it. Although Siren has passed away in his world, many years later, he still helped her fulfill this wish with his own hands. At this moment, she couldn't tell what she felt in her heart, since the moment she was reborn, she let go of Yun Changyan's identity, she was Yin Muqing, and she could only be Yin Muqing. But when she returned here, back to a place full of memories of the two, the emotions that she had originally sealed in the deepest part of her heart began to stir, as if they were about to break through the ground.

Mu Qing took a deep breath, and his reason finally returned to his brain. She suddenly smiled bitterly: the banter of the past seems to be a prophecy now, isn't her fate like this crumbling but desperate camellia? Maybe there is a setting in the dark.