Dongfang Du didn't expect that in the past three days, Chu Mi didn't return to the palace, and the dark clouds didn't appear, even the imperial sister Dongfang Lingwu, even if she didn't come to see her, she didn't even let herself go to see her, every time she went, she was stopped by the little eunuch. If you want to break in, you are afraid of being known, if this matter of breaking into the princess's bedroom is spread out by someone with a heart, it will not be good for you, and it may also ruin Dongfang Lingwu's reputation.

"Banlan, the main palace will leave tomorrow." Dongfang Du fiddled with a pot of crab claw orchid, his voice was cold, with a hint of parting. It is a cold winter, but the flowers are blooming brightly, it turns out that plum blossoms are not the only ones in the world who can bloom in the cold.

Banlan, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but be infected by Dongfang Du's sorrow, and had a feeling that he would never see the second prince again in this life, "Second prince, can't the slave really go to Jizhou with you?" "If you can, I really want to go to Jizhou with the second prince to serve her.

Banlan is simple, but not stupid, don't say that there will be intrigue between concubines, even between palace maids and eunuchs. Either be shrewd and climb to a high position, or pretend to be stupid and live at the bottom. Banlan was originally a little palace maid who passed the dishes in the imperial dining room, and she never had any idea of climbing to a high position, but she was taken by Concubine Xian by chance and entered the Fengqing Palace in the East.

When she entered the Fengqing Palace, she thought that Dongfang Du was a high-ranking prince, but she didn't want to be so approachable, she didn't have any princely shelf, and directly let her sit in the position of a personal maid, from a small palace maid without any status to the first place in the palace. After more than a year of companionship, he has long made up his mind to serve the second prince for the rest of his life, but now, the second prince is going to the war-torn border city of Jizhou, and he doesn't know how long it will take to come back. There is a strong premonition in her heart that her departure is full of dangers, and she is afraid that she will not be able to come back.

"Jizhou is chaotic, what's more, you're still a girl, how can you go to that army." Dongfang Du withdrew his hand and turned to look at Banlan. From the palace to me, the change of title is also a change of status, "I treat you as a friend, and I have never treated you like a palace maid, and you don't have to follow and serve me." Seeing Banlan's red eyes, he continued: "If you don't want to go to Zhaoxian Palace, stay with me and wait for me to come back." ”

Banlan looked at Dongfang Du with red eyes, and shouted in a choked voice: "Second prince", and couldn't say anything more. I knew in my heart that the second prince was right, he was a girl, and the second prince went to the army where he was not elsewhere but a man, so how could he follow.

"If you are a man, you can follow it......" The thought flashed, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "Second prince, the slave can disguise herself as a man and follow you." "A woman dresses up as a man, which solves the problem of her own womanhood.

Hearing her say this, Dongfang couldn't help but tremble, his hands tightened, and he spit out a sentence: "Nonsense", turned around and brushed his sleeves away, not wanting to say anything more.

"Second prince, where are you? Are you going to Concubine Xian's Niangniang, or Her Royal Highness the Princess? Banlan chased after her with a smile, and secretly decided in her heart that Ming'er would change into men's clothes directly and go to Jizhou with her.

Dongfang Du stopped, turned his head to look at Banlan who had caught up, and his eyes were full of love that Banlan couldn't understand, and Banlan's smile froze on his face for a while.

"This palace goes to the imperial sister, you don't have to follow." After a while, he said coldly. Seeing that Banlan was stunned, he continued: "Banlan, this palace will not take you to Jizhou, even if you dress as a man, it will not take you there." "Do you think it's so easy for a woman to dress up as a man? You don't know what the price to pay for it is.

Dongfang Du looked up at the sky, and when he turned around, he saw that Banlan still had a stunned expression, stopped talking, left her alone, turned around and left, but the direction he went was not Ling Xin Palace.

Around the end of the day, Emperor Qianwen should have reviewed the folds in the imperial study. Dongfang Du arrived at the imperial study, and after the report, he went directly to see Emperor Qianwen.

"The son visits his father."

"No courtesy." Emperor Qianwen put down his pen and asked with a smile: "But is it because of the matter of tomorrow's expedition?" After taking a closer look, he saw Dongfang Du's face heavy, "What, Du'er doesn't want to go to Jizhou?" "My heart sank, did I want to retract my will on the day of the expedition?

Dongfang Du shook his head, "Father, Erchen is here to tell Father, Erchen wants to go to the mobile battalion on the outskirts of the city today, and wait for the general to come over tomorrow with the people of the mobile battalion." "Tomorrow, Emperor Qianwen will definitely take hundreds of civil and military officials to bid farewell to the general at the South City Gate, the parting is too sad, I am afraid that the imperial sister will say goodbye, and I am afraid that the imperial sister will not come to say goodbye.

"So Du'er is here to say goodbye to his father?" Emperor Qianwen got up, walked to Dongfang Du, and patted Dongfang Du on the shoulder, "Du'er, when you go to Jizhou, you have to follow General Zhang Da and learn military strategy." If you want to go to the outskirts of the city today, go for it. ”

"Thank you, Father." Dongfang Du looked up at Emperor Qianwen, and sighed in his heart, "Father, it is really very different from the previous life. It's different, I often ignored her in my previous life, and in this life, I seem to have high hopes for her.

After leaving the imperial study, he went to Zhaoxian Palace to say goodbye to Concubine Xian.

"Mother, is my senior sister back?" Dongfang Du hesitated, but still asked. But if you don't ask, you should know that she must not have come back yet, otherwise she should go to Fengqing Palace to find her.

"Not yet." Concubine Xian shook her head, looked at Dongfang Du lovingly, and saw that her face was heavy, as if she had something to say, so she asked again: "Du'er came to the concubine just to find Mi'er?" Nothing else? ”

"Mother, my son-in-law is going to the mobile camp on the outskirts of the city today, and tomorrow ...... There is no need to send it to the retainer tomorrow. "It's better to say goodbye sooner than to watch her leave.

"I see." Concubine Xian's eyes dimmed, and she said in disappointment.

"Does the concubine have something to explain to her son?" Seeing that Concubine Xian said that this was the case, she stopped talking, and Dongfang Du took the initiative to ask.

Concubine Xian shook her head, "There's nothing special to explain, remember, just come back safely." Raised his hand to straighten Dongfangdu's clothes and straighten his headband.

"Erchen wrote it down." Dongfang Du looked at the dearest relatives in front of him, took out a letter from his arms, handed it to Concubine Xian with both hands, and said with a stern face: "Mother, this letter, when the senior sister comes back, hand it over to her." I had already thought about the situation that Chu Mi would not be able to come back when he left, so I wrote down everything in advance, and this letter was only relieved if I asked my mother to transfer it for me.

Concubine Xian took the letter, felt the thickness of the letter, and sighed in her heart, "There are quite a lot of things to say. The corner of his mouth smiled slightly, "This letter, the mother concubine will be completely handed over to Chu Mi." ”

"Let Senior Sister remember to burn it after reading it." Dongfang Du did not forget to advise.

After coming out of Zhaoxian Palace, Dongfangdu's heart was even heavier. Walking and walking, I still walked to Ling Xin Palace. The little eunuch guarding the palace saw that he was still the second prince, so he could only say apologetically: "Your Royal Highness the second prince, the princess said ......"

Before he finished speaking, Dongfang Du waved his hand, "I didn't want to go in." When the little eunuch heard her say this, he didn't know what to say, so he could only stand back in embarrassment.

Dongfang Du neither went in nor left, just stood at the door, sighing leisurely, but he didn't know that Dongfang Lingwu was standing behind the door at this time. He stood silently at the door for about a quarter of an hour before he said to the little eunuch guarding the palace: "Tell the imperial sister, and say that the palace is gone." It was obviously a very ordinary goodbye, but there was endless sadness in the words.

I don't know what I've done wrong, so Dongfang Lingwu doesn't want to see him these days. If you can't see it, you can't ask, and if you say goodbye today, maybe in March or May, maybe in three or five years, you can't see each other again.

After Dongfang Du finished speaking, he turned around and left.

The little eunuch thought that Dongfang Du had gone and was going back to his Fengqing Palace, so he bent down and said, "Congratulations to the second prince." And he said no more. Dongfang Lingwu behind the door didn't expect that Dongfang Du's farewell today was to leave the palace and not open the door to stay.

Dongfang Du returned to the palace and changed into an ordinary robe, remembering that in the past few days, dark clouds have not appeared, and he can't help but be upset. Thinking of the bird flute that accompanied him every day, he took it out and wanted to blow it, but he was afraid that the palace people would hear it, so he stroked it gently and put it back in his arms. I walked to the desk, picked up the pen, but didn't know what to write, and finally left a book, only three words on the letter, and I left. When the dark cloud came back and saw it, she should know that it was left for her.

Dongfang Du quietly left the palace alone. Not far from the gate of the palace, he looked back at the huge palace, sighed deeply, turned his head, flicked his horsewhip, and went to the mobile camp on the outskirts of the city.

On November 24, the fifteenth year of Qiansheng, at the south gate of the imperial palace, Emperor Qianwen led hundreds of civil and military officials to bid farewell to General Zhang Shaocheng. On the tower of the city, there was a person standing, it was Dongfang Lingwu. looked out, but did not find the figure of Dongfang by Zhang Shaocheng's side. Zhang Shaocheng also led a team of fifty people behind him, and Dongfang Lingwu carefully identified them one by one, but they were not Dongfangdu.

"It turns out that yesterday, you said goodbye to me." Tears fell, and those questions in my heart had no chance to ask after all. I haven't seen Dongfang Du in the past few days, just because I have too many questions in my heart, I am afraid that I can't control my impulsiveness and ask, and I am afraid that Dongfang Du will refuse to answer with a smile......

Sighing softly, he raised his sleeves to wipe the tears from his face, turned around, and slowly walked down the tower.