The woman leaned forward and stretched out her hand to fish out the silk handkerchief that had fallen into the water, but her feet slipped and fell into the water, panicking, her hands fluttering on the surface of the water in a panic, and her hair was wet. Qizheng hurriedly ran over, leaned down and stretched out his hand: "Don't panic, girl, hurry, grab my hand." ”

The woman was about to reach out to pull Qizheng's hand, but suddenly felt something, stood up in the water, looked around, and lowered her head slightly in embarrassment.

"It's good that the water is not deep, come up quickly." Qizheng smiled slightly, still holding out her hand.

The woman raised her head, glanced at Qi Zheng expressionlessly, stepped on the water, slowly walked to the shore, took Qi Zheng's hand and climbed ashore, went to the shore, looked down, only to see that a shoe was still in the water, looked back at the silk shoes floating on the water, and was at a loss.

Qizheng also tilted his eyes and said lightly: "I'll go and pick it up for you." ”

The woman remained expressionless, did not respond, and stood there with her head bowed.

Qi Zheng smiled at her, walked to the edge of the pool and looked, the silk shoes floated in the middle of the pool, which must not be reached here, Qi Zheng looked around, walked to the platform near the water, stepped out of the railing, stood on the edge of the palm wide, pulled the railing with one hand, leaned forward, and reached the water with the other hand, but still could not reach, Qi Zheng loosened the hand holding the railing again, leaned forward hard, but still couldn't, let go of the hand, still a foot away.

"If you can't reach it, forget it." The woman shouted as she stood on the shore.

Qizheng looked at her in a blink of an eye: "I'll try again." With that, he leaned forward again, leaving only a few fingers hooked on the stone railing, just reaching the heel, the fingers had ground blood on the stone railing, slightly loosened, Qi Zheng stretched out his hand hard, and pulled the silk shoes,

Unexpectedly, the finger suddenly released and fell into the water. Qi Zheng stood in the water, picked up the silk shoes in the water, stroked the hair hanging with water droplets, and slowly walked to the shore, the woman stretched out her hand and pulled Qi Zheng ashore.

Qizheng put the silk shoes on the ground, wiped the water droplets on his forehead with his sleeve, and said with a smile: "Let's enjoy the moonlight here together, but we fell into the water together." ”

The woman put on silk shoes and looked at Qizheng: "You, why do you want to help me like this." ”

Qizheng was stumped by this question, and looked at her with some surprise: "Is there a reason to help others?" ”

"Don't you know me?" The woman said.

Qizheng looked at her with a smile: "I was still young when I entered the palace, and I knew very few people, so you wouldn't be a mother." ”

She shook her head: "No, according to that, you are the show girl of this year." ”

Qizheng bowed slightly: "Well, let's go back and change our clothes quickly." ”

The woman turned around: "You go back, I don't want to go back." ”

"Well, let's go sit down there." Qi Zheng looked at the platform near the water.

The woman answered and asked, "Aren't you going back to the palace?" ”

"You don't want to go back, and I don't want to go back to a place I don't like." Qi Zheng said lightly, and then pulled her to the stone bench on the platform and sat down.

"I'll give this back to you." The woman spreads her hands.

Hearing this, Qi Zheng looked at what she was holding in her hand, and it turned out to be the "golden jade and snow" Qi Zheng raised her hand and touched the bun, indeed the hairpin was missing.

"This is what you fell to the ground when you just pulled me." The woman said.

Qizheng took the hairpin and smiled: "Thank you." ”

The woman lowered her eyebrows and said lightly: "It should be me who thanks you, but I accidentally caused you to fall into the water." ”

Qi Zheng looked around: "We are the only ones here to meditate, and there are no other people around, we are also fateful, so we naturally have to help you." ”

The woman smiled: "This is a place to render people's hearts, but you are very special, you don't look at the object, you don't ask the reason and help me without any scruples, it's really rare, by the way, it's so late, why are you here alone?" ”

Qi Zheng turned his eyes and stared at the rippling water: "Maybe it was a few days ago that I understood what it means to be a knife and I am a fish, and I involuntarily came here again." ”

The woman also turned her head to look at the level, and suddenly saw a little blood stain on the railing, and hurriedly asked, "Your hand is bleeding?" ”

Qizheng smiled and shook his head: It's okay, a little injury. ”

"What's your name?" The woman asked.

Qizheng bowed slightly: "Fu Qizheng, what about you?" ”

The woman was just about to speak, when a gust of wind blew, and she couldn't help but shiver.

"Although it's summer, the night is as cold as water, and it's not appropriate for the two of us to sit here in soaked clothes, it's easy to catch a cold, so let's go back quickly." Qi Zheng said busily.

The woman nodded and said helplessly: "I don't want to go back, I still have to go back after all, let's go." ”

Qi Zheng got up and walked quietly in the garden with the woman.

"You're in the Chuhui Palace, it's not far from here, go back quickly." The woman asked.

Qi Zheng answered, and said, "Is your dormitory far away from here?" ”

The woman looked ahead: "It's going to be a while, you go back, I'll walk slowly or it won't be long before I arrive." ”

Qizheng thought for a while: "Why don't I go back to the palace and find clean clothes, you can change into them first and then go back." ”

The woman shook her head: "No need, it's okay, I'll go first." ”

Qi Zheng heard a sound of footsteps, and looked at it, it turned out to be the patrolling Janissaries, and the leader in armor in front of Qi Zheng felt very familiar, 'He, as if he had seen it somewhere'

"See the eldest princess." The man saluted.

Qi Zheng was suddenly startled and looked at the woman beside her...... The eldest princess? ’

The woman said lightly: "General Qi is exempt." After saying that, he cautiously glanced sideways at Qizheng, and Qizheng hurriedly lowered his head.

Qi Zheng raised his head slightly and glanced at the man's tall nose, cold eyes, and cold face, could it be the general he saw in front of the palace gate that day. ’

"Princess, the slave can find you, why is the princess soaked." A palace maid ran over, owed, and looked at the woman.

"It's okay" The woman looked at the palace maid and said, and then turned to look at Qizheng: "I live in Zhaowan Palace with my sister, if there is anything you need my help with, just come to me, thank you today, I will go back first." ”

Qi Zheng nodded lightly.

"Water mist, let's go back to the palace." The woman turned and walked forward.

"Yes." The palace maid replied.

The woman walked a few steps, suddenly stopped, looked back at Qizheng, and said slightly: "My name is Jiayi." With that, he turned around and led the palace maid away.

Qi Zheng stood in place, calm head, the water droplets on his forehead kept falling, or the water dripping from the tips of his hair, or the cold sweat that was startled, and suddenly a hand holding a handkerchief appeared in front of Qi Zheng, and then a voice said: "Wipe it." ”

Qi Zheng slowly raised his eyes, and it was General Qi who handed the handkerchief.

"Take it." General Qi said lightly.

Qi Zheng owed, took the handkerchief, and General Qi left with the Praetorian Guards behind him.

Qizheng looked back at the back that was gradually moving away, then turned back to look at the handkerchief, slowly picked up the water droplets on the forehead wiped by the handkerchief, Qizheng put the handkerchief away again, and walked back to the Chuhui Palace.

As soon as she walked to the garden, she saw Xi Ying sitting on the stone bench in the corner, her expression was gloomy, as if she was thinking about something, and she thought of her expression when she entered the door just now, Qi Zheng was a little puzzled, but after all, she was not a fellow person, Qi Zheng suppressed her curiosity, shook her head, and walked towards Lanxia Palace. Walking to the bottom of the stone steps, Shujin walked out of the hall, walked down the steps, looked sideways at the Qi Zheng, turned around and walked away.

"How did the little master of Qi Zheng make it look like this?" Aunt Nian walked from behind Qizheng, looked at Qizheng, and said to Dongmei in a blink of an eye: "Go and prepare hot water for the little master to bathe and change clothes, and prepare some ginger soup to send over." ”

Qi Zheng lowered her head and did not speak.

Aunt Nian frowned and said, "The general election is coming soon, what if you get caught in the cold." ”

"Yes, Qizheng knows, and she will be careful in the future." Qi Zheng owes and says.

"Alright, let's go in and change our clothes." Aunt Nian said.

Qi Zheng just returned to the Lanxia Palace, and as soon as he stepped into the palace door, the eyes of everyone in the hall swiped together.

"Qizheng, what's wrong with you?" Yuzhu was the first to ask.

Xirui couldn't help but cover her mouth and smile: "Either I fell into the water, or I provoked a lady and was splashed with water." ”

Wen Yue saw the soaked Qizheng, hurriedly stopped stroking the qin, and walked to Qizheng's side: "Sister, who are you?" ”

"Little Master Qizheng, the hot water is ready, let's go take a bath first." Dongmei led a few girls to come in with hot water, and after speaking, she walked into the inner hall, poured the hot water into the bathtub and retreated.

"Sister, let's go quickly." Wen Yue said.

Qi Zheng nodded, walked into the inner hall, took out the handkerchief and put it aside, undressed himself, put down his hair, stepped into the bathtub, his body was immersed in hot water, and recalled what had just happened, "Princess Jiayi, lives in Zhaowan Palace with her sister, sister?" Could it be that Jiayi's sister is, Jiaying? 'Qi Zheng was a little surprised' It's hard to believe, the grumpy and moody Princess Jiaying actually has a quiet sister, as if Xi Rui once said that one of the two sisters loves to play tricks on people, and the other doesn't speak for three days, Jiayi's temperament is a little restrained, but it's not what Xi Rui said'......

Shujin walked to the garden and looked at Xi Ying, who was sitting on the stone bench and pondering: "Xi Ying, you weren't like this before, why are you always frowning these days?" ”

Xi Ying looked up at Shujin and said with heavy eyes: "I'm fine." ”

"Don't hide it from me, I know it all." Shujin walked over to Xi Ying and sat down.

Xi Ying was a little stunned, and hurriedly asked, "What do you know?" ”

Shujin looked at Xi Ying and slowly spoke: "I know about you and that Heng Yu, Xi Ying, aren't we sisters, didn't we say that we should take care of each other and share blessings and woes?" Why do you even hide this from me, if I hadn't overheard your conversation, I would have been kept in the dark. ”

Xiying lowered her head: "Jin'er, I didn't mean to hide it from you, I wanted to tell you, it's just that the fewer people who know about this matter, the better, after all, it's not a good thing." ”

"What are you going to do now?" Shujin asked.

Xi Ying shook his head: "It's impossible for me to be with him, but whenever I face him, even if the words come to my mouth, I still can't say it." ”

"Xiying, you should have broken off this relationship early, could it be that you really want to be a palace maid for her? If the Queen Mother does not agree to marry in the future, don't you want to be a first-class daughter. ”

Xi Ying took out the jade pendant and said: "I will definitely not give up the position of imperial concubine for him, and I can't abandon my parents and family for my own selfish desires, but I can't open my mouth." ”

Shujin took the jade pendant in Xi Ying's hand: "Since you can't open your mouth, then I'll help you say, sisters won't watch you hesitate and bury your future, tomorrow at noon, I'll tell him your answer." ”

Xi Ying nodded slowly: "That's all it takes, thank you, Jin'er." ”

Shujin put away the jade pendant, and looked at Xi Ying again: "It's fine after tomorrow, don't think about it anymore, it's definitely bitter, but it's only bitter for a while, it's better than you being someone else's palace maid for a lifetime, okay, let's go back." ”

Xi Ying nodded, and walked back to Lanxia Hall with Shujin......

Shujin thought about it all night, and at noon on the second day, he took the jade pendant and walked to the place agreed between Xiying and Fei Hengyu that night, and saw a back figure standing there from a distance......