"Good!"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived! The Fourth Highness has arrived! The Seven Princesses have arrived! Both voices rang out almost simultaneously.

The crown prince Jiang Yunqi walked over and said, "Imperial grandmother, the string sound is too moving, you haven't even let people get up." Then he turned to me and said, "Grandmother is touched by your strings and voice." ”

I didn't dare to look up, only to see the Queen Mother sigh faintly and whisper, "Get up." ”

Only then did I stand up and salute the crown prince and the seventh princess. The seventh princess, Jiang Yunqi, has already sat directly under the queen mother. I can't sit back and get ready to go back to my original seat.

"You're Ding Xiang's youngest daughter?" A voice asked. My heart shook, and I looked at it in a blink of an eye.

It's him? No, it's not him! But he looks exactly like him! It's just that I was seventeen or eighteen years old when I first met him, and now I have that familiar smile on my face. I suddenly remembered the sweet memories with him, and suddenly remembered his ruthlessness and unrighteousness, just in a blink of an eye, but my mind turned a thousand times. There is a voice in my heart that keeps reminding me that it's not him, it's not him!

Suspicion grew on his face and he asked, "Why don't you speak?" You...... Do you know me? ”

The prince smiled: "Fourth brother, don't scare her!" ”

He turned out to be the fourth prince Jiang Yunlin, I was shocked, hurriedly bowed down, and covered up: "The fourth highness is blessed, I have only heard of the fourth highness, but ...... but I have never seen it. ”

"Get up." There was still inquiry in his voice, but he didn't ask again.

I stood up, but I didn't dare to look up at him again, silently returned to my position, let go of my clenched hand, only to feel a tingling pain, it turned out that my nails were already embedded in the palm of my hand. Du Yuxuan also returned to his position early, and the curtain had been lowered. I was finally able to cry silently. Rulan saw it on the side, so she had to wipe my tears helplessly, and asked in a low voice, "Miss, what's wrong?" "Seeing that I didn't speak, it was not good to continue to ask, so I had to let me vent slowly. And the lively poetry scene has resumed outside. A layer of tulle eventually separates the inside and the outside into two worlds.

The mood finally calmed down, Rulan helped me make up a layer of book powder, and sighed softly: "I know that Miss has a heavy mind, but I don't know why." It's just that it hurts her body like this, if the young lady thinks it's inconvenient to talk to us, then talk to the third young master. Don't hold it back. ”

I was silent, not because I didn't want to answer, but because I didn't know where to start.

And the poetry meeting outside was also coming to an end, and the Queen Mother finally chose Du Yuxuan's poem as the best, and Ding Muyan finally lost.

But I heard the Fourth Highness Jiang Yunlin say: "Imperial grandmother, I think the young lady of the Ding Xiang family is better." Everyone was stunned. The Queen Mother's assessment, he actually objected?

The Queen Mother let out an "oh" and asked, "Why?" ”

Jiang Yunlin smiled slightly and said: "Queen Mother, don't misunderstand, I'm not talking about Ding Xiang's second miss, but the fifth miss." The poem she wrote in the song: Chang'e should repent of stealing the elixir, the blue sea and blue sky and night heart. The grandson felt more relevant and meaningful. ”

I shook my head, I only felt that I was too sharp today, and I didn't want to offend Du Yuxuan because of this. So he spoke out through the curtain: "The Fourth Highness misunderstood, this poem was not written by Mu Qing, but Mu Qing unintentionally saw it in an old book, but he just felt that it should be the topic, so he borrowed it." ”

The Empress Dowager nodded: "In this case, then this time the poetry will be won by the Yuxuan girl of Du Mansion." I also prepared gifts. "As soon as I raised my hand, a palace maid sent it. It is a moon ornament carved from jade. Carved on a round of bright moon, called a cloud, jade delicate, exquisite carving, under the lamp actually feel that the moon emits the light of fireflies, the clouds below also seem to be surging.

Du Yuxuan hurriedly stepped out of the gauze curtain to thank him, and I was also relieved, today is a cross of the line.

At the end, saying goodbye to the Queen Mother, she seemed to have something to ask me, but she didn't ask in the end. When Rulan helped me out of the palace, I found that when I was sad alone behind the curtain, there were many princes and grandsons, even the third brother. I'm glad that most of them came late, and I didn't participate in the second round of poetry, and it was only at the end that thanks to the prompting of His Highness the Fourth, many people knew that there was such a thing in front of them.

Jiang Yunlin, I slowly read his name in my heart. Although they have the same appearance, their position and identity have completely changed.

Chapter 10 Purpose

It's raining again. I lay bored on the couch, looking out the window at the clear drizzle, recalling the poetry meeting three months ago. After returning home, Ding Muyan said to me hatefully: "My good fifth sister, you are really hidden, I used to underestimate you too much!" ”

I only said lightly: "Hasn't the second sister always hated me for not being motivated?" Why is it that now that I am working hard, you are not happy. "I knew I couldn't hide, I didn't bother to explain. If she hadn't arranged for someone to press me every step of the way, I wouldn't have been so noticeable.

On the way home that day, I shared a carriage with my third brother. I was afraid that he would ask, so I teased him first: "I also said why didn't you come to me this time, so I didn't want to think about it?" Sister Du Yuxuan is very beautiful, but she ......, "I wanted to say that she had a lot of calculations in her heart, but when I saw the third brother's blushing appearance, I knew that he had fallen deep." Sure enough, when he saw that I was no longer talking, he panicked and asked, "It's just what, why don't you say it?" ”

I saw that he was anxious, and couldn't help but smile and said: "Actually, if you like it, her family is also a good match for us, but I see that when I just left, the seventh princess seemed to be quite attentive to you, and no one paid attention to it, just pulling you for a long time, but I don't know who my father will choose?" ”

He said with a straight face: "First of all, you are my most valued sister, and your thoughts are more important than your father's; Secondly, the seventh princess certainly has her thoughts, and her father also has her father's plans, but marrying a wife is not a business that can be exchanged, anything can be traded, but only feelings cannot be traded, isn't this what you told me? At the end, he turned his head and looked into my eyes, his gaze burning.

My heart moved, and I said, "Well, I support you and will help you convince Daddy." ”

"Just what? You haven't told me yet! He frowned, then asked.

Too...... It's too relenting.

"It's just...... It's just that Sister Du is too beautiful, I'm afraid that your battle for the road is still very long......" I grinned, thinking in my heart that as long as there is affection, it should be fine, not to mention the way Du Yuxuan looks at me today, I am afraid that he is also interested in my brother.

He shook his head and smiled. Seeing his appearance, I actually felt a slight loss in my heart, my brother, finally has someone more important and worthy of protection than me.

Late that night, I finally met the person I expected, my father, Ding Xiang.

When he saw me, he just asked, "Why?" ”

I stared at him and said, "It's just confirming my suspicions." ”

"And what about the result?"

"As I expected."

He sighed lightly and said, "Why do you need to provoke her? ”

I smiled slightly: "I just hope she feels guilty and helps her father more in the future." ”

Ding Xiang's gaze suddenly softened, he didn't know where the focus was, he didn't know what he was thinking, and after a long time, he said again: "You did a good job today!" The Fourth Highness has ill intentions, and clearly wants to provoke us and the Du family, you are right not to take credit. “

I took a deep breath: "Daddy, my daughter is just a little unclear. What exactly does Daddy want? If it is power, then Daddy is now under one person and above ten thousand, and the emperor has to refer to Daddy's opinion most of the time; If it is love, then judging from today's situation, even if the queen mother is in the palace, her heart is on her father; If it is this world...... "I am a little speechless, yes, if it is this world, then it must be based on ten thousand bones, it must sit in the supreme position, and it must be step by step...... Throughout the ages, the change of dynasties is all like this, and violence must be used.

This is the first time I want to understand Ding Xiang's purpose in such a straightforward way. For a long time, he never asked me why I suddenly understood these things, and I never asked him why he needed to plan so much. I think if he is ambitious, I will do my best to help him. But this idea was shaken after I met the Four Highnesses today.

Yes, he wasn't him, but I couldn't ignore that same face and smile. Now the competition between him and the crown prince is so fierce, and Ding Xiang undoubtedly chose the crown prince, whether he chooses to ascend the throne himself or coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, at least for the time being, his choice is the crown prince. This has been confirmed from the eldest sister's crown princess. Then, many of our future strategies will be aimed at the Four Highnesses. No, or maybe we've had a lot of nets cast against him before. Before I met him, I could "offer advice and contribute bricks" without any scruples, but now, I always think of his smile and his voice, so for the first time, I had the idea of persuading Ding Xiang to give up......

I shook my head and looked out the window at the rain, my leg aching again. Ding Xiang didn't answer the question that day, he just frowned, as if he had never considered that question.