It didn't take a lot of effort to negotiate this condition with Kangxi, Ruo Ying used the excuse that he couldn't move freely after marriage, and wanted to go to Shengjing to see Prince Yu Fujin before getting married. Xu is Kangxi felt ashamed of Ruo Ying and quickly responded.

Not long after, the holy car returned to Beijing. The decree of marriage has also been missing.

The peach blossoms at the beginning of April bloomed brilliantly, one tree at a time, very lively, but they couldn't blow away the sorrow in Ruoyu's heart. Kangxi's sealing work is really good, in the palace, one qiē is still the same, Xu is the will of heaven, and Sibeile has never returned when he left the palace to do business. That's fine, she's still in a mess, and she can't think about so many things.

"Gege." Ruo Ying was reading a book on the couch when Shiso came in and called.

Putting down the book, Ruoyu asked softly, "What's wrong?" ”

Zi Su came closer, and said in a low voice: "The slave and maid look at the cuckoo is not quite right recently, a few days ago, the slave and the maid met her and spit out the meal she just ate, thinking that she had a bad stomach, thinking that Yun Che knew how to heal, let her take a look, but the cuckoo said nothing. The slave didn't care at the time, but today Yun Che said to the slave and maid that she saw that the cuckoo's body had changed a little, and her stomach was ......" Zi Su paused and continued, "The belly is also a little obvious, but I am afraid that there are signs of pregnancy." The matter was serious, and the slave and maid hurried to report it to Tonggege. ”

Is Cuckoo pregnant?

Ruo Yu was confused, sat up straight from the couch, and said, "Can this matter be accurate?" ”

Zi Su nodded and said, "Yun Che Dao, ** do not leave ten." ”

If the eagle frowns, what kind of person is the cuckoo, she knows it, how can she get pregnant? What's more, I was in Jiangnan a while ago, and I was still in good shape, why did I go back to the palace and this happened?

If the eagle doesn't know what the situation is, if it is voluntary, but she doesn't see that she has a close relationship with someone, but if it is forced, she doesn't see her pulling that person out, or is it that she is afraid that she will not be able to raise her head from now on, so she swallows her anger? Or is that the person's status so valuable that she can't speak?

"Where is the cuckoo now?" Ruo Ying asked.

"In the room." Shiso replied.

After a little hesitation, Ruo Ying said: "I'll go and see, you sent everyone outside, don't ask anyone to disturb you." ”

"Yes." Shisu replied and helped Ruo Ying out of the house.

When he arrived at the door of the rhododendron house, Shiso stepped forward to call the door.

The cuckoo came out to answer the door, and a little palace maid came over and said that the crown princess was visiting.

The Crown Princess? If she frowned, she couldn't remember what she had to do with her. For a while, a few people in front of him, if the eagle was contemplating, the cuckoo's face changed, and only Shiso's face was as usual.

"Please invite the crown princess to Yuanhua Hall, and I'll go over." Ruoyu instructed the little palace maid, and then said to the cuckoo, "You rest in the house, and the princess will be sent away later, and I will come to look for you again, and I have something to ask you." ”

The cuckoo turned white and nodded.

In the Yuanhua Hall, the crown princess was drinking tea with her eyebrows raised, her movements were elegant, and the mist was thick, so that Ruo Ying couldn't see her expression clearly for a while.

"I don't know if the princess is coming, if the eagle is missing, if the eagle is here, the princess will apologize here." If the eagle takes a few steps forward, he salutes.

"Sister Ruoyu, hurry up, you are the person at the top of Huang Ama's heart, and you are about to come to our Yuqing Palace, what are you doing with so many courtesies?" The crown princess put down the teacup and said weakly.

Ruo Ying laughed, but she did not shy away from it, got up and sat aside, hung her head and did not speak again.

The crown princess looked behind her like Ruo Ying and said, "Why don't you see the palace maid who often follows my sister?" It seems that she is calling the cuckoo, and she is going to enter Yuqing Palace together in the future, although she is a concubine at most, and she is also a person who wants to serve the prince's side, I think about it, take a look first. ”

"Cuckoo?" Ruo Yu was stunned.

The crown princess laughed twice and said, "Sister Ruo still doesn't know? As early as before the southern tour, the girl followed the prince. I heard that the cuckoo girl next to my sister is a good one, but who would have thought that if she climbed the high branches, she would hide the old master to death! After speaking, the crown princess also intentionally or unintentionally "sighed", faintly, but clearly floated into Ruoyu's ears.

Ruoyu took a sip of tea, pressed down a sullen breath in her chest, and said with a faint smile: "It's Ruo Ying's negligence, the cuckoo is also old, I, as the master, didn't think about finding a good place for her, and now if she has her own plans, Ruo Ying will naturally not object." The crown princess has always been known for her virtue, and if the eagle hands over the cuckoo to the crown princess, it is also reassuring, but the princess has to worry more. "If you hang your head slightly.

Touching a nail that was neither soft nor hard, the princess's face changed color slightly, and she immediately adjusted, and said: "Since Sister Ruo is generous, Sister has nothing to say." I want to come to my sister's southern tour, but my body is still tired, so I won't bother much, so I'll go back. The crown princess said, getting up and taking her leave.

Ruo Ying also got up in response, said some polite words, and sent the princess out of Fengyin Pavilion all the way.

"Today's events, in this Fengyin Pavilion, only you and I know." If the eagle slightly tilts its head, it is the same as the perilla.

"Yes." Shiso owes himself.

"Go to the cuckoo's house." If the eagle is not in a hurry, he walks slowly all the way, and keeps combing through the recent things in his mind.

If what the crown princess said was true, Du Juan had already followed the prince before the southern tour, and the child that Du Juan was pregnant with, counting the days, was afraid that he also had it in the southern tour, but he didn't find out. But after getting along for so long, the cuckoo shouldn't be the kind of person who loves to climb high branches, why did she follow the prince? Could it be that she was the prince's person, and she was already the prince's eyeliner long before Kangxi gave her to him?

Suddenly remembered that night, no matter how she called the cuckoo, she didn't appear, and no one else saw her, could it be...... Ruoyu's heart sank little by little.

As he thought about it, the cuckoo's house was already in front of him. Before Shiso could call the door, the cuckoo opened the door as if he had sensed it.

"Shisu, you're guarding outside." Ruo Ying dropped a sentence and stepped into the door.

Ruoyu casually chose a chair to sit down, and the cuckoo stood crampedly aside.

"I heard Zisu say, Yun Che saw that you have a body. I heard the princess say again, you have already followed the prince. After two sentences, the cuckoo suddenly knelt on the ground, Ruoyu wrinkled his brows and looked at the cuckoo, and said in a deep voice, "I just want to hear you now." ”

"Gege ......" called softly, and the cuckoo's tears had fallen. It is rare for the eagle to see the cuckoo crying, and the only time it is when it is on a southern tour. That night, the cuckoo came back wet and called Ruo Ying to bump into him, very wolf. Seeing the eagle, the cuckoo was a little at a loss. Ruo Ying asked her where she had gone and how she had made her look like this, and told her to hurry back to the house to soak in hot water and change her clothes, for it was still a little cold in the early spring weather in the south. But who knew that as she spoke, the cuckoo actually cried, and if the eagle asked again, the cuckoo only said that she accidentally fell into the water and soiled the new clothes that the eagle gave her. Ruo Ying just laughed at the time and said that she was childish, and the next day she sent two more clothes to the cuckoo.

Slowly breathing a sigh of relief, Ruoyu reached out and pulled the cuckoo aside, and it was cold in his hand.

She couldn't bear it, and she didn't want to believe that the cuckoo would betray her. In fact, Du Juan is several years younger than herself, but in the past few years, she has been taking care of herself and taking care of everything.

"Cuckoo." Wakashi spoke softly.

"Gege, it's really not what you think, the slave doesn't really want to hurt Gege, no......" Ruo Ying just called, and then the cuckoo shook his head, and tears fell one by one, smashing to the ground.

"Don't worry." Ruo Ying patted the cuckoo's hand lightly and said, "If I really condemn you, how can I come to listen to you again?" Since I have come, I will believe in you. ”

"Gege?" The cuckoo looked at the eagle in surprise.

He exhaled another long breath, and Ruo Ying said: "Du Juan, you and I have been getting along for the past few years, and I know best how you treat me." I just want to know, what the hell is going on? ”

The cuckoo's lips had been bitten out of blood, and after a long time, he knelt down and said, "Gege, it's the slave and the maid who are sorry for you, it's the slave and the maid who deserve to die!" ”

"What are you doing here? Get up. "If the eagle was busy pulling the cuckoo up, the cuckoo refused.

"Gege, just let the cuckoo kneel, so that the cuckoo can feel better." The cuckoo hung his head and sobbed.

After a moment of silence, Ruoyu gently let go of the hand that was holding the cuckoo's arm.

After a while, Du Juan's love gradually calmed down, and then he spoke: "The crown princess is right, before the southern tour, the prince set his sights on the slave maid. The crown prince covets your weight in front of the emperor, and is bent on asking the slave to help him marry Gege. The slave and maid politely refused, but the prince repeatedly insisted that the slave and maid repeatedly refused him, which finally angered the prince...... "Ruo Ying's hand grabbed the placket tightly, and she felt that her heart was about to jump out, and she didn't know how to deal with the cuckoo with the prince's cruelty.

"Eventually, finally, ......" the gurgling blood soaked out of the cuckoo's bitten lip again, and she said word by word, "The prince has forced a slave!" ”

"What?!" Ruoyu's face turned white.

"Since you fought in Yangzhou, Gege, after you came back from the emperor's night tour of the Qinhuai River, somehow, the prince seems to be interested in you again, and he has repeatedly called the slave and maid to go over, nothing more than to ask the slave and the maid to help marry Gege. The slave and maid responded to the prince and the lord in vain, and at the same time thought that they could help Gege. But......" the cuckoo looked up at Ruoyu and choked up, "Gege still remember the night when the slave and maid went back soaking wet during the southern tour?" ”

"Remember, you didn't see anyone all afternoon that day, and you came back soaking wet in the evening. On a cold day, the first time I saw you crying, I was worried and puzzled, but I couldn't ask anything. "Ruo Yu said.

"Gege." A hint of wolf flashed on the cuckoo's face, "On that day, it was actually the prince who sent someone to call the slave and maid away. At that time, the slave and maid noticed that it seemed to be there, and they were shocked and frightened, and they didn't dare to talk to others. But I don't know where the prince heard about it, so he privately found a doctor to check the pulse of the slave and maid and confirmed the matter. ”

Seeing that the cuckoo shed strings of tears again, Ruoyu didn't know how to comfort her, she had also experienced it, but she was much luckier.

After a long time, the cuckoo took a deep breath and said: "When I lost my innocence, the slave maid still made up her mind not to marry for the rest of her life, and only stayed by Gege's side. But she suddenly learned that she was pregnant, and the slave couldn't think of anything at that time, so she felt ashamed and indignant, and after coming out of the prince's place, she found a secluded place and jumped into the pond. ”

"You ......" If the eagle is so nervous that his heart is beating with a handkerchief, even now when he sees the cuckoo in front of him, he can't help but have a palpitation.

"The slave and maid are not ignorant of water, but they were bent on dying at that time, but they suddenly remembered what the prince said at the time, 'If you don't help me, you can still get her', and the slave and maid realized that the slave and maid were dead, and no one reminded Gege that he was safe, so he swam back to the shore, and said that he had lost his footing and fell into the water." The cuckoo said softly.

So it was, what a shame it was for a woman, but the cuckoo had to bear it for her own safety. Holding the cuckoo's hand tightly, Ruoyu squatted down, but couldn't say a word.

"Gege, the slave maid thought that this matter would pass like this, but who would have thought, the prince, the prince, he ......" Du Juan trembled.

"What? The prince is making trouble for you again? Ruo Ying asked.

The cuckoo shook his head, tears overflowed his eyes again, and his eyes were full of shame when he looked at Ruoyu: "One day, the prince suddenly passed the slave and maid over, saying yes, saying that he wanted the slave and maid to help him get Gege. The prince said that if he could 'cook raw rice and mature rice' with Gege, then it would be done. ”

If the eagle suddenly fell to the ground, then, was her guess when she came right? It can't be, it won't, Ruo Eagle shook his head uncontrollably.

"Gege, slaves are sorry for you, they are slaves, they are slaves! It was the slave and maid who sent away the palace people in Gege's house, it was the slave and maid who drugged Gege's tea, and it was the slave and maid who went to report to the prince! The cuckoo cried, each sentence louder.

That's why she was in such a trance that night, so she couldn't call out to anyone, so she was almost destroyed in the hands of the prince?!

If the eagle doesn't know how to respond to the cuckoo, if there is no hatred or resentment, it is impossible. Until now, as long as it gets dark, she will be afraid, and when she sleeps, she does not dare to extinguish the candle. I often wake up from nightmares, how many times, a cold sweat and full of fear. She just had to think that if the Thirteenth Elder Brother came a little later that day, or broke in without persistence, would she ...... She thinks that she is not a martyr who committed suicide after losing her body in ancient times, but if she really wants to do this kind of thing, she can't figure it out if she thinks about it, and this will be a nightmare that will linger for her whole life.

"Gege, the slave doesn't dare to ask for your forgiveness, it's just ......" The cuckoo suddenly pulled away a trance smile, and stroked his lower abdomen with one hand, and said, "It's just that when the slave and maid came back from the prince, when one person calmed down, it seemed to feel the child, and felt that he was moving, and the slave and maid suddenly couldn't bear it." The longer it goes, the more the slave can't let go. So slave and maid, slave and maid ...... Ask for Gege, wait for the slave and maid to give birth to the child, and the slave and maid beg for Gege. The cuckoo turned to Ruoyu and knelt, and kept kowtowing to Ruoying.

"Are you reluctant to have children, so you agreed to help the prince?" Ruoyu's tears also fell, and he quietly looked at the cuckoo. Knowing the reason, Ruo Ju was relieved that the cuckoo was for the child in her womb, and she couldn't blame the cuckoo for her position as a mother.

The cuckoo's lips quivered, and she nodded slightly. Seeing that Ruoyu didn't respond to her for a long time, Du Juan said nervously: "Gege, it was the slave who betrayed you, and the slave and the maid are sorry for you, but the child is innocent, please let the slave and the maid give birth to him." ”

Knowing that his distraction had made the cuckoo misunderstood, Ruoyu hurriedly said: "I won't do anything to you, don't worry, the crown princess has just come, I see what she means, she is allowed to enter Yuqing Palace." Now that you are pregnant with the prince's child, no one will embarrass you. ”

Unexpectedly, the cuckoo seemed to be frightened, and began to kowtow again, and said in a panic: "Gege, don't say that, it's the slave who is sorry for you." Although the prince promised to take the slave and maid as a concubine after the matter was completed, the slave and maid were just thinking about giving birth to a child, no matter how the child was said to be the flesh and blood of the prince, they would not hurt him, and the slave and maid apologized with death. Ask Gege, the slave and the maid really have no choice, the slave and the maid will definitely die and apologize to Gege in the future, Gege ......"

"Don't do this, cuckoo." Ruoyu finally stopped the cuckoo's movements and said softly, "Did I scare you?" I don't mean anything else, if you want to go to Yuqing Palace, I will never object, I know that you are for your children. If I did blame you when I first heard about it, but knowing your suffering, I wouldn't have done it, and you were not wrong in this matter. ”

"Gege......" cuckoo muttered, "isn't Gege really to blame the slave?" ”

Taking the cuckoo's hand, Ruo Ying sighed: "If you and I have more heart-to-heart exchanges, maybe you can tell me about this matter, and I can also take the idea for you, so that you will not be embarrassed to such a situation." ”

"Gege, it's the slave's fault." The cuckoo cried, remembering something, the cuckoo hurriedly asked, "The slave maid heard Yun Che say, is Gege going to marry Yuqing Palace in order to exchange for the slave maid?" ”

Ruo Yu wanted to speak and stopped, but finally let out a long sigh of relief and nodded.

"Gege, it's all because of the slave maid, the slave and the maid know that you don't like the prince, it was the slave and the maid who harmed you, and Gege also sacrificed his own life to save the slave's life." As if he had made up his mind, Du Juan said, "Gege, you hand over the slave maid, don't go to Yuqing Palace." ”

Ruo Ying shook his head with a smile, and said softly: "Silly cuckoo, things are not as simple as you think, even if I hand you over, I will decide." Fortunately, the emperor agreed to me, and it will take several months for me to discuss the marriage when I come back from Shengjing. Don't think about it too much, rest assured, think about it soon, the prince and the princess will take you to Yuqing Palace. Yuqing Palace is no better than Fengyin Pavilion, be careful in everything, but I can rest assured of your temperament. ”

"Gege, slave maid, slave maid doesn't want to go to Yuqing Palace, slave maid just wants to follow Gege." The cuckoo grabbed Ruoyu's hand and refused to let go, crying, "Gege, please don't bring the slave and maid over, the slave and maid are really afraid of the prince, and the slave and maid don't want to go......"

Holding the cuckoo in one hand, holding the cuckoo's shoulder with the other hand and patting it gently, Ruo Ying frowned and said, "Do you really want to go?" Although the prince is more strict, but in the end, one person is above ten thousand people, and you are pregnant with his flesh and blood, so you will not be too sad in the future. ”

"Gege, the slave maid is unwilling, every time the slave maid sees the prince, she will have nightmares at night." The cuckoo looked frightened and kept saying, "Please Gege don't drive the slave and maid over, the slave and maid just want to follow Gege, and the slave and maid will serve Gege for a lifetime." ”

Ruo Ying was embarrassed for a while, and said: "But since the prince has known about your pregnancy, even if you don't want to go to Yuqing Palace, I'm afraid it will be difficult." However, I can beg the emperor, but once you are born, I am afraid that you will never see it again. ”

The cuckoo was stunned, stroked his lower abdomen with one hand, looked sad, and said softly: "Just be a slave and have nothing to do with this child." ”

Seeing the appearance of the cuckoo was really distressing, Ruo Ying still relented, and said softly: "Don't worry, maybe there is still a chance, let me think about it, let me think about it......"

It was the cuckoo who laughed softly: "Gegemo has to bother with the slave and the maid again, Gegemo is willing to forgive the slave and the maid, it is already a great grace to the slave and the maid, and Gege no longer dares to ask for anything." ”

Ruo Ying didn't say anything more, smiled and looked at the cuckoo, and gently patted the back of the cuckoo's hand.