The wind chill was menacing, Ye Meisu was full of fever, and it took three days to wake up in a drowsy dream, and then gradually woke up. Ying'er was pleasantly surprised when she opened her eyes, and was busy serving her to drink medicine, and Zhang Luo brought white porridge, and Xiao Cai wanted to serve her to eat and drink.

Ye Meisu leaned on a thick pillow with golden threads and plum blossoms, her face was yellow, her cheekbones were sharp, and her charming face looked weak at the moment. It's gone, it's a little more beautiful, and I'm a little more pitiful.

She drank a few mouthfuls of white porridge from Ying'er's hand and shook her head, taking advantage of Ying'er's stall to clean up her things, she quietly looked at the room where she had slept for so long. The room is not big, but the floor is covered with white jade slabs that are as smooth as mirrors, and a delicate gilt double-ear amphora stove next to the bed is still burning with silver filament fine charcoal, and the room is warm but there is no trace of smoke.

There is a long couch that can lie down and sit under the long window of red diamond carving, and there is also a set of Shu brocade mats with big red group blessing pattern on it, and there is a small lotus pear wood table in the middle, and there are three or four lotus relief crystal glass cups that hold decoction medicine on the several. On the Taishi chair next to the bed was a feather gauze cloak with a stone blue neckline and a gray squirrel fur collar, which was worn by Prince Rui at a glance.

She closed her eyes and withdrew her gaze, and moved her gaze to the top of her head, where a dense and soft dark silver pomegranate curtain hung from the window, obscuring the light from the window. After a long time, she said gloomily: "I've been sick and groggy for the past few days, and I don't even know that the prince has been here." ”

Ying'er pulled the soft and warm gold and silver brocade quilt on her body, and said with a smile: "Miss is sick." Nature doesn't know anything. The prince has come back from the palace in the past few days, and no matter how late it is, he has to come to see the young lady. He also specially instructed the housekeeper, saying that it didn't matter how valuable the doctor prescribed. We must fully cooperate so that the young lady can recover as soon as possible. ”

Hope rekindled in Ye Meisu's originally dead heart, she bit her pale and dry lower lip, and asked, "Is the Queen Mother better?" The prince works so hard day and night, and I don't know if he will be tired. ”

Ying'er said with a smile: "Occasionally, I heard the prince say that the queen mother is now more stable, and her daily sober time is getting longer and longer. I looked at the prince, and the smile on his face seemed to have increased in the past two days. You don't have to worry about the prince anymore, it's important to take care of your body. It is said that illness comes like a mountain, and illness goes like a thread. You don't know how long it will take to recover! ”

Ye Meisu bit her lip and said nothing. Ying'er peeked at her eyes and wanted to close them, as if she was in poor spirits, and she didn't dare to continue to bother. He removed the pillow behind her and helped her lie down again. Then he whispered, "Miss is lying down slightly." Don't fall asleep, look at this scene, the prince will be back soon. Ye Meisu leaned her cheek on the soft pillow of the ten spiced raccoon flowers and closed her eyes slightly.

Although she felt tired, she couldn't sleep with so many thoughts in her heart. Yinniang's mean and sneering face, thin lips that turned like blood, and those piercing words kept flashing in her mind. "You're stupid! Now who in Chang'an City doesn't know that Prince Rui is going to marry, and the justifiable Prince Rui is the daughter of Mrs. Liu's family. What about you? It's a shame that you've served him so long with all your heart. didn't even get a concubine. Therefore, the little white face has no conscience. ”

"Don't blame Yin Niang for speaking ugly, after this year, you will be one in twenty. How many years can we live? You traveled thousands of miles from Jiangnan to this Chang'an City, just to get a good way out before the passing of your youth. But now that you and Prince Rui have such a dewy relationship, and they are vigorously known to everyone, which son of a powerful family will dare to officially take you into the mansion in the future? Are you really willing to leave Chang'an City or be that powerless merchant woman? ”

"That Taifu Siqing is the in-law of the queen's mother's family today, it is rare not to care about these, and she is willing to pay a thousand taels of gold as a dowry, and as soon as she enters the door, she will open her face to be the righteous concubine, what's wrong?"

"Yes, I know you dislike him for being older, but it hurts when you're old! Moreover, the head lady of his family is sick in bed all the year round, and she can't take care of things at all, and most of the rest of the concubines in the house are also incomparable. As long as you can give birth to a son and a half daughter when you enter the door, won't the huge Taifu Temple Mansion be carried sideways by you?"

Two lines of clear tears slipped from the corners of Ye Meisu's eyes to the sideburns and sank into the soft pillow of the ten spiced raccoon flowers, leaving a dull and damp trace. She is really unwilling to commit to the old man who is over the age of six, but the woman's good years are only a few short years, if she can't seize this last opportunity to stand out, then what awaits her is nothing more than to look for a mortal man to marry and then gradually disappear with the passing of the years. Or like a hidden mother, she will fall into this quagmire-like place for life and never get out. So she tried her best to find it, only to make a last fight for the heat in her heart.

Ye Meisu was speechless for a long time, making Ying'er mistakenly think that she was asleep again, so she lightly took the dishes and chopsticks and retreated outside the house. After a while, her brisk voice came through the long window of the red diamond carving: "Sister Caiyin, what are you busy with?" ”

An unfamiliar female voice said with a crisp smile: "The shopkeeper of the Caicai Fang has personally sent the materials over, good guy, there are a few big wagons!" The housekeeper asked a few of us to help move things smartly. Good guys, just those fox skins, mink skins, gray squirrel skins and other kinds of leather goods are a few big boxes! Not to mention the Shu brocade, cloud brocade, Huanhua brocade, Yuhua brocade, weaving gold brocade, plain yarn, Tianxiang silk, and single Luo yarn, which are full of a warehouse, which can be regarded as tiring me. By the way, is your young lady better? ”

Ying'er lowered her voice and said, "Thank you for your concern, my young lady just woke up, drank the medicine and fell asleep again." By the way, Sister Caiyin, I remember that there are no ladies in the palace, what is the prince doing with so many fabrics? ”

The maid named Caiyin smiled and said, "Silly girl, don't you know? Our prince is going to get married, and these materials are a dowry for the future princess! Not only the material, but there are still a lot of things to be shipped over in the next few days, and the palace has not been so busy for a long time. ”

Ying'er's voice was obviously stagnant, and she muttered, "I know that the prince is going to get married." I just didn't expect it to be so soon. ”

Cai Yin smiled: "It's not fast, just because our prince doesn't have a serious princess, the emperor." The Queen Mother didn't know how much she was worried about. In addition, now that the queen mother is not in good health, the emperor and the prince also want to take advantage of this wedding to be happy, maybe the queen mother will be happy and sick. No, yesterday the Qin Tianjian finally set a date, and the wedding was arranged in a month, and we were busy in the house this month. ”

Ying'er exclaimed, "A month later, so soon" and then her voice was lowered. Ren Ye Meisu couldn't hear it clearly no matter how carefully she looked, she couldn't help but turn over and sighed lamentingly.

Although I was prepared in my heart. But when she heard the news of his upcoming wedding, her heart was still tightly entangled by thousands of poisonous spider threads, so tight that she couldn't breathe, and the temples on both sides were as tingling as if they had been pricked by needles.

She gasped. He whispered, "Ying'er." Ying'er"

Ying'er was afraid that she would be sad to wake her up and hear these words, so she dragged Cai Yin away, and didn't hear Ye Meisu's blood-like hoarse cry at all. Ye Meisu screamed a few times and couldn't hear a response, and quieted down. The room was silent, and gradually, a sense of despair like falling into a glacier gradually drowned her

When Zhu Yi returned home, it was already two hours later. It was almost dusk, and he stepped into the guest room where Ye Meisu was temporarily sheltered as usual. Ye Meisu had already washed up under Ying'er's service. The cloud-like black hair was loosely coiled on the top of his head, and his face was thinly covered with rouge. Although it covered up the yellow gas in her illness, it couldn't hide the faint sorrow between her eyebrows. At this moment, she was half-leaning and half-leaning, and she looked much more energetic than before.

Zhu Yi untied the fox fur on his body and asked casually, "Are you better?" ”

Ye Meisu smiled reluctantly: "Lord Xie cares, I'm much better." ”

Ying'er interjected at the right time: "Miss said that she was laughing, she was still shouting dizzy before, where is it so soon?" She habitually took the big coat in Zhu Yi's hand, put it on the screen on the side, and then poured tea out of the room under the pretext, leaving the space for the former couple who looked at each other speechlessly.

Ye Meisu's heart was full of grievances and resentment at the moment, and she only lowered her head and silently wrung the Jinpa in her hand without saying a word. Zhu Yi looked at her and felt a little sorry in his heart, after all, he still had a heart for Ye Meisu. He didn't want Zhu Xian to marry at will, so he used Ye Meisu as a shield.

Although I don't know if Ye Meisu has taken a fancy to her identity and power, or her appearance, Zhu Yi knows very well in her heart that she can only use her after all, and she has no sincerity. And in his opinion, Ye Meisu is also considered to be high and intelligent, and he should be able to put himself in the right position, and there will be no unrealistic delusions. But now it seems that he still miscalculated, Ye Meisu is also a mortal, and her superficial Qinggao is just an illusion, and that bit of intelligence can't let her get rid of the desire-desire and ambition in her heart.

He thought of his past feelings and a little guilt, and naturally didn't want to see her cocooning herself. After a moment of silence, Zhu Yi finally said: "I heard Ying'er say that Yinniang wants to force you to take that servant Siqing as a concubine, if you don't want to, how about I come forward to settle the matter?" ”

Ye Meisu lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes like a fan covered her eyes, she still unconsciously wrung the brocade in her hand, and after half a ring, she muttered: "Even if there is no Taifu Siqing, and Taichang Siqing, how much can the prince of Dali Siqing block?" It's my life, so I can only do it. ”

Zhu Yi groaned for a while and said, "Since you don't want to be a human thing, why don't I give you some belongings and arrange some people to send you back to Jiangnan." I remember that you also had a younger brother in Jiangnan, and although he couldn't study, he learned the carpenter's trade. If you have money, he has craftsmanship, and if you buy some real estate and land, life will not be too difficult. ”

The corners of Ye Meisu's mouth raised slightly, revealing a sneering smile, and said: "Thank you for your concern, but now with my identity, even if I go back, I am afraid that I will insult the lintel of the Ye family." Not to mention the elders of the Ye family, even the younger brother may not be able to tolerate me. ”

Zhu Yi frowned, and a trace of impatience rose in his heart. But he still suppressed his temperament and said, "Since you are not satisfied with the charter I proposed, what are your plans?" Say it, I will do my best to help you, just live up to our acquaintance. ”

Ye Meisu finally raised her chin, her pretty face was already full of tears, a pair of red eyes were staring at Zhu Yi, and she said in a dumb voice: "Since the prince doesn't want to live up to our acquaintance, why can't you keep me?" Even if you are a maid who makes beds and folds quilts in this house, it is better than the kind of days when you are scared, forced to smile, and please everywhere. ”

Although Zhu Yi felt guilty about Ye Meisu, he was limited after all, and he immediately flatly refused: "No, seeing that the big wedding is imminent, with the previous relationship between you and me, it is not suitable to leave you in the mansion." Even if you are a maid, it will be embarrassing for the future princess. ”

Ye Meisu felt a pain in her heart, and couldn't help but say sourly: "I remember that the prince once told me that even if you have a princess in the future, you will not be able to restrain your hands and feet, and you will always be Ye Meisu's flower messenger." It's a pity that the oath of that day is still in my ears, but it has been a matter of life. ”

Unexpectedly, Ye Meisu took the flirtatious words that day. Zhu Yi showed a trace of embarrassment on his face, and after half a sound, he said sincerely: "This is just a joke, you don't have to take it to heart." What's more, the current Prince Rui Princess is sincerely asked for by myself, so naturally I can't let her suffer the slightest grievance. You can ask for anything else besides that. ”

Ye Meisu's grief-stricken face gradually became cold, and the tears in her eyes gradually dried up. But the grievances and shame in her heart are like an invisible blade, piercing her in pain but unable to see blood.

She bit her lower lip until it broke and bled out. finally said gloomily: "Since you are already cold-hearted and cold-hearted, why should the prince do this caring appearance to misunderstand, please leave!" After speaking, she closed her dried eyes slightly, and she didn't want to look at Zhu Yi again. Zhu Yi sighed slightly, finally stopped bothering, and quietly retreated.

After a while, Ying'er walked in with a teacup. She didn't seem surprised by Zhu Yi's departure, and only whispered in Ye Meisu's ear: "Earlier in the courtyard, I saw the housekeeper say to the prince that he heard from the shopkeeper of the golden and jade hall that the young lady of the Liu family would go there to choose the dowry jewelry in three days, listening to the tone of the prince, he seemed to want to meet the young lady of the Liu Mansion in person." ”

Ye Meisu's initial grievances and sorrows have passed, and her heart, which is full of holes, seems to have formed a thick layer of hard calluses. After a moment of silence, she asked, "Did the prince see you?" ”

Ying'er shook her head and said, "That's not true, I happened to be in the house, and I heard it through the window, and they didn't see me." I waited for them to go far before I dared to come out. ”

A trace of resentment gradually appeared in Ye Meisu's eyes, and she said in a low voice: "If you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust, since you can't stand me first, don't want to live with your princess in love." Ying'er, three days later, we will also go to join in the fun, and see how this Miss Liu is so beautiful and beautiful that the prince is so fascinated. (To be continued......)