- The sea breeze on the outskirts of the city blows into the inner city, and then walks through the streets to the royal inner courtyard, which has become much gentler. The fragrance of the sea of flowers in the south courtyard of the Imperial Garden washes away the faint smell of the sea breeze, and it seems to make the cool breeze of late autumn a little milder.

Although Wang Chi and Lin Shan moved to a quiet place separated by several courtyard walls from the sea of flowers, the fragrance of flowers in the air could still be smelled, much lighter, but it was also more pleasant.

Fang Cai Lin Shan's throat was stimulated by the rich aroma emanating from the huge sea of flowers, and at this time, he eased up, and he sat opposite Wang Chi. After thinking about it, he said, "Planting these flowers is not just for ornamentation, right?" ”

"These flowers are in Western supply and demand, and they will be picked in the next few days and sent to the workshop to make zuò. I Zhao Guo should make flowers and plants into sachets, but the Western side is to refine the petals into oil, and it takes time to use. Wang Chi paused when he said this, "The land left in the palace is only used to cultivate flowers, a big country, full of talents, there have been ministers to extend the flowering period for two months, the flower field outside has been harvested, and this flower field in the palace is a new product planted next year." ”

"An extra prolific season will be a lot of income." Lin Shan groaned, "It's just that I can't help at all with this initiative of the Ministry of Industry." ”

"Such a huge project as the Kyoto waterway was built by you, and the sunny, wet, and rainy weather in the palace all depend on it, which is all your credit, and it is too modest to show your vanity." Wang Chi's eyebrows moved, and he didn't continue.

Then, he started another conversation, which was also the purpose of his summoning Lin Shan here today.

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Under the dim light of the long lamp in the corner, the cloth ribbon was curled. Xiaoxing, a thin woman in a coarse cloth dress, didn't say anything immediately, but raised her hand and put it on Wang Hong's shoulders and gently pressed him to sit down. Then she squatted down in front of him, first raised her palm to her mouth and sighed, then quickly rubbed it, and then held Wang Hong's bare feet on the ground and slowly rubbed them.

"Your Highness can't look like this, you'll get sick." Xiaoxing, a woman with a thin cloth skirt, finished rubbing Wang Hong's left foot, and began to rub his right foot again, "It's still like this." At night, my feet are not warm. It's already the warm spring season. ”

Feeling the familiar kneading of his fingers under his feet, Wang Hong became more and more sure that the figure of this woman in the dim light was not the phantom in the dream, but that his little star had really returned.

As for why she was suddenly in his bedchamber. And the palace people inside and outside the dormitory were all unnoticed. According to what he knows, Xiaoxing's light and sensitive skills are like swallows. It wasn't hard for her to do that. There are several long-term palace people in Huayang Palace who know Xiaoxing's other identity, and they will inevitably help Xiaoxing to avoid Yu Linwei, who patrols the palace several ways.

At this moment of loss and regain. Wang Hong's heart was full of joy, and he only felt that nothing could be difficult for him at this time. So when he heard Xiaoxing say that, he just smiled lightly: "If you walk around more during the day, it will naturally be warmer." Do you know? I have been practicing boxing for three years, and now I can lift 30 pounds with my left hand, and more with my right hand, I can lift 45 pounds, and I have learned to ride a horse, which is not like before......"

"Xiaoxing knows." The woman crouched in front of her feet stood up. Said slowly: "Your Highness rode out of the palace today, and Xiaoxing also saw it." At that time, I was really happy, but when I saw that you had a cloth belt wrapped around your hand, and it was beginning to ooze red stains, I was so worried that I finally couldn't help but sneak into the palace to see if you were doing well. ”

Wang Hong's mood fluctuated for a while, and she imagined her difficult life in the dry and sandy land to the north, and then asked, "When did you come back?" Listen to the meaning of your words, if it weren't for the fact that you saw me riding out of the palace today. Saw my wounded hand. You don't plan to come to the palace to see me? ”

"I arrived in Kyoto six days ago." Xiaoxing answered truthfully, but when she heard the second half of what Wang Hong said just now, she couldn't help but feel sour. After pursing his lips and enduring it for a moment. She finally spoke: "Xiaoxing was convicted and released from the palace three years ago. How can you come back at will? If it is discovered, will it bring trouble to His Highness again? Seeing that His Royal Highness was in better health than before, Xiaoxing was able to leave with peace of mind. Now His Highness has been able to take care of himself. Whether there is a small star around you or not is no longer a matter of how important. ”

"What do you mean by that?" The joy on Wang Hong's face gradually cooled, "Are you really planning not to come back?" ”

Xiao Xing lowered his head slightly, he couldn't bear to see the change in the eyes of the second prince from hot to cold, and only replied slowly: "Of course Xiao Xing must come back once, what His Royal Highness ordered three years ago, Xiao Xing must complete the last step." ”

"You know that's not what I'm asking now." From the moment he found out that Xiaoxing appeared in his dormitory just now, Wang Hong's tone of voice was very gentle, but at this time, his mood fluctuated, and he didn't care whether the palace people guarding outside the dormitory would hear the sound and come in, and his voice unconsciously rose sharply, "The sin you received three years ago was originally designed by me, and now that the things I told you have been done, even if I don't reward you for anything, at least I will find a way to wash away your sin and take you back to me." But why do you say those things? You don't want to come back? ”

His voice reached this point, and finally attracted the attention of several palace people guarding the door of the dormitory, and one of them couldn't help but ask: "Your Highness, has something happened?" Do you want to be served? ”

The voice of the second prince Wang Hong immediately came out from the crack in the door, and there was obviously a trace of anger in his tone: "Everyone outside the door, take ten steps back from the palace!" ”

Several palace people trembled when they heard this, and they rarely saw His Second Highness angry, so his anger was also very weighty, and one sentence made the two palace maids and a eunuch outside the palace retreat in one breath. Retreating to the gate outside the main hall, only ten steps were counted, and the three palace people and the guards at the door looked at each other for a while, and only then did they come back to their senses The gold medal favorite concubine of the regent read the full text.

There are two walls between the entrance and the inner room of the dormitory, and the people inside cannot be heard from the outside, and the movement outside is the same to the people inside. After hesitating for a moment, the guard on the left side of the door couldn't help but ask with a puzzled expression, "Why did you all come out?" Don't have a vigil today? ”

The eunuch who had withdrawn from the dormitory only shook his head and said nothing.

And the original duty was to keep vigil in the inner room of the dormitory today. But the palace maid who was called out after inexplicably holding the lamp said curiously: "I seemed to hear His Highness talking to someone just now, and then I suddenly looked very angry......

"Oh......" Before the words of the palace maid who held the lamp were finished, the guard who asked the question seemed to understand something and groaned.

Now it was the turn of the palace maid who held the lamp to be curious, and she couldn't help asking, "You say, what is going on?" Could it be that His Highness is talking in his dreams? But I have only been out of it for a short time, how can His Highness immediately fall asleep and dream......"

Before the palace maid finished speaking, she heard the guard and the eunuch say in unison: "What you don't know, just continue to treat it as if you don't know!" ”

The palace maid's eyes shrank, and she really didn't dare to say anything more. Just cowardly muttered a few words in a low voice. He closed his mouth tightly.

In the inner room of the dormitory, the silent gaze between the second prince Wang Hong and the cloth skirt woman Xiaoxing continued.

After being silent like this for a long time, Xiao Xing slowly raised his head and did not give any explanation or explanation. It's just that the tone is quite sad: "Your Highness." Don't be angry. Not worth it...... Today's little star is for you, I ...... I can't do anything for you anymore......"

Wang Hong was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then he seemed to be able to foresee something extremely bad. His heart froze, he took a deep breath to calm his spirit, and then said, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Xiao Xing sighed faintly, didn't speak, just took out a fire fold from his sleeve. Blow it out in front of your eyes.

Although the light of the fire is not as bright as the triangular glass lamp, it is enough to illuminate a woman's face clearly.

And at the moment when the familiar face in front of him became clear, the second prince Wang Hong suddenly stood up from the couch, his face was shocked, and his habitual pursed lips trembled a few times, but he couldn't say a word.

The face of the woman in front of her is still so thin, so the pointed chin is very delicate; Her eyebrows are still not as graceful as those of ordinary women, but they show a strong temperament; She is still the little star with one eyelid, and she looks sincere when she smiles. When you're not smiling, you look serious. But...... Now she has a square scar on the left corner of her forehead!

The scar was about the size of a jade buckle, and it was distinctly colored......

"How so?" After being stunned for a moment, Wang Hong suddenly stretched out his hands and grabbed Xiaoxing's thin shoulders, which had begun to tremble slightly. A sentence just fell. Then he asked, "Who did it?!" ”

He didn't ask her what caused the scar on her forehead that broke her appearance. Instead, he asked directly who did it, and his tone was full of the meaning of settling accounts with the thief and avenging her for her.

Xiaoxing understood what he meant. A warm warmth of gratitude suddenly rose in her heart, but she could only sigh again and slowly tell her what happened to her in the north.

Listening to her account of the halfway point, the second prince Wang Hong was already out of breath, and by the time she finished telling all the experiences in the north since she left Beijing for three years, Wang Hong's standing body was already shaky. At this moment, the fire in Xiao Xing's hand had burned out and extinguished, and the room suddenly went dark, and Wang Hong's eyes were suddenly dark.

Xiaoxing is a person who practices martial arts, and her vision is sharper than ordinary people, and her eyesight quickly got rid of the false blindness symptoms caused by the sudden brightness of light, and she saw the figure of the man in front of her swaying, and then fell softly.

"Your Highness!"

Xiao Xing was shocked in his heart, shook off the end of the fire fold pinched by his fingertips, and grabbed the perfect arc towards Wang Hong's arm.

She wanted to hold him, but unexpectedly, when he fainted, he was completely out of strength, and the weight of his body was so heavy that she couldn't support it, and dragged her to the couch together.

Xiaoxing wanted to hold Wang Hong, but she didn't expect that in the end, the situation turned into her carrying her own weight and pressing on Wang Hong's chest, and the two fell on the couch together, making a dull bang.

Listening to Wang Hong's rapid breathing, and feeling his chest rising and falling sharply in front of his chest, Xiaoxing's heart suddenly seemed to be fried on boiling oil, she quickly climbed away from his chest, sat on the couch next to him, and nervously called several times: "Your Highness!" Your Highness! ”

If it weren't for the palace people who stayed in the inner room of the dormitory and were called outside the hall by Wang Hong one step earlier, separated by two walls, those palace people might have broken in immediately when they heard such a movement in the house.

Wang Hong fell on the couch with the weight of Xiaoxing's body, this fall was not easy, the dull pain from his back, and the stinging pain from his injured hand could quickly make him wake up.

However, as soon as he regained his senses, all the things he had just learned from Xiaoxing's account would come to his mind together, making him feel as if he was pressing a big stone on his head, and even breathing would have to use twice as much strength as usual.

Xiao Xing was rubbing his lungs with both hands, hoping that doing so would make his rapid breathing a little smoother. Seeing him wake up with his eyes open, she was also slightly relieved, and she was really scared silly at that moment just now.

Seeing him galloping during the day, she only felt that he seemed to be a different person than before. This change that happened to him made her feel both happy and lonely, and perhaps he could live well without her service in the future.

But I didn't expect that as soon as she came back, she made him angry like this again! It was as if he had immediately retreated from his heroic appearance during the day to the state of weakness and infirmity a few years ago.

Could it be that not only does he not need her care now, but if he is not by his side, he can live a healthier and happier life?

A trace of bitterness slipped through Xiaoxing's heart, and the thought of leaving in his heart became even firmer.

And before leaving, she had to perfect the last step for the task he had given him three years ago.

Knowing that Wang Hong's mood fluctuated at this time, and he was afraid that he would not be able to hear the news that stimulated his nerves, Xiao Xing silently considered for a moment, classified the news she had found in the north in the past three years, temporarily suppressed the bad news, picked a few things that should make him feel gratified, and said gently: "In the past three years, Xiao Xing has been staying in the north. Although I have suffered some hardships, the harvest is not small. What His Highness wants to know most about that Mr. Lin, Xiaoxing has already ......"

Xiaoxing's words had just come to this, and before she reached the key point that she thought was worth rejoicing, she heard Wang Hong suddenly open her mouth and mutter: "It's all my fault, if it wasn't for my idea, you wouldn't have gone to the north, and you wouldn't have met the Northern Goose's rangers and been taken captive and suffered from a year in prison...... It's all my fault......"

Xiaoxing could hear his muttering of self-reproach. There was a pang of pain in my heart at first. But gradually, her eyes became firm, staring at Wang Hong's somewhat detached eyes, and said seriously: "Your Highness! Have you forgotten who you are? It seems that you have forgotten the thing you have been waiting for and holding on. ”。 (To be continued......)