When Jiang Ying left the palace, it was past the unitary time.

Xin'er carried a lantern to send it out of the inner palace, and then turned it back, and sent people out of the palace by a powerful little yellow door in Weiyang Palace.

When the master and servant appeared outside the palace gate, Yunli had two more food boxes in his hands.

These are some pastries and snacks that the queen and Concubine Chen insisted on bringing back that could be stored for a few days......

"I heard from Concubine Chen that there are a lot of pastries here that are made by the queen mother herself - the queen mother treats the girl really well."

Yun Li said with a smile, his face had long since lost the crampedness and nervousness he had come, but he still couldn't accept the fact that he had been in the palace for most of the day.

Jiang Ying nodded: "The queen is very good."

"Girl......"

"What's wrong?" Jiang Ying looked at her.

"It seems to be the second son of Jin-" Yunli was holding things in both hands, and he couldn't spare his hand to point out the direction, so he could only use his eyes to signal Jiang Ying.

Jiang Ying followed her line of sight, and sure enough, outside the palace wall on the left, in the slightly dim light, there were two people and two riders.

Although they were not close, Jiang Ying still identified the person at a glance.

It's really Brother Jin!

Jiang Ying showed joy on her face and walked towards Jinqi.

And Jin Qi obviously saw her too, and Tibu was walking.

Song Yuanju followed unhurriedly.

"Why is Brother Jin here?" Jiang Ying looked up at him, full of surprise.

Seeing her look, Jin Qi couldn't help but smile and said, "I've been to Elm Hutong today, and I heard that you were declared into the palace. There was no news of his return in the evening, so he came over and waited. Then he asked, "Why did you come out at this hour?" ”

"The queen mother left me for dinner, and I was embarrassed to refuse." Jiang Ying replied calmly: "You also brought me a lot of food back—"

Jin Qi's gaze swept over the food box in Yun Li's hand, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he said, "You can't go anywhere hungry." ”

Jiang Ying laughed twice and didn't argue.

Jin Qi glanced at her and said, "It's not early, let's go back." ”

Jiang Ying nodded, and Yunli gently helped her into the carriage.

As soon as he sat down, he saw Jin Qi also sit in.

Jiang Ying was stunned. Asked, "Don't you ride a horse?" ”

Fang Cai didn't see him and Brother Song alone and on a horse. Waiting under the palace walls?

"Cold." Jin Qi threw out a word with a blank face.

"Cold?"

Jiang Ying's face was a little strange.

Although it is autumn now, there is still a gap between cool and cold, right?

Lifting the curtain, I saw Song Yuanju not far away looking at the carriage with a messy face. The expression was like, 'Can you say hello to me first?' ’――

Yun Li also felt sudden. Hesitated outside the car. In the end, he was not embarrassed to follow in, so he had to discuss a few words with the driver in a low voice and sat next to the driver's seat.

Seeing Song Yuanju resign himself to his fate, he turned around and led the horse. Jiang Ying had to put down the curtain......

The carriage drove slowly, but Jin Qi didn't feel that there was anything wrong with his behavior, and opened his mouth as usual, and asked Jiang Ying: "The queen summoned you to the palace today, what is the matter?" ”

Jiang Ying only then realized that the reason why he excused himself from being reluctant to ride a horse was just to ride in the carriage with him and have more time to talk, and when he was silly and happy, he suddenly heard him ask about this, pursed his lips for a while, suppressed the smile on his lips, and then shook his head and replied: "It's nothing, so I asked about some family things, and enthusiastically left me for dinner." ”

After answering by himself, he asked with some suspicion: "Is there anything involved between the Kong family and the palace?" ”

"I can't talk about implication, but the status of the Kong clan is there, and it is understandable that the palace intends to get closer." Jin Qi said lightly: "If you want to come, you can come, if you don't want to, you don't have to force yourself, there is no stake." ”

Jiang Ying nodded after hearing this, then she was relieved, and said, "The queen treats me really well." ”

Although she is not smart and her eyesight is not strong, she can feel what is false and what is true.

Although I don't know what the queen mother likes about her, who has only seen her twice, she really feels that the queen's attitude towards her today is not a superficial politeness, or a deliberate show of goodwill.

It's a kind of love that I can't put into words, but I can feel it very clearly.

"By the way, the queen asked about you today." Jiang Ying said again: "Said that your western expedition not only pacified the rebels, but also subdued the Western barbarians, and the emperor has praised you many times in the court——"

As he spoke, he still had a look of pride.

"Yes." Jin Qi glanced at her, and when he saw her enter the second palace, he opened and closed his mouth like a queen's mother, and couldn't help but say: "You were subdued so thoroughly in one meal?" ”

Jiang Ying only smiled "hehe", got up from the position facing Jin Qi again, changed to his side, and sat side by side with him.

The corners of Jin's mouth curved, but when he opened his mouth, he was down to business—"You don't have to pay attention to the rumors outside lately. ”

What rumors?

Jiang Ying was confused for a moment, and it took a while to realize that what he said should be the relationship between the Jin family and the Kong family, and she couldn't help but show a sudden expression, and said, "If you don't say it, I forgot, I originally planned to tell you about this matter." ”

Even though she knew that this had something to do with her poor memory recently, judging from this unreliable style of acting in the past, Jin Qi couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth and said, "When you remember, I'm afraid that things have been resolved." ”

Jiang Ying seemed to be unable to hear the 'ridicule' in his tone, and hurriedly asked, "So you have already thought of a solution?" ”

"Hmm."

Jiang Ying paid close attention to his expression, and suddenly lowered her voice and asked, "Do you want to?"

Jin Qi turned his head and looked at her.

I saw Jiang Ying raise her hand and make a gesture of wiping her neck: "...... Got Jinmi, right? ”

"How do you know?"

"I dreamed of ...... last night," Jiang Ying replied and suddenly reacted, grabbing one of his sleeves. With a somewhat frightened expression, he asked, "Are you really going to do this?" Wouldn't that be too risky? ”

"It's true that you're dreaming about it, I was going to do it." Jin Qi didn't hide it from her, but said: "But then Mr. Kong came up with a good idea." ”

Jiang Ying hurriedly asked, "What idea?" ”

"I'll take care of this, so you don't have to worry about it." Jin Qi said: "You just need to continue to relax, eat and sleep well." ”

Belch......

Why do you think the tone of this second half of the sentence is full of derogatory meanings?

But since it was my grandfather's idea, it must have been very thoughtful and proper. If you don't want her to worry about it, then she won't mix it up.

Jiang Ying, who always had enough reasons to convince herself to relax, immediately nodded obediently.

This unpleasant topic was choked, and even if he didn't want to, Jin Qi still had to bring up another equally unpleasant topic-

"I asked Mr. about the Soul Grass today. He promised to help find it. ”

Jiang Ying was stunned for a moment. Hurriedly asked, "You didn't tell your grandfather, did you?" ”

The reason why she decided to hide it from everyone was that she didn't want everyone to worry about it, and the atmosphere was unhappy all day long; The second is the real cause of her illness. It's hard to explain.

"Naturally, no." Jin Qi saw that she looked a little nervous. He raised his hand and stroked the top of her head. Said: "Mr. is very well-connected, and the students under Confucius are all over the world, so he can help." You can do more with less. ”

That's what he said, but he didn't have much confidence in his heart.

He naturally knew Confu's ability, but the people under him were not vegetarians either—but after searching for nearly half a month, there was not even a trace of clues.

I'm afraid that this highly poisonous herb in Zhixu's mouth, which is not known to the world, does not exist in this world at all.

But he never dared to mention these to Jiang Ying.

In front of her, he must be full of confidence.

And that's exactly what happened - he wouldn't shake himself until the last moment.

Facing his eyes, Jiang Ying nodded with great relief.

To put it mildly, she doesn't have much faith in finding the Soul Leaving Grass, but for some reason, with Jin Qi here, she won't feel afraid.

In the thick of the night, the carriage drove into the spacious and neat Elm Alley.

Yun Li jumped out of the carriage first, waiting for Fu Jiang Ying to get off, but Jin Qi got out of the carriage before Jiang Ying, and then reached out to help Jiang Ying down.

Seeing this, Yun Li had no choice but to lift the food box on the ground, and said to Jiang Ying with a smile: "Girl, the slave maid will send the dim sum to the old lady to taste first-"

Jiang Ying knew that she wanted to leave some more time for herself and Jin Qi to talk, but what should be said and what should not be said was finished on the way, and now she just wanted to go back to her room and sleep. However, before she could speak, Yunli's girl had already turned around and stepped into the door, and her movements were not unpleasant.

"Brother Jin, then I'll go in first?"

The carriage turned around and drove away, but Jiang Ying heard a faint sound of horses' hooves, thinking that Song Yuanju had followed.

Jin nodded his head, and watched her turn and walk towards the door.

Jiang Ying was just about to cross the threshold, but suddenly heard Jin Qi behind her say loudly: "Wait a minute-"

Jiang Ying subconsciously turned her head.

"You prepare, we're going to get married." Jin Qi stood in the range of the lantern light under the gate, his expression intriguing.

Jiang Ying was stunned and let out a long "ah-" sound.

"Ahh What is the reaction?

Jiang Ying was full of speculation: "We...... Are you still married? ”

"You want to go back?" Jin Qi frowned.

"No......" Jiang Ying shook her head, frowned, and said with a complicated face: "But I'm sick......"

Jin Qi's face sank: "Nonsense! Don't I know? ”

"It may not be cured......" Jiang Ying's face was full of 'reminder'.

"Who said it can't be cured!" Jin Qi's face became more and more sunk, and he said, "Don't say these unlucky words. ”

What does it mean to be married?

What do you think of him?

Looking at it, the little girl standing in the door frame suddenly changed her face, looked at him and smiled, but her eyes flashed with tears.

Jin Qi's heart softened, his face softened, and he smiled unconsciously.

Wen Sheng said, "Come in." ”

"Hmm!"

Jin Qi looked at her and turned around, the light-colored skirt corners in his sight swayed with the movement, in the warm yellow light, like a butterfly fluttering wings, quiet and beautiful.

……

It was night, and there was silence in the mansion of the Jin Kingdom.

Now that the second watch has passed, as soon as Jin Qi returned home, a porter went to the upper room to report and informed Jin Qingyun.

"First I went outside the city, then I went to the Qingbo Pavilion, and then I went out of the city in the afternoon......" Jin Qingyun frowned and said to himself: "What are you looking for?" ”

"Go to the courtyard of the second son, and let him come to see me early tomorrow morning."

"Yes."

……

"Bailing, you go to the West Garden to see why the girl hasn't come back yet?"

In the Yilan Pavilion, the thrush who was bending over to make the bed said softly: "You don't talk the most on weekdays, and you don't know how to persuade the girl." ”

"The girl is like this at this time of year, and she doesn't let us accompany her, how do I know how to persuade ......" Bai Ling muttered, but sighed again, put down the needlework in his hand, got up and said: "The hour is indeed not early, I will go and call the girl back." ”

"Let's go!"

Bai Ling lit a lantern and carried it out of Yilan Pavilion.

Today is the memorial day of Xie Jiarou's parents, when the husband and wife passed away, they were accused of being a chaotic minister and a thief, although the body of the eldest daughter of the Xie family was fought by the Xie family to return to the clan for burial, the sentence Wang Yinli inevitably ended up with no bones, and even a serious tablet was never erected.

Only on the annual sacrifice day, Xie Jiarou will remember to burn a few stacks of paper for the husband and wife in the West Garden, fulfilling the filial piety of being a child.

At this time, the night was very dark, the lights had been turned off in all the rooms, and there were few people walking around, Bai Ling walked through the corridor alone, bypassed the main courtyard, and came to a garden in the westernmost part of the Guogong Mansion.

The West Garden is a garden in the early years of the Jin State Mansion, but because of the bad location, it is not close to the residences of several masters, and it was moved to the South Courtyard by Jin Yuming a few years ago.

After a few years, this untended West Garden gradually fell into disuse, and some ordinary flowers that had not been transplanted in the past were swallowed up by wild grasses that grew unscrupulously in a few springs and summers.

Bai Ling walked into the garden, looked at the weeds that were higher than one section and had a little withered appearance, and his ears could not tell what small animals were chirping, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of calmness.

swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, reluctantly suppressed the fear in his heart, and while speeding up his pace and moving forward, he paid attention to the movements on both sides of the road.

"Girl?"

When Xie Jiarou came over in the evening, she didn't let them follow, so the West Garden was so big, Bailing couldn't be sure where Xie Jiarou was for a while, so she could only shout in a low voice while walking.

It wasn't until I came to a pond overgrown with dead lotuses that I faintly saw a glimmer of fire flickering through the tall weeds.

"Girl—" Bai Ling called again, and stepped closer.

"Hmm." Xie Jiarou's slightly cool voice came, Bai Ling felt at ease for a while, and reminded him: "It's not early, girl go back?" ”

Xie Jiarou threw the last handful of cooking ingredients into the brazier and stood up.

But because he had been squatting for too long, he suddenly got up and felt dizzy, and he couldn't see anything in front of him, and he accidentally stepped on a rock, and after a slight stagger, his body was difficult to stabilize and fell backwards again and again!

"Girl!"

Bai Ling screamed in surprise and hurriedly stepped forward to help.

But it was a step too late.

"Poof!"

The sound of falling water suddenly sounded, and it was terrifying in the silence. (To be continued.) )