In the dark twilight, there were a few shining stars, and the moon appeared in the midst of them, a round full moon, looking down on the earth coldly and distantly, and a few gray, thin clouds lingering around her, like fairies dancing with their sleeves fluttering. The bright moonlight draped the earth in a gray gauze skirt, shining on the ginkgo tree in the yard, the ginkgo tree was tall and straight, the lush crown was cast by the moonlight under the deep shadow on the flat ground, the pale ginkgo biloba with a slightly sour loneliness, cool, delicate, and with a little fragrance of the night intertwined, refreshing.

Aftertaste stood quietly under the tree, holding his hands, looking up at the lush canopy above his head, the three thousand green silks that were as black as a waterfall had been scattered, hanging down softly and obediently behind him, he had just washed his hair, and his body was still covered with a light and attractive fragrance.

There was a sound of footsteps approaching, he turned around, and what caught his eye was Su Miao's smiling face like a flower, she had changed into homely clothes, a goose-yellow muslin shirt with a light gold six-panel skirt, the skirt was wide, it was a popular style in Fengzhou City but had long since retired in Liangdu, a black hair combed into a braid and hung down in front of her, tied with a red silk rope, she had just taken a bath, and she was still wearing a thick body of moisture, and her little face without powder still had a little roundness that belonged to a girl, which was the most common dress she wore in Fengzhou. Since coming to Liangdu, she always has to dress up carefully every day, and he feels that he hasn't seen it for a long time since he has seen it like this. He looked at her for a moment, the corners of his lips curled, and he smiled lightly.

"What are you doing?" She asked him with a smile on her lips.

"Nothing." He replied lightly. looked at her and asked with a smile, "It's not too early, why don't you go to sleep yet?" ”

"It's early." Su Miao said with a smile. Taking two steps forward, he walked up to him and stood still, raised his head, looked up at the lush canopy of ginkgo trees, clasped his hands on his chest, and exclaimed, "This tree must be many years old!" ”

"yes." Looking back at the canopy of ginkgo trees, which are still golden even in the dark of night, like dazzling gold. After a while, he said softly.

"How many years?" Su Miao looked at his side face and asked with a smile.

I didn't expect her to ask further. I was stunned, thought about it, and replied:

"It's been about a few hundred years, and I heard that it was planted by one of the princes of the previous dynasty. Later, he experienced wars and troubled times. The tree miraculously survived, and when the Zhuangzi was built, my father said that the tree had a good omen, so he left the tree. ”

"Yes." Su Miao smiled, turned her head and continued to look at the golden ginkgo tree.

Huiwei looked at her side face, and always felt that she wanted to say something but wanted to say something, but after waiting for a long time, he didn't see her speak, and he was suspicious for a while. finally suppressed the strangeness in his heart and turned his head. Continue to look at the ancient tree in front of you.

"Your Majesty...... You seem to be very close to the emperor, and you will never call him 'the emperor'. Su Miao suddenly opened her mouth and said softly.

After a moment's pause, he muttered for a moment, and replied in a low voice:

"Uncle and my father are the same father and mother, when I was a child, we depended on each other together in Liyang Palace, and the relationship is unusual, so since we were children, we all called him 'uncle', and his children called me father are generally 'eighth uncle', after growing up, Liang Min first changed his mouth, and then the second brother also changed his mouth, only me, I have never had a chance, and it is too troublesome to change my mouth suddenly, and the uncle does not want me to change his words, so he has not changed it."

Su Miao nodded: "The relationship between the emperor and your father is really good, like ordinary brothers, there is no feeling of a king and a minister at all." ”

Aftertaste was silent for a long time, frowned, and said softly in a light tone:

"Having said that, there is a difference between a king being a king and a minister being a minister."

Su Miao was stunned for a moment and looked at his face, but because the light was too dim, she didn't see his expression clearly, and silently withdrew her gaze, and after a while, she smiled at him:

"We haven't been here for a long time, but why do I always feel like many years have passed?"

The aftertaste was slightly stunned, looked at her, paused, and said with a light smile: "You are not used to the atmosphere in Liangduli." ”

Su Miao smiled: "Yes, in the early years, I was not very suitable for Fengzhou, and I once thought that I was not accustomed to the water and soil, but I didn't expect to find that the air in Liangdu was even more unsuitable for me after coming to Liangdu." ”

Aftertaste fell silent, wanting to say something, but didn't know what to say, so he didn't speak.

Su Miao clasped her arms in her hands, watching the golden crown of the ginkgo tree become more and more ethereal and charming against the hazy moonlight, and after a while, she suddenly smiled and said:

"I've heard that men have an ambition to make a difference, do you?"

Aftertaste was stunned for a moment, and turned his head to look at her face. Because it was a backlight, Su Miao couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, but felt that he stared at her for a while, showed a smile, and said:

"Do you wish I had or not?"

"How can this be what I hope for, whether there is or is not your heart, it has nothing to do with whether I want it or not." Su Miao said with a smile.

Aftertaste looked at her silently, it wasn't that he didn't understand what she meant, what she said was not a temptation at all, she was asking directly, she was asking what he was hiding in his heart. He looked away, turned his head, and continued to look at the tall ginkgo tree standing directly in front of him, and after a while, smiled lightly, and replied in a faint voice:

"Naturally, there has been, how can it not be."

"Really?" Su Miao was not surprised by his answer, she folded her arms with both hands, answered lightly, and then lowered her eyes, and a pair of curly eyelashes fell a light black shadow under her eyes. I couldn't see her expression clearly, and I couldn't hear the joy and anger in her tone when she spoke, and the tone contained in these two simple words didn't contain too many personal feelings or emotions, just a very ordinary tone.

After being silent for a long time, he sighed softly, he raised his head, the corners of his lips were slightly hooked, and he smiled softly and said:

"When I was a child, when everyone told me that I was going to inherit the throne in the future, I really thought I could."

Su Miao didn't speak.

The aftertaste doesn't need her to speak, maybe she will make him feel that the topic will not be able to continue. He paused for a moment, then continued:

"Prince Rui was the first fierce general of the Yueliang kingdom, and at the age of twenty he exterminated the Uighur tribes that repeatedly invaded the borders of the Yueliang kingdom. At the age of twenty-three, he killed Zhang Qing'an, the worst minister of Yueliang State, at the age of thirty-one, quelled the rebellion of the Seven Kings, and at the age of thirty-five, he recovered the thirteen states of Guiyun from the hands of the Xiping people, and his existence is a myth. ”

Su Miao was silent, she had also heard of Liang Jin's glorious heroic deeds, but she couldn't think of those magnificent heroic deeds when she looked at Liang Jin's face, in her eyes. Liang Jin's various performances are completely a naïve and bad-hearted "evil mother-in-law".

"I've had times like that, like him, man. They have all done the heroic dream of making meritorious contributions and being admired by thousands of people. He smiled and said softly.

"And then?" Su Miao didn't feel strange that Hui Wei had such a heroic dream, no matter how he said that he was also a man and was born in the royal family. The building near the water is the first to get the month. He had been exposed to all kinds of things in the country's top management since he was a child, and it was not difficult to understand that he had an ambition, but she wondered why he would put down his ambition to become a cook.

If you really want to talk about it, the profession of chef will be defined by some people as "cooking" in later generations, rather than an artist who creates food, not to mention that in this era of strict hierarchy, chef is a kind of cheap industry in people's perceptions, and she is really curious why Hui Wei would give up his ambition to choose to be a chef, a lowly profession that many people look down on. If he really likes it, it would be fine, but Su Miao didn't feel that his love for the chef industry had reached the point where he couldn't live without it.

"Later? There was no later. He smiled at her. Those ambitions are just a kind of vanity as a child, and they don't mean anything. ”

Su Miao looked at him, she didn't believe this statement, but let her continue to ask, she didn't know what to ask, she thought silently for a moment, she smiled and said:

"From making a career to becoming a chef who cooks for others to eat, the span of your dream is really big!"

"Are you looking down on your profession?" Aftertaste asked her with a smile.

Su Miao just smiled, lowered her eyes, and after a while, continued with a smile:

"Today, the emperor made it clear that he wants to give you a chance to let you enter the court, don't you want to go?"

"Do you want me to go?" Aftertaste rhetorical question.

"I'm asking you what I mean, and it has nothing to do with what I think." Again, she said that.

"How can it be okay, my future is not the future that I share with you, my choice do you think you can stay out of it?" Aftertaste looked at her and asked with a smile.

Su Miao looked at him, looked at him for a while, looked away, and smiled: "It's really going to suddenly create an atmosphere." ”

Aftertaste stepped forward, stood in front of her, looked down at her drooping face, and asked softly:

"What do you want me to do?"

Su Miao was silent for a while, raised her head, looked at him and said, "I don't interfere with your thoughts, you can do what you want, and I'm not so self-conscious that I will get rid of you because what you do is contrary to my ideas." ”

"This is really a high-sounding answer, should I still be grateful to you, thank you for not dumping me?"

"I respect your ideas and don't interfere with your choices, but there is one thing, you can't make me too upset." She added to him in all seriousness.

"It's nature." He looked at her and smiled.

Su Miao looked at him with a flat face.

After a while, he smiled lightly, and suddenly reached out and took her in his arms.

"Don't worry, I won't upset you." He whispered in her ear.

Su Miao didn't speak, she leaned quietly in his arms, a pair of big eyes flickering in the moonlight.

The night breeze blows, and it is so gentle that it breathes......

The moonlight of late autumn has brought a strong chill of the season, faint, clear, like flowing water, quietly pouring into the room through the window, dotting the floor with mottled land.

A gentle knock broke the silence in the room, and Lin Yan, who had been sitting under the lamp in a daze, woke up, glanced at the leaky pot, and it was almost time.

The previous knock sounded again, and at this time she was finally sure that what she had just heard was not a hallucination, it was already very late, and normal people had already fallen asleep at this hour, but at this time there was a knock on the door, and she sat in front of the lamp and was silent for a long time, and the knock did not continue to sound, and this gap was silent, as if a suddenly stagnant heartbeat, as if giving her time to think carefully.

Half an hour later, Lin Yan finally got up from the chair, came to the door, took a deep breath, and opened the door panel slowly.

As the door panel was slowly opened, the dark shadow under the lamp outside the door met her eyes, although she was not surprised, but when the black figure fell into her eyes, her heart was still pinched fiercely, producing a pain that suffocated her.

She stood in front of the door, looking at him silently with a cold expression, such an expression was really a long time for Liang Min, he had only seen such an expression twice, the first time was when they met for the first time, when her stepmother forced her into a corner, she had always been forbearant and showed such an expression, that is, this expression deeply captured his heart, that time she did a very beautiful counterattack, she didn't know that he had been watching her, but that time he knew that the original weak little white rabbit was also very painful when biting; The second time was ten years after getting married, he was fortunate to Wei Xianya, and the next day she also showed such an expression, at that time he was secretly happy in his heart, and he was secretly happy that maybe the one in his heart she finally came back, but the one in his heart she didn't come back, she was gone.

Lin Yan stood in front of the door, looking at him, there was a wind blowing in from outside, bringing a very light smell of blood, this smell was not unfamiliar to her, she had lived with him for ten years, his profession was destined for him to be injured often, it was common to bring injuries home, he was afraid that she would always hide it from her, she didn't want him to bother and pretend not to know, in fact, how could she not know, she was not stupid.

"Yan'er." He called softly, breaking the silence, his face not very good, whether it was from exhaustion or injury.

Lin Yan guessed his intention today, and he knew that Wei Xianya had come.

She stood and looked at him for a moment, then finally took a step back, turned around, got out of the way a bit, and let him in. She was not the only one living in this courtyard, and it was not appropriate for him to be seen.

Liang Min breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but she let him in, he took a step, crossed the threshold, and turned to close the door.

Lin Yan had already sat back on the soft couch under the window, took the needlework basket on the kang table, and began to do needlework with her head down.

Liang Min stood in the room and looked at her for a while, and frowned when he saw that she didn't look at him or speak. After a pause, he stepped forward and sat on the other side of the couch, his hand on the kang table, staring at her.

Lin Yan still didn't look at him and didn't speak.

After a full quarter of an hour of stalemate in such an atmosphere, Liang Min finally couldn't help it, he frowned, and asked in a deep voice:

"Do you have to be like this?" (To be continued.) )