Autumn goes to spring, and in the blink of an eye, it's summer again.

It has been a year since Ru Xi left the palace, and for a year, Baili Yu has been waiting for the flying pigeon of the love flower mother-in-law every day, and after waiting for a year, there has been no news.

If the poison on Ru Xi's body is incomprehensible, she can only live for a year, Baili Yu originally thought that in a year, even if she is at the end of the earth, he will still be able to find her.

He sent countless people to look for it, but none of them were able to bring back news of Ru Xi.

If he couldn't find her again, he was afraid that he would never see each other again in this life.

In the hall, Baili Yu caressed the blood poppy grass that had already bloomed and dried into dried flowers, and the antidote was there, but the beauty was not there.

"Xi'er Xi'er, where are you?"

"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is here." The waiter came in to report, Baili Yu put away the blood poppy grass, and said, "Xuan." ”

When the Queen Mother came in, she smiled and said: "Yu'er, tomorrow is the birthday of the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother is thinking about whether to hold a poetry party." ”

The so-called poetry club is nothing more than a gathering of young people to write poems on the spot.

And the meaning of the empress dowager is to summon the daughter of a hundred civil and military officials who are of marriageable age into the palace to hold a poetry meeting.

Since Baili Yu ascended the throne, in the harem, let alone concubines, not even a beauty can be seen.

How can it go on like this?

The Empress Dowager's meaning Bai Liyu naturally knew, but he had no intention of accepting the concubine at all, thinking that the Empress Dowager had worried about the country all her life, and was still anxious about the imperial heir in her later years, Bai Liyu couldn't bear to refuse, so he said: "Just according to the mother's will." ”

got the approval of Baili Yu, and the queen went to a gust of wind and went to Zhang Luo happily.

"Your Majesty, the person sent to inquire about Miss Ru Xi has returned and is waiting outside."

When Bai Liyu heard this, he seemed to see hope, got up and said excitedly, "Let them in." ”

These people are all engaged in intelligence work, and finding out about a person is easy for them to capture, but in this matter of finding Ru Xi, they have planted a big heel.

The four members of the group all knelt in front of Bai Liyu, bowing their heads and saying nothing.

When Bai Liyu saw them like that, he knew that he hadn't found them, and asked in disappointment, "I haven't found them again?" ”

"I found it, but I ......"

"But what?"

One of them took out a handkerchief from his bosom, embroidered with the character "Xi" and the character "Yu".

Let go of the world, there should be no one else who can be so coincidental, like Ru Xi and Baili Yu, with the word "Xi Yu" in their names, and they happen to love each other.

As soon as he saw the handkerchief, Bai Liyu recognized it as Ru Xi's thing.

"Where did you find it?" Bai Li Yu held the handkerchief, his hands trembled a little, the handkerchief was originally white, and it was embroidered with red and white peonies, but now it has been dyed red by blood.

"I picked it up in Fengling outside Yecheng."

"Yecheng Fengling?" Baili Yu vaguely remembered that when Ru Xi went to Yecheng, she had been there with her mother-in-law Baizhu Qinghua, and at that time, Baili Yi was also there, could it be said that this handkerchief was left at that time?

"What else did you find?"

Another person replied: "Back to the emperor, last month, someone saw a girl in the capital, saying that it was very similar to the woman on the portrait. ”

"Beijing?" Bai Liyu was silent, he always thought that Ru Xi had left the capital, so the people he sent were all looking outside, but the capital had not been looked for at all.

Maybe......

Baili Yu thought about it and said: "Spread my will, send more people, and vigorously search in the capital." ”

For a time, the streets and alleys of the capital were plastered with portraits of Ru Xi.

"Miss, look at the person in the painting, so ugly, such an ugly person, why does the emperor still look for her?"

At the corner of the street, a green-shirted maid followed behind a purple-shirted girl, looking at the portraits pasted on both sides of the street, and said in disgust.

The woman in the purple shirt smiled, turned around and walked into a large mansion on the side of the street.

This is the back door of the mansion of Ding Nianyue, the secretary of the ministry.

"Miss, the master told you to go to his study."

As soon as I entered the door, a servant girl came to pass the word, and the woman in the purple shirt answered, "I know." ”

Passing through the courtyard and coming to the study, just wanted to knock on the door, the door opened, and when he saw his daughter, Ding Nianyue said: "Tomorrow the Empress Dowager's birthday, you will enter the palace with me, I heard that the Empress Dowager is going to hold a poetry party." ”

"Is it okay not to go?"

"Recently, people in the whole capital are looking for you, if you don't show up again, I'm afraid that the emperor will turn the entire Qi country over." Ding Nianyue shook his head, "If the emperor knows that I don't report it, I don't know what crime he will punish me." ”

Ding Nian's bitter face was more and more bitter, Ru Xi felt funny, deliberately pulled his beard, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, he won't punish you, I won't let you say it, at best, you are only an accomplice, not the main culprit, and you will be punished lightly." ”

"You, don't rely on the emperor to favor you, you will be lawless."

"How can I rely on the emperor's favor, obviously I am favored by you." Ru Xi shook Ding Nianyue's hand and said with a smile.

"You two are here, I'm looking for you everywhere, come on, come on, this is the new clothes I asked people to make, go into the palace tomorrow to wear them, and see if they fit." Mrs. Ding led two maidservants.

Letting go of Ding Nianyue's hand, Ru Xi ran over and said, "Mother, I haven't finished wearing the clothes I made last time." ”

"My daughter is so beautiful, so naturally she has to make a lot of new clothes to wear, otherwise I'm so sorry for God's love." Mrs. Ding smiled and helped Ru Xi brush the hair next to her ear.

"Did that mother make beautiful clothes? Niang is also a great beauty. ”

Mrs. Ding was happy when she heard it, "You can speak." ”

After being happy, I couldn't help but feel a little melancholy, "I haven't been able to give birth to a son and a half daughter for my lord in my life, and my lord refuses to take a concubine, which is the regret of my life." ”

Looking at Ru Xi melancholy, he said: "God has eyes and brought you to us, Xi'er, with you, my mother will have no regrets in this life." ”

Ru Xi was very moved when she heard this, and she couldn't help but think of what happened after leaving the palace a year ago.

At that time, she had a poisonous attack and was so injured that after leaving the palace, she wanted to leave Beijing alone, and before she could get out of the capital, she fainted in the alley at the back door of Ding's mansion.

It was the descendants of the Ding family who saw it and sued Mrs. Ding, who asked her to save her and invited the best husband to detoxify her.

Although the husbands in the whole capital were helpless against her poison, Mrs. Ding and Ding Nianyue did not give up.

Even if she was still easy to look at at that time, with a red mark on her face, an ugly girl, but Ding Nianyue and his wife did not dislike her because of this, but went bankrupt to cure her.

After she sobered up, she knelt down and thanked Ding Nianyue and his wife, and Mrs. Ding helped her up and said, "No thanks, our husband and wife have no children and no daughters, if you don't dislike it, you will be our daughter." ”

In this life, I have never experienced the love of my father and mother, and Ding Nianyue and his wife are better to her than their biological father.

Half a year later, Ding Nianyue searched for a famous doctor but couldn't cure her illness, so he asked the reason for her poisoning.

Ru Xi didn't hide it, and told Ding Nianyue everything as it was, and Ding Nianyue immediately cried with joy after hearing it.

Hurriedly asked Mrs. Ding to go to the pharmacy to get a brocade box, and the box was lying with a bloody poppy plant.

Ru Xi was puzzled, so she asked, "How do you have this kind of grass?" ”

Ding Nianyue said: "Twenty years ago, my mother was hit by a strange poison, I heard that the blood poppy grass can detoxify, I begged for a plant to plant, I thought that after three months can help my mother detoxify, but unfortunately, my mother did not survive three months, more than two months later, I was heartbroken, I didn't want to continue to feed this blood poppy, what if it blooms? Later, it was the lady who said a word to let me continue to feed the bloody poppy, and the lady said that although I could not save my mother, it would be a good thing if I could save others if I left it for later. ”

Ding Nianyue said, then smiled and asked Mrs. Ding to decoct the medicine, and Ru Xi hurriedly said: "Isn't the blood poppy grass a master, it can only save the people closest to you." ”

Mrs. Ding said: "The so-called closest person is not a blood relative, but a heart, as long as the owner of the blood poppy has the heart to help the poisoned person, the blood poppy can play a role, the lord treats you like his own daughter, you are naturally his closest person." ”

In this way, the poison on Ru Xi's body was resolved.

In the past six months, she has recovered well, and she knows everything in the capital clearly, and naturally she also knows that Baili Yu is still looking for her.

She didn't want to appear, firstly, because Baili Yu had just become the emperor and the state affairs were heavy, she didn't want the ministers to think that he was a faint monarch who was addicted to beauty, and secondly, she didn't want to leave Ding Nianyue and his wife so soon, and she wanted to stay by their side for a while longer, so as to repay them for saving their lives.

Now Baili Yu is looking for her in the streets and alleys of the capital, I am afraid that she has already guessed that she has never left the capital at all.

As Ding Nianyue said, when will she hide?

Early the next morning, Mrs. Ding asked Ru Xi to enter the palace with Ding Nianyue to congratulate the Empress Dowager on her birthday.

Sending the father and daughter out of the house, Mrs. Ding was able to rest.

The palace is full of joy, this is the most solemn wedding banquet held in the palace since the new emperor ascended the throne, the civil and military officials are seated on one side, and the concubine and her daughters are seated on the other side.

Their positions are arranged according to the size of the official position.

Ru Xi sat in the middle of a group of young women, wearing a light blue dress and simple hair accessories, because she hung her head slightly, sitting there, very inconspicuous.

The other women either struck up with the women around them, or looked up at Long Yan who was sitting tall in the distance.

"Next, let's start celebrating the birthday of the Empress Dowager."

All those invited to the birthday banquet were given a congratulatory gift to the Queen Mother.

All kinds of birthday gifts are dazzling, they are all common congratulatory gifts, and there is nothing new.

A woman sitting next to Ru Xi asked in a low voice, "Hey, what are you sending?" ”

Ru Xi smiled: "It was prepared by my mother's gang, I don't know what it is." ”

After hearing this, the woman covered her mouth and chuckled, "It can't be something unsightly, right?" Look at this box is not very good. ”

When it was Ru Xi's turn, she still lowered her head slightly, got up and walked over.

Because there are not many people who have seen her true face, except for Baili Yu in the entire hall, only Yuxiang can recognize her.

Baili Yu was too far away to see this side at all, and the only one who could recognize her was Yuxiang.

When Ru Xi walked over and stood still, Yuxiang's eyes widened and she let out a small snort, and the Empress Dowager turned her head to look at her and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Nothing, nothing." Yu Xiang hurriedly waved his hand and secretly glanced at the direction of Baili Yu.

The Empress Dowager saw that Ru Xi was generous, and when she gave a congratulatory gift, she just said a few simple words of congratulations, and did not show off her birthday gift like others, and she admired her very much.

"Whose daughter are you?"

Ru Xi said: "Back to the Empress Dowager, the people's daughter is the daughter of Ding Nianyue, the secretary of the ministry. ”

As soon as these words came out, the house was full of uproar.

"Lord Ding has no children and no daughters, when will there be an extra daughter?"

"I heard that Lord Ding took in a daughter a year ago, could it be her?"

When the Empress Dowager heard this, she asked the Empress Dowager, "Do you know about this?" ”

The Queen Mother said: "The last time Mrs. Ding entered the palace, the sons met with her, and they knew that the two of them had adopted a daughter, presumably this girl. ”

"The more I look at it, the more familiar it feels." The Empress Dowager glanced at Ru Xi a few more times, and said suspiciously, "This kid looks sensible and smart, what do you think?" ”

The Queen Mother said with a smile: "The queen mother thinks it's good, and if you can win the queen mother's love, Yu'er will definitely like it." ”

When the Empress Dowager heard this, she was very happy.

After celebrating the birthday, it is a poetry meeting, and the women write two poems at will.

After the poetry meeting, five other women stayed with Ru Xi, and the rest followed the palace maids into the imperial garden to enjoy the flowers.

To stay means to be selected.

The intention of this poetry meeting, all the officials also know that being able to be left in the palace by the empress dowager means that one day she will be able to become a concubine and glorify her ancestors.

Ru Xi was arranged with the other five women to a courtyard, with large and small wings, one for each person.

In the evening, a palace maid came to pass Ru Xi over.

It's to go to the Queen Mother.

Ru Xi followed the palace maid in, and in addition to the queen mother, Yuxiang was also in the palace.

The Empress Dowager's eyes made Ru Xi a little strange, as if she had looked at her before.

Ru Xi knelt down and saluted, and the Empress Dowager said: "Get up, you should be very clear about the purpose of the mourning family to leave you, you will go to the emperor to take office tonight, if you can be favored by the emperor, it will be your blessing, if you don't look down on it, the mourning family will let you out of the palace." ”

The first one is her? Ru Xi was a little unhappy, she still wanted to be the last one to appear, she wanted to see if Bai Liyu would take a fancy to others.

It was Yuxiang who led the way to Bailiyu.

Ru Xi followed aside, Yuxiang suddenly slowed down as she walked, and said softly: "Xi'er, Yu'er is looking for you very hard." ”

Yuxiang was able to recognize her, Ru Xi didn't feel strange at all, and said with a smile: "I know." ”

"Don't let him look for it anymore, here, let's go in." Yuxiang looked at the palace gate, there was not even a night guard palace guard at the door, these people were all transferred by the empress dowager.

"If I hadn't wanted him to find him, I wouldn't have appeared."

Ru Xi walked in after speaking, and the hall was quiet, and there was a smell of wine wafting from the courtyard on the other side.

Ru Xi walked around there and saw Bai Liyu sitting alone by the window with a wine jug, the laurel outside the window was open, and the fragrance of osmanthus was accompanied by the fragrance of wine, which smelled very good.

As if sensing someone walking in, Baili Yu turned sideways, but did not look back, and swept off a brocade box placed by the windowsill with a wave of his long sleeves, only to see him nervously quickly pick up the box.

Some of them were angry and said, "Get out." ”

Listening to his tone, I am afraid that I thought that it was a chamberlain or a palace maid who came in.

The lid of the brocade box fell off, and Ru Xi could clearly see that there was a bloody poppy lying inside.

For a moment, my heart felt as if it had been screwed by something.

She didn't say goodbye, she just didn't want him to plant the blood poppy grass for her, but she didn't expect that even though she had left, he still planted the blood poppy grass.

There are thousands of men in the world, who can be reckless in order to save her?

Looking at Baili Yu's back, Ru Xi walked over step by step.

Falling the bloody poppy, Baili Yu was very angry, seeing that the other party did not leave, but walked over, he turned back angrily, and swallowed back the words of scolding when he saw the person who came over.

Bai Liyu looked at the familiar figure walking towards him, but he was stunned, and the expression on his face slowly recovered from surprise to calm, calm to expressionless, not happy or sad.

He shook his head, picked up the flask that was sitting aside and took a sip, chuckling, "Just drank so many sips, could it be that you are drunk?" ”

When he looked up again, the figure walking towards him was already standing in front of him, looking at him with tears in his eyes, it was not an illusion, it was not a dream, but real.

"Xi'er, is that you?"

Bai Liyu stood up and stretched out his hand tremblingly, Ru Xi looked at his face, his eyes moved up slightly, and when he found that there were countless white hairs hidden in his inky green silk, he nodded tearfully: "I am." ”

Hearing the voice, Bai Liyu reached out and hugged Ru Xi into his arms, as if he was afraid that she would disappear, and hugged her tightly.

"Your hair, how did it come to this?"

"Don't say it's a few gray hairs, even if I want to live for ten years, I'm willing, as long as you can be well."

Ru Xi said: "I left because I didn't want you to do stupid things for me, why are you so stupid?" ”

"Do you regret it?"

Ru Xi nodded and shook his head, and Baili Yu smiled: "Is there or not?" ”

"If I knew that you would still do that after I left, then I would definitely not leave, but if I didn't leave, I wouldn't have met Lord Ding, and I wouldn't have become Lord Ding's daughter."

Bai Liyu's tone was heavy after hearing this: "Ding Nianyue's daughter? So, you've been in Dingfu? ”

"Hmm."

"It's a good Ding Nianyue, and he dares to deceive me."

Afraid that Baili Yu would condemn Ding Nianyue, Ru Xi hurriedly said: "You can't cure his crime, if you say deception, that's also my idea, if you want to cure me." ”

"Of course you have to be punished, Ru Xi obeys."

Seeing Baili Yu's stern face, not like a joke, Ru Xi knelt down reluctantly.

"The sinner Ru Xi, who deceived the king, remembered that she had saved the driver, I decided to make her the queen, and stay in the palace with me for the rest of her life, admire this."

Ru Xi couldn't cry or laugh after hearing this, what kind of punishment is this! Startled her.

Seeing that she didn't react, Baili Yu coughed lightly and said, "Don't hurry up and take the order to thank you." ”

Ru Xi rolled her eyes, "No matter how poor a person marries a wife, he has a dowry, and you are the king of a country, so you don't say anything at all?" ”

"I'm going to give you a big gift."

"A big gift? Where is it? ”

"It's in your stomach." ——

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