When the jasmine blooms, in the Cuiwei Palace, Cai Ling sat under a metasequoia and read with her cheeks up, her eyes gradually dilated after a while, and her eyelids closed, and a copy of "Shennong's Materia Medica" in her hand fell to the ground, Manyun hurriedly stepped forward to pick it up, and she was also awakened instantly.

"It looks like it's all about this book. Niangniang should be able to memorize it. Manyun asked with a smile.

"I didn't like to watch it before, my master always forced me to watch it, but now no one is urging me to do it, but I can't let go of it." Cai Ling patted the thin ash on the book and put it on the desk.

"Niangniang, don't mention Lord Yu again." Manyun's face was embarrassed, "Your Majesty doesn't like it." ”

"Lord Yu is my master, what does it matter if Your Majesty likes it or not?" Cai Ling didn't care, "You've been worrying too much about the whole day, and you've been getting haggard for a month." Come here and let me check your pulse, and take two pairs of medicine to recuperate. ”

"The slave is fine." Man Yun glanced around, "The slave is worried about you and Your Majesty. ”

"What's there to worry about?" Cai Ling raised her eyebrows, "Last night, the night before, the night before, push it back, tell me which night Your Majesty didn't stay in our Cuiwei Palace." ”

"Although Your Majesty came here every night, how many words did Niang Niang say to Your Majesty? When His Majesty was eating, once upon a time did Niang Niang give His Majesty a chopstick dish? Your Majesty is still reading at night, when did Niangniang not lie on the bed and hold this "Shennong Hundred Herbs Sutra" in her hand and fall asleep regardless of it? Your Majesty wants to get up when the time comes, which time has the mother opened her eyes? "The clouds are aggressive and piercing.

"That's still not right for me." Cai Ling muttered, and her thoughts slowly returned to last night.

When the emperor walked into Cuiwei Palace, Cai Ling had just finished dinner, and the palace maids were cleaning up the dishes.

"Your Majesty has dinner?" Manyun hurriedly inquired about Yude.

"No, I didn't." Yude frowned at the situation in the hall, and said in a low voice: "The ladies in the other palace are all looking forward to Your Majesty's meal, and the lady concubine is good, and she eats first." ”

Manyun hurriedly went to the dining room and walked in person.

Cai Ling saw that the table full of delicacies was placed in front of the emperor, but he did not eat a few bites, and repeatedly persuaded himself that the emperor was strong and young, and eating one or two less meals was just counted as Bigu, which might be beneficial to the body, but after thinking about it left and right, he still said: "It doesn't taste good?" If there is anything you want to eat, let Yude go to the dining room to spread the word, so that they will not go to great lengths to make these dishes, but they will not be favored by you. The cooks are going to be sad. ”

After finishing speaking, instead of letting him eat a few more bites, he put down his chopsticks, and the emperor leaned back in his chair and sneered.

"What's wrong?" She asked.

"Concubine Shu cares about others." His expression was grim, and his deep eyes were as cold as a pool of ice.

Suddenly, she could no longer speak, but buried her head. Over the years, Xing may have been in the pharmacy for too long, a little sluggish, and gradually did not know how to communicate with people, so it was difficult for her to be a deferential and virtuous concubine.

At night, she half lay on the bed and read, not because she wanted to, but the emperor did not come for a long time, and she couldn't open her mouth, so she consciously fell asleep first. The habit I have developed over the years, staring at "Shennong's Hundred Herbs" will not be long before I can fall asleep. After a while, she felt someone snatch the book from her hand and whisper in her ear, "Still can't forget him?" Maybe I shouldn't have come again. ”

Can't forget anyone? She struggled in a half-dream, but she couldn't get rid of the nightmare, she couldn't open her eyes and couldn't open her mouth, forget it, a tear slipped out of her eye, and she continued to sleep.

The next day, as soon as the sky was revealed, she turned to face him, and by the light of the room, she stared at his face carefully, and forgot to blink her eyes, as if she wanted to imprint in her mind again the face she had never dreamed of in three years.

Her fingers lifted up and landed lightly half an inch above the tip of his nose, but they stopped there, not daring to move. Until, his eyelids moved, and she quickly withdrew her hand and turned inward.

Then he sat up, and the ladies of the inner court came in with court clothes and a crown to freshen and change his clothes.

"Niangniang, there will be a long time in the future, don't worry too much, be careful of your body." Manyun tugged at her sleeve and pulled her thoughts back.

She smiled. Yes. There are still a long way to go. There will always be a time when misunderstandings will be resolved, but she is not afraid.

However, the emperor did not come to Cuiwei Hall on this day, and she waited patiently for half an hour at dinner, until Yu'an kindly came to inform that the princess under the age of three would read poetry, and His Majesty was happy to stay in Changle Palace, she smiled slightly, and complained with Manyun: "I didn't wait if I knew it." ”

It was half a month before I saw Long Yan again.

In Ziwei Palace, the concubines of the harem greeted the Empress Dowager, and Cai Ling attended the middle.

Everyone's chatter revolves around the selection of concubines three days ago, the only daughter of Yuzhou Taishou is both talented and beautiful, and the poetry and songs are not lost to men, I heard that you are favored by the emperor and given a beauty, and among the few people who were awarded at the same time, only she got the opportunity to sleep.

Cai Ling drank a cup of monttop flowers, and her face remained unchanged, as if she had not heard of it.

It just so happened that Yu Moyan and the Korean doctor were coming to ask the Queen Mother for peace as usual, and the two of them saluted like a ceremony, and Cai Ling sat on the seat without fighting.

At the end, the Empress Dowager frowned and asked, "Have you made up your mind to leave?" Even the mourning family can't keep you? ”

"Weichen's father-in-law is critically ill, and he couldn't take care of other people's daughters at the beginning, but now he doesn't dare not do his best." Yu Moyan said in a deep voice.

"Brother-in-law, once he cures the concubine's father after he leaves the palace, he will definitely come back." Zhao Chuci hurriedly added.

Yu Moyan didn't make a sound, glanced at Cai Ling, and when the four eyes met, Cai Ling showed a smile, thinking: It's not a good thing to be able to leave the palace, when the time comes, the sky is high and the birds will fly, and the outside of the palace is the master's paradise.

After Yu Moyan left, the topic fell on Jinghe Eldest Princess again.

Yang Guifei said: "Zhuangyuan Lang is both talented and good-looking, and is deeply valued by His Majesty, the eldest princess can find such a good person, and the ancestor should rest assured." ”

The Empress Dowager smiled slightly.

Concubine Liangxian said: "It's a pity that the new generation is a businessman, and he has really wronged the eldest princess, but I hope to marry such a businessman family, we Jinghe will not suffer hardship." ”

Cai Ling smiled slightly, thinking: I don't know which unlucky guy it is? It is a blessing that Jinghe does not give him hardship.

Yang Guifei glanced at Cai Ling: "At the time of the palace test, Concubine Shu's sister was still in the Imperial Medical Bureau and did not ask about the world. Do you know who the new champion is? ”

"I don't know." Cai Ling smiled.

"My sister doesn't know?" Yang Guifei raised a smile, "That person is none other than my sister's right-hand man, Yuan Jieyi." Now Lord Yuan is deeply respected by His Majesty, and he should have served in the Hanlin Academy, but he made an exception and was appointed as a squire of the Ministry of Works, which can be described as a promising future. The day before yesterday, His Majesty gave him a marriage and promised our eldest princess Jinghe to him. In the future, this Lord Yuan is also a relative of the emperor. ”

Cai Ling only felt that her heart was beating like a drum, and her mind was messing with a mess, and she couldn't listen to half a sentence, so she only held on to the handle of the chair and tried to stabilize her body.

At this time, Yude said loudly outside the hall: "The emperor has arrived." ”

The Empress Dowager slowly put down the tea bowl, and the rest of the people got up from their seats, Cai Ling's spirit was a little sluggish, but she also followed everyone to salute like a ritual.

The emperor was followed by a beautiful woman wearing a green gauze skirt in the lake, twenty-eight years old, and saluted the empress dowager on her knees: "The concubine is leaving Si to see the empress dowager." ”

"You are the only daughter of Song Taishou, you are really a rare beauty, and you can't lose much compared to these sisters who are sinking fish and geese." The Empress Dowager quipped.

Yang Guifei, Liangxian Concubine, and Zhao Zhaoyi covered their lips and smiled. Cai Ling only looked at the pillars in the main hall, her face expressionless.

Subsequently, Song Meiren saluted the concubines of each palace in order, and Yang Guifei personally helped her up, and told her to serve His Majesty with all her heart and soul from tonight onwards.

Song Meiren paced to Jiang Shufei, a little stunned, I heard the story of Jiang Shufei in the morning, I thought that the woman who was born in the family of generations of hairpins should be as gentle and demure as Yang Guifei and Concubine Liangxian, but she didn't expect it to be such a cold appearance, there was nothing on that fair face except white and red, and she couldn't see a smile at all.

"Concubine, see Sister Shufei." Song Meiren curtsy her knees. Cai Ling was still staring at the pillars in the hall. Song Meiren froze in place for a moment, and couldn't help but raise her head to look at her again. Although the concubines on the left and right sides were surprised, they were silent, Yang Guifei lowered her head slightly, and Concubine Liangxian looked at His Majesty with a smile.

"Sister Lady." Zhao Zhaoyi, who was next, called lightly.

Cai Ling came back to her senses at this time, and saw a young woman kneeling in front of her with a graceful figure and a delicate face, although she didn't know her origin, she smiled and asked her to get up, and then heard her salute Concubine Liangxian, only to know that she was a newly elected concubine in the harem.

Cai Ling's eyes followed the woman for a moment, looking at what a beautiful time it should be before she was eighteen. She met Yuan Jieyi when she was sixteen years old, and he was still a fledgling stunned young man at that time.

In those years, she drank excessively, sat in front of the table in Dongxi Building with her head propped up and listened to the play, and he also sat aside, not drinking but guarding her, and the next Xuanyue was like a hook, she joked: "So good at taking care of people? Whoever marries you in the future will be an enviable blessing. ”

He raised his eyebrows lightly and hooked a smile: "Don't worry." If I marry a wife, I must marry a very gentle and virtuous woman, where can I get drunk in public like you? ”

Oh, yes! The gentle and virtuous person should be his future wife, and only such a person can accompany him who is introverted and deep.

Tranquility? When chasing Tao Tao, he does everything, and when he abandons Tao Tao, he can draw a clear line between the two in an instant. On a winter day three years ago, the woman with her head squinted slightly on the Snow Fox said in a cold tone: "This hall will not be willing to follow that cripple. Those words are still vivid in that scene. How could she bear to watch Brother Yuan go astray?

"The concubine was unwell and retired first." Cai Ling curtsied and saluted, her face expressionless.

After she left, the Empress Dowager frowned and said, "Concubine Shu is also an old man in the palace, and she is still so childish."

The emperor looked at the entrance of the hall, and a smile slowly appeared on his cold face.

Concubine Liangxian said: "Before Lord Yu came, Sister Shufei was doing everything as usual, but after Lord Yu left, my sister was full of sadness. The concubine heard that Lord Yu had spent three years carefully teaching her sister medical skills, and now that the separation is imminent, it is normal for her sister to be reluctant to him. ”

"Sister Xianfei is not unreasonable." Yang Guifei agreed.

"Emperor." The Empress Dowager pushed the person next to her, only to see that although his face was as usual, a pair of starry eyes were half-narrowed, his hands were clenched on the armrests of the seat, his muscles were bulging, and his bones were distinct.

Since then, Concubine Jiang Shufei has not seen Long Yan for half a month.