Chapter 41: Smoke Waves
Although it is afternoon, the hexagonal pavilion on the side of Mingyue Lake is full of smoke and waves, hazy, surrounded by various colors of spring flowers as the low column, clusters of clusters, fragrant overflowing.
Inside the pavilion, there are three young women. Bi Luo sat on the top, with two palace maids standing behind him, Wei Wei sitting on the right, and another prince standing behind him, but Cai Ling's single figure only came to the appointment.
There are all kinds of refreshments on the table, and a pot of Biluochun is wafting with aroma. Biluo instructed the palace maid to pour tea, and greeted Wei Wei again, asking the prince about his recent life. Cai Ling's gaze stayed on the face of the little palace maid behind Wei Wei, as if she was distracted.
Coming earlier, Cai Ling went to the Agarwood Pavilion to inspect the situation, and when she came back, she saw Wei Wei and the little palace maid arriving first, and she was at a loss to discuss something.
The little palace maid asked: "Sister Wei is really so bold, aren't you afraid that Chen Liangdi will harm you again." Although Miss Jiang doesn't seem to be concerned about the world, I guess she doesn't have any good intentions. ”
"It's a blessing or a curse, it's a curse that can't be avoided. Chen Liangdi and I are both people who serve the prince, and in the future, we will see you if you don't look up in this Weiyang, and it is not a way to hide all the time. Wei Wei pondered for a moment and replied.
"My sister is going to turn hostility into friendship."
"Although I have such thoughts, I'm afraid that Liangdi will not want to." Wei Wei frowned.
"It's better to ......," the little palace maid said in a low voice, "Let's strike first, and ...... her without doing anything."
Before the words were finished, Wei Wei reprimanded sharply: "Nonsense! Seeing that the little palace maid was aggrieved and wanted to cry, she said softly, "Now that she is pregnant with His Royal Highness's flesh and blood, even if she has an indissoluble enmity with me, now is not the time to murder her!" My dragon vein is thin, although the first emperor has thirteen sons, only four people have grown up, His Majesty's sons, the abolished prince is demoted to a concubine, the second prince is early, and the whole Weiyang is looking forward to His Royal Highness's heirs. For today's plan, it is natural to forbearance. ”
The little palace maid was reluctant to say "oh", and enjoyed the beautiful scenery in the lake with Wei Wei, with a shallow smile on her face.
……
"Miss Jiang." This time, Wei Wei noticed that Cai Ling's eyes were like torches staring at the person behind her, and called her suspiciously.
Cai Ling came back to her senses and took a sip of tea, but her eyes still did not leave the little palace maid, until the little palace maid saw that she was panicked, and Cai Ling asked, "What is your name?" ”
"Slave maid ......," the little palace maid was about to answer.
"This is the niece of the Marquis of Xiangyang, who was elected to the palace not long ago, and worked as an errand beside His Royal Highness, and His Royal Highness praised her for her intelligence many times." Wei Wei hurriedly protected.
"Hmm." Cai Ling put down the white jade teacup and asked again, "What's it called?" ”
The maid of the palace was also born as a concubine of the official eunuch family, and now she has entered and exited the East Palace, and others have seen the person who is called "girl", but now she is frightened by the woman in front of her, and she replied timidly, "The slave maid is called Heng'er." ”
"Hmm." Cai Ling withdrew her gaze at this time, and looked at Biluo with a smile.
The three of them talked and laughed for a while, but they were all smiling and not smiling, and they were just playing with each other. Bi Luo suddenly pointed to the green water and clear waves of the lake and said: "Sister Wei, hurry up and see if it is just a mandarin duck for this palace, why is it alone, it's so strange!" ”
Wei Wei hesitated and didn't move, Heng'er was about to go to see it, and Bi Luo said sharply: "Now that Sister Wei has not been canonized, the palace will not be called, and if she is really favored, she will be very delicate." ”
"Slaves don't dare." Wei Wei had already jumped up. Cai Ling drank tea quietly, with a posture of watching a good show.
I saw that Wei Wei had just walked to the edge of the pavilion, and was kicked into the lake by a palace maid behind Bi Luo, and with her fell there were two pots of peonies with flowers, the delicate and gorgeous petals rose and fell in the cold lake water, like a woman in scarlet clothes struggling in the water.
"Sister Wei......" Heng'er was shocked.
Biluo only gave a sharp look, and the woman suddenly stopped calling, only knelt down and said, "The slave only saw Sister Wei stumbling into the water." ”
"Good!" Biluo gradually smiled, and the same gaze turned to Cai Ling, "Since the prince met in this palace, you have been haunted like a ghost, and this palace should have solved you a long time ago." ”
How to fix it? Throw into the lake? Cai Ling is naturally not afraid, and since she was five years old, she has spent her summer in a hut in the mountains on the outskirts of Beijing. There was a lake in the mountains, the water was so clear that she often swam in it and never drowned.
Cai Ling sat still, but couldn't help but look at Wei Wei who was struggling desperately in the lake, and still couldn't bear it, but he still couldn't bear it. Her anger had gradually dissipated as early as when Wei Wei said that His Highness's flesh and bones could not be hurt. If there is such a person around him who is willing to think about him, she will not be worried about his diet and daily life when she goes to Yunnan.
Maybe Wei Wei should be alive!
She closed her eyes slightly, giving her inner struggle one more chance. When she opened her eyes again, she just waited for Biluo's men to throw her into the lake, and she took the opportunity to save Wei Wei.
But in the end, she underestimated Biluo, Biluo once said that it was too cheap for her to die like that. Sure enough, with a weird smile on her face, Bi Luo pounced and jumped into the lake.
She's going to blame her! Before the two ladies jumped off to save people, a familiar scream rang out in their ears, "Come on, come on!" Someone fell overboard. Cai Ling glanced at it, and the person looming behind the rockery was Jinghe Princess Shen Dujun.
Cai Ling sighed slightly, threw away the teacup in his hand, and jumped into the lake with a loud voice.
Ignoring Biluo, she swam straight towards Wei Wei, who had no strength and gradually sank into the water, almost diving to the bottom to scoop it up.
Wei Wei was on the verge of death, she had given up the struggle, her head had just come out of the water, and she suddenly saw the hope of life, even if it was a little hope of life, she had to hold on tightly, so she used Cai Ling as driftwood, and used all her strength to climb it, Cai Ling was pressed under the water by her several times, and the cold water poured from her nose into her throat, and then choked in her lungs, and the original taste of drowning was so uncomfortable. Cai Ling adjusted her posture and shouted with all her strength: "If you want to live, don't move!" ”
But Wei Wei didn't seem to understand, Cai Ling's heart was cold, and she was about to give up, turning around and wandering away, but was dragged by Wei Wei. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't break free, no wonder her brother taught her to swim in the water, and repeatedly warned her not to save the drowning person without full certainty.
Cai Ling felt that this time it was nine deaths, and she was desperately thinking of a way to escape, even though an ink-colored figure jumped down from the shore, splashing, in the haze, she couldn't see who was coming, but she was only sure that it was Xuan Niangniang's palace people who came to the rescue.
The sun shone on the surface of the lake, and it also shone on the shining Dongzhu on the man's bun, as well as his resolute and handsome face. It turned out to be him! A few years ago in Ziwei Palace, she fell into the pond, and she wanted to take advantage of the scorching sun to play in the water, but the third prince rescued her like a big hero, and since then she has started a bad relationship that she can't ask for.
Cai Ling chuckled, now that he is really about to die, he is still the last one to see, it is enough!
After a brief look at each other, he swam straight behind her, and soon the hand that was clutching her waist was broken, and without restraint, the whole person was as easy as a swimming fish, and she could float smoothly on the water. Turning his head, the prince was half-dragging Wei Wei and was trying to swim towards the shore.
How can a person with a wound on his shoulder do such a dangerous thing? Didn't he even have a guard by his side? Cai Ling is in a hurry. If Wei Wei was dying like just now, how much strength should he use to save her!
When he looked at it again, Wei Wei was already well-behaved and boneless, just leaning on the crook of the prince's arm, and Cai Ling Fang breathed a sigh of relief.
When she swam to the shore, she realized that there were many people standing in the originally quiet pavilion, and she looked at her with a pair of eyes, and she still looked at the prince at a glance.
He also just swam ashore, wet, his hair was still dripping with water, but his eyes were firmly fixed on her, "Little Four", was about to stand up, but was hugged by Wei Wei in his arms, the woman closed her eyes like a nightmare, and shouted, "Your Highness, save the slave." Your Highness ......"
"Since everyone is fine, I'll take my leave." Cai Ling saw that Biluo was also rescued by the attendants early in the morning, thinking that today's incident would be a nonsense, and whoever made her soft hearted couldn't kill Wei Wei.
"Stop!" It's the spiky voice of Shizuwa Princess. Cai Ling frowned, not intending to stop.
"She pushed people into the water." Princess Jinghe was impatient and pointed to Cai Ling's back, "This palace has seen it with my own eyes." ”
"See it with your own eyes?" Cai Ling smiled coldly, and turned around calmly. She and Jinghe are also small playmates, I don't know when she was born, she didn't bother to repair it in the past, and now she knows that there is a hole between each other that can't be filled.
"It was you who pushed the palace maid into the water first, and then murdered Chen Liangdi. The main palace can be seen clearly behind the rockery. Jing and Zhenzhen had words, and tried their best to explain in front of the prince.
"I can't imagine that the princess still has a habit of hiding behind rockeries and peeping." Cai Ling smiled coldly.
"You!" Jinghe was so angry that her hands trembled, and her little face turned red.
"It's true that Miss Jiang pushed the concubine." Biluo, who was supported by two palace people, said.
"Someone." The prince instructed, "Send Chen Liangdi back to Chengqian Palace and pass it on to the imperial doctor." ”
"Don't think about going anywhere, this king still has something to ask you!" It's said to Cai Ling.
I'm not afraid of interrogation, she behaves properly, and didn't the insider Wei Wei pick up a life? Could it be that she is still blind? Cai Ling walked up to the prince without changing his color, "What do you ask?" ”
He looked up and was about to speak, but Wei Wei grabbed his arm tightly again. Seeing that he didn't mean to break free, Cai Ling couldn't help but ask, "Are you going to carry her back to the East Palace in person?" ”
There was a hint of fierceness in his calm eyes, "Why not?" The next moment, Wei Wei, who was already dying, was already picked up.
Cai Ling hurriedly tried to dissuade him, although his heart was full of contempt for his behavior, and scolded in his heart, how can you be so disregarding your own safety, but you only complained, "These guards around you are good-looking, right?" You want to jump in person to save people in the lake, and now you have to hold them yourself to send people back to the East Palace, have you forgotten that you have injuries on your body? ”
He held Wei Wei for a moment, and he didn't look back, only said coldly: "Do you remember that this king was injured?" When this king was injured, Wei Er's clothes were untied and served with the decoction, where are you happy and happy? ”
"I'm ......" Cai Ling held back.