Chu Xiang woke up and was very tired, and after drinking two bee sugar waters, he fell asleep again. Liang Qi looked at the couch for a while before getting up, "Go to the imperial study, Yan Hong, Xiang'er's safety will be handed over to you."

"Minister, obey the order"

After Yan Hong sent Liang Qi away, he got up and walked to the bed, and after a long time, he finally opened his robe and sat on his pedal, where Chu Xiang's embroidered shoes were still presented, and when he picked them up and put them in his hand, it was not as big as his palm! The small embroidered shoes were embroidered with gold threads with lotus flowers, the stamens were inlaid with pearls, and the toe caps were made of small jade buckles made of Hetian white jade.....

"Commander Yan, how can you sit on the pedal, how about the slave and maid get you a low stool? When Ayu came back from outside, she saw a tall and mighty man sitting on a small pedal, looking very funny.

"It's okay, be quiet." Yan Hong didn't turn his head, his eyes were still staring at the sleeping beauty. Ayu nodded, sat on the round bench in the outer hall, took the small basket and began to sew, Niangniang wanted to embroider a cat that was climbing a tree a few days ago, but the cat embroidered without aura, so she asked her to help modify.

Yan Hong looked at Chu Xiang's little palms that were exposed outside, and thought, if you want to touch it, just touch it. Tremblingly, he stretched out a finger and gently stroked the little hand, his dark and rough fingers were very different from hers. The moment Yan Hong touched it, he felt that the Gu in his heart suddenly became agitated, the soft skin, the difference in color, and a ball of fire slowly condensed in his chest and was about to erupt.

He withdrew his hand with all his strength, and gasped for a long time before he calmed down, and the restlessness of his heart just now made him sweat, and after putting down the curtain, he forced himself not to look into the bed. What's wrong with me....this feeling is so strange... Could it be that there is something wrong with the Gu? Xuechen's predecessors shouldn't lie to themselves, could it be that there is some close connection between this Snow Gu and Snow Lotus?

Ayu was still sewing and mending the cat, Yan Hong stepped forward and said, "Ayu girl, Yan is on the beam of this dormitory, Ruoniang... When the mother woke up, she had an order to call me, and Yan was on call. In fact, with his martial arts, even Chu Xiang could feel it when he turned over on the bed, and the reason why he chose to stay on the beam of the room to calm himself down and at the same time observe the movements around him.

"Commander Yan called me Ayu, and Ayu listened to the commander's orders."

Yan Hong waved his sleeves and disappeared at the door.

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The Imperial Study

Your Majesty, now that Niangniang has woken up, I'm afraid I'm going to do it again in the north. The two men sent by the servants came today to report that the queen had ordered a messenger to be sent to that man. said that he wanted to do it now, but the man did not respond, and the servant dared to ask the emperor that person wanted to ....."

She won't move Xiang'er at this time. Feng Wan is just a pawn of hers. Pay close attention to the Empress and Chu Xingyuan, especially him. ”

Isn't Chu Xingyuan the father of Concubine Xiang? Isn't it?"

"Rongcheng" Liang Qi got up and walked to the rhombus window, pushed the window lattice open, looked at the gardenias everywhere in front of him, and said for a long time, "Not everything you see is true, and sometimes your eyes may not be credible."

The slave knows, but it would be good if this matter let Chu Shizi know.

Sooner or later, he will find out about this, and he only hopes that this dispute will be over by then. Reach out and fold one and put it on the tip of her nose to smell No wonder she likes this flower, it is so refreshing and pleasant.

The slave also had a report, He Yan's father He Hu was the assassin of Huizhou, and now he knew He Yan's situation but ignored it, and the queen drove her out of the palace and was killed no more than an hour after a pillar of incense, and the cause of death is not clear, only that there is a mark shaped like a plum blossom on the back of the neck.

Plum blossoms? This is true! ”

The minion had seen that the corpse was indeed a plum blossom pattern, and the plum blossom was red like cinnabar and emitted a strange red light, so the minion remembered it so truly.

Is there anything else special about her?" "The minions did not find out"

Liang Qi walked back to the table and sat down, looking at the cinnabar pen that had gradually dried up due to not writing for a long time, his heart suddenly tightened, plum blossom mark! Where did he seem to have seen him, and where did he be? Rubbing his forehead uncomfortably, he really didn't have a clue, and then he stopped and he would know what he should know.

Chu Xiang slept for nearly two hours, and when he woke up, Ayu had finished embroidering the tree-climbing cat, and the kitten had three different colors of patterns, especially the eye part, which was vividly looking at the bird resting on the tree, and his right leg was straining, as if he was really about to catch the bird.

"Ayu's hand is so skillful, I don't know how many times more clever than this palace." Chu Xiang took the silk handkerchief and looked at it carefully. Ayu poured her a cup of tea and said with a smile: "Niangniang, don't joke with the slave maid, the reason why the slave maid has changed well is that the bottom of the slave maid is cleverly played!" I wonder what is the use of the mother asking for a veil for cats to catch birds? ”

Chu Xiang drank a few sips of tea and nodded and said, "You girl is very smart, she was often sick and feverish when she was young, I only remember that A-Niang said that after she got well, she would tie a silk handkerchief on the tree, thank God for taking care of her. A-Niang hugged the palace and tied it up for an unknown number of times, and then a fire ..... it, what can happen to the palace in the past few days?"

Ayu stood there and thought about it carefully, then said: "Niangniang fainted and vomited a lot of blood, the doctor diagnosed and treated Niangniang is a variety of diseases together, and prescribed several prescriptions, one of which requires a thousand-year-old snow lotus as a medicine, and the emperor sent someone to find and treat Niangniang. The prince and the right minister came to visit the mother, and the prince beat the emperor. ”

Chu Xiang sighed speechlessly when he heard this, "Brother's reckless temperament has not changed, and he beats people indiscriminately. The emperor is also dedicated to finding a thousand-year-old snow lotus for the palace."

Ayu suddenly felt as if she had missed something, and she choked on saliva and coughed for a long time in a hurry. Chu Xiang saw that her little face was flushed with cough, so he rewarded her with a cup of tea, and after Ayu thanked her, he continued: "The emperor locked up the three concubines who bullied Niangniang, saying that he wanted to give Niangniang an explanation. Speaking of this, Ayu leaned down to Chu Xiang's ear and whispered, "The slave maid also went to the imperial dining room this morning and heard it, Ning Guiren and Yun Guiren were beaten with only one breath left, and He Guifei was lynched by the queen, and it is said that no one can see and no one can hear the sound."

Chu Xiang raised his eyebrows, "The queen has come forward? And lynching? What did the emperor say? ”

Ayu nodded and replied, "The slave maid has never heard of the emperor, and the slave maid has heard more terrible rumors, so I don't dare to tell the mother, if the night scares the mother, the slave and the maid should die!" Now the mother's body just has the food she wants to eat? ”

Chu Xiang leaned on the soft couch and suddenly remembered that when she was a child, every time she got sick, A-Niang would force her to drink a decoction that was better than Coptis chinensis.

At that time, the brother would give her two candied fruits, but not much. Chu Xiang was depressed lying by the window looking at the peach blossom tree outside, and when he was drowsy, he saw a white figure among the colorful petals. Rubbing his eyes, he looked at the place again, but only the petals were flying, and he turned down in confusion to see that there was a small piece of food on the small table in front of the window that looked like pastries but exuded the aroma of malt.

Curiously, I picked it up and wiped it with my fingers and put it in my mouth, sweet! It's sweeter than preserves! Chu Xiang's eyebrows were raised, and he happily even knocked over the tea cup on the small case, the bee sugar water wet his shoes and socks, and the bite was sticky and chewy in his mouth, and a small piece was eaten up in a few bites.

The palms were all melted sweet water, and the pink silk shoulder-length cover that was casually smeared on the skirt was instantly dirty. The servant girl in charge of the service pushed open the door and shouted, "Miss! How to play with water and drink bee sugar water! Everywhere you go, the lady sees it, and she must be punishing the slave again! ”

Thinking about it, he looked up and asked Ayu, "Have you ever eaten something like a pastry, red and yellow in color, sticky in nature, sweet in taste, hard and malty aroma?"

Ayu was stunned for a moment, twisted her fingers, and said with a red face, "Slave maid....slave maid is poor, and she has never eaten the starch that Niang Niang said, and I don't know what it tastes like...."The more she spoke, the quieter her voice became, and the simple clothes had been twisted out.

Ayu, this palace does not mean to be sarcastic, it is that this palace is not considerate. Do you have any relatives at home? ”

"Back to her mother, Ayu lost her mother since she was a child, and her younger brother Akui is now fourteen, and his father hunts in the mountains on weekdays in exchange for silver taels for Akui to study."

Hunt? Now that winter is approaching, what prey is there to hunt?

"How many taels of silver can your father get in exchange for hunting?" Chu Xiang frowned and asked

"If you catch a pheasant or a hare and go to the market early, you can exchange it for 5 yuan, and if it is a fawn, you can exchange it for 30 yuan."

At most, 30 money, Chu Xiang felt uncomfortable 30 money is not worth remembering at all in the hands of dignitaries and dignitaries, if ordinary people eat bran every day just to survive, how many people have been displaced by the war a few days ago, how many families have lost their pillars, how many children have lost their lives forever in good years, and I don't know when the people will really live and work in peace and contentment.....

"This palace remembers that the emperor allowed you to double your monthly money, and now you can buy some good supplies for yourself after receiving the monthly money, and send the rest to your family." Chu Xiang sat up, always lying down and his body was uncomfortable.

Ayu helped her, "Slaves don't need any rouge gouache, this money can make Akui better study and gain fame!" Daddy doesn't have to work so hard anymore. ”

Chu Xiang nodded and didn't speak, Ayu took out a set of satin embroidered hundred butterfly skirts from the cabinet and was rejected before she walked in front of her, "This palace doesn't want to wear those cumbersome clothes today, you can find a simple one at will."

Ayu nodded in agreement, and finally found a white mopping smoke cage plum blossom baishui skirt, lined with pale pink brocade wrapping chest, the cuffs embroidered with delicate gold-patterned butterflies, and a few lace lace hooked out of the chest placket, simple and generous!

There are a few hairpins inlaid with emerald agate on the head, and the lower layer scatters three thousand green silk on the shoulders, and the earrings are also inlaid with agate stones, and the white jade neck has a mermaid pearl necklace, which adds a lot of style to the white jade neck, and the small face is even more pale due to illness.

After putting on the socks, Ayu went to find the embroidered shoes on her feet, but found that the embroidered shoes were missing! Just now, the mother was wearing clogs, and she didn't wear embroidered shoes at all! Chu Xiang waited for a long time and didn't see Ayu handing over his shoes, and asked suspiciously, "Ayu? Is there something going on? ”

Ayu said with a crying voice for a long time, "Niangniang, the slave maid saw Niangniang's embroidered shoes placed there this morning, but when the slave maid went to get them, she found that the embroidered shoes were missing..." Chu Xiang thought that something big had happened again, and it turned out that he had lost a pair of embroidered shoes.

"That's it, a little bit of a girl is gone, you go get another pair."

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of tiles sliding down on the beam, which startled the master and servant, and then Ayu remembered that it seemed that Commander Yan had said that he was on the beam, could it be that he had heard everything just now?!

Who's in the beams? Hurry up and get down to Hongu! Chu Xiang usually looks soft and weak, and she will fall down when she touches it, and the wind will blow her away, but even Chu Lingke is afraid of it.

Yan Honggang, who was on the beam of the house, was blown away by the cool breeze and the heat arched again, he had been sitting on the pedal and holding Chu Xiang's embroidered shoes for a long time, and then under the influence of the snow Gu, he hurriedly flew to the beam of the house, so he lay on the glazed tiles and closed his eyes and listened carefully to everything in the hall.

Within two hours, I heard her get up and drink water. She asked about the recent events, Ayu said very briefly, and it didn't even matter....it doesn't matter, as long as she's fine, it doesn't matter who saved her in the end.... Later, I also heard the tragic situation of He Guifei and the attitude of the queen, the queen's intervention was not expected by Yan Hong, and the emperor actually handed over the matter to her to deal with......quite strange!

After that, Chu Xiang got up to change his clothes, and Ayu said that the embroidered shoes were gone!

Yan Hong, who was closing his eyes, suddenly opened his long, narrow and dark eyes, embroidering shoes? But the pair he just took? Then he sat up and touched his chest, and sure enough! On his chest was the pair of embroidered shoes that Chu Xiang had "lost"! In fright, he got up in a hurry and touched two glazed tiles, and Yan Hong, who was standing stiffly on the beam, heard a voice with a hint of cruelty but heartstrings: "Who is in the beam? Hurry up and get down to Hongu! ”

Yan Hong jumped down and stood firmly at the door of the Mingluan Palace, only to see a white Qianqian figure walking out of the inner hall "The minister sees the mother" Yan Hong knelt on one knee and clasped his fists with both hands.

"You....but the commander sent by the emperor to protect the palace?" Chu Xiang was supported by Ayu and looked at Yan Hong who was kneeling on the ground expressionlessly.

"Hui Niangniang, the minister's name is Yan Hong, and it is....the emperor sent the minister to protect the safety of the mother."

"This palace didn't ask you who your surname was, but the thing in your arms looked very familiar?" Chu Xiang narrowed his good-looking eyes and stared at Yan Hong's chest.

"This..." Yan Hong, who had seen all the scenes on the battlefield, was now flustered because of the gaze of a little woman, and the sweat behind his back wet his clothes, leaving a wet mark ambiguous.

Niangniang's embroidered shoes are indeed taken by the minister, and the minister sat on Niangniang's foot in the early morning and picked it up....When he left, he forgot to return it to Niangniang, please forgive Niangniang!" After speaking, he took out the warm embroidered shoes that had been covered by his body temperature in his arms, put them in the palm of his hand, and held them forward.

How could this palace ask others to touch something! Just as if these embroidered shoes were stolen by some palace man who is not long-eyed! After coughing twice, Ayu hurriedly helped her back to the inner hall and sat on the rosewood carved armchair and poured a bee candy water to moisten her throat.

Yan Hong outside the hall still maintained the posture of holding embroidered shoes, his resolute eyes kept staring at the inner hall, his closed lips were trembling slightly, was she disgusted with the things he had touched....looked down at the embroidered shoes in his hand, the pink pearls shimmered dazzlingly in the sunlight just like her, how could people resist the temptation?

After a long time, Ayu walked out of the inner hall and came to Yan Hong, blessed himself and said, "Commander Yan, please get up." My mother has something for me to convey on my behalf. ”

Yan Hong put the embroidered shoes back again, "Since it is the mother's order, Yan Hong naturally has to kneel and listen."

Ayu looked at the tall and majestic man in front of him, and couldn't say anything, so she could only clear her throat and say, "Niangniang said, if you have nothing to do in the future, you can't enter the inner hall of Mingluan Palace, you can't move a single grass or tree in Mingluan Palace, and you can't ........ the last point..." Ayu was really embarrassed to say it, but she couldn't help but say it, so she leaned over and whispered, "Niangniang said, The smell of sweat on Commander Yan's body is really unpleasant, let Commander Yan come to Mingluan Hall after freshening up later."

After conveying the words, Ayu turned around and ran into the inner hall, Yan Hong did not question the previous ones, until he heard the last thick eyebrows raised, sweat? Raising his arm and smelling it, there is indeed a strong smell of sweat, but it is no different for Yan Hong, who wears iron armor all the year round, sometimes dozens of people live in a military tent, and the smell of sweat and feet is taken for granted....I am a rough person, I usually don't pay attention to these, she is so delicate and must not be able to stand this smell.

She got up and patted the dust off her robe, it was already noon, and she should have eaten, so she asked the maid if she had eaten a pastry that looked like a pastry, red and yellow in color, slimy in character, and sweet in taste, which seemed to be the wheat cake made by his mother from the leftover wheat at home when he was a child, and the two dolls in the family at that time, Yan Hong, were made by the elder brother, and the wheat starch was always eaten by the younger brother first.....

Could it be that the starch she wants to eat is wheat starch? It is really difficult to find in this imperial city, how can such a vulgar thing be eaten by the concubine. Wiping off the sweat with his cuffs, he looked back at the towering pavilion again, his hands clenched and his heart was extremely complicated, and he finally let go of his fist and turned away.

Chu Xiang looked at the ground in a daze, and when Ayu came back, he asked, "Does he understand?"

"Back to Niangniang, Commander Yan should know what Niangniang meant."

"Okay, go with Hongu and tie the veil to the tree." Ah Yu touched Chu Xiang's hand so cold, and hurriedly turned out a hand stove from the low cabinet and put it in her hand, Chu Xiang looked at the hand stove that Ah Yu found with satisfaction, this girl is careful, he will be of great use one day.

The noon sun hung high in the sky, and Chu Xiang, who was shining in the sun, couldn't open his eyes at all, Ayu was not as tall as Chu Xiang, and raised his hand awkwardly to shade the light for Niangniang "Niangniang has been asleep for a few days and has not come out, this light is so dazzling, I knew that I ordered someone to take the canopy to shade it!"

Not necessarily, doesn't it be said in medicine that frequent sun exposure helps the body nourish? Every time Imperial Physician Liu came to check the pulse of the palace, he had to go to the palace to bask in the sun of Nalaoshzi, and now I really think it is useful. Chu Xiang walked slowly on the path step by step, and the plants along the way were replaced by gardenias by Liang Qi, and the breeze blew with a burst of floral fragrance.

If the mother thinks it is acceptable, then it will be exposed to the sun every afternoon, and the slave can give the mother a speech book. Ayu was illiterate, and slowly learned to read after following Chu Xiang, when Niangniang was bored in the palace, the prince would buy some popular books among the people, and quietly give them to Niangniang Let Niangniang look at it and relax.

At the beginning, Chu Xiang would read it every day, and after a long time, he felt that his eyes were a little blurry, and the imperial doctor's pulse was said to be caused by excessive use of his eyes, and in those days, Liang Qi instructed the imperial dining room to make some ingredients to replenish his eyes every day, and then Chu Xiang was tired of eating and stopped but was not allowed to read the scroll anymore, which made Ayu secretly talk about some scripts.

Walking to the peach garden, it is the time when the flowers are blooming. Ayu saw that the peach blossoms were blooming beautifully, so she wanted to fold a few branches back to relieve her mood, and folded a few flower branches that had not yet bloomed and handed them to the palace maids behind her, asking them to go back and find a Yao bottle and place it on the table next to the chaise longue.

Chu Xiang walked in the peach garden and couldn't help but think of when she was a child, she was also playing under that tree, and Ah Niang held her and sat under the tree to tell the story of the tree god.....

Settle under a tall peach tree, look up at the dense canopy, one by one the petals fall with the wind, pinch a pink petal and put it in the palm of your hand, and then be blown down by the wind and fall to the ground..... no matter how beautiful things will eventually decline.

Ayu took the handkerchief and tied it to a peach branch, and with the agitation of the wind, the cat really caught birds on the tree as if it was alive.

"Niangniang, you see, the cat is so flexible, it must be that God feels the mother's heart!" Ayu stood aside and said excitedly

"Yo~ Who should I be, it turned out to be Sister Xiang~"

Why is this person's tone so familiar? It's her!