"So Concubine Lin is threatening the palace?"

"How dare you be a concubine?" Lin Ningning's voice was gentle and his expression was very kind, but I looked like a provocation.

She took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, raised her eyebrows slightly, and said to me with a chuckle: "The crown princess doesn't have to worry too much......

"Indeed." I interrupted her in a loud voice, "If you had evidence, would you wait until today to calmly threaten this palace here?" ”

I chuckled lightly and continued: "Besides, what you say is either related to the crown prince or the emperor, even if you have evidence, do you really dare to say it?" ”

"The crown princess is really smart." She lowered her head and smiled, then raised her head again, and a pair of clear and bright eyes that were deep in the city met my gaze, and she said softly: "Actually, in some sense, you and I are the same people. ”

I tilted my head slightly, slightly confused: "What do you mean?" ”

"You and I, in fact, are just rootless duckweed in the East Palace, the prince ........" she chuckled and shook her head to herself.

I stared at her intently for a long time, she seemed to be reminiscing and looking at me, her eyes kept wandering over me, but it gave people a sense of distraction.

"That's it, the concubine doesn't want to continue to dwell on these things." She paused, looked at me quietly for a long time, and then continued: "The concubine is curious about one thing, I don't know if the princess is willing to answer?" ”

"You say."

She didn't ask me out loud immediately, but looked at me for a long time before she asked slowly, "What is the relationship between you and Yi Gongzi?" ”

Yi Xuan?

I wondered why she asked about my relationship with Yi Xuan, and when I was about to answer, she continued: "That day, when Concubine Chu came to the concubine's palace to catch the adulterer, the concubine inadvertently glimpsed it by the moonlight... Yi Gongzi jumps onto the tree with you in his arms. ”

"You're looking closely." I raised my eyebrows and whispered back to her: "It's a pity that your wishful thinking may be about to come to naught, Yi Xuan and Bengong used to be people who worked for His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

She smiled and asked no further.

"Since the crown princess has nothing to do, the concubine should also go to bed."

After she said this, I didn't mean to leave, and after looking at her for a while, I continued: "Since you ask this palace a question, can this palace also ask you a question?" ”

She nodded and replied, "Naturally, the crown princess, please speak." ”

"Are you the person sent by the emperor to the crown prince?"

She was stunned for a moment, then suddenly smiled again, and said slowly: "Why would the crown princess ask that?" If the concubine is the emperor's person, she will not help you pull down Song Yujun, you can rest assured, in this East Palace, the Cao family is alone, and he is the emperor's person. ”

I was skeptical of her words: "But you don't leave the house, it's not what the emperor said, how did you know about the things that this palace has done?" ”

"Here, you have to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." She picked up the embroidered handkerchief and covered her lips before continuing to say to me: "Do you think that the relationship between the concubine and the prince is also like other female dependents? Then you are very wrong, the concubine knows that you are Ning Xiao's person, and she also knows that Yi Gongzi is the teacher Xi invited by the prince for you, so the concubine wants to know that it is not this surface, but between you... A deeper relationship, though, if you don't want to say it, it's okay. ”

She smiled lightly, her smile was very kind, but in my eyes, it made me feel endless ridicule and contempt.

I used to really think that Lin Shanning was just the same as the other ladies in the harem, just a poor and pathetic woman who had lived in the East Palace for a long time, but now it seems that she and Fu Yuying may also have experiences that I don't know.

I felt a little lost, but it didn't show it on my face.

I stood up and said to her in a deep voice, "It's late at night, so this palace won't bother you anymore, so go to bed early." ”

With that, I turned and left.

Magnolia has been waiting outside for a long time.

The cool evening breeze slowly blew through the ends of my hair, and I slowly walked down the steps, and suddenly I felt a cold snowflake smash down with the evening breeze, sliding diagonally on my face, and instantly melting into water.

I looked up, and in the light of the bright moon, small snowflake fingers were dyed with its silver, floating casually in the sky.

The cold wind from the dark night drove me outside, and I walked towards the outside of the courtyard step by step to meet the snowflakes that were constantly flying around me.

The lights in the courtyard of Concubine Chu on the opposite side had been extinguished, and not long after I left, the lights in Lin Ningning's courtyard were also extinguished.

Yulan walked up to me, put on my hat, and said to me slowly: "It's cold at night, and now it's snowing again, the princess should speed up the pace, let's go back quickly." ”

"There's no hurry." I spoke faintly, and did not go into further detail with her, but quietly watched the snow under the moonlight.

For some reason, I really want to enjoy the peace and beauty of this moment.

At this moment, I don't have so many obsessions in my heart, nor do I have so many unwillingness and reluctance, some just want to let time stop here, so that I am alone in this world.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and I wandered aimlessly, passing through many places I had never seen before.

I saw a locked room, as if it had been uninhabited for many years, but the light in that room was unusually bright.

I stood in the distance, quietly watching from afar, and in a trance, I seemed to see that there was a person standing in the same figure as Fu Yuying.

Before I could enter, the lights in the house had been extinguished, and the man in the room had slowly walked out.

Through the moonlight, I saw that person, it was really Fu Yuying.

He walked slowly towards me, and the smell of mint leaves on his body was extremely strong, more than twice as heavy as I usually asked.

"Why aren't you in the house?" He stretched out his hand and pressed the back of his hand to my cheek, and his voice was very gentle: "The snow night is cold, go back quickly, it's not good if you catch the wind and cold." ”

I didn't move, I just stared at him intently, my heart was very complicated, and after a long time, I said softly: "Fu Yuying, you say, what should I do?" ”

I don't know your past, I don't know your present, I thought I was the most special person outside of the lonely silk in your mouth, but Lin Shanning told me that her relationship with you was far beyond my guess.

I'm not the love of your heart, nor is I your most special person, my existence is the same existence as those ladies in the East Palace, will one day, I also end up like my sister?

Should I tell you these words? Or, should I tell you I love you?

He reached out and pulled my cloak for me and asked softly, "What's wrong?" ”

I watched him quietly for a long time, feeling the cold wind from the cold night, and although my heart was extremely complicated, I felt extremely calm.

"Lin Ningning..." I just opened my mouth, but I was forced back into my throat by my cowardice, and changed what I wanted to say later to "It's a little difficult to deal with..."

"Indeed." He agreed with my words, and then said, "The elephant gall is inseparable from her, right?" ”

I nodded, in response to his words.

Fu Yuying sighed lightly and said slowly: "It's cold outside, let's go in with me first." ”

With that, he reached out and pulled me up my sleeve and walked towards the room.

After lighting the candle, I found that the mint fragrance on Fu Yuying's body was all contaminated with the smell of this room.

So what the hell is this place?

Before I could speculate more, Fu Yuying had already spoken, and continued to tell me what happened just now: "Lin Ningning's personality has been very withdrawn since she was a child, maybe it is related to her experience when she was a child, I have checked her past, she once killed the servant girl next to her when she was a teenager, as for the reason, I don't know, but it is said that her personality is distorted, and it is also related to this maid for an inexplicable reason. ”

"I accepted her into the palace in order to win over the power of the Lin family, but she did a lot of things after she moved into the East Palace, she did a lot of things, and even, she could find out my mind, and she was willing to do something extremely dangerous and cost-effective for me, so I would be special to her, but slowly, I found that Lin Ningning was not as simple as I imagined, and she didn't do things for me."

I frowned slightly and asked him in a low voice, "What do you mean by that?" ”

"She is the emperor's man." Fu Yuying replied loudly, "If it weren't for the death of your sister that day, I really would never have doubted her identity. ”

Is she really the emperor's person..........? So what she said was to separate me from Fu Yuying?

"Sister Chang's death?" I wondered, "What does this have to do with her?" ”

"The dagger that your sister committed suicide was handed in by Lin Shanning, and all this is what the emperor meant. I think that the emperor originally planned to use this incident to deepen my impression of Lin Shanning, after all, the Cao family was clearly against me killing your sister that day, and Cao's actions just made the emperor's intentions, and Lin Shanning did the opposite, in order to win my praise for her, plus she was willing to tell me that the emperor intended to make her the crown princess, but the premise was that she wanted her to do things for the emperor, so with the relationship I had with Lin Ningning, maybe I could change my original intention of making you the crown princess. ”

I see.........

I thought for a moment, then raised my head again and asked him, "But I don't understand, how did you see that Lin Shanning was the emperor's person from these things?" ”

Fu Yuying lowered her eyes, as if she was recalling something, "The emperor has made a lot of calculations, but he missed a little, which led to the loss of the whole game, and even revealed Lin Ningning's identity." ”