CHAPTER XXIII
Ning Bai and Su Ziqing met with confidants tonight and talked happily, but they didn't know that someone under the rockery was listening openly.
Both of them were drunk, a little drunk, I don't know if it was drunk nonsense or the truth, Su Ziqing's words hidden in his heart were revealed through drunkenness. He looked into the distance and said softly, "Actually, I already knew that you were a woman."
Ning Bai was slightly stunned, then his eyes dodged, looked around, stabilized his mind, and denied with a light smile: "Young Master Su is drunk, compared to other men, I do look thinner."
Su Ziqing slowly turned her head and looked at her, "Your name is Ning Bai?" Ning Bai nodded obediently. He then looked her up and down again, and after a moment, he shook his head in a deep voice and said, "Ning Bai's name really doesn't match you, you are a beautiful woman, so you took the name of a son."
Ning Bai helplessly stretched out his hand to his knees and supported his head, "Ning Bai's name was taken by his parents, how can I change my name arbitrarily, besides, I am a man, not a beauty, can Master Su remember?" ”
Xu Feng at the bottom of the rockery somehow sneered, Helian Jinyi glanced at him indifferently, Xu Feng immediately bowed down and whispered: "Please forgive your Highness, my subordinates didn't notice it for a while, and laughed out loud."
Helian Jin was like a pine and cypress, standing in the cold wind, and said calmly: "Then tell me, why are you laughing?"
Xu Feng couldn't help but sneak a peek at his Royal Highness, with no emotion and no action, to ensure his own safety, and then said truthfully: "My subordinates just feel that Dr. Ning is a woman, but he takes it for granted that he is a man, and his words are sincere, which is not easy, and his subordinates didn't hold back for a while, so they laughed out loud."
Helian Jianyi's cold voice followed: "It's good to hold on, if you can't hold it, ask Dr. Ning to prick a few stitches in your face, and it will naturally be tightened."
Xu Feng held back his grievances and answered "yes", and suddenly felt that recently, he had become more and more ignorant of His Royal Highness.
Su Ziqing said as he spoke, his eyes were foggy, and unconsciously, he leaned his head on Ning Bai's shoulder. Ning Bai looked down at him, shook his head, and asked softly, "Young Master Su?" was silent, "Su Ziqing? "Still silent.
Ning Bai let Su Ziqing's head rest on her shoulder, and suddenly, she sighed heavily, as if talking to Su Ziqing, who was drunk and unconscious, and as if she was talking to herself: "Master Su is right, Ning Bai is not suitable for me, and I will tell you quietly, my surname is Mu, I admire Mu, I love Mu, as for the name, I won't say it, and I don't know if I can recall this name again in this life, if so, you are the first friend I know, I will be the first to tell you."
At the bottom of the rockery, Xu Feng suddenly felt that the surroundings were extremely cold, and he stood expressionless under his palace, and he didn't know how to move his body to warm up.
After a while, Helian Jianyi commanded in a calm voice, "Master Su is drunk, go and send him back to the dormitory so that he can rest." ”
Xu Feng obeyed the "yes" in a daze, and then set off to climb the rockery.
Although Ning Bai was slightly drunk, he faintly heard the movement, half raised his eyes, squinted, and asked softly, "Who is it?"
Xu Feng climbed fast, and half of his body came out in less than a cup of tea, and when he heard Ning Bai asking, he responded respectfully: "In Xia Xu Feng, Doctor Ning doesn't need to panic, he is just here to send Su Gongzi back to the dormitory."
Xu is wine drank a little more, Ning Bai frowned, rubbed his temples, and said casually: "It's just right to come, Su Gongzi is so drunk that he really can't move, and I thought I was going to stay on this rockery tonight."
Xu Feng knows martial arts, it is naturally not difficult to carry one, he delicately scooped up Su Ziqing, and when he got up, Su Ziqing's feet kicked to the wine jar placed at his feet, and the wine jar was inclined along the rockery, rolling down to the grass under the rockery, fortunately, there was no wine in the altar for a long time, otherwise it would be a pity to be full of drunken immortal brew in Suiyang.
Drunken immortal brewing is easy to make people drunk, Su Ziqing drank a jar, and naturally got drunk. Xu Feng slapped Su Ziqing on his shoulder with one hand, supported Su Ziqing with one hand, jumped lightly, and took Su Ziqing away from the rockery, landed on the grass, and left step by step.
Ning Bai thought back to the hour, at this moment, I was afraid that it was almost time, and she had to go back quickly. I shook the wine in my hand, there was about half of it, and it was a pity to throw away the wine that cost so much money, so I just took it back and drank it when I was free.
Ning Bai held the wine in his left hand, while half-squatting and moving along the slope of the rockery a little bit, holding a more stable thing in his right hand, and slowly sending himself down the rockery. Suddenly regretted a little, just let Xu Feng take her away from the rockery together, and she didn't have to take care of herself and wine at the same time.
After moving for a long time, seeing that it was almost on the ground, the left hand holding the wine was a little numb, and it was not stable for a while, and the wine jar fell from his hand. Ning Bai was shocked, seeing that the wine was about to fall to the ground and be broken, thinking that such an expensive wine was wasted, he couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart.
When the wine jar was only a stone's throw from the ground, a big hand like a god caught it, and in an instant, it also made Ning Bai's dangling heart fall to the ground safely.
Helian Jin held the wine jar steadily, slowly raised his eyes to look at Ning Bai, who was unable to walk an inch above, his eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, and he said indifferently: "I never thought that Dr. Ning would have this habit of drinking."
Ning Bai's upper body swayed in a daze, only to feel that someone was talking to him, and by the faint light of the waning moon, he fixed his eyes and saw that it was the second highness of the Zhengqing Palace. I don't know if it was her who shook her eyes, but it was strange that she saw the grievances and displeasure in the eyes of His Second Highness!
Ning Bai continued to move forward, and then jumped forward, staggering and barely fixed in front of Helian Jinyi, Ning Bai was not tall, and compared to Helian Jianyi, he looked more and more thin and short.
Ning Bai bowed and saluted, and there was some wine in his mouth, which was very smoky, "Ning Bai, I have seen the Second Highness......
Helian Jinyi's eyebrows became more and more wrinkled, and he handed the wine jar in his hand to Ning Bai's eyes, "Doctor Ning drank half of the jar alone?" ”
Ning Bai stood up and waved his hand, and said casually: "What is this?" Master Su drank a whole jar, and I only drank half of the jar, if I didn't think that it would be a pity to throw away the remaining half of the jar, it would not appear in the hands of His Highness at this moment. ”
Helian Jinyi suddenly thought of Su Ziqing's drunken appearance, glanced at Ning Bai again, and shook the wine in his hand, no more, no less.
Helian Jinyi had a cold face, and there was a slight hint of punishment in his words, "I heard that this wine will lose its mellow fragrance after a long time, why don't you say that Dr. Ning will leave the mellow fragrance and drink this jar of wine?" ”
Ning Bai looked at him without any doubt and asked, "Really?" It's a pity that such an expensive wine is wasted!
Helian Jin nodded silently.
As soon as Ning Bai took over the wine jar, he drank it all very happily without saying a word, but after a cup of tea, only the altar was left.
Helian Jinyi always had a cold face, and watched indifferently as Ning Bai finished drinking the half jar of wine. After Ning Bai finished drinking, he said, "It's not too early, Your Highness will send you back."
After Ning Bai drank half a jar of wine, he felt more and more dizzy, but his reason was still there, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but be a little surprised, "Your Highness said, send me back?" ”
Helian Jianyi snorted coldly, and said angrily: "At this time, His Royal Highness is not worried about 'Miss Ning'."
After Ning Bai finished speaking, he was obediently silent, the pigtail was in his hand, but he was just "sent" back, it was not a big deal, just follow it.
Every night in the palace, someone will light the candlestick in the palace, but only to illuminate the road ahead, if you want to look carefully, you still have to hold a lamp by yourself.
After walking for a while, it was always Helian Jin who strode forward, and Ning Bai followed with broken steps, but she felt that her head was getting more and more dizzy as she walked, and she thought that she was drunk. Also, Su Ziqing was drunk after drinking a jar, not to mention her?
When he walked to a cross palace alley, Helian Jinyi heard sparse footsteps on the left and suddenly stopped. Although Ning Bai was dizzy, he never stopped moving forward, and accidentally, his head bumped into Helian Jinyi's back.
Helian Jianyi subconsciously stretched out her hand back, accurately catching Ning Bai's hand, and suddenly felt that her palm was warm.
One is to stabilize Ning Bai, and the other is to prevent Ning Bai from moving around and being seen by others.
The person who came was the guard on duty at midnight, only four people, the person in front of him turned on the lamp, raised the lamp higher, and when he approached, he saw Helian Jinyi at a glance, his expression was nervous, and he hurriedly put down the lamp and bowed down, "The slave has seen the second highness." ”
The people in the back couldn't see anything clearly, but they saw the people in front kneeling, and they knelt down, after all, in the palace, everyone was a person with status.
Helian Jinyi's voice was calm, and she let out a faint "um".
The four of them said playfully, "The slave is retired." The person in front picked up the lamp again, and was about to bow to leave, when he saw something moving behind His Second Highness, he subconsciously raised the lamp, got closer, and looked like a person in a blur.
Before he could see his appearance clearly, he was coldly scolded by His Royal Highness the Second Highness, "Bastard! ”
The four of them were so frightened that they quickly knelt down, and the person in front of them was so frightened that he threw the lamp on the ground, the light was immediately extinguished, and the surroundings were suddenly dark, and the four of them were buried in the darkness trembling and begging for mercy, "Your Highness forgives your sins, Your Highness forgives your sins......"
Helian Jinyi didn't take this seriously, he turned around, took off his open robe to protect him from the cold, covered Ning Bai's body, covered his face, took Ning Bai's hand, and walked straight forward neatly.
The four of them watched the Second Highness pull the person and disappear into the darkness, and the panic in their hearts was still dissipated for a long time, so they quickly picked up the extinguished lantern and trotted away.
Helian Jinyi pulled Ning Bai away for a while, but unexpectedly, Ning Bai put his other hand on Helian Jinyi's hand and rubbed it back and forth.
Helian Jinyi reacted, immediately withdrew his hand, and said in embarrassment: "What are you doing?"
Ning Bai closed his eyes unconsciously, and when he heard the words, he raised his head and opened his eyes to look at Helian Jinyi, closed his eyes again, his voice swayed, and he smiled: "Your hands are so cold, I'll help you cover them, just cover them......"
In fact, she drank alcohol herself, and her body was a little hot, and it happened that a cold hand grabbed her, and her heart was happy, and it was inevitable that she would have to inch in.
Helian Jinyi suddenly felt resentment in his heart, but he was helpless, so he only said, "That's it, it's good that you don't get drunk and faint." ”
Immediately, Helian Jinyi continued to pull her, and her originally cold hands repeatedly felt the warmth in her hands, and without the open robe to protect against the cold, she didn't feel the cold wind. He had never felt like this before, and he was a little reluctant to let go.
Fortunately, Ning Bai finally fainted drunk in front of the door of the self-proclaimed dormitory, which also saved Helian Jin a lot of effort.
There are several bonsai in the palace courtyard, the soil is paved with pebbles, Helian Jin Yi walked to the bonsai, leaned over and picked up a pebble, looked at the loose glazed tiles on the eaves, and with a little force on the wrist, the pebbles flew out of their hands, and hit them gently, and the loose glazed tiles went down, only to hear the sound of breaking.
Before Helian Jinyi left, he unconsciously glanced at Ning Bai a few more times, and even he didn't notice it.
There was a "squeak" sound not far away, Helian Jianyi moved back a few steps and hid in the dark, Xiao Anzi opened the door and saw what was going on, and happened to see a person sitting in front of the palace gate, and walked in to see, it was Dr. Ning, he called a few times, Dr. Ning was silent, and smelled a smell of wine, thinking about today's palace banquet, it must be a greedy cup.
It wasn't until Xiao Anzi dragged Ning Bai into the house that Helian Jianyi walked away.
When Helian Jinyi walked to the Zhengqing Palace, he saw Xu Feng walking quickly, and his face was worried, "Your Highness, where is your open robe?" ”
Helian Jin Yi said nonchalantly: "I accidentally fell into the lake and couldn't pick it up."
Xu Feng thought that His Royal Highness had been coming back like this, and he blamed himself very much, His Royal Highness was sick, he couldn't bear the cold, he had been careful all the time, and he was so tossed, I was afraid that tonight, His Highness would not be able to sleep well.
"If you can't pick it up, then you don't want it, wouldn't it be better to get a new one." The person who came was Mu Guixue, and I saw her holding an open robe in her hand, looking very new.
Helian Jinyi didn't look at her, "The old one is comfortable to wear, but the new one is a bad person, and His Royal Highness can't get used to it." ”
Mu Guixue Wan'er, "Sooner or later, the new will become the old, it's just time, why should Your Highness be confined to a while?" ”
Helian Jin Yi looked coldly, "Whether it is old or new, it must be liked by His Royal Highness, otherwise, the so-called one time is forever!" ”