"Your father, he, someone." Under Shen Mei's inquiry, Jiang Ying lay on her shoulder crying, wiping her tears and sobbing.

"No way, my dad wasn't like that." Shen Mei held Jiang Ying's shoulders with both hands, her delicate eyebrows wrinkled slightly like clouds rolled together in the sky, how could he, father, is this something that her mother is cranky because she misses herself.

Jiang Ying still wiped the corners of her eyes, and said intermittently with a crying voice: "I saw with my own eyes, he was with a woman. ”

Shen Mei still doesn't believe that in modern times, her father is an upright official, not greedy for money, and has never had a second heart for her mother, "What's wrong with being together, it may be just talking about things, will it be your mother who thinks too much." ”

Jiang Ying shook her head painfully, leaned aggrievedly into Shen Mei's arms, pulled her clothes tightly, like holding a life-saving straw, and found all her support.

Seeing that she couldn't cry, Shen Mei had no choice but to pat her on the back to give her some stability, her mother at the moment was like a child who needed someone to protect her, she was as weak as a piece of paper, and she couldn't bear the stimulation.

Maybe I should ask my father, my mother's appearance is definitely not for no reason, Shen Mei frowned, and her heart hurt her mother in her arms.

When Shen Mei stabilized her, the housekeeper hurriedly came over to say, "Madam, Lord Bai is here." ”

"That's her!" Jiang Ying lifted her face full of tears from Shen Mei's arms, she was overwhelmed with grief and indignation, she bit her red lip, and blood beads came out because she was too hard.

Jiang Ying said fiercely to the housekeeper: "Don't let her in, get out, isn't there anything powerful about a female official." ”

The housekeeper looked embarrassed, looked at her with pity in his eyes, and bowed his head helplessly, "Lord Bai is now in the hall talking to the master about things. ”

When Jiang Ying heard this, her feet softened, and her tears seemed to never flow during a thunderstorm.

"I'll take a look." Shen Mei gently patted the back of her hand, asked the housekeeper to send Jiang Ying back to the room to rest, and let the maid into the hall by herself.

The sky-blue bead curtains were close to each other, trying to prevent outsiders from peeking into everything inside, but those gaps still easily allowed Shen Mei to clearly see the woman who was with her father.

The clothes she wore were embroidered with bright red hibiscus flowers, which snaked from the neckline to the skirt, extremely bright, only a little worse than Mu Guose, she was not beautiful, but she had a pair of firm eyes, and her eyebrows were tough distant mountain eyebrows, which were slowly drawn by her, and she seemed to be a person who was very attentive to life.

Shen Mei stared at them, and was not in a hurry to go out, she was out of the palace without permission now, and this woman was a female official, so it was not good for her to see that she was here after all.

It seemed that something had happened to her father and Lord Bai, and she reached for her father's hand, but her father impatiently shook it off.

"I can be a concubine." When Lord Bai looked at her father, there was a kind of tenderness in her eyes, she almost pleaded, and there were tears in her eyes even if she deliberately forbeared.

The father was unmoved, turned his back and didn't look at her, his tone was indifferent and resolute, "Impossible, I will marry her alone in this life." ”

Shen Mei was secretly happy in her heart, she knew that her father would not abandon her mother.

And Lord Bai didn't intend to give up, just bit the corner of his bright red lip, "One day, you will marry me." Determined, full of confidence, she walked out of the hall with her head up, completely devoid of the loss that she had suffered after confessing.

Shen Mei quietly retreated, let people take the ordinary clothes of a maid, and her hair was casually tied with two buds with a blue belt, and after dressing up, she left the house and waited on the way that Lord Bai had to enter the palace.

She didn't have to wait too long, and the female officer sat down and walked unhurriedly to the road.

Just as the leading eunuch shouted at the pedestrians to give way, Shen Mei rushed out and spread out her two hands to stop Jiaozi.

"Bold you." The round-faced eunuch raised his chin to pull Shen Mei away, but she pushed him aside.

"Lord Bai, our master Shen has something to say to you." Shen Mei didn't look at the eunuch, and shouted at the people in the coquettish son, in order to make this woman die, she broke off her delusions, and she had to make this decision.

When the people in the delicate son heard that it was Shen Huainan who said something to her, the slight coolness in her eyes had a touch of sunshine, cheerful and bright, she lifted the corner of the delicate curtain with her bare hands, and bent down to come out of it.

She walked up to Shen Mei and looked at her from head to toe with her eyes, "Let's go to the alley ahead." ”

Shen Mei nodded, and followed her to a place where there were few people, after all, she was a female official in the imperial court, and it was too shameless to guard so many people.

Looking at this female official, she didn't make a detour, and said directly: "The master asked me to tell Lord Bai that he won't like you, he only likes his wife in this life, please don't go to him." She said this very clearly, and I don't believe that she doesn't know.

The female officer looked at her quietly, and when she finished speaking, Shen Mei's scalp was numb from the sight, and she still forced herself to stand up straight and look at her.

"You said it was Shen Huainan's coat, why hasn't the official seen you." After a while, she lightly opened her lips, her face was as calm as water, and she did not have any emotions because of Shen Mei's words, as if she was talking about an inconsequential topic.

Shen Mei felt that the situation was not good, but she couldn't back down at the moment, she lowered her head slightly, avoiding her pair of eyes that wanted to see through people's hearts, "The slave maid has just arrived." ”

"I just came to Shen Mansion and just came out of the palace." Lord Bai said lightly, "Little girl, you still have to take care of your father's affairs, don't think about how to escape for your life." She glanced at Shen Mei disdainfully, turned around and walked out of the alley.

Shen Mei was dumbfounded, she deserved to be a female official, and she specially changed into a maid suit, she could see through it, but how did she know herself.

Lord Bai, when she first came to Muguo, she didn't fully understand it yet, so she had to find someone to inquire about her.

Back in the Shen Mansion, Shen Mei learned through the housekeeper that Bai Ying, the only female official in Mu Kingdom, was talented and trusted by the emperor, but she was now thirty years old and had not yet married.

It turned out that she was lonely and unheard, and she didn't even know about it, Bai Ying was so famous in Mu Kingdom.

But I heard that this female official didn't like to attend all the activities organized by the emperor, and she was very cold, and she didn't give any face, so it's no wonder she didn't notice it.

Looking at the housekeeper's suspicious and confused eyes, Shen Mei waved her hand, casually finding a reason to fool the past.

After inquiring about her news, Shen Mei walked into the room where her mother lived, Jiang Ying was sitting on the edge of the bed, her eyes were empty and focusless, just staring into the distance in a daze.

"Mom." She stepped forward, leaned on her knees, and called out to her.

Jiang Ying reacted at this time, and lowered her head to look at Shen Mei blankly, "Does your father don't want me anymore and dislike me." ”

She shook her head vigorously and tried to make it clear to her, "No, it's not like that, he has you in his heart." ”

But Jiang Ying still refused to believe it, two lines of tears flowed out of her godless eyes, she stroked Shen Mei's soft hair, and her movements were gentle, "I have a hunch that they will be together." ”

She didn't know how to persuade her, she didn't believe anything she said, she decided it, like a truth ingrained in her heart and could not be shaken.

She was discouraged and gave up trying to settle her, and since she didn't even feel hopeless, what could she do.

When she returned to the palace, Shen Mei once again looked at Jiang Ying who was sitting on the edge of the bed, she had lost a lot of weight, and her expression was in a trance, like a flat boat rocking in the river, which could sink to the bottom at any time.

She secretly prayed that she would not be hit by any more injuries, her fragile body and mind could no longer bear this.

Walking into the seemingly golden gate, Shen Mei looked up at the blue sky, and suddenly felt that she had traveled to the statue of Mu Guo for a long, long time, so long that she couldn't even recognize herself.

"Girl, you are finally here, the third prince is still unconscious." was in a daze, and Lianxin ran over from afar and said to her anxiously.

"What's wrong with Mu Jinyu?" Shen Mei followed Lianxin back to the Three Princes' Mansion, and he was lying on the bed in front of him, with a high fever, his lips were sickly white, and he kept muttering something on his mouth.

She walked in and listened, and he read his name.

Shen Mei lay on his chest, listening to his faint heartbeat, and was afraid in his heart, how could he become like this in a short time.

"When the third prince came back, he was covered in water, and he didn't know where it went, and he fainted as soon as he entered the mansion." Lianxin stood beside her, her small and delicate face pale with fear.

Must have gone there again, Shen Mei held his cold hand, and the cold temperature reached the palm of his hand.

"Why didn't you ask for a doctor?" Shen Mei looked back at him, looking impatient.

Lianxin approached her, "Mama Luo has already gone to invite, but she hasn't come yet." ”

Shen Mei used the back of her hand to test the temperature of his forehead, it was scorching, it seemed that he had a fever, he went to the river alone, and when he came out, he rode back to the palace wet, and now it was autumn and cold, and he felt trembling after thinking about it.

Shen Mei secretly scolded him for being stupid, and kept calling his name in his ear, she couldn't help but regret it, she should have followed when she heard the voice behind her, and stopped him, otherwise he wouldn't be like this.

She put Mu Jinyu's hand on her cheek, so as to convey warmth to him, thinking that he couldn't do anything with it.

There was a eunuch outside the door shouting that the queen was coming, and the next moment the door was slammed open, and the woman in a gorgeous dress blocked all the sunlight outside the door, she looked at Shen Mei coldly, pushed Shen Mei away, walked to the bed, held Mu Jinyu's hand tightly, and tears involuntarily welled up in her eyes.

"It's all because of you that my son has become like this." She stared at Shen Mei who was pushed to the ground with the most vicious gaze, she didn't have the demeanor of a mother of a country at all, she was just a weak woman who saw her son injured.

"Why don't you die?" Because of her anger, the queen's eyes were bloodshot, and the whole person was extremely terrifying.

Shen Mei barely stood up, looked at the person lying on the bed worriedly, and said calmly: "Niangniang, it is important for you to see the third prince first." ”