Hua Yue remembered the scene when the Zhuang family took her out of the palace three years ago.

At that time, Zhuang's eyes were already invisible, standing outside the palace gate waiting for her, and he vaguely saw her walk to him, and then reached out to touch her face.

Her hands were soft and hot, rubbing her silhouette a little bit, and when she touched it carefully, her eyes, which had no focal length, slowly lit up, like a candle that was about to be extinguished, and re-lit a cigarette, and the fire was lit, and everyone was alive for two minutes.

"You'll come with me from now on." She smiled and said to her, "You are so pretty, don't lose your face, the flowers outside are beautiful, and some are alive." ”

The voice and smile are all gentle and beautiful.

Huayue closed her eyes and whispered to Frost Fall to arrange a few things, Frost Fall listened to them one by one, and didn't say anything about Zhuang's affairs, just saluted and retreated, and the skirt disappeared into the corner of the house in a moment.

"Young lady." The housekeeper walked around from outside and arched his hand at her with embarrassed eyes, "The third prince just came with the news that he was left in the palace by His Majesty to play chess, and he may not be able to come back tonight." ”

This is ordinary, Li Jingyun took office at the beginning, and he was able to get the favor of the saint, which is beneficial and harmless. Hua Yue nodded and asked puzzledly, "Why do you have this look?" ”

The housekeeper sighed: "Originally, the lady ordered, saying that you will be kept in this house, and you don't have to go out to walk around with other families." If it is on weekdays, it is fine, but at the moment in this mansion, the general is busy with political affairs, his wife is seriously ill, the third prince is not there, and it happens that the fifth prince was named the prince, and he opened the door and sent an invitation to invite us to the house to enjoy the dinner. If the slave doesn't come, the prince can't afford to snub him, but if he comes, the third son will come back, maybe he will send the slave to see the backyard. ”

The more he spoke, the more worried he became, as if he remembered the kitchen servants who had been sent away.

"I thought it was something that could make you rush like this for this little thing." Hua Yue didn't think so, lifted her skirt and left, "I'll take someone there." ”

"Why is it good for the third prince to ask?" The housekeeper hurriedly followed her and asked.

Crying and laughing, Hua Yue said: "The third prince is not the flood beast, it is common to come and go between the official residences, there is no one in the house now, if I go to visit, can he still blame it?" If you really blame it, just say I'm going, and it has nothing to do with you. ”

The housekeeper breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately ordered someone to pack up the carriage and horse sedan chair, and bundle up the prepared congratulatory gifts.

Since the last time she said goodbye to Luohua Street, Hua Yue hadn't seen Zhou Hemin for a long time, and she couldn't help but ask Badou on the way: "Did the fifth prince make any achievements, why did he suddenly become a prince?" ”

Badou sat on the wheel and shook his legs and said with a smile: "The news that the fifth prince wants to be crowned the prince has been there for a long time, but now it has suddenly fallen." If you want to talk about meritorious deeds, he must not have it, and he was impeached and punished by the official for riding a horse on Luohua Street before, and he can also open a palace and seal the king, which can be regarded as the favor of the saint. ”

Hua Yue was stunned for a moment, and remembered in hindsight that Jinghua did have an imperial decree that no horses were allowed on Luohua Street, but at that time, he was eager to save people, and no one thought that this stubble would affect him.

Feeling guilty, Huayue was two more points of piety when she saluted.

"I've seen the prince."

Zhou Hemin was eating fruit, and when he saw her coldly, he said with a smile: "Why are you so unruly, when people come to congratulate and give gifts, they all kneel and salute." ”

Looking up with a complicated expression, Hua Yue looked at his posture: "You look like you want to be serious?" ”

"What's wrong with me?" Zhou Hemin raised his eyebrows, and the folding fan in his hand lifted his chin as soon as he turned around, "This is not dignified?" ”

It's quite dignified, and if the lower half of the body is not riding on the wall of that courtyard, it will be even more dignified.

Hua Yue shook her head helplessly, rubbed her neck hard, tilted her head and asked him, "Why are you here?" ”

"That's what I should ask you." Zhou Hemin leaned against the wall and lowered his body slightly, teasing, "Ordinary guests are drinking and drinking tea in the main court, why did you find me?" Is it the traction of the old moon, or the magpie bridge thrown down from the sky? ”

Looking at him expressionlessly, Kazuki pointed to the latrine next to him.

"You're the one who picks the ground." She said, "If you continue, you will not be here, and the little girl will not talk about it." ”

Zhou Hemin: "......"

After half a pillar of incense, the two sat in the bright hexagonal pavilion, and the maids and servants stood in two rows, and Hua Yue sat opposite him and asked him in a low voice, "What are you guilty of?" ”

He pursed his lips and sighed: "The days in the palace are boring, and when something goes wrong, it's all the same - go to the middle palace to admit your mistake and receive the punishment, and then tell your father and the emperor, and then go back to the palace to copy the documents, and you can't go out for half a month." ”

"That's fine." Hua Yue said, "There is no punishment like the ruling house in the palace. ”

"It's not going anywhere." Zhou Hemin sighed, "Didn't you see the queen in the middle palace quarreling with Yao Guifei, hey, you put your head down and knelt down, you have to be smashed by something." ”

Hua Yue was stunned: "Yao Guifei, this concubine still dares to quarrel with the queen in person and smash things?" ”

You girders are really barbarians who don't have rules.

"Yao Guifei, you don't know?" Zhou Hemin raised his eyebrows, "The prince's biological mother, the most favored mother in the palace, she naturally has the confidence to argue with the middle palace, and her father is also used to her, let her make trouble, and never ask about the crime." ”

And such things? Hua Yue was speechless: "What is the origin of this Yao Guifei?" ”

"The Yao family is not a famous family, they still had a good relationship with your general's mansion before, and General Li also saved Yao Guifei's life, but after beating Yao Guifei into the palace, the two families have no contact." He spread his fan and shook it gently, "My father is not spoiled by her family background, and I don't understand, anyway, even if Yao Guifei is lawless, she will be the queen mother in the future." ”

Hua Yue remembered that every time the Zhuang family entered the palace, she only went to greet the queen's mother, and couldn't help but sweat, will this Yao Guifei hate the general's mansion in the future?

"I'm here to tell you a story today, why do you listen to me with relish?" Zhou Hemin looked at her against the fan unhappily, "Tell me, what did you do before you became this maid?" ”

Hua Yue came back to her senses and said helplessly: "What good story can the person who leads the slave be there?" It's just that it's raised at home, and it has also raised a stubborn character who doesn't care about it, and then the family is in the middle of the road, and the fence is under the fence, and then he begins to understand things. ”

"You don't look like you're in the middle of the road." Danfeng stared at her, Zhou Hemin seemed to smile, "It's not an exaggeration to say that you were beheaded all over the house, you have hatred in your eyes, you don't open up at all, you don't dare to ask for what you want, it's clear that you don't plan to live to the end." ”

The young man with red lips and white teeth, when he spoke, he was as straight as if he was peeling his skin and scraping his bones, Hua Yue's heart skipped a beat when he heard it, and he stretched out his hand to cover his face: "Can the prince not keep showing people?" ”

"It's not that I have to see it, you're too conspicuous." He spread his hands helplessly, "I have seen many people, none of them are as contradictory as you, they are really more interesting than the shadow puppet hidden in the box." ”

Realizing that she was a joke, Hua Yue's face sank, and she got up and said, "After the story is over, I will retire first." ”

"Hey, don't, I'm not going to talk about that." He pinched the fan to block her way, "Don't you rush to go, how can anyone say that the story is finished with one sentence?" Tell me what you did in your family and how you came to be. ”

Speaking of this, I'm afraid that the palace that has just opened will have to be sealed.

Yin Huayue sighed, turned around and sat down, thought about it, and pressed the teacup on the table seriously: "This is a long story, and please listen to me carefully." ”

Then she began to weave it in detail.

The two of them sat in this pavilion, one lied and the other listened, but they were quite comfortable, Zhou Hemin didn't interrupt her, just listened to her from her five years old literacy arrangement to fifteen years old slavery, with a smile in her eyes.

When Li Jingyun came back from the palace, what he saw was the dark East Courtyard where there was not even a lamp, he was stunned, grabbed the housekeeper and asked, "Where is the young lady?" ”

The housekeeper trembled and said, "I went to the palace banquet and haven't returned yet." ”

After that, I was afraid that he would ask for the guilt, so I hurriedly followed Hua Yue's instructions: "The young lady herself said that she was going to go, and there was no one else in the house who could support her." ”

Wangfu, Zhou Hemin's banquet.

Li Jingyun was silent for a long time, his eyes fell on the empty gate, and he nodded with a smile: "Okay, I know." ”

The butler was frightened enough, and retreated against the wall, and when he escaped from the sight of this master, he turned his head and ran towards the side door.

Hua Yue didn't come back too late, but as soon as she got out of the car, she saw the housekeeper sweating profusely and greeted her and said, "The third prince has been waiting for you in the East Courtyard for half an hour." ”

"He's back?" Hua Yue said as she walked inside, "That's still early, I don't think there will be any major events to be busy in the near future." ”

Stepping into the threshold of the east courtyard, the lights were bright, she pushed the door in, and saw Li Jingyun sitting on the soft couch with a calm face reading the papers.

"How?" Closing the door, she went over and asked with concern, "Something happened in the palace?" ”

Yu Guang glanced at her, and Li Jingyun said in a sullen voice: "No." ”

"And what are you doing with this solemn face?" Kazuki leaned her head to look, "Which word don't you know?" ”

Closing the book and throwing it aside, he looked at her and smiled: "You came back so late, you don't have anything to say to your grandfather?" ”

It's the end of the unitary hour, is it too late? She looked at him twice and decided to follow his wishes: "The concubine came back late, and asked her husband to forgive her sins, but today is not the concubine's greed, it is the palace banquet to invite peace, so I went to visit." ”

Thinking of what she said before, but as long as she knew that she owed the favor to the five princes, she would not be so easy to explain, Li Jingyun was not happy in her heart, and asked coldly: "Please with others?" ”

"Not really." Hua Yue said honestly, "I said two words alone in the pavilion, and there were house slaves and maids on the side, and the rules were not broken." ”

When she said that, she felt that something was not right, and looked down at him: "Husband, shouldn't you even taste this kind of thing?" ”

"Where can I be?" He looked away, "Just ask." ”

"And what are you doing with this yin and yang weirdness?" Hua Yue felt funny, "The concubine body is so untrustworthy?" ”

This is not a matter of believing or not believing, Li Jingyun feels annoyed, he has never been a stingy person, but he just doesn't want her to see Zhou Hemin, Shen Zhiluo and the like, and he is not happy to talk ordinarily, and it is even more annoying to see each other outside his nose.

Holding it in his heart, he couldn't spit on her, Li Jingyun picked up the book to block his face, and said in a deep voice: "It's okay, you go and rest." ”

The man in front of him stopped talking, and the room fell silent.

Li Jingyun stared at the words in the book, didn't read any of them, and after a few sticks of incense, his temperament went down by two points, and then he began to regret it a little.

Isn't it too important to say that you are talking about yourself? Does this little dog think nonsense?

Aren't you crying again?

Shocked, he hurriedly pulled the book down and looked to the side anxiously.

Hua Yue took a plate of candied fruit, looked at him with a smile, and when she saw him look up, she handed the plate over: "On the way back, Jing'an Hall hasn't closed the shop yet, and the concubine has brought some, if you are really angry, then bite two to extinguish the fire." ”

With a stunned look in his eyes, he took the plate, a little weak-hearted: "You have a much better temper now, and you don't even mess with me." ”

"The husband has been working hard recently, and if the concubine is still making trouble, it will be strange to be tired." She waved her hand, "The superior, it is common to be suspicious, the concubine has a clear conscience, and when you let people check it, you can be innocent, what is there to make trouble." ”

With a soft heart, Li Jingyun pulled her over, bit the side of her neck, and said in a muffled voice: "Ye is not a superior person in front of you, and he will not let people check on you, that is, even if you are not happy for a while, don't take it to heart." ”

Hua Yue raised her eyebrows and asked him with a strange expression: "Ye really didn't eat it?" ”

"Nope." He replied decisively.

With a smile in his eyes, Hua Yue leaned on his shoulder and hooked his lips, feeling that this evil obstacle was also cute, like a child being asked by an adult, saying that he didn't steal the sugar gourd, but there was still sugar residue on his mouth.

"The third master is generous." She laughed.

"That's it." The man bit the candied fruit and said vaguely, "Can those who will go to war in the future be as stingy as those sour and rotten literati?" ”

"No, I can't." Holding his neck, Hanazuki smiled and looked at the moon outside the window.

The moon rose, bright and round, and the courtyard was smiling a little, dyed with flowering branches.

***

The Shen Mansion is not far from the altar, and there is a long way to go from the streets of Jinghua, every time the cars and horses come and go, Su Miao feels that the bones are about to fall apart, so she simply stays in the mansion and does not go out.

Shen Zhiluo pushed the door in, and happened to bump into the ice muscle and jade skin looming under the red veil.

"Su Miao." He frowned, "What kind of system are you?" ”

The man by the window turned around and smiled at him: "Come and see, the two birds outside are arguing, and the quarrel is quite fierce." ”

He walked over and took a look, his purple eyes half-closed: "It's boring." ”

Her eyebrows fell, and Su Miao said aggrievedly: "It's such a big yard, and people stay every day, what's the fun?" Yesterday I asked you to walk around with me, but you didn't want to. ”

Shen Zhiluo didn't want to worry about her, but he still couldn't help gritting his teeth: "If you want to go to the mountains in the middle of the night, no one will want to." ”

Snorted coquettishly, Su Miao pulled his sleeve: "Then you tell me a story now, you know so many things, just pick two interesting things to tell." ”

Sitting down beside her, Shen Zhiluo glanced at the compass in his hand, and stopped talking.

He just calculated an extremely bad hexagram, which was about the General's Mansion, and he wanted to tell her, but he felt that it was unnecessary.

Yin Huayue is right, it is his ability to peek into the destiny of heaven, but if he has to tell others about the bad fate, he is doing evil.

After thinking about it, he said: "There is a very interesting thing, I am afraid that no one in this world knows about it. ”

Su Miao grabbed a handful of melon seeds, and stared at him with unblinking fox eyes.

"Many years ago, there was a palace maid who was selected to follow her to a neighboring country, and the palace maid was unlucky, and she was separated from the team on the road and could only live on the streets of a foreign land. However, her luck was not bad in the end, and when she was about to die, she was rescued and taken home as a concubine. ”

"This girl didn't think about going home, so she served the pair of masters in this house. The host and his wife are also affectionate, and they are also kind to the girl. But within a few years, the girl found out that there were always people in the palace who couldn't get along with that lady, thinking about Fa'er's pickiness and embarrassment, and even the entire mansion was in danger. ”

Su Miao listened to the music: "This is still being picked up by a big family?" ”

"yes." Shen Zhiluo said meaningfully, "There have always been many big families. ”

"This girl is in a hurry, and then asked the lady the reason why the one in the palace couldn't get along with the house. When I asked, I found out that this master's family was terrible, and he had an old relationship with the mother in the palace, and the mother was jealous, and she couldn't see him empathize with him, so she was stunned to blow the pillow wind to the person sitting on the dragon chair, which led to the master's official career and several times in prison. ”

Can it still be like this? Su Miaozhi frowned: "Lack of morality." ”

Shen Zhiluo chuckled: "What do you guess that girl came up with?" ”

With a roll of her eyes, Su Miao patted the case: "Isn't it jealousy?" pretended to tell the lady that the general still had her in his heart, and even coaxed and deceived him to protect this mansion first. ”

…… It's really not like a family doesn't enter the door.

Shen Zhiluo sighed with emotion: "You are as smart as that girl, but that lady is also smart, you can't convince her in a few words, she wants the lady of this mansion to die before she is willing to spare the whole house, what should you do?" ”

Su Miao was speechless: "Are the women in the palace so ruthless?" ”

The person in front of her gave her a blank look: "Be cautious." ”

Scratching her ears in annoyance, Su Miao said, "There's no other way, ask Madame's thoughts?" ”

"The lady said that she was willing, but she was afraid that the master's family would hurt her, and she would not want to live after her death, and she had to think of revenge, which would affect the whole house, so if you want the girl to help her hide it, she will say that she died of illness."

His eyes swept over, and his chin lifted slightly: "What about you?" ”

Su Miao's face was wrinkled: "Isn't this embarrassing?" Who would believe that a good person suddenly dies of illness? The master's family checks it out, and I can't survive? ”

"Then you are smarter than the girl, and the girl chose to agree." Shen Zhiluo snorted, "So she didn't end up well." ”

Su Miao was not very happy: "What about the lady in the palace?" ”

"Live well, my son has become a prince."

"What's this interesting story?" She was anxious, and jumped up and grabbed his clothes, "Good people are not rewarded, but bad people are free, is there reincarnation in the way of heaven that you said?" ”

was pounced on by her, Shen Zhiluo reached out to hold her arm, and said in a low voice: "Reincarnation also has to be reincarnated first, what are you anxious about." ”

The two suddenly looked at each other, Su Miao swallowed her saliva, the anger on her face dissipated, and her eyebrows hooked two points again: "Then I'm not in a hurry, I'll take my time." ”

Shen Zhiluo: "......"

Gritting his teeth and pushing the person away, he said, "I don't have time to spend with you." ”

Rolling to the side injured, Su Miao put on her shoes and went down, pulled up the red yarn and said, "Then I'll go out and find someone to play." ”

With a tight throat, Shen Zhiluo fished her back, pinched her cool gauze and said angrily: "Change your body." ”

The fox's eyes moved lightly, Su Miao sat on his lap, and said with a sigh: "It's really worthy of being my director, and it's too obscure and unfathomable, you care about it, and you look like you like me." But when something really happened, I didn't have any place in my heart. ”

Shen Zhiluo frowned: "You and I are married, why do you still say this." ”

"I'm just casually saying it, and I won't bother with you after all." got up and went to change her clothes, Su Miao closed her dress, looked back with a smile, and said, "If Your Highness asks, you just have to say that we are like glue, and this marriage is stable." ”

The chest was a little uncomfortable for no reason, and Shen Zhiluo opened his mouth to say more, but the person in front of him had already blown out like a gust of wind, leaving only two traces of fragrance lingering on his fingertips.

He grimaced and stared at the door for a moment, his rune-embroidered headband swept up by the wind outside the window, covering his brow with pride.

In the afternoon, the frost fell, she knelt down in front of him, and said respectfully: "National teacher, someone asked me to ask, have you counted the number of Zhuang's lives?" ”

Shen Zhiluo sat on the main seat and didn't answer, but said: "If she doesn't believe it, don't keep asking." ”

Frostfall looked up at him: "Others don't know, can you still not know?" If she hadn't been cornered, she wouldn't have opened this mouth to you. ”

I don't know the suffering, I don't believe in gods and Buddhas, Zhuang's illness is getting worse and worse these days, and Yin Huayue will go to this doctor indiscriminately.

Silently rubbing the Qiankun plate, Shen Zhiluo sighed, and said after a long time: "Life and death are fate, you better let her be careful herself." ”

Frostfall understood, but when she went back, she didn't dare to say it directly to Huayue, and only made up two good words to make her feel relieved.

Yin Huayue really believed it, and poured tea into the porcelain cup in front of her with confidence.

She was sitting in a wing room in Qifeng Tower, which had a dark hole in the wall, and she could clearly hear the voice coming from next door.

"It's been years, hasn't it?" Kang Zhenzhong smiled and held the wine glass to the person in front of him, "I didn't expect to be able to sit like this again." ”

Li Shoutian looked at him with a complicated expression, took the wine and drank it, and his voice was two points more old for no reason: "It's rare that you are willing to invite me." ”

"I'm reluctant to invite you, but Jingyun's child is pleasing to you." Kang Zhenzhong's eyes were full of ridicule, "The way of heaven is also unfair, a person like you can get such a good wife and a good child." ”

With puzzled eyes, Li Shoutian leaned forward: "For so many years, I have always wanted to ask you, why can't I stand up to you, I was cut off by you for no reason, and I have been sneering?" ”

Looking left and right, Kang Zhenzhong smiled: "It's just the two of us here, why don't you pretend to understand with me?" Ramadan knows the underground, I'm afraid that I regret marrying such a ruthless person as you, and I didn't even die well. ”