When he saw his eldest aunt again, Yao Jin was surprised to find that except for the slight change in clothing and clothing, it seemed that this person's appearance and demeanor had not changed, or rather, compared to Li Nan's obvious aging appearance, she was the same as back then, and even the few wrinkles on her forehead did not seem to show signs of deepening. Facing the eldest princess Yao Jin, who is now valuable, her cold demeanor has not changed at all, and there is still an obvious look of disdain in her eyes that abide by etiquette, seeing Yao Jin sitting on the chair in the middle with an indifferent expression, as the eldest princess of the dynasty, she didn't even comb her hair into a high bun, only tied it with a hairband at will, and she didn't wear a palace dress, only wearing a smoke-blue home-style shirt, the corners of the eldest aunt's mouth couldn't help twitching, lowered her eyes and saluted quickly, and said: " Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, the Queen Mother, please come over. ”

"Queen Mother, what's the matter?"

"Back to the eldest princess, today the county lord came into the palace to greet the queen mother, I heard that Her Royal Highness the eldest princess is also in the palace, the county lord wants to see you, so the queen mother, please go over to see it, and talk about family life. ”

"I don't know any county lords, and I don't have anything to talk about. After replying to your Queen Mother's words, I won't go. ”

Seeing that Yao Jin refused neatly, the eldest aunt immediately said: "Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, the county lord already knew that it was difficult for you to invite your nobles, so he specially asked the county horse and the old slave to come together to invite." Because the county horse is a man is inconvenient to enter directly, at this moment he is waiting for the order outside the door of Chenghuan Xiaozhu, if Her Royal Highness the eldest princess does not go, please go back to the county horse in person. ”

Yao Jin was a little annoyed, and blurted out: "What county horse? Which county horse? When the lord of the country can't see anyone, and it's the turn of a broken county horse to ask!"

The eldest aunt's face did not change in the slightest because of Yao Jin's anger, and she still replied unhurriedly: "The eldest princess, the so-called county horse, is naturally the husband of the county lord. Now we have only one county lord in the world, who is the daughter of Lord Yao of Zhongshu Ling, and was canonized by Emperor Meng Xian as the county lord of Yunzhu from the second grade, and married the son of Lord Lang Wei of the Ministry of Works, that is, Lord Cheng Wei Yan in today's imperial history - naturally, he is the county horse. Now Junma is waiting for Her Royal Highness the eldest princess outside, if Her Royal Highness doesn't go, he will order someone to call Junma in to make it clear, and the old slave will go back to pay the errand. ”

Yao Jin's body was originally sitting steadily, but when he heard this, he shook for some reason, and involuntarily asked again: "Who......? Who is it?"

"Wei Yan, Lord Wei. Your Royal Highness the Eldest Princess, didn't you know Lord Wei in the past?"

"I don't want to see it. Hearing Wei Yan's name, Yao Jin panicked for no reason, she suddenly stood up and said quickly, "I don't want to see anyone." You step aside, whatever you and Junma go back to the Queen Mother, no one will see this princess!"

After that, she didn't stay for a moment, and the person brushed her sleeves away. And the eldest aunt snorted coldly, and said in her heart, "A wild girl is a wild girl", and people took care of themselves. And Yao Jin, who was about to walk back to the dormitory, suddenly stopped in the middle of the road, she stood in the corridor, looking at the pavilion on the water pavilion not far away, it was afternoon at the moment, the white light in midsummer made people a little dizzy, and the gazebo in her vision seemed to become a little blurred. Yao Jin remembered that she had admired the moon in that pavilion, she had chatted and laughed with Lin Yuebai on the stone table and stone bench, and she had jumped from there in a panic - there, there was Wei Yan, who had saved himself who was almost about to jump into the lake again after being drunk.

Yao Jin's eyes turned red, she suddenly blamed herself, at this time, at such a juncture, how could she still miss Wei Yan? Obviously, Lin Yuebai and Xiao Nanguo were like two big mountains that had overwhelmed her day and night, and so many people's lives were hanging on her thoughts—but when she heard Wei Yan's name, when she knew that he was standing a few doors away from her, Yao Jin's mind was full of Wei Yan at once. It was as if a voice kept shouting in his heart: Go to see him, you must see him! No matter what the reason, no matter what the situation, no matter what the reason, even if there is his wife standing next to him, even if he is no longer willing to say a word to her, even if there is nothing left between them—see him, you must see him!

She wants to confirm what he looks like now, wants to know if he is doing now, she wants to see that person with her own eyes, wants to see the eyes of that person when she sees her, and whether there is a shadow of what he was back then...... But when Yao Jin rushed to the gate of Chenghuan Xiaozhu, the eldest aunt had already left, and it was deserted and empty outside the door, Yao Jin searched repeatedly on both sides of the road with his eyes open, but where was there still Wei Yan's shadow?

Yao Jin slowly lowered his eyes and closed his eyes sadly, there was still the breath of that person in the air just now, and when that person stood here just now, maybe he also had a trace of anticipation, looking forward to seeing her...... But now there's nothing - all of this was just my delusion. Yao Jin opened her eyes, there were tears on her eyelashes that had not had time to fall, crystal and heavy hazy Yao Jin's eyes, her eyes slowly moved to both sides of the palace gate, the sword guards who could not see their heads at a glance, lined up in two neat columns under the palace wall of Chenghuan Xiaozhu, Yao Jin looked at them, their faces seemed to look exactly the same, like statues made of stone, and the cold statues of this cold and ruthless palace city very matched. She suddenly understood that from the moment she stepped into this Chenghuan small building, these people had been ordered to guard this palace, and the palace people came and went in front of them, and soon the whole palace knew that in this seemingly gorgeous palace, there was His Majesty Emperor Li's only sister, His Royal Highness the eldest princess of the Li Dynasty, and at the same time, she was a person who had lost her freedom.

In the long memory of Yao Jin's life, this period of house arrest in Chenghuan Xiaozhu has always been a little vague, but it seems to be extremely peaceful, this calm is like an iceberg gradually melting away, and the moment before the last piece of ice is about to melt, terrifying, desperate, and heartbreaking. Yao Jin, who stayed at home, never spoke, and no one dared to talk to her, the palace people went in and out, but when they saw her, they always just dodged and lowered their heads, and Yao Jin didn't care about who came and went, she just recalled every little thing with Lin Yuebai over and over again, recalling the bits and pieces of Xiaonanguo in the past few years, sitting all night long on the water pavilion of Chenghuan Xiaozhu like a madman, opening her eyes all night long, looking at the pale and speechless moon. Before making that decision, Yao Jin's memories were like atonement, atoning for the pain in her own heart, a knife, piece by piece, she thought that she could always slowly accept this reality, and slowly adapt to the silent tearing pain, but the pain never intended to let her go, her heart was dripping with blood, but the heavy guilt became more and more painful.

Li Nan didn't come again, and the eldest aunt never appeared, but Yao Jin's premonition was still surprisingly accurate, I don't know how many days later, when she finally took out the sandalwood box that had not been opened from under the pillow, and opened the parchment with both hands, the little palace maid who had come to spread the word that the eldest aunt had arrived came to the door of her dormitory again.

"Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, there is an adult outside. ”

"My lord......" Yao Jin put the parchment back into the sandalwood box in a daze, turned his head and said, "What adult." ”

"Back to Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, this lord is not wearing an official uniform, nor is he dressed as a guard, and the slave and maid really don't know him. The little palace maid shook her head and said, "But he has His Majesty's imperial decree, so the slave and maid dare to come and spread the word." ”

Imperial ...... Yao Jin muttered, when she was a female official in Zichen Palace, she also had that thing, which the emperor only gave to those close to her, this person is not a eunuch, not a guard, and not a person in the court, who could it be?