Someone under the cliff found Ling Chuchu and yelled at her, telling her to find a good position and not be impulsive.

said that it was too late, and suddenly jumped down from the tree, knocked her unconscious, and said: "The matter is urgent, please forgive the emperor." ”

Seeing that the officers and soldiers under the cliff were about to come up, Lu Qingran personally ordered three people, "You guys hide nearby and make sure Chu Chu is okay before leaving." ”

Then, he left with his men to prevent his identity from being exposed.

When Ling Chuchu woke up, it was already the early morning of the second day.

She touched the back of her head, frowned and looked at the familiar furnishings in the room, and went home?

Yuan Qin heard the movement in the room, hurriedly brought food in, and asked anxiously with a frown: "Miss, what happened after the slave left?" I heard from the guards who found you that you fainted on the stones alone, and that fake Lu Qingran ......"

Ling Chuchu shook his head, unable to think of anything.

At this moment, I heard that the door of the lotus courtyard was smashed open from the outside, and Mama Liu's voice came in, "Come on, lock the eldest lady in the Buddha hall!" ”

It was not yet dawn outside, and it was the time of the early dynasty.

Hearing that there is no Ling Chuchu's henchmen in the Lotus Courtyard, the two are not Mama Liu's opponents, Yuan Qin stepped forward to theorize, but she was also stopped, and almost willingly followed Mama Liu into the Buddhist hall.

"If you do this, aren't you afraid that your father will blame you?"

Mama Liu sneered: "The slave maid is on the order of the prince, and the eldest lady mutilates her sister and is punished for kneeling for seven days." ”

It was the most desolate place in the palace, the windows were in tatters, the cold wind was blowing in from all directions, and the stove in her hand had no temperature at all.

Yuan Qin looked outside, but there was no maid guarding her, "Miss, let's go, stay any longer, you will get cold......"

Ling Chuchu smiled at the corner of his mouth, pointed to a gap in the courtyard wall, where there were eyes, and shook his head: "No hurry." ”

After speaking, Ling Yuanqin rummaged through all the Buddhist halls, and took out a witch puppet from under the Buddha statue, on which Ling Lan's birthday was written, and it was full of silver needles.

"Miss, this ......"

The sky gradually brightened, and the sun slowly shone into the house.

The palace was also slowly busy, and she saw that the person she was watching was gone, so she found pen and ink, replaced the birthday eight characters on the puppet with herself, and put it back in its original place.

Then he swaggered out and said to Yuan Qin: "Knowing that Mama Liu obviously arrested us, why don't you dare to send someone to guard us openly?" ”

Yuan Qin shook her head.

She said: "Because I am afraid that my father will be angry, I will arrest us first, and then put on a hat that takes the initiative to pray for blessings, and then I will have a hundred mouths, and I can't tell clearly." ”

"Miss ......"

"Now go and slap Aunt Gu in the face in front of her!"

Sure enough, from a distance, I saw the king of Zhennan, who had just come down from the court, and was invited to Aunt Gu's room by Mama Liu, and just sat down, before she could drink hot tea, Aunt Gu knelt on the ground and shouted, "Lord, you have to be the master of the concubine——"

Aunt Gu wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and said delicately: "The county lord woke up and went to the Buddhist hall to pray for blessings, and the concubine was afraid that she would be cold, so she personally sent blankets and clothes...... Hearing her curse Lan Lan for not dying well, the concubine has been married to the prince for so many years, and there is only one child, Lan Lan, if Lan Lan really has three long and two short, how can you call the concubine how to live——"

"What?!" Ling Hongyuan slapped the table suddenly, "Come on, bring me that unfilial girl!" ”

Ling Chuchu had been waiting in the courtyard for a long time.

Hearing the sound of smashing teacups in the house, he said loudly: "Daughter Ling Chuchu came to ask her father for peace-"

After speaking, holding the stove that was not warm at all, he walked in without the slightest fear, and before he could stand still, he saw Ling Hongyuan slap him over, "You unfilial girl, you still have the face to ask for peace!" ”

She covered her right cheek, looked at Ling Hongyuan suspiciously, her tone was very aggrieved, she pretended to be frightened, knelt on the ground, and said, "My daughter doesn't know what she did wrong, please tell her father." ”

Mama Liu stepped forward and said, "Miss, the slave knows that you have a bad relationship with Miss Five, but now that Miss Five's life and death are uncertain, how can you curse her to die?" ”

"Mama Liu, why can't I understand what you said?" Ling Chuchu crawled and knelt in front of King Zhennan, "My daughter has just woken up, and she rushed over before she even tidied up her bun, just because she thought of all kinds of doubts and wanted to tell her father that she could find the fifth sister as soon as possible, how could she curse her?" ”

Ling Hongyuan lowered his head, and really saw that her hair bun was the same as when she was in a coma yesterday, "What suspicion do you think of?" ”

Ling Chuchu said, "The day before going out of Beijing to greet her, Aunt Gu ordered someone to build a new carriage for the fifth sister, and her daughter sent someone to check it out, and found that the axle of the carriage was sawed off. ”

"What did you say?!"

Ling Hongyuan personally went to inspect and found that the axle had been sawed as Ling Chuchu said, and immediately ordered a thorough investigation in the house to find out the real culprit behind the scenes.

And Ling Chuchu looked at Aunt Gu, who was already a little flustered, and asked with a smile: "Just now my aunt said that she heard me cursing the fifth sister, I don't know when?" Where did you hear it? ”

Aunt Gu firmly believed that Ling Chuchu had not found the witch puppet, pointed in the direction of the abandoned Buddha Hall, and said, "That's it, I heard it with my own ears!" ”

As he spoke, he learned a little bit and said, "You were holding a silver needle and a doll in your hand at the time, and you have been cursing Lan Lan ......"

"Even if I want to pray for blessings, why wouldn't I choose a deserted Buddhist hall?" Ling Chuchu said, "What other silver needles and dolls, I am going to do such things, then I am going to kill my head, my aunt is sure to see it clearly?" ”

Aunt Gu nodded firmly.

Ling Hongyuan sent someone into the Buddha hall to search, and Mama Liu took the opportunity to sneak in, rummaged casually, and then reached the target, escaped from under the Buddha statue, and said, "Miss, what else do you have to say?!" ”

Ling Chuchu took the doll and glanced at it, and threw it at Ling Hongyuan in fright, "Ah-"

Ling Hongyuan looked at it again, and his face darkened: "Nonsense!" ”

She hurriedly knelt on the ground, crying and said: "Daddy, my aunt first saw her daughter cursing her sister, and now the doll is her daughter's birthday, which is clearly someone pretending to be a ghost in the house, Daddy must find out the truth and give his daughter a clean slate!" ”

Ling Chuchu's birthday?

Aunt Gu glanced at the doll and was about to speak, but was stopped by Mama Liu and said, "I am willing to ask the prince to find out the truth——"

The axle was sawn before the prince returned to Beijing, and at that time, Aunt Gu was alone in the palace, and she did not do things in a particularly hidden way, but in the time of half a pillar of incense, the person was pulled out.

It's a coachman.

As soon as he knelt down, he was kicked to the ground by Ling Hongyuan, "Say, who instructed me!" ”

The coachman rolled on the ground several times, his eyes always unconsciously looked at the direction of his aunt, Mama Liu took the opportunity to step forward and slap her, and said with a crying voice: "You wolf-hearted thing, Miss is usually so good to you, you are ......"

Mama Liu leaned into the coachman's ear and whispered a threat: "No matter what crime the prince treats you, admit it honestly, otherwise your only son may not see the sun tomorrow!" ”

The coachman's eyes widened at first, then fell silent.

It was a moment of effort, and the coachman immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed, one after another, "The slave is guilty, please punish the prince......"

Then he rushed directly to the pillar next to him and crashed into death in front of everyone.

There was blood everywhere.

Aunt Gu covered her eyes with a handkerchief, asked someone to come in to clean up, and asked, "Lord Wang, ......?"

The coachman didn't say any useful information at all before he died, and Ling Hongyuan ordered someone to check it down.

Ling Chuchu said: "Daddy, the life and death of the fifth sister are unknown, it is not appropriate to see blood, it is better to ......"

Aunt Gu was also worried that she would find out about herself, so she hurriedly answered: "Yes, Lord Wang, just look at the concubine, if you die to set an example, the minions under your hands should not dare to mess around." It can be regarded as a poor concubine Lan'er, accumulating some blessings......"

At the mention of Ling Lan, Aunt Gu's tears fell down.

Ling Hongyuan was irritable when he heard this, and shook his hand and left: "You guys will do it yourself!" ”

Ling Chuchu pouted and smiled, and bowed casually before retiring.

Aunt Gu stood in place, looking at the basins of blood poured out, and said: "Chop the grass without removing the roots, the spring breeze blows and grows again, the coachman's wife and son, you know what to do!" ”

Mama Liu nodded.

I didn't expect that Aunt Gu would be able to find a scapegoat in such a short period of time.

Ling Chuchu was holding the stove in his hand, and he wanted to take the opportunity to make Aunt Gu lose her housekeeping rights, but it seemed that it was not the right time.

The stove wasn't hot at all.

She sighed, "It's just winter, and my body can't stand it, it seems that this winter is extraordinarily cold." ”

After using it earlier, Ling Chuchu handed over the post and asked to see Lu Qingran, she had to figure out what was going on the cliff.

If it was really Lu Qingran who saved himself, he would return the favor; If someone else pretends to be Lu Qingran, you have to be extra careful......

As soon as she sat down in the garden of the Lu Mansion, Lu Qingran appeared, checked around her twice, and then reassured and said, "You are here." ”

Looking up, a familiar face, the temperament was the same as before, Ling Chuchu smiled, "Second Young Master Lu......"

Lu Qingran guessed what she was going to say.

Before Ling Chuchu's words could be finished, he was intercepted, and a freshly peeled lychee was stuffed into his mouth, "Taste it, do you like it?" ”

Ling Chuchu's face changed slightly, he swallowed the fruit, put his hands on his lap flatly, and looked Lu Qingran up and down with a pair of eyes, lychees in winter are a rare thing, even if they are rare in the palace, how can the small Lu Mansion have it?

"On the day King Zhennan returns to Beijing, can Second Young Master Lu go?"

Lu Qingran raised his eyebrows and didn't speak.

"Something happened to me, I can't remember some things clearly, I want to ask Second Young Master Lu if you can help me recall?"

Ling Chuchu's words were half-truths and half-falses, as if they were asking and testing, whether that person that day was Lu Qingran or not.

Lu Qingran is a person that Ling Chuchu can't see through.

When I first saw Lu Qingran, those bottomless eyes like a waterhole made people sink deeply, and then they fell from the sky again and again at critical junctures, allowing Ling Chuchu to see his inner thoughts clearly.

It was a curiosity about the unknown.

Ling Chuchu never thought that as soon as she finished asking, Lu Qingran's eyes shone slightly, she stood up directly, walked towards her, and asked word by word, "What have you forgotten?" ”

Ling Chuchu raised his head, "Then it depends on what Second Young Master Lu wants me to forget." ”

Lu Qingran smiled.

Smiling happily, he poked her forehead with his index finger and said, "Just remember me, forget the rest, it's not an important thing." ”

What came to the face was the burning breath of men, and the heartbeat of each other. Lu Qingran got closer and closer, Ling Chuchu retreated step by step, and finally there was no way to retreat.

Today's Ling Chuchu was extremely passive, and Lu Qingran was detouring about her question for the first time.

"What does Second Young Master Lu want to hide?"

The man leaned too close.

Her hands, with nowhere to rest, hang in mid-air; Her realization also had nowhere to stay, and finally boredly counted the emanation behind the man's ear.

Lu Qingran laughed, touched her head, let her go, and said, "Don't think so much, wait at home to be my bride." ”

Ling Chuchu gloomy, but he didn't say anything, he just felt that the person in front of him was extremely difficult today, and he couldn't get out a word.

"I'm not going to marry someone who doesn't know what to do."

After speaking, she straightened her dress and walked out without looking back.

Lu Qingran grabbed her sleeve, shook her head dotingly, and leaned her side face over, "Your eyes weren't very good that day, why can't you do it today?" ”

Ling Chuchu's eyes looked behind Lu Qingran's ears, the traces of the human skin mask, the person who was under the cliff that day, was indeed Lu Qingran himself.

"You ......"

Lu Qingran held her hand and grabbed the corner of the human skin mask, "I'll let you know who I am, and you will marry me, okay?" ”

Ling Chuchu almost didn't hesitate, but when he saw the face under the mask, he froze in place.

The man standing in front of her turned out to be the saint of today!

Ling Chuchu remembered the rumors in Shangjing: the emperor ascended the throne at a young age, the foundation was unstable, the Empress Dowager Gao controlled the government alone, and the emperor sneaked out of the palace every day under the protection of his henchmen in order to find a good teacher to learn the art of the emperor......

Such a joke turned out to be true.

The corners of Lu Qingran's mouth pursed, "Break the casserole and ask in the end, are you satisfied now?" ”

Until the sun on the horizon hit his face, Ling Chuchu was motionless, his face became more and more heavy, and finally his brows were all wrinkled together.

"Chu Chu, what are you thinking?" With a deep voice, a little hoarse, Lu Qingran asked in a deep voice.

"I wonder if you're going to kill me." Ling Chuchu responded.

Then approached Lu Qingran, his eyes were cunning, like a little fox who had just been born for a long time.

The fox had a very positive look in his eyes: "The emperor will not kill me, he deliberately showed his flaws to let me find out." ”

Ling Chuchu smiled knowingly, "The reason why you want to get engaged to me is because you have taken a fancy to the identity of the princess of Zhennan and the princess of Anguo, which can help you cover up, and if your identity is revealed in the future, you will not lose the identity of the emperor." ”

Lu Qingran raised his head and motioned for her to continue.

"I accompany the emperor to stage this play, gambling on the future and life, what benefits does the emperor promise me?"

"What do you want?"

"I beg the emperor to set me free."

Lu Qingran's eyes finally changed, and his eyes became gloomy, "You want to leave me so much?" So sure I've done so much and just acting?! ”

"Ling Chuchu, your heart is so ruthless."

Ling Chuchu was left alone in this way.

She pouted and stood in the pavilion, looking at the people around her, as if she didn't see herself.

However, the weather in Shangjing was still raining at the right time, and the misty light rain mixed with small snowflakes directly made Ling Chuchu sneeze and get colder and colder.

Ling Chuchu walked out alone.

Just took two steps, a large umbrella appeared overhead, and Lu Qingran's unnatural voice came: "I'll send you back." ”

"Second Young Master Lu isn't angry?"

Lu Qingran's eyes lit up like an eagle, "Lord Anguo, happy cooperation." ”

Ling Chuchu is the woman that Lu Qingran puts on the tip of her heart.

When he first saw Ling Chuchu, there was tenacity in his bright fox eyes, which made Lu Qingran suddenly have the idea of protecting him behind him and protecting him for a lifetime.

Lu Qingran thought that this feeling was just a whim, but it turned out that this time of rise continued for nearly ten years.

He came out of the palace half an hour early every day, just to hide near the Zhennan Palace, watching the little girl jump up and down with pigtails and follow silently to the Buddhist hall.

Later, the little girl grew into a big girl, and the tenacity in her eyes was replaced by a haze.

Did he show up too late?

God knows how tormented he was when he said this happy cooperation.

But it doesn't matter, as long as Lu Qingran can be by the little girl's side, no matter how much the little girl misunderstands him, he can bear it.

Lu Qingran's eyes lit up again, and he exchanged his own stove for Ling Chuchu's.

"Let's go."

The light snow drifted with the wind, first falling on the clothes, and then floating on the top of their heads, and the two of them walked and walked, and became white-headed.

Waiting for the plaque of Zhennan Wangfu to appear in front of him, Lu Qingran turned around and handed the umbrella to Yuan Qin.

Ling Chuchu's eyes were calm, and his voice was a little more expectant, "Second Young Master Lu, I promise to help you, you will definitely give me back my freedom, right?" ”