It was late at night when Yao Jin walked out of the Zhengjin Palace, and she dragged the leg with the injured knee across the threshold of the Zhengjin Palace with difficulty, only to see that the night was dark outside the palace gate, and on the long path, only Li Nan and the dim palace lamp were waiting for her on the side of the road. She stood by the wall for a moment, trying her best to adjust her emotions, and kept saying to herself in her heart: Yao Jin, don't be knocked down, you have to go down, you must go down...... However, her steps were still very messy, slightly hunched back as if she was dozens of years old all of a sudden, as if she had walked for a long time, Yao Jin finally walked in front of Li Nan, Li Nan just said "Her Royal Highness the eldest princess", Yao Jinren suddenly fell to the side, Li Nan hurriedly dragged her with both hands, the palace lamp also fell to the ground, the candle shadow in the lamp flickered, in a dim, Li Nan's vicissitudes and wrinkled face, in Yao Jin's look, there was a trace of pity.

"Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, you have to be careful about your step, this road is still a long way to go......"

"Anan, do you know what's happening today, do you know it?"

"Your Highness, the old slave is already old...... is so old that he only has one breath, and half of his body and bones have already entered the ground, and outside this palace, he has long lost his friends, family, and wishes. What is the use of such an old eunuch, who knows it or not?"

"Yes, if a person has no bonds, he will have no expectations, but if a person has no expectations, he will naturally not be able to restrain him!"

Li Nan was holding the palace lamp in one hand and Yao Jin in the other hand and walking slowly on the trail, he suddenly wanted to talk, he wanted to find someone to talk about the past, and talk about the past that he felt was still a little warm and interesting. Since the year when Yao Jin left Beijing, this palace city has become more and more cold and gloomy, the first emperor Li Rui has become more and more deep and unpredictable, although Li Yao is kind, but Li Nan often feels a kind of fear when he is by his side, so he gradually becomes silent, no matter what he sees and hears, he would rather forget later, and Yao Jin's return suddenly evoked many memories of him.

"The old slave still remembers that when he rescued His Highness from the Ministry of Internal Servants, His Highness didn't have a trace of breath, and the old slave was frightened at that time. ”

"Anan, you're asking me for credit...... I remember, it wasn't you who saved me. ”

Li Nan smiled slightly and said, "Yes, yes, it was the old slave who was confused, and it was Lord Wei Yanwei who saved His Highness at that time." At that time, Lord Wei was just a guard, and when he took His Highness out of the Inner Servant Province, his face was as pale as His Highness who was unconscious at the time......"

Yao Jin's footsteps paused, she didn't remember much about that time, except for the scene when she was dragged out of the pear orchard by the Ministry of Internal Servants, many of the things that happened later were already very vague in Yao Jin's memory, or she didn't want to remember it so clearly. However, when Li Nan mentioned Wei Yan's name, Yao Jin's heart couldn't help but feel a little sour, she didn't speak, and Li Nan continued to himself: "Who would have thought that the little guard at that time is now the Lord Wei who is above the court, and he is the most trusted person around His Majesty......"

The most trusted person?Yao Jin looked at the chaotic night sky, would Li Yao believe Wei Yan? Maybe, if he did, it would be just a disaster for Wei Yan and the Mo family......

The trust of the world is at the feet of the imperial power, and in the final analysis, it may be a joke.

This night, Yao Jin still stayed in Chenghuan Xiaozhu. Since she left, this palace was ordered to be sealed by the first emperor Li Rui, and all the palace people were dismissed, and the palace was never opened again. And when Yao Jin returned again, the whole Chenghuan Xiaozhu did not seem to have changed in the slightest, the two palace maids held the lamp in front, the two palace maids carefully supported Yao Jin to the dormitory, her eyes swept over the familiar corridor and steps, until she arrived in the dormitory and stayed on the chair she used to like to sit on the most, the palace maids were busy lighting lamps in the hall, serving tea and snacks, and the medical ladies also followed to give Yao Jin's knee medicine, and the little eunuch came in with the medicine that had just been cooked, and took the bitter candied fruit. Yao Jin watched them busy expressionlessly, but felt that there was an indescribable strangeness and strangeness in this place, without the honey golden grapefruit tea cooked by Long Wan herself, without Yang Ying's innocent face, without Wei Yanshu guarding the palace gate, this Chenghuan Xiaozhu seemed to be no longer the only place where she could laugh happily in the palace back then,—— there was no longer the lively Princess Ya back then. Yao Jin smiled, this palace, for her, has long been nothing.

When the palace people waited for Yao Jin to bathe and change clothes, ate some porridge and changed the medicine, all the palace people were sent down, Yao Jin finally lay on the bed that was once extremely familiar, the soft mattress, there was a faint fragrance of lilies around, but her Shentai was a clear and clear, no sleep, staring at the top of the bed with wide eyes, she didn't know what she should think, her mind was chaotic, Lin Yuebai's sad expression, Li Yao's appearance sitting high on the dragon chair, At night, in the Nanguo Mansion hung with colorful lanterns in Caiyun City, some pictures flickered and flickered in Yao Jin's mind like postcards. The time of this night passed quickly, as if it was just the time of a cup of tea and incense, and the window gradually brightened, this palace seemed to be no different from before, but unlike the old emperor, the young emperor brought this palace and countless young women in the palace city, but it was full of hope, a new day.

When it was time to get up every day, the palace maids and sisters held grooming utensils and clothes and jewelry, and when Yao Jin knocked on the door three times without any response, they also entered the dormitory lightly, and saw that she was already sitting on the bed with her eyes open, so they waited for her to wash her face and mouth, and groom her makeup. A skillful old lady looked at Yao Jin's expression was not too good, so she combed her in a not too gorgeous bun according to the princess's hairstyle, but when she took an extremely delicate pink peony and wanted to insert it in the bun, Yao Jin still held her hand and said lightly: "Don't."

The sister-in-law's hand hung in the air, glanced at a few plates with jewelry next to her, either more expensive than flowers, or more gorgeous than pink, and she didn't know what jewelry to use for a while, and she was embarrassed, a little palace maid hurriedly came in, knelt down and said: "Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, the aunt in the queen mother's palace has arrived and is asking to see her outside the palace." ”