"Lord Wang Yaxing, come to the cold lake on Lord Shen's mansion in the middle of the night to hang out."

"I thought there was nothing more boring than this king, and I didn't want to meet the girl."

"The prince is still grounded, not afraid of the emperor's blame?"

"The girl also said, in the middle of the night, who can find out? All that can be found is a lonely ghost. He looked at Rao, her sash fluttering in the wind, ethereal in the night mist.

He reached out and grabbed the two belts and tied them lightly in a bow.

Rao Tu Wei stepped back, "Rao Tu is terrified. ”

"Oh? I don't see any fear in you. ”

Rao Di raised her head, an almost enchanting face was close at hand, her eyes staring at him, suddenly frowned slightly, her heart was shocked, and she said slowly: "The prince seems to have a deficiency disease. ”

He turned his head to look at the vast lake and asked calmly, "What is the deficiency of this king?" ”

"The prince has one eye, but he can't see."

He was silent for a moment, and then smiled slowly: "The girl is a meticulous person, and you are the third person to know the secret of this king." The second man, already dead. ”

He was smiling as he spoke, but there was no smile in those eyes.

Rao Tu clenched the long flute in her hand, got up and said, "It seems that Rao Tu is unlucky." ”

Xiao Yanning glanced at her, "You are an extremely dangerous woman." ”

"The prince and the concubine have nothing to do with each other, and the concubine won't say a word." Rao Di already felt a strong killing intent from those bland words.

Xiao Yanning closed his eyes and leaned against the wall of the boat, "Will you blow "Bodhisattva Man"?" His voice was a little tired.

"The concubine won't."

He closed his eyes for a long time and didn't make a sound, and the boat fluttered until the shore of the plum blossom dock lit up with a little fire, and the maid shouted "Girl-"

He opened his eyes, stretched his waist long, like a big dream, and smiled at Rao, "I should go too." ”

Rao Tu blessed her body slightly, "If the prince goes ashore now, he will be discovered." ”

"How's it found?"

"I'm afraid it will ruin the prince's good mood."

Xiao Yanning laughed indifferently, "Good mood, I've been ruined by the girl." ”

"I wonder if there is a remedy?" Rao Di said apologetically: "The prince is a lonely soul, and the concubine is a wild ghost." The prince's affairs, you might as well talk to the wild ghosts. ”

Xiao Yanning looked at Rao Tu with interest, "It's not deep." ”

Rao Tu lowered her eyes and said, "It's the concubine who is reckless." ”

Xiao Yanning looked at the Youyou Cold Lake and said lightly: "Since the age of eight, this king has been put into the food with a chronic poison, and I have eaten it for three years in vain and destroyed one eye. ”

Rao Di's heart jumped suddenly, and she said in a low voice: "Fortunately, I found it in time and didn't cause a big disaster." If you don't look closely, no one can see that the prince has an eye disease. ”

Xiao Yanning walked to the bow of the boat and jumped up to the light boat.

He didn't swing the oar, but the boat swung slowly.

Rao Di suddenly shouted: "Lord Wang......"

He looked back at her, and the bearing on his body was completely different from the lazy and casual when he came, but with a kind of coldness of posthumous independence.

Rao's hands were sweating, and she said word by word: "Wild angelica...... Can it be detoxified? ”

Xiao Yanning smiled slightly, he didn't answer, but turned around with his sleeves, and the boat made a wave of water like an arrow, and quickly disappeared into the vast mist.

Rao Di stood on the bow of the boat, the back of her clothes was soaked with sweat, she knew that the fifth prince, the most lazy and merry lord of this dynasty, had just killed her three times.

……

On the eighth day of Laba, it snowed heavily.

Rao Tu and a few girls nested in the warm pavilion, in the treasure bottle of the table, and the cold plum exuded a faint fragrance.

The mountain ghost kept stretching its claws into the fruit box containing sweet candies, and the melon seed shells and fruit beards were piled up into a small mountain.

Rao Di was holding a book of Wang Wei's poems and reading the first two sentences of the poem "Winter Excursion": "Step out of the east gate of the city and try to see a thousand miles." The green mountains are full of forests, and the red sun is flat and flat. As if I saw it myself, I secretly sighed at Wang Wei's ability, a few sentences of the extremely bleak winter, the sentence of "the red sun and the flat land", saying that the high red sun shines on the vast plain, which is a very warm sentence, but it is cold to read.

Liu Xing'er opened the curtain and came in, covered with snowflakes, she shook her clothes, and said to Rao: "Pei's side sent a watt of Laba porridge." Yang Qiangang sent another letter, which was written by Lord Shen to the girl. ”

Rao Di smiled lightly, didn't ask the letter, and only said, "Mrs. Pei is better?" ”

"The slave and maid just came from there, and it looks better than the other day, but she still coughs badly."

The mountain ghost rolled his eyes and said, "Don't you really have tuberculosis, right?" Her porridge is not uncommon for us girls to eat, and she has carefully passed the illness. ”

Rao said: "I want to eat laba porridge." ”

The mountain ghost said generously: "It's not a thing, this is called the kitchen grandmother to cook the best and most fragrant porridge!" ”

Rao Tu snorted, "It's just Pei's porridge, what about it?" It's a pity to throw it away. ”

"Girl, don't be so stingy." The mountain ghost couldn't stand it anymore, and persuaded: "That's just porridge, it's still Pei's porridge." I can't even look at it. ”

Rao Tu smiled: "If no one drinks it, it smells bad." threw away and feared that the cement soil of the lake would be polluted, and Pei's actually sent a hot potato. ”

Liu Xing'er took out a letterhead from her arms and said with a smile: "The girl only cares about porridge, and Lord Shen's letter is still hanging here!" ”

"If there's anything to read, just throw it in the stove and melt it." Rao Tu looked at the book again, and didn't care.

The mountain ghost glanced at the words on the letterhead, and said with a smile: "I see that the payment is the word 'banquet ice', and the girl doesn't read it?" ”

Rao Tu raised her eyebrows, "In that case, you read it to me." ”

The mountain ghost opened the envelope, took out a bamboo xuan with a light sandalwood fragrance from it, and said with a smile: "There are only three sentences." ”

Rao Tu sneered, "Lord Shen is really busy. ”

The mountain ghost coughed and read according to Nazhu: "The northern border mission will arrive in Beijing soon, and the holy edict orders me to return to Beijing early, or before Chinese New Year's Eve." Is Granda better? I heard that I had returned to Shenfu Meihuawu, and I was relieved to recuperate, so as not to cause trouble. ”

Rao Tu didn't laugh angrily when she heard this, and smiled at a few girls and asked: "Listen to what kind of letter this is, you didn't have a thoughtful word, but told me not to make trouble?" ”

Several girls pursed their lips and smiled.

The mountain ghost smiled: "Do you want to reply to the letter?" ”

"Back, of course!" Rao Di picked up the pen and paper on the shore and wrote two words lightly - don't dare, she slapped it on the case with a snap, "Let Yang Qian find someone to send it to Lord Shen quickly!" ”

Chunxia raised his forehead, "Girl, the adult finally asked the girl if she was okay, you replied like this, it is estimated that the adult will be angry again." ”

"Mind him, just rejoice." Rao Di said as she urged the mountain ghost to find Yang Qian.

Ten thousand mountain ghosts were unhappy, and Rao Tu squinted his eyes and said, "Don't go?" All the snacks of today will be confiscated in the future. ”

"Hey, girl, I'll go, can't I go?"

The mountain ghost held the sweet fruit box in one hand and the paper in the other hand and ran out. found Yang Qian and instructed him to reply to the letter quickly, Yang Qian looked at the fruit box she was holding in her hand, she was actually a little shy, and sneered: "These are all things that you girls like to eat, I don't eat them." ”

The mountain ghost frowned, "Don't eat a ghost!" Did I say it was for you? As he spoke, he left without looking back, leaving Yang Qian in a daze.

In the evening, when Liu Xing cleaned up the bed, she saw that Chun Xia, Qiu Dong was not in the house, and whispered to Rao Tu: "Girl, I went to the pharmacy to get the medicine today, and I saw a very strange medicine list, Pei's. ”

"Oh? Do you know herbs, what is the list? ”

"The date was a year ago, it fell to the ground, and the slave picked it up and only looked at it, and was robbed by Pei's girl's silver kettle. There are a few herbs on it, although they are not commonly used, but the slave knows that they can avoid children. ”

"Shunzi?" Rao Tu thought about it, she remembered that Pei gave birth to a stillborn baby that year, and she was bruised, and the doctor said that it was caused by poisoning. Later, mercury was found in the tocolytic pill she boiled for Pei's. It was a big rainy night! Shen Zhu was furious, and originally wanted to break her with a sword.

At that time, Pei pretended to stop the angry Shen Zhu, so he wrote the letter of resignation with a pen and expelled her from the house. On the deserted street on a rainy night, she was beaten to faint by the family members summoned by Pei's envoy, and finally woke up in the mass grave outside the city, in the light of lightning, she picked up the formed male fetus between her legs, and cried.

Only the howl of the wolf echoed her weeping.

She came back to her senses and said to Liu Xing: "Tomorrow, you go and see where the dregs of the medicine she drank in the past are poured, and identify what kind of medicine they are." ”

Liu Xing went out early the next morning, and came back in the middle of the day and said: "Pei's medicine residue is poured under the roots of the jujube forest, I have seen it, in addition to the cough, there are also a few warm and tonic medicines for the treatment of uterine cold, which should be taken by her all year round." ”

Rao Tu asked: "Under what circumstances do you say that people will take child-avoiding medicine?" ”

"Well, that must be if she doesn't want children." Liu Xing is categorical.

"How could Pei's not want children, she dreamed of adding Ding to Shen Zhu, so as to block the mouths of Youyou."

Liu Xing was refuted, thought about it, stepped forward and lowered her voice: "Is it a wild seed?" That's why you don't dare to get pregnant? ”

Rao Di knocked on the center of her eyebrows, "Even if the Pei family was a little coquettish before, since he was corrected by Shen Zhu, he also holds his own noble status and will not do such a stupid thing." Rethink. ”

Liu Xing scratched her head, "The slave really can't think of it." Could it be that she knew that the child she gave birth to would have problems, so she didn't dare to conceive? ”

Rao Di stopped talking when she heard this, Liu Xing's eyes lit up, and she was surprised: "It can't be like this, right?" ”

"You said that the few warm tonic medicines she often takes are warm and tonic for the treatment of uterine cold, maybe Pei Shi knows in his heart that due to her physical problems, even if she is pregnant with a child, she will not survive. But she didn't dare to tell Shen Zhu about this matter, so she took warm tonic medicine to recuperate urgently, and on the other hand, she took child avoidance medicine to prevent pregnancy. ”

Liu Xing kept nodding, "Girl, you have a reasonable analysis, but ...... One thing I don't understand. ”

"Say."

"How did Pei know that her child would not survive?"

Rao Tu looked indifferent, "She knows." ”

Because she once gave birth to a bruised stillborn baby, and blamed the woman named Xu Yu.

"Liu Xing, let's find an auspicious day to visit Mrs. Pei, since that day Mrs. fell into the water, I haven't seen it for a long time."

Liu Xing said: "She is infected with tuberculosis, and the girl still goes less." ”

"Well, then let's wait for Lord Shen to come back, it's not good to go and say a few words to make her angry."

Ten days later, the envoys from the north arrived in Beijing, and the gongs and drums on the main road of Jinling City were noisy, crowded with people watching the excitement.

Rao Tu dressed as a scholar in a green shirt and hairpin, and the mountain ghosts crowded in the crowd, only to see Prince Yu riding on a tall horse, talking and laughing with a bearded cross-dressed man, but to say some polite greetings from afar, Prince Yu smiled lightly, with alienation in the politeness, showing the dignity and majesty of the royal family.

The mountain ghost muttered in Rao's ear: "Girl, you see that Prince Yu is in the limelight, and the crown prince is vacant, but I'm afraid that it will be Prince Yu's." ”

Rao Di nodded: "Prince Yu does have a good future, but ......" She flickered in front of her eyes and thought of the cold figure she saw on the cold lake that night.

"But what?"

"It's nothing, it's just that things are changing, who can say for sure?"

The envoy's convoy went away, and the people who were watching the excitement also dispersed, and the mountain ghost pulled Rao Tu and said with a smile: "Childe, you are simply too handsome." The big girls and little daughters-in-law around just now are all looking at you! ”

Rao Tu knocked on her head with a folding fan, "Unwarranted flattery, it must be no good thing, let's say it." ”

The mountain ghost glanced directly at the music hall next to him, and was a little eager to try, "Let's finally come out, do you want to go in and listen to a little song before leaving?" ”

Rao Di was bored, turned her head to leave, the mountain ghost grabbed her and said: "Girl, let's go and see, I just saw a handsome beauty, poked her head out of the stairs, and looked straight at us, if you don't comfort and comfort her, the beauty will be lovesick!" ”

Rao Di was about to knock her again, but she heard a familiar voice coming from upstairs, and the man lazily asked, "Will you blow "Bodhisattva Man"?" ”

Rao Di's heart was shocked, remembering that the fifth king Xiao Yanning also asked her this that night, she couldn't help frowning, and said that the five princes were also bold, and it was just a matter of sneaking out in the middle of the night.

She walked into the music building, and the boss saw that it was a handsome little man, so he hurriedly trotted up to meet him and said with a smile: "The son is faced, and the head is back?" ”

Rao Di said "um", and the words should be two words concisely: "Elegant room." ”

The mountain ghost gave away a piece of silver, and the boss took the silver and led Rao Tu to a clean compartment on the second floor.

The mountain ghost said: "Just now we saw downstairs in the third room on the east side of the second floor, there is a beauty, please come over to the boss." ”

The boss smiled and said, "Wait a minute, I'll invite Miss Jiuge for you." Then he left the room and called someone.

Rao Tu glanced at the mountain ghost and said lightly: "You are very familiar with the way, tell me, this is the first time you have come to such a place?" ”

The mountain ghost smiled and said: "Girl, the beauty here sings a little song, it's called an ecstasy, you will know it when you listen to it." ”

The girl of Jiuge came with a pipa in her arms, and she was really a beauty, but she was a little sick between her actions, and she had the style of Xizi.

She gave Rao a blessing.

Rao Tu leaned on the back of the chair, tapped the table with a fan with one hand, and saw that on the beautiful face at the door, there was no admiration as the mountain ghost said, but there was some cold silence that rejected people, no matter how she looked, she didn't look like the little lady who had just secretly peeped at her upstairs.

She glared at the mountain ghost, who turned a blind eye, and it seemed that the soul had been taken away by Jiu Ge.

Rao Di coughed lightly and said to Jiu Ge, "Girl, please take a seat." ”

Jiu Ge sat on a chair and asked softly, "What do you want to hear, the slave will sing it to you." ”

"If you don't listen to the song, play the song "Bodhisattva Man" on the pipa, will you?"

Jiu Ge was stunned when he heard this, and then lowered his eyes and said: "The slave and maid will not be "Bodhisattva Barbarian". ”

"Oh? Can't make such a simple word and card song? ”

Jiu Ge lowered his head, his hands holding the pipa trembling slightly.

Rao Di frowned, not knowing what was strange about "Bodhisattva Man", so she said casually: "No, no, then play a song "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night". ”

Jiu Ge answered, plucked the strings on the shaft, played a few beats and began to sing: "The tide of the spring river is even the sea level——"

When the pipa was Zheng Zheng, when Jiu sang "I don't know who Jiang Yue treats, but I see the Yangtze River sending flowing water", Rao Tu suddenly said a word, "Broken!" With a snap, the strings of the pipa in the nine singers were broken.

Jiu Ge was stunned for a moment, then got up and said in fear: "Childe forgive your sins!" ”

Rao Di shook her head, "It's broken here, just right." The body of this lute is broken, and it can't be played anymore. The mountain ghost rewarded her with a hundred taels of silver. ”

Jiu Ge said in fear: "The slave is disrespectful. ”

"It's okay, your hand is a little jerky, but I like your lute sound, it's clean. There's just one thing I want to ask. ”

"Childe, please speak."

"Bodhisattva, why can't you play?"

Jiu Ge trembled for a moment, and said in a low voice: "A noble person is coming today." ”

Rao Tu nodded thoughtfully, "You go." ”

As soon as Jiu Ge retreated, the right wall of the box suddenly slammed, as if someone next door had hit it hard, and then there was a woman's gasping sound, and Xiao Yanning's voice was also mixed with that gasp.

He asked in a deep voice, "Want it a lot?" ”

He was answered by a woman's coquettish moan, and it was clear that he had already begun to move.

The mountain ghost blushed and scolded: "Shameless! "I'm going to leave with Raodi.

Rao Di had just gotten up, but there was a loud bang, and the wooden partition wall actually smashed to the ground, and a disheveled woman fell in with the collapsed wooden wall.

The woman screamed as she was thrown, but there was no pain on her face, but a kind of unbearability of dissatisfaction.

Obviously, the man withdrew from her as soon as he entered the alley, and she was not satisfied with this sudden change.

Xiao Yanning stood opposite, straightened his robe casually, and sighed: "This wall is too unstrong, right?" After seeing the woman dressed as a man, she didn't seem to recognize it, and said with a smile: "What a handsome son, come to listen to the music too?" ”

Rao Tu coughed a few times and hugged her fists: "Lord Wang, go on, leave first." ”

Xiao Yanning raised his chin to the woman on the ground, "Get out." ”

The woman seemed a little reluctant, but did not dare to brush his mind, got up and limped out.

Rao Tu smiled: "Then I'll go too." ”

Xiao Yanning grabbed her arm, and a charming voice sounded, "If Shen Zhu knew that you were coming to Hualou, I don't know how to feel?" ”

Rao swallowed her saliva, "I didn't know it was Hualou, I thought it was a place to listen to music seriously." ”

Xiao Yanning: "Oh? With a smile, "So the girl is so innocent?" ”

Rao Tu shook her arm, didn't break away, and said with a smile: "Lord Wang, you let go first." ”

Xiao Yanning squinted her eyes and looked at her for a long time, looking up and down.

"Isn't the prince grounded? Why did you run out again? ”

"Don't want to threaten the king with this matter, the northern mission has entered Beijing, and the king has been lifted."

"Oh, that's really going to congratulate the prince."

"You're stalking me?"

"The prince really thinks too much, and the concubine doesn't dare."

He snorted, with a smile on his face, and put Rao Tu against the wall and said slowly: "Rao Tu girl, can't you like this king?" ”

The soft voice and warm breath blew in Raodi's ears, she shrunk her neck and said embarrassedly: "The prince is really worried." ”

Xiao Yanning took her in his arms and looked at her for a long time before he said slowly: "Girl, please." ”

Rao Tu got out from under his arm, took the mountain ghost's hand and hurried away.

Xiao Yanning stood on the window railing, looking at the slender back running on the street downstairs, the corners of his mouth hooked up a playful smile, "This king, is it really that terrible?" ”

Rao ran back to the Shen Mansion out of breath, but saw Liu Xing'er standing in front of the mansion with an anxious expression, "Girl, you can be regarded as back!" ”

The mountain ghost has kung fu, and he doesn't feel tired at all when he runs, but Rao Tu is already out of breath. Hearing Liu Xing'er say this, I wanted to ask, but I couldn't say a word.

The mountain ghost did the work for her, "What, wait for the girl to eat?" We didn't eat it, and the girl was afraid that she was already sick and full. ”

Liu Xing'er stomped her feet and said, "What to eat!" Lord Shen is back, waiting in Plum Blossom Dock! ”

Rao Tu and the mountain ghost glanced at each other, the two of them were not afraid of the sky and the earth, and there was a little panic in their eyes.

Rao Tu pulled Liu Xing'er: "My clothes, did you bring them?" ”

Liu Xing said: "Lord Shen is sitting in the girl's room, I can't take it if I want to, so I asked Xiao Quanzi to go to Buzhuang secretly to buy it, and I haven't come back yet!" ”

"How long has Lord Shen been waiting?"

"It's almost an hour......

Rao Tu knocked on the door of her head with a fan, and for an hour...... She could imagine Shen Zhu sitting in her room with a stinky face now.

"No, let him wait any longer, the consequences will be worse than wearing this clothes."

At the moment, he took Liu Xing back to Meihuawu by boat, and trotted all the way to the warm pavilion after arriving at the shore, and hurriedly jumped into the house with the corner of his skirt.

Wearing a white jade robe, his reading expression was very focused, not as stinky as Rao Tu thought. But when he turned his head to look at Rao, he still frowned as Rao Tu expected.

"What are you wearing?"

Rao Di smiled and threw herself at him, "Shen Lang, you are back!" ”

Shen Zhu stretched out his arm, pushed her a foot away, and looked her up and down, his brows wrinkling deeper and deeper.

Rao Tu smiled: "This is Shen Lang's old clothes, I think it's a pity to put them away, and you don't wear them, so you ask the girls to change their size, do you think I'm not dressed properly?" As he spoke, he turned around and showed Shen Zhu.

Shen Zhu didn't speak coldly.

Rao Di said pitifully: "If you don't come back, I'm wearing your clothes and smelling you, and I can be considered at ease, Shen Lang won't blame me too, right?" ”

Shen Zhu pulled her to lie on his lap, looked into her eyes, and said slowly in a deep voice: "Miss me?" ”

Rao Di trembled, and she suddenly remembered the voice of Xiao Yanning she heard in the music building - "I want it very much?" ”

The two seem to have the same effect.