Chapter Eighty-Nine: My Princess
The bright moon came out of the clouds and shone gloomily on the inner courtyard of the palace.
This time the ground movement was not serious, fortunately, the water pavilion flower would be in the open field, except for Changde's leg was pressed and Wu Meiren fell into the water, no one else was injured.
But the Jiuqu Covered Bridge was destroyed, and the emperor was upset because of the uncertainty of Rong Yixuan's life and death, so he drove angrily.
The Water Pavilion Flower Club will not be able to do it, and all the things that Concubine De originally expected have been lost.
Even so, several women still had the courage to greet the emperor and his mother, Chu Rulan also went, and got a head from the emperor, and returned to his residence full of joy at this moment.
The emperor didn't care about Wu Meiren, and hurriedly went back to Qianyuan Palace to summon Lord Zhao and Cheng Wangye, leaving Concubine De alone to reprimand the palace maid and eunuch who was ineffective with a blushing face, and to distract herself from appeasing the frightened girl.
The doctors consulted overnight, and Changde's leg was fine for the time being.
But when Wu Meiren was rescued, her face was pale and she was delirious. The doctors tried their best, decoction, acupuncture, fire, and massage, although Wu Meiren vomited most of the water, she started a high fever.
The palace maids and eunuchs were all busy, and they ran quickly with small steps to shuttle inside and outside the Fuxiang Pavilion.
Fortunately, Aunt Yixin is experienced in handling things, and she will settle the young ladies and girls in Xia Nuanju in an hour.
Compared with seeing the emperor, the latter obviously made the girls more concerned and excited, Wu Meiren had an accident, the previous advantage was gone, and several young ladies with higher status chatted together, and from time to time the palace maids and eunuchs brought news in exchange for money.
Hearing that Wu Meiren was critically ill, Ding Yifang easily said that if you have money, you can hire the best doctor. The doctors of this hospital are all holding fixed money, who is happy to save people without the emperor's will, but Hu Shuer said that Wu Meiren can't be saved. There is also one less competitor.
As soon as these words came out, the people in the hall were silent, and it took a long time before they began to talk about other things.
Chu Rulan was immersed in a side glance of the emperor, and didn't pay attention to what they said at all.
The ladies made their own calculations, and there was still no latest news in the middle of the night, so they went back to the house one after another.
The east room is separated by a wall from the hall of Xia Nuanju, and Ruoyun listened for a long time without waiting for Xu Cuiwei to speak. thought to herself that if she wanted to poison herself, she would not be guilty of sitting so close to make herself suspicious.
"Miss, it's warm in late spring and early summer. But it's still cold in the middle of the night, and if you don't come back, you're going to catch a cold. Xiaohong walked out of the house with her cloak in her hand.
"Zhilu Dao." Ruoyun's heart warmed up, and she turned around with a smile.
Only then did he close the door, and Qiuyue knocked on the door to report. said that Wu Meiren spit out some water again. He also vomited with medicine, but his face was much better, and it should be fine.
Xiaohong pursed her lips and wanted to say that we don't care about this, but Ruoyun preemptively rewarded her for the jade earrings and sent her out.
"Miss, you have such a reward method, we haven't lived in it yet, and we have become poor!" Xiaohong complained dissatisfiedly, but she was busy laying the bedding on her hands.
Ruoyun smiled indifferently. said: "Everyone in the palace can ignore it, but this palace eunuch has to be done properly." ”
Xiaohong suddenly straightened up. turned around and said seriously: "Miss, I heard that Lord Cheng entered the palace overnight, and I don't know which Lord Cheng is, if Miss followed the Lord at the beginning, now I don't have to look at people's faces......"
"Did you say enough? Enough of that I'm going to rest. Ruoyun was angry, thinking that she had to look at people's faces everywhere, even if the Ninety-Five Venerable had a time when she couldn't help herself, she was angry when she mentioned King Cheng.
But if you tell Xiaohong's father that she was killed by Cheng Wangfu, I am afraid that she will be more excited than herself.
Xiaohong rolled her eyes, she still didn't understand what was wrong with the young lady being a princess, and muttered that she would go out after she finished washing.
Ruoyun couldn't fall asleep lying on the bed over and over again, the night was deep, everything was silent, the bright moon hung high outside the window, the white light made her close her eyes and open them again, hiding in the quilt and panicking.
She simply sat up, put on her clothes and pushed the door out, and walked slowly along the road boredly, and the thrilling scene of the flower party came to her mind.
Although she is extremely low-key, she has caused so many things in less than a month after entering the palace, which is really quiet and the wind does not stop.
The east side out of the path is connected to the wide trail is the back / palace, the other side is leading to the Qianyuan Palace, and the Qianyuan Palace is the Golden Palace after a few gates.
The depth of the palace does not lie in the wide area, but in the heavy Zhu Gate that cannot be walked out.
Myself, maybe there is no reason to go out of the road, Ruoyun looked at the palace lantern hanging high but the empty trail was stunned, a strong sense of helplessness came to her face, the past has become a fact, and now I don't know where to go.
There is a relief dragon head on the palace wall every few steps, the more you go to the Qianyuan Palace, the more meticulously carved, to the corner of the wall is wrapped in gold leaf, and a royal unique ambergris incense is diffused.
She reached out and stroked the cold dragon head, looked up at the symbol of the majesty of the Son of Heaven, and sighed softly.
There were footsteps in the distance, and she wanted to go, but as the sound approached, the more she couldn't take a step, and if she was weak in this palace, she would be treated as an assassin or have bad intentions.
She calmed down, and a soft sedan chair came from the corner of the wall, coming towards her.
Looking at the clear cloud patterns on the sedan chair, she was shocked, and she no longer cared if it was suspicious, and instinctively turned around and left, hoping that Cheng Qingsu would not trouble her.
"Miss Su, please stay." The palanquin stopped a few paces behind her, and her soft, tired voice paused her vividly.
Her heart was suddenly as messy and shocked as a storm crashing on the shore, how could she forget that Cheng Wang Ye was not necessarily Cheng Qingsu, Cheng Qingsu should go out of the city to meet Wang Kaixuan, and it was Cheng Qingxuan who came to the palace.
She silently turned around, and the man wrapped in the silver cloak had already arrived, and a pair of beautiful eyes looked up and down at her with joy and tiredness: "Yun'er......" He called in a very low voice.
Although she hated him and resented him, she was still startled when she saw Cheng Qingxuan's haggard cheeks, and she hadn't seen her for half a month, how could his usual jade-like face be so pale, and his whole body exuded an extremely tired breath, which made her worry with that call......
"I'm afraid the prince has recognized the wrong person......" She lowered her head and bit her lip vigorously.
"If you admit your mistake. How can you bow your head and know that I am the prince? Cheng Qingxuan smiled instead of being annoyed, and sighed lightly.
Ruoyun looked at his fist-clenched hand trembling slightly, and her heart soured up. couldn't help but raise his head and whispered: "Since the prince has recognized my father's affairs, and he can't hold hands with me to grow old, what's the point of knowing me now?" ”
She raised her eyebrows and asked, but she saw that Cheng Qingxuan's expression was slightly stiff, and her expression was a little more painful.
"Yun'er, as long as you want, I will take you out of this palace. You'll forgive me......" He lowered his voice again, almost pleading.
"Su Ruoyun, I don't want to." She replied categorically.
Cheng Qingxuan's face turned almost pale. Looked at the dragon head relief on the wall, the anger in his eyes flashed, he took a deep breath and stepped forward to buckle her into his arms: "Follow me, otherwise I won't be able to protect you from now on!" ”
I didn't expect him to be so presumptuous in the deep palace. But he vividly remembered the scene from seeing her to helping her again and again. She hurriedly told herself that she couldn't shake it, and that it was all just his excuse.
Pushed his arms away, and violently broke free, she took a few steps back and glared angrily: "Please let the prince respect!" What does it have to do with you? ”
The full moon above his head illuminated each other miserably, Cheng Qingxuan's expression was painful, and there was sweat dripping down his forehead, he stepped forward again and reached out to hold her. said: "Yun'er, it's too late to enter the deep palace. You know, I ......"
A light was cast from the corner of the wall, and several eunuchs holding lamps trotted forward to surround him, and a soft sedan chair carrying a bright yellow figure appeared later, and all the palace people on the original trail knelt down.
After getting off the sedan chair, Rong Jinhuan, who was dressed in civilian clothes and bead crowns, stood with his hands in his hands, swept over the hand he was holding her, and sneered: "Lord Cheng, if you don't return to the palace so late, you are nostalgic for my harp/palace?" ”
His tone was cold, and his gaze was gloomy and sharp, which made the people in the surrounding palace shudder.
Ruoyun hurriedly withdrew his hand, but he held it too tightly, and he couldn't break free several times, so he only looked at Rong Jinhuan's well-defined face in a panic.
Cheng Qingxuan changed his gentle and polite attitude in the past, insisted on not letting go, squinted at Rong Jinhuan and said coldly: "Your Majesty, in the dead of night, please ask the emperor to rest early." ”
Ruoyun gasped, so many pairs of eyes watched, he actually spoke to the emperor like this?
Rong Jinhuan was not angry, with a calm expression, and said: "The woman I hired into the palace is entangled with Prince Cheng here, and I naturally care about what happened. He smiled and spoke, but his eyes were cold.
"I ......" Ruoyun was speechless, already nervous to the scalp, and didn't know what to do at all.
Cheng Qingxuan turned his head to look at her, and his eyes softened under the light as if he had blue waves: "The emperor's words are wrong, she is not your person, she is my princess who has not passed through the door." ”
Ruoyun only felt that a wave of sadness welled up in her heart.
I heard him purse his lips softly again, adding, "My dear." ”
She looked at him in disbelief, the hand she was holding was numb, and her mind was even more wooden, as if she had fallen into some kind of whirlpool that she couldn't see and touch, and she couldn't move.
The corners of Rong Jinhuan's mouth lifted, and everyone thought that the emperor was going to be angry, but his frosty face was suddenly relieved, and he actually laughed at the end: "I haven't heard this kind of joke for a long time, you say she is, is she it?" Why don't I know that you Cheng Qingxuan have three media, six hires, and eight sedan chairs to marry such a princess? The smile turned into a sneer, and he pressed the dragon pattern on the wall with one hand, staring at him almost like a joke.
Cheng Qingxuan's face did not change at all, she only looked at Ruoyun fixedly, his far-reaching but hot gaze made her heartbroken, and she was almost about to blurt out and go with him.
"Shuyan was injured and fell into a coma, and today he has been sent back to Beijing, and I Shang sent someone to find Yixuan's whereabouts. I have been stationed outside the royal city for so many days, and tomorrow I will enter the capital, and I will reward the army. I don't know what reward the king with a different surname who has served Tianyi for many years wants? Rong Yixuan's words were tingling, and his eyes were burning, almost looking at him as ashes.
Thinking of the king with a different surname and his father died innocently, Ruoyun's heart ached, and he took advantage of his distraction to pull out his hand and said: "I am not your princess, the prince recognized the wrong person." I am...... I am Su Ruoyun, I entered the palace by order, and I don't know the prince and have nothing to do with it. When he reached the end, he was like a mosquito, but he was not at ease and saluted the emperor and said: "The prince just admitted his mistake, and asked the emperor to forgive ......"
"Hahaha! Then I said, "How can my man be your princess?" Rong Jinhuan smiled, his expression was quite proud, the corners of his smiling eyes flashed with a faint light, and he reached out to pull her as he spoke.
Ruoyun saluted again, avoided his hand and said, "Your Majesty, it's late at night, and I forgive Su Ruoyun for retiring first." After speaking, he didn't care whether the emperor was to blame, lifted his skirt and turned around and left.
She has to get out of here as soon as possible, she can't turn back, she can't be soft-hearted, she can't make mistakes again and again!
Cheng Qingxuan's slender fingers stayed in the air, looking at her back as she hurriedly disappeared into the night, and finally couldn't help but reach out against the sedan chair, and large beads of sweat rolled down.
"Cheng Qingxuan, I said that I won't lose the bet, are you convinced?" Rong Jinhuan evoked a sneer again, and easily passed by him.
"I implore the emperor to protect her thoroughly, and promise that the emperor's affairs will be done as much as possible." His almost pleading tone made Rong Jinhuan stop his steps.
Cheng Qingxuan straightened up silently, his face softened slightly, and his gaze at Rong Jinhuan was extremely indifferent: "Your Majesty, this is the biggest concession I have made, and I ask the emperor to do it himself." Almost gritting his teeth and spitting out these words, he no longer hesitated, turned around and got into the sedan chair.
"Hmph, I said I wouldn't make a mistake with my chips." Rong Jinhuan brushed his sleeves and whispered, and the corners of his mouth were hooked in satisfaction. (To be continued......)