I grew up with Cai Qing since childhood, how can I not understand her thoughts, this cold winter Layue for a purse in the snow for a long time, the red and purple hands look at it is frozen in the snow for a long time, if you don't think of taking care of me, I'm afraid you will not stop looking in the snow for a whole day.

Before, I only knew that this red purse was her personal treasure, but I didn't know why, but now I understand a lot when I think about it.

I still remember that every night when she falls asleep, she will always carry the purse in her arms, the first thing she does when she wakes up is to check whether the purse is still on her body, sometimes she will sit alone under the porch and stare at the purse in a daze, sometimes coquettishly smiling, sometimes frowning sadly, and when she sees the purse, there is always a trace of girl's unique tenderness in her eyes.

The jade plate in the purse was given to her by the man, and she must have him in her heart when she cares about it like this, although I don't know what kind of story there is between them, but vaguely I guess that he must have promised Cai Qing something, otherwise where would she have such a great determination to help him overthrow Ye Mansion, and how could she let go of a comfortable life but stay by my side and suffer!

As the night fell, I sat by the stove and picked up a few pieces of silver charcoal that were not very good, put the cold teapot on the stove and simmered, the red-hot silver carbon in the furnace made a "crackling" sound, this sound was particularly loud in the quiet room, I sighed faintly, and all kinds of past events hit my heart.

I heard a lot of things about him from some good palace maids, it turned out that he was the fourth prince Shouwang that his father had said, legend has it that he was frail and sickly, and he was recuperating behind closed doors all the year round, and his father also said that it was impossible for a prince like him to sit on the dragon chair without a mother clan and without military power. I don't want my father to only look at the surface and judge the wrong thing, the truth behind his perennial closed-door recuperation is afraid that he is planning day and night how to seize the throne.

At that time, Ah Huanyuan in my eyes was just a phantom on his way to winning the heir, if it weren't for the fact that the Ye family had a sycamore tree like the jade seal of the previous dynasty, how could he, a phoenix, be peeped into by ordinary people like me.

That day, Meng Le in the Qingzhu Courtyard took the hair as a gift, and said what three thousand troubles, a trace is better than a trace, because that strand of hair I saw the long-awaited him, at that moment I was extremely happy, I always felt that I had a great deal of virtue in my previous life to see that person-like person, but now I can only laugh at my own ignorance, obviously in the plan of others, and I am still complacent there.

It's unbearable to look back, unbearable to look back!

There was a sound of footsteps behind me, I thought it was Cai Qing coming back again, so I didn't speak, just listened to the footsteps behind me approaching, and somehow there was a moment of silence behind me, only to hear "Knock!" The man sobbed and spoke.

"Green Branches.... To give.... Miss, please ......"

"Green branches?"

There was a faint light in the stove, and the green branch knelt on the ground wiping her tears and cried and laughed, choking her voice and talking to herself, I saw that she couldn't stop trembling between her words and called her to the stove to keep warm, and when she walked in, I found that she was still a thin linen clothes, and it was snowing outside that it was difficult for her to hold on to the whole winter.

I pushed the wheelchair to the edge of the collapse and wrapped the fairly thick futon around her, poured a cup of tea that was about to boil and put it in her hand to keep her warm, and as soon as she reached out the cup in my hand, it instantly froze in the air.

"Green Branch...... You ......" The hands were cracked deep and long, and the white bones were faintly visible in the bloody scars, and there were a lot of festering and pus-bleeding chilblains on the back of the red and swollen hands, she found that my face was wrong and hurriedly shrunk her hand in her sleeve, and said with a trembling smile, "Miss, don't look at it, it's fine after winter........ It's you... You're ....."

I patted the leg that I didn't feel at all, shook my head indifferently and said, "It's okay, just get used to it." ”

Unexpectedly, the green branch suddenly burst into tears, wiping her tears and crying, "Miss, if the young master knows about this, he will be more painful than death, slave... If the slave and maid do not protect you, the slave and maid will be to blame..... Miss ........"

In fact, it was difficult for me to accept this fact at first, but after a long time, there was no such resistance in my heart as it was at the beginning, and now the heart-rending cry of the green branch made me feel the sourness that I had abandoned for so long and came back to my heart.

I persuaded and persuaded, until the kettle came from the sound of hot water boiling, she gradually stopped crying, struggling to pour water to pour the soup woman, I pulled in the box for a long time to find a barely decent golden hairpin, this cold winter wax moon if you don't see the winter clothes to keep out the cold is not dead I am afraid that it will fall into the root of the disease, tomorrow I can only go to the old lady who tailors to make a winter coat for the green branch.

"Miss, Mrs. Soup."

"No, I'm not cold, you can hold it! Tomorrow morning, you wear my winter coat and go to the Yuze Hall near the left to find an old lady surnamed Guo, her craftsmanship is very good, and the winter clothes that come out of her hand fit very well. Although you are young and can withstand the cold, it is easy to fall into the root of the disease if you stay up like this, so it is better to make one. You see, I have ready-made cloth and some fur to make to keep warm. ”

Lu Zhi looked at the bright and golden hairpin in my hand and said distressedly, "Miss, let's keep such a valuable thing for ourselves!" The slave in winter clothes will do it herself. ”

"You can make winter coats?"

Green branch said with a smile, "Miss forgot, before entering the palace, the slave maid was the bitter slave of Xin Zheku, and the palace was full of people who watched people put down dishes, how could a lowly person like a slave and maid get a decent palace clothes, either wear the old palace clothes or tear the cloth to do it yourself, although after letting go of the palace and being idle in the house for a few years, the work at hand has not been forgotten at all, and we still have ready-made fabrics, so there is no need to worry, wait for Ming'er to start cutting.!" ”

I asked her why she suddenly appeared here, where did she go after Ye Fu raided the house and was imprisoned, Lu Zhi shook his head with a wry smile and said that he was a blessed life, and went to Xin Zheku after walking around outside the palace, she was a bitter slave in Xin Zheku for half a year, and this afternoon the father-in-law of the Internal Affairs Office suddenly came to her, saying that Qiu Lingxuan lacked palace maids and she had been performing very well recently and broke out of Xin Zheku, because her father-in-law urged her to ask in detail, and when she arrived at the door of the side hall, she found that I lived in the original palace.

I sighed, guilty and said, "I didn't ask Yu Yi to come if I knew that I wouldn't have asked you to come, if you were still in the house, now I don't know where to eat and drink spicy food, why bother twisting in this deep palace, if Yu Yi knew that you were suffering like this, he would definitely complain to me." ”

The green branch was shaking the futon's hand frozen in the air, and in the dim candlelight, I didn't notice the abnormal expression in her eyes, I only heard her sigh slightly, and continued, "Miss, this is wrong, the young master gave the green branch to Miss on the day he repeatedly told him to protect Miss thoroughly........ Green Branches is incompetent, and it is the slave's fault that he failed to take the young lady away before danger comes. ”

I smiled and said, "You are also a mortal, and you don't know when you are in danger, how can you take me away?" Having said that, now I really miss Yu Yi a little, and I don't know where he is? ”

Lu Zhi took the oil lamp next to the table to the bedside and said, "The slave maid heard that since the emperor ascended the throne, Lafayette has gone to Wutai Mountain to cultivate, and as soon as Lafayette leaves, Yu Gonggong must have gone with him, and the young master is a filial son, and the slave maid thinks that it should also be near Wutai Mountain!" ”

I said, "Eight or nine are not far from ten, and it has been half a year since I became a parent, and I don't know if I am going to be a father now, I have seen the girl of the water moon, a pair of wonderful eyes and tender like water, and they are very compatible when they stand together!" ”

Green Zhi put the soup lady in the futon, shook the pillow again, cleaned everything up, turned to me and smiled, "Miss, the hour is not early, the slave maid serves you to rest!" ”

"Okay."

Since entering the Qiu Ling Xuan I have suffered from nightmares, night all night dreaming, sometimes there are large pieces of pear blossoms in the dream, such as snow like jade, a lot of fragrance, the long-lost plain clothes and jade crown with his back to me standing under the tree, the shadow of the tree is full of faint sunlight, the sun shines on him like a shadow, and I stand behind him, hiding in the sky pear blossoms dare not come forward.

Sometimes when the picture turns, I stand alone in the blazing Ye Mansion, no matter how much I shout and struggle, I can't get rid of the endless panic and sadness.

Sometimes the dream is blank, I see myself in prison clothes huddled together tightly with my knees huddled, even if I know in my heart that I am in a dream at this time, I can only watch quietly, watching myself curl up there petrified like a petrified person, listening to "her" mouth over and over again silently reciting the Lotus Sutra.

When I woke up, I found a large area of wetness on my pillow, and it had been the same for months.

One day, I just finished my nap and saw the green branches were rubbing the hemp rope excitedly, and when I woke up, I threw away the hemp rope in my hand and hurriedly came over to get me out of bed, pushed me to the stove and turned around and poured a cup of hot water for me, and after doing all this, I was busy rubbing the hemp rope.

I held the cup and asked her, "What are you doing with the rope?" ”

The green branch said without raising his head, "The slave maid just went to the backyard to break the branches on the dead tree, and suddenly heard a flutter in the snow, miss, guess what I saw?" ”

I rubbed the cup and said, "Pheasant." ”

Green Branch's eyes widened, and he exclaimed, "God! You can guess this, she really deserves to be a young lady, so kind and intelligent........."

I hurriedly stopped her and said, "Sensei, the backyard is not a movement only today, since I entered this Qiu Lingxuan, there are some dizzy animals coming in, otherwise where do you think the skin on our winter coat came from." ”

The green branch suddenly realized, "I see, the slave and maid listened to the movement in the backyard and went to see, and watched a red-necked and green-beaked colorful pheasant fluttering in the snow nest, the slave and maid were in a hurry and clumsy and did not catch it but ran away, and guarded the hole for a long time without seeing any movement, so she simply came back and rubbed a rope to make a trap." ”

Green Branch said that his subordinates were not idle, and a strong hemp rope was rubbed, and Green Branch happily pushed me to the covered porch to enjoy the snow and watch the play, and we just arrived at the ground to see a cluster of bright seven-colored cocktail flowers growing in the snow nest that did not pass the calf.

The cocktail flowers bloomed very well, shimmering with colorful halos in the snow.

Green Branch ran over and grabbed the "cocktail flower" and lifted it up, a huge wild pheasant broke through the snow and was born, Green Branch shook it and said excitedly, "What a fat chicken, this must have several catties!" ”

The green branch carried the wild pheasant shivering in the snow to me and said, "Miss, do you see that the long tail of this wild pheasant is beautiful, like a flower in spring." ”

I nodded and continued, "It's really good-looking, you should be more careful when you shed your feathers, keep these beautiful feathers, and turn around and tie a chicken feather puppet at the entrance of this hole, this beautiful tail may be able to fool us into a few female pheasants!" ”

The wild pheasant seems to be an aura, heard my words rolled his eyes, kicked his legs and didn't even bother to struggle, the green branch touched the two fat and gorgeous wings of the wild pheasant, and directly mentioned the song and left, I was forgotten behind me and had to push the wheel behind me and walk slowly.

This was the sound of "creaking" footsteps outside the door, and a cold voice suddenly appeared, "Where is the sin slave Ye Clan!" ”

I hadn't heard it for a long time, and I was stunned for a while, until the man called impatiently three times before I reacted, and the green branch threw the colorful pheasant into the bamboo basket on the side, and hurriedly pushed me out of the backyard.

There were several extraordinarily dressed palace maids standing in the courtyard, the one headed by was only fifteen or sixteen years old but with extremely old hair and sideburns, and the green branch whispered to me, "Miss, the one who spoke is the aunt in charge of the middle palace, Hagi Xin." ”

I was stunned for a moment, the middle palace is a person in Meng Le's palace, I said how to look at her is a little familiar, it was Meng Le's close maid, Meng Le and I have not dealt with each other for half a year, what is she doing here in this cold winter?

Hagi Xin straightened her waist and stood in the courtyard with an impatient face, glanced at my legs, a hint of ridicule flashed in her eyes, and she said arrogantly, "Today's palace banquet invites the prince of the vassal country, and the emperor has an order to order the guilty slave Ye to go to the banquet together without delay." ”

She glanced at the winter coat on my body, and said arrogantly, "The queen mother said that even today's banquet is not trivial, even if you were disrespectful to the mother in the past, you must take care of the general situation, if this shabby and dejected appearance is seen by the prince of the vassal country, maybe you think that our treasury is empty!" For the sake of the national body of the martyrdom and the face of the emperor, Niangniang ordered us to dress up and change clothes for you. ”

Behind her, a palace maid stepped forward with a peony gold plate covered with red cloth, and a light blue dress was placed on the plate, and Hagi said coldly, "Sin slave Ye, change your clothes!" ”

Seeing that they were from the middle palace, the green branch was not worried that they were close to me to change clothes, so he politely said some soft words to let them rest on the side, and put on the new clothes for me by himself.

I know that Lu Zhi is worried that Meng Le will do something in the rouge, whether it will hurt his life, I don't know, but there will definitely be a crime.

Those * maids didn't say anything on their mouths, their eyes were either indifferent or disdainful, the green branch saved an ordinary and not decent sideburns for me, and a palace maid came forward with a gold plate, and put a few gold hairpins on the plate, exquisite workmanship, revealing luxury.

I still handed my own plain hosta to the green branch, the hairpin was broken by me a corner, there are some blood stains on it, although it was later cleaned, but the blood soaked in the jade crack can not be completely removed, look carefully at the sunlight to find that there is a faint dark red halo on the top of the hairpin, if you don't pay attention to the blood can not see the truth.

"Miss, this banquet is not trivial, the queen intends to let you dress up for the banquet, wearing this damaged hosta, is it too plain?"

I shook my head and comforted the green branch and said, "It's okay, the emperor only said that I would go to the banquet, and didn't say anything, maybe we would come back after a look from afar, if there is really anything big, how could they let me participate in a sick person." ”

Hagi Xin still straightened his waist and stood in the courtyard, and when he saw me come out, he snorted coldly and took the lead to lead the way.

I haven't been out of the door of Qiu Lingxuan for a long time, when the green branch pushed me out of the palace door, I unconsciously took a deep breath, the sky is still snowflakes, probably because I don't go out, I look at the snowflakes floating down in the air, I always feel exquisitely lovely, very refreshing.

The snow on the road was swept away and piled up in the corners, and some skillful and playful palace maids took advantage of their free time to build snowmen in the courtyard, and the crisp laughter was like the cry of a warbler in the morning, and they couldn't help but be secretly happy when they heard it.

Along the way, there were occasionally a few unkind probing eyes swept over me, and I followed my gaze to see that there were some women in brocade and jade clothes, full of pearls and emeralds, some coquettish, some luxurious, some elegant, all of them were extraordinary, and their bodies looked like willows and immortals.

When they saw me looking up generously, some of them silently missed their eyes, and some of them immediately changed to a distant smile.

The green branch whispered in my ear, "Miss, they are all concubines in the harem. ”

I answered softly, the voice was so small that only I could hear it, there were three thousand beauties in the harem, and the emperor was really blessed.

Turning around the three palace gates and two small bridges, Hagi suddenly stopped, and I looked up to see that there were three white jade moon stone characters engraved on the palace gate.

Leaning on the plum garden.