Lian Yi took a deep breath, looked at Chen Yu's eyes, did not dodge, tilted her head slightly, and used her afterglow to find the entrance of Caicao Tower. She walked quietly to that side, with a firm step and an indifferent attitude.

But when he first went up the stairs, he stumbled a little and was held up by Jin Bei.

Lianyi then walked up the stairs with a firm pace and an indifferent attitude.

This is, of course, pretended. But she has this strength: people are not surprised by chaos, and she is hard at all times. On weekdays, he is occasionally naughty, occasionally has a two-skinned face, and at critical moments, he resolutely makes a look that no one understands.

Step by step up the wooden stairs, the night breeze becomes louder and cooler layer by layer. Lianyi knew that Jin Bei and Wei Qi were following behind. The torch in Wei Qi's hand flashed like an orange cloud on her sideburns. She suddenly remembered a past incident that was forgotten in her youth: the eldest aunt's eldest grandmother's birthday, five or six girls among their relatives of about the same age got together in the lotus room, the wet nurse was also busy complaining to each other, the younger two sisters fell asleep in the room, she and the eldest sister Hewei and the second sister Xu Qiangyun lay side by side on the bed of Xia's mother and chatted.

At that time, Hewei was 13 years old, and there was still a year before she was elected to the palace as a female official because of her "talent".

Hewei asked: "You said that if one day people come to raid our Xu family's home, arrest us all on death row, and take all of us to the downtown area for beheading, what will you do?" ”

Mother Xia vaguely heard it and said: "It's nonsense again, look at me and tell the old lady to punish you!" ”

The three sisters hugged each other and giggled, and Xia's mother didn't say anything more.

Hewei poked Qiang Yun with her finger, and Qiang Yun replied timidly and quietly: "Then I will definitely hang myself in prison, or die headlong, and I won't lose that person." ”

"Sister, what about you?" Lianyi asked 13-year-old Hewei.

"I bribed the jailer to let me escape. At the ends of the earth, no one can find it. ”

Qiang Yun shook her head, "It's all raided, where did the money come from?" Besides, if the jailer wants to let you go, you won't be able to escape. The walls of death row are so high, the doors, so thick. ”

Hewei looked at his sisters with a somewhat crazy smile, "Then I won't accept my fate." I'll be on the execution ground, knock down the executioner, and run out. ”

Qiang Yun shook her head again, "Then, the chances are too slim." Besides, it's terrible to wait for the date and hour of the execution, so I'd better kill myself sooner. ”

Hewei snorted, too lazy to argue with Qiang Yun again, "Lotus meaning? Asleep? Xu Laosan? What about you? ”

In the night of the East Palace 11 years later, Lianyi stepped on the stairs of Caicaolou that the lotus flavor had stepped on, and repeated her answer in her heart: "I will find a way to find out the truth and return the Xu family to innocence." ”

Hewei questioned her through time and space, "Is it just you?" How to check? What to do first? ”

"Do it first – make it look like you can handle everything."

Lianyi's answer back then coincides with the current answer.

And she, under the escort of the two concubines, Jin Bei and Wei Qi, came to the upper floor of Caicaolou.

She saw at a glance that the crown princess was accompanied by four palace daughters and two eunuchs, but they were all sheltered from the wind inside, and the people downstairs couldn't see it.

And the crown prince Chen Yu is alone.

The carved fence is still there, but the beautiful woman is gone.

In the place, there are actually futons and a harp.

The piano is Fuxi style, and it looks like Xu He.

She is a person who likes plain clothes, and the things she uses pursue ordinaryness everywhere.

There is a piece left here that may be the piano played by Xu Hewei before eloping.

This was confiscated, proving that the crown prince and the crown princess came up for the first time after the accident.

Lianyi didn't have time to think too much, what jumped into her heart was the words that Jin Bei had just said: "Women should also be aggressive" and "You have to catch him off guard".

She didn't know if she was right, but how could she know if she didn't try?

So, Xu Lianyi rehearsed the rules and regulations of military etiquette that she had just learned, stepped back, pressed her sword, raised her arms, arched her hands, supported her forehead, straightened her chest, took out the appearance of a male soldier, and shouted in a thick voice: "The guards have been patrolling the night so far, everything is calm, and there is no danger in all directions, please instruct the two highnesses!" ”

Ye pursed his lips and smiled, but he didn't speak. Prince Chen Yu really didn't expect Lianyi to come out like this, and he was a little confused, "What are you naughty?" Who told you to come up? ”

Lianyi felt that Jin Bei was in the dark, and poked her waist.

It's also strange that she actually understands what Jin Bei's fingers are talking about.

Lian Yi took a step forward, "When the slave sees His Highness, he naturally wants to get close, is it wrong?" The slave had no choice but to change. ”

The prince didn't expect Xu Lianyi to come up to tease him, and he didn't say anything for a while.

I only heard the crown princess ask gently, "Does Concubine Xiao Xu know how to play the qin?" ”

"Tell Your Highness, I have learned, and I am not as good as my sister."

"Which one?" This is what the prince asked.

"It's going to be the shortest, "Spring Breeze Words" or something."

"Let's make a song." Chen Yu said.

When it comes to qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, Lianyi is a little timid. She's not stupid, but what she's best at is reading. So although those things are not bad, they can't be called "handy", especially in front of the prince and his wife who have seen the world.

Fuqin is the worst. The person who said before Jinbei that "Lianyi has a demon" is the old gentleman who teaches the piano.

Now, Lianyi has not practiced for many days, her hands are full of thorns, and she is sitting on the futon facing the piano, and she can't help but feel a little apprehensive.

She remembered the secret that Hewei taught herself - back then, when the fingering of the fuqin had just learned "pinching", Lianyi cried, she couldn't practice well, and it was impossible for the two strings to make a clear sound in her hands at the same time.

Hewei said: "You just want to make you the most calm picture, the bright moon in the ancient temple, the snow falling in the deep pool, the sika deer running across the plum blossom ridge, or, the boiled chicken porridge gurgling ......"

Not to mention, it works.

Lianyi first hooked and picked twice on the emblem of Jun Xian, and then took a look at the board and began to tune according to the loose tone method, and first went to the final.

Chen Yu next to her looked at her silently, and the crown princess Ye was still praising softly, "I said that Concubine Xu is cute." Know the rules of doing things. Don't be reckless before stroking the piano, tune the strings first. This sitting posture is also dignified. At any time, the rules are always greater than the sky. With rules, it's also cute to be naughty occasionally. ”

It all sounds like a good thing to say.

Lianyi didn't dare to be distracted, and it wasn't until she was done that she smiled sideways at Ye, "Nu Xie Niangniang Gold Award." ”

Chen Yu urged her, "Just play "Spring Breeze Words"." ”

Lianyi's mind is in turmoil, because although this piano has been placed on a high-rise building in the spring breeze for several days, it is a good one after all, why are the strings messed up like this? Isn't there something to say?

In order to calm her heart, she had to use the method that Sister Hewei taught herself.

At this moment, her eyes just happened to see the apricot blossom forest.

I don't know why, the nightmare of lotus flavor that Bai Manzhu said also broke into Lianyi's heart. In front of her eyes, a beautiful and weird, but extremely quiet picture suddenly formed: a skull that had gone through bloody wind and rain, not sad or happy, standing in the faint sadness of the apricot blossoms.

With this picture in her heart, Lianyi put her hands on the strings.

"Spring Breeze Words" is very short, it is about the girl in the boudoir thinking about spring, there are expectations, yearning and sorrow.

At the end of the song, the night wind blew the apricot petals, and the air was filled with an inexplicable fragrance.

The crown prince Chen Yu, the crown princess Ye, the concubine Jin Bei, and Wei Qi all heard it, and knew that this was not an ordinary "Spring Breeze Words", there were secrets in the piano sound, and there was a dark and alluring dangerous flower-like scenery on the other side.

"This piano is given to you, you practice more." Chen Yu said.

Lianyi was careless, thinking that she had found a good opportunity, and hurriedly advised: "Your Highness, let's rest early-"

"No!" Chen Yu interrupted her and looked at her suspiciously, "What?" You patrol the night, I supervise, can't you? ”

Lianyi's heart jumped wildly again, "It's bad, I'm in a hurry," she put on a two-skin face, "Huh? What do you say? ”

"I'm going to go up the calyx building here, count how long you walk in a circle, how many laps you walk in a night, and you still don't care about me?"

"Of course the slave wouldn't dare." Lianyi hurriedly got up from the futon, seemingly trying to escape from Chen Yuru's gaze, but in fact, she just wanted to get close to Jinbei in the dark.

She poked her back firmly into Jin Bei's fingers. Wait for this person to teach himself further.

Jin Bei wanted to laugh for a moment, but he was full of melancholy.

Chen Yu was still looking at Lianyi with a gloomy face, "Trick me into sleeping, do you want to be lazy or cheat?" Are you trying to hide something bad from me? Why did I punish you? I'm punishing you for my pleasure! I can't see the process of punishing you, how happy am I! ”

In fact, today's night training is an excellent time to go to the Cold Palace, and if there is no such punishment, it will be even more difficult for Lian Yi to leave the East Palace at night.

She couldn't let this opportunity slip away.

"Your Highness, what are you unhappy about?"

Chen Yu choked back at this sentence and almost didn't hiccup, "What did you say?" The whole world knows that I was cuckolded, and I can't be unhappy? Everyone in the world knows that I am the prince, and they all expect me to make mistakes, and they are all staring at me to do things, and I want to be happy to show you? ”

The strength of the "book bandit" in Lianyi's words came up, and he couldn't even feel the fingers of Jin Bei behind his waist, "Your Highness, it is in vain that the prince and the prince teach you to read and learn the truth, all things are born and have their own uses." Some people are princes, some people are embroiderers, farmers, dung pickers, water sellers, peddlers and pawns, all of them are busy for two meals and one night, if you say so, you will not be happy if you are a little difficult, and don't be happy all day long! ”

"You-" Chen Yu couldn't find a point to refute Lianyi for a while.

Ye Shi thought it was very interesting and watched the play with a smile.

"What's wrong with me? Am I happy? Is Sister Hewei happy? Could it be that Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess is happy? If you're unhappy, you can punish someone, but what about others? ”

Chen Yu fell down, with a crying voice, "Lotus flavor is like her." I like it, Ubetsu Valley likes it. You all hate me, and you all find fault with me! ”

Lianyi was even more aggressive, "You're wrong! I don't know what difficulties you encountered when you ran an errand. But since you are a person, even if you are a prince, it is common for someone to find fault with you and find fault with you. You think no one likes you, maybe it's true. However, it is still the same sentence, all things are born, and no one is superfluous. Even if the whole world, including the emperor, the queen, the crown princess, my sister and me, hate you, God doesn't hate you. Are we bigger than God? ”

Ye laughed.

"Okay, sir, look at how scared the child."

Chen Yu ignored no one and was silent alone.

Lianyi was cowardly and afraid, "What the slave said just now is just a hypothesis, and he didn't say that the emperor, the queen and the crown princess really hate you." It's cold in the heights, you feel lonely, we know. ”

In the night, the prince seemed to shiver, perhaps because of the cold wind.

He walked downstairs, "I'm tired, I'm sleepy." Qianbo found someone to send the piano to the small courtyard, and I went to sleep. ”

It turns out that the crown princess's name is so good: Ye Qianbo.

Ye even took a little elder to look at the kindness of the child, looking at Chen Yu's back, "He didn't lie, he was really sleepy." Jean, I'll find someone to send it over. Go about your business. ”

"Yes!"

In the eyes of the crown princess Ye, Lianyi, Jin Bei, and Wei Qi left Caicao Tower.

I don't know what the lonely and beautiful crown princess is doing upstairs.

The three of them took a detour, went around the apricot blossom forest, and headed towards the cold palace.