Rong Ruo had no doubt about the ability of the green finch, so he asked if everything he had explained to her before had gone well.

Green Sparrow pursed her lips and half-raised her eyes to look at Rong Ruo, "When my subordinates met the prince's people, the prince said that the matter would be handed over to Duan Yi." After so many years, Green Sparrow has been accustomed to obeying orders, and she also knows that her master is Rong Ruo now, but she can't question the prince's decision, and in her private heart she is also not worried that Rong Ruo is alone in the palace, thinking about coming back soon, but making decisions on her own still makes Green Sparrow a little apprehensive, worried that Rong Ruo will be angry.

However, Rong Ruo didn't say anything this time, only hummed lightly, and then said, "Then you don't care." ”

"The subordinate is wrong, please punish the girl!" The green finch clenched his hands into fists, knelt directly on one knee, his eyebrows pressed slightly, his eyes half-drooped, and his expression was extremely respectful.

No matter what the starting point is, just a little bit of going against the will of the master is not a qualified secret guard, although the green finch is no longer a secret guard, but a guard sent by Mu Beichen to Rong Ruo.

Laurel surprised the green finch, all of a sudden, what's wrong? She looked at the green finch, and then glanced at Rong Ruo's face, she didn't know what Rong Ruo sent the green finch to do, probably she couldn't listen, but Rong Ruo didn't tell her to avoid it, so she stood quietly aside.

Rong Ruo stopped, turned to look at the green finch for a while, and said with a faint smile: "Green sparrow, in your heart, you still regard Mu Beichen as your master, right?" ”

The green finch's head pressed down even more, Rong Ruo's words she couldn't deny that from the time she was originally selected as a secret guard, her only goal of survival was to protect her master and obey all orders from her master, she and Caidie were Mu Beichen's people first, and then in the two years that Mu Beichen disappeared, they received a message from Mu Beichen, asking them to stay in the capital to protect Mu Yuanche, and then followed King Chun, and then waited for Mu Beichen to come back, naturally, they began to work for Mu Beichen again.

It can be said that the Green Sparrow and other secret guards, including Duan Yi and Feng Wu, have been immersed in the words Mu Beichen and Jingwangfu in their bones and blood, which cannot be changed until death.

Green Sparrow is grateful to Rong Ruo for saving her life, and is willing to obey Mu Beichen's arrangement to protect Rong Ruo, but deep down, her reverence and obedience to Mu Beichen cannot be changed in the short term.

Rong Ruo knew this very well, and never thought about changing anything.

"Get up." Rong Ruo stretched out his hand and helped the green finch, and looked down at the green finch's knees that were soaked with snow mixed with pebbles, "You are originally Mu Beichen's person, you don't need to ask me for guilt." ”

The green finch's delicate eyebrows were as unmoving, and her face was a little stubborn, "If you are wrong, you are wrong, and the girl will punish her subordinates." ”

Rong Ruo tilted her head funny, her cold wind blew her fingers cold, she put her face on a circle of white fox fur on her neckline, and her bright eyes stared at the serious face of the green finch for a moment, "I saved you, but I have also saved many people, you don't have to have a burden in your heart, and people interact with people, not necessarily a priority, I just hope that you or Yue Gui understand one thing, for me Rong Ruo, I don't want your brave loyalty, liver and brain, I just want you to behave in the world worthy of your own heart, not yang and yin, the outside is different." ”

"Subordinates take the girl's words to heart." The green finch itself is a very simple person, which is easy for her to do, as long as Miss Rong does not force her to fight against Prince Jing, she has no problem.

On the contrary, Yuegui's heart beat secretly, she bit her lip, did the girl say this to her?

"Alright, let's go." Rong Ruo greeted the two of them and walked forward without saying anything.

didn't take two steps, a black image jumped and fell like a swift swallow, and a person appeared a few steps in front of Rong Ruo, "Girl, please go this way, the prince is invited." ”

The winter solstice, one of the eight festivals of the year, the solstice of the cathode, the beginning of the yang, and the south solstice of the day, implying the delivery of yin and yang, the death of all things, and the confinement of vitality.

On such a day, ordinary people's families also have to have a reunion dinner, but the diet varies from place to place, and the winter solstice is naturally not the same.

Dumplings in the south and dumplings in the north, glutinous rice dumplings in the southeast and mutton soup in the northwest, as well as pumpkin cakes stuffed with Jiangnan wine, always try to hold back some delicacies that meet local tastes on this day.

Because of the winter solstice in recent years, the squires and wealthy families will also set up some sheds at the gate of the city to give some white rice porridge, one is to pray for the family's health in the coming year, and the other is to take from the people, return to the people, in short, give up some silver and get a little fame is also a good thing.

At the foot of the Son of Heaven in the capital, the prosperity is more than other places, Rao is so, there is no shortage of beggars and wanderers, this group of people are called people on weekdays, who sees them are annoying, usually shrink in some alleys, into the winter is cold, Ha with the air conditioning in the place where there is the sun to hold a broken bowl, a tie is most of the day not moving.

But no one drove them today, because the sky was bright, and four or five porridge sheds were erected at the north and south city gates, and the people who lacked food and clothing saw the porridge sheds erected, and began to line up early, winding straight out for several miles.

After the city gate is opened, people who enter the city can see this spectacular scene of queuing, and they can't help but sigh that it is really the capital, and everything is magnificent.

Among the people who entered the city, a petite woman jumped out, only fourteen or fifteen years old, with a pair of big round eyes that turned around, very smart and wise, and walked with her hands behind her back, and the small silver bells at the tips of her hair also made a soft and pleasant tapping sound.

The girl has a round face and a plain face, some childish baby fat, her face is red and fluttering with a little bit of wind and dust on the long way, and the corners of her mouth show an interesting smile.

When other passers-by saw the girl, they couldn't help but take a look or two, the main passers-by were tightly wrapped in cotton clothes and cotton pants, but this little girl had a short dress and a short skirt, and a pair of deerskin boots, which was simply reduced to the extreme.

If the girl has no money to buy clothes, but look at the piles of silverware on her wrists and neck, and the tinkling sound when she walks, it is expected that she is not a person who lacks silver.

Besides, the girl, all the way to a landscape building, looked up for a while, black eyes as bright as stars, black and shiny, her hair was blown upside down by the cold wind, and the silver hairpin in the shape of a spirit snake was fluctuating by the sun's rays, lining her face Yuxue was lovely, and a little mysterious.

At this time, a middle-aged man wrapped in a mink robe walked beside the girl, and his bloated figure was very difficult to walk on the icy road, the corner of the girl's eyes swept over, her black and white eyes blinked, and the corners of her mouth provoked a malicious smile, and she turned around and wiped the middle-aged man.

Walking forward more than a dozen steps, the girl stretched out her right hand, let go of the palm, dropped a lanyard from her index finger, and a jasper-colored semi-circular jade pendant fell from it, the girl looked at it for a long time, and frowned: "The Central Plains people are really strange, how to carve a duck on the jade pendant." "Not to mention the missing half, even she can see that this kind of pattern has no taste at all!

The girl was the sugar pill that ran from Jiangnan to the capital, she pouted her lips in disinterest, went back, and when she passed by the middle-aged man, she unknowingly stuffed the jade pendant back into him as it was.

If the middle-aged man knows that his jade pendant is almost lost, he has to cry and mourn his face, sugar pills don't know that it is not a duck but a mandarin duck, the mandarin ducks are paired, and half of the jade pendant is missing, because the two jade pendants are complete together, usually they are the love tokens between husband and wife, and the originally round jade pendant is artificially divided into two pieces, half of you, half of me, the two are one, and the party is always.

Approaching the lunch time, the sugar pills were full of interest, two skewers of mutton in the left hand and a bag of sugar glutinous rice cake in the right hand, a sweet and salty mouthful, and I didn't feel the taste in my mouth.

When passing through Dexiang Building, there was a rich and fragrant smell of roast duck inside, Tang Tang swept two strings of mutton skewers, all of them were taken off in one go, his mouth chewed twice, and the two wooden forks flung back, and flew to the bare willow tree on the shore, which was nailed to the tree.

Sugar Pill wiped his mouth, and was just about to enter, Xiao Er at the door of the store stopped him, and said with a smile: "Guest, please slow down, which room have you booked, wait for the little one to lead you there." With a polite smile on his face, his eyes looked up and down without a trace, and his heart had already passed a hundred or dozens of bends, thinking that the capital had never heard of and seen this master, and he didn't know which young lady it was.

Sugar Pill tilted his head and looked at the three-storey Dexiang Building, which was magnificent, standing in front of the gate of the North City, anyone who entered the city could see it at a glance, blinking his big black eyes, and smiled with an innocent expression: "Open the door to welcome guests, why don't you let me in?" ”

"That's the case, we only sell 30 servings of roast duck every day, and we need the guest officer to ......book it in advance," the shopkeeper showed a proud look on his face.

Sugar Pill took a step forward nonchalantly: "At most, I don't eat roast duck, eat something else." ”

"Hey, girl, stay." Xiao Er turned around and stopped the sugar pill again.

Sugar Pill took a bite of the sugar glutinous cake, a circle of white sugar was pasted on his lips, he licked it with the tip of his tongue, and looked at the shopkeeper not quite understanding: "You are so strange from the Central Plains, you don't ask people to eat when you open an inn." ”

The shopkeeper looked at the image of the sugar pill, and there was a slight contempt in his eyes, the noble girl in the capital would definitely not make such an indecent move, and she had no reason to come to this woman, and her attitude was a lot arrogant at the moment, "Girl, you are coming to the capital for the first time, who doesn't know that our Dexiang Building is not open for business on the day of the winter solstice." ”

"Don't open the door?" Sugar Pill raised a finger and pointed upward, "The people who eat there are all ghosts?" ”

The shopkeeper's face darkened, "You little girl, don't come to mess around, let me put it bluntly, our Dexiang Building only entertains the old ladies and ladies who have booked seats in advance, you, where did you come from, go back, you." ”

Sugar Pill's eyebrows moved, and the sugar dumplings in his hand were stuffed into his mouth, and he said vaguely: "Can't enter?" ”

"Please, please, please." The shopkeeper knew that she had broken in by mistake, not the nobleman who had booked the seat, and waved his hand impatiently, "Don't pestle here, it has affected the image of our Dexiang Building." ”

Sugar Pill pressed the tip of his tongue against his cheeks, held the cui flute hanging diagonally on his waist, tapped his fingertips on the flute twice, rolled his eyes around, and pulled out an innocent smile without a city, "Oh so, I'm sorry, uncle, I'll leave immediately." ”

The shopkeeper looked at the back of the sugar pill jumping away, and touched his face, he is at most twenty and three this year, is he very old? Thinking back to the girl's innocent and lively appearance, I can't help but feel a little ashamed, would I have been too fierce to a little girl just now.