Today is the day of the prince's funeral.

Xinyue didn't want to go to such an occasion, because her mourning didn't need everyone to know, but the Queen Mother and the Empress were waiting to see Xinyue's performance, and Xinyue could only do so.

She first entered the palace the day before, kept a vigil with everyone, knelt on the ground, and Xinyue looked at the coffin lid on the top of Rong Zhaoyu's palace, and was distracted for a long time.

At this time, it was already late at night, and there were constantly clans of vigils, and the ladies left under various pretexts.

Xinyue couldn't speak for a while, so she was too tired to fall on the ground and actually fell asleep.

Before going to bed, he glanced at Rong Ying, who was at the front, and the two were far apart, only to see that he was always motionless, looking at Rong Zhao's main coffin with mournful eyes, and Xinyue only felt that his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier.

When I woke up again, it was already dark. The minions have a low status, so they can't accompany their masters in this mourning hall, and the location of the new moon is biased, and she has slept here for more than an hour, since no one has found her.

And in the hall of Nuoda, you can hear a needle falling on the ground, and occasionally the wind blows and is about to burn out the candle flame, but the temple is about to dawn, and there is no need for this faint lamp.

Xinyue straightened up, and the black cloak on his body fell off, and when he saw that this cloak was a man's, and then looked at Rong Ying, who was still in the front, Xinyue didn't need to guess, he knew who it was.

Just by the cover of the cloak, she stretched out her legs and stretched a little, but because it was too numb, it hurt as if she was cramping, and Xinyue let out a gentle "hiss", causing Rong Ying to look back, look at her, and then smile.

In front of him is his own brother's coffin, and he may also be his brother's favorite woman, but in such a place, he smiles very brightly.

The smile was not a smile of victory, but pure, because the smile in his heart wanted to laugh, be happy, and see what he liked, and the new moon felt that although he was covered with his cloak, a chill poured in.

Crescent Moon reached out and grabbed the pillar at hand, and slowly stood up, the soles of her feet were like pins and needles, but she still endured and walked forward steadily. Rong Ying just looked at her, and she just walked towards herself.

Rong Ying was suddenly a little cramped, because Xinyue walked over to him, she would never take the initiative to take care of herself, Xinyue walked to Rong Ying's side, she stood in front of Rong Ying, Rong Ying couldn't get up for a while, just knelt on the ground.

Xinyue stretched out her hand, Rong Ying didn't know why she was like this, she looked up at Xinyue's palm in some astonishment, only to see Xinyue's hand, holding his cloak, it turned out that she was going to return the cloak to him.

Rong Ying stretched out his hand to take his cloak, and Xinyue turned around to leave, but his feet were weak, and he fell on Rong Ying's body at once.

Rong Ying never thought that there would be such a sudden situation, he only felt that his eyes were dark, and he immediately reacted, stretched out his arms, and hugged the woman who was planted straight into his arms.

She has a magnolia fragrance on her body, but it is already very light, but because of the light smell, she wants to figure out the whole picture of this smell, Xinyue hugged Rong Ying uncontrollably, and found that Rong Ying was trembling, Xinyue found him, as if he was injured, because after the two bodies touched together, Xinyue smelled a faint smell of blood, and now she is trembling, also because of pain.

Xinyue hurriedly pushed him, and the two of them lived in the same place, both a little nervous.

The two of them looked at each other a little embarrassed, and the crescent moon stood up with a roll.

Xinyue stomped her foot to make the blood flow faster, relieved the pain in her foot, and walked to Rong Ying's side in two steps.

Rong Ying held on to the ground and stood up, "It's not too early, I'll send you out of the palace." ”

"No," she said, and Crescent turned to leave. But Rong Ying still followed her, and the two of them walked out of the hall one after the other.

Just as the two of them walked out on the front foot, Feng'er and Fei'er greeted her, and when they saw Xinyue pacing over step by step, they hurriedly helped her, "Girl, the palace gate is about to open, let's go out of the palace quickly." ”

Crescent Moon nodded, "Let's go, there will be things in a while." ”

"I..."

"Thank you King Jin for your kindness, how can the little girl be able to..."

"Bang..."Before the new moon finished speaking, she heard a muffled sound that could not be ignored in the hall that the two had just walked out.

Xinyue suddenly felt bad, and Rong Ying had already run in, and Xinyue also followed him, and before he could go in, Rong Ying shouted, "Call the Imperial Doctor." ”

"Okay" Xinyue agreed, turned around and shouted out of the door, "Come on, come on, come on, go to pass on the imperial doctor, the crown princess has killed herself." ”

When Fei'er and Feng'er heard this, they shouted out, and after a while, the guards and palace maids poured in.

When Xinyue turned around and went in, she suddenly remembered that in her dream, the crown princess crashed into Rong Zhao's coffin and died two days later.

And Rong Ying was already kneeling beside Wang on one knee.

And Wang was lying on her back, her face was as pale as paper, her eyes were closed as if she was very dizzy, and in the middle of her forehead, blood had flowed out, Rong Ying couldn't stretch out her hand, and when she saw Xinyue coming in, she immediately grabbed her hand, and covered Wang's bleeding forehead through her hand.

Xinyue felt the blood under her hands, flowing out one by one, and leaving some sticky things, she forced herself not to think about it, but kept shouting Wang's name, "Wang Yuan'er, Wang Yuan'er." ”

Wang Shi seemed to hear someone calling her, opened her eyes slightly, the whites of her eyes also turned red, and cursed intermittently, "I, I'm not willing, you, you guys, bed bugs that eat my flesh and my blood, don't, don't touch me." ”

As he spoke, he used his last strength to free Crescent Moon's hand, but his hand hung down halfway through.

Xinyue felt that her face was getting colder and colder, and glanced at Rong Ying a little helplessly, Rong Ying couldn't bear it, and shouted, "Are they all dead?" What about the Imperial Doctor? ”

As soon as the words fell, the imperial doctor entered through the side door and poured over, as well as the maids of the Wang family and the palace maids and guards in a large circle.

"Crescent girl, don't move your hands, you may be saved if you hold down your mother." After the imperial doctor finished speaking, Xinyue nodded "Okay"

I saw the imperial doctor take a piece from the box and break open Wang's mouth, only to see that her teeth had been misaligned, which was a sign that people had reached the limit.

Seeing this, Xinyue couldn't bear to turn her face.

Knowing that the imperial physician took out the medicinal powder, regardless of anything else, he smeared it on Wang's head, and said to Xinyue for a moment, "Xinyue girl, you slowly let go of your hand." ”

Xinyue moved her hand little by little as instructed, only to see her subordinates, the flesh and blood were blurred, and the blood was still gushing out, mixed with the white medicinal powder, Xinyue withdrew her hand, withdrew from this pile, and leaned on Rong Zhao's coffin to relieve the emotions in her heart. She was short of breath, her nervous hands were shaking, her white clothes were all soaked with blood, and the cold sarcophagus behind her still gave her some support.

Rong Ying took in this scene from the side, and her heart was gloomy, even so, Rong Zhao still occupied a large part of Xinyue's heart, although she didn't admit it and was afraid, but she really couldn't hide Rong Ying's eyes.

When Wang was carried away, the strength on her hands and feet had already relaxed, and Xinyue knew that she couldn't do it.

Crescent Moon cried loudly, the blood on her hands had coagulated, and she felt remorse and hatred in her heart, and even more hatred for not doing anything for herself. She just relied on Rong Zhao like this, muttering, "Wake up, wake up..."

But this time, this sad, blood-stained dream never started all over again.

Rong Ying looked at the constant people coming in and out, and Xinyue looked like crazy, and immediately walked in front of her, "Xinyue, Xinyue cheer up a little." ”

The crescent moon turned a deaf ear and just broke down and cried.

"Xu Xinyue..."Rong Ying couldn't wake her up, and was about to stretch out her hand to stun her, but when she saw that she couldn't get up in one breath, she tilted her head and fainted.

Rong Ying stretched out her hand to support Xinyue's neck, Feng'er and Fei'er just came to patrol Xinyue, Rong Ying ordered, "Your girl's injuries are not healed, send her back." ”

"Yes" Feng'er looked around a little embarrassed, this is the noble place where the prince rests, they naturally didn't dare to ask a few palace people to carry the crescent moon out, so the two girls set up the crescent moon one on each side.

Rong Ying looked at their bulky appearance, sighed and picked up Xinyue, and walked out of this cold and desolate palace from the place where there were few people in the side hall.

Crescent Moon smelled a strong scent of peppermint oil, followed by this cold stinging pain on the tip of her nose and sideburns, forcing her to open her eyes.

After Xinyue fixed her eyes, she felt as if she had been out of breath for a long time, and suddenly relieved the comfort, she looked around, she was in the Anxuanhou Mansion, in her own room, and Lang Zhong on one side was putting the silver needle pulled from Xinyue's body in the bag, "The girl is no longer in trouble, just rest well." ”

"Okay, okay, come on, send Langzhong" After Cao's voice, Xinyue saw Cao's and was holding down by Cao's when she thought about it, "You still don't get up, lie down for a while." ”

After Lang Zhong went out, Crescent Moon asked, "Now, what time is it?" ”

"More than half of the hour has passed, and in a few moments, it will be the hour," Cao Shi glanced at the sun outside, and roughly replied.

"Feng'er, help me up." Rong Zhao's coffin was half out of the funeral, and it was not too late.

"What are you going to do?" Cao Shi couldn't hold her down this time, and Xinyue had already sat up from the bed by herself, "I asked Uncle Wang to set up a road sacrifice, if there is no one of us in front of me, Your Majesty will hear about it, it will definitely not be a trivial matter." ”

As he spoke, the new moon had already put on her own shoes, but it turned out to be a little violent, and her eyes were white.

"I've heard that our Anxuanhou Mansion is already full of dirty water, don't be afraid of this basin, your body is important." After Cao finished speaking, he saw Xinyue stop and looked at his body in a daze.

Seeing that Xinyue was still wearing the clothes she had just worn in front of the spirit, her bloody robe had been taken off, but the waist of her skirt and her hands were still full of Wang's blood, and Xinyue suddenly asked, "Sister-in-law, how is the crown princess?" ”

"It's only one breath, the coffin has been prepared, and she and the prince are afraid that they will be front and back." After Cao finished speaking, she also wiped her eyes with a handkerchief, she regretted and admired Wang's such a chaste act.

"Hao'er, are you dead? Come and change my clothes. As she spoke, Xinyue raised her voice, and Feng'er didn't dare to delay any longer, so she stepped forward to change Xinyue's bloodstained clothes and put on plain clothes.

The crescent moon represents the Anxuan Hou Mansion, and the road sacrifice is not far from the Hou Mansion. As soon as she stood still, she saw that Rong Zhao's coffin was already surrounded by four or five hundred people, and there were also hundreds of people in the outer circle, and nearly a thousand people embraced it, slowly marching towards the imperial mausoleum outside the city.

Xinyue stood next to Cao and Xu Xintai's eldest son Min Cong, who set up a road sacrifice to be the head of the family, leading the family to pay tribute to him, and Xu Xintai was not there, the four-year-old Min Cong naturally became the only male in this Anxuanhou Mansion, Xinyue thanked Cao for doing this, which not only maintained the reputation of Anxuanhou Mansion, but also made Xinyue not more attention because of his appearance.

A huge funeral began and ended after dark.

Xinyue stood blankly, feeling that between her fingers, there was still unwashed blood, and Feng'er and Fei'er stepped forward, "Girl, it's not early, let's go in." ”

Xinyue felt that her tears had been exhausted in the temple just now, and there would be no drops left, she was not looking, it was Rong Zhao, and she should really be in the ground. So the new moon is also in her heart, allowing herself to forget this relationship that never began, let alone end.

Walking to the door of the Hou Mansion, Xinyue heard someone calling her again, and turned around, Xinyue frowned.

Jiang Houye's wife Zhuang, and Chen's wife, were getting off the sedan chair under the corridor.

Xinyue hurriedly stepped forward to greet them, and bowed to the two, "Mrs. Hou, Mrs. Shizi." ”

"Excuse me." Zhuang has fifty in sixty, but he doesn't look old at all, his eyes are blazing, and his eyes are like torches.

Xinyue stood up straight, "I don't know if the two ladies are coming, there is a long way to welcome, please sit in the house, Feng'er will inform my sister-in-law, and we will welcome guests in the main hall." ”

"No, don't be so troublesome, my mother and I worshipped the prince in the road pavilion in front, and we were about to go back, when we passed by your door, I happened to see you, and I wanted to talk to you, so I didn't go in, I bothered your sister-in-law, she was also very busy, find a formal day, and the two of us will meet again before it is polite." Chen has always been by his mother-in-law's side to take care of household affairs, and he is also a master with all sides.

"How can that work, then there is a reason why a guest arrives at the door and doesn't go in for a cup of tea." Saying that, Xinyue insisted on inviting the two of them in, but Zhuang was unmoved, and said, "I just came to see you, and when I saw this, we just said a few more words and left." ”

"See, see me?" Xinyue was a little surprised when she had crossed paths with these two.

There was the sound of horses neighing, Xinyue looked up, and saw three people riding horses coming from behind, namely the three fathers and sons of the Jiang family, Jiang Wan, Jiang Zan and Jiang Yang at the back, Jiang Yang saw his mother and sister-in-law pulling Xinyue at the door, and immediately jumped off the horse, "Mother, sister-in-law, what are you doing?" It's time for us to go home. ”

"I just met the Crescent Moon girl on the side of the road, what is the second uncle anxious about." Chen couldn't help but want to laugh, but thinking about this occasion, he held back again.

Xinyue looked at this family more than when she was worshipping her ancestors, frowned, and bowed to the three of them, "The little girl has seen Marquis Jiang, Lord Jiang, and General Jiang, that is, when you arrive at the door, why don't you go into the mansion to have a cup of tea and have a light meal." So that the new moon would like to thank Marquis Jiang and General Jiang for their help in arranging that day. ”

Marquis Jiang sat on the horse, looked at the Anxuanhou Mansion in front of him and shook his head, "It's not too early, there will be a chance to meet in the future." Madame, let's go? ”

Seeing that Xinyue was dealing with it properly, Zhuang couldn't help nodding, "It's really a girl from the Xu family, your aunt taught you very well." In a few days, there will be a small banquet at my house, but I will give you a post for the girl, don't postpone it. ”

Xinyue frowned, it is a national funeral now, and if you hold a banquet at home, you must not invite guests, so there must be few guests at this banquet, and she has never intersected, what happened to me in the past?

But having said that, Xinyue had to nod "Mrs. Xie"

"Good boy, let's go, goodbye" Zhuang really looked at the new moon and became more satisfied, nodded and left with the support of his daughter-in-law.

When the Cao family got the news and came out, they only saw the back of the Jiang family's descendants, looked at the new moon in a daze at the door with some surprise, and asked, "This, doesn't it mean that there are guests of the Jiang family, how did this go?" ”

"Mrs. Jiang said that she was passing through here and happened to see me, so she said hello to me. Because of today's speciality, it is inconvenient to go in as a guest, and then find a time to come to the door as a guest. The new moon was like a white voice, saying what Zhuang and Chen had just said to themselves.

"The one who is riding on the horse, but the three masters of the Jiang family?"

Xinyue nodded, and then looked at the Cao family: "Sister-in-law, Mrs. Jiang invited me to their house for a small banquet, what does this mean?" ”

"At this time, their family still dares to hold a banquet?" Cao Shi was surprised at first, and then thought that Xinyue was talking about a small banquet, so he figured it out a little and said, "The second master of their family, General Jiang, has not renewed his string after losing his wife, this, this will not be..."

In the sedan chair, Zhuang Shi satisfactorily fiddled with the Buddha beads in his hand, remembering that the girl's palms were hot just now, and her face was ruddy, like a good child, and her appearance was also one top and one outstanding, and she was very knowledgeable about etiquette, and she was also smart in her eyes, and the more she thought about it, the more satisfied she was with this daughter-in-law who had not yet appeared.

"Mother, how can you go to the door of someone's house with your sister-in-law without consultation?"

"How can this be a heckling? Your sister-in-law and I just passed by her door, and when we saw that she was depressed, I wanted to say a few words to her to comfort her, but before I could say anything, the three of you and father arrived. When Zhuang heard his son's angry appearance, he felt that this matter was more open.

"People are like a daughter's family, you invite someone to our family's private banquet, can she not understand what it means?"

"Your niece, Qian'er and the ceremony, you can't do it in a big way, I invited a girl from the Houmen family to watch the ceremony, what's wrong?" Zhuang explained, and then laughed out loud, "You see you're in a hurry." ”

"Mother, sister-in-law, you can't mess with the mandarin duck score, how many years older am I than that girl." Jiang Yang was still annoyed.

Jiang Wan came over on a horse and said to the mother and son who were talking, "On the street, there are many people talking, and they are talking when they go home." ”

"Father, persuade Mother." After Jiang Yang finished speaking, he stopped talking.

When he arrived at the mansion, without waiting for the Zhuang family to get off the sedan chair, Jiang Yang got off the horse and trotted to his mother's side, "Mother, the child didn't laugh with you just now. ”

"What do you think of your father?" Zhuang roughly sensed what Jiang Wan meant from what he said just now.

Jiang Wan got off the horse and walked into the house, Jiang Yang was from the side, and after a while, Jiang Wan spoke, "If it weren't for the fact that she is the daughter of a second marriage, such a capable girl, I am afraid that it will not fall on your head if it is a dream." ”

"That's what it means for my mother, Yang'er, you're not too young, and in a few years, everyone will not marry you. I can only marry some small portals and concubines, our Hou Mansion, can we have such a daughter-in-law. ”

"That's better than marrying a second-married daughter" Jiang Yang was anxious, and after blurting out, he felt that he had said the wrong thing, and immediately stopped.

"What? A woman in her twentieth decade has wronged a widower in her thirties? Jiang Yang, when did your father teach you the truth of judging people by their appearance? Jiang Wan was angry, everyone knew his temper, he was very strict with his godson, he was angry, Jiang Yang was also afraid, and then thought that he actually said such a thing, and immediately knelt on the ground, "The son knows his mistake, and asks his father to punish him." ”

"Good decent, this beating and punishing, what are you doing?" Zhuang couldn't bear his son to be punished, so he stopped in front of her husband, and said bitterly, "Mother still has some eyes for so many years, and this girl of Xinyue is definitely qualified to be your continuation, better than those innocent little portals and concubines, marry a wife and marry a virtuous person, and the others don't need to ask more and see more." ”

"My son just doesn't want to delay people."

"You..." Hearing this, Marquis Jiang only thought that his son was still minding the origin of Xinyue's marriage once, and immediately became furious, "Go, go to the ancestral hall, kneel for me to think about it, don't kneel until dawn and don't get up." ”

After Jiang Yang heard this, he couldn't bear his mother's pleading again, so he stood up and went to the ancestral hall to ask for punishment.

"Master Hou, you too, like that girl." Zhuang Shi helped Jiang Wan and asked carefully.

Jiang Wan nodded, "She is my sister's granddaughter, quite a bit, my sister's appearance back then, especially this decisive and pampered appearance, last night in front of the prince's spirit, when the princess touched the pillar, she was the only one..."

Jiang Wan slowly told the Zhuang family about the matter, and also explained why she suddenly recognized Xinyue so much, "Just according to what we have discussed, and after a year of the prince's funeral, you will go to propose marriage." Come to think of it, she probably won't refuse. ”

"Master Hou, since this girl is so good, there must be more than one of us who is worried about it, Master Mingrui, nine out of twenty this year, widowed a few years ago, and..."

Jiang Houye thought about it carefully and said, "It's not easy, when you wait for the mourning period, you will be closer to her and be more cordial to her in some scenes, the ladies in Beijing are all shrewd as ghosts, and you can see the clues in two or three times." ”

"Master Hou, you really deserve to be a soldier in use." Zhuang really praised her husband from the bottom of her heart.

An Xuanhou Mansion, Xinyue sat sideways in the bathtub, Xinyue didn't know what she was thinking, Feng'er added the last handful of petals to the water, and smelled it with satisfaction, "Girl, this water is fragrant, you can smell it two miles away." ”

Xinyue smiled reluctantly, and then asked in confusion, "Who sent me out of the palace just now?" ”

"It's the King of Jin," Fei'er grabbed in front of Feng'er and said, "He carried you to the side hall, and let people carry a sedan chair to send you all the way out of the palace. ”