On the table under the corridor, there are two small jade bottles of blue and white embossed clouds and double-headed phoenixes.

The sunlight slanted in, shining the two vials with a jade glow.

The white jade vase represents "being deposed and then quietly dying in the palace".

The green jade bottle represents "being died of illness and dying in the mourning of the whole country with great fanfare".

Li Fengming raised his eyes to look at the court, just in time to see the spring breeze slowly sending a ball of catkins over the palace wall.

She knew she was dreaming.

Because of this situation, including the thoughts that popped up in her heart, they all seemed familiar.

She thought, I really envy that catkins. Just went out, and from then on the sky was high and the sea was wide, and there was no turning back.

"Eldest Sister Huang, guess what, does my father want you to choose the green jade bottle or the white jade bottle this time?"

This yin and yang weird juvenile voice, Li Fengming is familiar.

She raised her eyes and saw Li Yun, the king of Ping, with an elegant complexion, through the swaying white mist in her eyes.

Li Yun dusted off his sleeves lightly, and sneered, "Why did the eldest sister hesitate?" I've been claustrophobic so far, and more than 300 days and nights have been leisure, and some things should have been thought out a long time ago. ”

"I don't think it's your turn to worry about it. But who told you that I only have these two paths? Li Fengming looked back at him with a smile, calm and solemn.

There was no panic, no rage.

There is no embarrassment or self-pity that Li Yun wants to see.

"Didn't the eldest sister of the emperor think that there would be a life-saving straw falling from the sky to split a third road for you?"

"Coincidentally, there is really such a life-saving straw from heaven." Li Fengming clenched a piece of paper copied from the pro-country book.

Under the sun, the seven words "Xiao Mingche, King of Great Qi Huai" on the paper are vigorous and shining.

She will never forget until she dies, and on the day of the most desperate and depressed day, the name on the manuscript of the national book tore away the dark haze in front of her with a devastating force, and brought life to her.

Xiao Mingche is her third way. No matter what kind of person this is, she will definitely do her best to repay him. Certain.

"Oh? I have mediocre talents, and I don't know what it means for a while. I also asked the eldest sister for advice. ”

"It's up to you, you don't deserve my advice," Li Fengming picked up the green jade bottle and played with it, his eyes swept over him casually, "Kneel!" ”

Li Yun's white face was cold, and his handsome facial features, which had not retreated, were distorted by anger. "So far, do you still think that you are the high-ranking prince of Great Wei?!"

"In the past year, my father has neither ordered the withdrawal of my prince's golden seal, nor has he explicitly issued a holy edict to close the East Palace, and the court has announced that 'the prince is seriously ill'. If the current Prince of Great Wei is not me, could it be you? ”

With Li Fengming's sonorous and powerful words, Li Yun's face turned pale, and a heavy gloom gradually accumulated in his eyes.

He was too anxious to fall into the well, forgetting that Li Fengming had the dignity of a prince who had been infiltrated by more than ten years in his bones.

The more desperate the situation, the less easily it will be to show weakness, and the more will it be trampled on.

"You ......"

"What are you? Think before you speak, or shut up! ”

Looking at Li Yun's aggrieved face that turned from white to red, Li Fengming felt happy and full of momentum.

"It seems that your mother didn't teach you clearly, so I can only be taught by the eldest sister of the emperor myself." She stood up with the green jade bottle in her hand, took half a step, and stood with her hands in the light.

"Li Ying, the prince of Great Wei, is about to 'pass away', and Li Yun, the king of Ping, as the emperor's younger brother, should kneel three times and bow nine times according to the emperor's law, crying and mourning."

"Li Ying, you dare?!" Li Yun was a little panicked.

"Yes, I dare! If you don't cry until you faint and fall to the ground, you are disrespectful and immoral to the prince. Remind you that those who are unethical are not qualified to be discussed. Li Fengming poured out a black-colored pill from the green jade bottle and calmly took it into his mouth.

"Before the funeral of Zongzheng Temple, your eldest sister was still your eldest sister. It is the duty of the eldest sister to teach you, and it is also the duty of the prince. I want to teach you the rules of sending off the prince today, and no one can stop you! Xin Wei, do it! ”

Little bastard Li Yun, it's only been two days since the coming-of-age ceremony, and I want to step on your eldest sister's coffin board?! See if I don't break your dog's leg before leaving!

This dream was very chaotic later, and Li Fengming was so bad that he fell into a very heavy sleep.

When Li Fengming woke up the next morning, Xiao Mingche was no longer in the bedroom.

Chun Yudai came in to help change clothes, and Li Fengming asked casually, "When did Xiao Mingche get up?" ”

"It started at the right time."

"Maozheng? Isn't it not too bright? Li Fengming laughed wickedly and muttered, "Slipped away so early, those who don't know think he stole people." ”

"Your Highness, don't look at those ninth-rate idle books in Xin Wei's hand anymore!" Chun Yudai smiled at her helplessly.

"This kind of vulgar nonsense should not come out of the mouth of His Highness."

Li Fengming patted the top of her head, "In the past, I used to be tall and steady all year round, but I had to pretend to be someone else." You think I really like to live like that? ”

She and Chun Yudai, Xin Wei, and Yufang and Tuwu, who are now sitting in the Dongshi shop, are all of similar age and grew up together.

Xin Wei is the most untouched by the word "Ya" in this group of people, and everyone will occasionally laugh at her vulgarity when she is young.

But no one knew that the person Li Fengming envied the most when he was a child was Xin Wei. She has always wanted to be like Xin Wei, who lives a wanton and vivid life.

Chun Yudai pursed her lips, put on her underwear, and half-lowered her eyes thoughtfully. "Is Your Highness really determined to abandon the past and never look back?"

"Isn't it me who abandoned me first?" Li Fengming stretched, yawned again and again, and his voice was slurred.

"I've figured it out a long time ago. At this point, there is no need to look at self-pity, let alone look back. It's not a long life, the sky is high and the earth is wide in this world, and there are many interesting things. ”

After Chun Yudai groaned for a while, she nodded clearly, "Okay." From then on, I will talk less about His Highness. ”

"You still need to worry more about the serious scene, and don't be polite when you should restrain me. As for the indecent things, you just turn a blind eye. Li Fengming yawned again and turned the topic back to the beginning.

"By the way, after Xiao Mingche left in the morning, did he go back to the North Courtyard?"

"Yes, after returning to the North Courtyard to bathe and change clothes, I originally went to the martial arts arena. After two sticks of incense, he turned back to the north courtyard and talked with Zhan Kaiyang in the study. Chun Yu Dai's robe was dressed for her with gentle movements.

"I asked Zhu'er to inquire about Xiao Min, it seems that Zhan Kaiyang got some urgent news temporarily, and he was anxious to ask King Huai to decide."

This is Chun Yudai's habit.

As long as there is an abnormality in the people and things related to Li Fengming, there is no need to give special orders, she will try to understand the details in advance.

In this way, whenever Li Fengming asks about "one", she can offer all the relevant "one, two, three".

Li Fengming bowed her head to indicate that she knew, and lazily spread her arms so that she could tidy up her clothes for herself.

"If Zhan Kaiyang can act like you, Xiao Mingche will be much easier in the future. Teach him as much as you can when you have time. ”

"Yes, Your Highness. Before we leave, I will teach as much as I can, and I will not hide it from him. ”

Chun Yudai lowered her head and was busy with her work, and laughed softly, "Why do I think that His Royal Highness is too concerned about King Huai?" In the long run, I'm afraid that even if you save enough money, you won't want to leave. ”

"I must go, I won't be so faint that I don't want to die."

Li Fengming hooked his lips listlessly, sleepy.

"That head of Lodu can't take care of me for the time being. Once some people free up their hands, my identity as Princess Huai will be a fixed target. Am I stupid enough to stand here and wait for someone to cut it? ”

She has no ambition now, she just wants to completely throw away the past and live comfortably and smoothly until the end of her life.

"You said that I was completely devoted to Xiao Ming, but this is not true. Although he has a strange temperament and struggles to get along with, he is very delicious! Li Fengming laughed half-truthfully, and couldn't help yawning again.

Xiao Mingche was not easy in the past, and it is really admirable that he can get to the point where he is now.

Li Fengming sincerely hopes that he will live well in the future and stop being bullied.

"Chun Yu said to you, do I count this as pity for the fragrance and jade?"

"Count," seeing that she was not in good spirits, Chun Yudai said with concern, "Your Highness didn't sleep well last night?" ”

"Hmm." Li Fengming blinked, his eyes full of sleepy tears.

Chun Yudai stood up straight, tilted her head to confirm the details of her clothes, and urged her to look at her, "There is a beautiful man lying next to him, but he is a troublesome master who can see and can't touch, so His Royal Highness is so uncomfortable that he hasn't slept all night?" ”

"Although I have a little itch for him, it is not uncomfortable," Li Fengming flattened his mouth, "mainly because I had a nasty dream last night and was tired." ”

"What dream?"

"I dreamed of the day before last, when Li Yun's little bastard gave me medicine......"

These words were slightly shocked in Dai's eyes, and he gave her a warning look.

Li Fengming also realized that he had said something he shouldn't have said, so he immediately silenced and crossed his index fingers in front of his lips.

"Your Highness didn't talk in your dreams last night, did you?" Chun Yu Dai was uneasy.

Li Fengming recalled for a long time, shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly, "Since it is a dream, even if I say it, I won't know it." ”

It is about that the environment of Huaiwangfu is relatively simple, which gives her too much sense of safety and comfort, and recently she has become more and more untidy, and she misses two sentences every now and then.

I really don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

Although Li Fengming was busy in the study all morning, he was always unsettled.

At the end of the day, she instructed Chun Yudai and Xin Wei to go out to run errands separately, and she went to the North Courtyard alone.

She had to probe Xiao Mingche's tone to confirm whether she had spoken in her sleep last night.

Near noon, Xiao Mingche and Zhan Kaiyang finished talking, and the two came out of the study together.

When I raised my eyes, I saw Li Fengming standing next to the pillar.

Xiao Mingche was slightly stunned: "Why are you here?" ”

Li Fengming smiled and came forward, and gave a perfunctory salute, "I thought, a few days ago, you always went out early and returned late, and we haven't eaten together for a long time, so I came over and asked you where you were eating at noon today." ”

Recently, the weather has been getting warmer, and the sun is a little hot near noon.

Although she was standing in the dark under the eaves of the porch and waiting, she didn't wait long, but her cheeks were still so hot that her cheeks turned crimson.

Xiao Mingche staggered his gaze, and his throat tightened, "This kind of trivial matter, just send someone over to ask, you don't have to run it yourself." ”

Listening to this with his expressionless and cold face, others would not think that this was a sign of care and love anyway.

Zhan Kaiyang felt that His Royal Highness was secretly persuading the princess to retire, asking her not to find an excuse to be an eyesore in front of her.

Li Fengming tasted the same thing about him.

Fortunately, I didn't expect Xiao Mingche to be so enthusiastic about her, and her intention to take the initiative to come up was not pure, so that she would not be heartbroken without a trace.

Although he was not sad, in front of Zhan Kaiyang, he was so inconspicuously brushed in face, Li Fengming was a little embarrassed.

It's not good to be stingy, so he smiled and said softly to Xiao Mingche, "I know." After that, I asked someone to ask. ”

In the past few months, Zhan Kaiyang has benefited a lot from Chun Yudai.

He knew that this was because of Li Fengming's orders, and sometimes Chun Yudai was too busy, and Li Fengming would personally instruct.

So he was very grateful to Li Fengming.

Seeing that Li Fengming was so enthusiastic and gentle to Xiao Mingche, he even coldly hinted that people should not come up and be an eyesore, Zhan Kaiyang was very upset about Li Fengming.

But Zhan Kaiyang couldn't accuse his lord of being indifferent to his wife in person, so he had to laugh and play a round.

"Don't be careful, princess. The sun is big today, and Your Highness actually feels sorry for you, afraid that you are basking on the way over. ”

Knowing that he was intentionally helping him go down the stairs, Li Fengming also admitted his feelings and smiled back.

"Thank you, Mr. Kaiyang, for your relief. I'm a little pampered, and I'm really afraid of the sun. ”

Xiao Mingche immediately looked at Zhan Kaiyang very unpleasantly.

Didn't he say it first?

Why didn't he get anything, and Zhan Kaiyang just learned to repeat what he meant, so he got Li Fengming's bright smile and soft thanks?!

The daily recipes in the North Courtyard are all asked by Uncle Jiang and his wife, and they are mainly based on Xiao Mingche's taste.

However, Xiao Mingche's sense of taste is impaired, and there is not much difference in what he eats, and Uncle Jiang and his wife are nothing more than preparing according to the taste of ordinary Qi people.

Recently, Xiao Mingche has been thinking too much, Aunt Jiang asked the house doctor, and today she asked people to prepare chestnut porridge as the staple food.

This kind of mountain chestnut is unique to Qi country, and Li Fengming ate it for the first time, and his eyes immediately lit up.

Xiao Mingche caught a glimpse of the change in her expression, and couldn't help but hook her lips.

Although he never said it, when he was still in the palace earlier, he already liked to eat at the same table with Li Fengming.

Aside from speaking a few words at times, she eats with excellent manners. Calm and elegant, it is pleasing to the eye when you look at it.

Moreover, she has a love and cherishment of food.

will taste carefully, and do not hesitate to use expressions and words to express feelings about the various flavors.

Nor will it be a picky eater.

If there's food on the table that she doesn't like, she just quietly avoids it, never making a fuss.

If there is unfamiliar food that she has not eaten before, she is also willing to taste it fresh, and if she doesn't like it, she will not touch it next time.

All in all, for Xiao Mingche, who has long been ignorant of the five flavors of the world, it is very pleasant to eat at the same table with Li Fengming.

She only eats what she likes, so it looks like everything tastes good.

In the past, when we shared a table, Xiao Mingche saw which dish she was willing to eat, so he would eat two more bites, so that he could pretend to taste the same good taste as her.

Seeing that he seemed to be in a good mood, Li Fengming swallowed the food in his mouth, laughed quietly and asked, "Did you sleep well last night?" ”

Xiao Mingche's eating movements froze, and his eyes looked at her with complicated eyes, "Why do you ask this?" ”

It was not the first time they shared a bed last night, and Li Fengming had never asked him before, "Did you sleep well last night?"

"What else? I heard that you got up and left before dawn this morning, and I care about you. ”

Li Fengming, who was weak-hearted, showed a sweet smile, soft enough to wring out sugar juice.

"After all, you and I haven't slept together for a long time, and I'm afraid that you will be disturbed by me and sleep uncomfortably."

Xiao Mingche's face was hot, and he said coldly in his throat, "Everything is as usual." "It's weird.

He was really disturbed last night, and he did sleep "uncomfortable".

Last night, he coaxed Li Fengming to confide in an astonishing secret in a half-dream, and he couldn't sleep.

Later, the woman didn't know what she had in her dreams, and she either punched and kicked him all night, or suddenly hugged him.

Rubbing and whimpering, like a squeamish cat who has only been wronged.

When he woke up this morning, he noticed that his body was in a state of shame, so he quickly slipped back to the north courtyard before she woke up.

Xiao Mingche glanced at her faintly.

This woman does evil without knowing it. Don't look at the sun so big today, it's still a little cold in the morning.

"Let me state first, my words are just literal, pure as snow."

Li Fengming tilted his head and smiled at him, biting the tip of the silver chopstick, and inadvertently picking out a little charm on the tip of his eyebrows.

"But you're white-eyed and blushing, I'm afraid you're thinking of something dirty, right?"

"I don't think anything about it. There is no dirt and mess. ”

Xiao Mingche's heart suddenly burst into a frizzy evil fire, and without thinking, he stretched out his index finger against the corner of her forehead, pushing her face back to face the porridge bowl.

"Eat your food, don't look at me like that."

Li Fengming was slightly stunned: "What kind of eyes do I have?" ”

Xiao Mingche snorted lightly and did not answer.

Several times in the past, Li Fengming also looked at him with this kind of almost flirtatious look.

At first, he thought that this woman was frivolous and deliberately seduced, but later he found that she did not seem to know that he had this habit.

Listening to the clues she confided in her half-asleep and half-awake last night, Xiao Mingche thought a lot, and also re-understood the details of her many strange words and deeds in the past.

So he can fully understand what Li Fengming means by looking at people like this.

It was a pastime that a person in a high position couldn't help but tease when he saw an interesting "little thing".

When he lowered his eyes to eat again, Xiao Mingche seriously put down his words, "Don't look at others with this kind of eyes." ”

He is not interested in becoming a "little thing" of His Royal Highness Li Fengming, but His Royal Highness Li Fengming does not want to have other "little things".

It's not once or twice that this person is suddenly weird, Li Fengming has long been used to it.

Looking at his various reactions, she felt that she should not have said anything in her dreams last night.

The heartstrings that had been tense for most of the day relaxed, and she couldn't help but tease him again.

"Yo, His Royal Highness King Huai, is this a rule for me? So what if I have to look at people like that? Could it be that you're going to bite me? ”

Xiao Mingche stared at her expressionlessly, "You can try." ”

Li Fengming's neck was cold, and he waved his hand insensitively, "I don't have this hobby." ”

After the two of them finished eating, Aunt Jiang came in and was very relieved to see that today's bucket of chestnut porridge had bottomed out.

"Originally, I was afraid that the princess would not be used to it."

"I'm used to eating," Li Fengming pressed the corner of his lips with a silk scarf, his eyes crooked with a smile, "I have heard of this kind of mountain chestnut in Qi when I was a child, and the doctor said that it is salty and warm." I tasted it today, and it really tasted good. ”

Xiao Mingche was in a trance for a moment when he heard this. He thought the porridge was sweet.

Yu Guang glimpsed that he seemed to be lonely, Li Fengming guessed that he didn't eat the taste, and he felt a little unbearable.

So, as she left the dining room, she deliberately slowed down.

After Xiao Mingche went out first, Li Fengming stopped and turned around, and said to Aunt Jiang seriously, "Aunt Jiang, you didn't use well water to cook porridge today, right?" ”

Although the porridge was cooked in the kitchen, Aunt Jiang stared at it the whole time, and she knew that "the princess's tongue is really sensitive." It's the river, yes. These days, the well in the house is not very clear. ”

"When cooking porridge, it is fragrant with well water, but it is tasteless from the river. If you really need to use river water, you should also park it for a day and a night before using it. ”

Li Fengming's expression was much more serious.

"Aunt Jiang, although Your Highness can't taste it, no matter how small the details, the people below should not be lazy and perfunctory."

Aunt Jiang woke up like a dream, and her face was ashamed, "We all thought that His Highness was ...... him"

"If he had been generous and tolerant when he had known about it, it would have been a great joy for all. But he didn't know it. He trusts you and your wife, and you are his eyes, ears and tongue in this house. Remember, you must not allow those under your head to fool him. ”

Whether to use well water or river water is nothing in itself.

But the people below cover each other and fool the master, and the most trusted stewards and couples don't realize that something is wrong, and this is a big problem.

If it weren't for the fear that he would leave here sooner or later, with Li Fengming's temper in the past, he would definitely be killing chickens and monkeys at this time.

"Aunt Jiang, I don't care if you think I'm troublesome, I have to say this. He was born and died to earn his current status and status, and he deserves the best. ”

In the years when Li Fengming was at her most powerful, she never felt sorry for others in such daily trivialities.

Because no one dares not to be unkind to her, she can easily get the best of everything. Occasionally, there are some small mistakes, and she should be more tolerant.

But Xiao Mingche is different.

If he wants to get a little good, he has to swallow a thousand difficulties first.

Now that all the hardships that should be swallowed have been swallowed, why can't you get the best?

"Aunt Jiang, if you put a word in the mansion for me, I can't allow His Highness to suffer a loss. In the future, if I catch someone fooling him again, I am not afraid of being a small-bellied chicken intestine and a scheming evil master, and those who don't believe in evil can try. ”

After leaving the dining room, Li Fengming saw Xiao Mingche standing far away in the court, so he laughed loudly and said, "If Your Highness doesn't plan to take a nap, can you go to the study to listen to me?" ”

Xiao Mingche bowed, "Okay." ”

After entering the study and sitting down, Li Fengming got straight to the point.

"Didn't the prince put eyeliner in the house? I had a lot of concerns before, and it was not easy to investigate thoroughly, so I could only pretend not to know. Now there is a suitable opportunity, if you can trust me, I will help you clear the house and ensure that it is not noticeable. ”

Xiao Mingche looked at her directly, "Do you want to use the words that Fang just said to Aunt Jiang in the dining room to play on the topic?" ”

"Uh, you can hear it when you're standing so far away?" Li Fengming was slightly embarrassed.

After a pause, she nodded.

"Take advantage of this trivial matter to sift through the people in the house, you don't touch your hands, let me come forward. This is not easy to arouse speculation from the outside world, and the prince will not immediately be sure that this is aimed at his eyeliner. ”

The prince is not a fool, sooner or later he will come back to his senses, but it doesn't matter.

Li Fengming cleaned up the prince's eyeliner in the mansion at this time, just to gain a time difference for Xiao Mingche and facilitate his actions in the near future.

"If you agree, I'll take you back and do it."

This little thing, by Li Fengming and Chun Yudai joining forces, it is simply a knife used to kill chickens, and there will be no mistakes.

Xiao Mingche was noncommittal, and asked rhetorically, "Why did you suddenly think of cleaning up the house?" ”

"Didn't you go to Tantuo Temple yesterday? I'm not sure who the two men and women who went with you were, but I don't think you went there by chance. ”

In this kind of wind direction, Li Fengming's sensitivity is very accessible.

"I'm guessing you're going to make some big moves. In this case, the house must be clean to ensure that you have no worries. ”

She guessed right.

Xiao Mingche didn't show the slightest surprise: "You don't ask me what I'm going to do?" Don't ask what is the mystery of the singing meeting of Tantuo Temple? ”

The two news sold at yesterday's concert, one was related to Emperor Qi's change of heart in the position of the capital secretary, and the other was to openly sell Xia Wang's face saint qualifications.

No matter how mysterious there is, it is nothing more than the intrigue in the court, in Li Fengming's eyes, it is not worth being curious.

"I said on the night of the wedding, hello, I can be good, so I am naturally your most reliable ally," she smiled nonchalantly, "I'm not interested in these things in the Qi Kingdom Court, all I care about is you." ”

Xiao Mingche stared at her deeply for a long time before he slightly opened his thin lips, "Oh." ”

He suspected that Li Fengming had deceived people in the dining room before.

At this moment, his throat was flustered, which showed that the porridge should be sweet today.

It was so sweet that he didn't want to ask the soothing question of "who is A-Ning" for the time being.

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