I stood under the palace, looking at the snow in front of me, and felt more and more that my decision to pick a few red plums was correct, and I became more and more impatient, urging the palace maid to get me a coat.

Changyun didn't seem to have any intention of going out with me, so I casually asked, "Aren't you going with me?" ”

Changyun personally put it on me, skillfully took care of the hem of the clothes, and then lightly knotted it under my neck: "The slave maid still has some things to deal with, wait a moment to go to the lady concubine Niangniang's side, if you go out with the lady now, wait for the lady concubine Niangniang to get busy with affairs, I am afraid that the mother will personally go to the slave and maid to find the lady concubine." ”

As soon as I heard that I was going to accompany me again, I hurriedly shook my head and refused: "No, no, since you have something, go quickly, don't rush back, just come back after the matter is dealt with." ”

There was a smile between Changyun's eyebrows, and his tone was very gentle: "Let the palace maids around you follow you, the snow on the road has not disappeared, don't fall, don't go to other places, just walk around and come back." ”

As he spoke, he turned around and said a few words to the palace maid who followed me, and then told Pei'er: "It's cold, don't let the mother stay in the snow for too long, fold a few plum blossoms and come back." ”

"Got it, got it, quick, let's go!" I don't know when Changyun became so nagging, and I'm not in the mood to delay time here to listen to her rambling, urging the people around me to hurry up.

Sure enough, on the side of the Imperial Garden, before I saw the red plum, I first smelled a burst of fragrance, with the cold and snowy, with a refreshing quiet, and I couldn't stop drilling into my nostrils.

As if I had broken into a fairyland, everything was alone in silence, and everything around me seemed to have an aura, I held my breath and slowed down, like a mortal man who accidentally stepped into the world, feeling presumptuous and abrupt, and feeling extremely lucky.

The little palace maids who followed behind me couldn't understand my feelings, and they caught up with me and trampled on the neatness of the place.

"Mother, the snow inside is too thick, just take a look here, don't go inside."

"Okay, you go and find a place without snow and wait, I'll break a few plum blossoms and go back." I waved my hand and motioned for Pell to come with me.

The red plum has not fully opened, most of them are just some budding flower bones, and there are only a few flowers on a branch that are completely open, and the golden stamens are dotted in the meantime, and there is nothing more memorable than this.

"It's good if you help me hold it, I'll fold it for you, take it to the palace, and insert it in a white jade bottle, and the house will be full of incense."

I motioned for Pell to follow, keeping my eyes glued to the branches, I picked some that would open in a few days, but fortunately the branches were not high, otherwise I would not have been able to reach them.

A cold hand grabbed my wrist, I turned around, and saw the anger on Jiang Yao's face, I had never seen his face so scary, even on the day of the wedding, it was not as cold and terrifying as it is now.

He grabbed my wrist almost with one hand and pulled me over, and I was stunned by the sudden movement, and looked at him with a dazed expression.

"Who is it?" He gritted his teeth, as if restraining his anger, "Who allowed you to wear this dress!" ”

Clothes? I glanced at the red coat on my body, and was a little confused, this dress was given to me by the Queen Mother, what could be the reason for him to be so angry with me?

But at the moment, I can't take the Queen Mother as an excuse, not to protect the Queen Mother, but Jiang Yao and the Queen Mother don't seem to be as harmonious as they seem, if you put forward the Queen Mother, it will inevitably only make your situation more embarrassing, and add another crime on this basis.

I hurriedly untied the knot under my neck with my free hand, and the red coat fell off my shoulder, Jiang Yao let go of the hand that was gripping my wrist and took the coat in his arms.

It is impossible for things to end so simply, and Jiang Yao's anger that has nowhere to vent is naturally coming at me.

"The queen has no form, just kneel here today and reflect on it!"

Hearing this, I didn't struggle too much, and knelt down obediently. The snow is cold on the knees and calves, winter has arrived, and the next days may not be so easy.

"Mother's ——!" Pei'er came over from the side, as if she didn't know what had happened in such a short period of time, but when she saw Jiang Yao, she was also startled.

"Your Majesty."

Jiang Yao didn't mean to embarrass Pei'er, his eyes swept over me coldly, and he turned around and left without saying a word.

When Jiang Yao walked away, I watched him disappear and quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but it was just a punishment for kneeling, even in the snow, it was not easy to stand it.

Pei'er didn't think so, just by kneeling here, she was scared to the core, "What happened to Niangniang and the emperor just now, why did the emperor lose his temper so much?" ”

"It's nothing, I've done something wrong." I said this lightly, and my tone sounded as relaxed as if I had eaten a few bowls of rice today.

"What should I do if I kneel here on this cold day, and I am so frozen? The slave went back to find Sister Changyun! With that, Pell pulled her legs and left, but after a while, she returned.

"Niangniang knelt here alone, and the slaves and maids were not at ease, so they let the palace maids go back."

As she spoke, Pei'er held my hand, and she was about to cry in distress: "It's all slaves and maids who are not good, Sister Changyun just instructed the slaves and maids to take care of you, and it has only been like this for a while." ”

"I don't blame you, I was careless." I comforted her.

"My hands are so cold, I will definitely be seriously ill when I go back."

"It's okay, when I go back, can you make a bowl of ginger soup for me to drink?" Pell knew I didn't like the taste of ginger, and every time I boiled ginger soup, I would go with something else, sometimes sweet, sometimes sour, but it tasted good every time.

"Okay, the slave will prepare it for you when she gets back."

I smiled, in fact, Pei'er was here with me, even if it was a little cold, my heart was warm.

But the good times didn't last long, Jiang Yao seemed to feel that the punishment for me was too light, and ordered someone to tell Pei'er that she was not allowed to tell the queen, otherwise it would be more than kneeling here.

Pei'er finally calmed down her nervousness a little, and was raised by these two sentences, "On such a cold day, if something happens to the queen mother kneeling here, even if the slave maid doesn't go to the queen mother to complain, this matter can't be hidden?" ”

Yin Xian, the eunuch who came to deliver the message, also acted on orders, and his face was also very bad, "Girl, the slave also acts according to the will, and now the emperor is angry, and those of us who serve in close service are those who are carefully served with their heads pinned to the waistband of their trousers, where do you dare to say anything else, and it is useless for the girl to tell me, go back and discuss it with Changyun Nushi, that is the savior!" ”

The eunuchs serving beside Jiang Yao did not have such a deep malice towards me, and when he saw Pei'er crying pitifully, he also made a move.

"Girl, don't cry, don't go back, it's going to snow heavily, and something really will happen when the time comes." Seeing that Pei'er didn't move, the eunuch urged repeatedly.

"Thank you, father-in-law." Pei'er wiped her tears and got up to go to the palace.

But Pell didn't come back for a long time, and the cold gradually soaked through my clothes, freezing my body, and the part of the snow below my knees was no longer conscious. I don't know if it's going to snow, or if it's really getting dark, and it's gloomy.

The eunuch who came by order was also shivering from the cold, and it was hard for him to have such a hard job.

"If you feel cold, go back first, I won't go anywhere here, don't worry."

"Niangniang, where is this, you are still suffering here, and where there are slaves, you will shout tired first." The eunuch comforted me while snorting hot air into his hands, "Don't be sad, Niangniang, the emperor will be angry for a while." Saying that, he felt that it was inappropriate, and paused: "Maybe it's been a little long today, but don't blame the slave for talking too much, how could Niangniang not think about wearing the same clothes as Concubine Xianling Niangniang, and still appearing in the Red Plum Garden, isn't this a yin swing to hit the emperor's muzzle?" ”

"Clothes? What clothes? "I know that I was talking about the red coat, which was deliberately revealed to the eunuch so that I might hear more from him.

"When the emperor went back, the one he was holding in his hand was not the one that the mother wore today?"

"Is there anything wrong with this dress?"

The eunuch licked his lips and said: "Concubine Ling is the emperor's biological mother, she likes to wear red clothes the most during her lifetime, and the emperor has people make this big piece out of the fur of nearly a hundred fire foxes. ”

As he spoke, his eyes rolled, as if he remembered something, and he told me nervously, "The slave also listens to what others say, and the queen has the right to listen to it as a joke, but don't say that it was the slave who said it, otherwise a hundred heads will not be enough." ”

This is not surprising, I will say that why the Queen Mother is so lukewarm to Jiang Yao is because she is not her biological mother and son.

The annoying person put on the clothes of his favorite mother when he was alive, no wonder he had such a big temper, but why did the Queen Mother reward me with such a dress that was obviously likely to anger Jiang Yao? Why didn't Changyun, who had been in the palace, not only not stop me, but let me come out like this?

I can't figure it out, how many unsightly twists and turns are hidden in this, and the most incomprehensible thing is that I can't prevent it, I don't know when I became someone else's pawn, and I don't know anything stupidly.

When it started to snow, the big fluttering drops soon covered my head and shoulders.

The lights came on, and the warm, unreachable hung in a place where the wind and snow couldn't blow, and I tapped my knee with my hand, and I really had no instinct at all.

"Who's that? Why are you kneeling here on such a cold day? ”

A warm male voice came from afar, and I looked up, only to see scattered figures and faint lights in the heavy snow.

He has a very good-looking figure, standing in the middle of a group of people, it is easy to distinguish, but in this palace, apart from Jiang Yao, how can there be other men at this time?

Seeing that I didn't answer, the man came over with a lantern, the light reflected his figure, and his appearance gradually peeled off from the darkness, he was like an immortal who came out of the heavy snow, such as a jade figure, such as a jade eyes, he does not smile, you can also feel the gentleness on his body.

"His Royal Highness King An!" The eunuch on the side saw the person coming clearly, and hurriedly knelt down and saluted.

"Get up." The man who was known as His Royal Highness King An said, and then pointed at me with the lantern he was carrying, "You can get up too, don't freeze your body." ”

I didn't speak, I didn't get up, I just looked at him. His Royal Highness King An, this is the person I want to marry, this is the original prince of the East Palace, in this case, why did he give up the throne, and why can he still appear here unharmed?

The eunuch was a little embarrassed and explained: "Your Highness, this is the queen's mother, and the emperor ordered the mother to kneel here." ”

"Got it." His Royal Highness King An was not frightened by Jiang Yao, his face was indifferent, "No matter who it is, you can't toss it like this, you get up and go back to the palace quickly, I will talk about Yin in the emperor's place." ”

"This ——。" The eunuch is not easy to show any attitude, it is a dilemma.

The man behind His Royal Highness King An said, "Why, didn't you hear it?" ”

"Yes, the slave will send the queen back." This attendant Yin Xian did not have such a good temper as His Royal Highness King An, and the eunuch did not dare to touch it, so he responded repeatedly.

"Confused things, the queen mother is also something you can support, go and call the people in the queen's palace to come."

"Yes, yes, the minion will go." The eunuch was so frightened that he had nothing to say but "yes", and where did he have the heart to think about these things.

The eunuch disappeared into the hazy snowy night, and His Royal Highness King An stretched out his hand to me and said softly: "Get up quickly!" ”

The hands seem to stretch out from the light and shadow, just like the master of Konghui back then, but there are no vicissitudes or ravines, they are a pair of extremely good-looking hands, not stained with fine dust, not stained with spring water.

I didn't stretch out, I stood up on my own with my hands on the ground, but my legs were no longer listening, and I swayed and fell to the ground again.

Then, a large piece with a woody scent fell on me, and then I was picked up by His Royal Highness King An, who instructed the people behind him: "The queen's condition does not seem to be very good, go and ask the imperial doctor!" ”

The fierce squire was instructed, but he went to do things without saying a word, and he didn't care if his master was holding me like this or not.

His Royal Highness King An walked very steadily, and his arms were unusually warm, which always reminded me of my eldest brother, that feeling of safety and generosity.

I wanted to let myself pass out so that I could just wait for things to happen naturally, and I just had to face the consequences, but I was unusually awake and involved in the whole process that I didn't know how to explain later.

His Royal Highness King An did not send me back to my palace directly, but took me to Bunraku, and the palace people saw His Royal Highness King An coming in with the queen in his arms, and they were all frightened. Not only were the palace people startled, but even Bunraku was shocked by the scene he saw.

"I know what you want to ask, you find a room first, and I'll put someone down and explain it to you." His Royal Highness King An is worthy of being Bunraku's compatriot brother, and he can guess a thing or two just from his expression.

"Put it in my dormitory." With that, Bunraku himself led us over.

The warmth of the quilt rushed up violently, and the cold inside and outside of me froze to my bones, and I had nowhere to dodge, and sneezed several times.

Cold, I didn't feel so cold, but once the body came into contact with warmth, every inch of skin that had been frozen began to scream.

"Princess, the queen mother has been trembling, what should I do?" The maid who served me was frightened by my constant trembling.

"Normal, she should have been kneeling in the snow for a long time, just feed her some hot soup in a while." His Royal Highness King An signaled the palace ladies not to panic.

"Brother, what's going on? You said that the queen knelt in the snow for a long time, was it the order of the emperor's brother? "Wenle asked a series of questions, and His Royal Highness King An had to answer them one by one.

"I don't know what's going on, I want to ask the queen mother for peace, but I just passed through the imperial garden and took a look, and I found her, she is the queen, except for Ah Yao, who can punish her so casually." His Royal Highness King An sighed, and there was a little unbearable in his eyes.

"How so?" Bunraku muttered to himself, not knowing what was strange.

"She will be placed in your palace first, I asked someone to invite a doctor, and I will arrive later, I am inconvenient to stay for a long time, so I will leave first."

"Okay." Wen Le looked at him and said, "You just said that I brought the queen back, my brother is a man after all, and his identity is inconvenient." ”

His Royal Highness King An smiled and rubbed Wenle's head, just like the eldest brother once touched my head, "I'm afraid that Ah Yao already knows about this matter, and if you are implicated, you won't be able to say clearly, I met Queen Pingshui, and Su Ri has no friendship, and the clear person is self-purifying, so don't get involved." ”

"Alright then, be careful on your way back."

"Okay." His Royal Highness King An smiled, his eyebrows as soft as the lights.