When I returned to my dormitory, I saw that Changyun was lighting incense, and the other palace maids were also holding herbs in their hands, and they were a little choked. Seeing me come back, she waved her hand to let the smoke of the incense dissipate a little before walking to me, and said, "Why didn't Niangniang go out and tell the slave?" As he spoke, he choked on the invading smoke and coughed behind my back.

"What's wrong?" I don't know why, and I know that it is inconvenient to go in and disturb their work in this situation. Changyun said: "I don't know if it's because of the rain a few days ago, some moisture has accumulated or what, there are a lot of small insects under the bed and in the corner next to the table, and the weather is rare today, and the mother is not in the palace, so I will take someone to clean it up." ”

"So, thank you for your hard work." I smiled slightly, and followed a few palace maids who wanted to change my clothes to the side hall.

I'm bored in this palace, but I can't watch the clouds drift in from a distance and float away without hesitation, or count the swallows flying in front of the corridor, anyway, I can't recognize which one I have ever seen. The willow branches by the pond have changed from budding twigs to thick willows, slender and long, hanging down a lot, and I have picked a lot of them with a few little palace maids, or they have been skillfully woven into lively gadgets, or I have selected them to be inserted in bottles to add some spring color to the palace room.

Jiang Xian appeared when we were about to leave, with a guard equipped with a long sword behind him, and he still had the same cold eyebrows and cold eyes, but these coldness was not directed at me, but by nature, and it didn't seem to have an excessive sense of distance or uncomfortable feeling. His men saluted first, "See the Queen." ”

I raised my hand to signal that I would be exempted, but Jiang Xian did not leave for a moment after the salute, but stared at the willow branch in my hand, and smiled inexplicably: "The queen mother broke so many willow branches, but she is homesick?" ”

No one has ever asked me these words, and I don't know how to answer for a while, but when I saw that he broke a branch at random, he said indifferently: "In this nocturne, I heard the willows, who can't afford to love the old garden." Although there is no night accompaniment, and there is no flute to make people cry, but the willow branches and vines are still somewhat sad. ”

"A few days ago, I had a relationship with Guogong, Guogong is in good health, ruddy complexion, I don't have much to worry about on weekdays, and the queen doesn't have to worry too much." Jiang Xian said, handing the willow branch in his hand to the attendant behind him.

"Thank you very much." I smiled brightly and said, "Su Ri saw that you were busy, and occasionally met in a hurry, how could I be free today?" ”

I didn't mean to blame, Jiang Xian was a little embarrassed, and said: "It's the courtier's brother who is disrespectful, I should have come to see the queen earlier, but I heard that the mother is here to cure the disease, I'm afraid you will be distracted, but it's not good." Now the mother's face is ruddy, it seems that she has recovered a lot, and the younger brother should move around more in the future, so as not to lose the friendship of the landlord. ”

I looked into his eyes, which were light and cold, like a clear spring, revealing the unabated chill of March and April.

"You go back to the palace first, and let Changyun find the white jade bottle and insert the willow branches." I intend to distract the people around me, and Jiang Xian naturally understands it, although I don't know what I mean, but I still follow my actions and signal the guards around me to go down. Except for the willow branches blown by the wind, there was no one else on the edge of the long pond except the two of us.

The water in the pond wrinkled slightly with warm ripples, it was also such a season, and it was also me and Jiang Xian, but this is not the other place, and I have never seen through the people in front of me.

"What do you want to say to your brother?" Jiang Xian asked.

"If there is no one else, you don't have to be so restrained, I think you are still my savior, a few years ago in the Guogong Mansion, do you remember that you saved a girl who fell into the water?" I said, I also fell into the memory: "It was also March and April, but the sky was a little cooler than this season, the spring cold has not disappeared, you rescued me from the pond after I was frozen bloodless, so many years I have been feeling in my heart, I have not been able to thank you in person, that day's life-saving grace, I can't repay it in this life." ”

"The queen is polite, but anyone passing by will not stand idly by when they see someone falling into the water, the younger brother just did what should be done, and the mother doesn't have to be like this."

"I have a question for you, I have often thought of it over the years, I can't sleep at night, I can't eat or drink, I wonder if you can help me answer this question?" I deliberately wanted to set Jiang Xian's words, how could Jiang Xian not hear it if he was so smart, but I had already separated the people around me, unless he really wanted to hide it from me, otherwise he couldn't get around it anyway.

"Niangniang might as well say it, if the courtier knows it, he will definitely know everything."

"You jumped off the water soon after I fell into the water that day, and you were not far from me when you fell into the water, so have you ever seen who pushed me down?" I looked at him, watched him lower his head and staggered my gaze, and I probably knew a little bit in my heart, my mother had just been buried that day, and the people in the house were rushing to talk to the Chen family, where could I have time to serve me? So there was no one around me that day, and it took me a few times to get the attention of passers-by.

It's not that no one found out that I fell into the water, and it shouldn't be that no one dared to jump down to save me, then there is only one possibility, and they, these people who came and watched me drown, were ordered not to save me.

"Isn't it Chen, when you went to the Guogong Mansion for the banquet that day, the hostess who was responsible for entertaining you at the banquet?" I tried to find the answer from Jiang Xian, but Jiang Xian avoided it, refused to look at me, and refused to answer.

"You don't have to be so upset, it's been so long since what happened back then, and I have no intention of mentioning it again, I just don't understand it and want to seek an answer." I smiled indifferently, in fact, since the fourth brother's attitude towards me suddenly changed, I should be white or something.

The fourth brother is verbally disgusted with me and hates me, but he never really wants me to die immediately, such a ruthless person, and such a powerful person, except for the Chen family who stepped on my mother's glorious throne, who else could there be?

"Niangniang is no longer pursuing it, don't mention the past again, life is never smooth sailing, there will always be someone who is good to you, and there will always be someone who wants to harm you." Jiang Xian said: "As a royal family of powerful ministers, these methods are not uncommon, who can guarantee that he has never done a bad thing in his life?" However, the world is unpredictable, whether it is a blessing or a curse, who can say for sure? ”

"Come to think of it, you are deep in the deep palace, and you naturally see more than me, and the two of us can be regarded as sympathetic to each other." I saluted him and said goodbye: "We have a very pleasant conversation today, and it is not good to bother you for a long time, if I am free, I hope to have a good chat with you." ”

"Don't dare, it's good if the queen doesn't think her brother is stupid."

"If there is no one else, can I call you Ah Xian?" I looked at him with some anticipation.

"It's just a title, just a mother."

"Ah Xian, I don't meet many people, there are not many people who can talk, and I only have to live in the palace for a year and a half, but I still hope to make friends with you, so that I won't be confined to this vermilion wall and green tiles all day long, and I will be an ignorant person after a long time, and I also want to write a few letters to my father and sister, most of the people around me are palace maids who are inconvenient to enter and exit, I don't know if I can ask you to convey it on my behalf?"

"It's a trivial matter, the mother is polite, and when the mother writes it, she will inform the minister, and she will definitely not refuse."

"Thank you in advance." I breathed a sigh of relief, bowed, and returned to my bedchamber.

The letter is fake, and the desire to get close to him is real. It's not that I have any ugly feelings in my heart, it's just that he has a favor with me, and I always have to find a chance to repay the kindness.

I want to dispel the coldness in his eyes that rejects people thousands of miles away, and I want to know who he can't love and can't ask for. I was trapped by the walls of this palace, but it was he who trapped him.