Liu Xiyue returned to Chaoxia Palace and immediately fell ill, lingering for half a month. During this period, two major events happened, one was the will of the ninth princess and the prince of the pro-Qi country, and the other was to marry General He and Xie's daughter Ronghua, but they were rejected by He Yuan because the world was not settled, and he set off to return to the border the next day.

When the news reached Liu Xiyue's ears, she was sitting by the window in a daze, her face was pale, her eyes were not shocked, and she said a faint "oh" to Yunyan and then disappeared.

"Call Yanran together, I have something to say. Liu Xiyue said suddenly.

Yunyan hurriedly took the order, Jiang Yanran was outside the hall to admonish a group of palace attendants who had just arrived, originally Yunyan had always been in charge, but Yunyan was anxious about the affairs of the ninth princess and her relatives all day long, afraid that she would make a mistake, Jiang Yanran took the initiative to take over the errand.

Hearing Liu Xiyue's call, Jiang Yanran hurriedly dropped the feather duster in her hand and followed Yunyan to the inner hall.

After the two saluted together, Liu Xiyue looked at them and said slowly: "This time to Qi, the road is very long, a foreign country is really not a good place to go, you don't have to accompany me to go." ”

Hearing this, he knelt down again, and said with red eyes: "Please atone for your sins, the maid is unwilling, the maid just wants to follow His Highness, where you are, the maid is there." ”

"Silly girl, what's wrong with staying in Chang'an, when the time comes, I will help you beg the queen mother to let you go home, find a lover to open a small shop, and live your life in peace......"

Yunyan shook his head, kowtowed while crying, and said word by word: "Your Highness, I have been with you since I was a child, and at that time I was frustrated by my stepmother and was reluctantly sent to the palace by my father, and with my appearance, I could only be sent to Huansha Palace to do hard work." It was you who saved me, kept me fed and clothed, and I would never be bullied again, and I would not be where I am today without you. ”

"The maid has always been dull but has a humble body that can be driven by His Highness, please don't drive me away, let the maid serve you!"

Liu Xiyue turned her face away and deliberately didn't look at her, the corners of her eyes were slightly red, and she said helplessly: "Follow me with a slim future, and you can't regret it in the future." ”

This is the loose mouth agreed, Yunyan kowtowed with joy and swore with joy, "No, as long as you can accompany Your Highness, Yunyan is not afraid of anything." ”

"Okay, don't kneel, go down and wash your face and come back to serve, look at your little face. ”

Yun Yan retreated, and Liu Xiyue turned her head to Jiang Yanran and said, "Yanran, can you think about where you want to serve? Although my identity as a princess has no real power, I still have some face, where do you want to go? Tell me, I will help you beg the queen mother." ”

Jiang Yanran was silent for a long time, and finally decided to get rid of her origins, she knelt down and said: "Please atone for your sins, Yanran is actually not a daughter of the Shen family, Yanran is just an ordinary fisherman's daughter in Fengcheng......" and then slowly explained how she was arrested by the Shen Jiang family.

I thought Liu Xiyue would be angry, but after hearing this, she only asked, "So you just want to go to the border to find your brother Jiang Ming?"

Jiang Yanran nodded, and Liu Xiyue propped her forehead and said: "Then this is a little difficult, He Yuan has already left Chang'an, and it is estimated that he will have reached the border at this time." ”

"Let me think about how to get you to the border. ”

Jiang Yanran didn't expect her to say this, her eyes came out with a brush, and she choked up and said, "Yanran thanks His Royal Highness for his great kindness, if there is a chance, I will definitely repay it." “

She said seriously, Liu Xiyue shook her head and didn't take her words to heart at all, and thought about it: "That's it, I'll let you out of the palace first, and I'll leave a letter for you when the time comes, and you can take it to him when He Yuan returns to Beijing, I think he will still be accommodating in this matter." ”

"Your Royal Highness......" Jiang Yanran knew the love-hate entanglement between Liu Xiyue and He Yuan, and she was a little reluctant to let Liu Xiyue bow to He Yuan for her.

Liu Xiyue waved her hand to interrupt Jiang Yanran's unspoken refusal, and smiled: "There is no need to be like this, my brother Yuan died on the battlefield two years ago, and now he is just a familiar stranger to me." ”

Jiang Yanran looked at Liu Xiyue's backwater-like eyes, sighed in her heart, and thought again: The word love is really hurtful, it is better not to touch it.

......

The days passed day by day, Liu Xiyue's wedding date was set for October, and then the prince of Qi Guo would come to pick it up in person, Jiang Yanran still felt a little happy about this, at least that prince was very heartfelt.

The princess's exit is a major event, the whole dynasty is busy, the dowry envoys of the Qi State need to receive the dowry and check it, the princess dowry needs to be purchased, and more importantly, the dowry needs to be selected.

Jiang Yanran was busy and dizzy, and at this moment, Su Rusu, who had not seen her for a long time, suddenly found her.

"Yanran, please help me, I want to go to Qi Country with the Ninth Princess. Su Rusu got straight to the point, and Jiang Yanran was shocked by her first sentence.

"What did you say? I didn't hear it clearly just now, are you saying it again?" Jiang Yanran couldn't help but say.

Su Ru smiled, she looked at Jiang Yanran's eyes and said firmly: "You heard it right, I said that I want to marry as the ninth princess to go to the Qi country." ”

"Are you crazy?"

Su Rusu shook her head: "I'm not crazy, please help me, Yanran." ”

Jiang Yanran was puzzled: "Why? The Empress Dowager is all generous to her subordinates, you are also respected outside the palace when you serve in her palace, and when you are old, wouldn't it be right to ask for a grace and let you go out of the palace to marry freely?"

Su Rusu smiled bitterly: "It's ridiculous, I desperately prayed not to follow the Ninth Princess and my relatives, but now I am chasing and begging to follow." ”

"Why?" Su Rusu snorted coldly: "Feng Yue, Zheng Shan'er, and Yu Xiangjun, who entered the palace with us, have all become nobles in the palace and become masters. And what about us? Even if we are flattered by those little slaves? Yanran, you ask yourself, are you willing?"

Jiang Yanran shook her head, lowered her eyes and said lightly: "I never thought of entering the palace for the concubine to serve the saint from the beginning. ”

Su Rusu sneered, "But I'm not reconciled, they are also from a family, why are they the masters, but I want to be the subordinates of that person." ”

"Su Su ......" Jiang Yanran still had to be persuaded, and Su Rusu quickly interrupted her and said, "Lu Ji is dead." ”

Jiang Yanran was stunned and didn't react: "What did you say?"

"Just the day before yesterday, she was forced into the well, and when I saw her, the whole thing was swollen. ”

"How could it be ......," Jiang Yanran muttered in disbelief.

"It was Feng Yue who forced her to death. Su Rusu choked up and said: "She came to me before and said that Feng Yue wanted to harm her, I didn't believe it, I just thought that she and Feng Yue had always been at odds, and it was Feng Yue who punished her into the Huansha Palace, so she was angry for a while, but I didn't expect it to be true, and the person disappeared the day after she came to me." ”

"Actually, I knew Lu Ji when I was at home, she had a childhood sweetheart's cousin, the two of them were going to get married, but Lu Ji was framed by her sister at home and reported Lu Ji's name to the election, she had to come to the imperial city to take a walk, and she originally planned to deliberately lose the election to go home to see her cousin, but she was defeated, and when she left the palace, she was asked to leave by Feng Yue. Until she arrived at Huansha Palace, thinking that she could return home as long as she survived for three years, her cousin was willing to wait for her, she counted the days and looked forward to it, but what was waiting for her was a death by throwing herself into a well. “

Su Rusu said hatefully: "If I had been selected at the beginning, Lu Ji would not have been so desperate." ”

"Yanran, I'm fed up with this life of being tricked by fate, I want to control my own life, I want to be that master. ”

Su Rusu grabbed Jiang Yanran's hand, "You help me, Yanran, you help me." ”

Jiang Yanran broke away from her hand and shook her head, "Susu, this is impossible." Princess, she is so kind to me, and I will not let you harm her. ”

"You said that Feng Yue was the victim of Lu Jiao's death, and there is a debtor and a master, you go to Feng Yue to take revenge! Wouldn't it be better to stay in this palace and become Your Majesty's concubine?"

"Do you think I haven't tried?" Su Rusu yelled, "I just tried it and it didn't work before I thought about starting from another country." ”

Suddenly, she sneered, "You think my target is Qi Gongzi?" she shook her head, "No, you're wrong, my target was Qi Guojun from the beginning." ”

"Of course, if you want to be the monarch's concubine, a son?

Jiang Yanran stared at her ambitious eyes, "You don't want to help Lu Ji avenge at all, you just made an excuse, it's because you are not satisfied with your current life and want to climb up." ”

"But what's wrong with me? Since ancient times, people have gone to high places, and water has flowed to low places. ”

Jiang Yanran didn't want to say more, turned around and left, "You die, I won't help you." ”

Su Rusu stood in place and looked at Jiang Yanran's distant back, Yanran, don't blame me, you forced me.