As soon as Empress Dowager Liu and the queen left, they took away most of the people on the stage, and the remaining few people didn't have the courage to watch his good show, and they either slipped away or bowed their heads and pretended to be busy.

And everyone in the audience, walking, scattering, but those pairs of eyes are staring directly at this side openly and secretly.

Han Weiqi didn't have the habit of giving people free theater: "Take you to a cleaner place." ”

"But the prince is just leaving, okay?" Jiang Changxi looked at the audience, belonging to the Dongyu Garden where the men were staying, Qin Shixiao and An, who had watched a good show for free, looked at this side for a long time in their early years. Even from a long distance, Jiang Changxi could feel Qin Shixiao's teasing smile and An Shixiao's inquiring gaze in his early years.

Jiang Changxi lowered his eyelids, and the roots of his ears were slightly hot.

Obviously, I didn't feel anything when I faced the Empress Dowager Liu and the others' calm thoughts about Han Wei, but now I think of being shy.

Han Weici especially likes her shy and delicate appearance, especially the reddish ears, which always make his hands itch and want to pinch them.

Gently scratching her palm, she seemed to shrink in fear, and Han Weiqi held her hand firmly with his backhand, not giving her the possibility of escaping: "Let's go, I'll take you to a good place." ”

Jiang Changxi let Han not quit to lead. His palms were thick and warm, with a thin layer of calluses on the dry palms, and her fingertips slid lightly, bringing an itchy touch.

Han Weici took Jiang Changxi around the bustling crowd, walked through the path shaded by the trees, and left the imperial garden.

That should be the category of the harem. Jiang Changxi was not familiar with the palace, but he also knew that the harem was an important place in the palace, and foreign ministers were not allowed to trespass.

She was thinking about whether to remind Han Weici, who had already stopped in front of a palace gate.

Pushing open the vermilion gate, Han Weiqi took Jiang Changxi in, bypassed the main hall, and walked a few steps deeper before he saw a courtyard.

The courtyard is small, the construction is not bad, the roof tiles and eaves, the flowing water pavilion, deep in the palace, and independent of the palace, obviously should be incompatible with the two styles, but are blended into one.

"This is where my mother lived when she was a child." Han didn't quit taking Jiang Changxi in, and there was no dust in the courtyard that had been uninhabited for a long time except for the newly fallen leaves, and people often came to clean it.

"From the long street of this palace, you can go directly to Chongde Gate, which is the most remote palace in the harem. Concubine Li, who raised my mother, was happy and quiet, and the first emperor gave her this place to live. ”

Han's grandmother died very early, when Dahong's court was unstable and the border was turbulent, and King Xiannan Xiang fought everywhere, taking care of his young daughter. Emperor Meng took pity on him and brought him into the palace to be raised by Concubine Li until he was thirteen years old.

Jiang Changxi remembered that Han Wei's mother, Princess Nanxiang, went into battle in armor at the age of thirteen and went out on the battlefield at the age of fifteen, and was a rare female general throughout the ages.

It's a pity that Princess Nanxiang and not long after leaving, Xuanlang and Dawan invaded the border, and Princess Nanxiang led the troops to the expedition and never came back.

Do the math, it's more than a decade ago.

Jiang Changxi followed behind Han Weiqi, paving a curved path with cobblestones from the gate of the courtyard to the front of the house, the path branched in front of the house, and the other end winded to the back of the house, and there were evergreen potted plants on both sides of the path.

The two walked quietly, occasionally pausing to look up at the huge shadows of the trees that had come down from above, the gaps between the leaves dividing the sky into fine and dense points of light, and the wind blew the leaves, and the shadows of the light spots were more than enough.

"It's so quiet." Sitting under the porch, looking up at the red walls and green tiles, and the high blue sky, half of the sky is clear, half of the trees are shadowy, and the wind gently kisses the cheeks, which is cool and cool.

"yes, that's good." Han Weiqi was a little proud of his wit. Sure enough, being alone at this time is the best.

"Hmm." Jiang Changxi smiled slightly, "Then, in order to thank the prince for bringing me here and enjoying this rare quiet, please eat osmanthus candy." ”

"So you guys were really eating sugar at that time." Han didn't say anything about the scene where she gave Qin Mo candy. He took one at random, the sparkling sugar color condensing on his fingertips.

This hand, he is used to playing with swords, guns, swords, and halberds, but now he is holding a candy that he usually doesn't look at, and there is no disobedience.

"It's sweet." Han Weiqi threw the sugar into his mouth, and the sweet and greasy taste melted in his mouth, with the rich fragrance of osmanthus.

Seeing that Han Wei was biting the osmanthus candy without changing his face, Jiang Changxi breathed a sigh of relief and took a bite himself. Tasting the rich fragrance of osmanthus and feeling the breeze, she leaned her head on his shoulder, and the tip of her nose was full of osmanthus fragrance.

There's something in her, and there's something in him.

Just when the two of them avoided everyone and hid in the courtyard to enjoy this moment of silence, the two of them disappeared at the same time in the imperial garden, and a lot of discussion was set off, and envy, jealousy and ridicule could drift to every corner with the wind.

By the lotus pond, Xiang Liangqing patted his head with a headache: "They are all willful people." Naturally, he said Han Weici and Jiang Changxi.

Qin Shixiao smiled warmly on the side, and An was as clear as the wind in his early years: "This is probably it, it's not that a family doesn't enter the door, right?" ”

Soon to become a family with these two people: "......" No, absolutely not!

He looked at the entrance of the Imperial Garden, the four princesses who got rid of the queen went and returned, and as soon as they entered, they clamored to find Jiang Changxi.

It's really hilarious......

At this time, Shou'an Palace was also much more lively than in the past, all because Empress Dowager Liu had a lot of anger as soon as she stepped into Shou'an Palace, and she sent away the two girls of the Liu family, leaving only Princess Heyang to bear her anger.

"What good is it for you that King Nanxiang to marry that unknown woman? You're so him! Heyang, don't forget, you can shed the blood of the Liu family! ”

In the face of Empress Dowager Liu's anger, the attitude of the eldest princess of Heyang was to take a sip of tea calmly and without saying a word.

"Heyang!" Empress Dowager Liu was furious.

The eldest princess of Heyang sighed at this time, put down the teacup and looked at her mother, "That's the girl from the Suianhou family, and she is also considered to be a superior among the girls of the Lindu Xungui family, and there is nothing unknown from the background." ”

"Queen Mother, I also told you about this girl, she is the owner of Tianshui Hall, and she once saved my life. The few strange diseases in the capital a few years ago, the white bone plague in Lizhou City can be cured, and her role in it is very important, she is no worse than the girl of the Liu family, she is worthy of Ah Ci. ”

"Nonsense!" Empress Dowager Liu slapped the table and stood up, pointing at Princess Heyang and scolding her for being confused: "You are Shu'er's aunt, if you don't help Shu'er win a good match, how can you help outsiders talk." ”

"Ah Ci is my child, he is not an outsider." Princess Heyang said: "Shu'er is a good child, but Ah Ci is not a good match for her." Ah Ci likes Miss Jiang, and Miss Jiang also likes him, they are a natural pair. ”

"Like? Like to bring a lifetime of glory to the Liu family? Like it can bring you and my mother and daughter a lifetime of wealth? Does liking give you a position of power? No, because it's too cheap! In the royal family, in the royal palace, in the noble family like is even more worthless! Empress Dowager Liu was so angry that her chest rose and fell, and she pointed to the gate and ordered Heyang: "Go, whether Han Wei quit or Liang Qing, if they want to marry a wife, they can only marry the daughter of my Liu family!" What is the girl of the Jiang family and the girl of the He family, whether she likes it or loves it, she can only be a concubine when she enters the door! ”

The eldest princess of Heyang did not move.

Empress Dowager Liu only felt that the green tendons in the corners of her forehead suddenly hurt, and she reached out and swept off the hot tea on the table: "Did you hear the mourning family talking to you?!" ”

The tea cup fell to the ground, the hot tea and the fragments flew together, and the eldest princess of Heyang looked at the splash on the expensive and gorgeous carpet, and the tea leaves that had just been stretched out were scattered on the ground, cruel and beautiful.

She stood up and saluted to Empress Dowager Liu with a calm face, "I can't." ”

"What did you say?" Empress Dowager Liu's eyes widened.

"Back then, in order to show favor to the emperor, in order to win over the Protector Mansion, for that Protector Order, you married me to the Protectorate Mansion and told me the order of my parents and the words of the matchmaker." The eldest princess of Heyang had a faint expression, and Empress Dowager Liu couldn't tell her emotions at this time from her expression, whether it was resentment, disappointment, or something else.

"My mother is in charge of my marriage. Now, I am also a mother, and it is natural that I, as a mother, should also decide the marriage of my children. The eldest princess said firmly, "You heard me right. Not only Ah Ci's, but also Ah Qing's, they are all my children, and their marriage is up to me. You have no right to interfere. ”

"Heyang, do you know what you're talking about? Are you, are you going to turn your face against my mother? ”

"Mother, you should be considerate and considerate of your daughter's feelings. The unhappiness of my daughter's life started from marrying into the Protectorate Mansion, and I don't want my children to be like me, spending their lives with people they don't love, suspicious of each other, resentful of each other, and finally regretting for life. ”

At this moment, the eldest princess of Heyang was sad and desperate, for herself, and for the horse who was involved in her career and had no ambition in her life.

Her grief and despair stung Empress Dowager Liu, her only daughter. She loves power and covets glory, but she chose the eldest son of the protector, not only for the power of the protector's mansion and the decree, but also because the child likes her.

But she miscalculated that person's liking for Heyang, compared to Heyang, what that person loves more is her career, her future, and her ruining her daughter's happiness in her life.

The likes of the Xungui family are really too cheap.

Empress Dowager Liu sat down on her seat, and the guilt for her daughter crawled all over her heart, pinching her heart, and it hurt like suffocation.

But she can't be soft-hearted. The Liu family has no successful men, and the family honor is unmaintained, so they can only let their daughters go up.

The Nanxiang Palace, the Protector's Mansion, these are the best noble homes that support the glory of the Liu family, and she must not watch it fall into the hands of others.

"Heyang."

The eldest princess knew her mother too well, and as soon as Empress Dowager Liu spoke, she knew what she wanted to say.

The eldest princess of Heyang couldn't tell if it was disappointment or what, she restrained all her sadness, put on a calm and calm armor, and turned around and left.