"I couldn't get up from the couch a few days ago, so I can come to visit in person today," Murong Jin bowed, "Murong Jin thanks the princess for saving her life." ”

Liuli hurriedly shook it in the same way, and said with a smile: "Your Highness is really tormented by Xueji." ”

Murong Jin gave Dong Xian a look, and Dong Xian immediately handed the food box to Murong Jin knowingly.

Murong Jin put the food box on the ebony table, "You probably don't like the things you sent a few days ago, I don't know what you lack, and thinking that you are probably not rare, I thought that some of the candies in the imperial food room are good, so I brought some to you." These are all made by the best Li Imperial Chef in the Imperial Dining Room, and the taste should be different from what you have eaten in Xiqin. ”

Liuli looked at the food box with complicated eyes, and said, "Thank you, Your Highness." ”

"You come and try it, see if it suits your taste, if you don't like it, I'll find something else," Murong Jin lifted the lid of the food box, took out the small boxes inside one by one, and explained one by one, "This is crystal osmanthus candy, this is rose quenching clouds, this is pine nut candy, sugar plum blossoms, and this, this is red date rock sugar." ”

Liuli leaned over with some curiosity, and saw a box full of all kinds of candy in the delicate snack box—the transparent sugar recipe was scattered with orange dried osmanthus; The rose-red flower sugar is molded into a multitude shape, and there seems to be milk in the base of the white transparent sugar cube below, as if it is a cloud stretched by the wind; Sugar plum blossom is the glutinous rice flour kneaded with plum blossom juice kneaded into the shape of plum blossom, blanched and then soaked in sugar water, crystal blossoms, it is very good-looking: amber syrup wraps the uniform size of pine nuts, is made into a four-cornered dumpling shape, and there are silver filament traces left by being pulled on the sugar surface, which is brilliant; There is also a round ice ball-like red date rock candy, and the same spherical red date paste in the center reflects the whole sugar red......

Murong Jin moved one of the boxes in front of Liuli, "Taste it." ”

Liuli looked at the box of pine nuts with his eyes fixedly, and only after a while did he carefully and gently pinch one, and then looked at it at a few angles left and right, up and down for a while, and then put it in his mouth, carefully tasting the taste. Pine nut candy is very small, just one bite at a time. The sweetness spreads from the tip of the tongue, it is not greasy, it is very moist, and the sugar body is hard, but very crispy. The smell of pine nuts mixed with syrup fills the mouth, chewing and fragrant, making people unbearable to swallow.

Murong Jin held his breath and waited for Liuli to finish chewing carefully, before asking, "What's the matter, can you still close your mouth?" ”

Liuli nodded shyly and said softly, "It's delicious." ”

Murong Jin smiled and said, "That's fine, if you like it, let them go to the imperial dining room to get it in the future, Imperial Chef Li is very talkative," and suddenly thought of the special status of Liuli, and said, "If you feel inconvenient, I will often send someone to send you some, don't be troublesome." ”

Liuli looked at Murong Jin a little distracted, the person in front of him should be a few years older than himself, his face was a little thin but beautiful, his long eyebrows and handsome eyes, there seemed to be autumn water and cold stars in his eyes, he was extremely bright, and the corners of his lips rose when he smiled, delicate but calm.

Murong Jin: "But if you don't like it, don't force it." ”

Liuli said: "Xue Ji likes it very much, thank you, Your Highness." ”

Murong Jin said: "It's just a few small snacks, why bother to say thank you." ”

Liuli said softly: "I haven't eaten sugar since I was a child, thank you Your Highness for letting Xue Ji taste sugar." ”

Since childhood—never—having eaten sugar—Murong Jin looked at Liuli in disbelief.

Liuli continued: "When I was a child, my mother went early, and there was only one serious grandmother in the palace, who would only let me learn things, read and write, and if I didn't learn well, I couldn't eat, let alone these sweets. ”

Murong Jin looked at the clear eyes and was stunned, and then smiled: "It's okay, I'll invite you to eat candy in the future." ”

Leave to smile and not speak.

Murong Jin asked, "By the way, when you saved me that day, did you think of someone?" ”

Liuli was slightly surprised: "How could His Highness think like this?" ”

Murong Jin said: "Because, you seem to be very afraid of my death......

"What do you mean, Your Highness?"

Murong Jin smiled bitterly: "Because there are many people who want me to die, I feel very surprised to be rescued." ”

At that moment, there seemed to be a trace of pain and helplessness flashing from Murong Jin's eyes, but he couldn't catch it.

"Thinking about it, Xue Ji was rude, Xue Ji remembered his brother for a while, so he lost his temper, and asked His Highness for forgiveness."

The brother who stayed behind, is it the one who is now in the Western Qin Palace, or is it ......

Liuli said: "The former three emperor brothers of Xue Ji drowned, just in front of Xue Ji, but Xue Ji couldn't swim in the water, so he couldn't save the three emperor brothers." Therefore, when His Royal Highness set in the water that day, Xue Ji wanted His Highness very much to live. ”

Because he can't wet the water, he can only watch his third brother drown little by little. Liuli will never forget the despair in the eyes of the third brother when he sank into the icy lake, but the third brother still told her through the thick lake: live.

"Xue Ji and His Royal Highness are not familiar with each other, but Xue Ji hopes that His Highness will live well."

Live well? Alive. Murong Jin smiled: "Thank you, princess, Murong Jin wrote it down." The princess saved my life, and if there is a need in the future, Murong Jin will do her best to help. ”

After chatting a few more words, it was getting late, and Murong Jin was inconvenient to disturb more, so he resigned.

After Murong Jin left, he stared at the boxes of candy and felt that something sour was overflowing in his heart. She was made the imperial concubine since she was a child, so the people around her told her since she was a child, "You will be the emperor of Western Qin in the future", so even if she has never been as high as those people's waist seals, no one treats her as a child. Everyone forgot that she was just a child.

Since I left my memory, there has been no candy around. She almost forgot that there was such a thing as sugar in the world, and there was such a thing as sweetness in the flavors. In fact, so many years have passed, and I almost forget this taste. But Murong Jin's box of candy reminded her that there was still a sweet taste in a life full of suffering, and she suddenly felt very wronged.

Liuli carefully pinched a piece of osmanthus candy, a red date rock candy, and a pine nut candy into his mouth, and stuffed his cheeks full. There is the floral fragrance of osmanthus in the mouth, the rosin of pine nuts, and the jujube fragrance of red dates, but it is more sweet. It's very sweet, the three sugars are mixed together, the sweetness is very greasy, and the tip of the tongue is a little numb. But Liuli couldn't bear to chew it, couldn't bear to swallow it, and was reluctant to spit it out.

Because, really, it's sweet.

............

Murong Jin returned along the same path, feeling some long-lost joy in his heart for some reason. When passing by Xun Garden, Murong Jin suddenly wanted to see if a few koi fish in the small pond had been fed today.

Just as he was about to step in, Murong Jin saw a familiar slender white figure—a white shadow.

And beside him stood the shadow of another equally familiar merry man - his Uncle Rui Wang, Murong Shu.

Several thoughts popped into Murong Jin's mind, but none of them were settled in the end.

Seeing that Murong Jin was reluctant to go in, Dong Xian wondered, "What's wrong with Your Highness?" ”

"Shhhh ”

Dongxian: "??? ”

Before he could react, he was dragged away quickly by Murong Jin, and for a while, he only felt that his Royal Highness was childlike, and he didn't think about it anymore.