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Ning You saw him coming, scolded "Dengzi", and kicked his feet quickly to prevent him from approaching.
Ye Che was scolded for the first time, his face was cold, and he raised his hand to catch Ning You's little foot, the other party's shoes and pants were all wet, and they were cold in his hand.
"Little boy." The guard Ye Fan performed light skills and swept to the little master's side from the opposite bridge: "Are you okay?" β
"It's fine." Ye Che was still staring at the girl who was half-sitting on the ground, struggling to kick her.
Ning You already felt embarrassed, but at this moment, the soles of her feet were pinched, and what was even worse was that the shoes on her feet had just been kicked off by herself, and then she remembered what happened before, her face turned a little redder, but her expression was cold, and she scolded in a low voice: "Let go of this princess!" β
"Princess?" Ye Che raised his eyebrows, as if he was a little surprised. There was chaos on the shore just now, and many palace people rushed to jump into the water, and he guessed that someone probably fell into the water. jumped into the water on impulse, but I didn't expect to save a princess.
There was a burst of confusion in the lotus pond, someone shouted "I found it", and the palace people who were looking for it in the water hurriedly swam towards the shouting person. The crowd carried the man who had been rescued from the water ashore with all hands and feet. Ning You suddenly remembered that Dong'er was still in the water, and he didn't care about the person in front of him, so he turned his head to the lotus pond. I prayed in my heart, hoping that it was Dong'er who would be rescued.
"Princess, it's the tenth princess, thank goodness ......," the maid on the shore exclaimed happily.
Seeing that the two princesses were safe, the palace people under the water all climbed ashore one after another. Ning You opened his mouth, wanting to order them to continue saving people. However, since the death of the concubine, the people in the palace have either avoided her or fallen into the ground, how can these people obey her orders?
"You're a princess?" Ye Che's voice sounded in his ears, with a bit of cynicism: "Even the princess can't kick people casually, you ......" The voice stopped abruptly, and he looked at the girl opposite in amazement.
Ning You looked back suddenly, his moist eyes seemed to be frozen with ice, and his originally slightly red face was full of anger at the moment. Ye Che was stunned by her cold eyes. He vaguely remembered that when he followed him to the battlefield, he saw those people standing in pools of blood and corpses, and their eyes were exactly the same as the eyes of the girl at this momentβso cold, as if they wanted to kill everyone who came close.
How could a girl who grew up in a deep palace have such eyes?
"Let go! My maid is still down there. Ning You said coldly. She didn't know that her expression was terrifying at the moment.
Ye Che subconsciously let go of the other party's little feet and took half a step back.
Ye Fan stood beside him, vigilantly staring at the girl who was half-sitting on the shore.
Ye Che listened to the voice coming from the other side, and suddenly said, "I haven't been rescued at this time, so I probably won't survive." β
The girl turned her head to stare at him, and her face became even colder. Ye Che felt that he had just said the wrong thing. But the shouts from the panicked palace not far away showed that the person who was rescued was not a maid, but a princess.
"She'll be alive!" Ning You lowered his eyes and whispered, not knowing whether he was telling others or convincing himself. Suddenly, she raised her eyes and prayed to Ye Che: "If you can save me, please save her, I will repay you." β
"Uh......" Ye Che was asked by a girl of the same age for the first time, thinking of his offense, he took a step forward, and was about to jump into the water again. There was a sudden weight on his left shoulder, and someone held him down. Ye Che looked back.
Ye Fan shook his head at him and said, "You stay here, I'll go down." After that, he jumped into the water with a "poof".
Ning You's gaze followed Ye Fan into the water, staring nervously at the swinging lotus leaves, hoping that someone would break through the water in the next moment.
Ye Che stood next to him and secretly glanced at Ning You.
The pale little face has delicate eyebrows and eyes, and the nose is quite fair, like a beauty painted by a top painter, which is pity. His gaze unconsciously slid and stopped on the other party's thin chest, and his delicate little face suddenly turned red.
I don't know how long it took, there was a "pop" on the surface of the water, the lotus leaves spread out to both sides, and a person came out of the water. It was Ye Che's bodyguard, Ye Fan. He carried a young girl in his arms, about fourteen or fifteen years old, with a pale face, as if he had long since lost his life.
"Dong'er!" Ning You stretched out his hand to take the girl in the water.
Ye Fan gently jumped onto the shore, put the girl in his arms on the ground, and said softly: "Princess's Day mourning." There were too many lotus leaves underneath, and by the time I found them, it was too late. β
Ning You didn't seem to hear his words, and pulled Dong'er in his arms.
The maid's cold body was pressed against her, she couldn't help but tremble, and immediately put the cold maid on the ground, and squeezed the maid's chest with her hands together.
No, it won't! Ning You thought about it, her mind was full of Dong'er's little bits and pieces of her.
She just woke up, and the people in the palace either bullied her or turned their eyes to her, and even the meals delivered every day were rancid, and the aunts of Zhiyi Palace changed their ways every day.
In the entire palace, after the death of the queen mother, everyone abandoned her, but Dong'er was the only one who was good to her. Accompany her to starve and freeze, think about her first when you have food, it doesn't matter if you are hungry, the weather is cold, give her cold clothes, even if you are shivering with cold.
Even before falling into the lotus pond, Dong'er was still thinking about her safety, and did not ask her to save her, but reminded her to be careful behind her.
Dong'er is only sixteen years old, only two years older than her, so young and beautiful, she shouldn't die so early, let alone die because she was good to her.
Ning You was in tears, desperately squeezing Dong'er's chest, but let her move, the girl lying on the ground was unconscious, and her face was dead white.
"She's dead!" Ye Che finally couldn't look at it, and ripped away the crazy Ning You, but was frozen by her sideways glance.
The girl in front of her looked condensed as if she was fourteen years old.
"What's going on!" A low, majestic shout was heard in the distance.
The people on the shore turned their eyes when they heard the sound.
A group of people came from the direction of the Zuoqing Palace, and the two people who walked in front were dressed gracefully, and their bright yellow robes were extremely dazzling, and they were the Jin Emperor and his second queen who rushed to hear the news.
Emperor Jin led the palace people from the direction of the Zuoqing Palace. He has handsome facial features and a slightly chubby figure, if he hadn't been mistaken by the color of wine, he would have been a beautiful man. Seeing Ning You and Ye Che who were wet at this moment, he twisted his eyebrows dissatisfiedly, and his expression was a little puzzled, as if he didn't know the person in front of him.
"See Your Majesty." Ye Fan nodded to the ground on one knee and bowed.
Ye Che clicked on the ground without squeaking.
Emperor Jin stared at Ye Che coldly, as if he was dissatisfied. The chief steward of the palace next to him, Li Gonggong recognized Ye Che's identity and hurriedly said: "This is the younger brother of King Huaiqing, Ye Che's little son." β
"Oh, it turned out to be the King of Huaiqing......" Emperor Jin nodded, his expression not showing joy or anger. Then, he fixed his gaze on Ning You, and his brows furrowed. Although the girl kneeling on the ground in front of her was embarrassed, she was not the slightest nervous, and her expression was so indifferent, like the person in the depths of her memory.
Ning You raised his eyes and looked at the emperor in front of him, his father. This was the first time she had seen Emperor Jin since she woke up, and there was no memory of him in her mind, let alone the familiarity of seeing Dong'er when she woke up. The person in front of him seems to have no connection with him.
The twelfth princess, Ning You, has never been favored by His Majesty the Jin Emperor, and the first queen was already like this when she was still alive.
"Erchen has seen his father, the queen mother, the father Wan'an, and the queen mother Jin'an!" The eleventh princess, Ning Lin, saw that the Jin Emperor and the Queen Mother appeared at the same time, and also brought the palace maid to greet her.
"Lin'er excuse me, huh...... Ye Xiaogongzi doesn't need to be polite. As for this, this person ......" Emperor Jin waved his hand and motioned for Ye Che and the others to get up, his eyes fixed on Ning You. This face, which evoked memories that he had left deep in his heart, stopped abruptly when he raised his lips to call out the man's name. As if he couldn't remember the identity of the person in front of him, his expression was a little puzzled.
"Your Majesty forgot, this is the only daughter of the first queen, the twelfth princess Ning You." The second empress of the Jin Kingdom smiled. Immediately, she turned to Ning You, her eyebrows were slightly raised, her tone and expression seemed to be genuinely worried, but the words she spit out meant something else: "How could the twelve princesses fall into the water?" Is it walking and stumbling over a skirt? Or is the maid next to him not holding steady? β
"Oh, it's the twelve princesses......" Emperor Jin was reminded by the queen, and seemed to remember that there was such a person in the palace.
Ning You's gaze stopped at the eleventh princess at the moment, and he didn't listen carefully to the meaning of the queen's words.
The eleventh princess, Ning Lin, stood in front of the emperor and queen of the Jin Kingdom in gorgeous costumes. There was a shallow smile on her face, and she tilted her head to look at Ning You, who was half-squatting on the ground and embarrassed, that smile was a little more mocking, and her eyes were full of disgust.
She was still alive - Ning You read these words from her eyes. I remember that before falling into the water, the person standing next to Dong'er seemed to be the maid of the eleventh princess!